A simple solution is to let businesses own and operate the last mile, but implement some regulations that require these business to sell raw bandwidth for reasonable prices to any other business wishing to provide a service.
That's how it's done in a lot of Europe, and it works pretty well.
What's unscientific is believing, like you seem to do, that we are very special and that there can't be intelligent life on the other billions of planets in the vicinity.
There is a serious mismatch between:
1) vicinity 2) billions of planets 3) SETI programs
If ET emits random radio waves, similar like we do on earth, and we wish to detect them with our SETI program, the vicinity does not have billions of planets, but just 7, namely the ones in our solar system.
Also, the Drake equation only estimates how many ETIs there are. It says nothing about our chance to detect each one. If you add those terms as well, the result is pretty much zero.
SETI is testing the hypothesis that something is out there.
No, they are testing that something is out there (but not too far), with a powerful transmitter, and using a big dish aimed at us at exactly the same time we are aiming our dish at them.
I'm willing to bet you can spend your money better than the government can
Yes, for some things. The free market is excellent at solving some problems. Government is good at solving other problems, and usually government programs are created after people notice that the free market isn't taking care of it.
you know they still move after the grass is cut right?
Yeah, I'm not stupid. But if you're going to move the mower after cutting, you should add those movements to the total travel distance, making the path longer. If you do that, the suggested path is no longer the shortest one.
Instead, they should have optimized a path that starts and ends at roughly the same place (just outside the lawn), and then you put the shed there to park the mower.
There are many ways to create paths that don't end in the middle of the lawn, even without a drive through shed. Nobody said that you could never cross your own path. It's just not as efficient.
Depends on your volume. If you're only making one or two robots, the $25 for the board is the least of your problems. With Linux you get free drivers for USB and Ethernet, plus all the protocol stacks and journaling file systems.
You missed the point. If you're trying to optimize for the shortest path, you don't want to travel the mower across the lawn with the blades turned off. Instead, put the blades down, and find a path that starts/ends at the same place (or at least along the edge). That way, the total path will be shorter.
This is the Banks punishing us for not piling on debt as quickly as they would like
On the contrary. The last couple of years, most banks have become much more hesitant to loan money. Makes sense, after seeing many banks got into trouble due to bad loans.
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Why are the power companies warning us ? There's nothing we can do. It's their responsibility to keep the grid running, not ours.
If it takes so long to get a replacement transformer, they should have ordered a couple years ago, and kept them as spares.
Other sites seem to work fine with an edit feature.
A simple solution is to let businesses own and operate the last mile, but implement some regulations that require these business to sell raw bandwidth for reasonable prices to any other business wishing to provide a service.
That's how it's done in a lot of Europe, and it works pretty well.
I'd call it religious if the Drake equation was used as a basis for the SETI experiment.
If you fix the Drake equation, it should be clear that the SETI experiment is pointless.
There is a serious mismatch between:
1) vicinity
2) billions of planets
3) SETI programs
If ET emits random radio waves, similar like we do on earth, and we wish to detect them with our SETI program, the vicinity does not have billions of planets, but just 7, namely the ones in our solar system.
Also, the Drake equation only estimates how many ETIs there are. It says nothing about our chance to detect each one. If you add those terms as well, the result is pretty much zero.
No, they are testing that something is out there (but not too far), with a powerful transmitter, and using a big dish aimed at us at exactly the same time we are aiming our dish at them.
Everything else is too weak to detect.
Yes, for some things. The free market is excellent at solving some problems. Government is good at solving other problems, and usually government programs are created after people notice that the free market isn't taking care of it.
Are none of them interested in space, or just a minority ? In the latter case, it may be a correct reflection of the general population.
If you read the interview, it mentions powerful multimedia as one of the design goals. The Arduino doesn't have that.
I wonder how many times this feature was used. Any idea ?
Yeah, I'm not stupid. But if you're going to move the mower after cutting, you should add those movements to the total travel distance, making the path longer. If you do that, the suggested path is no longer the shortest one.
Instead, they should have optimized a path that starts and ends at roughly the same place (just outside the lawn), and then you put the shed there to park the mower.
There are many ways to create paths that don't end in the middle of the lawn, even without a drive through shed. Nobody said that you could never cross your own path. It's just not as efficient.
On an airliner, don't you need the control surfaces to fly, and the landing gear to take off ?
I'm sure professional astronauts don't mind a parachute landing.
If we ever get space hotels, I guess I can just go there with my flying car instead.
Seriously, why does every space story need to involve a reference to space hotels ?
No, the downgrade and crash are both the result of the same underlying problems. So, it wasn't a coincidence.
Depends on your volume. If you're only making one or two robots, the $25 for the board is the least of your problems. With Linux you get free drivers for USB and Ethernet, plus all the protocol stacks and journaling file systems.
You missed the point. If you're trying to optimize for the shortest path, you don't want to travel the mower across the lawn with the blades turned off. Instead, put the blades down, and find a path that starts/ends at the same place (or at least along the edge). That way, the total path will be shorter.
Apparently not. He's asking for advice.
Really ? In that case I'm curious what the trade balance would have looked like in the last decade if they hadn't been so competitive.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/US_Trade_Balance_1980_2010.svg/675px-US_Trade_Balance_1980_2010.svg.png
On the contrary. The last couple of years, most banks have become much more hesitant to loan money. Makes sense, after seeing many banks got into trouble due to bad loans.
Not much, but assuming you want to move the mower back, the proposed solution isn't optimal because your traveling twice over the same strip of grass.
If he enjoyed doing it, why is he looking for the most efficient method possible ?
TFA has a picture of the lawnmower. It is circular, and not at all imaginary.
The 'optimal' solution has the mower finishing in the middle of the lawn, which is usually not where you want to leave it parked.
Is that the same FOX channel that aired the "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" program, that promoted moon hoax claims ?