Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong. The intimidation by the government in Egypt is the same as that used in the US or elsewhere in the 'free' world. The difference is the scope and magnitude of that intimidation and the ability of others within the system to stand up to that behavior.
Scope and magnitude can make all the difference. Scope and magnitude can dramatically effect the practical realities of situations and the appropriate way to deal with it. Scope and magnitude is why the GP is right, and you can't treat the Egyptian situation the same as you would if it were in the U.S. Because the situations are very much not the same, due to scope and magnitude.
We may be in the same boat, but we're on the upper decks and they're in the cistern.
I actually looked EMDrive up and read one of their recent papers, and at first it didn't seem that wacky, at least not in the violates-conservation-laws way I was expecting. I mean it's basically just a photon drive. There's nothing reality-warping about using an electromagnetic field to carry momentum away, and thus propel you forward. And they do indeed have the advantage that they don't need reaction mass.
Then I read that they intend to use these things to lift vehicles out of earth's orbit. Okay now that's just crazy talk. Photons are the worst case scenario for energy vs momentum. A laser powerful enough to bore a hole into the earth isn't going to so much as make the laser itself bounce a little. Photon drives are for efficiently maneuvering around the solar system or inter-stellar space, not escaping the surface of a planet!
Ah well. Is it a sign of progress when the hacks/frauds/loons (whichever the case may be) at least respect the basic laws of physics?
If you write out 0s to a disk, and the disk EVER read back a 1 because it was 0.6 then the disk has larger problems than what you're suggesting. You couldn't ever rely upon the bits stored. And by "ever" I mean EVER.
Right, which is why that doesn't happen and isn't the technique used.
The point is that just because the disk (correctly) interprets anything over the threshold as a 1, you can still infer additional information about previous writes based on the actual analog value. Remember, the disk is trying to read the most recent, digital value. In forensic analysis, you're not.
Though I also kinda got the impression that the 'speedo phase', which seemed very perfunctory at the art level, was part of not rocking the boat with the publisher too much in the early stages of the comic. Sure it also mirrors the character arc, but it seems like the speedo disappeared in later comics, even in flashbacks (though I'd have to check to make sure).
Eh, the ending did make more sense, particularly in a movie that didn't have time to go into all the bio-engineering that Ozy had been conducting, so excluding the squid means one less thing for the audience to have to suddenly accept.
And speaking of time, there's no way they could have kept the comic book kid. Constantly cutting away to Black Freighter scenes would have ruined the pacing.
But more importantly, while you're entitled to your opinion, those complaints are not why Watchmen wasn't successful. In fact it was probably the high degree of faithfulness to the comic that ended up making it unattractive to mainstream viewers.
And on the other hand, if the failure of Watchmen resulted in a couple of horrible-sounding remakes being shit-canned (yes it sounds like both are still being shopped around, but I can hope), then I'm going to call that the silver lining.
I mean seriously, a Heavy Metal remake? Freaking Barbarella? Come on. Both have kitsch value, but you can't just re-create what made these movies (somewhat) memorable. They already tried with HM 2k, and it was crap on a crap-stick. And somehow I doubt James Cameron would go for a mostly hand-drawn style which is the only way HM could be worth anything.
I have an idea for Rodriguez and Cameron: Come up with some new ideas!
Your point is well taken, so don't take this wrong. It just bothers me how you're using "down" to describe going to smaller wavelengths from IR to visible, which conflicts with meaning of infrared which is "beneath" read just as ultraviolet means "above violet". There's already a pre-defined orientation for the spectrum where lower frequencies is "down"./nitpick:)
So why do they thing that the universe isn't infinite?
Do you mean infinite in size, or infinite in age? Because the only implication of the summary or article is that the universe is finite in age. And there are pretty good theories with lots of observational support that suggest that the universe-as-we-know-it has a finite age.
It seems that every time they get a bigger telescope the size of the universe gets bigger:\
No, actually, that's not the case at all. Bigger telescopes have allowed us to see to points asymptotically approaching the theorized age of the universe, but it's been a long time since a bigger telescope has actually meant we had to revise our estimates of the age and size of the universe towards older.
So, you're base observation is off-base.
Did they ever think that that big bang thing could have just been a localized event?
Of course, also that it's just one Bang of a sequence that's been happening over and over, and other possibilities. However your specific case, that it's something "local" in a space-time sense, doesn't match the observations as well as theories in which it is that space-time itself erupted from the Big Bang, everywhere was "local" to the Big Bang, and it's only as space itself expanded that we can think of parts of the universe as not being local.
Pfft. The real next generation of rockets are those being made at stupidly lower costs by private industry. The real next generation of technology at NASA is in all the things Obama is pumping as much funding as he can into. People who vomit at Obama increasing NASA's funding for actual innovation and new technologies that push the frontier, rather than repeats of decades-old endeavors that do nothing but sustain pork, makes me vomit.
The sad thing about the MK thing being that for SFII they allowed Capcom to keep all the blood, vomit, and blood-vomit in. Granted there was much less blood in SF than in MK, but still. Dudes puked streams of blood.
Oh and MKII had all the bloody fatalities the happy little SNES could render. I think the "must sanitize violent games for the sake of parents who probably wouldn't buy Mortal Kombat for their kids anyway" phase lasted just long enough for them to realize they were losing sales to Sega.
Of course. Obviously it would be better to have to only be able to communicate when next to the hardline, instead of being able to get in touch with guards wherever they are on their rounds instantly. It's not like there are any important reasons to distinguish between someone being incommunicado because they aren't near a fixed phone, versus some other reason, in a prison.
Example sicknesses, associated with the corresponding distraction:
Distraction, or nefarious cause?!
I'm going to assume you already had Sonic 2 when you came down with chickenpox, and similarly for the other instances, and further assume you had played it quite a bit despite not being sick, and lastly I'm going to assume that correlation equals causation, proving that video games cause diseases and dental maladies that require surgery! Except Mono, thank goodness for that.
And if that seems illogical, that's because video games are so evil that they warp reality, and the illogical becomes fact!
Which, by the way, I'm pretty sure means the only way to stop the video game scourge is to give everyone mono!
Yeah. The point is that now a critical avenue by which the world at large could see those problems from a non-State-Approved point of view has been cut off.
How would clock speed increase leakage current? Higher clock speed cause higher current drain, because the input capacitance gets charged at every logic transition, but leakage current shouldn't change.
Higher clock speed indirectly causes higher leakage, in that designs targeting higher frequencies require more pipe stages which require more intermediate flip-flops which means more leaking transistors. So "speed demon" designs like the P4 have been discarded in favor of more "brainiac" solutions, and leakage was the factor that finally resolved that age-old debate.
Also, as leakage becomes a larger portion of the power budget for a given design of chip, this naturally means there's less room to grow the frequency. Keeping overall power down is a major market force for chip makers today. So it's not so much a case of higher clock speed causing increased leakage (except indirectly to the extent that you design for it), as much as keeping the clock frequencies down to reduce the effect of the increased leakage by still keeping overall power low (which is what the GP said though "combat" might have given a false impression).
This would limit molybdenum to niche applications where controlling leakage is a must.
Which is any application where low power is highly desirable, which includes all applications where you are running off of a battery, which is all of the fastest growing markets for microprocessors.
That said, I agree it's hard to see how this is going to be a big problem, certainly compared to the much bigger environmental problems we are facing.
Obtaining power over others is traditionally how the extremely wealthy have acquired their wealth but more importantly retained it over great periods of time. They only don't care about the throngs of people to the extent that they have no chance of usurping their position as the elite. Which means having power over them.
Feudal lords didn't acquire their land and wealth and then let the peasants go about their lives as they choose. They wouldn't have stayed feudal lords very long that way.
Yes, and how exactly is that a strong argument against the theory?
I'm smart enough to design high-performance microprocessors, dumb enough to check in code that breaks the processor model.
Your post requires you to be simultaneously smart enough to realize that the OP's theory requires simultaneous smartness and dumbness, but be dumb enough not to realize that this describes everyone, and even exceedingly smart people can make fundamental failures in judgment. Especially because everyone is also both rational and irrational, and sometimes the irrational part of their mind doesn't want to think about long term consequences.
"The Dungeon Master doesn't tell players what to do, he's asks them what they are going to do, and the DM just tells them the consequences."
Not so. The Dungeon Master -- in my experience, anyway -- must take an active role as lead storyteller in the collective storytelling of D&D (or other role playing game).
The D.M. should appear to be impartial, aloof, merely telling players the consequences... while gently maneuvering the players in order to keep the game running smoothly.
Yes so. You do that by carefully controlling the consequences for actions and the events that transpire.
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Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong. The intimidation by the government in Egypt is the same as that used in the US or elsewhere in the 'free' world. The difference is the scope and magnitude of that intimidation and the ability of others within the system to stand up to that behavior.
Scope and magnitude can make all the difference. Scope and magnitude can dramatically effect the practical realities of situations and the appropriate way to deal with it. Scope and magnitude is why the GP is right, and you can't treat the Egyptian situation the same as you would if it were in the U.S. Because the situations are very much not the same, due to scope and magnitude.
We may be in the same boat, but we're on the upper decks and they're in the cistern.
That's an interesting all-or-nothing binary perspective you have.
Remind me never to call you if I ever need to accomplish something substantial.
I actually looked EMDrive up and read one of their recent papers, and at first it didn't seem that wacky, at least not in the violates-conservation-laws way I was expecting. I mean it's basically just a photon drive. There's nothing reality-warping about using an electromagnetic field to carry momentum away, and thus propel you forward. And they do indeed have the advantage that they don't need reaction mass.
Then I read that they intend to use these things to lift vehicles out of earth's orbit. Okay now that's just crazy talk. Photons are the worst case scenario for energy vs momentum. A laser powerful enough to bore a hole into the earth isn't going to so much as make the laser itself bounce a little. Photon drives are for efficiently maneuvering around the solar system or inter-stellar space, not escaping the surface of a planet!
Ah well. Is it a sign of progress when the hacks/frauds/loons (whichever the case may be) at least respect the basic laws of physics?
If you write out 0s to a disk, and the disk EVER read back a 1 because it was 0.6 then the disk has larger problems than what you're suggesting. You couldn't ever rely upon the bits stored. And by "ever" I mean EVER.
Right, which is why that doesn't happen and isn't the technique used.
The point is that just because the disk (correctly) interprets anything over the threshold as a 1, you can still infer additional information about previous writes based on the actual analog value. Remember, the disk is trying to read the most recent, digital value. In forensic analysis, you're not.
Though I also kinda got the impression that the 'speedo phase', which seemed very perfunctory at the art level, was part of not rocking the boat with the publisher too much in the early stages of the comic. Sure it also mirrors the character arc, but it seems like the speedo disappeared in later comics, even in flashbacks (though I'd have to check to make sure).
Eh, the ending did make more sense, particularly in a movie that didn't have time to go into all the bio-engineering that Ozy had been conducting, so excluding the squid means one less thing for the audience to have to suddenly accept.
And speaking of time, there's no way they could have kept the comic book kid. Constantly cutting away to Black Freighter scenes would have ruined the pacing.
But more importantly, while you're entitled to your opinion, those complaints are not why Watchmen wasn't successful. In fact it was probably the high degree of faithfulness to the comic that ended up making it unattractive to mainstream viewers.
And on the other hand, if the failure of Watchmen resulted in a couple of horrible-sounding remakes being shit-canned (yes it sounds like both are still being shopped around, but I can hope), then I'm going to call that the silver lining.
I mean seriously, a Heavy Metal remake? Freaking Barbarella? Come on. Both have kitsch value, but you can't just re-create what made these movies (somewhat) memorable. They already tried with HM 2k, and it was crap on a crap-stick. And somehow I doubt James Cameron would go for a mostly hand-drawn style which is the only way HM could be worth anything.
I have an idea for Rodriguez and Cameron: Come up with some new ideas!
Your point is well taken, so don't take this wrong. It just bothers me how you're using "down" to describe going to smaller wavelengths from IR to visible, which conflicts with meaning of infrared which is "beneath" read just as ultraviolet means "above violet". There's already a pre-defined orientation for the spectrum where lower frequencies is "down". /nitpick :)
So why do they thing that the universe isn't infinite?
Do you mean infinite in size, or infinite in age? Because the only implication of the summary or article is that the universe is finite in age. And there are pretty good theories with lots of observational support that suggest that the universe-as-we-know-it has a finite age.
It seems that every time they get a bigger telescope the size of the universe gets bigger :\
No, actually, that's not the case at all. Bigger telescopes have allowed us to see to points asymptotically approaching the theorized age of the universe, but it's been a long time since a bigger telescope has actually meant we had to revise our estimates of the age and size of the universe towards older.
So, you're base observation is off-base.
Did they ever think that that big bang thing could have just been a localized event?
Of course, also that it's just one Bang of a sequence that's been happening over and over, and other possibilities. However your specific case, that it's something "local" in a space-time sense, doesn't match the observations as well as theories in which it is that space-time itself erupted from the Big Bang, everywhere was "local" to the Big Bang, and it's only as space itself expanded that we can think of parts of the universe as not being local.
from the summary: "181 kilometers (112 miles) miles"
what the hell is a kilometer mile?
A kilometer mile is about 0.62 mile miles.
Yes. Everything that isn't directly and solely related to the practical actions necessary for survival is art.
Just don't confuse "art" with "art that's worth a damn" or "art that isn't complete shit" and this won't bother you. :)
Pfft. The real next generation of rockets are those being made at stupidly lower costs by private industry. The real next generation of technology at NASA is in all the things Obama is pumping as much funding as he can into. People who vomit at Obama increasing NASA's funding for actual innovation and new technologies that push the frontier, rather than repeats of decades-old endeavors that do nothing but sustain pork, makes me vomit.
The sad thing about the MK thing being that for SFII they allowed Capcom to keep all the blood, vomit, and blood-vomit in. Granted there was much less blood in SF than in MK, but still. Dudes puked streams of blood.
Oh and MKII had all the bloody fatalities the happy little SNES could render. I think the "must sanitize violent games for the sake of parents who probably wouldn't buy Mortal Kombat for their kids anyway" phase lasted just long enough for them to realize they were losing sales to Sega.
Of course. Obviously it would be better to have to only be able to communicate when next to the hardline, instead of being able to get in touch with guards wherever they are on their rounds instantly. It's not like there are any important reasons to distinguish between someone being incommunicado because they aren't near a fixed phone, versus some other reason, in a prison.
It's only that hot -- hotter than the surface of Mercury -- because of its atmosphere.
See and that's exactly why for the longest time, prior to getting on the internet, I thought "@" meant "each". :)
Example sicknesses, associated with the corresponding distraction:
Distraction, or nefarious cause?!
I'm going to assume you already had Sonic 2 when you came down with chickenpox, and similarly for the other instances, and further assume you had played it quite a bit despite not being sick, and lastly I'm going to assume that correlation equals causation, proving that video games cause diseases and dental maladies that require surgery! Except Mono, thank goodness for that.
And if that seems illogical, that's because video games are so evil that they warp reality, and the illogical becomes fact!
Which, by the way, I'm pretty sure means the only way to stop the video game scourge is to give everyone mono!
Yeah. The point is that now a critical avenue by which the world at large could see those problems from a non-State-Approved point of view has been cut off.
I think you're probably right, but if it succeeds there, then I would expect demand to rise quite quickly.
How would clock speed increase leakage current? Higher clock speed cause higher current drain, because the input capacitance gets charged at every logic transition, but leakage current shouldn't change.
Higher clock speed indirectly causes higher leakage, in that designs targeting higher frequencies require more pipe stages which require more intermediate flip-flops which means more leaking transistors. So "speed demon" designs like the P4 have been discarded in favor of more "brainiac" solutions, and leakage was the factor that finally resolved that age-old debate.
Also, as leakage becomes a larger portion of the power budget for a given design of chip, this naturally means there's less room to grow the frequency. Keeping overall power down is a major market force for chip makers today. So it's not so much a case of higher clock speed causing increased leakage (except indirectly to the extent that you design for it), as much as keeping the clock frequencies down to reduce the effect of the increased leakage by still keeping overall power low (which is what the GP said though "combat" might have given a false impression).
Which is any application where low power is highly desirable, which includes all applications where you are running off of a battery, which is all of the fastest growing markets for microprocessors.
That said, I agree it's hard to see how this is going to be a big problem, certainly compared to the much bigger environmental problems we are facing.
A more elaborate wording of what I said, and still nothing like a gang leader. But yeah.
Obtaining power over others is traditionally how the extremely wealthy have acquired their wealth but more importantly retained it over great periods of time. They only don't care about the throngs of people to the extent that they have no chance of usurping their position as the elite. Which means having power over them.
Feudal lords didn't acquire their land and wealth and then let the peasants go about their lives as they choose. They wouldn't have stayed feudal lords very long that way.
Yes, and how exactly is that a strong argument against the theory?
I'm smart enough to design high-performance microprocessors, dumb enough to check in code that breaks the processor model.
Your post requires you to be simultaneously smart enough to realize that the OP's theory requires simultaneous smartness and dumbness, but be dumb enough not to realize that this describes everyone, and even exceedingly smart people can make fundamental failures in judgment. Especially because everyone is also both rational and irrational, and sometimes the irrational part of their mind doesn't want to think about long term consequences.
Ya see?
"The Dungeon Master doesn't tell players what to do, he's asks them what they are going to do, and the DM just tells them the consequences."
Not so. The Dungeon Master -- in my experience, anyway -- must take an active role as lead storyteller in the collective storytelling of D&D (or other role playing game).
The D.M. should appear to be impartial, aloof, merely telling players the consequences ... while gently maneuvering the players in order to keep the game running smoothly.
Yes so. You do that by carefully controlling the consequences for actions and the events that transpire.
If you can't kill a man with a D20, then you probably wouldn't do so well in prison. =D