I think you're wrong about.wav being worthwhile there..wav has no native support for metadata (There are solutions out there, but their hacks, and likely incompatible across apps), while FLAC has excellent support for it. And if you want to, in the space you save using flac, you can add.par2 file sets for redundancy, which will drastically decrease your chance of data loss if you have a drive/filesystem error.
FLAC is still worth it, IMO, if only because it is a modern file format, with modern features, while wav is ancient. You lose nothing by using FLAC as your primary archive format, and gain quite a bit.
Congratulations. You just ignored the distinction between "Interested Public" and "Public Interest." The actions of government at all levels, and the public actions of the people who make up government are central to the public interest. There are many other types of information that fall into into the Public Interest as well.
In general, murders and car wrecks don't, they are the daytime talk show fodder of the interested public.
Biotech research, and particularly creating artificial, but organic life like systems, is a parallel, and often directly contributory line of research in relation to robotics and AI. The two fields have a steady exchange of ideas.
Of course there are, now. But you don't see that many Smilodon out in your local park now do you?
For the vast majority of human evolution, nature has been filled with large predators that were perfectly happy to eat a relatively slow, defenseless primate. It's only in the last 10,000 years that situation has been reversed.
If Nvidia's Ion platform takes off, an updated Eee Box 202, or the MSI Wind desktop, would fit the bill. Its not ready out of the box, but a $200 PC in the size range of a Mac Mini with full GPU video acceleration running XBMC or an equivalent is probably the closest we'll ever get.
Not true. Even if we need thrusters or some other technique to actively damp resonance, it could still be much easier and more economical than rockets.
On of the biggest advantages of a Space Elevator is that you get to rely on a stationary power source, either at the top or bottom. Even if you need to stick a Nuclear plant at the bottom to power some kind of damping system, it would probably still be enormously cheaper and safer to use.
I will grant you this, but we're not exactly talking about Faster than Light space travel now are we?
Nobody has yet pointed out how a space elevator might violate any known law of nature. We might have to invest energy in actively damping resonances, but that's not so bad. There's still a very good probability that A. A space elevator is possible. and that B. It would still be cheaper and more practical to use them for bulk freight than rockets.
Damn Straight! This kind of instability is something that has been found and defeated many times before, particularly in Aerospace.
The Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the first stage of the Saturn V had a similar problem early in development. They had a nasty tendency to ring like a bell until they disintegrated (being very loose with this description for the sake of illustration). And they fixed it. The end design was incredibly stable and self damping. With little more than pluck, slide rules, and raw engineering talent. Hell, the entire computer facilities available to NASA at the time (late '50's to early '60's) were less than are available on any engineers desk today.
Solving supersonic flight was another issue of instability. The planes had a tendency to shake themselves apart. We solved that one with essentially no computer help at all (late 1940's).
I have confidence that this problem is solvable. It may not be easy, and may take some genius, but it is solvable.
I'm not doubting that they happen. Oh no. The problem is that they happen ALL THE DAMN TIME, from a geological point of view, and they just aren't that disruptive. At the very worst, humanity gets inconvienced because radio communications get a lot more difficult. Big deal, that can worked around. That's one scenario that is NOT the end of the world.
What makes you so certain they weren't being manipulated by someone who suggested they do it? Possibly the very same person who was paying them for the copper?
Not no opportunity as a group, but there are certainly individuals that have had drastically reduced opportunities. Do you really want to deny that, in a country that's undergone conquest, occupation, and violent insurrection, there are going to be substantially more people with very few options (at least as a proportion of the population)?
How old are these "kids"? And in a society where infrastructure has been broken down for a few years and education is likely to be spotty, this is "ignorant" not "stupid." Stupid is what the american people are: because they have every opportunity to learn shit like this and do not. The actions of someone who never had a chance to know something is dangerous are not "stupid."
Wrong. Priced Solar panels lately? At prices I'm seeing, $5000 will get you about 1KW of rated power capacity. A power output level you'll never see in almost any location, but let's run with it. 1KW of panels, assuming 12h days, gets you 12KW hours of power. 12KWh divided by 600Wh per Liter gives you: 20 liters of water a day, or about 5 gallons for every day, assuming ideal conditions. Yeah. You have fun with all that water.
Um, dude. You are aware that there are RO devices available for consumer use?
They are standard equipment on any "large" (50+ feet or so) Ocean going boat. They're pretty common even on 30-40 foot boats where the owners are planning extended off-shore voyaging.
Even more: http://www.katadyn.com/ manufactures hand powered reverse osmosis devices for lifeboat style use.
So yeah, Reverse Osmosis isn't limited to major industrial installations in any way.
and to elaborate on what I was saying (because I hit submit and then immediately realized I should have specified how what I said related to what the post you replied to was saying):
General Relativity and the Standard model are too accurate in too many places. We know that a better theory to replace them nearly has to predict almost the exactly the same things that they do. Any more complete theory has to predict (or otherwise explain why experiments to test for these phenomena appear to be positive) in a VERY rigorous way all kinds of phenomena. And that includes "weird stuff" like the things that clearly make the GGP in the thread doubt physic's understanding. Thing's like:
1. The phenomena of Wave/Particle Duality.
2. Constant Speed of Light for all observers.
3. Time Dilation
None of these things, and a host of other "weird stuff" that makes ignorant lay people think modern physics is full of shit are going anywhere.
You're disagreeing with the wrong person then. I'll readily acknowledge that General Relativity and the Standard Model are incomplete. I'll even guess that they may be outright wrong in some places.
But (!), that's not what the poster I originally replying to was saying. He was claiming that because we don't know everything, that we know nothing. Completely false. We may not know everything, but we can place some pretty tight tolerances on what the predictions of a complete (or just more complete) theory must say about the world under an awful lot of conditions.
Yes. Internships aren't about raking in the bling.
Internships are like modern apprenticeships. They are to gain experience working with a professional, preferably one as experience and respected in their field as possible. Its also extremely helpful if said professional has some talent at teaching.
If at all possible you should decide on an internship based on reports from people who have interned there previously that you respect, plus information on how well regarded in their field the person or company to be interning with is.
And of course you counter with anecdotes. I could counter with my own, but such exchanges are pointless.
The anecdotes are irrelevant. What does matter is the unambiguous Sociological and Medical research that indicates one thing: Prohibition. Does. Not. Work.
Typical attitude. You'd rather cut your nose off to spite your face than be kind to someone worse off than yourself.
So instead of pursuing a genuine harm reduction strategy that would cost at most hundreds of dollars per year per addict, you'd rather spend tens of thousands per year per addict keeping them in jail.
Its jackasses like you that keep society fucked up.
With legal, regulated availability, I doubt many people would start using Methamphetamine. It's usually just a substitute for other things (due it being available and cheap). If they were available, most users would probably stick to Cocaine (much less bad), or possibly MDMA (not as safe as cocaine, but still better than street meth by a wide margin).
As for those already on it, treating them as people with a medical problem is absolutely the way to go.
Wait, what? +2 Informative? For pointing out that artificial lighting lets you work in the dark? What a world.
The other major point is that, while at the time DST was adopted (in addition to being a time before cheap and easy access to bright artificial lighting) a far greater proportion of the population was involved in farming. Like it or not, the actual percentage of Americans involved in farming (especially small family farms) is now vanishingly small. I really and truly doubt the real costs (including a large spike in traffic accidents and a corresponding spike in accident related fatalities) of catering to that tiny minority are worth the benefits.
And as has been pointed out elsewhere, complaints about the cost of artificial lighting for agriculture and construction would probably have some weight, except that the practice is already incredibly common.
See we have this new thing called "Electric Lighting." It seems now that crazy cat edison has enabled us to pretty much light up any outdoor area; no matter what time it is! Crazy, I know, but true.
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Students built some sort of radio which they used to communicate with someone at distance?
Will the wonders of this modern era ever cease?
I think you're wrong about .wav being worthwhile there. .wav has no native support for metadata (There are solutions out there, but their hacks, and likely incompatible across apps), while FLAC has excellent support for it. And if you want to, in the space you save using flac, you can add .par2 file sets for redundancy, which will drastically decrease your chance of data loss if you have a drive/filesystem error.
FLAC is still worth it, IMO, if only because it is a modern file format, with modern features, while wav is ancient. You lose nothing by using FLAC as your primary archive format, and gain quite a bit.
In general, murders and car wrecks don't, they are the daytime talk show fodder of the interested public.
Biotech research, and particularly creating artificial, but organic life like systems, is a parallel, and often directly contributory line of research in relation to robotics and AI. The two fields have a steady exchange of ideas.
For the vast majority of human evolution, nature has been filled with large predators that were perfectly happy to eat a relatively slow, defenseless primate. It's only in the last 10,000 years that situation has been reversed.
If Nvidia's Ion platform takes off, an updated Eee Box 202, or the MSI Wind desktop, would fit the bill. Its not ready out of the box, but a $200 PC in the size range of a Mac Mini with full GPU video acceleration running XBMC or an equivalent is probably the closest we'll ever get.
On of the biggest advantages of a Space Elevator is that you get to rely on a stationary power source, either at the top or bottom. Even if you need to stick a Nuclear plant at the bottom to power some kind of damping system, it would probably still be enormously cheaper and safer to use.
Nobody has yet pointed out how a space elevator might violate any known law of nature. We might have to invest energy in actively damping resonances, but that's not so bad. There's still a very good probability that A. A space elevator is possible. and that B. It would still be cheaper and more practical to use them for bulk freight than rockets.
The Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the first stage of the Saturn V had a similar problem early in development. They had a nasty tendency to ring like a bell until they disintegrated (being very loose with this description for the sake of illustration). And they fixed it. The end design was incredibly stable and self damping. With little more than pluck, slide rules, and raw engineering talent. Hell, the entire computer facilities available to NASA at the time (late '50's to early '60's) were less than are available on any engineers desk today.
Solving supersonic flight was another issue of instability. The planes had a tendency to shake themselves apart. We solved that one with essentially no computer help at all (late 1940's).
I have confidence that this problem is solvable. It may not be easy, and may take some genius, but it is solvable.
I'm not doubting that they happen. Oh no. The problem is that they happen ALL THE DAMN TIME, from a geological point of view, and they just aren't that disruptive. At the very worst, humanity gets inconvienced because radio communications get a lot more difficult. Big deal, that can worked around. That's one scenario that is NOT the end of the world.
What makes you so certain they weren't being manipulated by someone who suggested they do it? Possibly the very same person who was paying them for the copper?
Not no opportunity as a group, but there are certainly individuals that have had drastically reduced opportunities. Do you really want to deny that, in a country that's undergone conquest, occupation, and violent insurrection, there are going to be substantially more people with very few options (at least as a proportion of the population)?
How old are these "kids"? And in a society where infrastructure has been broken down for a few years and education is likely to be spotty, this is "ignorant" not "stupid." Stupid is what the american people are: because they have every opportunity to learn shit like this and do not. The actions of someone who never had a chance to know something is dangerous are not "stupid."
Wrong. Priced Solar panels lately? At prices I'm seeing, $5000 will get you about 1KW of rated power capacity. A power output level you'll never see in almost any location, but let's run with it. 1KW of panels, assuming 12h days, gets you 12KW hours of power. 12KWh divided by 600Wh per Liter gives you: 20 liters of water a day, or about 5 gallons for every day, assuming ideal conditions. Yeah. You have fun with all that water.
They are standard equipment on any "large" (50+ feet or so) Ocean going boat. They're pretty common even on 30-40 foot boats where the owners are planning extended off-shore voyaging.
Even more: http://www.katadyn.com/ manufactures hand powered reverse osmosis devices for lifeboat style use.
So yeah, Reverse Osmosis isn't limited to major industrial installations in any way.
General Relativity and the Standard model are too accurate in too many places. We know that a better theory to replace them nearly has to predict almost the exactly the same things that they do. Any more complete theory has to predict (or otherwise explain why experiments to test for these phenomena appear to be positive) in a VERY rigorous way all kinds of phenomena. And that includes "weird stuff" like the things that clearly make the GGP in the thread doubt physic's understanding. Thing's like:
1. The phenomena of Wave/Particle Duality.
2. Constant Speed of Light for all observers.
3. Time Dilation
None of these things, and a host of other "weird stuff" that makes ignorant lay people think modern physics is full of shit are going anywhere.
But (!), that's not what the poster I originally replying to was saying. He was claiming that because we don't know everything, that we know nothing. Completely false. We may not know everything, but we can place some pretty tight tolerances on what the predictions of a complete (or just more complete) theory must say about the world under an awful lot of conditions.
And what precisely is the observation or experiment that falsifies General Relativity?
Internships are like modern apprenticeships. They are to gain experience working with a professional, preferably one as experience and respected in their field as possible. Its also extremely helpful if said professional has some talent at teaching.
If at all possible you should decide on an internship based on reports from people who have interned there previously that you respect, plus information on how well regarded in their field the person or company to be interning with is.
Indeed. At this point it looks like we're aiming for a clean sweep of Phylum Chordata in a "there can be only one" sorta fashion.
The anecdotes are irrelevant. What does matter is the unambiguous Sociological and Medical research that indicates one thing: Prohibition. Does. Not. Work.
So instead of pursuing a genuine harm reduction strategy that would cost at most hundreds of dollars per year per addict, you'd rather spend tens of thousands per year per addict keeping them in jail.
Its jackasses like you that keep society fucked up.
As for those already on it, treating them as people with a medical problem is absolutely the way to go.
The other major point is that, while at the time DST was adopted (in addition to being a time before cheap and easy access to bright artificial lighting) a far greater proportion of the population was involved in farming. Like it or not, the actual percentage of Americans involved in farming (especially small family farms) is now vanishingly small. I really and truly doubt the real costs (including a large spike in traffic accidents and a corresponding spike in accident related fatalities) of catering to that tiny minority are worth the benefits.
And as has been pointed out elsewhere, complaints about the cost of artificial lighting for agriculture and construction would probably have some weight, except that the practice is already incredibly common.
See we have this new thing called "Electric Lighting." It seems now that crazy cat edison has enabled us to pretty much light up any outdoor area; no matter what time it is! Crazy, I know, but true.