Global warming doesn't come from the energy we use. It comes from the massive amounts of energy from the Sun that doesn't escape back, because the composition of the atmosphere has changed; while conceptually this system would do something similar, it would have insanely higher ratio of the energy we use to the energy that simply gets trapped in the atmosphere due to its operation.
It will certainly add much less "heat" to Earth then the majority of ways in which we are obtaining energy, for given energy amount.
The reason is that in case of such satellite system (or pretty much any "renewable" energy source), the added energy comes only from losses or the final work done with the energy.
Whereas in the case of fossil fuels the most significant, by far, addition of energy to Earth comes not from losses or work output, but from changing the atmosphere, in a way that it captures more heat from the Sun.
Well, yes, I know; if only because "there" is "here" for me, more or less (check my other responses in this thread).
I was just addressing the mere aspect of possibly selecting sources which paint you in better light; even if just slightly, even if unconsciously. I don't think it is much of a factor in this case, but you always have to remember about the possibility.
That doesn't exclude the possibility of picking the stats that suit you best. Even if I think it's highly unlikely it happened consciously in this case.
Exactly, in addition. And as it stands now - food, medicine and water are still in grave need in Haiti (otherwise large part of the efforts would simply pack up). Bibles...not so much, probably. I expect this NGO to do nothing. Trying to transport their 600 pieces of ballast will limit how much of other things you can move to areas that need them, especially at the stage of local transport, through damaged local infrastructure. Even if slightly, even if that results "only" in unnecessary danger for the life of one person, that's inexcusable.
PS. Please, if you want to include immortal life into consideration - why help them at all? After all, eternal happiness awaits them...
Just accept that the reasons for conspiracy theorists doing what they do don't have much in common with the "big affair" at hand (other then that it's "big")
Having the "bread" is the most crucial thing to be able to live.
But I guess it's convenient when country with large investment base for religions remains convinced in their magical effects, this time brought by audiobooks.
That's still a mighty weak argument for those devices. There will be 600 of them. Even if there would be 600 000 (and possibly even when six million), it would be still much easier for illiterate ones to find somebody to read a book for them (and they would have greater chance of learning to read themselves that way)
"Meeting the emotional needs" with strings attached. In this case it probably will end up as a parasitic feeding of the tragedy, of loosing close ones...just like during most usual funerals; only on a much more massive scale.
And how sweet of them, a religious charity trying to point out to illiterate people in 3rd world nations that they don't really need to learn reading...
Absolutely. It's just that I had an impression that the topic of TFS, and the summary itself to some degree, seem to focus too much on "link between brain structure and mental proficiency established";p
Don't try too hard to find logic in such things, there is hardly any.
I live in a post-Soviet country. Most Western productions were of course banned, with one noteworthy (given political realities at that time) exception - Star Wars. Can you imagine that? And on cinema screens each year, also during... marshal law.
Well, yes and no. Is 30 cm/pixel higher resolution then the "webcam" on Mars Express? (ignoring for a minute the latter is not a proper scientific instrument) Certainly.
But is it better? For many things - of course. But not for some other. It doesn't give view of the whole planet, or large part of it, in one shot (the summary says MRO hasn't covered even 1% yet). So there is still potential to discover something very interesting.
Most importantly, from the perspective or side of Mars which isn't visible from Earth at that moment. So it's not equal to having a good/great telescope on Earth (never mind that they are quite busy doing many things already)
I suspect that distinction is largely irrelevant, too. Yes, Hollywood finances Democrats noticeably better. I'm sure you can find an industry treating Republicans similarly better.
But here's the kicker: all those industries have some overlap when it comes to capital holders, board members or CEOs. It's just that they tunnel lobbying founds in a way that has a chance to appear more, in each case, to those who are tricked into existence of real two party system.
There's a similar thing going on for some time on ESA Mars Express mission, where public is invited to participate in obtaining, processing, etc. of images taken with a camera that was meant originally to observe Beagle separation.
They know it works fine? Like...really fine, on slower machines (and connections - it had bandwidth preserving functions for a long time, now there's even 2-3x compression via Opera Turbo)
The father of my buddy that I mentioned uses P4-era machine (with Celeron based on P4 even, from what I remember) with 256MB of RAM (and dial-up, in a huge city like Dnepropetrovsk). From what he says such machine isn't very atypical, upgrades are postponed much longer than in the "West". I don't have any trouble believing that Opera is a fully usable browser on them...since I have an old dual PII 266 with 192MB & win2k lying around - and latest versions of Opera still run fine when I try them (excluding Flash of course). Firefox (on mine) - no way.
And lately it even seems like Opera tries to make their GUI more approachable...
The only stats I'm familiar with actually seem to suggest that Opera growth is still very healthy, especially in Russian homes (huge spike during recent holidays)
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Right, and related video remind of another concept, Nokia 888: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32JmZkRddc
3 years old even; this "new" Asus concept is basically identical.
Global warming doesn't come from the energy we use. It comes from the massive amounts of energy from the Sun that doesn't escape back, because the composition of the atmosphere has changed; while conceptually this system would do something similar, it would have insanely higher ratio of the energy we use to the energy that simply gets trapped in the atmosphere due to its operation.
It will certainly add much less "heat" to Earth then the majority of ways in which we are obtaining energy, for given energy amount.
The reason is that in case of such satellite system (or pretty much any "renewable" energy source), the added energy comes only from losses or the final work done with the energy.
Whereas in the case of fossil fuels the most significant, by far, addition of energy to Earth comes not from losses or work output, but from changing the atmosphere, in a way that it captures more heat from the Sun.
Well, yes, I know; if only because "there" is "here" for me, more or less (check my other responses in this thread).
I was just addressing the mere aspect of possibly selecting sources which paint you in better light; even if just slightly, even if unconsciously. I don't think it is much of a factor in this case, but you always have to remember about the possibility.
More than dupe, Asus Waveface Ultra looks more or less like a direct rip-off of one concept from two years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Morph
Though the idea, when approached that way, as an advanced "cellphone" which can also wrap around your wrist, isn't completely stupid...
That doesn't exclude the possibility of picking the stats that suit you best. Even if I think it's highly unlikely it happened consciously in this case.
Exactly, in addition. And as it stands now - food, medicine and water are still in grave need in Haiti (otherwise large part of the efforts would simply pack up). Bibles...not so much, probably. I expect this NGO to do nothing. Trying to transport their 600 pieces of ballast will limit how much of other things you can move to areas that need them, especially at the stage of local transport, through damaged local infrastructure. Even if slightly, even if that results "only" in unnecessary danger for the life of one person, that's inexcusable.
PS. Please, if you want to include immortal life into consideration - why help them at all? After all, eternal happiness awaits them...
No, no, no. There is even link on the page you provided, leading to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
Which also carried laser raging experiment.
Just accept that the reasons for conspiracy theorists doing what they do don't have much in common with the "big affair" at hand (other then that it's "big")
Don't use the presence of laser mirrors as evidence, they can be as well placed there by unmanned probes (as Lunokhods, for example, certainly did)
As a matter of fact, don't even try too hard to convince those people - as you said, they don't even want evidence of any kind.
You interpret that quote selectively.
Having the "bread" is the most crucial thing to be able to live.
But I guess it's convenient when country with large investment base for religions remains convinced in their magical effects, this time brought by audiobooks.
That's still a mighty weak argument for those devices. There will be 600 of them. Even if there would be 600 000 (and possibly even when six million), it would be still much easier for illiterate ones to find somebody to read a book for them (and they would have greater chance of learning to read themselves that way)
The icing on the cake: any book.
Yes, a good technology (though not that far from solar or spring powered radios)
But it's never really about the technology, but how you use it. The scenario from TFS isn't anything to be proud about.
"Meeting the emotional needs" with strings attached. In this case it probably will end up as a parasitic feeding of the tragedy, of loosing close ones...just like during most usual funerals; only on a much more massive scale.
And how sweet of them, a religious charity trying to point out to illiterate people in 3rd world nations that they don't really need to learn reading...
If anything, it stops them from becoming too uncomfortable about being illiterate.
Useful stuff for preserving that 3%...
Absolutely. It's just that I had an impression that the topic of TFS, and the summary itself to some degree, seem to focus too much on "link between brain structure and mental proficiency established" ;p
...contributing to statistically greater success in tasks which might benefit from its function.
News at 11.
Don't try too hard to find logic in such things, there is hardly any.
I live in a post-Soviet country. Most Western productions were of course banned, with one noteworthy (given political realities at that time) exception - Star Wars. Can you imagine that? And on cinema screens each year, also during... marshal law.
(how is the film pro-religion?)
The funds are tunneled through lobbyists in a way that has a greater chance of being tolerated, maybe.
Good enough?
Well, yes and no. Is 30 cm/pixel higher resolution then the "webcam" on Mars Express? (ignoring for a minute the latter is not a proper scientific instrument) Certainly.
But is it better? For many things - of course. But not for some other. It doesn't give view of the whole planet, or large part of it, in one shot (the summary says MRO hasn't covered even 1% yet). So there is still potential to discover something very interesting.
Most importantly, from the perspective or side of Mars which isn't visible from Earth at that moment. So it's not equal to having a good/great telescope on Earth (never mind that they are quite busy doing many things already)
Hm, if given the choice, I thing I would prefer Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA. Even if it's just a matter of choosing lesser evil.
Very slightly lesser.
I suspect that distinction is largely irrelevant, too. Yes, Hollywood finances Democrats noticeably better. I'm sure you can find an industry treating Republicans similarly better.
But here's the kicker: all those industries have some overlap when it comes to capital holders, board members or CEOs. It's just that they tunnel lobbying founds in a way that has a chance to appear more, in each case, to those who are tricked into existence of real two party system.
There's a similar thing going on for some time on ESA Mars Express mission, where public is invited to participate in obtaining, processing, etc. of images taken with a camera that was meant originally to observe Beagle separation.
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/VMC/index.html
Uhm, no. While cars are hardly robots, vibrators are close enough. You turn it on and it does it's thing. Like Roomba.
They know it works fine? Like...really fine, on slower machines (and connections - it had bandwidth preserving functions for a long time, now there's even 2-3x compression via Opera Turbo)
The father of my buddy that I mentioned uses P4-era machine (with Celeron based on P4 even, from what I remember) with 256MB of RAM (and dial-up, in a huge city like Dnepropetrovsk). From what he says such machine isn't very atypical, upgrades are postponed much longer than in the "West". I don't have any trouble believing that Opera is a fully usable browser on them...since I have an old dual PII 266 with 192MB & win2k lying around - and latest versions of Opera still run fine when I try them (excluding Flash of course). Firefox (on mine) - no way.
And lately it even seems like Opera tries to make their GUI more approachable...
The only stats I'm familiar with actually seem to suggest that Opera growth is still very healthy, especially in Russian homes (huge spike during recent holidays)
http://www.rankingru.com/en/rankings/web-browsers-groups.html
Overall it seems to rise at around the same pace as FF.