Quote: "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to let wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to operate in unused spectrum space currently occupied by TV broadcasters. The proposal is aimed at giving consumers an alternative to cable and telecom broadband providers."
Secondly, if hydrogen is the energy carrier of choice, then why not use fuel cells instead of an internal combustion motor? A fuel cell car needs about 14 litres of hydrogen for a 100 kilometre trip, while the BMW Hydrogen 7 needs 50 litres for the same distance. Moreover, for use as a liquid in an internal combustion engine, hydrogen has to be cooled down to -253 C. This requires an additional level of unnecessary energy expenditure. When you add all this up, the consumption rate of the BMW Hydrogen 7 corresponds to more than 20 litres fossil fuel for a 100 kilometre trip, or about the same amount as a heavy truck with diesel engine."
We don't know all the details of the Big Bang and of biogenesis.
If we accept that there is observational evidence for dark energy, we would rather believe we know pretty much next to nothing, given the proposed composition of the universe (dark energy 70%, dark matter 26%); which leaves 4% for the details.
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P.S.: Agnostic with a bias towards Taoism and a 'Gaian' type of theory
... by Geoffrey A. Landis, "I first starting putting together this information as a list of references back in the late 80s, when I was a postdoc, and then posted much of it as a contribution to the sci.space FAQ (along with contributions from several others, most notably Henry Spencer). Then when the FAQ was offline for an extended period, but people kept asking the same questions, I put this page online as a web page to which I could refer questions. Since then a number of other sources of information have popped up on the web (many of them quoting from this page), but I've tried to keep this up to date.".
Quote: "Landis holds undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Brown University. He works for the NASA John Glenn Research Center, where he does research on Mars missions, solar energy[1], and advanced concepts for interstellar propulsion. He holds seven patents [2], and has published more than 300 scientific papers[3] in the fields of astronautics and photovoltaics. He was a member of the Rover team on the Mars Pathfinder mission, and is a member of the science team on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission. In 2005-2006, he was the Ronald E. McNair Visiting Professor of Astronautics at MIT."
Yep, even on the basis of a 'science-based' analysis (perfectly in tune with the current overemphasis on technology - this link given only as an example) that I totally agree with.
Thinking a little ahead (along the lines of Rucker, perhaps), one might ask how relevant 'sub-gaian' species might be for more developed entities.
if they have a few thousand or hundred of thousand year ahead of us
They probably have other concepts of communication and intelligence (thinking of the spaceship crew that crashed onto a planet only to find out that they had been collected into the zoo of some superspecies).
So most oncologists don't want a cure for cancer to be found?
Probably not; but the health system is as broken as the patent system - to get an idea, google for 'preventive medicine' vs. some other "specialty" like 'cardiology' or 'oncology'. And think about patenting "a gene and related applications, including carrier and related testing" (patents again, what a strange coincidence).
All in all, it is more like 'the system is broken'.
Besides, the blueprints seem to be stored away, quote:""The Federal Archives in East Point, Georgia, also has 2,900 cubic feet of Saturn documents," he said. "Rocketdyne has in its archives dozens of volumes from its Knowledge Retention Program. This effort was initiated in the late '60s to document every facet of F 1 and J 2 engine production to assist in any future restart.""
In other words what's wrong with just deciding about each GM crop on a case by case basis using the best available science at the time (including the certainty we have in that science)?
And what science gives the fundament for the decision which cost/risk/benefit for society vs. monopolist (shorthand) relation/configuration is to imply which (optimal with (how do I choose those with a 'science-base') which constraints) action?
Moore's Law is the empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months. (from Wikipedia)
Since 1965, the tech world has obsessed about keeping pace with Moore's Law -- an empirical observation that computing performance will double every 24 months. (TFA)
So how will one want to even consider what the scribbling concludes?
Besides, the Bugatti Veyron was developed in face of speed limits almost everywhere.
Get over it. Not too far into the future you will observe people using reduplication as a means of expressing plural or comparative degree, and, based on the well known developers theme, triplication in order to emphasize importance or any other type of attribution.
But you will have the nonsense at your rfid (no fingertips needed) E_V_E_R_Y_W_H_E_R_E, and you will be suspicious if you do not submerge.
Huh, I looked a little into it and it seems complicated (IANAL:).
The first big difference is invention/other work, there is an extra law for the first case(employer gets all).
If other work (other than software) is considered, it seems that the 'Urheberrecht' (~creator's right) still cannot be signed away (as it is law there are of course extra traps/exceptions, e.g. logos).
It seems that some courts have ruled that the 'Urheberrecht' for software is assigned to the employer if the developer was instructed to design, there are comments which say that the 'Urheberrecht' holds but is only of formal value.
Here is a 'tutorial' (German) which gives an entry point. You have been warned.
All in all, I get the idea that it is much like in Sweden here.
That very large majorities of the American public, and almost all (but not all) Christians believe in God, the survival of the soul after death, miracles, heaven, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin birth will come as no great surprise. What may be more surprising is that half of all adults believe in ghosts, almost a third believe in astrology, and more than a quarter believe in reincarnation - that they were themselves reincarnated from other people. Majorities of about two-thirds of all adults believe in hell and the devil, but hardly anybody expects that they will go to hell themselves.(emphasis mine)
From "The Harris Poll® #11, February 26, 2003 - The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003"
Somehow does not fit very well with the picture of the "cutting edge US" that mainstream media deploys in Europe.
... presumably a 4th July joke, replacing the April edition for obvious reasons.
On the other hand, Rudy Rucker in the 'Edge Question' 2007: "Endless free energy will flow from the subdimensions. And, by using subdimensional shortcuts akin to what is now called quantum entanglement, we'll become able to send information over great distances with no energy cost. In effect the whole world can become linked like a wireless network, simply by tapping into the subdimensional channel."
From the page/book: ".. There are legends, as you know, that speak of a race of paleface, who concocted robotkind out of a test tube, though anyone with a grain of sense knows this to be a foul lie... For in the Beginning there was naught but Formless Darkness, and in the Darkness, Magneticity, which moved the atoms, and whirling atom struck atom, and Current was thus created, and the First Light... from which the stars where kindled, and then the planets cooled, and in their cores the breath of Scared Statisicality gave rise to microscopic Protomechanoans, which begat Protermechanoids, which begat the Primitive Mechanisms. These could not yet calculate, nor scarcely put two and two together, but thanks to Evolution and Natural Subtraction they soon multiplied and produced Omnistats, which gave birth to the Servostat, the Missing Clink, and from it came our progenitor, Automatus Sapiens..."
CD quality was never as good a vinyl through the right equipment
http://www.highendpalace.com/HEP%20CD.htm , Quote: "This is the same ACCUPHASE set up used as a reference for high-end audio manufactures and in many high-end shows where audiophiles can not tell if a CD or Vinyl is playing. (See photos bellow.) The sound of these two units is so right that it outperforms most analogue turntables."
Your point is made ever since the CD was available and, AFAIK, regularly disproved.
Slashdot Mirror
Quote: "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to let wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to operate in unused spectrum space currently occupied by TV broadcasters. The proposal is aimed at giving consumers an alternative to cable and telecom broadband providers."
???
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This is just a marketing stunt.
Quote: "Burning hydrogen is inefficient
Secondly, if hydrogen is the energy carrier of choice, then why not use fuel cells instead of an internal combustion motor? A fuel cell car needs about 14 litres of hydrogen for a 100 kilometre trip, while the BMW Hydrogen 7 needs 50 litres for the same distance. Moreover, for use as a liquid in an internal combustion engine, hydrogen has to be cooled down to -253 C. This requires an additional level of unnecessary energy expenditure. When you add all this up, the consumption rate of the BMW Hydrogen 7 corresponds to more than 20 litres fossil fuel for a 100 kilometre trip, or about the same amount as a heavy truck with diesel engine."
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# Arthur C. Clarke (**), Earthlight (1955)
# Arthur C. Clarke, "Take a Deep Breath" (1957)
# Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Submit to the tubes and be piped to the solution.
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We don't know all the details of the Big Bang and of biogenesis.
If we accept that there is observational evidence for dark energy, we would rather believe we know pretty much next to nothing, given the proposed composition of the universe (dark energy 70%, dark matter 26%); which leaves 4% for the details.
CC.
P.S.: Agnostic with a bias towards Taoism and a 'Gaian' type of theory
... by Geoffrey A. Landis, "I first starting putting together this information as a list of references back in the late 80s, when I was a postdoc, and then posted much of it as a contribution to the sci.space FAQ (along with contributions from several others, most notably Henry Spencer). Then when the FAQ was offline for an extended period, but people kept asking the same questions, I put this page online as a web page to which I could refer questions. Since then a number of other sources of information have popped up on the web (many of them quoting from this page), but I've tried to keep this up to date.".
Quote: "Landis holds undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Brown University. He works for the NASA John Glenn Research Center, where he does research on Mars missions, solar energy[1], and advanced concepts for interstellar propulsion. He holds seven patents [2], and has published more than 300 scientific papers[3] in the fields of astronautics and photovoltaics. He was a member of the Rover team on the Mars Pathfinder mission, and is a member of the science team on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission. In 2005-2006, he was the Ronald E. McNair Visiting Professor of Astronautics at MIT."
How history repeats itself.
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Fermi's blunder, indeed.
Yep, even on the basis of a 'science-based' analysis (perfectly in tune with the current overemphasis on technology - this link given only as an example) that I totally agree with.
Thinking a little ahead (along the lines of Rucker, perhaps), one might ask how relevant 'sub-gaian' species might be for more developed entities.
CC.
if they have a few thousand or hundred of thousand year ahead of us
They probably have other concepts of communication and intelligence (thinking of the spaceship crew that crashed onto a planet only to find out that they had been collected into the zoo of some superspecies).
CC.
So most oncologists don't want a cure for cancer to be found?
Probably not; but the health system is as broken as the patent system - to get an idea, google for 'preventive medicine' vs. some other "specialty" like 'cardiology' or 'oncology'. And think about patenting "a gene and related applications, including carrier and related testing" (patents again, what a strange coincidence).
All in all, it is more like 'the system is broken'.
CC.
Yep, a marketing stunt that coincides with the Saturn 5 restored to former glory.
Besides, the blueprints seem to be stored away, quote:""The Federal Archives in East Point, Georgia, also has 2,900 cubic feet of Saturn documents," he said. "Rocketdyne has in its archives dozens of volumes from its Knowledge Retention Program. This effort was initiated in the late '60s to document every facet of F 1 and J 2 engine production to assist in any future restart.""
CC.
In other words what's wrong with just deciding about each GM crop on a case by case basis using the best available science at the time (including the certainty we have in that science)?
And what science gives the fundament for the decision which cost/risk/benefit for society vs. monopolist (shorthand) relation/configuration is to imply which (optimal with (how do I choose those with a 'science-base') which constraints) action?
CC.
Moore's Law is the empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months. (from Wikipedia)
Since 1965, the tech world has obsessed about keeping pace with Moore's Law -- an empirical observation that computing performance will double every 24 months. (TFA)
So how will one want to even consider what the scribbling concludes?
Besides, the Bugatti Veyron was developed in face of speed limits almost everywhere.
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we need policies that can make sure they aren't used against Americans
Rest assured, the drones will not drop eaves on Americans unless authorized by a droidly elected President.
CC.
Get over it. Not too far into the future you will observe people using reduplication as a means of expressing plural or comparative degree, and, based on the well known developers theme, triplication in order to emphasize importance or any other type of attribution.
But you will have the nonsense at your rfid (no fingertips needed) E_V_E_R_Y_W_H_E_R_E, and you will be suspicious if you do not submerge.
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But thats ok because if the majority think its okay then it must be! Thats the beauty of democracy.
My guess is that the idea of 'democracy' is based on the presupposition that people are 'equal' (within a 'reasonable' range).
With exponential distributions everywhere (income the most obvious) the model gets as flawed as 'communism' was in the Soviet Union.
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But how about we wait 15 minutes ...
When users expect pages to load within 4sec? This would be a cycle of 165pages - you must be a time traveller!
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Huh, I looked a little into it and it seems complicated (IANAL :).
The first big difference is invention/other work, there is an extra law for the first case(employer gets all).
If other work (other than software) is considered, it seems that the 'Urheberrecht' (~creator's right) still cannot be signed away (as it is law there are of course extra traps/exceptions, e.g. logos).
It seems that some courts have ruled that the 'Urheberrecht' for software is assigned to the employer if the developer was instructed to design, there are comments which say that the 'Urheberrecht' holds but is only of formal value.
Here is a 'tutorial' (German) which gives an entry point. You have been warned.
All in all, I get the idea that it is much like in Sweden here.
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What you cannot sign away is the fact that you are the creator (Urheber). If you are an employee, it is a different story.
You can however sign away commercial rights (usage, protection).
This is what the German Wikipedia says (and what I recalled).
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That very large majorities of the American public, and almost all (but not all) Christians believe in God, the survival of the soul after death, miracles, heaven, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin birth will come as no great surprise. What may be more surprising is that half of all adults believe in ghosts, almost a third believe in astrology, and more than a quarter believe in reincarnation - that they were themselves reincarnated from other people. Majorities of about two-thirds of all adults believe in hell and the devil, but hardly anybody expects that they will go to hell themselves.(emphasis mine)
From "The Harris Poll® #11, February 26, 2003 - The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003"
Somehow does not fit very well with the picture of the "cutting edge US" that mainstream media deploys in Europe.
CC.
Someone missed to post the 12th anniversary version of the story.
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... presumably a 4th July joke, replacing the April edition for obvious reasons.
On the other hand, Rudy Rucker in the 'Edge Question' 2007: "Endless free energy will flow from the subdimensions. And, by using subdimensional shortcuts akin to what is now called quantum entanglement, we'll become able to send information over great distances with no energy cost. In effect the whole world can become linked like a wireless network, simply by tapping into the subdimensional channel."
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If you have not read it yet: The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age .
From the page/book: ".. There are legends, as you know, that speak of a race of paleface, who concocted robotkind out of a test tube, though anyone with a grain of sense knows this to be a foul lie... For in the Beginning there was naught but Formless Darkness, and in the Darkness, Magneticity, which moved the atoms, and whirling atom struck atom, and Current was thus created, and the First Light... from which the stars where kindled, and then the planets cooled, and in their cores the breath of Scared Statisicality gave rise to microscopic Protomechanoans, which begat Protermechanoids, which begat the Primitive Mechanisms. These could not yet calculate, nor scarcely put two and two together, but thanks to Evolution and Natural Subtraction they soon multiplied and produced Omnistats, which gave birth to the Servostat, the Missing Clink, and from it came our progenitor, Automatus Sapiens..."
CC.
CD quality was never as good a vinyl through the right equipment
http://www.highendpalace.com/HEP%20CD.htm , Quote: "This is the same ACCUPHASE set up used as a reference for high-end audio manufactures and in many high-end shows where audiophiles can not tell if a CD or Vinyl is playing. (See photos bellow.) The sound of these two units is so right that it outperforms most analogue turntables."
Your point is made ever since the CD was available and, AFAIK, regularly disproved.
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Most people remember him for his commentary rather than his work on the A-bomb.
And I thought he was best known for being a communist insurgent.
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If I have to park next to one, I put my car close enough so that it's not possible for the smart guy to open the driver's door anymore.
There always is a backdoor.
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This graph was generated by taking the data from the W3 Schools Stats and figures were forecast using Excel
And this is valid how?
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