Not sure if the transistor was seen as the big breakthrough that it was, 10 years after it was developed. They ware expensive, and not nearly as small as today. Tubes were still in use for a some time.
Yes, this article is stupid.
On one side it acknowledges that the smartphones are a big invention all in all, but on the other side it neglects it as big because the components of it have been around before. But it does not recognize the relevance of the development of the components, and it fails to see that the old big inventions were also made of existing components.
My opinion is that life-changing inventions are happening at a pretty high pace. Computers, the internet, mobile phones, social networks, how warfare is changing, all the advances in medicine and so on.
So the phone is not only financed by the monthly fee, but also by inflated prices for calls.
Simlocking would not make much sense if it was only for the monthly fees, unless it is easy to default on them. But it is logical if it is done to force you to make calls at an increased rate. Looks like people are not really aware of that.
That is why you shouldn't connect everything to the internet. My car doesn't need automatic software updates. The navigation and sound system need data connections, but they don't need a data connection to the engine controller.
Soot can be filtered from the fumes of coal power plants.
There is a German wikipedia article about flue gas cleaning (Translation). I wonder why this is only in German and Swedish. These aren't the only countries doing this, are they?
I mean this group can not be larger than a few light years since the universe had a size of only a few million light years at the time where we see these quasars.
With a redshift of 1.3 this quasar group is probably close to the edge of the observable universe. What we see is from a time maybe some million years after the big bang. But at this time the universe was much smaller, so these quasars were much closer together than they are now. They are flying away from us since then into slightly different directions, and flying away from each other.
What I think this means is: We can not calculate the size of this group from the angular diameter and its distance, it has nothing to do with reality. The angular diameter comes from different directions that the individual quasars are flying away from us, not from actually being this large. We can only see this quasar group as it was billion years ago, and at that time it was much smaller. We don't know what it looks like now. Also our perception of the form of this group would be distorted if the directions that its components are flying is not just caused by a homogeneous expansion of the universe.
May I ask you what you are doing with your pocket computer? I am always wondering if people do somethying with their smartphones that I can't do. The only thing I have seen so far is watching videos, this does not really work on my old one. Checking emails and listening music are working fine. The webbrowser is not comfortable on that small screen, but it works for all important pages. This model does not have GPS yet, which can be useful sometimes, just Ovi Maps (free offline world map).
My battery life is still 3-4 days if I don't do internet surfing or listening music for a long time. I think it was not much more when it was new, 5 years ago.
The first highlights from the abstract that the summary links to are:
We propose that human intelligence is composed of multiple independent components
Each behavioral component is associated with a distinct functional brain network
Learning is just one function of the brain that someone can be good or bad at. If he is good at something else depends on if he learned doing this or not, at least in the short run. And still, i think he will be beaten in specific areas by people who specialized in it.
I am pretty sure that Facebook could enforce an unambiguous identification when users are registering. Every email provider is doing this. What this court decision says is that users can not be forced to make their identity public to everyone else on facebook.
Maybe it is more like the Atrioventricular node than like the Sinoatrial node. This node is acting as a reserve. This triggers a contraction of the muscles at a lower frequency, only if there was no contraction triggered by the Sinoatrial node.
What I am not sure about is if you can just follow the procedure of your own country, and bring them to court at home, or if you have to do that in the US. I would think that you can do it at home if they have a EU department, but someone else probably knows for sure.
There are fixed procedures for collecting payments, and they differ from country to country. Just follow that, and they normally pay just before it goes to court. If you have doubt if they can go bancrupt before they pay you, insist on prepayments for all further work.
The Hindenburg disaster was spectacular, but was it really that bad? Nearly 2/3 of the people on board survived.
And I am wondering how much more safe this could be built. The Hindenburg consisted of hydrogen-filled cells which were located within the air-filled hull. Seems rather stupid to me to build it this way, since only the confined air allowed hydrogen and air to mix without ascending away from the airship. The other thing was that the hull was burning very well since it was soaked in linoleum oil. In a TV report it was actually claimed that the fire we see is only the burning hull, since a hydrogen flame is invisible.
Where is the danger if hydrogen coming out of a leak would just ascend and get diluted quickly in the air? The pure hydrogen in the cells can not burn.
If you put it into something like a plastic bag it will never become hard. But it doesn't taste that well anymore after like 3 days. I guess the best is some storage form in between, not too dry and not too damp.
Syrian government claims that this is the result of a "terrorist" (rebel) attack on the main connection cable, and that engineers are working on fixing it.
As others stated, the mines are running out in about 30 years. This is very far in the future for American culture, which also shows in this discussion. But for China this is soon.
And they are closing the illegal mines now too: http://www.mining.com/china-cracks-down-on-illegal-rare-earth-mines-in-guangdong-province/
Well, saving the rare earths for later is probably most important to them. It is about long-term profit. China does not care about the very short-term profits as you guys are assuming. An your grandparent poster was right that this is not good to them in the mid-term, since other countries are building up competition. And as far as I remember someone stated in an earlier discussion about this topic that Chinese are helping to build up that competition in California?
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Not sure if the transistor was seen as the big breakthrough that it was, 10 years after it was developed. They ware expensive, and not nearly as small as today. Tubes were still in use for a some time.
Yes, this article is stupid.
On one side it acknowledges that the smartphones are a big invention all in all, but on the other side it neglects it as big because the components of it have been around before. But it does not recognize the relevance of the development of the components, and it fails to see that the old big inventions were also made of existing components.
My opinion is that life-changing inventions are happening at a pretty high pace. Computers, the internet, mobile phones, social networks, how warfare is changing, all the advances in medicine and so on.
Even the summary says that Nokia is just one of 74 participants. No idea why they write that Nokia gets everything.
So the phone is not only financed by the monthly fee, but also by inflated prices for calls.
Simlocking would not make much sense if it was only for the monthly fees, unless it is easy to default on them. But it is logical if it is done to force you to make calls at an increased rate. Looks like people are not really aware of that.
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That is why you shouldn't connect everything to the internet. My car doesn't need automatic software updates. The navigation and sound system need data connections, but they don't need a data connection to the engine controller.
I don't know about others, but I store data on hard discs. DVDs ae just too small and impractical, and haddiscs so cheap nowadays.
Soot can be filtered from the fumes of coal power plants.
There is a German wikipedia article about flue gas cleaning (Translation). I wonder why this is only in German and Swedish. These aren't the only countries doing this, are they?
But the 5630 is a smartphone.
Actually it is just the phone that I want: a tiny smartphone with real keys. I can't find something like that now.
I mean this group can not be larger than a few light years since the universe had a size of only a few million light years at the time where we see these quasars.
With a redshift of 1.3 this quasar group is probably close to the edge of the observable universe. What we see is from a time maybe some million years after the big bang. But at this time the universe was much smaller, so these quasars were much closer together than they are now. They are flying away from us since then into slightly different directions, and flying away from each other.
What I think this means is: We can not calculate the size of this group from the angular diameter and its distance, it has nothing to do with reality. The angular diameter comes from different directions that the individual quasars are flying away from us, not from actually being this large. We can only see this quasar group as it was billion years ago, and at that time it was much smaller. We don't know what it looks like now. Also our perception of the form of this group would be distorted if the directions that its components are flying is not just caused by a homogeneous expansion of the universe.
Terahertz technology is an interesting research topic, but it is not about heat.
May I ask you what you are doing with your pocket computer? I am always wondering if people do somethying with their smartphones that I can't do. The only thing I have seen so far is watching videos, this does not really work on my old one. Checking emails and listening music are working fine. The webbrowser is not comfortable on that small screen, but it works for all important pages. This model does not have GPS yet, which can be useful sometimes, just Ovi Maps (free offline world map).
My battery life is still 3-4 days if I don't do internet surfing or listening music for a long time. I think it was not much more when it was new, 5 years ago.
Same here, still using my 5630. I don't want these huge phones nowadays, with a battery life of a day or two.
We propose that human intelligence is composed of multiple independent components
Each behavioral component is associated with a distinct functional brain network
Learning is just one function of the brain that someone can be good or bad at. If he is good at something else depends on if he learned doing this or not, at least in the short run. And still, i think he will be beaten in specific areas by people who specialized in it.
I am pretty sure that Facebook could enforce an unambiguous identification when users are registering. Every email provider is doing this. What this court decision says is that users can not be forced to make their identity public to everyone else on facebook.
Maybe it is more like the Atrioventricular node than like the Sinoatrial node. This node is acting as a reserve. This triggers a contraction of the muscles at a lower frequency, only if there was no contraction triggered by the Sinoatrial node.
What I am not sure about is if you can just follow the procedure of your own country, and bring them to court at home, or if you have to do that in the US. I would think that you can do it at home if they have a EU department, but someone else probably knows for sure.
There are fixed procedures for collecting payments, and they differ from country to country. Just follow that, and they normally pay just before it goes to court. If you have doubt if they can go bancrupt before they pay you, insist on prepayments for all further work.
The Hindenburg disaster was spectacular, but was it really that bad? Nearly 2/3 of the people on board survived.
And I am wondering how much more safe this could be built. The Hindenburg consisted of hydrogen-filled cells which were located within the air-filled hull. Seems rather stupid to me to build it this way, since only the confined air allowed hydrogen and air to mix without ascending away from the airship. The other thing was that the hull was burning very well since it was soaked in linoleum oil. In a TV report it was actually claimed that the fire we see is only the burning hull, since a hydrogen flame is invisible.
Where is the danger if hydrogen coming out of a leak would just ascend and get diluted quickly in the air? The pure hydrogen in the cells can not burn.
If you put it into something like a plastic bag it will never become hard. But it doesn't taste that well anymore after like 3 days. I guess the best is some storage form in between, not too dry and not too damp.
Syrian government claims that this is the result of a "terrorist" (rebel) attack on the main connection cable, and that engineers are working on fixing it.
But common carriers give police the names of the customer that was responsible for certain traffic.
According to wikipedia the oldest stone tools are 2.6 to 1.7 million years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
So what is so special about this?
As others stated, the mines are running out in about 30 years. This is very far in the future for American culture, which also shows in this discussion. But for China this is soon.
And they are closing the illegal mines now too: http://www.mining.com/china-cracks-down-on-illegal-rare-earth-mines-in-guangdong-province/
Well, saving the rare earths for later is probably most important to them. It is about long-term profit. China does not care about the very short-term profits as you guys are assuming. An your grandparent poster was right that this is not good to them in the mid-term, since other countries are building up competition. And as far as I remember someone stated in an earlier discussion about this topic that Chinese are helping to build up that competition in California?