I lived in what is now the "Democratic Republic of the Congo" for three years, so I have at least personal anecdotal knowledge.
1) Relatively recent colonial history means that there was no native bureaucracy able to run the countries when the colonial powers left. 2) Dictators took over, and most dictators don't really want to make the country better, instead they just want power and money. 3) History of tribal politics means that when someone takes power they give rewards to their tribe at the cost of the other tribes. 4) Lack of national-level control means that it's difficult to exploit the natural resources. 5) Lack of government responsibility means that when countries do exploit the national resources very little of the money ends up in the hands of the workers (or the country). 6) Lack of government funding for educational facilities means that there is a continuing shortage of qualified local skilled labour. (It was quite common for teachers to charge students a fee to write finals, since the teachers got very little salary.)
Those developers may very will need those fancy machines.
But whoever is doing usability testing should be testing on fast machines, slow machines, new machines, old machines, mobile devices, etc. If they're not, then they aren't doing the job properly.
It is arguably easier to read code that can fit in 80 columns. That way I don't have to scan side-to-side as much, and I can fit multiple editor windows side-by-side simultaneously.
Imagine you have a temperate zone with low-moderate precipitation. (Like the north american prairies, for example.)
Now suppose a warming climate modified the weather systems so that some of that area got monsoon rains (washing away all the topsoil, flooding the cities, etc.) and the other part became a desert. The overall precipitation could be slightly net-positive, but it's vastly worse from a usefulness-to-humans standpoint.
I would suggest that the GMO itself isn't actually harming anything. Rather, it's the regulatory framework around it that let Monsantu patent gene sequences and then sue farmers over them.
In many cases direct genetic modification is *less* intrusive than other techniques of creating more suitable species of plants...the non-GMO method generally involves forcing random mutations via chemicals/radiation and then selecting for the traits you want. Of course there may be a bunch of other mutations that you didn't select for/against that could cause problems in people.
I could see how some people would be threatened by the fact that their kids might grow up to be independent and think for themselves, since that might mean that they end up believing something other than what their parents believe.
Most North American medical staff are *not* up to speed on proper procedures for this sort of thing, nor is the standard protective gear sufficient. That's why the CDC is going to be going around giving training at hospitals.
I heard that the MSF recommended procedures for removing the protective gear involves nine separate hand washings.
As I understand it, FTDI doesn't actually have legal ownership of the PID:VID combo. usb.org handles the PID:VID registry, but if a chip manufacturer hasn't registered with them there is no legal reason preventing them from using any PID:VID numbers that they feel like.
"Bricked" means that it is no longer useful, ever, under any circumstances. It's dead, and not recoverable.
In this case the end user is temporarily inconvenienced until they load up some software to restore the PID, or use software that can make use of the device even with a PID of 0.
It's the placement relative to the other devices. In other words, the numbers are arbitrary, but the charts are useful.
So the HTC One M8 is middle-of-the-pack on performance, but second-best on battery. The OnePlus One is a few percent worse than the HTC on performance, but 15% better on battery life. They could have removed the numbers entirely and this would still hold true.
The more things you turn off, the less "aware" your phone is of its environment.
For example, I have a friend who uses Tasker on his phone. He gets in the car and it pairs with the bluetooth ODB2 port and starts displaying engine info. He goes to the movie theater and it detects the wifi access point and switches to vibrate. He sets location-based reminders (next time I'm within 5 miles of store X, go pick up item Y).
I guess it's all about what's most useful to you...
The fundamental property is mass, and the "weight" is defined by the force generated due to "standard" gravity.
The kg is a measure of mass. The pound can be mass or force, depending on the system of measurement involved. Most technical people would consider pounds to be units of force, where the corresponding mass is the slug. (Though honestly SI units are more convenient for doing physics with.)
I suspect that if you exempted someone's primary residence up to say half a million dollars, that would avoid much of the difficulty with penalizing the poor.
"Effects of inequality researchers have found include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods,[81] a lower level of economic utility in society from resources devoted on high-end consumption,[82] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption.[83] For the top 21 industrialised countries, counting each person equally, life expectancy is lower in more unequal countries..."
From what I've seen (admittedly second and third-hand) the people attacking women are generally doing so at least in part *because* they are women. On the other hand, attacks against men are rarely gender-based, but rather based on other factors like religion/ideology/actions.
If this is true, then even if the numbers of attacks are the same, it would not be unreasonable for the attacked women to feel it differently because they are being attacked for something they *are* rather than something they *think*. (And actually I suspect this same feeling may hold true for race-based attacks against people as well.)
The issue is that cheap access points/firewalls run out of resources trying to manage (and possibly do connection-tracking) on all the different connections. If a bittorrent user suddenly opens up a few thousand additional connections (regardless of actual bandwidth) then that ends up knocking everyone else off that firewall.
The bittorrent users could prevent the problem by limiting how many connections are allowed per torrent, but it sounds like they're not doing that.
Rather than forcing bittorrent users off the network entirely, it would be better if the access point itself limited the number of connections per MAC address to something reasonable. This would prevent the symptom from occurring.
It's possible to reduce those externalities. Near where I live is a recently-opened large-scale coal plant with carbon capture and storage. They're capturing carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and fly ash.
What we need is a physical write-protect switch for the firmware itself, as well as for the contents of the drive.
It wouldn't be hard to have a single pin control whether or not the microcontroller firmware can be written to.
Write-protect the microcontroller firmware, silly.
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What we need is a physical switch that write-protects the microcontroller firmware. Most people would never want to update the firmware on their USB controller so it can default to "off".
Blackbody radiation is emitted from all sides of the emitter; it cannot be made directional. This means that the design that MIT has created, with the collector sandwiched against the emitter, will be at most 50% effective (When used with a light-source derived heat source). This is because some non-trivial portion of the re-emitted light will be beamed off the back of the device, where there is no collector to catch it!
Couldn't you put the intermediate radiator behind a layer of glass with a coating that is tuned to be highly reflective at the exact frequency that it is re-radiating at? That would reduce the amount of wasted energy.
In the article the intermediate body is simply absorbing heat energy but then re-radiating it at a specific frequency. Would the Carnot effiency rules apply?
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I lived in what is now the "Democratic Republic of the Congo" for three years, so I have at least personal anecdotal knowledge.
1) Relatively recent colonial history means that there was no native bureaucracy able to run the countries when the colonial powers left.
2) Dictators took over, and most dictators don't really want to make the country better, instead they just want power and money.
3) History of tribal politics means that when someone takes power they give rewards to their tribe at the cost of the other tribes.
4) Lack of national-level control means that it's difficult to exploit the natural resources.
5) Lack of government responsibility means that when countries do exploit the national resources very little of the money ends up in the hands of the workers (or the country).
6) Lack of government funding for educational facilities means that there is a continuing shortage of qualified local skilled labour. (It was quite common for teachers to charge students a fee to write finals, since the teachers got very little salary.)
Those developers may very will need those fancy machines.
But whoever is doing usability testing should be testing on fast machines, slow machines, new machines, old machines, mobile devices, etc. If they're not, then they aren't doing the job properly.
It is arguably easier to read code that can fit in 80 columns. That way I don't have to scan side-to-side as much, and I can fit multiple editor windows side-by-side simultaneously.
Imagine you have a temperate zone with low-moderate precipitation. (Like the north american prairies, for example.)
Now suppose a warming climate modified the weather systems so that some of that area got monsoon rains (washing away all the topsoil, flooding the cities, etc.) and the other part became a desert. The overall precipitation could be slightly net-positive, but it's vastly worse from a usefulness-to-humans standpoint.
I would suggest that the GMO itself isn't actually harming anything. Rather, it's the regulatory framework around it that let Monsantu patent gene sequences and then sue farmers over them.
In many cases direct genetic modification is *less* intrusive than other techniques of creating more suitable species of plants...the non-GMO method generally involves forcing random mutations via chemicals/radiation and then selecting for the traits you want. Of course there may be a bunch of other mutations that you didn't select for/against that could cause problems in people.
You missed the "increase power" and "repeat as necessary" steps.
I could see how some people would be threatened by the fact that their kids might grow up to be independent and think for themselves, since that might mean that they end up believing something other than what their parents believe.
You made an incorrect assumption.
Most North American medical staff are *not* up to speed on proper procedures for this sort of thing, nor is the standard protective gear sufficient. That's why the CDC is going to be going around giving training at hospitals.
I heard that the MSF recommended procedures for removing the protective gear involves nine separate hand washings.
As I understand it, FTDI doesn't actually have legal ownership of the PID:VID combo. usb.org handles the PID:VID registry, but if a chip manufacturer hasn't registered with them there is no legal reason preventing them from using any PID:VID numbers that they feel like.
"Bricked" means that it is no longer useful, ever, under any circumstances. It's dead, and not recoverable.
In this case the end user is temporarily inconvenienced until they load up some software to restore the PID, or use software that can make use of the device even with a PID of 0.
It's the placement relative to the other devices. In other words, the numbers are arbitrary, but the charts are useful.
So the HTC One M8 is middle-of-the-pack on performance, but second-best on battery. The OnePlus One is a few percent worse than the HTC on performance, but 15% better on battery life. They could have removed the numbers entirely and this would still hold true.
The more things you turn off, the less "aware" your phone is of its environment.
For example, I have a friend who uses Tasker on his phone. He gets in the car and it pairs with the bluetooth ODB2 port and starts displaying engine info. He goes to the movie theater and it detects the wifi access point and switches to vibrate. He sets location-based reminders (next time I'm within 5 miles of store X, go pick up item Y).
I guess it's all about what's most useful to you...
The fundamental property is mass, and the "weight" is defined by the force generated due to "standard" gravity.
The kg is a measure of mass. The pound can be mass or force, depending on the system of measurement involved. Most technical people would consider pounds to be units of force, where the corresponding mass is the slug. (Though honestly SI units are more convenient for doing physics with.)
When doing physics the pound is most often used as force, but it's not quite as simple as you make it out to be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Also, consider the system of measurement with pounds-as-mass, where the unit of force is the "poundal".
I suspect that if you exempted someone's primary residence up to say half a million dollars, that would avoid much of the difficulty with penalizing the poor.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
"Effects of inequality researchers have found include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods,[81] a lower level of economic utility in society from resources devoted on high-end consumption,[82] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption.[83] For the top 21 industrialised countries, counting each person equally, life expectancy is lower in more unequal countries..."
The article I read talked about carbon-fiber flywheels spinning in an evacuated chamber on maglev bearings. I think they were hitting over 100000 RPM.
The following is all subjective, so be warned. :)
From what I've seen (admittedly second and third-hand) the people attacking women are generally doing so at least in part *because* they are women. On the other hand, attacks against men are rarely gender-based, but rather based on other factors like religion/ideology/actions.
If this is true, then even if the numbers of attacks are the same, it would not be unreasonable for the attacked women to feel it differently because they are being attacked for something they *are* rather than something they *think*. (And actually I suspect this same feeling may hold true for race-based attacks against people as well.)
The issue is that cheap access points/firewalls run out of resources trying to manage (and possibly do connection-tracking) on all the different connections. If a bittorrent user suddenly opens up a few thousand additional connections (regardless of actual bandwidth) then that ends up knocking everyone else off that firewall.
The bittorrent users could prevent the problem by limiting how many connections are allowed per torrent, but it sounds like they're not doing that.
Rather than forcing bittorrent users off the network entirely, it would be better if the access point itself limited the number of connections per MAC address to something reasonable. This would prevent the symptom from occurring.
That's crazy. I would have expected a cap on how much of a rebate you can get.
It's possible to reduce those externalities. Near where I live is a recently-opened large-scale coal plant with carbon capture and storage. They're capturing carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and fly ash.
http://www.saskpowerccs.com/cc...
That said, I'd love to see a commercially viable fusion plant.
What we need is a physical write-protect switch for the firmware itself, as well as for the contents of the drive.
It wouldn't be hard to have a single pin control whether or not the microcontroller firmware can be written to.
What we need is a physical switch that write-protects the microcontroller firmware. Most people would never want to update the firmware on their USB controller so it can default to "off".
Blackbody radiation is emitted from all sides of the emitter; it cannot be made directional. This means that the design that MIT has created, with the collector sandwiched against the emitter, will be at most 50% effective (When used with a light-source derived heat source). This is because some non-trivial portion of the re-emitted light will be beamed off the back of the device, where there is no collector to catch it!
Couldn't you put the intermediate radiator behind a layer of glass with a coating that is tuned to be highly reflective at the exact frequency that it is re-radiating at? That would reduce the amount of wasted energy.
In the article the intermediate body is simply absorbing heat energy but then re-radiating it at a specific frequency. Would the Carnot effiency rules apply?