Siblings tend to fight each other a lot more than they fight other people. Just because they are all rooted in the same superstition doesn't mean they are compatible - internecine warfare between Christians of differing views was quite common in the Middle Ages. Look at the Catholic purge of the Cathars, or later massacres of Protestants.
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Sky fairies aren't a solution to anything except maybe overpopulation.
But if you read further down the same article, Kung is quoted:
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"Now we almost have the best of both worlds,” Kung said. “We have much higher energy density because of the silicon, and the sandwiching reduces the capacity loss caused by the silicon expanding and contracting. Even if the silicon clusters break up, the silicon won’t be lost.”
I'm pretty sure they're claiming a 10x improvement in charge density initially, dropping to 5x after 150 recharges. Just my interpretation of the article, though - yours may differ.
I'm not going through the paywall to check out the original, though!
Since they forced me to learn Latin at school back in the 1970s, may I just point out that "Ka-vay-at" is the more usual pronunciation?
Just sayin', like...
As I read it, they are claiming 10x the charge density as well. So we might finally get a Tesla that's good for more than a couple of laps of the Top Gear track...
The BBC is not state funded - it is funded by a license fee which is enforceable by law (if you don't pay, they try to fine you £1000).
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And while it is required to be politically neutral, it is in fact a nest of Bolsheviks and AGW advocates, and is consistently biased towards the Left.
I only watch it for the odd bit of football and motor sport nowadays - the rest of the coverage (including supposed 'science' programming) is just not worth the effort.
The DRM thing was likely under instruction from Lords Mandelson and Triesmann, who in turn bark to the tune of His Master's Voice.
You obviously misunderstand what the butterfly metaphor is supposed to show.
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It's not about causing a tipping point - it is simply an inherent property of the equations that govern all sorts of things from hurricane formation to audio feedback that tiny variations in initial conditions can cause great variations in outcome further down the line. So there is no implication that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane, but there is a statement of fact that given two sets of initial conditions, one with butterfly and one without, the evolution of the system can diverge very rapidly given positive feedback in the system.
The metaphor obviously isn't very helpful, since it has led you to misunderstand its meaning.
Kargus was also the firm involved in hacking the anti-doping lab which had caught out Floyd Landis for cheating in the Tour de France. Landis was given a 1 year suspended sentence, as was his coach.
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The Kargus guy involved got 3 years, and the hacker himself 2, but with 18 months suspended.
I wasn't trying to make any claims about the selfishness or otherwise of suicide - merely trying to give you an insight into how the application of rational standards to what is an irrational condition maybe isn't valid. For what it's worth, I think making value judgements about the actions of other beings is unsound - the only motivation and reasoning processes anyone can truly understand are those that they experience, and everything else is inference at best.
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But hey - go ahead and call it selfishness if you like.
When you're in such a state that you're actively considering ending your life, rational consideration of the feelings of others isn't at the top of your list of capabilities. It's a confusing and frightening place to be.
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Trust me on that - I've had Bipolar type 2 for the last 30 years or so. When I'm functioning properly, I can see the effect the illness has had on those around me - when I'm on a major down, nothing apart from the endless spiral of negative introspection exists.
It's not selfish - it's mental hell caused by $deity knows what. Meds help, but if it's the first big down then you don't even seek help (I didn't seek help until I was 40, and that was only through having a partner who knew what was happening).
Applying rational criteria to what is a most irrational condition is pushing the bounds of rationality itself.:-)
I think the problem can be defined very simply as the legal-insurance complex.
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There used to be (and still is, to an extent) a military-industrial complex, but far more money is generated through the connivance of lawyers and insurance firms (plus the health and safety industry) that could better be used for public services or for product development.
It started in the US, but here in the UK it is catching up, to the point that we now have insurance companies selling the details of accident participants to ambulance chasing legal firms, and claiming that such a practice lowers insurance costs. Add to that the overrepresentation of the legal "profession" in government, and the sharks have it all sewn up.
It's the Broken Window fallacy writ large, and short of a bonfire of legislation, nothing can stop it.
Great read - I'll have to dig out my copy and reread it.
I remember being quite blown away by the use of mercury delay lines for storage - not exactly environmentally friendly, but a hell of an idea for the time.
Now if only Tony Wedgewood Benn hadn't been allowed anywhere near the computer industry in the 1960s...
I remember having to modify some production reports for use in Germany so that individual operators could not be identified. Not a big deal to do, but it made me wonder what sort of law would allow unproductive workers to hide behind data protection...
Shot down?
He merely reposted the same shit he'd already posted above, complete with shouty capitals, textish abbreviations and all the rest of the shit you expect from some paranoid and probably over-ritalined windows shill.
I've only been programming since 1979, though, so perhaps he has done more than me.
Wanker.
And there's nothing to substitute for the variations in timing that come from humans playing the instruments.
Whether it's Sly and Robbie or George Shearing (sorry new music fans - I really don't like most modern crap), it's that slight movement ahead or behind the beat, and the control of it that adds emotion and a certain thrill to a tune.
May I just say that from a transatlantic perspective, it's at least good to have someone with successful business experience and no political axe to grind aiming for the Whitehouse. The current bloke you have only understands politics, and hasn't got a chance of helping the US out of recession.
That they both are of a darker hue than I am makes not a jot of difference.
I've only been working with Windows boxes since NT3.1 beta, so excuse my ignorance when I say that the reason I don't run Windows personally is because I prefer *nix (having been a HP-UX user for years before they inflicted NT on me).
I'm sure that Windows now is much better than it was - in fact I'd go as far as to say that it's a pretty stable environment and OK for server use if the load's not too high. SQL Server's OK too, despite Microsoft rewriting bits of the Sybase code when it was stable to start with.
But why do you have to be so shrill in your defence of what is, after all, a jumped up desktop operating system with poor file serving and stability that is conveniently full of holes and subject to frequent exploits? Yes, you can fix your MBR and disable the rootkit-installed drivers, but why run something that can be so easily owned in the first place?
And on the point in question - NT pre version 4 really was a dog. Slow, unstable, prone to eating its own filesystem and becoming unbootable after a crash - NT4 was an improvement in terms of stability and speed, but at the cost of moving stuff like font parsing into the kernel, which people said at the time was stupid and dangerous, but Microsoft did it anyway.
I'm sure you'll come back with some pre-teen styled rant, but don't bother - I'm far too old to bother with kiddies.
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Sky fairies aren't a solution to anything except maybe overpopulation.
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"Now we almost have the best of both worlds,” Kung said. “We have much higher energy density because of the silicon, and the sandwiching reduces the capacity loss caused by the silicon expanding and contracting. Even if the silicon clusters break up, the silicon won’t be lost.”
I'm pretty sure they're claiming a 10x improvement in charge density initially, dropping to 5x after 150 recharges. Just my interpretation of the article, though - yours may differ.
I'm not going through the paywall to check out the original, though!
Since they forced me to learn Latin at school back in the 1970s, may I just point out that "Ka-vay-at" is the more usual pronunciation? Just sayin', like...
As I read it, they are claiming 10x the charge density as well. So we might finally get a Tesla that's good for more than a couple of laps of the Top Gear track...
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(apologies in advance to non-Brits who may not get the reference)
THC, IIRC, made them spin tighter webs than normal.
No it doesn't - it stands for Bolshevik.
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And while it is required to be politically neutral, it is in fact a nest of Bolsheviks and AGW advocates, and is consistently biased towards the Left.
I only watch it for the odd bit of football and motor sport nowadays - the rest of the coverage (including supposed 'science' programming) is just not worth the effort.
The DRM thing was likely under instruction from Lords Mandelson and Triesmann, who in turn bark to the tune of His Master's Voice.
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Are you saying it's Dresden all the way down?
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It's not about causing a tipping point - it is simply an inherent property of the equations that govern all sorts of things from hurricane formation to audio feedback that tiny variations in initial conditions can cause great variations in outcome further down the line. So there is no implication that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane, but there is a statement of fact that given two sets of initial conditions, one with butterfly and one without, the evolution of the system can diverge very rapidly given positive feedback in the system.
The metaphor obviously isn't very helpful, since it has led you to misunderstand its meaning.
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The Kargus guy involved got 3 years, and the hacker himself 2, but with 18 months suspended.
AFP report here
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But hey - go ahead and call it selfishness if you like.
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Trust me on that - I've had Bipolar type 2 for the last 30 years or so. When I'm functioning properly, I can see the effect the illness has had on those around me - when I'm on a major down, nothing apart from the endless spiral of negative introspection exists.
It's not selfish - it's mental hell caused by $deity knows what. Meds help, but if it's the first big down then you don't even seek help (I didn't seek help until I was 40, and that was only through having a partner who knew what was happening).
Applying rational criteria to what is a most irrational condition is pushing the bounds of rationality itself. :-)
3) A man owns an iPhone?
Probably never on a Saturday, if it's related to Stuxnet :-)
If it was "fungi-ble", would it be Quorn?
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There used to be (and still is, to an extent) a military-industrial complex, but far more money is generated through the connivance of lawyers and insurance firms (plus the health and safety industry) that could better be used for public services or for product development.
It started in the US, but here in the UK it is catching up, to the point that we now have insurance companies selling the details of accident participants to ambulance chasing legal firms, and claiming that such a practice lowers insurance costs. Add to that the overrepresentation of the legal "profession" in government, and the sharks have it all sewn up.
It's the Broken Window fallacy writ large, and short of a bonfire of legislation, nothing can stop it.
I remember being quite blown away by the use of mercury delay lines for storage - not exactly environmentally friendly, but a hell of an idea for the time.
Now if only Tony Wedgewood Benn hadn't been allowed anywhere near the computer industry in the 1960s...
Probably just ran it through Powerpoint :-)
I remember having to modify some production reports for use in Germany so that individual operators could not be identified. Not a big deal to do, but it made me wonder what sort of law would allow unproductive workers to hide behind data protection...
Shot down? He merely reposted the same shit he'd already posted above, complete with shouty capitals, textish abbreviations and all the rest of the shit you expect from some paranoid and probably over-ritalined windows shill. I've only been programming since 1979, though, so perhaps he has done more than me. Wanker.
I just tried playing those numbers, and it gave me a hissy fit :-P
Whether it's Sly and Robbie or George Shearing (sorry new music fans - I really don't like most modern crap), it's that slight movement ahead or behind the beat, and the control of it that adds emotion and a certain thrill to a tune.
On the harmonica - give me Larry Adler any day :-P
That they both are of a darker hue than I am makes not a jot of difference.
I'm sure that Windows now is much better than it was - in fact I'd go as far as to say that it's a pretty stable environment and OK for server use if the load's not too high. SQL Server's OK too, despite Microsoft rewriting bits of the Sybase code when it was stable to start with.
But why do you have to be so shrill in your defence of what is, after all, a jumped up desktop operating system with poor file serving and stability that is conveniently full of holes and subject to frequent exploits? Yes, you can fix your MBR and disable the rootkit-installed drivers, but why run something that can be so easily owned in the first place?
And on the point in question - NT pre version 4 really was a dog. Slow, unstable, prone to eating its own filesystem and becoming unbootable after a crash - NT4 was an improvement in terms of stability and speed, but at the cost of moving stuff like font parsing into the kernel, which people said at the time was stupid and dangerous, but Microsoft did it anyway.
I'm sure you'll come back with some pre-teen styled rant, but don't bother - I'm far too old to bother with kiddies.