This case is excellent, as it shows that people with similar beliefs tend to do the same things - in this case go to the same church where they were programmed with that belief.
So they don't even benefit from other people immunising their children, because they take the children into a situation where that herd immunity doesn't exist.
And someone comes back from travels abroad with measles and they all get it, and maybe one or two will be scarred, blinded, brain damaged or die.
This is one case where I am glad that they will be paying for their children's medical care. And I sure hope that their insurance, if they have it, refuses to pay out because they should have immunised their children.
I wish the children the best in life, and hope they get better. They'll need all the luck they can get considering they have their parents.
an anti-vax commenter said "If by chance a death occurs... I personally would rather bear the dead than sustain the epidemic trend of life long chronic illnesses such as autism, asthma, diabetes, cancer."
So stupid! Don't they realise that the the diseases the vaccines protect against don't just prevent death, they prevent life long chronic disabilities such as blindness and brain damage.
Death is but one outcome of the diseases the MMR vaccine prevents against.
Humanity will build such a thing as and when such a thing becomes desirable to those with the money and power to make it happen.
In this movie, Earth becoming horrendous provides the impetus for the rich and powerful to push for the development. And when the rich and powerful want something, they will make it happen - especially in popular fiction. Nuclear launchers - no problem.
In addition, seeds are a lot lighter than trees, so all plants on the station would be grown in-situ. Assuming a 50 year build span, with the first plant-supporting-biomes being installed ten to twenty years into that build time, after 50 years there would be a lot of 30 year old trees.
Soil, that's an issue. That would have to be a combination of fertilizer,humus,natural soil bacteria, nemotodes, fungi, insects, etc, and space dirt - rock dust from asteroid mining, lunar regolith, etc.
I agree with the author that 2154 is probably a bit early for all that, given our current rate of space development, unless a big breakthrough is made in getting into space effectively, regularly, and cheaply in the next thirty years. 2254 I could understand more.
It exists? It means that NAND can live another generation or two longer as a viable technology before the competitors (e.g., RRAM) are ready to step in.
Err, no. The ITC found that Samsung offered terms that were fair and non-discriminatory.
Apple refused to pay those terms. The ITC reasoned that in view of this that the products that infringe should be banned.
And now the US government has stated in overturning this proposed ban, that SEP are worthless, as they will not stand behind the patent holders when it really matters. Because now that it has to go back to a court, Apple will just continue to not license the patents, and they will refuse to accept any judgement about what they should pay (as they have previously stated in court documents).
Note that I think that licensing terms that are a (non tiny) percentage of the final sale price are silly, because there are so many patents in a product that the price of the product would tend towards infinity very quickly! However final sale price is often the only visible price that a patent holder can get - the internal production costs are company secrets.
Modelling these things takes time. Sure, there will be off the shelf models for shower rings and the like, but if you're printing a new battery cover for your remote control you'll have to model it yourself - and that takes time.
However, if you amortise the cost of the 3D printer over a group of friends, or co-workers, then maybe you will eventually save money. I still don't know what I would print though - children's toys might be an option once they're past the chewing stage of development. Maybe emergency lego bricks you need to finish a design? And cases for Raspberry Pis and the like.
But the price of 3D printers will come down, and the build quality and speed will go up. What is a $500 device now will be a $200 device in three or four years, and once that barrier to entry is reduced, a lot more uses will be found.
Replacement car parts could be a use case too - once someone does a design. My wing mirror wobbles, I presume behind it there's a plastic assembly that includes the ability to adjust the mirror's pitch and yaw that is broken, I bet printing one of those is cheaper than buying an official replacement - except that the official replacement probably won't ever break.
Outlook is the devil's spawn, yet somehow after all this time there isn't a competitive solution on Linux that does all of what Outlook does.
Thunderbird + Lightning is a slow creaky piece of shit that even if the UI and random pauses were sorted out would still not compare with the corporate features that Outlook has.
Note - I hate Outlook and use Thunderbird and Lightning on my Linux dev box, but I can recognise what Outlook offers to people who have to use Windows in a corporate environment.
1. I did extensive research using Google, the amount of research worthy of a break time reply to a slashdot comment. Are you disputing the equation for volume being area * depth? I did find differing values for the average depth of ice on Antarctica but they weren't an order of magnitude different, more like a couple of hundred metres. And at least I put my figures down unlike other posts, I should have put the links I found them on too. The ice shelf is an issue of course, although you don't give your source for where you make your allegation either. I didn't have the time to find out if the average ice depth included the ice shelf or not, or if the continental area included the ice shelf or not.
2. I note that the figure on the website you give says, for glaciers, icecaps and permanent snow, that there is 24,064,000 km^3 of water. That's not far off the 28,000,000 km^3 I calculated. Certainly not an "order of magnitude"... indeed for five minutes calculation based upon wikipedia and other sources that's not bad.
3. I never said that the ice would melt entirely. This was an entirely academic discussion from the start. But if 10% of it melted, then we're talking about 5 metres of sea level rise which would be devastating for many areas.
More likely the coastal cities will dredge vast banks of sea-floor to form a giant, closed harbour (with locks to let shipping in/out) that drains at low tide. Holland already has experience of building these to reclaim land.
London, for example, will build up the sub-surface sand banks between Essex and Kent.
I expect after this that the sea within the banks will be massively reformed to build new land for development, vast Venices of concrete. Yeah, more development on low-level land, rather than less.
Antarctica is a continental land-mass, the ice on Antarctica is NOT floating on sea water. Therefore when it melts, all of that volume flows downwards into the seas around Antarctica, and all of it contributes to sea level rise.
Perhaps you are thinking of the Arctic Ocean, which is sea ice floating on sea water, and the melting thereof does not affect sea level because of buoyancy.
Area of Antartica: 14,000,000 sq km Area of Greenland: 2,166,086 sq km Area of Earth's Oceans: 361,000,000 sq km Mean Depth of Ice on Antartica: 1,829 m Mean Depth of Ice on Greenland: 2,300 m
14000000 * 1.829 = 25606000 km^3 of ice 2166086 * 2.300 =4981998 km^3 of ice
Ratio of ice volume to water volume: 1/1.091
So we have around 28000000 km^3 of water to spread over 361000000 km^2 of water. I make that to be 77 metres of sea level rise, just from greenland and Antartica alone. Nice.
Now add on Greenland... adjust for 30% of the surface area being land, and the other great issue - the rising of Greenland and Antartica now they're free of heavy ice (a much longer term issue, granted) that will displace a large portion of sea. For example North Europe is still rising after the last ice age. Okay, this is a very long-term issue, but if 2km of ice disappears from an entire continent in a couple of hundreds years (a blink of an eye, geologically speaking) all that lovely exposed land we could build heated domes on to live in would be rather prone to massive earthquakes surely.
From what I've read, it looks like the current big question is how non-linear the melting will be, so that we can safely say that if we get 10cm of sea rise in the next 25 years, that means we will get another 10cm per 25 years, or 20cm, 40cm, 80cm in subsequent quarter-centuries (we'll cope at great expense), or worse, 25, 100, ALL GONE in an exponential melting scenario (this is very very very unlikely!).
So I watched a show or two on TV about container shipping and container ports. The lightest containers go on the top of the container stack on the ship, the heaviest at the bottom. This is all calculated by the port's stacking software, which uses the declared weight of each container to sort them. Note that this means that prior comments about weighing the containers at *loading time* won't work - it's too late then, unless you expand the ports to contain an area for overloaded containers awaiting their owners to pay a fine. Ports are already operating at capacity and throughput limits a lot of the time - they can't afford to dynamically rearrange container stacking, or have a temporary storage area.
When the light containers are actually overloaded - and everybody is doing it because otherwise they'd be at a disadvantage - the overall effect on the ship is far worse than if those containers weren't at the top of the stack of containers. The ship's "tippability" is greatly increased, and each roll in the sea generates far far more strain on the ship's structure than it should.
The map is accurate - there's a streetwalker (well, a womble with a cauldron?) in the red light district near the football stadium - I presume they're still there despite the serial killer prostitute murders a few years ago.
Still, it's been 12 years since I lived near Ipswich, and 15 since I spent a summer living in Ipswich (Norwich Road, top left of map).
There really isn't a lot to do in Ipswich, this map is probably the town's crowning achievement.
A president hasn't overturned an ITC decision since the early 90s, IIRC.
Samsung can now use this decision in a court case against Apple to get damages.
FTR for one patent in thousands used in a phone, I think that 2.5% of the phone retail price is not reasonable, it seems a high price to enter a closed FRAND gang who have cross-licensed patents to each other for nearly nothing, whilst setting a high barrier of 2.5% that none of them have had to pay. However if that 2.5% covers all the necessary patents in that FRAND pool, that's potentially a different matter (I still don't think it should be related to the retail price, as that price already covers the licensing of other patents and R&D, etc).
But I don't think Samsung would have gone this route if Apple hadn't sued them so aggressively, so meh.
I still prefer the odds on the broken up asteroid than the guaranteed end of human life full asteroid.
In addition it could be that many of the pieces will miss us anyway. The relative speed of the asteroid to earth could be as high as 70km/s, so if we hit it with 24 hours to go, that's 86400 seconds for each piece to shear away from us from a distance of 6 million km. We only need to change the asteroid piece trajectory slightly to make it miss the Earth entirely. Indeed it may be prudent to have a second warhead to explode after the first one to give the pieces more momentum away from the line of impact (we'd need around 100m/s, that's a lot of momentum to be giving to potentially massive lumps of rocky iron).
The issue here though is that the domain was registered quite some time ago, and prior to that also had a history as a real site.
The absence of a website does not mean the domain is unused either. Email is an obvious example. In addition websites take a long time to develop, and are often parked until the site is ready - the absence of a website does not mean an absence of intent to have a website.
"Handing over" something that someone else paid for based upon such vague reasoning is very wrong. It isn't stolen property to be confiscated and handed back to the original owner. The domain wasn't trademarked at the time it was registered, and I'm certain that there are no rules in the terms and conditions about handing back domains you've bought in the case that someone else trademarks that name.
In my opinion this domain owner got lucky and Microsoft should be paying him money for the name that they themselves have recently made valuable. And he should still have the right to not sell the domain name if he chooses not to.
Next step is real force feedback - I'm thinking of a fast moving boxing glove on a robot arm that can position itself within a fraction of a second. A head shot will never be the same again (system can do head tracking to stop you ducking the punch).
Imagine a portal jump with real feedback. A car crash in a racing game?
You could have an axe on a robot arm for simulating medieval battle games.
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This case is excellent, as it shows that people with similar beliefs tend to do the same things - in this case go to the same church where they were programmed with that belief.
So they don't even benefit from other people immunising their children, because they take the children into a situation where that herd immunity doesn't exist.
And someone comes back from travels abroad with measles and they all get it, and maybe one or two will be scarred, blinded, brain damaged or die.
This is one case where I am glad that they will be paying for their children's medical care. And I sure hope that their insurance, if they have it, refuses to pay out because they should have immunised their children.
I wish the children the best in life, and hope they get better. They'll need all the luck they can get considering they have their parents.
an anti-vax commenter said "If by chance a death occurs... I personally would rather bear the dead than sustain the epidemic trend of life long chronic illnesses such as autism, asthma, diabetes, cancer."
So stupid! Don't they realise that the the diseases the vaccines protect against don't just prevent death, they prevent life long chronic disabilities such as blindness and brain damage.
Death is but one outcome of the diseases the MMR vaccine prevents against.
Humanity will build such a thing as and when such a thing becomes desirable to those with the money and power to make it happen.
In this movie, Earth becoming horrendous provides the impetus for the rich and powerful to push for the development. And when the rich and powerful want something, they will make it happen - especially in popular fiction. Nuclear launchers - no problem.
In addition, seeds are a lot lighter than trees, so all plants on the station would be grown in-situ. Assuming a 50 year build span, with the first plant-supporting-biomes being installed ten to twenty years into that build time, after 50 years there would be a lot of 30 year old trees.
Soil, that's an issue. That would have to be a combination of fertilizer,humus,natural soil bacteria, nemotodes, fungi, insects, etc, and space dirt - rock dust from asteroid mining, lunar regolith, etc.
I agree with the author that 2154 is probably a bit early for all that, given our current rate of space development, unless a big breakthrough is made in getting into space effectively, regularly, and cheaply in the next thirty years. 2254 I could understand more.
Not much use if half of the 8 gig is used for storing system files that are accessed on a reboot / cold boot that wipes the RAM.
Also 8GB of NAND probably costs $4, which is a lot less than 8GB of RAM.
It exists? It means that NAND can live another generation or two longer as a viable technology before the competitors (e.g., RRAM) are ready to step in.
Err, no. The ITC found that Samsung offered terms that were fair and non-discriminatory.
Apple refused to pay those terms. The ITC reasoned that in view of this that the products that infringe should be banned.
And now the US government has stated in overturning this proposed ban, that SEP are worthless, as they will not stand behind the patent holders when it really matters. Because now that it has to go back to a court, Apple will just continue to not license the patents, and they will refuse to accept any judgement about what they should pay (as they have previously stated in court documents).
Note that I think that licensing terms that are a (non tiny) percentage of the final sale price are silly, because there are so many patents in a product that the price of the product would tend towards infinity very quickly! However final sale price is often the only visible price that a patent holder can get - the internal production costs are company secrets.
Modelling these things takes time. Sure, there will be off the shelf models for shower rings and the like, but if you're printing a new battery cover for your remote control you'll have to model it yourself - and that takes time.
However, if you amortise the cost of the 3D printer over a group of friends, or co-workers, then maybe you will eventually save money. I still don't know what I would print though - children's toys might be an option once they're past the chewing stage of development. Maybe emergency lego bricks you need to finish a design? And cases for Raspberry Pis and the like.
But the price of 3D printers will come down, and the build quality and speed will go up. What is a $500 device now will be a $200 device in three or four years, and once that barrier to entry is reduced, a lot more uses will be found.
Replacement car parts could be a use case too - once someone does a design. My wing mirror wobbles, I presume behind it there's a plastic assembly that includes the ability to adjust the mirror's pitch and yaw that is broken, I bet printing one of those is cheaper than buying an official replacement - except that the official replacement probably won't ever break.
But the device doesn't do 533MHz for the GPU in any other use case, the top clock for the GPU is 480MHz.
This isn't "forcing the system into optimal mode for benchmarks so that power saving, etc, doesn't futz the result".
This is forcing the GPU into a state that never can be attained by any other software on the system.
Of course I'm not ignoring the fact that another Samsung device runs at 533MHz and this was a bad cut and paste job onto the new device!
Outlook is the devil's spawn, yet somehow after all this time there isn't a competitive solution on Linux that does all of what Outlook does.
Thunderbird + Lightning is a slow creaky piece of shit that even if the UI and random pauses were sorted out would still not compare with the corporate features that Outlook has.
Note - I hate Outlook and use Thunderbird and Lightning on my Linux dev box, but I can recognise what Outlook offers to people who have to use Windows in a corporate environment.
1. I did extensive research using Google, the amount of research worthy of a break time reply to a slashdot comment. Are you disputing the equation for volume being area * depth? I did find differing values for the average depth of ice on Antarctica but they weren't an order of magnitude different, more like a couple of hundred metres. And at least I put my figures down unlike other posts, I should have put the links I found them on too. The ice shelf is an issue of course, although you don't give your source for where you make your allegation either. I didn't have the time to find out if the average ice depth included the ice shelf or not, or if the continental area included the ice shelf or not.
2. I note that the figure on the website you give says, for glaciers, icecaps and permanent snow, that there is 24,064,000 km^3 of water. That's not far off the 28,000,000 km^3 I calculated. Certainly not an "order of magnitude"... indeed for five minutes calculation based upon wikipedia and other sources that's not bad.
3. I never said that the ice would melt entirely. This was an entirely academic discussion from the start. But if 10% of it melted, then we're talking about 5 metres of sea level rise which would be devastating for many areas.
Thought I would research the London case - http://flood.firetree.net?ll=51.4438,-359.6106&zoom=9&m=20
Yeah, the way to save London in this scenario is to dredge (a vast amount) from Southend southwards to the spit of 20m+ land from Sheerness.
The far more reasonable 5m sea level rise would have you damming between Shoeburyness and the Isle Of Sheppey and then probably to the east of Faversham. http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=51.5020,0.6225&zoom=11&m=5
The fens might need the same doing, despite a lack of a vast city to save: http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=53.0000,0.4526&zoom=10&m=20
Sorry Holland: http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=52.2405,6.0700&zoom=8&m=20 ... oh dear, 5m isn't much better: http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=52.2405,6.0700&zoom=8&m=5 and 1m is devastating: http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=52.5422,6.2568&zoom=8&m=1
More likely the coastal cities will dredge vast banks of sea-floor to form a giant, closed harbour (with locks to let shipping in/out) that drains at low tide. Holland already has experience of building these to reclaim land.
London, for example, will build up the sub-surface sand banks between Essex and Kent.
I expect after this that the sea within the banks will be massively reformed to build new land for development, vast Venices of concrete. Yeah, more development on low-level land, rather than less.
Just for your information, the highest land-mass point on Antarctica is 4900 metres above sea level. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinson_Massif
Antarctica is a continental land-mass, the ice on Antarctica is NOT floating on sea water. Therefore when it melts, all of that volume flows downwards into the seas around Antarctica, and all of it contributes to sea level rise.
Perhaps you are thinking of the Arctic Ocean, which is sea ice floating on sea water, and the melting thereof does not affect sea level because of buoyancy.
Area of Antartica: 14,000,000 sq km
Area of Greenland: 2,166,086 sq km
Area of Earth's Oceans: 361,000,000 sq km
Mean Depth of Ice on Antartica: 1,829 m
Mean Depth of Ice on Greenland: 2,300 m
14000000 * 1.829 = 25606000 km^3 of ice
2166086 * 2.300 =4981998 km^3 of ice
Ratio of ice volume to water volume: 1/1.091
So we have around 28000000 km^3 of water to spread over 361000000 km^2 of water. I make that to be 77 metres of sea level rise, just from greenland and Antartica alone. Nice.
Now add on Greenland ... adjust for 30% of the surface area being land, and the other great issue - the rising of Greenland and Antartica now they're free of heavy ice (a much longer term issue, granted) that will displace a large portion of sea. For example North Europe is still rising after the last ice age. Okay, this is a very long-term issue, but if 2km of ice disappears from an entire continent in a couple of hundreds years (a blink of an eye, geologically speaking) all that lovely exposed land we could build heated domes on to live in would be rather prone to massive earthquakes surely.
From what I've read, it looks like the current big question is how non-linear the melting will be, so that we can safely say that if we get 10cm of sea rise in the next 25 years, that means we will get another 10cm per 25 years, or 20cm, 40cm, 80cm in subsequent quarter-centuries (we'll cope at great expense), or worse, 25, 100, ALL GONE in an exponential melting scenario (this is very very very unlikely!).
So I watched a show or two on TV about container shipping and container ports. The lightest containers go on the top of the container stack on the ship, the heaviest at the bottom. This is all calculated by the port's stacking software, which uses the declared weight of each container to sort them. Note that this means that prior comments about weighing the containers at *loading time* won't work - it's too late then, unless you expand the ports to contain an area for overloaded containers awaiting their owners to pay a fine. Ports are already operating at capacity and throughput limits a lot of the time - they can't afford to dynamically rearrange container stacking, or have a temporary storage area.
When the light containers are actually overloaded - and everybody is doing it because otherwise they'd be at a disadvantage - the overall effect on the ship is far worse than if those containers weren't at the top of the stack of containers. The ship's "tippability" is greatly increased, and each roll in the sea generates far far more strain on the ship's structure than it should.
The A6 and A6X includes Apple's own custom ARMv7 design, called Swift. Apple is one of ARM's architecture licensees.
This makes them like Qualcomm who also design their own ARMv7 cores (Krait).
I presume both companies also have ARMv8 licenses - and I expect the Apple A7 or A8 to include an ARMv8 core or four.
Lots of people are within 100 metres of the cabinet however, in a FTTC scheme.
And perhaps this method also works to improve bitrate at longer distances too.
Most likely this will be used for the last 100 metres from the cabinet to the home, in a Fibre To The Cabinet (or Curb) scheme.
Yes, the article mentions this at the end.
The map is accurate - there's a streetwalker (well, a womble with a cauldron?) in the red light district near the football stadium - I presume they're still there despite the serial killer prostitute murders a few years ago.
Still, it's been 12 years since I lived near Ipswich, and 15 since I spent a summer living in Ipswich (Norwich Road, top left of map).
There really isn't a lot to do in Ipswich, this map is probably the town's crowning achievement.
A president hasn't overturned an ITC decision since the early 90s, IIRC.
Samsung can now use this decision in a court case against Apple to get damages.
FTR for one patent in thousands used in a phone, I think that 2.5% of the phone retail price is not reasonable, it seems a high price to enter a closed FRAND gang who have cross-licensed patents to each other for nearly nothing, whilst setting a high barrier of 2.5% that none of them have had to pay. However if that 2.5% covers all the necessary patents in that FRAND pool, that's potentially a different matter (I still don't think it should be related to the retail price, as that price already covers the licensing of other patents and R&D, etc).
But I don't think Samsung would have gone this route if Apple hadn't sued them so aggressively, so meh.
I'm sure they could space the two parts exactly one revolution apart (even taking the asteroid's relative velocity into account).
I think this is the type of problem done in high school mathematics?
I still prefer the odds on the broken up asteroid than the guaranteed end of human life full asteroid.
In addition it could be that many of the pieces will miss us anyway. The relative speed of the asteroid to earth could be as high as 70km/s, so if we hit it with 24 hours to go, that's 86400 seconds for each piece to shear away from us from a distance of 6 million km. We only need to change the asteroid piece trajectory slightly to make it miss the Earth entirely. Indeed it may be prudent to have a second warhead to explode after the first one to give the pieces more momentum away from the line of impact (we'd need around 100m/s, that's a lot of momentum to be giving to potentially massive lumps of rocky iron).
The issue here though is that the domain was registered quite some time ago, and prior to that also had a history as a real site.
The absence of a website does not mean the domain is unused either. Email is an obvious example. In addition websites take a long time to develop, and are often parked until the site is ready - the absence of a website does not mean an absence of intent to have a website.
"Handing over" something that someone else paid for based upon such vague reasoning is very wrong. It isn't stolen property to be confiscated and handed back to the original owner. The domain wasn't trademarked at the time it was registered, and I'm certain that there are no rules in the terms and conditions about handing back domains you've bought in the case that someone else trademarks that name.
In my opinion this domain owner got lucky and Microsoft should be paying him money for the name that they themselves have recently made valuable. And he should still have the right to not sell the domain name if he chooses not to.
Next step is real force feedback - I'm thinking of a fast moving boxing glove on a robot arm that can position itself within a fraction of a second.
A head shot will never be the same again (system can do head tracking to stop you ducking the punch).
Imagine a portal jump with real feedback. A car crash in a racing game?
You could have an axe on a robot arm for simulating medieval battle games.