Given that the "large" meaning seems to be older, I am going to give that one priority when interpreting sentences from now on. Especially where leadership is concerned.
Begging your pardon, but isn't the fact that graphene is being studied for low-level toxicity and environmental impacts before it's in actual use evidence that we have, in fact, learned from history?
Chemist here: the "chemical naming system" as you so quaintly put it makes enormous distinctions between materials with the same composition but different structures, so yes, we refer to graphene oxide, graphite oxide, oxidised diamond, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and every other possible combination of carbon and oxygen because they have entirely different properties.
No, it's not bollocks, it's actually a nice demonstration that the fine structure constant is actually constant. It's worth emphasising that even given the size of the mine, its power output was only about 100kW.
One of the useful early findings was that the reaction products hadn't appreciably migrated away from the original uranium seam, which is important for understanding waste disposal. Unfortunately that probably means that most of the useful information left with the uranium.
The trivial answer always seems to be "on an enormous scale": storage, particle collisions, construction... of course you run into problems when you start to consider whether it really does generalise to everything. Some things CERN doesn't need a huge amount of. Childcare, for instance. Or lunch. I suspect that they don't do their staff fitness weigh-in on an enormous scale, but it is quite an appealing image.
Quite aside from your important personal documents, it's good practice to keep scanned copies of every bit of potentially-useful correspondence, and throw them in a Dropbox. The sizes aren't huge even for passable quality. If you have - or have access to - a good sheet-feed scanner, it's not even a particularly arduous process. These days I have a rolling two-year buffer of things like utility bills; each month the new one goes through the scanner, and the oldest one goes through the shredder.
Well, when I can be bothered, but you know what I'm getting at.
Much as I like my home console, that Gigabyte machine is teeny-tiny in comparison. Of course by switching to an x86 architecture and benefitting from economies of scale in that whole business, hopefully the Xbox One and PS4 will be able to shrink down to a similar sort of size in time.
I wish Slashdotters wouldn't use the word "ponzi scheme" to mean "thing I don't like". It's got a very specific, very informative meaning that's being casually eroded out of laziness.
Odds alone don't decide whether preventative action is worthwhile. Your odds of being struck by lightning are about 1 in 10 million, and the worst impact is exactly one death, but you're still taught what to do in a thunderstorm, because the cost is low relative to the benefit.
Their only previous web coverage was related to a scheme to find oil and gas, ostensibly using former Soviet military technology. I think that the investors been taken in by a quack or a con man.
In fact it looks like they have it exactly backwards. What the academic actually said is that it led to the political downfall of the Republic, which was replaced by the Empire.
The default setting for phone notifications is to nag the user to death, most users keep the defaults, and therefore many users' phones are constantly pinging or beeping for attention. This annoys them but they want to get the notifications. If you are a hardware manufacturer, you can:
1) Redesign your OS so that notifications are less inconvenient* 2) Sell them a new piece of hardware so that the notifications are less inconvenient
*Footnote: Apple have screwed this up at an OS level. You can, in principle, turn off an app's overt notifications and just irregularly, passively check the Notification Centre for messages. This is great to triage all the crap that doesn't need your immediate attention, like games. However Apps can tell what notifications and features you have enabled, and many - including big ones like Facebook - stop producing any notifications at all unless you turn on every possible notification type.
You don't burn hydrogen in a hydrogen vehicle. You use it to run a fuel cell which, being electrochemical, doesn't have the Carnot limit on its efficiency. So even a relatively inefficient hydrogen cycle can actually be better than making liquid fuels for an internal combustion engine. The challenge, as you say, is engineering a good hydrogen storage material. (The chemistry problems involved in the efficient photolysis of water are related to the ones involved in the efficient photocatalytic production of liquid fuels, so the research on each side tends to assist the other.)
On the gripping hand, fast-fuelling long-range vehicles are an artefact of cheap, readily available gasoline rather than an inherent part of the human condition so I can't see them being competitive with modest-range battery vehicles in the long term.
When the Koch brothers tried to attach climate change, we got the B.E.S.T. study. If this is equally counterproductive we'll be running the world on solar power within a week.
*Your* electricity company already knows your usage statistics. This data will presumably be sold to competitors with whom you have no business relationship.
Although given it's the US I have to ask if you actually have competition amongst utility providers over there.
This (low-res graphics) is actually how Bluepoint were able to fit Titanfall into the Xbox 360. The engine requires that the whole game world fit into RAM, and while on the newer hardware that includes the textures, the 360 version can only make do with N64-grade texturing that way. So they do N64-grade texturing... and stream in whatever high-resolution assets they can (from disk and HDD simultaneously!) for the immediate area around the player.
And that's for an arena shooter. By all accounts, it's one of the biggest achievements in Bluepoint's long line of great technical achievements. That's what the article is trying to say: you have to decide all this stuff, and it all affects everything else.
The brag factor is that Apple will probably be in business long after the last of their competitors have been sold off to Chinese conglomerates. I don't go in for that sort of petty side-taking and I don't have the kind of salary to be a Mac owner anyway but you can see how that works.
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Given that the "large" meaning seems to be older, I am going to give that one priority when interpreting sentences from now on. Especially where leadership is concerned.
Begging your pardon, but isn't the fact that graphene is being studied for low-level toxicity and environmental impacts before it's in actual use evidence that we have, in fact, learned from history?
Chemist here: the "chemical naming system" as you so quaintly put it makes enormous distinctions between materials with the same composition but different structures, so yes, we refer to graphene oxide, graphite oxide, oxidised diamond, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and every other possible combination of carbon and oxygen because they have entirely different properties.
No, it's not bollocks, it's actually a nice demonstration that the fine structure constant is actually constant. It's worth emphasising that even given the size of the mine, its power output was only about 100kW.
It's not cognate with the French word, it's simply a translation of the meaning. "Great" in English means "large or immense".
One of the useful early findings was that the reaction products hadn't appreciably migrated away from the original uranium seam, which is important for understanding waste disposal. Unfortunately that probably means that most of the useful information left with the uranium.
The trivial answer always seems to be "on an enormous scale": storage, particle collisions, construction... of course you run into problems when you start to consider whether it really does generalise to everything. Some things CERN doesn't need a huge amount of. Childcare, for instance. Or lunch. I suspect that they don't do their staff fitness weigh-in on an enormous scale, but it is quite an appealing image.
Maybe it's just as well that I keep forgetting to actually update that thing.
Quite aside from your important personal documents, it's good practice to keep scanned copies of every bit of potentially-useful correspondence, and throw them in a Dropbox. The sizes aren't huge even for passable quality. If you have - or have access to - a good sheet-feed scanner, it's not even a particularly arduous process. These days I have a rolling two-year buffer of things like utility bills; each month the new one goes through the scanner, and the oldest one goes through the shredder.
Well, when I can be bothered, but you know what I'm getting at.
Much as I like my home console, that Gigabyte machine is teeny-tiny in comparison. Of course by switching to an x86 architecture and benefitting from economies of scale in that whole business, hopefully the Xbox One and PS4 will be able to shrink down to a similar sort of size in time.
"Science", that's how. Just detecting another life-bearing body and being able to study it spectroscopically would be scientifically invaluable.
Just because we can't recreate Star Trek doesn't mean that finding life in the universe is value-less.
"Pretty much useless"? Do you have any idea how much we would learn about biology and the origins of life?
I wish Slashdotters wouldn't use the word "ponzi scheme" to mean "thing I don't like". It's got a very specific, very informative meaning that's being casually eroded out of laziness.
Odds alone don't decide whether preventative action is worthwhile. Your odds of being struck by lightning are about 1 in 10 million, and the worst impact is exactly one death, but you're still taught what to do in a thunderstorm, because the cost is low relative to the benefit.
Their only previous web coverage was related to a scheme to find oil and gas, ostensibly using former Soviet military technology. I think that the investors been taken in by a quack or a con man.
Did you just squeeze a fun, informative fact into a gripe about spelling?
In fact it looks like they have it exactly backwards. What the academic actually said is that it led to the political downfall of the Republic, which was replaced by the Empire.
The default setting for phone notifications is to nag the user to death, most users keep the defaults, and therefore many users' phones are constantly pinging or beeping for attention. This annoys them but they want to get the notifications. If you are a hardware manufacturer, you can:
1) Redesign your OS so that notifications are less inconvenient*
2) Sell them a new piece of hardware so that the notifications are less inconvenient
*Footnote: Apple have screwed this up at an OS level. You can, in principle, turn off an app's overt notifications and just irregularly, passively check the Notification Centre for messages. This is great to triage all the crap that doesn't need your immediate attention, like games. However Apps can tell what notifications and features you have enabled, and many - including big ones like Facebook - stop producing any notifications at all unless you turn on every possible notification type.
You don't burn hydrogen in a hydrogen vehicle. You use it to run a fuel cell which, being electrochemical, doesn't have the Carnot limit on its efficiency. So even a relatively inefficient hydrogen cycle can actually be better than making liquid fuels for an internal combustion engine. The challenge, as you say, is engineering a good hydrogen storage material. (The chemistry problems involved in the efficient photolysis of water are related to the ones involved in the efficient photocatalytic production of liquid fuels, so the research on each side tends to assist the other.)
On the gripping hand, fast-fuelling long-range vehicles are an artefact of cheap, readily available gasoline rather than an inherent part of the human condition so I can't see them being competitive with modest-range battery vehicles in the long term.
When the Koch brothers tried to attach climate change, we got the B.E.S.T. study. If this is equally counterproductive we'll be running the world on solar power within a week.
*Your* electricity company already knows your usage statistics. This data will presumably be sold to competitors with whom you have no business relationship.
Although given it's the US I have to ask if you actually have competition amongst utility providers over there.
DiskDoctor practices medicine from a throne of lies.
The Register is re-reporting Asymco's figures, which are just taken from public accounting information.
This (low-res graphics) is actually how Bluepoint were able to fit Titanfall into the Xbox 360. The engine requires that the whole game world fit into RAM, and while on the newer hardware that includes the textures, the 360 version can only make do with N64-grade texturing that way. So they do N64-grade texturing... and stream in whatever high-resolution assets they can (from disk and HDD simultaneously!) for the immediate area around the player.
And that's for an arena shooter. By all accounts, it's one of the biggest achievements in Bluepoint's long line of great technical achievements. That's what the article is trying to say: you have to decide all this stuff, and it all affects everything else.
The brag factor is that Apple will probably be in business long after the last of their competitors have been sold off to Chinese conglomerates. I don't go in for that sort of petty side-taking and I don't have the kind of salary to be a Mac owner anyway but you can see how that works.