What is the difference between this and the already-in-place fuel tax? The fuel tax is even better at metering costs to those that chew up roads (heavy vehicles). This sounds like a solution looking for a cause to me.
while the already in place fuel tax is a fair way to tax vehicles, its possible that a per-mile tax could lead to a more progressive tax structure, where heavy users are disproportionately taxed... similar to the federal income tax structure. Not that I'm a big fan of that...
All captchas are practically useless. There is no need to crack them - for example decaptcher solves 1000 captchas for $2. Any captcha type works since they're solved by humans.
I bet this type of captcha would still work well on sites like mathoverflow or wolfram...
"Pick up any math paper on number theory, and you're bound to find the sentence 'Let p be an odd prime number.' without citation, but that would hardly qualify as plagiarism."
I wonder how often you see specifically an odd prime number... since two is the only even prime, its really the oddest of the bunch.
I'd say start with something practical that builds on knowledge you may already have. For instance, many people use Excel in their day to day lives... I'd start with the vbscript macros to do simple tasks to make your data more useful.
Here is an interesting study on electric powertrains... it comes to some remarkable conclusions about the wheel to well efficiencies of different technologies, and the long term cost projections... Their analysis seems to point to Battery Electric Vehicles as the least likely long term solution to the transportation section, instead favoring HEVs, PHEVs, and FCVs. Very interesting read!
the Toyota Fuel Cell vehicle gets 420 miles per tank of compressed hydrogen... sounds like they have the storage problem in hand. I agree that combustion hydrogen seems unlikely, but I still have high hopes for FCVs.
Hydrogen will always lose out, because it's simply an energy store and not an energy source. Anyplace we can get hydrogen from? No. We have to convert natural gas to hydrogen (might as well run vehicles on natural gas) or crack H20 into hydrogen with electricity (which is horribly inefficient). Electricity is the end game.
If electric cars were the best solution (or energy efficiency was the only concern), we would be exclusively burn oil in more efficient power plants, and using that to charge batteries in cars... rather than converting crude to gasoline to fill up.
well I certainly am not a trajectory analyst or anything, but the guy next to me uses STK to do his analysis (the astrogator plugin). You could be right that they are using Titan to do a swingby, but I've seen some pretty crazy trajectories as a result of unstable orbits around Lagrange points. That is the basis of the space highway.
They probably are using a tool like this to analyze possible trajectories... these tools do use numerical optimization libraries to pick paths between targets and destinations. Just guessing based on what was said in the summary, they are using the Saturn-Titan Lagrange points to alter their trajectories without using much fuel. You can do some pretty crazy maneuvers around these points.
NASA's budget is less than 0.5% of the federal budget, so arguing cost cutting is a red herring. Entitlement spending expansion without end as the baby boomers retire is the real structural deficit that needs to be addressed. Here is a slightly dated article that explains this a little better. And, as I understand it, they are actually expanding funding for NASA, just taking the plans for an american moon mission off the table, and redirecting that to R&D.
I think they normally push them into an orbit that will degrade so that they'll burn up on reentry. That takes less energy than putting them on a trajectory that leaves Earth's orbit.
For those lofty orbits in prime real estate (think Geosynchronous), they do push satellites out further into a graveyard orbit. It would take about 1500 m/s deltav to deorbit from way up there, and only a fraction of that to just push it a little further out of the way.
They're never going to get us into mars, because there's simply no profit in it.
Oh really? Because to me, Phobos and Deimos (Mars' moons) are little more than a few trillion tons of metal, ceramics, volatiles and a few million tons of precious metals sitting in a nice stable orbit over Mars.
What does this have to do with my rights online? I'm not a terrorist, so I don't think it effects me.
only n00bs choose to be counter terrorists, cause l33t gamers use the AK. Plus all the maps favor the hostage takers. If this doesn't effect you, I bet you've already been banned as a FC.
It used to be that GPUs would sacrifice accuracy for speed in floating point calculations, making them unsuitable for scientific computing. Is this still the case?
I've found Fossil extremely easy to use as an individual programmer... it incorporates wiki, issue tracking, and version control through a simple interface, the server software is a single executable and runs on the client with no setup required, and it is free. When you begin working in larger teams, the model is distributed version control. Its pretty slick.
That it is life. I've said it before so I won't reiterate with a long post, but if there's life on Mars, that proves life isn't just unique to Earth. This planet isn't a fluke. If there's life on Mars, then it can be *anywhere*
What an amazing thing that would be.
Almost as good as the BBC TV series...
I don't think life on Mars precludes the notion that they came from a common ancestor... Martian or Earth originated meteors could crash into their counterparts, transporting life between them. The "fluke" part would still be a possibility in this case.
I use password safe, where I keep the encrypted password data file on a thumb drive, and backed up on my home computer. The program helps you organize passwords with categories, one click copy-paste to the clipboard (and clears the clipboard when the program is minimized or closed), and auto-generation based on a specified password policy.
Typically, to lose one pound, you must consume 3400 less calories than you metabolize, which means these people did about 300 calories of extra exercise a day. To put that in prospective, here is a list of activities that would burn an additional 200 calories, so these people were probably doing about 45 minutes of jogging equivalent daily. The fact is, your resting metabolism is already quite high, as your body must maintain its temperature at a toasty 98 degrees; exercise only marginally improves on that.
On the other hand, losing 200 calories by dieting can drastically move that number from the low hundreds to even thousands a day for obese people. Here is what 200 calories of food would look like... it almost doesn't seem fair that you would have to run for a half hour just to burn off a can of soda.
You want to lose weight? Try controlling portions to what the box recommends as a single serving. You'll quickly learn to value foods that satisfy a high fullness/calorie ratio, things like vegetables, soups, salads that fill you up faster. Also, track what you stuff in your mouth, it really helps keep you accountable.
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What is the difference between this and the already-in-place fuel tax? The fuel tax is even better at metering costs to those that chew up roads (heavy vehicles). This sounds like a solution looking for a cause to me.
while the already in place fuel tax is a fair way to tax vehicles, its possible that a per-mile tax could lead to a more progressive tax structure, where heavy users are disproportionately taxed... similar to the federal income tax structure. Not that I'm a big fan of that...
On the other hand, if it is a hoax they could write books about it, sell videos online, claim to be suppressed and silenced, then retire.
soon to be released: What "They" don't want you to know about Cold Fusion by Kevin Trudeau
All captchas are practically useless. There is no need to crack them - for example decaptcher solves 1000 captchas for $2. Any captcha type works since they're solved by humans.
I bet this type of captcha would still work well on sites like mathoverflow or wolfram...
people need to realize there is now an alternative!
"Pick up any math paper on number theory, and you're bound to find the sentence 'Let p be an odd prime number.' without citation, but that would hardly qualify as plagiarism."
I wonder how often you see specifically an odd prime number... since two is the only even prime, its really the oddest of the bunch.
one way to change an asteroid's trajectory over a long period of time is to take advantage of the Yarkovsky effect.
I suspect that it might start something more like this
I'd say start with something practical that builds on knowledge you may already have. For instance, many people use Excel in their day to day lives... I'd start with the vbscript macros to do simple tasks to make your data more useful.
Here is an interesting study on electric powertrains... it comes to some remarkable conclusions about the wheel to well efficiencies of different technologies, and the long term cost projections... Their analysis seems to point to Battery Electric Vehicles as the least likely long term solution to the transportation section, instead favoring HEVs, PHEVs, and FCVs. Very interesting read!
the Toyota Fuel Cell vehicle gets 420 miles per tank of compressed hydrogen... sounds like they have the storage problem in hand. I agree that combustion hydrogen seems unlikely, but I still have high hopes for FCVs.
Hydrogen will always lose out, because it's simply an energy store and not an energy source. Anyplace we can get hydrogen from? No. We have to convert natural gas to hydrogen (might as well run vehicles on natural gas) or crack H20 into hydrogen with electricity (which is horribly inefficient). Electricity is the end game.
If electric cars were the best solution (or energy efficiency was the only concern), we would be exclusively burn oil in more efficient power plants, and using that to charge batteries in cars... rather than converting crude to gasoline to fill up.
Could have sworn that XP was not available before Windows 2000 -- but what do I know...
Maybe the poster was thinking of "Whistler", which probably did exist in the late 90's...
well I certainly am not a trajectory analyst or anything, but the guy next to me uses STK to do his analysis (the astrogator plugin). You could be right that they are using Titan to do a swingby, but I've seen some pretty crazy trajectories as a result of unstable orbits around Lagrange points. That is the basis of the space highway.
They probably are using a tool like this to analyze possible trajectories... these tools do use numerical optimization libraries to pick paths between targets and destinations. Just guessing based on what was said in the summary, they are using the Saturn-Titan Lagrange points to alter their trajectories without using much fuel. You can do some pretty crazy maneuvers around these points.
NASA's budget is less than 0.5% of the federal budget, so arguing cost cutting is a red herring. Entitlement spending expansion without end as the baby boomers retire is the real structural deficit that needs to be addressed. Here is a slightly dated article that explains this a little better. And, as I understand it, they are actually expanding funding for NASA, just taking the plans for an american moon mission off the table, and redirecting that to R&D.
I think they normally push them into an orbit that will degrade so that they'll burn up on reentry. That takes less energy than putting them on a trajectory that leaves Earth's orbit.
For those lofty orbits in prime real estate (think Geosynchronous), they do push satellites out further into a graveyard orbit. It would take about 1500 m/s deltav to deorbit from way up there, and only a fraction of that to just push it a little further out of the way.
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still not good enough to count as a valid password at my company =P
Oh really? Because to me, Phobos and Deimos (Mars' moons) are little more than a few trillion tons of metal, ceramics, volatiles and a few million tons of precious metals sitting in a nice stable orbit over Mars.
Yeah but shipping charges from Mars are a bitch
What does this have to do with my rights online? I'm not a terrorist, so I don't think it effects me.
only n00bs choose to be counter terrorists, cause l33t gamers use the AK. Plus all the maps favor the hostage takers. If this doesn't effect you, I bet you've already been banned as a FC.
It used to be that GPUs would sacrifice accuracy for speed in floating point calculations, making them unsuitable for scientific computing. Is this still the case?
I've found Fossil extremely easy to use as an individual programmer... it incorporates wiki, issue tracking, and version control through a simple interface, the server software is a single executable and runs on the client with no setup required, and it is free. When you begin working in larger teams, the model is distributed version control. Its pretty slick.
What I want to know is can we hire them for the 4th of july?
That it is life. I've said it before so I won't reiterate with a long post, but if there's life on Mars, that proves life isn't just unique to Earth. This planet isn't a fluke. If there's life on Mars, then it can be *anywhere*
What an amazing thing that would be.
Almost as good as the BBC TV series...
I don't think life on Mars precludes the notion that they came from a common ancestor... Martian or Earth originated meteors could crash into their counterparts, transporting life between them. The "fluke" part would still be a possibility in this case.
I use password safe, where I keep the encrypted password data file on a thumb drive, and backed up on my home computer. The program helps you organize passwords with categories, one click copy-paste to the clipboard (and clears the clipboard when the program is minimized or closed), and auto-generation based on a specified password policy.
Typically, to lose one pound, you must consume 3400 less calories than you metabolize, which means these people did about 300 calories of extra exercise a day. To put that in prospective, here is a list of activities that would burn an additional 200 calories, so these people were probably doing about 45 minutes of jogging equivalent daily. The fact is, your resting metabolism is already quite high, as your body must maintain its temperature at a toasty 98 degrees; exercise only marginally improves on that.
On the other hand, losing 200 calories by dieting can drastically move that number from the low hundreds to even thousands a day for obese people. Here is what 200 calories of food would look like... it almost doesn't seem fair that you would have to run for a half hour just to burn off a can of soda.
You want to lose weight? Try controlling portions to what the box recommends as a single serving. You'll quickly learn to value foods that satisfy a high fullness/calorie ratio, things like vegetables, soups, salads that fill you up faster. Also, track what you stuff in your mouth, it really helps keep you accountable.