Seriously? If they could enrich the uranium as well, that'd be quite a feat. Somehow I doubt that the bacterium would make their own tiny centrifuges though...
Not just that, Eurostat reckons that London's over 11 million people in size (it's bigger than its official boundaries) and even that is probably an underestimation. (OTOH, NYC is probably bigger than the official 8-and-a-bit million above too.)
Measuring the size of cities is surprisingly difficult.
Depending on who's counting, the NYC urban/metro area has between 11 and 22 million, with several measures roughly agreeing in the 17-19 million range.
After working at Kodak for 26 years in electronic imaging and hearing nothing but "IMAGE QUALITY", I am now faced with a world where everyone is taking crappy pictures with crappy cell phone cameras. Why did we bother?? As in the stereo world, cost and convenience trump what used to be important.
I guess that depends on how concerned you are with the center of the market vs. other segments. If it makes you feel any better, the company I work for certainly benefits from the KAI series (20xx, 40xx) CCDs used in the cameras we deploy in our machine vision products.
Money does not count for everything. Some of the cool technologies were group effort, incubated in universities around the country and not by corporates.
And where do you think the universities get the money to run such incubation programs? Who do you think funds these activities? Especially in the tech world, the bulk of the money comes from corporations, gambling for a return on their investment.
Uhhh, why stop there? Why doesn't everyone just pay for what they use? My electricity company is totally cool with charging me at the end of the month for a very specific usage figure... and you know what? I've never complained about or felt like I was getting the raw end of a deal.
This has probably been answered a dozen times already, but... electricity has an intrinsic cost to produce and transmit. Every kWh of electricity produced and delivered requires a certain amount of energy, thus fuel. These costs represent the bulk of the monthly price you pay. Data is not electricity, however. Sending a million bytes doesn't cost much more than sending one byte. Most of the costs, at least currently, come from building out infrastructure to keep up with customer demand. More routers, switches, fibers, etc. These costs map more closely to per-customer than they do to per-gigabyte.
However, the biggest users do place more of a load on, and need for, that infrastructure than the normal user. So, IMO, the appropriate pricing scheme would in fact be something like what there is now, i.e. $X per month for Y GB baseline, plus an extra $Z per month per extra GB. Of course, that leaves the question of how appropriate the current values of X, Y, and Z are...
It's really about time an element was named Daltonium. It was John Dalton who came up with the original ideas that led to correct theories about the structure of the atom and what an element was, yet his name is not honoured, and is passed over again and again for silly names. It's almost as if people have forgotten him....
Well, the unit of atomic mass is named after him...
Actually the actions of the US seem more vile in this light. China censors with the fear of a national uprise, something that might endanger the nation. The US censor already when the revenue of a rather insignificant company is threatened.
You say "already" as though you assume the US response would escalate further in the case of speech against the government. However, the US, unlike China, allows and tolerates dissent on the Internet, even against the government (and including allowing people to speak against its policies regarding things like copyright enforcement, BTW). We have a Constitutional amendment that guarantees this, which China most certainly does not.
And, BTW, don't discount the importance of intellectual property and the revenue it generates, in terms of its importance to "the stability of the country" in the case of the US and other western countries - for better or worse.
I read it a few years ago. Apart from being quite badly written, it was painfully dated and showed a distressing lack of understanding of basic computing concepts on the part of the author. I can imagine that someone who read it in the '80s would find it exciting and groundbreaking, but it just hasn't stood the test of time.
Such an authoritative opinion, and yet the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award committees managed to disagree, not to mention untold masses of stunned and amazed readers. This is the book that put cyberpunk on the map. Look elsewhere if you want a computer science textbook.
The fact that you were "taken aback" by a request to follow policy indicates that you most likely view this as a dick waving contest. It is not. Your dick will not shrink if you allow the computer professionals to audit your work and comply with hospital policy and the law.
Pointless. A simple 40mm bofors (cheap as hell) or a properly set up AA Gatling will do the job far, FAR better against boat swarms. At the same time they are far cheaper, integrate into system with self-auto corrective targeting based on radar signature of gun's own shells, do not require a heavy supply of energy and have significantly fewer points of failure.
This is essentially a theoretical "possible future weapon" exercise - it has nothing to do with actual, realistic modern combat. AT ALL. In the current material technology levels, a laser that would be at least on par with a modern (actually never mind, let's talk on par with a WW2-aged so we don't get too depressed) kinetic gun is at least as far away as commercial fusion.
A laser weapon is infinitely more precise, has zero trajectory, and the weapon itself can be used as a sight. One shot, one hit. A Bofors or Gatling is fine if you want to blow the boat out of the water. With this thing, you can disable the boat without destroying it or killing the people on board. I think that's a worthwhile goal.
Because the rest of the world has reasonable charges for data plans, and the US doesn't. It definitively proves that the US cell carriers are screwing people over. Its an anti-competitive practice that IS an oligopoly or is bordering on one and the FTC and FCC are supposed to step in and penalize them for this and/or force them to stop. They don't because they are corrupt. Simple as that. Our government is one big steaming pile of corruption at the highest level. Bought and paid for by special interests and corporate big-wigs. There is nothing wrong with a free market, and everyone always rushes to the defense of corporations with this as an excuse, but THERE IS NO free market in telecomm and cell carriers in the US today. Republicans in office today are a bunch of big hypocrites. It is obvious when time and time again they do things that hurt the American consumer and worker. I have nothing nice to say about Democrats either.
If the market wasn't willing to pay, it wouldn't. Since it does pay, (and since we're not talking about food, water, or air) it must be willing.
The cellphone carries are like the bottled water industry even with data plans. They charge 1 dollar for what costs them.001 dollars, even more if you don't have a subscription.
Yeah, and people don't need bottled water either, just like most people don't need web and email on the go. You can fill up your own bottle of water from the tap, just like you can do your browsing and email correspondence from the home or office. If you want the extra convenience of bottled water, or data on your smartphone, then you pay for that convenience. Why does this surprise anyone?
The Epic Fail is yours. Specifically your desire to spout off about things you don't know about. Hey, why don't you study RF for a few years then put your opinion in? no, of course not. RF engineering is hard and takes smart people, and you are lazy and stupid.
Thank you for your useless, non-contributory, and unnecessarily rude comment.
Why do you assume that the people that want to control everything you do gravitate to only one power center?
Because they do. Where do you think corporations get their ridiculous levels of power from? The government, of course. And who runs the government? Corruptible, power-hungry politicians.
To quote Dogbert, your comment more or less says "Hey everyone, I don't understand what fungible means."
It's unlikely that much Saudi Arabian crude ends up in your gas tank. Your car is filled mostly from Gulf, Venezuelan and yes, Canadian crude. But it's still an international market, and a shortage of Saudi Arabian crude will drive up prices everywhere around the world, as European oil companies start looking to buy from elsewhere to make up for the shortfall.
Actually, IIRC, Saudi Arabia is the #3 supplier of oil to the US.
Don't forget that the French gave the US the Statue of Liberty too. Strangely when they hated the French so much they could no longer serve French Fries they didn't get around to toppling that thing over like a statue of Saddam.
Who's "they"? Not all Americans are the same. The Statue of Liberty is in New York (no matter what New Jersey says!) and I would at least like to think that we are just a tad bit more cosmopolitan than the dolts who came up with "freedom fries".
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Seriously? If they could enrich the uranium as well, that'd be quite a feat. Somehow I doubt that the bacterium would make their own tiny centrifuges though...
Maybe U-235 tastes better than U-238...
Not just that, Eurostat reckons that London's over 11 million people in size (it's bigger than its official boundaries) and even that is probably an underestimation. (OTOH, NYC is probably bigger than the official 8-and-a-bit million above too.)
Measuring the size of cities is surprisingly difficult.
Depending on who's counting, the NYC urban/metro area has between 11 and 22 million, with several measures roughly agreeing in the 17-19 million range.
After working at Kodak for 26 years in electronic imaging and hearing nothing but "IMAGE QUALITY", I am now faced with a world where everyone is taking crappy pictures with crappy cell phone cameras. Why did we bother?? As in the stereo world, cost and convenience trump what used to be important.
I guess that depends on how concerned you are with the center of the market vs. other segments. If it makes you feel any better, the company I work for certainly benefits from the KAI series (20xx, 40xx) CCDs used in the cameras we deploy in our machine vision products.
Money does not count for everything. Some of the cool technologies were group effort, incubated in universities around the country and not by corporates.
And where do you think the universities get the money to run such incubation programs? Who do you think funds these activities? Especially in the tech world, the bulk of the money comes from corporations, gambling for a return on their investment.
It was an excellent short story before it was a mediocre movie.
Indeed, and that isn't the first time. Let's not blame a brilliant guy like Philip K. Dick for the Hollywood atrocities committed in his name.
Uhhh, why stop there? Why doesn't everyone just pay for what they use? My electricity company is totally cool with charging me at the end of the month for a very specific usage figure ... and you know what? I've never complained about or felt like I was getting the raw end of a deal.
This has probably been answered a dozen times already, but... electricity has an intrinsic cost to produce and transmit. Every kWh of electricity produced and delivered requires a certain amount of energy, thus fuel. These costs represent the bulk of the monthly price you pay. Data is not electricity, however. Sending a million bytes doesn't cost much more than sending one byte. Most of the costs, at least currently, come from building out infrastructure to keep up with customer demand. More routers, switches, fibers, etc. These costs map more closely to per-customer than they do to per-gigabyte. However, the biggest users do place more of a load on, and need for, that infrastructure than the normal user. So, IMO, the appropriate pricing scheme would in fact be something like what there is now, i.e. $X per month for Y GB baseline, plus an extra $Z per month per extra GB. Of course, that leaves the question of how appropriate the current values of X, Y, and Z are...
The waste disposal business is a staple activity for the mob, ain't it?
It's really about time an element was named Daltonium. It was John Dalton who came up with the original ideas that led to correct theories about the structure of the atom and what an element was, yet his name is not honoured, and is passed over again and again for silly names. It's almost as if people have forgotten him....
Well, the unit of atomic mass is named after him...
What about nuclear fusion? Where are we in that development?
It's only thirty years away... just like it was thirty years ago.
But does anyone else get chills when thinking about the 3.1.1 version somewhere down the road? You know... as in for workgroups?
Maybe we can just skip over that and go straight to the reasonably stable Linux NT 4.0 SP3...
Actually the actions of the US seem more vile in this light. China censors with the fear of a national uprise, something that might endanger the nation. The US censor already when the revenue of a rather insignificant company is threatened.
You say "already" as though you assume the US response would escalate further in the case of speech against the government. However, the US, unlike China, allows and tolerates dissent on the Internet, even against the government (and including allowing people to speak against its policies regarding things like copyright enforcement, BTW). We have a Constitutional amendment that guarantees this, which China most certainly does not. And, BTW, don't discount the importance of intellectual property and the revenue it generates, in terms of its importance to "the stability of the country" in the case of the US and other western countries - for better or worse.
I read it a few years ago. Apart from being quite badly written, it was painfully dated and showed a distressing lack of understanding of basic computing concepts on the part of the author. I can imagine that someone who read it in the '80s would find it exciting and groundbreaking, but it just hasn't stood the test of time.
Such an authoritative opinion, and yet the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award committees managed to disagree, not to mention untold masses of stunned and amazed readers. This is the book that put cyberpunk on the map. Look elsewhere if you want a computer science textbook.
Correct, I haven't been in a few years, but last time I did. They had just started shuffling after every hand making "counting" worthless.
When did they start doing this? I was there 3-4 years ago and all I saw were the regular 6-deck shoes, shuffled when the plastic cut card was reached.
The fact that you were "taken aback" by a request to follow policy indicates that you most likely view this as a dick waving contest. It is not. Your dick will not shrink if you allow the computer professionals to audit your work and comply with hospital policy and the law.
Now who's the doctor here?
Maybe he's a urologist?
Between December 1974 and her death in March 1982, Ayn Rand collected a total of $11,002 in Social Security payments.
And why shouldn't she? She paid into the system (and probably quite a bit more than $11K); wasn't she entitled to get it back?
Pointless. A simple 40mm bofors (cheap as hell) or a properly set up AA Gatling will do the job far, FAR better against boat swarms. At the same time they are far cheaper, integrate into system with self-auto corrective targeting based on radar signature of gun's own shells, do not require a heavy supply of energy and have significantly fewer points of failure.
This is essentially a theoretical "possible future weapon" exercise - it has nothing to do with actual, realistic modern combat. AT ALL. In the current material technology levels, a laser that would be at least on par with a modern (actually never mind, let's talk on par with a WW2-aged so we don't get too depressed) kinetic gun is at least as far away as commercial fusion.
A laser weapon is infinitely more precise, has zero trajectory, and the weapon itself can be used as a sight. One shot, one hit. A Bofors or Gatling is fine if you want to blow the boat out of the water. With this thing, you can disable the boat without destroying it or killing the people on board. I think that's a worthwhile goal.
Because the rest of the world has reasonable charges for data plans, and the US doesn't. It definitively proves that the US cell carriers are screwing people over. Its an anti-competitive practice that IS an oligopoly or is bordering on one and the FTC and FCC are supposed to step in and penalize them for this and/or force them to stop. They don't because they are corrupt. Simple as that. Our government is one big steaming pile of corruption at the highest level. Bought and paid for by special interests and corporate big-wigs. There is nothing wrong with a free market, and everyone always rushes to the defense of corporations with this as an excuse, but THERE IS NO free market in telecomm and cell carriers in the US today. Republicans in office today are a bunch of big hypocrites. It is obvious when time and time again they do things that hurt the American consumer and worker. I have nothing nice to say about Democrats either.
If the market wasn't willing to pay, it wouldn't. Since it does pay, (and since we're not talking about food, water, or air) it must be willing.
The cellphone carries are like the bottled water industry even with data plans. They charge 1 dollar for what costs them .001 dollars, even more if you don't have a subscription.
Yeah, and people don't need bottled water either, just like most people don't need web and email on the go. You can fill up your own bottle of water from the tap, just like you can do your browsing and email correspondence from the home or office. If you want the extra convenience of bottled water, or data on your smartphone, then you pay for that convenience. Why does this surprise anyone?
...is, of course, a necessity of life (in addition to cable television).
For some, who are required to have ready access to email 24/7 for their jobs, it does become a necessity of (employment) life.
And which of those people are paying for their own phones/plans, on a prepaid plan? I would imagine the employer is paying in these cases.
The Epic Fail is yours. Specifically your desire to spout off about things you don't know about. Hey, why don't you study RF for a few years then put your opinion in? no, of course not. RF engineering is hard and takes smart people, and you are lazy and stupid.
Thank you for your useless, non-contributory, and unnecessarily rude comment.
Why do you assume that the people that want to control everything you do gravitate to only one power center?
Because they do. Where do you think corporations get their ridiculous levels of power from? The government, of course. And who runs the government? Corruptible, power-hungry politicians.
To quote Dogbert, your comment more or less says "Hey everyone, I don't understand what fungible means."
It's unlikely that much Saudi Arabian crude ends up in your gas tank. Your car is filled mostly from Gulf, Venezuelan and yes, Canadian crude. But it's still an international market, and a shortage of Saudi Arabian crude will drive up prices everywhere around the world, as European oil companies start looking to buy from elsewhere to make up for the shortfall.
Actually, IIRC, Saudi Arabia is the #3 supplier of oil to the US.
Don't forget that the French gave the US the Statue of Liberty too. Strangely when they hated the French so much they could no longer serve French Fries they didn't get around to toppling that thing over like a statue of Saddam.
Who's "they"? Not all Americans are the same. The Statue of Liberty is in New York (no matter what New Jersey says!) and I would at least like to think that we are just a tad bit more cosmopolitan than the dolts who came up with "freedom fries".
Cool? It's stupid. It's someone who had too much time on his hands and a healthy dose of autism.
Given your lack of sensitivity, one wonders where you might fall on the A-A spectrum...
If you want to play James Bond, you better expect to get your hair mussed.
Why? Bond's hair always remained perfect, at least until Daniel Craig came along...