Red tide is not brought on by climate change. Pollutants in the water (fertilizer) result in optimal conditions for red tide. One has to better manage farming practices inland to prevent the pollutants from running off into the ocean. Warmer water temperatures could also be a factor - but minor compared to the impact of pollutants.
The obvious problem with hydrogen is that it will leak. Just look at how difficult hydrogen is to store and transport. Even if you covered the Zeppelin with a layer of light metal (Al), the hydrogen would still eventually make its way out. Leaking normally would not be a problem - it just goes up. But if the leak is large enough and there is an ignition source, like lightning, then you have a problem. There would not be an explosion right away but a fire would compromise the structural integrity which would eventually lead to... a very bad event.
A modern airship using Hydrogen would be orders of magnitude safer then the Hindenburg. That being said, still not safe enough. Just use helium and deal with the reduced efficiency.
If you are building the tallest building in the world, you use the best construction materials possible. You have no other choice - you are pushing the bounds of construction technology. But such construction is not performed that often.
For sidewalks, single dwelling homes, and the numerous other applications that consume the majority of sand - desert sand is probably just fine. One might have to tweak their designs to accommodate the sand but that is a small price to pay if it allows use of a construction material that is readily available.
I believe you are correct in theory. But in practice, the higher frequency carrier waves will suffer from a increased error rates when compared to carrier waves at lower frequencies. A certain amount of additional bandwidth will be required for error detection and correction. As a result, throughput of a given bandwidth at higher frequencies will be reduced when compared to the same bandwidth at lower frequencies due to increased overhead associated with communicating at higher frequencies.
The military will have already mapped this out. They need it mapped for sub navigation and underwater warfare. Thing is, these maps are considered secret so there is no sharing with the scientific community.
Why are you limited to only one virus? When one contracts a flu their immune system is compromised. This invites all sorts of other problems that would have normally been avoided. So even if the flu shot does not cover a specific virus, it can still assist you should you come in contact with said virus and want to recover quickly.
Flu spreads by droplets that are coughed or sneezed out. If you don't have coughing or sneezing symptoms, you aren't going to be an effective vector.
Until you kiss your spouse. Or forget to wash your hands before touching produce at the market. There are still plenty of ways to spread the flu - any only one of them needs to work in order to create a new, effective vector.
Correct. Wasps are great if you want to keep worms out of your apples. During years or high wasp activity (largely due to a warm preceding winter), the apples and other fruit are fantastic. Other years they are basically inedible due to the number of parasites.
I get that people hate wasps but they really are not that bad. Ecologically, they are great at preventing insect populations from going out of control and harming crops.
More like, that is when you can not use your phone in place of a card. Nothing is stopping you from using your card directly. A slight loss of convenience is all that will result should this go wrong. And I see no indication that your phone would be disabled. Purchases using Apply Pay - yes, but who cares about that in a time of emergency.
How foolish. Even with a single payer system those seeking heal care bear a cost. The costs can vary depending on the system but at the very least - it costs a pile of time. There is always an incentive to not seek medical attention.
The argument for gadgets is that costs associated with prevention (like extra visits to the doctor) are far less then the costs associated with a late diagnosis. If only 1 in 100 of the visits turns out to be a valid concern it can not only save lives but also reduce overall health care costs.
Consider the difference between the cost of a week-long hospital stay and the cost of a month-long hospital stay. You really want an early diagnosis because treatment can cost a fortune. A trip to the doctor costs 30 minutes.
Sunlight causing the plastic to break down and contaminate the water. The water was not forgotten - they just stopped using it when they started to receive complaints regarding a taste in the water. The lesson to be learned is that bottled water should not be delivered all at once. Space it out so it remains fresh.
It is a bit dubious. However, the A12 has about the same number of transistors (6.9e9 vs 7.2e9) on a smaller, more efficient process. It might not be that far out.
So AMD found a defect and had to bin the part. But instead of throwing to the trash they decided to disable to broken silicon and sell the part for cheap - for computers that will also probably be cheap. Both Intel and AMD have done the exact same thing for years. This is news because? New part numbers one needs to remember to avoid?
Rust is for morons with delusions that do not have what it takes but think they can write advanced code anyways.
Oh please... Rust is for people that want to be more productive with their time at the expense of some additional system resources. For the majority of software projects it is a good deal.
Operating Systems are a bit different. Every bit of performance and every bit of memory matter. The OS is being run in enough places, on different hardware, that even a small difference is performance can be noticeable. The code is important enough such that the additional time and effort required to ensure the C code is done correctly is time well spent. For most other applications, it would be wasted effort.
Now let us not forget that Rust is also dependent on LLVM so it has limited hardware support. I suppose such support could be added but it is far too soon to be suggesting that an OS, which is supposed to be able to run on almost anything, should be using it.
Julia is also, or can be, interpreted - you interact with it just like Python or MATLAB. But the libraries, or modules you write, only get compiled once. The compiled version is saved and future function calls make use of the compiled code. As a result, the REPL interface is a bit slow (it is using LLVM) but the compiled libraries are very fast.
Cross-platform coding is a non-issue. Code is compiled on the machine that is running it. All code distribution via the package manager is of un-compiled code. One exception - you can precompile and generate a library to embed within a C / C++ application. The only other cross-platform issue is when libraries make direct calls to the native OS / hardware / local libraries. But this is a problem that the library developer typically solves.
My first attempt in programming with Julia resulted in sub-optimal performance. After profiling and learning more about the language, I was able to speed things up significantly. Some MATLAB code, which consists primarily of FFTs and linear algebra, was ported and I was able to make every function perform faster. At times, significantly faster. Considering that MATLAB actually just calls the same FFT library as Julia (FFTW), it was impressive.
So Julia is not as easy to use as Python or MATLAB but has to potential to be very fast. Programming in Julia is at first awkward but becomes excellent once you are used to it. A great language for programmers but scientists and other non-programmers might want to take the performance hit and keep using Python/MATLAB.
It is probably the addition of a very low power module to support real-time analysis of audio. Lattice Semiconductor sells such a module based on their iCE40 FPGA which claims to only require 5 mW - Link. This allows you to respond to voice commands without having the CPU fully powered. Apple has developed their own hardware to do something similar in their computers and iPhones.
The real question is, what else can this Intel module be programmed to do.
I can't imagine a kid who plays on swings, makes forts out of snow or cardboard boxes, and lies on his back looking at clouds, growing up to be a killer.
I can. Rural environments, or at lest smaller communities, generally have higher cases of murder per person. (FYI, I am from northern BC, Canada.) And it is different from large cities where murder is often gang related and motivated by profit. In those small farming communities you get crime motivated by pure evil. Like the serial killer pig farmer in Abbotsford and whoever is killing the female hitchhikers along highway 16. I can not believe that having limited contact with people when growing up is a good thing. Some people are just broken. It is difficult to discover this fact and manage it when a child is growing up with limited human interaction.
Someone should do a study to see how many of these shooters are an only child. In my experience, kids from large families are more balanced - I assume because of all the shit they went through growing up they learned to deal with their emotions. But I also know a guy from Alaska who didn't see another non-family human for the first 6 years of his life. He turned out great so who knows...
The increase of forest fires is due to humans moving into forested areas and starting fires (inadvertently or on purpose). Yes, it really is THAT simple.
Incorrect... The cause of forest fires changes depending on location. In North-West Canada, the current forest fires are almost all caused by lightning. Where climate change comes into play is that in the previous decade, temperatures never really dropped in the winter. Because of this, the population of pine beetles exploded and killed all the trees. Entire forests turned red / brown in the course of a few years. Now 10 years later, those trees have dried out and are the perfect fuel for lightning strikes.
It is the change in the climate that generated the conditions required for the fires. How they were started is irrelevant - the starting of a fire is impossible to avoid. If it is not lightning it will be a spark from a tire. What we must avoid are the underlying conditions that allow the fire to be destructive. Climate change plays a big part in these conditions.
This was probably with respect to building value - not total property value. No one can argue the value of the land is worth $200 but a half assembled or disassembled building might be worth a lot less then the default evaluation - especially if services are not available due to construction. Once all the construction is done it will be difficult to make the same argument so I assume the $200 only applies for the tax year in question. It sounds like the lawyers at Apple have too much free time on their hands.
The fire would go out but only for a while. It might work if there were firefighters ready to place water on what remains after a bomb is dropped. But with all the built up heat and partially burned wood, a normal forest fire would just re-ignite after a short period of time. After it re-ignites, it would quickly grow to be the same size it was before the bomb.
This sounds too dangerous and not nearly effective enough to warrant doing. The one possible exception is is there was critical infrastructure about to be burned that had to be saved. Some bombs with a lot of firefighters could be a good combination. But realistically, the firefighters could also do it without the bombs.
Prices will also increase on the low end. What is considered an acceptable price is being determined by the cost of cellular access and not the price of the phone. When cell access accounts for over twice the cost of the phone (over say, 2 years) then the cost of the phone is of no real importance. People will spend more if it implies having a better phone for 2 years.
I am speaking from the perspective of a Canadian - from a country with some of the most outrageous cellular bills in all the world. Things could be different south of the border. So Americans - are prices trending up or down? If trending up then it helps explain why consumers are more accepting of higher priced cell phones.
Khronos initially wanted money for Vulkan so Apple went off on their own and developed Metal
Not quite. Apple created Metal a couple of years before Vulkan was first released. So Apple first released Metal in 2014 and the Khronos Group first announced Vulkan in 2015. The first release of Vulkan was in 2016.
Who was first does not really matter. Just wanted to note that the motivation for developing Metal was to improve performance / battery life in iOS devices. It was not a vanity project driven by the need to do everything on their own. Well maybe partially, but there were no good alternatives at the time so developing Metal was their only option.
Plenty of things could still go wrong. There is simply no guarantee that the OS will not be writing to the FAT due to some background process. Pull the drive at the wrong time and you corrupt the FAT. If one uses a journaling file system, yanking the drive becomes more feasible - but is still not a good idea.
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Red tide is not brought on by climate change. Pollutants in the water (fertilizer) result in optimal conditions for red tide. One has to better manage farming practices inland to prevent the pollutants from running off into the ocean. Warmer water temperatures could also be a factor - but minor compared to the impact of pollutants.
The obvious problem with hydrogen is that it will leak. Just look at how difficult hydrogen is to store and transport. Even if you covered the Zeppelin with a layer of light metal (Al), the hydrogen would still eventually make its way out. Leaking normally would not be a problem - it just goes up. But if the leak is large enough and there is an ignition source, like lightning, then you have a problem. There would not be an explosion right away but a fire would compromise the structural integrity which would eventually lead to ... a very bad event.
A modern airship using Hydrogen would be orders of magnitude safer then the Hindenburg. That being said, still not safe enough. Just use helium and deal with the reduced efficiency.
If you are building the tallest building in the world, you use the best construction materials possible. You have no other choice - you are pushing the bounds of construction technology. But such construction is not performed that often.
For sidewalks, single dwelling homes, and the numerous other applications that consume the majority of sand - desert sand is probably just fine. One might have to tweak their designs to accommodate the sand but that is a small price to pay if it allows use of a construction material that is readily available.
I believe you are correct in theory. But in practice, the higher frequency carrier waves will suffer from a increased error rates when compared to carrier waves at lower frequencies. A certain amount of additional bandwidth will be required for error detection and correction. As a result, throughput of a given bandwidth at higher frequencies will be reduced when compared to the same bandwidth at lower frequencies due to increased overhead associated with communicating at higher frequencies.
But the Shannon-Hartley theorem does demonstrate that you are correct in theory.
How about "Hey Siri, lock the phone."
No idea if this works but it would make for a reasonably simple, non-intrusive solution.
The military will have already mapped this out. They need it mapped for sub navigation and underwater warfare. Thing is, these maps are considered secret so there is no sharing with the scientific community.
Why are you limited to only one virus? When one contracts a flu their immune system is compromised. This invites all sorts of other problems that would have normally been avoided. So even if the flu shot does not cover a specific virus, it can still assist you should you come in contact with said virus and want to recover quickly.
Flu spreads by droplets that are coughed or sneezed out. If you don't have coughing or sneezing symptoms, you aren't going to be an effective vector.
Until you kiss your spouse. Or forget to wash your hands before touching produce at the market. There are still plenty of ways to spread the flu - any only one of them needs to work in order to create a new, effective vector.
Correct. Wasps are great if you want to keep worms out of your apples. During years or high wasp activity (largely due to a warm preceding winter), the apples and other fruit are fantastic. Other years they are basically inedible due to the number of parasites.
I get that people hate wasps but they really are not that bad. Ecologically, they are great at preventing insect populations from going out of control and harming crops.
Thats when your phone and card will stop working?
More like, that is when you can not use your phone in place of a card. Nothing is stopping you from using your card directly. A slight loss of convenience is all that will result should this go wrong. And I see no indication that your phone would be disabled. Purchases using Apply Pay - yes, but who cares about that in a time of emergency.
How foolish. Even with a single payer system those seeking heal care bear a cost. The costs can vary depending on the system but at the very least - it costs a pile of time. There is always an incentive to not seek medical attention.
The argument for gadgets is that costs associated with prevention (like extra visits to the doctor) are far less then the costs associated with a late diagnosis. If only 1 in 100 of the visits turns out to be a valid concern it can not only save lives but also reduce overall health care costs.
Consider the difference between the cost of a week-long hospital stay and the cost of a month-long hospital stay. You really want an early diagnosis because treatment can cost a fortune. A trip to the doctor costs 30 minutes.
Sunlight causing the plastic to break down and contaminate the water. The water was not forgotten - they just stopped using it when they started to receive complaints regarding a taste in the water. The lesson to be learned is that bottled water should not be delivered all at once. Space it out so it remains fresh.
It is a bit dubious. However, the A12 has about the same number of transistors (6.9e9 vs 7.2e9) on a smaller, more efficient process. It might not be that far out.
So AMD found a defect and had to bin the part. But instead of throwing to the trash they decided to disable to broken silicon and sell the part for cheap - for computers that will also probably be cheap. Both Intel and AMD have done the exact same thing for years. This is news because? New part numbers one needs to remember to avoid?
Rust is for morons with delusions that do not have what it takes but think they can write advanced code anyways.
Oh please... Rust is for people that want to be more productive with their time at the expense of some additional system resources. For the majority of software projects it is a good deal.
Operating Systems are a bit different. Every bit of performance and every bit of memory matter. The OS is being run in enough places, on different hardware, that even a small difference is performance can be noticeable. The code is important enough such that the additional time and effort required to ensure the C code is done correctly is time well spent. For most other applications, it would be wasted effort.
Now let us not forget that Rust is also dependent on LLVM so it has limited hardware support. I suppose such support could be added but it is far too soon to be suggesting that an OS, which is supposed to be able to run on almost anything, should be using it.
Julia is also, or can be, interpreted - you interact with it just like Python or MATLAB. But the libraries, or modules you write, only get compiled once. The compiled version is saved and future function calls make use of the compiled code. As a result, the REPL interface is a bit slow (it is using LLVM) but the compiled libraries are very fast.
Cross-platform coding is a non-issue. Code is compiled on the machine that is running it. All code distribution via the package manager is of un-compiled code. One exception - you can precompile and generate a library to embed within a C / C++ application. The only other cross-platform issue is when libraries make direct calls to the native OS / hardware / local libraries. But this is a problem that the library developer typically solves.
My first attempt in programming with Julia resulted in sub-optimal performance. After profiling and learning more about the language, I was able to speed things up significantly. Some MATLAB code, which consists primarily of FFTs and linear algebra, was ported and I was able to make every function perform faster. At times, significantly faster. Considering that MATLAB actually just calls the same FFT library as Julia (FFTW), it was impressive.
So Julia is not as easy to use as Python or MATLAB but has to potential to be very fast. Programming in Julia is at first awkward but becomes excellent once you are used to it. A great language for programmers but scientists and other non-programmers might want to take the performance hit and keep using Python/MATLAB.
It is probably the addition of a very low power module to support real-time analysis of audio. Lattice Semiconductor sells such a module based on their iCE40 FPGA which claims to only require 5 mW - Link. This allows you to respond to voice commands without having the CPU fully powered. Apple has developed their own hardware to do something similar in their computers and iPhones.
The real question is, what else can this Intel module be programmed to do.
rent out old SLR film cameras at the start of the tour.
I can't imagine a kid who plays on swings, makes forts out of snow or cardboard boxes, and lies on his back looking at clouds, growing up to be a killer.
I can. Rural environments, or at lest smaller communities, generally have higher cases of murder per person. (FYI, I am from northern BC, Canada.) And it is different from large cities where murder is often gang related and motivated by profit. In those small farming communities you get crime motivated by pure evil. Like the serial killer pig farmer in Abbotsford and whoever is killing the female hitchhikers along highway 16. I can not believe that having limited contact with people when growing up is a good thing. Some people are just broken. It is difficult to discover this fact and manage it when a child is growing up with limited human interaction.
Someone should do a study to see how many of these shooters are an only child. In my experience, kids from large families are more balanced - I assume because of all the shit they went through growing up they learned to deal with their emotions. But I also know a guy from Alaska who didn't see another non-family human for the first 6 years of his life. He turned out great so who knows...
The increase of forest fires is due to humans moving into forested areas and starting fires (inadvertently or on purpose). Yes, it really is THAT simple.
Incorrect... The cause of forest fires changes depending on location. In North-West Canada, the current forest fires are almost all caused by lightning. Where climate change comes into play is that in the previous decade, temperatures never really dropped in the winter. Because of this, the population of pine beetles exploded and killed all the trees. Entire forests turned red / brown in the course of a few years. Now 10 years later, those trees have dried out and are the perfect fuel for lightning strikes.
It is the change in the climate that generated the conditions required for the fires. How they were started is irrelevant - the starting of a fire is impossible to avoid. If it is not lightning it will be a spark from a tire. What we must avoid are the underlying conditions that allow the fire to be destructive. Climate change plays a big part in these conditions.
This was probably with respect to building value - not total property value. No one can argue the value of the land is worth $200 but a half assembled or disassembled building might be worth a lot less then the default evaluation - especially if services are not available due to construction. Once all the construction is done it will be difficult to make the same argument so I assume the $200 only applies for the tax year in question. It sounds like the lawyers at Apple have too much free time on their hands.
The fire would go out but only for a while. It might work if there were firefighters ready to place water on what remains after a bomb is dropped. But with all the built up heat and partially burned wood, a normal forest fire would just re-ignite after a short period of time. After it re-ignites, it would quickly grow to be the same size it was before the bomb.
This sounds too dangerous and not nearly effective enough to warrant doing. The one possible exception is is there was critical infrastructure about to be burned that had to be saved. Some bombs with a lot of firefighters could be a good combination. But realistically, the firefighters could also do it without the bombs.
Prices will also increase on the low end. What is considered an acceptable price is being determined by the cost of cellular access and not the price of the phone. When cell access accounts for over twice the cost of the phone (over say, 2 years) then the cost of the phone is of no real importance. People will spend more if it implies having a better phone for 2 years.
I am speaking from the perspective of a Canadian - from a country with some of the most outrageous cellular bills in all the world. Things could be different south of the border. So Americans - are prices trending up or down? If trending up then it helps explain why consumers are more accepting of higher priced cell phones.
Khronos initially wanted money for Vulkan so Apple went off on their own and developed Metal
Not quite. Apple created Metal a couple of years before Vulkan was first released. So Apple first released Metal in 2014 and the Khronos Group first announced Vulkan in 2015. The first release of Vulkan was in 2016.
Who was first does not really matter. Just wanted to note that the motivation for developing Metal was to improve performance / battery life in iOS devices. It was not a vanity project driven by the need to do everything on their own. Well maybe partially, but there were no good alternatives at the time so developing Metal was their only option.
Plenty of things could still go wrong. There is simply no guarantee that the OS will not be writing to the FAT due to some background process. Pull the drive at the wrong time and you corrupt the FAT. If one uses a journaling file system, yanking the drive becomes more feasible - but is still not a good idea.