I'm sure that, despite figuring out the protein structure, that the gamers won't receive any of the patent royalties that the patent will likely generate.
Yep. Unfortunately for the researchers, I've already patented the business model of 1) Create mapping of task to game 2) Get suckers to play game 3) Map winning game solutions to task solutions 4) Profit
This is distinguished from "Ender's Game" by the presence of Step 3. It is distinguished from the standard slashdot business plan by the lack of "???".
I truly cannot take a company like facebook seriously when I see tours of their facilities and their infrastructure engineers are walking around in volcom t-shirts and skateboard shoes.
And the T-shirts and the shoes interfere with the job exactly how? Suits (or just dress shirts) and wingtips do NOT increase efficiency one iota.
I wonder how physicists would react to a climatologist who proclaimed that the standard model was just trickery of numbers, using statistical tricks to keep the grant money rolling in.
Aside from the bit about the grant money, a lot of them would agree. The standard model works mathematically, but it has too many arbitrary constants to satisfy a theoretician's aesthetic sense.
The attitude matters. It's one thing to be called and then not asked to serve. It's another thing entirely to shirk your duty because you think you're "too smart" to be on a jury. The fact that they want a biased, ignorant jury is a different issue.
It's all tied together. They're demanding a few days (if not picked) to a few weeks of a juror's time, and then they expect that juror to ignore his own feelings and be bound to perpetuate whatever injustice the state wants. Why would anyone feel duty-bound to participate in that?
All of the "smart people" that get out of jury duty because they're "smart" can go screw themselves. They're the reason that stupid decisions like this are made and become precedent for other stupid decisions.
Doesn't matter; if you're not willing to behave as an automaton and judge just the facts rather than the law, you won't get on a jury.
In a bizarre twist, despite it's obscenely poor time, the robot was declared the winner of the Ironman triathlon, as it was the only iron man who entered.
I know it sounds counter intuitive but insurance companies make their money by skimming a percentage off of every transaction.
It's true that there's money in taking premiums and paying claims. It's also true that there's a lot MORE money to be had by taking premiums and NOT paying claims.
When cells start bursting the charging circuitry notices that an array of cells isn't holding a charge anymore, and then stops charging that array.
I'm not talking about the "cell" in the sense that manufacturers advertise them (6 cell vs 9 cell battery), I'm talking about the tiny cells, of which there are thousands and thousands.
Nonsense. There's no control of charging below the individual cell (in the very way they are advertised) level. The final stage of the charge is simply a constant-voltage charge. There are no tiny sub-cells.
That's why there's a substrate material in the battery, typically a plastic or metal. It contains the burst to a single cell or small group of cells. This is why so many batteries were recalled a few years ago - the Chinese manufacturers used PAPER as the substrate.
The separator's (not substrate's) purpose is to keep the anode and cathode from touching. At least one set of failures was due to metal contaminants in the battery penetrating the separator.
Ni-MH > Li-Ion > Li-Poly
What, you thought Li-Poly was the new hotness? It's got worse performance than Li-Ion
adequacy.org is long gone; you can quit spouting nonsense now.
You know, the last time Congress took a bunch of spectrum from TV and allocated some of it to public safety? The D block is still unused, right?
The only thing going on here is an attempt by the Verizons and Comcasts of the world to eliminate competition. (of course Comcast-owned NBC channels would be first to give up their OTA allocations). Public safety is a transparent excuse.
Li-Ion cells explode when you charge them too much, and die when drained completely. Li-Ion charging circuitry basically charges a bank of cells to about 80%, thn trickle charges to about 90%, then tops off. The charger knows the array is "full" when it sees it's not holding any more juice. This happens when some of the cells burst. So every charge is actually decreasing your Li-Ion's capacity.
No cells burst during normal charging of Li-Ion batteries.
NiMH has lower energy density, lower power density, lower charge efficiency, and higher storage losses. It's just inferior.
The courts should rule first of all that the guilds have no standing with respect to works of authors they do not represent... which, despite their name, is a lot of them.
Wake me when members of formerly victimized groups declare that racism has ended as often as members of the privileged group do. By and large, they haven't yet.
Fucking food bacteria kills 10x more people every year than terrorist did in 2001.
Nope. Doesn't even make the list you quoted. The actual number is more like 1300, less than half the number of those killed by terrorists in the US in 2001.
Resistive losses in AC are the same as DC if the voltages are equivalent (RMS AC compared to constant DC). Coronal discharge in AC is worse, because it depends on the peak voltage. DC induction just doesn't happen; you have to chop it first.
If you share a building with tons of other companies, and if the view out your window is a busy thoroughfare, is 'the notion of a shared responsibility in the collective metropolitan realm' near at heart and therefore contributing to some architectural faux-topia?
I work for Google in New York, which is exactly as you describe. So far the experience has not even dented my stone cold individualist sensibilities.
There are two types of people doing emulation. The Ebeneezer T. Scrooge types who think anyone who doesn't have their very own collection of vintage arcade games to reverse engineer doesn't deserve to play them. And the eyepatch-and-jolly-roger set. Personally I find the pirates far less offensive.
Thousands of identical mirrors, arranged in a predictable pattern can't be that difficult to clean and polish automatically. There have been advances in scratch resistant and self-cleaning hydrophobic glasses as well, which may find an use there.
Or do it the old-fashioned way: periodically, in the evening, you take down a few mirrors and replace with spares. Then you polish those mirrors and add them to the spare pool (or recycle them once they are worn too thin).
I'm sure operators of other power plants wish maintenance was that simple. Your turbine system will likely take more maintenance.
As for CFLs not strobing... everyone says that they flicker at 22 kHz or something ridiculous, but they give me instant seizures anyway, so I'm not quite convinced.
It's probably because they're crap and while they nominally operate at 22kHz, the 60Hz leaks in as well.
Halogens are a better bet for less-crappy lighting, and are still legal. And their long life claims are less dubious.
The article is actually pretty detailed and quantitative (at least for the AP). It lists the big drivers as being more efficient lighting and appliances, federal and state efficiency subsidies, and people trying to save money. Over the next couple decades they're projecting ~20-25% reduction in appliance energy use and ~50% reduction in lighting energy use.
#1 is probably refrigerators. They've increased tremendously in efficiency. #2 is probably air conditioners, same reason (but they are replaced less often).
The question isn't trivial because even though the big converter is unquestionably more efficient, you then have to deliver the DC power to the machines, and DC transmission is less efficient than AC transmission, meaning you either lose more energy to resistance or have to use bigger wires.
DC transmission is actually more efficient than AC transmission, comparing DC continuous voltage to AC RMS voltage. AC was chosen because of the ease of stepping it up and down.
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Yep. Unfortunately for the researchers, I've already patented the business model of
1) Create mapping of task to game
2) Get suckers to play game
3) Map winning game solutions to task solutions
4) Profit
This is distinguished from "Ender's Game" by the presence of Step 3. It is distinguished from the standard slashdot business plan by the lack of "???".
Also do not play "The Bishop of Battle".
And the T-shirts and the shoes interfere with the job exactly how? Suits (or just dress shirts) and wingtips do NOT increase efficiency one iota.
Yes, just as closed as Apple, which offered a system schematic and complete commented ROM listing for the "monitor".
Aside from the bit about the grant money, a lot of them would agree. The standard model works mathematically, but it has too many arbitrary constants to satisfy a theoretician's aesthetic sense.
It's all tied together. They're demanding a few days (if not picked) to a few weeks of a juror's time, and then they expect that juror to ignore his own feelings and be bound to perpetuate whatever injustice the state wants. Why would anyone feel duty-bound to participate in that?
Doesn't matter; if you're not willing to behave as an automaton and judge just the facts rather than the law, you won't get on a jury.
In a bizarre twist, despite it's obscenely poor time, the robot was declared the winner of the Ironman triathlon, as it was the only iron man who entered.
It's true that there's money in taking premiums and paying claims. It's also true that there's a lot MORE money to be had by taking premiums and NOT paying claims.
Nonsense. There's no control of charging below the individual cell (in the very way they are advertised) level. The final stage of the charge is simply a constant-voltage charge. There are no tiny sub-cells.
The separator's (not substrate's) purpose is to keep the anode and cathode from touching. At least one set of failures was due to metal contaminants in the battery penetrating the separator.
adequacy.org is long gone; you can quit spouting nonsense now.
You know, the last time Congress took a bunch of spectrum from TV and allocated some of it to public safety? The D block is still unused, right?
The only thing going on here is an attempt by the Verizons and Comcasts of the world to eliminate competition. (of course Comcast-owned NBC channels would be first to give up their OTA allocations). Public safety is a transparent excuse.
And this sort of reasoning is why the slippery slope was officially stricken from the list of fallacies by the American Rhetorical Association.
No cells burst during normal charging of Li-Ion batteries.
NiMH has lower energy density, lower power density, lower charge efficiency, and higher storage losses. It's just inferior.
The courts should rule first of all that the guilds have no standing with respect to works of authors they do not represent... which, despite their name, is a lot of them.
Of course not. Why jump off the gravy train?
Nope. Doesn't even make the list you quoted. The actual number is more like 1300, less than half the number of those killed by terrorists in the US in 2001.
You're behind the times. We elected the black dude for President, and now all is forgiven. Mission Accomplished, as they say.
Resistive losses in AC are the same as DC if the voltages are equivalent (RMS AC compared to constant DC). Coronal discharge in AC is worse, because it depends on the peak voltage. DC induction just doesn't happen; you have to chop it first.
I work for Google in New York, which is exactly as you describe. So far the experience has not even dented my stone cold individualist sensibilities.
There are two types of people doing emulation. The Ebeneezer T. Scrooge types who think anyone who doesn't have their very own collection of vintage arcade games to reverse engineer doesn't deserve to play them. And the eyepatch-and-jolly-roger set. Personally I find the pirates far less offensive.
Inductive loss in a DC line? Just the opposite. You avoid inductive and capacitive loss by using DC.
Or do it the old-fashioned way: periodically, in the evening, you take down a few mirrors and replace with spares. Then you polish those mirrors and add them to the spare pool (or recycle them once they are worn too thin).
I'm sure operators of other power plants wish maintenance was that simple. Your turbine system will likely take more maintenance.
It's probably because they're crap and while they nominally operate at 22kHz, the 60Hz leaks in as well.
Halogens are a better bet for less-crappy lighting, and are still legal. And their long life claims are less dubious.
#1 is probably refrigerators. They've increased tremendously in efficiency. #2 is probably air conditioners, same reason (but they are replaced less often).
DC transmission is actually more efficient than AC transmission, comparing DC continuous voltage to AC RMS voltage. AC was chosen because of the ease of stepping it up and down.