I used to live in an apartment complex where one of the other buildings had one of it's rooms converted into a mini police station. It eas great! Very quiet, nothing ever happened. The place had a bad past (the reason for the station) and a horrible reputation. we couldn't even get anyone to deliver pizza there! After I was there for a few years the city cut back the police force in order to spend money on it's parks.The mini station was closed. Immediately the car break-ins started! We moved out at the end of that lease. They did make the parks pretty nice though...
The faster the connection the more bandwidth is needed. I suppose that technically there is more bandwidth available in all of the radio spectrum than you are likely to get through one cable. However.. radio has to be shared with every other radio user out there in the world. You don't get to use ALL of the available bandwidth available in the open air for just one thing. You pay some government regulator a ton of money and then you get a channel, a little slice of that bandwidth which you can use. Otherwise we would all try to have our own personal wireless broadband, immediately run out of bandwidth and nothing would work through the interference!
You do get to use all of the bandwidth available in a cable though and if it's a half-way decent cable that is a LOT. And.. if that isn't enough you can run another cable and use all of that bandwidth too.
Occasionaly we might see a situation where a typical wireless link than a wired one. If that happens it is only because money and time have recently been poured into developing modulation methods and protocols to more efficiently use bandwidth and it has been applied to the wireless connection first. When these new discoveries are applied to wired connections it all evens out and the wire is faster again.
My 4 y/o daughter loves making things, robots, planets, rockets and has an interest in biology. A couple months ago a friend showed her a new toy, she was all interested. She asked if he made it. He said no, she replied "awww" and immediately lost interest.
As a baby I took her to local maker meetings that met in a workshop where people showed off whatever projects they were working on. She used to just sit in her carrier and look around at all the tools, parts and stuff lying around. At that age with their brains developing as they are they pretty much soak up any sort of visual stimulation. Of course she had all the usual bright plastic or plush baby toys that most kids get to look at but she also had a machine shop! I quit taking her when she got a bit older and couldn't sit still and quiet for that long but I think it left an impression on her development.
Since she first learned to talk I have tried to answer all of her questions with how things really work. I try to explain it in a way that keeps it interesting too.
For example:
"why is it getting dark, why is it getting night?" Well... we live on a really really (arms held wide) big ball. See the sun over there? That's what makes it light. We don't feel it but it's spinning really really fast.You know how cars go really fast. Well.. that is nothing compared to how fast the Earth is spinning. See that house over there, see that tree. Those are big and look like they could never move. Well.. they are moving too but we don't see it because we are moving. Yup, we and everything around us is moving faster than even a car goes. Anyway.. you asked why it is getting dark. See the sun over there? As our ball, the Earth is spinning our side of it is turning away from the sun. We will be in the dark because the sun is on the other side of the ball. But.. you know what.. there are people on that side too. While we had our night they had their day. Now it's their turn and they will have day while we have night.
My Dad once heard me explaining something or other to her, I don't remember what and accused me of taking all of the magic out of it for her by removing the mystery or something like that. Really? If you really look at how the universe actually is what kind of kid story would be more fantastic than living on the skin of a giant ball flying at unimaginable speeds around a ball of fire that dwarfs even that? Living on the backs of turtles?
Answers like this will lead to many more questions. Keep answering. It's hard to tell what you will end up talking about before it is over. It's kind of like getting sucked into Wikipedia.
Use the internet. I like to show her pictures of the things I explain to her. Often we would end up sitting together at the computer and I would search Google images for whatever we were talking about. When she started showing an interest in planets I showed them to her using Celestia too. Now she asks to "go look at planets" but what she really means is go look at pictures on the internet. She will tell me what she wants to see pictures of, planets, robots, cells and I will show them to her. She loves videos too so long as there are short and preferably animated. Here's one she really loves http://youtu.be/B_zD3NxSsD8.
Speaking of watching things, we watch a lot of Phineas and Ferb. I also made a DVD for her with videos I downloaded from Youtube. She can watch it when she is not with me and she loves it! It is a mix of space and electronics stuff. The space part takes a historical arc, it starts with a Saturn V launch is one track then videos of the first moon landing then splashdown, a shuttle launch, an iss docking, a shuttle landing. I edited each video to keep them short. Gotta remember, kids attention span. In between each is something that is not space, I don't remember what all I used, I know Adafruits Circuit Playground is part of it.
Speaking of Circuit Playground, she loves it! I though it would be too che
Unless the AI feels kinship ot us as it's creators or unless it is insane and enjoys fighting just to cause pain I think it would just leave us.
To us humans, as to all life of our kind the Earth is a very special place. It's the only place we can exist without an extreme effort.
To a machine the earth isn't really all that great. Don't believe me? Leave your computer outside in a rainstorm and let us all know how it works out. Or if freshwater isn't bad enough... drop it in that salty ocean that covers the majority of our planet. Granted, space has it's own challenges for a machine but nothing show stopping and there is so much more of it available. It makes a lot more sense I think for an AI to take to the stars and go spread in the open universe than to fight us for every last inch of Earth.
I'm sure someone is reading this thinking of all the difficulties we have with space probes and thinking that proves me wrong. Just imagine if Spirit had an arm and the intelligence to use that arm to wipe the dust off if it's own solar panel. Just think of what would have happened if it could crawl where it's wheels stuck in the sand. Imagine if Philae could get up and walk out of the shadow it's stuck in. My point is that a true AI with the bodies it would likely build for itself would not be subject to the kinds of problems we have when we send probes millions of miles away from their controlers and anyone who could help them.
This could be a good thing. If we never manage to spread away from Earth oursleves then maybe something of us would "live" on in the AI. If we do... well.. space is big. There should still be room.
I don't think the problem is the roots damaging the wire. As another posted, unlike a wall the wire can move.
How do you get the wire under all the roots? You have to cut the roots. Then the trees get sick and/or die.
Often people do landscaping or other work involving digging and cut roots. they think it's ok because the tree seems fine. It can take even up to a couple of years some time for the damage to become visible. And then the tree dies.
With most electric cars I could drive to work but wouldn't have enough charge to get home:-( I could try to charge while I work but maybe my employer wouldn't appreciate paying for that!
Even if the silo completely contained the blast and all fallout (unlikely) doing this would be a HUGE statement. If someone could cause the warheads to go off in the silo what else can they do? Can they launch the missiles? Can they target them? What if they took sides, they could destroy all of one side's warheads giving the other side complete power.
I've lived in a neighborhood where there were many women that made more babies with more fathers specifically to get more benefits. I have no doubt that eliminating welfare WOULD decrease the birthrate.
However... I agree, people aren't going to just stop making babies just because the money tap is turned off. There may be fewer but there would still be many. Those children would suffer greatly and it's not their fault their parents made bad decisions.
So... that's how the real world works liberal and conservative kiddies. There are NO easy answers and your ideologies are all bullshit!
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True.. but it's hard to focus on the people you don' t know about. Getting rid of known repeat offenders would at least be an improvement.
Oh, yah, that makes it all better. And it is really making us safer from the next attack!
Well, we could always bring it back temporarily just to see if crime goes up or not.
I used to live in an apartment complex where one of the other buildings had one of it's rooms converted into a mini police station. It eas great! Very quiet, nothing ever happened. The place had a bad past (the reason for the station) and a horrible reputation. we couldn't even get anyone to deliver pizza there! After I was there for a few years the city cut back the police force in order to spend money on it's parks.The mini station was closed. Immediately the car break-ins started! We moved out at the end of that lease. They did make the parks pretty nice though...
How would we be any cost or inconvenience at all? If it is so smart it will leave our world behind and us with it. That makes our cost zero.
Yah, would that be the "if your battery is at less than 99% everything is going to go slow and suck" feature?
Umm, no.
The faster the connection the more bandwidth is needed. I suppose that technically there is more bandwidth available in all of the radio spectrum than you are likely to get through one cable. However.. radio has to be shared with every other radio user out there in the world. You don't get to use ALL of the available bandwidth available in the open air for just one thing. You pay some government regulator a ton of money and then you get a channel, a little slice of that bandwidth which you can use. Otherwise we would all try to have our own personal wireless broadband, immediately run out of bandwidth and nothing would work through the interference!
You do get to use all of the bandwidth available in a cable though and if it's a half-way decent cable that is a LOT. And.. if that isn't enough you can run another cable and use all of that bandwidth too.
Occasionaly we might see a situation where a typical wireless link than a wired one. If that happens it is only because money and time have recently been poured into developing modulation methods and protocols to more efficiently use bandwidth and it has been applied to the wireless connection first. When these new discoveries are applied to wired connections it all evens out and the wire is faster again.
Hey, at least the US is working towards having a manned vehicle again. I can see a "har har" from Russia or China but from the ESA? Whatever!
My 4 y/o daughter loves making things, robots, planets, rockets and has an interest in biology. A couple months ago a friend showed her a new toy, she was all interested. She asked if he made it. He said no, she replied "awww" and immediately lost interest.
As a baby I took her to local maker meetings that met in a workshop where people showed off whatever projects they were working on. She used to just sit in her carrier and look around at all the tools, parts and stuff lying around. At that age with their brains developing as they are they pretty much soak up any sort of visual stimulation. Of course she had all the usual bright plastic or plush baby toys that most kids get to look at but she also had a machine shop! I quit taking her when she got a bit older and couldn't sit still and quiet for that long but I think it left an impression on her development.
Since she first learned to talk I have tried to answer all of her questions with how things really work. I try to explain it in a way that keeps it interesting too.
For example:
"why is it getting dark, why is it getting night?" Well... we live on a really really (arms held wide) big ball. See the sun over there? That's what makes it light. We don't feel it but it's spinning really really fast.You know how cars go really fast. Well.. that is nothing compared to how fast the Earth is spinning. See that house over there, see that tree. Those are big and look like they could never move. Well.. they are moving too but we don't see it because we are moving. Yup, we and everything around us is moving faster than even a car goes. Anyway.. you asked why it is getting dark. See the sun over there? As our ball, the Earth is spinning our side of it is turning away from the sun. We will be in the dark because the sun is on the other side of the ball. But.. you know what.. there are people on that side too. While we had our night they had their day. Now it's their turn and they will have day while we have night.
My Dad once heard me explaining something or other to her, I don't remember what and accused me of taking all of the magic out of it for her by removing the mystery or something like that. Really? If you really look at how the universe actually is what kind of kid story would be more fantastic than living on the skin of a giant ball flying at unimaginable speeds around a ball of fire that dwarfs even that? Living on the backs of turtles?
Answers like this will lead to many more questions. Keep answering. It's hard to tell what you will end up talking about before it is over. It's kind of like getting sucked into Wikipedia.
Use the internet. I like to show her pictures of the things I explain to her. Often we would end up sitting together at the computer and I would search Google images for whatever we were talking about. When she started showing an interest in planets I showed them to her using Celestia too. Now she asks to "go look at planets" but what she really means is go look at pictures on the internet. She will tell me what she wants to see pictures of, planets, robots, cells and I will show them to her. She loves videos too so long as there are short and preferably animated. Here's one she really loves http://youtu.be/B_zD3NxSsD8.
Speaking of watching things, we watch a lot of Phineas and Ferb. I also made a DVD for her with videos I downloaded from Youtube. She can watch it when she is not with me and she loves it! It is a mix of space and electronics stuff. The space part takes a historical arc, it starts with a Saturn V launch is one track then videos of the first moon landing then splashdown, a shuttle launch, an iss docking, a shuttle landing. I edited each video to keep them short. Gotta remember, kids attention span. In between each is something that is not space, I don't remember what all I used, I know Adafruits Circuit Playground is part of it.
Speaking of Circuit Playground, she loves it! I though it would be too che
Unless the AI feels kinship ot us as it's creators or unless it is insane and enjoys fighting just to cause pain I think it would just leave us.
To us humans, as to all life of our kind the Earth is a very special place. It's the only place we can exist without an extreme effort.
To a machine the earth isn't really all that great. Don't believe me? Leave your computer outside in a rainstorm and let us all know how it works out. Or if freshwater isn't bad enough... drop it in that salty ocean that covers the majority of our planet. Granted, space has it's own challenges for a machine but nothing show stopping and there is so much more of it available. It makes a lot more sense I think for an AI to take to the stars and go spread in the open universe than to fight us for every last inch of Earth.
I'm sure someone is reading this thinking of all the difficulties we have with space probes and thinking that proves me wrong. Just imagine if Spirit had an arm and the intelligence to use that arm to wipe the dust off if it's own solar panel. Just think of what would have happened if it could crawl where it's wheels stuck in the sand. Imagine if Philae could get up and walk out of the shadow it's stuck in. My point is that a true AI with the bodies it would likely build for itself would not be subject to the kinds of problems we have when we send probes millions of miles away from their controlers and anyone who could help them.
This could be a good thing. If we never manage to spread away from Earth oursleves then maybe something of us would "live" on in the AI. If we do... well.. space is big. There should still be room.
This time the telecoms have a new tool to help them upgrade their networks...
Kickstarter!!!!!
Why modded down? I was responding to the "buy a car just for commuting" bit!
Hey, now that the systemd nutters have broken Linux we can go back to calling Unix Unix instead of *nix.
I don't think the problem is the roots damaging the wire. As another posted, unlike a wall the wire can move.
How do you get the wire under all the roots? You have to cut the roots. Then the trees get sick and/or die.
Often people do landscaping or other work involving digging and cut roots. they think it's ok because the tree seems fine. It can take even up to a couple of years some time for the damage to become visible. And then the tree dies.
With most electric cars I could drive to work but wouldn't have enough charge to get home :-(
I could try to charge while I work but maybe my employer wouldn't appreciate paying for that!
If the democrats actually picked Biden I might even consider voting Republican.
chickens are pretty good at producing fertilizer
Even if the silo completely contained the blast and all fallout (unlikely) doing this would be a HUGE statement. If someone could cause the warheads to go off in the silo what else can they do? Can they launch the missiles? Can they target them? What if they took sides, they could destroy all of one side's warheads giving the other side complete power.
This would definitely get someone's attention.
I've lived in a neighborhood where there were many women that made more babies with more fathers specifically to get more benefits. I have no doubt that eliminating welfare WOULD decrease the birthrate.
However... I agree, people aren't going to just stop making babies just because the money tap is turned off. There may be fewer but there would still be many. Those children would suffer greatly and it's not their fault their parents made bad decisions.
So... that's how the real world works liberal and conservative kiddies. There are NO easy answers and your ideologies are all bullshit!
No one has been punished and they are still spying on us all. Where's the backlash? People complaining on Slashdot?
forget the terraforming, just cool Venus by a few degrees and take notes as you do.
It gives people who don't bathe often enough the heebie-jeebies.
Better to try Venus. Don't expect terraforming, just see if you can cool it a bit.
Yeah, cool mars more... good one!
Actually wouldn't that prove humans can have a POSITIVE effect? To prove a deliterious one they would have to fail, and fail catostrophically.