why does it have to be implanted? why not put it in a ring, bracelet, or glove? that way it is still on your person and would be difficult to take, but allows you to loan it to someone if needed?
The worst thing obviously being insane conversions between different units of distance, volume, weight, etc.
seriously how often do you convert inches to miles? or even inches to feet for that matter?
something short you might say is 39 inches...it doesn't matter that it reduces to 3 feet 3 inches, just keep it in inches since you are working in inches.
same thing for miles...you aren't going to say it is 6 miles and 2640 feet to the next town. you are just going to say it is 6.5 miles so you are already using decimal. when you are talking miles you typically don't care about individual feet or inches.
so really what is the advantage of metric then? people always seem to site the conversion between units, but really there is no reason to continually swap between units unless you are masochistic.
validate (vl-dt) tr.v. validated, validating, validates 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. To establish the soundness of; corroborate. See Synonyms at confirm.
you test the hypothesis which either validates or invalidates your hypothesis.
in most cases you probably made an educated guess to form your hypothesis and so in most cases you are validating it, or showing that indeed it is correct.
if your current insurance company insures them then you already are paying for them.
the insurance company just has a simple formula...ok we insure Y people and we estimate it will cost us $X so to make $PROFIT we need to charge them ($X+$PROFIT)/Y well those smokers are going to cost us more...so we need to increase the premiums we are charging everyone because we certainly aren't going to let it cut into our $PROFIT
which is useless unless everyone uses it...you would especially stick out if only you and 3 other people use it
couldn't a facial recognition program notice, hmm...that must be Mr ahem with his dorky IR emitting glasses. and analysis of the brand of tinfoil used in his hat confirms it.
And if it cost > 1 joule of energy to extract oil that gives 1 joule, it's not worth it.
it isn't that simple. Oil makes a tremendously good battery. it is highly portable and has a very high energy density. It is better than any other battery we currently have. So even if it begins costing >1 joule of energy to extract 1 joule worth of oil, it will still be in high demand for its energy storage capability unless we invent a better battery. if it takes more energy to pull out of the earth than we get from it, then we will just find other means to pull it out of the earth, such as powering our oil rigs with solar or wind power.
same way you would short stock. you have to borrow it from someone with the promise of returning their bitcoins later (probably with some interest), and then you sell them to someone else.
calm down, i couldn't read the article, and i am not the ggp that you originally responded to.
the summary was utter garbage, but i was still able to glean enough information from it to try to make a joke about the next version of the game featuring slashdotting...
if i have to explain the joke it must not be funny.
good news! that is why i am designing and patenting a housework robot! it doesn't actually do housework, but is designed for people that have been displaced from the work force by robots and so now have too much free time. It will entice them into doing housework and telling them what to do with their "extra time".
and if you pledge now on my kickstarter...
At the "Hal 9000" level you will receive an ominous Red LED Eye, so the robot can stare you down. This is a great option if you would like to wire the robot to your Pod bay doors
At the "Robotic Overlord" level, you will receive everything at the "Hal 9000" plus a tazer attachment for those really stubborn people that need extra motivation to stop eating cheetos and get off the couch.
and we will develop a "liquid metal T-1000" unit if we hit our $1 trillion stretch goal!
why do i care about how many kilowatt-hours you expended to generate that bitcoin? it isn't like i can melt that bitcoin down and get those cycles back and use it on something else. once expended, the cycles required to generate the bitcoin are now useless to everyone.
theoretically with gold i still have the gold and can melt it down and do stuff with it...or even with paper currency i can burn it to stay warm.
Also ideally it would have a random time between page turns. if done right it would be near impossible to tell the difference between the student or a script reading.
after breaking the DRM, you could probably have the time per page vary based on the number of words, or even syllables in those words, as big words might need to be looked up.
How about a bacteria that generate an electric charge similar to an electric eel. when they have a large enough population they are able to control the muscles in their host via this electric charge. this would potentially still work for a while after the host is clinically dead.
someone else can figure out how the bacteria can make a human keep their balance while walking.
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why does it have to be implanted? why not put it in a ring, bracelet, or glove? that way it is still on your person and would be difficult to take, but allows you to loan it to someone if needed?
hows the moving the decimal working for you with the conversion of seconds, minutes, hours?
The worst thing obviously being insane conversions between different units of distance, volume, weight, etc.
seriously how often do you convert inches to miles? or even inches to feet for that matter?
something short you might say is 39 inches...it doesn't matter that it reduces to 3 feet 3 inches, just keep it in inches since you are working in inches.
same thing for miles...you aren't going to say it is 6 miles and 2640 feet to the next town. you are just going to say it is 6.5 miles so you are already using decimal. when you are talking miles you typically don't care about individual feet or inches.
so really what is the advantage of metric then? people always seem to site the conversion between units, but really there is no reason to continually swap between units unless you are masochistic.
Hypothesis which consistently survive falsification are said to be "corroborated," due to our increasing confidence.
so in other words you mean validate?
number 3 there looks to be just what you stated
validate (vl-dt)
tr.v. validated, validating, validates
1. To declare or make legally valid.
2. To mark with an indication of official sanction.
3. To establish the soundness of; corroborate. See Synonyms at confirm.
you test the hypothesis which either validates or invalidates your hypothesis.
in most cases you probably made an educated guess to form your hypothesis and so in most cases you are validating it, or showing that indeed it is correct.
The experiment was setup to validate a foregone conclusion.
isn't that basically the definition of a hypothesis?
if your current insurance company insures them then you already are paying for them.
the insurance company just has a simple formula...ok we insure Y people and we estimate it will cost us $X so to make $PROFIT we need to charge them ($X+$PROFIT)/Y well those smokers are going to cost us more...so we need to increase the premiums we are charging everyone because we certainly aren't going to let it cut into our $PROFIT
at least patents, unlike copyright, still have reasonable expiration dates.
another point that probably supports your argument is the stigma around Bluetooth headsets, and those typically don't have cameras.
which is useless unless everyone uses it...you would especially stick out if only you and 3 other people use it
couldn't a facial recognition program notice, hmm...that must be Mr ahem with his dorky IR emitting glasses. and analysis of the brand of tinfoil used in his hat confirms it.
you are probably correct, however those probably won't become viable until oil extracted from the ground becomes a LOT more expensive.
the problem is "nuclear" scares people more than "global warming".
And if it cost > 1 joule of energy to extract oil that gives 1 joule, it's not worth it.
it isn't that simple. Oil makes a tremendously good battery. it is highly portable and has a very high energy density. It is better than any other battery we currently have. So even if it begins costing >1 joule of energy to extract 1 joule worth of oil, it will still be in high demand for its energy storage capability unless we invent a better battery. if it takes more energy to pull out of the earth than we get from it, then we will just find other means to pull it out of the earth, such as powering our oil rigs with solar or wind power.
same way you would short stock. you have to borrow it from someone with the promise of returning their bitcoins later (probably with some interest), and then you sell them to someone else.
calm down, i couldn't read the article, and i am not the ggp that you originally responded to.
the summary was utter garbage, but i was still able to glean enough information from it to try to make a joke about the next version of the game featuring slashdotting...
if i have to explain the joke it must not be funny.
i can't it's /.'ed. which i assume will show up in their game in the next patch.
still sounds better than most cellphones.
It seems appropriate to cue up that crazy hostfiles guy as it would potentially be on topic as a reply to your post.
just because they can't get external DNS, doesn't mean they still can't setup their own, and use alternate means to fill in the addresses for it.
good news! that is why i am designing and patenting a housework robot! it doesn't actually do housework, but is designed for people that have been displaced from the work force by robots and so now have too much free time. It will entice them into doing housework and telling them what to do with their "extra time".
and if you pledge now on my kickstarter...
At the "Hal 9000" level you will receive an ominous Red LED Eye, so the robot can stare you down. This is a great option if you would like to wire the robot to your Pod bay doors
At the "Robotic Overlord" level, you will receive everything at the "Hal 9000" plus a tazer attachment for those really stubborn people that need extra motivation to stop eating cheetos and get off the couch.
and we will develop a "liquid metal T-1000" unit if we hit our $1 trillion stretch goal!
wouldn't that just make the bullets painless?
why do i care about how many kilowatt-hours you expended to generate that bitcoin? it isn't like i can melt that bitcoin down and get those cycles back and use it on something else. once expended, the cycles required to generate the bitcoin are now useless to everyone.
theoretically with gold i still have the gold and can melt it down and do stuff with it...or even with paper currency i can burn it to stay warm.
it is fast enough that they can notice the difference in very accurate clocks...thus it is relativistic
for example GPS Satellites loses about 7 microseconds a day due to relativistic effects.
Also ideally it would have a random time between page turns. if done right it would be near impossible to tell the difference between the student or a script reading.
after breaking the DRM, you could probably have the time per page vary based on the number of words, or even syllables in those words, as big words might need to be looked up.
Shit, who even needs to grade them on their work? You KNOW whether or not they've read the bloody book with this.
that is awesome because my book will show i read it 432 times, on the first day of class even! so i must be an expert in the material by now!
if they start monitoring page reads, then just wait for someone to make an script to automatically flip the pages for them so it appears they read it.
How about a bacteria that generate an electric charge similar to an electric eel. when they have a large enough population they are able to control the muscles in their host via this electric charge. this would potentially still work for a while after the host is clinically dead.
someone else can figure out how the bacteria can make a human keep their balance while walking.