> Bit-coins are designed to be limited in supply.
Which seems to mean that, assuming the currency sees widespread adoption, there is mandated deflation in the future.
Here's a build log of a mini "steambox" I built that is ACTUALLY fast, as in medium to high performance @ 1080p on all but the newest games:
http://gist.io/4199804
Yes, it could be destroying malaria will do only positive things, but if we release this vaccine into the wild and it proliferates, and the virus is no more, do we really know what will happen? Of course, I've never heard of a negative fallout from the elimination of smallpox, but who knows. We gotta be careful when we go about systematically eradicating something.
One of the reasons lane splitting on motorcycles has not been outlawed in California is because it reduces traffic.
I always have to smile, a little bitterly, when I think about it. You see, I've heard the only reason it was allowed in the first place was because motorcycle police officers drove big air cooled bikes in the 60's and 70's, and needed to keep moving in traffic. The bitter part being regular riders on the same bikes didn't warrant notice, but the police officers did.
As for clumping, I am not sure why it happens, but I rarely get stuck in clumps. You gotta either travel slightly faster or slightly slower than the clumps, and if the road isn't full of people you'll spend most of the drive blessedly alone.
This is actually really interesting!
Think about it. We've been limited to solar cells for a long time for producing electricity, and those have limitations we are constantly struggling against. But... Now, you can make a simple isolated enviroment consisting of water and salt. Design it such that fresh water runs down from a resivoir into a lower resivoir with salt. Expose the lower resivoir to sunlight, and use the greenhouse effect to speed up the evaporation of the water. Direct the vapors up to the upper reservoir, where they precipitate out, and flow back down! Thus, we generate electricity and use the sun to separate the two components to repeat the cycle.
(plus if you want, you can capture the heat from the condenser, for even more energy)
Not something you could put in your car, but on a large scale I bet this could work. Similar to large steam powered plants.
I still am not sure about that cows having magnetic sense thing. Birds I can accept, but the very first thoughts to cross my mind when I heard about cows:
1: Grazing lands are usually lands people don't want to live in
2: The southern face is more livable and hospitable.
Those two facts suggest to me that it's possible on a global scale cows are mostly on a certain face of a hill. Supposing most cows are on the southern slope, could it not be possible they simply elect to face uphill?
I'm not saying my speculations are any kind of proof, that they are well supported, or anything else like that. Only reasons the scientists may not have found the true cause. As they say, correlation does not imply causation.
Not to mention a lot of grazing land is in hilly/mountainous areas, and the northern face of a mountain is understood to be the harsher face (at least in the northern hemisphere, where most cows are), which means less grazing land on the north face as opposed to south. This in turn could mean cows would be more likely to be on the southern face. So, if they tend to face north, who's to say they aren't opting to stand facing uphill?
This is also all conjecture, but the point is there's more than 1 possible reasonable conclusion. Guesswork != science
oh, and for the record my estimate of 2,080 hours of work is per year, 40 hours a week. compared to 8760 hours total in a year, and that's counting the ones you sleep.
heh i'm still there! nothing like working 40 hours a week all summer at Safeway (min. wage as a bagger of course) or shoveling horse **** at a ranch and going to school at the same time.
i have just changed my major from bio to comp. eng. and i am so glad i did! working on something that you enjoy changes you.
working at a crummy job means a life in which the day sucks and you look forward to coming home to your family. yes, that's how it was done for centuries. But working on something you enjoy means that the 2,080 hours of work at a full-time job aren't 2,080 hours of your life you spent in misery. You can't get as much out of work as you put in- I'm sure you make more than $8 an hour, but taking that as an example, look at it this way; 1 hour of suffering buys a sandwich and a drink that lasts for about 5 minutes. to make life enjoyable it seems you must be able to get at least some joy from your work.
unless you're worried you'll be poor after a career change, i'd say go for it. Chances are falling from a big income to a somewhat smaller one won't destroy your family, unless they are accustomed to a cushy lifestyle, or you need the money for special reasons (special schools for children with unusual needs, medical care, stuff like that) Of course, if you're already a little stretched financially, less money would be bad, but many people do manage to get by working for far less than you inevitably make.
Best of luck.
... that an R-square of.5 was *good*. that's what I was taught in my biostatistics classes. It means 50% of the observed effects are caused by the beer drinking- which doesn't sound conclusive (and it's not absolutely conclusive) but in biology it's pretty good.:/
Initially I object to the thought of profiling in general, but if it's truly done properly and accurately, hypothetically the search results we get will be more relevant to what we want and we might actually find useful ads, which as far as I'm concerned wouldn't be bad.
I would also suggest the Eee as a candidate. Not just because it is cheap, but because no moving parts besides the fan SSD should prove more resiliant than a harddrive small, light seems pretty hardy. not 'rugged' but definatly not flimsy like larger 15" and above laptops
I own one and like it alot. I opened up a reply intending to unbiasedly suggest *features* I think are important, but I realized that the Eee is basically all of them. A few more things; sneakernet seems like a good answer for your situation, but I personally think DVD's are the wrong way to go about it. SD cards are a whole lot lighter, and less prone to breaking in the mail. Also you'll find small laptops make a lot of sacrifices when they decide to have a DVD drive
Lastly, as for durability, I just wanted to comment that the Eee is all 1 piece inside. There is a screen and a fan and a keyboard, but everything else is all on one motherboard. Because of this I think it will stand up to abuse quite well, short of penetrating/splitting/cracking the whole thing.
SSD, small form factor, and hopefully no DVD drive seems to be the way to go (Maybe a slim USB dvd drive?)
What if we have it all wrong. What if the RIAA has realized that selling music is no longer a profitable business model, and that here in America, SUING is the most profitable business model. Think about it; you squeeze thousands out of one individual. what if you squeeze from thousands of individuals? that makes millions! Then they just keep a low-profit music/movies industry going because it's the perfect industry for suing left and right (because of piracy) making a little off legit business and a lot off lawsuits.
So, anyone remember the first Xbox? they already implemented locking (and it was a pain in the butt) Although it is true it wasn't actually encrypted, ends up being the same thing (except for if someone literally takes the disk out of the HDD and tries to read it with another HDD)
So how is it that the other companies' reckless ways are endangering users? Let me see if i have this straight:
step 1: MS makes OS with a security hole
step 2: 3rd party company discovers security hole and publishes
step 3: MS reprimands them for uncovering the hole
Why is it step 2's fault!? It would have been discovered eventually anyway by hackers, isn't it better that a company discovers it and allows microsoft to know?
analogy:
step 1: NASA builds rocket with fatally flawed engineering
step 2: 3rd party company examines shuttle and finds flaws
step 3: NASA reprimands 3rd party for finding flaw and endangering crew
sound like a fair comparison?
I wonder if/. is blocked in China? Maybe it's public knowledge as to yes or no, but considering the vocal posts, I'd guess yes:) So, any ppl living in China reading this?
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> Bit-coins are designed to be limited in supply. Which seems to mean that, assuming the currency sees widespread adoption, there is mandated deflation in the future.
Here's a build log of a mini "steambox" I built that is ACTUALLY fast, as in medium to high performance @ 1080p on all but the newest games: http://gist.io/4199804
Can't you be a welder for a bit while you attempt to secure that white collar job?
Sounds kind of like the story of On-Live
Yes, it could be destroying malaria will do only positive things, but if we release this vaccine into the wild and it proliferates, and the virus is no more, do we really know what will happen? Of course, I've never heard of a negative fallout from the elimination of smallpox, but who knows. We gotta be careful when we go about systematically eradicating something.
One of the reasons lane splitting on motorcycles has not been outlawed in California is because it reduces traffic. I always have to smile, a little bitterly, when I think about it. You see, I've heard the only reason it was allowed in the first place was because motorcycle police officers drove big air cooled bikes in the 60's and 70's, and needed to keep moving in traffic. The bitter part being regular riders on the same bikes didn't warrant notice, but the police officers did. As for clumping, I am not sure why it happens, but I rarely get stuck in clumps. You gotta either travel slightly faster or slightly slower than the clumps, and if the road isn't full of people you'll spend most of the drive blessedly alone.
This is actually really interesting! Think about it. We've been limited to solar cells for a long time for producing electricity, and those have limitations we are constantly struggling against. But... Now, you can make a simple isolated enviroment consisting of water and salt. Design it such that fresh water runs down from a resivoir into a lower resivoir with salt. Expose the lower resivoir to sunlight, and use the greenhouse effect to speed up the evaporation of the water. Direct the vapors up to the upper reservoir, where they precipitate out, and flow back down! Thus, we generate electricity and use the sun to separate the two components to repeat the cycle. (plus if you want, you can capture the heat from the condenser, for even more energy) Not something you could put in your car, but on a large scale I bet this could work. Similar to large steam powered plants.
I still am not sure about that cows having magnetic sense thing. Birds I can accept, but the very first thoughts to cross my mind when I heard about cows:
1: Grazing lands are usually lands people don't want to live in
2: The southern face is more livable and hospitable.
Those two facts suggest to me that it's possible on a global scale cows are mostly on a certain face of a hill. Supposing most cows are on the southern slope, could it not be possible they simply elect to face uphill?
I'm not saying my speculations are any kind of proof, that they are well supported, or anything else like that. Only reasons the scientists may not have found the true cause. As they say, correlation does not imply causation.
This cool-minded analysis solely based on expected returns always casts a shadow on my relationships with women
Not to mention a lot of grazing land is in hilly/mountainous areas, and the northern face of a mountain is understood to be the harsher face (at least in the northern hemisphere, where most cows are), which means less grazing land on the north face as opposed to south. This in turn could mean cows would be more likely to be on the southern face. So, if they tend to face north, who's to say they aren't opting to stand facing uphill? This is also all conjecture, but the point is there's more than 1 possible reasonable conclusion. Guesswork != science
oh, and for the record my estimate of 2,080 hours of work is per year, 40 hours a week. compared to 8760 hours total in a year, and that's counting the ones you sleep.
heh i'm still there! nothing like working 40 hours a week all summer at Safeway (min. wage as a bagger of course) or shoveling horse **** at a ranch and going to school at the same time. i have just changed my major from bio to comp. eng. and i am so glad i did! working on something that you enjoy changes you. working at a crummy job means a life in which the day sucks and you look forward to coming home to your family. yes, that's how it was done for centuries. But working on something you enjoy means that the 2,080 hours of work at a full-time job aren't 2,080 hours of your life you spent in misery. You can't get as much out of work as you put in- I'm sure you make more than $8 an hour, but taking that as an example, look at it this way; 1 hour of suffering buys a sandwich and a drink that lasts for about 5 minutes. to make life enjoyable it seems you must be able to get at least some joy from your work. unless you're worried you'll be poor after a career change, i'd say go for it. Chances are falling from a big income to a somewhat smaller one won't destroy your family, unless they are accustomed to a cushy lifestyle, or you need the money for special reasons (special schools for children with unusual needs, medical care, stuff like that) Of course, if you're already a little stretched financially, less money would be bad, but many people do manage to get by working for far less than you inevitably make. Best of luck.
... that an R-square of .5 was *good*. that's what I was taught in my biostatistics classes. It means 50% of the observed effects are caused by the beer drinking- which doesn't sound conclusive (and it's not absolutely conclusive) but in biology it's pretty good. :/
Initially I object to the thought of profiling in general, but if it's truly done properly and accurately, hypothetically the search results we get will be more relevant to what we want and we might actually find useful ads, which as far as I'm concerned wouldn't be bad.
I would also suggest the Eee as a candidate. Not just because it is cheap, but because
no moving parts besides the fan
SSD should prove more resiliant than a harddrive
small, light
seems pretty hardy. not 'rugged' but definatly not flimsy like larger 15" and above laptops
I own one and like it alot. I opened up a reply intending to unbiasedly suggest *features* I think are important, but I realized that the Eee is basically all of them. A few more things; sneakernet seems like a good answer for your situation, but I personally think DVD's are the wrong way to go about it. SD cards are a whole lot lighter, and less prone to breaking in the mail. Also you'll find small laptops make a lot of sacrifices when they decide to have a DVD drive
Lastly, as for durability, I just wanted to comment that the Eee is all 1 piece inside. There is a screen and a fan and a keyboard, but everything else is all on one motherboard. Because of this I think it will stand up to abuse quite well, short of penetrating/splitting/cracking the whole thing.
SSD, small form factor, and hopefully no DVD drive seems to be the way to go (Maybe a slim USB dvd drive?)
What if we have it all wrong. What if the RIAA has realized that selling music is no longer a profitable business model, and that here in America, SUING is the most profitable business model. Think about it; you squeeze thousands out of one individual. what if you squeeze from thousands of individuals? that makes millions! Then they just keep a low-profit music/movies industry going because it's the perfect industry for suing left and right (because of piracy) making a little off legit business and a lot off lawsuits.
So, anyone remember the first Xbox? they already implemented locking (and it was a pain in the butt) Although it is true it wasn't actually encrypted, ends up being the same thing (except for if someone literally takes the disk out of the HDD and tries to read it with another HDD)
So how is it that the other companies' reckless ways are endangering users? Let me see if i have this straight: step 1: MS makes OS with a security hole step 2: 3rd party company discovers security hole and publishes step 3: MS reprimands them for uncovering the hole Why is it step 2's fault!? It would have been discovered eventually anyway by hackers, isn't it better that a company discovers it and allows microsoft to know? analogy: step 1: NASA builds rocket with fatally flawed engineering step 2: 3rd party company examines shuttle and finds flaws step 3: NASA reprimands 3rd party for finding flaw and endangering crew sound like a fair comparison?
I wonder if /. is blocked in China? Maybe it's public knowledge as to yes or no, but considering the vocal posts, I'd guess yes :) So, any ppl living in China reading this?