Unless you were located in a major university or a place like CERN, network capacity was essentially nowhere in sight in the early 90s. Remember 14.4kbaud modems? In my first actual job in 1990, we didn't even have a storage server, a print server or anything like that, only separate PCs where a backup meant copying your code on a floppy disk. At uni we did have VMs, X11, thin clients and remote desktop, sure. The theoretical capacity was there but no one had ethernet in their home or sufficiently affordable computing resources to run them. Now everyone has multicore handheld computers and wifi. Deployment is the key, not reinvention.
I have this theory that rich people like having to waitlist for luxury items. This is not so much for the items themselves (although they to provide a nice status symbol), but to experience what it is not to be rich and having to actually lust, expect and wait for something. If you want, to experience a kind of elusive desire for something they don't have. Most of the common goods they can have immediately, this makes this common goods, irrespective of actual price, worthless to some degree.
We relatively poor people experience that all the time even for somewhat mundane items like a telephone or a car. How lucky we are. Truly poor people experience that for essential goods like food, and that sucks.
In other word, it is not possession per se that create happiness, it is the desire, expectation and sense of achievement that corresponds to this possession that matters. If one is into possessing things of course.
Like most engineering problems, once a solution exists in prototype form, it looks like a solved problem to the marketer. In reality, there is a big distance between something that sort of works in ideal conditions and something that is really reliable under most conditions. Driving safely and efficiently is a difficult problem, at present requires expensive sensors and a lot of computing. It will get cheaper and easier and more reliable and will probably be useful. However I think we will still have a full set of manual controls in cars for decades to come.
What is the material, labor and recycling cost of doing so ? Lack of space is likely not the blocking issue with solar. Google probably has the answers.
Science gets things wrong all the time. In the pursuit of the understanding of Nature, we only have a few reliable tools. One of them is modelling. Nature so far has resisted all attempts, and so all models are wrong at some level. However some are useful.
The general thinking is that we will never have a perfect understanding of Nature, and so Science will never be completely right and completely finished.
In other words, it requires GRT to be correct. Which is precisely the point.
The idea of the experiment is described in Misner et al (Gravitation, Misner/Thorne/Wheeler), and a comprehensive explanation of the LIGO experiment is given here, in this Caltech course. But feel free to disprove Kip Thorne and all the others professional physicists who have been working on this experiment for decades, by all means.
Exactly, whereas somehow the fossil fuel shills are seen by some as the good guys. This may be because somehow no one want to own up to the fact that they are responsible for some ills of the world. Not me with my little car !
Doesn't really. current IP laws do not protect new, aspiring authors or small companies. They protect established players. Same as most of the rules actually. This is one of the reasons why when you create a company you have to become big fast. The fastest to grow big wins.
There are globally close to 2 billion people and growing with their own computer, power plug and working flushing toilet. 400 millions in North America, 500 millions in the EU and surrounding countries, plus Russia, plus Japan, plus Korea, probably at least 100 million in China, 100 million in India, and smatterings everywhere else. This works out to about 25-30%. Nowhere near the 1% the GP is referring to.
To get to understand more advanced maths, one needs to build familiarity with basic algebra, arithmetics, geometry, logic and abstract reasoning to name a few. For most people this is very alien and requires learning by rote, reinforcement, teaching attention to detail and so on. Most mathematics does not suffer approximate reasoning. This is a very exacting science and even sometime bright mathematicians sometime make sometime spectacular mistakes (e.g. Poincaré).
I agree the way math is taught now is pretty lousy, but I do not have a really great way handy to teach it better. Mostly it is a question left to the teacher. Great math teacher can do wonders with the material even in early classes.
In episode V we have consistent great dialog, especially with Han Solo, excellent action, a sputtering Millenium Falcon, a really badass lightsaber & force fight, and of course, "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father, etc". We also have much better improved special effects compared with the wireframe rendering of the death star of Ep IV; Darth Vador gets really angry with the military brass. Best of all, there are now Ewoks.
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Unless you were located in a major university or a place like CERN, network capacity was essentially nowhere in sight in the early 90s. Remember 14.4kbaud modems? In my first actual job in 1990, we didn't even have a storage server, a print server or anything like that, only separate PCs where a backup meant copying your code on a floppy disk. At uni we did have VMs, X11, thin clients and remote desktop, sure. The theoretical capacity was there but no one had ethernet in their home or sufficiently affordable computing resources to run them. Now everyone has multicore handheld computers and wifi. Deployment is the key, not reinvention.
also Thinking Machines Inc.
Missing features maybe. Like OpenMP, which is not there yet. LLVM and GCC feed off each other. Some competition is good.
Trinity was a 20kt bomb exactly like the one that obliterated Nagasaki. Hardly very small.
For me, the line is drawn where some group uses the state to force their lifestyle/belief on others
So, people in Texas who try to use the board of education to promote textbooks that have a negative stance on evolution? These people are from the left? I wasn't aware.
I have this theory that rich people like having to waitlist for luxury items. This is not so much for the items themselves (although they to provide a nice status symbol), but to experience what it is not to be rich and having to actually lust, expect and wait for something. If you want, to experience a kind of elusive desire for something they don't have. Most of the common goods they can have immediately, this makes this common goods, irrespective of actual price, worthless to some degree.
We relatively poor people experience that all the time even for somewhat mundane items like a telephone or a car. How lucky we are. Truly poor people experience that for essential goods like food, and that sucks.
In other word, it is not possession per se that create happiness, it is the desire, expectation and sense of achievement that corresponds to this possession that matters. If one is into possessing things of course.
The guy does what he wants. As long as his customers are OK with it, why do you care?
Citation needed.
Apple is not for gaming, that's it.
Like most engineering problems, once a solution exists in prototype form, it looks like a solved problem to the marketer. In reality, there is a big distance between something that sort of works in ideal conditions and something that is really reliable under most conditions. Driving safely and efficiently is a difficult problem, at present requires expensive sensors and a lot of computing. It will get cheaper and easier and more reliable and will probably be useful. However I think we will still have a full set of manual controls in cars for decades to come.
Actually, computer vision, in terms of difficulty, is indistinguishable from strong AI. Look up the term "AI-complete".
Learning to fly a small airplane requires a lot of money and dedication. Only a tiny minority can do this at present.
What is the material, labor and recycling cost of doing so ? Lack of space is likely not the blocking issue with solar. Google probably has the answers.
Sunlight? What's that?
Science gets things wrong all the time. In the pursuit of the understanding of Nature, we only have a few reliable tools. One of them is modelling. Nature so far has resisted all attempts, and so all models are wrong at some level. However some are useful.
The general thinking is that we will never have a perfect understanding of Nature, and so Science will never be completely right and completely finished.
I think the GP's point was that if a watch is really expensive then a thief will not stop at cutting off your hand to get it.
Short answer: no.
Longer answer: figure 37.3, page 1014 of "Gravitation", by Misner, Thorne & Wheeler (classical text on general relativity).
Long answer: this thesis..
In other words, it requires GRT to be correct. Which is precisely the point.
The idea of the experiment is described in Misner et al (Gravitation, Misner/Thorne/Wheeler), and a comprehensive explanation of the LIGO experiment is given here, in this Caltech course. But feel free to disprove Kip Thorne and all the others professional physicists who have been working on this experiment for decades, by all means.
Exactly, whereas somehow the fossil fuel shills are seen by some as the good guys. This may be because somehow no one want to own up to the fact that they are responsible for some ills of the world. Not me with my little car !
Doesn't really. current IP laws do not protect new, aspiring authors or small companies. They protect established players. Same as most of the rules actually. This is one of the reasons why when you create a company you have to become big fast. The fastest to grow big wins.
It seems hard to believe that Africa will sustain 4x more people than now given the state the continent is already in.
There are globally close to 2 billion people and growing with their own computer, power plug and working flushing toilet. 400 millions in North America, 500 millions in the EU and surrounding countries, plus Russia, plus Japan, plus Korea, probably at least 100 million in China, 100 million in India, and smatterings everywhere else. This works out to about 25-30%. Nowhere near the 1% the GP is referring to.
To get to understand more advanced maths, one needs to build familiarity with basic algebra, arithmetics, geometry, logic and abstract reasoning to name a few. For most people this is very alien and requires learning by rote, reinforcement, teaching attention to detail and so on. Most mathematics does not suffer approximate reasoning. This is a very exacting science and even sometime bright mathematicians sometime make sometime spectacular mistakes (e.g. Poincaré).
I agree the way math is taught now is pretty lousy, but I do not have a really great way handy to teach it better. Mostly it is a question left to the teacher. Great math teacher can do wonders with the material even in early classes.
In episode V we have consistent great dialog, especially with Han Solo, excellent action, a sputtering Millenium Falcon, a really badass lightsaber & force fight, and of course, "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father, etc". We also have much better improved special effects compared with the wireframe rendering of the death star of Ep IV; Darth Vador gets really angry with the military brass. Best of all, there are now Ewoks.
CF is no hot In her slavegirl costume? come on!