Something tells me the last episode won't resemble "Fall Out" -- the original last episode. If you haven't seen the original series, haven't seen the last episode when everything becomes "clear" (HAHAHAHAHAH!! [Read that as maniacal laughter]) and "#2" "Escapes" "The Village" [read the quotes as irony/dual meaning], you might still think there's a possibility that the new series will be a little bit faithful to the original.
While you don't want to travel fast, once you know an area very well, you want to dig samples quickly, pick things up and place them (if you're doing assembly) quickly, etc.
So better solar panel, better batteries, etc. are the real slowdown, not mechanical stuff?
Do you know if the processing power is now in excess, such that they could go pleasantly fast (unencumbered human speed or better) if they had unlimited power?
All these films are sped up. There's possible a jump cut (human intervention? long delay?) in one or more of them.
Will Moore's law make this go away? Is the problem a simple CPU issue? Will 8 times faster machines in 3-4 years give us speedy robots that don't need to be shown in fast motion?
Agreed, on many levels. You're completely right that this is a stalking horse.
On the other hand, if we're going to fight wars where we pacify populations then this is a much cheaper way to do it, in the long run, then the current way.
(I was about to say "pointless wars where we pacify populations" but you know, even though the one(s) we're in have been badly mismanaged by a pack of morons and at least one of them we had no business getting into at all, that doesn't mean that pacifying a country is always a pointless, devastating, callous exercise. Almost always, but not completely so.)
Besides, out of the killer robots which roam the countryside killing every biped or vehicle in a neutral zone will come better bots to clean our floors, install solar panels, manufacture AND install stuff, etc.
HG wells makes the point in _The Food of the Gods_ that every, EVERY technology gets used, no matter how annoying or absurd the consequences. And specifically every tech is ultimately used for war. HG Wells was right on so many things it's scary.
The problem is that current ideas will not be the status quo when kids get to be a little older. The more we cram ideas of today into kids heads, the more they seem... well, "un-absurd" to them.
Texting is stupid. Thumb typing is stupid. Tiny little plastic dohickies with tiny screens and keyboards are stupid. Making them seem normal to children so they can grow up to accept this silliness is good for industry, but not good for the future.
Kids need exposure to these technologies so that they can form other ideas, but they don't need to USE them on a day to day basis. Let you kid play with one one day. Then make it clear that it's an unpleasant work-thing not a fun play-thing. Then wait a decade or two, and maybe your children will help free you from this crap.
This means that using DNA to convict is harder. Using the lack of DNA, or the presence of someone else's (person unknown) can still work to clear people.
Ok, great, they put the heat in one side of the Sterling Cycle Engine, and it moves to the other side and we get motion, but what do they do with the heat? There's no air/water to bump against a cooling fin to get the activity of the molecules. Does the "icy vacuum of space" actually cool things very well?
If it did, why wouldn't a sterling cycle engine with one side in the shade and one side in the sun work pretty darn well anyhow?
I suspect that it DOESN'T, in which case they'll need to bore a big hole to put the heat in via fluid transferring to lunar dirt.
Get the ISBN yourself. Don't use someone else's -- it can reduce portability. For example, a ISBN from Createspace cannot be move to anywhere else, so you're stuck on Amazon only, forever. If you have your own ISBN, you can move to Lulu (for example) or to a more conventional publisher.
Look on your phone bill. You'll see taxes tacked on at the end. The fact that most of these aren't really taxes (or were once and now aren't) and that the telcos simply keep them as profit shouldn't bother you. That's just good business sense.
After all, practically every telco in the country does it.
The carriers have a lot of costs in the United States that they have to cover.
They need massive payrolls, for instance. It takes a lot of butts in seats to convince the local lawmakers that you have enough votes to unseat them if they don't do what you want. If the telcos didn't have control of so many voters they could threaten with layoffs, they wouldn't be able to get the tax breaks necessary to support their antiquated/anti-consumer business model. They'd have to change. Change is bad.
They also have to pay a lot of money to lawyers and on paper trails, because telcos are so highly regulated. They worked hard for that regulation, after getting a whiff of it initially, and got it increased beyond any semblance of reason so that no small carriers could afford to get anywhere in the business. They have to burn that money to keep other companies from cutting into their bottom line.
And it costs a lot of money to support antique technology, as well. By not modernizing, they save money in the short run, which helps them stay profitable, and makes sure that they need lots of people to run it, since it scales much more poorly than modern systems (which is excellent, since it means more employees/voters/bullying power). Not modernizing also limits services available, which is also good, since until we have good anti-network neutrality laws, someone else might be able to piggyback on those and get revenue, which might turn them into a real competitor someday.
Hey, keeping a strangle-hold on an entire country costs money! By paying absurd rates for crappy service, you're just doing your part. Keep up the good work.
IT spending will explode again when IT starts actually doing what it could. Right now, we give people hammers to replace their rocks. Someday, we'll be making robotic hammers/manufacturers. Then IT will boom again.
Wouldn't the drive benefit from a real understanding of the filesystem for this sort of thing? If it knew a sector was unallocated on a filesystem level, it would know that sectors were empty/unneeded, even if they had been written to nicely. Or should computers now have a way of tagging a sector as "empty" on the drive?
Either way, it looks like an OS interaction would be very helpful here.
Or are modern systems already doing this, and I'm just behind the times?
This will significantly increase writes. I'm sure it's still worth it, but we ought to know what kind of effect this will have on the time before one hits max writes on the flash device.
Other people here have said some good things. Here's one thing to remember: You have chosen to be in a marriage of equals. Make sure you both remember it, and behave accordingly. Make sure you're not finding that one or the other of you is really the boss. In particular areas of expertise you can have someone dominant. In total, you can't.
One more thing: Marriage councilors are evil, deadly, and incompetent. Or rather, there are definitely such ones out there. You won't know what you've got, and they can screw you. Be very careful before entering into such a situation.
I think mud is a euphemism for many of us. The riverbed, in this case, might be the bottom of sewage treatment plants. As for other bacteria, we could heat the "mud" up for a while to largely sterilize it to reduce that competition.
But it seems like this would (if it could operate in munch dryer situations) be an ideal additive to compost heaps to get a little more out of them...
I completely agree with him. I use emacs for everything I can. When I have to write something for people who use word, I write in emacs then import into word. When I write for books or other heavy layout stuff, I'm forced to use word or openoffice, and as I write this, I find myself getting more more interested in LaTex.
Wind resistance goes as the square of the speed (very approximately, anyhow -- in fact, I saw a study which showed an odd stepping in real cars) -- city cars going 30 mpg most of the time don't need sleek shapes.
In the Scions, the current boxy xB gets 22 city / 28 highway MPG and the current sleek xC gets 21 city / 29 highway. I assume (as in past) that they're the same car with different tops.
Boxy is the way to go for electrics. Utility above highway efficiency. If you're doing a lot of highway, you'll want a car with a gas backup, like the Volt.
Boxy gives you better ability to see (More glass and a little more height), allows people to get in without straining, allows them to sit comfortably with lots of leg room, allows you to pack more crap in to truck around, and gives you way more space for batteries.
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Missed that.
The advent of Windows 7 in October may drive Linux's desktop market share down even futher.
It's not all doom and gloom for the penguin, however...
Thank goodness. I was so worried and depressed.
Something tells me the last episode won't resemble "Fall Out" -- the original last episode. If you haven't seen the original series, haven't seen the last episode when everything becomes "clear" (HAHAHAHAHAH!! [Read that as maniacal laughter]) and "#2" "Escapes" "The Village" [read the quotes as irony/dual meaning], you might still think there's a possibility that the new series will be a little bit faithful to the original.
While you don't want to travel fast, once you know an area very well, you want to dig samples quickly, pick things up and place them (if you're doing assembly) quickly, etc.
So better solar panel, better batteries, etc. are the real slowdown, not mechanical stuff?
Do you know if the processing power is now in excess, such that they could go pleasantly fast (unencumbered human speed or better) if they had unlimited power?
All these films are sped up. There's possible a jump cut (human intervention? long delay?) in one or more of them.
Will Moore's law make this go away? Is the problem a simple CPU issue? Will 8 times faster machines in 3-4 years give us speedy robots that don't need to be shown in fast motion?
Agreed, on many levels. You're completely right that this is a stalking horse.
On the other hand, if we're going to fight wars where we pacify populations then this is a much cheaper way to do it, in the long run, then the current way.
(I was about to say "pointless wars where we pacify populations" but you know, even though the one(s) we're in have been badly mismanaged by a pack of morons and at least one of them we had no business getting into at all, that doesn't mean that pacifying a country is always a pointless, devastating, callous exercise. Almost always, but not completely so.)
Besides, out of the killer robots which roam the countryside killing every biped or vehicle in a neutral zone will come better bots to clean our floors, install solar panels, manufacture AND install stuff, etc.
HG wells makes the point in _The Food of the Gods_ that every, EVERY technology gets used, no matter how annoying or absurd the consequences. And specifically every tech is ultimately used for war. HG Wells was right on so many things it's scary.
This is about all the other emails she sent and this one was just the last straw.
And yes, it's a pretty small straw, but we don't know anything else that was loaded on this particular camel.
The problem is that current ideas will not be the status quo when kids get to be a little older. The more we cram ideas of today into kids heads, the more they seem ... well, "un-absurd" to them.
Texting is stupid. Thumb typing is stupid. Tiny little plastic dohickies with tiny screens and keyboards are stupid. Making them seem normal to children so they can grow up to accept this silliness is good for industry, but not good for the future.
Kids need exposure to these technologies so that they can form other ideas, but they don't need to USE them on a day to day basis. Let you kid play with one one day. Then make it clear that it's an unpleasant work-thing not a fun play-thing. Then wait a decade or two, and maybe your children will help free you from this crap.
Or how about ex-presidents getting blamed for virtually every crime committed from 2010 on?
"Why did the criminal lick the gun before leaving it at the crime scene?"
"Who cares! He did it, we have the sample, and the computer tells us the armed robber is... George Bush."
"Oh. Well, then we know why he licked the gun."
This means that using DNA to convict is harder. Using the lack of DNA, or the presence of someone else's (person unknown) can still work to clear people.
Ah, the articles says they'll have 1080 square feet of cooling. I'm not sure whether that says the vacuum stinks at cooling or not.
How much would be needed in air?
Ok, great, they put the heat in one side of the Sterling Cycle Engine, and it moves to the other side and we get motion, but what do they do with the heat? There's no air/water to bump against a cooling fin to get the activity of the molecules. Does the "icy vacuum of space" actually cool things very well?
If it did, why wouldn't a sterling cycle engine with one side in the shade and one side in the sun work pretty darn well anyhow?
I suspect that it DOESN'T, in which case they'll need to bore a big hole to put the heat in via fluid transferring to lunar dirt.
Get the ISBN yourself. Don't use someone else's -- it can reduce portability. For example, a ISBN from Createspace cannot be move to anywhere else, so you're stuck on Amazon only, forever. If you have your own ISBN, you can move to Lulu (for example) or to a more conventional publisher.
Look on your phone bill. You'll see taxes tacked on at the end. The fact that most of these aren't really taxes (or were once and now aren't) and that the telcos simply keep them as profit shouldn't bother you. That's just good business sense.
After all, practically every telco in the country does it.
The carriers have a lot of costs in the United States that they have to cover.
They need massive payrolls, for instance. It takes a lot of butts in seats to convince the local lawmakers that you have enough votes to unseat them if they don't do what you want. If the telcos didn't have control of so many voters they could threaten with layoffs, they wouldn't be able to get the tax breaks necessary to support their antiquated/anti-consumer business model. They'd have to change. Change is bad.
They also have to pay a lot of money to lawyers and on paper trails, because telcos are so highly regulated. They worked hard for that regulation, after getting a whiff of it initially, and got it increased beyond any semblance of reason so that no small carriers could afford to get anywhere in the business. They have to burn that money to keep other companies from cutting into their bottom line.
And it costs a lot of money to support antique technology, as well. By not modernizing, they save money in the short run, which helps them stay profitable, and makes sure that they need lots of people to run it, since it scales much more poorly than modern systems (which is excellent, since it means more employees/voters/bullying power). Not modernizing also limits services available, which is also good, since until we have good anti-network neutrality laws, someone else might be able to piggyback on those and get revenue, which might turn them into a real competitor someday.
Hey, keeping a strangle-hold on an entire country costs money! By paying absurd rates for crappy service, you're just doing your part. Keep up the good work.
IT spending will explode again when IT starts actually doing what it could. Right now, we give people hammers to replace their rocks. Someday, we'll be making robotic hammers/manufacturers. Then IT will boom again.
Wouldn't the drive benefit from a real understanding of the filesystem for this sort of thing? If it knew a sector was unallocated on a filesystem level, it would know that sectors were empty/unneeded, even if they had been written to nicely. Or should computers now have a way of tagging a sector as "empty" on the drive?
Either way, it looks like an OS interaction would be very helpful here.
Or are modern systems already doing this, and I'm just behind the times?
This will significantly increase writes. I'm sure it's still worth it, but we ought to know what kind of effect this will have on the time before one hits max writes on the flash device.
Other people here have said some good things. Here's one thing to remember: You have chosen to be in a marriage of equals. Make sure you both remember it, and behave accordingly. Make sure you're not finding that one or the other of you is really the boss. In particular areas of expertise you can have someone dominant. In total, you can't.
One more thing: Marriage councilors are evil, deadly, and incompetent. Or rather, there are definitely such ones out there. You won't know what you've got, and they can screw you. Be very careful before entering into such a situation.
Ooooh. Interesting question! It binds iron and other metals, so that might make them more digestible, or less. Truely unclear.
I think mud is a euphemism for many of us. The riverbed, in this case, might be the bottom of sewage treatment plants. As for other bacteria, we could heat the "mud" up for a while to largely sterilize it to reduce that competition.
But it seems like this would (if it could operate in munch dryer situations) be an ideal additive to compost heaps to get a little more out of them...
I completely agree with him. I use emacs for everything I can. When I have to write something for people who use word, I write in emacs then import into word. When I write for books or other heavy layout stuff, I'm forced to use word or openoffice, and as I write this, I find myself getting more more interested in LaTex.
Wind resistance goes as the square of the speed (very approximately, anyhow -- in fact, I saw a study which showed an odd stepping in real cars) -- city cars going 30 mpg most of the time don't need sleek shapes.
In the Scions, the current boxy xB gets 22 city / 28 highway MPG and the current sleek xC gets 21 city / 29 highway. I assume (as in past) that they're the same car with different tops.
Boxy is the way to go for electrics. Utility above highway efficiency. If you're doing a lot of highway, you'll want a car with a gas backup, like the Volt.
Boxy gives you better ability to see (More glass and a little more height), allows people to get in without straining, allows them to sit comfortably with lots of leg room, allows you to pack more crap in to truck around, and gives you way more space for batteries.
I'm very glad to see this. I'm glad electrics are getting here and are real.
But must it be SO VERY CRAMPED!??! What's wrong with a xB-like chassis?