Traffic lights have lots of small LEDs in them, they don't get very hot.
Big, powerful LEDs still generate plenty of heat. They're working on reducing it but it's still a problem. For a street light I suspect we're looking at 50-100W LEDs. That means plenty of snow melting ability.
Overdoses aren't reliable enough. You need something that it consistent and predictable with every person. You don't want to use a drug that requires wildly different doses for different people (such as former heroin addicts, for example, who may have a high tolerance).
That's why you don't measure out a 'dosage', you just keep on pumping it in and don't stop until they're dead...
OTOH, why should it be humane? The idea is to send a message. You won't see Mexican drug dealers killing each other humanely, You'll see them using chainsaws and breadknives.
I do think you're right about government payola. Let's be honest - if the aim was to teach programming then schools could happily use their standard PCs with free language downloads & tutorials. With the money saved not buying iPads or Pis they could train more teachers in actual computer science.
I just can't imagine that Microsoft is going to sit there if this program advocates buying Apple products for all the kids.
Or Apple just sitting there if they use Windows laptops or Android devices instead of iPads.....or any other combination of Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon you care to pick. All of them have massive corporate agendas (and probably only signed up so they can throw spanners in the works if it looks like the program isn't going towards their platform).
...or even a Raspberry Pi - which can be "re-imaged" in seconds (put in a different SD card) instead of all the maintenance work that a Windows laptop needs.
With an iPad the kids will be constantly thinking of all the talking cats lurking in the background instead of what you want them to be thinking.
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...at which point they jack up the prices enough to make up for all those lost years.
Slashdot has "editors"? Where do they recruit them, the local zoo?
I've seen some awfully worded/phrased submissions here...you'd think an "editor" for a popular site would know a modicum of English.
Where does ti say "Linux-only" in the question?
The secret of getting good answers is to ask good questions.
It wasn't at all clear if "linux-only" was OK or not, and that makes a HUGE difference to the answers.
Yeah it's a dumb headline. Who edits this stuff?
Thankfully not you.
I read it as "I want to use Linux but I work with other people who use PCs (or Macs)..."
Does it "run on different platforms"?
ie. Can he send files to his PC-owning friends?
Traffic lights have lots of small LEDs in them, they don't get very hot.
Big, powerful LEDs still generate plenty of heat. They're working on reducing it but it's still a problem. For a street light I suspect we're looking at 50-100W LEDs. That means plenty of snow melting ability.
Will this stop the streetlights going off when 'psychic' people walk under them?
What about amateur astronomers?
Amateur astronomers actually make a *lot* of the discoveries and do a lot of the photography.
This is a pretty terrible idea. It snows in NYC right? the LED's dont generate enough heat to melt the snow
Yes they do.
Overdoses aren't reliable enough. You need something that it consistent and predictable with every person. You don't want to use a drug that requires wildly different doses for different people (such as former heroin addicts, for example, who may have a high tolerance).
That's why you don't measure out a 'dosage', you just keep on pumping it in and don't stop until they're dead...
OTOH, why should it be humane? The idea is to send a message. You won't see Mexican drug dealers killing each other humanely, You'll see them using chainsaws and breadknives.
On the other hand, some people *are* caught red-handed, with dozens of witnesses.
When there's absolutely no doubt that somebody willfully did something terrible, break out the wood chipper/steamroller.
There's special bullets which don't make a mess...
Or choose between Hemlock and lifetime solitary confinement.
You could use remote-control electronic triggers to fire the guns. The guns fire after the last person presses his button (use an Arduino for this...)
That way you could make sure the guns were properly aimed, too.
I thought it was so that when you pulled the trigger you could imagine you had the blank.
I'm sure you'll know the truth after you pull the trigger - real bullets have recoil.
Insects don't have lungs or a circulatory system. Their size is limited by how fast oxygen can diffuse through their internal goo.
"anatomical differences between cartilage in dinosaurs and mammals may not directly explain why some dinosaurs grew to larger sizes."
Anatomical differences are never going to explain "why", they can only explain "how".
"Why" is easy to answer - survival of the biggest.
Whether it's a win or a lose depends on how much energy you need, now much fuel you have lying around and how much the "fertilizer" is worth to you.
A third-world farmer might see a win where a first world energy junkie doesn't.
"Lump charcoal" is carbon that still has the chemical energy in it.
They're not claiming to extract all the energy.
They're claiming to produce a useful amount of energy from widely available material and be carbon-negative, and help crops grow . Win-win-win.
And you get the bonus gasifier acid ash that you can use to destroy neighbors soil.
Summary says: "...concentrated into a lump charcoal that makes excellent fertilizer".
I wonder who's right?
I do think you're right about government payola. Let's be honest - if the aim was to teach programming then schools could happily use their standard PCs with free language downloads & tutorials. With the money saved not buying iPads or Pis they could train more teachers in actual computer science.
I just can't imagine that Microsoft is going to sit there if this program advocates buying Apple products for all the kids.
Or Apple just sitting there if they use Windows laptops or Android devices instead of iPads. ....or any other combination of Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon you care to pick. All of them have massive corporate agendas (and probably only signed up so they can throw spanners in the works if it looks like the program isn't going towards their platform).
...or even a Raspberry Pi - which can be "re-imaged" in seconds (put in a different SD card) instead of all the maintenance work that a Windows laptop needs.
With an iPad the kids will be constantly thinking of all the talking cats lurking in the background instead of what you want them to be thinking.
Writing Lua code in Codea, or using any of the many Python ports, is a great way to learn coding on the iPad.
Maybe, but it's still "coding on the iPad".
A small laptop+Arduino+LEDs would be 1000000% more useful/educational.
Also "Making the most of the Micro": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7G2nyaHaoo