People are considered part of the room, at least they were when I took thermo dynamics. And evaporating is a state change, significant energy may accompany a state change without any temperature change. Water at 100degrees and steam at 100degrees are the same temp, but steam embodied a lot more energy.
In the US we are actually poorer than in the 50's and 60's.
If that were true, why aren't more people going back and living like they were in the 50's and 60's. Yesterday I was home shopping and looked at a house built in the late 40's and greatly expanded in the 50's and thought to myself, wow, people really lived like this. I wonder how many people alive today would accept such primitive conditions?.
This was a nice house for the period, but is the kind that I see on real estates all the time that end up abandoned. I've looked at literally hundreds of these properties that are decaying or will decay because of neglect and nobody wants them. They're not expensive to buy and are easily less expensive than apartments. People could be saving so much money and building wealth at the same time,.
Won't there be a new coastline? Won't there always be a coastline? And what of those ancient people who invested heavily in coastland only to be heavily in debt when their beachfront condos moved inland a few hundred meters and people didn't want to live there any more?
Where would Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, hyperloop, etc. be if Musk was only allowed to keep his fair share of $300k after selling PayPal? Do you think that someone else would have done those startups with the money?
I thought the point of foss was that if you didn't like something, you were free to change it yourself. For that reason I've never had a complaint since I started using it in 1994.
But the rate of new bread and new circuses is unprecedented.
I dunno. All the "new" stuff seems to be the same as the old stuff with a new GUI. I used to get excited at least once a week with some new tech and used to devour magazines daily at the local library. I remember going from a hercules graphics card to cga was a revolutionary upgrade in capability. Now most new graphics are met with a yawn.
Autopilots on plane also save lives and reduce accidents, but are not allowed to be used until certified. The FAA does not allow beta software on commercial jets.
Well, panel cost used to be the vast majority of the cost by about 100 times. Currently inverters are about $0.50/watt and mounting is ~$0.10/watt. Inverter prices can fall by a substantial amount. My $2k inverter has about $400 of components in it.
Airplanes have almost nothing to do with rockets. Completely different tech, although they both go up in the air. Ancient Chinese fireworks makers would have been a more accurate comparison.
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Sounds like a job for the symbionese liberation army.
People are considered part of the room, at least they were when I took thermo dynamics. And evaporating is a state change, significant energy may accompany a state change without any temperature change. Water at 100degrees and steam at 100degrees are the same temp, but steam embodied a lot more energy.
world population 1700 to now.
In the US we are actually poorer than in the 50's and 60's.
If that were true, why aren't more people going back and living like they were in the 50's and 60's. Yesterday I was home shopping and looked at a house built in the late 40's and greatly expanded in the 50's and thought to myself, wow, people really lived like this. I wonder how many people alive today would accept such primitive conditions?.
This was a nice house for the period, but is the kind that I see on real estates all the time that end up abandoned. I've looked at literally hundreds of these properties that are decaying or will decay because of neglect and nobody wants them. They're not expensive to buy and are easily less expensive than apartments. People could be saving so much money and building wealth at the same time,.
Won't there be a new coastline? Won't there always be a coastline? And what of those ancient people who invested heavily in coastland only to be heavily in debt when their beachfront condos moved inland a few hundred meters and people didn't want to live there any more?
Where would Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, hyperloop, etc. be if Musk was only allowed to keep his fair share of $300k after selling PayPal? Do you think that someone else would have done those startups with the money?
there are too few developers volunteering their time and expertise to open source projects.
Doesn't that imply most itches have been scratched?
An iphone has better specs than my university's Cray in the mid 90's.
It's the future. Might as well embrace and try to profit from it.
I thought the point of foss was that if you didn't like something, you were free to change it yourself. For that reason I've never had a complaint since I started using it in 1994.
But the rate of new bread and new circuses is unprecedented.
I dunno. All the "new" stuff seems to be the same as the old stuff with a new GUI. I used to get excited at least once a week with some new tech and used to devour magazines daily at the local library. I remember going from a hercules graphics card to cga was a revolutionary upgrade in capability. Now most new graphics are met with a yawn.
then what convinced him to sign-on with that crappy follow-up?
I've read that it was James Horner.
Autopilots on plane also save lives and reduce accidents, but are not allowed to be used until certified. The FAA does not allow beta software on commercial jets.
Try to argue this with spacenutters.
Very isolated, but happily successful with friends (real, not internet) and family.
Well, panel cost used to be the vast majority of the cost by about 100 times. Currently inverters are about $0.50/watt and mounting is ~$0.10/watt. Inverter prices can fall by a substantial amount. My $2k inverter has about $400 of components in it.
I remember life before coffee shops (ca. late 80's). I don't remember it being too bad.
Airplanes have almost nothing to do with rockets. Completely different tech, although they both go up in the air. Ancient Chinese fireworks makers would have been a more accurate comparison.
What in the course of human history haven't we automated?
Astronaut.
There'll be driverless cars on the streets before you know it.
I remember hearing this in the 80's. I got excited. I even majored in it in college.
You made up those numbers.
Historically this is a very recent phenomena. It's what humanity did for the last 13 thousand years or so.
We could hook everyone up to an IV drip and harvest their brainwaves for energy.
Nihilism FTW.
Automated drivers are likely to be inherently unsafe compared to what a transporter beam will be.