Sure, the spy may have a license to speed, but if he doesn't have to follow the speed limit, another driver on the same road is going to be correspondingly less able to anticipate how to react safely to another driver who may be cruising at over double the speed limit.
What about construction zones? What about school zones?
This kind of thing is so utterly likely to get completely innocent people killed that I expect to see it being discontinued within a week of implementation.
Last I checked (in the US), most civilians don't follow the speed limit in construction or school zones. So I think this will play out just fine.
In fact, I usually assume that anyone driving under the speed limit is either drunk or has warrants out on them.
The only fundamental flaw is with the physicists level of seriousness in documenting this test.
The rubber sheet is used as an analogy to describe the quintessential elements of the space-time theory to people uncomfortable with mathematics. It's not intended to be directly equivalent to an astronomical system! Obviously other effects (like friction and fabric warping) are more dominant on the experiment scales than at astronomical scales.
Reading the paper, there are something like five other references on marbles and spandex to simulate space-time warping. I mean, really? This is probably a good teaching tool for graduate students, but we must have too many underfunded physicists in the world if they are wasting actual research time with spandex and marbles. There are more useful projects that can be investigated cheaply and experimentally.
Meteorologists warn that the wind-chill factor could make it feel twice as cold
What the hell does "twice as cold" even mean? If it's intended to mean "double the negative distance from zero", then it's unit-dependent. The same with "half the temperature". Just give an actual temperature, instead of using vagary in an attempt to impress people with how cold it's doing to be.
Obviously, it is the difference between "really cold" and "really really cold!"
Yeah so you could say that in a way, the US is slicing its own throat yet again by trying to bully other countries and deny them "access" to technology when they don't do as they are told. It's pretty arrogant to assume that said countries can never come up with technological advances on their own. But hey - thanks America! You're right, we DON'T need you anymore!
Uh, how is the "US slicing its own throat" by not helping India?
The Indians are obviously smart enough to figure it out themselves, why would they need assistance? It's better for national pride if they do it on their own and they might actually develop some new tech instead of copying old designs.
Personally, I say more power to them. It's not the US and Russia's job to develop all of the world's space tech and then sell it to everyone else. And I respect them a hell of a lot more than other countries who just steal the designs and blatantly copy them.
More disturbing is that it may simply be a matter of time before it fails, and our private messages are out there for all to see.
There is quite a bit of fearmongering here...
Given that they couldn't even secure their internal network properly, it would seem highly unlikely that the NSA has the commitment, expertise, or efficiency to secretly develop cutting edge technology far in excess of what the best academics in the world can do.
That said, instead of everyone standing around and wringing their hands, maybe now would be a good time to start developing more secure encryption algorithms that are more robust to brute force attacks. The encryption community has been resting on their laurels for quite a while now.
Cheney and nine companions killed 417 out of 500 ringneck pheasants, of which the Vice President himself is credited with killing 70, and an unknown number of mallard ducks.[8]
What kind of dick uses live animals just as targets and kills more than many families could eat in a single session? Dick Cheney does. Which I mean, I have no problem with animal slaughter for food or clothing but, we don't call people who work in slaughterhouses hunters.
I don't really like Cheney's personality very much, but think that you are being overly harsh. Usually, most states mandate that all game animal meat must be taken off the birds. Hunters either take it home and eat it or donate it.
Also, unlike the specially bred, steroid-pumped-up chickens that most people buy in the market, there's not that much meat on most wild pheasants. Imagine that you have a family of four and that you all like to eat 6-8 oz. of meat for each dinner. That is about 1.5 pheasant breasts per person, per meal. Thus 70 pheasants would only last for 12 meals with the the remaining scrap meat serving as jerky or other processed products. Is that really an excessive amount of meat?
Finally, I don't fully understand the level of hate that most omnivores have against hunting. Most people buy meat from animals that spent their entire lives caged and then were summarily executed. Hunters are paying more money and expending more effort to obtain meat from animals that lived their lives uncaged or wild before being put down very quickly.
Assume that civilization did not exist and you were a prey animal. Would you rather (1) spend your whole life being force fed in a cage before being killed or (2) spend your life free up until the point that you were killed by a predator? I'd go for #2 myself...
Vegans are really the only ones who have the moral validation to hate hunters. However, humans did evolve to be omnivores...
it's apple only real non AIO desktop other then the mini.
Again, it's not a desktop. It's a workstation. It was not designed for consumers to play games or surf the web. It is intended for professionals for work. As such it was designed with this in mind. Please stop confusing the two.
the mini lags in hardware and does not offer any better video then laptop based Intel on board chips.
Then don't buy a mini.
The imacs are ok but for stuff but for gameing other then maybe the top of line imac with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB upgrade are poor for there screen size.
Then don't buy an iMac.
and for the price of then top imac you can build an high system for about a $1000 less giving you a lot of room to add your own screen as well full desktop CPU's, HDD's, Video cards and more.
Then don't buy an iMac. The crux of your complaint is that Apple doesn't make the system you want them to make. Get over it. Don't buy Apple then. But complaining that Apple hasn't designed a system for you is just complaining to complaining. A Mac Pro was never intended for you. They are intended for professionals. That's like complaining that Mack Trucks doesn't make an 18-wheeler semi truck doesn't that seats 6 comfortably. That's not what it was intended to do.
Really, why the hell would you buy a Mac for gaming anyway? I know that Apple has made their systems more accessible with the Intel chips, but still!!??
As a Mac Pro owner (not the new one), I am telling you that the least painful solution is to buy a non-Apple system to play games and to buy an Apple system to do whatever you want to do on a Mac. Otherwise, you're just asking to spend more money and time working out hardware compatibility issues. You will be far better in the long run to maintain two computers. Sure, it will cost you more money. But with the amount of time that you will waste screwing around with your dual-boot Mac Pro, you could get a second job to buy that second Windows gaming machine.
Also, if cost is a limitation, then you probably shouldn't be buying a Mac or a gaming system...
A sliding cover to a camera does not adhere to KISS from a user's perspective. It's actually an annoying additional step to using the camera
I was going to say the same thing - that it makes the camera annoying to use and would probably confuse a lot of people if you ship it closed (and if you don't ship it closed, why even bother?)
There is one way you could make it covered and still not confuse users - have the sliding door activated by the computer when the camera is active. Then you could see when the camera was active, and the door could hard-wire an LED activation...
It would add cost and complexity though, and it does sound like a system that would be prone to failure rendering the camera useless. So there's still that issue.
That would be like connecting a gun safety to the trigger, so that the safety is released as the trigger is pulled!
A couple of hours of online research should have taught him to, at least, connect through a cracked wifi far from his neighborhood. Or, if he was computer illiterate, to convince someone from another country to send the mails for him.
Also, once he decided to avoid the exam in a way that could land him in prison, why use a method he didn't understand, instead of burning down the building or paying someone to send the teacher to the hospital?
Probably because this involves actually hurting people, which goes against most people's morals. He is clearly not a sociopath, he just has really poor decision making skills. Also, both of those methods would have directly connected him to a crime through physical evidence or a witness.
However, the first question I would ask him would be if he had considered that simply approaching the teacher and explaining him that he and all his family would be killed unless the exam was postponed, carried a shorter jail time than a terrorist threat.
This approach would have resulted in loss of anonymity, FBI involvement, and once proven false resulted in the same result that he is currently experiencing.
In conclusion, clearly in Harvard they are not teaching how to deal with real world problems pragmatically.
It appears that the issue is not isolated to Harvard!
I'm really tired of the media and politicians dismissing our lack of investment in science and space exploration by belittling Chinese efforts. "Durp durp, we already done been to the Moon, you stupid backwards Chiners durp durp!".
It's a first step that they'll likely quickly capitalize on and while our media and government like to convince us that the Chinese are goofy little 50-years-later-runners-up, they're an economic and political powerhouse that will, if they decide to invest further in it, leapfrog our accomplishments by light years. And sooner rather than later.
If we don't get serious about doing it ourselves -- or even better, co-operating with scientists on an international scale for the betterment of everyone -- we're going to look like the back water yokels.
Don't be too down on the US space program. Remember that they have landed (and continue to land) probes on most of the planets in the solar system.
It's great that China is getting into the game. But they are doing something that the US and Russia did over 40 years ago. So it IS 40 year old tech.
Any negative comments on the part of the US are probably due to integrated frustration over the years being on the receiving end of industrial espionage by China.
Besides, you can just connect a big resistor in series with a halogen bulb. This lowers the color temperature to that of a regular incandescent and probably makes the bulb last longer. As a side effect it makes the efficiency even worse than that of an incandescent bulb.
Dimming the halogen actually doesn't get you that much increased lifespan. Halogen bulbs are designed to be run at a specific voltage range so that they can redeposit evaporated filament material back onto the filament. Decreasing the voltage can prevent the redeposition and can actually decrease the bulb life if you don't run it at full power every so often.
That is the cynicism that gives Americans what they have now. If every American actually felt there was a problem it would stop. The problem is that Americans condone this behavior as a general populace. So you get what you vote for. It is like the stat, "oh I hate Congress, but my guy is doing just fine, the others are the problem." RIGHT!!! It is always the OTHER...
Bullshit idealism!
Please tell me who to vote for so that America will stop violating my civil liberties.
When all the politicians are colluding against the people, you can't vote for anyone. And if you try any form of civil disobedience in protest, you will immediately be persecuted. The post 9/11 paranoia will someday be right next to the Red Scare in the history books.
This cynicism also is not isolated to the US. How is the EU doing? How about England? Russia? China? Are those people all voting incorrectly too? Or is the government just shafting them too?
Snow is an excellent insulator, but also really likes to keep things at 0 C or colder. So if you put your heat exchangers on the roof, you can basically guarantee that they will always be exchanging heat with an atmosphere that is 0 C or colder.
If you are more intelligent with your design and run your heat exchangers hot enough to melt any snow, you can then radiate directly into the antarctic air and really dump some serious heat quickly.
One of my frustrations with this socialist form of capitalism is that you cannot predict what/who the government is going to bail out. In true capitalism, you know that you are on your own. But in the US nowdays, you might get lucky and get bailed out if you are upside down on your house. Or maybe you will get a retroactive tax credit if your income is below a magic number and your mortgage is above another magic number.
I have to wonder how many small businesses went under because they didn't have the ability to lobby congress as hard as the automotive industry did?
It's great that GM got a second chance, but why did they deserve it over others? Sure they are big and partially support a supply chain. But I'll bet that better managed companies would have loved to redirect that supply chain to their production line with GM out of the way. It's no surprise that the other automotive giants didn't want to see GM go under... they didn't want any game-changing new companies to spring up.
Now the government has just reinforced that big business can continue to play fast and loose up front and get bailed out on the back end.
Cars are so fly by wire now it becomes difficult to do things like a burnout. You can argue the need for such a thing but some people do value it. Basically the only reason there's a button to turn off your traction control is because some people wouldn't buy the car because they couldn't do a burnout. Then, once they've disabled it and have done the burnout they are now driving around without traction control on. Solution? A button that controls the burnout, does it better than the human ever could, and then automatically re-activates safety systems. Maybe they can even keep control of the car, detect if somethings gone wrong and fail out of the burnout.
The thing is, an auto-burnout button defeats the purpose of actually doing a burnout. It's like driving a paddle-shifter at the track or offroading the Ford Raptor's pathfinding guideline feature with hill descent control.
Basically, you are using a computer to remove all skill from the activity. Which, in turn, removes most of the fun from it... unless you like being a poser.
That's why many people insist on high-performance vehicles with the rudimentary control input option. We have computers manage most of our lives nowdays and would like to have just a little bit of freedom at the track or offroad.
Did it really? I think that's a philosophical question. Personally, I think not only space and time but also cause and effect are relative to the spectator.
The light carrying the information that this is happening is just arriving here. The speed of light is also by definition the fastest information can travel. It may "in reality" have happened 3.8b years ago, but the effect can only now affect someone here. Even if you happened to have an observation post there and 3.8b years ago they noticed "hey, they're falling into each other NOW", and they sent that information right away, the information would not have reached us before the event since, well, the information of the event ITSELF is traveling at the speed of light, which, as stated before, is the fastest an information sent to us by the observation post could have traveled.
Long story short, the absolute moment in time when something happens does not matter as long as you cannot overcome its information propagation speed. It will of course change if someone happens to find a way to propagate information faster than the speed of light... which would open a completely different can of worms if you ask me (but that's beyond the scope of this post now).
What this all comes down to is that the absolute moment of some event does not matter, but only the relative moment that you receive the information.
You're making the issue more complicated than it really is. (Perhaps you are also a cosmologist!)
Fact 1: Our current understanding of physics implies that this event happened 3.8 billion years ago.
Fact 2: In colloquial English, "About to" indicates that the preceeding action is imminent.
Given that "about to" indicates a future action and this event happened in the past, the title is either (a) illogical, (b) inconsistent with the English language, or (c) not consistent with our current understanding of physics.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
In fact, he was later very much opposed to its use:
However, he and many of the project staff were very upset about the bombing of Nagasaki, as they did not feel the second bomb was necessary from a military point of view.[113] He traveled to Washington on August 17 to hand-deliver a letter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson expressing his revulsion and his wish to see nuclear weapons banned."
Oppenheimer was always a very conflicted individual.
Remember that he wasn't an elected politician or military commander, he was a civilian scientist who was tasked to develop the atomic bomb. It was never his job to decide if the bombs should be used and he knew that. In fact, he was very much motivated to both develop these weapons during WWII when he was terrified of the Nazi's developing a nuclear capability and using it on the Allies.
It's unfortunate that he felt bad about it later on. But guess what? A lot of people felt bad about many of their war actions later on. However, it was war. People tend to make different decisions when they are under an extreme amount of stress from a looming predator as compared to when they are relaxing in their vacation house.
Try to envision the time period. The Nazis had annihilated most of Europe and were gassing civilian Jews to death because they didn't think they were the perfect race. They were making lightshades out of Jewish skin for fun. The Japanese were waging a particularly vicious war on the Pacific. The US was stuck between these two insanities and tried to stay out of things for as long as possible. 12 MILLION people died in WWII. After the Nazis surrendered, the US had to start shipping war weary troops to the other side of the world for more fighting.
Was dropping two atomic bombs on Japan a nice thing to do? No. But I think the US was prepared to keep making nukes and dropping them on Japan until Japan surrendered rather than lose more US troops invading Japan.
Protip 1: It's safer for everyone if you drive your car near its limits on a track with safety gear rather than on the open roads.
Why people have any sympathy for these guys is beyond me. They exceeded the 45-mph speed limit on a public road in their $450,000 car by so much that it completely disintegrated when it hit a light pole. Walker had enough money that he could have built his own private race track or rented the road from the city for the day.
Unless the throttle got stuck AND they couldn't get the (standard transmission) car into neutral, they are both incredibly irresponsible as they could have killed dozens of people.
The hypocrisy associated with the AP reporting and posted messages on other sites is almost as horrifying. If any "normal" person drove like that, the cops would immediately revoke their license and jail them and the public would ostracize them. Teenagers die every day by wrapping their WRXs around light poles and people would immediately accuse them of being hot-rodding idiots before the accident reports are completed. However, because this guy was famous and had experience driving fast, expensive cars, we're all expected to be sad for him, his friends and his family?
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How many years has Obama been in office? Eventually you've got to give him some credit... you know, what with the 2nd term and all....
What, specifically, should he be given credit for?
He already got the Nobel Peace Prize before he did anything related to peace.
I would say that he is in the credit hole at this point and still trying to dig his way out.
Sure, the spy may have a license to speed, but if he doesn't have to follow the speed limit, another driver on the same road is going to be correspondingly less able to anticipate how to react safely to another driver who may be cruising at over double the speed limit.
What about construction zones? What about school zones?
This kind of thing is so utterly likely to get completely innocent people killed that I expect to see it being discontinued within a week of implementation.
Last I checked (in the US), most civilians don't follow the speed limit in construction or school zones. So I think this will play out just fine.
In fact, I usually assume that anyone driving under the speed limit is either drunk or has warrants out on them.
How is it efficient if you drive as fast as possible? Fuel mileage decreases once you hit about 50 mph. After that you're driving your costs higher.
A report showing the effect and a chart which gives a graphical representation of this effect.
Time is money, friend.
The only fundamental flaw is with the physicists level of seriousness in documenting this test.
The rubber sheet is used as an analogy to describe the quintessential elements of the space-time theory to people uncomfortable with mathematics. It's not intended to be directly equivalent to an astronomical system! Obviously other effects (like friction and fabric warping) are more dominant on the experiment scales than at astronomical scales.
Reading the paper, there are something like five other references on marbles and spandex to simulate space-time warping. I mean, really? This is probably a good teaching tool for graduate students, but we must have too many underfunded physicists in the world if they are wasting actual research time with spandex and marbles. There are more useful projects that can be investigated cheaply and experimentally.
The NOAA lists -27F as the lowest recorded temperature in Chicago.
They also have a list of days with a temperature below -16F and 1980 wasn't listed.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=chi_temperature_records
If you notice, he was very careful to not specify his temperature units.
I think at this point, we can only rule out the Kelvin scale and assume that he must either be a politician or lawyer.
What the hell does "twice as cold" even mean? If it's intended to mean "double the negative distance from zero", then it's unit-dependent. The same with "half the temperature". Just give an actual temperature, instead of using vagary in an attempt to impress people with how cold it's doing to be.
Obviously, it is the difference between "really cold" and "really really cold!"
Unfortunately, we're just going to use even more natural resources to say warm.
A true environmentalist would freeze to death to save the environment.
Yeah so you could say that in a way, the US is slicing its own throat yet again by trying to bully other countries and deny them "access" to technology when they don't do as they are told. It's pretty arrogant to assume that said countries can never come up with technological advances on their own. But hey - thanks America! You're right, we DON'T need you anymore!
Uh, how is the "US slicing its own throat" by not helping India?
The Indians are obviously smart enough to figure it out themselves, why would they need assistance? It's better for national pride if they do it on their own and they might actually develop some new tech instead of copying old designs.
Personally, I say more power to them. It's not the US and Russia's job to develop all of the world's space tech and then sell it to everyone else. And I respect them a hell of a lot more than other countries who just steal the designs and blatantly copy them.
More disturbing is that it may simply be a matter of time before it fails, and our private messages are out there for all to see.
There is quite a bit of fearmongering here...
Given that they couldn't even secure their internal network properly, it would seem highly unlikely that the NSA has the commitment, expertise, or efficiency to secretly develop cutting edge technology far in excess of what the best academics in the world can do.
That said, instead of everyone standing around and wringing their hands, maybe now would be a good time to start developing more secure encryption algorithms that are more robust to brute force attacks. The encryption community has been resting on their laurels for quite a while now.
Cheney and nine companions killed 417 out of 500 ringneck pheasants, of which the Vice President himself is credited with killing 70, and an unknown number of mallard ducks.[8]
What kind of dick uses live animals just as targets and kills more than many families could eat in a single session? Dick Cheney does. Which I mean, I have no problem with animal slaughter for food or clothing but, we don't call people who work in slaughterhouses hunters.
I don't really like Cheney's personality very much, but think that you are being overly harsh. Usually, most states mandate that all game animal meat must be taken off the birds. Hunters either take it home and eat it or donate it.
Also, unlike the specially bred, steroid-pumped-up chickens that most people buy in the market, there's not that much meat on most wild pheasants. Imagine that you have a family of four and that you all like to eat 6-8 oz. of meat for each dinner. That is about 1.5 pheasant breasts per person, per meal. Thus 70 pheasants would only last for 12 meals with the the remaining scrap meat serving as jerky or other processed products. Is that really an excessive amount of meat?
Finally, I don't fully understand the level of hate that most omnivores have against hunting. Most people buy meat from animals that spent their entire lives caged and then were summarily executed. Hunters are paying more money and expending more effort to obtain meat from animals that lived their lives uncaged or wild before being put down very quickly.
Assume that civilization did not exist and you were a prey animal. Would you rather (1) spend your whole life being force fed in a cage before being killed or (2) spend your life free up until the point that you were killed by a predator? I'd go for #2 myself...
Vegans are really the only ones who have the moral validation to hate hunters. However, humans did evolve to be omnivores...
it's apple only real non AIO desktop other then the mini.
Again, it's not a desktop. It's a workstation. It was not designed for consumers to play games or surf the web. It is intended for professionals for work. As such it was designed with this in mind. Please stop confusing the two.
the mini lags in hardware and does not offer any better video then laptop based Intel on board chips.
Then don't buy a mini.
The imacs are ok but for stuff but for gameing other then maybe the top of line imac with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB upgrade are poor for there screen size.
Then don't buy an iMac.
and for the price of then top imac you can build an high system for about a $1000 less giving you a lot of room to add your own screen as well full desktop CPU's, HDD's, Video cards and more.
Then don't buy an iMac. The crux of your complaint is that Apple doesn't make the system you want them to make. Get over it. Don't buy Apple then. But complaining that Apple hasn't designed a system for you is just complaining to complaining. A Mac Pro was never intended for you. They are intended for professionals. That's like complaining that Mack Trucks doesn't make an 18-wheeler semi truck doesn't that seats 6 comfortably. That's not what it was intended to do.
Really, why the hell would you buy a Mac for gaming anyway? I know that Apple has made their systems more accessible with the Intel chips, but still!!??
As a Mac Pro owner (not the new one), I am telling you that the least painful solution is to buy a non-Apple system to play games and to buy an Apple system to do whatever you want to do on a Mac. Otherwise, you're just asking to spend more money and time working out hardware compatibility issues. You will be far better in the long run to maintain two computers. Sure, it will cost you more money. But with the amount of time that you will waste screwing around with your dual-boot Mac Pro, you could get a second job to buy that second Windows gaming machine.
Also, if cost is a limitation, then you probably shouldn't be buying a Mac or a gaming system...
A sliding cover to a camera does not adhere to KISS from a user's perspective. It's actually an annoying additional step to using the camera
I was going to say the same thing - that it makes the camera annoying to use and would probably confuse a lot of people if you ship it closed (and if you don't ship it closed, why even bother?)
There is one way you could make it covered and still not confuse users - have the sliding door activated by the computer when the camera is active. Then you could see when the camera was active, and the door could hard-wire an LED activation...
It would add cost and complexity though, and it does sound like a system that would be prone to failure rendering the camera useless. So there's still that issue.
That would be like connecting a gun safety to the trigger, so that the safety is released as the trigger is pulled!
I question much of your logic:
I expected more from a Harvard student.
A couple of hours of online research should have taught him to, at least, connect through a cracked wifi far from his neighborhood. Or, if he was computer illiterate, to convince someone from another country to send the mails for him.
Also, once he decided to avoid the exam in a way that could land him in prison, why use a method he didn't understand, instead of burning down the building or paying someone to send the teacher to the hospital?
Probably because this involves actually hurting people, which goes against most people's morals. He is clearly not a sociopath, he just has really poor decision making skills. Also, both of those methods would have directly connected him to a crime through physical evidence or a witness.
However, the first question I would ask him would be if he had considered that simply approaching the teacher and explaining him that he and all his family would be killed unless the exam was postponed, carried a shorter jail time than a terrorist threat.
This approach would have resulted in loss of anonymity, FBI involvement, and once proven false resulted in the same result that he is currently experiencing.
In conclusion, clearly in Harvard they are not teaching how to deal with real world problems pragmatically.
It appears that the issue is not isolated to Harvard!
I'm really tired of the media and politicians dismissing our lack of investment in science and space exploration by belittling Chinese efforts. "Durp durp, we already done been to the Moon, you stupid backwards Chiners durp durp!".
It's a first step that they'll likely quickly capitalize on and while our media and government like to convince us that the Chinese are goofy little 50-years-later-runners-up, they're an economic and political powerhouse that will, if they decide to invest further in it, leapfrog our accomplishments by light years. And sooner rather than later.
If we don't get serious about doing it ourselves -- or even better, co-operating with scientists on an international scale for the betterment of everyone -- we're going to look like the back water yokels.
Don't be too down on the US space program. Remember that they have landed (and continue to land) probes on most of the planets in the solar system.
It's great that China is getting into the game. But they are doing something that the US and Russia did over 40 years ago. So it IS 40 year old tech.
Any negative comments on the part of the US are probably due to integrated frustration over the years being on the receiving end of industrial espionage by China.
Besides, you can just connect a big resistor in series with a halogen bulb. This lowers the color temperature to that of a regular incandescent and probably makes the bulb last longer. As a side effect it makes the efficiency even worse than that of an incandescent bulb.
Dimming the halogen actually doesn't get you that much increased lifespan. Halogen bulbs are designed to be run at a specific voltage range so that they can redeposit evaporated filament material back onto the filament. Decreasing the voltage can prevent the redeposition and can actually decrease the bulb life if you don't run it at full power every so often.
The team has even tested a prototype capable of hiding a 40-micrometre object in visible laser light.
Hell, I can't see something 40 microns wide on a good day! No "darkness beam" needed to hide that from me!
That is the cynicism that gives Americans what they have now. If every American actually felt there was a problem it would stop. The problem is that Americans condone this behavior as a general populace. So you get what you vote for. It is like the stat, "oh I hate Congress, but my guy is doing just fine, the others are the problem." RIGHT!!! It is always the OTHER...
Bullshit idealism!
Please tell me who to vote for so that America will stop violating my civil liberties.
When all the politicians are colluding against the people, you can't vote for anyone. And if you try any form of civil disobedience in protest, you will immediately be persecuted. The post 9/11 paranoia will someday be right next to the Red Scare in the history books.
This cynicism also is not isolated to the US. How is the EU doing? How about England? Russia? China? Are those people all voting incorrectly too? Or is the government just shafting them too?
Snow is an excellent insulator, but also really likes to keep things at 0 C or colder. So if you put your heat exchangers on the roof, you can basically guarantee that they will always be exchanging heat with an atmosphere that is 0 C or colder.
If you are more intelligent with your design and run your heat exchangers hot enough to melt any snow, you can then radiate directly into the antarctic air and really dump some serious heat quickly.
One of my frustrations with this socialist form of capitalism is that you cannot predict what/who the government is going to bail out. In true capitalism, you know that you are on your own. But in the US nowdays, you might get lucky and get bailed out if you are upside down on your house. Or maybe you will get a retroactive tax credit if your income is below a magic number and your mortgage is above another magic number.
I have to wonder how many small businesses went under because they didn't have the ability to lobby congress as hard as the automotive industry did?
It's great that GM got a second chance, but why did they deserve it over others? Sure they are big and partially support a supply chain. But I'll bet that better managed companies would have loved to redirect that supply chain to their production line with GM out of the way. It's no surprise that the other automotive giants didn't want to see GM go under... they didn't want any game-changing new companies to spring up.
Now the government has just reinforced that big business can continue to play fast and loose up front and get bailed out on the back end.
Cars are so fly by wire now it becomes difficult to do things like a burnout. You can argue the need for such a thing but some people do value it. Basically the only reason there's a button to turn off your traction control is because some people wouldn't buy the car because they couldn't do a burnout. Then, once they've disabled it and have done the burnout they are now driving around without traction control on. Solution? A button that controls the burnout, does it better than the human ever could, and then automatically re-activates safety systems. Maybe they can even keep control of the car, detect if somethings gone wrong and fail out of the burnout.
The thing is, an auto-burnout button defeats the purpose of actually doing a burnout. It's like driving a paddle-shifter at the track or offroading the Ford Raptor's pathfinding guideline feature with hill descent control.
Basically, you are using a computer to remove all skill from the activity. Which, in turn, removes most of the fun from it... unless you like being a poser.
That's why many people insist on high-performance vehicles with the rudimentary control input option. We have computers manage most of our lives nowdays and would like to have just a little bit of freedom at the track or offroad.
We can all suffer together under the Patriot Act!
Did it really? I think that's a philosophical question. Personally, I think not only space and time but also cause and effect are relative to the spectator.
The light carrying the information that this is happening is just arriving here. The speed of light is also by definition the fastest information can travel. It may "in reality" have happened 3.8b years ago, but the effect can only now affect someone here. Even if you happened to have an observation post there and 3.8b years ago they noticed "hey, they're falling into each other NOW", and they sent that information right away, the information would not have reached us before the event since, well, the information of the event ITSELF is traveling at the speed of light, which, as stated before, is the fastest an information sent to us by the observation post could have traveled.
Long story short, the absolute moment in time when something happens does not matter as long as you cannot overcome its information propagation speed. It will of course change if someone happens to find a way to propagate information faster than the speed of light... which would open a completely different can of worms if you ask me (but that's beyond the scope of this post now).
What this all comes down to is that the absolute moment of some event does not matter, but only the relative moment that you receive the information.
You're making the issue more complicated than it really is. (Perhaps you are also a cosmologist!)
Fact 1: Our current understanding of physics implies that this event happened 3.8 billion years ago.
Fact 2: In colloquial English, "About to" indicates that the preceeding action is imminent.
Given that "about to" indicates a future action and this event happened in the past, the title is either (a) illogical, (b) inconsistent with the English language, or (c) not consistent with our current understanding of physics.
I'm not sure he saw it that way:
In fact, he was later very much opposed to its use:
Oppenheimer was always a very conflicted individual.
Remember that he wasn't an elected politician or military commander, he was a civilian scientist who was tasked to develop the atomic bomb. It was never his job to decide if the bombs should be used and he knew that. In fact, he was very much motivated to both develop these weapons during WWII when he was terrified of the Nazi's developing a nuclear capability and using it on the Allies.
It's unfortunate that he felt bad about it later on. But guess what? A lot of people felt bad about many of their war actions later on. However, it was war. People tend to make different decisions when they are under an extreme amount of stress from a looming predator as compared to when they are relaxing in their vacation house.
Try to envision the time period. The Nazis had annihilated most of Europe and were gassing civilian Jews to death because they didn't think they were the perfect race. They were making lightshades out of Jewish skin for fun. The Japanese were waging a particularly vicious war on the Pacific. The US was stuck between these two insanities and tried to stay out of things for as long as possible. 12 MILLION people died in WWII. After the Nazis surrendered, the US had to start shipping war weary troops to the other side of the world for more fighting.
Was dropping two atomic bombs on Japan a nice thing to do? No. But I think the US was prepared to keep making nukes and dropping them on Japan until Japan surrendered rather than lose more US troops invading Japan.
If so, they deserve to die.
Protip 1: It's safer for everyone if you drive your car near its limits on a track with safety gear rather than on the open roads.
Why people have any sympathy for these guys is beyond me. They exceeded the 45-mph speed limit on a public road in their $450,000 car by so much that it completely disintegrated when it hit a light pole. Walker had enough money that he could have built his own private race track or rented the road from the city for the day.
Unless the throttle got stuck AND they couldn't get the (standard transmission) car into neutral, they are both incredibly irresponsible as they could have killed dozens of people.
The hypocrisy associated with the AP reporting and posted messages on other sites is almost as horrifying. If any "normal" person drove like that, the cops would immediately revoke their license and jail them and the public would ostracize them. Teenagers die every day by wrapping their WRXs around light poles and people would immediately accuse them of being hot-rodding idiots before the accident reports are completed. However, because this guy was famous and had experience driving fast, expensive cars, we're all expected to be sad for him, his friends and his family?