A key fact is that the Police are Public Servants. Their salaries are paid by the Public. So, if the Public wants to record the activities of the Police, a very simple reason why is, "to ensure that they are actually Serving the Public". It is quite logical that if it can be proved that certain members of the Police are actually only serving themselves (thereby misusing their Power and Responsibility), they should be fired.
One could argue that all Congresscritters should always be on-camera, a separate video channel for each. Then we will see how many of those "Public Servants" are actually doing their jobs, Serving the Public, instead of working for their own selfish interests.
I suspect for any part that can be made via 3D printing, the replaced part can be ground up into powder suitable for making a new part. Remember that the ISS is surrounded by lots of vacuum, and various materials have exhibited some interesting properties in a vacuum that they don't exhibit on Earth. For more details, especially regarding the "stickiness" a substance needs to make a part in a 3D printer, see this old idea.
Actually, as long as chips keep getting smaller and need less power, something like this is almost inevitable. However, at some point it will be possible to dispense with batteries altogether, and just build solar cells into the keyboard. If you have enough light to see it, then you will have enough light to run it. Someday, even your smartphone or tablet (or combined unit) will be built that way.
To the extent that a big company might hire you if you could show them a decent portfolio of web pages/sites that you worked on, obviously you need a portfolio. In the main article it was indicated that most of the sites you did have not survived. However, all is not lost. See www.archive.org for backup copies of web pages of lost sites. (Note they don't capture any back-end stuff, but since the front end is what the customers would see, it should certainly help to have access to them.)
As technology improves the screen sizes of handhelds will get bigger, most probably by unfolding --one such unit is already available. Also, if their pixel resolution improves, then that is another way for them to emulate a larger screen. So, this is really a short-term problem, provided that web-page designers don't design for wide-screen monitors. Good old 800x600 or 1024x768 is probably fine.
The funniest thing is that this paper is coming out in the midst of the discussion of faster-than-light neutrinos. According to the interpretation presented in the article blurb at top, FTL neutrinos should be forbidden. If they actually exist, however, then that means that the quantum wave function really is a stastical thing and not a physical thing.
This isn't the first time some neutrino experiments indicated an imaginary mass. A 1993 article
But other experiments indicated an ordinary (yet tiny) neutrino mass. Another article A third article
It occurs to me that the gravitational-wave astronomers will be looking for a signal from this event. If any gravitational waves produced by it happen to be heading in our direction, that is. From what I understand regarding how such waves would be produced, and how the href="http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/">LIGO system works, detection of a signal may be reasonably expect-able.
I once read (many moons ago) an in-depth article about how "3M Corporation" is organized. The implication was that despite being large, it was able to be nimble because of the way it was divided into sections (each section had a lot of autonomy and could therefore behave like a small company). Whether or not it is still organized this way, or Google can copy such organization scheme, is the key question, of course.
This seems like the best reply to my prior post, so this is where I'll respond.
I was fully aware of the catalysis problem posed by chlorine in the ozone layer.
But none of the detracting replies, except perhaps the last, paid attention to the fact that in a hydrogen economy, leakage of hydrogen will be as constant a thing as production of ozone by solar ultraviolet. The only question is, which rate will be greater? If a huge worldwide hydrogen economy leaks the gas faster than ozone can be formed, then the outcome is obviously detrimental to the ozone layer.
Now, the preceding message points out the existence of large amounts of hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere, about which I had been unaware. But all this really means is that there are two rates in favor of the ozone layer, the first being the rate of production of hydroxyl radicals. So, for the ozone layer to be seriously harmed by hydrogen leakage, the rate of leakage would have to be approximately equal to the sum of the other two rates.
Meanwhile, of course, there is the simple fact that the less hydrogen is allowed to leak, the better for business (fuel is money). But this fact is balanced by the costs associated with minimizing leakage. I once read a study (long before the internet) about a test of putting hydrogen through existing natural-gas lines, to see what the leakage rate would be. The experiment validated some theoretical work, indicating that hydrogen would/does leak out of the gas lines (mostly through pipe joints) at three times the rate as natural gas. Actual quantites I have not remembered (if they were actually specified in the article), so I don't know if such a leakage rate is low enough to be cost-acceptable for the hydrogen-production business --or if all the natual gas piping would have to be upgraded to be used for hydrogen, an obviously huge and expensive undertaking. But even if the existing piping leakage rate was still cost-acceptable for business, that quantity of constant leakage, applied to all the natural gas lines in the world, needs to be studied in terms of what it might do to the ozone layer, if we had a large worldwide hydrogen economy. With, of course, included in the study other sources of constant or equivalent-to-constant leaks (like individual auto accidents are isolated, but the worldwide rate is some-seconds-per-accident, equivalent to a constant rate).
While a "hydrogen economy" in whatever broad implementation is a fine idea in theory, there is one extremely important detail that must be done very carefully right from the start. The leakage of hydrogen gas must be kept to an absolute minimum. Why? Simple! Just multiple any X amount of leakage you choose, per person, by a couple billion users in a scaled-up hydrogen economy. Now factor in the simple fact that all leaked hydrogen will naturally rise through the atmosphere to the ozone layer, and that ozone is naturally "hypergolic" with hydrogen --the two chemicals instantly react. If you thought the effect of chlorocarbons was bad for the ozone layer, well, "you ain't seen nothin' yet", as the saying goes, if a large hydrogen economy doesn't do everything it can to keep hydrogen gas leakage to an absolute minimum.
In Firefox, even older versions (and perhaps some of the other browsers out there), you can change your "visited links" color (via Edit, Preferences, Appearance, Colors) to something other than purple. Then this script won't work. More, if you also change the "unvisited links" color, then even a modified script designed to tell the difference won't know which color is your "visited" color and which is your "unvisited" color.
One of the alternate explanations, which is associated with long-term regularity, involves the orbit of the Sun in the Galaxy. Every so often it passes through a dense "arm", and then the Oort Cloud accompanying the Sun gets mixed up with the equivalent clouds surrounding other stars....
Probably the best simple answer why freezing is not good has to do with the fact that a telescope mirror is typically exposed to the open sky, and therefore, especially for frozen mercury at about -40C, atmospheric water vapor will frost the mirror.
This just means, though, that the obvious solution is to make a blank out of thin heat-resistant material, put it in a vacuum chamber, heat it up, pour liquid aluminum onto it, spin THAT, and let it cool/solidify. When done you now have a mirror that can be exposed to the air just fine (Mt Polomar has for decades coated its pre-shaped glass mirror with aluminum).
On your own system you could simply take advantage of Long File Names to associate a modest amount of data with an image. If you really want the data inside the file, though, then almost any image-manipulation tool will let you do that. Take "good old Microsoft Paint" for example. You can take an image that is, say, 300x400 pixels and paste it into a completely blank image where you have specified a size of 300x500 pixels. Your original image now occupies the upper part of this new image, and you have 300x100 pixels, below that image, where you can draw stuff or use the Text tool to type stuff. Then simply save it.
The US. Patent Office has used the TIFF format to a significant extent. If we keep in mind that many books have much more in them than just words and pictures, then it is likely we need a fairly fancy "standard". Is TIFF good enough? I don't know. Is it encumbered by patents? If it is, then probably not for much longer (it is about as old a format as GIF).
I think the obvious solution is for the game developer to allow online sale of new codes to unlock DLC (at a low price). Then they would be improving the value of the secondhand market, AND be able to get in on that action. Hey, they might even encourage users to sell their games! After all, if a game is bought second-hand several times, and each of those buyers also pays for the DLC (because they are not the original buyers), then in the long run the resales of the game might be worth more to the game maker than the original sale.
Spinning media won't die quite that quickly. Remember that flash drives still have a limit on the total number of writes; spinning drives don't. When they start making SSDs using a different tech, that has no limit on writes, then the death clock will really start ticking.
That can't be completely right; since AT&T was broken up, the landlines to homes became the responsibility of the individual TelCos. I can see the individual telcos claiming what you wrote above, though. Didn't we have an article a while back about Verizon ripping up landlines when it installs FiOS?One benefit is pretty obvious: The analog line always has to have power-to-the-phone, while the fiber line only needs constant power to a neighborhood junction. Each line from junction to house can be dark until some signal needs to get through --and at the house it is the customer using his own household power continuously waiting to receive that signal. So for Verizon the savings in power of that last leg means savings in $$.
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A key fact is that the Police are Public Servants. Their salaries are paid by the Public. So, if the Public wants to record the activities of the Police, a very simple reason why is, "to ensure that they are actually Serving the Public". It is quite logical that if it can be proved that certain members of the Police are actually only serving themselves (thereby misusing their Power and Responsibility), they should be fired.
One could argue that all Congresscritters should always be on-camera, a separate video channel for each. Then we will see how many of those "Public Servants" are actually doing their jobs, Serving the Public, instead of working for their own selfish interests.
Mr. Relativistic Physics appears to be having an affair with Ms. Soap Opera. Therefore, please don't be surprised by any outcome.
I suspect for any part that can be made via 3D printing, the replaced part can be ground up into powder suitable for making a new part. Remember that the ISS is surrounded by lots of vacuum, and various materials have exhibited some interesting properties in a vacuum that they don't exhibit on Earth. For more details, especially regarding the "stickiness" a substance needs to make a part in a 3D printer, see this old idea.
Actually, as long as chips keep getting smaller and need less power, something like this is almost inevitable. However, at some point it will be possible to dispense with batteries altogether, and just build solar cells into the keyboard. If you have enough light to see it, then you will have enough light to run it. Someday, even your smartphone or tablet (or combined unit) will be built that way.
To the extent that a big company might hire you if you could show them a decent portfolio of web pages/sites that you worked on, obviously you need a portfolio. In the main article it was indicated that most of the sites you did have not survived. However, all is not lost. See www.archive.org for backup copies of web pages of lost sites. (Note they don't capture any back-end stuff, but since the front end is what the customers would see, it should certainly help to have access to them.)
As technology improves the screen sizes of handhelds will get bigger, most probably by unfolding --one such unit is already available. Also, if their pixel resolution improves, then that is another way for them to emulate a larger screen. So, this is really a short-term problem, provided that web-page designers don't design for wide-screen monitors. Good old 800x600 or 1024x768 is probably fine.
The funniest thing is that this paper is coming out in the midst of the discussion of faster-than-light neutrinos. According to the interpretation presented in the article blurb at top, FTL neutrinos should be forbidden. If they actually exist, however, then that means that the quantum wave function really is a stastical thing and not a physical thing.
This isn't the first time some neutrino experiments indicated an imaginary mass.
A 1993 article
But other experiments indicated an ordinary (yet tiny) neutrino mass.
Another article
A third article
It occurs to me that the gravitational-wave astronomers will be looking for a signal from this event. If any gravitational waves produced by it happen to be heading in our direction, that is. From what I understand regarding how such waves would be produced, and how the href="http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/">LIGO system works, detection of a signal may be reasonably expect-able.
I once read (many moons ago) an in-depth article about how "3M Corporation" is organized. The implication was that despite being large, it was able to be nimble because of the way it was divided into sections (each section had a lot of autonomy and could therefore behave like a small company). Whether or not it is still organized this way, or Google can copy such organization scheme, is the key question, of course.
This seems like the best reply to my prior post, so this is where I'll respond.
I was fully aware of the catalysis problem posed by chlorine in the ozone layer.
But none of the detracting replies, except perhaps the last, paid attention to the fact that in a hydrogen economy, leakage of hydrogen will be as constant a thing as production of ozone by solar ultraviolet. The only question is, which rate will be greater? If a huge worldwide hydrogen economy leaks the gas faster than ozone can be formed, then the outcome is obviously detrimental to the ozone layer.
Now, the preceding message points out the existence of large amounts of hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere, about which I had been unaware. But all this really means is that there are two rates in favor of the ozone layer, the first being the rate of production of hydroxyl radicals. So, for the ozone layer to be seriously harmed by hydrogen leakage, the rate of leakage would have to be approximately equal to the sum of the other two rates.
Meanwhile, of course, there is the simple fact that the less hydrogen is allowed to leak, the better for business (fuel is money). But this fact is balanced by the costs associated with minimizing leakage. I once read a study (long before the internet) about a test of putting hydrogen through existing natural-gas lines, to see what the leakage rate would be. The experiment validated some theoretical work, indicating that hydrogen would/does leak out of the gas lines (mostly through pipe joints) at three times the rate as natural gas. Actual quantites I have not remembered (if they were actually specified in the article), so I don't know if such a leakage rate is low enough to be cost-acceptable for the hydrogen-production business --or if all the natual gas piping would have to be upgraded to be used for hydrogen, an obviously huge and expensive undertaking. But even if the existing piping leakage rate was still cost-acceptable for business, that quantity of constant leakage, applied to all the natural gas lines in the world, needs to be studied in terms of what it might do to the ozone layer, if we had a large worldwide hydrogen economy. With, of course, included in the study other sources of constant or equivalent-to-constant leaks (like individual auto accidents are isolated, but the worldwide rate is some-seconds-per-accident, equivalent to a constant rate).
While a "hydrogen economy" in whatever broad implementation is a fine idea in theory, there is one extremely important detail that must be done very carefully right from the start. The leakage of hydrogen gas must be kept to an absolute minimum. Why? Simple! Just multiple any X amount of leakage you choose, per person, by a couple billion users in a scaled-up hydrogen economy. Now factor in the simple fact that all leaked hydrogen will naturally rise through the atmosphere to the ozone layer, and that ozone is naturally "hypergolic" with hydrogen --the two chemicals instantly react. If you thought the effect of chlorocarbons was bad for the ozone layer, well, "you ain't seen nothin' yet", as the saying goes, if a large hydrogen economy doesn't do everything it can to keep hydrogen gas leakage to an absolute minimum.
In Firefox, even older versions (and perhaps some of the other browsers out there), you can change your "visited links" color (via Edit, Preferences, Appearance, Colors) to something other than purple. Then this script won't work. More, if you also change the "unvisited links" color, then even a modified script designed to tell the difference won't know which color is your "visited" color and which is your "unvisited" color.
One of the alternate explanations, which is associated with long-term regularity, involves the orbit of the Sun in the Galaxy. Every so often it passes through a dense "arm", and then the Oort Cloud accompanying the Sun gets mixed up with the equivalent clouds surrounding other stars....
Probably the best simple answer why freezing is not good has to do with the fact that a telescope mirror is typically exposed to the open sky, and therefore, especially for frozen mercury at about -40C, atmospheric water vapor will frost the mirror.
This just means, though, that the obvious solution is to make a blank out of thin heat-resistant material, put it in a vacuum chamber, heat it up, pour liquid aluminum onto it, spin THAT, and let it cool/solidify. When done you now have a mirror that can be exposed to the air just fine (Mt Polomar has for decades coated its pre-shaped glass mirror with aluminum).
On your own system you could simply take advantage of Long File Names to associate a modest amount of data with an image. If you really want the data inside the file, though, then almost any image-manipulation tool will let you do that. Take "good old Microsoft Paint" for example. You can take an image that is, say, 300x400 pixels and paste it into a completely blank image where you have specified a size of 300x500 pixels. Your original image now occupies the upper part of this new image, and you have 300x100 pixels, below that image, where you can draw stuff or use the Text tool to type stuff. Then simply save it.
The US. Patent Office has used the TIFF format to a significant extent. If we keep in mind that many books have much more in them than just words and pictures, then it is likely we need a fairly fancy "standard". Is TIFF good enough? I don't know. Is it encumbered by patents? If it is, then probably not for much longer (it is about as old a format as GIF).
News flash! U.S. health care costs drop dramatically as patients discover they can hire overseas doctors to do remote surgery!
I had an idea about this several years ago: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Speed-Limited_20Road_20Design#1170250376
I think the obvious solution is for the game developer to allow online sale of new codes to unlock DLC (at a low price). Then they would be improving the value of the secondhand market, AND be able to get in on that action. Hey, they might even encourage users to sell their games! After all, if a game is bought second-hand several times, and each of those buyers also pays for the DLC (because they are not the original buyers), then in the long run the resales of the game might be worth more to the game maker than the original sale.
Spinning media won't die quite that quickly. Remember that flash drives still have a limit on the total number of writes; spinning drives don't. When they start making SSDs using a different tech, that has no limit on writes, then the death clock will really start ticking.
This idea has been "out there" for several years. Perhaps its time has finally arrived. See http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Boiled_20Gasoline_20Engine
We need a vacuum cleaner! http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Vacuum_20Cleaner#1133566372
A fairly simple 3D idea, at least when compared to powered shuttered glasses.
That can't be completely right; since AT&T was broken up, the landlines to homes became the responsibility of the individual TelCos. I can see the individual telcos claiming what you wrote above, though. Didn't we have an article a while back about Verizon ripping up landlines when it installs FiOS?One benefit is pretty obvious: The analog line always has to have power-to-the-phone, while the fiber line only needs constant power to a neighborhood junction. Each line from junction to house can be dark until some signal needs to get through --and at the house it is the customer using his own household power continuously waiting to receive that signal. So for Verizon the savings in power of that last leg means savings in $$.