The problem with our checks and balances system, is they were written with George Washington is mind as president - and people trusted him so much that they didn't put enough checks against the president.
This is why we are stuck with a Presidency that grows in power year after year.
The fallacy with your statement is that solar and wind aren't really competing with oil. They are competing with coal - something the US happens to have a lot of.
Biofuel and batteries are competing with oil. Hydrogen might be able to compete, but it has several disadvantages compared to petroleum.
Based on the residing Justice's comments, the FBI in charge of the case were completely incompetent.
It's not difficult to believe.
A conspiracy theory would sound more like: The FBI were ordered to off the guy before he could implicate the White House staff - which is who originally ordered the attacks in order to further their agenda in Iraq.
we already have radio telescopes without lenses - it is just a sensor matrix. With software you can pick which direction to look in. The problem with scaling it to visible wavelengths is that no material we know of can oscillate at those frequencies. People ARE working on meta-materials to allow negative indexes of refraction, though.
Theoretically a negative indexes of refraction would allow the creation of a flat "lens" with no resulting aberrations. Of course, the "lens" would have to be infinitely large - but, yeah...
If you know the wavelength of a beam of light, you can use interference effects to direct it. This group's current laser uses parallel etched lines to collimate the beam in the Y direction. By switching to concentric circles, they can collimate the beam in both X and Y directions.
You CAN have partially polarized light, though. Daylight is partially polarized. If you hold up a linear polarizer to the sky, it will be slightly darker or lighter depending on how you orientate it.
You can have partially collimated light, too. In fact, you can never have completely collimated light. Light tends to spread out the farther it travels. This is usually attributed to diffraction, but in reality they are both results of the true behavior of light - which is modeled by quantum electrodynamics.
There is, however, a pronounced minimum in the radio-noise spectrum. Lying at the minimum or near it are several natural frequencies that should be discernible by all scientifically advanced societies. They are the resonant frequencies emitted by the more abundant molecules and free radicals m interstellar space. Perhaps the most obvious of these resonances is the frequency of 1,420 megahertz (millions of cycles per second). That frequency is emitted when the spinning electron in an atom of hydrogen spontaneously flips over so that its direction of spin is opposite to that of the proton comprising the nucleus of the hydrogen atom. The frequency of the spin-flip transition of hydrogen at 1,420 megahertz was first suggested as a channel for interstellar communication in 1959 by Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi. Such a channel may be too noisy for communication precisely because hydrogen, the most abundant interstellar gas, absorbs and emits radiation at that frequency. The number of other plausible and available communication channels is not large, so that determining the right one should not be too difficult.
More recently scientists have considered neutrino signals to be much more likely for alien communications since they can be sent across the universe with minimal signal degradation. The problem is that they are very hard to sense, and even harder to generate as a controllable signal.
I'll view EULA/TOU's as viable contracts when they are signed before purchasing a product, and cannot be changed during the duration of ownership, without mutual agreement.
The fact that you can't return PC games to the store makes EULA's complete bullshit, because you can't decline them without paying for the game.
The funny thing about that episode, is they didn't make a very good reproduction of the original device.
They used a linear electric motor, as apposed to an air spring combined with compression gun. The result is that the motor had to absorb the kinetic energy before reversing the motion. In the original device, the kinetic energy is changed to potential energy by the air spring, and the energy in the device recursively compounds.
I would like to see them try again, with an exact replica.
This is a very excellent point. Whats the harm in using a closed source driver, when it is a closed source piece of hardware? As long as the driver works adequately, and is included in the price of the hardware, whats the difference?
Some people, particularly musicians, use beta blockers to avoid stage fright and tremor during public performance and auditions. The physiological symptoms of the fight/flight response associated with performance anxiety and panic (pounding heart, cold/clammy hands, increased respiration, sweating, etc.) are significantly reduced, thus enabling anxious individuals to concentrate on the task at hand. Officially, beta blockers are not approved for anxiolytic use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. [10]
Since they lower heart rate and reduce tremor, beta blockers have been used by some Olympic marksmen to enhance performance, though beta blockers are banned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[11] Although they have no recognisable benefit to most sports, it is acknowledged that they are beneficial to sports such as archery and shooting.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker
So, apparently it's a bit different over here. I have definitely had anxiety issues before, but there are natural methods to handle them (breathing and psychological exercises).
How do they plan to solve the problem of material degradation in the ever present salt water?
As far as I know, this will be the first application of generators in salt water. Will the generators have to be cleaned 2-3 times a year? Anyone who owns a boat in the ocean knows how much of a pain salt water makes maintenance.
I just don't see this competing with other forms of renewable energy on a cost basis.
Memory would have to be completely redefined. Currently, you have one memory bank that is effectively accessed serially.
If you have 1000 cores that depend on the same data, you would have to have a way of multicasting the data to the cores, which could then select the data they want.
Basically, hardware and software architecture has to be completely redefined.
It is not impossible, though. Just look around. The universe computes in parallel all the time.
Higher prices do cure the shortage. They allow previously uneconomical means of procuring the material to become economical, thereby increasing supply.
When people calculate how much supply is left, they do so at the current price. At a higher price, there are more reserves.
It's not useless. There are a few graphics engines out there that are capable of scaling to different capabilities for different cards. For example: id Tech 4, Havok, Source engine, etc.
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The problem with our checks and balances system, is they were written with George Washington is mind as president - and people trusted him so much that they didn't put enough checks against the president.
This is why we are stuck with a Presidency that grows in power year after year.
New jobs depend on new technology - Period.
Technology is about the most important topic there is.
However, I see no correspondence between the topic of Technology and protect kids from porn. Unless you plan on implanting chips in their brains.
That was the worst straw-man argument I have ever read.
The parent post simply stated that the people in power wouldn't mind a few innocent people dieing if it served The Greater Good.
Obviously, this is the truth considering the US has been killing innocent people in Iraq for years now - all in the name of The Greater Good.
The fallacy with your statement is that solar and wind aren't really competing with oil. They are competing with coal - something the US happens to have a lot of.
Biofuel and batteries are competing with oil. Hydrogen might be able to compete, but it has several disadvantages compared to petroleum.
Based on the residing Justice's comments, the FBI in charge of the case were completely incompetent.
It's not difficult to believe.
A conspiracy theory would sound more like: The FBI were ordered to off the guy before he could implicate the White House staff - which is who originally ordered the attacks in order to further their agenda in Iraq.
we already have radio telescopes without lenses - it is just a sensor matrix. With software you can pick which direction to look in. The problem with scaling it to visible wavelengths is that no material we know of can oscillate at those frequencies. People ARE working on meta-materials to allow negative indexes of refraction, though.
Theoretically a negative indexes of refraction would allow the creation of a flat "lens" with no resulting aberrations. Of course, the "lens" would have to be infinitely large - but, yeah...
you could probably create a embedded device to store the raw data, then analyze it later - like back at the lab.
It wouldn't give immediate results, but it would remove the necessity to take lots of samples back to a lab for microscope slide preparation.
You are absolutely right.
He also was correct when he said people were clogging the tubes and keeping him from receiving the internets being sent to him.
That's an interesting idea. Although, you would just be wasting energy ionizing air. So really, it would be just for show.
That, and it wouldn't reflect ray gun beams - one of the coolest aspects of the lightsaber.
If you know the wavelength of a beam of light, you can use interference effects to direct it. This group's current laser uses parallel etched lines to collimate the beam in the Y direction. By switching to concentric circles, they can collimate the beam in both X and Y directions.
You CAN have partially polarized light, though. Daylight is partially polarized. If you hold up a linear polarizer to the sky, it will be slightly darker or lighter depending on how you orientate it.
You can have partially collimated light, too. In fact, you can never have completely collimated light. Light tends to spread out the farther it travels. This is usually attributed to diffraction, but in reality they are both results of the true behavior of light - which is modeled by quantum electrodynamics.
They chose 1420 megahertz for a good reason:
There is, however, a pronounced minimum in the radio-noise spectrum. Lying at the minimum or near it are several natural frequencies that should be discernible by all scientifically advanced societies. They are the resonant frequencies emitted by the more abundant molecules and free radicals m interstellar space. Perhaps the most obvious of these resonances is the frequency of 1,420 megahertz (millions of cycles per second). That frequency is emitted when the spinning electron in an atom of hydrogen spontaneously flips over so that its direction of spin is opposite to that of the proton comprising the nucleus of the hydrogen atom. The frequency of the spin-flip transition of hydrogen at 1,420 megahertz was first suggested as a channel for interstellar communication in 1959 by Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi. Such a channel may be too noisy for communication precisely because hydrogen, the most abundant interstellar gas, absorbs and emits radiation at that frequency. The number of other plausible and available communication channels is not large, so that determining the right one should not be too difficult.
Source:http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc252.htm
More recently scientists have considered neutrino signals to be much more likely for alien communications since they can be sent across the universe with minimal signal degradation. The problem is that they are very hard to sense, and even harder to generate as a controllable signal.
I'll view EULA/TOU's as viable contracts when they are signed before purchasing a product, and cannot be changed during the duration of ownership, without mutual agreement.
The fact that you can't return PC games to the store makes EULA's complete bullshit, because you can't decline them without paying for the game.
I was thinking the same thing.
If they released Windows 7 with this mode, why would I use the standard mode? So that random processes could clog my processor?
You never saw The Matrix, did you?
The funny thing about that episode, is they didn't make a very good reproduction of the original device.
They used a linear electric motor, as apposed to an air spring combined with compression gun. The result is that the motor had to absorb the kinetic energy before reversing the motion. In the original device, the kinetic energy is changed to potential energy by the air spring, and the energy in the device recursively compounds.
I would like to see them try again, with an exact replica.
Isn't separating an enemy from his funding one of the oldest military tactics in existence?
Touche, sir!
This is a very excellent point. Whats the harm in using a closed source driver, when it is a closed source piece of hardware? As long as the driver works adequately, and is included in the price of the hardware, whats the difference?
Anxiety and performance enhancement
Some people, particularly musicians, use beta blockers to avoid stage fright and tremor during public performance and auditions. The physiological symptoms of the fight/flight response associated with performance anxiety and panic (pounding heart, cold/clammy hands, increased respiration, sweating, etc.) are significantly reduced, thus enabling anxious individuals to concentrate on the task at hand. Officially, beta blockers are not approved for anxiolytic use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. [10]
Since they lower heart rate and reduce tremor, beta blockers have been used by some Olympic marksmen to enhance performance, though beta blockers are banned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[11] Although they have no recognisable benefit to most sports, it is acknowledged that they are beneficial to sports such as archery and shooting.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker
So, apparently it's a bit different over here. I have definitely had anxiety issues before, but there are natural methods to handle them (breathing and psychological exercises).
Howabout building a homebrew transmitter, using the code to reverse engineer the communication protocal, then DOS'ing the lander.
Switching central heating to run on electricity is a horrible idea.
Most of our natural gas is produced in the US, first of all.
Second of all, heating with natural gas is MUCH more efficient than heating with electricity.
How do they plan to solve the problem of material degradation in the ever present salt water?
As far as I know, this will be the first application of generators in salt water. Will the generators have to be cleaned 2-3 times a year? Anyone who owns a boat in the ocean knows how much of a pain salt water makes maintenance.
I just don't see this competing with other forms of renewable energy on a cost basis.
Memory would have to be completely redefined. Currently, you have one memory bank that is effectively accessed serially.
If you have 1000 cores that depend on the same data, you would have to have a way of multicasting the data to the cores, which could then select the data they want.
Basically, hardware and software architecture has to be completely redefined.
It is not impossible, though. Just look around. The universe computes in parallel all the time.
Higher prices do cure the shortage. They allow previously uneconomical means of procuring the material to become economical, thereby increasing supply.
When people calculate how much supply is left, they do so at the current price. At a higher price, there are more reserves.
Gravity is a theory for fucks sakes, nobody questions why we stick to the surface of the planet!
There is a difference between having a formula to predict the results of gravity, and knowing why it exists.
People ask every day why gravity exists. General relativity is the best answer we have, but it isn't really a complete answer to gravity.
It's not useless. There are a few graphics engines out there that are capable of scaling to different capabilities for different cards. For example: id Tech 4, Havok, Source engine, etc.
It does make development more difficult, though.