As another already commented, the devil is in the details. He briefly mentioned longevity, but I'd like to elaborate on that. Some materials, like silicon, can carry 4 times tge charge of regular batteries, but they tend to swell when they take up the charge and shrink when they lose it. Apart from the mechanical problems, this is a major limitation of the amount of cycles that the battery can withstand. After a few cycles the material is so worn that you lose all the benefits. A material may look so awesome on paper or in the lab so that it causes press releases and hype, but all that vanishes the closer you get to production.
Also, it's hard to get a "perfect" material that can cary more charge, for longer time, last more cycles, is cheap, non-toxic, non-explosive or a fire hazard, does not overheat, compact (in terms of weight and/or volume), easy to process and manufacture into an actual battery... you see where this is going... Everyone's looking for this elusive material, and everyone wants to show they are making progress in order to raise more research funds, thus the press releases and the stirr.
Aren't supercooled materials actually cooled below their freezing point, but kept in a liquid state? Oxygen "just above its freezing point" is damned cold, but not supercooled. So, which one is it?
Correction: 100 % of our food comes from crops. What do you think that steak was eating before landing on your plate? Also, inefficient as hell, but steak does taste nice.
Yes, but having an OS that plays nicely with lots of different hardware pieces adds to its popularity. Then developers make more software. It's an overall win for everyone.
Meh. I haven't seen someone carry around an extra battery in a LONG time. Also, the internal SSD is large enough for most people. Although I like to have them as options in my Note 3, they are unimportant for 99% of the buyers out there. Nobody will notice they're missing.
Who said they want to get rid of corruption, in general? SAP is a German company and in Germany it's perfectly legal to bribe a foreign official. It makes the exports more "competitive" and it's good for the German economy. Anti-bribery laws is Germany are only concerned about bribing German officials, thus putting the country at an advantage, not a disadvantage. See what state Greece is in? Maybe you want to read on the bribing of Greek officials by Siemens. (Disclaimer: I'm Greek living in Germany)
You need to look into the problem at hand more closely! The software plays a very important role. Perhaps it can benefit more from a GPU cluster rather than a CPU cluster? Can it benefit from the instruction set of the latest Xeons or will the older (and now cheaper) generation suffice? CFD simulations are quite memory-hungry, so 3 GB per core is pretty standard. Also, you need to make sure that the cores can talk to the RAM efficiently, so definitely pick a CPU with 4 memory channels. After 6 cores per cpu or so the communication between the cores and the RAM becomes the bottleneck, so don't stack too many cores on the chip. Dual socket motherboards and CPU combos are also pretty cost effective. Also, users tend to suck the performance advantage of such a machine quite rapidly, so you shouls also plan for the future.
Because sometimes, the best way to learn how to make a wheel is to reinvent it. Copying is also good for learning, but if you really want to master the technology you have to build something from scratch.
People will actually gain the right to vote with their wallets in this model. Until now, everyone would get their Windows with every new PC. Hey, it was already there and the cost was in the price of the machine. So, why should Joe Average look for something else? If MS switches to a subscription model, I would love to see you explain to your grandmother that she will now have to cough up a montly allowance for MS so that she can Skype with her family or do whatever it is that grandmothers do with their PCs these days.
I'm very interested in seeing how this is going to turn up. Maybe they will sell PCs using a subscription model like they do with cellphones? So, you don't like it? Switch to Ubuntu, Chrome OS, Apple etc.
Given that the USA managed it with 40ies technology, I would say that Iran should have no problem with 2003 technology. Maybe they can't build a bomb that powerful, but even the weakest nuke is powerful enough IMHO (as long as it's not a "dirty bomb").
Although this could be due to the "publish or perish" mentality, that often forces researchers to break down their work in several publications of lesser impact than make a single publication of larger impact, the fact that the "lifetime" of publications is getting shorter may also mean that the research is speeding up. Knowledge moves faster from papers, then to books, and then to being "common", and before you know it you don't really have to cite someone every freaking time anymore because everyone knows what you're talking about (I'm talking about things that are considered "common knowledge" here; you surely don't cite Newton every time you mention that white light can be broken up using a prism). More commonly, somebody will sum the "state of the art" into a book or in a good introductory chapter of a doctoral dissertation and people will cite that, instead of all the papers. Also, books keep getting cited for decades after their publication, so maybe a follow-up study could check whether there is a similar trend in the citation of books?
While the plurality of journals has made publishing quite easy nowadays, I don't think this is the reason for the observation that papers get forgotten faster. A bad paper will not even get noticed and will probably get cited only by its own authors in subsequent publications. Since we are talking about papers that do get cited here, this means that they have managed to attract some attention, and can therefore not be too crappy.
The price of $3/kg must be for metallurgical grade silicon, i.e. with a purity of about 98-99%. The polycrystalline silicon used as a raw material to produce wafers is solar grade (the same used in solar panels), which is 99.999999999% pure. This used to go for $200/kg a few years ago, but now the prices have plummeted at about $20/kg. Pulling a monocrystal, chopping it up and polishing it for the semiconductor industry adds a premium to the price, but I can't tell how much that is per kg. I think they are sold per piece after that, and the price also depends on the wafer's diameter.
Given that China, the US and the EU are together responsible for more than 50% of the worldwide CO2 emissions, I would expect that the Intellectual Property to combat climate change is right where it is needed. Saying that taking action against climate change is hurdled by poor countries not having the intellectual rights to the necessary technology silently suggests that poor countries are part of the climate change problem, which is absolutely not true.
I've heard a lot of lame excuses on why nothing is being done concerning climate change, but whoever thought of this one deserves a cookie.
So, it's not that Google stopped growing, it's that it's growth stopped growing. So we're looking at the 2nd derivative now to determine the peak? Or do the MBAs merely like sensationalism just like their fellow journalists?
After WWII: World: Greece, you gotta re-build your infrastructure! You look like shit. Greece: I don't have any money! World: OK, we will lend you some, but the Marshall Plan is for the big boys. You'll get normal loans. Greece: Uh, thanks, I guess. World: Also, what's all that communist talk over there? Here are some of our boys to rule. Don't worry we checked them up; they're legit. Greece: They're all over the place torturing people and starting fights with Turkey! We'll overthrow them. World: Ugh, that turned up ugly! Now Turnkey is pissed and you'll need weapons. You got any? Greece: We got some old stuff hanging around. World: That won't do. You need proper equipment. Greece: I don't have any money! World: Don't worry, here's a loan. I hear the US is having a yard sale. Greece: Thanks, I guess. Russia: Why are you buying their stuff instead of ours? We just sold of our best stuff over to Turkey and they'll screw you over! Greece: Uh-oh. I need another loan! World: Sure, here ya go. By the way, do you need any cars? We make all kinds of stuff you can use for improving your infrastructure, too. Greece: Cars are cool! But we don't have any money and we already owe you tons. World: Yeah, you do, but this shit's gotta go. Hey, now that you're a democracy again, maybe your politicians like getting re-elected? Greek politicians: Sure thing! World: Then take this loan (and a fat "bonus") and use the money to create counter-productive jobs in the public sector. Then hire your voters to fill them and you're all set! Greek politicians: Gee-wiz! This plan is foolproof. We can go on for decades! World: See? Now everyone is happy. By the way, you still owe us a shitload of money. Greek politicians: Sure, whatever. Greece: The public sector is swollen like a toad, we owe money to everyone, some genius had the bright idea to host the Olympic Games in 2004 for the lulz, and why do we keep buying those weapons again? Shouldn't NATO and the EU back us up in case of trouble? World + Greek politicians: Look at the silly monkey! Greece: This debt is too much. I can't take it. Greek government: Hmmm, yeah. That's probably because of the last government. By the way, they lied about the economic balance to get us in the Euro-zone. Greek opposition: All we did was some creative accounting! They do that in Hollywood all the time! And don't you give me that last-government shit. We were in this together! World: You did what?! I want my money back! Greece: We don't have any. We never actually did!
I think the rest is ongoing history, so I might as well stop here.
So much for your "Greece spent the money in entitlement" bullshit.
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As another already commented, the devil is in the details. He briefly mentioned longevity, but I'd like to elaborate on that. Some materials, like silicon, can carry 4 times tge charge of regular batteries, but they tend to swell when they take up the charge and shrink when they lose it. Apart from the mechanical problems, this is a major limitation of the amount of cycles that the battery can withstand. After a few cycles the material is so worn that you lose all the benefits. A material may look so awesome on paper or in the lab so that it causes press releases and hype, but all that vanishes the closer you get to production.
Also, it's hard to get a "perfect" material that can cary more charge, for longer time, last more cycles, is cheap, non-toxic, non-explosive or a fire hazard, does not overheat, compact (in terms of weight and/or volume), easy to process and manufacture into an actual battery... you see where this is going... Everyone's looking for this elusive material, and everyone wants to show they are making progress in order to raise more research funds, thus the press releases and the stirr.
Aren't supercooled materials actually cooled below their freezing point, but kept in a liquid state? Oxygen "just above its freezing point" is damned cold, but not supercooled. So, which one is it?
This will not only produce a finer grid, but it will also be identical to D&D squares. This will make live action soooo much more convenient.
Correction: 100 % of our food comes from crops. What do you think that steak was eating before landing on your plate? Also, inefficient as hell, but steak does taste nice.
That would be the Stallman edition.
Yes, but having an OS that plays nicely with lots of different hardware pieces adds to its popularity. Then developers make more software. It's an overall win for everyone.
Because quite a bit of German residents are actually of Turkish origin. Going after Turkey is political suicide for any German politician.
Meh. I haven't seen someone carry around an extra battery in a LONG time. Also, the internal SSD is large enough for most people. Although I like to have them as options in my Note 3, they are unimportant for 99% of the buyers out there. Nobody will notice they're missing.
Who said they want to get rid of corruption, in general? SAP is a German company and in Germany it's perfectly legal to bribe a foreign official. It makes the exports more "competitive" and it's good for the German economy. Anti-bribery laws is Germany are only concerned about bribing German officials, thus putting the country at an advantage, not a disadvantage. See what state Greece is in? Maybe you want to read on the bribing of Greek officials by Siemens. (Disclaimer: I'm Greek living in Germany)
You lost me at "HTML/JavaScript/Python/SQL". The only right thing you did there was Python.
You need to look into the problem at hand more closely! The software plays a very important role. Perhaps it can benefit more from a GPU cluster rather than a CPU cluster? Can it benefit from the instruction set of the latest Xeons or will the older (and now cheaper) generation suffice? CFD simulations are quite memory-hungry, so 3 GB per core is pretty standard. Also, you need to make sure that the cores can talk to the RAM efficiently, so definitely pick a CPU with 4 memory channels. After 6 cores per cpu or so the communication between the cores and the RAM becomes the bottleneck, so don't stack too many cores on the chip. Dual socket motherboards and CPU combos are also pretty cost effective. Also, users tend to suck the performance advantage of such a machine quite rapidly, so you shouls also plan for the future.
My key chain, apart from the keys, has a bottle cap opener and a laser pointer. Yeah, it is not polite to point, but sometimes it sure is helpful!
Because sometimes, the best way to learn how to make a wheel is to reinvent it. Copying is also good for learning, but if you really want to master the technology you have to build something from scratch.
- I can't swallow that!
- Well then good news! It's a suppository!
People will actually gain the right to vote with their wallets in this model. Until now, everyone would get their Windows with every new PC. Hey, it was already there and the cost was in the price of the machine. So, why should Joe Average look for something else? If MS switches to a subscription model, I would love to see you explain to your grandmother that she will now have to cough up a montly allowance for MS so that she can Skype with her family or do whatever it is that grandmothers do with their PCs these days.
I'm very interested in seeing how this is going to turn up. Maybe they will sell PCs using a subscription model like they do with cellphones? So, you don't like it? Switch to Ubuntu, Chrome OS, Apple etc.
Given that the USA managed it with 40ies technology, I would say that Iran should have no problem with 2003 technology. Maybe they can't build a bomb that powerful, but even the weakest nuke is powerful enough IMHO (as long as it's not a "dirty bomb").
Although this could be due to the "publish or perish" mentality, that often forces researchers to break down their work in several publications of lesser impact than make a single publication of larger impact, the fact that the "lifetime" of publications is getting shorter may also mean that the research is speeding up. Knowledge moves faster from papers, then to books, and then to being "common", and before you know it you don't really have to cite someone every freaking time anymore because everyone knows what you're talking about (I'm talking about things that are considered "common knowledge" here; you surely don't cite Newton every time you mention that white light can be broken up using a prism). More commonly, somebody will sum the "state of the art" into a book or in a good introductory chapter of a doctoral dissertation and people will cite that, instead of all the papers. Also, books keep getting cited for decades after their publication, so maybe a follow-up study could check whether there is a similar trend in the citation of books?
While the plurality of journals has made publishing quite easy nowadays, I don't think this is the reason for the observation that papers get forgotten faster. A bad paper will not even get noticed and will probably get cited only by its own authors in subsequent publications. Since we are talking about papers that do get cited here, this means that they have managed to attract some attention, and can therefore not be too crappy.
And what brand of (smart)phone do they carry?
The price of $3/kg must be for metallurgical grade silicon, i.e. with a purity of about 98-99%. The polycrystalline silicon used as a raw material to produce wafers is solar grade (the same used in solar panels), which is 99.999999999% pure. This used to go for $200/kg a few years ago, but now the prices have plummeted at about $20/kg. Pulling a monocrystal, chopping it up and polishing it for the semiconductor industry adds a premium to the price, but I can't tell how much that is per kg. I think they are sold per piece after that, and the price also depends on the wafer's diameter.
Given that China, the US and the EU are together responsible for more than 50% of the worldwide CO2 emissions, I would expect that the Intellectual Property to combat climate change is right where it is needed. Saying that taking action against climate change is hurdled by poor countries not having the intellectual rights to the necessary technology silently suggests that poor countries are part of the climate change problem, which is absolutely not true.
I've heard a lot of lame excuses on why nothing is being done concerning climate change, but whoever thought of this one deserves a cookie.
So, it's not that Google stopped growing, it's that it's growth stopped growing. So we're looking at the 2nd derivative now to determine the peak? Or do the MBAs merely like sensationalism just like their fellow journalists?
After WWII:
World: Greece, you gotta re-build your infrastructure! You look like shit.
Greece: I don't have any money!
World: OK, we will lend you some, but the Marshall Plan is for the big boys. You'll get normal loans.
Greece: Uh, thanks, I guess.
World: Also, what's all that communist talk over there? Here are some of our boys to rule. Don't worry we checked them up; they're legit.
Greece: They're all over the place torturing people and starting fights with Turkey! We'll overthrow them.
World: Ugh, that turned up ugly! Now Turnkey is pissed and you'll need weapons. You got any?
Greece: We got some old stuff hanging around.
World: That won't do. You need proper equipment.
Greece: I don't have any money!
World: Don't worry, here's a loan. I hear the US is having a yard sale.
Greece: Thanks, I guess.
Russia: Why are you buying their stuff instead of ours? We just sold of our best stuff over to Turkey and they'll screw you over!
Greece: Uh-oh. I need another loan!
World: Sure, here ya go. By the way, do you need any cars? We make all kinds of stuff you can use for improving your infrastructure, too.
Greece: Cars are cool! But we don't have any money and we already owe you tons.
World: Yeah, you do, but this shit's gotta go. Hey, now that you're a democracy again, maybe your politicians like getting re-elected?
Greek politicians: Sure thing!
World: Then take this loan (and a fat "bonus") and use the money to create counter-productive jobs in the public sector. Then hire your voters to fill them and you're all set!
Greek politicians: Gee-wiz! This plan is foolproof. We can go on for decades!
World: See? Now everyone is happy. By the way, you still owe us a shitload of money.
Greek politicians: Sure, whatever.
Greece: The public sector is swollen like a toad, we owe money to everyone, some genius had the bright idea to host the Olympic Games in 2004 for the lulz, and why do we keep buying those weapons again? Shouldn't NATO and the EU back us up in case of trouble?
World + Greek politicians: Look at the silly monkey!
Greece: This debt is too much. I can't take it.
Greek government: Hmmm, yeah. That's probably because of the last government. By the way, they lied about the economic balance to get us in the Euro-zone.
Greek opposition: All we did was some creative accounting! They do that in Hollywood all the time! And don't you give me that last-government shit. We were in this together!
World: You did what?! I want my money back!
Greece: We don't have any. We never actually did!
I think the rest is ongoing history, so I might as well stop here.
So much for your "Greece spent the money in entitlement" bullshit.
Charlie Hebdo themselves are responsible for provoking this tragedy
Just like women that get raped are "asking for it" when showing cleavage, right? So, in public they must conceal their body under a burqa, right?
Repeat after me: You cannot tell a journalist what to write just like you cannot tell a woman what to wear.
After Obama-worshiping radicals have first murdered several of their executives? A lot, I'd wager.
I don't know if I'm supposed to marvel at the submitter's sarcastic nerve of laugh with the irony.
I think I'm gonna do both.