Only millions of people I would say, it's common enough here in Ireland at least. And from wha I hear from friends at festivals in other parts of the world pretty common there too.
Why is this a problem though, national borders are a stupid concept anyways, if we ever want to achieve a united world government you need to push people to do things they don't realise are good for them.
An example would be the drop out rates in computer science and Engineering courses. Which actually match the 40% -60% figure. I have just started college as a mature student and I'm amazed at how many people struggle to grasp concepts like passing around arguments or functions, And maths symbols scare the shit out of half the class. I have witnessed people get up and leave the room when a complex slide of symbols appeared. Things that have made sense to me for aslong as I can remember are totally incomprehensible abstractions to a lot of them. An abstract concept like a function in maths is very hard for most people to learn, I've spent ages teaching classmates yet it's the most natural thing in the world to me.
You could carve a straight enough ruler just by eye. If your any bit decent at art you can easily draw incredibly straight lines and pick the half way point almost exactly. I can pick the middle of a small item like a 2 foot bit of timber to within a couple of millimetres. Once you have a couple of semi-accurate markings it's a simple process to refine your measurement incrementally.
Why not? I can think of lots of people, most of them would be scientists though, rather than authors but I see no reason why people shouldn't be allowed amass vast wealth if they do something to better society. Especially if it's something like a book, where it's not exactly being greedy or anticompetitive and it's getting kids reading, that deserves lots of money:p
How exactly did they screw up? It seems to me they did everything right. Encrypted, salted, hashed passwords and data. Having a break in is not a screwup, it's virtually impossible to make a computer connected to the Internet invulnerable. You seem to think valve handed a hacker the keys like Sony did, which we don't know, but seems unlikely considering how careful valve were about encrypting the data.
After 20mins you problem hadn't got very far and didn't see the progression of complexity of levels and the the extra bird types, I though it was boring really the first couple of times I tried it, but then it really hooked me
Some of us do try, it's mostly America that won't bother and this results in other people only making a half hearted effort. And that is because politics got in the way, I mostly blame al gore for turning it into a polictical war. Australia and Europe are at least trying, China shouldn't have to try hard yet cause they are new
Pretty much everyone I know complains about games being too easy and designed for casuals. Not sure what world your living in, games were way harder back in the day. You have to look for games specifically designed for hardcore people to get a challenge these days. Games are rife with dumbing down, civ5 is a great example, I can beat it on the hardest difficulty yet I can only best civ4 on a couple of levels lower
it is fully usable at that time, hard disk has stopped accessing, the desktop appears after 10secs, 15 to fully usable. I can click chrome and it opens in about a second including about 30 tabs, your really underestimating the speed increase of an ssd. It is truly mind blowing fast, nothing I've ever upgraded in a pc has made as big a performance improvement.
sure the article is ridiculous, but the science is sound, creating particles from the quantum foam is a worthy experiment and doesn't really affect my point.
If we took that attitude we would have nothing. I don't think you realise just how much of our world is the result of blue sky projects like these. The space program is great example, aluminium, microwaves, etc 1.6 billion would barely dent the problems of homing and educating people, that a massive cultural and political issue more than something you can solve with a couple of billion.
Space flight is limited by fuel, not energy. Except if we build a space elevator/giant railgun wich may or may not be possible.
What about Ion thrusters and vasimir rockets. They are limited by power. Our current rockets are mostly fuel limited cause thats easier to produce and carry than energy generation. Proper fusion would solve that.
Food and water can't be produced by energy. Human population can't grow exponentially much longer.
Food certainly can be grown using energy, no idea why you think it can't. And the planet is covered by water only limited by use of energy. You could move farming indoors if you had energy no problem.
You are assuming we find a way around the second law of thermodynamics.
No idea why you think we need to break thermodynamics to use fusion or other methods to extract energy from matter.
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Only millions of people I would say, it's common enough here in Ireland at least. And from wha I hear from friends at festivals in other parts of the world pretty common there too.
Why is this a problem though, national borders are a stupid concept anyways, if we ever want to achieve a united world government you need to push people to do things they don't realise are good for them.
An example would be the drop out rates in computer science and Engineering courses. Which actually match the 40% -60% figure. I have just started college as a mature student and I'm amazed at how many people struggle to grasp concepts like passing around arguments or functions, And maths symbols scare the shit out of half the class. I have witnessed people get up and leave the room when a complex slide of symbols appeared. Things that have made sense to me for aslong as I can remember are totally incomprehensible abstractions to a lot of them. An abstract concept like a function in maths is very hard for most people to learn, I've spent ages teaching classmates yet it's the most natural thing in the world to me.
Money doesn't work as an incentive for cognitively taxing tasks, it only works for mindless tasks. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
You could carve a straight enough ruler just by eye. If your any bit decent at art you can easily draw incredibly straight lines and pick the half way point almost exactly. I can pick the middle of a small item like a 2 foot bit of timber to within a couple of millimetres. Once you have a couple of semi-accurate markings it's a simple process to refine your measurement incrementally.
Why not? I can think of lots of people, most of them would be scientists though, rather than authors but I see no reason why people shouldn't be allowed amass vast wealth if they do something to better society. Especially if it's something like a book, where it's not exactly being greedy or anticompetitive and it's getting kids reading, that deserves lots of money :p
You realise that the hydrogen had basically nothing to do with that fire?
Bring = being, damn autocorrect.
What is bad about Facebook. I'm not sure if your bring serious or not.
you could say its silent I suppose, but it still changes the pronouciation, so it's not truly silent.
like cone, like ice cream cone, not con, like convict. the e sound is overlayed with the n sound.
How exactly did they screw up? It seems to me they did everything right. Encrypted, salted, hashed passwords and data. Having a break in is not a screwup, it's virtually impossible to make a computer connected to the Internet invulnerable. You seem to think valve handed a hacker the keys like Sony did, which we don't know, but seems unlikely considering how careful valve were about encrypting the data.
Who pronounces it with a silent e.
I hope your trolling and not actually this stupid.
After 20mins you problem hadn't got very far and didn't see the progression of complexity of levels and the the extra bird types, I though it was boring really the first couple of times I tried it, but then it really hooked me
Some of us do try, it's mostly America that won't bother and this results in other people only making a half hearted effort. And that is because politics got in the way, I mostly blame al gore for turning it into a polictical war. Australia and Europe are at least trying, China shouldn't have to try hard yet cause they are new
Because weather is not climate.
Pretty much everyone I know complains about games being too easy and designed for casuals. Not sure what world your living in, games were way harder back in the day. You have to look for games specifically designed for hardcore people to get a challenge these days. Games are rife with dumbing down, civ5 is a great example, I can beat it on the hardest difficulty yet I can only best civ4 on a couple of levels lower
it is fully usable at that time, hard disk has stopped accessing, the desktop appears after 10secs, 15 to fully usable. I can click chrome and it opens in about a second including about 30 tabs, your really underestimating the speed increase of an ssd. It is truly mind blowing fast, nothing I've ever upgraded in a pc has made as big a performance improvement.
i can boot to windows 7 from cold in 30seconds. 15 seconds of that is the bios setting up. SSD's are fast.
As the black hole feeds it churns all the matter around it causing it to radiate light. As it pulls stuff in not all of it goes into the event horizon, some just whips around and flys out and smashes into the other incoming matter. This is what makes it a quasar, it is the active galactic nucleus. If its not feeding like the black hole in our galaxy then it would indeed be black. There is some good vids of stars orbiting the invisible mass at the centre of our galaxy actually. http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=stars%20orbiting%20black%20hole&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CD4QtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqJ9IZF8Qdno&ctbm=vid&ei=LyK1Tv76Is-DhQffp7WdBA&usg=AFQjCNH1kwAkgdimMaASf-dllz4HVn30Sg&sig2=rtGLmTUs7GNXkwDeC1pMcg
sure the article is ridiculous, but the science is sound, creating particles from the quantum foam is a worthy experiment and doesn't really affect my point.
If we took that attitude we would have nothing. I don't think you realise just how much of our world is the result of blue sky projects like these. The space program is great example, aluminium, microwaves, etc 1.6 billion would barely dent the problems of homing and educating people, that a massive cultural and political issue more than something you can solve with a couple of billion.
Republicans by name but certainly not republicans in the American sense.
Space flight is limited by fuel, not energy. Except if we build a space elevator/giant railgun wich may or may not be possible.
What about Ion thrusters and vasimir rockets. They are limited by power. Our current rockets are mostly fuel limited cause thats easier to produce and carry than energy generation. Proper fusion would solve that.
Food and water can't be produced by energy. Human population can't grow exponentially much longer.
Food certainly can be grown using energy, no idea why you think it can't. And the planet is covered by water only limited by use of energy. You could move farming indoors if you had energy no problem.
You are assuming we find a way around the second law of thermodynamics.
No idea why you think we need to break thermodynamics to use fusion or other methods to extract energy from matter.