Burying cables under the sidewalks and roads seems just as daft. No sooner that they have been buried and the road surface relaid, that the compactor machines damage some other pipe or cable which then leads to the road being dug up again, and the cycle continues. Then one construction team or another doesn't seal the road surface properly and the water starts to wash away the bedsand under the tarmac, and the road starts to distort.
Wouldn't that increase the presence of mold and fungus? There are some types of granite that can naturally absorb water and release it slowly. They also have the problem of becoming a reservoir for fungal spores because it it the perfect habitat. If you've ever seen the underside of a brick bridge, you will alway see that stuff.
That was the original battle of CISC vs. RISC in the 1990's. CPU designers did a survey of how often every instruction was referenced by various compiler writers. Most of the time it was move, arithmetic, function call and conditional branching instructions, with the more complex ones used very rarely if at all.
And it was just as efficient doing floating-point in software as it was implementing custom instructions, simply because it wasn't possible to get all the transistors onto a single chip. They had to be placed on separate chips (80287/80387, TMS34082, 68881/68882). TMS340x0 chips allowed for multiple FPU's that could be addressed separately, while the DSP designers who opted for combined add/multiply instructions and data streaming. Cray had the streaming vector processors that could be pipelined into each other.
I remember reading that some instructions on the 68000 like SUB or XOR were actually faster than CLR. The other companies were mashed up when Microsoft announced around the mid 1990's that "UNIX was legacy and Windows NT is the future". The manufacturers caved into the hype, brought out Windows boxes, and reduced themselves to what were the industry called "box packagers" who just took components, slapped them together, and bundled in an OS, then shipped the box. HP, DEC, Digital ended up just competing against Dell.
They already do - with snib locks (those |/ shaped bolts), they would have little plastic cards that are soft enough to bend round a door, but strong enough to push the bolt back.
Continents shuffled about a bit - at a rate of 5cm/year, one million year allows movement of 5km, a few billion years and anywhere at the equator and poles could get swapped around.
1. The protective casing breaks off. No different from laptops - what are the first parts to break? The small fiddly plastic bits like hinge covers, plastic connectors.
2. If an electrical circuit breaks or has a short circuit, how do you know where exactly if it is concealed by tubes and covers?
3. The extra casing would add more weight to the robot.
Normally, things like satellites get covered in layers of insulation, gold foil and shielding, but that is due to radiation and extreme temperature change.
Drilling a geothermal well would be the easiest solution - the hot water would just be needed to flow naturally rather than piped into a steam turbine/dynamo system.
The junior engineer was walking down a path and he came across a patent lawyer. The patent lawyer was getting old. He asked, "Please junior engineer, can you take me to the top of the mountain? I hope to see the sunset one last time before I retire." The junior engineer answered "No Mr. patent lawyer. If I pick you up, you'll sue me and I'll go bankrupt." The patent lawyer said, "No, I promise. I won't sue you. Just please take me up to the mountain." The junior engineer thought about it and finally lifted up that patent lawyer, put his arm around his waist and carried him up to the top of the mountain.
They sat there and watched the sunset together. It was so beautiful. Then after sunset the patent lawyer turned to the junior engineer and asked, "Can I go home now? I am tired, and I am old." The junior engineer picked up the patent lawyer and again put his arm around the lawyers waist and carried him safely. He came all the way down the mountain holding the lawyer carefully and took him to his home to give him some food and a place to sleep. The next day the patent lawyer turned to the boy and asked, "Please junior engineer, will you take me back to my home now? It is time for me to leave this industry, and I would like to be at my home now." The junior engineer felt he had been safe all this time and the patent lawyer had kept his word, so he would take it home as asked.
He carefully picked up the patent lawyer and carried him back to the woods, to his home to retire. Just before he laid the patent lawyer down, the patent lawyer turned and filed a lawsuit. The junior engineer cried out and lowered the lawyer upon the ground. "Mr. Lawyer, why did you do that? Now I will surely go bankrupt!" The patent lawyer looked up at him and grinned, "You knew what I was when you carried me."
If the hurricanes are more powerful, that means they are using more energy, right? And my less than great understanding is that less energy equates to cooler temperatures (for a system), so does this mean the hurricanes are helping to cool the earth by converting excess heat into... well... something that's not heat( e.g. motion or water, wind, etc.)?
Note: I hope this doesn't descend into a flame-war about global warming; the main question is: whatever the temperature, does the energy dissipated by hurricanes ultimately cool the system they are in?
Hurricane contains moist humid air which can contain more energy than dry air. Once that water is deposited back on Earth, that is taking energy out of the system, so it does cool down. But they also require a strong wind to set things rotating. One that wind dissipates, than too is released energy. The actual dynamics are more complex than can be described by a single slashdot comment.
There are interaction diagrams which show the energy transfer between the sun, clouds, atmosphere, oceans and continents. Sun heats up the atmosphere and oceans, oceans release water forming clouds, which reflect sunlight. Water in the atmosphere transfers heat, along with ocean currents. Heat transfer causes winds, creating ocean waves which crash along the continents. In each case, the total amount of energy is in the range of GigaJoules.
Like those liberals who say this won't cost much, just 1 cent in every dollar. They don't realize that some people are only saving 5 cents in every dollar. Then four more special interest groups want the same funding.
Simple home method is to use a Fax Machine - by law you are supposed to have correct identification details configured onto the machine. My parents had their old address and number on their combo fax/machine telephone. Caller-ID would show up their old details.
I was told ARM didn't have access to the big design tools and libraries that the other companies had. They had to design every logic cell by hand, so by coincidence fewer transistors mean lower power consumption.
I guess it's like C++ where you could build an object from the inheritance of other classes and have a whole load of functions you don't use, or just write a custom class with just the functions you need.
India had a similar situation. With great pomp and ceremony, the Indian energy minister announced the "switching-on" of the first trash-burning power plant. He pressed the big red start button, and the furnaces start up. The generating power dial slowly rose and then stopped way below target to much applause. After he went away, they did an investigation and discovered... that anything burnable (car tyres, wood, boxes, packaging was already being recycled. What was left was just soggy wet compost.
There were similar Flash games to Angry Birds space. There was an Astronaut game that featured gravity fields, but that was more of aim-for-the-portal. There are other demolition games, but they involved killing people (pirates, castle-occupiers) or buildings/ships using a variety of weapons; trebuchet, cannon, arrows, explosives. The only audio feedback was the canned Pythonesque "ouch"'s and "ooh"'s. A Gory was having an archery fight. Another robot battleships game involves having robots on different sides of a planet, knocking each other out with missiles). Some games do have a construction element where you take something like a shopping trolley, and then add custom parts like larger wheels, steering, wings, engine, tail, jet engines, rockets until you can go into space or cross the continent.
Angry Birds combines the demolition aspect without the human killing or gory bits, but stilling having some Pythonesque audio feedback. Angry Birds Space incorporates the physics of space travel plus a jazzy 60's sci-fi theme tune.
That's the really funny thing to me - home computers from the 80's (like the Atari 400/800/1200, Commodore 64, etc...) had two or even four game controller ports (even more if you bought custom adapters); joysticks, paddles, keypads, even touch tablets. The simplest way of handling AI or any number of players was just to have a get-move function.
The PC has had all that time but never made it a priority - in the 80's, you'd get your Atari 2600 console with a whole set of controllers, and a couple of multi-player cartridges (Air-Sea-Battle, Video Olympics). There's the big difference here - these games were designed to be played multi-player on one screen as they were top-down, side-view or isometric views.
Yes, I've seen that - the agency charged the corporation $120/hour for services, while only paying the H1-B visa graduates $35/hour. The difference was kept by himself.
Elemental astatine has never been viewed, because a mass large enough to be seen (by the naked human eye) would be immediately vaporized by the heat generated by its own radioactivity.
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The latest theory is "zombees". https://www.zombeewatch.org./
Why didn't they just build the car park on stilts? Or put some deep trench reservoirs in place to contain all the water?
Burying cables under the sidewalks and roads seems just as daft. No sooner that they have been buried and the road surface relaid, that the compactor machines damage some other pipe or cable which then leads to the road being dug up again, and the cycle continues. Then one construction team or another doesn't seal the road surface properly and the water starts to wash away the bedsand under the tarmac, and the road starts to distort.
Wouldn't that increase the presence of mold and fungus? There are some types of granite that can naturally absorb water and release it slowly. They also have the problem of becoming a reservoir for fungal spores because it it the perfect habitat. If you've ever seen the underside of a brick bridge, you will alway see that stuff.
That was the original battle of CISC vs. RISC in the 1990's. CPU designers did a survey of how often every instruction was referenced by various compiler writers. Most of the time it was move, arithmetic, function call and conditional branching instructions, with the more complex ones used very rarely if at all.
And it was just as efficient doing floating-point in software as it was implementing custom instructions, simply because it wasn't possible to get all the transistors onto a single chip. They had to be placed on separate chips (80287/80387, TMS34082, 68881/68882). TMS340x0 chips allowed for multiple FPU's that could be addressed separately, while the DSP designers who opted for combined add/multiply instructions and data streaming. Cray had the streaming vector processors that could be pipelined into each other.
I remember reading that some instructions on the 68000 like SUB or XOR were actually faster than CLR. The other companies were mashed up when Microsoft announced around the mid 1990's that "UNIX was legacy and Windows NT is the future". The manufacturers caved into the hype, brought out Windows boxes, and reduced themselves to what were the industry called "box packagers" who just took components, slapped them together, and bundled in an OS, then shipped the box. HP, DEC, Digital ended up just competing against Dell.
How do you put a whole house into a cellar?
Make it retractable like they had in Stingray. Though I always wondered why they didn't just build the apartments underground in the first place.
They already do - with snib locks (those |/ shaped bolts), they would have little plastic cards that are soft enough to bend round a door, but strong enough to push the bolt back.
It would be better if the knox box just stored an electronic swipe card that could unlock one door.
Continents shuffled about a bit - at a rate of 5cm/year, one million year allows movement of 5km, a few billion years and anywhere at the equator and poles could get swapped around.
I'd imagine you have several possible problems:
1. The protective casing breaks off. No different from laptops - what are the first parts to break? The small fiddly plastic bits like hinge covers, plastic connectors.
2. If an electrical circuit breaks or has a short circuit, how do you know where exactly if it is concealed by tubes and covers?
3. The extra casing would add more weight to the robot.
Normally, things like satellites get covered in layers of insulation, gold foil and shielding, but that is due to radiation and extreme temperature change.
Drilling a geothermal well would be the easiest solution - the hot water would just be needed to flow naturally rather than piped into a steam turbine/dynamo system.
A Cherokee Legend
The junior engineer was walking down a path and he came across a patent lawyer. The patent lawyer was getting old. He asked, "Please junior engineer, can you take me to the top of the mountain? I hope to see the sunset one last time before I retire." The junior engineer answered "No Mr. patent lawyer. If I pick you up, you'll sue me and I'll go bankrupt." The patent lawyer said, "No, I promise. I won't sue you. Just please take me up to the mountain." The junior engineer thought about it and finally lifted up that patent lawyer, put his arm around his waist and carried him up to the top of the mountain.
They sat there and watched the sunset together. It was so beautiful. Then after sunset the patent lawyer turned to the junior engineer and asked, "Can I go home now? I am tired, and I am old." The junior engineer picked up the patent lawyer and again put his arm around the lawyers waist and carried him safely. He came all the way down the mountain holding the lawyer carefully and took him to his home to give him some food and a place to sleep. The next day the patent lawyer turned to the boy and asked, "Please junior engineer, will you take me back to my home now? It is time for me to leave this industry, and I would like to be at my home now." The junior engineer felt he had been safe all this time and the patent lawyer had kept his word, so he would take it home as asked.
He carefully picked up the patent lawyer and carried him back to the woods, to his home to retire. Just before he laid the patent lawyer down, the patent lawyer turned and filed a lawsuit. The junior engineer cried out and lowered the lawyer upon the ground. "Mr. Lawyer, why did you do that? Now I will surely go bankrupt!" The patent lawyer looked up at him and grinned, "You knew what I was when you carried me."
If the hurricanes are more powerful, that means they are using more energy, right? And my less than great understanding is that less energy equates to cooler temperatures (for a system), so does this mean the hurricanes are helping to cool the earth by converting excess heat into... well... something that's not heat( e.g. motion or water, wind, etc.)?
Note: I hope this doesn't descend into a flame-war about global warming; the main question is: whatever the temperature, does the energy dissipated by hurricanes ultimately cool the system they are in?
Hurricane contains moist humid air which can contain more energy than dry air. Once that water is deposited back on Earth, that is taking energy out of the system, so it does cool down. But they also require a strong wind to set things rotating. One that wind dissipates, than too is released energy. The actual dynamics are more complex than can be described by a single slashdot comment.
There are interaction diagrams which show the energy transfer between the sun, clouds, atmosphere, oceans and continents. Sun heats up the atmosphere and oceans, oceans release water forming clouds, which reflect sunlight. Water in the atmosphere transfers heat, along with ocean currents. Heat transfer causes winds, creating ocean waves which crash along the continents. In each case, the total amount of energy is in the range of GigaJoules.
Like those liberals who say this won't cost much, just 1 cent in every dollar. They don't realize that some people are only saving 5 cents in every dollar. Then four more special interest groups want the same funding.
That's what they did in London and in Holland.
But as the UK is slowly tipping down into the sea at the lower end, they may need to build a new barrier in the future.
You can get DOSbox for a mobile phone now. So all those x86 DOS games run on mobile phones without a need for an Intel chip.
Some phone companies / telco exchange suppliers offer this as a service:
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing
Simple home method is to use a Fax Machine - by law you are supposed to have correct identification details configured onto the machine.
My parents had their old address and number on their combo fax/machine telephone. Caller-ID would show up their old details.
I was told ARM didn't have access to the big design tools and libraries that the other companies had. They had to design every logic cell by hand, so by coincidence fewer transistors mean lower power consumption.
I guess it's like C++ where you could build an object from the inheritance of other classes and have a whole load of functions you don't use, or just write a custom class with just the functions you need.
India had a similar situation. With great pomp and ceremony, the Indian energy minister announced the "switching-on" of the first trash-burning power plant. He pressed the big red start button, and the furnaces start up. The generating power dial slowly rose and then stopped way below target to much applause. After he went away, they did an investigation and discovered ... that anything burnable (car tyres, wood, boxes, packaging was already being recycled. What was left was just soggy wet compost.
There were similar Flash games to Angry Birds space. There was an Astronaut game that featured gravity fields, but that was more of aim-for-the-portal. There are other demolition games, but they involved killing people (pirates, castle-occupiers) or buildings/ships using a variety of weapons; trebuchet, cannon, arrows, explosives. The only audio feedback was the canned Pythonesque "ouch"'s and "ooh"'s. A Gory was having an archery fight.
Another robot battleships game involves having robots on different sides of a planet, knocking each other out with missiles). Some games do have a construction element where you take something like a shopping trolley, and then add custom parts like larger wheels, steering, wings, engine, tail, jet engines, rockets until you can go into space or cross the continent.
Angry Birds combines the demolition aspect without the human killing or gory bits, but stilling having some Pythonesque audio feedback. Angry Birds Space incorporates the physics of space travel plus a jazzy 60's sci-fi theme tune.
That's the really funny thing to me - home computers from the 80's (like the Atari 400/800/1200, Commodore 64, etc...) had two or even four game controller ports (even more if you bought custom adapters); joysticks, paddles, keypads, even touch tablets. The simplest way of handling AI or any number of players was just to have a get-move function.
The PC has had all that time but never made it a priority - in the 80's, you'd get your Atari 2600 console with a whole set of controllers, and a couple of multi-player cartridges (Air-Sea-Battle, Video Olympics). There's the big difference here - these games were designed to be played multi-player on one screen as they were top-down, side-view or isometric views.
Yes, I've seen that - the agency charged the corporation $120/hour for services, while only paying the H1-B visa graduates $35/hour. The difference was kept by himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astatine
Elemental astatine has never been viewed, because a mass large enough to be seen (by the naked human eye) would be immediately vaporized by the heat generated by its own radioactivity.
Sounds like Schrödingerscatium.
And you get into trouble with playing with magnets :)