He, just like I, was probably confused by the fact that primordial elements are NOT the elements arising from primordial nucleosynthesis. Some people screwed up big time on terminology right there. I would never have thought of uranium as "primordial" if someone hadn't told me that geologists are...somewhat less demanding in their primordiality standards.
The word "Primordial" substantially predates the modern concepts of the big bang and "primordial necleosynthesis", so perhaps it is the physicists and not the geologists that have bastardized the meaning.
Most Silicon Valley startups offer healthcare.........if they don't, they are horrifically underfunded and you should avoid them.
It takes time to obtain funding. The article is talking about the people who take a risk and actually launch startups, and their health insurance during the time that they are pitching their ideas to investors to obtain the funding to offer insurance to new employees, not people like you, who only join after the funding is secured.
What we want to do is get the heck off this planet.
We should have a bustling casino perched atop Mount Everest and a fully self-sufficient megalopolis on Antarctica long before we consider colonizing other planets.
From the common person's perspective, a self-driving car should be no different than hiring a taxi. Get in and state the destination, then don't care about the details of how it gets there.
Except you don't own the taxi--the owner of the taxi pays the insurance and passes it along to you in the fare. What you are describing is more like Zipcar. But iIf you own the self-driving car you are responsible for the insurance as much as the owner of a taxi or Zipcar is. However you dice it, though, the person sitting in the back seat staring at his iPhone benefiting from the self-driving car is the one who will ultimately pay, either through insurance or the price of the vehicle or through registration fees if it comes to that.
I don't disagree with you that the common public won't accept it. I also don't yet believe that these are ready for the common public either.
I think the owner of such a car should end up paying for accidents through insurance costs, unless a driving algorithm was fundamentally flawed.
But overall, while I don't much like the idea of cars on autopilot, as I like to make eye contact with a driver before, say, crossing the street in a crosswalk, I nonetheless like them better than drunk drivers, of which there are plenty right now. Let's turn it around--maybe we need to think of it as having an autopilot ready to take over (or anyway loudly warn the driver) if its sensors pick up the driver doing something stupid. Let's look for beneficial uses of the sensor array necessary for these cars to navigate...
From the Abstract: "Power densities reached >0.5 W m2 in unoptimized devices, operating with a 130 C hot side. "
So apparently it generates 50 watts per square meter on a temperature drop of about 100 degrees (assuming the cold side is room temperature or about 25-30C).
I gather that 50 is indeed >0.5, but I'm not sure how you go from ">0.5 W M^-2" in the abstract to 50 watts per square meter. It's half a watt per square meter, which is pretty poor.
This immediately reminded me of a paper I came across some years ago reporting measurement of the magnetic susceptibility of cigarette ash from different brands of cigarettes:
We have studied ashes (whole products residue) from smoked by different smokers cigarettes from three different commercially available on the market brands, labeled as follows: Camel (CM)—three varieties: Camel filter normal (CM), Camel Light (CML) and Camel 100s (CM100); Marlboro (MR) and the Bulgarian brand Shipka (SH). Ashes were collected in glass pots and used for magnetic measurements without further treatment.
Glass pots. You mean, ashtrays?
(by the way, I have had that same sig for many years, but it perhaps has never been so appropriate...)
I disagree. There is a market for a linux distro like Ubuntu 10.04. Just a bare bones linux distro with some gadgets and some UI fringes, but basically a linux that you can use for work. Ubuntu has moved away from that. I have to find another linux that gives me just a shell and apt-get and some more. I am a programmer. I don't want my linux to become windows because I want to be in control.
But, how much would you pay for said distro? Downloading for free is not a "market", and I suspect as a programmer you would not buy it.
I can tell you that RCN cable does. I was with RCN for many years, even using their email. Two years ago I moved, and transferred my service. During the transfer process on the phone, they asked me my 'PIN' number for my voicemail. I didn't know it, because I never set one as I never used RCN voicemail. After answering some other questions, they told me over the phone what my 'PIN' was. Lo and behold it was my RCN email password, that I would never have given them as a voicemail PIN!!! It was complicated and hard for the person on the phone to read, and I was thinking to myself "where the f**k did you get that?"...
No. Don't ever reuse passwords, even if you add a suffix like 'rcn' at the end...
I am not a programmer but I read this about 14 years ago because I needed to analyze some pretty big text files. I thought it was written spectacularly and got me up and going in no time at all. If nothing else, this book should be read by anyone looking to get into the business of writing good programming books.
Pinball really is a lost bit of nostalgia. I bet you a LOT of money could be made if classic machines such as Dr. Who, Attack from Mars, Revenge From Mars, Terminator, were adapted to the PC. I mean, Maxis' Full Tilt Pinball is the last decent pinball sim I can think of. And that was circa Windows 3.1
I agree. Although, while I haven't followed this in a while and I don't use Windows at home anymore, I was thrilled 7 or 8 years ago with vpinmame and Visual Pinball for machines like The Twighlight Zone, the Adams Family, and, well, Whirlwind, since I played that a lot in college. Actual ROMs, photographs of the tables as backgrounds, and real physics you could even edit, and it was all free (except for the ROMs technically, I guess...). Not sure what the status of these projects is these days, but I am inspired to check it out.
In the digital cable, MythTV isn't very useful; however for those of us who use analog cable (which will be the majority of Americans for a while), MythTV does have some life left.
You won't hear 19 kHz much longer. Seriously, not because of this or any other particular factor (although there are many), but because everyone experiences upper-range hearing loss as they get older, and it starts at an astonishingly early age.
I'm 34, which is not astonishingly young, I've been to my share of loud music concerts (though I use earplugs for the obnoxiously loud ones), and I can hear that 19 kHz pitch painfully loud and clear when the volume is turned up enough to hear the guitar. Perhaps I'm just astonishingly lucky with my hearing so far, but for me this is not a worthwhile tradeoff.
It reminds me of the old remote control TV my grandfather had when I was a kid which used high pitched sound that sent me running for the other room every time he changed the channel...
No, they basically paid for the license that they should have bought in the first place. No, they basically paid for the license that would have been free if they had abided by the terms in the first place.
You really would have though they would notice sooner.
iTunes has been out for yonks now and people have been raving for years about it and not one person at this patent troll office thought "hmmm, we have a patent on that". FTA:
ZapMedia applied for the patents in 1999. One was granted in March 2006, the other on Tuesday. Not that it makes them any less of a patent troll, but it would appear that waited until at least a couple of their patents were actually granted before filing a lawsuit...
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He, just like I, was probably confused by the fact that primordial elements are NOT the elements arising from primordial nucleosynthesis. Some people screwed up big time on terminology right there. I would never have thought of uranium as "primordial" if someone hadn't told me that geologists are...somewhat less demanding in their primordiality standards.
The word "Primordial" substantially predates the modern concepts of the big bang and "primordial necleosynthesis", so perhaps it is the physicists and not the geologists that have bastardized the meaning.
There's no datacenters powered by fusion reactors. And the fission reactors split apart heavy elements, not primordial elements.
Primordial elements are those that formed prior to the formation of the earth, and include the heavy elements used in fission reactors.
Some locations break apart atoms for power.
Those atoms would be the "primordial elements" the OP is speaking of...
I'd really like to find a place I could get pure gasoline.
You can, depending on where you live. Check here.
Most Silicon Valley startups offer healthcare.........if they don't, they are horrifically underfunded and you should avoid them.
It takes time to obtain funding. The article is talking about the people who take a risk and actually launch startups, and their health insurance during the time that they are pitching their ideas to investors to obtain the funding to offer insurance to new employees, not people like you, who only join after the funding is secured.
What we want to do is get the heck off this planet.
We should have a bustling casino perched atop Mount Everest and a fully self-sufficient megalopolis on Antarctica long before we consider colonizing other planets.
From the common person's perspective, a self-driving car should be no different than hiring a taxi. Get in and state the destination, then don't care about the details of how it gets there.
Except you don't own the taxi--the owner of the taxi pays the insurance and passes it along to you in the fare. What you are describing is more like Zipcar. But iIf you own the self-driving car you are responsible for the insurance as much as the owner of a taxi or Zipcar is. However you dice it, though, the person sitting in the back seat staring at his iPhone benefiting from the self-driving car is the one who will ultimately pay, either through insurance or the price of the vehicle or through registration fees if it comes to that.
I don't disagree with you that the common public won't accept it. I also don't yet believe that these are ready for the common public either.
I think the owner of such a car should end up paying for accidents through insurance costs, unless a driving algorithm was fundamentally flawed.
But overall, while I don't much like the idea of cars on autopilot, as I like to make eye contact with a driver before, say, crossing the street in a crosswalk, I nonetheless like them better than drunk drivers, of which there are plenty right now. Let's turn it around--maybe we need to think of it as having an autopilot ready to take over (or anyway loudly warn the driver) if its sensors pick up the driver doing something stupid. Let's look for beneficial uses of the sensor array necessary for these cars to navigate...
...will go to whichever material can be put to practical use outside of the research lab.
I'd give some cheers if they could even find impractical use outside of a silicon chip!
Sadly, I don't remember enough organic chemistry to know what the double/double would be called.
Here's an article on cumulenes, but I don't know what a the proper name of a long chain of it would be.
The proper name is cumulene. In fact, that's pretty clear from the first line of the Wikipedia article you tried to link:
A cumulene is a hydrocarbon with three or more cumulative (consecutive) double bonds.
Emphasis mine.
One of those days... :)
From the Abstract:
"Power densities reached >0.5 W m2 in unoptimized devices, operating with a 130 C hot side. "
So apparently it generates 50 watts per square meter on a temperature drop of about 100 degrees (assuming the cold side is room temperature or about 25-30C).
I gather that 50 is indeed >0.5, but I'm not sure how you go from ">0.5 W M^-2" in the abstract to 50 watts per square meter. It's half a watt per square meter, which is pretty poor.
What was he supposed to do? It's not his fault Apple makes such sexy hardware.
Get an iBurka?
Surely 13 people is too few to draw meaningful conclusions?
Yes. Especially if not compared to people reading a book under a 60 watt incandescent light bulb.
This immediately reminded me of a paper I came across some years ago reporting measurement of the magnetic susceptibility of cigarette ash from different brands of cigarettes:
Magentism of Cigarette Ashes (pdf)
From the experimental section:
We have studied ashes (whole products residue)
from smoked by different smokers cigarettes from
three different commercially available on the
market brands, labeled as follows: Camel
(CM)—three varieties: Camel filter normal (CM),
Camel Light (CML) and Camel 100s (CM100);
Marlboro (MR) and the Bulgarian brand
Shipka (SH). Ashes were collected in glass pots
and used for magnetic measurements without
further treatment.
Glass pots. You mean, ashtrays?
(by the way, I have had that same sig for many years, but it perhaps has never been so appropriate...)
I disagree. There is a market for a linux distro like Ubuntu 10.04. Just a bare bones linux distro with some gadgets and some UI fringes, but basically a linux that you can use for work. Ubuntu has moved away from that. I have to find another linux that gives me just a shell and apt-get and some more. I am a programmer. I don't want my linux to become windows because I want to be in control.
But, how much would you pay for said distro? Downloading for free is not a "market", and I suspect as a programmer you would not buy it.
I can tell you that RCN cable does. I was with RCN for many years, even using their email. Two years ago I moved, and transferred my service. During the transfer process on the phone, they asked me my 'PIN' number for my voicemail. I didn't know it, because I never set one as I never used RCN voicemail. After answering some other questions, they told me over the phone what my 'PIN' was. Lo and behold it was my RCN email password, that I would never have given them as a voicemail PIN!!! It was complicated and hard for the person on the phone to read, and I was thinking to myself "where the f**k did you get that?"...
No. Don't ever reuse passwords, even if you add a suffix like 'rcn' at the end...
I am not a programmer but I read this about 14 years ago because I needed to analyze some pretty big text files. I thought it was written spectacularly and got me up and going in no time at all. If nothing else, this book should be read by anyone looking to get into the business of writing good programming books.
Pinball really is a lost bit of nostalgia. I bet you a LOT of money could be made if classic machines such as Dr. Who, Attack from Mars, Revenge From Mars, Terminator, were adapted to the PC. I mean, Maxis' Full Tilt Pinball is the last decent pinball sim I can think of. And that was circa Windows 3.1
I agree. Although, while I haven't followed this in a while and I don't use Windows at home anymore, I was thrilled 7 or 8 years ago with vpinmame and Visual Pinball for machines like The Twighlight Zone, the Adams Family, and, well, Whirlwind, since I played that a lot in college. Actual ROMs, photographs of the tables as backgrounds, and real physics you could even edit, and it was all free (except for the ROMs technically, I guess...). Not sure what the status of these projects is these days, but I am inspired to check it out.
How do you define/measure "quality"?
By the price.
Just call them "iLED's" or some such and stupid people will buy them by the thousands at three times the price.
Fixed that for you.
In the digital cable, MythTV isn't very useful; however for those of us who use analog cable (which will be the majority of Americans for a while), MythTV does have some life left.
You haven't heard of Project Analog Crush yet, have you?
You won't hear 19 kHz much longer. Seriously, not because of this or any other particular factor (although there are many), but because everyone experiences upper-range hearing loss as they get older, and it starts at an astonishingly early age.
I'm 34, which is not astonishingly young, I've been to my share of loud music concerts (though I use earplugs for the obnoxiously loud ones), and I can hear that 19 kHz pitch painfully loud and clear when the volume is turned up enough to hear the guitar. Perhaps I'm just astonishingly lucky with my hearing so far, but for me this is not a worthwhile tradeoff.
It reminds me of the old remote control TV my grandfather had when I was a kid which used high pitched sound that sent me running for the other room every time he changed the channel...
iTunes has been out for yonks now and people have been raving for years about it and not one person at this patent troll office thought "hmmm, we have a patent on that". FTA: ZapMedia applied for the patents in 1999. One was granted in March 2006, the other on Tuesday. Not that it makes them any less of a patent troll, but it would appear that waited until at least a couple of their patents were actually granted before filing a lawsuit...