No, technology won't fix the infinite growth problem. Even if we were to have vast amounts of cheap fusion power, the waste heat alone would start to cause a problem. If current growth rates continued indefinitely then the waste heat would raise temperatures enough to boil the ocean within about 300 years.
During the sermon at a Sunday service in Worcester Cathedral. I was forced to go to these services on a Sunday, but fortunately I had one of those Casio pocket computers. While the priest droned on about something irrelevant, fictional and boring, I could make good use of the time writing some bit of code on my pocket computer.
* They speak English in Scotland. * Buying a phone is not complicated. "Hello Mr Phone seller, I would like to buy a phone". * You don't have to do it on your first day.
The manufacturing example will also be somewhere where a wage increase has only a small effect on the finished product. The increase per item will be very small for manufacturing, too.
Sure, it'll affect a service industry like a hairdresser's where labour makes up the vast majority of the cost of sale, but manufacturing industry is not like that any more.
Please be a UI person *not* a UX person. If a user interface is giving me an experience it's doing it wrong. I want user interfaces to melt into the background so I hardly notice them.
Every language has its quirks. While with German you might be able to tell how to spell a word on how it's spoken, on the other hand what gender a noun has in German is completely nonsensical (and German goes one step further than the Romance languages in having a neuter gender, so now you have three possible genders to guess at!) whereas in English the gender of nouns is entirely straightforward and logical.
If you're a skilled worker with good qualifications, not too difficult in general. It's more of a paperwork exercise; if you really want it you can do it.
The CFM-56 could do the job now since the highest rated version of that engine is as powerful as two of the B52s current 50s tech engines (and the AF have experience re-engining planes with the CFM-56). The nice thing about the CFM-56 is that it could be shoehorned onto a B737 by moving the accessories to the side of the engine solving the ground clearance issue that the 737 had. I'd imagine a CFM-56 doesn't weigh any more than the two existing engines.
That's probably a feature not a defect if it discourages people from writing kernel code which doesn't need to be kernel code (for example drivers for USB devices).
However, the thing I find interesting is the advance in turbofan engines since the B52 came out. A single Rolls-Royce Trent engine can put out almost as much thrust as all eight B-52 engines put together (the 8 B-52 engines combined produce 136000 lbs thrust static, and a Trent has been tested up to 115000 lbs thrust). They could replace those 8 old school and very thirsty engines with 2 RR Trent 772 engines (70,000 lb thrust each) and have better performance.
I lived in Houston, and it would be an early strategic target due to the concentrated oil industry rather than the military. Perhaps not the Houston CBD itself, but places like Texas City, La Porte, Baytown etc. where all the oil terminals and a huge amount of refining capacity is, plus a great deal of oil engineering expertise is located there.
Concorde was a commercial failure but it was an engineering triumph of epic proportions. The few that were built flew many years and many supersonic trips.
The waste at least can be concentrated into one, known small spot. Unlike the waste from fossil fuels, which is just discharged into the atmosphere where it becomes spread out and difficult to remove and likely a problem for centuries.
The young man in the (not really hypothetical, but real situation since it happened) is that he's now probably gone from a young man trying to just get on with life to an angry young man who now wants revenge against the United States and is thinking of joining a terror group. You may have or may not have killed a terrorist off in your drone attack, but you've almost certainly turned a lot of not-particularly-bothered-about-the-US young men into angry young men now out for revenge and liable to become terrorists.
Drone attacks are also extremely cowardly. People perfectly safe sitting in bunkers thousands of miles away attacking wedding parties is cowardly. Cowardly and unproductive. If you're going to kill people at least have the valour to do it while facing them.
My rule is this. If my commute for whatever reason begins to exceed cycling distance, I move so the job is back within cycling distance.
The main thing is a long commute should only ever really be temporary. It's not just the money spent on fuel, but the amazing amounts of time wasted on commuting especially by car when you can't do anything else while commuting.
1. Find a candidate list of countries. 2. Find visa requirements for your shortlist. If you meet the requirements, skip step 3. 3. Work to meet the visa requirements if you don't meet them yet 4. Apply for visa. 5. Move to country.
I don't find metric any more difficult to estimate or use. I use both metric and imperial units every day, and your message is the first time I've ever seen anyone saying a centimeter is hard to estimate. I find estimating stuff in cm no more difficult than doing the same in inches.
Where metric wins *massively* is when you're having to deal with using lots of different types of measures, such as estimating things such as power requirements, energy requirements and that kind of thing because the units are designed to work with each other and are all base-10. Imperial measures are all base something-random (for instance, with weight the common things are divisions of 16, eg 16 oz in 1 lb, but in distance it's something else, 12 in to 1 foot, 3 feet to 1 yard, 1760 yards to one mile) making it absurdly difficult to do mental estimations of things involving the different units because of all the arbitrary conversion factors you end up needing. You must admit that 1000 meters = 1km is a lot easier to remember and use than 1760 yards to 1 mile. You can work out instantly how many meters a distance of 1.75km is, but not so easy to mentally figure out how many yards in 1.75 miles. OK, a trivial example that's probably not what a lot of people do every day, but just consider some things in engineering - mentally estimating the number of joules a capacitor can store at a given voltage is much easier than doing it in calories because you don't need to stick an arbitrary-seeming conversion factor into the process if you're doing it all in SI units. The lack of consistency in imperial units means you're having to do this all the time and this makes it a lot more error prone.
Sure, the Greeks cooked the books - and with the full help and complicity of Wall Street. However, the eurozone in its breathless, headlong rush to get the euro in didn't do their due diligence. Greece should never have been allowed into the eurozone in the first place.
Was BACS really fully computerised? Since computers don't take weekends and bank holidays off, I wonder what the true reason was that as of as little as just 3 years ago, transfers would only move on "working days". I always suspected that somewhere along the line there was a step no one had automated, and someone, somewhere was reading information on one window and typing it by hand into another window, hence the system only working on "working days".
The Google Doodle of this tells me to play I must have the latest version of Chrome/Safari/Firefox. However I do have the latest version of Chrome! Version 34.0.1847.137 so it tells me. (At least I think it's the latest version, I've not been able to find anything on Google that tells me what is the official latest version).
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No, technology won't fix the infinite growth problem. Even if we were to have vast amounts of cheap fusion power, the waste heat alone would start to cause a problem. If current growth rates continued indefinitely then the waste heat would raise temperatures enough to boil the ocean within about 300 years.
During the sermon at a Sunday service in Worcester Cathedral. I was forced to go to these services on a Sunday, but fortunately I had one of those Casio pocket computers. While the priest droned on about something irrelevant, fictional and boring, I could make good use of the time writing some bit of code on my pocket computer.
* They speak English in Scotland.
* Buying a phone is not complicated. "Hello Mr Phone seller, I would like to buy a phone".
* You don't have to do it on your first day.
The manufacturing example will also be somewhere where a wage increase has only a small effect on the finished product. The increase per item will be very small for manufacturing, too.
Sure, it'll affect a service industry like a hairdresser's where labour makes up the vast majority of the cost of sale, but manufacturing industry is not like that any more.
Please be a UI person *not* a UX person. If a user interface is giving me an experience it's doing it wrong. I want user interfaces to melt into the background so I hardly notice them.
Every language has its quirks. While with German you might be able to tell how to spell a word on how it's spoken, on the other hand what gender a noun has in German is completely nonsensical (and German goes one step further than the Romance languages in having a neuter gender, so now you have three possible genders to guess at!) whereas in English the gender of nouns is entirely straightforward and logical.
If you're a skilled worker with good qualifications, not too difficult in general. It's more of a paperwork exercise; if you really want it you can do it.
Nope. You don't want to survive it, a nuclear war of that scale will lead to a devastating nuclear winter and you'll just end up freezing to death.
The CFM-56 could do the job now since the highest rated version of that engine is as powerful as two of the B52s current 50s tech engines (and the AF have experience re-engining planes with the CFM-56). The nice thing about the CFM-56 is that it could be shoehorned onto a B737 by moving the accessories to the side of the engine solving the ground clearance issue that the 737 had. I'd imagine a CFM-56 doesn't weigh any more than the two existing engines.
This is why USB drivers should be in userspace (libusb).
That's probably a feature not a defect if it discourages people from writing kernel code which doesn't need to be kernel code (for example drivers for USB devices).
However, the thing I find interesting is the advance in turbofan engines since the B52 came out. A single Rolls-Royce Trent engine can put out almost as much thrust as all eight B-52 engines put together (the 8 B-52 engines combined produce 136000 lbs thrust static, and a Trent has been tested up to 115000 lbs thrust). They could replace those 8 old school and very thirsty engines with 2 RR Trent 772 engines (70,000 lb thrust each) and have better performance.
I lived in Houston, and it would be an early strategic target due to the concentrated oil industry rather than the military. Perhaps not the Houston CBD itself, but places like Texas City, La Porte, Baytown etc. where all the oil terminals and a huge amount of refining capacity is, plus a great deal of oil engineering expertise is located there.
Concorde was a commercial failure but it was an engineering triumph of epic proportions. The few that were built flew many years and many supersonic trips.
The Morris Marina. An epically terrible car that still sold in large numbers.
The waste at least can be concentrated into one, known small spot. Unlike the waste from fossil fuels, which is just discharged into the atmosphere where it becomes spread out and difficult to remove and likely a problem for centuries.
That's no excuse for the drone attacks.
The young man in the (not really hypothetical, but real situation since it happened) is that he's now probably gone from a young man trying to just get on with life to an angry young man who now wants revenge against the United States and is thinking of joining a terror group. You may have or may not have killed a terrorist off in your drone attack, but you've almost certainly turned a lot of not-particularly-bothered-about-the-US young men into angry young men now out for revenge and liable to become terrorists.
Drone attacks are also extremely cowardly. People perfectly safe sitting in bunkers thousands of miles away attacking wedding parties is cowardly. Cowardly and unproductive. If you're going to kill people at least have the valour to do it while facing them.
My rule is this. If my commute for whatever reason begins to exceed cycling distance, I move so the job is back within cycling distance.
The main thing is a long commute should only ever really be temporary. It's not just the money spent on fuel, but the amazing amounts of time wasted on commuting especially by car when you can't do anything else while commuting.
1. Find a candidate list of countries.
2. Find visa requirements for your shortlist. If you meet the requirements, skip step 3.
3. Work to meet the visa requirements if you don't meet them yet
4. Apply for visa.
5. Move to country.
If you wear all the gear all the time, you're far likely to get rashes and death when you fall off your Kawasaki.
I don't find metric any more difficult to estimate or use. I use both metric and imperial units every day, and your message is the first time I've ever seen anyone saying a centimeter is hard to estimate. I find estimating stuff in cm no more difficult than doing the same in inches.
Where metric wins *massively* is when you're having to deal with using lots of different types of measures, such as estimating things such as power requirements, energy requirements and that kind of thing because the units are designed to work with each other and are all base-10. Imperial measures are all base something-random (for instance, with weight the common things are divisions of 16, eg 16 oz in 1 lb, but in distance it's something else, 12 in to 1 foot, 3 feet to 1 yard, 1760 yards to one mile) making it absurdly difficult to do mental estimations of things involving the different units because of all the arbitrary conversion factors you end up needing. You must admit that 1000 meters = 1km is a lot easier to remember and use than 1760 yards to 1 mile. You can work out instantly how many meters a distance of 1.75km is, but not so easy to mentally figure out how many yards in 1.75 miles. OK, a trivial example that's probably not what a lot of people do every day, but just consider some things in engineering - mentally estimating the number of joules a capacitor can store at a given voltage is much easier than doing it in calories because you don't need to stick an arbitrary-seeming conversion factor into the process if you're doing it all in SI units. The lack of consistency in imperial units means you're having to do this all the time and this makes it a lot more error prone.
And 1000km should be 1 megameter.
Sure, the Greeks cooked the books - and with the full help and complicity of Wall Street. However, the eurozone in its breathless, headlong rush to get the euro in didn't do their due diligence. Greece should never have been allowed into the eurozone in the first place.
Was BACS really fully computerised? Since computers don't take weekends and bank holidays off, I wonder what the true reason was that as of as little as just 3 years ago, transfers would only move on "working days". I always suspected that somewhere along the line there was a step no one had automated, and someone, somewhere was reading information on one window and typing it by hand into another window, hence the system only working on "working days".
The Google Doodle of this tells me to play I must have the latest version of Chrome/Safari/Firefox. However I do have the latest version of Chrome! Version 34.0.1847.137 so it tells me. (At least I think it's the latest version, I've not been able to find anything on Google that tells me what is the official latest version).
Bah.