To understand how forces act as a distance, you have to understand gauge bosons (aka exchange particles). The Standard Model of Physics defines these for the electromagnetic interaction, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction. It is highly believed that there are gauge bosons of gravity as well (called gravitons) but this has not been proven yet.
Elementary particles interact with each other by the exchange of gauge bosons, usually as virtual particles.
The first gauge boson theory, quantum electrodynamics for the electromagnetic field, was the work of Dirac in 1927. It did use some work by Bose and Einstein on the statistics of photons though.
You can think of it this way: the US system is designed around constraining a worst-case government, the Chinese system around enabling a best-case government.
Fortunately, Chinese culture historically has recognized that the ruler must serve the needs of the ruled to some extent, so you can have these long periods where everything is basically stable, and leaders can feel shame if the people say they are not doing a good job, but the lack of checks and balances gets you occasional things like 20 million people starved to death for political reasons during the Great Leap Forward Famine.
Such calculations are ubiquitous on the Internet, but AFAICT are full of shit. I looked at a 55" 4k TV in a store from as far away as I could get (maybe 15 feet away) and could still tell in some scenes that the resolution was higher than 1080p.
The eye has many kinds of "resolution". One is "Snellen Acuity", which is what they measure with an eye chart. It measures your ability to resolve the different between two lines (and thus discriminate between letters). It follows it "3 picture heights for HD, 1.5 picture heights for 4K" rule.
More sensitive is "vernier acuity", this is your ability to tell if a line is straight or not.
So you may feel like an image has more detail with 4K due to vernier acuity even if you are more then 1.5 picture heights away. But you wouldn't be able to discriminate between the smallest possible letters on a 4K screen if you are more than 1.5 picture heights away.
âoeWe werenâ(TM)t able to use the sidewalks at all when thereâ(TM)s needles and tents and bikes, so from a walking standpoint I find the robot much easier to navigate than an encampment,â Jennifer Scarlett, the S.F. SPCAâ(TM)s president, told the Business Times.
There is no fiber option. I would say that 90210 is a pretty affluent zip code.
Indeed, because Beverly Hills is building out their own fiber to every premise in the city, including multi-family units and businesses. The project has a 5-year (2017-2021) timeline from ground-breaking to service online throughout the city. The goal is to offer basic internet services at a monthly cost of around $55. No contracts and no installation fees will be required except in rare cases where the set-back from residence to street is beyond the norm, or should home construction materials present unusual challenges.
The EU (and thus Portugal) has Net Neutrality laws, and mobile zero-rating is not considered a Net Neutrality problem by the EU.
Even under current Net Neutrality via Title II in the US, mobile zero-rating is not considered a Net Neutrality problem, so you can get free unlimited music streaming on T-Mobile with Pandora, Spotify, etc.
Canadian National Railway Company is a private corporation as of 1995. They purchased Illinois Central (IC) in 1998, and a number of smaller US railways, so it has extensive trackage in the central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
It was a Canadian Crown corporation, however a large part of its trackage came from the private Canadian Northern Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which were nationalized in 1918-1918.
There's also quite a bit of begging the question in modern pseudo-psychology, where people are now conditioned to think that those who try to kill themselves suffer from a mental illness, and they know this because they try to kill themselves.
The facts is that nearly 50% of suicides are due to clinical depression. Those suffering from depression are at 25 times greater risk for suicide than the general population.
We can talk about those charging differently for anyone peering with Netflix
Yes, networks are charging Netflix fair market value for the HUGE amount of traffic they are dumping onto the Internet, and in the process raking in tons of cash from subscriptions. But in truth, these carriers are really just asking Netflix to BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE needed to dump their traffic on other networks, including dropping content caches inside end-user ISPs.
And wah, zero rating. Giving someone something for free. That is REALLY harming the consumer. Oh please, make me pay more for the main social services that I want to use!
Net neutrality is a conspiracy theory by people who don't realize that the Internet only came into existence because of the lack of government regulation and the free market.
I was there, I saw the commercial Internet get built, I fought against the Communications Decency Act, I know how challenging it has to scale content distribution for high-quality video.
We do not need government micromanagement of network architecture and business!
AWS is certainly dominant, but it is clear that Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are very serious competitors, especially if you want to build container-based hybrid cloud solutions instead of being locked-in to some of the AWS advanced messaging/DB/serverless solutions. The competition is fierce and AWS appears to be working hard to do what it has to do for customers to get their business.
The only effective way of binding CO2 that we know of is planting forests, but the problem is that that amount of land that is available for forests is decreasing rather than increasing as people convert forest into agricultural, commercial and residential land.
You are only half correct. In many countries (such as Brazil), forest is being cut down for agriculture. However, in the most advanced economies (like the US), forest cover loss has slowed and even reversing to some extent as agricultural efficiency becomes higher and people move from rural to urban/suburban areas (see this graph).
This is the big problem with a lot of self-driving proponents - they focus on the RARE events and say they could be prevented, but completely ignore the common, everyday realities of driving.
The reality of "everyday driving" is that self-driving cars have a better safety record per mile than human-driven cars.
Lyft is not authorized in the UK. Uber is the only "car sharing" service that is authorized. Smaller ones have tried, only to be crushed by bureaucracy. Even Uber was almost shut down recently in London by the city.
You don't get to control other people. If a company and its employees want to move into a city, as long as they are making mutually agreeable free market transactions with private land owners to achieve that, tough luck!
If you have a problem, move. No one owns a city. You own your own property (so don't sell it/rent it to a corporation). If you rent, you own nothing, and are free to move when you want to.
Mandarin Chinese 1.09 billion speakers English 983 million speakers... French 229 million speakers
If you know Chinese or English, you can determine the requirements of nearly a billion people for any code you write. If you know English, 611 million of those people could be outside the US and England.
If you know Mandarin Chinese, only about 100 million speakers would be outside of "greater China" (PRC/HK/ROC/other Asian Ethnic Chinese)
Now it is true that 115 million African people spread across 31 Francophone countries can speak French as either a first or a second language, and there will be more of them (perhaps 700 million) by 2050. So learning French is a bit of a gamble of the economic and demographic growth of Africa.
TASS article says "Russia's Central Bank welcomes imposing any restrictions on operations of external websites that offer cryptocurrency sales, the regulator's First Deputy Chairman Sergey Shvetsov said Tuesday."
"We consider all cryptocurrency derivatives to be a negative development on the Russian market and do not consider it possible to support it, and will even assume measures to restrict potential operations with such instruments made by the regulated part of the Russian market. Meanwhile, we assume efforts aimed at closing external websites that allow Russian citizens to acquire such assets together with the General Prosecutor's Office," he said.
ISO Directives Part 1, which many Standards Development Organizations model themselves on, state in case consensus is not clear and a vote is taken, you need a two-thirds majority of the votes cast to indicate consensus.
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A Falcon 9 could launch a Lunar X-Prize craft, but the launch will set you back $60 million, so no profit on a $20 million prize.
To understand how forces act as a distance, you have to understand gauge bosons (aka exchange particles). The Standard Model of Physics defines these for the electromagnetic interaction, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction. It is highly believed that there are gauge bosons of gravity as well (called gravitons) but this has not been proven yet.
Elementary particles interact with each other by the exchange of gauge bosons, usually as virtual particles.
For more info see this web page and for tons of detail see this video.
The first gauge boson theory, quantum electrodynamics for the electromagnetic field, was the work of Dirac in 1927. It did use some work by Bose and Einstein on the statistics of photons though.
You can think of it this way: the US system is designed around constraining a worst-case government, the Chinese system around enabling a best-case government.
Fortunately, Chinese culture historically has recognized that the ruler must serve the needs of the ruled to some extent, so you can have these long periods where everything is basically stable, and leaders can feel shame if the people say they are not doing a good job, but the lack of checks and balances gets you occasional things like 20 million people starved to death for political reasons during the Great Leap Forward Famine.
Such calculations are ubiquitous on the Internet, but AFAICT are full of shit. I looked at a 55" 4k TV in a store from as far away as I could get (maybe 15 feet away) and could still tell in some scenes that the resolution was higher than 1080p.
The eye has many kinds of "resolution". One is "Snellen Acuity", which is what they measure with an eye chart. It measures your ability to resolve the different between two lines (and thus discriminate between letters). It follows it "3 picture heights for HD, 1.5 picture heights for 4K" rule.
More sensitive is "vernier acuity", this is your ability to tell if a line is straight or not.
So you may feel like an image has more detail with 4K due to vernier acuity even if you are more then 1.5 picture heights away. But you wouldn't be able to discriminate between the smallest possible letters on a 4K screen if you are more than 1.5 picture heights away.
Most digital cinema movies are 2K resolution, which right there tells you the value of 4K/8K for television.
I think you can get some minor benefit from 4K on TV's of size over 90" diagonal, but really not worth it on anything smaller.
âoeWe werenâ(TM)t able to use the sidewalks at all when thereâ(TM)s needles and tents and bikes, so from a walking standpoint I find the robot much easier to navigate than an encampment,â Jennifer Scarlett, the S.F. SPCAâ(TM)s president, told the Business Times.
There is no fiber option. I would say that 90210 is a pretty affluent zip code.
Indeed, because Beverly Hills is building out their own fiber to every premise in the city, including multi-family units and businesses. The project has a 5-year (2017-2021) timeline from ground-breaking to service online throughout the city. The goal is to offer basic internet services at a monthly cost of around $55. No contracts and no installation fees will be required except in rare cases where the set-back from residence to street is beyond the norm, or should home construction materials present unusual challenges.
The EU (and thus Portugal) has Net Neutrality laws, and mobile zero-rating is not considered a Net Neutrality problem by the EU.
Even under current Net Neutrality via Title II in the US, mobile zero-rating is not considered a Net Neutrality problem, so you can get free unlimited music streaming on T-Mobile with Pandora, Spotify, etc.
Canadian National Railway Company is a private corporation as of 1995. They purchased Illinois Central (IC) in 1998, and a number of smaller US railways, so it has extensive trackage in the central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
It was a Canadian Crown corporation, however a large part of its trackage came from the private Canadian Northern Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which were nationalized in 1918-1918.
There's also quite a bit of begging the question in modern pseudo-psychology, where people are now conditioned to think that those who try to kill themselves suffer from a mental illness, and they know this because they try to kill themselves.
The facts is that nearly 50% of suicides are due to clinical depression. Those suffering from depression are at 25 times greater risk for suicide than the general population.
Freight railroads in the US are built, owned, and operated by private companies. (See CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF, and Union Pacific)
We can talk about those charging differently for anyone peering with Netflix
Yes, networks are charging Netflix fair market value for the HUGE amount of traffic they are dumping onto the Internet, and in the process raking in tons of cash from subscriptions. But in truth, these carriers are really just asking Netflix to BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE needed to dump their traffic on other networks, including dropping content caches inside end-user ISPs.
And wah, zero rating. Giving someone something for free. That is REALLY harming the consumer. Oh please, make me pay more for the main social services that I want to use!
Net neutrality is a conspiracy theory by people who don't realize that the Internet only came into existence because of the lack of government regulation and the free market.
I was there, I saw the commercial Internet get built, I fought against the Communications Decency Act, I know how challenging it has to scale content distribution for high-quality video.
We do not need government micromanagement of network architecture and business!
AWS is certainly dominant, but it is clear that Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are very serious competitors, especially if you want to build container-based hybrid cloud solutions instead of being locked-in to some of the AWS advanced messaging/DB/serverless solutions. The competition is fierce and AWS appears to be working hard to do what it has to do for customers to get their business.
The only effective way of binding CO2 that we know of is planting forests, but the problem is that that amount of land that is available for forests is decreasing rather than increasing as people convert forest into agricultural, commercial and residential land.
You are only half correct. In many countries (such as Brazil), forest is being cut down for agriculture. However, in the most advanced economies (like the US), forest cover loss has slowed and even reversing to some extent as agricultural efficiency becomes higher and people move from rural to urban/suburban areas (see this graph).
I think it is pretty obvious that net neutrality can and is being violated by many parties already.
Where is your evidence for this?
This is the big problem with a lot of self-driving proponents - they focus on the RARE events and say they could be prevented, but completely ignore the common, everyday realities of driving.
The reality of "everyday driving" is that self-driving cars have a better safety record per mile than human-driven cars.
Lyft is not authorized in the UK. Uber is the only "car sharing" service that is authorized. Smaller ones have tried, only to be crushed by bureaucracy. Even Uber was almost shut down recently in London by the city.
Newsflash, trucks run into human-driven buses all the time, for example.
You don't get to control other people. If a company and its employees want to move into a city, as long as they are making mutually agreeable free market transactions with private land owners to achieve that, tough luck!
If you have a problem, move. No one owns a city. You own your own property (so don't sell it/rent it to a corporation). If you rent, you own nothing, and are free to move when you want to.
Data on total number of speakers from Wikipedia, with Ethnologue as a primary source.
It is called "Facebook", not "Maskbook" or "Hoodedbook" or "Costumebook".
Mandarin Chinese 1.09 billion speakers ...
English 983 million speakers
French 229 million speakers
If you know Chinese or English, you can determine the requirements of nearly a billion people for any code you write. If you know English, 611 million of those people could be outside the US and England.
If you know Mandarin Chinese, only about 100 million speakers would be outside of "greater China" (PRC/HK/ROC/other Asian Ethnic Chinese)
Now it is true that 115 million African people spread across 31 Francophone countries can speak French as either a first or a second language, and there will be more of them (perhaps 700 million) by 2050. So learning French is a bit of a gamble of the economic and demographic growth of Africa.
TASS article says "Russia's Central Bank welcomes imposing any restrictions on operations of external websites that offer cryptocurrency sales, the regulator's First Deputy Chairman Sergey Shvetsov said Tuesday."
"We consider all cryptocurrency derivatives to be a negative development on the Russian market and do not consider it possible to support it, and will even assume measures to restrict potential operations with such instruments made by the regulated part of the Russian market. Meanwhile, we assume efforts aimed at closing external websites that allow Russian citizens to acquire such assets together with the General Prosecutor's Office," he said.
while spending 50% of your income on housing costs.
Then vote for massive deregulation of housing in urban areas. Every US city should look like Hong Kong with 60-story apartment towers!
ISO Directives Part 1, which many Standards Development Organizations model themselves on, state in case consensus is not clear and a vote is taken, you need a two-thirds majority of the votes cast to indicate consensus.