We can not see further than 13.75 billion light years because this is the distance that the light has travelled since the universe has become transparent. This happened 300,000 years after the big bang. It does not really matter if it is infinite or not.
If Dell is using only AMT and ATI components from now on, this will already increase the profit of AMD a lot.
Some other PC manufacturers might stop using AMD though.
I'd find it hilarious if other countries protested by grabbing a few domains that violated laws Americans think are kooky, e.g. Germany confiscating domains that sold Nazi memorabilia.
Well if a domain is registered under.de and is selling nazi symbols it will just be deleted.
FPS train the reaction speed and the ability to analyse complex situations in a split second. That is what really helps with driving skills. Driving games give you bad habits, but do not help too much more with actual driving. To really control a car you need to feel the movement of a car, that is lacking in those simulations.
What counts as the biggest problem of conventional nuclear waste is the plutonium. The fission products are highly radiative but short lived. You just need a place that is safe for a few hundred years. The remaining uranium is very long lived but has a neglicible radiation. The plutonium though has a half-life of about 11000 years. Too long to store it safely until it decayed, and short enough to have a relevant radioactivity.
So I guess this is about the thorium reactor not producing anything like the plutonium?
For the attacks I heard about it was often not clear who was behind them. As for many viruses, it was unknown where Stuxnet came from. It is mostly unknown who is controlling the botnets behind DoS attacks. If someone steals data he will either use TOR, or an open hotspot.
Yes but isn't it stupid to pay MORE for GE stocks after they give away their secrets to China?
The stock price is justified by the expectations in future earnings of the company. These expectations might increase if the present profits go up. But if GE is loosing the uniqueness of its knowledge, the expectations for the future should go down. The price-earnings ratio is a measure for the expected sustainablility of the earnings and should go down.
Gravity does not work as we think over large distances.
The Pioneer Anomaly and the Flyby Anomaly are indicating that gravity actually works a bit different than we think. Maybe we will see a new formulation of gravity in the future, explaining these and removing the need for dark matter.
Darkening of glass comes from ionization. I have no idea at what radiation levels this will become a problem for data transmission though, and if the pilot would have a chance to still be alive at these levels.
I agree that this is probably just for getting more money. Wavelength multiplexing, to transmit multiple analog and digital data streams in parallel? What is wrong with a classical network structure doing serial transfers? why dont they build that one first, with fibres?
That is what also came to my mind. To have genetic adaption, you will need a form of selection. Either by having many children and killing most of them, or by promoting reproduction of the best adapted couples. The second one results in a genetic bottleneck though.
What I do not like about the Windows 7 start menu is that you have to scroll through it whenever you are searching for one of the not-so-often used programs. I can easily find the program I need in the large, alphabetical list of the Windows XP "All Programs" menu. Having to type a few letters in Windows 7 to reduce the list is just a delay. If you do not pin lots of programs to the start menu, the "All Programs" menu will be showed in such a small box that it is unusable. You have no other choice than looking for the alternative solutions.
The task bar also existed in Windows XP, and pinning programs to the start menu was as simple. The only improvement is the search box.
I think the problem is (or at least was for a while):
Many Western companies have copyrighted and patented their products in the US and Europe, but not in China. If a Chinese company produces copies of these Western products, why should anyone care? As long as they sell it only in China, no law is broken.
Physically a closed room with a lamp in it can be seen as an isolated system. If the lamp consumes 100W you are adding 100 joules/second of energy to the system. Conservation of energy applies. So if none of the energy is stored in form of potential energy, converted to chemical energy or brought out of the room somehow, it is converted to heat. It does not matter if it is a light bulb which becomes hotter by itself, or if it is a CFL which converts more energy to visible light. As long as both are consuming 100W, you are adding the same heat to the room.
Ok you have a very small loss in new ballasts.
But a 100W CFL has a total power output of 100W, just as a 100W light bulb, because of the conservsation of energy. What is different is that the CFL emits more energy in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, while a conventional light bulb emits most of the energy in the infrared range. Some energy is also lost to heat conduction (this is what you feel as the lamp becoming hot). If you place the lamp in a room, the electromagnetic radiation is spread over the whole room. It is absorbed by the walls and everything in it, heating up everything in it by a small amount. Of course a small amount of radiation goes out through the windows. But if that amount is negligible, the 100W CFL results in the same heat up in the room as a 100 W incandescent light bulb.
Sorry all for posting this here, I must have missed some things. I guess I forgot about that start phase at score 1 because it was not for too many posts.
Sounds good. But I would not limit it to one book store. Amazon will make a lot of money with this. And this after some people in Germany stopped shopping at Amazon because they removed wikileaks from their servers.
Then again, maybe others do not have the option to buy from other online book stores as we do. I do not know, do you have other book traders than Amazon in the US?
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We can not see further than 13.75 billion light years because this is the distance that the light has travelled since the universe has become transparent. This happened 300,000 years after the big bang.
It does not really matter if it is infinite or not.
If Dell is using only AMT and ATI components from now on, this will already increase the profit of AMD a lot.
Some other PC manufacturers might stop using AMD though.
Maybe it was a surprise attack while the tank crew was sleeping in their tents.
Yes because this stuff is not patented!
I'd find it hilarious if other countries protested by grabbing a few domains that violated laws Americans think are kooky, e.g. Germany confiscating domains that sold Nazi memorabilia.
Well if a domain is registered under .de and is selling nazi symbols it will just be deleted.
That can onlybe about the independence from the GPS system.
FPS train the reaction speed and the ability to analyse complex situations in a split second. That is what really helps with driving skills. Driving games give you bad habits, but do not help too much more with actual driving. To really control a car you need to feel the movement of a car, that is lacking in those simulations.
3) blatant lie.
What counts as the biggest problem of conventional nuclear waste is the plutonium. The fission products are highly radiative but short lived. You just need a place that is safe for a few hundred years. The remaining uranium is very long lived but has a neglicible radiation. The plutonium though has a half-life of about 11000 years. Too long to store it safely until it decayed, and short enough to have a relevant radioactivity.
So I guess this is about the thorium reactor not producing anything like the plutonium?
Funny that they give it the same name as the former european spaceplane prototype
Diesel-electric drives are not hybrids any way you want to look at it.
Well, if a battery is added, the diesel- electric drive becomes a serial hybrid. So it is not that different at least.
For the attacks I heard about it was often not clear who was behind them. As for many viruses, it was unknown where Stuxnet came from. It is mostly unknown who is controlling the botnets behind DoS attacks. If someone steals data he will either use TOR, or an open hotspot.
They should have added the word "sorry" somewhere. That would have made it a lot better...
Yes but isn't it stupid to pay MORE for GE stocks after they give away their secrets to China?
The stock price is justified by the expectations in future earnings of the company. These expectations might increase if the present profits go up. But if GE is loosing the uniqueness of its knowledge, the expectations for the future should go down. The price-earnings ratio is a measure for the expected sustainablility of the earnings and should go down.
Gravity does not work as we think over large distances.
The Pioneer Anomaly and the Flyby Anomaly are indicating that gravity actually works a bit different than we think. Maybe we will see a new formulation of gravity in the future, explaining these and removing the need for dark matter.
Darkening of glass comes from ionization. I have no idea at what radiation levels this will become a problem for data transmission though, and if the pilot would have a chance to still be alive at these levels.
I agree that this is probably just for getting more money. Wavelength multiplexing, to transmit multiple analog and digital data streams in parallel? What is wrong with a classical network structure doing serial transfers? why dont they build that one first, with fibres?
That is what also came to my mind. To have genetic adaption, you will need a form of selection. Either by having many children and killing most of them, or by promoting reproduction of the best adapted couples. The second one results in a genetic bottleneck though.
Dubai not Dubya. Sorry for my imperfect English.
Funny that you mention the mossad action in Dubya. Is it that different to drone attacks in Pakistan? Or to the CIA kidnapping people in western countries?
What I do not like about the Windows 7 start menu is that you have to scroll through it whenever you are searching for one of the not-so-often used programs. I can easily find the program I need in the large, alphabetical list of the Windows XP "All Programs" menu. Having to type a few letters in Windows 7 to reduce the list is just a delay. If you do not pin lots of programs to the start menu, the "All Programs" menu will be showed in such a small box that it is unusable. You have no other choice than looking for the alternative solutions.
The task bar also existed in Windows XP, and pinning programs to the start menu was as simple. The only improvement is the search box.
I think the problem is (or at least was for a while):
Many Western companies have copyrighted and patented their products in the US and Europe, but not in China. If a Chinese company produces copies of these Western products, why should anyone care? As long as they sell it only in China, no law is broken.
Physically a closed room with a lamp in it can be seen as an isolated system. If the lamp consumes 100W you are adding 100 joules/second of energy to the system. Conservation of energy applies. So if none of the energy is stored in form of potential energy, converted to chemical energy or brought out of the room somehow, it is converted to heat. It does not matter if it is a light bulb which becomes hotter by itself, or if it is a CFL which converts more energy to visible light. As long as both are consuming 100W, you are adding the same heat to the room.
Ok you have a very small loss in new ballasts.
But a 100W CFL has a total power output of 100W, just as a 100W light bulb, because of the conservsation of energy. What is different is that the CFL emits more energy in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, while a conventional light bulb emits most of the energy in the infrared range. Some energy is also lost to heat conduction (this is what you feel as the lamp becoming hot). If you place the lamp in a room, the electromagnetic radiation is spread over the whole room. It is absorbed by the walls and everything in it, heating up everything in it by a small amount. Of course a small amount of radiation goes out through the windows. But if that amount is negligible, the 100W CFL results in the same heat up in the room as a 100 W incandescent light bulb.
Sorry all for posting this here, I must have missed some things. I guess I forgot about that start phase at score 1 because it was not for too many posts.
If it is not published officially, somone will probably give it to wikileaks or a similar site. With all providers having that list.
Sounds good. But I would not limit it to one book store. Amazon will make a lot of money with this. And this after some people in Germany stopped shopping at Amazon because they removed wikileaks from their servers.
Then again, maybe others do not have the option to buy from other online book stores as we do. I do not know, do you have other book traders than Amazon in the US?