The real truth is with the added heat energy, the climate will swing more wildly. One day you can enjoy a spring day, the next, you get 3 feet of snow dumped on you.
That sounds like a normal spring day in Boulder, CO.
Ignoring email is rude and unprofessional; if a coworker is being rude and unprofessional, it is very reasonable to point it out. It doesn't excuse being rude in return.
In the 20th century, Europeans were responsible for... perhaps 95 out of every 100 deaths by war, worldwide? Our ability to exceed our previous achievements in the craft of death/torture is.. impressive.
You forget the Sino-Japanese portion of WWII, a significant fraction. If you got back before the 20th century, China tends to top the lists as well. I imagine much of that is simply population.
* Require that government entities only purchase products from companies that have not had certain categories of security lapses in the last 6 months
* Require that government entities only purchase products from companies that have a policy of fixing security bugs within X amount of time
Stuff like this sounds great in practice, and even makes a good amount of sense - why not use capitalism itself to promote desired behavior? But these kind of restrictions on government purchasing are why government pays twice as much to make what should be easy purchases. "Approved vendors", "preferred suppliers", and "government rates" because it takes so much paperwork. This also excludes small companies who don't have staff dedicated to filling out government paperwork.
People aren't bothering to memorize things anymore, they're just looking facts up in books!
[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. -- Socrates
I also read the first book only, and found it to mostly contain rudimentary SF ideas that were simplistically presented.
I would describe the near-future and alien part as "aliens are incapable of numerically simulating N-body gravitational interaction, so send a probe to earth to host a mathematical version of The Last Starfighter and obtain an analytical solution".
Some states (not all) allow you to post surety bonds or deposit cash with the DMV in lieu of insurance. Others have guaranteed-eligible state-sponsored insurance programs (usually more expensive).
Here in Boston, I frequently see "Bumper Bully"s on cars - a rubber bumper for your bumper. Apparently so you can smash into parking spaces without worrying about scrapes?
You need to look at the numbers of "presidential memorandum" as well - calling an executive action with the force of law something different doesn't mean it really is. Memoranda have the added bonus of not even needing to be published!
I doubt we'll see digital transfer of consciousness in my lifetime. Don't get me wrong, the idea appeals to me on a certain level, but even given the existence of such technology at some future date, how do you prove that consciousness was transferred rather than just some form of duplication?
Ideally via a Ship of Theseus type method, slowly expanding a biological mind into the digital domain, running on both substrates for a while, and slowly shutting down the biological portion (as it naturally ages and dies, even?).
A faster yet still gradual route would be individually replacing neurons and killing them off once they're successfully emulated, as featured in multiple SF formats.
My Galaxy Note II that has been in daily use for 4.5 years has a slight horizontal ghosting from the notification bar that is barely visible on grey backgrounds. Otherwise, it has none. In contrast, my Dell U2713 LCD monitor has noticeable ghosting in multiple places.
26% of the mass of the universe is made up of your simplifying assumptions: space is flat and uniform everywhere and everywhen, gravity is constant everywhere and everywhen, the speed of light is constant everywhere and everywhen, the Higgs field isn't really the luminiferous aether with a fancy new name, etc.
Addressing the first part of your post only, this is one reason I like the Timescape Cosmology model, that basically posits that some dark matter effects and all dark energy effects are just arising from GR. Most cosmology simplifies the universe to a homogeneous soup, which conveniently ignores small-scale GR effects that could be very important.
It sounds like you're looking for something that already exists, albeit in specialized usage: the Digital Focal Plane Array, where each pixel has processing circuitry below (or beside) it. It does things like on-sensor motion compensation and integration and very high bit depth integration, even on a shaking platform and with low absolute pixel count. This lets you do things like make a near-1Hz near-gigapixel image from a 640x480 sensor and other interesting things.
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The real truth is with the added heat energy, the climate will swing more wildly. One day you can enjoy a spring day, the next, you get 3 feet of snow dumped on you.
That sounds like a normal spring day in Boulder, CO.
Apparently there's an opportunity for publishing 2D geometrical trivial-proof-by-simulation, even!
Yes.
Ignoring email is rude and unprofessional; if a coworker is being rude and unprofessional, it is very reasonable to point it out. It doesn't excuse being rude in return.
If it has a half-life of a million years, it's not dangerous due to radioactivity.
In the 20th century, Europeans were responsible for... perhaps 95 out of every 100 deaths by war, worldwide? Our ability to exceed our previous achievements in the craft of death/torture is.. impressive.
You forget the Sino-Japanese portion of WWII, a significant fraction. If you got back before the 20th century, China tends to top the lists as well. I imagine much of that is simply population.
Stuff like this sounds great in practice, and even makes a good amount of sense - why not use capitalism itself to promote desired behavior? But these kind of restrictions on government purchasing are why government pays twice as much to make what should be easy purchases. "Approved vendors", "preferred suppliers", and "government rates" because it takes so much paperwork. This also excludes small companies who don't have staff dedicated to filling out government paperwork.
Like CamelCamelCamel? Never shop Amazon without it!
HoverHound is also a decent cross-site comparison for Amazon, Newegg, and one or two others.
[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. -- Socrates
Ithe odd elephant thrown in for irony.
Or is it for ivory?
I also read the first book only, and found it to mostly contain rudimentary SF ideas that were simplistically presented.
I would describe the near-future and alien part as "aliens are incapable of numerically simulating N-body gravitational interaction, so send a probe to earth to host a mathematical version of The Last Starfighter and obtain an analytical solution".
That's been available for Japanese for nearly a decade.
Or do I mean "Japanese is available for nearly 10 years."
(it's less fun now that it was years ago - translation is getting better!)
Some states (not all) allow you to post surety bonds or deposit cash with the DMV in lieu of insurance. Others have guaranteed-eligible state-sponsored insurance programs (usually more expensive).
Here in Boston, I frequently see "Bumper Bully"s on cars - a rubber bumper for your bumper. Apparently so you can smash into parking spaces without worrying about scrapes?
You need to look at the numbers of "presidential memorandum" as well - calling an executive action with the force of law something different doesn't mean it really is. Memoranda have the added bonus of not even needing to be published!
'Giga' was adopted by the SI in 1960 as 10^9.
Sounds like someone at the UN read Caves of Steel.
I doubt we'll see digital transfer of consciousness in my lifetime. Don't get me wrong, the idea appeals to me on a certain level, but even given the existence of such technology at some future date, how do you prove that consciousness was transferred rather than just some form of duplication?
Ideally via a Ship of Theseus type method, slowly expanding a biological mind into the digital domain, running on both substrates for a while, and slowly shutting down the biological portion (as it naturally ages and dies, even?).
A faster yet still gradual route would be individually replacing neurons and killing them off once they're successfully emulated, as featured in multiple SF formats.
As for Obama being a "king with a pen" --- try again. The number of executive orders he signed was not at all remarkable, compared to his predecessors.
That's only because he titled 70% of them "Presidential memoranda" and another unknown amount of "Presidential Policy Directives".
Even just enumerating Executive actions in general is a much more complex task that it would first seem.
You can already run it on MariaDB, which is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL and not owned by Oracle.
Then I just see gibberish unless they use proper emoticons instead of emojis.
My Galaxy Note II that has been in daily use for 4.5 years has a slight horizontal ghosting from the notification bar that is barely visible on grey backgrounds. Otherwise, it has none. In contrast, my Dell U2713 LCD monitor has noticeable ghosting in multiple places.
26% of the mass of the universe is made up of your simplifying assumptions: space is flat and uniform everywhere and everywhen, gravity is constant everywhere and everywhen, the speed of light is constant everywhere and everywhen, the Higgs field isn't really the luminiferous aether with a fancy new name, etc.
Addressing the first part of your post only, this is one reason I like the Timescape Cosmology model, that basically posits that some dark matter effects and all dark energy effects are just arising from GR. Most cosmology simplifies the universe to a homogeneous soup, which conveniently ignores small-scale GR effects that could be very important.
It sounds like you're looking for something that already exists, albeit in specialized usage: the Digital Focal Plane Array, where each pixel has processing circuitry below (or beside) it. It does things like on-sensor motion compensation and integration and very high bit depth integration, even on a shaking platform and with low absolute pixel count. This lets you do things like make a near-1Hz near-gigapixel image from a 640x480 sensor and other interesting things.