So my dad will no longer be a toothless meth addict who rarely bathes, lives as a squatter near Compton, and looks 20 years older than he is? Sorry, but something makes me want to call BULLSHIT!
FYI, he started as a pothead. So forgive me if I don't exactly support the notion that pot is an ok drug, safe to legalize.
I got to wondering myself and did a bit of searching. Turns out that the speed of sound in space is not due to particle collisions as much as it due to magnetic interactions of the ionized atoms. It's the magnetic fields bouncing off one another. If you're curious to learn more, the place I started was http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtermin.html. From that clue I came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfv%C3%A9n_wave, but I'm not about to do the math to confirm the speed of sound in space.
Save it, then ebay it some day. People collect some pretty crazy stuff. People probably buy nazi stuff because they are fascinated by evil. Same might go for SCO stuff. Orders of magnitude different, but still on the wrong side of the scale.
Seems you missed my joke. Which was based on what you describe as obvious. So let me go very slowly. The ocean contains trillions of tons of halogen salts (and by extension, trillions of tones of halogens, all just laying around). So claiming you are getting rid of halogens from computer chips is either silly or they mean something else. I'm guessing here, but hey, let's just assume they aren't being silly. Maybe they mean the halogenated organic compounds that are used to clean and process chips that are link with cancer, ozone depletion, and global warming. Not halogen salts on the chip itself, salts that likely exist in the ocean.
So let's reiterate: 1) Not all halogens bad 2) Oceans contain halogens 3) Intel must be eliminating bad halogen compounds 4) or they are eliminating halogens that would be "a drop in the ocean." Get it yet?
I'm sure they mean eliminating halogenated organic compound or something similar Otherwise I think eliminating halogens from chips themselves is just a drop in the ocean. A deep, halogen salt enriched ocean.
As a matter of fact, at one time I replaced the error tone with the "I'm sorry Dave" clip. Kind of liked it. Except when I fouled things up so bad errors were stacked on top of each other. Then it just slowed things down.
I was going to say CAD, but then I remembered using PADL to do CAD solid modeling. PADL-1 didn't even have graphics. You wrote your script and told it to print the results. Then you ran over to the printer (in another building in some cases) to see if you got the geometry right. Gui required? No. But no way would I EVER want to go back to command line CAD.
I actually had to research how big something you swallowed had to be before doctors became concerned. The the rule of thumb seems to be stuff about the size of a quarter (2.4 cm) or larger is trouble. Assuming it's not sharp or poisonous. Granted, anything could be a problem, but the doctors seem to have a wait and see policy for small stuff. Safer to let it pass than trying to go in and get it. They often wait for the large stuff too, but the ilealcecal valve is where stuff tends to get stuck.
So for non-toxic beads, hospitalization might not be necessary, but at least ask a doctor to evaluate your kid.
Just a side note, but manufacturing IS innovation. It's all well and good to make a one of a kind, hand crafted device. But making thousands or millions of anything takes another set of innovation just as critical. From Ford making parts interchangeable* so he could mass produce cars to Intel working on 32nm chips, the world you live in is a result of innovative manufacturing. Otherwise only the very wealthy would ever own anything more sophisticated than a hammer.
* not the first interchangeable parts (rifles?), but a familiar example to most people.
Long before sin nombre, when folks there only worried about bubonic plague, you could buy t-shirts in New Mexico that read "Land of the flea, home of the plague." Now you have sin nombre, plague, and a random anthrax outbreak or two. Guess it was good they taught us in school: "Don't pick up dead animals."
I believe it was Hungary that studied the economic effect of smoking. More precisely, the effect on their budget. Tobacco tax revenue minus the delta government costs. What they found is that was surprising. The delta of government costs was negative. Not only were smokers paying additional taxes through cigarettes, they were dying sooner, which meant they were drawing less pension.
Are you praying, assembled in a group, holding a gun, and drinking right now? If so, you might want to waive at least one of those rights (temporarily) or seek professional help. Otherwise you may at one point be asked to waive a different right and confess to your actions.
No, it's about the human brain processing phase information that requires a higher sampling rate to properly capture. Besides, Fourier is analog and we are talking about discrete sampling screwing things up. Nyquist may be the word you were looking for.
I've been led to believe that there is phase and transient information in audio that people perceive that is not captured by the sampling rate of CD's. Nyquist still holds true, and we can't actually hear at higher frequencies, but the two assumptions alone don't mean that 44kHz is high enough sampling. But the quality difference is still too small to get worked up about (especially back in 70's when the standard was probably first proposed and bits were precious).
Someone else probably has more insight (for or against) which I'd be fascinated to learn about.
Hmmm, just musing here, but there might be an argument he still qualifies.
Reason 1: I'm not sure there is a requirement to be removed from the gene pool permanently.
Reason 2: I believe Darwin's theory had more to do with the success of breeding: less offspring, not no offspring. Going to jail should in theory reduce the number of kids this guy is likely to have. In theory.
Still, I'd be surprised and sadly disappointed if this was the best example of stupidity for the year.
I really don't see the problem with allowing cell phones to be used on intercontinental flights over the ocean. And since that is generally international territory, who's going to stop airlines from allowing it? Just a slight reception problem, but who cares?
May I direct you to the example of Silicon Valley and the numerous start up companies there. Patents help maintain that ecology of inventors, business folks, and investors.
Most companies can't just start in a garage and bootstrap themselves into being a large corporation without someone investing. Investors are reluctant to invest if some third party can just copy the technology. So what's a start up to do? Ah-ha! Patents! That's right, a large number of start ups rely on patents to assure investors they don't lose their money. In comes the money, good things happen, and the company grows.
Software and service companies have an advantage in that they can also use copyright (MS) and trade secrets (Google). But the widget guys are heavily dependent on patents to survive. Silicon Valley widget guys are doing well. So it's safe to assume patents are responsible.
(if you want more concrete examples, look up aluminum, latex rubber, cotton gin, Edison, Bell Labs, etc.)
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So my dad will no longer be a toothless meth addict who rarely bathes, lives as a squatter near Compton, and looks 20 years older than he is? Sorry, but something makes me want to call BULLSHIT!
FYI, he started as a pothead. So forgive me if I don't exactly support the notion that pot is an ok drug, safe to legalize.
I got to wondering myself and did a bit of searching. Turns out that the speed of sound in space is not due to particle collisions as much as it due to magnetic interactions of the ionized atoms. It's the magnetic fields bouncing off one another. If you're curious to learn more, the place I started was http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtermin.html. From that clue I came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfv%C3%A9n_wave, but I'm not about to do the math to confirm the speed of sound in space.
For god sake, please don't use that kind of imagery and call it entertaining. You'll give the internet a bad reputation.
Save it, then ebay it some day. People collect some pretty crazy stuff. People probably buy nazi stuff because they are fascinated by evil. Same might go for SCO stuff. Orders of magnitude different, but still on the wrong side of the scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
Seems you missed my joke. Which was based on what you describe as obvious. So let me go very slowly. The ocean contains trillions of tons of halogen salts (and by extension, trillions of tones of halogens, all just laying around). So claiming you are getting rid of halogens from computer chips is either silly or they mean something else. I'm guessing here, but hey, let's just assume they aren't being silly. Maybe they mean the halogenated organic compounds that are used to clean and process chips that are link with cancer, ozone depletion, and global warming. Not halogen salts on the chip itself, salts that likely exist in the ocean.
So let's reiterate:
1) Not all halogens bad
2) Oceans contain halogens
3) Intel must be eliminating bad halogen compounds
4) or they are eliminating halogens that would be "a drop in the ocean." Get it yet?
>Yeah, because "Man is an unusual mammal because his breasts are much larger in proportion to his size than other mammals" makes *perfect* sense.
I'd say yes. Been to the beach lately? Scary.
I'm sure they mean eliminating halogenated organic compound or something similar Otherwise I think eliminating halogens from chips themselves is just a drop in the ocean. A deep, halogen salt enriched ocean.
As a matter of fact, at one time I replaced the error tone with the "I'm sorry Dave" clip. Kind of liked it. Except when I fouled things up so bad errors were stacked on top of each other. Then it just slowed things down.
I was going to say CAD, but then I remembered using PADL to do CAD solid modeling. PADL-1 didn't even have graphics. You wrote your script and told it to print the results. Then you ran over to the printer (in another building in some cases) to see if you got the geometry right. Gui required? No. But no way would I EVER want to go back to command line CAD.
I actually had to research how big something you swallowed had to be before doctors became concerned. The the rule of thumb seems to be stuff about the size of a quarter (2.4 cm) or larger is trouble. Assuming it's not sharp or poisonous. Granted, anything could be a problem, but the doctors seem to have a wait and see policy for small stuff. Safer to let it pass than trying to go in and get it. They often wait for the large stuff too, but the ilealcecal valve is where stuff tends to get stuck.
So for non-toxic beads, hospitalization might not be necessary, but at least ask a doctor to evaluate your kid.
Just a side note, but manufacturing IS innovation. It's all well and good to make a one of a kind, hand crafted device. But making thousands or millions of anything takes another set of innovation just as critical. From Ford making parts interchangeable* so he could mass produce cars to Intel working on 32nm chips, the world you live in is a result of innovative manufacturing. Otherwise only the very wealthy would ever own anything more sophisticated than a hammer.
* not the first interchangeable parts (rifles?), but a familiar example to most people.
Long before sin nombre, when folks there only worried about bubonic plague, you could buy t-shirts in New Mexico that read "Land of the flea, home of the plague." Now you have sin nombre, plague, and a random anthrax outbreak or two. Guess it was good they taught us in school: "Don't pick up dead animals."
Depends on if you like meat a bit sweeter. Lead oxide is famously sweet, which is why little kids love to eat paint chips.
I believe it was Hungary that studied the economic effect of smoking. More precisely, the effect on their budget. Tobacco tax revenue minus the delta government costs. What they found is that was surprising. The delta of government costs was negative. Not only were smokers paying additional taxes through cigarettes, they were dying sooner, which meant they were drawing less pension.
Are you praying, assembled in a group, holding a gun, and drinking right now? If so, you might want to waive at least one of those rights (temporarily) or seek professional help. Otherwise you may at one point be asked to waive a different right and confess to your actions.
Unless he believes my cold is cancer because the guy next door has it. Then I'll kindly ignore the quack and go find someone who knows the difference.
No, it's about the human brain processing phase information that requires a higher sampling rate to properly capture. Besides, Fourier is analog and we are talking about discrete sampling screwing things up. Nyquist may be the word you were looking for.
Everybody knows you can't have a proper nuking in the Soviet union without some cowboy riding the bomb.
I've been led to believe that there is phase and transient information in audio that people perceive that is not captured by the sampling rate of CD's. Nyquist still holds true, and we can't actually hear at higher frequencies, but the two assumptions alone don't mean that 44kHz is high enough sampling. But the quality difference is still too small to get worked up about (especially back in 70's when the standard was probably first proposed and bits were precious).
Someone else probably has more insight (for or against) which I'd be fascinated to learn about.
Hughes beat them to it by 9 years. Yeah, a private company.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E7D7143EF933A05757C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
Kind of cool how they saved a satellite by sending it to the moon. Or if you don't want to count it as Hughes, count it as a Russia-US-Kazakhstan-Hong Kong moon orbiter. And in that sense, this is the second time China is sending an orbiter.
Hmmm, just musing here, but there might be an argument he still qualifies.
Reason 1: I'm not sure there is a requirement to be removed from the gene pool permanently.
Reason 2: I believe Darwin's theory had more to do with the success of breeding: less offspring, not no offspring. Going to jail should in theory reduce the number of kids this guy is likely to have. In theory.
Still, I'd be surprised and sadly disappointed if this was the best example of stupidity for the year.
I really don't see the problem with allowing cell phones to be used on intercontinental flights over the ocean. And since that is generally international territory, who's going to stop airlines from allowing it? Just a slight reception problem, but who cares?
Looking at it you'll learn that he really only uses one processing unit on one PS3. But the only way to get enough memory was to network 8 PS3s.
May I direct you to the example of Silicon Valley and the numerous start up companies there. Patents help maintain that ecology of inventors, business folks, and investors.
Most companies can't just start in a garage and bootstrap themselves into being a large corporation without someone investing. Investors are reluctant to invest if some third party can just copy the technology. So what's a start up to do? Ah-ha! Patents! That's right, a large number of start ups rely on patents to assure investors they don't lose their money. In comes the money, good things happen, and the company grows.
Software and service companies have an advantage in that they can also use copyright (MS) and trade secrets (Google). But the widget guys are heavily dependent on patents to survive. Silicon Valley widget guys are doing well. So it's safe to assume patents are responsible.
(if you want more concrete examples, look up aluminum, latex rubber, cotton gin, Edison, Bell Labs, etc.)