I wonder if you could power your Kindle in this way with room temperature.
No. It would be a much bigger story if it were merely heat powering this- that would be rewriting the laws of thermodynamics (which I bet will be modified one day). You can't get energy from heat- currently that goes against what we know of physics. You CAN get energy from heat differential. For now, heat by itself cannot be converted into any other form of energy.
People don't die on the space station from lack of gravity. There are medical conditions relating to no gravity, specifically vision problems, but it doesn't "kill you".
Once upon a time, people claimed train travel would kill people because there is no way a human could survive travelling at 40mph.
An entirely independent commercial decision, in no way influenced by political or other government pressure. Blessings of the masses, blessing of the State....
I'm sure Best Buy didn't sell them because they didn't consider them commercial viable. Now why aren't they commercially viable? Perhaps because the government has marked them as unsafe and open to the Chinese government for eavesdropping.
I've no idea if Huawei is Chinese spyware; maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but the thought that they might be is going to scare consumers away and put off Best Buy from providing it.
is that ever since these jokers started coming up with all the alternative methods, kids have started getting worse and worse at writing.
It is the same with maths. This awful "common core" maths that they teach now in the US; basically because the dumb kids can't keep up with the smart kids they invent these convoluted methods to "make things easier" - but in reality it's just busywork and not practical as you get into higher maths. Instead of 23*23 like we did with long multiplications they draw all these diagonal lines and do all sorts of weird crap "to make it easier" which takes 10 times as long to get the answer rather than if you just learn to do it like we did it. Fractions are ludicrously funny- to calculate a fraction they have to draw these long lines and put dots on them and then join the dots... and... I don't fully understand it but it's a whole lot of nonsense just to avoid teaching them maths.
If regular maths is picking a piece of paper up and putting it on the table. Common Core maths is putting on gloves lifting the paper onto your forehead so that it has a place to rest... then shuffling over to the table and bobbing your head until the paper falls off onto the table.
I'm serious. The 5 paragraph essay is something with which I am completely unfamiliar. Is this some kind of gateway to literacy?
A lot of American schools teach the 5 paragraph essay. 1st paragraph you describe what you are going to "make an argument for"; the next three paragraphs are separate supporting cases for your argument; so basically you backup your argument with three facts in your favour. The last paragraph summarizes the rest of the paper and gives a tidy ending.
There is nothing really wrong for it. For teaching basic concept of how to write something to make an argument for something it isn't bad. It's a format that makes it easy for students to think through what they need to do. It also makes it easier for teachers to grade fairly by having a rubric to go against.
The only problem with the 5 paragraph essay is that perhaps it is overused. As long as students learn other writing techniques and are exposed to a variety of projects there is nothing wrong with them in moderation.
I get the gripe with the five sentence, five paragraph essay. Had it shoved down my throat in school. But isn't the point to break up ideas into logical blocks?
That's the point of emphasis that's missing. How many sentences you use in a paragraph or how many blocks of ideas you need to argue your point is irrelevant.
There's nothing wrong with the 5 paragraph essay- as long as that isn't the only writing construction taught. Saying the 5 paragraph essay is bad is like saying a Toyota Camry is bad because it can't tow a boat. It is good that students be taught different styles of construction.
When in a hurry, I often find the stairs are faster than the crowded escalator.
This is frequently the case even when only a small number of people are using an escalator. If you're in a hurry and physically capable, the stairs are almost always a better option.
And whereas robots can do some science, a lot of the more meaningful things, the questions we can't already answer- requires a human.
Could you name a couple? Because they aren't evident to me, at least. Unless by "more meaningful things" you mean "feelings and experiences", at which point you're advocating for tourism and not anything really informative.
Accurately dig, and deeper. Access more terrain. Explore lava tubes. Perform growth tests for plants. Set up tents and ecospheres to run experiments. Get access to more specific rocks, see what's under the surface. Look for biological life that isn't just on the surface or barely under the surface.
More than anything else- react intelligent and observe things that humans looking through cameras on a big delay cannot.... The list is nearly endless.
No. It isn't possible. You could go to Mars, but you could never live there for any significant period of time.
Of course it is possible. It's just not financially appetizing. We've landed multiple things on Mars now without having humans at the controls as they descend. Options are so much more when you don't have to deal with latency- humans controlling descent could mean larger payloads per rocket- safer landings, etc.
Even if they had to do frequent resupply missions- it is possible on the right budget. We've had people living in the space station for a long time which has less gravity, less resources natively available (aka none) and less atmosphere.
Now, how easy it would be to make Mars self-sufficient is another question. We would need to send an awful lot of materials to make it self-sufficient with current technology levels- but it could be done... especially if we're willing to send backup systems and some supplies periodically. Chances are we would screw up the first few dozen attempts to be truly self sufficient no matter how well we planned. Resupplies WOULD be needed to start with.
We haven't landed man on mars because we can't. We haven't because it is ludicrously expensive to do so, and we're not willing to take risks with human lives.
"Because it's there"? Uh, poverty is "there". Cancer is "there". Ageing is "there". Pollution (including perchlorates in the environment) is "there". Hunger is "there". Oppression, dishonesty, murder, lying, cheating, is all "there".
Yeah, but we have to wait until 2020 election to get rid of Trump.
Venus is only 800 degrees. We've invented air conditioning, right?
It's much cooler in the upper atmosphere where dreamers envision floating cities in the dense atmosphere. Nonetheless... we're much closer to manned exploration of Mars- we don't even have a "rover" floating on Venus, so that's off the table
It has nothing to do with "scared", it has to do with people understanding basic science and physics. Space Nutters never learned it, so they think everything is possible. They are a lot like little children.
It is possible... it's just ridiculously expensive and mistakes will be made the first few attempts no matter how hard we try. We could probably start launching rockets for Mars in 2019 that could sustain a temporary colony, but the costs would be ludicrous and the risks high. We do have the technology today... IF we're willing to take a few risks and willing to spend an insane amount of money and other resources.
You could put 200 robots on Mars and still not add up to the cost of a single manned mission, and do far, far more science. Humans on Mars will struggle just to stay alive (and probably won't). Just send more robots.
But what's the point of going to Mars if you don't plan to send humans? You could buy your wife 200 robotic vibrators, but what's the point if you don't get to "go there yourself"?
And whereas robots can do some science, a lot of the more meaningful things, the questions we can't already answer- requires a human.
A 3-way debate between Alexa, Siri and Trump.. who would win?
In a three way debate between those three you'd end up getting a $5 billion border wall ordered on your Amazon account by accident and be encouraged to buy a newer more expensive wall next year that is missing a headphone port.
He built that IP, he can prove that. Anyone can sue for anything, the question is can he win? Of course they'll settle it, Fortnight has millions of idiot children racking up debits for their parents, write a check and keep stacking.
He doesn't own that IP though! If anyone can sue it would be Fox, or whoever it was that produced the show. He was under contract to them when being filmed for that show. Just like if someone creates an unlicensed Han Solo toy it would be Disney/Lucasfilm suing not Harrison Ford
Per the article summary the changes are purely cosmetic, so they're not going to be better than you because they bought a premade character... they're just going to have less common clothing on.
Not defending hacking, stealing, or online cheating... but in this case their account theft is merely for cosmetics.
Why?? I think that's really funny, and I am a 46 year old male. Do I need to grow up, or have you just lost your funny bone?
Honestly, it would be funny if I encountered it in anyone else's code- but after seeing it my own so many times it's not funny anymore- and it makes me cringe thinking of someone else coming along and discovering it later (that might not find it funny). I've always moved from company to company so leaving little easter eggs have never bit me in the butt. When you stay one place for a long time, juvenile jokes and potty humor could come back as a liability.
- simpler, easier, and less confusion with other sites. I'm not saying that "." shouldn't be allowed but it should be treated no different to any other character in the URL. The different TLD just made it easier for website squatters to have more places to squat.
The name is not juvenile. The people reading it and giggling are juvenile. It's like the stupid joke in Austin Powers over the Asian name Fuk.
People need to learn to respond more professionally to things their own juvenile personality deems offensive.
Apparently it goes beyond the name and other parts of it include juvenile humor. It's something the developers will regret later. I know I'm kinda embarrassed nowadays about all the tables, columns and functions I've used "Ass" as short hand for words like "Assignment", "Association" etc,etc. I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe.
it's "not ok to use the boobs theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs [sic] themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."
Understandable...
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name
But I'm offended that they're calling it a "Package".
Just change the name to something like Webob . . . . oh wait, that may be worse.
Add a dash: "Web-Oob"
At this point, because it has become a "news-item" they would have to rename it something drastically different if they didn't want most people to call it We-boob just for a laugh. If this hadn't broken news they could have put the dash in and been done with it; however, now this has broken news they will have to completely rename it if they don't want people to call it We Boob.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if you could power your Kindle in this way with room temperature.
No. It would be a much bigger story if it were merely heat powering this- that would be rewriting the laws of thermodynamics (which I bet will be modified one day). You can't get energy from heat- currently that goes against what we know of physics. You CAN get energy from heat differential. For now, heat by itself cannot be converted into any other form of energy.
Good. For a moment I was worried about the fate of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
It's only a law until someone learns to break it. The 2nd law will be the 1st one we learn to break.
People don't die on the space station from lack of gravity. There are medical conditions relating to no gravity, specifically vision problems, but it doesn't "kill you".
Once upon a time, people claimed train travel would kill people because there is no way a human could survive travelling at 40mph.
An entirely independent commercial decision, in no way influenced by political or other government pressure. Blessings of the masses, blessing of the State....
I'm sure Best Buy didn't sell them because they didn't consider them commercial viable. Now why aren't they commercially viable? Perhaps because the government has marked them as unsafe and open to the Chinese government for eavesdropping.
I've no idea if Huawei is Chinese spyware; maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but the thought that they might be is going to scare consumers away and put off Best Buy from providing it.
is that ever since these jokers started coming up with all the alternative methods, kids have started getting worse and worse at writing.
It is the same with maths. This awful "common core" maths that they teach now in the US; basically because the dumb kids can't keep up with the smart kids they invent these convoluted methods to "make things easier" - but in reality it's just busywork and not practical as you get into higher maths. Instead of 23*23 like we did with long multiplications they draw all these diagonal lines and do all sorts of weird crap "to make it easier" which takes 10 times as long to get the answer rather than if you just learn to do it like we did it. Fractions are ludicrously funny- to calculate a fraction they have to draw these long lines and put dots on them and then join the dots... and... I don't fully understand it but it's a whole lot of nonsense just to avoid teaching them maths.
If regular maths is picking a piece of paper up and putting it on the table. Common Core maths is putting on gloves lifting the paper onto your forehead so that it has a place to rest... then shuffling over to the table and bobbing your head until the paper falls off onto the table.
I'm serious. The 5 paragraph essay is something with which I am completely unfamiliar. Is this some kind of gateway to literacy?
A lot of American schools teach the 5 paragraph essay. 1st paragraph you describe what you are going to "make an argument for"; the next three paragraphs are separate supporting cases for your argument; so basically you backup your argument with three facts in your favour. The last paragraph summarizes the rest of the paper and gives a tidy ending.
There is nothing really wrong for it. For teaching basic concept of how to write something to make an argument for something it isn't bad. It's a format that makes it easy for students to think through what they need to do. It also makes it easier for teachers to grade fairly by having a rubric to go against.
The only problem with the 5 paragraph essay is that perhaps it is overused. As long as students learn other writing techniques and are exposed to a variety of projects there is nothing wrong with them in moderation.
That's fine, just replace it with COBOL class. It'll end up teaching them the same basic principles.
I dunno. COBOL is pretty verbose. "Hello World" might take up more than 5 paragraphs.
I get the gripe with the five sentence, five paragraph essay. Had it shoved down my throat in school. But isn't the point to break up ideas into logical blocks?
That's the point of emphasis that's missing. How many sentences you use in a paragraph or how many blocks of ideas you need to argue your point is irrelevant.
There's nothing wrong with the 5 paragraph essay- as long as that isn't the only writing construction taught. Saying the 5 paragraph essay is bad is like saying a Toyota Camry is bad because it can't tow a boat. It is good that students be taught different styles of construction.
When in a hurry, I often find the stairs are faster than the crowded escalator.
This is frequently the case even when only a small number of people are using an escalator. If you're in a hurry and physically capable, the stairs are almost always a better option.
And whereas robots can do some science, a lot of the more meaningful things, the questions we can't already answer- requires a human.
Could you name a couple? Because they aren't evident to me, at least. Unless by "more meaningful things" you mean "feelings and experiences", at which point you're advocating for tourism and not anything really informative.
Accurately dig, and deeper. Access more terrain. Explore lava tubes. Perform growth tests for plants. Set up tents and ecospheres to run experiments. Get access to more specific rocks, see what's under the surface. Look for biological life that isn't just on the surface or barely under the surface.
More than anything else- react intelligent and observe things that humans looking through cameras on a big delay cannot. ... The list is nearly endless.
No. It isn't possible. You could go to Mars, but you could never live there for any significant period of time.
Of course it is possible. It's just not financially appetizing. We've landed multiple things on Mars now without having humans at the controls as they descend. Options are so much more when you don't have to deal with latency- humans controlling descent could mean larger payloads per rocket- safer landings, etc.
Even if they had to do frequent resupply missions- it is possible on the right budget. We've had people living in the space station for a long time which has less gravity, less resources natively available (aka none) and less atmosphere.
Now, how easy it would be to make Mars self-sufficient is another question. We would need to send an awful lot of materials to make it self-sufficient with current technology levels- but it could be done... especially if we're willing to send backup systems and some supplies periodically. Chances are we would screw up the first few dozen attempts to be truly self sufficient no matter how well we planned. Resupplies WOULD be needed to start with.
We haven't landed man on mars because we can't. We haven't because it is ludicrously expensive to do so, and we're not willing to take risks with human lives.
"Because it's there"? Uh, poverty is "there". Cancer is "there". Ageing is "there". Pollution (including perchlorates in the environment) is "there". Hunger is "there". Oppression, dishonesty, murder, lying, cheating, is all "there".
Yeah, but we have to wait until 2020 election to get rid of Trump.
Venus is only 800 degrees. We've invented air conditioning, right?
It's much cooler in the upper atmosphere where dreamers envision floating cities in the dense atmosphere. Nonetheless... we're much closer to manned exploration of Mars- we don't even have a "rover" floating on Venus, so that's off the table
It has nothing to do with "scared", it has to do with people understanding basic science and physics. Space Nutters never learned it, so they think everything is possible. They are a lot like little children.
It is possible... it's just ridiculously expensive and mistakes will be made the first few attempts no matter how hard we try. We could probably start launching rockets for Mars in 2019 that could sustain a temporary colony, but the costs would be ludicrous and the risks high. We do have the technology today... IF we're willing to take a few risks and willing to spend an insane amount of money and other resources.
You could put 200 robots on Mars and still not add up to the cost of a single manned mission, and do far, far more science. Humans on Mars will struggle just to stay alive (and probably won't). Just send more robots.
But what's the point of going to Mars if you don't plan to send humans? You could buy your wife 200 robotic vibrators, but what's the point if you don't get to "go there yourself"?
And whereas robots can do some science, a lot of the more meaningful things, the questions we can't already answer- requires a human.
A 3-way debate between Alexa, Siri and Trump.. who would win?
In a three way debate between those three you'd end up getting a $5 billion border wall ordered on your Amazon account by accident and be encouraged to buy a newer more expensive wall next year that is missing a headphone port.
He built that IP, he can prove that. Anyone can sue for anything, the question is can he win? Of course they'll settle it, Fortnight has millions of idiot children racking up debits for their parents, write a check and keep stacking.
He doesn't own that IP though! If anyone can sue it would be Fox, or whoever it was that produced the show. He was under contract to them when being filmed for that show. Just like if someone creates an unlicensed Han Solo toy it would be Disney/Lucasfilm suing not Harrison Ford
Per the article summary the changes are purely cosmetic, so they're not going to be better than you because they bought a premade character... they're just going to have less common clothing on.
Not defending hacking, stealing, or online cheating... but in this case their account theft is merely for cosmetics.
Why?? I think that's really funny, and I am a 46 year old male. Do I need to grow up, or have you just lost your funny bone?
Honestly, it would be funny if I encountered it in anyone else's code- but after seeing it my own so many times it's not funny anymore- and it makes me cringe thinking of someone else coming along and discovering it later (that might not find it funny). I've always moved from company to company so leaving little easter eggs have never bit me in the butt. When you stay one place for a long time, juvenile jokes and potty humor could come back as a liability.
They made a terrible, terrible decision with selling gTLDs
They made a terrible decision selling and TLDs! Having ".com, .org, .net" etc didn't add anything of value; it just added confusion.
This website should be
https://slashdot/
Google should be
https://google/
Microsoft should be
https://microsoft/
- simpler, easier, and less confusion with other sites. I'm not saying that "." shouldn't be allowed but it should be treated no different to any other character in the URL. The different TLD just made it easier for website squatters to have more places to squat.
The name is not juvenile. The people reading it and giggling are juvenile. It's like the stupid joke in Austin Powers over the Asian name Fuk.
People need to learn to respond more professionally to things their own juvenile personality deems offensive.
Apparently it goes beyond the name and other parts of it include juvenile humor. It's something the developers will regret later. I know I'm kinda embarrassed nowadays about all the tables, columns and functions I've used "Ass" as short hand for words like "Assignment", "Association" etc,etc. I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe.
From the committee notes:
it's "not ok to use the boobs theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs [sic] themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."
Understandable...
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name
But I'm offended that they're calling it a "Package".
Just change the name to something like Webob . . . . oh wait, that may be worse.
Add a dash: "Web-Oob"
At this point, because it has become a "news-item" they would have to rename it something drastically different if they didn't want most people to call it We-boob just for a laugh. If this hadn't broken news they could have put the dash in and been done with it; however, now this has broken news they will have to completely rename it if they don't want people to call it We Boob.
I'm at work. I don't know if I should google it. WTF does 'weboob' mean? Why should I be offended by it?
Weboob is offensive to the developers who worked on the project by suggesting that all male developers all have man-boobs.
Problem solved - GET BACK TO WORK you neckbearded shirkslags.
Like that stopped people calling the XBoxOne the "X-Bone" or stopped people calling Experts Exchange "Expert Sexchange".