"I don't think it's a good situation for the "First World" at all"
Sure it is. Think of offshoring as your tax for helping the third world to industrialize faster. Conditions and labour rates rise in the beneficiary countries until they start their own post-industrial economies. Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, India and Mexico are past the initial industrialization stages. China is getting there. Soon we'll (all) be outsourcing to Africa and getting them up to speed. Just like England did with America.
Seriously, why do people find the fact that the eye's resolving power is measured in seconds of arc so difficult to comprehend? You need to know number of dots, screen size AND viewing distance to make any meaningful statements.
And that goes double for the "photographers" who think you need Z number of megapixels for an X x Y print.
"I'm not interested in a computer that can't compile."
Sucks to be you. You must not have any electronics in your house except desktops, laptops and netbooks. No TV, no remote control, no cable box, no DSL.
Seriously? Suicide among young people is generally the highest. In north America, IIRC, teens and young adults lead the pack. Most Foxconn employees are in that young adult category, or just out of it.
The employment practices of Apple's Chinese suppliers aren't great, but they're probably better than those of the factories where the computer you typed your post on were produced, and almost certainly better than the ones where your clothing was made.
You must mean mass. Your weight is the force you exert (or vice versa) on whatever you choose to define as your frame of reference. In a space station that would be the space station, and since it applies an average force of zero to you, your weight is indeed zero.
Not necessarily. Room temperature superconductors will likely have to work on an entirely different principle to current superconductors. Room temperature superconductivity might well involve ordered behaviour in the phonons as well as the electrons.
The sleeping plates Niven describes in several of his books sound pretty good actually. Although you could argue they're good for sleeping, as well as sex.
You need to have resistance in the actual bits that use the electricity to do something useful. The resistance is the electricity being converted into "useful."
What you don't need is resistance in all the wires that are carrying that electricity around - any resistance there is pure waste, generating heat. And the smaller the wires, the more electricity they waste, which is why processors get so hot.
Remember the bad old days of missing your exit then having to take the next one, figure out how to get back on the highway going the other direction, realize there was no exit on that side....
It turns out that a moving map GPS is actually the safest way for most people to navigate.
Depends on your copilot. I had one once (in downtown Dublin) who had trouble with the iPhone map. "How do I do this??" "Just give me directions so the blue dot goes on the red pin."
You're talking about interferometry - you improve your resolution at the expense of field of view, but you don't get any more light gathering power. So it's good if you want to look at very small things, but not so good if you want to look at very dim things, or a lot of the sky at the same time.
Very long baseline interferometry is done with radio telescopes on Earth (and soon in space) that might be on different sides of the planet. You can do this because someone figured out how to do interferometry at these frequencies without a direct connection. As far as I know, practical interferometry at visible wavelengths still requires a fibre optic cable between the telescopes - tricky when they're on opposite sides of the planet. I think some researchers are getting close to doing non-linked interferometry with IR though.
Widescreen is great for doing all sorts of things - the key is that you have to use multiple windows. I've never understood the habit of having full screen apps.
On the odd occasion that I actually want lots of vertical space, I've got a (widescreen) Samsung monitor that rotates. Stick it beside a regular widescreen and you have the best of both worlds.
Where widescreen doesn't make sense is on devices designed for a single window: tablets and phones.
Yes, it could be a third factor, but as you say, probably not. Either way, it's something interesting. Observational studies are useful because they let us look at things that are very difficult or impossible to do any other way and they give us interesting correlations to examine further, and frequently very probable causal relationships.
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"I don't think it's a good situation for the "First World" at all"
Sure it is. Think of offshoring as your tax for helping the third world to industrialize faster. Conditions and labour rates rise in the beneficiary countries until they start their own post-industrial economies. Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, India and Mexico are past the initial industrialization stages. China is getting there. Soon we'll (all) be outsourcing to Africa and getting them up to speed. Just like England did with America.
I doubt very much he has his 50" TV on his lap.
Seriously, why do people find the fact that the eye's resolving power is measured in seconds of arc so difficult to comprehend? You need to know number of dots, screen size AND viewing distance to make any meaningful statements.
And that goes double for the "photographers" who think you need Z number of megapixels for an X x Y print.
"I'm not interested in a computer that can't compile."
Sucks to be you. You must not have any electronics in your house except desktops, laptops and netbooks. No TV, no remote control, no cable box, no DSL.
Seriously? Suicide among young people is generally the highest. In north America, IIRC, teens and young adults lead the pack. Most Foxconn employees are in that young adult category, or just out of it.
The employment practices of Apple's Chinese suppliers aren't great, but they're probably better than those of the factories where the computer you typed your post on were produced, and almost certainly better than the ones where your clothing was made.
Possibly pointless for you. You know you're not the only person in the world, right?
You must mean mass. Your weight is the force you exert (or vice versa) on whatever you choose to define as your frame of reference. In a space station that would be the space station, and since it applies an average force of zero to you, your weight is indeed zero.
Floating trains and cheap access to orbit. Yup, nothing much would change. Not to mention all the things we haven't thought of yet.
"Niven made a mistake there."
Not necessarily. Room temperature superconductors will likely have to work on an entirely different principle to current superconductors. Room temperature superconductivity might well involve ordered behaviour in the phonons as well as the electrons.
The sleeping plates Niven describes in several of his books sound pretty good actually. Although you could argue they're good for sleeping, as well as sex.
You need to have resistance in the actual bits that use the electricity to do something useful. The resistance is the electricity being converted into "useful."
What you don't need is resistance in all the wires that are carrying that electricity around - any resistance there is pure waste, generating heat. And the smaller the wires, the more electricity they waste, which is why processors get so hot.
Not if they're in a room.
Remember the bad old days of missing your exit then having to take the next one, figure out how to get back on the highway going the other direction, realize there was no exit on that side....
It turns out that a moving map GPS is actually the safest way for most people to navigate.
Depends on your copilot. I had one once (in downtown Dublin) who had trouble with the iPhone map. "How do I do this??" "Just give me directions so the blue dot goes on the red pin."
How old ARE you?
I think everyone in my generation, and my parents' and most of my grandparents' can/could read a map. Now, the generations after... not so much.
You're talking about interferometry - you improve your resolution at the expense of field of view, but you don't get any more light gathering power. So it's good if you want to look at very small things, but not so good if you want to look at very dim things, or a lot of the sky at the same time.
Very long baseline interferometry is done with radio telescopes on Earth (and soon in space) that might be on different sides of the planet. You can do this because someone figured out how to do interferometry at these frequencies without a direct connection. As far as I know, practical interferometry at visible wavelengths still requires a fibre optic cable between the telescopes - tricky when they're on opposite sides of the planet. I think some researchers are getting close to doing non-linked interferometry with IR though.
"Japanese CCTV System Can Search Through 36 Million Faces/Second"
The camera doesn't search anything.
Widescreen is great for doing all sorts of things - the key is that you have to use multiple windows. I've never understood the habit of having full screen apps.
On the odd occasion that I actually want lots of vertical space, I've got a (widescreen) Samsung monitor that rotates. Stick it beside a regular widescreen and you have the best of both worlds.
Where widescreen doesn't make sense is on devices designed for a single window: tablets and phones.
They've proposed that memories are stored in binary, in six bit bytes. That is at least part of the encoding.
Not offsite though. Not so awesome.
Yes, it could be a third factor, but as you say, probably not. Either way, it's something interesting. Observational studies are useful because they let us look at things that are very difficult or impossible to do any other way and they give us interesting correlations to examine further, and frequently very probable causal relationships.
The OP was talking about a "for fun" illegal table in the back room. NOT a roulette table on the floor for actual (legal) use.
There are computers that can make a decent guess, using video cameras. Definitely not "some initial parameters."
There was someone a while ago who identified a flaw in a slot machine that gave it a negative EV. I think she said she could make about $10 an hour.
The patents on ASA expired a long time ago.
Yes, because it's perfectly possible that getting cancer in the future causes you not to take Aspirin today.