Yeah, I realized that dichotomy as I typed it. Take it how you will.
Actually, as you get close to "enough money," (b) actually tends to become *more* attractive if you look at the traditional captains of industry (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gates, Buffet). Most eventually went on to endow great sums of money to otherwise non-business, rather socialist causes (socialist in the "good for all of humanity" way). Now, when you're sitting at the adult table what counts as "enough" is a pretty large/distant goal for the most ambitious.:-)
I mean, look at all this time and effort we're wasting on "science" and "discovery."
We need to get back to 16th century thinking and government funded services so my taxes can go down another $10 a paycheck. I mean, those cigarettes and premium cable TV channels aren't going to pay for themselves!
This is/., we were all going to pirate it anyway. The discussion is just to give people an opportunity to bitch about something instead of writing code.
So I can save ~20 and take a (1 in 3, 1 in 4?) chance this will never actually ship - or ship so late somebody else will have done it better? You're going to have to give me better odds than that.
Really? That would be someone like Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods (one of about 8-10 companies with a CEO at 24M/yr). Kraft does $32B in sales. That "significant" product cost reduction would be less than 1 cent on a $10 item if she gave back the entire $24M. I can see it now - massive roll-back from $14.99 to $14.98 on all mega-Kraft-singles boxes!
And workers? You only hire workers when demand oustrips your current efficiency. You don't hire workers because you have extra money (which is also the tax fallacy - you could cut my taxes in half and I wouldn't hire anybody in my business; I have exactly the # of employees I need - less tax just means more take home pay).
Not that $24M is reasonable as a compensation bonus, and paying it to the rank and file would be a token $240 thank you to each employee (nice, but not life changing, and probably less than 1/3 of the "salary cap"), but at the end-user point it makes very little difference.
Shhhh...don't tell anybody - but all those people are already working. Except, of course, that they know they're not supposed to be so they'll work on the side for half of what they would get if they were legal and they don't complain about getting any benefits. It's businesses that employ this shadow workforce that are afraid of amnesty - their costs will go up dramatically once these illegals are brought out into daylight. That's why the right is against it - increased labor costs.
I do - all the time. My drafter, who works from his own office and has 75-80% of his work from others. The teacher of classes for my non-profit, who plans, markets, registers, teaches, and finds a venue for the classes. The lady who cleans my office once every two weeks. Are they not 1099s?
Without relativistic effects about a year but, as noted by the sibling poster, relativity gets in the way from the outside observers point of view. And what good is next day delivery if the goods are 1 day old and the recipient's great, great, great, great, great granddaughter has to sign for the package?
Though practically impossible with current or proposed technology, it would, indeed, take only 35 days to reach 0.1c, and we'd be 225 million km from our starting point, ignoring gravitational effects of other bodies. Though in astronomical terms that's not very far (less than the diameter of Earth's orbit) - less than half way to Jupiter on the closest possible approach.
1G of thrust would require, as you mentioned, almost 10m/s2 of acceleration, or your mass x 10 in Newtons.
NEXT produces 236 mN of thrust at 7kW of power
A typical terrestrial nuclear power plant will produce about 1 GW of power, or enough to power 143,000 of these engines. That would result in 33,700 Newtons of thrust, able to accelerate a spacecraft at 1G weighing 3433kg.
To put that into perspective, those (143,000) engines would burn 2860kg/hr in fuel alone.
If we take our mass as an average to simplify the math, and ignore relativity (which I'm betting we can), 6222kg avg mass at 0.236N is 4.22x10-5 m/s2 acceleration. And for 50,000hx3600s/h = 7600 m/s delta V So in 6 years, we will have accelerated from 11,100 m/s to 18,700 ms, or from 0.000037c to 0.000062c
People may say physics is a bitch, but based on these numbers, it looks more we are physic's bitch. (insert Soviet Russia joke here).
*a goal in the above article is to create a small, portable reactor of 5Mg to produce 40kW, which would actually power almost 6 of these thrusters. For the sake of argument I scaled it down to 4Mg to allow for 1Mg of thruster and fuel tank hardware, but that's still a pretty wild guess.
Property rights are no different in space than on Earth - you may claim anything you want, but you may only hold what you can defend. The twist here is that asteroids are currently not claimed by a sovereign nation, and very few have any capability to even attempt to take or defend property in space by force.
"Obama has openly admitting to planning to arm Al-Queda associated rebels in Syria. That is the DEFINITION of treason."
Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, we should all get to share in what you're smoking.
Obama's extreme reluctance to to *anything* in Syria ending in capitulation to the right wing trying to bully him into arming the rebels against Assad is now somehow treasonous, but Sen. McCain and Co. planning to do the same through legislation isn't? You clearly claim to dislike both parties, but are not calling for treason and impeachment charges against members of both houses of congress.
And you're going to have to go back far more than a single administration if your standards for "Crimes Against Humanity" are so low. By your definition, you can simply cover everyone from the 1960s on by just claiming the embargo against Cuba. Every leader from the landing of John Smith through most of the 19th century would be covered by oppression and genocide of the Native Americans. Atrocities during WW1, WW2 and Korea Cover a good swath of the 1900s-1960s (where we can pick up Cuba), and those that don't can probably be filtered in with organized crime and mismanagement/misregulation leading to the great depression.
If you want to level Treason and Crimes Against Humity charges, please do not confine it to the few years of internet articles you have read. You need to go back through ALL of US history and name every single president and congress, and every colonial governmental official to the very first landing on the shores of North America. Because, from the proper perspective, they are all guilty. Just as from the proper perspective, every good parent can be charged with child abuse or child endangerment. In other words, your standards for treason and CaH are quite a bit lower and your view exceptionally skewed.
I thought the blocks were used to provide a reasonable limit on the number of terms necessary to effectively describe the function in the "time" space using a DCT. The large the block, the more terms are necessary. I don't know enough about DCT to know how the number of terms scales with individual accuracy required and block size, but I would think a move away from that kind of a transform would be necessary to encode entire frames in one go with any hope at a highly efficient compression ratio.
No, they will create energy surcharge taxes to provide you with your $130 swap fee, just as it's taxes (and not oil or refinery costs) which drive your current fuel costs. FWIW, I currently pay about 10c/litre in tax on my fuel (38.6c/US gallon).
Unlike propane tanks, it's a huge deal to refurbish a battery pack. You could "refill" your EOL battery pack for an $80 swap and get a new battery pack. Or, worse for the consumer, swap your brand new pack for a recharged pack that is nearing EOL. At $10k+ for a full sized battery (I'm guessing, too lazy to look it up), that's a pretty big fail for one side or the other.
"You know, all the user feedback is that people can't run their Windows software on Windows RT, and the dedicated store apps are still lacking in breadth."
"Hmmm...let's fix that with the second release"
"Oooo! I know, we'll make the processor faster and add faster, expensive networking to it!!"
"That's a wrap, guys - lets get this thing into production!"
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Yeah, I realized that dichotomy as I typed it. Take it how you will.
Actually, as you get close to "enough money," (b) actually tends to become *more* attractive if you look at the traditional captains of industry (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gates, Buffet). Most eventually went on to endow great sums of money to otherwise non-business, rather socialist causes (socialist in the "good for all of humanity" way). Now, when you're sitting at the adult table what counts as "enough" is a pretty large/distant goal for the most ambitious. :-)
Q: How do you change the world?
A: With money.
Q: How do you get more money?
A: Make sure you have influence with those in power.
Q: What do you when you have enough money?
A: Anything you want, including discarding the trash you used to get to the top.
Q: Isn't that dishonest?
A: This is business, not kindergarten.
Wars are won one battle at a time. You must choose how to win each battle if you ever hope to prevail in the war.
I mean, look at all this time and effort we're wasting on "science" and "discovery."
We need to get back to 16th century thinking and government funded services so my taxes can go down another $10 a paycheck. I mean, those cigarettes and premium cable TV channels aren't going to pay for themselves!
This is /., we were all going to pirate it anyway. The discussion is just to give people an opportunity to bitch about something instead of writing code.
Golf clap.
So I can save ~20 and take a (1 in 3, 1 in 4?) chance this will never actually ship - or ship so late somebody else will have done it better? You're going to have to give me better odds than that.
WTF?
Really? That would be someone like Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods (one of about 8-10 companies with a CEO at 24M/yr). Kraft does $32B in sales. That "significant" product cost reduction would be less than 1 cent on a $10 item if she gave back the entire $24M. I can see it now - massive roll-back from $14.99 to $14.98 on all mega-Kraft-singles boxes!
And workers? You only hire workers when demand oustrips your current efficiency. You don't hire workers because you have extra money (which is also the tax fallacy - you could cut my taxes in half and I wouldn't hire anybody in my business; I have exactly the # of employees I need - less tax just means more take home pay).
Not that $24M is reasonable as a compensation bonus, and paying it to the rank and file would be a token $240 thank you to each employee (nice, but not life changing, and probably less than 1/3 of the "salary cap"), but at the end-user point it makes very little difference.
Shhhh...don't tell anybody - but all those people are already working. Except, of course, that they know they're not supposed to be so they'll work on the side for half of what they would get if they were legal and they don't complain about getting any benefits. It's businesses that employ this shadow workforce that are afraid of amnesty - their costs will go up dramatically once these illegals are brought out into daylight. That's why the right is against it - increased labor costs.
All jobs are temporary. At some point you quit, are fired, are laid off, retire, or die.
I do - all the time. My drafter, who works from his own office and has 75-80% of his work from others. The teacher of classes for my non-profit, who plans, markets, registers, teaches, and finds a venue for the classes. The lady who cleans my office once every two weeks. Are they not 1099s?
Without relativistic effects about a year but, as noted by the sibling poster, relativity gets in the way from the outside observers point of view. And what good is next day delivery if the goods are 1 day old and the recipient's great, great, great, great, great granddaughter has to sign for the package?
Though practically impossible with current or proposed technology, it would, indeed, take only 35 days to reach 0.1c, and we'd be 225 million km from our starting point, ignoring gravitational effects of other bodies. Though in astronomical terms that's not very far (less than the diameter of Earth's orbit) - less than half way to Jupiter on the closest possible approach.
1G of thrust would require, as you mentioned, almost 10m/s2 of acceleration, or your mass x 10 in Newtons.
NEXT produces 236 mN of thrust at 7kW of power
A typical terrestrial nuclear power plant will produce about 1 GW of power, or enough to power 143,000 of these engines. That would result in 33,700 Newtons of thrust, able to accelerate a spacecraft at 1G weighing 3433kg.
To put that into perspective, those (143,000) engines would burn 2860kg/hr in fuel alone.
Well, NEXT produces 236 milliNewtons of thrust, according to this article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12709-nextgeneration-ion-engine-sets-new-thrust-record.html#.UcxBsfmcf4o
NEXT + nuclear reactor ~ 5000kg* (wag)
Fuel 1000kg
Voyager = 722kg
If we take our mass as an average to simplify the math, and ignore relativity (which I'm betting we can),
6222kg avg mass at 0.236N is 4.22x10-5 m/s2 acceleration. And for 50,000hx3600s/h = 7600 m/s delta V
So in 6 years, we will have accelerated from 11,100 m/s to 18,700 ms, or from 0.000037c to 0.000062c
People may say physics is a bitch, but based on these numbers, it looks more we are physic's bitch. (insert Soviet Russia joke here).
*a goal in the above article is to create a small, portable reactor of 5Mg to produce 40kW, which would actually power almost 6 of these thrusters. For the sake of argument I scaled it down to 4Mg to allow for 1Mg of thruster and fuel tank hardware, but that's still a pretty wild guess.
An oil tanker powered by solar - definitely a double-take moment.
(it does make sense, actually - oil is better for vehicles which actually *require* the energy density in their fuel, but it's still funny)
Property rights are no different in space than on Earth - you may claim anything you want, but you may only hold what you can defend. The twist here is that asteroids are currently not claimed by a sovereign nation, and very few have any capability to even attempt to take or defend property in space by force.
Lesson Learned - if you're going to report a crime involving State secrets, you should probably use more discretion.
Burning down a brothel with everyone inside does not make you a hero for exposing prostitution.
"Obama has openly admitting to planning to arm Al-Queda associated rebels in Syria. That is the DEFINITION of treason."
Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, we should all get to share in what you're smoking.
Obama's extreme reluctance to to *anything* in Syria ending in capitulation to the right wing trying to bully him into arming the rebels against Assad is now somehow treasonous, but Sen. McCain and Co. planning to do the same through legislation isn't? You clearly claim to dislike both parties, but are not calling for treason and impeachment charges against members of both houses of congress.
And you're going to have to go back far more than a single administration if your standards for "Crimes Against Humanity" are so low. By your definition, you can simply cover everyone from the 1960s on by just claiming the embargo against Cuba. Every leader from the landing of John Smith through most of the 19th century would be covered by oppression and genocide of the Native Americans. Atrocities during WW1, WW2 and Korea Cover a good swath of the 1900s-1960s (where we can pick up Cuba), and those that don't can probably be filtered in with organized crime and mismanagement/misregulation leading to the great depression.
If you want to level Treason and Crimes Against Humity charges, please do not confine it to the few years of internet articles you have read. You need to go back through ALL of US history and name every single president and congress, and every colonial governmental official to the very first landing on the shores of North America. Because, from the proper perspective, they are all guilty. Just as from the proper perspective, every good parent can be charged with child abuse or child endangerment. In other words, your standards for treason and CaH are quite a bit lower and your view exceptionally skewed.
Pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle.
I thought the blocks were used to provide a reasonable limit on the number of terms necessary to effectively describe the function in the "time" space using a DCT. The large the block, the more terms are necessary. I don't know enough about DCT to know how the number of terms scales with individual accuracy required and block size, but I would think a move away from that kind of a transform would be necessary to encode entire frames in one go with any hope at a highly efficient compression ratio.
No, they will create energy surcharge taxes to provide you with your $130 swap fee, just as it's taxes (and not oil or refinery costs) which drive your current fuel costs. FWIW, I currently pay about 10c/litre in tax on my fuel (38.6c/US gallon).
Unlike propane tanks, it's a huge deal to refurbish a battery pack. You could "refill" your EOL battery pack for an $80 swap and get a new battery pack. Or, worse for the consumer, swap your brand new pack for a recharged pack that is nearing EOL. At $10k+ for a full sized battery (I'm guessing, too lazy to look it up), that's a pretty big fail for one side or the other.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRm1yqSmsGY
You're welcome.
I expect the conversation went like this:
"You know, all the user feedback is that people can't run their Windows software on Windows RT, and the dedicated store apps are still lacking in breadth."
"Hmmm...let's fix that with the second release"
"Oooo! I know, we'll make the processor faster and add faster, expensive networking to it!!"
"That's a wrap, guys - lets get this thing into production!"
Yeah, 'cause the rest of the country doesn't hate those with Google fiber enough yet.