I'm fully invested in Brazil - I'm Brazilian and my company - the single asset I have - is here:)
South America is not threat for the US because it's been largely an irrelevant continent for the last two decades. This is first year of high GDP growth (for the last two decades) in Brazil - and the year with highest current account deficit. Also, the smallest federal government budget surplus - if you take in account investments and debt payments it's a deficit, actually.
Although I believe there's more room for growth in Brazil there are structural problems that I suspect will not be surpassed. Infrastructure is shit: roads are in a terrible state, railways are a joke, airports are from the 70s and, well, seaports are going fine, overall. Right now there's a truck tire shortage - almost no new trucks are going out the factories due to lack of tires. In a country where over 90% of goods are transported through trucks. It's almost scary.
The country is theoretically a welfare state but both public health and education are a a very poor state and used only by the most poor. So, you end paying taxes like if you lived in Sweden but receive government services like if you lived in Botswana. And if you think the US government spends too much in pork projects, you never seen a Brazilian budget.
Maybe the grass is always greener on the neighbor side of the fence but if I had enough surplus money to take it outside the country I'd put it in the US. Even with a crises, the United States is here to stay.
Back in the 18th century the colonial Portuguese government closed all the textiles factories in Brazil - the country would only have factories again almost two centuries later. Brazilians did nothing. Meanwhile in the North, for unfair taxes, the Americans fought their independence and changed the world.
There's much more to America than economy or contemporary politics.
Skype videocalling does work on Linux 64 bits. I know because I'm running openSUSE 64. It's not great and clicking on Show My Video will generate artifacts on the screen but otherwise it does work. Maybe you experience other problems that prevented it from working?
And, by the way, if by google-video you refer to gmail video chat capabilities, how did you put it to work?
I knew my day was going to improve when the truck pulled up at my home with this cable deep within. No ordinary truck, this one was Holy White, and the gold Delivery logo sparkled like a thousand suns reflected through shards of the purest ice formed with unadulterated water collected at the beginning of the universe. The driver, clad in a robe colored the softest of white, floated towards me on the cool fog of a hundred fire extinguishers. He smiled benevolently, like a father looking down upon his only child, and handed me a package wrapped in gold beaten thin to the point where you could see through it. I didn't have to sign, because the driver could see within my heart, and knew that I was pure. Upon opening the package, an angelic choir started to sing, and reached a crescendo as I laid this cable on my stereo system. Instantly, my antiquated equipment transformed into components made from the clearest diamond-semiconductor. The cable knew where to go, and hooked itself into the correct ports without help from me - all the while, the choir sang praises to the almighty digital god. With trepidation, I pushed "play," and was instantly enveloped in a sound that echoed the creation of all matter, a sound that vibrated every cell in my body to perfection. I was instantly taken to the next plane, where I saw the all-father. I knew with my entire soul, that all was good in the world.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
Almost all comments - joking or not - are very funny.
I got proper air conditioning a short time later, but unfortunately developed a bad case of hiccups that struck regularly at 12 second intervals. My assistants spent a number of days trying to find the cause of this mysterious malady without success. As luck would have it, somebody brought a portable radio into my room one day and noticed that it was emitting a "Bzz" at regular intervals -- in fact, at the same moment that I hicced. Further investigation revealed that the high-powered air defense radar atop Mt. Umunhum, about 20 miles away, was causing some of my transistors to act as radio receivers. We solved this problem by improving my grounding.
Didn't GPS coordinates are defined to be on a specific ellipsoid? Been a long time since I looked into it. He may have a novel implementation of the Vicenty formulae. A computational geometry paper may publish it, but probably it is easier (and less burocratic) to do so on a smaller conference.
Some of the visualization stuff (membranes, vortex streets, convection cells can be beautiful) may, at least, motivate and interest a class, I think. Could maybe be used as an accessory material. Turbulence and a lot of interesting phenomena can be shown in a qualitative way. Non linear phenomena and their application to physics - a double pendulum goes a long way to show way the weather forecast isn't always right. Thermodynamics could be a lot less boring if show as simulations instead of ugly hand drawn ice cubes in a blackboard:)
I think there maybe a place for CFD in teaching physics - certantly it's not trying to get kids to simulate a jet turbine in ANSYS or developing their own FEM package. But it can illustrate and help kids see a lot of interesting things.
Oil is stored in a kind of sandwich in the ground. The middle is a porous rock where the oil is. The cover is a sealing rock. Looking for this particular kind of formation is what petroleum geologists do. The presence of this sealing rock is why the oil doesn't burst out.
When the conditions needed to generate oil are met but there's no sealing rock or the rock has faults in it the oil does seep from the group. The Gulf itself seeps a load of petroleum naturally every single year.
Older operating systems, like DOS, used BIOS services to accomplish certain tasks - like accessing the floppy disk, if I recall correctly. This kind of legacy operating system will stop working when the BIOS is gone.
My example, BITNET, was not an AOL style network but a "network of networks" like the internet. TCP/IP is a better protocol due a lot of issue but if DARPA didn't fund it, other options would have come it - like BITNET did.
BITNET connections were funded by each operator like a provider buying upstream instead of peering.
Britains used the threat of nuking Argentina. France gave deactivation codes for Exocet missiles in exchange for Britain not nuking Argentina.
Shortly after that, according to Magoudi’s unsubstantiated disclosures, Mitterrand told him during one of their sessions: "What an impossible woman, that Thatcher. With her four nuclear submarines on mission in the southern Atlantic, she threatens to launch the atomic weapon against Argentina – unless I supply her with the secret codes that render deaf and blind the missiles we have sold to the Argentinians.”
No, it won't. Do you have any source to back you up?
When reserves decline to a critical point, more oil recovery processes will be done. More deep offshore drilling will be done. And so on. For sure at some point a critical cost of extraction it will be hit and there'll be a great pressure to move to other energy sources. Oil extraction will still go on because it will be still be wildly useful as a raw material - for things like polymers, for an example. Look at your computer. Chances are you typing this post in a oil-made piece of plastic.
As oil prices rise there may be political instability? For sure.
But there's no Mad Max scenario coming. You're scaremongering.
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I never understood why Mozilla Foundation refuses to release proper GPO support in Firefox. Why neglect the corporate market?
I'm fully invested in Brazil - I'm Brazilian and my company - the single asset I have - is here :)
South America is not threat for the US because it's been largely an irrelevant continent for the last two decades. This is first year of high GDP growth (for the last two decades) in Brazil - and the year with highest current account deficit. Also, the smallest federal government budget surplus - if you take in account investments and debt payments it's a deficit, actually.
Although I believe there's more room for growth in Brazil there are structural problems that I suspect will not be surpassed. Infrastructure is shit: roads are in a terrible state, railways are a joke, airports are from the 70s and, well, seaports are going fine, overall. Right now there's a truck tire shortage - almost no new trucks are going out the factories due to lack of tires. In a country where over 90% of goods are transported through trucks. It's almost scary.
The country is theoretically a welfare state but both public health and education are a a very poor state and used only by the most poor. So, you end paying taxes like if you lived in Sweden but receive government services like if you lived in Botswana. And if you think the US government spends too much in pork projects, you never seen a Brazilian budget.
Maybe the grass is always greener on the neighbor side of the fence but if I had enough surplus money to take it outside the country I'd put it in the US. Even with a crises, the United States is here to stay.
Back in the 18th century the colonial Portuguese government closed all the textiles factories in Brazil - the country would only have factories again almost two centuries later. Brazilians did nothing. Meanwhile in the North, for unfair taxes, the Americans fought their independence and changed the world.
There's much more to America than economy or contemporary politics.
What?
Skype videocalling does work on Linux 64 bits. I know because I'm running openSUSE 64. It's not great and clicking on Show My Video will generate artifacts on the screen but otherwise it does work. Maybe you experience other problems that prevented it from working?
And, by the way, if by google-video you refer to gmail video chat capabilities, how did you put it to work?
Lord, thank you for the $500 network cable Google search. My life changed after reading Amazon comments:
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/product-reviews/B000I1X6PM
I knew my day was going to improve when the truck pulled up at my home with this cable deep within. No ordinary truck, this one was Holy White, and the gold Delivery logo sparkled like a thousand suns reflected through shards of the purest ice formed with unadulterated water collected at the beginning of the universe. The driver, clad in a robe colored the softest of white, floated towards me on the cool fog of a hundred fire extinguishers. He smiled benevolently, like a father looking down upon his only child, and handed me a package wrapped in gold beaten thin to the point where you could see through it. I didn't have to sign, because the driver could see within my heart, and knew that I was pure. Upon opening the package, an angelic choir started to sing, and reached a crescendo as I laid this cable on my stereo system. Instantly, my antiquated equipment transformed into components made from the clearest diamond-semiconductor. The cable knew where to go, and hooked itself into the correct ports without help from me - all the while, the choir sang praises to the almighty digital god. With trepidation, I pushed "play," and was instantly enveloped in a sound that echoed the creation of all matter, a sound that vibrated every cell in my body to perfection. I was instantly taken to the next plane, where I saw the all-father. I knew with my entire soul, that all was good in the world.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
Almost all comments - joking or not - are very funny.
Yes, it should be. Great idea.
... Knuth migrated to Word 2010.
Found it:
From SAIL "autobiography" (here):
I got proper air conditioning a short time later, but unfortunately developed a bad case of hiccups that struck regularly at 12 second intervals. My assistants spent a number of days trying to find the cause of this mysterious malady without success. As luck would have it, somebody brought a portable radio into my room one day and noticed that it was emitting a "Bzz" at regular intervals -- in fact, at the same moment that I hicced. Further investigation revealed that the high-powered air defense radar atop Mt. Umunhum, about 20 miles away, was causing some of my transistors to act as radio receivers. We solved this problem by improving my grounding.
If I recall correctly it was one of the first Stanford computers, an IBM if memory serves well. But I can't find a reference to it.
A portable version of ClamWin may do the trick.
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/118/89/
Didn't GPS coordinates are defined to be on a specific ellipsoid? Been a long time since I looked into it. He may have a novel implementation of the Vicenty formulae. A computational geometry paper may publish it, but probably it is easier (and less burocratic) to do so on a smaller conference.
But can't you put another (new) line down another hole? Or the specific geometric configuration is important?
Some of the visualization stuff (membranes, vortex streets, convection cells can be beautiful) may, at least, motivate and interest a class, I think. Could maybe be used as an accessory material. Turbulence and a lot of interesting phenomena can be shown in a qualitative way. Non linear phenomena and their application to physics - a double pendulum goes a long way to show way the weather forecast isn't always right. Thermodynamics could be a lot less boring if show as simulations instead of ugly hand drawn ice cubes in a blackboard :)
I think there maybe a place for CFD in teaching physics - certantly it's not trying to get kids to simulate a jet turbine in ANSYS or developing their own FEM package. But it can illustrate and help kids see a lot of interesting things.
That made my first laugh today in a very stressful week :) Thank you, sir!
Yes I did. My error :)
Google does have an option to filter by age.
Of course it does. Search for wherever you're looking for. Click on "more search options" on the left sidebar. Filter by an age range.
Oil is stored in a kind of sandwich in the ground. The middle is a porous rock where the oil is. The cover is a sealing rock. Looking for this particular kind of formation is what petroleum geologists do. The presence of this sealing rock is why the oil doesn't burst out.
When the conditions needed to generate oil are met but there's no sealing rock or the rock has faults in it the oil does seep from the group. The Gulf itself seeps a load of petroleum naturally every single year.
Any modern operating system will not be affected.
Older operating systems, like DOS, used BIOS services to accomplish certain tasks - like accessing the floppy disk, if I recall correctly. This kind of legacy operating system will stop working when the BIOS is gone.
BIOS do have other rules. But nothing major.
This is from the summary about the launching of the original iPod, if I recall correctly.
My example, BITNET, was not an AOL style network but a "network of networks" like the internet. TCP/IP is a better protocol due a lot of issue but if DARPA didn't fund it, other options would have come it - like BITNET did.
BITNET connections were funded by each operator like a provider buying upstream instead of peering.
If DARPA never funded Internet we would use probably other set of protocols (like BITNET) but a global computer network would still exists.
Isn't OpenID a viable solutions? It seems to work for StackOverflow.
Would you suggest any reading on feedback systems that maybe a nice read for someone not in the field? I found your proposal very interesting.
Britains used the threat of nuking Argentina. France gave deactivation codes for Exocet missiles in exchange for Britain not nuking Argentina.
Shortly after that, according to Magoudi’s unsubstantiated disclosures, Mitterrand told him during one of their sessions: "What an impossible woman, that Thatcher. With her four nuclear submarines on mission in the southern Atlantic, she threatens to launch the atomic weapon against Argentina – unless I supply her with the secret codes that render deaf and blind the missiles we have sold to the Argentinians.”
link.
Ctrl+Alt+i on the Magnifier when using Windows 7. Don't know if it works for other versions.
No, it won't. Do you have any source to back you up?
When reserves decline to a critical point, more oil recovery processes will be done. More deep offshore drilling will be done. And so on. For sure at some point a critical cost of extraction it will be hit and there'll be a great pressure to move to other energy sources. Oil extraction will still go on because it will be still be wildly useful as a raw material - for things like polymers, for an example. Look at your computer. Chances are you typing this post in a oil-made piece of plastic.
As oil prices rise there may be political instability? For sure.
But there's no Mad Max scenario coming. You're scaremongering.