19th Century: Saying "We changed our mind and decided that Ceres isn't a planet" is bad. Just say that Ceres and Pallas and Vesta and Hyperion and... and... and... and... are planets and be done with it.
Statistically speaking even if your body can live forever, some kind of accident will almost certainly kill you in that ten thousand year timeframe.
Wouldn't people get more risk-averse and change the probabilities? You've driven behind 70-year-old-guys. Now imagine 7000-year-old-guy is driving the car in front of you!
Let me guess, you are under the age of 30, yes? Probably under the age of 25?
This is location-dependent, not age-dependent. Singular "they" is perfectly OK in Britain, and I think it's something that Americans could find useful too, once they get over their grammar doubts.
Most of the Internet is built this way already. The Internet backbone is mostly idle and under-utilized. About 80% of the fiber that was installed for the backbone has gone unused as technology keeps pushing data transfers faster and faster.
Let's take round numbers - 100 fiber pairs between a pair of major cities, with 80 of them unused, and (say) 1Tbit/s on the other 20 pairs. That's 20Tbit/s of backbone capacity, and you might think of it as 80Tbit/s "unused". However, to bring those fibers into use, you need to sink the capital costs for the routers, optics for the 10 or 100Gbit/s ports, and the DWDM equipment. That's not a trivial cost, and people will need a business case for turning up new capacity.
It's a lot easier to upgrade the core than the edge, but the core router ports certainly aren't sitting there at some low utilization all the time.
Yep. 100% sure. I've even researched how so many people can believe this is an actual quote when it isn't (which is a strange phenomenon). I'm also a huge Simpsons geek.
The actual quote is: Wiggum: Well that's some good work, Lou. You'll make sergeant for this.
But almost universally people say and believe it to be "That's some (mighty) fine detective work, Lou"
My driving instructor used to lean across to blow the horn and wave when he saw one of his former students. I noticed that a high proportion of his former students seemed to be pedestrians.
We both used to confuse "left" and "right" too, which sometimes worked out fine.
We don't teach physics students the details of epicycles before covering Newtonian gravity nor do we teach students latin (any more) before learning modern languages like French.
That's very true. The only exception seems to be IPv4 addressing, where people are told about obsolete and confusing classful routing (A, B, and C) before the much more useful modern stuff (/24 etc.).
ProgramErgoSum should go and find someone who grew up in the 60s and ask them if they would have preferred learning about airships and blotting paper, or Saturn Vs and lasers. I know which I would have chosen.
Argon has already been shown to be "non-noble" many years ago - hell, you can buy Argon compounds from chemical suppliers right now (like Argon difluoride).
I think you mean Xenon difluoride. I can't find any reports of Argon difluoride being produced.
It tracks mileage, hard brakes, and driving times - nobody knows the exact formula. Progressive claims a decrease of 7 mph or more in one second is considered a hard brake. Don't bother living in a major city.
Average traffic speeds for the 12 hours between 07:00 to 19:00 across Central London
in Quarter 1 was 8.98 mph compared to the 8.82 mph observed in Quarter 1 last year, a
1.8% increase year-on-year.
Pick a random left turn light in the Bay Area, and look at the driver waiting third or fourth in line. Some of them are very slow to move off when the light goes green, because they are reading or even typing on their smartphone. Then they play catch-up after a cursory look at the road ahead. They rate their entertainment above the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers. It's unbelievably selfish.
The Earth's crust contains about 5x as much Boron as Uranium, but we already use quite a lot of it for other applications and are extracting it at almost seventy times the rate.
However, 80% of extracted Boron is B-11, whereas only 0.7% of naturally occurring Uranium is U-235.
And it's a bill that hardly ever gets used so people pay a great deal of attention to them when they see them. Whether or not people are intimately familiar with them, I don't think drawing a lot of eyes to your counterfeit transactions is very smart idea.
I'll give it 10 years before some group of liberals manages to force a rule through congress that all new cars must be capable of autonomous navigation.
I think insurance companies will be in the driver's seat (*) in making this happen. Contrast the rates they will offer to a 17-year-old in (a) a traditional car, (b) a car with instrumentation reporting home, or (c) automated car. Aviva's Drive Like a Girl campaign is just the beginning of this shift.
(*) A phrase that will be less connected to daily life 50 years from now.
It can, only problem is last time I checked (a few years ago though) it took about 6 TW of energy to produce solar cells that could deliver that much energy.
Don't you mean TWh? TW is the rate of energy production.
The good news is that the cells last for longer than a month. From your guesstimate figures it seems like they break even remarkably quickly, and then are energy positive for decades.
Agreed, the "super powers" aren't that super. On the other hand there are some very simple things that many people screw up. For example, people often get inbound and outbound confused, and forget that "me to X" and "X to me" are often separate problems. Asymmetric routing, where networks hand packets off early to the network with more detailed knowledge of the destination, is a great thing, but many people don't get it. Traceroute is a great tool for getting information, but the return path trips people up all the time. Here are some great notes on interpreting it.
Meanwhile the Dawn probe is powering through space using its ion drive. It's scheduled to get to Ceres a few months before New Horizons flies past Pluto. Here's the current position, and there's also an interesting journal.
As well as space probes seeing Pluto and Ceres, 2015 should be when the LHC is turned up to higher power, so it could be a good year for science news.
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The 18th amendment made life seem longer by depriving people of alcohol. It's already been abolished.
19th Century: Saying "We changed our mind and decided that Ceres isn't a planet" is bad. Just say that Ceres and Pallas and Vesta and Hyperion and ... and ... and ... and ... are planets and be done with it.
Statistically speaking even if your body can live forever, some kind of accident will almost certainly kill you in that ten thousand year timeframe.
Wouldn't people get more risk-averse and change the probabilities? You've driven behind 70-year-old-guys. Now imagine 7000-year-old-guy is driving the car in front of you!
"What health problems? My health is probably better than yours."
Is "Internet Healthy Guy" a new variation on "Internet Tough Guy"?
"My blood pressure could kick your blood pressure's ass!"
Let me guess, you are under the age of 30, yes? Probably under the age of 25?
This is location-dependent, not age-dependent. Singular "they" is perfectly OK in Britain, and I think it's something that Americans could find useful too, once they get over their grammar doubts.
Oops! I should have used my IPv6 connection to do a search before posting! - http://www.timewarnercable.com...
Comcast have been rolling out IPv6, and I can now get all of Google/YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Slashdot is still only IPv4, of course.
TWC's installed equipment may delay a roll out right now, but a long term commitment to IPv6 would be good.
Most of the Internet is built this way already. The Internet backbone is mostly idle and under-utilized. About 80% of the fiber that was installed for the backbone has gone unused as technology keeps pushing data transfers faster and faster.
Let's take round numbers - 100 fiber pairs between a pair of major cities, with 80 of them unused, and (say) 1Tbit/s on the other 20 pairs. That's 20Tbit/s of backbone capacity, and you might think of it as 80Tbit/s "unused". However, to bring those fibers into use, you need to sink the capital costs for the routers, optics for the 10 or 100Gbit/s ports, and the DWDM equipment. That's not a trivial cost, and people will need a business case for turning up new capacity.
It's a lot easier to upgrade the core than the edge, but the core router ports certainly aren't sitting there at some low utilization all the time.
Yep. 100% sure. I've even researched how so many people can believe this is an actual quote when it isn't (which is a strange phenomenon). I'm also a huge Simpsons geek.
The actual quote is: Wiggum: Well that's some good work, Lou. You'll make sergeant for this.
But almost universally people say and believe it to be "That's some (mighty) fine detective work, Lou"
people have far more faith in the value of the U.S. Dollar and the Euro than they do even in Jesus of Nazareth
There's a wedding coming up. I'll try to use some dollars to get food for the guests. Any thoughts about how to get the wine?
My driving instructor used to lean across to blow the horn and wave when he saw one of his former students. I noticed that a high proportion of his former students seemed to be pedestrians.
We both used to confuse "left" and "right" too, which sometimes worked out fine.
We don't teach physics students the details of epicycles before covering Newtonian gravity nor do we teach students latin (any more) before learning modern languages like French.
That's very true. The only exception seems to be IPv4 addressing, where people are told about obsolete and confusing classful routing (A, B, and C) before the much more useful modern stuff (/24 etc.).
ProgramErgoSum should go and find someone who grew up in the 60s and ask them if they would have preferred learning about airships and blotting paper, or Saturn Vs and lasers. I know which I would have chosen.
Steganography, not stenography.
If we mine a shitload of material out of the moon, won't that affect it's gravitational effect on the planet?
Mass of moon: 7 x 10^22 kg
World annual steel production: 1 x 10^12 kg
World annual concrete production: 2 x 10^13 kg
Not an imminent problem to solve!
Argon has already been shown to be "non-noble" many years ago - hell, you can buy Argon compounds from chemical suppliers right now (like Argon difluoride).
I think you mean Xenon difluoride. I can't find any reports of Argon difluoride being produced.
Just try editing a Wikipedia article introduce a deliberate mistake
Maybe something subtle, like poor punctuation?
If "stability" is an aspect of your definition of currency then Turkey and many countries in the former Soviet bloc don't have currencies either.
Turkish lira range over five years: 1.4 - 2.1
Bitcoin range over five days: 450 - 900
It tracks mileage, hard brakes, and driving times - nobody knows the exact formula. Progressive claims a decrease of 7 mph or more in one second is considered a hard brake. Don't bother living in a major city.
Maybe you would be fine in London...
Average traffic speeds for the 12 hours between 07:00 to 19:00 across Central London in Quarter 1 was 8.98 mph compared to the 8.82 mph observed in Quarter 1 last year, a 1.8% increase year-on-year.
Pick a random left turn light in the Bay Area, and look at the driver waiting third or fourth in line. Some of them are very slow to move off when the light goes green, because they are reading or even typing on their smartphone. Then they play catch-up after a cursory look at the road ahead. They rate their entertainment above the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers. It's unbelievably selfish.
The Earth's crust contains about 5x as much Boron as Uranium, but we already use quite a lot of it for other applications and are extracting it at almost seventy times the rate.
However, 80% of extracted Boron is B-11, whereas only 0.7% of naturally occurring Uranium is U-235.
And it's a bill that hardly ever gets used so people pay a great deal of attention to them when they see them. Whether or not people are intimately familiar with them, I don't think drawing a lot of eyes to your counterfeit transactions is very smart idea.
Especially when even genuine $2 bills can get you in trouble.
I'll give it 10 years before some group of liberals manages to force a rule through congress that all new cars must be capable of autonomous navigation.
I think insurance companies will be in the driver's seat (*) in making this happen. Contrast the rates they will offer to a 17-year-old in (a) a traditional car, (b) a car with instrumentation reporting home, or (c) automated car. Aviva's Drive Like a Girl campaign is just the beginning of this shift.
(*) A phrase that will be less connected to daily life 50 years from now.
It can, only problem is last time I checked (a few years ago though) it took about 6 TW of energy to produce solar cells that could deliver that much energy.
Don't you mean TWh? TW is the rate of energy production.
The good news is that the cells last for longer than a month. From your guesstimate figures it seems like they break even remarkably quickly, and then are energy positive for decades.
Agreed, the "super powers" aren't that super. On the other hand there are some very simple things that many people screw up. For example, people often get inbound and outbound confused, and forget that "me to X" and "X to me" are often separate problems. Asymmetric routing, where networks hand packets off early to the network with more detailed knowledge of the destination, is a great thing, but many people don't get it. Traceroute is a great tool for getting information, but the return path trips people up all the time. Here are some great notes on interpreting it.
Meanwhile the Dawn probe is powering through space using its ion drive. It's scheduled to get to Ceres a few months before New Horizons flies past Pluto. Here's the current position, and there's also an interesting journal.
As well as space probes seeing Pluto and Ceres, 2015 should be when the LHC is turned up to higher power, so it could be a good year for science news.