So when politicians hold an event, it's illegal to protest the event outside of so-called free speech zones, far away from the event. But WBC is allowed to harass family members of the slain? Not that I believe that free speech should be cordoned into a zone.
It will be bloody, but I don't think the rich will win in an all out revolution. The rich will be put to the guillotine, the rebel generals will become the new rich (but not as rich as the old rich), and the cycle of wealth accumulation will repeat.
They know that the increasing concentration of wealth into the hands of the few is politically unstable. Pretty soon, there will be wide-spread revolts. They know this. The counterterrorism center doesn't exist to deal with al Qaeda. Al Quaeda isn't a threat.
To a large degree, we are already there. 3D graphics processing is done in vector and matrix representations. Sprites are dead. It's all about polygons. Eventually, it does need to be rasterized to a pixel based monitor, but 3D geometry is all vector based. Unless you are using some weird voxel engine.
Fusion is relatively easy. Ignition, on the other hand, is hard. Ignition is a controlled burn, where the heat released from fusion is used to trigger fusion in more fuel. In the case of ICF, this might mean triggering fusion in a hot spot and having a burn wave encompass the entire fuel pellet, so the entire fuel pellet is consumed with a much lower amount of input energy. This is important to actually producing fusion energy.
I thought Alzheimer's sufferers had serious deterioration in brain mass. I don't understand how brain stimulation can help when so much of the brain is physically destroyed.
The people in US who don't deny the existence of climate change will keep on blaming China and India as a scapegoat. Meanwhile, it's US, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, and a few other countries which are holding up any kind of international progress from taking place. China leads the world in renewable energy investment. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2012/07/27/china-leads-the-world-in-renewable-energy-investment/ I think it's time to get your head out of the sand and admit that you are part of the problem.
Too many people live in suburbs where not being able to drive means utter dependency. The problem with democracy is, if everyone wants to drive, then we aren't going to erect a lot of meaningful barriers against it.
The nice thing about functions (rather than just simple subroutines) is that you can chain them in a single line. E.g. a = geommean(factorial(b), zeta(c)) The single return value mechanic really makes it easy to use for math-style expressions. But the single return value mechanic isn't adequate when the function is allowed to have errors. In a language like c, one might do something like f = factorial(b, &error); z = zeta(c, &error2); if (error==0 and error2==0) { a = geommean(f, z, &error3); } else {error3 = 1;} Unfortunately, there's no longer any simple way to chain the functions, which kinda defeats the point of functions. So exceptions were invented.
Perhaps a better language would have some better handling of multiple-output functions. Maybe some way of chaining functions such that the error behavior can be defined. I'm not sure exactly how to do that.
The article makes the astounding claim that this animal "hasn’t evolved for 300 million years". Sounds like hogwash to me, but is there any indication that this is true?
Kid, the computer is the least of your worries. You know those vaccine shots you got earlier? Actually, they were tracking chips. There are cameras and microphones throughout the house, your schoolbag, your shoes,.... That "friend" of yours--(I'll let you guess which one)--he reports to me. I also regularly send your poop in for analysis. So be good.
No, I don't think people should just accept facts as true, but rather analyze everything with a critical eye and base personal belief on the preponderance of evidence. It is the clerics that want you to accept ideas without question.
Nintendo has never incorporated bleeding edge processors into their design, rather focusing on games and weird peripherals. It seems to have worked for them so far, so why change?
Hmm, a game where you can program a computer within that game? Anybody remember that old adventure game called B.A.T. Agent? Weird game where, IIRC, you can program yourself with some crude scripting language. I don't think there's anything else like it.
I don't think we'll ever fuck up Earth so badly that another planet will look hospitable in comparison. We might have to build domed cities here on Earth, but the engineering requirements will be much simpler than building domed cities on Mars.
There are two reasons for this: 1. The flight crew is following procedure by rote. 2. The procedure designers want you to be paying attention to the flight crew, not some toy.
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So when politicians hold an event, it's illegal to protest the event outside of so-called free speech zones, far away from the event. But WBC is allowed to harass family members of the slain? Not that I believe that free speech should be cordoned into a zone.
It will be bloody, but I don't think the rich will win in an all out revolution. The rich will be put to the guillotine, the rebel generals will become the new rich (but not as rich as the old rich), and the cycle of wealth accumulation will repeat.
They know that the increasing concentration of wealth into the hands of the few is politically unstable. Pretty soon, there will be wide-spread revolts. They know this. The counterterrorism center doesn't exist to deal with al Qaeda. Al Quaeda isn't a threat.
You do need to take into account seasonal variation of the water table.
To a large degree, we are already there. 3D graphics processing is done in vector and matrix representations. Sprites are dead. It's all about polygons. Eventually, it does need to be rasterized to a pixel based monitor, but 3D geometry is all vector based. Unless you are using some weird voxel engine.
Fusion is relatively easy. Ignition, on the other hand, is hard. Ignition is a controlled burn, where the heat released from fusion is used to trigger fusion in more fuel. In the case of ICF, this might mean triggering fusion in a hot spot and having a burn wave encompass the entire fuel pellet, so the entire fuel pellet is consumed with a much lower amount of input energy. This is important to actually producing fusion energy.
Appealing to authority is only fallacious if you ask questions outside their field of authority.
I thought Alzheimer's sufferers had serious deterioration in brain mass. I don't understand how brain stimulation can help when so much of the brain is physically destroyed.
Who the hell uses the word spokesman? Spokesperson is the new default word.
That works fine with floating point, but integers don't have an NaN.
I agree that a republic does handle these conundrums slightly better, but other problems worse.
The people in US who don't deny the existence of climate change will keep on blaming China and India as a scapegoat. Meanwhile, it's US, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, and a few other countries which are holding up any kind of international progress from taking place.
China leads the world in renewable energy investment.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2012/07/27/china-leads-the-world-in-renewable-energy-investment/
I think it's time to get your head out of the sand and admit that you are part of the problem.
Make it the driver's responsibility to keep the black box in working order, in the same manner as headlights and blinkers.
Too many people live in suburbs where not being able to drive means utter dependency. The problem with democracy is, if everyone wants to drive, then we aren't going to erect a lot of meaningful barriers against it.
The nice thing about functions (rather than just simple subroutines) is that you can chain them in a single line. E.g.
a = geommean(factorial(b), zeta(c))
The single return value mechanic really makes it easy to use for math-style expressions. But the single return value mechanic isn't adequate when the function is allowed to have errors. In a language like c, one might do something like
f = factorial(b, &error);
z = zeta(c, &error2);
if (error==0 and error2==0) { a = geommean(f, z, &error3); } else {error3 = 1;}
Unfortunately, there's no longer any simple way to chain the functions, which kinda defeats the point of functions. So exceptions were invented.
Perhaps a better language would have some better handling of multiple-output functions. Maybe some way of chaining functions such that the error behavior can be defined. I'm not sure exactly how to do that.
Any single index system is an oversimplification, but you could check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_hour_worked
The article makes the astounding claim that this animal "hasn’t evolved for 300 million years". Sounds like hogwash to me, but is there any indication that this is true?
Kid, the computer is the least of your worries. You know those vaccine shots you got earlier? Actually, they were tracking chips. There are cameras and microphones throughout the house, your schoolbag, your shoes, .... That "friend" of yours--(I'll let you guess which one)--he reports to me. I also regularly send your poop in for analysis. So be good.
No, I don't think people should just accept facts as true, but rather analyze everything with a critical eye and base personal belief on the preponderance of evidence. It is the clerics that want you to accept ideas without question.
Nintendo has never incorporated bleeding edge processors into their design, rather focusing on games and weird peripherals. It seems to have worked for them so far, so why change?
Hmm, a game where you can program a computer within that game? Anybody remember that old adventure game called B.A.T. Agent? Weird game where, IIRC, you can program yourself with some crude scripting language. I don't think there's anything else like it.
Hmm, good point.
I don't think we'll ever fuck up Earth so badly that another planet will look hospitable in comparison. We might have to build domed cities here on Earth, but the engineering requirements will be much simpler than building domed cities on Mars.
There are two reasons for this:
1. The flight crew is following procedure by rote.
2. The procedure designers want you to be paying attention to the flight crew, not some toy.
Yay, more toxic waste for the landfill.