I think you and most everyone else is missing the larger point of the exercise. It was about learning and applying R & D practices not out smarting the body of engineers with masters and doctorate degrees that have come before him. For a 13 year old to be being taught to do this kind of stuff is impressive and is what inspires, develops and encourages future engineers instead of poorly educated, uninspired, Facialbook social whores. Why is it that every post about a kid doing R & D on/. has to be measured against the products and potential of highly educated adult scientists and engineers? I thought we wanted to encourage kids to stop growing up to become worthless adults? That will never happen if everyone keeps telling them they're a bunch of losers that aren't really accomplishing anything. Come on folks, take a kids balloon and pop it why don't you...
I can also point to a human as prior art for genetic structures of same but that hasn't stopped the patent office from approving and idiot judges from upholding.
If you look, the "flat panel" you see has a roof shaped structure. Of which, you can only see one side. The "tree" appears to have 5 cells per branch and four branches, the visible side of the flat panel has 10 cells. It is possible that the other 10 cells are located on the other side of the roof. Given where the power connectors are located and the suggestive "flaps" sticking up from the surface on the opposite side (see picture of the roof alone and the one with two devices up against the house respectively) it's quite probable.
I recall it being taught somewhere around 6th or 7th grade as a novelty in the same vein as puzzles, word searches, etc.. Either way the concept of Fibonacci Sequences is not really all that challenging in and of itself. I don't see a reason why most 8 year olds couldn't pick it up. The fact that the kid is applying it though is pretty impressive. I would be even more impressed however if his teacher was one that bothered to teach him how to apply it.
What I don't get is why anyone would bother with such "investments" in the first place. The ROI promised by investing in Eddie's company was really peanuts. It was rather like sitting on your hands while you watched interest accrue (and your money de-value) on a RL certificate of deposit. A couple basic trade runs would have netted better.
That's not a very nice portrayal of carebears... Unlike pirates, we make you feel good about yourself and your investments before we siphon off your holdings. Surely that's got to count for something.
I'd seen him around Amarr as well. To be honest the only really shocking thing to hear about this guy was that he was actually that successful. I had taken him for a small peanuts type newb operation. He certainly didn't portray his corp as anything else. The fact that people are so easily exploited is baffling.
The WHO, CDC and their kin were looking for funding and policy changes that would establish the infrastructure for future problems. Of course there's nothing like a crisis to spur governments, especially democracies into action. So, they leveraged the media to spread panic and fear without really claiming anything more than "this looks like the 1918 Spanish flu".
Don't worry, for reasons of X this drug will not be approved for use in the treatment of Y. Accordingly you will still need to pay D dollars annually to treat symptoms in the absence of a viable alternative cure.
What are you talking about? I thought Radio Shack just sold mobile phones and batteries. Have you been in one in the last 10 years? Last time I was in there they didn't even have those electronics experiment kits for kids anymore. Radio Shack sold out to the stupid people back in the early 90's.
For a personal computer SSDs are probably best used for OS/Application storage, not data (documents, images, music, etc.). The cost per GB is too bloody much to justify otherwise and the less noticeable failure symptoms bolster that notion. Besides that, application load time is where these toys have their niche.
Yes a decommissioning fund is accumulated through out the lifecycle of the plant but there are problems with them. I also would be curious to know how these funds or more specifically their funding would be handled under insolvency conditions for a power company. Given that a decommissioning process for a power reactor appears to take something in the neighborhood of 50 years that provides plenty of time for problems and unaccounted costs. Of course this is just the power reactor, there are plenty of other facilities involved in nuclear power requiring decommissioning/clean up. Not unlike coal.
They regrettably still do. That's one of the reasons why the subsidies for alternatives are needed in the first place. Politicians are too bloody scared of what the less affluent population would do if the cost of fuel for their cars, the power for their homes, etc. were to increase as a result of big oil losing their tax breaks and subsidies.
Actually we kind of do. At least the bean counters that help suggest subsidies and tax breaks do. The economic incentives placed on alternatives such as solar by way of tax breaks and subsidies help balance the scale pans for industry to better see their relative "full" costs.
These tax breaks/subsidies are an indirect means of recovering the "full" cost of other sources of power. The upfront cost of power production from fossil fuels, nuclear, etc. may well be substantially cheaper than their "green" counter parts but at the end of the day we're paying considerably more than the upfront costs to deal with the consequences of their utilization. Unfortunately there's a disconnect with respect to these costs. Many of which seem to come out of the tax payer's wallet rather than the consumer's. I'm not even talking about the whole "climate change" bit. Consider all the consequences on people's health and the environment in general that coal power production has. Consider how expensive it is to decommission a nuclear plant or the cost of things going terribly wrong. It's very difficult to pass a pollution tax to recover the full cost of utilization, especially a meaningful one. That's why incentives to use alternatives tend to come in the form or these tax breaks and subsidies. Is it the most efficient and economically direct way of doing it? No, but it's the easiest politically.
Aside from the physics behind such an idea amounting to substantially more than a nudge there are plenty of other things to consider. The primary one being that it will be old. Both in the sense of being outmoded as well as in the sense of its systems wearing out. There's a reason most people aren't driving around in their grandparent's 1940s car. In the case of the ISS, one of its primary missions was to develop and prove technologies and methods for future ventures in space. Both in terms of hardware as well as wetware. To my understanding it has done a pretty good job at that. I don't know what NASA and their ilk have or will have up their sleeve beyond 2020 for an orbital research outpost but private industry is set to come online before then (2015) with next-gen research stations that will clearly obsolete the ISS if they're successful. Given that LEO is quickly becoming the playground of private industry it'd probably make a good deal of sense for NASA to move on anyway. Their budget really can't field multiple high expense projects at the same time. A budget that will almost certainly continue to erode given the US government's financial problems.
I suspect it has very much to do with this. A pseudonym is a mask behind which people carry out all the filth their cravenous hearts contain. Even if there are fifty people on G+ with your name, you are still going to be far more sensitive to people suspecting/finding out/knowning that you were the one responsible for doing something heinous than you would if you used a pseudonym.
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You're also more likely to be able to integrate "tree like" photo-voltaics into public spaces than you would flat-panel eye-sores.
I think you and most everyone else is missing the larger point of the exercise. It was about learning and applying R & D practices not out smarting the body of engineers with masters and doctorate degrees that have come before him. For a 13 year old to be being taught to do this kind of stuff is impressive and is what inspires, develops and encourages future engineers instead of poorly educated, uninspired, Facialbook social whores. Why is it that every post about a kid doing R & D on /. has to be measured against the products and potential of highly educated adult scientists and engineers? I thought we wanted to encourage kids to stop growing up to become worthless adults? That will never happen if everyone keeps telling them they're a bunch of losers that aren't really accomplishing anything. Come on folks, take a kids balloon and pop it why don't you...
I can also point to a human as prior art for genetic structures of same but that hasn't stopped the patent office from approving and idiot judges from upholding.
If you look, the "flat panel" you see has a roof shaped structure. Of which, you can only see one side. The "tree" appears to have 5 cells per branch and four branches, the visible side of the flat panel has 10 cells. It is possible that the other 10 cells are located on the other side of the roof. Given where the power connectors are located and the suggestive "flaps" sticking up from the surface on the opposite side (see picture of the roof alone and the one with two devices up against the house respectively) it's quite probable.
I recall it being taught somewhere around 6th or 7th grade as a novelty in the same vein as puzzles, word searches, etc.. Either way the concept of Fibonacci Sequences is not really all that challenging in and of itself. I don't see a reason why most 8 year olds couldn't pick it up. The fact that the kid is applying it though is pretty impressive. I would be even more impressed however if his teacher was one that bothered to teach him how to apply it.
Patents are supposed to foster and support innovation. Everybody knows that.
Send out anti-spam spams with botnet-killer attachments.
Except that that is illegal. It also wouldn't solve the problem, just postpone it.
Did anyone bother fixing the obnoxious memory leak that doubles the browser's footprint every 30 minutes?
What I don't get is why anyone would bother with such "investments" in the first place. The ROI promised by investing in Eddie's company was really peanuts. It was rather like sitting on your hands while you watched interest accrue (and your money de-value) on a RL certificate of deposit. A couple basic trade runs would have netted better.
That's not a very nice portrayal of carebears... Unlike pirates, we make you feel good about yourself and your investments before we siphon off your holdings. Surely that's got to count for something.
I'd seen him around Amarr as well. To be honest the only really shocking thing to hear about this guy was that he was actually that successful. I had taken him for a small peanuts type newb operation. He certainly didn't portray his corp as anything else. The fact that people are so easily exploited is baffling.
Either way, that's a "kilo" we're talking 7/1000 of that for a vehicle lifetime supply.
The WHO, CDC and their kin were looking for funding and policy changes that would establish the infrastructure for future problems. Of course there's nothing like a crisis to spur governments, especially democracies into action. So, they leveraged the media to spread panic and fear without really claiming anything more than "this looks like the 1918 Spanish flu".
Don't worry, for reasons of X this drug will not be approved for use in the treatment of Y. Accordingly you will still need to pay D dollars annually to treat symptoms in the absence of a viable alternative cure.
What are you talking about? I thought Radio Shack just sold mobile phones and batteries. Have you been in one in the last 10 years? Last time I was in there they didn't even have those electronics experiment kits for kids anymore. Radio Shack sold out to the stupid people back in the early 90's.
Don't sit on your hands and wait and hope. POPVOX it.
For a personal computer SSDs are probably best used for OS/Application storage, not data (documents, images, music, etc.). The cost per GB is too bloody much to justify otherwise and the less noticeable failure symptoms bolster that notion. Besides that, application load time is where these toys have their niche.
Yes a decommissioning fund is accumulated through out the lifecycle of the plant but there are problems with them. I also would be curious to know how these funds or more specifically their funding would be handled under insolvency conditions for a power company. Given that a decommissioning process for a power reactor appears to take something in the neighborhood of 50 years that provides plenty of time for problems and unaccounted costs. Of course this is just the power reactor, there are plenty of other facilities involved in nuclear power requiring decommissioning/clean up. Not unlike coal.
They regrettably still do. That's one of the reasons why the subsidies for alternatives are needed in the first place. Politicians are too bloody scared of what the less affluent population would do if the cost of fuel for their cars, the power for their homes, etc. were to increase as a result of big oil losing their tax breaks and subsidies.
We could prop up the farmers that way too! Think, all those crops going to fuel the cyclists providing us with green (or would it be brown...) power!
Actually we kind of do. At least the bean counters that help suggest subsidies and tax breaks do. The economic incentives placed on alternatives such as solar by way of tax breaks and subsidies help balance the scale pans for industry to better see their relative "full" costs.
These tax breaks/subsidies are an indirect means of recovering the "full" cost of other sources of power. The upfront cost of power production from fossil fuels, nuclear, etc. may well be substantially cheaper than their "green" counter parts but at the end of the day we're paying considerably more than the upfront costs to deal with the consequences of their utilization. Unfortunately there's a disconnect with respect to these costs. Many of which seem to come out of the tax payer's wallet rather than the consumer's. I'm not even talking about the whole "climate change" bit. Consider all the consequences on people's health and the environment in general that coal power production has. Consider how expensive it is to decommission a nuclear plant or the cost of things going terribly wrong. It's very difficult to pass a pollution tax to recover the full cost of utilization, especially a meaningful one. That's why incentives to use alternatives tend to come in the form or these tax breaks and subsidies. Is it the most efficient and economically direct way of doing it? No, but it's the easiest politically.
Then again
Aside from the physics behind such an idea amounting to substantially more than a nudge there are plenty of other things to consider. The primary one being that it will be old. Both in the sense of being outmoded as well as in the sense of its systems wearing out. There's a reason most people aren't driving around in their grandparent's 1940s car. In the case of the ISS, one of its primary missions was to develop and prove technologies and methods for future ventures in space. Both in terms of hardware as well as wetware. To my understanding it has done a pretty good job at that. I don't know what NASA and their ilk have or will have up their sleeve beyond 2020 for an orbital research outpost but private industry is set to come online before then (2015) with next-gen research stations that will clearly obsolete the ISS if they're successful. Given that LEO is quickly becoming the playground of private industry it'd probably make a good deal of sense for NASA to move on anyway. Their budget really can't field multiple high expense projects at the same time. A budget that will almost certainly continue to erode given the US government's financial problems.
I suspect it has very much to do with this. A pseudonym is a mask behind which people carry out all the filth their cravenous hearts contain. Even if there are fifty people on G+ with your name, you are still going to be far more sensitive to people suspecting/finding out/knowning that you were the one responsible for doing something heinous than you would if you used a pseudonym.