...no morals, remorse for wrongdoing... often charming... can be fantastic at acting.
Thanks. This explains the behavior of one of my former co-workers! He demeaned, tricked, and manipulated us who had to work around him. A real jerk and pain in the ass for us, but to the boss he always acted the part of "special, loyal friend and outstanding employee". I finally left, partly in disgust with his behavior, and management's blindness to it.
TFA doesn't mention one of the more interesting accidental (or serendipitous) discoveries, Teflon.
One day in his chemistry lab, Dr. Roy J. Plunkett went to open a tank of gaseous tetrafluoroethylene, but no gas came out. Many lab workers, even scientists, would simply replace the tank with a full one. But not Plunkett! He weighed the tank and mysteriously, it still weighed the same as when it was full of gas! Evidently the gas had *not* leaked out.
He investigated by actually sawing the gas tank open. Inside he found a white, waxy powder! The original gas molecules had bonded together to form this incredible solid, eventually named Teflon.
If he hadn't thought "Hmm, that's odd" and pursued it, he wouldn't have discovered Teflon.
"The Km array proposed (and the hectare array already built) are just a huge stack of ordinary satellite TV dishes. This could be done by anyone at any time."
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of satellite TV dishes....
"The refueling process would be in two steps. First, a vacuum would suck the used spheres out and send them to a tank for refilling. New, filled spheres would then be pumped in from a different tank. The consumer would not see much difference from today's system."
Good grief, man! These are JUNIOR COLLEGE students! You need to seriously dial-down your expectations. You are clearly savvy and bright, but you cannot expect all (or even a majority) your students to be the same.
Consider two cars leaving your house on the same day, one leaving ten minutes early, and one at the usual time, driving identical routes, one driven by you and the other by your identical clone.
How can they arrive at work at the same time? They would have to arrive at work with zero cars between them on the road. That doesn't sound very realistic, does it? I think your assertion is false.
There is NOTHING in this technology that has ANYTHING to do with "self-sustained server cabinet power." Roast the submitter! And the editor!
Flynn Research is developing electric motors. From the Flynn website
Parallel Path Applications
Fans, Medical Pumps, Hydraulic Pumps, Refrigeration, Disk Drives, Trolling Motors Traction devices: Electric Vehicles, High speed rail, Lift Trucks, Golf Carts, Battery operated equipment using motors or actuators, Appliances Using motors or actuators, Aircraft & Aerospace
Probing the innards of the virus also revealed that it possesses a core, the existence of which the researchers did not suspect and the function of which they can as yet only guess at.
It might seem a bad idea to offer laptops over water, food and shelter, especially to governments/organizations, who in the past have held donations at ransom or misappropriated funds.
However, one can only hope, there are some smarter distribution plans this time.
All the more reason to make it technologically obsolete, so the dictator, his cabinet, and all their relatives and children won't want one.
As to the value;
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day...
Teach a man how to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.
Best to think of the project in these terms, no?
Give a man a computer, and he'll have a computer for the rest of his life.
But what's the analog is of "Teach a man how to fish..."? Teach a man how to build a computer? How to steal a computer? How to steal money to buy a computer? How to get a better job, earn more money, and buy a computer? How to emigrate to a developed nation, go on welfare, and buy a computer?
Good point. An atom or small molecule is MUCH smaller than the wavelength of light: 0.1 nm vs. 400 nm. Yet one of its electrons can absorb or emit a photon. How does it do that? Any physicists lurking here?
What a great idea! It would be a race between how fast we could build greenhouses vs. how fast new powerplants come online.
I bet the Genetic Engineers are--right now--hard at work on new life-forms that are especially greedy for CO2, and reproduce wildly, and grow at a rate of about 30 cm (12 in) per day, and clog the planet with green growth... Oh, wait. I'm thinking of kudzu.
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...no morals, remorse for wrongdoing... often charming ... can be fantastic at acting.
Thanks. This explains the behavior of one of my former co-workers! He demeaned, tricked, and manipulated us who had to work around him. A real jerk and pain in the ass for us, but to the boss he always acted the part of "special, loyal friend and outstanding employee". I finally left, partly in disgust with his behavior, and management's blindness to it.
This work needs a live, warm, human editor, who knows it's
*discretely* not discreetly
*peeked* not peaked
... 1,000 laid-off managers?
A good start.
Your confidence in self-healing walls is admirable.
Tell you what, let's put you inside the next inflatable spacecraft, to report what happens when space debris makes holes.
Best case, you're right, and the holes seal up. Worst case, you're wrong. (c:)
TFA doesn't mention one of the more interesting accidental (or serendipitous) discoveries, Teflon.
t /website/Serendipity.htm
One day in his chemistry lab, Dr. Roy J. Plunkett went to open a tank of gaseous tetrafluoroethylene, but no gas came out. Many lab workers, even scientists, would simply replace the tank with a full one. But not Plunkett! He weighed the tank and mysteriously, it still weighed the same as when it was full of gas! Evidently the gas had *not* leaked out.
He investigated by actually sawing the gas tank open. Inside he found a white, waxy powder! The original gas molecules had bonded together to form this incredible solid, eventually named Teflon.
If he hadn't thought "Hmm, that's odd" and pursued it, he wouldn't have discovered Teflon.
See http://users.wfu.edu/starbt5/Serendipity%20Projec
"The Km array proposed (and the hectare array already built) are just a huge stack of ordinary satellite TV dishes. This could be done by anyone at any time."
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of satellite TV dishes....
The glass balls would be recycled and refilled:
"The refueling process would be in two steps. First, a vacuum would suck the used spheres out and send them to a tank for refilling. New, filled spheres would then be pumped in from a different tank. The consumer would not see much difference from today's system."
From a 2004 news item.
Good grief, man! These are JUNIOR COLLEGE students! You need to seriously dial-down your expectations. You are clearly savvy and bright, but you cannot expect all (or even a majority) your students to be the same.
Consider two cars leaving your house on the same day, one leaving ten minutes early, and one at the usual time, driving identical routes, one driven by you and the other by your identical clone.
How can they arrive at work at the same time? They would have to arrive at work with zero cars between them on the road. That doesn't sound very realistic, does it? I think your assertion is false.
"Sun's Global Desktop Released"
Will they name it "Warming"?
My GMail doesn't even have "More Options". It has "More Actions" but the actions don't include report phishing.
What WERE you thinking?
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Mission drift is a hazard in all pursuits.
There is NOTHING in this technology that has ANYTHING to do with "self-sustained server cabinet power." Roast the submitter! And the editor!
Flynn Research is developing electric motors. From the Flynn website
Parallel Path Applications
Fans, Medical Pumps, Hydraulic Pumps, Refrigeration, Disk Drives, Trolling Motors
Traction devices: Electric Vehicles, High speed rail, Lift Trucks, Golf Carts,
Battery operated equipment using motors or actuators,
Appliances Using motors or actuators,
Aircraft & Aerospace
Nobody panics, and they proclaim "Tickety boo! Tickety boo!".
The cool part is halfway down TFA:
Probing the innards of the virus also revealed that it possesses a core, the existence of which the researchers did not suspect and the function of which they can as yet only guess at.
Cue the SciFi writers...
It might seem a bad idea to offer laptops over water, food and shelter, especially to governments/organizations, who in the past have held donations at ransom or misappropriated funds.
However, one can only hope, there are some smarter distribution plans this time.
All the more reason to make it technologically obsolete, so the dictator, his cabinet, and all their relatives and children won't want one.
As to the value;
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day... Teach a man how to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.
Best to think of the project in these terms, no?
Give a man a computer, and he'll have a computer for the rest of his life.
But what's the analog is of "Teach a man how to fish..."? Teach a man how to build a computer? How to steal a computer? How to steal money to buy a computer? How to get a better job, earn more money, and buy a computer? How to emigrate to a developed nation, go on welfare, and buy a computer?
Good point. An atom or small molecule is MUCH smaller than the wavelength of light: 0.1 nm vs. 400 nm. Yet one of its electrons can absorb or emit a photon. How does it do that? Any physicists lurking here?
From Wikipedia (Terminal Velocity article)
... is about 195 km/h (120 Mph) ... [for] a typical bullet according to a 1920 U.S. Army Ordnance study.
For example, the terminal velocity
What a great idea! It would be a race between how fast we could build greenhouses vs. how fast new powerplants come online.
I bet the Genetic Engineers are--right now--hard at work on new life-forms that are especially greedy for CO2, and reproduce wildly, and grow at a rate of about 30 cm (12 in) per day, and clog the planet with green growth... Oh, wait. I'm thinking of kudzu.
Make that Hah-vahd and Yael.
Hmmm. If someone finds out your ONE password, can't they use the same MD5 hash you use, and access ALL your web sites? No security there!
Huh? The Coral servers are actually slower than the Hexus site!
Yeah, because light travels at ... drumroll ... the SPEED OF LIGHT! Which is, like, really fast.
... nearly the speed of light, which is... also really fast.
Whereas an electrical pulse on a copper wire travels at
Wait. What's the advantage of photonics?
"If at all possible, everything is done with linear operations on vectors, matrix multiplies, and quaternions."
Linear operations, OK. Vectors and matrices, OK. But...
QUATERNIONS? Holy cow! You use quaternions? What the heck are they?
What? They can't crank it down to the horizon and peek in bedroom windows in the next county? Sheesh.
OK, I'm in a restaurant, or Best Buy, or somewhere, and I want to pay with a one-time password or one-time credit card number.
Ummmm... how does this work?