People don't like to talk about peak oil as something that could really rock the way we live, but it's got that potential. Modern economies are based on growth, which means that more and more energy must be consumed. Eventually, however, we're going to have to figure out a new way to satisfy that growing demand, because oil isn't going to cut it.
Most alternatives require drastic infrastructure changes—converting hundreds of millions of cars to hydrogen or batteries isn't going to be easy or cheap. Adding ethanol to the mix could help, but the EROEI (energy return on energy invested) isn't all that great, and it will force food prices up as well. This company seems to have something rather novel up its sleeve—it'll be interesting to see how effecient their process is. If it's good, it'll be much more than a $10 billion company before too long.
The people who were expelled had done things like evade arrest and assault police officers. When you're getting mace fired into your face, I think you get a little irrational.
I guess it does fall under the free information clause, but IMVHO I don't think anything found on there should be admissable. After all, how hard is it to falsify a myspace account?
It's easy to falsify, sure, but it gives police clues. The evidence from myspace itself probably wouldn't be admissable, but police realize that getting information there can lead to new leads that are admissable. Or they just get the people to admit that they did it, which I suspect is more common.
This has been going on for awhile, but primarily on Facebook to my knowledge. According to Wikipedia, Facebook has been used in numerous investigations, including one last year at my university to catch students who rushed the field. Students had set up groups saying that they had rushed the field, and the police matched pictures from security cameras to student pictures. At least several of them were kicked out of school. Needless to say, this caused quite a scene on campus, but really, what do you expect when you put the information online yourself?
Honestly, I could care less about Karma. I'm just putting up a link I think might be useful for others. If you don't think so, don't click it, and mod me off-topic all you want.
Ok, randomness, maybe, but efficiency? I don't think so - according to most scientists, it took 11 billion years to get as far as we are today! I certainly hope that the human mind is a little bit smarter than blind randomness. If we're going to hop in chance for scientific discovery, technological breakthroughs are going to come to a screeching halt.
So what - Bill Gates puts money into public schools with the intent of helping students get to college. What's wrong with that? Fine, there will be some who didn't want to go to college anyway, and who aren't going to change their mind because of what Bill Gates does, but what's the matter with helping 60% of the population? For many people, college is valuable, and helping people get there is a noble goal. Small steps folks - there are alot of problems with the education system in this country, but that doesn't mean we have to attack the entire problem at once.
I for one know that I would be more likely to purchase and play EA sports computer games if they would be updated less frequently - as former fan of the NHL and NFL series, I got tired of minor revisions and facelifts every year that resulted in nearly identical products. Give the software engineers more time so they can make real improvements, and then maybe I'll get back into sports games...
Eisgrau's right - it's a good idea in principle from the perspective of everyone in the music/movie industry and as far as copyrights go, but realistically, it's just more talk. Nothing is going to change. Everyone is used to free music, and until large percentages of people are sued (which probably will never happen), they will continue to break copyright law.
It's not just the "ultra religious" who have concerns about the feasibility of macroevolution resulting in the world as we know it. Take a look at Darwin on Trial or Darwin's Black Box, both written by credible scientists, not religious fanatics.
Realistically, that's the image that soldiers need to have, in some respects. I've heard that the male brain doesn't fully mature until about the mid-twenties, and before this time, men are less capable of seeing the final consequences of their actions. I'm 20 myself, and I notice this all the time in my own life (and in my peers) - I think I'll be perfectly fine doing whatever, and I'm usually (but not always) right. The military needs people who are going to take risks, not those who are going to sit around weighing pros and cons while a battle is going on. If a low-class soldier thinks too much, he won't obey orders and battles will be lost. Risk is absolutely essential for anything of value to occur.
Yes, these games probably promote inflated self-confidence, but that's not necessarily an entirely bad thing.
Even now, before this kind of thing is readily available, people pass blood tests and yet get derided as using something that allows to succeed. Lance Armstrong is the classic example - here's a guy who's an amazing athlete, and who has been able to stay on top of his game for longer than anyone else. Makes sense that he would be using drugs, right? Well, he's passed every test he's taken.
In my opinion, he's clean, and is being unfairly accused. But in the future, in 20 years, will there be another Lance Armstrong who refuses to take performance enhancing drugs but yet surpasses all of his or her opponents? What will happen to him or her if s/he is accused of gene therapy? What will happen to the incredibly successful athletes who also happen to be honest?
Pennsylvania's primary was just a few days ago, so I was thinking about this issue. I'm a college student at Penn State (30,000+ undergrads) and on day of the primary, I heard that about 100 people voted. Meanwhile, when we had elections earlier this year for student government, a much greater percentage of the student body voted (though not a majority). The difference? To vote in the student election, we simply had to log on to the internet to vote. For the "real" election, we had to go a central building on campus.
I don't mean to say that convenience was the only consideration, because many students (myself included) used absentee ballots, but realistically, I think it's clear that many more students would vote if they were able to vote online. Online voting would probably greatly increase voter turnout throughout the U.S., simply because people wouldn't have to be late for work or skip lunch or whatever to head down to the polling place.
Obviously, security is a major issue, but it's not like voter fraud is impossible under our current system. Realistically, if done properly, I think online voting would probably do more good for our elections than anything.
Exactly - Moore's law is certainly not a real scientific law. It often approximates what actually happens, but because it's based on human activity, it's not very precise. Humans are unpredictable, and thus, cannot possibly be the basis for a scientific law (as far as I know)
Law
6 a : a statement of an order or relation of phenomena that so far as is known is invariable under the given conditions b : a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions.
Simpson also envisions using NETI data to produce a chart of the best and worse Internet service providers, in terms of performance and security.
Look out AOL.
Slashdot Mirror
People don't like to talk about peak oil as something that could really rock the way we live, but it's got that potential. Modern economies are based on growth, which means that more and more energy must be consumed. Eventually, however, we're going to have to figure out a new way to satisfy that growing demand, because oil isn't going to cut it.
Most alternatives require drastic infrastructure changes—converting hundreds of millions of cars to hydrogen or batteries isn't going to be easy or cheap. Adding ethanol to the mix could help, but the EROEI (energy return on energy invested) isn't all that great, and it will force food prices up as well. This company seems to have something rather novel up its sleeve—it'll be interesting to see how effecient their process is. If it's good, it'll be much more than a $10 billion company before too long.
The people who were expelled had done things like evade arrest and assault police officers. When you're getting mace fired into your face, I think you get a little irrational.
I guess it does fall under the free information clause, but IMVHO I don't think anything found on there should be admissable. After all, how hard is it to falsify a myspace account?
It's easy to falsify, sure, but it gives police clues. The evidence from myspace itself probably wouldn't be admissable, but police realize that getting information there can lead to new leads that are admissable. Or they just get the people to admit that they did it, which I suspect is more common.
This has been going on for awhile, but primarily on Facebook to my knowledge. According to Wikipedia, Facebook has been used in numerous investigations, including one last year at my university to catch students who rushed the field. Students had set up groups saying that they had rushed the field, and the police matched pictures from security cameras to student pictures. At least several of them were kicked out of school. Needless to say, this caused quite a scene on campus, but really, what do you expect when you put the information online yourself?
Honestly, I could care less about Karma. I'm just putting up a link I think might be useful for others. If you don't think so, don't click it, and mod me off-topic all you want.
Wikipedia has a pretty good, though short, article on the Akkadian language.
Ok, randomness, maybe, but efficiency? I don't think so - according to most scientists, it took 11 billion years to get as far as we are today! I certainly hope that the human mind is a little bit smarter than blind randomness. If we're going to hop in chance for scientific discovery, technological breakthroughs are going to come to a screeching halt.
So what - Bill Gates puts money into public schools with the intent of helping students get to college. What's wrong with that? Fine, there will be some who didn't want to go to college anyway, and who aren't going to change their mind because of what Bill Gates does, but what's the matter with helping 60% of the population? For many people, college is valuable, and helping people get there is a noble goal. Small steps folks - there are alot of problems with the education system in this country, but that doesn't mean we have to attack the entire problem at once.
I for one know that I would be more likely to purchase and play EA sports computer games if they would be updated less frequently - as former fan of the NHL and NFL series, I got tired of minor revisions and facelifts every year that resulted in nearly identical products. Give the software engineers more time so they can make real improvements, and then maybe I'll get back into sports games...
Eisgrau's right - it's a good idea in principle from the perspective of everyone in the music/movie industry and as far as copyrights go, but realistically, it's just more talk. Nothing is going to change. Everyone is used to free music, and until large percentages of people are sued (which probably will never happen), they will continue to break copyright law.
The ACLU also has a site set up for reading more about what's involved and for faxing your petition - ACLU
It's not just the "ultra religious" who have concerns about the feasibility of macroevolution resulting in the world as we know it. Take a look at Darwin on Trial or Darwin's Black Box, both written by credible scientists, not religious fanatics.
Realistically, that's the image that soldiers need to have, in some respects. I've heard that the male brain doesn't fully mature until about the mid-twenties, and before this time, men are less capable of seeing the final consequences of their actions. I'm 20 myself, and I notice this all the time in my own life (and in my peers) - I think I'll be perfectly fine doing whatever, and I'm usually (but not always) right. The military needs people who are going to take risks, not those who are going to sit around weighing pros and cons while a battle is going on. If a low-class soldier thinks too much, he won't obey orders and battles will be lost. Risk is absolutely essential for anything of value to occur.
Yes, these games probably promote inflated self-confidence, but that's not necessarily an entirely bad thing.
Even now, before this kind of thing is readily available, people pass blood tests and yet get derided as using something that allows to succeed. Lance Armstrong is the classic example - here's a guy who's an amazing athlete, and who has been able to stay on top of his game for longer than anyone else. Makes sense that he would be using drugs, right? Well, he's passed every test he's taken.
In my opinion, he's clean, and is being unfairly accused. But in the future, in 20 years, will there be another Lance Armstrong who refuses to take performance enhancing drugs but yet surpasses all of his or her opponents? What will happen to him or her if s/he is accused of gene therapy? What will happen to the incredibly successful athletes who also happen to be honest?
It is the "green" power solution... until a plant goes crazy, and it becomes the "yellow" power solution.
Pennsylvania's primary was just a few days ago, so I was thinking about this issue. I'm a college student at Penn State (30,000+ undergrads) and on day of the primary, I heard that about 100 people voted. Meanwhile, when we had elections earlier this year for student government, a much greater percentage of the student body voted (though not a majority). The difference? To vote in the student election, we simply had to log on to the internet to vote. For the "real" election, we had to go a central building on campus.
I don't mean to say that convenience was the only consideration, because many students (myself included) used absentee ballots, but realistically, I think it's clear that many more students would vote if they were able to vote online. Online voting would probably greatly increase voter turnout throughout the U.S., simply because people wouldn't have to be late for work or skip lunch or whatever to head down to the polling place.
Obviously, security is a major issue, but it's not like voter fraud is impossible under our current system. Realistically, if done properly, I think online voting would probably do more good for our elections than anything.
Oh well, I learn something new everyday. See? Reading /. really is educational.
Yes, I'm quoting Bill Gates. It won't happen again. But it's relevant and interesting:
"No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer." (SaidWhat)
(early 1970s)
Sorry, that's 27 copies of the 1st edition, the second ed. obviously doesn't because it just came out 6 days ago. The link for the second ed. is:
Advanced Unix Programming.
Well, I'm having trouble getting to the link, so here's the amazon.com page (not a referral link):
Advanced Unix Programming They have 27 used copies, and the book's gotten high reviews.
Exactly - Moore's law is certainly not a real scientific law. It often approximates what actually happens, but because it's based on human activity, it's not very precise. Humans are unpredictable, and thus, cannot possibly be the basis for a scientific law (as far as I know)
Law 6 a : a statement of an order or relation of phenomena that so far as is known is invariable under the given conditions b : a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions.
Simpson also envisions using NETI data to produce a chart of the best and worse Internet service providers, in terms of performance and security. Look out AOL.
Here's a quick review talking about the enhancements since the last version.
Thank goodness the 23 page article has an abstract.
in his bid to achieve the highest human elevation
Please. I've gone way higher than 46 meters above London - it's called a 747 people, and it's way more powerful than some wimpy rocket belt.