This is true, but not like I thought would be when I started buying CDs back in . . . 1984?
I remember commenting to a sales clerk how they were expensive compared to cassettes or something like that and he remarked that "yeah, but as soon as lots of people are buying lots of them, the price will drop down to the price of cassettes, or even lower since they're cheaper to make. A CD costs like 50 cents to make."
The price *only* decreased because of inflation. The sticker price never changed, on average.
OTOH, the very first CD I ever bought - a Telarc sampler CD, bought at the same as my Sony Discman, just so I'd have something to listen to - stills plays and sounds very good 23 years later. Cassettes that old sound bad, and I haven't listened to them much to cause wear.
I don't I buy many nowadays, but I'll keep buying CDs as long as it's possible.
There is such software but it costs $hundreds and the OCR part is TERRIBLE! I'm talking about Sibelius - a good music notation program, and Photoscore (IIRC), it's awful OCR companion. You can download a demo version and try it for yourself. I did, and that's why I have the opinion I have.
Thanks. It looks hard to use - but free is better than $hundreds for Finale and Sibelius and it looks like it gives more control.
I'd mod you Informative if I had any mod points now!
Funny, but it's not exactly Moore's Law-like, in that it's a (very roughly) linear increase in #blades, not exponential like Moore's Law. And clearly, there is a point of diminishing returns, which we've probably already passed, with razors, unlike with processors.
How about green tea flavored ice cream? Then you get the green tea ingredients, the cold, and the calcium all in one package! It would probably not hurt anything to put some Hershey's syrup on it for a different flavor, right? Weight loss, here I come!
But the GP really need to limit his/her (?ha!) remark to the US. Generally, throughout the whole world, more affluent countries have birthrates below replacement levels while poorer countries do not.
And it doesn't matter whether the population growth comes from immigration or birth as long as young people are replacing older workers. They are in the US. I don't know about Europe but unemployment levels are higher there so things are not as simple.
I figured he was joking and should have been modded Funny, not Insightful. Oh well.
BTW Wellbutrin (bupropion) is not a SSRI, it affects, wait for it. . . dopamine.
I agree with the *real* officer (NUPOC = NUclear Power Officer *Candidate*) and I also call BS on the story about transferring 500 gallons of reactor coolant to a sub tender in Groton. I was an ELT (Engineering Laboratory Technician) aboard a nuclear submarine, that, part of the time I was on her, was stationed in Groton (New London Submarine Base). ELTs are the enlisted guys who do the steam plant and reactor plant water chemistry analyses. I am certain that there is no reason take reactor coolant out of the primary loop and move it to the tender (and lots of reasons not to!). The only time that sort of thing would be done is during a refueling overhaul, in a shipyard. A boat in Groton would go to Portsmouth (NH) Naval Shipyard for that. The boat I was on had a 78 MW S5W reactor plant. 120MW is not that impressive especially when you don't have the space constraints of a submarine reactor compartment.
Intersting. I didn't know about Lemelson, and while he didn't actually patent the business plan (who knows why - he already had over 600 patents! probably you should have benn modded funny as well as informative) his "scheme" relied on the long delay of the patent process, something I didn't consider.
new business plan:
1) form small company of engineers and scientists with good ideas but no idea how to implement them yet
2) wait for big companies with the resources to actually implement some form of the patented ideas to do so
3) sue, sue, sue
4) profit
There is such a thing as groupthink and committees can make stupid decisions and meetings do seem to reduce one's intelligence, but. . .
You are oversimplifying. There are cases of collective intelligence, and examples of good work coming from groups.
For example, the group that produced the King James Bible, the Manhattan Project, the Apollo program, GIMPS (not GNU Image Manipulation Program, but the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - OK, it probably doesn't belong in this list, as it's less "intelligence" and more brute force throwing processing power at a fairly simple but time-consuming problem).
I'm sure there are other good examples people could give. Those are just ones that quickly come to my mind.
Some have suggested that the human brain is itself a form of collective intelligence. Lots of little "subroutines" working together to form a "sum greater than the parts", or something like that. It's been awhile but I've read a couple of the references cited here: http://ericrollins.home.mindspring.com/evoCellACM/ index.html and they suggest that idea.
What I see as wrong with the OP is that it wouldn't be written anywhere as 3.141. Rounding it to three deciaml places, you would write it as 3.142! Usually one sees 3.1416 or 3.14159 or 3.1415927, but never 3.141
Terawatts are not a measure of energy, they're a measure of power. Energy = power times time.
If the pulse lasts only one attosecond, then 9TW gives you only nine-millionths of a joule. Not much energy at all.
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This is true, but not like I thought would be when I started buying CDs back in . . . 1984?
I remember commenting to a sales clerk how they were expensive compared to cassettes or something like that and he remarked that "yeah, but as soon as lots of people are buying lots of them, the price will drop down to the price of cassettes, or even lower since they're cheaper to make. A CD costs like 50 cents to make."
The price *only* decreased because of inflation. The sticker price never changed, on average. OTOH, the very first CD I ever bought - a Telarc sampler CD, bought at the same as my Sony Discman, just so I'd have something to listen to - stills plays and sounds very good 23 years later. Cassettes that old sound bad, and I haven't listened to them much to cause wear.
I don't I buy many nowadays, but I'll keep buying CDs as long as it's possible.
There is such software but it costs $hundreds and the OCR part is TERRIBLE! I'm talking about Sibelius - a good music notation program, and Photoscore (IIRC), it's awful OCR companion. You can download a demo version and try it for yourself. I did, and that's why I have the opinion I have.
Thanks. It looks hard to use - but free is better than $hundreds for Finale and Sibelius and it looks like it gives more control.
I'd mod you Informative if I had any mod points now!
You do need to tune it. Use ClearType Tuner.
Funny, but it's not exactly Moore's Law-like, in that it's a (very roughly) linear increase in #blades, not exponential like Moore's Law.
And clearly, there is a point of diminishing returns, which we've probably already passed, with razors, unlike with processors.
. . . older users grow past the intended age of Slashdot readers.
Uh oh. I started reading when I was 39. I guess I missed the age thingy in the fine print.
Yer not a pirate! Ya didn't say "ARRRRR!" even once! What kind of pirate cred do you hope to have with your vocabulary and grammar?
How about green tea flavored ice cream? Then you get the green tea ingredients, the cold, and the calcium all in one package! It would probably not hurt anything to put some Hershey's syrup on it for a different flavor, right? Weight loss, here I come!
i.e. caffeine makes you pee more. Didn't need a PhD to translate that!
Good on you for not biting back at all your detractors.
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Ah, the web site doesn't work, but at least we get really nice feeling sheets!
Of course, that should have been "...the GP didn't really need to limit..."
Preview really works better if you take the time to read what you wrote before clicking Submit!
But the GP really need to limit his/her (?ha!) remark to the US. Generally, throughout the whole world, more affluent countries have birthrates below replacement levels while poorer countries do not.
And it doesn't matter whether the population growth comes from immigration or birth as long as young people are replacing older workers. They are in the US. I don't know about Europe but unemployment levels are higher there so things are not as simple.
This from a guy who gives himself the name that is the chemical formula for nicotine! Figures.
Apparently I was the only one (so far) who was sure from reading the summary that this was a Roland Piquepaille submission! What gives?
Ha. That was my 2^8th comment.
I figured he was joking and should have been modded Funny, not Insightful. Oh well.
BTW Wellbutrin (bupropion) is not a SSRI, it affects, wait for it. . . dopamine.
I agree with the *real* officer (NUPOC = NUclear Power Officer *Candidate*) and I also call BS on the story about transferring 500 gallons of reactor coolant to a sub tender in Groton. I was an ELT (Engineering Laboratory Technician) aboard a nuclear submarine, that, part of the time I was on her, was stationed in Groton (New London Submarine Base). ELTs are the enlisted guys who do the steam plant and reactor plant water chemistry analyses. I am certain that there is no reason take reactor coolant out of the primary loop and move it to the tender (and lots of reasons not to!). The only time that sort of thing would be done is during a refueling overhaul, in a shipyard. A boat in Groton would go to Portsmouth (NH) Naval Shipyard for that. The boat I was on had a 78 MW S5W reactor plant. 120MW is not that impressive especially when you don't have the space constraints of a submarine reactor compartment.
I figured it was a counter-attack, really. Getting back at Edward Tufte for all that dissing.
Intersting. I didn't know about Lemelson, and while he didn't actually patent the business plan (who knows why - he already had over 600 patents! probably you should have benn modded funny as well as informative) his "scheme" relied on the long delay of the patent process, something I didn't consider.
new business plan:
1) form small company of engineers and scientists with good ideas but no idea how to implement them yet
2) wait for big companies with the resources to actually implement some form of the patented ideas to do so
3) sue, sue, sue
4) profit
There is such a thing as groupthink and committees can make stupid decisions and meetings do seem to reduce one's intelligence, but. . ./ index.html and they suggest that idea.
You are oversimplifying. There are cases of collective intelligence, and examples of good work coming from groups.
For example, the group that produced the King James Bible, the Manhattan Project, the Apollo program, GIMPS (not GNU Image Manipulation Program, but the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - OK, it probably doesn't belong in this list, as it's less "intelligence" and more brute force throwing processing power at a fairly simple but time-consuming problem).
I'm sure there are other good examples people could give. Those are just ones that quickly come to my mind. Some have suggested that the human brain is itself a form of collective intelligence. Lots of little "subroutines" working together to form a "sum greater than the parts", or something like that. It's been awhile but I've read a couple of the references cited here: http://ericrollins.home.mindspring.com/evoCellACM
What I see as wrong with the OP is that it wouldn't be written anywhere as 3.141. Rounding it to three deciaml places, you would write it as 3.142! Usually one sees 3.1416 or 3.14159 or 3.1415927, but never 3.141
Terawatts are not a measure of energy, they're a measure of power. Energy = power times time.
If the pulse lasts only one attosecond, then 9TW gives you only nine-millionths of a joule. Not much energy at all.
Pearhapps e's Oirish, or Scoatish! Ye neverr know, now do ye?
A guy where I worked five years ago got breast cancer. He'd had some other cancer as well. Yes, men can get breast cancer, it's just quite rare.