Come on brown dwarfs are not really stars. It is a con job to call them stars. It is like these New Jersey cruise sales boilerrooms selling "Masala Cruise with Bollywood stars" and then on board you see one guy who played the corpses in a murder mystery starring the Amir Khan and another who was the fourth thug beaten by Rajnikant enthiran the robot.
1957 was the peak year for US streetcar ridership. Till about 1970 the bus lines, tramlines, streetcars, metro transit etc were the back bone of commuting for vast majority of the public. For sure they were undermined by illegal cartel and collusion between Firestone, Ford and Standard Oil. But do not ignore the role public and the politicians played in getting rid of these public utilities.
Structurally these utilities need massive insvestments, long build times, beset by NIMBYism. They pay off only when there is a critical mass of users. Only when the cost of investment is amortized over a very large user base, these projects are economically viable. Once the user base falls below the critical mass they get into a death spiral. Costs keep increasing for the remaining users, and as they drop out, it increases for the remaining users even more.
Electric utilities are looking at exactly the same scenario. In 1955 if someone predicted the demise of street car lines within 20 years, they would have been laughed at. But in 20 years almost all of them became moribund. Except for very high density locales like Chicago, Boston and New York it is mere shadow of its former selves.
As solar becomes cost effective, finance companies will jump in and simplify the financing and installation headaches and make direct head to head comparison possible. "All you pay for is the electricity you actually use based on the meter. All you do is to give us permission to install solar panels in your property. Compare it directly with your utility bill". As affluent customers start using more of solar and use less of the grid, the utility company will start levying "grid-connection fees". And at some point people would start cutting the grid. Then cost will start going up for the remaining users and the spiral would start.
The electric utilities are well aware of the situation. That is why they are fighting so hard.
One way out of their plight is for the utilities to start installing more and more of solar. Solar generation neatly matches the peak demand. If they can use solar for peak summer late afternoon demand and run their gas plants for base load they can survive or stretch it out for a long time. But no matter what, coal is out. Even dirty coal is costlier than gas, not much cheaper than solar. Clean coal just can't compete.
We know for a fact, clay tablets with wedges used for writing will last several thousand years. If the material is interesting enough the future generation will legions of college professors and graduate students to decode it. If it is not, it is not worth preserving.
OK, now it makes sense. This is probably how Brian Williams and Bill O' Reilly came to believe in his own death defying ordeals in the course of news reporting.
No matter how difficult it is to teach the robot to do the laundry, it is going to be whole lot easier than teaching my teenager to pick clothes from the floor of her bedroom. "How can you sleep in the middle of all that squalor?".. "chill dad, I can't see the floor once I get into my bed!"
But evolution seems to have mainly selected biomolecules that are quantum critical, implying that that this property must confer some evolutionary advantage. Exactly what this could be isn't yet clear but it must play an important role in the machinery of life and its origin.
Why talk as though evolution has a purpose, a mind , as if evolution itself is some sentient being?
Stop anthropomorphizing or deomorphizing evolution. Evolution hates such talk.:-)
Dualism vs non-Dualism is not unique to Christianity. Hinduism has its flavor of dualism (dwaitham) and non-dualism (adwaitham). But there the question are the souls of people same as the divinity (adwaitham) or is the soul of living beings distinct from the divine soul of the cosmos(dwaitham)?
BTW I don't believe creationists are the majority among the Christians or they speak for all Christians. But they do wield political power way out of proportion to their true numbers.
Thanks for the correction buddy. The less informed would just shrug it off. But for true afficianados committing a faux pas like mixing up blasters with phasers would be shameful.
The regular lead bullets from even a small caliber short barrel weapon is too fast for eyes to see. But the speed of light phasers being fired by the storm troopers leave a neat clean visible tracer lines. That leads straight back to the location of the gun which helps Harrison Ford ample time to find good spot to dive into, no antique plane needed.
They have rules, but mostly no one follows them. All traffic proceeds by no holds barred negotiation. "OK I move one feet forward, now your move". The only use for traffic rules is to set help negotiating the bribe with the traffic cop. "Come on, officer, 500 rupees for riding without a helmet? The actual fine itself is just 750 rupees. Come on, what kind of idiot you think I am to settle for a 33% discount. Take this 100 rupees". "What? 100 rupees, even beggars don't take 100 rupees anymore, how about not coming to full stop at halt-and-go sign, 1500 rupees fine, discounted to 200 rupees and we call it fair and square?". "OK, next time start with something reasonable we could have finished the transaction much sooner and saved time".
Well, to a creationist, the fact that there are no intermediaries between you and your parents is proof that you are not related.
To the religious fundamentalists, this is just more proof that Satan and his evil hoardes place false evidence to lure those whose faith is not solid away from Biblical truth.
It is not just Satan who is planting all those evil evidence. Satan is being actively aided and abetted by the Omnipotent who is *not* removing the false evidence as soon as Satan does the planting. It am sure the Omniscient All Knowing God is just testing the faithful to find out how strong their faith is, which He already knows, by definition.
Please give yourself a few minutes to let the brain return from that complex Yoga pose to return to normal.
Well, to a creationist, the fact that there are no intermediaries between you and your parents is proof that you are not related.
And the "logic" behind that "thinking" is risible.
"Irreducible complexity" is the same as "I can't figure out how it happened so God must have done it!" As if the limits of one's intellect constrain reality. Talk about intellectual arrogance.
Clarifying the argument: It is not merely "I can't figure out how it happened". It is "If *I* can't figure it out, no one can, because I am the brainiest, wickedly smart, scientist ever to have walked on this planet".
We understand you suspect our CEO was doing insider trading and want access to our server logs to find evidence of guilt or innocence. While we appreciate your conscientiousness, we regret, we do not allow third party access to our servers. We thank you for your understanding. Hoping this would buy us enough time to sanitize our server logs, Yours, Gofly Akite, for Dewy Chetham and Howe.
SEC investigator: eh? well, OK, Guess I tried, so I have covered my ass
Scenario 2:
"Hey Police officer, you want to search my car for pot? I know you are just doing your job, but sorry buddy, my policy is not to allow any third parties into my car. Hope you understand"
Police Officer: "Keep your hands visible, and slowly exit your vehicle, turn around put your hands on the hood and bend over..."
which will run on both ARM- and Intel-based phones and provide an experience very much like the desktop.
See? They can learn. After fully understanding it is stupid to slap a phone UI paradigm on desktops they have decided the right thing to do is cram the desktop UI on to the phone. Way to go Microsoft. Way to go.
Car talk guys had an interesting observation. The average extra "lifespan" you get by exercising seems to equal the time spent exercising. Something like:
Exercising 30 minutes a day works out to some 1.6 years spent exercising over 76 years and that seems to be the extra lifespan you get by exercising 30 minutes a day.
Why do you want to learn a classic object oriented compiled language?
If you are planning a career switch, C++. No question.
Just to teach something to you to do some hobby work? Pick something and go. You are over thinking it. You don't need the best in class, no pun intended, just anything will do.
If you are planning to create a course to offer to some college students, go with Java or something
If all you want is to troll the slashdotters to argue endlessly, congratulations, you have done it. Let me add my contribution too, emacs man! Use emacs. vi sucks.
I have seen these images so many times before. Standing waves, traveling waves, plane polarized wave entering a ferrite core and its plane of polarization turning and twisting, all in glorious 24 bit color.
But all those images and animations came from Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator software. Not actual experimental physically observed phenomena. And not at light frequencies. Microwave wavelengths mostly.
So seen it so many times before, but definitely not meh.
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Come on brown dwarfs are not really stars. It is a con job to call them stars. It is like these New Jersey cruise sales boilerrooms selling "Masala Cruise with Bollywood stars" and then on board you see one guy who played the corpses in a murder mystery starring the Amir Khan and another who was the fourth thug beaten by Rajnikant enthiran the robot.
or some random cave man's family for the use of fire.
*I* am a descendent of some random cave man, you insensitive clod!
Structurally these utilities need massive insvestments, long build times, beset by NIMBYism. They pay off only when there is a critical mass of users. Only when the cost of investment is amortized over a very large user base, these projects are economically viable. Once the user base falls below the critical mass they get into a death spiral. Costs keep increasing for the remaining users, and as they drop out, it increases for the remaining users even more.
Electric utilities are looking at exactly the same scenario. In 1955 if someone predicted the demise of street car lines within 20 years, they would have been laughed at. But in 20 years almost all of them became moribund. Except for very high density locales like Chicago, Boston and New York it is mere shadow of its former selves.
As solar becomes cost effective, finance companies will jump in and simplify the financing and installation headaches and make direct head to head comparison possible. "All you pay for is the electricity you actually use based on the meter. All you do is to give us permission to install solar panels in your property. Compare it directly with your utility bill". As affluent customers start using more of solar and use less of the grid, the utility company will start levying "grid-connection fees". And at some point people would start cutting the grid. Then cost will start going up for the remaining users and the spiral would start.
The electric utilities are well aware of the situation. That is why they are fighting so hard.
One way out of their plight is for the utilities to start installing more and more of solar. Solar generation neatly matches the peak demand. If they can use solar for peak summer late afternoon demand and run their gas plants for base load they can survive or stretch it out for a long time. But no matter what, coal is out. Even dirty coal is costlier than gas, not much cheaper than solar. Clean coal just can't compete.
He seems to be coming from a long line of Learned men.
We know for a fact, clay tablets with wedges used for writing will last several thousand years. If the material is interesting enough the future generation will legions of college professors and graduate students to decode it. If it is not, it is not worth preserving.
OK, now it makes sense. This is probably how Brian Williams and Bill O' Reilly came to believe in his own death defying ordeals in the course of news reporting.
The can smell cancer but still want to catch the laser dot on the floor.
No matter how difficult it is to teach the robot to do the laundry, it is going to be whole lot easier than teaching my teenager to pick clothes from the floor of her bedroom. "How can you sleep in the middle of all that squalor?" .. "chill dad, I can't see the floor once I get into my bed!"
But evolution seems to have mainly selected biomolecules that are quantum critical, implying that that this property must confer some evolutionary advantage. Exactly what this could be isn't yet clear but it must play an important role in the machinery of life and its origin.
Why talk as though evolution has a purpose, a mind , as if evolution itself is some sentient being?
Stop anthropomorphizing or deomorphizing evolution. Evolution hates such talk. :-)
BTW I don't believe creationists are the majority among the Christians or they speak for all Christians. But they do wield political power way out of proportion to their true numbers.
Thanks for the correction buddy. The less informed would just shrug it off. But for true afficianados committing a faux pas like mixing up blasters with phasers would be shameful.
The regular lead bullets from even a small caliber short barrel weapon is too fast for eyes to see. But the speed of light phasers being fired by the storm troopers leave a neat clean visible tracer lines. That leads straight back to the location of the gun which helps Harrison Ford ample time to find good spot to dive into, no antique plane needed.
They have rules, but mostly no one follows them. All traffic proceeds by no holds barred negotiation. "OK I move one feet forward, now your move". The only use for traffic rules is to set help negotiating the bribe with the traffic cop. "Come on, officer, 500 rupees for riding without a helmet? The actual fine itself is just 750 rupees. Come on, what kind of idiot you think I am to settle for a 33% discount. Take this 100 rupees". "What? 100 rupees, even beggars don't take 100 rupees anymore, how about not coming to full stop at halt-and-go sign, 1500 rupees fine, discounted to 200 rupees and we call it fair and square?". "OK, next time start with something reasonable we could have finished the transaction much sooner and saved time".
Well, to a creationist, the fact that there are no intermediaries between you and your parents is proof that you are not related.
To the religious fundamentalists, this is just more proof that Satan and his evil hoardes place false evidence to lure those whose faith is not solid away from Biblical truth.
It is not just Satan who is planting all those evil evidence. Satan is being actively aided and abetted by the Omnipotent who is *not* removing the false evidence as soon as Satan does the planting. It am sure the Omniscient All Knowing God is just testing the faithful to find out how strong their faith is, which He already knows, by definition.
Please give yourself a few minutes to let the brain return from that complex Yoga pose to return to normal.
Well, to a creationist, the fact that there are no intermediaries between you and your parents is proof that you are not related.
And the "logic" behind that "thinking" is risible.
"Irreducible complexity" is the same as "I can't figure out how it happened so God must have done it!" As if the limits of one's intellect constrain reality. Talk about intellectual arrogance.
Clarifying the argument: It is not merely "I can't figure out how it happened". It is "If *I* can't figure it out, no one can, because I am the brainiest, wickedly smart, scientist ever to have walked on this planet".
Dear Investigator,
We understand you suspect our CEO was doing insider trading and want access to our server logs to find evidence of guilt or innocence. While we appreciate your conscientiousness, we regret, we do not allow third party access to our servers. We thank you for your understanding. Hoping this would buy us enough time to sanitize our server logs, Yours, Gofly Akite, for Dewy Chetham and Howe.
SEC investigator: eh? well, OK, Guess I tried, so I have covered my ass
Scenario 2:
"Hey Police officer, you want to search my car for pot? I know you are just doing your job, but sorry buddy, my policy is not to allow any third parties into my car. Hope you understand"
Police Officer: "Keep your hands visible, and slowly exit your vehicle, turn around put your hands on the hood and bend over..."
which will run on both ARM- and Intel-based phones and provide an experience very much like the desktop.
See? They can learn. After fully understanding it is stupid to slap a phone UI paradigm on desktops they have decided the right thing to do is cram the desktop UI on to the phone. Way to go Microsoft. Way to go.
There was always that off beat chance the battleship is hiding in some isolated bay, continuing the war, not knowing the war had ended, like some soldiers of the Imperial Army in that part of the world. . This discovery will put many people at ease.
You are right. But they are very funny.
Car talk guys had an interesting observation. The average extra "lifespan" you get by exercising seems to equal the time spent exercising. Something like: Exercising 30 minutes a day works out to some 1.6 years spent exercising over 76 years and that seems to be the extra lifespan you get by exercising 30 minutes a day.
I really hate it when people don't use percentage as a decimal, but it still beets the IRS "Combine" algebraic operator.
I get 73 from a recent stress test. Who hoo, Still Alive! Wife still kicks my ass with a 130 though.
For a guy who hates mistakes in number formats, you seem to have a very relaxed attitude towards spelling homonyms correctly.
Six more years of budget cuts for NASA.
If you are planning a career switch, C++. No question.
Just to teach something to you to do some hobby work? Pick something and go. You are over thinking it. You don't need the best in class, no pun intended, just anything will do.
If you are planning to create a course to offer to some college students, go with Java or something
If all you want is to troll the slashdotters to argue endlessly, congratulations, you have done it. Let me add my contribution too, emacs man! Use emacs. vi sucks.
I have seen these images so many times before. Standing waves, traveling waves, plane polarized wave entering a ferrite core and its plane of polarization turning and twisting, all in glorious 24 bit color. But all those images and animations came from Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator software. Not actual experimental physically observed phenomena. And not at light frequencies. Microwave wavelengths mostly. So seen it so many times before, but definitely not meh.
Sorry wrong thread. Please mod it down. Thankx