George W. Bush didn't die in office. Does that mean we are or are not currently in Bizarro Universe?
Back in the late eighties, when the world was turned upside down by the fall of the iron curtain. my friends and I speculated that the fact that Reagan had survived assassination* had torn a hole in reality, thrusting us into a Bizarro Universe.
This IS the Bizzaro Universe.
Don't tell me you didn't notice that? Don't you watch TV? e.g. When was the last time you saw a music video on the MTV? Also, Dubya didn't actually "win". Not sure how do the rules apply to Al Gore... this being the Bizarro Universe and all...
If world temperatures are to be kept steady with no carbon reduction, the working fleet would have to be increased by approximately 50 vessels a year plus extra ones to replace any lost. If the assumptions used for figure 3 are correct, the cancellation of 3.7Wm2 associated with a doubling of pre-industrial CO2 will need a spray rate of approximately 45m3s1 and perhaps less with skilful vessel deployment. If 0.03m3s1 is the right design choice for one spray vessel, this could come from a working fleet of approximately 1500.
And from what I can tell from a cursory look at the study - all they need are enough wind and "efficient generators".
These crude engineering lumped calculations should be performed with the actual values at a representative sample of times for every cell that has not been excluded on grounds of being downwind of land with dirty air, upwind of drought-stricken regions or too close to busy shipping routes. The wind speed data for each cell should be checked to ensure that there is enough input power for, as will be developed shortly, wind energy provides the principal source for driving the vessels and creating the spray. With an efficient generator, the 30kgs1 flow rate will be reached at 8ms1 wind speed. If the nucleus lifetime was the longest estimate of 5 days (Houghton 2004), this would bring the concentration up to levels found over land and lead to much reduced effectiveness. Cells will be placed in rank order to see how many are needed to achieve any target cooling and either how many vessels should be put in each cell or how many cells should be treated by one vessel. Vessel movements can be planned by looking at the best-cell list for the next month.
The only NEW thing about this plan is that they claim that they've actually received $300.000 from Bill Gates. They have been going around with this idea for years now. And from what I can tell - all they have to show for so far is the study linked above and this concept rendering.
Looking at "estimated costs", $300.000 seems like about the amount someone with Bill Gates' money might donate to get rid of them politely.
Very few uncertainties will remain after the expenditure of the first £2 million over 2 years. It will need perhaps £25 million and a further 3 years to complete research and development of the reliable hardware for spray vessels including the first fully instrumented, full-scale, crewed and sea-going prototype. Once there is experience of its operation, it will cost approximately £30 million for tooling, which will allow a large number of spray vessels to be built rapidly in the event of a global emergency.
About a year later...
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre, which advises governments on how to spend aid money, examined the various plans and found the cloud ships to be the most cost-effective.
They would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years, compared to the $250 billion that the world's leading nations are considering spending each year to cut CO2 emissions, and the $395 trillion it would cost to launch mirrors into space.
Is it vaporware? Not really sure. The idea is to just spray the seawater into the air, not actually turn it into water vapor.
I'm not about to go into a flame war here with someone of your "knowledge" of the color theory and reading/interpretation skills. I will just leave you with a question (or two) someone as "knowledgeable" as you should easily answer to himself:
Are our TV and computer screens made in the same way as our organic eyes, and if they are - how come no two screens look the same to us? Do our screens reproduce the colors in exactly the same way our eyes perceive them?
Answering those correctly, you MIGHT be onto where I was talking about colors in the post above, and where I was referring to the way monitors and TVs are reproducing them. As for brightness not being relevant... Did you ever hear about backlight? It is kinda like a "fourth pixel" in itself - only a really big one.
Get a foreign language channel with cartoons. Or two. Or three. Languages, that is. Probably at least as many channels as well.
My cousin was speaking English almost as good as her native language (Bosnian/Serbian) by the time she was 5-6 years old from all the Cartoon Network she watched. Basically, she was speaking a foreign language before she learned to read or write. She is now studying to be a professor of English.
Also, when your kid starts to read, don't shun the comics in favor of books. If possible, get him some comics in the foreign language he is picking up from the cartoons. Amazon has international sites, holding books in the local language. But there are also online communities that scan comics. Even those in "foreign" languages.
Take a look at that picture again. Notice the other major color areas that don't have their own pixel on the monitor? This picture might help. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and White. There is also Black but that one is considered as absence of light here. On the picture in the link, black is on the one corner we don't see.
So, mostly for economic reasons and simplicity we use just 3 pixels to describe 8 major points in the light spectrum. And all the colors in between. With the fourth pixel, we are getting 4:8 ratio instead of 3:8. Four pixels for every single color in the spectrum instead of 3. Which is exactly ONE THIRD MORE than RGB. So... not 25%. Just in the color range you get 33.3% more.
Now... how much it costs them to produce that 33.3% is another thing - and we will probably never know that exactly as there is probably a lot of R&D involved in there too. Are you arguing that it is not fair for them to include the R&D costs into the price? Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow? Or a corporation? Corporations are people too, you know?
Is that it works around the fact that regular RGB has CMY on the other side of its scale.
So, as a single pixel goes from Blue to Yellow you sacrifice the "blueness" every time you try to show off bright Reds and Greens in the picture. Or vice versa when you are going for a stronger purples, blues and dark greens. Red kills Cyan, Green kills Magenta and Blue kills Yellow. Which translates in both cases in loss of color range and harsher contrasts.
Now... adding an additional pixel to the equation you get more range in the blues while having strong yellows. Which means wider reds without sacrificing blues and cyans, and wider greens without sacrificing blues and magentas.
Like I said... I am only guessing, but it sounds to me that the review is describing something quite like that.
With the two TVs sitting next to each other, the thing that became immediately obvious was how harsh and garish the colours on my Samsung set now appeared. The 46LE821E produced much subtler and more realistic colours, especially on skin-tones.
Relevancy Check here. We are interrupting the scheduled Windblows/M$ bashing documentary with the news and weather report from the land of TFA:
Botnets are starting to target and infect routers and DSL modems. Scary, and a possible trend. Think about what this could mean. Should this problem become pervasive, it won't matter if PCs are disinfected, swapped out, or replaced with iPads, the bad guys are still control because they own the network below. They'll own DNS, the routers in between, and so on. There is effectively little defensive countermeasures to protect home routers and DSL modems, which are not exactly secure to begin with, or detect if they've been compromised.
These are all reasonable assumptions based on real-world attacks that have been going on for some time now. Attackers have been targeting home networking equipment for a couple of years, using a combination of vulnerabilities in the firmware and hardware to get control of home users' outbound Internet traffic. It's an increasingly effective strategy for attackers looking to get control of large numbers of systems, without having to re-infect them regularly.
That was Relevancy Check with news and the weather. Now we return you to your scheduled blind worshiping your favorite non-M$ OS and Windblows/M$ bashing documentary.
the "universal" enciclopedy, where "all the knowledge" is contributed by "anyone" is about to filter certain content based in the moral views of a purist american? Well... doubleplusgood, I assume...
For someone so outraged by the topic at hand, you seem to have a rather elaborate set of rules, regulations and orders regarding the subject. And you are rather verbose about it.
Add some line to the clip between it and the keys if necessary and clip it next to a pocket/zip on the bag. Put keys and etc. into a pocket/inside the bag while keeping them clipped to the outside for easy retrieval.
Women wear clothing that should in no case make them look fat - even if they are. Also, a bulge on the dress, jacket, shirt, pants etc. looks ugly and unaesthetic. Heterosexual men mostly don't pay that much attention to their clothing actually showing off their figure or to that bulge their keys make(there is joke there too but I am too lazy right now).
At the same time, bags and handbags are another thing women use in a completely different way. Women use them as fashion accessories first and foremost. Carrying items they might need inside the bag they are lugging around is an afterthought. Men use them to carry things first and foremost. That is why you will never see a guy emptying his bag, briefcase, backpack etc. on the table to find that one thing he needs. Nor will he wear a different bag/case/backpack each day. It might not match their shoes, but they will be able to fit their "stuff" inside it and actually find it later on.
Oh... and each of them like it that way. To men, it is a bother and nonsense to buy and carry matching bags etc. To women it is crazy not to.
1 - You do close the tubes first. Only risk is if they start flying. 2 - Risk of flying tubes is reduced by the fact that the force pushes the tubes into the rim - into those holes you made by removing spokes. Not out of them. The faster you spin, the stronger they hold in place. Salad-spinner-solution uses plastic combs that loosely hold the tubes in place, so they'll actually have a very real problem of flying tubes after a while. 3 - If you are still paranoid - saran wrap. Although, that takes us back to "supermarket country" every time we do an analysis. A simple plastic tarp would probably work as well.
An egg-beater would be much more suitable for such a purpose.
Which is incidentally another kitchen utensil that could also be used as a manual centrifuge. Though, some steps would have to be taken first so the samples for blood analysis don't end up in the same location as the coloring used for special effects. Namely, all around the room.
Salad spinner being somewhat a "technology" that only "1st or 2nd worlder" will use I find it rather hard to comment on the fact that two girls have come up with a way to use a salad shooter as a centrifuge without coming off all chauvinistic. You know... women... diet... salad...
Cause, there is a MUCH MORE readily available manually powered centrifuge that doesn't even need the hot glue gun to make it work. Just some duct tape, as they are using very light and rather small capillary tubes. With proper use of pliers - not even duct tape.
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George W. Bush didn't die in office. Does that mean we are or are not currently in Bizarro Universe?
Back in the late eighties, when the world was turned upside down by the fall of the iron curtain. my friends and I speculated that the fact that Reagan had survived assassination* had torn a hole in reality, thrusting us into a Bizarro Universe.
This IS the Bizzaro Universe.
Don't tell me you didn't notice that? Don't you watch TV? e.g. When was the last time you saw a music video on the MTV?
Also, Dubya didn't actually "win". Not sure how do the rules apply to Al Gore... this being the Bizarro Universe and all...
That's what first comes to your mind when you hear about nuclear explosions on the bottom of the ocean? Waves?
What about wakin' the motherfuckin' Cthulhu man? YEAH!
I guess you feel really silly right about now.
Ships are to be completely automated.
Unobtainium probably plays a role somewhere in their plans, but it is not exactly certain where. At least at this point in time.
Scary thing is... they are way ahead of you...
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1882/3989.full
If world temperatures are to be kept steady with no carbon reduction, the working fleet would have to be increased by approximately 50 vessels a year plus extra ones to replace any lost.
If the assumptions used for figure 3 are correct, the cancellation of 3.7Wm2 associated with a doubling of pre-industrial CO2 will need a spray rate of approximately 45m3s1 and perhaps less with skilful vessel deployment.
If 0.03m3s1 is the right design choice for one spray vessel, this could come from a working fleet of approximately 1500.
And from what I can tell from a cursory look at the study - all they need are enough wind and "efficient generators".
These crude engineering lumped calculations should be performed with the actual values at a representative sample of times for every cell that has not been excluded on grounds of being downwind of land with dirty air, upwind of drought-stricken regions or too close to busy shipping routes.
The wind speed data for each cell should be checked to ensure that there is enough input power for, as will be developed shortly, wind energy provides the principal source for driving the vessels and creating the spray.
With an efficient generator, the 30kgs1 flow rate will be reached at 8ms1 wind speed.
If the nucleus lifetime was the longest estimate of 5 days (Houghton 2004), this would bring the concentration up to levels found over land and lead to much reduced effectiveness.
Cells will be placed in rank order to see how many are needed to achieve any target cooling and either how many vessels should be put in each cell or how many cells should be treated by one vessel.
Vessel movements can be planned by looking at the best-cell list for the next month.
Last year it was $9 billion.
Though, the year before that it was £1-2 million per ship, with about 1500 ships needed.
With that $300k they might actually make a working scaled model. .jpg that has been going around all this time.
Or a better rendering of that one
Not solar power at all. Flettner rotors.
The only NEW thing about this plan is that they claim that they've actually received $300.000 from Bill Gates.
They have been going around with this idea for years now.
And from what I can tell - all they have to show for so far is the study linked above and this concept rendering.
Looking at "estimated costs", $300.000 seems like about the amount someone with Bill Gates' money might donate to get rid of them politely.
Very few uncertainties will remain after the expenditure of the first £2 million over 2 years.
It will need perhaps £25 million and a further 3 years to complete research and development of the reliable hardware for spray vessels including the first fully instrumented, full-scale, crewed and sea-going prototype.
Once there is experience of its operation, it will cost approximately £30 million for tooling, which will allow a large number of spray vessels to be built rapidly in the event of a global emergency.
About a year later...
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre, which advises governments on how to spend aid money, examined the various plans and found the cloud ships to be the most cost-effective.
They would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years, compared to the $250 billion that the world's leading nations are considering spending each year to cut CO2 emissions, and the $395 trillion it would cost to launch mirrors into space.
Is it vaporware? Not really sure.
The idea is to just spray the seawater into the air, not actually turn it into water vapor.
Or should that be iMpossible?
Not that kind of Cisco.
I picked up most of my English grammar from your mom.
Makes sense that yours is better. After all, you get to do it with her all the time, right?
I mean all the fucking, not the English grammar. That comes after the fucking.
I'm not about to go into a flame war here with someone of your "knowledge" of the color theory and reading/interpretation skills.
I will just leave you with a question (or two) someone as "knowledgeable" as you should easily answer to himself:
Are our TV and computer screens made in the same way as our organic eyes, and if they are - how come no two screens look the same to us?
Do our screens reproduce the colors in exactly the same way our eyes perceive them?
Answering those correctly, you MIGHT be onto where I was talking about colors in the post above, and where I was referring to the way monitors and TVs are reproducing them.
As for brightness not being relevant... Did you ever hear about backlight?
It is kinda like a "fourth pixel" in itself - only a really big one.
Get a foreign language channel with cartoons. Or two. Or three. Languages, that is. Probably at least as many channels as well.
My cousin was speaking English almost as good as her native language (Bosnian/Serbian) by the time she was 5-6 years old from all the Cartoon Network she watched.
Basically, she was speaking a foreign language before she learned to read or write.
She is now studying to be a professor of English.
Also, when your kid starts to read, don't shun the comics in favor of books.
If possible, get him some comics in the foreign language he is picking up from the cartoons.
Amazon has international sites, holding books in the local language. But there are also online communities that scan comics. Even those in "foreign" languages.
Same way picture books have been ruining reading these last couple of centuries.
Take a look at that picture again.
Notice the other major color areas that don't have their own pixel on the monitor? This picture might help.
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and White. There is also Black but that one is considered as absence of light here. On the picture in the link, black is on the one corner we don't see.
So, mostly for economic reasons and simplicity we use just 3 pixels to describe 8 major points in the light spectrum. And all the colors in between.
With the fourth pixel, we are getting 4:8 ratio instead of 3:8. Four pixels for every single color in the spectrum instead of 3.
Which is exactly ONE THIRD MORE than RGB.
So... not 25%. Just in the color range you get 33.3% more.
Now... how much it costs them to produce that 33.3% is another thing - and we will probably never know that exactly as there is probably a lot of R&D involved in there too.
Are you arguing that it is not fair for them to include the R&D costs into the price?
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow? Or a corporation? Corporations are people too, you know?
Is that it works around the fact that regular RGB has CMY on the other side of its scale.
So, as a single pixel goes from Blue to Yellow you sacrifice the "blueness" every time you try to show off bright Reds and Greens in the picture.
Or vice versa when you are going for a stronger purples, blues and dark greens. Red kills Cyan, Green kills Magenta and Blue kills Yellow.
Which translates in both cases in loss of color range and harsher contrasts.
Now... adding an additional pixel to the equation you get more range in the blues while having strong yellows.
Which means wider reds without sacrificing blues and cyans, and wider greens without sacrificing blues and magentas.
Like I said... I am only guessing, but it sounds to me that the review is describing something quite like that.
With the two TVs sitting next to each other, the thing that became immediately obvious was how harsh and garish the colours on my Samsung set now appeared.
The 46LE821E produced much subtler and more realistic colours, especially on skin-tones.
... the red one actually "peaks" at yellow.
Relevancy Check here.
We are interrupting the scheduled Windblows/M$ bashing documentary with the news and weather report from the land of TFA:
Botnets are starting to target and infect routers and DSL modems. Scary, and a possible trend. Think about what this could mean. Should this problem become pervasive, it won't matter if PCs are disinfected, swapped out, or replaced with iPads, the bad guys are still control because they own the network below. They'll own DNS, the routers in between, and so on. There is effectively little defensive countermeasures to protect home routers and DSL modems, which are not exactly secure to begin with, or detect if they've been compromised.
These are all reasonable assumptions based on real-world attacks that have been going on for some time now. Attackers have been targeting home networking equipment for a couple of years, using a combination of vulnerabilities in the firmware and hardware to get control of home users' outbound Internet traffic. It's an increasingly effective strategy for attackers looking to get control of large numbers of systems, without having to re-infect them regularly.
That was Relevancy Check with news and the weather.
Now we return you to your scheduled blind worshiping your favorite non-M$ OS and Windblows/M$ bashing documentary.
the "universal" enciclopedy, where "all the knowledge" is contributed by "anyone" is about to filter certain content based in the moral views of a purist american? Well... doubleplusgood, I assume...
It REALLY was always that way.
For someone so outraged by the topic at hand, you seem to have a rather elaborate set of rules, regulations and orders regarding the subject.
And you are rather verbose about it.
Add some line to the clip between it and the keys if necessary and clip it next to a pocket/zip on the bag.
Put keys and etc. into a pocket/inside the bag while keeping them clipped to the outside for easy retrieval.
Women wear clothing that should in no case make them look fat - even if they are.
Also, a bulge on the dress, jacket, shirt, pants etc. looks ugly and unaesthetic.
Heterosexual men mostly don't pay that much attention to their clothing actually showing off their figure or to that bulge their keys make(there is joke there too but I am too lazy right now).
At the same time, bags and handbags are another thing women use in a completely different way.
Women use them as fashion accessories first and foremost. Carrying items they might need inside the bag they are lugging around is an afterthought.
Men use them to carry things first and foremost.
That is why you will never see a guy emptying his bag, briefcase, backpack etc. on the table to find that one thing he needs. Nor will he wear a different bag/case/backpack each day.
It might not match their shoes, but they will be able to fit their "stuff" inside it and actually find it later on.
Oh... and each of them like it that way.
To men, it is a bother and nonsense to buy and carry matching bags etc. To women it is crazy not to.
You can "lose" things when they are stolen or destroyed too, not just when you misplace them.
...flashism!
1 - You do close the tubes first. Only risk is if they start flying.
2 - Risk of flying tubes is reduced by the fact that the force pushes the tubes into the rim - into those holes you made by removing spokes. Not out of them.
The faster you spin, the stronger they hold in place.
Salad-spinner-solution uses plastic combs that loosely hold the tubes in place, so they'll actually have a very real problem of flying tubes after a while.
3 - If you are still paranoid - saran wrap.
Although, that takes us back to "supermarket country" every time we do an analysis. A simple plastic tarp would probably work as well.
An egg-beater would be much more suitable for such a purpose.
Which is incidentally another kitchen utensil that could also be used as a manual centrifuge.
Though, some steps would have to be taken first so the samples for blood analysis don't end up in the same location as the coloring used for special effects.
Namely, all around the room.
Salad spinner being somewhat a "technology" that only "1st or 2nd worlder" will use I find it rather hard to comment on the fact that two girls have come up with a way to use a salad shooter as a centrifuge without coming off all chauvinistic.
You know... women... diet... salad...
Cause, there is a MUCH MORE readily available manually powered centrifuge that doesn't even need the hot glue gun to make it work.
Just some duct tape, as they are using very light and rather small capillary tubes. With proper use of pliers - not even duct tape.
A bicycle.