Beer, potato chips, nacho chips + guacamole, sugary cereals, samosas and bhajjis are totally vegetarian. You eat exclusively these and you will be in deep trouble.
The reduction in diseases coincides with the rise of cordless phones and cell phones. The 900 MHz baby monitors and cordless phones first and then the 5.8 GHz cordless phone spectrum were phased in. Then came the cell phones and the IR remote control became ubiquitous and some remotes started using the 900 MHz and 5.8 GHz band (through the wall remotes for TiVo in another room).
During the cell division process radiation in these bands help tighten up the telemerese at the end of DNA. Every time the cell replicates the first few hundred basepairs come untangled, frayed and do not replicate well. But our DNA has very long sections on either end to cushion for the loss. Eventually the cushion is lost and actual genes start getting messed up and lost. That is how ageing happens. The radiation in these bands have positive effect in reducing the amount of fraying during cell replication.
Watch out pseudo scientists. Like real science, pseudo science is also cuts both ways. One can use it to spread fear and paranoia about any new technology or it can be used to ascribe totally unwarranted benefits to new things too.
The container based intermodal transport did take over, ship borne, rail borne and truck borne cargo sectors. It did not make much headway into air cargo business. Technically the containers could be made with windows and a/c and be made comfortable enough for passenger travel. Again it did not happen. Why?
In an airplane the fuselage is not some simple shell for aesthetics or aerodynamics. It is a structural component, bearing weight. The skin, barely a mm thick carries load. The containers on the other hand are designed to carry load themselves. They are all rated to be stacked, each container can bear the load of some dozen containers stacked on top of it. That is why these containers are so strong, made with steel. Such strong containers are heavy. Too heavy to be used in air cargo economically.
We could design containers, with lower strength specs to lower the weight. This could help in unloading and reloading of cargo planes. Turn around time is very important. Such containers exist, but they are not as ubiquitous as intermodal containers and they have not taken over the industry sector the way they have taken over ship/rail/truck borne cargo.
As for passenger carrying cargo, it is so cheap to ask passengers to disembark and reboard, the cost and weight of carrying them makes it uneconomical.
The value of avoiding disembarkation is well known. In Europe, some passenger trains move from one gauge in the west to another gauge in the east changing the wheel gauge on the move. As the railcar moves along, a special section of the track, lifts the car off the truck, unlocks the wheel, slides the wheel along the axle to reduce/increase the gauge, relock the wheel, lower the railcar on to the trucks. (trucks = bogies for the brits). At 15 mph. Even locomotives change their gauge on the move! So the value of avoiding disembarkation is known, but still these pod ideas have not taken hold.
It is a nice interesting student project. Earlier graphics was expensive and we used to depend on Popular Mechanics for such crazy ideas in nice looking pictures. Now with blender and maya and photoshop anyone can create them. That is all.
It is dumb to buy a new car. It loses 25% of the value the moment you take possession. Then rusts and loses value continuously. You can get fantastic almost as good as new car, one or two years old, some 30% cheaper.
If they claim they own the utility poles, then they might own property taxes to the municipalities. Land owners also might demand rent for all the lines over private property. The city could also charge them rent/fee for using public easements and public rights of way.
The video looks very authentic. And it is promoting arming black people using some kind of charity. It could be parody, it does not look like a parody and it will strike fear in the heart of NRA supporters.
The asymmetric enforcement of second amendment rights is the core of NRA and its followers mission. White people with long guns, with fingers on the trigger can walk into departmental stores, or pick arguments with police officers, insult the police and terrorize play grounds with impunity. Stand your ground, Open Carry and such slogans are meant for them.
Unfortunately for them, black Americans are also citizens with full second amendment rights. They too have the rights, but if they exercise it, they will be shot by police without a second thought. "At that moment I feared my life, though none of the circumstances warranted it, but if I fear for my life I have the right to kill" is accepted as a valid defense for police officers. The same defense does not work when the victim of police shooting is white. A complex system of law enforcement, jury selection, etc are propping up this asymmetry. This ad brings out the hypocrisy of the NRA followers, and make them fear what would happen if the jury rigged system of rigged juries to deny black people their second amendment right collapses. That is why NRA is acting swiftly.
SI units are clear, decimate is to kill 10%. centimate is kill 1 in 100, millimate is 1 in 1000. Since the SI units go up or down by factor 10, the extinction event is actually 9.3 decimates.
Of course it is a better idea. Definitely. Better for Microsoft. At least according to its bean counters and Microsoft's Unified Supreme Strategic Realignment council.
Is it better for the users? Who cares? May be some linux user would care, "one more opportunity to pile on and make fun of the misfortunes of poor people stuck with Microsoft". Other than that...
Apple shaped ones are generally more attractive but they are beset with health problems and decay quickly. The ugly pear shaped ones are the ones still extant.
Google created google+ accounts for every gmail user. People laughed at its pathetic attempt to ape facebook. Now who's laughing? Google was actually doing all gmail users a favor. There will be an useless google+ account that no one bothers to look at, but will qualify as the social media account for the purpose of filling out some damned form to TSA!
Touch screen, 11 inch, 3K display, softcover keyboard, large internal storage, 64GB? apps to cache whole web pages for browsing without the net, media storage and playback.
I remember Indian telephone service used to have alarm service. Call, them book the time, and the phone would ring at the appointed time. I remember time service, we used to use it often. My dad worked for the P&T and we had an unmetered line.
Our IT and Build team still don't permit us to use C11 features because some ancient archiac module originally used mainwin to port from windows to linux.
The game system is limited mostly by graphics and rendering. In CAD and physics simulation graphics play a smaller role and the matrix solvers and physics solvers and the mesh generators take bulk of the CPU time and development load. If you can't port a CAD application well, there is no hope for games. That is what I mean by saying "Leave games,..."
Leave games, take high performance engineering analysis done by CAD/CAM design analysis tools. There is this leading company which became the leading company by acquiring many different physics simulation companies. And the acquisitions include pure-linux shops, pure-windows shops and some mixed. Their fluid mechanics tools come from what used to be a pure linux shop. It simply rocks in linux AND windows. Well done system, it would even catch access violations, clean up the sub systems and continue without crashing. Graphics would simply rock. It would take a fluid mechanics simulation being done on 128 node cluster and render the pressure contours on a remote work station. Fully scriptable too! Very good performance in windows and liunux. On the other side a geometry processing tool comes from a pure windows shop. This tool has the precision of Parametric Technolgies CAD engine and the flexibility of blender like UI. Slicker than Exxon-Valdez in Prince William Sound! But the damned thing does not even run on Linux. Their electronics analysis tools come from what used to be a unix shop, that went to Windows with Mainwin porting, then some sort hybrid of mainwin, kernel mode, console apps behind a reasonably good UI (unlimited undo/redo, complete parametric sweep with two levels of distributed processing!). Works reasonably well in Linux but even users who solve in linux postprocess in windows.
Moral of the story: develop in linux and port to Windows, you could compete with native windows apps. Develop in windows and port to linux, you would be lucky if it just runs.
In third world countries, law enforcement is very weak. In Africa mobile phone based banking is taking hold. There are typically no ATMs. But shops that sell prepaid phones also act as local tellers dispensing cash after being authenticated using cell phones. Fraud is much less common there. In most third world countries banks are very powerful and the laws favor the banks. All the fraud liability rests with the poor people who are very guarded. The only people using credit cards seriously in Aftrica are the naive tourists.
Prius has a tiny shifter in the dash, quite insignificant actually compared to a real shiter. And it has a very prominent indicator in the dash to show you P, N, D, R and something called B for engine braking. It was completely new so I got used to looking at the dash and the large P button with a green LED. Anyway its parking brake is totally mechanical and I press it all the way. So I am more confident about Prius.
BMW X3 on the other hand has a traditional shifter and shows the position clearly. But its parking break is electric. Just press the button and hope it is engaged correctly. It has auto parking brake, that will apply every time the car comes to a halt and auto release when the gas is pressed.
Trains always had their brakes applied all the time. A locomotive must create a negative pressure to keep the brake released. Any interruption to the vacuum line, the brakes apply automagically. Westinghouse invented this some 120 years ago. Still no car even thinks of using such a method. There were times when they stupidly designed windshield wipers to work off the negative pressure in inlet manifold. But no advancement at all in keeping the parking brake applied in a fail safe manner.
The real solution is to make it not worthwhile to steal the credit card number. At least in Europe, they bring the card reader to the table in restaurants and you need a PIN even for credit card. Not like USA. They let me use an American creditcard without PIN, and it was scammed. 5000$ fraudulent charges!
Well, with the cards EMV chips become more prevalent, and they use challenge-and-response based authentication, capturing the card, or even the entire exchange between the ATM and the main bank computer would not be enough to commit fraud. For authorizing card-not-present transactions, two factor authentication based on cell phone to confirm the charges will come through. So eventually this threat will go away.
But as long as the loss to the banks due to skimming is less than the cost of upgrading the infrastructure, they will drag their feet about the cards with chips. Also the credit card companies have shifted the liability for the fraud from themselves to the merchants, in USA. So we should see more EMV chips coming on line in USA.
As it becomes more risky, the insurance premia will increase and the cost advantage gained by economy of scale will be off set. Since these tera ships can dock only on some specific ports, the ports will charge more, where else can the ships go? The countries will not let other ports to upgrade and reduce competition. Eventually market will take care of itself.
Carting is an economic activity mentioned by Adam Smith himself in the Wealth of nations. Making carting inefficient, overloading it with costs will be equivalent to levying tariff on imported goods (our exports are simply imports for our trade partners). Piracy, terrorism, insurance premia... anything that makes shipping more costly will create more jobs in the USA.
IQ is a very good measure of how well one can take IQ tests. That is all.
Most IQ tests are biased towards one kind of thinking and one skill set. As more and more people are getting used to IQ tests people are scoring more and more. So they periodically "adjust" the mean score to get the number to 100 for the median of the population. For example former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was the first person to score a perfect 800 in a GMAT test [*]. If that very same test McNamara aced is given to current generation of students, about 10% would score 800.
It is called the Flynn Effect. High IQ countries and lower software piracy are correlated probably because the same underlying cause that creates Flynn Effect also reduces software piracy.
[*] The second person to score 800 is an 1983 IIT-m grad, one year senior to me, who got a personal letter from McNamara about it. That is how I know this nugget of info.
They pick a bench mark test, run it, profile the code, and optimize it to beat the test. Sort of like how car companies tout a huge EPA MPG and then weasel out saying your mileage might vary. The real test would be to record normal browsing habits or a large cross section of people, and then repeat exactly the same mouse clicks and key board input to various browsers and then check the battery endurance.
Anthropomorphising evolution and attributing intent to evolution is a short hand notation."Evolution acts as if it wants to reward X..." or "Evolution results in many different variations, and the variations the reward X become more and more prevalent.." are the meaning of the phrase "Evolution rewards X". Biologists know that it is a short hand. Most people get it once explained. Only people who trot out, "evolution is mindless, a snail does not have a brain big enough to understand the shell protects is, let alone a brain capable of forming a strategy to evolve shells to protect against predators and the ability to evolve one" are creationists who deliberately refuse to understand simple things.
We do it all the time. The stock market does not want to reward risk takers, it simply does what it does and that somehow ends up rewarding risk takers. A very lucid explanation of it was in the book by Daniel Denett.
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Beer, potato chips, nacho chips + guacamole, sugary cereals, samosas and bhajjis are totally vegetarian. You eat exclusively these and you will be in deep trouble.
During the cell division process radiation in these bands help tighten up the telemerese at the end of DNA. Every time the cell replicates the first few hundred basepairs come untangled, frayed and do not replicate well. But our DNA has very long sections on either end to cushion for the loss. Eventually the cushion is lost and actual genes start getting messed up and lost. That is how ageing happens. The radiation in these bands have positive effect in reducing the amount of fraying during cell replication.
Watch out pseudo scientists. Like real science, pseudo science is also cuts both ways. One can use it to spread fear and paranoia about any new technology or it can be used to ascribe totally unwarranted benefits to new things too.
At least Satya Nadella is rearranging the deck chairs.
In an airplane the fuselage is not some simple shell for aesthetics or aerodynamics. It is a structural component, bearing weight. The skin, barely a mm thick carries load. The containers on the other hand are designed to carry load themselves. They are all rated to be stacked, each container can bear the load of some dozen containers stacked on top of it. That is why these containers are so strong, made with steel. Such strong containers are heavy. Too heavy to be used in air cargo economically.
We could design containers, with lower strength specs to lower the weight. This could help in unloading and reloading of cargo planes. Turn around time is very important. Such containers exist, but they are not as ubiquitous as intermodal containers and they have not taken over the industry sector the way they have taken over ship/rail/truck borne cargo.
As for passenger carrying cargo, it is so cheap to ask passengers to disembark and reboard, the cost and weight of carrying them makes it uneconomical.
The value of avoiding disembarkation is well known. In Europe, some passenger trains move from one gauge in the west to another gauge in the east changing the wheel gauge on the move. As the railcar moves along, a special section of the track, lifts the car off the truck, unlocks the wheel, slides the wheel along the axle to reduce/increase the gauge, relock the wheel, lower the railcar on to the trucks. (trucks = bogies for the brits). At 15 mph. Even locomotives change their gauge on the move! So the value of avoiding disembarkation is known, but still these pod ideas have not taken hold.
It is a nice interesting student project. Earlier graphics was expensive and we used to depend on Popular Mechanics for such crazy ideas in nice looking pictures. Now with blender and maya and photoshop anyone can create them. That is all.
It is dumb to buy a new car. It loses 25% of the value the moment you take possession. Then rusts and loses value continuously. You can get fantastic almost as good as new car, one or two years old, some 30% cheaper.
If they claim they own the utility poles, then they might own property taxes to the municipalities. Land owners also might demand rent for all the lines over private property. The city could also charge them rent/fee for using public easements and public rights of way.
The asymmetric enforcement of second amendment rights is the core of NRA and its followers mission. White people with long guns, with fingers on the trigger can walk into departmental stores, or pick arguments with police officers, insult the police and terrorize play grounds with impunity. Stand your ground, Open Carry and such slogans are meant for them.
Unfortunately for them, black Americans are also citizens with full second amendment rights. They too have the rights, but if they exercise it, they will be shot by police without a second thought. "At that moment I feared my life, though none of the circumstances warranted it, but if I fear for my life I have the right to kill" is accepted as a valid defense for police officers. The same defense does not work when the victim of police shooting is white. A complex system of law enforcement, jury selection, etc are propping up this asymmetry. This ad brings out the hypocrisy of the NRA followers, and make them fear what would happen if the jury rigged system of rigged juries to deny black people their second amendment right collapses. That is why NRA is acting swiftly.
SI units are clear, decimate is to kill 10%. centimate is kill 1 in 100, millimate is 1 in 1000. Since the SI units go up or down by factor 10, the extinction event is actually 9.3 decimates.
Is it better for the users? Who cares? May be some linux user would care, "one more opportunity to pile on and make fun of the misfortunes of poor people stuck with Microsoft". Other than that ...
Don't forget, it can be shrunk to the size of R2D2.
Apple shaped ones are generally more attractive but they are beset with health problems and decay quickly. The ugly pear shaped ones are the ones still extant.
Google created google+ accounts for every gmail user. People laughed at its pathetic attempt to ape facebook. Now who's laughing? Google was actually doing all gmail users a favor. There will be an useless google+ account that no one bothers to look at, but will qualify as the social media account for the purpose of filling out some damned form to TSA!
Fine, have it your way. Hold forth, sir, your views that apply to all continents...
Touch screen, 11 inch, 3K display, softcover keyboard, large internal storage, 64GB? apps to cache whole web pages for browsing without the net, media storage and playback.
I remember Indian telephone service used to have alarm service. Call, them book the time, and the phone would ring at the appointed time. I remember time service, we used to use it often. My dad worked for the P&T and we had an unmetered line.
Our IT and Build team still don't permit us to use C11 features because some ancient archiac module originally used mainwin to port from windows to linux.
The game system is limited mostly by graphics and rendering. In CAD and physics simulation graphics play a smaller role and the matrix solvers and physics solvers and the mesh generators take bulk of the CPU time and development load. If you can't port a CAD application well, there is no hope for games. That is what I mean by saying "Leave games, ..."
Moral of the story: develop in linux and port to Windows, you could compete with native windows apps. Develop in windows and port to linux, you would be lucky if it just runs.
In third world countries, law enforcement is very weak. In Africa mobile phone based banking is taking hold. There are typically no ATMs. But shops that sell prepaid phones also act as local tellers dispensing cash after being authenticated using cell phones. Fraud is much less common there. In most third world countries banks are very powerful and the laws favor the banks. All the fraud liability rests with the poor people who are very guarded. The only people using credit cards seriously in Aftrica are the naive tourists.
BMW X3 on the other hand has a traditional shifter and shows the position clearly. But its parking break is electric. Just press the button and hope it is engaged correctly. It has auto parking brake, that will apply every time the car comes to a halt and auto release when the gas is pressed.
Trains always had their brakes applied all the time. A locomotive must create a negative pressure to keep the brake released. Any interruption to the vacuum line, the brakes apply automagically. Westinghouse invented this some 120 years ago. Still no car even thinks of using such a method. There were times when they stupidly designed windshield wipers to work off the negative pressure in inlet manifold. But no advancement at all in keeping the parking brake applied in a fail safe manner.
Well, with the cards EMV chips become more prevalent, and they use challenge-and-response based authentication, capturing the card, or even the entire exchange between the ATM and the main bank computer would not be enough to commit fraud. For authorizing card-not-present transactions, two factor authentication based on cell phone to confirm the charges will come through. So eventually this threat will go away.
But as long as the loss to the banks due to skimming is less than the cost of upgrading the infrastructure, they will drag their feet about the cards with chips. Also the credit card companies have shifted the liability for the fraud from themselves to the merchants, in USA. So we should see more EMV chips coming on line in USA.
Carting is an economic activity mentioned by Adam Smith himself in the Wealth of nations. Making carting inefficient, overloading it with costs will be equivalent to levying tariff on imported goods (our exports are simply imports for our trade partners). Piracy, terrorism, insurance premia ... anything that makes shipping more costly will create more jobs in the USA.
Most IQ tests are biased towards one kind of thinking and one skill set. As more and more people are getting used to IQ tests people are scoring more and more. So they periodically "adjust" the mean score to get the number to 100 for the median of the population. For example former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was the first person to score a perfect 800 in a GMAT test [*]. If that very same test McNamara aced is given to current generation of students, about 10% would score 800.
It is called the Flynn Effect. High IQ countries and lower software piracy are correlated probably because the same underlying cause that creates Flynn Effect also reduces software piracy.
[*] The second person to score 800 is an 1983 IIT-m grad, one year senior to me, who got a personal letter from McNamara about it. That is how I know this nugget of info.
They pick a bench mark test, run it, profile the code, and optimize it to beat the test. Sort of like how car companies tout a huge EPA MPG and then weasel out saying your mileage might vary. The real test would be to record normal browsing habits or a large cross section of people, and then repeat exactly the same mouse clicks and key board input to various browsers and then check the battery endurance.
We do it all the time. The stock market does not want to reward risk takers, it simply does what it does and that somehow ends up rewarding risk takers. A very lucid explanation of it was in the book by Daniel Denett.