There's a slight difference in that Google maintains physical offices and possibly datacenters in Canada. They only need to pay heed to countries in which they physically exist.
Of course, Google could shut down physical operations in any country that dares try to legislate against it in a global fashion, but this has certain risks. You have to keep datacenters somewhere, after all, and preferably close to your customers.
Apparently tipping it more than a few degrees causes permanent damage. If you have to detour around very small hills, you might have to detour a very long way.
You give weapons to the rebels because you don't want to send your own people to help and/or come back in boxes. Drones could be used for certain tasks, but defending a location is best done by giving the defenders something to defend themselves with. You don't know when or if the weapons will be needed, but you know where you want them to be used, and you don't want them to be used years down the line or sold after the fighting is over.
I'm not talking about drawing square circles or making rocks so heavy even they can't lift them. I'm talking more in the realm of violating relativity, thermodynamics, etc. In my mind, omnipotence is the ability to cause the universe to transition into a state that, while perfectly valid and non-contradictory under the laws of that universe, could not have been reached via any application of said laws from the previous state.
Keep in mind that most gods are not assumed to be omnipotent, except in a few monotheistic religions. Non-omnipotence implies that they have to obey the basic rules of whatever reality they inhabit, or at least some of them. A non-omnipotent god probably can't do instant teleportation through space. Maybe they can convert themselves into light and travel at light speed, but as far as we know you need to warp space to do better than that. Perhaps they can warp space with willpower alone, but that might be tiring over vast distances. It isn't unusual for a god to be portrayed as using a chariot or steed, so why not a ship? If it's easier for the god to build a warp drive and take a relaxing boat trip across the cosmos, why not? Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
In one of the first episodes of TNG (the very first one, I think) the energy to matter conversion thing was mentioned. Wes fell into a pond in the holodeck, and then walked out still covered in water. They may have forgotten about this later, but it was in there initially.
Agreed. Also emphasize that, while Python is not as efficient as compiled languages, you can come back later and rewrite important parts of it in C. Then you can teach C with an emphasis on high-performance computing, rather than the typical "here's how we ask for user input, here's how we copy strings" emphasis typically taught in C courses that I've seen. Eventually, you could then show them how to add in assembly code to get at special-purpose processor operations not exposed by C. Probably do this over the course of a few semesters though.
Hell, who am I kidding. Just teach them to code in brainfuck. Or maybe INTERCAL. Normal languages will seem much nicer after that.
It's probably just that the batteries haven't been "certified" yet. The alkalines have been certified, so it's probably easier to stick them in than to certify the new batteries. Also, think back to the laptop battery fire stories we got in the last year or so.
The targets for these carts is most likely things like retirement communities or other large, privately owned compounds (or cooperating businesses in a commercial district) of sufficient size to require roads.
I don't recall much from Computer Vision, but multiple cameras are great, especially if you're missing information. But (I think) if you've got a well-calibrated stereo system, it's probably more useful just to get more pictures over time and/or from different angles.
You can make rocket fuel out of water (more or less). Mars has water at the poles. Drop a nuclear (or, if feasible, solar) powered electrolysis machine with sufficient storage onto some ice. If it's going to be there for years before people get there, it should have plenty of time to stockpile fuel.
Exactly what business does Wikipedia do in Italy? Aside from delivering HTML to Italian IP addresses for free on request? I can see that going well. Italy: Come over here so we can sue you, or else we'll start blocking your packets! Wiki: Suck it, and good luck with that.
It's been several years since I've taken any physics courses, but I seem to recall that gravity is the weakest of all the forces. At the subatomic scale its effects are negligible compared to the other forces. It makes a large impact in the cosmic scale due to the distance at which it works as well as the large mass of celestial bodies compared to, say, their electromagnetic charge.
It's not necessarily for everything. When I look at my powerstrip jungle, I see that the only AC cables running into a device belong to the workstations and monitors. Everything else (which is most of it) is a mess of bricks and giant plugs. If those devices were standardized, one brick could service all of them. Or have a couple categories with different plug shapes for 5, 12, or other voltages. These devices don't have their converters physically close to their circuitry to begin with, so it shouldn't be a problem.
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There's a slight difference in that Google maintains physical offices and possibly datacenters in Canada. They only need to pay heed to countries in which they physically exist. Of course, Google could shut down physical operations in any country that dares try to legislate against it in a global fashion, but this has certain risks. You have to keep datacenters somewhere, after all, and preferably close to your customers.
Brings new meaning to Hellbanning
Apparently tipping it more than a few degrees causes permanent damage. If you have to detour around very small hills, you might have to detour a very long way.
You give weapons to the rebels because you don't want to send your own people to help and/or come back in boxes. Drones could be used for certain tasks, but defending a location is best done by giving the defenders something to defend themselves with. You don't know when or if the weapons will be needed, but you know where you want them to be used, and you don't want them to be used years down the line or sold after the fighting is over.
I'm not talking about drawing square circles or making rocks so heavy even they can't lift them. I'm talking more in the realm of violating relativity, thermodynamics, etc. In my mind, omnipotence is the ability to cause the universe to transition into a state that, while perfectly valid and non-contradictory under the laws of that universe, could not have been reached via any application of said laws from the previous state.
Keep in mind that most gods are not assumed to be omnipotent, except in a few monotheistic religions. Non-omnipotence implies that they have to obey the basic rules of whatever reality they inhabit, or at least some of them. A non-omnipotent god probably can't do instant teleportation through space. Maybe they can convert themselves into light and travel at light speed, but as far as we know you need to warp space to do better than that. Perhaps they can warp space with willpower alone, but that might be tiring over vast distances. It isn't unusual for a god to be portrayed as using a chariot or steed, so why not a ship? If it's easier for the god to build a warp drive and take a relaxing boat trip across the cosmos, why not? Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Poison? No, worse than that. They're communist.
In one of the first episodes of TNG (the very first one, I think) the energy to matter conversion thing was mentioned. Wes fell into a pond in the holodeck, and then walked out still covered in water. They may have forgotten about this later, but it was in there initially.
I intend to use a recording of someone saying "Vroom! Vroom!" as my car's "engine revving" noise.
Agreed. Also emphasize that, while Python is not as efficient as compiled languages, you can come back later and rewrite important parts of it in C. Then you can teach C with an emphasis on high-performance computing, rather than the typical "here's how we ask for user input, here's how we copy strings" emphasis typically taught in C courses that I've seen. Eventually, you could then show them how to add in assembly code to get at special-purpose processor operations not exposed by C. Probably do this over the course of a few semesters though.
Hell, who am I kidding. Just teach them to code in brainfuck. Or maybe INTERCAL. Normal languages will seem much nicer after that.
One word: Pokemon. Now *I* am very sad I caught that reference. And you've got it a little backwards: Lack of it caused the delay.
It's probably just that the batteries haven't been "certified" yet. The alkalines have been certified, so it's probably easier to stick them in than to certify the new batteries. Also, think back to the laptop battery fire stories we got in the last year or so.
Personally, I was wondering what the conversion rates on dollar-meters were.
Apparently, it's about 8.43 euro-feet. Or around 880 yen-cubits.
The targets for these carts is most likely things like retirement communities or other large, privately owned compounds (or cooperating businesses in a commercial district) of sufficient size to require roads.
I don't recall much from Computer Vision, but multiple cameras are great, especially if you're missing information. But (I think) if you've got a well-calibrated stereo system, it's probably more useful just to get more pictures over time and/or from different angles.
You'll change your mind after you see FORTRAN on Rails.
How much is too much to spend on something impractical? Insert Iraq war budget joke here.
You can make rocket fuel out of water (more or less). Mars has water at the poles. Drop a nuclear (or, if feasible, solar) powered electrolysis machine with sufficient storage onto some ice. If it's going to be there for years before people get there, it should have plenty of time to stockpile fuel.
1.5m (or higher) seems like a good height for the solar-powered mesh node, though...
No, but my chemistry teacher kept dead moles in the lab freezer.
Exactly what business does Wikipedia do in Italy? Aside from delivering HTML to Italian IP addresses for free on request? I can see that going well.
Italy: Come over here so we can sue you, or else we'll start blocking your packets!
Wiki: Suck it, and good luck with that.
It's been several years since I've taken any physics courses, but I seem to recall that gravity is the weakest of all the forces. At the subatomic scale its effects are negligible compared to the other forces. It makes a large impact in the cosmic scale due to the distance at which it works as well as the large mass of celestial bodies compared to, say, their electromagnetic charge.
It's not necessarily for everything. When I look at my powerstrip jungle, I see that the only AC cables running into a device belong to the workstations and monitors. Everything else (which is most of it) is a mess of bricks and giant plugs. If those devices were standardized, one brick could service all of them. Or have a couple categories with different plug shapes for 5, 12, or other voltages. These devices don't have their converters physically close to their circuitry to begin with, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Yes, sorry, that's what I meant.
Acrobat Reader works fine on our Linux and Solaris machines.