well there is an extra wonderful thing about this.
why do we need 20 diffrent math books?
why not have one in which allthe prof's can contribute to? so what if that one book has a thousand chapters - it is digital.. you can easily add/ change/ remove content and link to other peices.
you don't need one or tow guys to write the whole thing.. they jsut need to write a section. and when it comes down to most math books for college the only change from one edition to the next is typo's - some times added exlinations - and changeing of the questions and work sets.
if you could provide a book that is live and being updated - then you could do the questions as a list and let the prof just selected a set of them to assign as home work, and if ones he wants arn't there.. he can jsut add them to the list and then use them in his set and someone else can use it later.
it really supprises me this hasn't been doen before - but i am damn sure it can be done and would be extreamly useful.. but i bet money is the reason why we don't see it happening..
after having to pay >300 for a book for a single class - which happened to be writen bythe prof.. yea he got a hell of a kick back.. cause i know they don't pay him enough.. (might that not be the root of the problem?)
there are reactor designs that allow for the core container (the part you are talkin about) to be composed of two peices put togethr (which is easier done) the company you speak of is the only one with the equipment to cast it as a single peice.
right now they are sueing anyone they can get the name of, and trying to set examples with them
so far if evedence showed they where not going to win they dropped charges and walked away - leaving them no extra cost but the defended a pile of bills
with this as an example - and if she can get the second one a win.. it is a presedence to show a judge the next time they sue an innocent person>
which would then start costing them alot - making it so that they sure as hell better have all their ducks in a row before they think of sueing someone.
and depending on the ruleing of the second case it could cause other cases where they walked away to come back up and people sueing them for the same thing.
this is good - and ithas the chance to cost them alot..
while yes 200k isn't that expensive to them.. if there is the chance that each time they sue someone it could cost them 200k+ if they are wrong.. they will makesure they are right first.
they already do this in some places - i live in NC and here you can get a time of use meter - which does exactly what you are asking for.. we get reallllllllly cheap off peak power and we pay higher than normal for peak times.
mix that with our dish washer and washer/drier that has a wailt x hours ability.. and we just load it up and have them run at 2am
doing this (along with setting comps to go standby while we are at work and wake up before we get home) dropped our power bill from about 250 to ~120$ a month..
it wasn't till the end of it's 10th year that amazon actualy made a proffit for the year - not the break even point where they made back the investements - but just to make a profit for that year.
look it up.. amazon does the later.. they spend way more than they make - as it seems that one year was a fluke - i think they have had a total of 2 years where they made a profit for the year.
"But not more expensive than the equivalent laptop plus the reasonably-large Intuos that you'd have to buy with it."
i agree . sorry i thought you where trying to tell me i could get a tablet for the same price as a equivlent spec'ed laptop.
and yes the x61 is nice and this laptop is a "monstrosity". but if i am correct the x61 only has 512 pressure points vs the 1024 on all wacom displays.
for a quality tablet with good preformace they are more expensive than an equivalent laptop - most tablets don't have a high res screen and they are no comparison to the Cintiq when drawing on.
i would like to see them drop the pad they put.. make this more like a tablet PC and use wacom's digital display as the screen.. so you can spin it around and just use the whole laptop as the tablet
saddly i think you might be able to sell it.. maybe also do an app "spent all my money on the iphone cant afford power" that jsut displays a black screen.. sell it for 99 cents..
i could see people buying it... saddly.. it reminds me of the iLight app.. which i know people who use it... people scare me...
but if he claims a national state of emergency he isn't required to relinquish power to the next elected - he can hold power untill the state of emergency is over with.
so say we have another katrina - or another 9/11 - right before the switch - don't expect to see him stepping down.
if you have soemthing that is trained to reconise moves it will easily be beated by anyone that notcies this action - unless it can recognize every possiable move and then react - go is an intresting game of paterns - while one move in a pattern may be simple to understand that one move may be the deciding move in relation to another 30min later on the other side of the board.
sure you can make a computer a better over all fighter.. and you might make the perfect computer to run a 9x9 board.. because the result set is very small - and on a 9x9 you normaly are just praticing either fighting or staying alive.. where wiht a 19x19 is far more stratigic - you can not react to a stratigic move correctly every time.. expecialy of the other person knows you are reacting to that move.. then they can follow up with a better stratigic move based on theirs and yours.
if you can figure out where the other person is going to play next then you know before they do how to counter it, and there for can make better moves over all. This is why the stone handicaps - while useful to lower ranked players are not that much of a deterint for the better ones to be aginst.
you might be able to make an algorithm that can beat one person - but another will be able to beat it.. that i jsut how go works..
yes i did for the concept idea - something that gathers particals from what is avaliable in interteller space..
while there is no existing device that does this.. i could spend 5min explaining the idea or refrence a concept from sci-fi that every damn person here knows about.
i did no refrence it as fact "hey lets put this sci-fi thing on it and send it away" but hey how is that "comunitcator" in your pocket doing?
rolleyes all you want// i wasn't suggesting something that was a perfect copy of sci-fi.. but what about something on the craft say like a normal funnle that can catch particals as it is moveing? sure your not going to get a 1 to 1 ratio of particals used to particals caught.. but you could least pas them through and help off set what is being consumed from onboard reserves.
i was just suggesting something that could pick up gasses pressent in the path of the probe.. assume for a min that you do get out of the solar system.. and there is an intersteller wind.. why not point the collector at it and get particals and store them untill you have enough to move on? sure the wind will move you but hopefuly you could maintain your place well enough to gain particals to push away with..
think of it more how a jet engine works instead of a ram jet.. the jet engine takes in air and compresses it then combines fule and ignites it and trust is produced..
you could move forward collecting particals in an "intake/bussard collector fashion" then compress them and heat them to plasma state (same as injecting fule into air) then use em waves to push them away (same as ignighting them) and provide thrust..
the whole idea is that you wouldnt' have to put all the particals you will need for a trip from earth to nearest system on it to start with.. but rather a good amount and get the rest of them as you go along..
again - roll your eyes all you want and say that nothing is possiable without making a groud breaking discovery.. but i am sure plenty of people told these people the same thing when they came up with the idea to start with.
actualy because this design heats the gas to a plasma state then uses EM waves to move it to create thrust - the idea could be used on just about any gas - your effeciency would be how much energy goes into heating it to a plasma state and keeping it there.
this is a great idea because they could design one engine and while the gas is consumed it could be replaced by any gas - and electricity is the true source of the power to run the engine..
we already know what gasses are readly avaliable on mars - design one to run on say H to get there (assume Hyrdogen is the easiset to heat to plasma sate) but have the engine also able to run on the gasses from Mars.. then when it gets there refill the tanks.. carge up the batteries (or use a nuke power source on the thing) and come on back - or keep going.
think of a ship with this type of drive.. then think about adding say a Bussard collector http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bussard_collector (i know we would have to invent a bussard collector but the idea is not that hard)
if this works they way the say it does - it is going to be one of the best propultion advances for traversing our solar system.
and with us having probes leaving our system - the data from there might show that there is a good ammount of particals in the space between systems.. if that is true then you could use this to send probes to other systems. sure it would take awhile but i bet they can alwasy make improvements.
no but i do see signs every day that read "DOT road sign test in progress" - it is there everyday.. for about 4 years now... wonder if i should give them acall and see how the test is going
i don't know.. can we quantify "Jumping to a Conclusion" - could we say the number of assumptions made over the number of words used? as a score ratio?
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well there is an extra wonderful thing about this.
why do we need 20 diffrent math books?
why not have one in which allthe prof's can contribute to? so what if that one book has a thousand chapters - it is digital.. you can easily add/ change/ remove content and link to other peices.
you don't need one or tow guys to write the whole thing.. they jsut need to write a section. and when it comes down to most math books for college the only change from one edition to the next is typo's - some times added exlinations - and changeing of the questions and work sets.
if you could provide a book that is live and being updated - then you could do the questions as a list and let the prof just selected a set of them to assign as home work, and if ones he wants arn't there.. he can jsut add them to the list and then use them in his set and someone else can use it later.
it really supprises me this hasn't been doen before - but i am damn sure it can be done and would be extreamly useful.. but i bet money is the reason why we don't see it happening..
after having to pay >300 for a book for a single class - which happened to be writen bythe prof.. yea he got a hell of a kick back.. cause i know they don't pay him enough.. (might that not be the root of the problem?)
they just want us to feel some of the same pain they did
there are reactor designs that allow for the core container (the part you are talkin about) to be composed of two peices put togethr (which is easier done) the company you speak of is the only one with the equipment to cast it as a single peice.
presdence..
right now they are sueing anyone they can get the name of, and trying to set examples with them
so far if evedence showed they where not going to win they dropped charges and walked away - leaving them no extra cost but the defended a pile of bills
with this as an example - and if she can get the second one a win.. it is a presedence to show a judge the next time they sue an innocent person>
which would then start costing them alot - making it so that they sure as hell better have all their ducks in a row before they think of sueing someone.
and depending on the ruleing of the second case it could cause other cases where they walked away to come back up and people sueing them for the same thing.
this is good - and ithas the chance to cost them alot..
while yes 200k isn't that expensive to them.. if there is the chance that each time they sue someone it could cost them 200k+ if they are wrong.. they will makesure they are right first.
we get about 180k a day worth of attempts
99.99% of them get dropped
i drive an MG Midget - it has a 6 gallon tank in it..
i drive about 150 miles before i start looking for gas..
on the other hand i have a volvo S80 which gets almost 500 miles to the tank highway
they already do this in some places - i live in NC and here you can get a time of use meter - which does exactly what you are asking for.. we get reallllllllly cheap off peak power and we pay higher than normal for peak times.
mix that with our dish washer and washer/drier that has a wailt x hours ability.. and we just load it up and have them run at 2am
doing this (along with setting comps to go standby while we are at work and wake up before we get home) dropped our power bill from about 250 to ~120$ a month..
it wasn't till the end of it's 10th year that amazon actualy made a proffit for the year - not the break even point where they made back the investements - but just to make a profit for that year.
look it up.. amazon does the later.. they spend way more than they make - as it seems that one year was a fluke - i think they have had a total of 2 years where they made a profit for the year.
loseing money constantly hasn't stopped amazon yet
"But not more expensive than the equivalent laptop plus the reasonably-large Intuos that you'd have to buy with it."
i agree . sorry i thought you where trying to tell me i could get a tablet for the same price as a equivlent spec'ed laptop.
and yes the x61 is nice and this laptop is a "monstrosity". but if i am correct the x61 only has 512 pressure points vs the 1024 on all wacom displays.
for a quality tablet with good preformace they are more expensive than an equivalent laptop - most tablets don't have a high res screen and they are no comparison to the Cintiq when drawing on.
i would like to see them drop the pad they put.. make this more like a tablet PC and use wacom's digital display as the screen.. so you can spin it around and just use the whole laptop as the tablet
i wish i could afford a wacome screen..
agreed - we moved to using T60 and T61's here - the quality is unmatched.
read the next artical.. they are remobing compressors from refrigeration stuff.. this is just an example of reuse
while not law - Executive Orders are the rules for the Executive branch which happens to have the enforcers of law
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
it will be intresting to see if he tries to use it to stay in office/control
there isn't many other uses for some of the provisions in that.
saddly i think you might be able to sell it.. maybe also do an app "spent all my money on the iphone cant afford power" that jsut displays a black screen.. sell it for 99 cents..
i could see people buying it... saddly.. it reminds me of the iLight app.. which i know people who use it... people scare me...
but if he claims a national state of emergency he isn't required to relinquish power to the next elected - he can hold power untill the state of emergency is over with.
so say we have another katrina - or another 9/11 - right before the switch - don't expect to see him stepping down.
if you have soemthing that is trained to reconise moves it will easily be beated by anyone that notcies this action - unless it can recognize every possiable move and then react - go is an intresting game of paterns - while one move in a pattern may be simple to understand that one move may be the deciding move in relation to another 30min later on the other side of the board.
sure you can make a computer a better over all fighter.. and you might make the perfect computer to run a 9x9 board.. because the result set is very small - and on a 9x9 you normaly are just praticing either fighting or staying alive.. where wiht a 19x19 is far more stratigic - you can not react to a stratigic move correctly every time.. expecialy of the other person knows you are reacting to that move.. then they can follow up with a better stratigic move based on theirs and yours.
if you can figure out where the other person is going to play next then you know before they do how to counter it, and there for can make better moves over all. This is why the stone handicaps - while useful to lower ranked players are not that much of a deterint for the better ones to be aginst.
you might be able to make an algorithm that can beat one person - but another will be able to beat it.. that i jsut how go works..
yes i did for the concept idea - something that gathers particals from what is avaliable in interteller space..
while there is no existing device that does this.. i could spend 5min explaining the idea or refrence a concept from sci-fi that every damn person here knows about.
i did no refrence it as fact "hey lets put this sci-fi thing on it and send it away" but hey how is that "comunitcator" in your pocket doing?
rolleyes all you want// i wasn't suggesting something that was a perfect copy of sci-fi.. but what about something on the craft say like a normal funnle that can catch particals as it is moveing? sure your not going to get a 1 to 1 ratio of particals used to particals caught.. but you could least pas them through and help off set what is being consumed from onboard reserves.
i was just suggesting something that could pick up gasses pressent in the path of the probe.. assume for a min that you do get out of the solar system.. and there is an intersteller wind.. why not point the collector at it and get particals and store them untill you have enough to move on? sure the wind will move you but hopefuly you could maintain your place well enough to gain particals to push away with..
think of it more how a jet engine works instead of a ram jet.. the jet engine takes in air and compresses it then combines fule and ignites it and trust is produced..
you could move forward collecting particals in an "intake/bussard collector fashion" then compress them and heat them to plasma state (same as injecting fule into air) then use em waves to push them away (same as ignighting them) and provide thrust..
the whole idea is that you wouldnt' have to put all the particals you will need for a trip from earth to nearest system on it to start with.. but rather a good amount and get the rest of them as you go along..
again - roll your eyes all you want and say that nothing is possiable without making a groud breaking discovery.. but i am sure plenty of people told these people the same thing when they came up with the idea to start with.
actualy because this design heats the gas to a plasma state then uses EM waves to move it to create thrust - the idea could be used on just about any gas - your effeciency would be how much energy goes into heating it to a plasma state and keeping it there.
this is a great idea because they could design one engine and while the gas is consumed it could be replaced by any gas - and electricity is the true source of the power to run the engine..
we already know what gasses are readly avaliable on mars - design one to run on say H to get there (assume Hyrdogen is the easiset to heat to plasma sate) but have the engine also able to run on the gasses from Mars.. then when it gets there refill the tanks.. carge up the batteries (or use a nuke power source on the thing) and come on back - or keep going.
think of a ship with this type of drive.. then think about adding say a Bussard collector http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bussard_collector (i know we would have to invent a bussard collector but the idea is not that hard)
if this works they way the say it does - it is going to be one of the best propultion advances for traversing our solar system.
and with us having probes leaving our system - the data from there might show that there is a good ammount of particals in the space between systems.. if that is true then you could use this to send probes to other systems. sure it would take awhile but i bet they can alwasy make improvements.
your not the only one - the gene base there is diffrent from else where.. so yea.. rarely do you see a good looking English woman
no but i do see signs every day that read "DOT road sign test in progress" - it is there everyday.. for about 4 years now... wonder if i should give them acall and see how the test is going
how often in articstic sports (say ice skateing) to you see two competitors taking the ice aginst each other at the same moment.
i am sure that if there wasn't a person trying to block the shots all the time in basketball you would see constant strings of 3-pointers
for one my sig is relevent -
i don't know.. can we quantify "Jumping to a Conclusion" - could we say the number of assumptions made over the number of words used? as a score ratio?