Maybe they should extend the ban to companies involved with biowarfare (agar, petri dishes, thermal control chambers), or to cyberwarfare (Microsoft, RedHat, and your son's best friend who became a script kiddy last night).
Two options: 1 - Absorbed: It will heat the screen just as much as having it turned upside down heats the back; not much.
Almost black body - may turn unpleasantly hot in direct sun (bitumen/asphalt on pathways during a hot day? Don't walk barefoot.) There's an awful lot of uneducated posts in this thread from people who know nothing at all about optics or thermodynamics. Here are a couple facts from me, IAAPAOE (physicist and optical engineer). 1) Uncoated glass has a reflectivity of about 4%, increasing as the angle of incidence moves away from vertical. This means the difference in the amount of transmitted / absorbed light when there's an antireflective coating is rather small. 2) The reason asphalt, or a metal car hood, is painful to touch is due more to the material's thermal conductivity, not its temperature. You can heat a space shuttle tile until it's glowing red and hold it in your hand because its thermal conductivity is incredibly small.
Mod parent up. It's incredibly silly to claim something is impossible when it's already been done successfully for decades. Ummm..."We have always been at war with Oceania"
Not true, actually. While it is true that ice melts under pressure, it does so quite slowly. The mechanisms by which the surface layer of (frozen) water molecules break off and form an extremely slippery lubricating layer between skates and ice is quite fascinating. Not to mention just about impossible to simulate, last I heard. So, you can't ski on CO2 because it does not, so far as I know, have any similar surface lubricating properties.
Nobody is going to 'join the terrorist cause' because they saw someone shouting nonsense about the 'evil western powers'. The personal ideals videos are harmless except to my ears and opinion of the Human race. The successful conversion of millions of US citizens to dittoheadism suggests otherwise.
Just what I was going to write. The basic rule is TINSSTAFL.
The only time you get energy "for free" is when the energy would otherwise have been dissipated as heat. Oblig car example: heating cabin air w/ engine heat that would otherwise have dumped into the radiator. I had a bicycle dynamo as a kid. I got a bright light and an exruciatingly tiring ride. It was like riding up a steep hill all the way. Hanging stuff off a knee brace will be no different.
I learned this in 9th grade geometry. I blazed through the class all year. Always had the highest grade and finished the test first. Was so confident at the final that I barely read the questions, and failed it miserably. Actually, this points out a bigger problem: teachers who have no concept of statistics. If you got A+ on every test and quiz, the fact that you got an F on the final means it's obviously an outlier and should not be part of your course grade. Very few math teachers, and approximately 0.0000% of non-math teachers understand this. PS - I did know a couple teachers whose rule was that you were excused from the final if you had straight As to that point. Good for them.
Did I miss a memo? When did charitable giving become a bad thing?
Charitable giving has always been a bad thing to the people who worship money
Glib, and wrong. I give to charities, and recognize the good that's done with the money. I still am completely opposed because, first and foremost, it puts the recipients' health (or education, or whatever) completely at risk of the whims of those who choose to donate. If a cause, say, breakfast for all poor children, is really worthy, why isn't it worthy of direct government support? You could argue that gov't funding is also subject to the whims (or bribe-status) of those in power, but at least the spending is egalitarian.
That's "rein". Don't use phrases or words you don't understand. Who knows? Maybe he meant to turn private industries into monarchies? We're practically there as it is (thank you, Citizens United). PS it could have been worse: at least the OP didn't try to "beg the question"
^This. Unfortunately, history is written by the winners, and dead people don't win. Plus these days, history is written by the rich. I have to wonder about Gladwell. He started out writing interesting science articles, descended into cherry-picking data to support odd claims, and now this? If it weren't for Jobs, we'd still be running our PCs off the DOS control line (or maybe IBM OS-2.x).
How can you expect 40 years of wage increases when there have been 40 years of no GDP increases? On the off chance this wasn't pure sarcasm, have you seen the change in salary ratio over the last 40 years? That is, ratio of top to bottom salary within a corporation. Go look it up, but not on a full stomach. PS What's GDP got to do with it in the first place?
With the right searches, a determined public could keep the authorities so busy that they would eventually abandon the system It would be nice to think so, but go take a look at the size of the data collection/processing center(s) the NSA has built up. There's no problem that can't be solved with a larger cluster.... or maybe that's clusterfuck.
When Minority Report first came out in theatres, I was intrigued and went to see it. It's the only movie I've ever walked out on. Why? Because the very idea of being arrested and convicted of a crime you haven't yet convicted pissed me off to the point where I couldn't stand to watch another minute, so I left
SRSLY? Just what did you think the movie was about in the first place? But, just for the record, the original PKD story is rather different and far better. Same is true for Total Recall vs. We Can Remember it For You Wholesale.
How many computer companies were started by college drop-outs versus people with degrees?
Calling Bill Gates a "dropout" simply because he chose not to finish school is disingenuous at best. Ditto for Michael Dell (sorry, I forget whether he withdrew prior to degree or not). It's hardly the same as a bunch of drunk frat boys who left with a negative GPA.
live in Georgia. My school district was actually the district that made headlines back in 2003-2004 because they put the stupid "evolution is a theory, not a fact" stickers in all the Bio textbooks. Our class promptly ingored them.
That's the kind of typo I like! I'm sitting here imagining the whole class taking pointy things and goring the stickers into scrap.
My favorite email account is my work one. It contains no spam. Just emails from my coworkers. Wow. You really get no spam from coworkers? You don't get a daily flood of ImportantNoticesFrom{IT,your_boss, The_CEO, HR, HR, HR} ? You're either at a very small company or a very unusual one.
$87k is two day's work for a CEO (or sports star) earning $10 million/year . Not really very much money, at least as far as the 1%-ers are concerned. And we all know they're the only ones who matter.
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Maybe they should extend the ban to companies involved with biowarfare (agar, petri dishes, thermal control chambers), or to cyberwarfare (Microsoft, RedHat, and your son's best friend who became a script kiddy last night).
Two options: 1 - Absorbed: It will heat the screen just as much as having it turned upside down heats the back; not much.
Almost black body - may turn unpleasantly hot in direct sun (bitumen/asphalt on pathways during a hot day? Don't walk barefoot.)
There's an awful lot of uneducated posts in this thread from people who know nothing at all about optics or thermodynamics. Here are a couple facts from me, IAAPAOE (physicist and optical engineer). 1) Uncoated glass has a reflectivity of about 4%, increasing as the angle of incidence moves away from vertical. This means the difference in the amount of transmitted / absorbed light when there's an antireflective coating is rather small.
2) The reason asphalt, or a metal car hood, is painful to touch is due more to the material's thermal conductivity, not its temperature. You can heat a space shuttle tile until it's glowing red and hold it in your hand because its thermal conductivity is incredibly small.
Mod parent up. It's incredibly silly to claim something is impossible when it's already been done successfully for decades.
Ummm..."We have always been at war with Oceania"
Not true, actually. While it is true that ice melts under pressure, it does so quite slowly. The mechanisms by which the surface layer of (frozen) water molecules break off and form an extremely slippery lubricating layer between skates and ice is quite fascinating. Not to mention just about impossible to simulate, last I heard.
So, you can't ski on CO2 because it does not, so far as I know, have any similar surface lubricating properties.
Nobody is going to 'join the terrorist cause' because they saw someone shouting nonsense about the 'evil western powers'. The personal ideals videos are harmless except to my ears and opinion of the Human race.
The successful conversion of millions of US citizens to dittoheadism suggests otherwise.
Just what I was going to write. The basic rule is TINSSTAFL.
The only time you get energy "for free" is when the energy would otherwise have been dissipated as heat. Oblig car example: heating cabin air w/ engine heat that would otherwise have dumped into the radiator.
I had a bicycle dynamo as a kid. I got a bright light and an exruciatingly tiring ride. It was like riding up a steep hill all the way. Hanging stuff off a knee brace will be no different.
Here's the one and only progression:
I, I, IV, IV, I, I, V, IV, (repeat until near the end, then throw in a flat-seven)
I learned this in 9th grade geometry. I blazed through the class all year. Always had the highest grade and finished the test first. Was so confident at the final that I barely read the questions, and failed it miserably.
Actually, this points out a bigger problem: teachers who have no concept of statistics. If you got A+ on every test and quiz, the fact that you got an F on the final means it's obviously an outlier and should not be part of your course grade. Very few math teachers, and approximately 0.0000% of non-math teachers understand this.
PS - I did know a couple teachers whose rule was that you were excused from the final if you had straight As to that point. Good for them.
Did I miss a memo? When did charitable giving become a bad thing?
Charitable giving has always been a bad thing to the people who worship money
Glib, and wrong. I give to charities, and recognize the good that's done with the money. I still am completely opposed because, first and foremost, it puts the recipients' health (or education, or whatever) completely at risk of the whims of those who choose to donate. If a cause, say, breakfast for all poor children, is really worthy, why isn't it worthy of direct government support? You could argue that gov't funding is also subject to the whims (or bribe-status) of those in power, but at least the spending is egalitarian.
So I guess he didn't think "gcc" had quite the same wow factor.
and given free reign
That's "rein". Don't use phrases or words you don't understand.
Who knows? Maybe he meant to turn private industries into monarchies? We're practically there as it is (thank you, Citizens United).
PS it could have been worse: at least the OP didn't try to "beg the question"
^This.
Unfortunately, history is written by the winners, and dead people don't win. Plus these days, history is written by the rich.
I have to wonder about Gladwell. He started out writing interesting science articles, descended into cherry-picking data to support odd claims, and now this? If it weren't for Jobs, we'd still be running our PCs off the DOS control line (or maybe IBM OS-2.x).
How can you expect 40 years of wage increases when there have been 40 years of no GDP increases?
On the off chance this wasn't pure sarcasm, have you seen the change in salary ratio over the last 40 years? That is, ratio of top to bottom salary within a corporation. Go look it up, but not on a full stomach.
PS What's GDP got to do with it in the first place?
Ditto GPS/location services since they are driving the kids around.
I think you meant to say "because men never get lost."
This an obvious FTFY, but: you meant to say "because men never ask for directions."
With the right searches, a determined public could keep the authorities so busy that they would eventually abandon the system
It would be nice to think so, but go take a look at the size of the data collection/processing center(s) the NSA has built up. There's no problem that can't be solved with a larger cluster.... or maybe that's clusterfuck.
When Minority Report first came out in theatres, I was intrigued and went to see it. It's the only movie I've ever walked out on. Why? Because the very idea of being arrested and convicted of a crime you haven't yet convicted pissed me off to the point where I couldn't stand to watch another minute, so I left
SRSLY? Just what did you think the movie was about in the first place? But, just for the record, the original PKD story is rather different and far better. Same is true for Total Recall vs. We Can Remember it For You Wholesale.
How many computer companies were started by college drop-outs versus people with degrees?
Calling Bill Gates a "dropout" simply because he chose not to finish school is disingenuous at best. Ditto for Michael Dell (sorry, I forget whether he withdrew prior to degree or not). It's hardly the same as a bunch of drunk frat boys who left with a negative GPA.
live in Georgia. My school district was actually the district that made headlines back in 2003-2004 because they put the stupid "evolution is a theory, not a fact" stickers in all the Bio textbooks. Our class promptly ingored them.
That's the kind of typo I like! I'm sitting here imagining the whole class taking pointy things and goring the stickers into scrap.
And a great sound was heard in The Force, as though a million /.-ers had typed "whoooosh" at once.
My favorite email account is my work one. It contains no spam. Just emails from my coworkers.
Wow. You really get no spam from coworkers? You don't get a daily flood of ImportantNoticesFrom{IT,your_boss, The_CEO, HR, HR, HR} ? You're either at a very small company or a very unusual one.
ok, I give up -- how do I post a "less than" symbol in a plain text post?
teach me not to preview. that was supposed to read "do I really need a "" here?"
$87k is two day's work for a CEO (or sports star) earning $10 million/year . Not really very much money, at least as far as the 1%-ers are concerned. And we all know they're the only ones who matter.
Do I really need a here?
... Christine.
Darn. Until I checked your link, I thought you were going for a much more interesting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/ girl.
Well, come on over, then. We need more people with a can-do attitude. Visa applications are avaialble at your local embassy...
Forget it. I get a Platinum AMEX card or nothing!