X units of electricity go into light source. 0.30X units leave as light (70% converted into heat). 0.30X units enter solar cell. 0.40 * 0.30X (0.12X total) units of energy leave the cell as electricity, the rest being lost as heat.
30% (current maximum light efficiency) * 40% (current maximum solar efficiency) = 12% efficiency for light based energy transmission. Not that good compared to wires.
That's vertical meters, not horizontal ones. I would expect a few dozen to a thousand horizontally for a few meters, depending on what kind of conditions there are.
Cops can now whack people with (virtual) batons without getting into physical danger. Also there's quite a bit of psychological disconnection when all you're doing is pressing a button and the technology is doing it for you. Even worse, some of the beam would fly by the intended victim and maybe hit someone in the background. The restrictions on the use of this thing should be HIGHER.
It's well known that children born in Jan/Feb/Mar are much more likely to get ahead because age cutoffs tend to be January 1, so kids born on Jan 1 compete with kids born on Dec 29 in the same year despite having 11 months more experience. Because of this, more attention is given to these "stars", and they perform higher. You should look at the birth months of some professional football teams.
Linux is used by over 10 million people worldwide and is widely known among technical types (the demographic Slashdot attracts). Theora is much less known. (source).
Who needs the 89,000 dollar computer when most people need the 300-500 dollar pocket calculator? You need to actually try stuff to innovate, that's why.
Except you often don't have a choice. People are forced to learn weird past tenses like "I went" (and all the weird pronunciations, like "enough") and there is no way to go around that. If you want to learn the intricacies of the English language for its own sake, go ahead, but people with different interests should not be forced to do so just to communicate.
Strategic voting is the worst thing that you can do to a democracy. It makes every political system fall into a two-party system, which (see: United States) becomes a de facto one-party system.
A good language isn't just regular, it's also efficient. It's a huge waste of time to say "capacious" when you could just say "big". And more people would understand you.
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X units of electricity go into light source. 0.30X units leave as light (70% converted into heat). 0.30X units enter solar cell. 0.40 * 0.30X (0.12X total) units of energy leave the cell as electricity, the rest being lost as heat.
30% (current maximum light efficiency) * 40% (current maximum solar efficiency) = 12% efficiency for light based energy transmission. Not that good compared to wires.
Boston soda party!
A high enough tax is a de facto ban.
That's vertical meters, not horizontal ones. I would expect a few dozen to a thousand horizontally for a few meters, depending on what kind of conditions there are.
Most speed records are done over a short distance, like a kilometer or a mile.
It's an air speed record. 9.8 meters per second squared.
You're clearly not a good "SI addict". The correct answer is 164.23 meters per second.
Cops can now whack people with (virtual) batons without getting into physical danger. Also there's quite a bit of psychological disconnection when all you're doing is pressing a button and the technology is doing it for you. Even worse, some of the beam would fly by the intended victim and maybe hit someone in the background. The restrictions on the use of this thing should be HIGHER.
Shouldn't that be 141 decibels, given that the unit is logarithmic?
Ear damage does not have to scale linearly with volume. With the OSHA figures it scales roughly with the 2/3 power.
Judging by the presence of your comment on this forum, you're about diametrically opposite right now.
It's well known that children born in Jan/Feb/Mar are much more likely to get ahead because age cutoffs tend to be January 1, so kids born on Jan 1 compete with kids born on Dec 29 in the same year despite having 11 months more experience. Because of this, more attention is given to these "stars", and they perform higher. You should look at the birth months of some professional football teams.
It's not a single bit worse than naming your kid "Mac".
The stats disagree with you.
Linux is used by over 10 million people worldwide and is widely known among technical types (the demographic Slashdot attracts). Theora is much less known. (source).
Who needs the 89,000 dollar computer when most people need the 300-500 dollar pocket calculator? You need to actually try stuff to innovate, that's why.
You don't need a car to enjoy life.
Signed, all of Europe.
Except removing organs would make a human unusable. There's a big difference.
Except you often don't have a choice. People are forced to learn weird past tenses like "I went" (and all the weird pronunciations, like "enough") and there is no way to go around that. If you want to learn the intricacies of the English language for its own sake, go ahead, but people with different interests should not be forced to do so just to communicate.
Because people shouldn't have to learn tens of thousands of words just to understand people.
Hundreds of millions of people speak or are trying to learn English. They should not have to suffer just for some ideal of artistic beauty.
I thought astroturfing involves putting artificial grass on the moon...
Strategic voting is the worst thing that you can do to a democracy. It makes every political system fall into a two-party system, which (see: United States) becomes a de facto one-party system.
A good language isn't just regular, it's also efficient. It's a huge waste of time to say "capacious" when you could just say "big". And more people would understand you.