Actually I think you're sailing close to the Broken Window fallacy.
I'd rather look at it this way: all the people you identify - and more - will have a lot of the drudge taken out of their work and more time to do the things they are indispensable for: editing, collating material/resources/ presentations and so on - the 'added-value' bit. Oh, and even if the voice recognition works very well, there will always be a role for touching up grmamar and structure, just as one has to with OCR.
OTOH, my secret fear is that offices will be full of people just babbling at their machines all day long. That would drive me insane...
I am sure it has enough kinetic energy to be useful for something. Only a small proportion of the chemical potential energy stored in that tiny battery in the first place...
Run the numbers for burning gasoline and you'll find out.
1 Imperial gallon of petrol ~8lbs. Stoichiometric combustion requires 14.7:1 air:fuel ratio by mass, so burning that gallon in travel requires about 118lbs of air. Estimate about how much fuel you burn in a year, multiply by 118 (or 95 for US gallons) - and suddenly five tonnes of CO2 as a byproduct is eminently feasible.
Example: SUV driven 18000 miles/year at, say, 15mpg US: 114,000lbs of air consumed, representing nearly 24,000lbs of oxygen to be bound up in combustion products. That's TWELVE tons of shit right there...
I don't really have a problem with people having to show ID to fly aboard a commercial carrier.
There is just too much chance of 1 person being able to cause harm to a large number of other people
*/me checks list*:
Intention to cause destruction, check;
plastique, check;
evil plans, check;
fake ID - oh bugger, there's no way I'll carry that off. Perhaps I'll stay home and water the roses instead.
It's called the illusion of security - insert Ben Franklin quote here. It does not solve any of the issues that lead the one or two to cause, or attempt to cause, harm. If we tried a little harder to understand or even address the causes, we wouldn't be in this mess now.
NO. Sorry to shout, but I had to play safety-nazi on this one having seen the aftermath. It's actually easier to do yourself serious damage with DC than AC, and HV DC is very scary indeed.
First off, as noted above there's a point around 600V where, despite the skin's apparently high resistance, it gives in like a diode breakdown and the current punches through the hard, horny outer dermis that is so resistive. Inside you are a nice squishy bag of saline solution, with very little resistance... Think about the old demo of cooking wieners with two nails and wall current.
Second major issue is that DC causes sustained muscle contraction so you grip involuntarily. AC changes direction, causing muscle contractions in sympathy with line frequency which gives you some chance of letting go/pushing clear. DC gives you no such option, and the effect is noticeable at quite low currents. Very, very dangerous.
Google for more info, but DC is not remotely 'safe'. If you must play with HV DC - anything over 50v basically, let alone valve (tube) amps - treat it like it will bite. Keep one hand behind your back, let someone watch within reach of the breaker, and use current limiting whenever possible.
..and recommend it. Lots of motor skills required.
Also tried playing croquet the same way, which is delightfully chaotic if a little hard on the lawn.
Pints and pints of Pimms No.1 involved in the latter variant, of course...
It's a funny way to revolutionise polo - by making it happen at about 1/4 the speed. Sounds more like hockey-for-teletubbies. Now I've no great interest and haven't played the real thing, but it sure as hell looks fast, brutal and exciting.
If this is 'revolutionising' a sport I think I'll start quarter-miling my old pedal-car.
...would've been a good idea.
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the site was down. I think that the problem may have been... that there was a server that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the/. effect.
In architecture, the same thing is close to true. You can charge more than your competition, if your designs will cost less to build. Also, you can charge more if your designs are just asthetically better.
Emphatically, no. The days of fee-bidding are here. So long as it will get Planning permission (UK), forget it. The client wants you local, able, and cheaper than anyone else.
I would say that architecture is closer to commodity than software, and it's still going strong without huge mergers, and bullying smaller competition out of business with patents, and whatnot.
Sadly that's not quite true either. All these things come to pass in any market. In the market I know, architecture - I have a proof to the contrary , which this margin will not contain;) email me: mc AT acoustica DOT org DOT uk if you want to continue this offline (I'm way too loaded right now...)
Here's an idea.... INNOVATE or die. Companies merging is not part of the capitolistic system.
Heck yes it is, but I'm not up to discussing that one.
The idea is that you produce good enough products that enough people will pay to get them. Merging is just the corporate pyramid scheme.
My $deity how I wish it were that simple.
Look, I'm an architect - buildings, UK, not the sort that the title implies here. It's a mature market - we've only been at it a thousand years or so;). There are a small number of people in this profession hereabouts, about 28K in all; for reference that's about 1/3 rd the number of UK physicians, for example, and the training takes longer.
Do we collectively have radical ideas on innovation in structure, envelope, living arrangements, the cityscape, living on a small island? hell yes. Is there a market for it? By and large , hell no. So what, you are asking, is the relevance of this analogy?
Software is a commodity. There, I've said it. It exists to solve people's immediate problems, and actually, that's mostly sewn up right now. The reigning paradigms aren't perfect - far from it - but software is an area that everyone has now some interaction with, and certain expectations of. Changing paradigms is slow, and innovation is only a part of it, and not necessarily causal. All too often innovation is a precursor to being bought-up by someone with a bunch of shareholders to impress next quarter.
Architecture again. Guess the %age of U.K registered architects who are self-employed? About 60%. How many UK architectural practices employ >100 people? Er, less than 80. Do UK architects dominate in %age terms of leading construction projects in the UK? NO, far from it - that's the speculative developers and homebuilders, cookie-cutters in other words. These groups make their profits from (and only risk capital on) the familiar, the proven, the banal. What does this tell you? It tells me that the desire for innovation and the marketplace are two different entitites, and while the desire to contribute is strong (all those headstrong one-man-bands) it goes nowhere without market-savvy and a willingness to play the accountants at their own game. For that you have to focus on the unique value you bring - and it isn't necessarily what you consider to be your strongest suite. The big UK practices tend to do very commercial work. Many of the remaining 60% spend their lives doing comparatively small jobs, where the sense of being in control hopefully compensates for alarmingly-low professional salaries.
The point is, rarely in any situation will innovation for it's own sake bring you any more than a fuzzy warm glow inside. The market will go on without you. To 'win', to make the idealistic the everyday, you have to take-on the fight at its most mundane level, even if -initially- it feels like selling-out. Go play the undercover agent, be idealistic. You'll find that others don't agree but you must remind them - and believe yourself - that all worthwhile change comes from within.
In the UK it's about 15% average for public transport but varies strongly by region; a further 10 or 11% walk to work. Source: National Statistics office
I can't wait to see what Lucas does with this film
Uh-oh...
If on the other hand, it's Jar-Jar or Star Wars' merchandise that gets fed into the refuse disposal units... then I, for one, welcome our Industrial Light & Magic overlord.
Seriously - I have a friend who works for UKAS (UK accreditation service, checks lab metrology etc) who suggested this.
Pumps do drift in calibration, but they are calibrated to measure at max. output rate into free air, which allows for a certain amount of vapour, bubbling etc. Stick the nozzle in the tank, crack the valve open and fill as slowly as you can stand - the pump now under-reads the delivered quantity, because it is delivering against static pressure.
Try it; I've regularly achieved 7-10% more for free on a whole tankful. That's a big deal here in the UK, at 80p+/litre - about $5.20/US gallon - and no, I don't feel the least bit bad about cheating the Taxman in this way.
Note that many pump are set to time-out after a few minutes to avoid the potential for being left running onto the forecourt.
Don't be - fitting equipment into domes is bloody frustrating and wasteful of (expensive) volume. Given the cost of building here, you need to be able to utilise every cubic inch.
Apart from mass/transport issues, there are extreme problems with attempting to use concrete at low temperature - the water content freezes before the (chemical) cure is achieved, despite the concrete 'set' being exothermic. You end up with a powder mix that's frozen togther, but has no integrity.
Now, self-skinnning foams...maybe
A quick Google will show you just how big all the equipment involved in drilling really is, and just how much power is required to support drilling operations - a hint, it's in the megawatt range. You are not doing it with batteries. Ships like this have huge deck-mounted powerplant independant of the propulsion requirements to cope with demand.
There's simply not enough space to store the necessary equipment on board, esp. when you consider the need for bentonite coolant circulation etc. Assembling the drill string either through or outside the hull would be an interesting problem, as would the bouyancy/stability control as you dump a few hundred tons of payload overboard.
So a nice idea, but much more economical done from a big surface ship - even when it means waiting on the weather.
Really, I mean it: this is an ancient bit of rock whirling about in space, and we can study it from the comfort of home.
Perversely, images like this always remind me that life is so short; doesn't anyone else see things like this and feel disheartened at mortality ? There is so much I will never have time to know, still less understand.
There once was a Transit of Venus
Which reputation was rather heinous;
For that white panel van
Was known to all Man
- The contents, I'll infer, were Latinas.
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I'd rather look at it this way: all the people you identify - and more - will have a lot of the drudge taken out of their work and more time to do the things they are indispensable for: editing, collating material/resources/ presentations and so on - the 'added-value' bit. Oh, and even if the voice recognition works very well, there will always be a role for touching up grmamar and structure, just as one has to with OCR.
OTOH, my secret fear is that offices will be full of people just babbling at their machines all day long. That would drive me insane...
Almost certainly not. Rastafarians have no dispensation to use weed, which is a sacrament in their theology.
Hmm, think I'll vote for Pons and Fleischmann.....
I am sure it has enough kinetic energy to be useful for something. Only a small proportion of the chemical potential energy stored in that tiny battery in the first place...
- Coffee in the coffee pot? Check.
No, the internet was invented for that ;)
Run the numbers for burning gasoline and you'll find out.
1 Imperial gallon of petrol ~8lbs. Stoichiometric combustion requires 14.7:1 air:fuel ratio by mass, so burning that gallon in travel requires about 118lbs of air. Estimate about how much fuel you burn in a year, multiply by 118 (or 95 for US gallons) - and suddenly five tonnes of CO2 as a byproduct is eminently feasible.
Example: SUV driven 18000 miles/year at, say, 15mpg US: 114,000lbs of air consumed, representing nearly 24,000lbs of oxygen to be bound up in combustion products. That's TWELVE tons of shit right there...
There is just too much chance of 1 person being able to cause harm to a large number of other people
*/me checks list*:
Intention to cause destruction, check;
plastique, check;
evil plans, check;
fake ID - oh bugger, there's no way I'll carry that off. Perhaps I'll stay home and water the roses instead.
It's called the illusion of security - insert Ben Franklin quote here. It does not solve any of the issues that lead the one or two to cause, or attempt to cause, harm. If we tried a little harder to understand or even address the causes, we wouldn't be in this mess now.
NO. Sorry to shout, but I had to play safety-nazi on this one having seen the aftermath. It's actually easier to do yourself serious damage with DC than AC, and HV DC is very scary indeed. First off, as noted above there's a point around 600V where, despite the skin's apparently high resistance, it gives in like a diode breakdown and the current punches through the hard, horny outer dermis that is so resistive. Inside you are a nice squishy bag of saline solution, with very little resistance... Think about the old demo of cooking wieners with two nails and wall current.
Second major issue is that DC causes sustained muscle contraction so you grip involuntarily. AC changes direction, causing muscle contractions in sympathy with line frequency which gives you some chance of letting go/pushing clear. DC gives you no such option, and the effect is noticeable at quite low currents. Very, very dangerous.
Google for more info, but DC is not remotely 'safe'. If you must play with HV DC - anything over 50v basically, let alone valve (tube) amps - treat it like it will bite. Keep one hand behind your back, let someone watch within reach of the breaker, and use current limiting whenever possible.
..and recommend it. Lots of motor skills required. Also tried playing croquet the same way, which is delightfully chaotic if a little hard on the lawn. Pints and pints of Pimms No.1 involved in the latter variant, of course...
If this is 'revolutionising' a sport I think I'll start quarter-miling my old pedal-car.
...would've been a good idea. I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the site was down. I think that the problem may have been... that there was a server that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the /. effect.
is provided by Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia etc. Half a billion people and maybe three original licenses in use.
Look, I'm an architect - buildings, UK, not the sort that the title implies here. It's a mature market - we've only been at it a thousand years or so ;). There are a small number of people in this profession hereabouts, about 28K in all; for reference that's about 1/3 rd the number of UK physicians, for example, and the training takes longer.
Do we collectively have radical ideas on innovation in structure, envelope, living arrangements, the cityscape, living on a small island? hell yes. Is there a market for it? By and large , hell no. So what, you are asking, is the relevance of this analogy? Software is a commodity. There, I've said it. It exists to solve people's immediate problems, and actually, that's mostly sewn up right now. The reigning paradigms aren't perfect - far from it - but software is an area that everyone has now some interaction with, and certain expectations of. Changing paradigms is slow, and innovation is only a part of it, and not necessarily causal. All too often innovation is a precursor to being bought-up by someone with a bunch of shareholders to impress next quarter.
Architecture again. Guess the %age of U.K registered architects who are self-employed? About 60%. How many UK architectural practices employ >100 people? Er, less than 80. Do UK architects dominate in %age terms of leading construction projects in the UK? NO, far from it - that's the speculative developers and homebuilders, cookie-cutters in other words. These groups make their profits from (and only risk capital on) the familiar, the proven, the banal. What does this tell you? It tells me that the desire for innovation and the marketplace are two different entitites, and while the desire to contribute is strong (all those headstrong one-man-bands) it goes nowhere without market-savvy and a willingness to play the accountants at their own game. For that you have to focus on the unique value you bring - and it isn't necessarily what you consider to be your strongest suite. The big UK practices tend to do very commercial work. Many of the remaining 60% spend their lives doing comparatively small jobs, where the sense of being in control hopefully compensates for alarmingly-low professional salaries.
The point is, rarely in any situation will innovation for it's own sake bring you any more than a fuzzy warm glow inside. The market will go on without you. To 'win', to make the idealistic the everyday, you have to take-on the fight at its most mundane level, even if -initially- it feels like selling-out. Go play the undercover agent, be idealistic. You'll find that others don't agree but you must remind them - and believe yourself - that all worthwhile change comes from within.
In the UK it's about 15% average for public transport but varies strongly by region; a further 10 or 11% walk to work. Source: National Statistics office
If on the other hand, it's Jar-Jar or Star Wars' merchandise that gets fed into the refuse disposal units... then I, for one, welcome our Industrial Light & Magic overlord.
Pumps do drift in calibration, but they are calibrated to measure at max. output rate into free air, which allows for a certain amount of vapour, bubbling etc. Stick the nozzle in the tank, crack the valve open and fill as slowly as you can stand - the pump now under-reads the delivered quantity, because it is delivering against static pressure.
Try it; I've regularly achieved 7-10% more for free on a whole tankful. That's a big deal here in the UK, at 80p+ /litre - about $5.20/US gallon - and no, I don't feel the least bit bad about cheating the Taxman in this way.
Note that many pump are set to time-out after a few minutes to avoid the potential for being left running onto the forecourt.
Don't be - fitting equipment into domes is bloody frustrating and wasteful of (expensive) volume. Given the cost of building here, you need to be able to utilise every cubic inch.
Apart from mass/transport issues, there are extreme problems with attempting to use concrete at low temperature - the water content freezes before the (chemical) cure is achieved, despite the concrete 'set' being exothermic. You end up with a powder mix that's frozen togther, but has no integrity. Now, self-skinnning foams...maybe
There's simply not enough space to store the necessary equipment on board, esp. when you consider the need for bentonite coolant circulation etc. Assembling the drill string either through or outside the hull would be an interesting problem, as would the bouyancy/stability control as you dump a few hundred tons of payload overboard.
So a nice idea, but much more economical done from a big surface ship - even when it means waiting on the weather.
make -e no_rain
I hope the development order isn't handled by Lucas.
Really, I mean it: this is an ancient bit of rock whirling about in space, and we can study it from the comfort of home. Perversely, images like this always remind me that life is so short; doesn't anyone else see things like this and feel disheartened at mortality ? There is so much I will never have time to know, still less understand.
Which reputation was rather heinous;
For that white panel van
Was known to all Man
- The contents, I'll infer, were Latinas.