It's not an intentional slowdown. You're prioritizing nice requests over not nice requests, so any delay to the not nice people has an equivalent speedup in the requests that nice people have.
I remember hearing a while back that searching for Linux with the MS search engine produced thousands of results while searching the same term on Google produced tens of millions of hits.
If you put linux into the search box in Bing (without pressing anything), it suggests things like "microsoft linux", "linux vista".
At one of the major youth mathematics competitions, Tournament of Towns, the award ceremony is 80% Chinese, 80% of the non-Chinese are Russian, and 80% of the remainder are Indian. It seems like a general pattern around here - look at any math competition top score list and you see Chinese names at the top.
I was talking about the km/sec/megaparsec value. If the rate of change (speed they're flying away from us, aka derivative) is directly proportional to the current value (the distance, if this was a graph it would be the y coordinate), it's an exponential function.
Trademarks are not IP. Their purpose is to prevent people from ruining other people's brand reputation by using it to sell an inferior product. Copyrights and patents, however, are intended (originally, at least) to create an incentive to create original art and science.
I can understand some subjects benefitting from textbooks but things like math can be taught from a blackboard by a competent teacher (I guess that might be one obstacle though). There are plenty of free online worksheet generators, so that shouldn't be a problem either.
Except that people need a computer anyway, so the total cost of getting everyone a netbook, considering that a large organization will be able to get a volume discount, will be extremely cheap, possibly even negative.
Work that will be replaced by robots in 10-20 years (I'm not saying construction sites will be 100% robotic, there will be 5-10 employees on site but they won't be moving bricks around) should be looked down on, so people don't accidentally dedicate their lives to it.
I'm sure a considerable number of people would be willing to take a one-way trip just so they could be in space. What we have a deficiency of is people willing to let other people take risks.
My parents force me to skip ahead multiple grades sometimes, and I'm the one complaining about social issues. Turns out it's actually not that bad after the first few days.
That would be the real evil genius. Instead of doing bad stuff yourself, look for easily manipulable people and hire them to do your bidding, without doing anything yourself. It's sort of like the real criminal world.
Actually, solar power isn't that much better than nuclear.
"Nuclear energy averages 0.4 euro cents/kWh, much the same as hydro, coal is over 4.0 cents (4.1-7.3), gas ranges 1.3-2.3 cents and only wind shows up better than nuclear, at 0.1-0.2 cents/kWh average. NB these are the external costs only." http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/default.aspx?id=410&terms=external+cost
External costs per kWh:
Solar PV, roof: 0.4-0.5 Euro cents / kWh
Solar PV, open space: 1-1.1 Euro cents / kWh
Solar thermal, parabolic trough: 0.1-0.2 Euro cents/kWh
www.kva.se/KVA_root/files/events/IMAGE_200862165121_873538026pres_Preiss.pdf
Once you allow people to judge whether or not speech "has a purpose behind it" or "lets the truth be heard", then the people in power get to apply those definitions in whatever way they please. Better be absolute than allow holes which the government can crawl into and expand a hundredfold.
And all this is assuming the aliens live at the bottom of a gravity well like us. What if they naturally lived in microgravity from the start? Then they would have spaceships around the same time we developed water ships.
And most likely: U.S. Fed Govt declares "National Security" and "Eminent Domain" (or the business equivalent), and prevent MS from moving because MS Windows is used in top levels of Government, warships, nuclear power plants...
Why do that when you can just pirate their software en masse?
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It's not an intentional slowdown. You're prioritizing nice requests over not nice requests, so any delay to the not nice people has an equivalent speedup in the requests that nice people have.
You are correct, there were about 125 finalists. More like 250, actually.
Actually, screw the live mesh. And the syncing.
I remember hearing a while back that searching for Linux with the MS search engine produced thousands of results while searching the same term on Google produced tens of millions of hits.
If you put linux into the search box in Bing (without pressing anything), it suggests things like "microsoft linux", "linux vista".
At one of the major youth mathematics competitions, Tournament of Towns, the award ceremony is 80% Chinese, 80% of the non-Chinese are Russian, and 80% of the remainder are Indian. It seems like a general pattern around here - look at any math competition top score list and you see Chinese names at the top.
I was talking about the km/sec/megaparsec value. If the rate of change (speed they're flying away from us, aka derivative) is directly proportional to the current value (the distance, if this was a graph it would be the y coordinate), it's an exponential function.
Technically, the only way the Hubble constant can be a constant is if the universe is expanding exponentially.
Orcs not being solely warmongering bad guys? That's pretty much invented by WoW.
Trademarks are not IP. Their purpose is to prevent people from ruining other people's brand reputation by using it to sell an inferior product. Copyrights and patents, however, are intended (originally, at least) to create an incentive to create original art and science.
I can understand some subjects benefitting from textbooks but things like math can be taught from a blackboard by a competent teacher (I guess that might be one obstacle though). There are plenty of free online worksheet generators, so that shouldn't be a problem either.
Except that people need a computer anyway, so the total cost of getting everyone a netbook, considering that a large organization will be able to get a volume discount, will be extremely cheap, possibly even negative.
Work that will be replaced by robots in 10-20 years (I'm not saying construction sites will be 100% robotic, there will be 5-10 employees on site but they won't be moving bricks around) should be looked down on, so people don't accidentally dedicate their lives to it.
When I read TFA I had a knee-jerk reaction to hate on Airbus, as I believe that everything should have a manual override.
Despite being a fan of electronic driving, voting and everything else, I have to agree with this.
If it's an animated movie, it was done in 3D anyway, so not removing the extra dimension is fairly trivial.
I'm sure a considerable number of people would be willing to take a one-way trip just so they could be in space. What we have a deficiency of is people willing to let other people take risks.
Stop making stupid puns on single letter marketing prefixes, gEyes!
My parents force me to skip ahead multiple grades sometimes, and I'm the one complaining about social issues. Turns out it's actually not that bad after the first few days.
That would be the real evil genius. Instead of doing bad stuff yourself, look for easily manipulable people and hire them to do your bidding, without doing anything yourself. It's sort of like the real criminal world.
Actually, solar power isn't that much better than nuclear.
"Nuclear energy averages 0.4 euro cents/kWh, much the same as hydro, coal is over 4.0 cents (4.1-7.3), gas ranges 1.3-2.3 cents and only wind shows up better than nuclear, at 0.1-0.2 cents/kWh average. NB these are the external costs only."
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/default.aspx?id=410&terms=external+cost
External costs per kWh:
Solar PV, roof: 0.4-0.5 Euro cents / kWh
Solar PV, open space: 1-1.1 Euro cents / kWh
Solar thermal, parabolic trough: 0.1-0.2 Euro cents/kWh
www.kva.se/KVA_root/files/events/IMAGE_200862165121_873538026pres_Preiss.pdf
Once you allow people to judge whether or not speech "has a purpose behind it" or "lets the truth be heard", then the people in power get to apply those definitions in whatever way they please. Better be absolute than allow holes which the government can crawl into and expand a hundredfold.
And all this is assuming the aliens live at the bottom of a gravity well like us. What if they naturally lived in microgravity from the start? Then they would have spaceships around the same time we developed water ships.
Hacking is perfectly legal, just like lockpicking. What's illegal is trespassing.
Can't spell slaughter without laughter!
And most likely: U.S. Fed Govt declares "National Security" and "Eminent Domain" (or the business equivalent), and prevent MS from moving because MS Windows is used in top levels of Government, warships, nuclear power plants...
Why do that when you can just pirate their software en masse?
And remember, don't pirate their stuff either. All the arguments about free advertising apply to them too.