Well, that wasn't really what happened. The colored letter proposal was dismissed by most other politicians and in op-eds in the media. It was a terrible idea unless it's a fair deal to throw hundreds of years of legal thinking out the window, and have men subtly declared guilty by the attorney without trial, in order to perhaps reduce the amount of prostitution by a couple of percent.
I can imagine that there were more than a few feminists who thought that that would be a fair deal, but I don't think that all feminists agreed.
I'm tired of the poorly founded "feminism = evil" crud that's floating around these days. I'm tired of anecdotes. If you want me to jump on the anti-feminism bandwagon you need to show me data and statistics that support the idea that men are being oppressed.
Yeah, I hear you. I wish there was a way to get Gnome 3 in Ubuntu or an app store in Fedora.
I guess what I'm saying is I wish Canonical would have released Ubuntu with a customized version of Gnome 3 instead of inventing what feels like a preschool version of Gnome 3. Maybe they'll turn Unity into something palatable in 11.11, but as it is now it's way too buggy and it's not configurable enough.
Which is making an accusation without proof. Cute. What happened that caused her to take this kind of position.
It's not what happened, but rather what didn't happen. To my knowledge the woman hasn't taken a single course from the law school curriculum and she's obviously not sufficiently aware of the extent of her own ignorance. If she was she would have asked an adviser with the right competence who would have told her that it's an atrocious idea.
Yes, or more specifically something like the tablet version of Android, but adapted to run at 1920x1080. Half of everyone will know how to use it because they will have owned other Android devices, and there will already be a huge back catalog of apps available from day one.
The only thing left to figure out is how one would control the UI... Wii-mote style? Kinect style? Something else?
Okay, let's double the number of guards everywhere. Fair point. Let's say your average 1000 worker plant has 50 guards on their payroll. Doubling the guard force would increase the number of workers by 5%. That would not be enough to make up for the difference in employees per unit of energy or unit of average power between solar and nuclear.
Those numbers describe investment costs, not operating costs. Investment costs are on the rise because safety and security needs to be increased. And we haven't seen the end of it. It should be plainly obvious today that a nuclear plant has to be able to handle a fully fueled jumbo jet flying at full speed and full power into the reactor structure. It's also obvious that plants need to have more redundancies and preferably a passive cooling system that can keep the plant cool indefinitely after an emergency shutdown like the one in Fukushima. Those features are going to be expensive.
You don't need more workers in order to increase safety. You probably need fewer workers. Workers are more often the source of problems than the solution. Both Chernobyl and Three mile island happened after workers deviated from standard protocol (although Chernobyl didn't even have a proper protocol).
If you use the same method in Sweden's most recently built nuclear plant from the early 1980's Forsmark you get 0.38 employees per MW of average yearly output.
I imagine that the numbers would be lower for plants built in the 1990's and 2000's in advanced economies, although I don't know if there are any plants from that time period in advanced economies.
But... But... The guy in the movie was right about plastics, except it didn't create as many jobs western economies as it did in Japan and Taiwan, so Ben would perhaps have trouble finding a job in that industry in the US. Maybe it will be the same with graphene, except this time the jobs would be created in China and India. Maybe not. There are startups in Europe and the US that are looking into building graphene factories, but I don't think anyone knows if they will be profitable.
Well, whether or not room-temperature superconductors are possible is an open question in physics.
But even if we'll never have superconducting power lines there are already (if you want to believe Wikipedia) off the shelf HVDC systems that lose 3% per 1000 km. If you build one of those halfway around the Earth it would have an efficiency of 54%. That's not great compared to our hypothetical superconducting line, but I think it is a bit more realistic than space-based power.
The PIC32 chip runs at 80 MHz, it has 512 kB program memory, and 128 kB RAM, a 10-bit 16-channel 1 MS/s ADC, 4 32-bit timers, 1 16-bit timer, Ethernet, USB. Everything you need to make a powerful embedded wired network system.
The $27 version is not bad either. Damn. I could go on at the risk of sounding like a salesman...
I suppose that the idea is that people will use the Maple board to make things that are more complex than your typical Arduino project. There are highly experienced people who know how to create advanced systems and algorithms, but who don't know how to work with electronics. Someone like that could use a Maple board to create an autonomous vehicle, or a music instrument, or anything that you can cram inside a 128 kB program memory and 20 kB RAM.
I like your project, and I look forward to hearing more about it. But I think the first two bullets on your list could probably be used to argue against using an FPGA with a soft CPU. Where can I find a low-cost FPGA with internal ADC? Does your soft CPU have better performance per watt than an ARM?
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That's a good point. Gnome 3 and Gnome shell seem to work fine on my "just dicking around" virtual machine with Ubuntu 11.04.
Well, that wasn't really what happened. The colored letter proposal was dismissed by most other politicians and in op-eds in the media. It was a terrible idea unless it's a fair deal to throw hundreds of years of legal thinking out the window, and have men subtly declared guilty by the attorney without trial, in order to perhaps reduce the amount of prostitution by a couple of percent.
I can imagine that there were more than a few feminists who thought that that would be a fair deal, but I don't think that all feminists agreed.
I'm tired of the poorly founded "feminism = evil" crud that's floating around these days. I'm tired of anecdotes. If you want me to jump on the anti-feminism bandwagon you need to show me data and statistics that support the idea that men are being oppressed.
Yeah, I hear you. I wish there was a way to get Gnome 3 in Ubuntu or an app store in Fedora.
I guess what I'm saying is I wish Canonical would have released Ubuntu with a customized version of Gnome 3 instead of inventing what feels like a preschool version of Gnome 3. Maybe they'll turn Unity into something palatable in 11.11, but as it is now it's way too buggy and it's not configurable enough.
Which is making an accusation without proof. Cute. What happened that caused her to take this kind of position.
It's not what happened, but rather what didn't happen. To my knowledge the woman hasn't taken a single course from the law school curriculum and she's obviously not sufficiently aware of the extent of her own ignorance. If she was she would have asked an adviser with the right competence who would have told her that it's an atrocious idea.
You should also read the latest thread at Airliners.net. There are several Airbus and Boeing pilots who post regularly.
Yes, or more specifically something like the tablet version of Android, but adapted to run at 1920x1080. Half of everyone will know how to use it because they will have owned other Android devices, and there will already be a huge back catalog of apps available from day one.
The only thing left to figure out is how one would control the UI... Wii-mote style? Kinect style? Something else?
I downloaded it at full speed from the Fedora site. Maybe it is because I'm in Europe where it is late in the evening.
Okay, let's double the number of guards everywhere. Fair point. Let's say your average 1000 worker plant has 50 guards on their payroll. Doubling the guard force would increase the number of workers by 5%. That would not be enough to make up for the difference in employees per unit of energy or unit of average power between solar and nuclear.
Those numbers describe investment costs, not operating costs. Investment costs are on the rise because safety and security needs to be increased. And we haven't seen the end of it. It should be plainly obvious today that a nuclear plant has to be able to handle a fully fueled jumbo jet flying at full speed and full power into the reactor structure. It's also obvious that plants need to have more redundancies and preferably a passive cooling system that can keep the plant cool indefinitely after an emergency shutdown like the one in Fukushima. Those features are going to be expensive.
You don't need more workers in order to increase safety. You probably need fewer workers. Workers are more often the source of problems than the solution. Both Chernobyl and Three mile island happened after workers deviated from standard protocol (although Chernobyl didn't even have a proper protocol).
If you use the same method in Sweden's most recently built nuclear plant from the early 1980's Forsmark you get 0.38 employees per MW of average yearly output.
I imagine that the numbers would be lower for plants built in the 1990's and 2000's in advanced economies, although I don't know if there are any plants from that time period in advanced economies.
But... But... The guy in the movie was right about plastics, except it didn't create as many jobs western economies as it did in Japan and Taiwan, so Ben would perhaps have trouble finding a job in that industry in the US. Maybe it will be the same with graphene, except this time the jobs would be created in China and India. Maybe not. There are startups in Europe and the US that are looking into building graphene factories, but I don't think anyone knows if they will be profitable.
Well, whether or not room-temperature superconductors are possible is an open question in physics.
But even if we'll never have superconducting power lines there are already (if you want to believe Wikipedia) off the shelf HVDC systems that lose 3% per 1000 km. If you build one of those halfway around the Earth it would have an efficiency of 54%. That's not great compared to our hypothetical superconducting line, but I think it is a bit more realistic than space-based power.
That does look like a good deal.
The PIC32 chip runs at 80 MHz, it has 512 kB program memory, and 128 kB RAM, a 10-bit 16-channel 1 MS/s ADC, 4 32-bit timers, 1 16-bit timer, Ethernet, USB. Everything you need to make a powerful embedded wired network system.
The $27 version is not bad either. Damn. I could go on at the risk of sounding like a salesman...
What's the drawback?
I suppose that the idea is that people will use the Maple board to make things that are more complex than your typical Arduino project. There are highly experienced people who know how to create advanced systems and algorithms, but who don't know how to work with electronics. Someone like that could use a Maple board to create an autonomous vehicle, or a music instrument, or anything that you can cram inside a 128 kB program memory and 20 kB RAM.
I like your project, and I look forward to hearing more about it. But I think the first two bullets on your list could probably be used to argue against using an FPGA with a soft CPU. Where can I find a low-cost FPGA with internal ADC? Does your soft CPU have better performance per watt than an ARM?