A number of years ago... about 25... there was a porn film with a woman wearing a leotard with the Superman "S" on it. The movie's maker was threatened with a copyright violation lawsuit, so they went through the whole film, and every frame where that "S" showed, the "S" was obliterated with a black marker. Of course this was not consistent from frame to frame, and the result was a unique black sparkle on her chest throughout most of the film.
"You know what they're too busy doing, don't you? Earning money working multiple jobs. So they can pay more money to other people to have them do things for them. Because they're too busy to learn how to do it themselves."
The principle at work here is called division of labor and it has been known to be effective for a couple of hundred years. It's one of the reasons that an advanced industrial civilization is possible.
Yes, being able to do things yourself has a lot of value; but it's not effective, or even possible, to do everything yourself.
And the US can withdraw its military which is presently helping protect South Korea from North Korea. The US is well within its rights to complain when one of its corporations or citizens is mistreated.
Forbes estimate of McDuck's wealth is too low. Assuming his money bin is a 100 foot cube full of gold coins, the value is well in excess of $100 billion.
Why are we so focused on extending our own lifetimes, instead of thinking about how me might better extend the lifetime of the species?
Because the proper fundamental value of any living thing is its own life. Because someone whose primary dedication is to bettering others is known as a "sucker" and will attract parasites.
Have you any idea how much money you're talking about? Nobody would take the job with risks like these. They'd have to buy insurance, which itself would be prohibitively expensive. The pay for the job of patent examiner would have to rise to above that of pro football stars, to cover the risk. The cost of patents in turn would have to rise to cover the costs, pricing small inventors out of the market.
Any printer filling in a uniform, moderately light area with a sparse pattern of dark ink will produce dots that are visible (and annoying) to any person capable of focussing closer than about 5 inches.
The US subsidizes the price of fuel by not accounting the externalities such as the public health costs of the pollution
The pollution of automobiles is immensely lower than that of the transportation that they replaced, horses. Automobiles have reduced pollution and brought tremendous improvements to human life. Taxing these improvements in excess of the immediate cost of roads is abhorrent.
Your ideas of US foreign policy can only be described as paranoid fantasy.
These were two-layer caps. Aluminum (and I presume tin) oxidize very rapidly. Aluminum oxide is an insulator; tin oxide conducts. There would be no conduction between the two layers of aluminum, but there would be conduction in spots between the two layers of tin. How this alters radio wave propagation, I don't know.
Bush got elected because he ran against power hungry loonys.
Many current boards of education are there because (a) they're the only ones who cared enough to run, or (b) they were elected to oust the sort of people who want to show first graders how to use condoms. "Public" schools have become a battleground for people who want to warp everybody's children their way. Everyone loses.
NTSC is usually sampled at 720x480, probably to get good representation of color, which is modulated around 3.579 MHz. The higher-than-necessary sampling rate also reduces "jaggies". If the pixels are to be square, the image must be downsampled to 640x480 to fit a 4x3 aspect ratio display. The actual available information cannot exceed 2x(color carrier)/(horizontal scan frequency)=454. A portion of that 454 must be sacrificed to horizontal retrace. In practice, high luminance frequencies interfere with color information, so the useful resolution is even lower.
You'd notice the improvement if you saw something twice as detailed, particularly if you saw it side-by-side. I'm reading this page on a 1800x1440 monitor. It's substantially better than the 1600x1200 that I was using. I want much more, but it's much too expensive now.
Most of "That `70s Show" is shot at 24 fps, as can be verified by single-framing through a digital capture of a portion of the show. In my limited experience, most non-live-broadcast shows are done this way. "Married With Children", on the other hand, is 60 Hz. interlaced.
Computer science is one of the more solitary professions, so being surrounded by people is not essential. Having people around helps if you need assistance in learning some concept, or you need company to ward off depression. Having people around hurts because they're a distraction from your studies.
RAM not on the CPU chip has been and will continue to be a burden on performance. Low latency RAM will reduce this trend but not reverse it. The physical distance between the CPU and RAM adds to latency due to speed-of-light delays, and it's hard to avoid that.
The US Department of Energy is already spending at an annual rate twice that of the Manhattan Project (in constant dollars). While the DOE is obviously not well focussed, it is also obvious that quickly throwing money at the problem (like the Manhattan Project) is not adequate to yield a solution. "Encouraging" industry to find a solution seems like a more promising approach. Be patient; oil isn't going to vanish rapidly and it's going to take time to develop and install better systems.
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Professor Ned Brainard demonstrated this in 1961. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054594/
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A number of years ago ... about 25 ... there was a porn film with a woman wearing a leotard with the Superman "S" on it. The movie's maker was threatened with a copyright violation lawsuit, so they went through the whole film, and every frame where that "S" showed, the "S" was obliterated with a black marker. Of course this was not consistent from frame to frame, and the result was a unique black sparkle on her chest throughout most of the film.
I'd like to see a pellicle design in a digital SLR. No lag waiting for the mirror to flop up.
The principle at work here is called division of labor and it has been known to be effective for a couple of hundred years. It's one of the reasons that an advanced industrial civilization is possible.
Yes, being able to do things yourself has a lot of value; but it's not effective, or even possible, to do everything yourself.
And the US can withdraw its military which is presently helping protect South Korea from North Korea. The US is well within its rights to complain when one of its corporations or citizens is mistreated.
Forbes estimate of McDuck's wealth is too low. Assuming his money bin is a 100 foot cube full of gold coins, the value is well in excess of $100 billion.
Because the proper fundamental value of any living thing is its own life. Because someone whose primary dedication is to bettering others is known as a "sucker" and will attract parasites.
Have you any idea how much money you're talking about? Nobody would take the job with risks like these. They'd have to buy insurance, which itself would be prohibitively expensive. The pay for the job of patent examiner would have to rise to above that of pro football stars, to cover the risk. The cost of patents in turn would have to rise to cover the costs, pricing small inventors out of the market.
I have a Canon BJC-8200 which I've given very little use. The original cartridges are still good after 5 years.
Any printer filling in a uniform, moderately light area with a sparse pattern of dark ink will produce dots that are visible (and annoying) to any person capable of focussing closer than about 5 inches.
The pollution of automobiles is immensely lower than that of the transportation that they replaced, horses. Automobiles have reduced pollution and brought tremendous improvements to human life. Taxing these improvements in excess of the immediate cost of roads is abhorrent.
Your ideas of US foreign policy can only be described as paranoid fantasy.
These were two-layer caps. Aluminum (and I presume tin) oxidize very rapidly. Aluminum oxide is an insulator; tin oxide conducts. There would be no conduction between the two layers of aluminum, but there would be conduction in spots between the two layers of tin. How this alters radio wave propagation, I don't know.
Many current boards of education are there because (a) they're the only ones who cared enough to run, or (b) they were elected to oust the sort of people who want to show first graders how to use condoms. "Public" schools have become a battleground for people who want to warp everybody's children their way. Everyone loses.
NTSC is usually sampled at 720x480, probably to get good representation of color, which is modulated around 3.579 MHz. The higher-than-necessary sampling rate also reduces "jaggies". If the pixels are to be square, the image must be downsampled to 640x480 to fit a 4x3 aspect ratio display. The actual available information cannot exceed 2x(color carrier)/(horizontal scan frequency)=454. A portion of that 454 must be sacrificed to horizontal retrace. In practice, high luminance frequencies interfere with color information, so the useful resolution is even lower.
It should read "tapir-resistant".
You'd notice the improvement if you saw something twice as detailed, particularly if you saw it side-by-side. I'm reading this page on a 1800x1440 monitor. It's substantially better than the 1600x1200 that I was using. I want much more, but it's much too expensive now.
Most of "That `70s Show" is shot at 24 fps, as can be verified by single-framing through a digital capture of a portion of the show. In my limited experience, most non-live-broadcast shows are done this way. "Married With Children", on the other hand, is 60 Hz. interlaced.
Computer science is one of the more solitary professions, so being surrounded by people is not essential. Having people around helps if you need assistance in learning some concept, or you need company to ward off depression. Having people around hurts because they're a distraction from your studies.
RAM not on the CPU chip has been and will continue to be a burden on performance. Low latency RAM will reduce this trend but not reverse it. The physical distance between the CPU and RAM adds to latency due to speed-of-light delays, and it's hard to avoid that.
I turn off javascript when this happens. This is a nuisance, since a lot of good things require javascript.
The US Department of Energy is already spending at an annual rate twice that of the Manhattan Project (in constant dollars). While the DOE is obviously not well focussed, it is also obvious that quickly throwing money at the problem (like the Manhattan Project) is not adequate to yield a solution. "Encouraging" industry to find a solution seems like a more promising approach. Be patient; oil isn't going to vanish rapidly and it's going to take time to develop and install better systems.
Isn't 1/4 mile accuracy good enough for anybody?
I meant 2000, not 200.
You misunderstood the question. Why did the Greeks not have an industrial revolution 200 years ago?