Reading the responses gave me another idea (I don't think any of the replies hit on it directly). Maybe the cops are interpreting his original post as a claim of child abuse; i.e. he's claiming he himself is abusing his children (he's trying to sell them after all). The cops have to investigate this hoax and therefore he's charged with falsely reporting an incident.
I'm not sure that this stands up though... If I come to you with hot dogs strapped to my chest and threaten to blow myself up. Then you - without my knowledge - call the cops, should I be charged?
It's really hard to tell exactly what's going on here based on this messed up article, but I think I've figured it out: Santiago makes a hoax posting on craigslist hoping for a media firestorm. Nobody notices. Santiago reports the posting to Child Protective Services intending to stoke the fire. Police figure out he's the guy that made the original posting which is obviously a joke and charge him with making a false report for wasting their time.
I have the previous generation ATG (D630). It's Dell's entry level "ruggedish" laptop. The monitor is fantastic and the general quality is good (which is the main reason I bought it) However it does have some design issues. The most important one being that the HDD is screwed directly to the external metal chassis. This means ANY sharp jolt to the laptop can destroy your drive. That's exactly what happened to me. I'd just closed the lid when I dropped it at most a half inch back onto the counter. That was enough to kill it.
The ironic thing is that a regular plastic Dell would have protected the drive better by flexing and transmitting less of the shock. I installed an SSD a couple days ago that should bypass this design flaw once and for all. BTW the OCZ Apex is KICKASS!
My problem with this aircraft is that for the complexity and cost of 4 heavy lift helicopters plus a giant airship all you get is twice the lifting power of a helicopter that was designed 30 years ago!? WTF? You can rent a Mi-26 today. This project doesn't make any sense.
Coasting vehicles benefit from high weight (you can coast for longer). However they aren't very applicable to the real world. Therefore the limit is an effort to have the contest reflect reality to some degree.
On the light weight side, I believe the limits are to keep vehicles from costing too much, and to encourage average sized drivers, not just midgets.
The reporter got it wrong (as usual). The single entry was actually running Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) not as he reports "liquid petroleum gasoline". I believe the "combustion" class of which the winner was a part is plain old gasoline, just as the headline states.
It's tricky to understand because were' dealing with a relatively small difference in chances. So let's stretch this thing wide open.
1: There are 100 doors, 99 goats, 1 car. 2: You choose a door, you know it only has a 1% chance of hiding a car. 3: The host opens 98 doors. 4: You now know that the other door has a 98% chance of hiding a car. 5: You still know that your door only has a 1% chance of hiding a car. 6: Do you change doors? 7: Yes!
I know it seems silly, but it's EXACTLY the same principle as the 3 door example.
The magenta "t-mobile" is a temporary response to the letter (in legal terms I believe it's called a raspberry). Their standard logo doesn't look like T-Mobil's at all.
Geeks generally don't like "popular girls". Twitter gave the geek audience a back channel for communication. Now self communicating the audience assumed mob-like properties. The "mob" turned on the "popular girl".
Before the semaphore telegraph a man could travel faster than information. Am I the only one who thinks that's just really cool? The whole concept of being able to race across the globe faster than events is completely alien to our current existence.
Hmmm... Let me put it this way; Before the semaphore telegraph, the world was split into a very large number of simultaneous but completely separate realities. As soon as that telegraph came into existence those realities began merging into one.
The problem with Dvorak's argument is that "hunger relief" is not the same as "hunger solution". The promise of the OLPC is that in the medium to long term it may encourage actual solutions to hunger, over population, women's rights, etc. It's the old "give a man a fish"/"teach a man to fish" argument. Sure, there's a good chance won't work out in the end, but isn't it worth a try?
Get a 100k of these running in parallel, give em a self organizing and threading algorithm and run for cover. On the plus side Schwarzenegger's armageddon would be much more interesting than Gore's alternative.
Mr. G has continues to donate amazing amounts of money to very worth causes, clearly he has a very active social conscience... So why doesn't he just ask his own engineers to make an effort to cut down on electricity consumption? Quickly looking at the numbers:
120 watts unnecessary power consumption in DVD mode (at least) * 2 hours of duration for the average DVD (including menus and bathroom, and extras) = 240 watt hours * 24 the average number of DVDs watched a year (at least) * 4 years average service life per console * 500000 XBox360 consoles that will bought and used regularly = 11,520,000,000 watt hours
11.5 giga watt hours?! WTF?! Admittedly the numbers are pulled out of my butt, however I think you'll agree that the real figures must be much higher. And I'm just looking at DVD use, nevermind the people who'll keep their console on when it's not being used. Why on earth would Billy let that much unnecessary carbon get pumped into the atmosphere when (if?) he's so concerned about the planet??? This is one example of where a tiny amount of effort would have resulted in a significant practical difference.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but how does your statement about the one month infant mortality spike relate to the article's finding that no such spike is observable in the wild?
Absolutely, thank you. Anyone who is wringing there hands about the loss of this single squid must consider how little we know about the species. In fact we know so little right now that we could inadvertently alter their environment in a way that would result in the death of millions and never realize it. We must learn as much as we can about these animals that increasingly appear to comprise a significant role in the oceans' ecosystem. This is actually a relatively important area of scientific study.
First off I agree that it possibly can fly for short periods at mach 4 but much of the reason the SR71 is so weird is that it requires great efficiency for it's long range and it's high ceiling. Wearing space suits has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with altitude. The heat also has more to do with altitude, because there's so little air up high the plane looses very little heat to conduction it therefore must radiate most of its heat away, as a result it gets VERY hot. Actually that may also explain the "non-flamable" fuel. After all you wouldn't want it to spontaniously combust in the tanks.
Maybe my figures are out of date but I'm not pulling the out of my hat (see above reply).
I believe modern cars are infact much worse than 30%, I think I remember 28% as the current upper limit. Keep in mind however that batteries and electric motors are also highly inefficient.
I completely agree with you on the auto racing point. Some racing rules are loosely based around fuel consumption, for instance that's how they set the displacement limits for Wankel rotary engines when Mazda entered prototype endurance racing (i.e. they matched their fuel consumption to the respective reciprocating engine).
It was one of those hardcover "LIFE Natural Library" books. Most were published from the 70s to the early 80s. They were specifically speaking of hydro electric power which is often located 100s of miles from it's primary point of usage (the largest metropolitan area). Perhaps technology has come a long way but there's still no way you can transmit power over any appreciable distance with only 5-10% loss.
Always keep in mind that you have to transport that energy from the generating station to the end user. The inefficiency in transmitting electricity long distances is truly staggering. This is especially true for older remote hydro-electric stations (dams), where over 95% of the energy is lost in transit. Meaning that 95% of the energy goes to heating 100s of miles of hydro cables and towers.
This all goes to say that you must generate many times more energy if it's generated 200 miles away than you would if it's generated 3 feet from the drive wheels.
And no, it wasn't the earth. And no, it wasn't studio lighting. Infact it was a huge giant white thing with 1000s of square kilometers of surface area in the direct light of the sun. That's right, the moon was that mysterious secondary light source. If you take a picture on earth of an object in shadow you'll see quite a bit of detail in the shadow. On the moon you'll see far more detail because you'll be able to expose the picture just for the shadow, wheras on earth you'd have to worry about the sky getting too bright. Of couse the other factor that helps is that unlike the earth the moon is almost perfectly white.
You're concealing a statement in the form of a question. Clearly your prime objective here is to voice your personal opinion concerning "digital rights". Additionally you can't jump from a specific example like "DMCA sucks" to a blanket statement like "business is stealing our rights" and expect to be listened to. If you're truly interested in the opinions of the candidates on this particular issue ask something specific like:
"In your opinion does the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) needlesly infringe on the freedoms of the American public? If so, how will you alter the DMCA?"
The fungus are INSIDE the spacecraft. They are common household/human fungi, who are doing very well thanks to the suitably odd environment inside of MIR.
This page describes their screens as; "an SVGA panel over 38" in diagonal". Why is it only SVGA? Who would want an 38-48" SVGA (800X600) panel? You can get plasma screens with far higher resolution, not to mention LCD projectors.
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Reading the responses gave me another idea (I don't think any of the replies hit on it directly). Maybe the cops are interpreting his original post as a claim of child abuse; i.e. he's claiming he himself is abusing his children (he's trying to sell them after all). The cops have to investigate this hoax and therefore he's charged with falsely reporting an incident.
I'm not sure that this stands up though... If I come to you with hot dogs strapped to my chest and threaten to blow myself up. Then you - without my knowledge - call the cops, should I be charged?
It's really hard to tell exactly what's going on here based on this messed up article, but I think I've figured it out: Santiago makes a hoax posting on craigslist hoping for a media firestorm. Nobody notices. Santiago reports the posting to Child Protective Services intending to stoke the fire. Police figure out he's the guy that made the original posting which is obviously a joke and charge him with making a false report for wasting their time.
Am I close?
I have the previous generation ATG (D630). It's Dell's entry level "ruggedish" laptop. The monitor is fantastic and the general quality is good (which is the main reason I bought it) However it does have some design issues. The most important one being that the HDD is screwed directly to the external metal chassis. This means ANY sharp jolt to the laptop can destroy your drive. That's exactly what happened to me. I'd just closed the lid when I dropped it at most a half inch back onto the counter. That was enough to kill it.
The ironic thing is that a regular plastic Dell would have protected the drive better by flexing and transmitting less of the shock. I installed an SSD a couple days ago that should bypass this design flaw once and for all. BTW the OCZ Apex is KICKASS!
Richard Dawkins does "demonstrate an intolerance for cultural diversity and diversity of thinking". I see him as the atheist's Rush Limbaugh.
My problem with this aircraft is that for the complexity and cost of 4 heavy lift helicopters plus a giant airship all you get is twice the lifting power of a helicopter that was designed 30 years ago!? WTF? You can rent a Mi-26 today. This project doesn't make any sense.
Coasting vehicles benefit from high weight (you can coast for longer). However they aren't very applicable to the real world. Therefore the limit is an effort to have the contest reflect reality to some degree.
On the light weight side, I believe the limits are to keep vehicles from costing too much, and to encourage average sized drivers, not just midgets.
The reporter got it wrong (as usual). The single entry was actually running Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) not as he reports "liquid petroleum gasoline". I believe the "combustion" class of which the winner was a part is plain old gasoline, just as the headline states.
It's tricky to understand because were' dealing with a relatively small difference in chances. So let's stretch this thing wide open.
1: There are 100 doors, 99 goats, 1 car.
2: You choose a door, you know it only has a 1% chance of hiding a car.
3: The host opens 98 doors.
4: You now know that the other door has a 98% chance of hiding a car.
5: You still know that your door only has a 1% chance of hiding a car.
6: Do you change doors?
7: Yes!
I know it seems silly, but it's EXACTLY the same principle as the 3 door example.
The magenta "t-mobile" is a temporary response to the letter (in legal terms I believe it's called a raspberry). Their standard logo doesn't look like T-Mobil's at all.
Geeks generally don't like "popular girls". Twitter gave the geek audience a back channel for communication. Now self communicating the audience assumed mob-like properties. The "mob" turned on the "popular girl".
Before the semaphore telegraph a man could travel faster than information. Am I the only one who thinks that's just really cool? The whole concept of being able to race across the globe faster than events is completely alien to our current existence.
Hmmm... Let me put it this way; Before the semaphore telegraph, the world was split into a very large number of simultaneous but completely separate realities. As soon as that telegraph came into existence those realities began merging into one.
The problem with Dvorak's argument is that "hunger relief" is not the same as "hunger solution". The promise of the OLPC is that in the medium to long term it may encourage actual solutions to hunger, over population, women's rights, etc. It's the old "give a man a fish"/"teach a man to fish" argument. Sure, there's a good chance won't work out in the end, but isn't it worth a try?
Get a 100k of these running in parallel, give em a self organizing and threading algorithm and run for cover. On the plus side Schwarzenegger's armageddon would be much more interesting than Gore's alternative.
Mr. G has continues to donate amazing amounts of money to very worth causes, clearly he has a very active social conscience... So why doesn't he just ask his own engineers to make an effort to cut down on electricity consumption? Quickly looking at the numbers:
120 watts unnecessary power consumption in DVD mode (at least)
*
2 hours of duration for the average DVD (including menus and bathroom, and extras)
=
240 watt hours
*
24 the average number of DVDs watched a year (at least)
*
4 years average service life per console
*
500000 XBox360 consoles that will bought and used regularly
=
11,520,000,000 watt hours
11.5 giga watt hours?! WTF?! Admittedly the numbers are pulled out of my butt, however I think you'll agree that the real figures must be much higher. And I'm just looking at DVD use, nevermind the people who'll keep their console on when it's not being used. Why on earth would Billy let that much unnecessary carbon get pumped into the atmosphere when (if?) he's so concerned about the planet??? This is one example of where a tiny amount of effort would have resulted in a significant practical difference.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but how does your statement about the one month infant mortality spike relate to the article's finding that no such spike is observable in the wild?
Absolutely, thank you. Anyone who is wringing there hands about the loss of this single squid must consider how little we know about the species. In fact we know so little right now that we could inadvertently alter their environment in a way that would result in the death of millions and never realize it. We must learn as much as we can about these animals that increasingly appear to comprise a significant role in the oceans' ecosystem. This is actually a relatively important area of scientific study.
First off I agree that it possibly can fly for short periods at mach 4 but much of the reason the SR71 is so weird is that it requires great efficiency for it's long range and it's high ceiling. Wearing space suits has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with altitude. The heat also has more to do with altitude, because there's so little air up high the plane looses very little heat to conduction it therefore must radiate most of its heat away, as a result it gets VERY hot. Actually that may also explain the "non-flamable" fuel. After all you wouldn't want it to spontaniously combust in the tanks.
Maybe my figures are out of date but I'm not pulling the out of my hat (see above reply).
I believe modern cars are infact much worse than 30%, I think I remember 28% as the current upper limit. Keep in mind however that batteries and electric motors are also highly inefficient.
I completely agree with you on the auto racing point. Some racing rules are loosely based around fuel consumption, for instance that's how they set the displacement limits for Wankel rotary engines when Mazda entered prototype endurance racing (i.e. they matched their fuel consumption to the respective reciprocating engine).
It was one of those hardcover "LIFE Natural Library" books. Most were published from the 70s to the early 80s. They were specifically speaking of hydro electric power which is often located 100s of miles from it's primary point of usage (the largest metropolitan area). Perhaps technology has come a long way but there's still no way you can transmit power over any appreciable distance with only 5-10% loss.
Always keep in mind that you have to transport that energy from the generating station to the end user. The inefficiency in transmitting electricity long distances is truly staggering. This is especially true for older remote hydro-electric stations (dams), where over 95% of the energy is lost in transit. Meaning that 95% of the energy goes to heating 100s of miles of hydro cables and towers.
This all goes to say that you must generate many times more energy if it's generated 200 miles away than you would if it's generated 3 feet from the drive wheels.
And no, it wasn't the earth. And no, it wasn't studio lighting. Infact it was a huge giant white thing with 1000s of square kilometers of surface area in the direct light of the sun. That's right, the moon was that mysterious secondary light source. If you take a picture on earth of an object in shadow you'll see quite a bit of detail in the shadow. On the moon you'll see far more detail because you'll be able to expose the picture just for the shadow, wheras on earth you'd have to worry about the sky getting too bright. Of couse the other factor that helps is that unlike the earth the moon is almost perfectly white.
You're concealing a statement in the form of a question. Clearly your prime objective here is to voice your personal opinion concerning "digital rights". Additionally you can't jump from a specific example like "DMCA sucks" to a blanket statement like "business is stealing our rights" and expect to be listened to. If you're truly interested in the opinions of the candidates on this particular issue ask something specific like:
"In your opinion does the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) needlesly infringe on the freedoms of the American public? If so, how will you alter the DMCA?"
If you can't hack it in this reality what makes you think you'll be any better off in the next?
The fungus are INSIDE the spacecraft. They are common household/human fungi, who are doing very well thanks to the suitably odd environment inside of MIR.
This page describes their screens as; "an SVGA panel over 38" in diagonal". Why is it only SVGA? Who would want an 38-48" SVGA (800X600) panel? You can get plasma screens with far higher resolution, not to mention LCD projectors.