You can't sit here and champion the benefits piracy clearly brings to your business while wanting to attack those same pirates with your infringement legal team.
Of course they can. Or are you going to stop them ?
I think it would be nice to have a simple app to control and program the thermostat instead of trying to decipher what the hell all those buttons and functions do, as those are some of the worst-designed devices I've ever seen.
Of course, the people who can't design a simple device may do much better when designing a simple app.
The acre-foot may seem an odd unit, but it makes calculations much simpler
If you use metric, the calculations are always simple. Large volumes of water are typically measured in cubic meters, and 1000 cubic meters is a hectare-decimetre.
Solar isn't nearly efficient enough to do that without pretty much paving over the entire southwest with solar facilities
Bullshit. The Ivanpah Solar Power facility is only 1% of the Mojave desert area, and can produce enough energy for several of those desalination plants.
This seems like a perfect project to power with solar energy. You can easily store the fresh water in times of peak solar production, and draw from reserves when solar output is low.
Bitcoin is not mature enough to be used as a true replacement currency.
I don't think it will ever be used as a true replacement currency. At best, it will be an alternative currency, existing in parallel, and used for the some applications in which it works better. I've done some programming jobs for people in other continents, and got paid in bitcoin, and then used those bitcoin to order stuff from another continent. All in a matter of minutes, with very little overhead. I could have used wire transfers, but they take several days, and can be costly. I could have used paypal, and pay a substantial fee. So, bitcoin worked nicely for this application. However, I don't expect to be paying my rent in bitcoin at any time.
The effectiveness of swyping depends quite a bit on the language. I find that it works fairly well in English, but not nearly as well in some other languages, where there may be many more ambiguous words. This also means that the optimal keyboard layout would depend on the language, which would be horrible to use for those of us who use two or more different languages.
The industrial use of gold is fairly small on the total gold market. Most of the value comes from people's desire to possess it, and people like to possess it because it's valuable.
If it was just for the industrial use, the price of gold would be a lot lower.
Fiat money also has no real value. Just like bitcoin it is based on trust, not on authority or enforcement.
Not-government-supported currency like gold has value besides its means as an exchange rate
Gold doesn't have much real value either.
Fiat currency is supported by a government
Didn't work well for Zimbabwe, or Weimar republic. Ultimately, fiat currency is simply based on trust that it will be accepted by others tomorrow like you accept it today. The government can help to provide stability, but the trust comes from the bottom, and can't be enforced when it's failing.
Sure, just as not long ago murder was an alternative to solve personal conflicts. Fortunately, the evolution of society made it a more costly alternative, as in you'll pay with the restriction of your liberty if you choose it.
There are plenty of places in the world where killing is still an accepted way to solve personal conflicts.
Let's start by making the world free and prosperous
We don't have the energy and resources for that. In fact, a lot of the resources are used faster than they are replenished. Not only fossil fuels, but also old aquifers and phosphorous, for example.
I don't think splashing down a first stage is a good idea. The impact on the water is going to be quite rough for a thin empty tube. And if you have the tech to splash down softly, you might as well land on land/barge and not deal with the salt water getting everywhere. Things are different for a capsule, which is much smaller and sturdier.
The FBI is either very good at catching terrorists before they even plan their attacks, or they are going out and setting people up. The Tsarnaev brothers kind of disprove the first possibility.
More likely, it's a combination of both. Some of the people they caught would probably have succeeded without the FBI, others needed FBI help, and some needed FBI encouragement. Of course, the FBI can't reliably see what kind of person they're dealing with when they start the sting, and how this person may develop later.
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Circular would be even better. That way you can rotate the camera in any angle.
Don't worry. You need radiation for the robots to become sentient.
Me too!
The camera doesn't cut anything off.
You can't sit here and champion the benefits piracy clearly brings to your business while wanting to attack those same pirates with your infringement legal team.
Of course they can. Or are you going to stop them ?
No, it's a lab with Jacques Gauthier's last name on it.
Yes, and it only half a day to configure everything. And then it's still wrong, and you have to reboot your quiche recipe.
I think it would be nice to have a simple app to control and program the thermostat instead of trying to decipher what the hell all those buttons and functions do, as those are some of the worst-designed devices I've ever seen.
Of course, the people who can't design a simple device may do much better when designing a simple app.
A device that contacts "Customer Experience" directly when it breaks down
1. Try rebooting your appliance.
2. Did this solve your problem ?
3. If not, please call customer service.
The acre-foot may seem an odd unit, but it makes calculations much simpler
If you use metric, the calculations are always simple. Large volumes of water are typically measured in cubic meters, and 1000 cubic meters is a hectare-decimetre.
Solar isn't nearly efficient enough to do that without pretty much paving over the entire southwest with solar facilities
Bullshit. The Ivanpah Solar Power facility is only 1% of the Mojave desert area, and can produce enough energy for several of those desalination plants.
This seems like a perfect project to power with solar energy. You can easily store the fresh water in times of peak solar production, and draw from reserves when solar output is low.
Bitcoin is not mature enough to be used as a true replacement currency.
I don't think it will ever be used as a true replacement currency. At best, it will be an alternative currency, existing in parallel, and used for the some applications in which it works better. I've done some programming jobs for people in other continents, and got paid in bitcoin, and then used those bitcoin to order stuff from another continent. All in a matter of minutes, with very little overhead. I could have used wire transfers, but they take several days, and can be costly. I could have used paypal, and pay a substantial fee. So, bitcoin worked nicely for this application. However, I don't expect to be paying my rent in bitcoin at any time.
The effectiveness of swyping depends quite a bit on the language. I find that it works fairly well in English, but not nearly as well in some other languages, where there may be many more ambiguous words. This also means that the optimal keyboard layout would depend on the language, which would be horrible to use for those of us who use two or more different languages.
The industrial use of gold is fairly small on the total gold market. Most of the value comes from people's desire to possess it, and people like to possess it because it's valuable.
If it was just for the industrial use, the price of gold would be a lot lower.
Fiat money is self referential too. You only accept it as a form of payment, because you know others will accept it from you.
Fiat money also has no real value. Just like bitcoin it is based on trust, not on authority or enforcement.
Not-government-supported currency like gold has value besides its means as an exchange rate
Gold doesn't have much real value either.
Fiat currency is supported by a government
Didn't work well for Zimbabwe, or Weimar republic. Ultimately, fiat currency is simply based on trust that it will be accepted by others tomorrow like you accept it today. The government can help to provide stability, but the trust comes from the bottom, and can't be enforced when it's failing.
The resources which aren't being recycled happen to be quite plentiful and/or have adequate substitute goods.
Yeah, when you're part of the top 1% of the world, everything seems quite plentiful.
Sure, just as not long ago murder was an alternative to solve personal conflicts. Fortunately, the evolution of society made it a more costly alternative, as in you'll pay with the restriction of your liberty if you choose it.
There are plenty of places in the world where killing is still an accepted way to solve personal conflicts.
Let's start by making the world free and prosperous
We don't have the energy and resources for that. In fact, a lot of the resources are used faster than they are replenished. Not only fossil fuels, but also old aquifers and phosphorous, for example.
There's isn't much land east of Florida.
I don't think splashing down a first stage is a good idea. The impact on the water is going to be quite rough for a thin empty tube. And if you have the tech to splash down softly, you might as well land on land/barge and not deal with the salt water getting everywhere. Things are different for a capsule, which is much smaller and sturdier.
Solar is also doomed because eventually it will have to scale up to the point where enclosing the entire sun simply isn't enough.
If you can limit the population, and the energy use per capita, energy requirement will reach an upper limit.
The FBI is either very good at catching terrorists before they even plan their attacks, or they are going out and setting people up. The Tsarnaev brothers kind of disprove the first possibility.
More likely, it's a combination of both. Some of the people they caught would probably have succeeded without the FBI, others needed FBI help, and some needed FBI encouragement. Of course, the FBI can't reliably see what kind of person they're dealing with when they start the sting, and how this person may develop later.
No, they're talking about an Uncommitted Logic Array. http://www.auditmypc.com/ula.a...