Not buying until you can watch videos on a tablet without horrible scaling artifacts. Give me a native 1920x1080 tablet already! (I really hope someone does this before the ipad 3, because I'd really rather not buy ipad).
It's funny, but he is right. Desktop and laptop sales are already in decline. It's gonna be all virtualization on dense servers and thin clients, just like Sun thought (but about a decade late to save them).
Yes, I think human civilization will be finished in the area by 2400. Either technology will have allowed us to move on, or enabled someone crazy enough to kill us all by then. The earth will either be our park or our graveyard.
I think his point was that economics is as much science as air guitar or astrology (ie, not at all). AFAIK the only "Nobel Prize" that doesn't have to do with science is the Peace Prize.
There isn't an economist in the world that doesn't have a counterpart calling him a fool or a gold-studded liar.
That doesn't help because the same is true for astrophysics. Just because the field is young and there's a lot of disagreement going on, doesn't make it not-science. Science is a process for discovering the truth, independent of how far along the path you are.
And for good note, astrology is a science too. It just so happens that the testable predictions astrology makes tend not to come true. And with hardly any innovation going on in the field, it's hard to see how they would ever correct that. Whereas with economics, people are coming up with new ideas all the time.
Think of the fracking as providing lubricant that allows a larger energy release than would happen if the fault was left to just grind rock against rock.
Yes, California is terrible. Nobody come here. Nothing to see here. It is not a beautiful utopia with some minor financial problems that are getting worked out. It is instead a dystopian nightmare that everyone should flee.
Likewise, one could argue it would have been 10 4.6 over a long period, but instead we got one 5.6 triggered by fracking. But until more science is done, we won't really know.
Russia thought of it, but we were big exporters at the time, so they couldn't implement it. They're lucky we didn't think of it, or the soviet union probably would have collapsed.
Sorry for the double follow-up, hit submit too early.
And fracking is related to global warming because natural gas burning is yet another co2 producer. So unless you're one of those people convinced the evidence on co2 as a greenhouse gas is false, it's certainly related to global warming. Or are you trying to make the argument that the production of natural gas is unrelated to its consumption?
You got it right in your followup, the best theory suggests that fracking is triggering earthquakes early. Earthquakes that otherwise might well not have happened within the lifespan of human civilization. Hence, from our point of view, 'causing' them.
Given the extremely high correlation between fracking and earthquakes, are you suggesting the mechanism runs the other way, and future earthquakes cause fracking in the past?
There's a pretty good chance it was related to global warming, though not caused by it. Look up how fracking causes earthquakes, and how much fracking is going on in OK.
Ugh. Please mod parent down. To provide a more accurate and specific comparison: An i7 2600K can get around 130 GFLOPS. 10 Petaflops == 10,000 Teraflops == 10,000,000 GFLOPS So that is around five orders of magnitude between your desktop and this computer. Not two.
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ipad 3 is going to 2560. I just don't want to wait for it, nor do i want ipad. I just want android at that resolution.
They just need to jump font size. Readability will be fine. Apple is going 2560 for ipad3, btw, so if it can't be done, apple is in trouble. :-)
Not buying until you can watch videos on a tablet without horrible scaling artifacts. Give me a native 1920x1080 tablet already!
(I really hope someone does this before the ipad 3, because I'd really rather not buy ipad).
It's already dieing. Down to the #2 mobile platform, and falling fast.
It's funny, but he is right. Desktop and laptop sales are already in decline. It's gonna be all virtualization on dense servers and thin clients, just like Sun thought (but about a decade late to save them).
Yes, I think human civilization will be finished in the area by 2400. Either technology will have allowed us to move on, or enabled someone crazy enough to kill us all by then. The earth will either be our park or our graveyard.
I don't know what you mean by pocket. Your linked article says specifically, they don't get to do that.
"“The rule is that [campaign donations] can’t be used for personal use,” says FEC spokesperson Bob Biersack."
But the going rate on insanity in the college educated population probably falls below the 40% threshold.
Nope.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/leftover-campaign-funds/
I think his point was that economics is as much science as air guitar or astrology (ie, not at all). AFAIK the only "Nobel Prize" that doesn't have to do with science is the Peace Prize.
There isn't an economist in the world that doesn't have a counterpart calling him a fool or a gold-studded liar.
That doesn't help because the same is true for astrophysics.
Just because the field is young and there's a lot of disagreement going on, doesn't make it not-science. Science is a process for discovering the truth, independent of how far along the path you are.
And for good note, astrology is a science too. It just so happens that the testable predictions astrology makes tend not to come true. And with hardly any innovation going on in the field, it's hard to see how they would ever correct that. Whereas with economics, people are coming up with new ideas all the time.
Really, it's the only way to get through to some people.
Think of the fracking as providing lubricant that allows a larger energy release than would happen if the fault was left to just grind rock against rock.
Yes, California is terrible. Nobody come here. Nothing to see here. It is not a beautiful utopia with some minor financial problems that are getting worked out. It is instead a dystopian nightmare that everyone should flee.
Likewise, one could argue it would have been 10 4.6 over a long period, but instead we got one 5.6 triggered by fracking.
But until more science is done, we won't really know.
Russia thought of it, but we were big exporters at the time, so they couldn't implement it.
They're lucky we didn't think of it, or the soviet union probably would have collapsed.
Sorry for the double follow-up, hit submit too early.
And fracking is related to global warming because natural gas burning is yet another co2 producer. So unless you're one of those people convinced the evidence on co2 as a greenhouse gas is false, it's certainly related to global warming. Or are you trying to make the argument that the production of natural gas is unrelated to its consumption?
http://www.naturalgas.org/environment/naturalgas.asp#greenhouse
You got it right in your followup, the best theory suggests that fracking is triggering earthquakes early. Earthquakes that otherwise might well not have happened within the lifespan of human civilization. Hence, from our point of view, 'causing' them.
I had the reverse experience (albeit 20 years ago). My high-school was so hard that I was bored to tears by my first two years at University (UCSD).
Given the extremely high correlation between fracking and earthquakes, are you suggesting the mechanism runs the other way, and future earthquakes cause fracking in the past?
They should be. They get paid to do it.
There's a pretty good chance it was related to global warming, though not caused by it.
Look up how fracking causes earthquakes, and how much fracking is going on in OK.
Yet. With a $5 million grant, I imagine they'll be quite a bit closer.
Well, without justice, there can be no liberty, so there was no hope of having it either way if you believe that.
Ugh. Please mod parent down.
To provide a more accurate and specific comparison:
An i7 2600K can get around 130 GFLOPS.
10 Petaflops == 10,000 Teraflops == 10,000,000 GFLOPS
So that is around five orders of magnitude between your desktop and this computer. Not two.
It's enough to accurately simulate the meaningful chemistry of about 1/100% of a human brain, in real time.