Either you live in the EU itself, in which case I don't know why you're posting because you should know better... or you live outside the EU, in which case this has real benefits that shouldn't be sniffed at, as long as you WANT to have an EU presence.... Or you live across 'the pond' in that country where speech is 'free' and guns 'don't kill'. In which case I respond to you this:
'... says the person that lives in the largest third world shit-hole in the world.'
Through history, mathematicians have invented new ways to abstract and notate ever more complex mathematical problems. What began with simple addition, then multiplication - exponentiation - summation - calculus - differential equations -.. (I stop here because that's about my limit of understanding... I'm not a mathematician, and the last category I mentioned I'm not even very good at... but I know there are some further abstractions 'out there'.)
Computers/various processors are very good in doing a lot of simple calculations, very fast. But to do more complex calculations it needs to execute more than one instruction... a program, eventually written by human beings. Even current computational AI is just a whole bunch of very elementary calculations. If you say 'x' result of a current gen AI is too difficult to understand for a human being, maybe you're right. If it's truly that complex and we have no current world abstractions to represent it in, we may need to invent those abstractions first or need to 'augment' ourselves in another way to make it understandable for a 'human' being by offloading some background processing? Maybe it's simply because it isn't presented to a human in a proper way. I would go crazy if you would hand me a gigabyte of machine code and ask me what it does. Present me the bare source code of said compiled machine code at an abstractional level I'm capable working at and I would be of much more help to you. Add the comments of the original maker in a language I'm sufficiently capable of technically reading in and my understanding within limited time will improve dramatically.
But current gen computational AI isn't designed to present its inner workings in a human readable way. If you're lucky it's designed to be as efficient as it possibly can, with the training given. And it will work on a very narrowly defined set of data, not even close to what we could consider 'real world' problems. Sorting cat videos, playing go and even forecasting chemical reactions is not solving real world problems. You'd need chemical factories or at least a chem lab to produce those chemicals first. And then you need to distribute them in a way it makes sense for its application.
Subtle, malevolent AI means you expect intent. And for that AI needs to be both generic, totally independent of human beings for its processes and have enough capable sensors to put its 'thoughts' into 'motion'. I think we're still centuries away from that, if ever. And in that span of time, capabilities (in the broadest sense of the word) of humans themselves will have evolved drastically as well (I hope).
To safeguard our future from subtle, malevolent AI, we only need to grasp that future. And that future will need more safeguarding from subtle, malevolent I (sans A) before there is any chance of even that.
Well... maybe... I think I would still do similar work, even if it wouldn't net me an income* I could live on. Maybe not for the same clients as I'm working now because I would then be (even more) the one to choose where to invest my time in. And maybe a part of my work will then be invested in projects which will benefit me in a non-financial way. But I'd definitely do similar work. Hell, I already do volunteering IT work for two organizations, beside my regular (part-time 4 days/week) job. And part of my hobbies and non-professional interests are quite related to what I'm good at in my job as well. I'd definitely not stay in bed all day, but I might take more vacation days so I can play that game I still haven't found the time for, or do a bit of traveling every now and then.
*Which would only happen if 'someone else' would provide me with enough income independent of the work I do.
Most UPSes use lead gel battery technology (which has sulphuric acid as an electrolyte). An entirely different beast than Lithium ion cells. Lead cells that are used (too) sparingly have sulphate crystal buildup. Those crystals, when they get too big, act as insulators, diminishing the peak power performance of the cells.
See? Most* can't even estimate their own workloads. It always takes twice as much as planned. And then there are 'managers'... who prevent us from using assembly the way it's meant to be used. They want to *shudder* 'understand' what we write and collaborate and a fancy UI and garbage collection (there is a lot of garbage surrounding our little blue planet) and *fill in favorite hype/buzzword* using *popular piece of office software they say they can actually be productive in*. So everything has to go through compilers and various frameworks and engines and virtual machines... 10 levels of bloat. And that's why you need a hexadeca Core-i9 instead of a quad Cortex-a53...
If we can establish: -The order of the digits is: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...
70+35 =/= 95 in any base
Some more thoughts on the matter: -The base is at least 10, because the digit 9 is mentioned. 0 + 5 == '5' and doesn't overflow for any base >= 6. 7 + 3 == '11' in base 9, '10' in base 10, and a non-overflowing '10th' digit in any base > 10, let's say, 'A'. It can never be '9'. In case of a fractional base, the range of values lies between the two natural bases that surround it. It doesn't give us extra options to get to '95' as an answer. In case of a negative base, many values need a digit more to be represented compared to the positive base of the same size. The values themselves will be equal or larger in the negative base to make room for the values that have a '-' sign in the positive base. So that doesn't help us either.
Japanese precision > Deutsche Gründlichkeit > British punctuality.
By the way, if you plan to visit/stay in multiple cities and are visiting as a tourist, I can recommend you to buy a Japanese Railpass for the weeks you want to travel. Do that BEFORE you go to Japan, as they are (usually) not sold within the country. The Railpass is valid for all normal JR rail lines, some JR ferries and many JR shinkansen (except for the fastest variants), either as a regional pass or for the entire country. Also, you can reserve seats for free in many shinkansen when you have a Railpass, but you do have to reserve them. I forgot to reserve a seat once on a shinkansen with only reserved seats while I thought there would be a few carts without seat reservation in the back. Luckily I was helped out by an extremely friendly train conductor who was capable to find a seat that should be empty for the trip I had planned.
The only Steam games (and I have quite a few) I can't play offline are MMO games. The rest is perfectly playable, once installed.... or at least their single-player and (for those that have that) local multi-player modi are.
I have no experience with EA Origin, so please enlighten me...
I don't know... There are whole continents in this world where internet is wanted (and available) more than 100% (stable/abundant) power. The worst of your power problems you may be able to tackle locally and relatively easily if you're a bit resourceful (use some solar cells that still work, use a car battery, re-purpose a bike with a dynamo and use 'home training' to charge your cellphone...). No equipment for the few data pipes still available in such situations (satellite frequencies) or laying emergency infrastructure (whether it's over amateur radio frequencies, or pieces of scrounged copper wire) is a lot harder to 'fix'. I agree a roof, water and something nutritious enough to keep yourself alive does take precedence. But then it's communication (and by extension, internet) before power for me...
I do remember having stored a 5.25" Quantum Bigfoot somewhere. It's not anymore in service, but it operated for about a decade in my room in the student dorm I lived, around the turn of the millennium... Slackware based 486 router PC (I was the unofficial local ISP at that time) with an experimental cable modem connection, 2 NE2000 compatible ISA NICs (coax was more robust when squeezed between the door and post of the dorm rooms...) and a single 'luxurious' 3Com 3c509 with 10base-T for the room-local net... The disk did 4000rpm. Couple of GB in size, IDE interface.
Try to tell that to countries which check the following boxes: -high population density -little develop-able high ground
Examples: Japan, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, various pacific atoll-island nations.
Now filter out the countries that:
-have enough technical expertise to be capable to defend against flooding -have enough wealth or capability to raise capital to invest in water management projects -are politically stable enough to effectively plan for long-term flooding defences
Strike the first two, keep the rest.
Be glad you live in a country where non-coastal land is in abundance, for you can ridicule global warming induced rising sea-levels all you like (unless you choose to live in Florida). We know if we don't invest now, and stay investing, we'll be destroyed soon(tm). Water management is a necessary part of keeping our nation... a nation and not a giant flood plane. Having said that, please consider some nations don't have the technology/money to solve these problems they were mostly not responsible for in the first place... Which will probably mean another stream of refugees in a couple of decades. Not that it's of your concern....
It sucks your music got 'stolen', however, if you publish something on the internet, and this is true for anything published on the internet (as for anyone available without a restriction to authenticate), consider, by default, it will be handled as if in the public domain. Everyone can do whatever they like to do with it. This includes Google. This is because the internet is an open medium and if you want restrictions, you have to implement those yourself. You can't expect someone else to do that for you (unless you pay them or otherwise incentivize them). And you can't expect to just post something on the internet and then others magically not using it if it doesn't fit your wishes, but do use it if it does.
If you don't want your content to be used by everyone, and I expect you want to, else you wouldn't have bothered to post, there are a few simple steps to take.
In case of 'normal' users you can do various things. For example, use authentication mechanisms (a site login?) to prevent unauthorized access. This also prevents automatic scrapers, like search engines from taking your content, unless you explicitly allow them or your authentication mechanism is crappy and easily circumvented (in which case you have a lousy webdeveloper). Urge your users to not copy your work and publish it on other websites (and if they will, urge your rights representative to act on your behalf or send out DMCA requests to prevent linking to these illegal copies).
In case of search engines and other automatic scrapers, set your robots.txt appropriately. On my sites, as far as I know, robots.txt is honoured pretty well by the 'usual' search engines. I do sometimes see scrapers of questionable origins in the webserver logs. Those I just IP-ban. Nothing else can be done about that...
If you have done these things and your music is still being copied by Google/Bing/etc. then you have a point. By the way, copying and deep-linking are two entirely different beasts altogether. If you don't want to be deep-linked that's a wholly different story and another can of worms if that's considered EVIL or not. For example, most news paper publishers seem to HATE citation-and-deep-linking with a vengeance because they fear loss of advertisement revenue. But they still want to be found on the entire contents of their articles... In my opinion that's a have a cake and eat it situation... You can't force a search engine to both make your articles searchable but then withhold the searcher a proper link, so they have to navigate through your advertisements/payment model to eventually be able to reach the article they searched for. It's either good searchability 'for free' (in quotes because, of course, the search engines have their own business model, else they wouldn't exist at all) and 'free' content for the searchers or provide your own searcher (and do your own promotion to attract a public) and have a pay/advertisement-wall you can generate revenue from.
I would be VERY careful with that. A couple of hundred milligrams nicotine can be lethal in adults. Children can get very ill from nicotine poisoning by ingesting (eating) only one cigarette. And you should handle any nicotine containing e-cigarette liquid with utmost care (Nicotine transfers through skin very easily).
With caffeine, you can consume several grams before things get ugly - you should not drink more than 50 cups of coffee in one sitting... and don't forget amounts can add up if your liver didn't have time to metabolize it all before you go on your next drinking spree. Regarding energy drinks, I don't know what's a safe quantity. Red bull claims one (1/4 l) can contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. But many of them (including Red bull) contain other stimulants beside caffeine and/or caffeine in a higher dose.
Yes, you have. The conversion you mean is probably an audio signal modulated on a (much) higher fixed (unless modulation is FM) frequency EM signal. In that case, you receive the EM signal, separate the effects of the modulation by subtracting (filter, mix, whatever) the fixed EM signal and go on to recreate the audio according to the modulation used.
In this case, you convert an EM signal directly in its same frequency 'sound' equivalent. Because 'sound' (or pressure) waves travel slower (~340 m/s in average sea-level pressure air) than EM (a bit less than 3000000 m/s in vacuum, light is a special kind of EM) waves, you need less 'distance' in the materials that need to resonate with the frequency. The signal energy is now stored as stresses between molecules inside the material instead of electrons bumping/traveling through the material. Do note the speeds of 'sound' and 'light' are quite a bit different in various materials, but most of the time 'light' is a LOT faster than 'sound' and thus travels a MUCH longer 'distance'.
The novelty here is two-fold. 1) They found a way to directly convert EM waves into their 'sound' equivalent. 2) They developed/found an appropriate material that can 'detect' (turn into an electric signal) the stresses of 'sound' waves at very high frequencies.
During the receiving process, the magnetic layer of ME antennas senses H-components of EM waves, which induces a oscillating strain and a piezoelectric voltage output at the electromechanical resonance frequency.
In other words, the material uses magnetic detection (also done by coils, like in AM ~1MHz / 300 meter radios... which are a lot smaller than a 300 meter wire antenna equivalent) and because of its shape it starts to oscillate with the signal. Not electromagnetically, like in almost every other EM wave antenna, but mechanically. It creates stresses in the material (oscillating strain). They convert that strain back to an electric signal, using piezoelectric properties of the material (like the quartz in a 'push button' style lighter which emits a(n electric) spark that ignites gas). Oscillation only happens when the 'distance' in the material very closely matches the frequency of the receiving/transmitting wave; in this case in its 'sound' form. This is why you need to tune a guitar to get the right tone and 'normal' EM antennas need to be an appropriate fraction of their receiving/transmitting EM wave length.
What I'm interested in with this technology, is how you could 'tune' the material to receive/transmit in a broader frequency range than its 'natural' oscillation. That may be needed to make the antenna interesting for very broadband signals and tune-able equipment (like amateur radio transceivers or channel selectable broadcasting) With 'normal' EM transmitting/receiving antennas we have various options to electrically tune the antenna but here you may have to dynamically 'shape' the material to permit a broader frequency range...
You do have figured out how to facilitate roaming, don't you? It should definitely not do to have to manually connect when switching to a more suitable access point. Certainly if the product is to be used in vivo. Also, do you handle the energy needs through composting? We do need green certification nowadays. The use of fossil fuels is a no-go pretty much everywhere except the good old U.S. of A. and there should be enough bio-methane present to at least partly fulfil the energy needs. What about storage to provide a base load during low hours? And how about coverage in rural and other mostly uninhabited areas? Do you plan to also release portable emergency access points that, for example, can cover a hole in the ground? We do believe, with the right approach, this could be a very investment worthy product but we'd like to see proper user stories, a list of requirements and general development roadmap before this company is tempted to make an investment. Market research can wait until the time is ripe to sell to one of the big boys.
I'm addicted to water. Even daily doses don't cut it for mild withdrawal symptoms. I have to have a hit every couple of hours. If I go three days without it, withdrawal symptoms become murderous, literally. And it's not only me. Wars are fought over it. It's the most destructive drug on the face of the earth. Not only for about every living thing, but also for the earth itself... Erosion is mostly caused by water (related) processes. More than 7 billion people and even most animals are addicted to the stuff, not to speak of basically most every living thing on this blue globe! Some creatures even need to swim in the stuff to survive! If you think about it, how could it be otherwise? She (Earth) is tempting us with the stuff, let it seem to be in abundance. But there is, compared to total mass, very little of it, only at boundary of Earth's crust and atmosphere it's in 'abundance' and much of it needs to be pure enough for actual 'safe' use, else diseases spread like wildfire, worse than heroin and contaminated needles. There are some 'safe' adulterants for 100% H2O... certain minerals, some carbohydrates and derivatives. But they are mostly stop-gap measures and many only make you need more of the stuff eventually. We really need to stop this addiction. Let's blow up the earth and never be addicted again!
(Disclaimer for those who don't get sarcasm: This post is intended as and should be considered sarcasm. I do not intend to actually blow up the earth. I'm not affiliated to any terrorist movement without or with capabilities of doing so, except a government that seems to have 'leased'/'allowed stationing'/'whatever' some WMD's of a certain bigger government that might be able to 'make a dent'... I repeat again: This post is intended as and should be considered sarcasm. That includes parts of this bracketed disclaimer that don't mention sarcasm.)
Antarctica is also known as the South Pole. The North Pole is also called the Arctic.
The Arctic region does not really have peninsulas or much of any kind of land. Most of it is ocean floor and a layer of floating ice. You, maybe could have called the northern part of Greenland part of it but as far as I know the ice sheet doesn't reach that far south anymore in summer, so it's at least separated part of the year.
Now, the Antarctic region actually is a whole group of islands, most of them connected by ice. Much of it consists of glaciers and frozen bays. The ice there reaches much further north compared to the Arctic ice sheet reaching south.
The term peninsula I think is a bit misleading, because it's debatable if it's not just an island, frozen solid to the rest of the continent/archipelago. But there is definitely a northern protrusion in the direction of Chile / South America.
Ah, so it will work here! We're located next to France... in the Caribbean (Saint Martin);) . Nice to know. And you guys have Quebec... that seems almost French. Maybe it'll work out!
He uses a weird definition of free that most people don't agree with.
Then I think your 'most people' are... ahem... rather uneducated, if they don't understand the English language conflates two meanings to the same word, many other languages have distinctly different words for. Free (speech) - Free (beer), Libre - Gratuit, Libre - Gratis, Vrij - Gratis, Frei - Kostenlos.
The appropriate question is whether we have access to the source and what we're allowed to do with it.
1. Are you implying that anything like that would make that question less important? And, 2. That's exactly why 'open source' no longer fits since there are software companies that, very publicly, 'opened' source, then added so many asterisks to it, you would be sued into oblivion if you even looked sideways. Blame them for killing off a term perfectly fine twenty years ago.
His definition of free comes with an awful lot of strings attached.
And many of those strings are there for very good reasons. If you don't agree, pick a license for your projects that doesn't have them. You're 'free' to do that, you know. Just don't incorporate source if you don't agree with the strings attached.
I became interested in computers when I was about 8. The ZX Spectrum was relatively new at that time and a very good family friend bought one. My father soon followed suite. Of course BASIC was therefore my first experience in programming. Most of it was extremely amateurish:P It was only when I finished primary education (usual age of 12) and went to high school (or similar to that for my region of the world) I first experienced a PC. It took a lot of convincing to get my dad to buy a 486SX-25 PC with a VGA monitor. I soon 'upgraded' to Turbo Pascal and did my first serious programming in it, among other things, using the graphics mode to render fractals. I also did some stuff in Delphi, which is Borland Pascal for Windows. I don't think I had any problems grasping the functional concepts... At the end of my Basic 'career' I already used gosub extensively to partition and re-use fragments of code of my own accord...
When I started living on my own (second year in college, 1996?) I bought an IBM Cyrix pentium-class PC, got interested in Linux and swapped to C(++) for most of my programming.
Nowadays, I call myself a programming language agnostic. Programming languages are tools and when I start a project, I mostly look at the prerequisites, if they necessitate a certain language because of legacy code or the platform the software will be deployed upon. Else if I have a primary say in the language used, I pick one I'm familiar with, and there are dozens to pick from. Only language concept I may want to improve myself with, I think is functional languages... haven't done enough coding with those...
In projects I work on and for maintenance stuff, I'm currently using (in order of most used) C#, Golang, C++, PHP, Java(android), Objective C and Python. And if you consider them programming languages, Bash scripting and SQL.
P seems to be the largest group behind S and C. Don't let your happy little code experiences be thwarted by one or two rotten eggs;)
Postscript, Powershell and Python are very well known. But... did you know there is a Prolog interpreter written for.NET CLI called P#? Pizza likes a cup of Java on the side and there seems to be an entire family of PLs. And apparently, in the 80's, VM/CMS (currently z/VM) didn't have pipes built into the command line interface but there was a separate program called 'Pipelines' with its own utility programs and syntax, so you could do some similar tricks with pipes as what was available in UNIX... I learned some new things today:)
There are more than enough rare-earth minable sands in the U.S. It's just, no-one (kept) invest(s/ing) in it, so China is cheaper. If you guys really are going to need those rare-earths, you'll build mines on your own soil... now I think about it, what IS holding you back??? Didn't you need more jobs?
In Europe, things are be a bit different... too small and too overpopulated in most places and the wrong regimes in the few areas (way east) where it might be possible.
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Aw, man! Thursdays are my weekly days off. Why must the universe end on my free day? I wanted to enjoy being a bit more... ;)
Either you live in the EU itself, in which case I don't know why you're posting because you should know better... or you live outside the EU, in which case this has real benefits that shouldn't be sniffed at, as long as you WANT to have an EU presence.... Or you live across 'the pond' in that country where speech is 'free' and guns 'don't kill'. In which case I respond to you this:
'... says the person that lives in the largest third world shit-hole in the world.'
Through history, mathematicians have invented new ways to abstract and notate ever more complex mathematical problems. What began with simple addition, then multiplication - exponentiation - summation - calculus - differential equations - .. (I stop here because that's about my limit of understanding... I'm not a mathematician, and the last category I mentioned I'm not even very good at... but I know there are some further abstractions 'out there'.)
Computers/various processors are very good in doing a lot of simple calculations, very fast. But to do more complex calculations it needs to execute more than one instruction... a program, eventually written by human beings. Even current computational AI is just a whole bunch of very elementary calculations. If you say 'x' result of a current gen AI is too difficult to understand for a human being, maybe you're right. If it's truly that complex and we have no current world abstractions to represent it in, we may need to invent those abstractions first or need to 'augment' ourselves in another way to make it understandable for a 'human' being by offloading some background processing?
Maybe it's simply because it isn't presented to a human in a proper way. I would go crazy if you would hand me a gigabyte of machine code and ask me what it does. Present me the bare source code of said compiled machine code at an abstractional level I'm capable working at and I would be of much more help to you. Add the comments of the original maker in a language I'm sufficiently capable of technically reading in and my understanding within limited time will improve dramatically.
But current gen computational AI isn't designed to present its inner workings in a human readable way. If you're lucky it's designed to be as efficient as it possibly can, with the training given. And it will work on a very narrowly defined set of data, not even close to what we could consider 'real world' problems. Sorting cat videos, playing go and even forecasting chemical reactions is not solving real world problems. You'd need chemical factories or at least a chem lab to produce those chemicals first. And then you need to distribute them in a way it makes sense for its application.
Subtle, malevolent AI means you expect intent. And for that AI needs to be both generic, totally independent of human beings for its processes and have enough capable sensors to put its 'thoughts' into 'motion'. I think we're still centuries away from that, if ever. And in that span of time, capabilities (in the broadest sense of the word) of humans themselves will have evolved drastically as well (I hope).
To safeguard our future from subtle, malevolent AI, we only need to grasp that future. And that future will need more safeguarding from subtle, malevolent I (sans A) before there is any chance of even that.
Well ... maybe ... I think I would still do similar work, even if it wouldn't net me an income* I could live on. Maybe not for the same clients as I'm working now because I would then be (even more) the one to choose where to invest my time in. And maybe a part of my work will then be invested in projects which will benefit me in a non-financial way. But I'd definitely do similar work. Hell, I already do volunteering IT work for two organizations, beside my regular (part-time 4 days/week) job. And part of my hobbies and non-professional interests are quite related to what I'm good at in my job as well. I'd definitely not stay in bed all day, but I might take more vacation days so I can play that game I still haven't found the time for, or do a bit of traveling every now and then.
*Which would only happen if 'someone else' would provide me with enough income independent of the work I do.
Ignorance is a bliss ;)
Most UPSes use lead gel battery technology (which has sulphuric acid as an electrolyte). An entirely different beast than Lithium ion cells. Lead cells that are used (too) sparingly have sulphate crystal buildup. Those crystals, when they get too big, act as insulators, diminishing the peak power performance of the cells.
One word: Lousy programmers.
See? Most* can't even estimate their own workloads. It always takes twice as much as planned.
And then there are 'managers'... who prevent us from using assembly the way it's meant to be used. They want to *shudder* 'understand' what we write and collaborate and a fancy UI and garbage collection (there is a lot of garbage surrounding our little blue planet) and *fill in favorite hype/buzzword* using *popular piece of office software they say they can actually be productive in*. So everything has to go through compilers and various frameworks and engines and virtual machines... 10 levels of bloat. And that's why you need a hexadeca Core-i9 instead of a quad Cortex-a53...
If we can establish: ...
-The order of the digits is: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
70+35 =/= 95 in any base
Some more thoughts on the matter:
-The base is at least 10, because the digit 9 is mentioned.
0 + 5 == '5' and doesn't overflow for any base >= 6.
7 + 3 == '11' in base 9, '10' in base 10, and a non-overflowing '10th' digit in any base > 10, let's say, 'A'. It can never be '9'.
In case of a fractional base, the range of values lies between the two natural bases that surround it. It doesn't give us extra options to get to '95' as an answer.
In case of a negative base, many values need a digit more to be represented compared to the positive base of the same size. The values themselves will be equal or larger in the negative base to make room for the values that have a '-' sign in the positive base. So that doesn't help us either.
I've been to all three countries...
Japanese precision > Deutsche Gründlichkeit > British punctuality.
By the way, if you plan to visit/stay in multiple cities and are visiting as a tourist, I can recommend you to buy a Japanese Railpass for the weeks you want to travel. Do that BEFORE you go to Japan, as they are (usually) not sold within the country. The Railpass is valid for all normal JR rail lines, some JR ferries and many JR shinkansen (except for the fastest variants), either as a regional pass or for the entire country. Also, you can reserve seats for free in many shinkansen when you have a Railpass, but you do have to reserve them. I forgot to reserve a seat once on a shinkansen with only reserved seats while I thought there would be a few carts without seat reservation in the back. Luckily I was helped out by an extremely friendly train conductor who was capable to find a seat that should be empty for the trip I had planned.
The only Steam games (and I have quite a few) I can't play offline are MMO games. The rest is perfectly playable, once installed.... or at least their single-player and (for those that have that) local multi-player modi are.
I have no experience with EA Origin, so please enlighten me...
I don't know... There are whole continents in this world where internet is wanted (and available) more than 100% (stable/abundant) power. The worst of your power problems you may be able to tackle locally and relatively easily if you're a bit resourceful (use some solar cells that still work, use a car battery, re-purpose a bike with a dynamo and use 'home training' to charge your cellphone...).
No equipment for the few data pipes still available in such situations (satellite frequencies) or laying emergency infrastructure (whether it's over amateur radio frequencies, or pieces of scrounged copper wire) is a lot harder to 'fix'.
I agree a roof, water and something nutritious enough to keep yourself alive does take precedence. But then it's communication (and by extension, internet) before power for me...
I do remember having stored a 5.25" Quantum Bigfoot somewhere. It's not anymore in service, but it operated for about a decade in my room in the student dorm I lived, around the turn of the millennium... Slackware based 486 router PC (I was the unofficial local ISP at that time) with an experimental cable modem connection, 2 NE2000 compatible ISA NICs (coax was more robust when squeezed between the door and post of the dorm rooms...) and a single 'luxurious' 3Com 3c509 with 10base-T for the room-local net... The disk did 4000rpm. Couple of GB in size, IDE interface.
Try to tell that to countries which check the following boxes:
-high population density
-little develop-able high ground
Examples: Japan, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, various pacific atoll-island nations.
Now filter out the countries that:
-have enough technical expertise to be capable to defend against flooding
-have enough wealth or capability to raise capital to invest in water management projects
-are politically stable enough to effectively plan for long-term flooding defences
Strike the first two, keep the rest.
Be glad you live in a country where non-coastal land is in abundance, for you can ridicule global warming induced rising sea-levels all you like (unless you choose to live in Florida). We know if we don't invest now, and stay investing, we'll be destroyed soon(tm). Water management is a necessary part of keeping our nation... a nation and not a giant flood plane. Having said that, please consider some nations don't have the technology/money to solve these problems they were mostly not responsible for in the first place... Which will probably mean another stream of refugees in a couple of decades. Not that it's of your concern....
It sucks your music got 'stolen', however, if you publish something on the internet, and this is true for anything published on the internet (as for anyone available without a restriction to authenticate), consider, by default, it will be handled as if in the public domain. Everyone can do whatever they like to do with it. This includes Google. This is because the internet is an open medium and if you want restrictions, you have to implement those yourself. You can't expect someone else to do that for you (unless you pay them or otherwise incentivize them). And you can't expect to just post something on the internet and then others magically not using it if it doesn't fit your wishes, but do use it if it does.
If you don't want your content to be used by everyone, and I expect you want to, else you wouldn't have bothered to post, there are a few simple steps to take.
In case of 'normal' users you can do various things. For example, use authentication mechanisms (a site login?) to prevent unauthorized access. This also prevents automatic scrapers, like search engines from taking your content, unless you explicitly allow them or your authentication mechanism is crappy and easily circumvented (in which case you have a lousy webdeveloper). Urge your users to not copy your work and publish it on other websites (and if they will, urge your rights representative to act on your behalf or send out DMCA requests to prevent linking to these illegal copies).
In case of search engines and other automatic scrapers, set your robots.txt appropriately. On my sites, as far as I know, robots.txt is honoured pretty well by the 'usual' search engines. I do sometimes see scrapers of questionable origins in the webserver logs. Those I just IP-ban. Nothing else can be done about that...
If you have done these things and your music is still being copied by Google/Bing/etc. then you have a point. By the way, copying and deep-linking are two entirely different beasts altogether. If you don't want to be deep-linked that's a wholly different story and another can of worms if that's considered EVIL or not. For example, most news paper publishers seem to HATE citation-and-deep-linking with a vengeance because they fear loss of advertisement revenue. But they still want to be found on the entire contents of their articles... In my opinion that's a have a cake and eat it situation... You can't force a search engine to both make your articles searchable but then withhold the searcher a proper link, so they have to navigate through your advertisements/payment model to eventually be able to reach the article they searched for. It's either good searchability 'for free' (in quotes because, of course, the search engines have their own business model, else they wouldn't exist at all) and 'free' content for the searchers or provide your own searcher (and do your own promotion to attract a public) and have a pay/advertisement-wall you can generate revenue from.
I would be VERY careful with that. A couple of hundred milligrams nicotine can be lethal in adults. Children can get very ill from nicotine poisoning by ingesting (eating) only one cigarette. And you should handle any nicotine containing e-cigarette liquid with utmost care (Nicotine transfers through skin very easily).
With caffeine, you can consume several grams before things get ugly - you should not drink more than 50 cups of coffee in one sitting... and don't forget amounts can add up if your liver didn't have time to metabolize it all before you go on your next drinking spree. Regarding energy drinks, I don't know what's a safe quantity. Red bull claims one (1/4 l) can contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. But many of them (including Red bull) contain other stimulants beside caffeine and/or caffeine in a higher dose.
Disclaimer: IANAD
Yes, you have. The conversion you mean is probably an audio signal modulated on a (much) higher fixed (unless modulation is FM) frequency EM signal. In that case, you receive the EM signal, separate the effects of the modulation by subtracting (filter, mix, whatever) the fixed EM signal and go on to recreate the audio according to the modulation used.
In this case, you convert an EM signal directly in its same frequency 'sound' equivalent. Because 'sound' (or pressure) waves travel slower (~340 m/s in average sea-level pressure air) than EM (a bit less than 3000000 m/s in vacuum, light is a special kind of EM) waves, you need less 'distance' in the materials that need to resonate with the frequency. The signal energy is now stored as stresses between molecules inside the material instead of electrons bumping/traveling through the material. Do note the speeds of 'sound' and 'light' are quite a bit different in various materials, but most of the time 'light' is a LOT faster than 'sound' and thus travels a MUCH longer 'distance'.
The novelty here is two-fold. 1) They found a way to directly convert EM waves into their 'sound' equivalent. 2) They developed/found an appropriate material that can 'detect' (turn into an electric signal) the stresses of 'sound' waves at very high frequencies.
Here is a part of the article:
During the receiving process, the magnetic layer of ME antennas senses H-components of EM waves, which induces a oscillating strain and a piezoelectric voltage output at the electromechanical resonance frequency.
In other words, the material uses magnetic detection (also done by coils, like in AM ~1MHz / 300 meter radios... which are a lot smaller than a 300 meter wire antenna equivalent) and because of its shape it starts to oscillate with the signal. Not electromagnetically, like in almost every other EM wave antenna, but mechanically. It creates stresses in the material (oscillating strain). They convert that strain back to an electric signal, using piezoelectric properties of the material (like the quartz in a 'push button' style lighter which emits a(n electric) spark that ignites gas). Oscillation only happens when the 'distance' in the material very closely matches the frequency of the receiving/transmitting wave; in this case in its 'sound' form. This is why you need to tune a guitar to get the right tone and 'normal' EM antennas need to be an appropriate fraction of their receiving/transmitting EM wave length.
What I'm interested in with this technology, is how you could 'tune' the material to receive/transmit in a broader frequency range than its 'natural' oscillation. That may be needed to make the antenna interesting for very broadband signals and tune-able equipment (like amateur radio transceivers or channel selectable broadcasting)
With 'normal' EM transmitting/receiving antennas we have various options to electrically tune the antenna but here you may have to dynamically 'shape' the material to permit a broader frequency range...
You do have figured out how to facilitate roaming, don't you? It should definitely not do to have to manually connect when switching to a more suitable access point. Certainly if the product is to be used in vivo. Also, do you handle the energy needs through composting? We do need green certification nowadays. The use of fossil fuels is a no-go pretty much everywhere except the good old U.S. of A. and there should be enough bio-methane present to at least partly fulfil the energy needs. What about storage to provide a base load during low hours? And how about coverage in rural and other mostly uninhabited areas? Do you plan to also release portable emergency access points that, for example, can cover a hole in the ground?
We do believe, with the right approach, this could be a very investment worthy product but we'd like to see proper user stories, a list of requirements and general development roadmap before this company is tempted to make an investment. Market research can wait until the time is ripe to sell to one of the big boys.
Yours, Mr. A. Ngel.
Investors & Then Some, Inc.
I'm addicted to water. Even daily doses don't cut it for mild withdrawal symptoms. I have to have a hit every couple of hours. If I go three days without it, withdrawal symptoms become murderous, literally. And it's not only me. Wars are fought over it. It's the most destructive drug on the face of the earth. Not only for about every living thing, but also for the earth itself... Erosion is mostly caused by water (related) processes.
More than 7 billion people and even most animals are addicted to the stuff, not to speak of basically most every living thing on this blue globe! Some creatures even need to swim in the stuff to survive!
If you think about it, how could it be otherwise? She (Earth) is tempting us with the stuff, let it seem to be in abundance. But there is, compared to total mass, very little of it, only at boundary of Earth's crust and atmosphere it's in 'abundance' and much of it needs to be pure enough for actual 'safe' use, else diseases spread like wildfire, worse than heroin and contaminated needles. There are some 'safe' adulterants for 100% H2O... certain minerals, some carbohydrates and derivatives. But they are mostly stop-gap measures and many only make you need more of the stuff eventually.
We really need to stop this addiction. Let's blow up the earth and never be addicted again!
(Disclaimer for those who don't get sarcasm: This post is intended as and should be considered sarcasm. I do not intend to actually blow up the earth. I'm not affiliated to any terrorist movement without or with capabilities of doing so, except a government that seems to have 'leased'/'allowed stationing'/'whatever' some WMD's of a certain bigger government that might be able to 'make a dent'... I repeat again: This post is intended as and should be considered sarcasm. That includes parts of this bracketed disclaimer that don't mention sarcasm.)
I don't want to Wine... but I want to run Microsoft Office !!!11one ;)
Antarctica is also known as the South Pole. The North Pole is also called the Arctic.
The Arctic region does not really have peninsulas or much of any kind of land. Most of it is ocean floor and a layer of floating ice. You, maybe could have called the northern part of Greenland part of it but as far as I know the ice sheet doesn't reach that far south anymore in summer, so it's at least separated part of the year.
Now, the Antarctic region actually is a whole group of islands, most of them connected by ice. Much of it consists of glaciers and frozen bays. The ice there reaches much further north compared to the Arctic ice sheet reaching south.
The term peninsula I think is a bit misleading, because it's debatable if it's not just an island, frozen solid to the rest of the continent/archipelago. But there is definitely a northern protrusion in the direction of Chile / South America.
Ah, so it will work here! We're located next to France ... in the Caribbean (Saint Martin) ;) . Nice to know. ... that seems almost French. Maybe it'll work out!
And you guys have Quebec
He uses a weird definition of free that most people don't agree with.
Then I think your 'most people' are ... ahem... rather uneducated, if they don't understand the English language conflates two meanings to the same word, many other languages have distinctly different words for.
Free (speech) - Free (beer), Libre - Gratuit, Libre - Gratis, Vrij - Gratis, Frei - Kostenlos.
The appropriate question is whether we have access to the source and what we're allowed to do with it.
1. Are you implying that anything like that would make that question less important? And, 2. That's exactly why 'open source' no longer fits since there are software companies that, very publicly, 'opened' source, then added so many asterisks to it, you would be sued into oblivion if you even looked sideways. Blame them for killing off a term perfectly fine twenty years ago.
His definition of free comes with an awful lot of strings attached.
And many of those strings are there for very good reasons. If you don't agree, pick a license for your projects that doesn't have them. You're 'free' to do that, you know. Just don't incorporate source if you don't agree with the strings attached.
I became interested in computers when I was about 8. The ZX Spectrum was relatively new at that time and a very good family friend bought one. My father soon followed suite. Of course BASIC was therefore my first experience in programming. Most of it was extremely amateurish :P It was only when I finished primary education (usual age of 12) and went to high school (or similar to that for my region of the world) I first experienced a PC. It took a lot of convincing to get my dad to buy a 486SX-25 PC with a VGA monitor. I soon 'upgraded' to Turbo Pascal and did my first serious programming in it, among other things, using the graphics mode to render fractals. I also did some stuff in Delphi, which is Borland Pascal for Windows. I don't think I had any problems grasping the functional concepts... At the end of my Basic 'career' I already used gosub extensively to partition and re-use fragments of code of my own accord...
When I started living on my own (second year in college, 1996?) I bought an IBM Cyrix pentium-class PC, got interested in Linux and swapped to C(++) for most of my programming.
Nowadays, I call myself a programming language agnostic. Programming languages are tools and when I start a project, I mostly look at the prerequisites, if they necessitate a certain language because of legacy code or the platform the software will be deployed upon. Else if I have a primary say in the language used, I pick one I'm familiar with, and there are dozens to pick from. Only language concept I may want to improve myself with, I think is functional languages... haven't done enough coding with those...
In projects I work on and for maintenance stuff, I'm currently using (in order of most used) C#, Golang, C++, PHP, Java(android), Objective C and Python. And if you consider them programming languages, Bash scripting and SQL.
That's a lot of 'unhappiness'...
List of programming languages - section P
P seems to be the largest group behind S and C. Don't let your happy little code experiences be thwarted by one or two rotten eggs ;)
Postscript, Powershell and Python are very well known. But... did you know there is a Prolog interpreter written for .NET CLI called P#? Pizza likes a cup of Java on the side and there seems to be an entire family of PLs. And apparently, in the 80's, VM/CMS (currently z/VM) didn't have pipes built into the command line interface but there was a separate program called 'Pipelines' with its own utility programs and syntax, so you could do some similar tricks with pipes as what was available in UNIX... I learned some new things today :)
There are more than enough rare-earth minable sands in the U.S. It's just, no-one (kept) invest(s/ing) in it, so China is cheaper. If you guys really are going to need those rare-earths, you'll build mines on your own soil... now I think about it, what IS holding you back??? Didn't you need more jobs?
In Europe, things are be a bit different... too small and too overpopulated in most places and the wrong regimes in the few areas (way east) where it might be possible.
world map of rare earth element deposits