If intelligence-driven extinction doesn't explain this great cosmic silence, then what does?
Inverse square law explains it. Universe is huge, energy required to communicate in all directions quadruples if the distance doubles. Even gigantic stars are mere fireflies stuck on that big blue thing, as the wise philosopher Timon Meerkat said. How can anyone communicate over such long distances?
80% of the energy in the gasoline, goes out as heat in the tail pipe. Diesel engines use compression ignition (no spark plugs) already. The much "coveted" technology, if it works, would bring diesel engine efficiency to gasoline engines. That is all. The claimed benefit is reduction in pollution, not any improvement in efficiency over existing IC engines.
Now that we know how difficult it is to cut the emissions on diesel engines during start up and some driving conditions, it is probably a good thing. But it is not going to slow the long march towards hybrid and electric cars. It is more along the lines of streamlining steam locomotives.
Indian rupee has inflated six times compared to the dollar. 11 INR/USD to 66 INR/USD. But there is real income growth in US Dollar terms.
It was back in 1984. Ask this question, are the minimum wage workers in America earning the same number of dollars a rookie lieutenant was earning?
There is a PDF of USArmy pay scales of 1984 https://www.dfas.mil/dam/jcr:1...
Assuming O for Officers and W for Warrant Officers and E for Enlisted men, The lowest basic pay seems to be 1150$ a month. 302$ a month for quarters. Then you need to add other benefits. Looks like the pay would come to around 18K a year basic pay. Typical pay is likely to be around 22 K. The minimum wage worker would make the equivalent of 15K a year in USA. So compared to US minimum wage workers, Indian minimum wage worker pay has gone up by 50% more.
[I am not sure of my calculations. Can't believe rookie lieutenant was making just 22K a year in 1984. Actual numbers from people who have started their career at that time would prove to be use ful]
It shows how much progress India has made, how much wage inflation has happened and why India will not be the go to place for the low end phone bank outsourcing.
My first job out of college with a brand spanking new BTech degree was in the Ministry of Defense as a Scientist B. At that time it was a "gazzetted officer" position, meaning my appointment will be published in the official government Gazette as an officer. I had the right to sign my name using green ink and "attest" the authenticity of documents for the government. I had my own rubber stamp seal! I had a rank civilian equivalent of a lieutenant. Telling so that you know it is not some very low position.
My starting pay was 1800 Rupees a month. Dollar was trading at 11 Rupees per dollar. (It is about 66 rupees/USD now) Making my pay a grand 163 USD per month. At 22 working days per month it works out to 7.5 $ a day. That a railway station coolie is making 8 $ a day is fantastic progress. Back in the day in my 163$ a month pay I could afford a charwoman who would do the dishes, do the laundry and scrub the floor with disinfectant! And I had money to spare and I lived well. Not sure that porter can afford a daily, but the country has come a long way man...
All it would take is one crash, and there would be so much of hue and cry and always the impossible to answer hypothetical question, "Could a human pilot avoided the crash?"
Would it count as child abuse? I mean it is already iffy what the Indian parents do putting their children through for the spelling bee championships. Honey Boo Boo also would make one wonder when the line gets crossed. But this is definitely over the top. Friends don't led their friends put their children through MS-Office championships....
He is probably the lowest level flunky who would still be high enough for PR spin. He will probably be well rewarded for protecting the higher ups who were all in the game.
It is a German company we are talking about. Their level of documentation and verification are phenomenal. Anyone who sold software to VW would know. They store all the results of all the prior use of the software that was used. They rerun the software after every version upgrade. And they demand every difference to be explained.
No way this diesel emission scandal is some handywork of some rogue group or division. Everyone from the very top knew, they approved and they monitored the deception from the get go.
Perfect is not the enemy of good. Perfect is the greatest equalizer. You are not perfect, you have thrown an empty candy wrapper in the park. Jeffery Dahmer is not perfect, for killing and eating a few people. So you both are basically the same imperfect people.
I can predict how the general public will hear the news. "Conspiracy aid for Terroriststs!". And people who normally argue, "if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns" will seriously take such news stories.
Every element in Xwindows can have its color specified in RGB, and window managers as primitive as MWM allowed a clear hierarchy to specify the colors. How old is that? 20 years? 30 years?
Multiple work spaces have existed from 1990s in all unix systems. Even now in Win10, finally some lame way MS has implemented it. Still does not allow windows to moved easily or pinned. Worst thing, there is no indication to tell which work space you are in. No way to customize it. One of the first things I did when I joined my company back in 1994 was to set six colors and backgrounds for the six workspaces in HPUX.
I think MS top managers have stopped eating their own dog food ages ago, with minions setting up and running their systems, severely afflicted with not-invented-here syndrome. Would not be surprised if there is a team they are funding to improve the wheel.
The BSOD Blue Screen of Death is also getting an overhaul, and it would inherit the color scheme from the upgraded console. No longer limited to the standard blue, you can have a choice of translucent, iridescent, fluorescent, speckled and coruscant versions of blue.
It's no secret that Jeff Bezos' first, second and third objectives are to please Amazon customers, giving them more stuff at the lowest prices and at faster speeds. But increasingly, those upgrades come at the expense of sellers, who often build their businesses on Amazon and have few other places to generate revenue.
The sellers put all their eggs in one basket. Now they are paying the price. Amazon customers too must remember this. Once the brick and mortar competition is driven to bankruptcy it will be their turn to pay the piper.
There are millions of automatic transmissions in use. And the epicyclic gear system is common in other places too. None of the gears, not the sun, nor the ring, nor the planetary needs any special protection officer. Why suddenly create one?
The actual details of what the job involves or how to do it is unknown. But the position has absolutely no power or authority to do anything. But the applicant must be prepared to be the fall guy and take full responsibility if anything goes wrong that can be blamed on her/him.
Not sure if it is bokeh. But Android camera has a mode where you scan the field around the subject, low to high and it estimates the depth of field and adds a blur.
I heard this line of argument before. It used to be Gartner earning its pay from Microsoft arguing that "anything open source can not be up to date ipso facto". Lots of theoretical argument about how streamlined it is to have just one vendor for all applications on a PC, how the look and feel is great, and the UI is inconsistent between various vendors, how much training cost will be saved (very important fudge factor in the bogus total cost of ownership calculations) etc etc.
Competition? bah! Humbug!. Choices? No one needs them.
Here this guy is trying to convince us that people who care about photography who mess with SLR cameras, aperture, speed and all those things are easily daunted by a few choices in the Apps.
The very same Microsoft which was so dismissive of choices became an ardent supporter of competition and consumer choice when it came to standards. With straight face it argued its deliberately misnamed OOXML "standard" is a good because you need competition between "standards"!
This guy is a photographer. He has just discovered what innovation can be packed on the processing side. Probably he was messing with RAW format picture because he would never "trust" the default jpg converter packed in Nikon and Canon. Now suddenly he is all ga-ga about software doing one button click post processing.
It is very much possible he is a good photographer. He should stick to his area of expertise and stop assuming being good, or even a great photographer, makes him an expert on computers, software and open source.
Back in the days, in my dorm I had a cheaply made table fan with a metal grid. One day, on a whim, I touched the grill with the equally cheap line tester thingie. . I was shocked that I had not been shocked to death by that time, because I used to move the fan and touch the fan all the time it was plugged in. The multimeter showed it had the line voltage of 230 volts (It was in India). The moral of the story was that, the leakage current had very high voltage, but it you try to draw any current, very quickly the PD disappears.
Same way, if the asteroid is actually mined and all the material there is dumped in the open market, it will not fetch 10 quadrillion dollars. After all the sea water, so readily accessible, has 20 million tons of gold valued at 1 quadrillion dollars.
If the consumers are not informed, market will be fragmented. Microsoft did not have any monopoly in authentication servers and protocols. It made PC with absolutely minimal security. All unix workstations had an agreed upon standard, protocol. Microsoft, a late comer subverted the protocols and fragmented the market because it peeled of customers from unix yellow pages authenticaion servers. The IT bosses demanding their company PCs be centrally controlled and authenticated were severely misinformed and unaware of the history and the protocols.
Multiple car companies might agree on a standard, but a new comer can "Extend" the standard, and fragment the market.
You must regulate to avoid some company playing the "embrace, extend and extinguish" game. At some point some one will try to fragment the converging standard. Unix had a common protocol for authentication and file system sharing. Microsoft came up with Active Directory that allowed unix hosts to be controlled by AD but windows machines could not be controlled by unix servers. You don't want any vendor to play this game.
Right now electric vehicles are bought by people who do the research and learn the facts before buying. If it hist mass market, there will be lots of less informed buyers. Uninformed consumers mess up the workings of the invisible hand of the free market.
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If intelligence-driven extinction doesn't explain this great cosmic silence, then what does?
Inverse square law explains it. Universe is huge, energy required to communicate in all directions quadruples if the distance doubles. Even gigantic stars are mere fireflies stuck on that big blue thing, as the wise philosopher Timon Meerkat said. How can anyone communicate over such long distances?
Now that we know how difficult it is to cut the emissions on diesel engines during start up and some driving conditions, it is probably a good thing. But it is not going to slow the long march towards hybrid and electric cars. It is more along the lines of streamlining steam locomotives.
It was back in 1984. Ask this question, are the minimum wage workers in America earning the same number of dollars a rookie lieutenant was earning? There is a PDF of USArmy pay scales of 1984 https://www.dfas.mil/dam/jcr:1...
Assuming O for Officers and W for Warrant Officers and E for Enlisted men, The lowest basic pay seems to be 1150$ a month. 302$ a month for quarters. Then you need to add other benefits. Looks like the pay would come to around 18K a year basic pay. Typical pay is likely to be around 22 K. The minimum wage worker would make the equivalent of 15K a year in USA. So compared to US minimum wage workers, Indian minimum wage worker pay has gone up by 50% more.
[I am not sure of my calculations. Can't believe rookie lieutenant was making just 22K a year in 1984. Actual numbers from people who have started their career at that time would prove to be use ful]
My first job out of college with a brand spanking new BTech degree was in the Ministry of Defense as a Scientist B. At that time it was a "gazzetted officer" position, meaning my appointment will be published in the official government Gazette as an officer. I had the right to sign my name using green ink and "attest" the authenticity of documents for the government. I had my own rubber stamp seal! I had a rank civilian equivalent of a lieutenant. Telling so that you know it is not some very low position.
My starting pay was 1800 Rupees a month. Dollar was trading at 11 Rupees per dollar. (It is about 66 rupees/USD now) Making my pay a grand 163 USD per month. At 22 working days per month it works out to 7.5 $ a day. That a railway station coolie is making 8 $ a day is fantastic progress. Back in the day in my 163$ a month pay I could afford a charwoman who would do the dishes, do the laundry and scrub the floor with disinfectant! And I had money to spare and I lived well. Not sure that porter can afford a daily, but the country has come a long way man...
All it would take is one crash, and there would be so much of hue and cry and always the impossible to answer hypothetical question, "Could a human pilot avoided the crash?"
Would it count as child abuse? I mean it is already iffy what the Indian parents do putting their children through for the spelling bee championships. Honey Boo Boo also would make one wonder when the line gets crossed. But this is definitely over the top. Friends don't led their friends put their children through MS-Office championships....
It is a German company we are talking about. Their level of documentation and verification are phenomenal. Anyone who sold software to VW would know. They store all the results of all the prior use of the software that was used. They rerun the software after every version upgrade. And they demand every difference to be explained.
No way this diesel emission scandal is some handywork of some rogue group or division. Everyone from the very top knew, they approved and they monitored the deception from the get go.
Perfect is not the enemy of good. Perfect is the greatest equalizer. You are not perfect, you have thrown an empty candy wrapper in the park. Jeffery Dahmer is not perfect, for killing and eating a few people. So you both are basically the same imperfect people.
I can predict how the general public will hear the news. "Conspiracy aid for Terroriststs!". And people who normally argue, "if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns" will seriously take such news stories.
Multiple work spaces have existed from 1990s in all unix systems. Even now in Win10, finally some lame way MS has implemented it. Still does not allow windows to moved easily or pinned. Worst thing, there is no indication to tell which work space you are in. No way to customize it. One of the first things I did when I joined my company back in 1994 was to set six colors and backgrounds for the six workspaces in HPUX.
I think MS top managers have stopped eating their own dog food ages ago, with minions setting up and running their systems, severely afflicted with not-invented-here syndrome. Would not be surprised if there is a team they are funding to improve the wheel.
The BSOD Blue Screen of Death is also getting an overhaul, and it would inherit the color scheme from the upgraded console. No longer limited to the standard blue, you can have a choice of translucent, iridescent, fluorescent, speckled and coruscant versions of blue.
If that is the case they owe their existence to Amazon. So they can't complain if they build their home on some else's property.
Wonder what would happen if a company develops a passengers cooperation platform that allows users to gang up against providers.
Is he claiming each letter is one count of violation? Like RIAA typically does?
It's no secret that Jeff Bezos' first, second and third objectives are to please Amazon customers, giving them more stuff at the lowest prices and at faster speeds. But increasingly, those upgrades come at the expense of sellers, who often build their businesses on Amazon and have few other places to generate revenue.
The sellers put all their eggs in one basket. Now they are paying the price. Amazon customers too must remember this. Once the brick and mortar competition is driven to bankruptcy it will be their turn to pay the piper.
There are millions of automatic transmissions in use. And the epicyclic gear system is common in other places too. None of the gears, not the sun, nor the ring, nor the planetary needs any special protection officer. Why suddenly create one?
The actual details of what the job involves or how to do it is unknown. But the position has absolutely no power or authority to do anything. But the applicant must be prepared to be the fall guy and take full responsibility if anything goes wrong that can be blamed on her/him.
Natural gas is killing both coal and nuclear.
Not sure if it is bokeh. But Android camera has a mode where you scan the field around the subject, low to high and it estimates the depth of field and adds a blur.
Competition? bah! Humbug!. Choices? No one needs them.
Here this guy is trying to convince us that people who care about photography who mess with SLR cameras, aperture, speed and all those things are easily daunted by a few choices in the Apps.
The very same Microsoft which was so dismissive of choices became an ardent supporter of competition and consumer choice when it came to standards. With straight face it argued its deliberately misnamed OOXML "standard" is a good because you need competition between "standards"!
This guy is a photographer. He has just discovered what innovation can be packed on the processing side. Probably he was messing with RAW format picture because he would never "trust" the default jpg converter packed in Nikon and Canon. Now suddenly he is all ga-ga about software doing one button click post processing.
It is very much possible he is a good photographer. He should stick to his area of expertise and stop assuming being good, or even a great photographer, makes him an expert on computers, software and open source.
Yes, I agree, you have a point here.
Same way, if the asteroid is actually mined and all the material there is dumped in the open market, it will not fetch 10 quadrillion dollars. After all the sea water, so readily accessible, has 20 million tons of gold valued at 1 quadrillion dollars.
Multiple car companies might agree on a standard, but a new comer can "Extend" the standard, and fragment the market.
Right now electric vehicles are bought by people who do the research and learn the facts before buying. If it hist mass market, there will be lots of less informed buyers. Uninformed consumers mess up the workings of the invisible hand of the free market.