Actually, it's more often the mother who attempts to instill religion into the young. It's their tool to gain dominance over their physical (and often mental) superior. Female children tend to be more eager to please their parents, and thus are more receptive to religious brainwashing. Thus religion is passed on, generation to generation, through the women.
The independent thinker is more likely to be a man. Both independent thinking and rebelliousness tend to be properties of men; both tend against religion.
Waves are made by wind; increased wave energy comes from decreased wind energy. Extracting this energy from waves will cool the coastal ocean, although this will be offset somewhat by decreased evaporation from waves hitting the shore. Since we are already using the ocean as a heat sink, this will have a compensating effect, driving us closer to a "natural" condition.
LED is using 1% of the power and has 1000x the lifespan
Liar.
Incandescents have typical power efficiencies of 5%. If the LED is using 1% of the power for the same amount of light then its power efficiency is 500%. Hah.
Incandescents have typical lifespans on the order of 1000 hours. 1000x that is over 100 years. White LEDs will be severely degraded in 10 years and will likely fail completely in much less than 100 years.
Early CFs, particularly from "Lights of America", had separate bulbs and ballasts. They appear to have fallen out of favor, probably due to consumer inconvenience, the reatiler having to stock twice as many items, and the additional production costs. Also, electronic ballasts are pushed pretty hard, so they don't generally have the long lifetime of a magnetic ballast.
A large part of the limit on LED lumen/dollar is the rate that heat can be removed from a small die. As the efficiencies rise, the light that you can get out a single die increases more than proportionately (eff/(1-eff)). They're still expensive, but they're improving at a (historically) very rapid rate.
Likely they noticed that CFL were cutting into the sales of their regular bulbs and developed the technology so that they can compete.
GE makes both incandescents and CFs, and their CFs sell for 10 or 20 times as much retail. Even if their CF profit percentage is a bit lower, they make more money on the CFs. The technology improvement should gain market share among incandescents, but likely will cannibalize CF profits.
The inverter efficiency is already included in the watts/lumen rating. The recycling pollution consideration is ameliorated by the long life of the CF. The only valid consideration you raised is power factor.
Improvement of the incandescent lamp has been ongoing. What do you think "halogen" bulbs are?
A decade or so ago, GE introduced an incandescent that was very slightly more efficient. If I recall correctly, efficiency was boosted by adding an infrared reflective layer that bounced some IR back to the filament. The improvement was small because the filament is small, and most of the reflection missed the filament. The reflective layer made the bulb a bit more expensive. It has taken a bit of market share, but not much.
There are several big firms making incandescent lamps, and they've been doing research for a long time. Making improvements aren't that easy, they're up against some hard physical limits like the melting points and evaporation rates and emissivity of tungsten or carbon.
Some nationalities (and more importantly, some cultures) have a history of making contributions to various aspects of civilization out of proportion to their numbers. It is both interesting to find these correlations and important to find cause-and-effect relations if they exist. Getting annoyed because people point them out, and flaming them, is not a contribution.
There is a certain amount of truth to the claim that math is taught badly. Explanations are often not clear, and there is a lot of emphasis on proofs in preference to understanding. This is especially true of pure math as contrasted with applied math. However,
some things are just hard to learn and only seem easy in retrospect.
People learn differently. The words that bring clarity to me may be muddy to you, and vice versa.
The words of someone who knows the subject thoroughly will be very different from the words of a newbie.
There's a type of antenna known as log-periodic. That name made no sense to me, but describing the sections as a geometric series did.
I knew this guy -- not closely -- when he was president of the MIT Science Fiction Society. At that time he seemed to be more of a conservative than a libertarian. Good person, intelligent, funny, responsible. I haven't looked in detail at his policy positions yet, but on a personal basis, he's head and shoulders above the competition.
Hydrogen balloon to about 30 miles. Rocket to low earth orbit. Solar sails to anywhere in the inner solar system. Nuclear-powered ion engine further out.
I've tried 6 versions of Linux, including 3 Redhats. Redhat 8.0 was the first to work adequately on my system, and I'm using it at this moment. Other versions couldn't do what I needed or crashed frequently. I had particular problems with SuSE, which installed with great difficulty.
My understanding of the "cure" is that it more nearly a supplement or a food rather than a drug. Furthermore, the result of using it would not be the dopeyness or peculiar activity that is characteristic of so many mind-affecting drugs.
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It's going to be a long, long time before any journey of this sort is attempted because all the potential problems - physical and social - are going to have to be considered solved before such a project is attempted. That's not going to happen this century.
There isn't time for much evolution while on the ship; it's only supposed to be a few generations. Furthermore, there's no purpose for evolution shipboard; the inhabitants will be in a markedly different environment when they land, and any changes that make them more fit for ship life are likely to make them less fit for life on a new planet.
A highly accomplished person with a prominent position is a lightning rod for commentary, much of it rude and stupid. Even an easy-going person will become testy after receiving too much garbage, and Linus is no exception.
GNOME's limited choices are a problem because they can prevent certain software from working. For example, using photoshop under wine in GNOME, shortcuts using the ALT key are intercepted by GNOME and never get to photoshop. I have found no way to circumvent this problem.
On the other hand, I don't use KDE, because the terminals are broken.
As an experiment, you might try different colored filters in front of each eye. The effect won't be the same as regular color vision, but it might provide similar information that, with practice, could become automatically useful. On the other hand, you wouldn't want to use it all the time, who knows how it might mess up your vision system.
People have been going to Mexico for more than 30 years for cancer "cures" not available in the U.S.. Mexico is much smaller than either India or China, yet all this medical travel has yet to make Mexico notably better.
There is a significant difference between DRAM used in a framebuffer and DRAM used in a cache. In a framebuffer the data is only needed for the time span of one frame, and refresh is not necessary. As long as it's truly used as a framebuffer, nobody cares if it loses a bit occasionally, it's just a blip on the screen. In a cache, errors are unacceptable and lifetime in the cache is somewhat uncontrolled. Accordingly, the data in a DRAM cache has to be refreshed.
With small devices leakage is a problem, and it's a severe problem for DRAM because it shortens the required refresh interval. If IBM has improved DRAM to make it useful in general-purpose on-chip applications, they've made a big step forward.
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The independent thinker is more likely to be a man. Both independent thinking and rebelliousness tend to be properties of men; both tend against religion.
Waves are made by wind; increased wave energy comes from decreased wind energy. Extracting this energy from waves will cool the coastal ocean, although this will be offset somewhat by decreased evaporation from waves hitting the shore. Since we are already using the ocean as a heat sink, this will have a compensating effect, driving us closer to a "natural" condition.
Incandescents have typical power efficiencies of 5%. If the LED is using 1% of the power for the same amount of light then its power efficiency is 500%. Hah.
Incandescents have typical lifespans on the order of 1000 hours. 1000x that is over 100 years. White LEDs will be severely degraded in 10 years and will likely fail completely in much less than 100 years.
Early CFs, particularly from "Lights of America", had separate bulbs and ballasts. They appear to have fallen out of favor, probably due to consumer inconvenience, the reatiler having to stock twice as many items, and the additional production costs. Also, electronic ballasts are pushed pretty hard, so they don't generally have the long lifetime of a magnetic ballast.
A large part of the limit on LED lumen/dollar is the rate that heat can be removed from a small die. As the efficiencies rise, the light that you can get out a single die increases more than proportionately (eff/(1-eff)). They're still expensive, but they're improving at a (historically) very rapid rate.
The inverter efficiency is already included in the watts/lumen rating. The recycling pollution consideration is ameliorated by the long life of the CF. The only valid consideration you raised is power factor.
A decade or so ago, GE introduced an incandescent that was very slightly more efficient. If I recall correctly, efficiency was boosted by adding an infrared reflective layer that bounced some IR back to the filament. The improvement was small because the filament is small, and most of the reflection missed the filament. The reflective layer made the bulb a bit more expensive. It has taken a bit of market share, but not much.
There are several big firms making incandescent lamps, and they've been doing research for a long time. Making improvements aren't that easy, they're up against some hard physical limits like the melting points and evaporation rates and emissivity of tungsten or carbon.
Some nationalities (and more importantly, some cultures) have a history of making contributions to various aspects of civilization out of proportion to their numbers. It is both interesting to find these correlations and important to find cause-and-effect relations if they exist. Getting annoyed because people point them out, and flaming them, is not a contribution.
There's a type of antenna known as log-periodic. That name made no sense to me, but describing the sections as a geometric series did.
Mathematicians have sex, too. There's fair evidence that the causes which led to Galois' death in a duel qualify as a sex scandal.
I knew this guy -- not closely -- when he was president of the MIT Science Fiction Society. At that time he seemed to be more of a conservative than a libertarian. Good person, intelligent, funny, responsible. I haven't looked in detail at his policy positions yet, but on a personal basis, he's head and shoulders above the competition.
Hydrogen balloon to about 30 miles. Rocket to low earth orbit. Solar sails to anywhere in the inner solar system. Nuclear-powered ion engine further out.
I've tried 6 versions of Linux, including 3 Redhats. Redhat 8.0 was the first to work adequately on my system, and I'm using it at this moment. Other versions couldn't do what I needed or crashed frequently. I had particular problems with SuSE, which installed with great difficulty.
My understanding of the "cure" is that it more nearly a supplement or a food rather than a drug. Furthermore, the result of using it would not be the dopeyness or peculiar activity that is characteristic of so many mind-affecting drugs.
It's going to be a long, long time before any journey of this sort is attempted because all the potential problems - physical and social - are going to have to be considered solved before such a project is attempted. That's not going to happen this century.
There isn't time for much evolution while on the ship; it's only supposed to be a few generations. Furthermore, there's no purpose for evolution shipboard; the inhabitants will be in a markedly different environment when they land, and any changes that make them more fit for ship life are likely to make them less fit for life on a new planet.
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A highly accomplished person with a prominent position is a lightning rod for commentary, much of it rude and stupid. Even an easy-going person will become testy after receiving too much garbage, and Linus is no exception.
GNOME's limited choices are a problem because they can prevent certain software from working. For example, using photoshop under wine in GNOME, shortcuts using the ALT key are intercepted by GNOME and never get to photoshop. I have found no way to circumvent this problem.
On the other hand, I don't use KDE, because the terminals are broken.
As an experiment, you might try different colored filters in front of each eye. The effect won't be the same as regular color vision, but it might provide similar information that, with practice, could become automatically useful. On the other hand, you wouldn't want to use it all the time, who knows how it might mess up your vision system.
You pay for it. I'll respect you.
People have been going to Mexico for more than 30 years for cancer "cures" not available in the U.S.. Mexico is much smaller than either India or China, yet all this medical travel has yet to make Mexico notably better.
With small devices leakage is a problem, and it's a severe problem for DRAM because it shortens the required refresh interval. If IBM has improved DRAM to make it useful in general-purpose on-chip applications, they've made a big step forward.