I would expect that we will also overcome the desire to procreate, once the future of the species is assured. As I read on/. some time ago, Humans really like to have sex, but aren't really keen on raising children, beyond what we feel is necessary to preserve the race. It is seen in every population study. As medicine advances, as our quality of life increases, birth rate drops.
When we start living forever, we won't have this great need to create offspring anymore. We'll still behave like rabbits, but we won't breed like them.
We'll become like almost every iteration of "elven/long lived" creatures in fantasy books, long lives but few offspring.
While I agree that for some corporations, security is handled poorly, (not an expert on this, sorry) I would expect that any corporation that knows it's working on a military contract, is not the target of the FBI general alert of which comprises the subject of the article.
This alert is a general one to tech companies in the Boston area, and not to defense contractors. As if your average tech company might just happen to be working on something with massive military potential and not know it. This leads me to think that the only point of this is to spread fear of anything Russian just to give the government something to protect the public against.
Anything that the Russians can get their hands on by simply working with regular US companies, is not going to give them sudden military advantages. Any military-relevant research happening in the US is happening in secret.
The kind of companies that the Russians are getting involved in are the type that will publicly announce any major breakthroughs or inventions on the web, because they are interested in domestic and foreign investment.
This is just another FUD statement to try reinforce hate directed at the Russians in order to generate acceptance when the next budget rolls around and we ask why Three Letter Agencies are still being given so much money for spying on citizens of the US.
I'm going to have to go with 'gas' stations being fitted with capacitors that charge continually, and discharge rapidly each time a car plugs in to it.
I would hope, though, that being/. readers, in a topic about energy braking and flywheels, the average reader would be somewhat familiar with the concept of manual transmission.
The flywheel works in the same way as putting your car into a lower gear and breaking against the engine.
You can picture it as the flywheel being separated from the axle (via a clutch) and when you apply the brakes it connects the flywheel up. You now have the inertia of the flywheel being overcome by the turning of the axle transferring the energy to the flywheel.
When you have stopped (when the system senses that the axle is no longer giving the flywheel any energy, when the rotational momentum of the flywheel is greater than that of the axle), the circuit is broken again and the flywheel continues to spin while the car is stationary. When you want to go forward again, the spinning flywheel is connected to the stationary axle again and that energy is returned in addition to engine power.
The efficiency isn't ever going to be great, as you are always working towards an equilibrium. From standstill, the engine speeds up the car. During braking, the axle and flywheel reach a balance, (up to 1/2 the rotational momentum - whatever is taken via brake friction). When re-accelerating, up to 1/2 of the energy can be transferred back to the wheels + engine.
The flywheel will continue to spin, slowly losing energy until the next braking event at which point it will spin up again, at some point reaching an upper threshold. So the flywheel is great for racing where there are numerous stops and goes but won't be that good for your average home user. The question really is, over the life of the car, will the energy saved by braking and accelerating be worth carrying the additional weight on highway trips of consistent speed.
Mandatory corruption is generally unsustainable in the long run.
You actually think US government corruption is only a recent thing? How long do you think it has to run before it becomes unstable? How long do you think it has been running so far?
Don't dismiss this too soon. As an anti-violence in games person, he must have done lots of thorough investigation into exactly what kind of violence is actually in games. So it's actually quite possible he was influenced by all the violence and crime he's seen depicted in these games and as this has lead to him pursuing it in the real world.
But then why is he anti-violence in games? Surely if he is trying to ban guns to increase his profits, why isn't he lobbying for violent games so people are more interested in buying his product? Is it possible that deep down he knows that violent games don't lead to an increase in real-world violence?
Strictly speaking, until you shine a light on the inside of the water melon, does it have any colour at all? Is it black? Is it colourless? Colour as we see it is only the left-over light reflected after the other bandwidths are absorbed by the surface. Until you cut open the watermelon, no light shines on the inside and thus there is no colour.
It's along the same lines of the tree falling in the woods debate. Sure, it's falling disturbs the molecules of air around it, but it doesn't produce sound until someone is there to hear it!
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Perhaps the first 1/2 million people to sign up to /. were 'scientists' but ever since then the quality of users has gone too mainstream.
Exactly, I did this in SimCity and eventually a volcano erupted in what was otherwise a geologically stable area. And simulations don't lie.
Well, that's not even it's real name. It should be Deutschium. But you can't expect linguistic correctness in a scientific article.
And when your Foo Bars don't work in the field, well everything's ... well, you know...
I would expect that we will also overcome the desire to procreate, once the future of the species is assured. As I read on /. some time ago, Humans really like to have sex, but aren't really keen on raising children, beyond what we feel is necessary to preserve the race. It is seen in every population study. As medicine advances, as our quality of life increases, birth rate drops.
When we start living forever, we won't have this great need to create offspring anymore. We'll still behave like rabbits, but we won't breed like them.
We'll become like almost every iteration of "elven/long lived" creatures in fantasy books, long lives but few offspring.
While I agree that for some corporations, security is handled poorly, (not an expert on this, sorry) I would expect that any corporation that knows it's working on a military contract, is not the target of the FBI general alert of which comprises the subject of the article.
This alert is a general one to tech companies in the Boston area, and not to defense contractors. As if your average tech company might just happen to be working on something with massive military potential and not know it. This leads me to think that the only point of this is to spread fear of anything Russian just to give the government something to protect the public against.
Anything that the Russians can get their hands on by simply working with regular US companies, is not going to give them sudden military advantages. Any military-relevant research happening in the US is happening in secret.
The kind of companies that the Russians are getting involved in are the type that will publicly announce any major breakthroughs or inventions on the web, because they are interested in domestic and foreign investment.
This is just another FUD statement to try reinforce hate directed at the Russians in order to generate acceptance when the next budget rolls around and we ask why Three Letter Agencies are still being given so much money for spying on citizens of the US.
Call me the day the Patriot Act is repealed. At least we realise when a law is bad and remove it.
Umm why stop there? Why not run it at 2562 C and then you can use both liquid AND gas cooling, as the copper flows, evaporates and condenses.
Hey, I read braille, you insensitive clod!
Careful! I got his newsletter. It had a complex paragraph on the front cover and almost self-destructed if I didn't read it fast enough!
I'm going to have to go with 'gas' stations being fitted with capacitors that charge continually, and discharge rapidly each time a car plugs in to it.
Of which Bender will attest: Beer is a vital component.
I see no difference between this and a laugh track in a sitcom.
Nerds hate him.
Click here to find out how he became famous with this one weird trick.
Tesla Model S Crashes, now 10 times more AWESOME!
I would hope, though, that being /. readers, in a topic about energy braking and flywheels, the average reader would be somewhat familiar with the concept of manual transmission.
For those who don't like hill analogies,
The flywheel works in the same way as putting your car into a lower gear and breaking against the engine.
You can picture it as the flywheel being separated from the axle (via a clutch) and when you apply the brakes it connects the flywheel up. You now have the inertia of the flywheel being overcome by the turning of the axle transferring the energy to the flywheel.
When you have stopped (when the system senses that the axle is no longer giving the flywheel any energy, when the rotational momentum of the flywheel is greater than that of the axle), the circuit is broken again and the flywheel continues to spin while the car is stationary. When you want to go forward again, the spinning flywheel is connected to the stationary axle again and that energy is returned in addition to engine power.
The efficiency isn't ever going to be great, as you are always working towards an equilibrium. From standstill, the engine speeds up the car. During braking, the axle and flywheel reach a balance, (up to 1/2 the rotational momentum - whatever is taken via brake friction). When re-accelerating, up to 1/2 of the energy can be transferred back to the wheels + engine.
The flywheel will continue to spin, slowly losing energy until the next braking event at which point it will spin up again, at some point reaching an upper threshold. So the flywheel is great for racing where there are numerous stops and goes but won't be that good for your average home user. The question really is, over the life of the car, will the energy saved by braking and accelerating be worth carrying the additional weight on highway trips of consistent speed.
Or waht if someone in Russia with knowledge of how the US conducts its spying told them something to make them suspicious of Apple products?
Wait, Homeopathy is like vaccination???? Does it cause Autism?
Mandatory corruption is generally unsustainable in the long run.
You actually think US government corruption is only a recent thing? How long do you think it has to run before it becomes unstable? How long do you think it has been running so far?
Don't dismiss this too soon. As an anti-violence in games person, he must have done lots of thorough investigation into exactly what kind of violence is actually in games. So it's actually quite possible he was influenced by all the violence and crime he's seen depicted in these games and as this has lead to him pursuing it in the real world.
But then why is he anti-violence in games? Surely if he is trying to ban guns to increase his profits, why isn't he lobbying for violent games so people are more interested in buying his product? Is it possible that deep down he knows that violent games don't lead to an increase in real-world violence?
I dunno, the liver needs regular exercise too.
Sorry for the off-topic.
Strictly speaking, until you shine a light on the inside of the water melon, does it have any colour at all? Is it black? Is it colourless? Colour as we see it is only the left-over light reflected after the other bandwidths are absorbed by the surface. Until you cut open the watermelon, no light shines on the inside and thus there is no colour.
It's along the same lines of the tree falling in the woods debate. Sure, it's falling disturbs the molecules of air around it, but it doesn't produce sound until someone is there to hear it!