So do we. Doesn't mean we should kill ourselves off though
but maybe we should stop feeding it
Algae is a big solution to our fuel problems
you may be right, but I don't think you are referring to the "plague" variety. I think what you want is to collect the phosphorus pollution and sell/give it to people who grow fuel-producing algae?
And it's pretty and green.
and smells delicious
And it absorbs CO2, no?
Just long enough to get it into your gas tank so you car can liberate the CO2.
Actually, the computer WOULD be predictable, exactly because it will always choose some "optimal" move. So if you present it with some "obvious" decision, you know which way it will act.
I.e. everyone at the table could always go all in once a hand is between the computer and itself, then the computer will be forced to either fold most of the time and slowly lose money, or call and if everyone is doing this against the computer it will not likely be the last player standing.
Assuming the cavern has 1000 feet of granite (a medium density rock) above it, the amount of force exerted downward by the rock is also about 1200 PSI. 1000 feet is maybe a little high for natural formations, but an old mine could certainly work well. There are plenty of those, probably not many in Iowa though.
In our condos, we just have gutters on 2 sides of the roof, but the condo buildings are often at 90 degree angles with each other, and with each group of buildings, the buildings aren't more than 5 feet apart, with some actually touching. So basically you have some number of corners/gaps that you'd have to help it around.
It depends on your roof (and the speed of the robot) whether using reverse would make sense.
I'll stay where I am and just hit the reverse button:-)
You go right ahead and wait for it to come back, carry it DOWN your ladder, carry it AND your ladder to the next corner, and carry it back UP your ladder, smart guy.
I'll just carry my ladder to the next corner and wait for it to arrive so I can help it around the corner.:p
Well I know our condo association pays close to $2000 a year to have the gutters cleaned. Somehow I think the bill would be more than $100 cheaper if this thing was used & actually worked.
Imagine you have a 300' long roof. With the Looj, you climb up the ladder at one end of the roof, hold down "forward", and carry your ladder to the other end of the roof, climb up, and collect the Looj. According to their website it cleans 60' in 10 seconds, so that seems like a lot faster & less work, if you have a large roof. So it may be best for businesses/condos/etc.
I agree. I think police should drive on the roads looking for people being stupid and breaking any number of laws, instead of sitting there holding a radar gun and only being able to catch people who both speed AND don't notice them.
My point is we don't need new laws all the time to say you can't fiddle with the new gadget of the month while you're driving. It is already illegal, the enforcement is the problem.
I was recently in China and I was on highways for a few hours. I saw exactly ZERO people driving like idiots. The speed limits are reasonable, frequently posted, and they are separate for each lane. There are video cameras and radar monitoring everywhere. If you drive one MPH above the speed limit or do one slightly stupid thing, you WILL get a ticket. So, people drive like they should.
A lot states have laws like this. In DE, my wife got rear-ended (lightly) by some teenager when coming to a stop at a red light in good weather (she was not the first car to stop and didn't brake hard or anything), and his explanation was basically "sorry, I didn't see you".
The trooper gave him a ticket for "inattentive driving". It didn't matter whether he was texting, eating, or whatever else (he claimed he wasn't doing anything), because he obviously wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. I'm sure it didn't help him that his insurance card was expired, it was a weekend, and my wife was pregnant, but the necessary laws do exist.
The problem is enforcement is hard until they hit somebody.
I suppose in the eyes of a corporation, a few dead customers is a small price to pay as long as everyone is chatting 24/7 regardless of the safety issues.
Fixed that for you.
$0.10 if the driver texts to say they are 5 minutes late vs $0.00 if the driver just shows up 5 minutes late and says sorry in person.
My point is that you only need 160 degrees for 1 second to get 3rd degree burns, so there's no reason why it can't be possible (obviously over only a small area if the ~2 cups of water pools in your lap). Perhaps the woman was wearing a short skirt, depending on how the water is spilled not much soaking needed.
curmudgeous seemed to think that plain old hot water can't "char flesh" and so can't cause 3rd degree burns.
Europe gets like 20% of its power from wind, and doesn't have these kind of issues.
The wind farm will be on the coast, and when the most energy is used (summer and winter), the ocean temp is conveniently the most different from the land. Plus it is windy 250' above the ocean several miles off the coast a lot more often than it is standing on land.
How many times have you been to the ocean when there are no waves (which are caused by wind out at sea), or it isn't windy?
The wind farm will be several miles out from the beach, so on a non-hazy day you will be able to make out a few toothpicks sticking up out of the water. Big deal, there are more ugly planes (with annoying banners!) and boats that go by all the time that look much bigger.
Its not by choice. Many cities, it is prohibitively expensive for most people to get a decent place to live. Of course, politicians & developers DID make the choice, but you seem to imply that each individual in the US has some sort of freedom to live in the city vs not, when the only (false) choice is between an unaffordable house in the city and an affordable house someplace else.
If I could afford to live closer to where I work, I would, but I can't afford it. So, what do I do? Complain, but not enough people in the US care, so nothing happens. So, people are stuck complaining and only now because of the high gas prices are enough complaining that people (even people from other countries apparently) are finally taking notice.
The problem is not that gas is $4 a gallon, the problem is in the last 2 years, gas in the US has DOUBLED in price. That is why Americans complain.
And if you consider tolls (from my house to a city about 1 hour away costs about $19 in tolls) and income taxes that go toward roads, even ignoring the ridiculous prices some people pay to buy their fancy SUVs, the cost per mile driven is probably about the same as your ~$10/gallon.
A lot of my driving is less than 1 mile (in a small ~36MPG car), but the ONLY possible route I can take is on a 50-60 MPH road with lots of trucks, and people drive like maniacs. So its just not safe or practical to bike in many places here, and the bus comes ONCE an hour (and I'd have to take 2 buses), so there's not really an option besides driving.
So, that's why we complain. I realize that $4 sounds cheap, and that all these problems are pretty much our own (and/or our government's) fault and we need to either suck it up or actually do something about it, but I figured I'd at least explain the reason people complain since I don't think many Europeans fully understand the situation.
I just want to add that a lot of companies will accept a scanned PDF via email instead if you just ask, even if they initially say to fax it. I would bet that they just say to fax it because that is easier than to explain to some non-technical person what scanning is.
I've had many people happily provide me with their own email address to do this. Actually, I can't ever remember being turned down when I've asked to do this.
I just got back from a 4 1/2 day trip from the east cost of the US to Beijing, which is exactly the opposite time zone. (i.e. 1pm EST is 1am in Beijing)
I got about 15 hours of sleep the entire trip, most of which was on the plane on the way back (planes almost always put me to sleep) and one or two 2 hour naps each night when the physical exhaustion temporarily overcame the fact that my brain thought it was the middle of the day.
I did not sleep at all on the plane ride there, and only first slept (a little) the night I got to Beijing.
There is no way I could both stay up that long AND not eat anything, unless I was a little mouse stuck in a cage with no food.
If you rotate your keys, I will still be able to guess them. You should use gentoo, the developers are far too busy refreshing the packages and compiling their own systems to do something useless like memory debugging.
I think OFDM and FFT chips are becoming cheap enough that multi-radio isn't much of an issue. Having multiple channels doesn't fix what cciRRus is complaining about, the delay of multiple hops... now you have lots of slow, non-conflicting channels... so the per-hop delay of a successful transmission is now a fixed, but longer delay and you still have to manage access to the channels if you want the delay to be reasonable.
How does babel fix this? It seems like babel is just a routing mechanism, does it modify the MAC as well? This problem arises because of channel reservation messages & collisions, so not modifying the MAC is going to give limited improvement.
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I think your question has mostly been answered by the replies already, but also wanted to further point out that Internet2 is not necessarily faster than the Internet, it is more about studying the a new/different architecture.
Last I knew my university's regular Internet connection, which is used at something like 1/4 of its capacity at peak times by the 25k or so users, was several times times faster than the university's Internet2 connection.
Well if people already know you've been kidnapped, then the notification requirement wouldn't apply.
If people didn't know you were kidnapped, they've already tried calling your cell phone before contacting the police so the kidnappers already know you have a cell phone on you.
Or just to be safe the notification could be sent after 48 hours or whatever so the police have had a chance to find you first. I would think that any evidence the police get as part of such a search would already be considered "fruit of the poisonous tree" or whatever so abuse doesn't seem very useful. There's still a problem with a corrupt police officer "coming to get you" I guess, but I don't think I'd carry MY cell phone around with me if I was worried about something like that.
Either way, if someone thinks I am missing, the cell phone company had better turn over the records right away.
Also a lot of tablet PCs (the X61t as well as many others) still come in a 4:3 aspect ratio, since that closely matches 8.5" by 11", which makes sense since a tablet is often for either viewing or writing something the standard size of a piece of paper.
Viewing an entire 8.5" by 11" document on a widescreen monitor doesn't work, unless its a 20"+ screen and you view the document in portrait orientation on 1/2 of the screen. I don't think 4:3 screens are going to disappear.
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So do we. Doesn't mean we should kill ourselves off though
but maybe we should stop feeding it
Algae is a big solution to our fuel problems
you may be right, but I don't think you are referring to the "plague" variety. I think what you want is to collect the phosphorus pollution and sell/give it to people who grow fuel-producing algae?
And it's pretty and green.
and smells delicious
And it absorbs CO2, no?
Just long enough to get it into your gas tank so you car can liberate the CO2.
Why is this a plague??
because it kills stuff, lots of stuff to be specific
Actually, the computer WOULD be predictable, exactly because it will always choose some "optimal" move. So if you present it with some "obvious" decision, you know which way it will act.
I.e. everyone at the table could always go all in once a hand is between the computer and itself, then the computer will be forced to either fold most of the time and slowly lose money, or call and if everyone is doing this against the computer it will not likely be the last player standing.
1200 PSI is a lot of potential energy.
Assuming the cavern has 1000 feet of granite (a medium density rock) above it, the amount of force exerted downward by the rock is also about 1200 PSI. 1000 feet is maybe a little high for natural formations, but an old mine could certainly work well. There are plenty of those, probably not many in Iowa though.
In our condos, we just have gutters on 2 sides of the roof, but the condo buildings are often at 90 degree angles with each other, and with each group of buildings, the buildings aren't more than 5 feet apart, with some actually touching. So basically you have some number of corners/gaps that you'd have to help it around.
It depends on your roof (and the speed of the robot) whether using reverse would make sense.
You go right ahead and move your ladder.
I'll stay where I am and just hit the reverse button :-)
You go right ahead and wait for it to come back, carry it DOWN your ladder, carry it AND your ladder to the next corner, and carry it back UP your ladder, smart guy.
I'll just carry my ladder to the next corner and wait for it to arrive so I can help it around the corner. :p
Well I know our condo association pays close to $2000 a year to have the gutters cleaned. Somehow I think the bill would be more than $100 cheaper if this thing was used & actually worked.
Imagine you have a 300' long roof. With the Looj, you climb up the ladder at one end of the roof, hold down "forward", and carry your ladder to the other end of the roof, climb up, and collect the Looj. According to their website it cleans 60' in 10 seconds, so that seems like a lot faster & less work, if you have a large roof. So it may be best for businesses/condos/etc.
The way you enforce is by having police patrols.
I agree. I think police should drive on the roads looking for people being stupid and breaking any number of laws, instead of sitting there holding a radar gun and only being able to catch people who both speed AND don't notice them.
My point is we don't need new laws all the time to say you can't fiddle with the new gadget of the month while you're driving. It is already illegal, the enforcement is the problem.
I was recently in China and I was on highways for a few hours. I saw exactly ZERO people driving like idiots. The speed limits are reasonable, frequently posted, and they are separate for each lane. There are video cameras and radar monitoring everywhere. If you drive one MPH above the speed limit or do one slightly stupid thing, you WILL get a ticket. So, people drive like they should.
A lot states have laws like this. In DE, my wife got rear-ended (lightly) by some teenager when coming to a stop at a red light in good weather (she was not the first car to stop and didn't brake hard or anything), and his explanation was basically "sorry, I didn't see you".
The trooper gave him a ticket for "inattentive driving". It didn't matter whether he was texting, eating, or whatever else (he claimed he wasn't doing anything), because he obviously wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. I'm sure it didn't help him that his insurance card was expired, it was a weekend, and my wife was pregnant, but the necessary laws do exist.
The problem is enforcement is hard until they hit somebody.
Fixed that for you.
$0.10 if the driver texts to say they are 5 minutes late vs $0.00 if the driver just shows up 5 minutes late and says sorry in person.
My point is that you only need 160 degrees for 1 second to get 3rd degree burns, so there's no reason why it can't be possible (obviously over only a small area if the ~2 cups of water pools in your lap). Perhaps the woman was wearing a short skirt, depending on how the water is spilled not much soaking needed.
curmudgeous seemed to think that plain old hot water can't "char flesh" and so can't cause 3rd degree burns.
1 second exposure to 160 degree water = third degree burns:
http://www.tap-water-burn.com/
McDonald's coffee was 185 degrees:
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
Europe gets like 20% of its power from wind, and doesn't have these kind of issues.
The wind farm will be on the coast, and when the most energy is used (summer and winter), the ocean temp is conveniently the most different from the land. Plus it is windy 250' above the ocean several miles off the coast a lot more often than it is standing on land.
How many times have you been to the ocean when there are no waves (which are caused by wind out at sea), or it isn't windy?
The wind farm will be several miles out from the beach, so on a non-hazy day you will be able to make out a few toothpicks sticking up out of the water. Big deal, there are more ugly planes (with annoying banners!) and boats that go by all the time that look much bigger.
Its not by choice. Many cities, it is prohibitively expensive for most people to get a decent place to live. Of course, politicians & developers DID make the choice, but you seem to imply that each individual in the US has some sort of freedom to live in the city vs not, when the only (false) choice is between an unaffordable house in the city and an affordable house someplace else.
If I could afford to live closer to where I work, I would, but I can't afford it. So, what do I do? Complain, but not enough people in the US care, so nothing happens. So, people are stuck complaining and only now because of the high gas prices are enough complaining that people (even people from other countries apparently) are finally taking notice.
The problem is not that gas is $4 a gallon, the problem is in the last 2 years, gas in the US has DOUBLED in price. That is why Americans complain.
And if you consider tolls (from my house to a city about 1 hour away costs about $19 in tolls) and income taxes that go toward roads, even ignoring the ridiculous prices some people pay to buy their fancy SUVs, the cost per mile driven is probably about the same as your ~$10/gallon.
A lot of my driving is less than 1 mile (in a small ~36MPG car), but the ONLY possible route I can take is on a 50-60 MPH road with lots of trucks, and people drive like maniacs. So its just not safe or practical to bike in many places here, and the bus comes ONCE an hour (and I'd have to take 2 buses), so there's not really an option besides driving.
So, that's why we complain. I realize that $4 sounds cheap, and that all these problems are pretty much our own (and/or our government's) fault and we need to either suck it up or actually do something about it, but I figured I'd at least explain the reason people complain since I don't think many Europeans fully understand the situation.
I just want to add that a lot of companies will accept a scanned PDF via email instead if you just ask, even if they initially say to fax it. I would bet that they just say to fax it because that is easier than to explain to some non-technical person what scanning is.
I've had many people happily provide me with their own email address to do this. Actually, I can't ever remember being turned down when I've asked to do this.
I just got back from a 4 1/2 day trip from the east cost of the US to Beijing, which is exactly the opposite time zone. (i.e. 1pm EST is 1am in Beijing)
I got about 15 hours of sleep the entire trip, most of which was on the plane on the way back (planes almost always put me to sleep) and one or two 2 hour naps each night when the physical exhaustion temporarily overcame the fact that my brain thought it was the middle of the day.
I did not sleep at all on the plane ride there, and only first slept (a little) the night I got to Beijing.
There is no way I could both stay up that long AND not eat anything, unless I was a little mouse stuck in a cage with no food.
Dwight K. Schrute, is that you?
If you rotate your keys, I will still be able to guess them. You should use gentoo, the developers are far too busy refreshing the packages and compiling their own systems to do something useless like memory debugging.
I think OFDM and FFT chips are becoming cheap enough that multi-radio isn't much of an issue. Having multiple channels doesn't fix what cciRRus is complaining about, the delay of multiple hops... now you have lots of slow, non-conflicting channels... so the per-hop delay of a successful transmission is now a fixed, but longer delay and you still have to manage access to the channels if you want the delay to be reasonable.
How does babel fix this? It seems like babel is just a routing mechanism, does it modify the MAC as well? This problem arises because of channel reservation messages & collisions, so not modifying the MAC is going to give limited improvement.
I think your question has mostly been answered by the replies already, but also wanted to further point out that Internet2 is not necessarily faster than the Internet, it is more about studying the a new/different architecture.
Last I knew my university's regular Internet connection, which is used at something like 1/4 of its capacity at peak times by the 25k or so users, was several times times faster than the university's Internet2 connection.
Well if people already know you've been kidnapped, then the notification requirement wouldn't apply.
If people didn't know you were kidnapped, they've already tried calling your cell phone before contacting the police so the kidnappers already know you have a cell phone on you.
Or just to be safe the notification could be sent after 48 hours or whatever so the police have had a chance to find you first. I would think that any evidence the police get as part of such a search would already be considered "fruit of the poisonous tree" or whatever so abuse doesn't seem very useful. There's still a problem with a corrupt police officer "coming to get you" I guess, but I don't think I'd carry MY cell phone around with me if I was worried about something like that.
Either way, if someone thinks I am missing, the cell phone company had better turn over the records right away.
Also a lot of tablet PCs (the X61t as well as many others) still come in a 4:3 aspect ratio, since that closely matches 8.5" by 11", which makes sense since a tablet is often for either viewing or writing something the standard size of a piece of paper.
Viewing an entire 8.5" by 11" document on a widescreen monitor doesn't work, unless its a 20"+ screen and you view the document in portrait orientation on 1/2 of the screen. I don't think 4:3 screens are going to disappear.