Are you seriously trying to argue that hydrogen is not a good alternative fuel supply because a long time ago people decided to fill a huge balloon with it that had an extremely flammable outer skin while there was lighting shooting down from the sky?
Actually, hydrogen is not a good alternative fuel because its molecules are so small that it can penetrate stuff much more easily than, say, kerosine or propane. You just won't be able to avoid leaks of hydrogen.
If you write a dual-threaded program, you have to deal with "false" sharing of memory due to separate caching by the processors. Basically, changes by one of the threads does not necessarily have an effect on the second thread. Having one cache shared by two cores may help a quite bit (working with cache is more efficient than RAM), although it is not 100% sharing, because there may be several levels of caching, as well as different sets of registers.
#2, #3, #7, #8, #9, #15, #16, #18, #19, #22, #24 are consumer electronics. What is it, a hidden advertisement? Makes me wonder who paid for space shuttle, nanotechnology, or DNA fingerprinting to be in this list. Why truely innovative things, like the MRI, Hubble, fuel cells, artificial transplants are not in the list?
There are always driving forces behind migration, legal or not. The following quote should make people acknowledge such forces before trying to raise barriers and shutting doors to protect their society from the outside influence.
The economically and politically disenfranchised Mexicans, who for decades were ignored by their own government, make great sacrifice and endanger their lives to travel north in search of work to support families. Their motivation is not much different from those heroes from centuries past who migrated from Europe.
Many will say European immigrants came here legally. Thus, they have the right to the title, but not Mexicans entering illegally. Unfortunately, this argument ignores the power of desperation that is as old as American history. It also ignores the reality that a poor person from any country cannot obtain a U.S. entry visa for economic reasons. Finally, the argument fails to acknowledge that numerous U.S. industries encourage illegal immigrants by illegally hiring them once they arrive.
Usually, people don't regard maids who come to do their dirty laundry as "thiefs". I am sure Mexicans would be happy to pay the same income taxes that regular Americans pay provided that they get the same wages that regular Americans get. You say "fines for illegal border crossing" I say "imposing US taxes on Mexican citizens working for Walmart in El Paso"; you say tomato, I say tom-ah-to.
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Since you are ok with illegal immigrants doing the dirty work for Americans, then by tightening of the border you sure mean taxing citizens of Mexico, right?
Highways are built because of the unions of truckers. If there were no such unions, USA would build more railroads, which by the way are MUCH more efficient in delivering cargo.
Change of the name is considered to be bad luck for ships (I am not sure about ICBMs, likely even more so). Besides, it makes me laugh to hear the "formerly known as..." phrases (among the most laughable changes in history are "french fries"->"freedom fries", for example). The name "Dnepr" does not imply that the system was either designed, built or deployed exlusively in Ukraine. There are plenty of Russian systems, ships and such with the names like "Elbrus", "Everest", or even "Kiev" or "Odessa". I would not be surprised if I hear about a Ukrainian ship named "Volga" or "Dunab".
Zhores I. Alferov comes to mind. He got Nobel prize in physics for inventing laser diods some 40 years ago.
A quote: Laser diodes built with the same technology drive the flow of information in the Internet's fibre-optical cables. They are also found in CD players, bar-code readers and laser pointers.
If Alferov and Herbert Kroemer patented their ideas, they would be billionaires.
But people who you share the broadband with form a community. As such they share property (in some sense), and have common property boundary. So you don't need the license.
Last I heard is that he lives at Barnes Place(a street) in Colombo. This is quite far from the coast, and Colombo itself hasn't been affected. So he probably should be safe.
Why can't you, slashdotters, imagine Clarke going to beach in a sunny day?
Don't published papers go through peer review before being published? I imagine the following reviews... "This paper claims that humans are not at fault for the global warming. It lacks conclusive evidence, and it clearly contradicts 500 papers (some partial list is provided) on this subject. I recommend to reject this paper unless revised."
Actually, they should have compared areas with comparable population sizes/densities. Say, they should have split USA into 50 states, then they (at least some part of USA) had much better chance to get into top 10. Basically, they should have compared Czech or Ireland with Vermont or California, not with the whole USA. I bet rural areas of USA fared much worse than urban Hong Kong. They considered different parts of China separately, didn't they? Why didn't they compare Finland with Moscow or St. Petersburg regions of Russia or Macao with New Jersey then?
I claim that as population size and area of the country grow, expenses for the needed infrastructure for the adequate and uniform education grow faster than linearly. So it is unfair to compare Denmark with USA or Russia, or Korea with Brasil.
I think the US needs a good, innovative commericial space program it it wants to be viable economically.
Governments must invest money in risky projects, R&D, which may or may not be profitable in the long term. On the other hand, commercial space program wants to be profitable in short term.
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Are you seriously trying to argue that hydrogen is not a good alternative fuel supply because a long time ago people decided to fill a huge balloon with it that had an extremely flammable outer skin while there was lighting shooting down from the sky?
Actually, hydrogen is not a good alternative fuel because its molecules are so small that it can penetrate stuff much more easily than, say, kerosine or propane. You just won't be able to avoid leaks of hydrogen.
If you write a dual-threaded program, you have to deal with "false" sharing of memory due to separate caching by the processors. Basically, changes by one of the threads does not necessarily have an effect on the second thread. Having one cache shared by two cores may help a quite bit (working with cache is more efficient than RAM), although it is not 100% sharing, because there may be several levels of caching, as well as different sets of registers.
Indeed. Ask any scientist what are the most important innovations in the history of humankind, he would say writing, printing press, and google.
#2, #3, #7, #8, #9, #15, #16, #18, #19, #22, #24 are consumer electronics. What is it, a hidden advertisement? Makes me wonder who paid for space shuttle, nanotechnology, or DNA fingerprinting to be in this list. Why truely innovative things, like the MRI, Hubble, fuel cells, artificial transplants are not in the list?
There's no "gravity 0.9 pre-release".
There is no such thing now, since likely all pre-releases got scraped.
sinking ship
Didn't you notice two typos in the phrase?
The economically and politically disenfranchised Mexicans, who for decades were ignored by their own government, make great sacrifice and endanger their lives to travel north in search of work to support families. Their motivation is not much different from those heroes from centuries past who migrated from Europe.
Many will say European immigrants came here legally. Thus, they have the right to the title, but not Mexicans entering illegally. Unfortunately, this argument ignores the power of desperation that is as old as American history. It also ignores the reality that a poor person from any country cannot obtain a U.S. entry visa for economic reasons. Finally, the argument fails to acknowledge that numerous U.S. industries encourage illegal immigrants by illegally hiring them once they arrive.
Usually, people don't regard maids who come to do their dirty laundry as "thiefs". I am sure Mexicans would be happy to pay the same income taxes that regular Americans pay provided that they get the same wages that regular Americans get. You say "fines for illegal border crossing" I say "imposing US taxes on Mexican citizens working for Walmart in El Paso"; you say tomato, I say tom-ah-to.
Since you are ok with illegal immigrants doing the dirty work for Americans, then by tightening of the border you sure mean taxing citizens of Mexico, right?
Highways are built because of the unions of truckers. If there were no such unions, USA would build more railroads, which by the way are MUCH more efficient in delivering cargo.
Have you been to Alaska?
How about Tunguska or Shilka? Or S-200 Angara used in Ukrainian excersises?
Khruschev was Russian.
I'll bite.
Change of the name is considered to be bad luck for ships (I am not sure about ICBMs, likely even more so). Besides, it makes me laugh to hear the "formerly known as..." phrases (among the most laughable changes in history are "french fries"->"freedom fries", for example). The name "Dnepr" does not imply that the system was either designed, built or deployed exlusively in Ukraine. There are plenty of Russian systems, ships and such with the names like "Elbrus", "Everest", or even "Kiev" or "Odessa". I would not be surprised if I hear about a Ukrainian ship named "Volga" or "Dunab".
Zhores I. Alferov comes to mind. He got Nobel prize in physics for inventing laser diods some 40 years ago.
A quote: Laser diodes built with the same technology drive the flow of information in the Internet's fibre-optical cables. They are also found in CD players, bar-code readers and laser pointers.
If Alferov and Herbert Kroemer patented their ideas, they would be billionaires.
But people who you share the broadband with form a community. As such they share property (in some sense), and have common property boundary. So you don't need the license.
Japan, Kamchatka, Alaska, Washington, California, Mexico, Chile?
Last I heard is that he lives at Barnes Place(a street) in Colombo. This is quite far from the coast, and Colombo itself hasn't been affected. So he probably should be safe.
Why can't you, slashdotters, imagine Clarke going to beach in a sunny day?
If we make it analyze all posts in this discussion, can it answer the question asked by the story submitter "What do we think?"
Quoting Stalin: 1 death is a tradegy, a million deaths is a statistics.
People are usually willing to pay a lot to prevent tradegies. Would they pay a lot to bring down a statistics? Yes with a but.
Don't published papers go through peer review before being published? I imagine the following reviews... "This paper claims that humans are not at fault for the global warming. It lacks conclusive evidence, and it clearly contradicts 500 papers (some partial list is provided) on this subject. I recommend to reject this paper unless revised."
I claim that as population size and area of the country grow, expenses for the needed infrastructure for the adequate and uniform education grow faster than linearly. So it is unfair to compare Denmark with USA or Russia, or Korea with Brasil.
Governments must invest money in risky projects, R&D, which may or may not be profitable in the long term. On the other hand, commercial space program wants to be profitable in short term.
On the other hand, if laptop screams "Wolf!" too often, won't people start ignoring the screams?
It is easy to continue one's line of thought to a point of absurd.
In particular, if one continues your line of thought, we ought to hold Bush and Clinton accountable for 9/11.