They're called nootropics. They're not great. A paper which I once read but have subsequently, tragically misplaced described a caffiene intage regimen that outperformed the best nootropics that had been developed until that time.
I'm not sure what you want them to do with ads. They can't make ordinary Search ad-free because ads on the search parge are where almost all of their money comes from.
These days home consoles are pretty close to general-purpose computing boxes, and could quite easily be used as clients for cloud-gaming services just as they're currently used as clients for cloud-video services. Sony recently bought Gaikai after all, they've got to be doing something with it. (Rumour has it, all their back compatibility...)
nVidia has a lot of money in hardware video compression. Throwing their chips in with cloud gaming is a low-cost bet for a company that's going to be developing the technology for other applications.
I think you give the rest of the world too much credit when it comes to change. The resistance was probably the same, but there was a bigger benefit to be had in making the change, which tipped the balance. Europe's about the size of the US, but rather than converting to metric from one system of measurement, they switched to metric from dozens of systems of measurement. There's an interoperability benefit in trade and communication that cannot be understated.
The A sizes all have a ratio of 1:sqrt2, which has the convenient result that any paper size is equal to the next largest paper size cut in half parallel to the shortest side.
Yes, heaven forbid somebody read something that's above their level in technical terminology and be fascinated by its connections to their everyday experience. What a bleak day for science education that would be.
Of course if you have to accomodate density, pressure, etc. it's trivial to do so because they're all in terms of the same units. For example if my liquid is 1.35 g/ml, I know that it'll weigh 1.35x as much as the same volume of water. Whereas if it was in imperial, the density would be in pounds per cubic foot and the volume in ounces.
Nitrogen was first isolated and recognised as a seperate element of air in 1776. Man's relationship with water began the first time he took a piss. I question your claim that the former has a more prominent role in day to day life than the latter.
I think the point they were trying to make and failed is that at the typical road speed of 60mph, you have one minute of travel time per mile, which actually is pretty handy because your brain is practiced in a lot of the rounding and conversion to hours already.
If you go deep into any area of work you'll find they don't use metric/imperial for much, and favour their customary unit. That's just human nature. However those fields still need to communicate from time to time and for that they need an easy-to-use, consistent, agreed upon system of units. Metric, uniquely, does that. Having exactly one meaning of the word litre (versus the umpteen kinds of pint that exist; did you know Scotland used to have its own?) is a boon.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Every kind of work uses customary units for convenience. That doesn't mean that other units are more or less arbitrary.
For example, as a chemist, I'd call physicists' use of the electron-volt instead of the infinitely more practically useful calorie laughable.
I don't think anyone's doubting that high-frequency trading happens, or that people were short-selling his stocks. What people didn't have patience for was his unshakable faith that anyone with differing opinions on these topics (even in the detail) was part of a criminal conspiracy targetting Overstock.com. I mean, he thinks that Wikipedia is in on the conspiracy because some of its contributors wanted the articles on those financial topics written differently.
Sometimes you take an idea with a perfectly normal, intuitive meaning - "temperature is a measure of how fast the atoms are going" - and formalise it. In this case that formalism is something along the lines of "temperature is a measure of the population distribution of the kinetic energy of the particles in an ensemble". Well, sometimes when you make a definition like that, and you invent something that doesn't exist in nature - a laser, say - then you try to apply that definition to the new object, and you find that it doesn't really make much intuitive sense. For example, you find that a laser operates by creating a gas with a negative temperature.
Now, do you throw out your entirely effective definition of temperature, or do you accept that you have moved beyond the bounds of intuition?
Surely it's more important that technical terminology be technically correct than intuitively graspable? There's a reason that computer techs don't refer to the whole computer as the "hard drive", even though that's obviously exactly where you put all your files when they're on the computer.
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They're called nootropics. They're not great. A paper which I once read but have subsequently, tragically misplaced described a caffiene intage regimen that outperformed the best nootropics that had been developed until that time.
Only assuming that this US-based study completely failed to account for the differing definitions of those measures in different countries.
I don't think you understand what antitrust law is for.
I'm not sure what you want them to do with ads. They can't make ordinary Search ad-free because ads on the search parge are where almost all of their money comes from.
Nobody disputes the existence of HAARP. It's just that most people don't think it's whatever kind of nefarious plot you think it is.
Don't all the 1080p Android phones currently have terrible performance and battery life?
These days home consoles are pretty close to general-purpose computing boxes, and could quite easily be used as clients for cloud-gaming services just as they're currently used as clients for cloud-video services. Sony recently bought Gaikai after all, they've got to be doing something with it. (Rumour has it, all their back compatibility...)
nVidia has a lot of money in hardware video compression. Throwing their chips in with cloud gaming is a low-cost bet for a company that's going to be developing the technology for other applications.
I think you give the rest of the world too much credit when it comes to change. The resistance was probably the same, but there was a bigger benefit to be had in making the change, which tipped the balance. Europe's about the size of the US, but rather than converting to metric from one system of measurement, they switched to metric from dozens of systems of measurement. There's an interoperability benefit in trade and communication that cannot be understated.
The A sizes all have a ratio of 1:sqrt2, which has the convenient result that any paper size is equal to the next largest paper size cut in half parallel to the shortest side.
Some definitions of "God" differ quite markedly from yours, and are explicitly interventionist. Bear this in mind.
Yes, heaven forbid somebody read something that's above their level in technical terminology and be fascinated by its connections to their everyday experience. What a bleak day for science education that would be.
Of course if you have to accomodate density, pressure, etc. it's trivial to do so because they're all in terms of the same units. For example if my liquid is 1.35 g/ml, I know that it'll weigh 1.35x as much as the same volume of water. Whereas if it was in imperial, the density would be in pounds per cubic foot and the volume in ounces.
Nitrogen was first isolated and recognised as a seperate element of air in 1776. Man's relationship with water began the first time he took a piss. I question your claim that the former has a more prominent role in day to day life than the latter.
I think the point they were trying to make and failed is that at the typical road speed of 60mph, you have one minute of travel time per mile, which actually is pretty handy because your brain is practiced in a lot of the rounding and conversion to hours already.
That's not a great selling point mind.
If you go deep into any area of work you'll find they don't use metric/imperial for much, and favour their customary unit. That's just human nature. However those fields still need to communicate from time to time and for that they need an easy-to-use, consistent, agreed upon system of units. Metric, uniquely, does that. Having exactly one meaning of the word litre (versus the umpteen kinds of pint that exist; did you know Scotland used to have its own?) is a boon.
Have you never been to Bavaria? They serve beer by the litre there. LITRES.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Every kind of work uses customary units for convenience. That doesn't mean that other units are more or less arbitrary.
For example, as a chemist, I'd call physicists' use of the electron-volt instead of the infinitely more practically useful calorie laughable.
I don't think anyone's doubting that high-frequency trading happens, or that people were short-selling his stocks. What people didn't have patience for was his unshakable faith that anyone with differing opinions on these topics (even in the detail) was part of a criminal conspiracy targetting Overstock.com. I mean, he thinks that Wikipedia is in on the conspiracy because some of its contributors wanted the articles on those financial topics written differently.
Sometimes you take an idea with a perfectly normal, intuitive meaning - "temperature is a measure of how fast the atoms are going" - and formalise it. In this case that formalism is something along the lines of "temperature is a measure of the population distribution of the kinetic energy of the particles in an ensemble". Well, sometimes when you make a definition like that, and you invent something that doesn't exist in nature - a laser, say - then you try to apply that definition to the new object, and you find that it doesn't really make much intuitive sense. For example, you find that a laser operates by creating a gas with a negative temperature.
Now, do you throw out your entirely effective definition of temperature, or do you accept that you have moved beyond the bounds of intuition?
Yeah, they're not on the hard drive (computer) they're on the USB stick (USB stick).
Actually, to emphasise the point, I'd recommend a medical reference dictionary.
No, it is a perfectly standard compound verb and you'll probably find it in whatever dictionary you have to hand. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=projectile+vomit%2Cdwarf+planet&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
Leave the poor creature with its innocence, any person who has never had reason to meet the term "projectile vomit" has led a blessed life.
Surely it's more important that technical terminology be technically correct than intuitively graspable? There's a reason that computer techs don't refer to the whole computer as the "hard drive", even though that's obviously exactly where you put all your files when they're on the computer.