I would say it's a large percentage, actually. In fact I was astounded to find out a few years ago that college-age kids quite often listen to music exclusively on youtube while they are working on homework or hanging out in their flats. An astounding waste of bandwidth but it doesn't matter.
But comparing percentage of users is kind of silly. Yes 100% of spotify users are there for the music. A certain percentage of youtube users are there for the music as well, but the question is how many of them in total? I would not be surprised if youtube's total viewership that was there for music at any one time was greater than spotify's.
That said, how many billions would the record companies think is fair? 2? 10? infinity? Obviously I'd like a much greater salary too. But the market decides the fair price and if that doesn't match their greed, so be it.
I always put cases on my phones precisely so they will be a little thicker and easier to hold. I find the thinner the phone the more awkward it is to use. Even to hold it in front of me an interact with it.
I have to say I have complained a lot about the mouse on all Macintosh systems I've ever used. Compared to Linux and Windows I find it quite mushy feeling and slow. So I understand how frustrating that is.
I suspect the mouse is not your only reason for not switching, though. If the mouse is really your only reason, it's worth looking fairly deeply into how to correct the mouse tracking to suit your needs. If switching to Linux is important to you, and would provide utility, which I kind of doubt.
And I suspect strongly that most Windows users on Slashdot would never switch to Linux (or to Mac OS X) no matter what MS does. Handily there's a whole litany of Linux shortcomings to use as excuses.
You're probably right about your assessment of Natural Gas's ability to change the industry. But the fact that these guys have several billion dollars of orders stacked up shows there are companies that are interested and see the value it in. I think Nikola's engineers aren't operating in the dark here. They are well aware of what natural gas can do. It's easy to pretend they don't know what they are doing. We can't just use our armchair logic to summarily dismiss them. I hope they succeed.
Good point about specs. As they say, "there's no replacement for displacement." I'm not sure I'd say engines are "detuned" though. Bigger displacement engines do have a better torque curve than smaller ones. Remember an engine will develop as much horsepower as the load requires up to the limits set on the fuel system. At highway speeds your tractor may be using a fraction of the maximum rated horsepower. Start climbing a hill and this goes up to the max pretty quickly. Also starting out from a dead stop uses most of the engine's power too (torque is often limited in low gears to prevent breaking things).
An 850 hp bulldozer can use up to 850 but probably often isn't generating that much power. And it's all going through a steep gear reduction, so the torque demands on the engine may not be that great. We can't really compare a bulldozer to a semi truck tractor.
Although trucks are highly regulated they also happen to be a lot easier to use a platform for this kind of experimentation. For one an extra 1000 pounds isn't going to impact performance (though it will reduce freight capacity). Some truckers tell me just ice and snow can add a couple of thousand pounds to their trucks in the winter. Anyway plenty of room to play around with different drive trains and power systems, which is what this company seem to have done.
I've always been skeptical of hydrogen as a means of of energy storage, but if the numbers are right this is pretty good, for a range of about 800 miles. 1000 hp and 2000 ft-pounds of torque are definitely good numbers for a class 8 truck. The truck I drive sometimes is only 500 hp and 1800 ft-pounds of torque, and pulls 63500 KG GVW (only on flat roads and not fast). So this should easily go up and down mountains. And with no transmission to shift, the power will be smooth and efficient. I'm thinking they've had their prototypes on the road for some time now, so it will be interesting to see how quickly they can really bring this to actual market (start leasing them to real drivers and real companies).
The articles I've read don't talk a lot about how the refueling is done and pouring liquid cryogenic fluids is pretty dangerous. So we shall see. And we don't know much about other details like if the drive train can act as a big engine brake. It's pretty funny how the media reacts to things like this. Instead of focusing on the truly interesting aspects of the truck like the power cell and drive train, they focus on the cab and how it has a nice sleeper with a microwave oven! Hilarious.
Anyway, coming from someone who actually has a CDL and drives trucks on occasion, I'm quite interested to see where this goes.
Your comments indicate complete ignorance as to why he's there and how he got there. Applicant for what exactly? Rejected by whom? Why would he have been there in the winter? I think you may be operating under some mistaken assumptions here.
The only thing we can debate regarding this is whether we should continue to allow antarctic tourism in general. I know tourists have been traveling to Antarctica by ship for years, mostly sticking to the western coast along the antarctic peninsula. I had no idea tour groups were going all the way to the south pole. How cool is that! Though potentially dangerous and irresponsible, and possibly a detriment to the research that is being done there. Much like ISS tourism, but a little cheaper.
Somehow I doubt industrial equipment is tied into Google's NTP servers. But Google began doing this with their NTP servers back in 2011, and as far as unix servers go, there have been no issues with previous "smearing" so I don't expect any issues with this next leap second either.
Simply put it does not matter if it can produce it's intended amount of current for longer than any other battery technology. Likely, though, eventually it could more energy than was spent on making the diamond battery.
Yes and that would leave the government and tax payers still with 100% of the bill. There's really nothing they could go after, whether it's blood or money, that could repay the cost. It just is what it is. And that's the way it works. If you force the company to shoulder the costs alone, it will have to pass those on to its customers. Either way, people pay for it. Taking a company's profits sounds good, but in reality it just costs everyone else.
Personally I think just eating the total cost and spreading it among all the taxpayers is the most equitable. And when that's done of course, Tepco would be a publicly-owned company as you stated.
Somehow I doubt military drones or even commercial drones for that matter use 2.4 GHz, wide-band control signals. Heck a lot of hobbyists use other frequencies for command and control. 900 MHz for telemetry and command and control is extremely common. I've got a pair of 900 MHz 3DR radio modems on my desk right now. They operate on unlicensed frequency and have a range of about 1 km. Other countries use lower frequencies like the 400s, which have even longer range. And some guys are using long-range UHF systems for telemetry.
The toy drones all use 2.4 GHz though. Most are essentially a special WiFi access point. That's much of the current market, so maybe it's useful. I dunno.
But of course you mean spraying with chemicals. What is your "ecological bio substance" if not a chemical of some sort. Perhaps you mean naturally-occurring chemical instead of a synthetically-derived chemical. There is quite a bit of research going into using naturally-occurring chemicals as pesticides but the ironic thing is very few of them make it to market because they are simply too toxic compared to synthetic pesticides. And by toxic I mean poisonous to birds and mammals. Kind of interesting.
I was disappointed with your link of a list of fake news stories from "mainstream media." I thought Breitbart had put together a list of recent falsehoods perpetrated by the media, but it's just a list of large, well-known fake stories that are quite (in)famous and garnered a great deal of scandal.
I'd be more impressed with a list of fake stories from the last year that were propagated by the so-called main-stream media. The reason everyone is talking about fake news now is because in the last few months many more fake memes than ever before have popped up on social media that got accepted as news by social media netizens. And some of these memes were picked up by web sites, some "mainstream" and others not. The problem absolutely is worse now than a year ago. There are now thousands of shrill voices saying anything they want, which Google and Facebook incorrectly repeated as news to their users. That's the problem, not the occasional giant made-up story that eventually gets widely discredited, as all the fake news stories in that list were.
The problem is further that extreme voices on both left and right (though from what I can see it's more prevalent on the right), though they are repudiated and discredited, are still believed fervently by many. Of course that's a bigger problem than fake news.
Okay that makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about the implications of things like UDP NAT traversal (and apparently neither did any of the companies involved in compromised IoT devices). It makes sense that devices that use unencrypted traffic, after using a third party to establish the connection, are vulnerable to third parties messing with those packets and executing an exploit.
This makes the answer to the Ask Slashdot question even more of a solid NO! A smart firewall just isn't going to help us here as it would prevent the device from being accessed at all, which defeats the purpose of the network-capable aspect of it. So clearly besides the other things I mentioned, connection encryption is very important. Also these companies have to take the security of their central servers very seriously as well. Compromise a company's central control system and you've now compromised millions of devices in one swoop.
Something about these recent DDoS attacks originating from IoT has always bothered me. And I think it's that many of these vulnerable IoT devices are already behind firewalls from the open internet. I'd wager that most people's thermostats, smart lights, sprinkerly systems, etc are all attached to their local WiFi, not the open Internet. So the question is, how were these devices compromised? I've not read anything on the internet that explains this, other then lists of default usernames and passwords. So I'm left with the conclusion that most IoT devices are hacked probably by malware on the local LAN from existing desktop computers. And the compromise occurs over services that are purposely exposed to the LAN, like a web interface. Of course compromised IoT devices then seek out and attack other IoT devices.
But the point I'm getting at is that a firewall just isn't going to stop this from happening, since the exploited services are open to incoming connections (from the LAN) by design. Obviously a device on the open internet is stupid and needs to be firewalled. But on your LAN a custom little smart firewall is not going to do squat.
The only vendors take security seriously and stop using default passwords and actively try to stamp out security flaws in the software itself such as buffer overruns, cross-site scripting flaws, or database injection, will IoT devices cease to become vulnerable. But I have my doubts these devices will ever be secured.
No I don't think you will have happy customers. In fact making Linux look exactly like any other operating system like Windows or Mac is a recipe for disaster. I think of it as the uncanny valley of desktops. At first users may be comforted seeing something familiar. But as they use it, subtle differences will lead to a jarring experience. And sooner or later, as the GP said, users will try to install some cool program they found that won't work when they download it.
In my experience moving people from Windows to Linux, having a look and feel that closely resembles Windows is not at all important. It's not helpful at all. Most Linux desktops function similarly enough to Windows to be nearly immediately usable to most users. Having a look and feel that's different from Windows reinforces the idea that they aren't using Windows anymore, but something different, though it works on the same principles. I have never changed program icons to "Excel" or "Word" as that also would be harmful when they encounter differences (as soon as they open the application... LibreOffice looks and acts very differently from current versions of Office). Instead I make shortcuts entitled "Word Processor" or "Spreadsheet." Often I just leave them as they were.
Really none of this theming nonsense is necessary and it's not helpful to Linux adoption. In fact it may actually be harmful in the long run. Linux desktops have to stand on their own or we're doomed to failure.
Always hard to see things objectively when so many emotions are involved. Both the mother and father will be dead long before any there's any chance of technology existing to have a hope of reviving a cryogenically-frozen body, so wanting to see their daughter again in their mortal lifespan is not realistic anyway for either of them.
According to the BBC the father agreed to support his daughter's wish before she died. Apparently the money is being put up by the mother's family, so we can only speculate on his reasons. I know I'd hate to see someone waste a lot of money on something like this. Seems like a scam to me.
No I don't think so. Work is not done unless there is movement involved. Just standing on the surface represents potential energy but not kinetic. There's no "stealing from the normal force which the Earth would exert." If that was true our energy problems would be over! Clean energy from nothing. The dream of crack pots everywhere.
It's also not true that gravity provides the energy for a mass compressed by gravity on a spring. Gravity can only work with the potential energy that was imparted by work to the mass. In other words it still takes energy to lift the mass up and place it on the spring, which is then compressed by gravity. There's no free lunch here.
Have you ever walked or run on a concrete sidewalk vs soft grass? There's even a difference between, albeit slight, between walking on pavement and concrete. There's a small but distinguishable difference in the amount of energy it takes to walk or even ride on the different surfaces. The kinetic tiles would be similar. The energy they generate comes from our stride, so that means our bodies have to work just a tiny bit harder.
Care to explain? Because he's right. Walkers will have to expend a bit of extra work while walking on these tiles. It might not be much of course, and hardly noticeable to most perhaps. But I'd think it'd be similar to the difference between walking on soft grass or carpet vs pavement or concrete. The latter two surfaces absorb very little of the walking energy.
You've been around Slashdot since nearly the beginning so you should know this is clearly untrue. MP3 support in Linux back in the early 2000s wouldn't have made a bit of difference to overall Linux adoption. In fact many distros ignored the IP issues and simply included the codec without paying for a license. It would be nice to have a clear explanation of why they feel it's okay to ship an implementation of this patented algorithm now vs a few years ago. This is of course ignoring the fact that there should never have been a software patent on something like mp3 playback in the first place.
Linux has always been held back by the same things its always been held back by. It's an OS by geeks for geeks with a learning curve, bickering developers, petty egos, and contradictory goals. And more importantly there's the Windows/Office hegemony which still exists to this day, though it's weakening somewhat with MS's move to put Office in the cloud and sell subscriptions. Unlike Linux distributions and desktop environment developers, MS has always understood who their customer was. At least they used to.
How do you figure? It's definitely not practical for every web site out there that might require "user information" of some kind to put a server in Russia. Even a popular site like slashdot is not going to put a server in Russia. If I run a forum that requires registration of some kind, and therefore user data storage on my server, if I can't afford to place my server in Russia, then the government can, under this sort of law, block access to my site. Now it may not matter to me, since I don't care about Russian users (no money in it for me anyway). And maybe at the moment the law speaks only to sites that actually sell something to Russians, or involve money. But that will change. And as it changes this becomes, in the true sense of the word, censorship. Justified by the law. Maybe Russians were using my forum to speak negatively about their government, and even plan a campaign to peacefully take back power from Putin. Now they can't.
This pattern is playing out in other countries as well, including Turkey. This should raise significant red flags in everyone's minds. It could never happen here, I'm sure many think. But the erosion of rights and freedoms in the west over the last 15 years has shown that it can happen, and I suspect it will. If we think it won't happen in Russia we're particularly fooling ourselves. The Russian government has little use for dissenting voices.
I think the regime knows exactly what they are doing. By passing a law that is virtually impossible for most internet entities to comply with, they are creating the legal framework to strictly control information dissemination in Russia. Even better, it's couched in terms that the masses approve of in principle, such as protecting privacy from foreigners who would exploit you.
Sure there are ways to route around the damage, but those are summarily grouped under anti-terror laws.
It's a brilliant scheme, one that is becoming increasingly common across the world. And it's very pernicious and subtle. Governments can now do things that were only dreamed of years ago by dictatorships and the tin-pot kingdoms of history.
Thank goodness trump will make America great again.Oh wait, what's that? He's been in talks with the soviets since before the election? Oops.
How do you figure that? Are you sure you understand what "average" means? We're talking average sea level rise across the planet. Average means that some parts of the ocean, due to gravity, wave action, earth's rotation, will rise less, and other areas, including coastal areas will rise more.
Except the crazy air pollution is not all coal and diesel. The reason it's so bad right now is that farmers are burning stubble fields (was once a common practice in the west as well). We're talking hundreds of thousands of acres. Farming practices that don't involve burning stubble have not taken hold because farmers are very poor there and cannot afford the equipment that would allow zero-till or minimal till planting.
I'm sure it's still bad with all the cars and trucks, though. But this is an especially bad situation right now.
No one cares? I wouldn't say that. A lot of people care. I'm sure the farmers also care, but feel trapped by economic circumstances. And the citizens of New Delhi certainly care as well, as you'd know if you read the article. Individually, their power to change things is extremely limited, other than to protest and urge the government to use its collective power to help in some way (like modernize the farming infrastructure).
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I would say it's a large percentage, actually. In fact I was astounded to find out a few years ago that college-age kids quite often listen to music exclusively on youtube while they are working on homework or hanging out in their flats. An astounding waste of bandwidth but it doesn't matter.
But comparing percentage of users is kind of silly. Yes 100% of spotify users are there for the music. A certain percentage of youtube users are there for the music as well, but the question is how many of them in total? I would not be surprised if youtube's total viewership that was there for music at any one time was greater than spotify's.
That said, how many billions would the record companies think is fair? 2? 10? infinity? Obviously I'd like a much greater salary too. But the market decides the fair price and if that doesn't match their greed, so be it.
I always put cases on my phones precisely so they will be a little thicker and easier to hold. I find the thinner the phone the more awkward it is to use. Even to hold it in front of me an interact with it.
I have to say I have complained a lot about the mouse on all Macintosh systems I've ever used. Compared to Linux and Windows I find it quite mushy feeling and slow. So I understand how frustrating that is.
I suspect the mouse is not your only reason for not switching, though. If the mouse is really your only reason, it's worth looking fairly deeply into how to correct the mouse tracking to suit your needs. If switching to Linux is important to you, and would provide utility, which I kind of doubt.
And I suspect strongly that most Windows users on Slashdot would never switch to Linux (or to Mac OS X) no matter what MS does. Handily there's a whole litany of Linux shortcomings to use as excuses.
Both are important. Moving a large load requires horsepower, by definition. Horsepower is a certain amount of torque per minute.
You're probably right about your assessment of Natural Gas's ability to change the industry. But the fact that these guys have several billion dollars of orders stacked up shows there are companies that are interested and see the value it in. I think Nikola's engineers aren't operating in the dark here. They are well aware of what natural gas can do. It's easy to pretend they don't know what they are doing. We can't just use our armchair logic to summarily dismiss them. I hope they succeed.
Good point about specs. As they say, "there's no replacement for displacement." I'm not sure I'd say engines are "detuned" though. Bigger displacement engines do have a better torque curve than smaller ones. Remember an engine will develop as much horsepower as the load requires up to the limits set on the fuel system. At highway speeds your tractor may be using a fraction of the maximum rated horsepower. Start climbing a hill and this goes up to the max pretty quickly. Also starting out from a dead stop uses most of the engine's power too (torque is often limited in low gears to prevent breaking things).
An 850 hp bulldozer can use up to 850 but probably often isn't generating that much power. And it's all going through a steep gear reduction, so the torque demands on the engine may not be that great. We can't really compare a bulldozer to a semi truck tractor.
Although trucks are highly regulated they also happen to be a lot easier to use a platform for this kind of experimentation. For one an extra 1000 pounds isn't going to impact performance (though it will reduce freight capacity). Some truckers tell me just ice and snow can add a couple of thousand pounds to their trucks in the winter. Anyway plenty of room to play around with different drive trains and power systems, which is what this company seem to have done.
I've always been skeptical of hydrogen as a means of of energy storage, but if the numbers are right this is pretty good, for a range of about 800 miles. 1000 hp and 2000 ft-pounds of torque are definitely good numbers for a class 8 truck. The truck I drive sometimes is only 500 hp and 1800 ft-pounds of torque, and pulls 63500 KG GVW (only on flat roads and not fast). So this should easily go up and down mountains. And with no transmission to shift, the power will be smooth and efficient. I'm thinking they've had their prototypes on the road for some time now, so it will be interesting to see how quickly they can really bring this to actual market (start leasing them to real drivers and real companies).
The articles I've read don't talk a lot about how the refueling is done and pouring liquid cryogenic fluids is pretty dangerous. So we shall see. And we don't know much about other details like if the drive train can act as a big engine brake. It's pretty funny how the media reacts to things like this. Instead of focusing on the truly interesting aspects of the truck like the power cell and drive train, they focus on the cab and how it has a nice sleeper with a microwave oven! Hilarious.
Anyway, coming from someone who actually has a CDL and drives trucks on occasion, I'm quite interested to see where this goes.
Your comments indicate complete ignorance as to why he's there and how he got there. Applicant for what exactly? Rejected by whom? Why would he have been there in the winter? I think you may be operating under some mistaken assumptions here.
The only thing we can debate regarding this is whether we should continue to allow antarctic tourism in general. I know tourists have been traveling to Antarctica by ship for years, mostly sticking to the western coast along the antarctic peninsula. I had no idea tour groups were going all the way to the south pole. How cool is that! Though potentially dangerous and irresponsible, and possibly a detriment to the research that is being done there. Much like ISS tourism, but a little cheaper.
Right this is about Google. Not my servers, or your servers. I suppose someone could unwittingly be using a Google NTP server unawares.
Somehow I doubt industrial equipment is tied into Google's NTP servers. But Google began doing this with their NTP servers back in 2011, and as far as unix servers go, there have been no issues with previous "smearing" so I don't expect any issues with this next leap second either.
Simply put it does not matter if it can produce it's intended amount of current for longer than any other battery technology. Likely, though, eventually it could more energy than was spent on making the diamond battery.
Yes and that would leave the government and tax payers still with 100% of the bill. There's really nothing they could go after, whether it's blood or money, that could repay the cost. It just is what it is. And that's the way it works. If you force the company to shoulder the costs alone, it will have to pass those on to its customers. Either way, people pay for it. Taking a company's profits sounds good, but in reality it just costs everyone else.
Personally I think just eating the total cost and spreading it among all the taxpayers is the most equitable. And when that's done of course, Tepco would be a publicly-owned company as you stated.
Somehow I doubt military drones or even commercial drones for that matter use 2.4 GHz, wide-band control signals. Heck a lot of hobbyists use other frequencies for command and control. 900 MHz for telemetry and command and control is extremely common. I've got a pair of 900 MHz 3DR radio modems on my desk right now. They operate on unlicensed frequency and have a range of about 1 km. Other countries use lower frequencies like the 400s, which have even longer range. And some guys are using long-range UHF systems for telemetry.
The toy drones all use 2.4 GHz though. Most are essentially a special WiFi access point. That's much of the current market, so maybe it's useful. I dunno.
But of course you mean spraying with chemicals. What is your "ecological bio substance" if not a chemical of some sort. Perhaps you mean naturally-occurring chemical instead of a synthetically-derived chemical. There is quite a bit of research going into using naturally-occurring chemicals as pesticides but the ironic thing is very few of them make it to market because they are simply too toxic compared to synthetic pesticides. And by toxic I mean poisonous to birds and mammals. Kind of interesting.
I was disappointed with your link of a list of fake news stories from "mainstream media." I thought Breitbart had put together a list of recent falsehoods perpetrated by the media, but it's just a list of large, well-known fake stories that are quite (in)famous and garnered a great deal of scandal.
I'd be more impressed with a list of fake stories from the last year that were propagated by the so-called main-stream media. The reason everyone is talking about fake news now is because in the last few months many more fake memes than ever before have popped up on social media that got accepted as news by social media netizens. And some of these memes were picked up by web sites, some "mainstream" and others not. The problem absolutely is worse now than a year ago. There are now thousands of shrill voices saying anything they want, which Google and Facebook incorrectly repeated as news to their users. That's the problem, not the occasional giant made-up story that eventually gets widely discredited, as all the fake news stories in that list were.
The problem is further that extreme voices on both left and right (though from what I can see it's more prevalent on the right), though they are repudiated and discredited, are still believed fervently by many. Of course that's a bigger problem than fake news.
Okay that makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about the implications of things like UDP NAT traversal (and apparently neither did any of the companies involved in compromised IoT devices). It makes sense that devices that use unencrypted traffic, after using a third party to establish the connection, are vulnerable to third parties messing with those packets and executing an exploit.
This makes the answer to the Ask Slashdot question even more of a solid NO! A smart firewall just isn't going to help us here as it would prevent the device from being accessed at all, which defeats the purpose of the network-capable aspect of it. So clearly besides the other things I mentioned, connection encryption is very important. Also these companies have to take the security of their central servers very seriously as well. Compromise a company's central control system and you've now compromised millions of devices in one swoop.
Something about these recent DDoS attacks originating from IoT has always bothered me. And I think it's that many of these vulnerable IoT devices are already behind firewalls from the open internet. I'd wager that most people's thermostats, smart lights, sprinkerly systems, etc are all attached to their local WiFi, not the open Internet. So the question is, how were these devices compromised? I've not read anything on the internet that explains this, other then lists of default usernames and passwords. So I'm left with the conclusion that most IoT devices are hacked probably by malware on the local LAN from existing desktop computers. And the compromise occurs over services that are purposely exposed to the LAN, like a web interface. Of course compromised IoT devices then seek out and attack other IoT devices.
But the point I'm getting at is that a firewall just isn't going to stop this from happening, since the exploited services are open to incoming connections (from the LAN) by design. Obviously a device on the open internet is stupid and needs to be firewalled. But on your LAN a custom little smart firewall is not going to do squat.
The only vendors take security seriously and stop using default passwords and actively try to stamp out security flaws in the software itself such as buffer overruns, cross-site scripting flaws, or database injection, will IoT devices cease to become vulnerable. But I have my doubts these devices will ever be secured.
No I don't think you will have happy customers. In fact making Linux look exactly like any other operating system like Windows or Mac is a recipe for disaster. I think of it as the uncanny valley of desktops. At first users may be comforted seeing something familiar. But as they use it, subtle differences will lead to a jarring experience. And sooner or later, as the GP said, users will try to install some cool program they found that won't work when they download it.
In my experience moving people from Windows to Linux, having a look and feel that closely resembles Windows is not at all important. It's not helpful at all. Most Linux desktops function similarly enough to Windows to be nearly immediately usable to most users. Having a look and feel that's different from Windows reinforces the idea that they aren't using Windows anymore, but something different, though it works on the same principles. I have never changed program icons to "Excel" or "Word" as that also would be harmful when they encounter differences (as soon as they open the application... LibreOffice looks and acts very differently from current versions of Office). Instead I make shortcuts entitled "Word Processor" or "Spreadsheet." Often I just leave them as they were.
Really none of this theming nonsense is necessary and it's not helpful to Linux adoption. In fact it may actually be harmful in the long run. Linux desktops have to stand on their own or we're doomed to failure.
Always hard to see things objectively when so many emotions are involved. Both the mother and father will be dead long before any there's any chance of technology existing to have a hope of reviving a cryogenically-frozen body, so wanting to see their daughter again in their mortal lifespan is not realistic anyway for either of them.
According to the BBC the father agreed to support his daughter's wish before she died. Apparently the money is being put up by the mother's family, so we can only speculate on his reasons. I know I'd hate to see someone waste a lot of money on something like this. Seems like a scam to me.
No I don't think so. Work is not done unless there is movement involved. Just standing on the surface represents potential energy but not kinetic. There's no "stealing from the normal force which the Earth would exert." If that was true our energy problems would be over! Clean energy from nothing. The dream of crack pots everywhere.
It's also not true that gravity provides the energy for a mass compressed by gravity on a spring. Gravity can only work with the potential energy that was imparted by work to the mass. In other words it still takes energy to lift the mass up and place it on the spring, which is then compressed by gravity. There's no free lunch here.
Have you ever walked or run on a concrete sidewalk vs soft grass? There's even a difference between, albeit slight, between walking on pavement and concrete. There's a small but distinguishable difference in the amount of energy it takes to walk or even ride on the different surfaces. The kinetic tiles would be similar. The energy they generate comes from our stride, so that means our bodies have to work just a tiny bit harder.
Care to explain? Because he's right. Walkers will have to expend a bit of extra work while walking on these tiles. It might not be much of course, and hardly noticeable to most perhaps. But I'd think it'd be similar to the difference between walking on soft grass or carpet vs pavement or concrete. The latter two surfaces absorb very little of the walking energy.
You've been around Slashdot since nearly the beginning so you should know this is clearly untrue. MP3 support in Linux back in the early 2000s wouldn't have made a bit of difference to overall Linux adoption. In fact many distros ignored the IP issues and simply included the codec without paying for a license. It would be nice to have a clear explanation of why they feel it's okay to ship an implementation of this patented algorithm now vs a few years ago. This is of course ignoring the fact that there should never have been a software patent on something like mp3 playback in the first place.
Linux has always been held back by the same things its always been held back by. It's an OS by geeks for geeks with a learning curve, bickering developers, petty egos, and contradictory goals. And more importantly there's the Windows/Office hegemony which still exists to this day, though it's weakening somewhat with MS's move to put Office in the cloud and sell subscriptions. Unlike Linux distributions and desktop environment developers, MS has always understood who their customer was. At least they used to.
How do you figure? It's definitely not practical for every web site out there that might require "user information" of some kind to put a server in Russia. Even a popular site like slashdot is not going to put a server in Russia. If I run a forum that requires registration of some kind, and therefore user data storage on my server, if I can't afford to place my server in Russia, then the government can, under this sort of law, block access to my site. Now it may not matter to me, since I don't care about Russian users (no money in it for me anyway). And maybe at the moment the law speaks only to sites that actually sell something to Russians, or involve money. But that will change. And as it changes this becomes, in the true sense of the word, censorship. Justified by the law. Maybe Russians were using my forum to speak negatively about their government, and even plan a campaign to peacefully take back power from Putin. Now they can't.
This pattern is playing out in other countries as well, including Turkey. This should raise significant red flags in everyone's minds. It could never happen here, I'm sure many think. But the erosion of rights and freedoms in the west over the last 15 years has shown that it can happen, and I suspect it will. If we think it won't happen in Russia we're particularly fooling ourselves. The Russian government has little use for dissenting voices.
I think the regime knows exactly what they are doing. By passing a law that is virtually impossible for most internet entities to comply with, they are creating the legal framework to strictly control information dissemination in Russia. Even better, it's couched in terms that the masses approve of in principle, such as protecting privacy from foreigners who would exploit you.
Sure there are ways to route around the damage, but those are summarily grouped under anti-terror laws.
It's a brilliant scheme, one that is becoming increasingly common across the world. And it's very pernicious and subtle. Governments can now do things that were only dreamed of years ago by dictatorships and the tin-pot kingdoms of history.
Thank goodness trump will make America great again.Oh wait, what's that? He's been in talks with the soviets since before the election? Oops.
How do you figure that? Are you sure you understand what "average" means? We're talking average sea level rise across the planet. Average means that some parts of the ocean, due to gravity, wave action, earth's rotation, will rise less, and other areas, including coastal areas will rise more.
Except the crazy air pollution is not all coal and diesel. The reason it's so bad right now is that farmers are burning stubble fields (was once a common practice in the west as well). We're talking hundreds of thousands of acres. Farming practices that don't involve burning stubble have not taken hold because farmers are very poor there and cannot afford the equipment that would allow zero-till or minimal till planting.
I'm sure it's still bad with all the cars and trucks, though. But this is an especially bad situation right now.
No one cares? I wouldn't say that. A lot of people care. I'm sure the farmers also care, but feel trapped by economic circumstances. And the citizens of New Delhi certainly care as well, as you'd know if you read the article. Individually, their power to change things is extremely limited, other than to protest and urge the government to use its collective power to help in some way (like modernize the farming infrastructure).