Yes, I'm sure it could... in theory. I don't know the numbers/ specifics but presumably, it could mess up communications equipment etc? I'd be interested to know what effect it would have on an airport for example. Anyway, that said I don't see that it would be a particularly good weapon. It could be blown up easily enough, and it's going to be a very large target. I'd also imagine that it would require a constant radio link with a ground station or similar, before it beam down any significant energy, like a dead man switch(or the opposite of one I suppose). That's just a guess though.
Surely all the craptronic devices would just generate heat that would have been released by the wind anyway, albeit a lot more diffusely? The wind is mostly just another sink for solar energy, tapping into that can't release more energy into the system then was there to begin with.
I'm 29, I didn't touch a computer until I was 15 & didn't code anything until I was 18. I don't think any of that is particaularly relevant, but since we're sharing....
Short answer is yes, a database. Taking heart rate and breathing as an example, "Real Time" isn't really necessary. Even a second by second reading for stuff like that is probably more than what's really useful. I'm sure there are several things that would benefit from more resolution, but probably not too many. It would require serious hardware etc for anything more than a few days worth of data (assuming numerous sensors) but that side of the proposal is easily doable with todays tech. And certainly doable if we've advanced enough to have developed all the other technologies required for this.
Not sure if it's really fair to compair to just Scotland, it's too small. It wouldn't account for all the difference of course, but for example, unlike several states in America, Scotland would be more concerned about heating its homes than cooling them. To do that they burn oil and gas which wouldn't consume much electricity.
I learned this on \. or similar so take it with a bit of salt. A lot of power stations run all night long, it's not cost effective to turn them on and off so much. As long as they don't have to crank up the power plants to meet the demand placed on teh grid (at night) by the 2 or 3 electric cars out there, there's no net increase in C02 emmissions to charge them. I could be talking through my ass though, I don't know the numbers involved.
You're neglecting a lot of important info there though.
I don't have a clue of the figures myself, but basically it would boil down to something like.
Energy to build, transport, maintain, charge, recycle e-book over it's life
Vs
Energy to print, transport, recycle the number of magazines the e-book displayed over its life.
My guess would be that (as far as energy consumption was concerned at least) the ebook would be better overall.
I believe your post is in the category "Real programmers don't use [pick a high level language]". Your statement simply isn't true for all developers, (dev) jobs, and interpretations of help.
I believe to compost a TV show would be a relatively simple task (in concept) but as such your not supposed to compost meat. It attracts flies and smells really awful etc
I'm sure I'm basing this on some bad sci fi movie or other, but can't two of these maxed out black holes merge together (in theory at least) to form a larger one?
All of THAT said, the game is neither soft nor hard science fiction, it's just intelligent design masquerading as fun (and not very well at that). The reason that it's very important to understand this is that currently a very small number of very, very loud people are actually getting laws passed in the United States (and elsewhere) which are rooted firmly in the ethic of "ID". This is horrifying to me and all free-thinking people, and must be stopped at once. Shining a very clear light on suspicions of ID prattle in video games (and elsewhere) is important to start a dialog about it.
I didn't bother to RTFA and I haven't played the game, so I'm well prepared to be corrected here, but I doubt this game is in any way deliberately promoting intelligent design mumbo jumbo. From a gaming perspective, correct and proper evolution would be mind numbingly boring. I mean you can wait around for evolution to turn your creature into a fucking rabbit if you want, I'd much prefer to play "God" and design one that eats rabbits. On the marketing side, no one in their right mind would deliberately link it to intelligent design, even if that's what the game really is. The batshit crazy intelligent design gaming demographic just isn't big enough to compensate for that kind of bad publicity.
There isn't much they can actually do, but there's lots of reasons to try. Make people feel safe, make themselves look good, etc. That said, I'd wouldn't be surprised if it did help catch the odd crazy, but at the cost of lots of wasted time effort, money, and lots of false positives.
Yes you can, you just tell granny she has to move slower. As an aside, it's understandable but very disappointing how slow progress is with battery tech. I keep reading all these headlines about increased power, but hardly anything about energy density.
Uufff it was just a joke ffs. Unless I've missed something, actually building stuff on the Moon is complex and difficult. Writing fluffy articles about how simple stuff is, is easy.
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It would be better to try to disable the satellite then I suppose. A large feck off laser would sound like the most practical way to disable it to me.
Yes, I'm sure it could... in theory. I don't know the numbers/ specifics but presumably, it could mess up communications equipment etc? I'd be interested to know what effect it would have on an airport for example. Anyway, that said I don't see that it would be a particularly good weapon. It could be blown up easily enough, and it's going to be a very large target. I'd also imagine that it would require a constant radio link with a ground station or similar, before it beam down any significant energy, like a dead man switch(or the opposite of one I suppose). That's just a guess though.
Informative, what the hell do misinformed hippies have to do with anything?
Surely all the craptronic devices would just generate heat that would have been released by the wind anyway, albeit a lot more diffusely? The wind is mostly just another sink for solar energy, tapping into that can't release more energy into the system then was there to begin with.
I'm 29, I didn't touch a computer until I was 15 & didn't code anything until I was 18. I don't think any of that is particaularly relevant, but since we're sharing....
Short answer is yes, a database. Taking heart rate and breathing as an example, "Real Time" isn't really necessary. Even a second by second reading for stuff like that is probably more than what's really useful. I'm sure there are several things that would benefit from more resolution, but probably not too many. It would require serious hardware etc for anything more than a few days worth of data (assuming numerous sensors) but that side of the proposal is easily doable with todays tech. And certainly doable if we've advanced enough to have developed all the other technologies required for this.
In a city where swords are outlawed 100 armed men could do as they wanted.
I bet they'd have trouble finding a nice jumper though....sorry.
Not sure if it's really fair to compair to just Scotland, it's too small. It wouldn't account for all the difference of course, but for example, unlike several states in America, Scotland would be more concerned about heating its homes than cooling them. To do that they burn oil and gas which wouldn't consume much electricity.
I learned this on \. or similar so take it with a bit of salt. A lot of power stations run all night long, it's not cost effective to turn them on and off so much. As long as they don't have to crank up the power plants to meet the demand placed on teh grid (at night) by the 2 or 3 electric cars out there, there's no net increase in C02 emmissions to charge them. I could be talking through my ass though, I don't know the numbers involved.
You're neglecting a lot of important info there though.
I don't have a clue of the figures myself, but basically it would boil down to something like.
Energy to build, transport, maintain, charge, recycle e-book over it's life
Vs
Energy to print, transport, recycle the number of magazines the e-book displayed over its life.
My guess would be that (as far as energy consumption was concerned at least) the ebook would be better overall.
I believe your post is in the category "Real programmers don't use [pick a high level language]". Your statement simply isn't true for all developers, (dev) jobs, and interpretations of help.
This solves nothing, once we hit peak trash production then we'll be screwed all over again.
LEGO twice the price "toys of the century" won.
Don't be frightened, Yoda wouldn't work for anyone evil.
It powers the features that would normally drain huge power from the battery, notably the defroster and heater.
Not much point being efficient at generating electricity etc. if its primary function is to generate heat.
I believe to compost a TV show would be a relatively simple task (in concept) but as such your not supposed to compost meat. It attracts flies and smells really awful etc
The mushrooms made him do it...
I'm sure I'm basing this on some bad sci fi movie or other, but can't two of these maxed out black holes merge together (in theory at least) to form a larger one?
I do, and I implied as much by admitting to my initial confusion with the title and specifically using the word heat.
All of THAT said, the game is neither soft nor hard science fiction, it's just intelligent design masquerading as fun (and not very well at that). The reason that it's very important to understand this is that currently a very small number of very, very loud people are actually getting laws passed in the United States (and elsewhere) which are rooted firmly in the ethic of "ID". This is horrifying to me and all free-thinking people, and must be stopped at once. Shining a very clear light on suspicions of ID prattle in video games (and elsewhere) is important to start a dialog about it.
I didn't bother to RTFA and I haven't played the game, so I'm well prepared to be corrected here, but I doubt this game is in any way deliberately promoting intelligent design mumbo jumbo. From a gaming perspective, correct and proper evolution would be mind numbingly boring. I mean you can wait around for evolution to turn your creature into a fucking rabbit if you want, I'd much prefer to play "God" and design one that eats rabbits. On the marketing side, no one in their right mind would deliberately link it to intelligent design, even if that's what the game really is. The batshit crazy intelligent design gaming demographic just isn't big enough to compensate for that kind of bad publicity.
There isn't much they can actually do, but there's lots of reasons to try. Make people feel safe, make themselves look good, etc. That said, I'd wouldn't be surprised if it did help catch the odd crazy, but at the cost of lots of wasted time effort, money, and lots of false positives.
I wouldn't say the post is off topic. When I read it first, I thought the title suggested Google wanted the processors to produce more heat.
You can't make the power requirement smaller.
Yes you can, you just tell granny she has to move slower.
As an aside, it's understandable but very disappointing how slow progress is with battery tech. I keep reading all these headlines about increased power, but hardly anything about energy density.
Uufff it was just a joke ffs. Unless I've missed something, actually building stuff on the Moon is complex and difficult. Writing fluffy articles about how simple stuff is, is easy.
Yeah, building stuff on the moon is a doddle.
Mod Parent +1 batshit crazy