Wait, what? Blackbody radiation is broad spectrum, with a peak defined by the body temperature. There is no bandwidth selectivity, it's a continuous curve. (One which peaks at visible wavelengths for the solar bb temp which,not surprisingly, most earth creatures have evolved to see.)
I have unlimited in V (my plan allows me to get upgrades and keep it), but I rarely use a lot of data. Even with unlimited, I suspect my wife and I combine for less than 3GB 11 out of 12 months of the year. We used to have AT&T and were on the 250MB/mo plan and ran over twice in 2 years - once when I got bored on a long train ride an was watching videos, and once when Pandora decided to start streaming in the background while the sound was off and it ran all night.
For $47 each, we've got all the data/minutes/texts we ever use, and pretty good coverage. Hard to argue...
Corporate partners can still upgrade at reduced rates ($99 G3 for me this summer, $99 iPhone 5s for the wife last spring) and still keep unlimited. ($47/mo for unlimited data and metered voice/texts with low includeds)
Tethering is not allowed by the TOS, but a rooted device will tether easily and in 3 years I've yet to be caught - but I'm generally low usage compared to top downloaders. I think (but am not certain) I could pay for a byte bucket for tethering as a side fee, but it's ~$50/mo and the bucket is about 2GB. Since I doubt I tether more than 2GB in an entire year, I'm not in for that kind of fleecing. I have it so I can get a file or three if I'm stuck where there's no wifi, or the kid wants to watch a Plex video on her iPad in the car.
Those on corporate plans (including those of use through combined purchasing partners via professional/industry organizations) can still upgrade and keep unlimited. It's not an option for new subscribers, but I upgraded last summer and my wife last spring and both kept our $20 unlimited data plans. (I know, crazy - definitely legacy. $27 for 400 pooled minutes, and 250 texts/phone, plus $20 for the unlim data). Tethering isn't allowed, but violations aren't rigorously enforced, so I tether with my rooted handset on occasion.
Say what? Why would I "fix" a problem by buying a new OS. If things get massively out of whack, you reinstall the original OS. What forces people out is dropping of driver support and bug maintenance and, quite honestly, you are going to expect that after a while.
I'll agree - upgrades should offer productivity benefits, and for the most part the past 3-4 iterations have been essentially cosmetic upgrades and shuffling of the deck chairs, making it harder - not easier - to maintain the OS (since controls are now buried in 2-3 different places, and the obvious ones are dumbed down for basic users). There are some advantages to 8 in maintenance, but they're overshadowed by the layering of control. Adaptive screen brightness on my laptop, for example, is controlled in 3 separate places, and it's an OR function for the "on" condition - all three must be turned off to eliminate what I can only describe as the most annoyingly 1980s version of a screen dimmer ("fading" in halting 5% steps based on average screen luminance instead of room brightness).
And, while I'm at it, WTF is up with keeping a pagefile in 2014? I have 24GB of RAM and turn the pagefile off. I've never seen my commit above 13GB, even with multiple RAM heavy programs running. (FWIW, I've never encountered a PF problem in 5 years of running without one)
Besides, it cheaper to buy the gas for a road trip to Virginia, where you can buy pretty much anything you want at a local gun show without any need for background checks.
I'm betting that you could probably up that number from a million to a hundred million bankers and lawyers by simply putting them into permanent hibernation prior to lift off. It'll also save money on the back end - just crash the ship into the planet, they're dead already anyway.
Awww, fuck it - just put all the dead bodies in a ship and get it out of Earth orbit. Who cares where they end up at that point?:-)
Perhaps 10,000 hours is what it takes to reach your personal level of mastery. The average or the genius - once you've put in your 10,000 (or 6000 or 14,000; 10,000 is only one significant digit), you've essentially gotten as good as you will every get, down to some number far to the right of the decimal.
10,000 hours isn't some magical perfect answer to every one of life's skill and talent questions. It's a round number - notice that there's only a single significant digit. And "mastery" really changed depending on your subject. But more importantly, you're parent rolled 3d6 for all 6 of your attributes and, god damnit, if you got a 5 for intelligence you are never going to be a fucking magic user no matter how many hours you study. Hell, you could have rolled an 18, but you're still going to need to get some experience if you really want to cast a delayed blast fireball.
10,000 hours is about 5 years of working at something - diligently - full time. Your profession, your reason for being, your everything. Yes, somebody is going to be better than you and beat you to it with less time. There are 7 billion people in the world, the chances of finding somebody with more innate talent is pretty damned high. And, hey - no matter how long you practice, the chances of you becoming a master in something for which you have no aptitude or - worse - missing some serious prerequisites is going to be very low. But take the average person with average aptitude and give him or her 10,000 hours to practice or train with the goal of becoming proficient in a chosen field, and they're going to learn enough to be considered a "master". Not the best in the world, probably not the second or third best, or whatever you want to call the absolute cream, but you will have mastered it.
And, lets face it, even after 10,000 hours you're still not going to be able to cast a Wish spell and get what you want, but you can sure as hell go on a quest with me 'cause after 10,000 hours you're going to be one bad ass magic user. Or dragon poo. (which I understand goes for a fair sum to the right NPC)
If you're a distance runner, especially one who runs off-road, having a way to contact someone in case of injury is a big deal. It may not be a matter of life and death, but it could be a matter of a more serious injury. Twisting an ankle may result in a week or two off running; twisting an ankle and then having to walk on it for several miles to get back to a place to call for/get help can mean months of (very expensive) rehab. Think of it as insurance - a $100 of service covers him for several years against a potential $20,000 medical bill and months of lost time.enjoyment.
For the shuttle program, 2% failure rate was a major embarrassment and resulted on major, worldwide news stories and grounding of the fleet for years at a time.
When that's framing your risk tolerance, there's going to be a lot more care (and money) involved.
"Lenders must be made whole, even though they are charging a higher rate on these loans due to the added risk they are supposedly taking on"
Seriously, do you think lawyers, eviction/repossession proceedings are free or 100% guaranteed? That's where that extra money goes. That's not to say that there aren't unscrupulous lenders in the market, but if it were you lending the money, you'd be pretty disturbed if someone stiffed you for it and you went hungry as a result.
Ambulances don't make you pay up front. All medical fees are negotiable on the back side. Otherwise they'd require a deposit, retainer, or bond before a doctor looked at you.
"Being days past the "due date" does not make you late." Well, paying before the due date makes you "on time," so for the common definition of late, they'd be late.
"Being 1 billing cycle past the due date makes you late, in most states, and under Federal lending laws." citation? I suspect there's a different term
Actually, it is a problem with engineering. The design parameters haven't changed (pocketable device), the designers have simply decided to ignore that constraint because it doesn't work with their aesthetic.
And belt-mounted pouch...I'm nearly speechless. I gave up belt holsters when I retired my pocket protector and horn rims.
You don't deal with school systems much, I see. In most places this isn't a simple request. And have you ever used Lastpass on an original iOS device (original iPads cannot update past iOS 5.1.1)? Convenient isn't the word I would use.
Besides, what happens if the 7 year old forgets his or her master password? If he has it in his notebook, the teacher can help him. If not, she will spend the next hour setting up and approving all of his logins on all of the sites they use. And 7 year olds forget things like passwords. A lot.
And that's why I should always read the article. They are running at 1500C (though how they're achieving theoretical carnot efficiency is a mystery). They also spelled adsorption wrong. *sigh*
Hey, I love solar power. Of all the "green" ways to produce energy, it's my favorite because it is direct from the source and generally produces the lowest byproduct problems.
However, the GP is correct - the article is so fraught with errors that anyone with any scientific knowledge assumes the project management to be either utterly incompetent or, more likely, dealing in absolute fraud. Anyone who has passed basic science classes knows that if your units come out wrong when you do math, it means your answer is guaranteed to be wrong. If you do a problem which requires that your answer be in units of volume, and you come out with length to the ninth power, you've made an error. If you need power (kwh) and you come up with energy (kw) you've missed a term (or several). Any time the units for a project are incorrect, you invalidate your arguments.
Now, there are better articles on this - no doubt. But defending this makes you look like the legion of people who funded that LED roadway indegogo project. It's not that it isn't cool, but if you assumed they got the efficiency they wanted and it worked perfectly and ran their own numbers, you find out that to make their ultimate goal work would cost something like 250 Trillion dollars. But, hey, a pretty picture and an promise is all we need, right?
"80% efficiency number may come in part from factoring in the reclamation of said waste heat"
I would say that would be absolutely necessary, given that the most perfectly efficient process possible with a room temperature heat sink would require that the active portion of the generator be running at 1500C (Carnot efficiency = 80% with a sink at 25C)
It is nice that they spelled adsorption correctly, given that practically every other technical part of the article gets the units so wrong they're scientifically impossible.
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Wait, what? Blackbody radiation is broad spectrum, with a peak defined by the body temperature. There is no bandwidth selectivity, it's a continuous curve. (One which peaks at visible wavelengths for the solar bb temp which,not surprisingly, most earth creatures have evolved to see.)
I have unlimited in V (my plan allows me to get upgrades and keep it), but I rarely use a lot of data. Even with unlimited, I suspect my wife and I combine for less than 3GB 11 out of 12 months of the year. We used to have AT&T and were on the 250MB/mo plan and ran over twice in 2 years - once when I got bored on a long train ride an was watching videos, and once when Pandora decided to start streaming in the background while the sound was off and it ran all night.
For $47 each, we've got all the data/minutes/texts we ever use, and pretty good coverage. Hard to argue...
Corporate partners can still upgrade at reduced rates ($99 G3 for me this summer, $99 iPhone 5s for the wife last spring) and still keep unlimited. ($47/mo for unlimited data and metered voice/texts with low includeds)
Tethering is not allowed by the TOS, but a rooted device will tether easily and in 3 years I've yet to be caught - but I'm generally low usage compared to top downloaders. I think (but am not certain) I could pay for a byte bucket for tethering as a side fee, but it's ~$50/mo and the bucket is about 2GB. Since I doubt I tether more than 2GB in an entire year, I'm not in for that kind of fleecing. I have it so I can get a file or three if I'm stuck where there's no wifi, or the kid wants to watch a Plex video on her iPad in the car.
Those on corporate plans (including those of use through combined purchasing partners via professional/industry organizations) can still upgrade and keep unlimited. It's not an option for new subscribers, but I upgraded last summer and my wife last spring and both kept our $20 unlimited data plans. (I know, crazy - definitely legacy. $27 for 400 pooled minutes, and 250 texts/phone, plus $20 for the unlim data). Tethering isn't allowed, but violations aren't rigorously enforced, so I tether with my rooted handset on occasion.
Say what? Why would I "fix" a problem by buying a new OS. If things get massively out of whack, you reinstall the original OS. What forces people out is dropping of driver support and bug maintenance and, quite honestly, you are going to expect that after a while.
I'll agree - upgrades should offer productivity benefits, and for the most part the past 3-4 iterations have been essentially cosmetic upgrades and shuffling of the deck chairs, making it harder - not easier - to maintain the OS (since controls are now buried in 2-3 different places, and the obvious ones are dumbed down for basic users). There are some advantages to 8 in maintenance, but they're overshadowed by the layering of control. Adaptive screen brightness on my laptop, for example, is controlled in 3 separate places, and it's an OR function for the "on" condition - all three must be turned off to eliminate what I can only describe as the most annoyingly 1980s version of a screen dimmer ("fading" in halting 5% steps based on average screen luminance instead of room brightness).
The OS should be doing all of this automatically.
And, while I'm at it, WTF is up with keeping a pagefile in 2014? I have 24GB of RAM and turn the pagefile off. I've never seen my commit above 13GB, even with multiple RAM heavy programs running. (FWIW, I've never encountered a PF problem in 5 years of running without one)
Actually, that's pretty impressive given that iOS barely fits into a 16GB iPhone.
Wait...if we have robots to install new cameras, will that mean we no longer have to send people outside for cleanings?
Besides, it cheaper to buy the gas for a road trip to Virginia, where you can buy pretty much anything you want at a local gun show without any need for background checks.
Well, not any more. Plus, dying from second hand smoke doesn't leave blood stains on the carpet.
Have you read the Wool trilogy (or however many there are now) by Hugh Howey?
I'm betting that you could probably up that number from a million to a hundred million bankers and lawyers by simply putting them into permanent hibernation prior to lift off. It'll also save money on the back end - just crash the ship into the planet, they're dead already anyway.
Awww, fuck it - just put all the dead bodies in a ship and get it out of Earth orbit. Who cares where they end up at that point? :-)
Perhaps 10,000 hours is what it takes to reach your personal level of mastery. The average or the genius - once you've put in your 10,000 (or 6000 or 14,000; 10,000 is only one significant digit), you've essentially gotten as good as you will every get, down to some number far to the right of the decimal.
10,000 hours isn't some magical perfect answer to every one of life's skill and talent questions. It's a round number - notice that there's only a single significant digit. And "mastery" really changed depending on your subject. But more importantly, you're parent rolled 3d6 for all 6 of your attributes and, god damnit, if you got a 5 for intelligence you are never going to be a fucking magic user no matter how many hours you study. Hell, you could have rolled an 18, but you're still going to need to get some experience if you really want to cast a delayed blast fireball.
10,000 hours is about 5 years of working at something - diligently - full time. Your profession, your reason for being, your everything. Yes, somebody is going to be better than you and beat you to it with less time. There are 7 billion people in the world, the chances of finding somebody with more innate talent is pretty damned high. And, hey - no matter how long you practice, the chances of you becoming a master in something for which you have no aptitude or - worse - missing some serious prerequisites is going to be very low. But take the average person with average aptitude and give him or her 10,000 hours to practice or train with the goal of becoming proficient in a chosen field, and they're going to learn enough to be considered a "master". Not the best in the world, probably not the second or third best, or whatever you want to call the absolute cream, but you will have mastered it.
And, lets face it, even after 10,000 hours you're still not going to be able to cast a Wish spell and get what you want, but you can sure as hell go on a quest with me 'cause after 10,000 hours you're going to be one bad ass magic user. Or dragon poo. (which I understand goes for a fair sum to the right NPC)
If you're a distance runner, especially one who runs off-road, having a way to contact someone in case of injury is a big deal. It may not be a matter of life and death, but it could be a matter of a more serious injury. Twisting an ankle may result in a week or two off running; twisting an ankle and then having to walk on it for several miles to get back to a place to call for/get help can mean months of (very expensive) rehab. Think of it as insurance - a $100 of service covers him for several years against a potential $20,000 medical bill and months of lost time.enjoyment.
For the shuttle program, 2% failure rate was a major embarrassment and resulted on major, worldwide news stories and grounding of the fleet for years at a time.
When that's framing your risk tolerance, there's going to be a lot more care (and money) involved.
"Lenders must be made whole, even though they are charging a higher rate on these loans due to the added risk they are supposedly taking on"
Seriously, do you think lawyers, eviction/repossession proceedings are free or 100% guaranteed? That's where that extra money goes. That's not to say that there aren't unscrupulous lenders in the market, but if it were you lending the money, you'd be pretty disturbed if someone stiffed you for it and you went hungry as a result.
Ambulances don't make you pay up front. All medical fees are negotiable on the back side. Otherwise they'd require a deposit, retainer, or bond before a doctor looked at you.
Maybe why usury was forbidden in the bible?
"Being days past the "due date" does not make you late."
Well, paying before the due date makes you "on time," so for the common definition of late, they'd be late.
"Being 1 billing cycle past the due date makes you late, in most states, and under Federal lending laws."
citation? I suspect there's a different term
Actually, it is a problem with engineering. The design parameters haven't changed (pocketable device), the designers have simply decided to ignore that constraint because it doesn't work with their aesthetic.
And belt-mounted pouch...I'm nearly speechless. I gave up belt holsters when I retired my pocket protector and horn rims.
You don't deal with school systems much, I see. In most places this isn't a simple request. And have you ever used Lastpass on an original iOS device (original iPads cannot update past iOS 5.1.1)? Convenient isn't the word I would use.
Besides, what happens if the 7 year old forgets his or her master password? If he has it in his notebook, the teacher can help him. If not, she will spend the next hour setting up and approving all of his logins on all of the sites they use. And 7 year olds forget things like passwords. A lot.
And that's why I should always read the article. They are running at 1500C (though how they're achieving theoretical carnot efficiency is a mystery). They also spelled adsorption wrong. *sigh*
Hey, I love solar power. Of all the "green" ways to produce energy, it's my favorite because it is direct from the source and generally produces the lowest byproduct problems.
However, the GP is correct - the article is so fraught with errors that anyone with any scientific knowledge assumes the project management to be either utterly incompetent or, more likely, dealing in absolute fraud. Anyone who has passed basic science classes knows that if your units come out wrong when you do math, it means your answer is guaranteed to be wrong. If you do a problem which requires that your answer be in units of volume, and you come out with length to the ninth power, you've made an error. If you need power (kwh) and you come up with energy (kw) you've missed a term (or several). Any time the units for a project are incorrect, you invalidate your arguments.
Now, there are better articles on this - no doubt. But defending this makes you look like the legion of people who funded that LED roadway indegogo project. It's not that it isn't cool, but if you assumed they got the efficiency they wanted and it worked perfectly and ran their own numbers, you find out that to make their ultimate goal work would cost something like 250 Trillion dollars. But, hey, a pretty picture and an promise is all we need, right?
"80% efficiency number may come in part from factoring in the reclamation of said waste heat"
I would say that would be absolutely necessary, given that the most perfectly efficient process possible with a room temperature heat sink would require that the active portion of the generator be running at 1500C (Carnot efficiency = 80% with a sink at 25C)
It is nice that they spelled adsorption correctly, given that practically every other technical part of the article gets the units so wrong they're scientifically impossible.