You know there is this thing called Democracy. That's like when you don't get elected based on how much money you raised, but based on how batshit crazy your ideas are. Really should try it, there back in the states. Works wonders...
Many different kinds of spider silk. One spider will typically produce several kinds depending on need (tensile strength, stickyness, elasticity).
But the strongest kinds will typically blow even carbon fiber out of the water when it comes to tensile strength.
Lots of difficulties to overcome still, but it is a fascinating field of research
When you drive around, you get to see a couple of sats for a few seconds, and then your position has changed again. If the receiver knows it is bolted to the floor, it can track satellites for hours and calculate very nice averages.
An object which with relative ease can go down a slope or staircase, but has no chance in hell to get back upstairs? Mmmm, interesting, but might meet stiff competition from this other wonderful robot called "rubber ball"...
With China, you can almost forgive them. Try to mass-manufacture a shiny without involving the chinese these days... But Israel? Come on. You can find that tech other places too.
This is so typical. Excuse me if I assume you are American. High-speed trading is the seed to the next financial meltdown. I am not an expert, and no I can not explain exactly how it will happen. But I have enough common sense to bet you one very nice bottle of redwine that it will lead to disaster, unless of course our politicians exceptionally get their shit together and stamp it out like the rotten pile of shit it is. I like Sarkozy's idea: a tax based on how long you keep the shares. No tax if you keep it longer than a year, 1% for longer than 6 months etc. I can pick any "occupy wallstreet" moron of the pavement and explain him how bonds and shares allow people to start businesses and create jobs. He WILL understand that their existence is beneficially to our society. I still have to meet the first guy who can explain me the benefits of microsecond trading to our economy.
Let's see. 200 petawatt is order of magnitude 1 E17 Watt. If we assume trillion is short scale (an american trillion), then that is 1 E-12 seconds. Combined gives 1E5 joules per shot. So 100000 Watt for 1 second, or 27 Watt for one hour. About the energy your DVD player needs for one episode of BSG. Just delivered in the time your DVD player needs to read one single bit.
and let me say this: This is the country which has run without federal government for over 500 days now. It is also the country which sold most of its electricity infrastructure to French companies and now wonders why they pay so much more for electricity than their neighbouring countries. The last elections were won by a right-wing party (NVA) which is kept out of the negotiations for the next government because they were too greedy. If this party can turn its votes into ministers before 2015, the whole process will be reversed. So don't hold your breath just yet.
If it is a desktop, just walk away. If it is a laptop, your battery should last long enough to do the update, so you can just take it with you. What I REALLY hate is going for coffee while waiting for a logon screen, and then you have to wait 2 minutes AGAIN before it becomes stable. Why can't it preload all the important files if it becomes idle while waiting for a logon?
switch "man" and "woman" in your comment and it still works. You are starting from the (very sexist) notion that a woman sells her body in return for safety and (financial) stability. Well I have news for you: Most parts of the world, women are better educated. They no longer NEED a man. My father still can't fry an egg, my late mother would never have been able to provide for her children. These days are long gone now. In my generation, women have sex because they feel like it, not as a part of a commecial transaction. This explains the increase in divorces and single parent families. As Houllebecq said: the biggest mistake the feminists did was to teach men how to iron their own shirts.
Only you don't require that kind of bandwith for talking. You require it for uploading to youtube. And the telco can send encryption keys over the "safe" 3G / 4G network, so you can build an end-to end tunnel over a "non-safe" Wifi connection.
No, I am thinking telco ABC sells you a mobile phone and your neighbour an ADSL. The neighbour broadcasts 2 SSIDs, one for personal use, the other "ABC_FEMTO_12345". Your phone contacts an ABC server over 3G and sais:"Hey, I can see this Wifi here, can I use it?". ABC replies: "Sure, Logon with password XXX and do an SSL with certificate 123". You pay the same datarate whichever way it is channeled and your neighbour doesn't give a damn except maybe he is using a little extra electricity. Man in the middle is avoided because the Telco gives you the required certificates over 3G.
The gear exists to create a femto-cell in your home where you reroute your phone over your ADSL/cable. I often wondered, why don't they allow strangers to jump on the unused bandwith? Say I have a 10 MBit subscription, but my modem can handle 20. Why doesn't the telco open the remaining 10 for anybody comming by? Specially in downtown Londo where a lot of buildings must have direct fiber... Anybody can answer this?
In Norway, a cleaning job in a hospital requires a 2 year training. But they make do without carpet bombing wide-spectrum antibiotics, and the number of patients with multi-resistant infections is very small. Think about it: any lab technician-in-training can scoop a bucket of water from the Thames, and measure the concentration of several antibiotics in it.
Booh! Picture shows processor connected to solar panel with 2 wires. (+ and - I presume) Why not go all the way? Solar panels ARE made of silicon. Interweave the transistors into the panel itsels, generating power where needed. And get rid of the 2 ugly wires! Imagine having your CoreI whatever on the roof! (Or more realistically, the processor on the outside of your netbook.)
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has done wonders in the past....
a government that literally tells you when to pee
You know there is this thing called Democracy. That's like when you don't get elected based on how much money you raised, but based on how batshit crazy your ideas are. Really should try it, there back in the states. Works wonders...
15 to 18 million africans were deported to the americas.
Their average life expectancy was 2 years.
Many different kinds of spider silk. One spider will typically produce several kinds depending on need (tensile strength, stickyness, elasticity). But the strongest kinds will typically blow even carbon fiber out of the water when it comes to tensile strength. Lots of difficulties to overcome still, but it is a fascinating field of research
When you drive around, you get to see a couple of sats for a few seconds, and then your position has changed again. If the receiver knows it is bolted to the floor, it can track satellites for hours and calculate very nice averages.
Telescopes generate huges amount of data. Fiber to the south pole must not be cheap.
A country where stupid politicians don't try to learn dancing salsa on TV? Count me in!!!!
An object which with relative ease can go down a slope or staircase, but has no chance in hell to get back upstairs? Mmmm, interesting, but might meet stiff competition from this other wonderful robot called "rubber ball"...
You do know that at the height of the rocket-launching frenzy, Israel was still losing more (jewish) people to traffic accidents than to terrorism?
With the chinese, well... Try to mass-produce a shiny without them these days... But Israel? come on! That tech can be found other places!
With China, you can almost forgive them. Try to mass-manufacture a shiny without involving the chinese these days... But Israel? Come on. You can find that tech other places too.
This is were state-run health systems like in scandinavia have the upper hand. Doctors can just tell their patients to fuck off.
I love the baldness with which you talk, considering the global clusterfuck you and your buddies are responsible for...
This is so typical. Excuse me if I assume you are American. High-speed trading is the seed to the next financial meltdown. I am not an expert, and no I can not explain exactly how it will happen. But I have enough common sense to bet you one very nice bottle of redwine that it will lead to disaster, unless of course our politicians exceptionally get their shit together and stamp it out like the rotten pile of shit it is. I like Sarkozy's idea: a tax based on how long you keep the shares. No tax if you keep it longer than a year, 1% for longer than 6 months etc. I can pick any "occupy wallstreet" moron of the pavement and explain him how bonds and shares allow people to start businesses and create jobs. He WILL understand that their existence is beneficially to our society. I still have to meet the first guy who can explain me the benefits of microsecond trading to our economy.
Let's see. 200 petawatt is order of magnitude 1 E17 Watt. If we assume trillion is short scale (an american trillion), then that is 1 E-12 seconds. Combined gives 1E5 joules per shot. So 100000 Watt for 1 second, or 27 Watt for one hour. About the energy your DVD player needs for one episode of BSG. Just delivered in the time your DVD player needs to read one single bit.
and let me say this: This is the country which has run without federal government for over 500 days now. It is also the country which sold most of its electricity infrastructure to French companies and now wonders why they pay so much more for electricity than their neighbouring countries. The last elections were won by a right-wing party (NVA) which is kept out of the negotiations for the next government because they were too greedy. If this party can turn its votes into ministers before 2015, the whole process will be reversed. So don't hold your breath just yet.
If it is a desktop, just walk away. If it is a laptop, your battery should last long enough to do the update, so you can just take it with you. What I REALLY hate is going for coffee while waiting for a logon screen, and then you have to wait 2 minutes AGAIN before it becomes stable. Why can't it preload all the important files if it becomes idle while waiting for a logon?
We aren't accept direct connection
why does your server talk chinglish?
switch "man" and "woman" in your comment and it still works. You are starting from the (very sexist) notion that a woman sells her body in return for safety and (financial) stability. Well I have news for you: Most parts of the world, women are better educated. They no longer NEED a man. My father still can't fry an egg, my late mother would never have been able to provide for her children. These days are long gone now. In my generation, women have sex because they feel like it, not as a part of a commecial transaction. This explains the increase in divorces and single parent families. As Houllebecq said: the biggest mistake the feminists did was to teach men how to iron their own shirts.
Only you don't require that kind of bandwith for talking. You require it for uploading to youtube. And the telco can send encryption keys over the "safe" 3G / 4G network, so you can build an end-to end tunnel over a "non-safe" Wifi connection.
No, I am thinking telco ABC sells you a mobile phone and your neighbour an ADSL. The neighbour broadcasts 2 SSIDs, one for personal use, the other "ABC_FEMTO_12345". Your phone contacts an ABC server over 3G and sais:"Hey, I can see this Wifi here, can I use it?". ABC replies: "Sure, Logon with password XXX and do an SSL with certificate 123". You pay the same datarate whichever way it is channeled and your neighbour doesn't give a damn except maybe he is using a little extra electricity. Man in the middle is avoided because the Telco gives you the required certificates over 3G.
The gear exists to create a femto-cell in your home where you reroute your phone over your ADSL/cable. I often wondered, why don't they allow strangers to jump on the unused bandwith? Say I have a 10 MBit subscription, but my modem can handle 20. Why doesn't the telco open the remaining 10 for anybody comming by? Specially in downtown Londo where a lot of buildings must have direct fiber... Anybody can answer this?
My run-of-the-mill Dell Laptop has UEFI build in, only it is by default disabled in the BIOS setup.
In Norway, a cleaning job in a hospital requires a 2 year training. But they make do without carpet bombing wide-spectrum antibiotics, and the number of patients with multi-resistant infections is very small. Think about it: any lab technician-in-training can scoop a bucket of water from the Thames, and measure the concentration of several antibiotics in it.
Booh! Picture shows processor connected to solar panel with 2 wires. (+ and - I presume) Why not go all the way? Solar panels ARE made of silicon. Interweave the transistors into the panel itsels, generating power where needed. And get rid of the 2 ugly wires! Imagine having your CoreI whatever on the roof! (Or more realistically, the processor on the outside of your netbook.)