The flower was a Zinnia. If you look at the orlandosentinal link you can see photos of the plant as a whole. It looks like 0-g has messed with it pretty significantly, lots of ingrown leaves and not the arrangement you would expect on earth.
Also Zinnias are a many many petalled flower in multiple layers and the one grown appears to only be a single layer and a much smaller count of petals. It could be a different sub-species but the difference is significant. http://www.photos-public-domai...
Out of interest what games are you running into where CPU is the bottleneck? I have a Phenom II X6 1055T which is paired with a GTX580 and I don't seem to have any issues playing anything. In passmark it loses out to an i5 but if the application is well threaded the 1055 will give an i7 a run for its money. When you look at futuremark it scores 4530 vs 4600 for an i5-4570
And this here is part of the question around costs. I doubt we are talking about raw dumps of data here. Instead I suspect that someone has to go through every second of video, make sure that there is nothing seen by the camera that shouldn't be seen, ie police data on a computer screen. Then do they go through and blur the faces of uninvolved people, number plates etc? They probably don't need to if the recording was made on a street and there could be no reasonable expectation of privacy, but what about when the footage is in a private premises, particularly a multi-dwelling building such as an apartment.
Ugh, now that I think about it there are huge amounts of issues around releasing any video that shows anything interesting at all. To the point that I wonder if sealing them with out a court order isn't a better place to start.
Am I reading this wrong or is this essentially a contract to ULA by proxy as the Dream Chaser is launched atop an Altas V? ULA had the CST-100 in development as their direct crew / cargo craft but it was knocked out of competition.
So unless I'm mistaken this end up being a contract for the 3 main launch systems, SpaceX, Orbital Sciences and ULA.
Making a complete guess, since the concentrations in the body were likely non-lethal to begin with (unless it's what killed the person) the chances of it being in the soil at any kind of harmful levels after it has been rained on over and over again while the body rots is probably vanishingly small.
Medication is a huge issue when it comes to human waste. Lots and lots and lots of the drugs we take pass nasty by products into our waste that aren't easily removed. So one of the challenges around waste treatment plants is the disposal of the solid/sludge component. It isn't something that you could use as fertilizer without health impacts.
I could be reading this article wrong - I'm only looking at one of the graphs but I'm reading the temperature as warmer today than 50,000 years ago. By my reading you need to go back about 125,000 years to get a warmer temp. https://www.aip.org/history/cl... - graph link http://www.aip.org/history/cli...
From the article - “The impact wounds on the bones with embedded stone fragments is conclusive evidence that people slayed this mammoth.”
They can often determine cause of death from skeletons long after any flesh has rotted or been removed. Impact strikes or piercing weapons leave imprints on the skeleton that are different to those of removing meat from a carcass. They can even tell which side a woman tended to carry her handbag from the dints left in her skeleton.
All over the place, Chinese, Argentinian, Iranian, Romanian, Russian, Malay, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese. Those are the ones that tend to have more broken English (note huge generalisation there are plenty that are fluent). I also have a lot from Germany as well but as a general rule they are bi-lingual.
My career has given me a very different experience. I am often working with people who are engineers with a broken grasp of english. Technically they are brilliant and are highly valued for their technical skills, but their english is down right poor. They might be able to create a perfect seismic map of an oil reservoir but you wouldn't put them in front of a client.
You would never do this for business though. And when it comes to communication methods it is business that wins. That is why email continues to dominate despite how many headlines saying email is dead.
Not english as a second language, people who are struggling with the language. I often deal with people who are technically very strong in their field but the english communication is relatively poor. Often they will substitute the wrong word in a sentence for example. In context you can determine what they mean but it still comes down to a lack of knowledge and vocabulary of a language.
Also it's great that it is the International spelling Alphabet, it means if you are involved in radio you will learn it. However, If you are Chinese for example, and have no reason to ever learn english words you are very unlikely to be exposed to it.
This is fine for native english speakers as it's just memorising a couple of extra words. For anyone who is already struggling with the language this will make life hell.
No we're not because I bet you have your mobile number memorised. Whenever you meet someone and want to exchange contact details you give them your number. The fact that they may load it into a contacts system which obfuscates the number doesn't change that the number was what you exchanged. Also when you have a lower quality sound connection, ie every time you use a phone, numbers are much easier to understand than letters. Zero, four, three, zero, two, nine is much easier to get correct than Esss, Eff, Bee, Pee. That doesn't even start to cover the difficulties when you get into different languages.
Yes I know they are technically a cloth. But they still feel like paper. The other advantage polymer has is they last longer is circulation before being ruined.
I doubt that it is evolution. As others have noted we get far more of our light from the sun and that the use of fire for lighting is relatively recent in terms of evolution. Also prior to cheap lighting from electric bulbs many many places couldn't afford any form of decent lighting, candles were expensive and open fires are dangerous in populated areas.
No I still think it is personal preference and what people are used to that keeps them attached to yellow lightbulbs.
I have found that installing led bulbs into existing fixtures is a hit and miss affair. And it seems to have more to do with the fitting than the bulb as I have identical bulbs in multiple places but the same fittings always fail.
That said I have gone around and replaced all my ceiling fittings with sealed LED fittings and have not had a single one of those fail.
You're not alone. My whole house is "White" 7000k leds. When you first install them into places where you used to have yellow they can look stark and clinical initially. But in a day you are used to it and the yellow starts to look dirty in comparison. I think the reason so many people want the yellow lights is it is what they are used to.
Another nice side effect of have white lights is if it is a bit dull and dreary outside turning your lights on makes it feel like the day is brighter, rather than making you feel the lights are on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - This is what happens when humans encounter conditions where visibility reduces yet they still drive faster than their visible distance. If 20km/h is the maximum speed that a vehicle can stop at inside its visibility window then that is EXACTLY the max speed it should be travelling.
As for your example there must be some kind of visible cues otherwise you wouldn't know where the road goes. GPS is also no affected by water vapour in the atmosphere, it is however affected by water, so there would have to be something that kept the water from pooling over the receiver, something I'm sure they can manage. That said there is no way GPS will be used for fine location requirement.
As for sensor costs, sensors are cheap and would only become cheaper as you bought thousands of them. Velodyne produce high precision lidars, lidars that far exceed the requirements of autonomous vehicles (seriously do you really need realtime 360 measurement to 1cm) for around $7k for 1 off retail. I'm guessing if they got an order for 100,000 units the price point would be a lot lower.
The big difference between speech recognition and self driving cars is there is serious serious money in the cars. And seriously massive impacts on transport infrastructure that will absolutely make governments sit up and take notice.
My own theory is that cities will start to put an autonomous zone around their centres meaning cars that enter that ring either have to be in self drive mode or pay a significant toll. The increased flow rate, the ability to control pathing, and the wider impacts that would have on the traffic network are huge. That way it also means the cars don't have to be designed to handle billy bobs self built driveway in the middle of nowhere.
For a start the government doesn't actually have the data that you are talking about. They have a lot of data, but a lot of it is out of date or inaccurate for a huge number of reasons. Also roads are quite often not built by government or funded by tax payers. Any large scale land development will include myriad roads and other services that are built by the developer. The developer submits the plans of those roads to local government but those plans often don't match what is on the ground.
Google has cars that drive around mapping roads. They do this because the data is worth something. They don't just get it from the government.
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The flower was a Zinnia. If you look at the orlandosentinal link you can see photos of the plant as a whole. It looks like 0-g has messed with it pretty significantly, lots of ingrown leaves and not the arrangement you would expect on earth.
Also Zinnias are a many many petalled flower in multiple layers and the one grown appears to only be a single layer and a much smaller count of petals. It could be a different sub-species but the difference is significant. http://www.photos-public-domai...
Out of interest what games are you running into where CPU is the bottleneck? I have a Phenom II X6 1055T which is paired with a GTX580 and I don't seem to have any issues playing anything. In passmark it loses out to an i5 but if the application is well threaded the 1055 will give an i7 a run for its money. When you look at futuremark it scores 4530 vs 4600 for an i5-4570
And this here is part of the question around costs. I doubt we are talking about raw dumps of data here. Instead I suspect that someone has to go through every second of video, make sure that there is nothing seen by the camera that shouldn't be seen, ie police data on a computer screen. Then do they go through and blur the faces of uninvolved people, number plates etc? They probably don't need to if the recording was made on a street and there could be no reasonable expectation of privacy, but what about when the footage is in a private premises, particularly a multi-dwelling building such as an apartment.
Ugh, now that I think about it there are huge amounts of issues around releasing any video that shows anything interesting at all. To the point that I wonder if sealing them with out a court order isn't a better place to start.
Knocked out of competition for cargo and these contracts are for cargo launches.
Am I reading this wrong or is this essentially a contract to ULA by proxy as the Dream Chaser is launched atop an Altas V? ULA had the CST-100 in development as their direct crew / cargo craft but it was knocked out of competition.
So unless I'm mistaken this end up being a contract for the 3 main launch systems, SpaceX, Orbital Sciences and ULA.
Making a complete guess, since the concentrations in the body were likely non-lethal to begin with (unless it's what killed the person) the chances of it being in the soil at any kind of harmful levels after it has been rained on over and over again while the body rots is probably vanishingly small.
Medication is a huge issue when it comes to human waste. Lots and lots and lots of the drugs we take pass nasty by products into our waste that aren't easily removed. So one of the challenges around waste treatment plants is the disposal of the solid/sludge component. It isn't something that you could use as fertilizer without health impacts.
I could be reading this article wrong - I'm only looking at one of the graphs but I'm reading the temperature as warmer today than 50,000 years ago. By my reading you need to go back about 125,000 years to get a warmer temp. https://www.aip.org/history/cl... - graph link http://www.aip.org/history/cli...
From the article - “The impact wounds on the bones with embedded stone fragments is conclusive evidence that people slayed this mammoth.”
They can often determine cause of death from skeletons long after any flesh has rotted or been removed. Impact strikes or piercing weapons leave imprints on the skeleton that are different to those of removing meat from a carcass. They can even tell which side a woman tended to carry her handbag from the dints left in her skeleton.
All over the place, Chinese, Argentinian, Iranian, Romanian, Russian, Malay, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese. Those are the ones that tend to have more broken English (note huge generalisation there are plenty that are fluent). I also have a lot from Germany as well but as a general rule they are bi-lingual.
My career has given me a very different experience. I am often working with people who are engineers with a broken grasp of english. Technically they are brilliant and are highly valued for their technical skills, but their english is down right poor. They might be able to create a perfect seismic map of an oil reservoir but you wouldn't put them in front of a client.
You would never do this for business though. And when it comes to communication methods it is business that wins. That is why email continues to dominate despite how many headlines saying email is dead.
Not english as a second language, people who are struggling with the language. I often deal with people who are technically very strong in their field but the english communication is relatively poor. Often they will substitute the wrong word in a sentence for example. In context you can determine what they mean but it still comes down to a lack of knowledge and vocabulary of a language.
Also it's great that it is the International spelling Alphabet, it means if you are involved in radio you will learn it. However, If you are Chinese for example, and have no reason to ever learn english words you are very unlikely to be exposed to it.
Internet?
This is fine for native english speakers as it's just memorising a couple of extra words. For anyone who is already struggling with the language this will make life hell.
No we're not because I bet you have your mobile number memorised. Whenever you meet someone and want to exchange contact details you give them your number. The fact that they may load it into a contacts system which obfuscates the number doesn't change that the number was what you exchanged. Also when you have a lower quality sound connection, ie every time you use a phone, numbers are much easier to understand than letters. Zero, four, three, zero, two, nine is much easier to get correct than Esss, Eff, Bee, Pee. That doesn't even start to cover the difficulties when you get into different languages.
Yes I know they are technically a cloth. But they still feel like paper. The other advantage polymer has is they last longer is circulation before being ruined.
Good luck with that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Invented by the CSIRO in Australia and by far the most secure form of currency.
First ditch the small coins and then get rid of $1 notes and replace with a coin and add a $2 coin.
Next swap over to plastic notes instead of paper notes. The plastic notes last much much longer and are much more difficult to forge.
I doubt that it is evolution. As others have noted we get far more of our light from the sun and that the use of fire for lighting is relatively recent in terms of evolution. Also prior to cheap lighting from electric bulbs many many places couldn't afford any form of decent lighting, candles were expensive and open fires are dangerous in populated areas.
No I still think it is personal preference and what people are used to that keeps them attached to yellow lightbulbs.
I have found that installing led bulbs into existing fixtures is a hit and miss affair. And it seems to have more to do with the fitting than the bulb as I have identical bulbs in multiple places but the same fittings always fail.
That said I have gone around and replaced all my ceiling fittings with sealed LED fittings and have not had a single one of those fail.
You're not alone. My whole house is "White" 7000k leds. When you first install them into places where you used to have yellow they can look stark and clinical initially. But in a day you are used to it and the yellow starts to look dirty in comparison. I think the reason so many people want the yellow lights is it is what they are used to.
Another nice side effect of have white lights is if it is a bit dull and dreary outside turning your lights on makes it feel like the day is brighter, rather than making you feel the lights are on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - This is what happens when humans encounter conditions where visibility reduces yet they still drive faster than their visible distance. If 20km/h is the maximum speed that a vehicle can stop at inside its visibility window then that is EXACTLY the max speed it should be travelling.
As for your example there must be some kind of visible cues otherwise you wouldn't know where the road goes. GPS is also no affected by water vapour in the atmosphere, it is however affected by water, so there would have to be something that kept the water from pooling over the receiver, something I'm sure they can manage. That said there is no way GPS will be used for fine location requirement.
As for sensor costs, sensors are cheap and would only become cheaper as you bought thousands of them. Velodyne produce high precision lidars, lidars that far exceed the requirements of autonomous vehicles (seriously do you really need realtime 360 measurement to 1cm) for around $7k for 1 off retail. I'm guessing if they got an order for 100,000 units the price point would be a lot lower.
The big difference between speech recognition and self driving cars is there is serious serious money in the cars. And seriously massive impacts on transport infrastructure that will absolutely make governments sit up and take notice.
My own theory is that cities will start to put an autonomous zone around their centres meaning cars that enter that ring either have to be in self drive mode or pay a significant toll. The increased flow rate, the ability to control pathing, and the wider impacts that would have on the traffic network are huge. That way it also means the cars don't have to be designed to handle billy bobs self built driveway in the middle of nowhere.
For a start the government doesn't actually have the data that you are talking about. They have a lot of data, but a lot of it is out of date or inaccurate for a huge number of reasons. Also roads are quite often not built by government or funded by tax payers. Any large scale land development will include myriad roads and other services that are built by the developer. The developer submits the plans of those roads to local government but those plans often don't match what is on the ground.
Google has cars that drive around mapping roads. They do this because the data is worth something. They don't just get it from the government.