A good portion of coal in North America is from Wyoming now and they have an almost limitless supply of wind there too, we could put the coal right back where we got it from with wind energy!
On a more serious note, could we use technology like this to make carbon fiber products? Or carbon nanotubes? Seems a shame to bury basically purified carbon...
What about smaller self contained reactors? Once a design for a reactor like that is tested and approved it can be manufactured in volume and deployed without nearly as much cost in terms of construction and approval. It seems like most existing nuclear plants are large, unique, one-off designs that ran up the construction costs and required significant approval costs to prove their design was safe.
To be fair none of these jobs have much of a career path. Physician assistants and nurses are still going to be PAs and nurses 20 years later. Most of the rest of the jobs listed are doctors of some kind or another so you could argue they are already at the top of their food chain, but even they will have to move into management if they want career advancement. I'm not sure what statisticians do to advance their careers but I'm sure most places they have to get on a management track to move up as well.
This site claims Falcon 9 already has Skylon beat price wise (just with block 5). Falcon Heavy and BFR have it beat by a lot:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/...
Really. They haven't even succeeding in replacing the one job everyone seems focused on replacing: driving. Almost every heavyweight tech company in the US is throwing money at the problem and the best they can do is a limited roll-out in a completely mapped out part of Phoenix with perfect weather and perfect streets. Sorry guys AI isn't coming for anyone's job real soon.
No matter what criteria colleges use, parents with means are going to do everything they can to see their kids succeed, there is just no way to level the playing field. In a way a standardized test is probably the most fair, I just bought 3 of the top rated ACT prep books for one of my kids off of Amazon for less than $60. That's at least doable for lower income families If colleges start looking at other factors like extracurricular activities and internships and things like that it'll really tilt the playing field in favor of the middle and upper class families, all of those things can come much easier to students of means.
So what you are saying is that radical Muslims are expanding their territories by creating settlements within other countries...I wonder where they got an idea like that?
The dead give away should be that the Forest Service is part of the US Department of Agriculture. Our forests represent the largest crop in North America if not the world. That's part of the reason pine beetles are killing a lot of the forests in the western half of the US, because they are not forests at all, they are mono-culture stands of lodge pole pines with all the susceptibility to pests and disease that any other mono-culture crop represents.
I used to think this as well but it is not backed up by the data in the study linked to above (read the actual pdf paper). They compare the number of errors per language and the less succinct languages (C, C#, Java etc) actually have fewer errors than the succinct ones like Python and Ruby. In fact Python, which was the most succinct language, had the lowest percentage (79%) of programs that ran without timeout or errors.
I think the argument is opening a file is something most users do a lot more often than renaming them (especially application folders, why would I ever want to rename those?) and thus should be the more intuitive option of the two. Not to mention in Mac OS X the enter key is also the equivalant of a mouse click in a form with a default button enabled (and for submitting web forms) so having the enter key open a highlighted file in the finder is more consistant (in my mind) with how the enter key works in the rest of the operating system. I've been using OS X for 2 years now and the enter key to rename a file (instead of opening it) in the finder still trips me up on a regular basis and I don't think it's because I'm still used to windows or linux, it's because it just doesn't make any sense.
It's not just the rotational speed that matters either, what matters is sustainable transfer rates. As platter density goes up the more data that can be read during a given rotation. That's why some of the 500+ gig desktop harddrives have pretty competitive read speeds even at 7200 rpm (compared to say the 10,000 rpm Raptors). Of course there are other factors too like burst rates and seek times. I haven't looked closely at laptop harddrives but don't just look at the rotational speed to compare drives.
Actually the MacPros are a heck of deal for essentially a 4 processor workstation. I could see picking up one of those to run Windows just for the cost savings compared to similarly equipped Dells with Windows already on them.
Consider something the size of the Mississippi carrying basically all the fertilizer used in the midwest and dumping it into the Gulf of Mexico...hardly a miniscule runoff...
Microsoft and Sony better watch out too. Microsoft IMHO really screwed up here because they practically had all the pieces in place with the XBox 360, networked, high-def output, their online marketplace already lets you view movie previews and try out games. But then they drop a dinky little 20 gig hard drive in the thing (which in mine only has about 9 gigs of free space) and to top it off let Apple beat them to the punch of downloading tv shows and most likely movies. I'm guessing there are already more XBox 360's out there than Mac Minis and at "only" $400 more people could probably be convinced to buy one if they could download full blown movies and TV shows with it. Sony is even dumber for screwing around with Blueray and delaying the PS3 further while Apple has been busily negotiating contracts with television networks and movie studios. Apple's content isn't going to be low-def forever, at some point they are going to offer at least DVD quality or better for TV shows and if they get the MPAA to play ball, movies. They could very easily come out with a dumbed-down Mac Mini that was even cheaper and focused mostly on playing content with an upgraded version of Front Row. With the combination of letting people download TV shows from iTunes and then the release of Front Row the writting's been on the wall for a while where Apple was heading with all this stuff. Most of the other players have been sitting on their thumbs or pushing some other agenda (Blueray/HD-DVD). I know Netflix has always been interested in downloadable content but I just don't think they'll get there before Apple does either. They need to make a deal (they probably already are or have) with someone like Tivo or Microsoft to get a software/hardware platform that people can rent or buy to download netflix movies. But again it looks like Apple is going to beat everyone to the punch by at least 6 months (hell they've already beaten everyone to the punch if you count 320 x 280 TV shows), unless there are some big announcements from some of these other players pretty soon.
These cars could be even more efficient than current hybrids like the Prius, as a good deal of the power generated from regenerative braking is lost in current hybrids because their batteries simply can't be charged quickly enough. Capacitors won't have that limitation either.
I have kids in elementary school now, and they all learned skip counting. It seems to be the preferred method to teach multiplication these days and it works. Beats the hell out of flash cards too.
What about the artists that write their own music?
By the same token sound studios, sound engineers, talent scouts, cover artists et al are a dime a dozen too. A Band that writes it's own songs and has a unique sound probably deserves the lion's share of the money that is made from selling their music. Especially if the band built up a fan base on their own before they "made it big".
One of the things I see holding back all these web-based applications is printing...how do you format envelopes and labels, insert page breaks and format pages etc. when you are at the mercy of the printing capabilities of the user's browser? Online is great but sometimes you just want a hard copy.
Newspapers were on their way out when the news started being broadcasted on tv, they just didn't know it yet. It seems like online news sites in general are doing just fine. Sites like cnn.com and have been doing the news for a long time now. Even our local tv news channels have better news websites than the local papers do, with things like local weather radar images in realtime, updated content throughout the day and streaming video etc. Most newspapers were late to the party, and their segment of the online market has been saturated with other news sites. Combine that with sites like cars.com, monster and ebay for classifieds and specialty news sites like espn.com and slashdot for things from sports to technology and suddenly there's not much room for the local paper anymore.
Except the digg system itself does a pretty good job of dealing with dupes usually only one post gets very many diggs while the others languish in obscurity. It would be nice if digg had a commenting system more like/.'s though. Threaded comments would be a nice addition to digg. It seems like both sites could do a better job handling dupes. It shouldn't be too hard to have the software do a check before a comment is posted and display a list of articles already posted that are similar to the one about to be posted. Especially if they link to the exact same site(s). A kind of "Are you sure you want to post this? This article appears to be similar to the following articles:" type of message when you preview or something.
Modern wind turbines are HUGE. I live about 40 miles from a large wind farm which is constantly being expanded and I saw a couple of tractor trailers hauling turbine parts on the highway the other day. Each truck was carying two blades and they were the length of the flatbed trailer they were being hauled on. Just the blades...
Joel Spolsky has a pretty good article about just this (what he says about software certainly applies to hardware as well), he goes a little more into the economics of it:
What this means is that if you are a software developer, the only thing that makes sense financially is to develop a Windows version first. Then, you need to evaluate the cost of doing a Mac version. If that cost is only 10% more, it's worth it. If that cost is something like 50% more, it's not worth it.
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A good portion of coal in North America is from Wyoming now and they have an almost limitless supply of wind there too, we could put the coal right back where we got it from with wind energy! On a more serious note, could we use technology like this to make carbon fiber products? Or carbon nanotubes? Seems a shame to bury basically purified carbon...
What about smaller self contained reactors? Once a design for a reactor like that is tested and approved it can be manufactured in volume and deployed without nearly as much cost in terms of construction and approval. It seems like most existing nuclear plants are large, unique, one-off designs that ran up the construction costs and required significant approval costs to prove their design was safe.
To be fair none of these jobs have much of a career path. Physician assistants and nurses are still going to be PAs and nurses 20 years later. Most of the rest of the jobs listed are doctors of some kind or another so you could argue they are already at the top of their food chain, but even they will have to move into management if they want career advancement. I'm not sure what statisticians do to advance their careers but I'm sure most places they have to get on a management track to move up as well.
This site claims Falcon 9 already has Skylon beat price wise (just with block 5). Falcon Heavy and BFR have it beat by a lot: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/...
Really. They haven't even succeeding in replacing the one job everyone seems focused on replacing: driving. Almost every heavyweight tech company in the US is throwing money at the problem and the best they can do is a limited roll-out in a completely mapped out part of Phoenix with perfect weather and perfect streets. Sorry guys AI isn't coming for anyone's job real soon.
No matter what criteria colleges use, parents with means are going to do everything they can to see their kids succeed, there is just no way to level the playing field. In a way a standardized test is probably the most fair, I just bought 3 of the top rated ACT prep books for one of my kids off of Amazon for less than $60. That's at least doable for lower income families If colleges start looking at other factors like extracurricular activities and internships and things like that it'll really tilt the playing field in favor of the middle and upper class families, all of those things can come much easier to students of means.
So what you are saying is that radical Muslims are expanding their territories by creating settlements within other countries...I wonder where they got an idea like that?
The dead give away should be that the Forest Service is part of the US Department of Agriculture. Our forests represent the largest crop in North America if not the world. That's part of the reason pine beetles are killing a lot of the forests in the western half of the US, because they are not forests at all, they are mono-culture stands of lodge pole pines with all the susceptibility to pests and disease that any other mono-culture crop represents.
I used to think this as well but it is not backed up by the data in the study linked to above (read the actual pdf paper). They compare the number of errors per language and the less succinct languages (C, C#, Java etc) actually have fewer errors than the succinct ones like Python and Ruby. In fact Python, which was the most succinct language, had the lowest percentage (79%) of programs that ran without timeout or errors.
I think the argument is opening a file is something most users do a lot more often than renaming them (especially application folders, why would I ever want to rename those?) and thus should be the more intuitive option of the two. Not to mention in Mac OS X the enter key is also the equivalant of a mouse click in a form with a default button enabled (and for submitting web forms) so having the enter key open a highlighted file in the finder is more consistant (in my mind) with how the enter key works in the rest of the operating system. I've been using OS X for 2 years now and the enter key to rename a file (instead of opening it) in the finder still trips me up on a regular basis and I don't think it's because I'm still used to windows or linux, it's because it just doesn't make any sense.
It's not just the rotational speed that matters either, what matters is sustainable transfer rates. As platter density goes up the more data that can be read during a given rotation. That's why some of the 500+ gig desktop harddrives have pretty competitive read speeds even at 7200 rpm (compared to say the 10,000 rpm Raptors). Of course there are other factors too like burst rates and seek times. I haven't looked closely at laptop harddrives but don't just look at the rotational speed to compare drives.
Maybe to see if the seeds are still viable after exposure to the radiation in space.
Actually the MacPros are a heck of deal for essentially a 4 processor workstation. I could see picking up one of those to run Windows just for the cost savings compared to similarly equipped Dells with Windows already on them.
Consider something the size of the Mississippi carrying basically all the fertilizer used in the midwest and dumping it into the Gulf of Mexico...hardly a miniscule runoff...
Microsoft and Sony better watch out too. Microsoft IMHO really screwed up here because they practically had all the pieces in place with the XBox 360, networked, high-def output, their online marketplace already lets you view movie previews and try out games. But then they drop a dinky little 20 gig hard drive in the thing (which in mine only has about 9 gigs of free space) and to top it off let Apple beat them to the punch of downloading tv shows and most likely movies. I'm guessing there are already more XBox 360's out there than Mac Minis and at "only" $400 more people could probably be convinced to buy one if they could download full blown movies and TV shows with it. Sony is even dumber for screwing around with Blueray and delaying the PS3 further while Apple has been busily negotiating contracts with television networks and movie studios. Apple's content isn't going to be low-def forever, at some point they are going to offer at least DVD quality or better for TV shows and if they get the MPAA to play ball, movies. They could very easily come out with a dumbed-down Mac Mini that was even cheaper and focused mostly on playing content with an upgraded version of Front Row. With the combination of letting people download TV shows from iTunes and then the release of Front Row the writting's been on the wall for a while where Apple was heading with all this stuff. Most of the other players have been sitting on their thumbs or pushing some other agenda (Blueray/HD-DVD). I know Netflix has always been interested in downloadable content but I just don't think they'll get there before Apple does either. They need to make a deal (they probably already are or have) with someone like Tivo or Microsoft to get a software/hardware platform that people can rent or buy to download netflix movies. But again it looks like Apple is going to beat everyone to the punch by at least 6 months (hell they've already beaten everyone to the punch if you count 320 x 280 TV shows), unless there are some big announcements from some of these other players pretty soon.
These cars could be even more efficient than current hybrids like the Prius, as a good deal of the power generated from regenerative braking is lost in current hybrids because their batteries simply can't be charged quickly enough. Capacitors won't have that limitation either.
I have kids in elementary school now, and they all learned skip counting. It seems to be the preferred method to teach multiplication these days and it works. Beats the hell out of flash cards too.
What about the artists that write their own music?
By the same token sound studios, sound engineers, talent scouts, cover artists et al are a dime a dozen too. A Band that writes it's own songs and has a unique sound probably deserves the lion's share of the money that is made from selling their music. Especially if the band built up a fan base on their own before they "made it big".
Science is a little cheaper but not much.
One of the things I see holding back all these web-based applications is printing...how do you format envelopes and labels, insert page breaks and format pages etc. when you are at the mercy of the printing capabilities of the user's browser? Online is great but sometimes you just want a hard copy.
Newspapers were on their way out when the news started being broadcasted on tv, they just didn't know it yet. It seems like online news sites in general are doing just fine. Sites like cnn.com and have been doing the news for a long time now. Even our local tv news channels have better news websites than the local papers do, with things like local weather radar images in realtime, updated content throughout the day and streaming video etc. Most newspapers were late to the party, and their segment of the online market has been saturated with other news sites. Combine that with sites like cars.com, monster and ebay for classifieds and specialty news sites like espn.com and slashdot for things from sports to technology and suddenly there's not much room for the local paper anymore.
Except the digg system itself does a pretty good job of dealing with dupes usually only one post gets very many diggs while the others languish in obscurity. It would be nice if digg had a commenting system more like /.'s though. Threaded comments would be a nice addition to digg. It seems like both sites could do a better job handling dupes. It shouldn't be too hard to have the software do a check before a comment is posted and display a list of articles already posted that are similar to the one about to be posted. Especially if they link to the exact same site(s). A kind of "Are you sure you want to post this? This article appears to be similar to the following articles:" type of message when you preview or something.
Modern wind turbines are HUGE. I live about 40 miles from a large wind farm which is constantly being expanded and I saw a couple of tractor trailers hauling turbine parts on the highway the other day. Each truck was carying two blades and they were the length of the flatbed trailer they were being hauled on. Just the blades...
At least Nietzsche existed at one point.
Joel Spolsky has a pretty good article about just this (what he says about software certainly applies to hardware as well), he goes a little more into the economics of it:
What this means is that if you are a software developer, the only thing that makes sense financially is to develop a Windows version first. Then, you need to evaluate the cost of doing a Mac version. If that cost is only 10% more, it's worth it. If that cost is something like 50% more, it's not worth it.
www.joelonsoftware.com