When my window replacement contractr cheated me by installing windows with IR coating I showed my kids how so visualize it from the reflection of a butane lighter flame. (the colors of the multiple reflections should red shift if it preferentially reflects red light).
I also showed them how the sun is about the size of a quarter and lands in arizona at night.
I have been wanting to see Apple or Microsoft or Netflix embrace torrent like local servers. But not for ads. For movies. Just push out all the movies to people's computers at night. Then let itunes or whoever form the torrent networks to deliver movies to paying customers. As long as I get a discount (since it's my bandwidth and electricity) why not? I'd like it as thumb in the nose of comcast and anyone else throttling the net.
I'm not talking about illegal file sharing, I'm talking about just having content served right within Comcasts own network so there's no peering issues.
Yes I appreciate how long comcast would let that go on. Just a fantasy.
For the first 500,000 years of human existence the population growth rate was so slow (1.00004 per year) that if you lived in a village of 100 people then after 25,000 years there would be on average 101 people in your village.
The doubling time of the earths population is now 61 years. Even if you think there will be enough food and water for 2x the current population, you might still agree that at 4x the current population there will be mass starvation looming. I for one think that with GMOs and proper water management we can double our food supply. The current GMOs are not adequate but Monsanto thinks it can double the current food supply in about 60 years if we let them try. So far we aren't but that will change I suspect.
It seems very unlikely we could possible reduce population growth enough in a couple generations to stop the inevitable wars for resources.
Now how large will these wars be. Let's suppose they were larger than any human can even imagine. Lets say they killed half of the earths population. That severe. Then how long would it be till the next war? well about 61 years if we have the same doubling time.
So we will have wars that are so large that most of the population will die. If we don't then we will keep having wars.
I note that climate change is also dependent on the population growth, which is exponential. So Al gore is right about that too, but it's death by Mathusian population crash that awaits your grandkids.
What are you comparing? pandora is $5 a month so your $45 for 18 month seems like a discount. And for that you don't get arbitrary music playlists, just more skips of some algorithmic genre ordering. There's no comparison to here and it's not much of a savings if you really care about what you are listening too. If not just tune in an internet radio station that plays what you like there's thousands of channels out there so you can find one you like.
who do you think will be paying for your Social security or the majority of the general tax revenues when you retire? People who raise kids create the future at great expense to themselves.
Which doubles as a juicer as well. Just push the carrots through the fan and a revitalizing and nutritious drink is server right on your desktop. Turn that minty green nerd complexion into a sexy carotine tan. This is why all the apple execs look so tan.
I've been beta testing this feature and you are right about it being useful with the News and Stockmarket app. It seems buggy though because I can get it to turn past the 2016 NASA news release about an unseen asteroid suddenly passing by the moon heading for earth. The only apps that continues further into the future is the weather app which reports blackout skies, and 2700K surface temperatures with rains of ash and nitric acid. And The health app shows my pulse rapidly rising then flat lining about that time. Facebook shows I was unfriended by the whole world and all the you tubes are of a fireball in the sky, but nothing past that date.
The watch actually allows you to travel into the future as well. It's a beta version so the rate of travel is really slow right now, but you can feel youself travel about 1/sec into the future every 1/sec if you watch mickey mouse's hands. If you put it in developer mode there's also a timetravel stop watch. It freezes the whole world except you. I was using it to rob a bank one day and I dropped it. So I traveled back in time to post this on slashdot to warn everyone about this.
You may personally dislike the guy, but running a public cloud storage service isn't supposed to be illegal. The service had substantial, non-infringing uses, which was previously the litmus test for whether a product exists solely to enable copyright infringement.
Much as a Fencing operation or a chop shop might occupy similar premises to legitimate businesses?
Sside from all the niceties of whether copying does or doesn't take the original from its owner, or whether one is legally entitled to copy something, isn't the basic notion of copying or making available someone else's works, for which they fully wish to have a copyright, ethically wrong?
THey claimed selling point, that it's gentler on the aircraft seems questionable. Why? Steam just provides a force, how quickly you change that into momentum should be up to you. It's not like steam is an explosion that can't be accurately regulated. It's just valves.
Here's my guess. When they built the steam system they decided to make it failsafe so that one the acceleration started it completed itself just by physics not by precision timing of valves. That way you didn't huck planes into the ocean due to a stuck valve. Presumably this led to less fine grained control of the force versus velocity curve.
I would guess that the electrical one will not have that desirable characteristic. What happens if one of the capacitor banks fails or the electro magnet blows up right during the discharge process? Nothing good I would bet.
No doubt this thought has not eluded them but it sounds to me like people on a project overselling their good features and ignoring possible showstoppers early in the development process. After all maybe they won't show up down the road as being important.
Perhaps an ideal system would be a hybrid. You run the steam with 120% of the FxDistance to get the plane in the sky, and then you run the electrical system in opposition, trimming off 20% of the force. That way it fails safe, but it also has the perfect force curve on the airframe.
Steam seems like an ideal solution to me. Steam expands so well the dynamic range of it's force curve seems apropos to the task. How much of the EM energy goes into force? surge currents and magneto striction are usually things people find shorten the lifetime of electo devices yet here they are at the extreme in these. Presumably there's no shortage of steam available and it's a great way to store energy.
And you post seems to indicate the Philophers got Diabetes from eating too much.
While obesity is rampant it's not always a matter of bad habits. There are lots of reasons people have difficulty controlling their weight and it's not just self control around food.
Spider silk in equivalent quantities has tensile strenght above mild steel and it's tougher than kelvlar. (yes toughness is actually a real quantiative metric if a bad choice of words).
Holy crap the video is impressive. It clearly parses phrased and dependent logical statements like " what is the population of the capitol of the country in which the space needle is located. " It alos parsed paragraph long multi-part questions. I was floored.
As for homophones, how do you (human) recognize them. Well you parse the logical context. If you are doing single word dictation homophones will always be a problem but for queries there's context. And the demo shows this thing can handle some staggering conditional contexts and long phrases. So I would guess that if your query is not ambiguous in the use of the word Waze, then this thing is approachi8ng a level where it will indeed get the right homophone.
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I mean they were without the IR coating I had paid for.
When my window replacement contractr cheated me by installing windows with IR coating I showed my kids how so visualize it from the reflection of a butane lighter flame. (the colors of the multiple reflections should red shift if it preferentially reflects red light).
I also showed them how the sun is about the size of a quarter and lands in arizona at night.
Dilbert explains:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2000-...
I have been wanting to see Apple or Microsoft or Netflix embrace torrent like local servers. But not for ads. For movies. Just push out all the movies to people's computers at night. Then let itunes or whoever form the torrent networks to deliver movies to paying customers. As long as I get a discount (since it's my bandwidth and electricity) why not? I'd like it as thumb in the nose of comcast and anyone else throttling the net.
I'm not talking about illegal file sharing, I'm talking about just having content served right within Comcasts own network so there's no peering issues.
Yes I appreciate how long comcast would let that go on. Just a fantasy.
The companies sell the power for a profit, but for some spooky reason the nuclear waste becomes the governments problem.
math.
For the first 500,000 years of human existence the population growth rate was so slow (1.00004 per year) that if you lived in a village of 100 people then after 25,000 years there would be on average 101 people in your village.
The doubling time of the earths population is now 61 years. Even if you think there will be enough food and water for 2x the current population, you might still agree that at 4x the current population there will be mass starvation looming. I for one think that with GMOs and proper water management we can double our food supply. The current GMOs are not adequate but Monsanto thinks it can double the current food supply in about 60 years if we let them try. So far we aren't but that will change I suspect.
It seems very unlikely we could possible reduce population growth enough in a couple generations to stop the inevitable wars for resources.
Now how large will these wars be. Let's suppose they were larger than any human can even imagine. Lets say they killed half of the earths population. That severe. Then how long would it be till the next war? well about 61 years if we have the same doubling time.
So we will have wars that are so large that most of the population will die. If we don't then we will keep having wars.
I note that climate change is also dependent on the population growth, which is exponential. So Al gore is right about that too, but it's death by Mathusian population crash that awaits your grandkids.
yes, and if you don't like the laws change them.
What are you comparing? pandora is $5 a month so your $45 for 18 month seems like a discount. And for that you don't get arbitrary music playlists, just more skips of some algorithmic genre ordering. There's no comparison to here and it's not much of a savings if you really care about what you are listening too. If not just tune in an internet radio station that plays what you like there's thousands of channels out there so you can find one you like.
who do you think will be paying for your Social security or the majority of the general tax revenues when you retire? People who raise kids create the future at great expense to themselves.
Which doubles as a juicer as well. Just push the carrots through the fan and a revitalizing and nutritious drink is server right on your desktop. Turn that minty green nerd complexion into a sexy carotine tan. This is why all the apple execs look so tan.
Try having kids.
I see, so it's like a landlord that turns a blind eye to the crackhouse running in one of his units.
apple is aware of this place called the internet right????
I mean when you have FREE services out there why would you spend 15 bucks a month?
Didnt they learn from Jay-Z???
Better notify Spotify. To the batphone Robin
So it's either $10 per person if you're single with only one pay check or $2.50 to $7.50 per person if you're a family with possibly two incomes.
Dear JealousSingleMan, I'll adopt you for $50 a year, so you can qualify for the family plan. Think of the savings!
As someone once said "Lame."
I've been beta testing this feature and you are right about it being useful with the News and Stockmarket app. It seems buggy though because I can get it to turn past the 2016 NASA news release about an unseen asteroid suddenly passing by the moon heading for earth. The only apps that continues further into the future is the weather app which reports blackout skies, and 2700K surface temperatures with rains of ash and nitric acid. And The health app shows my pulse rapidly rising then flat lining about that time. Facebook shows I was unfriended by the whole world and all the you tubes are of a fireball in the sky, but nothing past that date.
The watch actually allows you to travel into the future as well. It's a beta version so the rate of travel is really slow right now, but you can feel youself travel about 1/sec into the future every 1/sec if you watch mickey mouse's hands. If you put it in developer mode there's also a timetravel stop watch. It freezes the whole world except you. I was using it to rob a bank one day and I dropped it. So I traveled back in time to post this on slashdot to warn everyone about this.
You may personally dislike the guy, but running a public cloud storage service isn't supposed to be illegal. The service had substantial, non-infringing uses, which was previously the litmus test for whether a product exists solely to enable copyright infringement.
Much as a Fencing operation or a chop shop might occupy similar premises to legitimate businesses?
Sside from all the niceties of whether copying does or doesn't take the original from its owner, or whether one is legally entitled to copy something, isn't the basic notion of copying or making available someone else's works, for which they fully wish to have a copyright, ethically wrong?
thanks!
THey claimed selling point, that it's gentler on the aircraft seems questionable. Why? Steam just provides a force, how quickly you change that into momentum should be up to you. It's not like steam is an explosion that can't be accurately regulated. It's just valves.
Here's my guess. When they built the steam system they decided to make it failsafe so that one the acceleration started it completed itself just by physics not by precision timing of valves. That way you didn't huck planes into the ocean due to a stuck valve. Presumably this led to less fine grained control of the force versus velocity curve.
I would guess that the electrical one will not have that desirable characteristic. What happens if one of the capacitor banks fails or the electro magnet blows up right during the discharge process? Nothing good I would bet.
No doubt this thought has not eluded them but it sounds to me like people on a project overselling their good features and ignoring possible showstoppers early in the development process. After all maybe they won't show up down the road as being important.
Perhaps an ideal system would be a hybrid. You run the steam with 120% of the FxDistance to get the plane in the sky, and then you run the electrical system in opposition, trimming off 20% of the force. That way it fails safe, but it also has the perfect force curve on the airframe.
Steam seems like an ideal solution to me. Steam expands so well the dynamic range of it's force curve seems apropos to the task. How much of the EM energy goes into force? surge currents and magneto striction are usually things people find shorten the lifetime of electo devices yet here they are at the extreme in these. Presumably there's no shortage of steam available and it's a great way to store energy.
This reminded me of Dining Philiopher Problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
And you post seems to indicate the Philophers got Diabetes from eating too much.
While obesity is rampant it's not always a matter of bad habits. There are lots of reasons people have difficulty controlling their weight and it's not just self control around food.
Spider silk in equivalent quantities has tensile strenght above mild steel and it's tougher than kelvlar. (yes toughness is actually a real quantiative metric if a bad choice of words).
Holy crap the video is impressive. It clearly parses phrased and dependent logical statements like " what is the population of the capitol of the country in which the space needle is located. " It alos parsed paragraph long multi-part questions. I was floored.
As for homophones, how do you (human) recognize them. Well you parse the logical context. If you are doing single word dictation homophones will always be a problem but for queries there's context. And the demo shows this thing can handle some staggering conditional contexts and long phrases. So I would guess that if your query is not ambiguous in the use of the word Waze, then this thing is approachi8ng a level where it will indeed get the right homophone.