When it comes to MATLAB, you have to remember that it's heavily optimized for vector and matrix math. For-loops are quite slow, and nested loops are downright painful... Always try to vectorize your code when you can.
Well, since the summary is clearly wrong, which is evident to anyone who actually clicked the link*, I have to assume the sole purpose was to troll. To be fair, though, I may have jumped to conclusions; it could just as easily be a libertarian troll. (Or even other politically motivated troll.)
* Verbatim from said link:
Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
If you look at method9455's user info, this submission is his/her only activity since registering, which is quite recently if you go by the user number (1368959). No doubt this is just another republican troll.
He's probably anticipating the brainwashing attempts of RIAA and MPAA to finally kick in sometime in the foreseeable future, and hence wants to be able to shrink the drive down to an acceptable size.
I assume this process will be gradual, though, so he's probably in for a lot of shrinking sessions. Otherwise, if he'd just pop into their preferred consumer mentality mode, the tiny space left on the drive after partitioning with fdisk would probably be more than enough. It probably would be almost shamefully spacious.
I don't understand your calculations here. With a 2.3 square kilometer base area, just the first floor will be 24.8 million square feet. If we assume that 30% of the area will be lost to roads, etc (yeah, a wild guess), just the ground floor will provide 275000 families (if we assume all inhabitants will live in families of four) with 0.7*2.3*1000^2/(0.3048^2*1100000/4) = 63 square feet. Now we have made so many completely ridiculous assumptions that it really doesn't make any sense. After all, we can all clearly see that it's not only one story tall... My guess is that each apartment will be reasonable spacious.
Well, I really don't think you can call the Norwegian iPhone plans cheap. The prices are roughly:
100 minutes/100 SMS/100 MB: $80 per month
250 minutes/250 SMS/250 MB: $140 per month
1000 minutes/1000 SMS/1000 MB: $220 per month
"Unlimited" MB, with virtually no phone discount: $100
Overages cost 8-37 cents per minute over the included minutes, 14 cents per SMS, and $1 per MB. The 16GB iPhone costs, as ordered in the list above, $460, $320, $180, and $840.
I'd say that's quite a bit more expensive than in the US.
Oh, and if you wanted to use a Norwegian plan in the US, you'd have to shell out at least $2-3 per minute.
Yeah, I saw your link there, but it looked like a completely different vehicle than X-33 to me. Not even the same shape or engines, it would seem. (From a cursory glance, that is.) DC-XA X-33
Maybe this is a stupid question, but was the fuel tank the only outstanding issue with the X-33, or was it more seriously flawed? I seem to remember, at least, that they just couldn't make the fuel tank work at all.
Well, I hear the wind turbines would be the best bet if you absolutely want to kill birds using renewable energy sources. Also, from a more pragmatic standpoint, if you live in a house clad in expensive photovoltaic tiles, you shouldn't be throwing that stone to begin with.
How can you not observe Easter when all those god damned multicolored bunnies, chicks, eggs and other crap yell EASTER!!11!1! from every fucking angle?!?
The cleanest (and cheapest) power plants are nuclear. The problem with wind/solar power generation is the incredible amount of energy required to create the collectors[...]
The links I provided show that, terms of greenhouse gasses, both solar and wind power are better than Nuclear. The article also says:
Vasilis Fthenakis, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, estimated the environmental footprint of solar systems, using assumptions about the transportation distances for materials and the amounts of energy needed to produce the cells, the modules, and their electrical and electronic subsystems.
As for the cost of manufacturing and running wind and solar power plants, they are falling rapidly. The amount of time it takes to break even on the investment of the solar systems now is less than 4 years for most of the world. So, what exactly are you saying? Are you claiming that nuclear power is free? From Wikipedia:
The lifetime cost of new generating capacity in the United States was estimated in 2006 by the U.S. government: wind cost was estimated at $55.80 per MWh, coal (cheap in the U.S.) at $53.10, natural gas at $52.50 and nuclear at $59.30.
Don't be so quick to dismiss wind and solar power. Or, at least, don't use numbers that are 10 or 20 years old.
I had no idea they let minors aboard the space station, let alone enough of them to sustain a leak. I wonder if their parents know where they are... Won't anybody think of the children? Besides the guys investigating the leak, i mean. Well, at least it's not leaking miners. (Sorry, Galaxy Quest, for that shameless rip.)
Yes, it's true. All the scientists who originally developed the weapon changed careers after a horrible lab accident, in which the weapon accidentally discharged. Fortunately, they were quite successful in their new jobs as well.
It's 12 months, AKA "Optional Practical Training", and if you can't get a job in that time, you'll get kicked out. In reality, though, you'd need to get the job before or at the very beginning of that period, or the employer won't even consider you. I was so lucky that the Department of Homeland Security messed up and didn't get me my work permit until about half the time was over; no chance of getting a job in the US then.
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When it comes to MATLAB, you have to remember that it's heavily optimized for vector and matrix math. For-loops are quite slow, and nested loops are downright painful... Always try to vectorize your code when you can.
Also, despite an awesome name, I seriously doubt "Dino Beer" would taste very good...
Well, since the summary is clearly wrong, which is evident to anyone who actually clicked the link*, I have to assume the sole purpose was to troll. To be fair, though, I may have jumped to conclusions; it could just as easily be a libertarian troll. (Or even other politically motivated troll.)
* Verbatim from said link:
If you look at method9455's user info, this submission is his/her only activity since registering, which is quite recently if you go by the user number (1368959). No doubt this is just another republican troll.
He's probably anticipating the brainwashing attempts of RIAA and MPAA to finally kick in sometime in the foreseeable future, and hence wants to be able to shrink the drive down to an acceptable size.
I assume this process will be gradual, though, so he's probably in for a lot of shrinking sessions. Otherwise, if he'd just pop into their preferred consumer mentality mode, the tiny space left on the drive after partitioning with fdisk would probably be more than enough. It probably would be almost shamefully spacious.
I don't understand your calculations here. With a 2.3 square kilometer base area, just the first floor will be 24.8 million square feet. If we assume that 30% of the area will be lost to roads, etc (yeah, a wild guess), just the ground floor will provide 275000 families (if we assume all inhabitants will live in families of four) with 0.7*2.3*1000^2/(0.3048^2*1100000/4) = 63 square feet. Now we have made so many completely ridiculous assumptions that it really doesn't make any sense. After all, we can all clearly see that it's not only one story tall... My guess is that each apartment will be reasonable spacious.
I'm fairly sure there's a Ballmer joke somewhere in there.
Well, I really don't think you can call the Norwegian iPhone plans cheap. The prices are roughly:
Overages cost 8-37 cents per minute over the included minutes, 14 cents per SMS, and $1 per MB. The 16GB iPhone costs, as ordered in the list above, $460, $320, $180, and $840.
I'd say that's quite a bit more expensive than in the US.
Oh, and if you wanted to use a Norwegian plan in the US, you'd have to shell out at least $2-3 per minute.
To me, it's a large issue that you have to live in the US to watch anything on hulu.com. The videos on Comedy Central works fine here, though.
Has anyone tried spraying him with holy water*? I have a feeling it may work.
*Or pasta water, depending on your particular religion.
Yeah, I saw your link there, but it looked like a completely different vehicle than X-33 to me. Not even the same shape or engines, it would seem. (From a cursory glance, that is.)
DC-XA
X-33
Maybe this is a stupid question, but was the fuel tank the only outstanding issue with the X-33, or was it more seriously flawed? I seem to remember, at least, that they just couldn't make the fuel tank work at all.
Pardon, Sir, but I'll have to wipe that stupid grin off your face. I have two words for you: Ron Jeremy
Sorry everybody.
Well, I hear the wind turbines would be the best bet if you absolutely want to kill birds using renewable energy sources. Also, from a more pragmatic standpoint, if you live in a house clad in expensive photovoltaic tiles, you shouldn't be throwing that stone to begin with.
Not sure that's such a good idea. I do believe the French already have a patent on this.
I kid, I kid! Or, to put it in French: Je enfant, je enfant!
I bet his comment to that would be: "I yam what I yam".
If so, that could explain the cause of the explosion...
How can you not observe Easter when all those god damned multicolored bunnies, chicks, eggs and other crap yell EASTER!!11!1! from every fucking angle?!?
Oh, that kind of "observe"... Never mind O:-)
What I am trying to say? You said:
The links I provided show that, terms of greenhouse gasses, both solar and wind power are better than Nuclear. The article also says:
As for the cost of manufacturing and running wind and solar power plants, they are falling rapidly. The amount of time it takes to break even on the investment of the solar systems now is less than 4 years for most of the world. So, what exactly are you saying? Are you claiming that nuclear power is free? From Wikipedia:
Don't be so quick to dismiss wind and solar power. Or, at least, don't use numbers that are 10 or 20 years old.
Yeah, they're horrible, aren't they? Well, we won't be fooled by amateur hobbyists who claim otherwise.
No. Svalbard is a Norwegian island. You're thinking of Novaya Zemlya.
I had no idea they let minors aboard the space station, let alone enough of them to sustain a leak. I wonder if their parents know where they are... Won't anybody think of the children? Besides the guys investigating the leak, i mean. Well, at least it's not leaking miners. (Sorry, Galaxy Quest, for that shameless rip.)
I wasn't sure how to relate to this issue, but thanks to your CASA* standards compliant car analogy, I now fully understand. Thanks!
* Consensus on Acceptable Slashdot Analogies.
Yes, it's true. All the scientists who originally developed the weapon changed careers after a horrible lab accident, in which the weapon accidentally discharged. Fortunately, they were quite successful in their new jobs as well.
It's 12 months, AKA "Optional Practical Training", and if you can't get a job in that time, you'll get kicked out. In reality, though, you'd need to get the job before or at the very beginning of that period, or the employer won't even consider you. I was so lucky that the Department of Homeland Security messed up and didn't get me my work permit until about half the time was over; no chance of getting a job in the US then.