You're confused, because the US legal system often uses the word justice in it's many institutions. Why they often have a statue indicating justice being blind, etc.
See, we are talking about a legal system, not really a justice system. Even though it was the original intent of the framers of the Constitution to build a just legal system. It's just simply not in the economic interest of legal professionals to have a justice system. So over the years it has changed into it's current state.
So what you're saying is that if I go to a public library and take down say a Barbie Princess and the Pauper bound paper book and read it before an audience of 15 children I can be sued? Where in the copyright notice does it say I cannot do this?
So by analogy, if I buy a DRM encrypted digital version of said story (yeah, like THAT is ever going to happen), and do the same thing I can get sued?
Well, yeah I can get sued for waking up in the morning, but I mean is there really any legal foundation for this? I haven't seen any.
In fact, I believe I am perfectly within my rights to record myself reading a bedtime story to my daughter from any published work and posting said video on youtube. Well maybe not that, since that would create a "permanent" copy in an alternate form and distributing said copy in violation of everything copyright law was ever written for.
Although I bet it's perfectly acceptable to take a digital book and record your own voice reading it for your own use, and not for distribution.
As for selling hardware, that allows you to "break" the encryption on the digital book, that just might run afoul of the DMCA. This might be a good test case to overturn the DMCA. Either that or we just might have to remove the voiceboxes of every American to comply with the DMCA. Since a voicebox in any person is an advanced technological biological device that can be used to defeat the DRM in any digital book. In fact a voicebox is so technologically advanced that there is currently no human manufactured device capable of duplicating it's multitudinous functionality. So under the conditions of the DMCA I demand that all you people speaking or hearable within the confines of the USA stop speaking! Waits for that blessed silence.... still waiting...
Right, but the gp was saying that to point this big flying bomb to land at this coordinate or that coordinate is easy in comparison to: 1) building a rocket that doesn't explode on the launch pad, 2) prepare rocket fuel without blowing yourself, and a bunch of other people, up or not freezing everything, including people, in the facility to -200 Fahrenheit, 3) successfully launching a rocket that attains orbital height, 4) successfully placing a satellite in orbit.
So, yes, he's right adding a steering mechanism to a functional rocket is much easier that all that. On top of which how precise do you really think a rocket has to be to impact and destroy significant life in the US?
A) Point pointy-flying-blow-uppy-thingy at Chicago, IL. Even if your trajectory or navigating is off by a few degrees, your going to hit Somewhere in North America and kill a bunch of people. B) Unless you hit North Dakota, Idaho or Alaska. C) What do they care if they kill: 8 mln Americans or 1.5 mln Americans or.5 mln Americans or 50,000 Americans?
Personally, I think we should be proactive here and nuke Antarctica. That will fix four problems at once. I) All those pesky lowlying countries will be underwater; II) the OPEC oil wells will most all be underwater; III) Iran's launch facility will be underwater (immediate threat eliminated); IV) and those damnable eco-terrorists screaming "Global warming is coming! The sky has a hole in it and we're all going to die!" will finally have nothing more to scream about. Let's just melt Antarctica and be done with it. V) Profit!??
Right, so now we can force people to resort to the traditional way of selling the secrets of the place a person works. Back to taking pictures, or making drawings and transferring them by mail/hand/drop stop. Of course nowadays, they could just download it to a memory stick or burn to a cd/dvd. If, Nokia is that worried about their IP that they need to spy on their employees, then they'd better just build themselves a prison and keep all their employees in there with no access to the outside world. Not that I totally disagree with Nokia wanting to have as many tools to find spies in their midst. They should however obey the laws of the country they are in. In fact, I would say what they have done is criminal for anyone except the rich and powerful. After all extortion is a felony in this country, and I suspect it is everywhere. That is what they're doing right?
Looks like you need to brush up your relativity, also.
It doesn't "shorten" the trip for the passengers. Time is what passes slower. So the trip may take 50 years from the point of view of observers, and the passengers only perceive a 5 year trip. So the passengers age five years while the observers age 50. Meaning that while the passengers could do a round trip in 10 years, everyone they know would likely be dead, or really old, by the time they got back.
Well, you haven't thought this through. The reason you might want to clone your dog is if you have an exceptional dog. Genetics plays an important part in intelligence and behavior. While upbringing does also.
One the one hand, cloning makes sense. The dog has the desirable and known genetic build. While buying a new one, gives no guarantee that you'll get the same kind of genetics the original had.
One the other hand, if the original dog was born into and spent it's first 12 weeks living in the home of a responsible breeder and the cloned dog lived it's first 12 weeks in a laboratory with an uninformed caretaker. Then you'd certainly be off to a bad start in reproducing the original pet.
However, if the original dog came from a puppy mill, then cloning the dog in a laboratory could possibly be no worse, and you'll get a closer match to the original makeup of the original dog.
So, genetics matter and environment matters. Emphasis must be added to "early" environment matters. Certainly negative effects of environment can be overcome with proper training. An added bonus on cloning would be that mistakes learned with the original dog can be corrected with the cloned animal.
So your claim that cloned != same isn't necessarily true. It could be done with a high degree of accuracy and a great deal of planning.
Finally, a program could be developed to produce consistent personalities via cloning, by duplicating the environment in which the original dog developed. A process that could be applied to any cloned animal, including humans. Hopefully we will never go down that path.
Right, a material that can stretch is going to be real useful in connecting to wires between a "stationary" object and an object spinning in multiple revolutions around said stationary object. Just like a rubberband on a toy airplane can stretch infinitely without breaking. Ugh.
NASA has known how to create AG at least 1952. A space craft designed to do this was to launch in 1977, but that program got scrapped. It is possible to created a spinning wheel around a stationary object. In fact you're using several right now in you PC. Namely your fans. In fact all motors use this magical missing component you speak of. If our bright scientists can't think of a way of making connections between a spinning wheel and a "stationary" object our astronauts and the space program are in deep trouble. Not all motors require an electrical connection. Any brushless motor works without making a connection. Making artificial gravity has long been solved. Why they didn't opt for an overall design allowing them to "gravitize" the whole station I don't know. I was certain the Japanese module for the Space Station included an artificial gravity area, but turns out it is just a centrifuge for doing small scale gravity experiments. There are other ways to make artificial or real gravity on a space station. Lastly, it is the general consensus that small fast wheels are preferable to large ones.
When PCs were still young there were add-in cards for memory, I still have some of these dinosaurs laying around. Certainly it makes sense that daughter boards could be made to create RAM disks that just plug into an empty slot on the PC, or in a case with some really wide and fast pipe for a laptop.
Actually, I think my parents paid the equivalent of that or maybe even more for my siblings and I to have access to Brittanica year after year. We had a complete set and many yearly supplements. We also had something much much better. A Handyman's encyclopedia. Fantastic for all those evil mad scientists in training!
So, Britannica is still desperately trying to hold on to the old way of the world. Who can blame them? They employ a bunch of people who want to go on making a living doing what they did before the evil internet destroyed the traditional business model. At least they haven't started to sue former subscription holders yet. In fact were it not for the fact I've already got a huge collection of books, plus a 10,000 Gutenburg ebook DVD, I'd probably consider buying a set for my little mad scientist in training.
I may still get a set, If I can get a free DVD and subscription with it.
In the 1980s everyone used a CLI even on home systems. What do you think has happened since then has caused people to lose so much intelligence?
In the 1980s almost no one used home systems. Those were the purview of geekdom. Very few businesses had systems. It wasn't until the dawn of the clicky, GUI interface (in the late 80s, and I mean Windows 3.0 when I say dawn - sorry Mac fans) that caused the explosion of home and business systems. Even during the DOS days of cli, the most that the average user type was the name of the few applications they used (123.exe, wp.exe, etc.), after which they used nice friendly character based "graphics" menu driven systems. Most users never got to the level of technical savvy that you so earnestly like to believe they had. When they had problems it was still left to the local experts. There are great masses of computer near illiterates out there that have never seen a DOS CLI other than that damn annoying boot up screen installed by the BOFH that performs some magical majick beyond the understanding of mere mortals.
The other elephant that seems to be missing is, if you never buy anything that supports the artists, then the artists won't be able to make a living doing the music you like and soon you'll have to make your own because if not enough people support the artists, then there will be no artists.
It's a lot like wagon wheel makers. Once the advent of cars came along the amount of people buying wagon wheels went down, and hence more and more wagon wheel makers went on to do something different.
Now, I'm sure that the last wagon wheel maker was the best damn wagon wheel maker out there!
I'm, of course, dramatizing this because naturally there are still wagon wheel makers, but they are mostly all Amish, and if you want a wagon wheel you'll have to buy used or do some serious searching because they likely won't be in the city directories.
Lastly, my prediction is that eventually the music industry will be seriously cut down in size and profitability. A great many artists, will cease to exist, and the prolific music industry will become a backwater replaced by a number of people who do music part-time as a hobby or for Disney. And choice in music will be drastically reduced.
I have guns and bullets. I'm an experienced hunter. I know survival skills. I know how to purify water and have the necessary equipment to do it with, none of which requires electricity or a grocery store or any store. I'll be able to survive, having done it in the past. So to answer your question, those of us with guns and the brains to use them, and of course all the bad people who know how to take from others by inflicting fear, pain and/or death will survive. That's actually a pretty big percentage. So a great many will survive. There's always looting left for those who are less skilled. In fact, I think you'd be amazed at how resourceful even stupid people are at survival.
Good thing, because our local star (aka the Sun) doesn't have enough mass to go nova. It'll be a Red Giant swelling to absorb the atmospheres of the inner planets. It will then eventually shrink back down to a white dwarf and eventually die a completely lonely death. Unless we get lucky and we slam into one of those Andromedan supergiants.
Actually, I was trying to point out the later comment. That in actual use you'll never see 1.25 or 1.26, but 1, 2 or 3. Sure you can average it out, but for any given year every time it runs you'll have 1, 2, or 3 modulo. Averaging it out is really kind of pointless other than for educational purposes.
Those who are willing to give up basic freedoms for the sake of convenience deserve none.
That said, sensibility is the better part of wisdom. In other words never take on the police by yourself. Never try to be clever with the police. Never be rude or obnoxious to the police. Never ever talk to the police about anything that they might later use against you. Lastly, if polite attempts to preserve your rights against the police fail, obey them while getting their identification (their visible badges numbers are one means) and file a complaint later. There is a time and a place for everything. The wise person knows which is the right time.
Interesting but wrong. While skipping the division for odd years is a worthy angle, your method will create leap years every two years except when they fall on those evenly divisible by 400.
Well that's true only if you only run the calculation once a year, or you are expecting your code to continue in use for a hundred years or more. Since the code is likely to be run maybe hundreds of times a day, the percentages using the original solution vary in the near term. While the code might run for decades, it is unlikely to run for century. So while your numbers are true and accurate for very large spans of time, for the next 90 or so years it'll be 75% one modulo and 25% two modulo or 1.25 modulo on long term average. But for any given year it'll be either 1 modulo or 2 modulo.
I didn't say we "should". I said we "could". Not to mention that the state of Nevada is a mite bigger than DC. An 8 square mile tract of desert in Nevada isn't going to be a big deal, but could do a lot to relieve our dependency on oil and coal.
I am so sick of science writers who mess up the story because they don't understand the units of energy and power.
The article says the batteries store 7 megawatt hours. Fine.
Then it goes on to say "meaning the 20 batteries are capable of delivering roughly one megawatt of electricity almost instantaneously" WTF does that mean?...
Had you bothered to read the rest of that sentence you'd have seen where the writer said that the batteries would provide one megawatt of electricity for seven hours which is the battery capacity of 7 MWh.
I am confused as to why this is news. Are the utility companies dumber than dirt? Using battery storage systems is an integral part of any DIY wind generating facility, and is just basic common sense.
Additionally, just because you live in a place that may not be appropriate for wind generation doesn't mean that the place where this wind farm is isn't. Wind won't be the only answer to our energy problems and the article doesn't try to make that claim. There are numerous solutions, none are cheap because it means creating new infra-structure. But the infra-structure we have wasn't cheap to build either. It just occurred over a longer span of time.
Once this country and other countries bite the bullet and begin establishing the infra-structure the rewards will far outweigh the initial costs. Lastly, a solar plant could be built in Nevada or another neighboring state today that could provide 100% of the US electricity needs ( a solar farm the size of DC ought to do it, but I'll leave the math proof as an exercise. Anyone can google for commercial solar panels and calculate what the total surface area would take. The cost would be huge naturally, and of course you'd have logistical nightmares and a single point of failure configuration. But it could be done, so your strange, non-scientific, 15-1-20% (WTF is that?) doesn't even come close. Where's your cite for that crazy percentage?
Anyone who's ever hooked up a capacitor, that has a polarity, backwards knows you can make a capacitor explode. Just reverse the polarity. I'd hate to see this this go up. Wow, 30F! To say it can't explode in a collision assumes much, including that nothing shorts the path or a live wire doesn't come loose and touch the wrong terminal.
As long as there are rich and powerful classes of people and poor and powerless classes of people, government will generally be bad and unfixable. Occasionally, there will be victories for the people. But by and large, the effort to win enough battles to make government fair will be too encumbersome for the general population. Not, that we should ever stop trying. Just trying to throw some reality in against the "scaremnogering" and the "ivory towerism".
Well, to be fair to NASA, SpaceX doesn't have to deal with a gargantuan bureaucracy, Congress, and the President in order to get approval to do anything or even get money and then wait for contractors to build something. Also, it should be noted that some of the people of SpaceX come from the very contractors that NASA relies upon, and so have the hands on experience and contacts to make it work.
It's really kind of a DUH conclusion. A small lightweight unencumbered company can out-perform a gigantic bureaucratic behemoth.
Gee, go figure!
Or
Q: Who would have ever guessed? A: Any sane half-wit or better.
Oh, yeah this is so yesterday. I can go into Walmart and buy a life size robotic doll with voice interaction... oh, umm... No I guess not.
While, I'm sure the story is a lot of hype, this is an achievement. Not sure how much, as the parent says all these base elements are being done already. It would have been nice to see a walking clip. Then we'd know whether he's actually accomplished that. Which has been done also. Still all the pieces are there, and I expect we'll see more people building androids at home. I can still remember the thrill of building a computer at home, before you could walk into a store and buy one. Androids going to be the next geek projects. And some of those other wonderful Sci-Fi gadgets from the 50s and 60s books, cartoons and movies.
What you're actually complaining about is that Windows did a poor job of deciding what to page out.
Isn't that kind of the entire point of the original question? If Windows does a crappy job in deciding what to swap out, and when, then is there really any good reason to use the crappy Windows caching software. Or wouldn't it be better to simply cripple the swap feature. I think in Windows, it is inadvisable to completely disable it, and Windows internals depend on it being there and several tools and apps malfunction (ie Blue Screen) if it is turned off. Sure Windows caching software works fine in certain very limited usage patterns. Once you stray outside of the types of usage the Windows engineers anticipated, the algorithm's usefulness tanks. As is true with any algorithm. No algorithm is a magic pill. That is not saying the Windows guys did a bad job, and I use crappy only as an example only (really they do know what they're doing). Everything is a trade-off.
The best answer here, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it yet, is: 1) turn off the cache, 2) do some real world usage with the system and capture datapoints, 3) turn on the cache, rinse and repeat, 4) use the set up that works best for you.
There are real reasons to have a cache, but depending on your situation, you may not need it.
The way I see it is Canadians have a very severe lack of easily available guns. I think we should deport the Michigan Militia to Canada, so they can bring their public schools up to American standards.
Alas, until the Californians put an Austrian in the Governor's chair, college was free in California. Still, if Palin get elected in 2012, I'm heading for Canada.
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You're confused, because the US legal system often uses the word justice in it's many institutions. Why they often have a statue indicating justice being blind, etc.
See, we are talking about a legal system, not really a justice system. Even though it was the original intent of the framers of the Constitution to build a just legal system. It's just simply not in the economic interest of legal professionals to have a justice system. So over the years it has changed into it's current state.
So what you're saying is that if I go to a public library and take down say a Barbie Princess and the Pauper bound paper book and read it before an audience of 15 children I can be sued? Where in the copyright notice does it say I cannot do this?
So by analogy, if I buy a DRM encrypted digital version of said story (yeah, like THAT is ever going to happen), and do the same thing I can get sued?
Well, yeah I can get sued for waking up in the morning, but I mean is there really any legal foundation for this? I haven't seen any.
In fact, I believe I am perfectly within my rights to record myself reading a bedtime story to my daughter from any published work and posting said video on youtube. Well maybe not that, since that would create a "permanent" copy in an alternate form and distributing said copy in violation of everything copyright law was ever written for.
Although I bet it's perfectly acceptable to take a digital book and record your own voice reading it for your own use, and not for distribution.
As for selling hardware, that allows you to "break" the encryption on the digital book, that just might run afoul of the DMCA. This might be a good test case to overturn the DMCA. Either that or we just might have to remove the voiceboxes of every American to comply with the DMCA. Since a voicebox in any person is an advanced technological biological device that can be used to defeat the DRM in any digital book. In fact a voicebox is so technologically advanced that there is currently no human manufactured device capable of duplicating it's multitudinous functionality. So under the conditions of the DMCA I demand that all you people speaking or hearable within the confines of the USA stop speaking! Waits for that blessed silence. ... ...
still waiting
Right, but the gp was saying that to point this big flying bomb to land at this coordinate or that coordinate is easy in comparison to:
1) building a rocket that doesn't explode on the launch pad,
2) prepare rocket fuel without blowing yourself, and a bunch of other people, up or not freezing everything, including people, in the facility to -200 Fahrenheit,
3) successfully launching a rocket that attains orbital height,
4) successfully placing a satellite in orbit.
So, yes, he's right adding a steering mechanism to a functional rocket is much easier that all that. On top of which how precise do you really think a rocket has to be to impact and destroy significant life in the US?
A) Point pointy-flying-blow-uppy-thingy at Chicago, IL. Even if your trajectory or navigating is off by a few degrees, your going to hit Somewhere in North America and kill a bunch of people. .5 mln Americans or 50,000 Americans?
B) Unless you hit North Dakota, Idaho or Alaska.
C) What do they care if they kill: 8 mln Americans or 1.5 mln Americans or
Personally, I think we should be proactive here and nuke Antarctica. That will fix four problems at once.
I) All those pesky lowlying countries will be underwater;
II) the OPEC oil wells will most all be underwater;
III) Iran's launch facility will be underwater (immediate threat eliminated);
IV) and those damnable eco-terrorists screaming "Global warming is coming! The sky has a hole in it and we're all going to die!" will finally have nothing more to scream about. Let's just melt Antarctica and be done with it.
V) Profit!??
Right, so now we can force people to resort to the traditional way of selling the secrets of the place a person works. Back to taking pictures, or making drawings and transferring them by mail/hand/drop stop. Of course nowadays, they could just download it to a memory stick or burn to a cd/dvd. If, Nokia is that worried about their IP that they need to spy on their employees, then they'd better just build themselves a prison and keep all their employees in there with no access to the outside world. Not that I totally disagree with Nokia wanting to have as many tools to find spies in their midst. They should however obey the laws of the country they are in. In fact, I would say what they have done is criminal for anyone except the rich and powerful. After all extortion is a felony in this country, and I suspect it is everywhere. That is what they're doing right?
Looks like you need to brush up your relativity, also.
It doesn't "shorten" the trip for the passengers. Time is what passes slower. So the trip may take 50 years from the point of view of observers, and the passengers only perceive a 5 year trip. So the passengers age five years while the observers age 50. Meaning that while the passengers could do a round trip in 10 years, everyone they know would likely be dead, or really old, by the time they got back.
Well, you haven't thought this through. The reason you might want to clone your dog is if you have an exceptional dog. Genetics plays an important part in intelligence and behavior. While upbringing does also.
One the one hand, cloning makes sense. The dog has the desirable and known genetic build. While buying a new one, gives no guarantee that you'll get the same kind of genetics the original had.
One the other hand, if the original dog was born into and spent it's first 12 weeks living in the home of a responsible breeder and the cloned dog lived it's first 12 weeks in a laboratory with an uninformed caretaker. Then you'd certainly be off to a bad start in reproducing the original pet.
However, if the original dog came from a puppy mill, then cloning the dog in a laboratory could possibly be no worse, and you'll get a closer match to the original makeup of the original dog.
So, genetics matter and environment matters. Emphasis must be added to "early" environment matters. Certainly negative effects of environment can be overcome with proper training. An added bonus on cloning would be that mistakes learned with the original dog can be corrected with the cloned animal.
So your claim that cloned != same isn't necessarily true. It could be done with a high degree of accuracy and a great deal of planning.
Finally, a program could be developed to produce consistent personalities via cloning, by duplicating the environment in which the original dog developed. A process that could be applied to any cloned animal, including humans. Hopefully we will never go down that path.
Right, a material that can stretch is going to be real useful in connecting to wires between a "stationary" object and an object spinning in multiple revolutions around said stationary object. Just like a rubberband on a toy airplane can stretch infinitely without breaking. Ugh.
NASA has known how to create AG at least 1952. A space craft designed to do this was to launch in 1977, but that program got scrapped. It is possible to created a spinning wheel around a stationary object. In fact you're using several right now in you PC. Namely your fans. In fact all motors use this magical missing component you speak of. If our bright scientists can't think of a way of making connections between a spinning wheel and a "stationary" object our astronauts and the space program are in deep trouble. Not all motors require an electrical connection. Any brushless motor works without making a connection. Making artificial gravity has long been solved. Why they didn't opt for an overall design allowing them to "gravitize" the whole station I don't know. I was certain the Japanese module for the Space Station included an artificial gravity area, but turns out it is just a centrifuge for doing small scale gravity experiments. There are other ways to make artificial or real gravity on a space station. Lastly, it is the general consensus that small fast wheels are preferable to large ones.
When PCs were still young there were add-in cards for memory, I still have some of these dinosaurs laying around. Certainly it makes sense that daughter boards could be made to create RAM disks that just plug into an empty slot on the PC, or in a case with some really wide and fast pipe for a laptop.
Actually, I think my parents paid the equivalent of that or maybe even more for my siblings and I to have access to Brittanica year after year. We had a complete set and many yearly supplements. We also had something much much better. A Handyman's encyclopedia. Fantastic for all those evil mad scientists in training!
So, Britannica is still desperately trying to hold on to the old way of the world. Who can blame them? They employ a bunch of people who want to go on making a living doing what they did before the evil internet destroyed the traditional business model. At least they haven't started to sue former subscription holders yet. In fact were it not for the fact I've already got a huge collection of books, plus a 10,000 Gutenburg ebook DVD, I'd probably consider buying a set for my little mad scientist in training.
I may still get a set, If I can get a free DVD and subscription with it.
In the 1980s everyone used a CLI even on home systems. What do you think has happened since then has caused people to lose so much intelligence?
In the 1980s almost no one used home systems. Those were the purview of geekdom. Very few businesses had systems. It wasn't until the dawn of the clicky, GUI interface (in the late 80s, and I mean Windows 3.0 when I say dawn - sorry Mac fans) that caused the explosion of home and business systems. Even during the DOS days of cli, the most that the average user type was the name of the few applications they used (123.exe, wp.exe, etc.), after which they used nice friendly character based "graphics" menu driven systems. Most users never got to the level of technical savvy that you so earnestly like to believe they had. When they had problems it was still left to the local experts. There are great masses of computer near illiterates out there that have never seen a DOS CLI other than that damn annoying boot up screen installed by the BOFH that performs some magical majick beyond the understanding of mere mortals.
The other elephant that seems to be missing is, if you never buy anything that supports the artists, then the artists won't be able to make a living doing the music you like and soon you'll have to make your own because if not enough people support the artists, then there will be no artists.
It's a lot like wagon wheel makers. Once the advent of cars came along the amount of people buying wagon wheels went down, and hence more and more wagon wheel makers went on to do something different.
Now, I'm sure that the last wagon wheel maker was the best damn wagon wheel maker out there!
I'm, of course, dramatizing this because naturally there are still wagon wheel makers, but they are mostly all Amish, and if you want a wagon wheel you'll have to buy used or do some serious searching because they likely won't be in the city directories.
Lastly, my prediction is that eventually the music industry will be seriously cut down in size and profitability. A great many artists, will cease to exist, and the prolific music industry will become a backwater replaced by a number of people who do music part-time as a hobby or for Disney. And choice in music will be drastically reduced.
I have guns and bullets. I'm an experienced hunter. I know survival skills. I know how to purify water and have the necessary equipment to do it with, none of which requires electricity or a grocery store or any store. I'll be able to survive, having done it in the past. So to answer your question, those of us with guns and the brains to use them, and of course all the bad people who know how to take from others by inflicting fear, pain and/or death will survive.
That's actually a pretty big percentage. So a great many will survive. There's always looting left for those who are less skilled. In fact, I think you'd be amazed at how resourceful even stupid people are at survival.
Good thing, because our local star (aka the Sun) doesn't have enough mass to go nova. It'll be a Red Giant swelling to absorb the atmospheres of the inner planets. It will then eventually shrink back down to a white dwarf and eventually die a completely lonely death. Unless we get lucky and we slam into one of those Andromedan supergiants.
Actually, I was trying to point out the later comment. That in actual use you'll never see 1.25 or 1.26, but 1, 2 or 3. Sure you can average it out, but for any given year every time it runs you'll have 1, 2, or 3 modulo. Averaging it out is really kind of pointless other than for educational purposes.
Those who are willing to give up basic freedoms for the sake of convenience deserve none.
That said, sensibility is the better part of wisdom. In other words never take on the police by yourself. Never try to be clever with the police. Never be rude or obnoxious to the police. Never ever talk to the police about anything that they might later use against you. Lastly, if polite attempts to preserve your rights against the police fail, obey them while getting their identification (their visible badges numbers are one means) and file a complaint later. There is a time and a place for everything. The wise person knows which is the right time.
Interesting but wrong. While skipping the division for odd years is a worthy angle, your method will create leap years every two years except when they fall on those evenly divisible by 400.
Well that's true only if you only run the calculation once a year, or you are expecting your code to continue in use for a hundred years or more. Since the code is likely to be run maybe hundreds of times a day, the percentages using the original solution vary in the near term. While the code might run for decades, it is unlikely to run for century. So while your numbers are true and accurate for very large spans of time, for the next 90 or so years it'll be 75% one modulo and 25% two modulo or 1.25 modulo on long term average. But for any given year it'll be either 1 modulo or 2 modulo.
I didn't say we "should". I said we "could". Not to mention that the state of Nevada is a mite bigger than DC. An 8 square mile tract of desert in Nevada isn't going to be a big deal, but could do a lot to relieve our dependency on oil and coal.
I am so sick of science writers who mess up the story because they don't understand the units of energy and power.
The article says the batteries store 7 megawatt hours. Fine.
Then it goes on to say "meaning the 20 batteries are capable of delivering roughly one megawatt of electricity almost instantaneously" WTF does that mean? ...
Had you bothered to read the rest of that sentence you'd have seen where the writer said that the batteries would provide one megawatt of electricity for seven hours which is the battery capacity of 7 MWh.
I am confused as to why this is news. Are the utility companies dumber than dirt? Using battery storage systems is an integral part of any DIY wind generating facility, and is just basic common sense.
Additionally, just because you live in a place that may not be appropriate for wind generation doesn't mean that the place where this wind farm is isn't. Wind won't be the only answer to our energy problems and the article doesn't try to make that claim. There are numerous solutions, none are cheap because it means creating new infra-structure. But the infra-structure we have wasn't cheap to build either. It just occurred over a longer span of time.
Once this country and other countries bite the bullet and begin establishing the infra-structure the rewards will far outweigh the initial costs. Lastly, a solar plant could be built in Nevada or another neighboring state today that could provide 100% of the US electricity needs ( a solar farm the size of DC ought to do it, but I'll leave the math proof as an exercise. Anyone can google for commercial solar panels and calculate what the total surface area would take. The cost would be huge naturally, and of course you'd have logistical nightmares and a single point of failure configuration. But it could be done, so your strange, non-scientific, 15-1-20% (WTF is that?) doesn't even come close. Where's your cite for that crazy percentage?
Anyone who's ever hooked up a capacitor, that has a polarity, backwards knows you can make a capacitor explode. Just reverse the polarity. I'd hate to see this this go up. Wow, 30F! To say it can't explode in a collision assumes much, including that nothing shorts the path or a live wire doesn't come loose and touch the wrong terminal.
As long as there are rich and powerful classes of people and poor and powerless classes of people, government will generally be bad and unfixable. Occasionally, there will be victories for the people. But by and large, the effort to win enough battles to make government fair will be too encumbersome for the general population. Not, that we should ever stop trying. Just trying to throw some reality in against the "scaremnogering" and the "ivory towerism".
Well, to be fair to NASA, SpaceX doesn't have to deal with a gargantuan bureaucracy, Congress, and the President in order to get approval to do anything or even get money and then wait for contractors to build something. Also, it should be noted that some of the people of SpaceX come from the very contractors that NASA relies upon, and so have the hands on experience and contacts to make it work.
It's really kind of a DUH conclusion. A small lightweight unencumbered company can out-perform a gigantic bureaucratic behemoth.
Gee, go figure!
Or
Q: Who would have ever guessed?
A: Any sane half-wit or better.
Oh, yeah this is so yesterday. I can go into Walmart and buy a life size robotic doll with voice interaction ... ...
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No I guess not.
While, I'm sure the story is a lot of hype, this is an achievement. Not sure how much, as the parent says all these base elements are being done already. It would have been nice to see a walking clip. Then we'd know whether he's actually accomplished that. Which has been done also. Still all the pieces are there, and I expect we'll see more people building androids at home. I can still remember the thrill of building a computer at home, before you could walk into a store and buy one. Androids going to be the next geek projects. And some of those other wonderful Sci-Fi gadgets from the 50s and 60s books, cartoons and movies.
What you're actually complaining about is that Windows did a poor job of deciding what to page out.
Isn't that kind of the entire point of the original question? If Windows does a crappy job in deciding what to swap out, and when, then is there really any good reason to use the crappy Windows caching software. Or wouldn't it be better to simply cripple the swap feature. I think in Windows, it is inadvisable to completely disable it, and Windows internals depend on it being there and several tools and apps malfunction (ie Blue Screen) if it is turned off. Sure Windows caching software works fine in certain very limited usage patterns. Once you stray outside of the types of usage the Windows engineers anticipated, the algorithm's usefulness tanks. As is true with any algorithm. No algorithm is a magic pill. That is not saying the Windows guys did a bad job, and I use crappy only as an example only (really they do know what they're doing). Everything is a trade-off.
The best answer here, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it yet, is:
1) turn off the cache,
2) do some real world usage with the system and capture datapoints,
3) turn on the cache, rinse and repeat,
4) use the set up that works best for you.
There are real reasons to have a cache, but depending on your situation, you may not need it.
The way I see it is Canadians have a very severe lack of easily available guns. I think we should deport the Michigan Militia to Canada, so they can bring their public schools up to American standards.
Alas, until the Californians put an Austrian in the Governor's chair, college was free in California. Still, if Palin get elected in 2012, I'm heading for Canada.