For materials research, I expect that $/kWh is the more important figure. Obviously you need to know the price per square metre once you start thinking about engineering a device, but this work will be tacking problems of longevity, efficiency and cost first and foremost.
I'm surprised that he was unable to read awfar's post that way. It seems pretty flippin' obvious. It is amazing how quickly people are able to set aside their own intelligence when the opportunity arises to insult another's.
It is the emergency broadcast system, not the brain-control codes for the emergency services. Believe it or not, the fire department is capable of operating successfully if the emergency broadcast system is sounding, not sounding, doing a test, playing Barney, or on fire, because its system of operation is entirely orthogonal
Programming is not mathematics, though. When the time comes to construct a language, design decisions must be made which are not steered by mathematics.
While there's an ongoing debate about mathematical constructivism, there is no such ambiguity in language. Languages are constructed. You have a syntax and a grammar, and they are not constrained by pesky axioms or observations.
Japan's government-mandated cellphone earthquake alerts are a wonderful modern solution to that issue. If there's one thing you can count on, it's that you either have a cellphone or are near many people who do.
It's not so much of an issue in areas with fibre optic cable service, which inevitably happen to be very heavily populated. If you've got ADSL, you're stuffed, but I think there are enough customers in cabled areas just now for them to launch. (Lovefilm has a very popular streaming service of its own already.)
today’s announcement means that companies accounting for over half of all Android devices have now entered into patent license agreements with Microsoft
It's not alarmist to say "yes it is happening". That said, it's convenient that we don't have to deny the science, because it all points in our favour. Saves a lot of effort.
If those were the only questions being asked - and they're damn good questions - this study wouldn't have been done in the first place. Or second place, given that it's a repeat of a study that had already been done by a different group.
Yeah, there'd have to be a limit, you'd have to apply for a coolness licence in some sort of lottery. It's about the only way I'll ever be officially recognised as cool.
If you're a good scientist - and I'm beginning to think you're not - you do not simply create a model out of whole cloth. You create one which reflects reality as closely as humanly possible, with the sole constrains of your hypothesis. Otherwise the model is pointless. I mean, I would've thought that was obvious.
That's my point. The fact that everyone is pointing in the same direction is evidence that the effect is real. Where there are genuine controversies, competing scientists turn against eachother's hypotheses.
Right, and to do effectively that we will have to rely on information coming from climate science. A research field that a large part of the internet, and pretty much the entire Republican party, have decided is incompetent or corrupt.
Yes, our knowledge is incomplete, especially in large systems. I'm just putting my money on the best available data from the most qualified people at the present time. That's up for revision.
Please point us to this community that you speak of.
Pick any of the blogs linked to in this thread. Blogs from prominent members of the climate-change denial community. Or pick the multi-millionaires who funded this study.
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For materials research, I expect that $/kWh is the more important figure. Obviously you need to know the price per square metre once you start thinking about engineering a device, but this work will be tacking problems of longevity, efficiency and cost first and foremost.
Given it's a cost target I'm going to assume "dollars".
Look at the history of government funding solar power in America...any scandals come to mind?
You're the paranoiac, you tell me.
Subsidising research and subsidising sales are two very different activities. Only one of them is economically sustainable.
Swype is also available for Symbian, albeit in beta form.
That or you got the President's phone by accident.
I'm surprised that he was unable to read awfar's post that way. It seems pretty flippin' obvious. It is amazing how quickly people are able to set aside their own intelligence when the opportunity arises to insult another's.
Indulge me for a moment. Is there any way they could do a test of this system which would not cause you to make that empty, cynical remark?
It is the emergency broadcast system, not the brain-control codes for the emergency services. Believe it or not, the fire department is capable of operating successfully if the emergency broadcast system is sounding, not sounding, doing a test, playing Barney, or on fire, because its system of operation is entirely orthogonal
Programming is not mathematics, though. When the time comes to construct a language, design decisions must be made which are not steered by mathematics.
While there's an ongoing debate about mathematical constructivism, there is no such ambiguity in language. Languages are constructed. You have a syntax and a grammar, and they are not constrained by pesky axioms or observations.
Japan's government-mandated cellphone earthquake alerts are a wonderful modern solution to that issue. If there's one thing you can count on, it's that you either have a cellphone or are near many people who do.
They've put their money where their mouth is, and reported themselves to the Information Commisioner's Office for the breach.
It's not so much of an issue in areas with fibre optic cable service, which inevitably happen to be very heavily populated. If you've got ADSL, you're stuffed, but I think there are enough customers in cabled areas just now for them to launch. (Lovefilm has a very popular streaming service of its own already.)
today’s announcement means that companies accounting for over half of all Android devices have now entered into patent license agreements with Microsoft
From the article.
It's not alarmist to say "yes it is happening". That said, it's convenient that we don't have to deny the science, because it all points in our favour. Saves a lot of effort.
If those were the only questions being asked - and they're damn good questions - this study wouldn't have been done in the first place. Or second place, given that it's a repeat of a study that had already been done by a different group.
Yeah, there'd have to be a limit, you'd have to apply for a coolness licence in some sort of lottery. It's about the only way I'll ever be officially recognised as cool.
That's why they design models which match the physics and not models that match the data.
But you can make a model do absolutely anything.
If you're a good scientist - and I'm beginning to think you're not - you do not simply create a model out of whole cloth. You create one which reflects reality as closely as humanly possible, with the sole constrains of your hypothesis. Otherwise the model is pointless. I mean, I would've thought that was obvious.
If they were contrived models, you'd have a point. They're not - they're very physical.
That's my point. The fact that everyone is pointing in the same direction is evidence that the effect is real. Where there are genuine controversies, competing scientists turn against eachother's hypotheses.
Right, and to do effectively that we will have to rely on information coming from climate science. A research field that a large part of the internet, and pretty much the entire Republican party, have decided is incompetent or corrupt.
Yes, our knowledge is incomplete, especially in large systems. I'm just putting my money on the best available data from the most qualified people at the present time. That's up for revision.
Please point us to this community that you speak of.
Pick any of the blogs linked to in this thread. Blogs from prominent members of the climate-change denial community. Or pick the multi-millionaires who funded this study.