Basic principles aren't patentable but implementations are. If it's patentable, then very similar configurations will be forbidden. And patents don't keep people from making the inventions - all sorts of stupid shit is patented - it's the actual fabrication and economy of scale that does so. Patents protect the ability to *make money* off of an invention. Ignore the scary bits. This isn't going to be used to power drones or eliminate the fuel industry. This (presumably optimized) experiment had a coefficient of performance of 3.6 and is thermal. That's pretty much useless for anything that moves fast (i.e. anything that flies).
Yeah, but all that can be mitigated. Build it in Detroit or Baltimore. Nobody gives a shit what happens there anyway, and anyone with any sense steers clear just knowing what the area is like. Better yet, build it in West Virginia. They mine coal there, destroying mountain tops, polluting the water so bad you can't even use it to wash much less drink, and they die at 50 of black lung - and they love it because they can flunk out of HS at 16 and go make $50-80k/yr working in the mines.
See, that was easy, now you're back to just the technical hurdles.
That was my take: the company may be perfectly within their rights to fire him, but if Comcast made any defamatory remarks which led to the termination they could be on the hook for that. As always, lawyers would need to be involved to sort this out.
Youtube videos (I know, there are bypasses, but not on most phone browsers), inline ads in social media site feeds, stories on Slashdot. They're out there, even with blockers.
Let's just get this out of the way: I, for one, am happy that I never get tampon ads online.
Ads are chosen by advertisers, not some personal shopping assistant. The ads I've seen on FB and Youtube (which is where I actually see most of the online ads) tend to be at least tangentially related to my life. Tech stuff that I might actually be interested in. Concerts for genres I like. I know that they're trying to sell me stuff that I don't have* so there will be misses. YT ads normally allow a bypass after 5 seconds. There have been two cases in the last month that I've watched the whole ad, because it happened to be something I was interested in or wanted more information about (but not badly enough to go look it up). That's an advertising win right there.
Except LG. I've seen more ads for the G3 that I already own on FB than for possibly any other single product. Note to LG marketing: I'm not going to buy a second one just for fun; you can stop.
Probably, but then they'd need to spend twice that much putting in the obstacles and sensors into an existing set of structures. At least, that's what seems to happen in many re-use cases.
Perhaps the GP is inferring based on regulatory status of autonomous cars, or from the general pace of acceptance of new technology by governmental bureaucracy.
Indeed I'm including everyone. Still, well into the 19th and early 20th century you worked or you starved. Kids under 5 and the truly infirm elderly were generally exempt (if you were in a family unit), but everyone else worked.
Ever notice how more and more of the unemployed are unable to re-enter the workforce, and college grads are giving up and moving home? Humans can be worked for 40 hours without undue complaining given a large enough reward (flat screen TVs and SUVs), so that's how long the working humans will go. That leaves more and more people in the 0 hour/week class.
In the US, there are (roughly) 330 million people, and around 120 million of them are employed full time. In a gross simplification, we're already down to an average of a 15 hour work week. If we convert one in three current full time jobs to computers, and presume that the general employment ratio trend were to remain constant without that, that would put us a (surprise) an average of 10 hours per week per person.
So, remember that as you work your 40 hour week that there will be 3 unemployed people who are balancing out that equation. (And before the far right chimes in, statistically 2 of those 3 loafers will be in your own family, though there certainly will be a (bigger) class battle on the horizon if the unemployable start living it up too well)
Fuck no. Fridge left open; Front door open with the AC on. Drive a truck and never carry anything in it. Put in gas fireplace logs just to watch them burn; when it gets hot I open the window. Charcoal for grilling - the bad stuff with the integral lighter fluid. I water my lawn so it grows faster, then hire a service with big, gasoline powered mowers to mow it twice a week. I leave the lights on when I can so I never have to walk into a dark room, or a dark yard for that matter; incandescent, of course. I throw out most things after 1-2 uses because it's cheaper to order them on Amazon (prime=free 2-day air shipments!) and throw the old stuff away. I save money my changing my cars oil in the driveway; I rarely spill more than 1/2 a quart or so.
So, yeah, 'Murica.
*note: nothing in this post represents my actual lifestyle, though the door open/AC on is apparently an aspirational condition of my teenager.
I'll play the asshole in this comic bit: Why should everyone in the world have 2010 American standard of living? We're wasteful, bigoted, conspicuous consumers at (or near) the top of the consumption food chain. This is like expecting everyone to be a 1%er (in American parlance), somehow, or for all of us to be above average drivers. We can't all be rich and good looking. Remember - when everyone is special, no one is special. We need classes just to keep the system churning.
Of all the possibilities, striving for the American 2010 standard makes no sense on so many levels.
We've got all this capacity and technology but, you know, Tim, we could use a little extra grease to keep things moving while you ramp up for the next device rollout, if you catch my meaning. I'd hate for all of this to get mired in the courts and for you to miss a crucial delivery date on a ctrical component in your pretty toys...
So, do we put them in special sections with visual barriers, or just make them eat outside where we can't see them? Will we see fat people huddled around doorways in winter, banished outside while they eat their Snickers?
Which is more expensive: changing a marketing number before marketing has even begun, or asking thousands of corporations to rewrite their custom software. Yeah, it really can be as simple as that.
Really, they're pretty far down on the click-bait ladder. Naked celebrities, boobs, epic fail videos, and people getting the shit beat out of them are the gold standards. By the time you're throwing in a quantum computing reference you're really just grasping for anything that might get a click.
Which makes it not black body, right? Blackbody radiation is a curve (Plank's spectral distribution of emissive power, 2piC1/(lambda^5(e^C2/lambdaT) -1)
I don't think Carnot necessarily applies here as it's the limit for thermodynamic cycles. This appears to be similar to a radiative laser, in that you put any radiation in, but what comes out is single wavelength or very narrow bandpass. The challenge, from a logical position, is that this material appears to violate the laws of entropy. Normally, you would need to resort to an active process to increase the order of a system (like Maxwell's demon, iirc).
It's times like these that I realize how long it's been since I've been in school, and how rarely I use this on a daily basis.
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Especially for a desert data collection mission.
Basic principles aren't patentable but implementations are. If it's patentable, then very similar configurations will be forbidden. And patents don't keep people from making the inventions - all sorts of stupid shit is patented - it's the actual fabrication and economy of scale that does so. Patents protect the ability to *make money* off of an invention.
Ignore the scary bits. This isn't going to be used to power drones or eliminate the fuel industry. This (presumably optimized) experiment had a coefficient of performance of 3.6 and is thermal. That's pretty much useless for anything that moves fast (i.e. anything that flies).
Damn, cold fusion and reversal of the elephant population decline solved in the same week. The world really is an amazing place!!
(I need a :rolleyes: emoticon)
So he's really just in it for the money. Good; that makes me feel much better.
Never let facts get in the way of a good ol' xenophobic rant. ;-)
Yeah, but all that can be mitigated. Build it in Detroit or Baltimore. Nobody gives a shit what happens there anyway, and anyone with any sense steers clear just knowing what the area is like. Better yet, build it in West Virginia. They mine coal there, destroying mountain tops, polluting the water so bad you can't even use it to wash much less drink, and they die at 50 of black lung - and they love it because they can flunk out of HS at 16 and go make $50-80k/yr working in the mines.
See, that was easy, now you're back to just the technical hurdles.
That was my take: the company may be perfectly within their rights to fire him, but if Comcast made any defamatory remarks which led to the termination they could be on the hook for that. As always, lawyers would need to be involved to sort this out.
The employer, in a right to work state, may be perfectly within their rights. However Comcast may face a defamation lawsuit.
Youtube videos (I know, there are bypasses, but not on most phone browsers), inline ads in social media site feeds, stories on Slashdot. They're out there, even with blockers.
Let's just get this out of the way: I, for one, am happy that I never get tampon ads online.
Ads are chosen by advertisers, not some personal shopping assistant. The ads I've seen on FB and Youtube (which is where I actually see most of the online ads) tend to be at least tangentially related to my life. Tech stuff that I might actually be interested in. Concerts for genres I like. I know that they're trying to sell me stuff that I don't have* so there will be misses. YT ads normally allow a bypass after 5 seconds. There have been two cases in the last month that I've watched the whole ad, because it happened to be something I was interested in or wanted more information about (but not badly enough to go look it up). That's an advertising win right there.
Except LG. I've seen more ads for the G3 that I already own on FB than for possibly any other single product. Note to LG marketing: I'm not going to buy a second one just for fun; you can stop.
Probably, but then they'd need to spend twice that much putting in the obstacles and sensors into an existing set of structures. At least, that's what seems to happen in many re-use cases.
Perhaps the GP is inferring based on regulatory status of autonomous cars, or from the general pace of acceptance of new technology by governmental bureaucracy.
Indeed I'm including everyone. Still, well into the 19th and early 20th century you worked or you starved. Kids under 5 and the truly infirm elderly were generally exempt (if you were in a family unit), but everyone else worked.
Average, that is, or approaching it.
Ever notice how more and more of the unemployed are unable to re-enter the workforce, and college grads are giving up and moving home? Humans can be worked for 40 hours without undue complaining given a large enough reward (flat screen TVs and SUVs), so that's how long the working humans will go. That leaves more and more people in the 0 hour/week class.
In the US, there are (roughly) 330 million people, and around 120 million of them are employed full time. In a gross simplification, we're already down to an average of a 15 hour work week. If we convert one in three current full time jobs to computers, and presume that the general employment ratio trend were to remain constant without that, that would put us a (surprise) an average of 10 hours per week per person.
So, remember that as you work your 40 hour week that there will be 3 unemployed people who are balancing out that equation. (And before the far right chimes in, statistically 2 of those 3 loafers will be in your own family, though there certainly will be a (bigger) class battle on the horizon if the unemployable start living it up too well)
Fuck no. Fridge left open; Front door open with the AC on. Drive a truck and never carry anything in it. Put in gas fireplace logs just to watch them burn; when it gets hot I open the window. Charcoal for grilling - the bad stuff with the integral lighter fluid. I water my lawn so it grows faster, then hire a service with big, gasoline powered mowers to mow it twice a week. I leave the lights on when I can so I never have to walk into a dark room, or a dark yard for that matter; incandescent, of course. I throw out most things after 1-2 uses because it's cheaper to order them on Amazon (prime=free 2-day air shipments!) and throw the old stuff away. I save money my changing my cars oil in the driveway; I rarely spill more than 1/2 a quart or so.
So, yeah, 'Murica.
*note: nothing in this post represents my actual lifestyle, though the door open/AC on is apparently an aspirational condition of my teenager.
I'll play the asshole in this comic bit: Why should everyone in the world have 2010 American standard of living? We're wasteful, bigoted, conspicuous consumers at (or near) the top of the consumption food chain. This is like expecting everyone to be a 1%er (in American parlance), somehow, or for all of us to be above average drivers. We can't all be rich and good looking. Remember - when everyone is special, no one is special. We need classes just to keep the system churning.
Of all the possibilities, striving for the American 2010 standard makes no sense on so many levels.
We've got all this capacity and technology but, you know, Tim, we could use a little extra grease to keep things moving while you ramp up for the next device rollout, if you catch my meaning. I'd hate for all of this to get mired in the courts and for you to miss a crucial delivery date on a ctrical component in your pretty toys...
So, do we put them in special sections with visual barriers, or just make them eat outside where we can't see them? Will we see fat people huddled around doorways in winter, banished outside while they eat their Snickers?
Windows 1 was distributed on 3.5" floppies. 720k floppies, no less. I know, I still have a copy, though I have no way to load it.
Which is more expensive: changing a marketing number before marketing has even begun, or asking thousands of corporations to rewrite their custom software. Yeah, it really can be as simple as that.
Shame, too. NT was a fucking rock. Then they let the rifraf back in and it went to hell again.
Send 'em there first and they'll have a huge incentive to figure out the food conundrum.
Really, they're pretty far down on the click-bait ladder. Naked celebrities, boobs, epic fail videos, and people getting the shit beat out of them are the gold standards. By the time you're throwing in a quantum computing reference you're really just grasping for anything that might get a click.
And yet Apple getting into this market doesn't seem to bother anyone.
Which makes it not black body, right? Blackbody radiation is a curve (Plank's spectral distribution of emissive power, 2piC1/(lambda^5(e^C2/lambdaT) -1)
I don't think Carnot necessarily applies here as it's the limit for thermodynamic cycles. This appears to be similar to a radiative laser, in that you put any radiation in, but what comes out is single wavelength or very narrow bandpass. The challenge, from a logical position, is that this material appears to violate the laws of entropy. Normally, you would need to resort to an active process to increase the order of a system (like Maxwell's demon, iirc).
It's times like these that I realize how long it's been since I've been in school, and how rarely I use this on a daily basis.