Not surprisingly, Hamm considers some of the current administration's loans and subsidies for alternative energy ventures to be misplaced.
That guy is an idiot.
24e9 barrels / 20e6 barrels per day just for the US / 365 days per year = a bit more than a 3 year supply, assuming it can all be recovered. Realistic recovery ratios are always WAY less than 100%... Figure just several months supply, realistically.
So, some 1%er will make hundreds of billions of profit.. nice for him... and 3 years later, we'll be wishing you had a solar panel...
I will admit I was only arbitrarily thinking of "int" and "wis" when I listed some quests.
I am willing to bet if I get "cha" quests like "one night stand" or a "str" quest like "go to gym and work out" or a "dex" quest like "play darts at the pub with your friends" you'd feel much better. If your int and wis are too low, theres perfectly good weekend quests for you too...
I like grinding with the best of them, I don't want to "invest" in a new entrant in a dying field. Therefore the "do something else". Same issue with downloading. Hmm, 10 gigs of a probably non-survivable game that I can only use for 3 days and probably won't even be around anymore "soon", or 10 gigs of movies, music, ebooks, warez, and pr0n that are great "forever".
Betting on horse racing might be smart or dumb, your opinion is irrelevant (said in best 7 of 9 voice). But betting on one of the last horses out of the gate, well, that is just plain ole dumb.
The further in the past you look, the clearer it becomes. A generation or two later,/.ers will be talking about how the pace of change is slower than around 2000-2010 because thats when human genomic sequencing dropped in price by a factor of (no kidding) about 1e6, and solid state mass storage cost per bit dropped by three orders of magnitude, and probably something about solar cell production starting the decade around ten times the capital cost of a coal plant and dropped to "about" the same capital cost per watt as a coal plant (of course the coal plant has a much higher than 50% availability...).
Why haven't we invented the smallpox vaccine again? because we already did, and we're too busy making wifi hardware drop in price by a factor of 100, etc.
The dotcom world is a service sector based on solid technology. It is not a manufacturing sector and the hardware necessary is not manufactured here, let alone requires anything like a big R&D project.
Two can play at that game. Electrification was not innovative because its merely a service, you pay a monthly bill, etc. If they sold tickets to a moon landing, that would apparently remove it from your list of achievements. Likewise your smallpox example doesn't count because I pay a monthly fee to an insurance service provider, I've never paid for a vaccination out of pocket.
Also as someone who was (distantly) involved in the dotcom world, for us it was heavy industry. Much like you taking an airline flight is merely a boring degrading experience, but to the folks that designed and built the airplane its "industry" not service.
Also I can see... SWAT teams using these in a manner where they typically use fiber optic cameras now.
They already do. Get your police scanner and listen for awhile. I listened to this most recently last week, tossing these things into an "intoxicated man with warrant barricades himself in house" situation. Locally, they call them "camera balls"
High comedy at the end of every incident they ALWAYS end up unable to find at least one, and have to detail one guy to watch the monitor while the other guy walks around with a flashlight kicking stuff over and opening all the doors. Worse is when it gets broken and they have to search the entire building.
You'll also hear plenty of radio traffic along the line of "who has the monitor?" and whining about the battery being dead.
Cowen is good agitprop. Take some meaningless facts and irrelevant contradictory statistics, and suggest some absurb policy choices that are internally inconsistent with his own wrong data. Its good agitprop because on the agit side, read on an extremely small scale and out of context, some quotes are pretty rabble rousing, and on the prop side it does a good job of muddled thinking to maintain the status quo. Other than that, its just great.
The way i have understood this is that when far under the earths crust some rocks are crushed by the stress. The rocks being crushed caused the electron cloud. Russia noted this earlier this year saying the had an cloud over Kentucky. Nothing ever happened.
Well, not nothing, some rocks were crushed. Crushed rock does not always imply earthquake.
Is GPS satellite distribution not uniform-on-average across the globe?
Yeah... the phrase to google for is "high latitude GPS coverage". Its remarkably poor over the north pole, for example. Oh good enough to use, but commercial grade RX are optimized for plenty of overhead coverage and there is zero overhead coverage at all at the pole, and some commercial RX freak out because they see like 20 low elevation satellites and can't decide which to use, so their precision goes bonkers at the pole. Still better than the alternatives, but not as good as low altitude.
There are differences between military and civilian RX, and its not just temperature ratings and cost. (also non-military rx have to shut down at ICBM altitudes and at artillery speeds, or they are classed as regulated export controlled munition devices)
Not to be overly cynical but 30-40 minutes to brace for a major earthquake? While I see this being helpful I can't see saving thousands of lives - at least not in the immediate future.
Before the SCADA control system drops due to destruction, you can slam all natural gas valves shut. Well, at half an hour, you could darn near depressurize the system... Instantly, no deaths due to fire.
Also its practically impossible to be crushed under a building by an earthquake, if you're outside and "far away" from buildings. Yet another reason it sucks to live in an urban area, but for the rest of us...
Finally its difficult to be crushed under a bridge or trapped in a subway tunnel if they've been evacuated...
I would hazard a guess that you could reduce fatalities by about 75% to 90% with this system... until false alarms make it ignored, etc.
if you had some plastic cups with extruded quasicrystal PATTERNS, the cups would never stick! On a smaller scale, if paper had a very subtle quasicrystal "grain" embossed or watermarked on it, you would have jam free printer paper! Or if printed on currency, money that wouldn't stick together (that's a real problem here in Vietnam with its sticky polymer based notes).
Wouldn't help. A counterexample would be contact cement (rubber cement) which is non-crystalline.
I wonder what movies would look like if frames were shot at a quasi periodic frame rate, still high enough to give the illusion of movement, but perhaps getting rid of various motion artifacts.
I (briefly) took a look at the link to the cooking utensils link and am still not quite sure why quasicrystals are useful for that application.
Attempt at a joke? A peanut brittle is an amorphous glass, and if it crystalizes, you just end up with a mess. Also I think a quasi-crystalline fudge would have excellent texture.
You're missing the fractional dimensionality clause and the part about being self-similar at different scales... your description applies to pretty much any lattice not just fractals.
If you're an experienced beta tester, please post some tips travel-guide style on what I should do, quests I should take, places to visit, etc. TYIA.
Places to visit: Take the kids to the park and have a picnic, leaves are beginning to change and most of the mosquitos are dead where I live. Take (your) spouse to romantic dinner. Find a museum and look at artifacts for awhile. "Interpretive centers" mostly suck. Stay away from tourist traps in general.
Good quests, easily accomplished in 3 days: learning everything you need to pass the entry level ham radio license in your country. Another good quest is setting up IPv6 and completing the entire hurricane electric "sage" testing program. Set up a simple, crude mythtv system for the pure fun of it. Set up an asterisk voice pbx and fool around with all the features.
Travel guide style? Rick Steves to the rescue.
Oh you meant a SW:TOR beta tester, not just a guy who tests software in general. Oh you meant inside SW:TOR not just a long weekend. I still say skip it, the MMORPG bubble is over and poppin' and after SW:TOR is just a memory (probably pretty soon) you'll look back and wish you did something useful that weekend. What could you go with 10 gigs of downloads that would be more fun? Well, probably almost anything else. Even 10 gigs of spam emails would be fun to data-mine or graph or analyze.
The sea level rising a couple feet at the coastal city nearest to me, means probably 5,000 or more people whose homes have a foot of water in them. It also means a major re-planning and rebuild of a lot of the dock structures for the shipping port, and re-planning/rebuild of many of the structures at the local marina and launch docks for recreational boating. It also means a major change in coastal erosion patterns, wildlife, and navigability for the surrounding area due to the creation of highly shallow flat areas that are nevertheless waterlogged / "under water."
Thanks for making my point for me. The geologic variation over the past half billion years is about 300 meters. Whats important is the "short term" fuzzyness of that graph which is about 100 meters.
My point is that the enviromentalist scare mongers are trying to convince me that we must "etc etc etc" because the sea level is most likely going to rise a foot or so over the next century and at least ten feet over the next millenia.
So, for the sake of argument, we go Pol Pot on our civilization to prevent our own activities from raising a foot. Thats nice. Now the dilbertian solution to the natural variation a hundred times larger is obviously to go "pol pot" on our civilization a hundred times. I think a strong well populated economically sound country will recover from an impact 100 times more severe than human caused global warming with much less human suffering than a post-Pol Pot america.
I don't deny human caused global warming or human caused sea level change. I claim the "solutions" proposed my enviromentalist types for it are inhumane, a crime against humanity.
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I haven't used it since probably 2005 or so, but it used to work quite well over the network.
the private sector will mostly only invest if there is a profit to be made in a relatively short amount of time
In a hyperregulated centrally controlled economy like ours, the government enforces the above.
1) Select a solution
2) Create a problem the solution solves
3) Announce the solution
4) Profit!!!
That is why:
government to put some money to effective use in promoting alternative energy technology research
Not surprisingly, Hamm considers some of the current administration's loans and subsidies for alternative energy ventures to be misplaced.
That guy is an idiot.
24e9 barrels / 20e6 barrels per day just for the US / 365 days per year = a bit more than a 3 year supply, assuming it can all be recovered. Realistic recovery ratios are always WAY less than 100%... Figure just several months supply, realistically.
So, some 1%er will make hundreds of billions of profit.. nice for him... and 3 years later, we'll be wishing you had a solar panel...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
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I will admit I was only arbitrarily thinking of "int" and "wis" when I listed some quests.
I am willing to bet if I get "cha" quests like "one night stand" or a "str" quest like "go to gym and work out" or a "dex" quest like "play darts at the pub with your friends" you'd feel much better. If your int and wis are too low, theres perfectly good weekend quests for you too...
I like grinding with the best of them, I don't want to "invest" in a new entrant in a dying field. Therefore the "do something else".
Same issue with downloading. Hmm, 10 gigs of a probably non-survivable game that I can only use for 3 days and probably won't even be around anymore "soon", or 10 gigs of movies, music, ebooks, warez, and pr0n that are great "forever".
Betting on horse racing might be smart or dumb, your opinion is irrelevant (said in best 7 of 9 voice). But betting on one of the last horses out of the gate, well, that is just plain ole dumb.
If you have less than one months cash in savings, you're financially on your deathbed anyway.
Is a bank run technically a physical financial "denial of service attack"?
So, you're saying we need hereditary monarchies?
We tried that and it didn't seem to help. Reagan / Bush the first / Bush the second.
Is it just to train another generation of unskilled laborers?
That, and hard core indoctrination of authoritarian principles, indoctrination of classist outlook
It's easy to take risk when a rich daddy has your back.
The bill gates effect. He could afford to do the software company thing. Luckily for him it worked out. I cannot afford to try what he did...
The further in the past you look, the clearer it becomes. A generation or two later, /.ers will be talking about how the pace of change is slower than around 2000-2010 because thats when human genomic sequencing dropped in price by a factor of (no kidding) about 1e6, and solid state mass storage cost per bit dropped by three orders of magnitude, and probably something about solar cell production starting the decade around ten times the capital cost of a coal plant and dropped to "about" the same capital cost per watt as a coal plant (of course the coal plant has a much higher than 50% availability...).
Why haven't we invented the smallpox vaccine again? because we already did, and we're too busy making wifi hardware drop in price by a factor of 100, etc.
The dotcom world is a service sector based on solid technology. It is not a manufacturing sector and the hardware necessary is not manufactured here, let alone requires anything like a big R&D project.
Two can play at that game. Electrification was not innovative because its merely a service, you pay a monthly bill, etc. If they sold tickets to a moon landing, that would apparently remove it from your list of achievements. Likewise your smallpox example doesn't count because I pay a monthly fee to an insurance service provider, I've never paid for a vaccination out of pocket.
Also as someone who was (distantly) involved in the dotcom world, for us it was heavy industry. Much like you taking an airline flight is merely a boring degrading experience, but to the folks that designed and built the airplane its "industry" not service.
Also I can see ... SWAT teams using these in a manner where they typically use fiber optic cameras now.
They already do. Get your police scanner and listen for awhile. I listened to this most recently last week, tossing these things into an "intoxicated man with warrant barricades himself in house" situation. Locally, they call them "camera balls"
High comedy at the end of every incident they ALWAYS end up unable to find at least one, and have to detail one guy to watch the monitor while the other guy walks around with a flashlight kicking stuff over and opening all the doors. Worse is when it gets broken and they have to search the entire building.
You'll also hear plenty of radio traffic along the line of "who has the monitor?" and whining about the battery being dead.
Cowen is good agitprop. Take some meaningless facts and irrelevant contradictory statistics, and suggest some absurb policy choices that are internally inconsistent with his own wrong data. Its good agitprop because on the agit side, read on an extremely small scale and out of context, some quotes are pretty rabble rousing, and on the prop side it does a good job of muddled thinking to maintain the status quo. Other than that, its just great.
Did he hibernate thru the dotcom era?
All in all they do save a very substantial amount of time and money for even casual drivers in IL.
No, you'd save substantial money by getting rid of the entire gigantic billing system.
The way i have understood this is that when far under the earths crust some rocks are crushed by the stress. The rocks being crushed caused the electron cloud. Russia noted this earlier this year saying the had an cloud over Kentucky. Nothing ever happened.
Well, not nothing, some rocks were crushed. Crushed rock does not always imply earthquake.
Is GPS satellite distribution not uniform-on-average across the globe?
Yeah... the phrase to google for is "high latitude GPS coverage". Its remarkably poor over the north pole, for example. Oh good enough to use, but commercial grade RX are optimized for plenty of overhead coverage and there is zero overhead coverage at all at the pole, and some commercial RX freak out because they see like 20 low elevation satellites and can't decide which to use, so their precision goes bonkers at the pole. Still better than the alternatives, but not as good as low altitude.
There are differences between military and civilian RX, and its not just temperature ratings and cost. (also non-military rx have to shut down at ICBM altitudes and at artillery speeds, or they are classed as regulated export controlled munition devices)
Not to be overly cynical but 30-40 minutes to brace for a major earthquake? While I see this being helpful I can't see saving thousands of lives - at least not in the immediate future.
Before the SCADA control system drops due to destruction, you can slam all natural gas valves shut. Well, at half an hour, you could darn near depressurize the system... Instantly, no deaths due to fire.
Also its practically impossible to be crushed under a building by an earthquake, if you're outside and "far away" from buildings. Yet another reason it sucks to live in an urban area, but for the rest of us...
Finally its difficult to be crushed under a bridge or trapped in a subway tunnel if they've been evacuated...
I would hazard a guess that you could reduce fatalities by about 75% to 90% with this system... until false alarms make it ignored, etc.
if you had some plastic cups with extruded quasicrystal PATTERNS, the cups would never stick! On a smaller scale, if paper had a very subtle quasicrystal "grain" embossed or watermarked on it, you would have jam free printer paper! Or if printed on currency, money that wouldn't stick together (that's a real problem here in Vietnam with its sticky polymer based notes).
Wouldn't help. A counterexample would be contact cement (rubber cement) which is non-crystalline.
I wonder what movies would look like if frames were shot at a quasi periodic frame rate, still high enough to give the illusion of movement, but perhaps getting rid of various motion artifacts.
Bullet Time.
I (briefly) took a look at the link to the cooking utensils link and am still not quite sure why quasicrystals are useful for that application.
Attempt at a joke? A peanut brittle is an amorphous glass, and if it crystalizes, you just end up with a mess. Also I think a quasi-crystalline fudge would have excellent texture.
You're missing the fractional dimensionality clause and the part about being self-similar at different scales... your description applies to pretty much any lattice not just fractals.
If you're an experienced beta tester, please post some tips travel-guide style on what I should do, quests I should take, places to visit, etc. TYIA.
Places to visit: Take the kids to the park and have a picnic, leaves are beginning to change and most of the mosquitos are dead where I live. Take (your) spouse to romantic dinner. Find a museum and look at artifacts for awhile. "Interpretive centers" mostly suck. Stay away from tourist traps in general.
Good quests, easily accomplished in 3 days: learning everything you need to pass the entry level ham radio license in your country. Another good quest is setting up IPv6 and completing the entire hurricane electric "sage" testing program. Set up a simple, crude mythtv system for the pure fun of it. Set up an asterisk voice pbx and fool around with all the features.
Travel guide style? Rick Steves to the rescue.
Oh you meant a SW:TOR beta tester, not just a guy who tests software in general. Oh you meant inside SW:TOR not just a long weekend. I still say skip it, the MMORPG bubble is over and poppin' and after SW:TOR is just a memory (probably pretty soon) you'll look back and wish you did something useful that weekend. What could you go with 10 gigs of downloads that would be more fun? Well, probably almost anything else. Even 10 gigs of spam emails would be fun to data-mine or graph or analyze.
Obviously you don't live anywhere near a coast.
Intentionally, yes.
The sea level rising a couple feet at the coastal city nearest to me, means probably 5,000 or more people whose homes have a foot of water in them. It also means a major re-planning and rebuild of a lot of the dock structures for the shipping port, and re-planning/rebuild of many of the structures at the local marina and launch docks for recreational boating. It also means a major change in coastal erosion patterns, wildlife, and navigability for the surrounding area due to the creation of highly shallow flat areas that are nevertheless waterlogged / "under water."
Thanks for making my point for me. The geologic variation over the past half billion years is about 300 meters. Whats important is the "short term" fuzzyness of that graph which is about 100 meters.
My point is that the enviromentalist scare mongers are trying to convince me that we must "etc etc etc" because the sea level is most likely going to rise a foot or so over the next century and at least ten feet over the next millenia.
So, for the sake of argument, we go Pol Pot on our civilization to prevent our own activities from raising a foot. Thats nice. Now the dilbertian solution to the natural variation a hundred times larger is obviously to go "pol pot" on our civilization a hundred times. I think a strong well populated economically sound country will recover from an impact 100 times more severe than human caused global warming with much less human suffering than a post-Pol Pot america.
I don't deny human caused global warming or human caused sea level change. I claim the "solutions" proposed my enviromentalist types for it are inhumane, a crime against humanity.
(bad) Object oriented code is syntactic sugar on top of imperative code. Most of it is, in fact bad. Much as the ancient saying about "you can write fortran (or basic) in any language".