5% of your food source is 100 calories per day. That's roughly 8 carrots, 1 apple, 3/4 of a potato, 1/2kg of tomatoes (1 lb),.5lb strawberries, 1lb cauliflower, 1lb cabbage or.7kg of lettuce every day. That exceeds the yield my neighbor is getting from his 10mx30m outdoor garden in Seattle where he grows all of these (only the carrots, lettuce and strawberries have been harvested so far).
Sticking to one crop (for simplicity), it takes about 5 months for a cabbage to mature (150 days), so you'd need to plant 150 cabbages in your apartment (cabbage plants are really big with extended leaves maybe over 1m^2) to keep a continuous supply of 100 calories/day.
As was I (physicist)(in training). Tequila sponge. I only vaguely remember that period in my life so don't even recall if I knew you other than through the computer.
BeOS was realtime. QNX/Photon could also do this. The "problem" with this is that you are trading responsiveness for throughput. In order to never see a glitch in the GUI, your server performance drops some measurable percentage and that doesn't look good on benchmarks.
A college friend's father lives in a retirement community and got free $6k golf cart because they are street legal. The state had to change their subsidy rules after a far more than expected number of people took advantage of this. This was long before federal subsidies.
Lawyers work on getting 1/3rd of the settlement. You have to find who believes you have a case an can win. Thus, it's in their interest to chose only the cases where it's clear that you've been wronged (and avoiding frivolous lawsuits) and also to extract the most money as possible (to help themselves while inflicting the most pain).
Most advances in aerospace are due to advances in IT tech. The hypersonic jet would be 100% impossible to build without massive amounts of supercomputer time. There are dozens of chemical reactions that take place between when air enters the intake and exits out the rear with molecules forming, breaking down, reforming etc, all giving up and absorbing energy in different directions, pressures, shockwaves, etc.
A phd engineer friend at NASA used to tell me to wait until we got to 10^18th flops/sec to see really neat stuff being done because you could effectively simulate turbulence (his estimation and he was high up in their aerodynamics division, so likely had some educated rational for this belief).
What it feels like to smell a Martian flower perhaps. Instead of spending billions or trillions of dollars on developing technologies that could autonomously return quadrabytes of scientific information daily and building a Martian city for us we should spend that money on an astronauts feelings because that's what life is all about. Think of the inspiration of all human kind to be able to smell a rose that was grown on another planet. If you brought it back to Earth and charged people $1 to smell it, you'd recover yur costs in a week.
I was thinking about this this morning and then it occurred to me that the same thing happened to the computer magazine industry.
In the beginning, there were hobbyist magazines such as Byte and Compute!. Through the early 80's. I spent my lunch money on these, reading them cover to cover about a dozen times between issues. They were what would be considered today hard core, with pages of byte and machine languages to be typed in along with corresponding circuits to be soldered . Then computers started to become mainstream and content was slowly reduced to make room for more advertising I forget he name of it, but one issue of a computer magazine in maybe late 80's was over 1,000 pages of PC clone adverts. This was around the peak. Magazines, instead of be educational or a place where you could teach yourself a million dollar career, became a place where you could learn to change the color of your windows background or why windows was the best thing ever and so much better than various unnamed 'competitors'.
All the techy people who made the magazines interesting to nerds packed up and left like the Bar-ba-Loots. As the magazines tried to remake themselves into something else (usually Windows tips and Easter eggs), they declined and went out of business.
They were destined to die with the advent of the www, but their death was 15 years premature.
Slashdot Mirror
Sticking to one crop (for simplicity), it takes about 5 months for a cabbage to mature (150 days), so you'd need to plant 150 cabbages in your apartment (cabbage plants are really big with extended leaves maybe over 1m^2) to keep a continuous supply of 100 calories/day.
Note, this was pointed out to the professor in an Electrical Properties of Materials class by a classmate.
As was I (physicist)(in training). Tequila sponge. I only vaguely remember that period in my life so don't even recall if I knew you other than through the computer.
OT, off the wall question... were you at LAMPF in '89?
BeOS was realtime. QNX/Photon could also do this. The "problem" with this is that you are trading responsiveness for throughput. In order to never see a glitch in the GUI, your server performance drops some measurable percentage and that doesn't look good on benchmarks.
Real-time task management. That is all.
Pluto prefers to be called a little planet.
Unfortunately they forgot to enable a channel on Galileo and lost half the data on decent.
Balance. They are actually quite useful in this regard.
Tires last 90k km.
A college friend's father lives in a retirement community and got free $6k golf cart because they are street legal. The state had to change their subsidy rules after a far more than expected number of people took advantage of this. This was long before federal subsidies.
No news. Adding death warnings to labels on scary things has been an advertising gimmick since at least the 50's.
afford to pay for a lawyer to sue
Lawyers work on getting 1/3rd of the settlement. You have to find who believes you have a case an can win. Thus, it's in their interest to chose only the cases where it's clear that you've been wronged (and avoiding frivolous lawsuits) and also to extract the most money as possible (to help themselves while inflicting the most pain).
You can sue for anything. Why not sue for harassment + triple legal fees?
Slashdot will rise again.
I grew up with waynesbbs. Then usenet :( Then / :((
might worry more about robots that have autonomous control and unrestricted range of motion
You mean like a driverless car?
So, a millennial?
You are not your job. There was a movie about this.
A phd engineer friend at NASA used to tell me to wait until we got to 10^18th flops/sec to see really neat stuff being done because you could effectively simulate turbulence (his estimation and he was high up in their aerodynamics division, so likely had some educated rational for this belief).
For biological purposes, Mars is a vacuum, not 1/10th that of Earth. http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
What it feels like to smell a Martian flower perhaps. Instead of spending billions or trillions of dollars on developing technologies that could autonomously return quadrabytes of scientific information daily and building a Martian city for us we should spend that money on an astronauts feelings because that's what life is all about. Think of the inspiration of all human kind to be able to smell a rose that was grown on another planet. If you brought it back to Earth and charged people $1 to smell it, you'd recover yur costs in a week.
In the beginning, there were hobbyist magazines such as Byte and Compute!. Through the early 80's. I spent my lunch money on these, reading them cover to cover about a dozen times between issues. They were what would be considered today hard core, with pages of byte and machine languages to be typed in along with corresponding circuits to be soldered . Then computers started to become mainstream and content was slowly reduced to make room for more advertising I forget he name of it, but one issue of a computer magazine in maybe late 80's was over 1,000 pages of PC clone adverts. This was around the peak. Magazines, instead of be educational or a place where you could teach yourself a million dollar career, became a place where you could learn to change the color of your windows background or why windows was the best thing ever and so much better than various unnamed 'competitors'.
All the techy people who made the magazines interesting to nerds packed up and left like the Bar-ba-Loots. As the magazines tried to remake themselves into something else (usually Windows tips and Easter eggs), they declined and went out of business.
They were destined to die with the advent of the www, but their death was 15 years premature.
Without that, humans wouldn't be here. Humanity would live through a similar impact today.
That's not the full story on Monica.