Personally i think Europe has it good. I'd be willing to pay $10 per gallon if there were infrastructure TODAY allowing me to get to work without using my personal car. Unfortunatly in many cities this simply isn't the case.
I would too. If I lived in a city. However, I live outside of a city, as does a chunk of the rest of the people in the US. $10/gallon would be cripling. The closest bus stop is a good 2 miles away. The closest grocery store (which just got built in the last year or two) is 2 to 3 miles away. Previously, the closest was a tad over 5 miles away. I'm in an area where nothing is close by.
One thing I don't like about the city though, not enough trees or grass. I like being able to walk 100 yards and be surrounded by trees. Another thing I dislike about cities is how people raised in them have higher instances of asthma than those of us raised outside of them. (Seems to me that living outside a city is healthier)
Not everyone can afford the $3,000 markup that hybrids carry
Thats for the cheap hybrids as well. Get anything that looks like a higher end car, such as the Honda Accord and you are talking a $10,000 markup. Starting price for the Hybrid accord is $30,000. Starting price for the LX (the mid range version) is around $19,000
I believe you are talking about a "Minority Shareholder Lawsuit". It doesn't matter how much stock you own, even if it is only a single share, you can sue a company/employees if it does something that damages the stock price for reparation. This can vary from monetary damages to giving the shareholder more stock.
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You'd think microbes must think the human economy is the only thing keeping polio, TB, Measles, and Chicken Pox from being wiped off the earth like Small Pox was.
Am I the only one, having a somewhat strong immune system, that is not in the least bit worried about a pandemic?
A string immune system is not garuntee that you will survive. The 1918 flu killed a lot of healthy people.
The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
Wait until you find out the information that comes out in the lawsuit. It could be Activa Holdings is in the right and the woman is in the wrong. Or it could be the woman is right and this is just a STFU lawsuit. Either way, don't base your decision on just this article, find out what comes to light in the trial.
No, we're the ones logging the shit out of BC and selling it to you Americans, so you can tax the shit out of us against the terms of the NAFTA. That we know about it and keep logging anyways means we can't really be such big environmentalists.
Interesting, considering that all the loging companies in the US for the past several decades have been replanting trees after they cut trees down. How else can they keep cutting down more trees if they don't plant any?
Whoever gets their fibre network built first will have a headstart over the other. A few months ago, Cox (our cable company) bumped our dload speeds up to 5mbps from 3mbps, I was curious to why they did this. Later, I found out that 3mbps DSL is now available in our area. Who says there is no competition?
In the early '90s, the US congress decided they needed to regulate pricing on cable TV. This caused the cable companies to miss a rebuild cycle that would have pushed fiber closer to the home.
Yet another reason regulation is bad.
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Come on, USA! At least in the cities, there is no reason to be so far behind with regards to residential access!
The US is a few years behind, I'd say about 5 right now, in fibre uptake. This mainly was due to the phone companies not wanting to install fibre networks and then be told they would have to lease them out at cost to competitors. This would severly reduce the return on investment they could then make. With a few recent rulings from the FCC, the phone companies have been ramping up fibre installation. My local phone company, Verizon, is installing fibre in the area right now. We don't have access to it yet, but it is coming. The cable company raised speeds when DSL became available in the area. Current cost for fibre in areas that can get it are 15/2Mbps for $50. Give it a few years, and it will be faster and cheaper.
Most places I know of that demand high uptime (99.999% or more) and use high ammounts of power (multiple kilowatts per rack) generally have online UPSs.
I was wondering if they could use 3 phase power going into the system. Since it is much easier and efficient to set up a 3 phase AC/DC converter, then they would probably want to use that if they could.
Assuming Hebrew is the original language of the Torah (I had thought it was another, such as sanskrit) the way of speaking the language has undoubtably changed over time. For instance, it is not known how YHWH (assume I just wrote the Hebrew version) is pronounced. For several hundred years one was not allowed to pronounce it and as such the pronunciation was lost. Even with that, languages shift over time. The way we prounounce words today is not the same way english words were pronounce 200 years ago. There are still going to be translation problems no matter how it comes out.
I had thought it was around 4000BC. However, after a quick googling I came across one that said ~2000BC. I took it to mean that what I remembered as 4000BC was supposed to be 4000 years ago.
I'm not a scholar on the subject, just trying to point out that is has been a really long time since the words were written. Alhtough, I'd also like to find out how they plan on asking since no one speaks sandscrit/cuneiform anymore (or whatever language was used back then). We may be able to read it, but I don't think anyone actually speaks it.
I'm very glad they finally did this. It's about time IMO. The Catholic Church shouldn't continue to fight losing battles. Now please let women get ordained and priests get married.
Evolution, women becoming ordained and preists getting married are three entirely different subjects.
Evolution is scientific.
Women being ordained is theological. (By the way, can you find any instance of a judaic priest? rabbi!=priest)
Preists getting married is a thousand year old rule (not doctrine or theological in anyway) that was instituted by Pope Gregory VII so that priests would have more time to carry out theological work instead of having to take care of a family.
How exactly is that going to happen? Since this was all written down thousands of years ago, how is someone going to talk to those rabbis? WABAC perhaps?
If I recall corectly, the Pentateuch was writen by Moses as dictated to him by God. This includes Genesis. The great flood is supposed to have happened around 2,200 BC from what I can find, so year, we'd need a WABAC to ask him. Or maybe a phone booth.
The ammount of hydrogen in water converted to energy is negligible in the long run. Long before we ever run out we could get another 10,000 year supply by roping ourselves a comet or getting some from jupiter. Besides, it would take millions of years for us to convert all the hydrogen in the oceans on earth to be used in fusion at forseable energy consumption rates.
They use hydrogen and boron, but where do you get hydrogen... you can use eletricity or get it from fossile fuels, but I don't see this problem being mentioned anywhere in the article. If you take the energy needed for producing hydrogen, I wonder if the reaction really breaks even.
You take the excess energy from the fusion and split water to get the hydrogen. The hydrogen+boron11-> 3x helium + energy. The reaction would produce way more than enough energy to split measily chemical bonds for hydrogen and oxygen. The question is can it be made to break even with all the other losses in the system such as the magnetic confinement.
The main problem with Fusion has never been getting the energy to get the hydrogen. That consumes a pitiance compared to all the magnetic sheilding and other requirements needed in containing, controlin and continuing the fusion.
My question is how giving them a laptop will help them *learn*. Just because they have access to a computer does not mean it will help them learn anything, not even how to use a computer beyond basic user levels.
The creator is throwing this as a tool to help with learning. How will this do that? How will it help them learn history/math/geography or anything else?
You list giving them a phone. Ok, now they have instant communication. How does that help a student learn in the classroom? The laptop can be used for this, but it doesn't help them lear.
You say giving them pencil and paper. This is already used, the computer can be a replacement for this and we go back to the old slate tablets and chalk. But could that money be better spent buying paper and pencils? You can probably buy a whole hell of a lot more pens/pencils and paper in the countries this is targeted at than it will replace.
They will still need to purchase books. They can use these to read e-books, but they still need to purchase the books. This is just a new package for it. Also, the inventor thinks they can use the book budget to buy these. Then how will they purchase books or e-books? No matter what unless the books are given away it will be a budget increase.
What point is giving a 5 year old a laptop when you are talking "giving poor schools a bigger voice on the world stage"? How will they communicate to people outside of the country? They would still need unrestricted access to the internet and I can not see them getting net access much less unrestricted to report anything. Still, even with that, HOW WILL THIS HELP THEM LEARN?
I'm ignoring all games with this, I'm just trying to find out how having these computers will help them learn their subjects outside of what already exists, and is most likely cheaper.
I've heard the holy grail of TV is 2160p at 120fps. Supposedly in Japan or someplace else they showed a demo of this and people in the audience got motion sickness looking at the screen. However, our current consumer 'Max' TV is 1080p at 60fps. 2160@120 is about 8 times as much raw info. So it is going to be a bit before it comes out where most people can afford it.
However, the human eyes, due to our having two of them, have a wider view than it is tall. So either our vision is not 54,212 tall or it is more than 54,212 wide.
HOWEVER, and this is the light at the end of the tunnel, HD-DVDs can be made to support higher resolutions. As can the TV that cable and telcos send out. The only thing is getting the TV/Projector manufacturers to make the displays. No TV station is going to boradcast 1080p any time soon since they don't have enough bandwidth available. However, TV manufacturers are making 1080p TVs. There is nothing preventing them from making higher res TVs that will upconvert the lower resolutions. Current TVs already convert between all those 18 resolutions to whatever their native resolution is so it is not much of a stretch.
On final thing if I have not put my point across. The reason for having a set number or resolutions in the standard is that the electronics has to be able to handle it. With hardware, it has to have a few limits in the number of resolutions or it gets too expensive/complex to make and it has to do it all in real time. It's just not possible to make a standard that will infinitely scale and expect current electronics to handle anything that comes up.
24 (gigabits / sec) = 10.546875 terabytes / hour
Thats 21TB for a standard-length movie! ~21,000GB! Foly Huck!
Remember also that the 24 Gbs is UNCOMPRESSED. Compressed it would be much much less. Probably at most (*thinks* 50Mb*16=800Mbs) 800 Mbs or ~360GB/hour. They could probably compress it a bit more without much loss of quality. As for the 21TB, that is easy to do with todays Fibre Channel storage (~25TB using 42 500GB drives in RAID on an ATA Beast) The problem is the max sustained read spead over all that. But no one is stupid enough to store anything uncompressed. At worst they will use 2:1 to 3:1 compression.
I was at the 2005 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Convention in Las Vegas. NHK actually had a digital projector capable of displaying this. SGI had a ~4kx6k one as well. Sony had another. The cheapers ones cost $50k+ USD. The NHK one is probably more.
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Personally i think Europe has it good. I'd be willing to pay $10 per gallon if there were infrastructure TODAY allowing me to get to work without using my personal car. Unfortunatly in many cities this simply isn't the case.
I would too. If I lived in a city. However, I live outside of a city, as does a chunk of the rest of the people in the US. $10/gallon would be cripling. The closest bus stop is a good 2 miles away. The closest grocery store (which just got built in the last year or two) is 2 to 3 miles away. Previously, the closest was a tad over 5 miles away. I'm in an area where nothing is close by.
One thing I don't like about the city though, not enough trees or grass. I like being able to walk 100 yards and be surrounded by trees. Another thing I dislike about cities is how people raised in them have higher instances of asthma than those of us raised outside of them. (Seems to me that living outside a city is healthier)
Not everyone can afford the $3,000 markup that hybrids carry
Thats for the cheap hybrids as well. Get anything that looks like a higher end car, such as the Honda Accord and you are talking a $10,000 markup. Starting price for the Hybrid accord is $30,000. Starting price for the LX (the mid range version) is around $19,000
I believe you are talking about a "Minority Shareholder Lawsuit". It doesn't matter how much stock you own, even if it is only a single share, you can sue a company/employees if it does something that damages the stock price for reparation. This can vary from monetary damages to giving the shareholder more stock.
You'd think microbes must think the human economy is the only thing keeping polio, TB, Measles, and Chicken Pox from being wiped off the earth like Small Pox was.
You forgot polio.
Am I the only one, having a somewhat strong immune system, that is not in the least bit worried about a pandemic?
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A string immune system is not garuntee that you will survive. The 1918 flu killed a lot of healthy people.
The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
The 1918 virus sometimes killed completely healthy people in killed overnight.
"Some people would go to bed healthy and never wake up."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/flu/fluepidemic
This was one of the flus that worked so fast the immune system couldn't keep up.
Wait until you find out the information that comes out in the lawsuit. It could be Activa Holdings is in the right and the woman is in the wrong. Or it could be the woman is right and this is just a STFU lawsuit. Either way, don't base your decision on just this article, find out what comes to light in the trial.
No, we're the ones logging the shit out of BC and selling it to you Americans, so you can tax the shit out of us against the terms of the NAFTA. That we know about it and keep logging anyways means we can't really be such big environmentalists.
Interesting, considering that all the loging companies in the US for the past several decades have been replanting trees after they cut trees down. How else can they keep cutting down more trees if they don't plant any?
Verizon is currently supplying 15mbps or faster internet in some areas, in addition to TV.3 .html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051014-543
Whoever gets their fibre network built first will have a headstart over the other. A few months ago, Cox (our cable company) bumped our dload speeds up to 5mbps from 3mbps, I was curious to why they did this. Later, I found out that 3mbps DSL is now available in our area. Who says there is no competition?
In the early '90s, the US congress decided they needed to regulate pricing on cable TV. This caused the cable companies to miss a rebuild cycle that would have pushed fiber closer to the home.
Yet another reason regulation is bad.
Come on, USA! At least in the cities, there is no reason to be so far behind with regards to residential access!
The US is a few years behind, I'd say about 5 right now, in fibre uptake. This mainly was due to the phone companies not wanting to install fibre networks and then be told they would have to lease them out at cost to competitors. This would severly reduce the return on investment they could then make. With a few recent rulings from the FCC, the phone companies have been ramping up fibre installation. My local phone company, Verizon, is installing fibre in the area right now. We don't have access to it yet, but it is coming. The cable company raised speeds when DSL became available in the area. Current cost for fibre in areas that can get it are 15/2Mbps for $50. Give it a few years, and it will be faster and cheaper.
Most places I know of that demand high uptime (99.999% or more) and use high ammounts of power (multiple kilowatts per rack) generally have online UPSs.
I was wondering if they could use 3 phase power going into the system. Since it is much easier and efficient to set up a 3 phase AC/DC converter, then they would probably want to use that if they could.
Somalia and Sri Lanka both ignore the pirates like Seychelles.
I don't know about Sri Lanka but I keep hearing that Somalia doesn't really have a government at the moment.
Assuming Hebrew is the original language of the Torah (I had thought it was another, such as sanskrit) the way of speaking the language has undoubtably changed over time. For instance, it is not known how YHWH (assume I just wrote the Hebrew version) is pronounced. For several hundred years one was not allowed to pronounce it and as such the pronunciation was lost. Even with that, languages shift over time. The way we prounounce words today is not the same way english words were pronounce 200 years ago. There are still going to be translation problems no matter how it comes out.
I had thought it was around 4000BC. However, after a quick googling I came across one that said ~2000BC. I took it to mean that what I remembered as 4000BC was supposed to be 4000 years ago.
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Here's some on the 2000 BC range.
The year given for the Flood is the 600th year of Noah's life (Gen. 7:11), which, according to adding up the ages of the patriarchs should be about 1,656 years after the Beginning of Mortality, or about 2345 BC
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/
http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Research%
Here's one that places it at ~3500BC
http://www.templemount.org/earlytm.html
I'm not a scholar on the subject, just trying to point out that is has been a really long time since the words were written. Alhtough, I'd also like to find out how they plan on asking since no one speaks sandscrit/cuneiform anymore (or whatever language was used back then). We may be able to read it, but I don't think anyone actually speaks it.
I was thinking of that and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
I'm very glad they finally did this. It's about time IMO. The Catholic Church shouldn't continue to fight losing battles. Now please let women get ordained and priests get married.
Evolution, women becoming ordained and preists getting married are three entirely different subjects.
Evolution is scientific.
Women being ordained is theological. (By the way, can you find any instance of a judaic priest? rabbi!=priest)
Preists getting married is a thousand year old rule (not doctrine or theological in anyway) that was instituted by Pope Gregory VII so that priests would have more time to carry out theological work instead of having to take care of a family.
How exactly is that going to happen? Since this was all written down thousands of years ago, how is someone going to talk to those rabbis? WABAC perhaps?
If I recall corectly, the Pentateuch was writen by Moses as dictated to him by God. This includes Genesis. The great flood is supposed to have happened around 2,200 BC from what I can find, so year, we'd need a WABAC to ask him. Or maybe a phone booth.
The ammount of hydrogen in water converted to energy is negligible in the long run. Long before we ever run out we could get another 10,000 year supply by roping ourselves a comet or getting some from jupiter. Besides, it would take millions of years for us to convert all the hydrogen in the oceans on earth to be used in fusion at forseable energy consumption rates.
They use hydrogen and boron, but where do you get hydrogen... you can use eletricity or get it from fossile fuels, but I don't see this problem being mentioned anywhere in the article. If you take the energy needed for producing hydrogen, I wonder if the reaction really breaks even.
You take the excess energy from the fusion and split water to get the hydrogen. The hydrogen+boron11-> 3x helium + energy. The reaction would produce way more than enough energy to split measily chemical bonds for hydrogen and oxygen. The question is can it be made to break even with all the other losses in the system such as the magnetic confinement.
The main problem with Fusion has never been getting the energy to get the hydrogen. That consumes a pitiance compared to all the magnetic sheilding and other requirements needed in containing, controlin and continuing the fusion.
My question is how giving them a laptop will help them *learn*. Just because they have access to a computer does not mean it will help them learn anything, not even how to use a computer beyond basic user levels.
The creator is throwing this as a tool to help with learning. How will this do that? How will it help them learn history/math/geography or anything else?
You list giving them a phone. Ok, now they have instant communication. How does that help a student learn in the classroom? The laptop can be used for this, but it doesn't help them lear.
You say giving them pencil and paper. This is already used, the computer can be a replacement for this and we go back to the old slate tablets and chalk. But could that money be better spent buying paper and pencils? You can probably buy a whole hell of a lot more pens/pencils and paper in the countries this is targeted at than it will replace.
They will still need to purchase books. They can use these to read e-books, but they still need to purchase the books. This is just a new package for it. Also, the inventor thinks they can use the book budget to buy these. Then how will they purchase books or e-books? No matter what unless the books are given away it will be a budget increase.
What point is giving a 5 year old a laptop when you are talking "giving poor schools a bigger voice on the world stage"? How will they communicate to people outside of the country? They would still need unrestricted access to the internet and I can not see them getting net access much less unrestricted to report anything. Still, even with that, HOW WILL THIS HELP THEM LEARN?
I'm ignoring all games with this, I'm just trying to find out how having these computers will help them learn their subjects outside of what already exists, and is most likely cheaper.
I've heard the holy grail of TV is 2160p at 120fps. Supposedly in Japan or someplace else they showed a demo of this and people in the audience got motion sickness looking at the screen. However, our current consumer 'Max' TV is 1080p at 60fps. 2160@120 is about 8 times as much raw info. So it is going to be a bit before it comes out where most people can afford it.
However, the human eyes, due to our having two of them, have a wider view than it is tall. So either our vision is not 54,212 tall or it is more than 54,212 wide.
Why did they not make a resolution-independent standard for HDTV?
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The current DTV standard incorporates 18 different resolutions and framerates.
http://www.quantel.com/domisphere/infopool.nsf/ht
3 of those resolutions are HD, 720p, 1080i, 1080p. This is solely for the broadcast industry which is pretty limited in what it can do with 19.2Mbps.
HOWEVER, and this is the light at the end of the tunnel, HD-DVDs can be made to support higher resolutions. As can the TV that cable and telcos send out. The only thing is getting the TV/Projector manufacturers to make the displays. No TV station is going to boradcast 1080p any time soon since they don't have enough bandwidth available. However, TV manufacturers are making 1080p TVs. There is nothing preventing them from making higher res TVs that will upconvert the lower resolutions. Current TVs already convert between all those 18 resolutions to whatever their native resolution is so it is not much of a stretch.
On final thing if I have not put my point across. The reason for having a set number or resolutions in the standard is that the electronics has to be able to handle it. With hardware, it has to have a few limits in the number of resolutions or it gets too expensive/complex to make and it has to do it all in real time. It's just not possible to make a standard that will infinitely scale and expect current electronics to handle anything that comes up.
24 (gigabits / sec) = 10.546875 terabytes / hour Thats 21TB for a standard-length movie! ~21,000GB! Foly Huck!
Remember also that the 24 Gbs is UNCOMPRESSED. Compressed it would be much much less. Probably at most (*thinks* 50Mb*16=800Mbs) 800 Mbs or ~360GB/hour. They could probably compress it a bit more without much loss of quality. As for the 21TB, that is easy to do with todays Fibre Channel storage (~25TB using 42 500GB drives in RAID on an ATA Beast) The problem is the max sustained read spead over all that. But no one is stupid enough to store anything uncompressed. At worst they will use 2:1 to 3:1 compression.
I was at the 2005 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Convention in Las Vegas. NHK actually had a digital projector capable of displaying this. SGI had a ~4kx6k one as well. Sony had another. The cheapers ones cost $50k+ USD. The NHK one is probably more.