I don't actually understand enough about the chemistry of Si & C to make a direct comparison, but regarding the issue of bonding strength you mention, wouldn't other factors, like temperature and pressure affect this? Possibly even making Si-based life fitter for some environments?
My (very skilled, very capable, but 8 years younger) lead programmer asked out loud to our team of 4 -- in all sincerity -- "What's the maximum number stored in a byte?"
Se non e vero, e ben trovato.
256 different values, usually representing the numbers from -128 to 127 or from 0 to 255. Java or not -- no way anyone who has looked at a programming language doesn't know it.
Not even "Māori" displays correctly. How come slashdot still doesn't support non ASCII characters? At this point it is probably more of a tradition thing than difficulty of implementation, right?
when education gives certain children such a big advantage as portrayed in the film, the first political party to propose that it be provided as a government-funded service will be elected, and it will be declared a "right"
when health care gives certain children such a big advantage as portrayed in the film, the first political party to propose that it be provided as a government-funded service will be elected, and it will be declared a "right"
Sadly, I don't think it works quite like that. Not everywhere, at least.
It wouldn't be "the world's lightest material" if it was heavier than air. OTOH, it still isn't. It is heavier than many other gases. Or do materials only include solids, now?
If we do cut off the guns AND legalize drugs to kill a major source of their income, then they'll be hit pretty hard.
I agree. But: neither is going to happen. A far more likely scenario is, I think, that the US declines economically, and with it, the largest market for the cartel's drugs.
Yeah. But the point is, it would be legal, so they could do it in the open, ergo no need to behead people who expose them. They would just turn into regular corporations, killing people in less spectacular ways.
We could legalize every bad-ass drug from central and south american, and it wouldn't make a dent in the Cartels. If they can't sell illegal drugs they will simply take the farmland and sell legal ones, and the wives and daughters of the land owners too.
You mean, they would turn into corporations? Of course, legal drugs are a very profitable business, but at least they wouldn't be directly killing people, which is not good for legit business.
I find it more likely that they would turn to other illegal activities if all drugs were legalized. Still would be an improvement, at least they would have one less source of income (and a pretty large one).
Where does TFS say the "car" is made of less than 18 atoms?
It is pretty cool, IMO. Similar stuff has been done before, but I didn't know of any cars where the wheels actually provide the propulsion. Then again, I am no expert in the field, by far.
During a Debian dist-upgrade Gnome3 got installed on my system, even though I hadn't Gnome2 installed (I think). Anyways, decided to try it for a week or so, and, honestly, didn't see why it is so abhorred. It isn't quite there, as the parent says, but at least they are trying. Still went back to using the tabbed/tiled/keyboard-focused window manager I was used to (tritium), but I can imagine some people would find the new GUI ideas useful.
Some experimental geothermal projects in Switzerland & Australia were aborted because people panicked about the possible relationship to small quakes in the area of the hydraulic fracturing.
Really a pity, IMO, a few smallish (Mw 4) quakes are a low price to pay for virtually unlimited and potentially very clean energy.
Because it was Oklahoma? If it was Japan, Sumatra or Chile it wouldn't be news, but even a small quake like this is a strange occurrence in the center-south of North America.
IMO more interesting than yet another smartphone non-story, anyways.
You are, of course, correct, like others pointed out. That was very dumb of me. Was trying to think of an overpopulated Arab country, gave up, and then started looking for a Muslim country (which the GP mentioned). Forgot to change the first part of the sentence.
1) Reduce the populations in India, Central America, China, Muslim countries, and Africa.
[citation needed] Population density is really diverse in Central America. There are local foci of very high density (Mexico City, parts of Guatemala), but overall it is less populated than, say, Europe. Same goes for Muslim countries. The only clear case of overpopulation in an Arab country I can think of is Bangladesh, and even that case I am not sure it is worse than e.g. the Netherlands.
2) Reduce consumption. The only way to make this happen is to actually decrease production.
I disagree with the later statement. The 5% of the population that the US represents, consumes 25% of world resources, approximately. If that extra 20% isn't enough to solve this problem, I am sure it would contribute.
Continue... Would Linus be like Wankel? Creator of a never too popular alternative, only used in niche markets, if at all? Turing? Post? Wirth? Aiken? Goldberg? Gosling?
While the term capitalist had been used before, it were Marx and Engels who defined it formally in the Communist Manifesto. So, per definition, I think, whatever evils they saw, were the evils of capitalism. Or more precisely, the evils of the capitalistic mode of production.
I must admit, though, I am not sure what the difference with this "corporate feudalism" thing would be.
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It's why I will never trust my personal files on the likes of Dropbox and other backup services.
encryption?
where you get silicon & oxygen in sufficient quantities
Everywhere on the earth's crust?
I don't actually understand enough about the chemistry of Si & C to make a direct comparison, but regarding the issue of bonding strength you mention, wouldn't other factors, like temperature and pressure affect this? Possibly even making Si-based life fitter for some environments?
My (very skilled, very capable, but 8 years younger) lead programmer asked out loud to our team of 4 -- in all sincerity -- "What's the maximum number stored in a byte?"
Se non e vero, e ben trovato.
256 different values, usually representing the numbers from -128 to 127 or from 0 to 255. Java or not -- no way anyone who has looked at a programming language doesn't know it.
Not even "Māori" displays correctly. How come slashdot still doesn't support non ASCII characters? At this point it is probably more of a tradition thing than difficulty of implementation, right?
when education gives certain children such a big advantage as portrayed in the film, the first political party to propose that it be provided as a government-funded service will be elected, and it will be declared a "right"
when health care gives certain children such a big advantage as portrayed in the film, the first political party to propose that it be provided as a government-funded service will be elected, and it will be declared a "right"
Sadly, I don't think it works quite like that. Not everywhere, at least.
It wouldn't be "the world's lightest material" if it was heavier than air. OTOH, it still isn't. It is heavier than many other gases. Or do materials only include solids, now?
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I thought so, too.
The sonar thing sounds difficult. Less cool, but potentially easier: use the camera's autofocus. How accurate could that be?
If we do cut off the guns AND legalize drugs to kill a major source of their income, then they'll be hit pretty hard.
I agree. But: neither is going to happen. A far more likely scenario is, I think, that the US declines economically, and with it, the largest market for the cartel's drugs.
Yeah. But the point is, it would be legal, so they could do it in the open, ergo no need to behead people who expose them. They would just turn into regular corporations, killing people in less spectacular ways.
We could legalize every bad-ass drug from central and south american, and it wouldn't make
a dent in the Cartels. If they can't sell illegal drugs they will simply take the farmland and
sell legal ones, and the wives and daughters of the land owners too.
You mean, they would turn into corporations? Of course, legal drugs are a very profitable business, but at least they wouldn't be directly killing people, which is not good for legit business.
I find it more likely that they would turn to other illegal activities if all drugs were legalized. Still would be an improvement, at least they would have one less source of income (and a pretty large one).
I think this is the actual article(paywalled), in case anyone else is wondering about the details & has access to the journal.
Where does TFS say the "car" is made of less than 18 atoms?
It is pretty cool, IMO. Similar stuff has been done before, but I didn't know of any cars where the wheels actually provide the propulsion. Then again, I am no expert in the field, by far.
This is pretty much my opinion, too.
During a Debian dist-upgrade Gnome3 got installed on my system, even though I hadn't Gnome2 installed (I think). Anyways, decided to try it for a week or so, and, honestly, didn't see why it is so abhorred. It isn't quite there, as the parent says, but at least they are trying.
Still went back to using the tabbed/tiled/keyboard-focused window manager I was used to (tritium), but I can imagine some people would find the new GUI ideas useful.
Would love to see a list, too.
Switzerland is the only example I can think of, that comes close to the GP's description. They have a lot of other problems, though.
Some experimental geothermal projects in Switzerland & Australia were aborted because people panicked about the possible relationship to small quakes in the area of the hydraulic fracturing.
Really a pity, IMO, a few smallish (Mw 4) quakes are a low price to pay for virtually unlimited and potentially very clean energy.
Now you have ruined my opportunity to downplay the quake by bragging about my experience of the Maule quake (a measly Mw 8.8). Satisfied?
Because it was Oklahoma? If it was Japan, Sumatra or Chile it wouldn't be news, but even a small quake like this is a strange occurrence in the center-south of North America.
IMO more interesting than yet another smartphone non-story, anyways.
You are, of course, correct, like others pointed out. That was very dumb of me. Was trying to think of an overpopulated Arab country, gave up, and then started looking for a Muslim country (which the GP mentioned). Forgot to change the first part of the sentence.
1) Reduce the populations in India, Central America, China, Muslim countries, and Africa.
[citation needed]
Population density is really diverse in Central America. There are local foci of very high density (Mexico City, parts of Guatemala), but overall it is less populated than, say, Europe. Same goes for Muslim countries. The only clear case of overpopulation in an Arab country I can think of is Bangladesh, and even that case I am not sure it is worse than e.g. the Netherlands.
2) Reduce consumption. The only way to make this happen is to actually decrease production.
I disagree with the later statement. The 5% of the population that the US represents, consumes 25% of world resources, approximately. If that extra 20% isn't enough to solve this problem, I am sure it would contribute.
Not with this thing, at least... from TFA:
OK, it can't play MP3s, but it does have a 320x240 TFT color display [...]
There may be many cool possible DIY apps, but I wonder how this is a "media device", yet alone an iPod competitor.
I think the touchscreen is single-touch only, but pressure sensitive (from the diagnostics screenshot). The article does say it has an accelerometer.
For DIY purposes, it would be cool if it had any other I/O besides USB -- e.g. ADC or just serial-- which isn't clear to me.
Continue... Would Linus be like Wankel? Creator of a never too popular alternative, only used in niche markets, if at all?
Turing? Post? Wirth? Aiken? Goldberg? Gosling?
While the term capitalist had been used before, it were Marx and Engels who defined it formally in the Communist Manifesto.
So, per definition, I think, whatever evils they saw, were the evils of capitalism. Or more precisely, the evils of the capitalistic mode of production.
I must admit, though, I am not sure what the difference with this "corporate feudalism" thing would be.