Goldman's lawyers wrote:
[quote]We have acquired articles posted on your website which contain...[/quote]
You acquired the articles, but did you read them? And you're still representing him?
Not sure why you're talking directly to the Chinese. The Great Firewall of China probably blocks slashdot, if not for the freespeech, then at least for the trolls.
(Anyone in china that is actually able to read your message (by proxying, etc...) is probably among the ones that agree with you anyway)
This is in line with On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Basically, we must allow all opinions. The illogical and incorrect (and downright stupid) opinions can be done away with reasoning. There's several reasons for having a system such as this. If a new opinion somehow came to be known as correct, it would then become the accepted standard. If said opinion was found to be incorrect, it would help verify that the currently accepted idea is correct.
There's plenty more to the book than my appetizer. Check out wikipedia for the short, or check out Google Book Search for the whole damn thing.
I agree that most people are stupid, unfortunately. But I also think that if people were brought up in homes and schools that "believed" (and I used the term loosely) in evolution, then most people would take evolution without any basis (as they take creationism now). It's all part of cultural conditioning.
Here's one example to illustrate: if you're a Repub/Demo, it's likely based on your parents' position (or the dominate parent's position) with little or no thought on your own.
I think the same thing would happen if all parents "believed" in evolution (rather than truly knowing it is "correct").
Having played most of the series, I'd say that Lib. City in GTA3 "feels" a lot more like NYC than in GTA1...probably just the top down view, the graphics and the story, but still.
The story of the Prodigal Son is supposed to be one of enlightenment. The fact that the "druggy" son went out on his own to experience life--to define his life--means that he has actually lived.
This story is often related to Plato/Socrates's Allegory of the Cave. The "druggy" son went out to explore life and woke up and left the cave. The "good" son stayed in the cave and never really learned what making a choice his (all his choices are made for him).
I tend to relate the Allegory of the Cave to people who have learned to think or not. Those who have learned to question their surroundings. Those that have left the cave are those who realize that they (these range from complex to simple ideas): don't have to be slaves to belief/religion, are often fed crap information (meaning, I don't listen to peoples' bullcrap without checking it with Google), can take any path in life besides the ones laid down for them (though it often means that you will have to make some very hard decisions that can have very real consequences--but in the end, you should be proud for taking the path you know was correct). Hopefully you can relate this to the story of the prodigal son.
I came out of the cave when I realized (in college) that my high school physics teacher (who was a coach incidentally) had taught us utterly awful basic mechanics. It came to me that I could have used Google to learn physics the correct way, or I could have purchased a good physics book (rather than the POS that we were used...it must have been the worst book on the planet), or I could have simply asked my father (Chem. E.) about such things. That wasn't the only thing that awakened me (many other things from the college experience that--sadly--most don't experience in college), but I finally started questioning everything.
Don't they find stats like this in polls that are taken?
I know it's nothing "official" but it seems more likely to get better stats through a poll than relying on non-voters (abstaining voters) to go vote for no one.
Some replies to the parent have talked about getting podcasts, well...
If you're talking about Russ Martin (DFW talk radio) then you can get his show off of russmartin.info (commercial free; $7/month subscription that goes towards his charity) and put it on a portable audio player.
Yeah, it was a joke. Sony shits on me, so does MS and Toshiba. Damn m200 tablet doesn't have a reinstall CD and buying another one is a PITA (just try finding one to start with). Oh, and I can use the MSDN version of MS WinXP Tablet edition 2005 to reinstall w/ my XP key. Thank you MS and Toshiba.
Wow, that's off topic.
Back on topic, has anyone mentioned the players that can play both HD DVD and Bluray? Doesn't it seem like all the manufacturers w/o a vested interest would produce those types of players? I guess the counterpoint would be that (possibly) most manufacturers have a vested interest.
It's not necessary to do it that way. The way these multi-junction cells work is you have several layers of different semiconductor materials (with varying band gaps as the parent said). The material with the largest band gap is on top and the band gap of the material decreases as you go down the layers of the device. If a photon is not absorbed in the first layer (meaning the photon doesn't have very high energy, since, as the parent also said, the photon must have greater than the band gap energy to be absorbed), then it continues on to the next layer to be absorbed, then the next layer. This way, you are extracting the maximum amount of energy out of each photon.
That isn't a perfect explanation and any experts out there, please correct anything that's wrong.
The concentrator does not improve the efficiency of the actual cell (in other words, it's 40% with or without the concentrator), that's the multi-junction part's job. But the concentrator make it so fewer multi-junction cells are required (using cheaper optics to reduce the number of expensive cells).
I was really hoping they would (but knew they wouldn't) link to a specific journal article about the devices being used. If anyone knows if this group has produced a scientific article (IEEE, AIP, etc...), I would appreciate a link. I did a quick IEEE search on multi-junction solar cells and didn't find anything about the device mentioned in TFA.
Solar cells made from silicon are less efficient than those that are gallium-arsenide (GaAs) based. GaAs based semiconductor devices are generally more expensive than Si-based (in terms of materials costs and often fabrication costs due to the maturity of silicon manufacturing).
Silicon photovoltaic research has been slower to produce more efficient cells so researchers have been working with other materials--GaAs, InP, etc... to develop better solar cells.
Due to the inefficiency of silicon cells, like you said, they produced less energy than required to make them. They have improved since then, but not nearly as much as solar cells from different semiconductors.
From TFA, these solar cells are multi-junction GaAs based cells.
FTA: "We might unpack our Xbox 1 to play games on instead of backwards compatibility on the 360. Is double the energy worth anti-aliasing and a wireless controller?"
It's only an estimated $20.10 (FTA) a year to run the 360. I'd easily pay 20 bucks for my Xbox 1 to have anti-aliasing. I'd paid/much/ more than that to have my computer run anti-aliasing.
The ESRB re-rated GTA:SA and I said nothing.
They have now re-rated my new favorite game, Oblivion. For both GTA:SA and Oblivion, I purchased the games because I wanted to support their hard work (as I have done for all of the games I enjoy). I hate to see them being hurt as they are.
I just sent a message to the ESRB even though I know that will do little.
I hate to stand by and do nothing. What can I/we do to get the ESRB to rethink how (and why) they rate these games?
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All the artists should just do what I do and post art that is so crappy no one in their right mind would copy it. And steal others'.
TODD
What's funny is that someone who goes to all that trouble just to print "QUACK, MOTHER FUCKER!" to stdout cannot spell "Turing" correctly.
TODD
Goldman's lawyers wrote: [quote]We have acquired articles posted on your website which contain...[/quote] You acquired the articles, but did you read them? And you're still representing him?
And revoke my official slashdotter status? Don't be silly.
Finally the missing piece put into place. How can the summary leave out such vital information?
Not sure why you're talking directly to the Chinese. The Great Firewall of China probably blocks slashdot, if not for the freespeech, then at least for the trolls.
(Anyone in china that is actually able to read your message (by proxying, etc...) is probably among the ones that agree with you anyway)
the standard bat. life was measured at 8:00+ (more than 8 hours) and the modified nano's life was 0:06 (6 minutes)
Yes, but does it have a +6 enchantment?
This is in line with On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Basically, we must allow all opinions. The illogical and incorrect (and downright stupid) opinions can be done away with reasoning. There's several reasons for having a system such as this. If a new opinion somehow came to be known as correct, it would then become the accepted standard. If said opinion was found to be incorrect, it would help verify that the currently accepted idea is correct.
There's plenty more to the book than my appetizer. Check out wikipedia for the short, or check out Google Book Search for the whole damn thing.
...hilarious...
Here's one example to illustrate: if you're a Repub/Demo, it's likely based on your parents' position (or the dominate parent's position) with little or no thought on your own.
I think the same thing would happen if all parents "believed" in evolution (rather than truly knowing it is "correct").
Having played most of the series, I'd say that Lib. City in GTA3 "feels" a lot more like NYC than in GTA1...probably just the top down view, the graphics and the story, but still.
So your life is Slashdot?
How sad...but common
Why do I feel the need to point this out?
I know what he meant, but why did you make me reply? Damn you, EE degree, stop controlling my life!
This story is often related to Plato/Socrates's Allegory of the Cave. The "druggy" son went out to explore life and woke up and left the cave. The "good" son stayed in the cave and never really learned what making a choice his (all his choices are made for him).
I tend to relate the Allegory of the Cave to people who have learned to think or not. Those who have learned to question their surroundings. Those that have left the cave are those who realize that they (these range from complex to simple ideas): don't have to be slaves to belief/religion, are often fed crap information (meaning, I don't listen to peoples' bullcrap without checking it with Google), can take any path in life besides the ones laid down for them (though it often means that you will have to make some very hard decisions that can have very real consequences--but in the end, you should be proud for taking the path you know was correct). Hopefully you can relate this to the story of the prodigal son.
I came out of the cave when I realized (in college) that my high school physics teacher (who was a coach incidentally) had taught us utterly awful basic mechanics. It came to me that I could have used Google to learn physics the correct way, or I could have purchased a good physics book (rather than the POS that we were used...it must have been the worst book on the planet), or I could have simply asked my father (Chem. E.) about such things. That wasn't the only thing that awakened me (many other things from the college experience that--sadly--most don't experience in college), but I finally started questioning everything.
I know it's nothing "official" but it seems more likely to get better stats through a poll than relying on non-voters (abstaining voters) to go vote for no one.
If you're talking about Russ Martin (DFW talk radio) then you can get his show off of russmartin.info (commercial free; $7/month subscription that goes towards his charity) and put it on a portable audio player.
That's what I do anyway.
Wow, that's off topic.
Back on topic, has anyone mentioned the players that can play both HD DVD and Bluray? Doesn't it seem like all the manufacturers w/o a vested interest would produce those types of players? I guess the counterpoint would be that (possibly) most manufacturers have a vested interest.
What do I know, I'm a flamebaiter.
As soon as Sony stops shitting all over us, I'll buy a Blu-ray player.
It's not necessary to do it that way. The way these multi-junction cells work is you have several layers of different semiconductor materials (with varying band gaps as the parent said). The material with the largest band gap is on top and the band gap of the material decreases as you go down the layers of the device. If a photon is not absorbed in the first layer (meaning the photon doesn't have very high energy, since, as the parent also said, the photon must have greater than the band gap energy to be absorbed), then it continues on to the next layer to be absorbed, then the next layer. This way, you are extracting the maximum amount of energy out of each photon.
That isn't a perfect explanation and any experts out there, please correct anything that's wrong.
I think you're both right, actually.
The concentrator does not improve the efficiency of the actual cell (in other words, it's 40% with or without the concentrator), that's the multi-junction part's job. But the concentrator make it so fewer multi-junction cells are required (using cheaper optics to reduce the number of expensive cells).
I was really hoping they would (but knew they wouldn't) link to a specific journal article about the devices being used. If anyone knows if this group has produced a scientific article (IEEE, AIP, etc...), I would appreciate a link. I did a quick IEEE search on multi-junction solar cells and didn't find anything about the device mentioned in TFA.
Solar cells made from silicon are less efficient than those that are gallium-arsenide (GaAs) based. GaAs based semiconductor devices are generally more expensive than Si-based (in terms of materials costs and often fabrication costs due to the maturity of silicon manufacturing).
Silicon photovoltaic research has been slower to produce more efficient cells so researchers have been working with other materials--GaAs, InP, etc... to develop better solar cells.
Due to the inefficiency of silicon cells, like you said, they produced less energy than required to make them. They have improved since then, but not nearly as much as solar cells from different semiconductors.
From TFA, these solar cells are multi-junction GaAs based cells.
It's only an estimated $20.10 (FTA) a year to run the 360. I'd easily pay 20 bucks for my Xbox 1 to have anti-aliasing. I'd paid
They have now re-rated my new favorite game, Oblivion. For both GTA:SA and Oblivion, I purchased the games because I wanted to support their hard work (as I have done for all of the games I enjoy). I hate to see them being hurt as they are.
I just sent a message to the ESRB even though I know that will do little.
I hate to stand by and do nothing. What can I/we do to get the ESRB to rethink how (and why) they rate these games?