How about instead of arguing about how to reduce carbon emission per flight by X% (X generally being dang small), we stop insisting that every vacation has to be a long air-flight away? And stop thinking that every business meeting has to be face-to-face when high-quality realtime video chat is available? Without even building up ground transportation (busses, trains), we could cut air-related emissions in half by just changing our insistence on long-distance travel.
And best of all, how about "It Absolutely, Positively, Does NOT Need to Get There Overnight," and kill off 90% of airborne freight in favor of ground transportation. Trucks are wildly more efficient (fuel per kg-km) than air, and trains are incredibly more efficient than trucks.
I got a tour of a camera built exactly for this purpose by MIT-Lincoln Labs a few years back: the camera was a carefully aligned collection of large-format CCDs, allowing real-time movie frame-rate imaging in the gigapixel range. plus advanced jpg-like compression to relay to ground stations in real time. So to those comparing this w/ surveillance from cars: imagine this aircraft a km or so from your position but able to resolve your face. -- and track your exact position. Once a target's acquired, it's relatively easy to set an automatic tracker to follow without human intervention.
Well, if I were at your college, I'd fire you on the spot. Not only do you fail to consider the remote possibility that a team of engineers and researchers might know a little more than you do on the subject, you apparently don't even know how to do research on your own.
Next up: you teach electrons as being in orbits, not probabilistic orbitals, because QM is clearly rubbish?
There already are multifocal contacts on the market. I've been wearing the AirOptix brand for 10 yrs or so. There's a limit to the range of correcting power (+2.50 diopters off the distance value) right now, but it's plenty for me at this time. Meanwhile, Crystalens and a couple other players are doing the same with internal lens replacements, and are close to producing a soft internal lens which can refocus using the eye's original muscles (which can't adjust the original lens as it stiffens with age).
Figuring out how to do multiple test-cases and to do particular math operations based on those test cases is a programming-style task. Coming up with =IF(ISBLANK($C6),IF(ISBLANK($C5),"",IF(ISBLANK($C6),SUMIFS(E$4:E$44,$A$4:$A$44,$A5))),((INDEX($Equip.D$4:D$100,MATCH($C6,$Equip.$C$4:$C$100,0)))*$B6)) without some programming ability would be much more difficult.
So what you're really pointing out is that primary school computer programming classes need only consist of one lesson:
"Don't freakin' use Excel ever ever EVER to do anything with numbers!"
What you wrote there would take about half the character count in R or Matlab, and you'd only have to write (and proofread) it once, not 10thousand times in 10thousand different cells.
There are, and have been for a long time, anti-ship mines which lie quietly at the bottom of the sea until a signal (usually sonic, which is easier to propogate than E-M under water) tells the container to open, and up pops the mine. The only difference here is that the popping-up part reaches the surface and goes airborne. Well, that and they appear not to have wanted to bother encasing the payload in a long-term 'survival' case.
While I fully agree that all gui elements should be movable, I really don't get why anyone still thinks that menu/task bars should be on the bottom. Every laptop or desktop monitor since like forever has a cinema aspect ratio, so vertical pixels are at a premium. Why waste them on stuff outside the active window? I cringe every time someone decides to present a document in some meeting, leaving the taskbar at the bottom (and the app's ribbon visible at the top), with room for maybe a paragraph at a time visible.
Just because teh first time you saw a Windows taskbar it was on the bottom is no reason to think it makes any sense to leave it there.
Doesn't anyone have **any** reading comprehension any more? EVEN TFS, albeit clumsily, explains it correctly: that it's viral agents controlling the ability of bacteria to attach to the host and grow.
The lithium battery, and the car's electric motor for that matter, require zero maintenance or parts replacement for that lifetime. The money you'll spend on oil, belts, coolant, timing belt, gaskets, plugs,.... etc to achieve that mythical million-mile "life" is the reason that EVs are much cheaper over their lifecycle, aka TCO.
Yeah, well,... I used the term "wi-fi" long before some genius trademarked it. Guess all of us techies never thought of doing that (trademarking an obvious adapted slang term).
If the gov't actually prevails over Apple, I predict (or, at least hope) that there'll be a rebirth of "dumb phones" which store nothing more than phone numbers. Remember-phone numbers and conversations are all accessible at the cellular network providers' servers, so this is "open info." People will have to carry yet another digital device: the dumb phone and a separate pocket-size computer with cellular interface built in (which is what 'smart phones' really are in the first place). This won't stop the gov't from continuing to break all security, but at least it'll separate your digital phone calls from the rest of your digital world.
It's not "metallic glass," which describes (or should) a metal that's cooled fast enough not to be able to form a crystalline structure -- see also "metal ceramics." It's "metallized glass," which is the correct description of putting a layer of something on top of glass.
I also find it hard to believe that the quoted researcher said that glass is a crystal, since it isn't.
And I'm talking just about timed games. US Football: so long as the ball's in play, the play continues until it's over, even if the clock expired. NHL hockey: puck must cross the goal line before 0:00 . NBA hoops: ball must leave shooter's hand before 0:00.
I'd rather see (not that I watch hoops anyway) the NBA follow the NHL method. That way, you could have a red light mounted in the backboard. If the light's on before the ball goes thru the hoop, no basket. Gets rid of the absurd subjectiveness in determining the synch between the game clock and the video of the player's hands. BTW, even the NHL's method isn't perfect, 'cause the puck moves so fast. When the game clock times out, the red "Goal" light is defeated and green lights turn on. Problem is that the Red-light switch is manuallyoperated, so the puck can hit the net at 0.1 seconds and the goal judge can't hit the switch before the game clock times out. So they're stuck with the video-with-clock-overly method anyway.
"Legal tender" means it's legal to use, and quite specifically NOT that anyone is required to accept it. Otherwise stores would have to accept 10000 pennies, and convenience stores couldn't put up signs saying "no bills over $20 accepted."
I have a few exercises I give my students in which they have to make a guess at a quantity and then make a calculation to back it up. My favorite: If you marked off a tract of land in a 3x3 foot grid, and one person stood at each intersection, how many square miles would accommodate the entire world population, and what would be a country of comparable size?
The WSJ article says fragments thrown out from the impact were what killed one person and injured others (and damaged things). Not really what we all expected, i.e. a meteorite fell right onto someone - in which case there'd be little to no identifiable organic material left.
My Galaxie 4 has three exterior buttons, one of which is a rocker switch. I have a Vibrate Mode, indicating the existence of a moving part inside. Yes, even piezos move. I have a microphone and a speaker, both of which have moving parts.
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How about instead of arguing about how to reduce carbon emission per flight by X% (X generally being dang small), we stop insisting that every vacation has to be a long air-flight away? And stop thinking that every business meeting has to be face-to-face when high-quality realtime video chat is available?
Without even building up ground transportation (busses, trains), we could cut air-related emissions in half by just changing our insistence on long-distance travel.
And best of all, how about "It Absolutely, Positively, Does NOT Need to Get There Overnight," and kill off 90% of airborne freight in favor of ground transportation. Trucks are wildly more efficient (fuel per kg-km) than air, and trains are incredibly more efficient than trucks.
I got a tour of a camera built exactly for this purpose by MIT-Lincoln Labs a few years back: the camera was a carefully aligned collection of large-format CCDs, allowing real-time movie frame-rate imaging in the gigapixel range. plus advanced jpg-like compression to relay to ground stations in real time.
So to those comparing this w/ surveillance from cars: imagine this aircraft a km or so from your position but able to resolve your face. -- and track your exact position. Once a target's acquired, it's relatively easy to set an automatic tracker to follow without human intervention.
Well, if I were at your college, I'd fire you on the spot. Not only do you fail to consider the remote possibility that a team of engineers and researchers might know a little more than you do on the subject, you apparently don't even know how to do research on your own.
Next up: you teach electrons as being in orbits, not probabilistic orbitals, because QM is clearly rubbish?
There already are multifocal contacts on the market. I've been wearing the AirOptix brand for 10 yrs or so. There's a limit to the range of correcting power (+2.50 diopters off the distance value) right now, but it's plenty for me at this time.
Meanwhile, Crystalens and a couple other players are doing the same with internal lens replacements, and are close to producing a soft internal lens which can refocus using the eye's original muscles (which can't adjust the original lens as it stiffens with age).
Basically it means the government always holds the trump card. They will always get their way no matter what.
And soon, Trump will hold the government card (or maybe In Soviet Russia...)
Can you imagine how hard a life the Pron family has!!!???
Let me guess, autocorrect changes the "o" to "0" (zero) ?
(side note: Chrome catches "autocorrect" as misspelled. auto-correct not so much)
Figuring out how to do multiple test-cases and to do particular math operations based on those test cases is a programming-style task. Coming up with =IF(ISBLANK($C6),IF(ISBLANK($C5),"",IF(ISBLANK($C6),SUMIFS(E$4:E$44,$A$4:$A$44,$A5))),((INDEX($Equip.D$4:D$100,MATCH($C6,$Equip.$C$4:$C$100,0)))*$B6)) without some programming ability would be much more difficult.
So what you're really pointing out is that primary school computer programming classes need only consist of one lesson:
"Don't freakin' use Excel ever ever EVER to do anything with numbers!"
What you wrote there would take about half the character count in R or Matlab, and you'd only have to write (and proofread) it once, not 10thousand times in 10thousand different cells.
There are, and have been for a long time, anti-ship mines which lie quietly at the bottom of the sea until a signal (usually sonic, which is easier to propogate than E-M under water) tells the container to open, and up pops the mine. The only difference here is that the popping-up part reaches the surface and goes airborne. Well, that and they appear not to have wanted to bother encasing the payload in a long-term 'survival' case.
While I fully agree that all gui elements should be movable, I really don't get why anyone still thinks that menu/task bars should be on the bottom. Every laptop or desktop monitor since like forever has a cinema aspect ratio, so vertical pixels are at a premium. Why waste them on stuff outside the active window? I cringe every time someone decides to present a document in some meeting, leaving the taskbar at the bottom (and the app's ribbon visible at the top), with room for maybe a paragraph at a time visible.
Just because teh first time you saw a Windows taskbar it was on the bottom is no reason to think it makes any sense to leave it there.
Dunno... that old "DRM" thing might make it illegal to do so much as run
%strings tesla_firmware.exe
"All of our robots are busy helping other emergency patients. Please wait for the next available robot. Your health is very important to us!"
And this differs from the human-operated Emergency Department exactly how?
How in the world did that get +5Insightful? It's a piece of pseudolibertarian bullshit.
You might as well demand that all stoplights go green in your presence so as not to infringe on your personal driving liberties.
Doesn't anyone have **any** reading comprehension any more? EVEN TFS, albeit clumsily, explains it correctly: that it's viral agents controlling the ability of bacteria to attach to the host and grow.
The lithium battery, and the car's electric motor for that matter, require zero maintenance or parts replacement for that lifetime. The money you'll spend on oil, belts, coolant, timing belt, gaskets, plugs,.... etc to achieve that mythical million-mile "life" is the reason that EVs are much cheaper over their lifecycle, aka TCO.
Yeah, well,... I used the term "wi-fi" long before some genius trademarked it. Guess all of us techies never thought of doing that (trademarking an obvious adapted slang term).
If the gov't actually prevails over Apple, I predict (or, at least hope) that there'll be a rebirth of "dumb phones" which store nothing more than phone numbers. Remember-phone numbers and conversations are all accessible at the cellular network providers' servers, so this is "open info." People will have to carry yet another digital device: the dumb phone and a separate pocket-size computer with cellular interface built in (which is what 'smart phones' really are in the first place).
This won't stop the gov't from continuing to break all security, but at least it'll separate your digital phone calls from the rest of your digital world.
It's not "metallic glass," which describes (or should) a metal that's cooled fast enough not to be able to form a crystalline structure -- see also "metal ceramics." It's "metallized glass," which is the correct description of putting a layer of something on top of glass.
I also find it hard to believe that the quoted researcher said that glass is a crystal, since it isn't.
And I'm talking just about timed games. US Football: so long as the ball's in play, the play continues until it's over, even if the clock expired. NHL hockey: puck must cross the goal line before 0:00 . NBA hoops: ball must leave shooter's hand before 0:00.
I'd rather see (not that I watch hoops anyway) the NBA follow the NHL method. That way, you could have a red light mounted in the backboard. If the light's on before the ball goes thru the hoop, no basket. Gets rid of the absurd subjectiveness in determining the synch between the game clock and the video of the player's hands.
BTW, even the NHL's method isn't perfect, 'cause the puck moves so fast. When the game clock times out, the red "Goal" light is defeated and green lights turn on. Problem is that the Red-light switch is manuallyoperated, so the puck can hit the net at 0.1 seconds and the goal judge can't hit the switch before the game clock times out. So they're stuck with the video-with-clock-overly method anyway.
"Legal tender" means it's legal to use, and quite specifically NOT that anyone is required to accept it. Otherwise stores would have to accept 10000 pennies, and convenience stores couldn't put up signs saying "no bills over $20 accepted."
I have a few exercises I give my students in which they have to make a guess at a quantity and then make a calculation to back it up. My favorite: If you marked off a tract of land in a 3x3 foot grid, and one person stood at each intersection, how many square miles would accommodate the entire world population, and what would be a country of comparable size?
Oblig: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
The WSJ article says fragments thrown out from the impact were what killed one person and injured others (and damaged things). Not really what we all expected, i.e. a meteorite fell right onto someone - in which case there'd be little to no identifiable organic material left.
If reversed polarity doesn't lead to over current, then what happens that makes it so bad?
Really? After all the times that Will Wheaton or Jordi decided to reverse the polarity, you have to ask?
Cell phones don't even have any moving parts..
My Galaxie 4 has three exterior buttons, one of which is a rocker switch. I have a Vibrate Mode, indicating the existence of a moving part inside. Yes, even piezos move.
I have a microphone and a speaker, both of which have moving parts.
I think the President can pardon only at the federal level, not state.
Also, probably can't pardon someone for something they haven't yet been found guilty of.
Guess you weren't paying attention when G.Ford gave RMN a full pardon for all possible misdeeds.