In the 90's when oil was cheap, the iter project (a new fusion reactor) was too expensive and nobody wanted to pay. Make it cheaper, make it smaller. So the design became more modest (for lack of a better word). Early 00's, the iraq war was on. France was against So out of spite, the US sided with japan as host country, rather than with France as expected. This blocked approval of the build site for several years. Late 00's, oil is at record prices and the a build site (Cadarache in France) is finally selected. With a question attached (or so I heard from people within my field), if we pay more can you speed up the process? Yeah right, unfortunately science and engineering does not always work that way (mythical man month). Some things just require time.
Until iter, the development of fusion went faster than the development of computer hardware. This delay of about ten years for financial and political reasons will come back to haunt us. Blame your governments for being cheap and petty. Blame your governments that we won't have fusion in time to save our sorry asses.
Strange, I have the completely opposite view. Why waste fuel on cremation when you can just bury them. Carbon is stored in the ground and some nutrients are returned to the soil.
Apple TV is also severely limited in the number of available countries.
In europe, you have to wait sometimes years before you can watch the show on TV. If it is broadcasted at all.
DVD's also arrive with a time delay and is at this moment an outdated technology.
Bluray is not supported by Apple. My iMac has the biggest screen in house.
and even so, after having bought a few hundred dvd's I am getting tired of the space it occupies and even more so that I have to play DJ every time I want to see a movie. If I can find it somewhere in my collection.
This has really brought down my buying rate. Where the hell do I store them all?
I could rip them, but that would take me months.
So downloading, the preferred option, is only possible where I live if you do it illegally. Great. I guess they don't want my money.
If it is a good movie or show, I will buy it. I even have unopened dvd packages. I buy it to express my appreciation and in the hope more of that type of movies/shows are made. But it is time to move on to digital downloads.
mouth-to-mouth
review sites
Does a good product even need marketing? Or is marketing just to make you buy crap you didn't even want in the first place.
It's because of google.
Google keeps everything in beta for perpetuity, even though most of their services doesn't deserve that label. Google uses beta as an excuse to their users, not as an indicator of service status. The whining you replied to is the result.
Before the euro, my country had two bank notes of similar color. I couldn't tell one from the other by color. One of 10 times the value of the other. On a few occasions, I received more change than expected.
I can't open an atlas and use it like you normally would. On every high school exam, the teacher had to help.
I am also a physicist and I couldn't do the spectra analysis practicum during my first year of study. I am likewise limited in the amount of colors I can use to graph data. Some data are multicolored 2D contour plots. Either I have to ask someone what the values are or make educated guesses or apply other time consuming tricks.
On the traffic lights, red is up, green is bottom. I hope they never change it/make it random or my life will be cut short.
It limits my options in life. I can never be a chemist for example.
I also feel I am missing out on some of the beauty in the world.
And so on and so on.
If someone loses a leg in an accident, do you deny him a wheel chair or prosthetic limb? Do you deny someone glasses as their eyesight deteriorates with old age? What about someone who is born deaf? Do you do deny that person the hearing aid implant?
Ah, another slashvertisement.
It might look good on paper, but maybe not in actual usage. There is probable a depth difference between the two screens due to screen thickness, unless one folds back and/or the other one forward. I can't tell from the picture. Another more obviously issue is the black edge right in the middle of your view. Am I supposed to use my perifial vision or turn my head constantly?
When the library of Alexandria was burned down (or the scrolls used as fuel), most of the ancient world was lost.
Is this how we will lose our current world? Through unaccessible electronic bits?
Yeah well, I have seen ball lighting being produced in a demonstration at my university. The problem is that I can't remember the name of the student who did it (it was a master project, if you can believe it), nor do I know if the results are already published. Besides this article, I didn't find anything else.
If you want to know more, contact the professor (Kroesen) of this group: http://www.phys.tue.nl/EPG/
He will know for certain.
I am not working for this group, although I know the people there.
>And of course, Flanders was dependent on Wallonia in the past, they just have a really short memory now that the economic shoe has shifted.
Thereby ignoring economic studies that show that the flow of money was always greater from Flanders to Wallonia.
No, the Netherlands ain't bad. But why would we exchange an annoying minority in the south with a nice majority in the north. We want independence, so that we can determine our own future.
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In the 90's when oil was cheap, the iter project (a new fusion reactor) was too expensive and nobody wanted to pay. Make it cheaper, make it smaller. So the design became more modest (for lack of a better word). Early 00's, the iraq war was on. France was against So out of spite, the US sided with japan as host country, rather than with France as expected. This blocked approval of the build site for several years. Late 00's, oil is at record prices and the a build site (Cadarache in France) is finally selected. With a question attached (or so I heard from people within my field), if we pay more can you speed up the process? Yeah right, unfortunately science and engineering does not always work that way (mythical man month). Some things just require time. Until iter, the development of fusion went faster than the development of computer hardware. This delay of about ten years for financial and political reasons will come back to haunt us. Blame your governments for being cheap and petty. Blame your governments that we won't have fusion in time to save our sorry asses.
Canada, March 13, 1989. Sometimes solar flares do cause blackouts.
Strange, I have the completely opposite view. Why waste fuel on cremation when you can just bury them. Carbon is stored in the ground and some nutrients are returned to the soil.
We should change our behaviour, but also scrub the atmosphere from the carbon we dumped in it over the last 150 years.
Someone, somewhere dies every second. Are you going to express your sorrow for everyone or just for those who make the news?
Apple TV is also severely limited in the number of available countries.
In europe, you have to wait sometimes years before you can watch the show on TV. If it is broadcasted at all.
DVD's also arrive with a time delay and is at this moment an outdated technology.
Bluray is not supported by Apple. My iMac has the biggest screen in house.
and even so, after having bought a few hundred dvd's I am getting tired of the space it occupies and even more so that I have to play DJ every time I want to see a movie. If I can find it somewhere in my collection.
This has really brought down my buying rate. Where the hell do I store them all?
I could rip them, but that would take me months.
So downloading, the preferred option, is only possible where I live if you do it illegally. Great. I guess they don't want my money.
If it is a good movie or show, I will buy it. I even have unopened dvd packages. I buy it to express my appreciation and in the hope more of that type of movies/shows are made. But it is time to move on to digital downloads.
No, but the software might trigger a memory leak, prematurely.
If you take the software into account, then there is a huge difference between both systems.
Windows = crap
Mac OS X is pretty decent and you get a bunch of fully functional apps right out of the box.
mouth-to-mouth review sites Does a good product even need marketing? Or is marketing just to make you buy crap you didn't even want in the first place.
You want to pump water over what kind of distances? From holland to norway?
I like foremost the integration with Mac OS X and Apple's applications.
Apple changed it me.com system in past few weeks. Much better than before.
Apple's mobile me.com is quite good, although not free.
Are there still areas in which amateur astronomers can contribute to science?
Wasn't hunting for and tracking of objects in the solar system one of the last refuges for those amateurs?
Sample bias.
For every Edison, Tesla and others, there are thousands and thousands of unknown people.
It's because of google.
Google keeps everything in beta for perpetuity, even though most of their services doesn't deserve that label. Google uses beta as an excuse to their users, not as an indicator of service status. The whining you replied to is the result.
The word is dyke in dutch
cough * dijk * cough
I am colorblind and it is a serious handicap.
Before the euro, my country had two bank notes of similar color. I couldn't tell one from the other by color. One of 10 times the value of the other. On a few occasions, I received more change than expected.
I can't open an atlas and use it like you normally would. On every high school exam, the teacher had to help.
I am also a physicist and I couldn't do the spectra analysis practicum during my first year of study. I am likewise limited in the amount of colors I can use to graph data. Some data are multicolored 2D contour plots. Either I have to ask someone what the values are or make educated guesses or apply other time consuming tricks.
On the traffic lights, red is up, green is bottom. I hope they never change it/make it random or my life will be cut short.
It limits my options in life. I can never be a chemist for example.
I also feel I am missing out on some of the beauty in the world.
And so on and so on.
If someone loses a leg in an accident, do you deny him a wheel chair or prosthetic limb? Do you deny someone glasses as their eyesight deteriorates with old age? What about someone who is born deaf? Do you do deny that person the hearing aid implant?
I am colorblind and I want a cure, damnit !!!!
Thanks for pointing out that video, I missed it. So, there is a depth difference between the two screens. That could be annoying in actual usage.
Ah, another slashvertisement.
It might look good on paper, but maybe not in actual usage. There is probable a depth difference between the two screens due to screen thickness, unless one folds back and/or the other one forward. I can't tell from the picture. Another more obviously issue is the black edge right in the middle of your view. Am I supposed to use my perifial vision or turn my head constantly?
When the library of Alexandria was burned down (or the scrolls used as fuel), most of the ancient world was lost. Is this how we will lose our current world? Through unaccessible electronic bits?
Yeah well, I have seen ball lighting being produced in a demonstration at my university. The problem is that I can't remember the name of the student who did it (it was a master project, if you can believe it), nor do I know if the results are already published. Besides this article, I didn't find anything else. If you want to know more, contact the professor (Kroesen) of this group: http://www.phys.tue.nl/EPG/ He will know for certain. I am not working for this group, although I know the people there.
G.S. Pavia, A.C. Pavao et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 048501 (2007)
It will go down right? The budget..
Isn't America broke, compared to the rest of the world?
>And of course, Flanders was dependent on Wallonia in the past, they just have a really short memory now that the economic shoe has shifted.
Thereby ignoring economic studies that show that the flow of money was always greater from Flanders to Wallonia.
No, the Netherlands ain't bad. But why would we exchange an annoying minority in the south with a nice majority in the north. We want independence, so that we can determine our own future.