You should ask the person at p1151-ipbf2702marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp who added the comment about Western pilots on July 8th. The NYT citation has no reference to Western pilots. This change is that IP address's sole contribution to Wikipedia.
If something looks strange on Wikipedia, check who added it and when.
The last time CO2 levels were at 400ppm was a very long time ago, way before neanderthals, at the time of homo erectus. Maybe it's not unreasonable to worry.
I was trying to program in FOCAL at a dumb terminal hanging off a PDP mini when I was an undergraduate. Suddenly my screen had muchísimo scrolling text and the other people there had nada. Oops!
Smartphones are toys which we will eventually get bored of.
I disagree. In the first two weeks of April I've tracked 125 miles (200km) of cycling, running, and walking. I've used the calendar a few times to tell me where the next meeting is. I've read some pages from an ebook while traveling by train. I've taken 16 photos. I've even received four phone calls in that time. I could carry around specialized devices for all these functions, but it's much easier to carry a smartphone.
I don't think we'll get bored, and if something even more amazing comes along, then great!
Jules Verne's work is awsome. I'm reading it now and learning french. And for you who are also learning, there are some good free audio books out there, e.g. http://www.litteratureaudio.com/
Many thanks to Project Gutenberg and their volunteers. There is a lot of great public domain material out there, and I've especially enjoyed Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Trollope. Also Jules Verne's work is pretty good for French learners.
The "British billion = 10^12" went out of use in the 1970's. The Brits use the same billion=10^9 as everyone else.
No a billion is still 10^12. That has never changed. But because Americans usually get it wrong, the British now uses the American billion when speaking about money, but the real billion when speaking about everything else. Of course billions are rarely used for anything other than money.
maybe her site is popular because is has a good vibe, sells good/fun products and has good support for everything.
Many Slashdotters seem to underestimate the importance of support and community. There are posts that criticize the CPU or memory of Arduino and Pi, but what you're getting with these is a lot of help with doing things. For me it's great using an Arduino/Pi combination just to get a nice graph of light level and temperature in my apartment when I'm traveling.
When I get some more stuff working I'll be able to sing "1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. sensors working overtime" <g>.
To get good information on Europa, you really need a lander. You might not even need to drill - organics may flow up from the ocean and get frozen in the crust. But a lander is necessary to get actual samples. In fact, if they send that Curiosity clone they're planning to Europa instead of Mars again, it might get much more interesting results!
There may be some fun 10 meter long ice blades ("penitentes") on the surface of Europa that would be amazing to see close up (though maybe not so great to land on). Dr Hobley: "We are expecting a band around the equator where it is spiky."
Why just 400Gbps if they figure they need 1Tbps by the year after next?
It's down to what is possible in the next few years. 100G was originally implemented as 4 lanes of 25Gbit/s, which was challenging on the electronics side. There is also now a cheaper technology with 10 lanes of 10Gbit/s. To get further you need both more parallelism and higher speed serialization-deserialization. However, increasing either of these numbers comes with a cost. 400G looks possible with 16 lanes of 25Gbit/s, but an increase to 25 x 40Gbit/s would be very difficult indeed. Here's a link to a NANOG presentation - http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog52/abstracts.php?pt=MTc2MSZuYW5vZzUy&nm=nanog52
The immediate rollback from 0.8 proves that all it requires is the large mining pools to reach a decision behind closed doors, and they'll implement whatever modified protocol they desire.
If most of the power lies with the active miners, then perhaps there will be a temptation to change the protocol to increase the production rate. The people sitting on huge stacks of previously mined bitcoins don't seem to be have much control over the current mining/validation.
You still need electrical power for repeaters, though, as the fiber amplifier has a pump laser that has to be powered. It's not practical to send high power at the pumping wavelength through a series of erbium-doped repeaters.
Now, I don't troll (I know many people on this site will disagree), I can express my opinion but I don't troll even if you think my opinion is a troll in itself.
The problem is that I could compose the world's best post, pulling together the "Cross of Gold" speech, bimetallism, Winston Churchill's decision on the exchange rate, etc., in reply to one of your posts. You would just carry on serenely, with "fake" this, and "counterfeit" that, and more "fiat"s than a Turin parking lot. Your posts are just generated from ROM, and it seems that your opinions will not be changed by any replies to you. You shouldn't be modded down, but you're unlikely to get modded up by always saying the same thing, and implying we're a bunch of idiots.
"As for price, the 10 to 20 euros mentioned before is the subsidized price; I don’t know what the actual retail will be. If you want the lower price you will need to contact a cell network which carries it and buy it from them – with contract, probably."
So it was only a $13 ereader in the same sense that this is a $0.01 cellphone.
The original NASA policy document is worth looking at, especially as it collects together a lot of interesting photos: http://go.nasa.gov/JDYo9v (links to PDF)
(begin sarcasm) Wouldn't it be great if there was something with a similar cost, but which didn't involve waiting for modems, or tying up your phone line, or occasionally dropping out? But nobody will ever invent that. (end sarcasm)
"Sort of cool, but..." sums it up. A moon landing mission launched 440 days after Apollo 8 splashed down, and there was hardly a great deal of media interest in Apollo 13 until the explosion. So a trip of 501 days could be a bit longer than our collective attention span.
Also Apollo 8 was part of a series of missions culminating in a moon landing less than a year later. And it wasn't competing with awesome robots wandering around and sending color pictures from the surface as the tourists whizzed past.
what altitude shall we pick for that water to melt and to boil?
75% of the world's population lives at less than 500m elevation. Sea level seems like a good choice. Water then boils at 98-100C for most people, 94C in Denver and 88C in La Paz.
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You should ask the person at p1151-ipbf2702marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp who added the comment about Western pilots on July 8th. The NYT citation has no reference to Western pilots. This change is that IP address's sole contribution to Wikipedia.
If something looks strange on Wikipedia, check who added it and when.
That's probably because there are more people named "Jeeves" in the UK.
It's the 5797th ranked name in Great Britain, and it looks like there are about 1500 "Jeeveses".
In 1881, the year P.G. Wodehouse was born, they were mostly in Hertfordshire
Coffee futures are down, supplies are up.
This is true
This is just another warmist scare story.
The last time CO2 levels were at 400ppm was a very long time ago, way before neanderthals, at the time of homo erectus. Maybe it's not unreasonable to worry.
It's also closing in on the off-planet driving record. However, the current record was set by Lunokhod 2 on the Moon and isn't known very exactly.
I also puttered around with FOCAL a bit.
I was trying to program in FOCAL at a dumb terminal hanging off a PDP mini when I was an undergraduate. Suddenly my screen had muchísimo scrolling text and the other people there had nada. Oops!
Smartphones are toys which we will eventually get bored of.
I disagree. In the first two weeks of April I've tracked 125 miles (200km) of cycling, running, and walking. I've used the calendar a few times to tell me where the next meeting is. I've read some pages from an ebook while traveling by train. I've taken 16 photos. I've even received four phone calls in that time. I could carry around specialized devices for all these functions, but it's much easier to carry a smartphone.
I don't think we'll get bored, and if something even more amazing comes along, then great!
The "next space shuttle" may take a while, but there have certainly been guns in space.
Jules Verne's work is awsome. I'm reading it now and learning french. And for you who are also learning, there are some good free audio books out there, e.g. http://www.litteratureaudio.com/
Also librivox.org has some good French content. "Ezwa" has a great reading voice and does many of the chapters in this book - http://librivox.org/le-tour-du-monde-en-quatre-vingts-jours-by-jules-verne/
Many thanks to Project Gutenberg and their volunteers. There is a lot of great public domain material out there, and I've especially enjoyed Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Trollope. Also Jules Verne's work is pretty good for French learners.
No a billion is still 10^12. That has never changed. But because Americans usually get it wrong, the British now uses the American billion when speaking about money, but the real billion when speaking about everything else. Of course billions are rarely used for anything other than money.
I think you are a little out of date:
The Economist Pocket Style Book recommended 10^9 for "billion" back in 1986.
maybe her site is popular because is has a good vibe, sells good/fun products and has good support for everything.
Many Slashdotters seem to underestimate the importance of support and community. There are posts that criticize the CPU or memory of Arduino and Pi, but what you're getting with these is a lot of help with doing things. For me it's great using an Arduino/Pi combination just to get a nice graph of light level and temperature in my apartment when I'm traveling.
When I get some more stuff working I'll be able to sing "1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. sensors working overtime" <g>.
To get good information on Europa, you really need a lander. You might not even need to drill - organics may flow up from the ocean and get frozen in the crust. But a lander is necessary to get actual samples. In fact, if they send that Curiosity clone they're planning to Europa instead of Mars again, it might get much more interesting results!
There may be some fun 10 meter long ice blades ("penitentes") on the surface of Europa that would be amazing to see close up (though maybe not so great to land on). Dr Hobley: "We are expecting a band around the equator where it is spiky."
Why just 400Gbps if they figure they need 1Tbps by the year after next?
It's down to what is possible in the next few years. 100G was originally implemented as 4 lanes of 25Gbit/s, which was challenging on the electronics side. There is also now a cheaper technology with 10 lanes of 10Gbit/s. To get further you need both more parallelism and higher speed serialization-deserialization. However, increasing either of these numbers comes with a cost. 400G looks possible with 16 lanes of 25Gbit/s, but an increase to 25 x 40Gbit/s would be very difficult indeed. Here's a link to a NANOG presentation - http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog52/abstracts.php?pt=MTc2MSZuYW5vZzUy&nm=nanog52
The immediate rollback from 0.8 proves that all it requires is the large mining pools to reach a decision behind closed doors, and they'll implement whatever modified protocol they desire.
If most of the power lies with the active miners, then perhaps there will be a temptation to change the protocol to increase the production rate. The people sitting on huge stacks of previously mined bitcoins don't seem to be have much control over the current mining/validation.
Unless they use Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers that require no electrical power to be fed down the cable.
You still need electrical power for repeaters, though, as the fiber amplifier has a pump laser that has to be powered. It's not practical to send high power at the pumping wavelength through a series of erbium-doped repeaters.
How about this? - http://www.adafruit.com/products/885 - IOIO Mint - Portable Android Development Kit
Now, I don't troll (I know many people on this site will disagree), I can express my opinion but I don't troll even if you think my opinion is a troll in itself.
The problem is that I could compose the world's best post, pulling together the "Cross of Gold" speech, bimetallism, Winston Churchill's decision on the exchange rate, etc., in reply to one of your posts. You would just carry on serenely, with "fake" this, and "counterfeit" that, and more "fiat"s than a Turin parking lot. Your posts are just generated from ROM, and it seems that your opinions will not be changed by any replies to you. You shouldn't be modded down, but you're unlikely to get modded up by always saying the same thing, and implying we're a bunch of idiots.
From the linked article:
"As for price, the 10 to 20 euros mentioned before is the subsidized price; I don’t know what the actual retail will be. If you want the lower price you will need to contact a cell network which carries it and buy it from them – with contract, probably."
So it was only a $13 ereader in the same sense that this is a $0.01 cellphone.
The original NASA policy document is worth looking at, especially as it collects together a lot of interesting photos: http://go.nasa.gov/JDYo9v (links to PDF)
It is linked from the relevant X Prize press release: http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/media/press-releases/nasa-offers-guidelines-protect-historic-sites-moon
There's still dialup.
(begin sarcasm) Wouldn't it be great if there was something with a similar cost, but which didn't involve waiting for modems, or tying up your phone line, or occasionally dropping out? But nobody will ever invent that. (end sarcasm)
In stock here: http://www.adafruit.com/category/105
Also Adafruit's "Show and Tell" and "Ask an Engineer" shows often have a lot of interesting Pi-related topics. http://www.adafruit.com/blog/
"Sort of cool, but..." sums it up. A moon landing mission launched 440 days after Apollo 8 splashed down, and there was hardly a great deal of media interest in Apollo 13 until the explosion. So a trip of 501 days could be a bit longer than our collective attention span.
Also Apollo 8 was part of a series of missions culminating in a moon landing less than a year later. And it wasn't competing with awesome robots wandering around and sending color pictures from the surface as the tourists whizzed past.
dutchguy1600s wrote:
I've multiplied my original investment in tulip bulbs by 100!
FLawesomedude wrote:
I made 10x my starting money by flipping houses. It's easy!
brokenin2 wrote:
At this point, I've got about 30 grand to show for my original $19.50 investment
Does this story ever have a happy ending?
what altitude shall we pick for that water to melt and to boil?
75% of the world's population lives at less than 500m elevation. Sea level seems like a good choice. Water then boils at 98-100C for most people, 94C in Denver and 88C in La Paz.
Your "inciteful" could relate to incitement or insight.