In this article, Yunus calls for Silicon Valley to develop a smartphone for the poor. I define that as being any smartphone that has been on the market for about three years, and which still sells.
The rich are early adopters, willingly paying premium prices to be first to try technology that may or may not catch on. They might find themselves with an iPhone that has innumerable uses - and they would have been among those to try Google Glass, and look silly doing so. Tech that survives the early adopter filter then goes to the mass market, where it slides down the cost learning curve and the user experience learning curve until it becomes a cheap commodity for all.
No, the RAMAC was more of a walk-in freezer. You're thinking of the IBM 2311 a few years later, which was a top-loading washing machine that gave you over seven megabytes of storage. Nobody knew what to do with all that capacity.
First he wrecked the entire IT system of Air Canada and completely deleted the company’s customer service capability, but found that nobody noticed, because AC always runs that way.
When I visited Hellisheiði this spring, the capture device was under construction, but our guide did not know what it was. Apparently it uses the plant’s copious hydrogen sulfide emissions to convert atmospheric carbon to a stable mineral compound.
Your 175 TW to 25 TW comparison refers to heat dissipation, which is trivial compared to the warming effect of greenhouse gas emitted by the fossil fuel share of our 25 TW.
Yes, our climate models are not very good at telling us how much of the weather we experience year on year is altered by manmade carbon. It’s just a good idea for us not to go on making the problem worse.
And nuclear is overly expensive in countries whose legal systems allow protesters to tie up projects with decades of worthless lawsuits. Build them in places like France and China that just ignore protesters, to a common design with as many factory built modules as possible.
Germany’s dirty little secret is that the whole national sacrifice of sky-high energy costs to subsidize renewable energy sources has done nothing to address the climate change problem. In fact, it emits more carbon than before because its industrial baseload has shifted from nuclear to coal. Not even to regular coal, but filthy lignite.
But Germany is just one country. What the world needs to do to limit carbon is replace the fossil baseload with nuclear, supplemented by whatever renewables we can manage. To sequester carbon already in circulation, push ocean nutrient seeding and genetically modified plants designed to take carbon out of circulation.
One way to address the solar storm problem could be to develop a constant-thrust fission engine. It gets us to the destination in a shorter time, and if a storm does occur enroute the crew could hide behind the dense fuel as shielding.
I just keep wonder why NASA has this fixation on trying to do space in weightlessness? Why not use centrifugal force to simulate gravity...
Because the ISS is specifically for gaining experience with the effects of zero-G, of course. We need to know whether all astronauts suffer the effects described here after long periods, or some subset. We need to know what durations are required for which effects to show up. It's science.
And the effects Kelly describes are for the most part adaptations to microgravity. When you first go into zero-G your blood rushes to your head because your vascular system has spent a lifetime squeezing it out of your legs. Kelly describes becoming adapted to this in space and then having blood pool in his legs upon return, while the body readjusts to its old habits. How long does this take after X months of weightlessness? These are the questions ISS is designed to answer.
When we do start using rotating habitats to simulate gravity, will we need a full G? Will the lunar or Martian constant suffice? Will a rotating gym or dormitory inhabited part of each working day suffice?
Now that YouTube is defining 'conspiracy theory' for itself rather than letting its viewers decide, what is the criterion exactly? Might it be any evidence that supports the ISIS claim?
Except that apparently you can get away with collecting ransomware payments in BTC for as long as you want to. Why the charmed life for this one crime?
No, it’s a play on ‘disgust’, as in the commenting system that keeps logging you out of your account on a site at random unexpected times. And when you find yourself logged out, generally after hitting ‘Reply’ and composing a beautiful rejoinder to some clueless moron who could benefit so by your crystalline reasoning, you find that the Disqus login pop up just flashes by, disappearing without letting you enter anything.
The bright side is that a site that uses Disgust is at least not using Livefyre.
When I acquired a Jabra Bluetooth headset years ago, long before the 3.5 mm receptacle was eliminated, I gladly used it as a replacement for the old earbuds. No more tangly cord and I’ve never looked back.
The range of music I can play over the Jabra is exactly what I could play over the old earbuds. What am I being locked into, exactly?
This is true of the moderation, rather than the trolling itself. Much moderation has become reaction to the opinion, rather than the quality of the post. I can tell because if I post something thoughtfully controversial, I often see a whole profile page of it being batted back and forth between rival gangs of driveby upmodders and downmoddders, often settling about where it started.
Go to the linked 9/11 page, and the top story on 9/11 itself. What jumped out at me right away was the quality of the comments that got modded Troll that day. They were for the most part anti-Islam screeds and gummint-did-it conspiracy theorists, but all of them composed by someone who actually expected their commentary to be read by others. Not a single instance of app apping cow nonsense, references to gay ethnics, or multipage cut-and-paste fetish descriptions.
If this site is not going to be News For Nerds anymore, let's at least bring back our literate trolls.
Funny, but that wasn't what happened to NASA. In having to convert between metric and imperial too many times, it encountered accumulating roundoff error.
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You said the "R" name. That's another no-no here.
In this article, Yunus calls for Silicon Valley to develop a smartphone for the poor. I define that as being any smartphone that has been on the market for about three years, and which still sells.
The rich are early adopters, willingly paying premium prices to be first to try technology that may or may not catch on. They might find themselves with an iPhone that has innumerable uses - and they would have been among those to try Google Glass, and look silly doing so. Tech that survives the early adopter filter then goes to the mass market, where it slides down the cost learning curve and the user experience learning curve until it becomes a cheap commodity for all.
Someone make a sign.
Given the mentality we're talking about here, it would probably read NO GIRLS ALOUD.
No, the RAMAC was more of a walk-in freezer. You're thinking of the IBM 2311 a few years later, which was a top-loading washing machine that gave you over seven megabytes of storage. Nobody knew what to do with all that capacity.
First he wrecked the entire IT system of Air Canada and completely deleted the company’s customer service capability, but found that nobody noticed, because AC always runs that way.
Why are they turning CO2 into stone? Why not convert it into something useful, like ethanol?
Because if you convert it into ethanol or into a tree, the path back to atmospheric carbon is a lot shorter.
And for this application the fluctuations in generated power wouldn’t matter.
When I visited Hellisheiði this spring, the capture device was under construction, but our guide did not know what it was. Apparently it uses the plant’s copious hydrogen sulfide emissions to convert atmospheric carbon to a stable mineral compound.
Can you give an example of writing where there is concrete stuff and substance?
Neal Stephenson. Gibson was a master of creating atmosphere, and then in many cases not taking the story much farther than that.
So dark matter just became the phlogiston of modern times. I won’t get to use my #BlackMatterLives hashtag after all.
Your 175 TW to 25 TW comparison refers to heat dissipation, which is trivial compared to the warming effect of greenhouse gas emitted by the fossil fuel share of our 25 TW.
Yes, our climate models are not very good at telling us how much of the weather we experience year on year is altered by manmade carbon. It’s just a good idea for us not to go on making the problem worse.
And nuclear is overly expensive in countries whose legal systems allow protesters to tie up projects with decades of worthless lawsuits. Build them in places like France and China that just ignore protesters, to a common design with as many factory built modules as possible.
Germany’s dirty little secret is that the whole national sacrifice of sky-high energy costs to subsidize renewable energy sources has done nothing to address the climate change problem. In fact, it emits more carbon than before because its industrial baseload has shifted from nuclear to coal. Not even to regular coal, but filthy lignite.
But Germany is just one country. What the world needs to do to limit carbon is replace the fossil baseload with nuclear, supplemented by whatever renewables we can manage. To sequester carbon already in circulation, push ocean nutrient seeding and genetically modified plants designed to take carbon out of circulation.
One way to address the solar storm problem could be to develop a constant-thrust fission engine. It gets us to the destination in a shorter time, and if a storm does occur enroute the crew could hide behind the dense fuel as shielding.
I just keep wonder why NASA has this fixation on trying to do space in weightlessness? Why not use centrifugal force to simulate gravity...
Because the ISS is specifically for gaining experience with the effects of zero-G, of course. We need to know whether all astronauts suffer the effects described here after long periods, or some subset. We need to know what durations are required for which effects to show up. It's science.
And the effects Kelly describes are for the most part adaptations to microgravity. When you first go into zero-G your blood rushes to your head because your vascular system has spent a lifetime squeezing it out of your legs. Kelly describes becoming adapted to this in space and then having blood pool in his legs upon return, while the body readjusts to its old habits. How long does this take after X months of weightlessness? These are the questions ISS is designed to answer.
When we do start using rotating habitats to simulate gravity, will we need a full G? Will the lunar or Martian constant suffice? Will a rotating gym or dormitory inhabited part of each working day suffice?
You know it's grade-A news when it cites a twenty-five-year-old Simpsons episode as its reasoning.
CNN is a liberal news outlet that can't even be bothered to coin its own irrelevant snark. It has to swipe someone else's.
It's rocket science. Everyone who has worked in this field has taken longer than he thought it would, starting with von Braun.
Now that YouTube is defining 'conspiracy theory' for itself rather than letting its viewers decide, what is the criterion exactly? Might it be any evidence that supports the ISIS claim?
Please tell us more. How many millions of their own people have Australia and the UK killed?
There is no need for these governments to do any killing. Criminals and jihadists are doing the job all by themselves.
Except that apparently you can get away with collecting ransomware payments in BTC for as long as you want to. Why the charmed life for this one crime?
No, it’s a play on ‘disgust’, as in the commenting system that keeps logging you out of your account on a site at random unexpected times. And when you find yourself logged out, generally after hitting ‘Reply’ and composing a beautiful rejoinder to some clueless moron who could benefit so by your crystalline reasoning, you find that the Disqus login pop up just flashes by, disappearing without letting you enter anything.
The bright side is that a site that uses Disgust is at least not using Livefyre.
When I acquired a Jabra Bluetooth headset years ago, long before the 3.5 mm receptacle was eliminated, I gladly used it as a replacement for the old earbuds. No more tangly cord and I’ve never looked back.
The range of music I can play over the Jabra is exactly what I could play over the old earbuds. What am I being locked into, exactly?
This is true of the moderation, rather than the trolling itself. Much moderation has become reaction to the opinion, rather than the quality of the post. I can tell because if I post something thoughtfully controversial, I often see a whole profile page of it being batted back and forth between rival gangs of driveby upmodders and downmoddders, often settling about where it started.
Go to the linked 9/11 page, and the top story on 9/11 itself. What jumped out at me right away was the quality of the comments that got modded Troll that day. They were for the most part anti-Islam screeds and gummint-did-it conspiracy theorists, but all of them composed by someone who actually expected their commentary to be read by others. Not a single instance of app apping cow nonsense, references to gay ethnics, or multipage cut-and-paste fetish descriptions.
If this site is not going to be News For Nerds anymore, let's at least bring back our literate trolls.
You're confusing inches with centimeters again.
Hey... all I know is that that works for NASA.
Funny, but that wasn't what happened to NASA. In having to convert between metric and imperial too many times, it encountered accumulating roundoff error.