OT: I second America's complication of everything. I visited the caribbean and noticed the police used signs that were basically painted wooden boards with a hinge. They got the "no parking" message across just as well as the manufactured screen printed 3-d modeled abs plastic signs imported from the other side of the world that we use over here. I'd imagine the wood won't rot away any faster than the plastic will crack.
It might not be a good test for how many groceries you can carry but its an excellent place to develop and test new technologies and find out what a car will do in emergency situation. If it's raining I'd feel much more comfortable if the car that's driving me has demonstrated an ability to recognize and correct over-steer or know the balance between braking/steering input when a deer jumps into the road.
We're taking the researcher's word for age and conditions of these two brain scans
Aside from peer reviewers and competing studies, isn't this usually the case? Or is everyone everywhere a flat out liar?
Offhand I would bet that simple nutrition is more highly correlated with brain size than mother's emotional attention -- and the former is something we can change with social programs.
Even if you are planning your own study is it wise to just assume that all these people from UCLA, Washington University School of Medicine and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D./Child Trauma Academy are wrong to enact your gut's convenient solution? If so we should probably also dismiss the anecdote in your sig.
Slight nitpick: people are going to be dealing with the effects of the storm. After several CCWTWNITN (cable channels with the word news in their name) doing 5 days of round the clock coverage on a storm scheduled to start causing damage...tomorrow...someone was bound to go nuclear. As a bonus I've found I much prefer sensationalist storm coverage to election coverage.
I met a couple from Ireland while on a vacation a few weeks ago. The guy said that he and his friends get all geared up and down pints while watching US presidential debates. I personally can't stand to hear them (politicians) talk anymore but I'm happy that our dysfunction provides entertainment for the rest of the world and sorry that the lack of overseas coverage has busted your kegger.
Also, letting MS off the hook didn't really matter much. The mainstream linux desktop is 2 years away, as always.
Coal is more like 44%...and falling. Natural gas may be rising to take it's place but at least it produces less CO2 than oil and if its used to create electricity in a power plant its more efficient than a gas in an ICE. Run that analysis again in a few years.
$14k plus an old car you already own is far cheaper than buying a new all electric vehicle. Unless you count the time he spent designing and building it instead of browsing ad-supported internet sites. With such a reduced tracking history to work with we may never know how much content value he missed out on by pursuing his hobby;)
Or they can just release the iphone6 with 6 rows of icons ahead of schedule. The real fireworks will come with the iphone10 comes out with rows of icons that go to ELEVEN. Samsung probably won't be able to release the Galaxy S X in time to file the patent and their rows of icons just won't have that extra little bit that you need sometimes. Maybe they can just make row 10 bigger and make that the last one....nahh best just leave it to the lawyers.
Strange post given the quote in your signature. So the past 13 years, average fuel economy increased by 5mpg without any mandate from the gov (CAFE has been 27.5 from 1985 to 2010). Meanwhile the weight and size of cars also increased significantly (compare a 1998 camry to a 2012 corolla). I'm thinking cars can't get much bigger or powerful (a 2012 camry is only.5s slower to 60mph than a 1990 Ferrari 348...not to mention >250 HP is unusable in a fwd car) but they can get lighter and more efficient. Especially if thats what manufacturers are now focused on.
Physics isn't going to change for the amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline.
Correct. A gallon of gas is about 1300 Mjoules but the average combustion engine wastes about 80% of that. Its unlikely we are at the theoretical limit of ICE efficiency so fortunately the physics don't have to change. Throw in some weight reduction, aerodynamics and maybe even traffic jam free autonomous driving in there and 55mpg should be a piece of cake.
Would it? Just add something to the effect of "User waives right to sue. All grievances must be settled by our in-house arbitration." to the EULA. In fact, its probably in there already!
I have some HPDE experience of my own and what you're basically describing is how a beginner drives on a race track. I don't know how many "track days" the standford team has done (or can afford for that matter...renting out the whole track is probably a large part of their budget) but I'm guessing the car is more or less a beginner. Once it's done a few events I'm sure it will be trail braking, hitting apexes and tracking out just fine. The real question is when will it be able to acknowledge corner workers and other cars?
Perhaps 3% is a small amount but none the less, when all the Syria mess started there was a spike in oil prices. Syria produces about 0.5% of the world's oil (CIA world fact book). Not sure exactly but I think prices rose by far more than that. And a few years ago there was a huge jump due entirely to speculation. While the rational person would conclude that 3% isn't a big loss, the market that sets the price would poop it's pants...with uranium...that would promptly meltdown and blow up society.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, friend. I'd imagine that those scrap metalers have some idea what they are trying to do and some people might think the design is cool or even feel emotions other than apathy. It takes quite a bit of work to see a vision through to completion, even if it is just covering a huge canvas in blue paint and putting a dot in the middle. But they can't all be winners. Plus, you get the last laugh because "starving artist" is a term based on reality.
It _has_ to require talent beyond the everyday, doesn't it?
How many transceivers have YOU built from spare parts that are capable of receiving a message in orbit? Sure these days its probably not that difficult for a EE but its still not something you see everyday.
Yeah someone should tell this guy that space is only for the defense industry, telecoms, and maybe tiny bit o' NASA. If more people start doing crap like this its just going to lead to expanded launch capacities and a whole new range of non-techie types getting interested in space. Only a jerk would try to put a satellite in orbit that conceivably anyone can use./(sarcasm and assuming decaying orbit or other space junk mitigation)
No, its the equivalent of building a RUNNING car from scrap, driving it on the interstate, and letting anyone control the lights from the internet. Sounds lame until you replace "driving it on the interstate" with "launching into earth orbit".
(The last I heard, they do not plan ANY range / doppler tracking from Earth, which I regard as a mistake, but it's best not to get me started on that.)
No! Start! Start! Is there a better forum to armchair quarterback a NASA mission than slashdot?!
Not only did Russia collaborate, they wrote the book on extra terrestrial rovers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme). The book has since been re-written by JPL...but the resemblance of all the mars rovers to the lunokhod is obvious since the cheif engineers from the russian missions advised NASA when they built sojourner.
Exactly! Better evidence to prove GP's point does not exist. Just look respectable and society at large won't punish you for losing trillions to enriching yourself. If we all started showering regularly we could own this town!
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OT: I second America's complication of everything. I visited the caribbean and noticed the police used signs that were basically painted wooden boards with a hinge. They got the "no parking" message across just as well as the manufactured screen printed 3-d modeled abs plastic signs imported from the other side of the world that we use over here. I'd imagine the wood won't rot away any faster than the plastic will crack.
It might not be a good test for how many groceries you can carry but its an excellent place to develop and test new technologies and find out what a car will do in emergency situation. If it's raining I'd feel much more comfortable if the car that's driving me has demonstrated an ability to recognize and correct over-steer or know the balance between braking/steering input when a deer jumps into the road.
We're taking the researcher's word for age and conditions of these two brain scans
Aside from peer reviewers and competing studies, isn't this usually the case? Or is everyone everywhere a flat out liar?
Offhand I would bet that simple nutrition is more highly correlated with brain size than mother's emotional attention -- and the former is something we can change with social programs.
Even if you are planning your own study is it wise to just assume that all these people from UCLA, Washington University School of Medicine and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D./Child Trauma Academy are wrong to enact your gut's convenient solution? If so we should probably also dismiss the anecdote in your sig.
1. To get it 'affordably' I would have to buy it from a wireless carrier... oh yeah and extend or buy a new contract with expensive data plan.
What major US 4G data plan do you have that gives you a cheaper price if you bring your own phone?
Slight nitpick: people are going to be dealing with the effects of the storm. After several CCWTWNITN (cable channels with the word news in their name) doing 5 days of round the clock coverage on a storm scheduled to start causing damage...tomorrow...someone was bound to go nuclear. As a bonus I've found I much prefer sensationalist storm coverage to election coverage.
Should the same apply to banks that accepted bailouts? Oil companies that get tax breaks? (just asking)
I met a couple from Ireland while on a vacation a few weeks ago. The guy said that he and his friends get all geared up and down pints while watching US presidential debates. I personally can't stand to hear them (politicians) talk anymore but I'm happy that our dysfunction provides entertainment for the rest of the world and sorry that the lack of overseas coverage has busted your kegger.
Also, letting MS off the hook didn't really matter much. The mainstream linux desktop is 2 years away, as always.
So you're complaining about wasting time...on slashdot?!
Coal is more like 44%...and falling. Natural gas may be rising to take it's place but at least it produces less CO2 than oil and if its used to create electricity in a power plant its more efficient than a gas in an ICE. Run that analysis again in a few years.
$14k plus an old car you already own is far cheaper than buying a new all electric vehicle. Unless you count the time he spent designing and building it instead of browsing ad-supported internet sites. With such a reduced tracking history to work with we may never know how much content value he missed out on by pursuing his hobby ;)
Or they can just release the iphone6 with 6 rows of icons ahead of schedule. The real fireworks will come with the iphone10 comes out with rows of icons that go to ELEVEN. Samsung probably won't be able to release the Galaxy S X in time to file the patent and their rows of icons just won't have that extra little bit that you need sometimes. Maybe they can just make row 10 bigger and make that the last one....nahh best just leave it to the lawyers.
Fair enough. But in the next decade would you rather car companies work on giving you another 100 hp or another 20 mpg?
Strange post given the quote in your signature. So the past 13 years, average fuel economy increased by 5mpg without any mandate from the gov (CAFE has been 27.5 from 1985 to 2010). Meanwhile the weight and size of cars also increased significantly (compare a 1998 camry to a 2012 corolla). I'm thinking cars can't get much bigger or powerful (a 2012 camry is only .5s slower to 60mph than a 1990 Ferrari 348...not to mention >250 HP is unusable in a fwd car) but they can get lighter and more efficient. Especially if thats what manufacturers are now focused on.
Physics isn't going to change for the amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline.
Correct. A gallon of gas is about 1300 Mjoules but the average combustion engine wastes about 80% of that. Its unlikely we are at the theoretical limit of ICE efficiency so fortunately the physics don't have to change. Throw in some weight reduction, aerodynamics and maybe even traffic jam free autonomous driving in there and 55mpg should be a piece of cake.
Would it? Just add something to the effect of "User waives right to sue. All grievances must be settled by our in-house arbitration." to the EULA. In fact, its probably in there already!
I have some HPDE experience of my own and what you're basically describing is how a beginner drives on a race track. I don't know how many "track days" the standford team has done (or can afford for that matter...renting out the whole track is probably a large part of their budget) but I'm guessing the car is more or less a beginner. Once it's done a few events I'm sure it will be trail braking, hitting apexes and tracking out just fine. The real question is when will it be able to acknowledge corner workers and other cars?
Perhaps 3% is a small amount but none the less, when all the Syria mess started there was a spike in oil prices. Syria produces about 0.5% of the world's oil (CIA world fact book). Not sure exactly but I think prices rose by far more than that. And a few years ago there was a huge jump due entirely to speculation. While the rational person would conclude that 3% isn't a big loss, the market that sets the price would poop it's pants...with uranium...that would promptly meltdown and blow up society.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, friend. I'd imagine that those scrap metalers have some idea what they are trying to do and some people might think the design is cool or even feel emotions other than apathy. It takes quite a bit of work to see a vision through to completion, even if it is just covering a huge canvas in blue paint and putting a dot in the middle. But they can't all be winners. Plus, you get the last laugh because "starving artist" is a term based on reality.
It _has_ to require talent beyond the everyday, doesn't it?
How many transceivers have YOU built from spare parts that are capable of receiving a message in orbit? Sure these days its probably not that difficult for a EE but its still not something you see everyday.
Yeah someone should tell this guy that space is only for the defense industry, telecoms, and maybe tiny bit o' NASA. If more people start doing crap like this its just going to lead to expanded launch capacities and a whole new range of non-techie types getting interested in space. Only a jerk would try to put a satellite in orbit that conceivably anyone can use. /(sarcasm and assuming decaying orbit or other space junk mitigation)
No, its the equivalent of building a RUNNING car from scrap, driving it on the interstate, and letting anyone control the lights from the internet. Sounds lame until you replace "driving it on the interstate" with "launching into earth orbit".
(The last I heard, they do not plan ANY range / doppler tracking from Earth, which I regard as a mistake, but it's best not to get me started on that.)
No! Start! Start! Is there a better forum to armchair quarterback a NASA mission than slashdot?!
Not only did Russia collaborate, they wrote the book on extra terrestrial rovers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme). The book has since been re-written by JPL...but the resemblance of all the mars rovers to the lunokhod is obvious since the cheif engineers from the russian missions advised NASA when they built sojourner.
Moving to Finland aye?
(That was where most of the lowest price/best connectivity braggarts claim they're from, right?)
Like a banker? ;)
Exactly! Better evidence to prove GP's point does not exist. Just look respectable and society at large won't punish you for losing trillions to enriching yourself. If we all started showering regularly we could own this town!