There are other powerful tools that are less likely to cut off your fingers. C was great (still is for certain things), but C++ has always been a horrible hack, and it would have never become popular except for it's backwards compatibility with C. There are much better OO languages.
Most living things are mostly water, which is mostly oxygen (by weight). You can't tell from the silly publicity video, but I am guessing it mostly responds to dense materials with certain types of C-H or C-N bonds.
yes, it fun to watch the Repulicans and Tea baggers freak out every time the government pays for some security for a democratic president. They did it for Clinton too. Somehow it never bothers them when it is a Republican president.
You can build a small EMP that is driven by high explosives, but if you are setting off high explosives in a public area you can expect to end up in prison and have very little sympathy from anyone (well, if you are holding the suitcase, as you suggest, you'll end up in pieces, not prison). I don't think you are going to build an EMP that small any other way.
I think it makes the most sense to till it into the ground - even if it takes a few years to decompose, having decomposing organic material in the ground is good for the soil ecosystem and helps hold moisture, reducing the amount of water and synthetic fertilizers needed. There is a huge energy cost to making synthetic fertilizers, in addition to a huge environmental impact, and if people were really paying for all the externalized costs I think we'd be doing everything possible to reduce their use. Using the "waste material" in that way might be the best way to apply it's intrinsic energy. Plus it is already on location, so you don't have an energy cost of gathering it up and transporting it to where ever you plan on extracting it's energy.
But if are trying to do this, butanol is far better then ethanol and waste cellulose is far better than using the edible parts of plants for fuel.
It's not regular expressions that make Perl hard to read - it's everything else about the language. (I couldn't live without Perl, but I hate the syntax)
No, the sickle cell gene is actually a positive adaptation - if you carry only one copy of the gene you are resistant to malaria, which is why the gene is common in regions where malaria is common. You only get sickle-cell anemia if you have two copies of the gene, and it's statistically far more likely to have one copy. So it's a trade off, but perhaps positive in the balance.
Tsk tsk, it was a 5 MW laser. And the energy comes in chemical form, but it's a one shot thing. Put simply, in deference to you, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite.
So you don't say that your network is "faster" or "slower" when it has more or less bandwidth? Most people do. Faster means it takes less time to communicate the same amount of data. Lag/ping time is important to, and you are right that this doesn't help those numbers, but I think it can still be called faster.
I am sure putting them in airplane mod is safe enough. So why do they make passengers turn them off? Because it is hella hard to police a whole plane full of passengers and make sure everyone who is using their devices has them in airplane mode, and you can't really expect most passengers to be responsible. It's much easier to just look for anyone using a device. Of course just because they aren't using their devices doesn't mean they are off, but it's the best you can hope for.
right, which would imply that any patent on email from 1994 or later would run into prior art. (got my first email account in 1989, not much has changed except the clients)
Smell is often described as the most emotional sense - and instinct is pretty similar to emotion. Being able to override instinct and emotion with reason is pretty damn useful. Also humans have excellent vision and visual processing abilities, which maybe pushed out smell as the primary sense.
Did they already get rid of the $5/200 plan? That's what I've been using, but I've been considering going up to the $10/1000 plan since I come close to my limits. Looks like I can still do that this week.
There is a big difference between saying 1 "Members of group X are on average better than group Y at activity Z" versus 2 "Members of group X are on always better than group Y at activity Z".
Even if 1 is proven true and can be proven to be tied to genetics (and lots of things can) you can still have an outlier in group Y that beats everyone in group X for activity Z. In fact the groups could overlap so much that 40% of Y is better than the average of X and still have statement 1 be true.
My point really being is everyone should be treated as individuals and no one should be saying "we will only hire X" or "we will never hire Y" even if statement 1 is true. My other point is it is really hard to prove discrimination just because something like grants is not evenly distributed. Which doesn't mean we shouldn't be vigilant, because there are a lot of people assuming statement 2 is true (consciously or unconsciously) and discrimination deprives society of having the best talent in the best positions.
Challenger exploded on it's 10th mission. It was supposedly designed for a lot more than that. Columbia failed on the 28th mission, which still is not a lot. The original vision was to have launches every week.
According to wikipedia: "The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers... as sponsors and producers." So it has nothing to do with product placement and predates TV.
Some people are willing to die for others, to protect their lives or fundamental freedoms - not to protect them from being screwed by their mobile provider.
The answer to that question is not rational, it has to do with how human beings react to things they don't really understand. Robots and AI definitely fall into that category, and seem particularly scary to many people.
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There are other powerful tools that are less likely to cut off your fingers. C was great (still is for certain things), but C++ has always been a horrible hack, and it would have never become popular except for it's backwards compatibility with C. There are much better OO languages.
Most living things are mostly water, which is mostly oxygen (by weight). You can't tell from the silly publicity video, but I am guessing it mostly responds to dense materials with certain types of C-H or C-N bonds.
yes, it fun to watch the Repulicans and Tea baggers freak out every time the government pays for some security for a democratic president. They did it for Clinton too. Somehow it never bothers them when it is a Republican president.
You can build a small EMP that is driven by high explosives, but if you are setting off high explosives in a public area you can expect to end up in prison and have very little sympathy from anyone (well, if you are holding the suitcase, as you suggest, you'll end up in pieces, not prison). I don't think you are going to build an EMP that small any other way.
And it's still 27 light years away. That's may be considered "close" on an interstellar scale but it's still a huge distance.
I think it makes the most sense to till it into the ground - even if it takes a few years to decompose, having decomposing organic material in the ground is good for the soil ecosystem and helps hold moisture, reducing the amount of water and synthetic fertilizers needed. There is a huge energy cost to making synthetic fertilizers, in addition to a huge environmental impact, and if people were really paying for all the externalized costs I think we'd be doing everything possible to reduce their use. Using the "waste material" in that way might be the best way to apply it's intrinsic energy. Plus it is already on location, so you don't have an energy cost of gathering it up and transporting it to where ever you plan on extracting it's energy.
But if are trying to do this, butanol is far better then ethanol and waste cellulose is far better than using the edible parts of plants for fuel.
It's not regular expressions that make Perl hard to read - it's everything else about the language.
(I couldn't live without Perl, but I hate the syntax)
No, the sickle cell gene is actually a positive adaptation - if you carry only one copy of the gene you are resistant to malaria, which is why the gene is common in regions where malaria is common. You only get sickle-cell anemia if you have two copies of the gene, and it's statistically far more likely to have one copy. So it's a trade off, but perhaps positive in the balance.
Tsk tsk, it was a 5 MW laser. And the energy comes in chemical form, but it's a one shot thing. Put simply, in deference to you, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite.
So you don't say that your network is "faster" or "slower" when it has more or less bandwidth? Most people do. Faster means it takes less time to communicate the same amount of data. Lag/ping time is important to, and you are right that this doesn't help those numbers, but I think it can still be called faster.
they tell you to turn off all electronic devices on take-off and landing in the US.
I am sure putting them in airplane mod is safe enough. So why do they make passengers turn them off? Because it is hella hard to police a whole plane full of passengers and make sure everyone who is using their devices has them in airplane mode, and you can't really expect most passengers to be responsible. It's much easier to just look for anyone using a device. Of course just because they aren't using their devices doesn't mean they are off, but it's the best you can hope for.
right, which would imply that any patent on email from 1994 or later would run into prior art.
(got my first email account in 1989, not much has changed except the clients)
Smell is often described as the most emotional sense - and instinct is pretty similar to emotion. Being able to override instinct and emotion with reason is pretty damn useful. Also humans have excellent vision and visual processing abilities, which maybe pushed out smell as the primary sense.
Did they already get rid of the $5/200 plan? That's what I've been using, but I've been considering going up to the $10/1000 plan since I come close to my limits. Looks like I can still do that this week.
One thing usually overlooked in these debates:
There is a big difference between saying
1 "Members of group X are on average better than group Y at activity Z" versus
2 "Members of group X are on always better than group Y at activity Z".
Even if 1 is proven true and can be proven to be tied to genetics (and lots of things can)
you can still have an outlier in group Y that beats everyone in group X for activity Z.
In fact the groups could overlap so much that 40% of Y is better than the average of X
and still have statement 1 be true.
My point really being is everyone should be treated as individuals and no one should
be saying "we will only hire X" or "we will never hire Y" even if statement 1 is true.
My other point is it is really hard to prove discrimination just because something
like grants is not evenly distributed. Which doesn't mean we shouldn't be vigilant,
because there are a lot of people assuming statement 2 is true (consciously or unconsciously)
and discrimination deprives society of having the best talent in the best positions.
There may not be much in the way of non-display areas to line with cells. The front of my iPhone is all display, and the back is covered by a case.
Your calculations are right if it's only capturing it's own light, but it can also capture sunlight/ambient light.
2 out of 5 vehicles failed catastrophically - that's 40%.
Challenger exploded on it's 10th mission. It was supposedly designed for a lot more than that. Columbia failed on the 28th mission, which still is not a lot. The original vision was to have launches every week.
Not to mention that they failed to check their units on the Mars Climate Orbiter software.
According to wikipedia: "The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers ... as sponsors and producers." So it has nothing to do with product placement and predates TV.
what if you strip the audio out after recording, and only release the video portion?
Some people are willing to die for others, to protect their lives or fundamental freedoms - not to protect them from being screwed by their mobile provider.
I get emails from millionaire Nigerians every day.
The answer to that question is not rational, it has to do with how human beings react to things they don't really understand. Robots and AI definitely fall into that category, and seem particularly scary to many people.