Right index, left index, right thumb and left thumb will suffice for 99.9% of the population.
Side note: you may have to resort to these techniques if you have a band-aid on your chosen finger, or if you cut it and it heals with a more permanent mar on your pattern.
Or if you must have a car, you can go with a Tesla, which is mostly powered by self-satisfaction but also requires electricity, which you can at least arrange to buy from (appropriately) a wind farm, e.g. http://www.communityenergyinc.com/.
A micro SD card weighs about 0.25 grams, so their calculated 19,141,092 micro-SDs weigh in at 4785 kg. The maximum load of a Chevy Suburban is 2561 pounds (1161kg). Assuming you have a 75kg driver, that lonly leaves 1086 kg for micro-SD cards. So you can only carry about 4,346,596 micro SD cards, less than a quarter of what the authors estimated. The bit capacity is 278 petabytes.
"With a complete combustion or fission, approx. 8 kWh of heat can be generated from 1 kg of coal, approx. 12 kWh from 1 kg of mineral oil and around 24,000,000 kWh from 1 kg of uranium-235. Related to one kilogram, uranium-235 contains two to three million times the energy equivalent of oil or coal. The illustration shows how much coal, oil or natural uranium is required for a certain quantity of electricity. Thus, 1 kg natural uranium - following a corresponding enrichment and used for power generation in light water reactors - corresponds to nearly 10,000 kg of mineral oil or 14,000 kg of coal and enables the generation of 45,000 kWh of electricity. "
Complete fission is not possible, to begin with. Pay special attention to the last sentence, where it states the figure I quoted.
It's part of the cause. There are 100 to 200 calories in a glass of beer, depending on the variety. Of course, that assumes the beer doesn't make you feel full and prevent you from eating an offsetting amount of food.
If this can be proved, it's a violation of CFAA -- unless you gave them permission to get contacts from your accounts. Does anybody read that mess of legalese in the terms of service you agree to when you join/connect to LinkedIn?
It's too late to save RIM. They should lay off the rest of their workforce and sell what's left to investors, if they still possess anything of value. The people with any insight have already left the company over the last 10 years. Those who are left aren't going to generate any new ideas that could turn the company profitable.
Yes you do, but a little bit of uranium goes a long way. 1kg of uranium produces as much energy as 14 tonnes of coal. That energy equivalency isn't exact, because the uranium has to be refined after mining. I have no figures for how much that adds to the carbon emissions related with producing energy from uranium but it's not a factor of 14000. And despite failures, the uranium IS easier to contain. The pollution from coal or gas can't be contained at all on a commercial scale. It just spews into the air. The issue with nuclear is the intense toxicity and radioactivity of the byproducts. That calls for very careful reactor design with multiple levels of failsafes. With coal, oil and gas we have just assumed it was OK to spew millions of tonnes of crap into the air, but it turns out that it's not OK at all. The Earth can't absorb all that shit without changes to the atmosphere and oceans that affect life all over the planet.
So don't elect fascists and support policies that make sense. In a representative government, you get the government you choose, not the government you deserve.
No they don't have a right to feel snobby about somebody else's accomplishments. If they actually DO something, they can be snobby about that and be significantly less douchebaggy.
The music industry conveniently ignores the fact that technology made them rich in the first place. Until recording devices came along the only way to make money was from playing live. After records were invented the music industry suddenly became much more profitable be ause you could sell your product to masses instead of limited live audiences. Now new technology, the Internet and digital copying, have taken away what the old technology gave. The gravy train was good while it lasted but its time that musicians got back to working for a living, like the rest do us, and the record companies crawled back under the rock the crawled out from.
Not entirely. With the new tech if you can get 10 million people to pay you 99c a download, you'll gather a ton of money. If you can get 990 million people to pay you 1c per download, you'll make the same amount, but be more famous. The only barrier in the way of the 2nd strategy is middlemen who want a cut.
What's remarkably different for modern people is the nearly instant availability of the works of the best and most famous artists (who are mostly not the same people). In the old days, even if you were the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, you couldn't listen to any artist anytime you wanted. Not even within a week of the desire hitting you, in most cases. At best, you had to choose from among a small number, and unless you were really important, few if any had any real talent. Now we have the opposite problem: thousands of choices, some very good, almost all instantly available, but buried in a sea of shlock that makes finding artists worth listening to difficult, if not as difficult as it was for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.
Another reason why in the 26th century whatever people are around (if any) will still view guns that shoot bullets as the weapon of choice. Another thing Firefly got right.
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Right index, left index, right thumb and left thumb will suffice for 99.9% of the population.
Side note: you may have to resort to these techniques if you have a band-aid on your chosen finger, or if you cut it and it heals with a more permanent mar on your pattern.
Was being able to play table tennis considered a qualification, or the only qualification?
There's this: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/projectone#model/madone7seriesteamedition
Or if you must have a car, you can go with a Tesla, which is mostly powered by self-satisfaction but also requires electricity, which you can at least arrange to buy from (appropriately) a wind farm, e.g. http://www.communityenergyinc.com/.
But McDonalds employees will always be cheaper than robots.
A micro SD card weighs about 0.25 grams, so their calculated 19,141,092 micro-SDs weigh in at 4785 kg. The maximum load of a Chevy Suburban is 2561 pounds (1161kg). Assuming you have a 75kg driver, that lonly leaves 1086 kg for micro-SD cards. So you can only carry about 4,346,596 micro SD cards, less than a quarter of what the authors estimated. The bit capacity is 278 petabytes.
1kg of uranium produces as much energy as 14 tonnes of coal.
1 kg of uranium is equivalent to 2.7 million kg of coal.
http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/f/fuelcomparison.htm
No it's not. That site says,
"With a complete combustion or fission, approx. 8 kWh of heat can be generated from 1 kg of coal, approx. 12 kWh from 1 kg of mineral oil and around 24,000,000 kWh from 1 kg of uranium-235. Related to one kilogram, uranium-235 contains two to three million times the energy equivalent of oil or coal. The illustration shows how much coal, oil or natural uranium is required for a certain quantity of electricity. Thus, 1 kg natural uranium - following a corresponding enrichment and used for power generation in light water reactors - corresponds to nearly 10,000 kg of mineral oil or 14,000 kg of coal and enables the generation of 45,000 kWh of electricity. "
Complete fission is not possible, to begin with. Pay special attention to the last sentence, where it states the figure I quoted.
It's part of the cause. There are 100 to 200 calories in a glass of beer, depending on the variety. Of course, that assumes the beer doesn't make you feel full and prevent you from eating an offsetting amount of food.
If this can be proved, it's a violation of CFAA -- unless you gave them permission to get contacts from your accounts. Does anybody read that mess of legalese in the terms of service you agree to when you join/connect to LinkedIn?
But in some cases, the environments overlap and then you can have a hard time sorting them out.
That's because the same guys are manning the call center.
It's too late to save RIM. They should lay off the rest of their workforce and sell what's left to investors, if they still possess anything of value. The people with any insight have already left the company over the last 10 years. Those who are left aren't going to generate any new ideas that could turn the company profitable.
That's not what the article says. It says the switch worked as designed even though everything else went wrong.
Yes you do, but a little bit of uranium goes a long way. 1kg of uranium produces as much energy as 14 tonnes of coal. That energy equivalency isn't exact, because the uranium has to be refined after mining. I have no figures for how much that adds to the carbon emissions related with producing energy from uranium but it's not a factor of 14000. And despite failures, the uranium IS easier to contain. The pollution from coal or gas can't be contained at all on a commercial scale. It just spews into the air. The issue with nuclear is the intense toxicity and radioactivity of the byproducts. That calls for very careful reactor design with multiple levels of failsafes. With coal, oil and gas we have just assumed it was OK to spew millions of tonnes of crap into the air, but it turns out that it's not OK at all. The Earth can't absorb all that shit without changes to the atmosphere and oceans that affect life all over the planet.
So don't elect fascists and support policies that make sense. In a representative government, you get the government you choose, not the government you deserve.
Are you honestly trying to argue that the application interface is not part of the operating system? Pfbbbt!
That's not counterfeit. That's the genuine article, but stolen.
haven't read TFA, but could also mean those who get their carries fixed have more bitewing x-rays, which increases radiation to the head.
Because radiation prevents cancer???
Flouride in our water is contaminating our precious bodily fluids.
Not so. Black holes are formed from collapsing stars and there's a lot of matter inside at the moment they reach critical density.
What makes there might be stars in their hypothetical 4D universe?
No they don't have a right to feel snobby about somebody else's accomplishments. If they actually DO something, they can be snobby about that and be significantly less douchebaggy.
The music industry conveniently ignores the fact that technology made them rich in the first place.
Until recording devices came along the only way to make money was from playing live.
After records were invented the music industry suddenly became much more profitable be ause you could sell your product to masses instead of limited live audiences.
Now new technology, the Internet and digital copying, have taken away what the old technology gave.
The gravy train was good while it lasted but its time that musicians got back to working for a living, like the rest do us, and the record companies crawled back under the rock the crawled out from.
Not entirely. With the new tech if you can get 10 million people to pay you 99c a download, you'll gather a ton of money. If you can get 990 million people to pay you 1c per download, you'll make the same amount, but be more famous. The only barrier in the way of the 2nd strategy is middlemen who want a cut.
What's remarkably different for modern people is the nearly instant availability of the works of the best and most famous artists (who are mostly not the same people). In the old days, even if you were the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, you couldn't listen to any artist anytime you wanted. Not even within a week of the desire hitting you, in most cases. At best, you had to choose from among a small number, and unless you were really important, few if any had any real talent. Now we have the opposite problem: thousands of choices, some very good, almost all instantly available, but buried in a sea of shlock that makes finding artists worth listening to difficult, if not as difficult as it was for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.
And this is not like Linux?
Not really. OSX contains much of BSD, but it also contains lots and lots of proprietary code.
Another reason why in the 26th century whatever people are around (if any) will still view guns that shoot bullets as the weapon of choice. Another thing Firefly got right.