...we're talking about generating lethal amounts of power and driving it into wiring that goes into other people's houses and into systems that other people are maintaining. You make it sound like a bad idea.:p
happy successful people don't just off themselves for no reason and without any sort of note or indication that things were not going quite so peachy as believed This unfortunately seems not to be so, due to long-term depression for one. A person can smile and socialize while feeling dead inside. - It's like a one of those sicknesses that has a person just disappear one day, and then to the shock of many it is reveiled that they have been ill for years.
Depression can have a person feel very little joy over things that usually make people happy and content with life. One may forget that there are alternatives to constant emotional anguish, and that life isn't always pain.
Stop making jokes, and start trying to clean up the mess. I was told some years ago that the majority of the people in the US thought it was perfectly okay for the US to... try to 'improve' other nations in various ways. I'm not sure if you're one of them, but I can say that most people in Europe at least respect the sovereignty of contries. Basically, what sovereignty means is that the ruling body of a nation alone determines what goes on in that country, ideally because that ruling body represents the sum-total will of the people.
In applying this to the USA, we Europeans see the USA's foregin activities as a direct manifestation of the will of the US population; including those who choose not to vote. Because we disagree with you and the numerous calls to reconsider by our elected representatives (Have any of them reached you?) have gone unheard, the popular opinion in Europe on the individual US citizen has taken a steep, steep dive. And those of you who disagree with the government we hold in even lower regard, because you have proven yourself unable to act in accordance with your own views.
However, since we still respect the sovereignty of nations, it would be hypocritical of us to interfere with US policy. Even the attempts by the UN, which ironically the majority of the US hold in low regard, to monitor your latest presidential elections, where you re-elect the least approved-of president in US history, were met with resistance by your nation.
Europe has tried to help, and will continue to do so even as your economy continues to plummet, in spite of your resistance.
Maybe once more people in your nation realize that our help might be useful, possibly even needed, thing will improve for you.
It worked. I always find evidence staring me in the face somewhat... eerie. Especially if I for some reason wanted it to be true, in spite of how absurd wanting reality to be a certain way is, and then it turns out to indeed be supported by evidence, no matter how easily dismissed. I guess in my mind reality gets confused with will for a brief moment.
You can't just hire a bunch of folks who spent 10 years going to school and ask them to produce something for "free". Also, that electron microscope or that gene sequencer does not grow on a tree. No, but if it was legal for the common citizen to experiment with drugs, we would be much further advanced in medicine as a whole. - Compare with programming not being illegal for the masses to experiment with; the state of the art is much advanced since the open access allows for skills in the subject to grow naturally. Instead of a person only first beginning to master their subject in their mid-to-late twenties, a person who has naturally explored programming may be considered highly skilled even in their mid-teens. Such an individual has much more potential to contribute to the state of the art of their field than they would have if they were only allowed to begin experimenting with their subject once they reached university level.
You cannot use AND and OR gates to build anything, because you cannot build a NOT gate. Damn, I was sure I had it right, but when double-checking my facts it turns out that I had gotten this key idea wrong the first time around. >:|
I spy with my little eye red-green chromatic aberration!
No matter what camera you use, if your lens is bad, then your pictures aren't any better.
35mm film, BTW, is about equivalent to 24MP, so their old medium-format Hasselblad cameras still kick the collective arses of these digital upstarts. Not having to develop the film IS convenient, however...
All of logic is compromised of AND and OR alone. You use these to build NOT. Or you could use NOT and OR to build AND, or NOT and AND to build or.
Really, AND and OR can be described with truth tables which you can take to be arbitrarily defined: We just design them that way because it allows us to do a whole bunch of other things.
Add quantifiers to this and and you get all of math. ALL of it. Basically, the sum of human knowledge, and potential for knowledge, can be summed up as the truth tables for AND and OR plus quantifiers.
Most comments so far seem to concern the type of problems we've dealt with in the past, but there is another type of problem that is emerging. This new type tends to deal with short computations on vast amounts of data rather than long computations on small amounts of data, as we're used to. A few examples;
SDR, software defined radio. One of these can easily saturate a gigabit ethernet link with data, and we'll want the computer to automatically sort signal from noise, and determine if we're interested in the signal. Perhaps we'll even want to do voice recognition on the signal and look for keywords? - A parallel approach is suitable.
Robotics. They'll need sensors, and it would seem that the in the biological equivalent this problem got solved by rendering the right hemisphere of the brain as a parallel computer that sorts through this data for the benefit of serving the left hemisphere with quality data to process in a serial fashion.
Data mining. It's nice if it's Us duing rather than Them. I might want to trawl news sites, web forums and repositories of research papers looking for things I'm interested in without having to offer up my personal preferences to advertising agencies.
All in all it appears that long computations on small amounts of data is actually a lot less common than short computations on vast amounts of data. The configuration of the brain makes a lot of sense in this case.
I saw a display in the visitors' center at CERN that detected cosmic rays. A cloud chamber, maybe.
Either way, the... 2m by 2m (IIRC) display would detect cosmic rays about once every 2 seconds. This would mean my PC case is perforated by cosmic rays several times each minute. That's not rare.
It appears to be vulcanizing rubber. I have a roll that I nicked from my father in my toolbox. He bought the roll sometime in the '90s. There appears to be nothing new about this.
(Sorry for replying to the first post. Difficult to call bullshit if one isn't heard though.)
Specifically, there is a chemical chain reaction which transfers the information, rather than electric signal being sent through a wire. I guess you could say the transfer is ionic rather than electromagnetic.
This happened in Transport Tycoon. My brother reached this $2,147,483,648 and had it flip over to negative. Funny thing was, the game was increasing the amount of cash he had at such a rate that he would not have needed to wait long for it to come back up to positive. Ironically, this bug made the entire high-score table entirely pointless.
That's correct, the article is more about the loudness war than it is about MP3 sound quality. In fact, right after the damning portion that the summary quotes, says the article:
But not all digital-music files are created equal. Levitin says that most people find MP3s ripped at a rate above 224 kbps virtually indistinguishable from CDs. The summary is highly misleading, almost to the point of outright lying.
Well yes, but since the reply was nitpicking, I decided to respond with more nitpicking in a vain attempt to show how useless it was. My original reply was, I thought obviously, a useful thumb rule for a person who didn't know much about metals and metal alloys. It was was not a wikipedia entry; by experts for experts. I'd bore the OP to an early grave if I tried to tell him about the finer points of metallurgy.
And why the heck need I waste all this text explaining myself to you anyway? It's all evident...:\
Useful trivia: Steel is a blend of iron and carbon. Mostly iron, in all its incarnations, and iron is always magnetic.
High-carbon steel is very hard but a bit brittle, while steels with less carbon will usually deform before they crack. There is always a compromise between hardness and toughness.
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Who is this "Anderson" fellow? Everybody knows it MacGyver who plays the of Jack O'Neill role in Stargate SG-1. :p
...we're talking about generating lethal amounts of power and driving it into wiring that goes into other people's houses and into systems that other people are maintaining. You make it sound like a bad idea.Depression can have a person feel very little joy over things that usually make people happy and content with life. One may forget that there are alternatives to constant emotional anguish, and that life isn't always pain.
This may sound horrible, but depression is.
In applying this to the USA, we Europeans see the USA's foregin activities as a direct manifestation of the will of the US population; including those who choose not to vote. Because we disagree with you and the numerous calls to reconsider by our elected representatives (Have any of them reached you?) have gone unheard, the popular opinion in Europe on the individual US citizen has taken a steep, steep dive. And those of you who disagree with the government we hold in even lower regard, because you have proven yourself unable to act in accordance with your own views.
However, since we still respect the sovereignty of nations, it would be hypocritical of us to interfere with US policy. Even the attempts by the UN, which ironically the majority of the US hold in low regard, to monitor your latest presidential elections, where you re-elect the least approved-of president in US history, were met with resistance by your nation.
Europe has tried to help, and will continue to do so even as your economy continues to plummet, in spite of your resistance.
Maybe once more people in your nation realize that our help might be useful, possibly even needed, thing will improve for you.
Will you be using it to promote war, or will you be using it to promote peace?
Instead of a person only first beginning to master their subject in their mid-to-late twenties, a person who has naturally explored programming may be considered highly skilled even in their mid-teens. Such an individual has much more potential to contribute to the state of the art of their field than they would have if they were only allowed to begin experimenting with their subject once they reached university level.
I spy with my little eye red-green chromatic aberration!
No matter what camera you use, if your lens is bad, then your pictures aren't any better.
35mm film, BTW, is about equivalent to 24MP, so their old medium-format Hasselblad cameras still kick the collective arses of these digital upstarts. Not having to develop the film IS convenient, however...
It's a misquote BTW, taking the whole thing out of context. The full quote is:
"If it's really a new mechanism, God knows where it will go," he says.
One must at the very least indicate that it is a partial quote, like so:
"...God knows where it will go."
The "..." indicates that the first part has been cut off.
I thought Northern Lights was a Scandinavian strain. :p
All of logic is compromised of AND and OR alone. You use these to build NOT. Or you could use NOT and OR to build AND, or NOT and AND to build or.
Really, AND and OR can be described with truth tables which you can take to be arbitrarily defined: We just design them that way because it allows us to do a whole bunch of other things.
Add quantifiers to this and and you get all of math. ALL of it. Basically, the sum of human knowledge, and potential for knowledge, can be summed up as the truth tables for AND and OR plus quantifiers.
Trippy.
Lets form a cluster instead. - My WU returns:
Take research result from universities, give them to Marketing.
For those of deficient is our knowledge of financial law.... What? Wiki link, please?
Most comments so far seem to concern the type of problems we've dealt with in the past, but there is another type of problem that is emerging. This new type tends to deal with short computations on vast amounts of data rather than long computations on small amounts of data, as we're used to. A few examples;
SDR, software defined radio. One of these can easily saturate a gigabit ethernet link with data, and we'll want the computer to automatically sort signal from noise, and determine if we're interested in the signal. Perhaps we'll even want to do voice recognition on the signal and look for keywords? - A parallel approach is suitable.
Robotics. They'll need sensors, and it would seem that the in the biological equivalent this problem got solved by rendering the right hemisphere of the brain as a parallel computer that sorts through this data for the benefit of serving the left hemisphere with quality data to process in a serial fashion.
Data mining. It's nice if it's Us duing rather than Them. I might want to trawl news sites, web forums and repositories of research papers looking for things I'm interested in without having to offer up my personal preferences to advertising agencies.
All in all it appears that long computations on small amounts of data is actually a lot less common than short computations on vast amounts of data. The configuration of the brain makes a lot of sense in this case.
I saw a display in the visitors' center at CERN that detected cosmic rays. A cloud chamber, maybe.
Either way, the... 2m by 2m (IIRC) display would detect cosmic rays about once every 2 seconds. This would mean my PC case is perforated by cosmic rays several times each minute. That's not rare.
It appears to be vulcanizing rubber. I have a roll that I nicked from my father in my toolbox. He bought the roll sometime in the '90s. There appears to be nothing new about this.
(Sorry for replying to the first post. Difficult to call bullshit if one isn't heard though.)
Specifically, there is a chemical chain reaction which transfers the information, rather than electric signal being sent through a wire. I guess you could say the transfer is ionic rather than electromagnetic.
This happened in Transport Tycoon. My brother reached this $2,147,483,648 and had it flip over to negative. Funny thing was, the game was increasing the amount of cash he had at such a rate that he would not have needed to wait long for it to come back up to positive. Ironically, this bug made the entire high-score table entirely pointless.
Well yes, but since the reply was nitpicking, I decided to respond with more nitpicking in a vain attempt to show how useless it was. My original reply was, I thought obviously, a useful thumb rule for a person who didn't know much about metals and metal alloys. It was was not a wikipedia entry; by experts for experts. I'd bore the OP to an early grave if I tried to tell him about the finer points of metallurgy.
:\
And why the heck need I waste all this text explaining myself to you anyway? It's all evident...
Absolutely fascinating, but iron is an element (Fe), not an alloy.
Useful trivia:
Steel is a blend of iron and carbon. Mostly iron, in all its incarnations, and iron is always magnetic.
High-carbon steel is very hard but a bit brittle, while steels with less carbon will usually deform before they crack. There is always a compromise between hardness and toughness.