we'll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves. Sigh, talk about picking the low-hanging fruit... A singularly worthless comment. -- Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder So says someone promoting cretins.
We're currently paying $2/sqft month rent. On the other hand I earn more here overall which means I can put more money into savings/mortgage/shares. Silicon Valley could be a fantastic european type urban area with good PT and heavy bike use (consider copenhagen or groenigen) if the counties could actually agree on anything.
Yes, metallic mercury isn't too bad, as long as it doesn't get into the water ways (if it does it is readily converted to methylmercury, nasty stuff). There are gold mining towns that still have mercury puddles lying around after 150 years without significant problems. But they are dry places.
I agree though: Mercury is expensive, particular given its density (and hence multiplier for volumetric uses). Tin is a similar price.
(Then there is the whole terror of mercury thing, which is strange considering how much more Hg gets into the environment from coal burning)
At a guess, price. Metallic sodium cost about $1/kg I think, Gallium costs perhaps $2000/kg.
Mercury is probably too heavy, Tin is an option, though it needs to be hotter. Finally, metals are different, perhaps sodium is the most like molten iron/nickle in electronic structure or something.
Interesting, my bosses have always been supportive, no, encouraging of following up job prospects. They want me to be happy where I am, and one way to ensure this is to allow me to consider alternatives and reject them (or accept them) myself. I can't imagine working for a boss who tried to hoard me. People at my work often talk about job offers they've got. Sometimes the leave, often they return:)
As a result, I would happily return to work with any of my former bosses if the opportunity/need arose.
In general there are such things as natural monopolies, and there are definitely scale advantages to centralised collection. Would fermi lab have even been funded if it had to collect money from individuals directly?
(That is not to say that a centrally managed distribution scheme is not subject to fraud etc, but that is an independent problem and thus techniques to solve it apply to both approaches)
And then there is the pathetic state of the US health system ($250 for a GP visit?! In socialist Australia the total cost for a GP is about $80 and the service is better too).
That could result in negative cycles (consider the 'Article' link at the top), which would result in people accidentally getting stuck following links forever on Wikipedia.
Yep, I agree. Perhaps I was overly hasty - a high IQ person might simply remember the order after a single read (particularly given that human memory is so good at chaining memories and story telling).
One might even suggest that people who knew the orders of the books in the bible precisely should have their IQ demerited on the grounds of wasting time that could have been better spent on something useful (whether that useful thing is understanding the meaning of the bible, understanding quantum physics or posting on/. is left as an exercise).
I no longer use Photoshop (despite working for Adobe) because I'm not that interested in photomanipulation. I do use Photoshop Express though, which works fine on Ubuntu and does all that I need. You should give it a try:
If I have an application which I have to use and doesn't run on Ubuntu, it is statistically far more likely to run on Windows, which I run in VMWare just fine. Quite a number of my collegues also run Ubuntu at Adobe. You can be assured that Linux support is _very_ important to Adobe's management.
Pollan's point is that we can actually measure the amount of corn+sugar cane because the carbon isotope ratio is different to the winter grasses such as wheat and oats (and pasture grasses in the case of cows). He took blood samples (or whatever) and worked out the percentage of the person that was derived from corn vs other plants, and it was something like 95%.
But that land grows grass, which we could feed to cattle, sheep, goats. So then we need to feed the cattle in CAFOs which takes processed corn which could have fed people directly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good
(and technically non-arable land can't grow crops, which would include switchgrass, fuel oil, etc crops; but I know what you meant)
Sure, there are plenty of fingerprinting algorithms out there. A common approach uses multiple scales of gaussian blurring and downsampling, such as SIFT and SURF (essentially a different frequncy like space), or affine invariant frequency transforms such as radon or hough. The approach used in one FOSS program (gqview?) is based on wavelet compression.
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Imagine what would happen if oil prices went up dramatically and permanently... Nah, that'd never happen.
yes, my $300 acer laptop switched to ubuntu after the first boot took nearly 20 minutes. It took less time to install ubuntu than to boot vista.
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Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder So says someone promoting cretins.
Of course, if you lived in a more expensive area you could sell the house when you are finished working and leave with more money.
That's interesting, but all it really means is that the law is inconsistent and needs to be faxed.
We're currently paying $2/sqft month rent. On the other hand I earn more here overall which means I can put more money into savings/mortgage/shares. Silicon Valley could be a fantastic european type urban area with good PT and heavy bike use (consider copenhagen or groenigen) if the counties could actually agree on anything.
3) Electrical conductivity. Sodium is a factor of 10 more electrically conductive than Gallium.
incidently, what a scale corrections for this are you using? Magnetic reynolds/permitivity etc?
Yes, metallic mercury isn't too bad, as long as it doesn't get into the water ways (if it does it is readily converted to methylmercury, nasty stuff). There are gold mining towns that still have mercury puddles lying around after 150 years without significant problems. But they are dry places.
I agree though: Mercury is expensive, particular given its density (and hence multiplier for volumetric uses). Tin is a similar price.
(Then there is the whole terror of mercury thing, which is strange considering how much more Hg gets into the environment from coal burning)
At a guess, price. Metallic sodium cost about $1/kg I think, Gallium costs perhaps $2000/kg.
Mercury is probably too heavy, Tin is an option, though it needs to be hotter. Finally, metals are different, perhaps sodium is the most like molten iron/nickle in electronic structure or something.
Bay area. So does everyone else :)
Interesting, my bosses have always been supportive, no, encouraging of following up job prospects. They want me to be happy where I am, and one way to ensure this is to allow me to consider alternatives and reject them (or accept them) myself. I can't imagine working for a boss who tried to hoard me. People at my work often talk about job offers they've got. Sometimes the leave, often they return :)
As a result, I would happily return to work with any of my former bosses if the opportunity/need arose.
There is a certain amount of "nobody got fired for buying IBM" in the corporate world which results in inertia.
I'm my experience, Exchange blows chunks. The most commonly complained about windows software at work.
Do you have any evidence for this? I have evidence against it: http://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v82y1992i4p756-72.html
In general there are such things as natural monopolies, and there are definitely scale advantages to centralised collection. Would fermi lab have even been funded if it had to collect money from individuals directly?
(That is not to say that a centrally managed distribution scheme is not subject to fraud etc, but that is an independent problem and thus techniques to solve it apply to both approaches)
And then there is the pathetic state of the US health system ($250 for a GP visit?! In socialist Australia the total cost for a GP is about $80 and the service is better too).
That could result in negative cycles (consider the 'Article' link at the top), which would result in people accidentally getting stuck following links forever on Wikipedia.
Yep, I agree. Perhaps I was overly hasty - a high IQ person might simply remember the order after a single read (particularly given that human memory is so good at chaining memories and story telling).
Exactly. "Vetinari believed in 'one man, one vote.' because Vetinari was the man." -- ~PTerry
One might even suggest that people who knew the orders of the books in the bible precisely should have their IQ demerited on the grounds of wasting time that could have been better spent on something useful (whether that useful thing is understanding the meaning of the bible, understanding quantum physics or posting on /. is left as an exercise).
I no longer use Photoshop (despite working for Adobe) because I'm not that interested in photomanipulation. I do use Photoshop Express though, which works fine on Ubuntu and does all that I need. You should give it a try:
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
If I have an application which I have to use and doesn't run on Ubuntu, it is statistically far more likely to run on Windows, which I run in VMWare just fine. Quite a number of my collegues also run Ubuntu at Adobe. You can be assured that Linux support is _very_ important to Adobe's management.
Meh, I bought a $330 laptop from walmart and it does everything my expensive powerbook did, before it died.
FACT: With ubuntu you can get the MacOSX experience for nothing.
Room temperature blackbodies emit plenty of THz radiation. The peak at 293K is 30THz and a surface at 293K emits 400W or so of radiation per m^2.
Pollan's point is that we can actually measure the amount of corn+sugar cane because the carbon isotope ratio is different to the winter grasses such as wheat and oats (and pasture grasses in the case of cows). He took blood samples (or whatever) and worked out the percentage of the person that was derived from corn vs other plants, and it was something like 95%.
see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
But that land grows grass, which we could feed to cattle, sheep, goats. So then we need to feed the cattle in CAFOs which takes processed corn which could have fed people directly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good
(and technically non-arable land can't grow crops, which would include switchgrass, fuel oil, etc crops; but I know what you meant)
Sure, there are plenty of fingerprinting algorithms out there. A common approach uses multiple scales of gaussian blurring and downsampling, such as SIFT and SURF (essentially a different frequncy like space), or affine invariant frequency transforms such as radon or hough. The approach used in one FOSS program (gqview?) is based on wavelet compression.