I'll just throw together a short list, and you see how many of these aren't in there because they're technically not English words at all: [snip] moped (Swedish),
Depends on how you pronounce "moped." Think of not smiling:-)
What most people fail to realize about this is that the analogy is backwards. You're starting with the assumption that a dollar has value, but it's just a fancy serialized copy on a piece of paper. It has no actual value. Way back when the dollar was backed by metal it had the value of that metal, but no longer Except that the metal only has value because we agree it does. In the long run, any item used for value exchange is based on faith in the system. After all, who actually uses a "fancy...piece of paper" these days? By far, the most commonly used value exchange method is twiddling bits in a bunch of digital files.
Their problem now is that when you know a lot about the person doing the search, building a reasonably good search engine is pretty easy. Facebook has the potential to eat Google's lunch. I beg to disagree. I have yet to see any 'targeted ad' tools successfully present new and appropriate ads to me. Ad placement is marginally better done than, say, Amazon's useless 'recommended for you' page. I suspect it'll take another giant step in AI for anything I do, write, or visit on Facebook to be translatable into appropriate ad targeting.
I'm still skeptical that large windmill-style wind generators are the best choice either from a TCO or side-effect point of view. Certainly if I were going to put something on my own land, I'd do same careful life-cycle studies as well as both audio and ground-vibration studies. I would like to see more about vertical turbines, which certainly have a smaller volume requirement and are supposedly much quieter.
Apparent travel time if you go as photons is zero. Why send your atoms if you can send a description of your atoms? It's way more efficient that way. If you have already uploaded your mind to software, then the atoms are irrelevant, just occupy an appropriate robot body as needed. Won't work: we don't have the technology to convert Mr. Frostee trucks into spacecraft.
And the gov gives no thought to the older generation when they mandate getting rid of incandescent bulbs and have us use the "energy saving", (what amounts to dim candles) bulbs. Reality: lots of incandescent bulbs are and will remain on the market. LED and halogen bulbs are and will remain on the market. And even in the CFL zone, it's easy enough to jump from 15 to 26 W to get sufficient candlepower output, and you now have a wide range of color temperature-equivalent bulbs. Not that I think any of this will reduce total energy consumption, but that's a separate topic and has been covered often on/. .
IMHO, of course. There are NDAs and Proprietary Technology agreements that any company can require for specific projects or capabilities. It should end there. The thought that a corporation can own your thoughts, no matter how derivative, is just sad. Then again, so is the currrent state of copyright law. Not much way around IP (and copyright) law without a massive multi-target Pelican Brief operation:-(
A-O is "real" adaptive optics: measure the wavefront error and move some physical object, e.g., deformable mirrror, to correct the phase errors. It takes a bunch of math, but depends on fixing the light before it becomes an image.
You don't get the point of the standup meeting. Why is it standup, it is to keep the meeting short, and to the point. Where otherwise it will be an hour long sit down meeting once a week. If the only way you can get people to speak less is to apply physical abuse (stand vs. sit), then you have a major problem w/ the way you run meetings.
the big problem I think is atmospherics. Getting two scopes to sync is the easy bit, getting them to dance out shimmer is difficult - the idea of interferometry (FYI) is to separate two points Each telescope has its own adaptive optic correction system, which takes care of the atmospheric aberrations within its own field of view. The separate telescopes' corrected images are then combined interferometrically, plus and additional A-O step to account for atmospheric differences between telescopes. I'd call it all "magic" except that I worked on A-O systems for 20 years:-)
Any info as to just how the price of this goodie was set? Is it really 1e4 times as expensive to produce as , say, Valium? Am I excessively cynical to think the price was set as high as they thought they could convince insurance companies to pony up?
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford Well, not exactly. A certain Dick(wad) Cheney forced the retirement in order to advance alternative aircraft from corporations favoring his wallet. There's a decent, if biased, writeup in Ben Rich's href="http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003" book .
Sorry, but all the studies and assertions in the world don't explain away a real, easily-reproduced phenomenon. Give kids a pile of sugary snacks, and half an hour later they turn into hyperactive demons; then a few hours later, they crash and turn into miserable, whiny little brats.
[citation needed] -- and that really should be an end to it. Ya wanna clue? Kids party hard and then invariably collapse into Need-A-Nap syndrome. Sugar's got nil to do with it.
As has already been stated above, logistics win wars, not armament. And wounded soldiers seriously impair logistics.
And no military strategist ever figured out the response to this is: treat the wounded as dead and carry on until the battle is over? I know this runs headlong into ethics questions, but on a pure strategy level it's a win. Then again, apparently military strategies prefer losing X% of their force in an attack where they don't know which men will die, vs. losing far fewer men in a guaranteed suicide version of the same attack. What's a statistician to do...
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I'll just throw together a short list, and you see how many of these aren't in there because they're technically not English words at all:
[snip] moped (Swedish),
Depends on how you pronounce "moped." Think of not smiling :-)
Boneshaker, anyone?
You can, but only in a galaxy far, far away. (assuming Jedi powers haven't degraded since "long ago..")
What most people fail to realize about this is that the analogy is backwards. You're starting with the assumption that a dollar has value, but it's just a fancy serialized copy on a piece of paper. It has no actual value. Way back when the dollar was backed by metal it had the value of that metal, but no longer
Except that the metal only has value because we agree it does. In the long run, any item used for value exchange is based on faith in the system. After all, who actually uses a "fancy...piece of paper" these days? By far, the most commonly used value exchange method is twiddling bits in a bunch of digital files.
Their problem now is that when you know a lot about the person doing the search, building a reasonably good search engine is pretty easy. Facebook has the potential to eat Google's lunch.
I beg to disagree. I have yet to see any 'targeted ad' tools successfully present new and appropriate ads to me. Ad placement is marginally better done than, say, Amazon's useless 'recommended for you' page. I suspect it'll take another giant step in AI for anything I do, write, or visit on Facebook to be translatable into appropriate ad targeting.
I'm still skeptical that large windmill-style wind generators are the best choice either from a TCO or side-effect point of view. Certainly if I were going to put something on my own land, I'd do same careful life-cycle studies as well as both audio and ground-vibration studies. I would like to see more about vertical turbines, which certainly have a smaller volume requirement and are supposedly much quieter.
That we know of...>
Oh, they're banned all right. That just didn't stop MLB from putting them up in their spy satellites.
I don't know, that sound like imposture to me
If only that were intentional, I'd nominate you for "wordsmith of the week."
Who's equipment?
I see what you did there. Got tired of "its" vs. "it's" already?
Apparent travel time if you go as photons is zero. Why send your atoms if you can send a description of your atoms? It's way more efficient that way. If you have already uploaded your mind to software, then the atoms are irrelevant, just occupy an appropriate robot body as needed.
Won't work: we don't have the technology to convert Mr. Frostee trucks into spacecraft.
Proto- replicators. Watch them grow and take over the galaxy.
And the gov gives no thought to the older generation when they mandate getting rid of incandescent bulbs and have us use the "energy saving", (what amounts to dim candles) bulbs. /. .
Reality: lots of incandescent bulbs are and will remain on the market. LED and halogen bulbs are and will remain on the market. And even in the CFL zone, it's easy enough to jump from 15 to 26 W to get sufficient candlepower output, and you now have a wide range of color temperature-equivalent bulbs. Not that I think any of this will reduce total energy consumption, but that's a separate topic and has been covered often on
IMHO, of course. There are NDAs and Proprietary Technology agreements that any company can require for specific projects or capabilities. It should end there. The thought that a corporation can own your thoughts, no matter how derivative, is just sad. Then again, so is the currrent state of copyright law. Not much way around IP (and copyright) law without a massive multi-target Pelican Brief operation :-(
I guess the "takeaway" from this is that trying to produce working code with .Net or PowerShell is well-nigh impossible.
A-O is "real" adaptive optics: measure the wavefront error and move some physical object, e.g., deformable mirrror, to correct the phase errors. It takes a bunch of math, but depends on fixing the light before it becomes an image.
You don't get the point of the standup meeting. Why is it standup, it is to keep the meeting short, and to the point. Where otherwise it will be an hour long sit down meeting once a week.
If the only way you can get people to speak less is to apply physical abuse (stand vs. sit), then you have a major problem w/ the way you run meetings.
the big problem I think is atmospherics. Getting two scopes to sync is the easy bit, getting them to dance out shimmer is difficult - the idea of interferometry (FYI) is to separate two points :-)
Each telescope has its own adaptive optic correction system, which takes care of the atmospheric aberrations within its own field of view. The separate telescopes' corrected images are then combined interferometrically, plus and additional A-O step to account for atmospheric differences between telescopes. I'd call it all "magic" except that I worked on A-O systems for 20 years
Any info as to just how the price of this goodie was set? Is it really 1e4 times as expensive to produce as , say, Valium?
Am I excessively cynical to think the price was set as high as they thought they could convince insurance companies to pony up?
oops, sorry about failing to tag properly.
http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford
Well, not exactly. A certain Dick(wad) Cheney forced the retirement in order to advance alternative aircraft from corporations favoring his wallet. There's a decent, if biased, writeup in Ben Rich's href="http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003" book .
If TV transmissions are interrupted during the NFL playoffs, I predict massive suicides and/or increases in alcohol consumption across the USA.
Seems more like a nanophone.
Has clear implications for the next-generation iPod Nano.
Sugar-hyperactivity is a MYTH.
Sorry, but all the studies and assertions in the world don't explain away a real, easily-reproduced phenomenon. Give kids a pile of sugary snacks, and half an hour later they turn into hyperactive demons; then a few hours later, they crash and turn into miserable, whiny little brats.
[citation needed] -- and that really should be an end to it. Ya wanna clue? Kids party hard and then invariably collapse into Need-A-Nap syndrome. Sugar's got nil to do with it.
Two words: chess.
Ok, One word: "One Night in Bangkok."
As has already been stated above, logistics win wars, not armament. And wounded soldiers seriously impair logistics.
And no military strategist ever figured out the response to this is: treat the wounded as dead and carry on until the battle is over? I know this runs headlong into ethics questions, but on a pure strategy level it's a win. Then again, apparently military strategies prefer losing X% of their force in an attack where they don't know which men will die, vs. losing far fewer men in a guaranteed suicide version of the same attack. What's a statistician to do...