What they obviously should have offered was the opportunity to pay the full cost of response rather than the $75. If he payed $15,000, I bet that would have covered the cost of response.
The solution, of course, is to pay the full cost on demand. The fee is an insurance scheme to amortize the costs from the losers to the winners. So a responsible homeowner who DOESN'T choose to burn trash in his yard has to pay to cover this yahoo, who does.
The authors original paper ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/pdf/5469.pdf ) is about building the largest practically possible chunk of a dyson sphere. This is essentially the largest piece they think we are capable of building with current technology.
The source paper ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/pdf/5469.pdf ) is about building, essentially, the largest practical sub-piece of a dyson sphere. This is essentially as large as the authors believe is possible using current technology.
Neither fusion nor the solar wind is infinite. Both would impact economies significantly by lowering the energy price (for a while). But we'd still have plenty of other finite resources to fight over, so things would really not change as dramatically as you imagine. I mean, how would it change our lives if air was essentially infinite, and free to breathe?
I'm pretty sure you mean 'whoever can secure the receiver'. Here in the USA we don't just sit around and let people control their oil just because they built a nation and infrastructure on top of it. If we want a better price, we'll topple their regime.
Yes, it CAN be self-taught in a few months of free time. If you want to hire someone who has learned ALL of the core skills, you can either hope that they've picked out ALL of the core skills and learned them a few months at the time over the course of a decade, or trust that one of the good schools gave him each of those few months, in an appropriate order, over the course of a couple of years. That is why the CS degree is sought after by many, many jobs. They don't want to wait a few months when they trip over the core skill you didn't learn for yourself.
Sorry, but a true game designer is telling a story, not just defining game mechanics. They better damn well care whether it's the elf texture or the space marine texture.
NB: I worked for blizzard on Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, WOW.
A generic CS degree is good enough to land you a game job if you can prove you can write games. A games degree may NOT be good enough to land you any other kind of CS job you might want in the future. Furthermore, the games-only programs are generally laughed at in the high end of the industry.
And, like me, you may find yourself wanting to work at the high end of the industry one decade, and wanting out of the industry the next. The games industry is very much a frat environment. Which is great fun when you are up to about 30 years old, and suddenly starts looking like a complete waste of time when your first kid arrives, and you start wishing you didn't need to spend 70+ hours in the office every week. In all seriousness, it is a fantastically fun environment... with an extraordinarily high burnout rate. Make sure your long term choices include that likelihood of burnout.
In fairness, I would guess the ggp was probably unsure whether or not radio was light. After all, why not call it light? The answer? Because FM light sounds terrible on marketing posters.
That's not true. There's a lot of interstellar hydrogen out there, you can use that as decelerant if you want. Acceleration and deceleration are often assumed symmetric, but that's not required, and given the distribution of resources not even the most effective way to do things.
Who cares about ratification? If the modern browsers support it, and top100 websites are using it, who cares if it has been finalized? Are you imagining that all the people who are already deploying it are suddenly going to withdraw their websites?
But by gets on the internet, of course you must mean 'Google sells your tracking data to interested parties'. Use a strict cookie policy, use noscript, use adblock, take some control over what you expose online. I interviewed at google recently, one of the things they mentioned impressed them was how little I had exposed online. People over there joke all the time about how much people are exposing, and looking up friends and acquaintances searches and browsing history seems to be a popular pass-time.
As is getting pointed out in many other threads, that's 4 cpus. Linux is having a problem running on more than 48 cores PER CPU. It has already been scaled to thousands of cores across large numbers of cpus.
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But if I point out how useless your useless post is, is my post even more useless? Will we start a waterfall of uselessness that recurs to infinity?
What they obviously should have offered was the opportunity to pay the full cost of response rather than the $75. If he payed $15,000, I bet that would have covered the cost of response.
The solution, of course, is to pay the full cost on demand. The fee is an insurance scheme to amortize the costs from the losers to the winners. So a responsible homeowner who DOESN'T choose to burn trash in his yard has to pay to cover this yahoo, who does.
You have a number of selections of 24" 1920x1200 monitors. Buy one. Or step up to 27"2560x1600. Don't buy crap, and you won't have to live with it.
How many AAA games do you see with a writer credit. That is typically handled by a guy who gets a designer credit.
Yes, they did. Go read the original if you're interested ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/pdf/5469.pdf ).
The authors original paper ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/pdf/5469.pdf ) is about building the largest practically possible chunk of a dyson sphere. This is essentially the largest piece they think we are capable of building with current technology.
The source paper ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/pdf/5469.pdf ) is about building, essentially, the largest practical sub-piece of a dyson sphere. This is essentially as large as the authors believe is possible using current technology.
Neither fusion nor the solar wind is infinite. Both would impact economies significantly by lowering the energy price (for a while). But we'd still have plenty of other finite resources to fight over, so things would really not change as dramatically as you imagine. I mean, how would it change our lives if air was essentially infinite, and free to breathe?
I'm pretty sure you mean 'whoever can secure the receiver'. Here in the USA we don't just sit around and let people control their oil just because they built a nation and infrastructure on top of it. If we want a better price, we'll topple their regime.
But surely even you accept that such knowledge is EXTREMELY rare, and that statistically you are equivalent to 'no one' knowing, right?
The energies involved in powering the whole world, and moving the whole world are many orders of magnitude apart, so you needn't worry.
Yes, it CAN be self-taught in a few months of free time. If you want to hire someone who has learned ALL of the core skills, you can either hope that they've picked out ALL of the core skills and learned them a few months at the time over the course of a decade, or trust that one of the good schools gave him each of those few months, in an appropriate order, over the course of a couple of years. That is why the CS degree is sought after by many, many jobs. They don't want to wait a few months when they trip over the core skill you didn't learn for yourself.
Sorry, but a true game designer is telling a story, not just defining game mechanics. They better damn well care whether it's the elf texture or the space marine texture.
NB: I worked for blizzard on Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, WOW.
A generic CS degree is good enough to land you a game job if you can prove you can write games. A games degree may NOT be good enough to land you any other kind of CS job you might want in the future. Furthermore, the games-only programs are generally laughed at in the high end of the industry.
And, like me, you may find yourself wanting to work at the high end of the industry one decade, and wanting out of the industry the next. The games industry is very much a frat environment. Which is great fun when you are up to about 30 years old, and suddenly starts looking like a complete waste of time when your first kid arrives, and you start wishing you didn't need to spend 70+ hours in the office every week. In all seriousness, it is a fantastically fun environment ... with an extraordinarily high burnout rate. Make sure your long term choices include that likelihood of burnout.
His ancestors died to get him out of that spotted dick eating hellhole, YIC!
In fairness, I would guess the ggp was probably unsure whether or not radio was light. After all, why not call it light? The answer? Because FM light sounds terrible on marketing posters.
That's not true. There's a lot of interstellar hydrogen out there, you can use that as decelerant if you want. Acceleration and deceleration are often assumed symmetric, but that's not required, and given the distribution of resources not even the most effective way to do things.
Who cares about ratification? If the modern browsers support it, and top100 websites are using it, who cares if it has been finalized? Are you imagining that all the people who are already deploying it are suddenly going to withdraw their websites?
Probably, though MS has more power to dynamically update those.
But by gets on the internet, of course you must mean 'Google sells your tracking data to interested parties'.
Use a strict cookie policy, use noscript, use adblock, take some control over what you expose online.
I interviewed at google recently, one of the things they mentioned impressed them was how little I had exposed online. People over there joke all the time about how much people are exposing, and looking up friends and acquaintances searches and browsing history seems to be a popular pass-time.
HTML5 is the freight train that is about to run over IE6. I see more and more mainstream websites dabbling in it every week.
Mostly read bound, particularly in the server startup. Lots of large resources to be read and processed.
PER CPU. As was pointed out in many other comments. Linux has already scaled to thousands of cores across many cpus.
As is getting pointed out in many other threads, that's 4 cpus. Linux is having a problem running on more than 48 cores PER CPU. It has already been scaled to thousands of cores across large numbers of cpus.