Hah, I just built a screaming water cooled gaming rig for far, far less than $2800. 4Ghz on 8 cores running at a cool 45 degrees C right now, and 3 graphics cards. 12GB memory and 2TB storage. I'm sorry, what does your apple machine do again?
Online linux forums have evolved quite a bit. No longer are requests for help instantly flamed with "you stupid n00b go back to windows if the command line is to hard lulz you don't belong here". You can usually find someone who had a similar problem and solution just by a couple minutes worth of googling. While 2011 is still not the year of the linux desktop, the userbase has grown quite a bit now.
Also - good luck finding a friend or neighbor that knows how to fix windows problems. Not only that, but the microsoft website is probably the most obfuscated area of the internet. They seem to actually want to hide information for you in useless KB articles that point to other articles that point to dead links or things that are irrelevant. As if they had hired people from the porn industry to design their sites - CLICK HERE and you will get the pic you want, but now CLICK HERE no HERE etc ad nauseam.
5 million at the factory gate. Ship them out to sea, build concrete pylons for them, and rig all the power cables and I think suddenly we're talking about one or two windmills.
Because at some point you have to pay your initial investment plus interest, your maintenance, and your depreciation (because one day your windmill will be a bucket of rust and you will have to buy another). If you can't do all of those, it's better to put your money elsewhere.
or there is so much wind it's feathered and out of service.
I don't understand why the pitch can't be computer controlled to maintain a constant, acceptable RPM instead of completely feathering the prop in very high winds. After all if you have the ability to take it from an excess of RPM to zero RPM, logic dictates that some angle exists in between those extremes where you get the RPM you need.
On the contrary, they will produce this vaccine. Especially since it does nothing to address animal reservoirs of influenza, so they get to sell vaccines to everyone in the world and since influenza is not eradicated by it - for a long time.
I doubt anyone will even bother to do the calculations.
We invite you to do them for us. But I have intuitively strong objections to dangling a hose full of combustible fuel behind a rocket that is trailing a long, hot flame.
Because it was much easier to scoop up water from a trough every so often than to condense water (which added to the complexity). A train has a hell of a lot of momentum. Putting out a scoop to refill every so often will not slow it down at all...
but, where will those true scientists come from if schools aren't teaching it correctly?
Or, in this age of instant worldwide communication of ideas, we could revisit the concept of schools entirely. While in the past the schools and universities acted as repositories of knowledge as the world traveled through successive dark ages, today anyone at the push of a button can send an idea to the entire world. All the information is out there now - the next "dark age" won't be so much from a lack of information but rather from an abundance of it. People will be hard pressed sorting out the garbage from the useful. But the simplicity of the scientific method ("yes, but does it actually WORK? OK, prove it to me") makes it impossible for us to regress much even if all schools and scientists disappeared. Someone out there on their own would find out that it's possible to sort the pile into junk and useful stuff.
The greatest danger (as always) is censorship. If we lost both the information AND the schools, then I agree we would be up the proverbial creek.
The scientific method goes from "required" to "just another opinion/ivory tower bullshit".
I don't agree. The masses and public opinion have never made up the core of science, have always hindered science, but have always benefited from science. We don't do science to convince people, we do science because we like knowing how the world REALLY works. Likewise, science is not just a method, it's a way of thinking. I will never take what you say at face value, no matter how many letters you have after your name, or how neat your lab coat looks, or how good you are at debate. Ever. However show me an experiment that can be reproduced that demonstrates your explanation, and then we're in business.
This is what even scientists are forgetting all the time. Linus Pauling was convinced that Vitamin C helped prevent colds. Now we live in a world where everyone associates Vitamin C, a co-enzyme that participates in collagen synthesis, with cold "cures". Amazingly enough, the common cold still afflicts people at exactly the same rate, despite an abundance of Vitamin C products. Why? Because Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of many useful biological molecules, said so.
Let the sheep continue to be stupid - it was never our job to educate them unless they want it for themselves. They won't stop us - they can't. They have no understanding of what we do.
this has real consequences for intelligent and honest people at large.
Not really. You are overestimating the intelligence of the general population. Anyone who fervently believes in "astrology" and who would put forward an argument justifying their position that consists of "because some judges said so" or "because so many people believe in it" automatically excludes them from the pool of "intelligent" people anyway. Let the sheep bleat. We have work to do.
Me, because if you watched the video until the end, his death ray no longer exists. It was destroyed, of all things, in a fire (perhaps next time he will cover it up).
But it shouldn't take us that long to reach the stars at which Kepler is looking (few hundred light years away, iirc
They are 2000 light years away which, considering we're having trouble even getting things into orbit of our own planet, puts them absolutely out of reach. While perhaps some people will take comfort becoming extinct in the knowledge of what we could have done had the laws of physics been different, unless someone invents a magical way to bridge such distance I doubt the human race will ever make it there.
For the same reason that we make laws to protect mentally handicapped people. The average facebook user is so dim that honestly, she needs protection from herself.
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Hah, I just built a screaming water cooled gaming rig for far, far less than $2800. 4Ghz on 8 cores running at a cool 45 degrees C right now, and 3 graphics cards. 12GB memory and 2TB storage. I'm sorry, what does your apple machine do again?
Online linux forums have evolved quite a bit. No longer are requests for help instantly flamed with "you stupid n00b go back to windows if the command line is to hard lulz you don't belong here". You can usually find someone who had a similar problem and solution just by a couple minutes worth of googling. While 2011 is still not the year of the linux desktop, the userbase has grown quite a bit now. Also - good luck finding a friend or neighbor that knows how to fix windows problems. Not only that, but the microsoft website is probably the most obfuscated area of the internet. They seem to actually want to hide information for you in useless KB articles that point to other articles that point to dead links or things that are irrelevant. As if they had hired people from the porn industry to design their sites - CLICK HERE and you will get the pic you want, but now CLICK HERE no HERE etc ad nauseam.
5 million at the factory gate. Ship them out to sea, build concrete pylons for them, and rig all the power cables and I think suddenly we're talking about one or two windmills.
Because at some point you have to pay your initial investment plus interest, your maintenance, and your depreciation (because one day your windmill will be a bucket of rust and you will have to buy another). If you can't do all of those, it's better to put your money elsewhere.
I don't understand why the pitch can't be computer controlled to maintain a constant, acceptable RPM instead of completely feathering the prop in very high winds. After all if you have the ability to take it from an excess of RPM to zero RPM, logic dictates that some angle exists in between those extremes where you get the RPM you need.
Don't worry, with $50 million they are only talking about one turbine anyway. If that.
But I bet you have more TV's in your house than your parents did...
On the contrary, they will produce this vaccine. Especially since it does nothing to address animal reservoirs of influenza, so they get to sell vaccines to everyone in the world and since influenza is not eradicated by it - for a long time.
Not to mention any cars underneath parked within a 50 foot radius.
We invite you to do them for us. But I have intuitively strong objections to dangling a hose full of combustible fuel behind a rocket that is trailing a long, hot flame.
Kinda sorta never existed is more accurate.
Because it was much easier to scoop up water from a trough every so often than to condense water (which added to the complexity). A train has a hell of a lot of momentum. Putting out a scoop to refill every so often will not slow it down at all...
PS - ever heard of the WATER cycle? How about conservation of matter? You think all the water just disappears off the face of the Earth?
Or, in this age of instant worldwide communication of ideas, we could revisit the concept of schools entirely. While in the past the schools and universities acted as repositories of knowledge as the world traveled through successive dark ages, today anyone at the push of a button can send an idea to the entire world. All the information is out there now - the next "dark age" won't be so much from a lack of information but rather from an abundance of it. People will be hard pressed sorting out the garbage from the useful. But the simplicity of the scientific method ("yes, but does it actually WORK? OK, prove it to me") makes it impossible for us to regress much even if all schools and scientists disappeared. Someone out there on their own would find out that it's possible to sort the pile into junk and useful stuff.
The greatest danger (as always) is censorship. If we lost both the information AND the schools, then I agree we would be up the proverbial creek.
I don't agree. The masses and public opinion have never made up the core of science, have always hindered science, but have always benefited from science. We don't do science to convince people, we do science because we like knowing how the world REALLY works. Likewise, science is not just a method, it's a way of thinking. I will never take what you say at face value, no matter how many letters you have after your name, or how neat your lab coat looks, or how good you are at debate. Ever. However show me an experiment that can be reproduced that demonstrates your explanation, and then we're in business.
This is what even scientists are forgetting all the time. Linus Pauling was convinced that Vitamin C helped prevent colds. Now we live in a world where everyone associates Vitamin C, a co-enzyme that participates in collagen synthesis, with cold "cures". Amazingly enough, the common cold still afflicts people at exactly the same rate, despite an abundance of Vitamin C products. Why? Because Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of many useful biological molecules, said so.
Let the sheep continue to be stupid - it was never our job to educate them unless they want it for themselves. They won't stop us - they can't. They have no understanding of what we do.
Because there aren't another half a billion Indian chicks...
Not really. You are overestimating the intelligence of the general population. Anyone who fervently believes in "astrology" and who would put forward an argument justifying their position that consists of "because some judges said so" or "because so many people believe in it" automatically excludes them from the pool of "intelligent" people anyway. Let the sheep bleat. We have work to do.
This is exactly why we don't let judges into the lab or review papers.
Me, because if you watched the video until the end, his death ray no longer exists. It was destroyed, of all things, in a fire (perhaps next time he will cover it up).
Yeah, I used to burn ants with a magnifying glass too when I was much younger than 19. Solar death rays are pretty common at that age.
Yeah but you would have a bit of a problem getting TCP packets every 2000 years or so.
They are 2000 light years away which, considering we're having trouble even getting things into orbit of our own planet, puts them absolutely out of reach. While perhaps some people will take comfort becoming extinct in the knowledge of what we could have done had the laws of physics been different, unless someone invents a magical way to bridge such distance I doubt the human race will ever make it there.
For the same reason that we make laws to protect mentally handicapped people. The average facebook user is so dim that honestly, she needs protection from herself.
Sure it can, until a CCTV camera near the scene of the crime catches your license plate...
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