using a microphone and storage device to record audio that can be listened to later for various purposes. What an innovative idea, i can't believe no one has done this before it should certainly be granted a patent.
The patent is a little more specific than that. Claim 1 describes calculating a "performance metric" based on the number of items per bag (the system detects the beeps from items being scanned and noises that indicate a bag being used). Claim 7 describes a performance metric based on the length of the line at the register by detecting "sounds associated with guests".
Serious question.... Last time I checked, absent any visible light source, nothing has any visible color. Or are they going to shine a *really* bright light on a person and exploit any translucency their skin and organs might have to image them in color?
To answer the general question, you could easily shift (and, if necessary, compress) the wavelengths of the X-rays back to the visible spectrum. That probably isn't the best strategy for creating a useful image, so it wouldn't be what this specific device is doing. I would imagine you would get a more useful image if you map specific X-ray wavelengths to specific colors, so that you get the desired color contrast (e.g. between muscle tissue and other organ tissues).
Many older cities, especially in Europe, followed a circular diagram, with ray streets outwards and round ones connecting them.
That's the style that Boston followed. You can see the pattern if you know to look for it. The main problem was that they quickly ran into water on all sides, so the plan ended up failing pretty miserably.
I think Boston still falls into your first category. The layout of Boston's streets was pretty much finished by 1800. After that, downtown Boston expanded via landfill of the Charles River. Urban planning wasn't really widespread by that point, and there hasn't been a major disaster that has required rebuilding the city. Compare the far south end of Manhattan, which was built mostly in the 1700s and early 1800s and is somewhat organized, with the rest of Manhattan, which was built later in the 1800s and is highly organized.
Hitler wasn't elected chancellor because he had killed millions of people. The comparisons aren't with the Hitler of 1944, they're with the Hitler of 1933.
Please find the exact clause and wording in the Constitution where it grants the government the right to tell a private company what it can and cannot distribute to customers voluntarily consuming its services.
The Internet is just the modern equivalent of post roads.
I certainly wouldn't call Howard the Duck "thought-provoking", but it was a fun movie.
Plan 9 From Outer Space and Manos are very thought-provoking. You'll be spending the entire movie, and several hours afterward, thinking, "What the fuck was that?"
Certainly some tribes and the Aztecs had some questionable practices that were pretty brutal
You heard it here, folks; carving the still beating hearts out of (lowballing) 4,000 people in 4 days in order to celebrate the building of a temple is a "questionable practice". Rather akin to jaywalking in many ways.
More or less questionable than executing women because somebody said they were witches?
Different regions had different perspectives on war. Some of the pre-US tribes had a semi-civilized diplomatic system before they engaged in any sort of organized violence, but no method to even identify stray cross-tribe killings. Some tribes held an oddly simple revenge model, where any offense was met by a raid, with no actual concern for how much death or damage was done. There is a region where until a few decades ago, all offenses or suspected offenses were punished by death (it was the second generation of missionaries that was able to contact them alive). Some regions saw any inter-tribal offense as grounds to kill the other tribe entirely (until some pale-skinned boat-riders with a wierd language offered booze and guns in exchange for enslaving other tribes).
Not all tribal cultures were genocidal, but most human cultures have a history of brutality (otherwise they would've been conquered by another culture).
It's almost as if "Native Americans" isn't actually a single homogeneous group.
Only for narrow definitions of "currently". Yes, it's lower than it was yesterday, but it's higher than it was at the beginning of the week. Yes, it's lower than it was when it reached a brief peak a few weeks ago, but it's higher than it has been for most of the past year.
Also my time isn't free. Spending an hour recharging just go to the 5 miles to home is a huge waste. If someone manages to produce hydrogen from seawater cost effectively, battery cars are effectively dead.
How long do you have to wait on the side of the road for a truck to bring you a few gallons of gasoline? I'm assuming that you're talking about running out of fuel/charge without noticing that you were getting low, because that's the only situation in which your statement makes any sense.
But they are other problems too. Our homes which we are often not in for 8-16 hours a day, which is still being heated or cooled, while we spend time in other building that are being heated or cooled then we leave for home having this building not occupied.
Programmable thermostats have been around for how many years? That problem is solved, it just isn't fully implemented yet.
In order to avoid 2C of warming by 2100, we need to have negative annual CO2 emissions by 2050
That may be true, but it will be challenging enough to convert most of our ICE vehicles to electric by 2050.
Not that challenging, I don't think. In 2018, electric cars are starting to push into "commonly available" territory. It's reasonable to predict that around 2030-2035, all new cars (for typical people, which is probably 95% of the population) will be electric. In 2050, then, the only ICE passenger cars will be 20-year-old holdovers.
And hydrogen isn't even a fuel source - it's a fuel store. It takes more energy to produce hydrogen than the hydrogen itself provides when used.
By that definition, nothing is a fuel source and everything is merely a fuel store. It's certainly more scientifically accurate, but I'm not sure that it's any more useful in everyday conversation.
One useful thing in Activities that I've found so far is that you can have separate power management settings. For programs that don't properly disable power saving (in my case, a video game emulator), you can move them to an activity that has power management turned off.
Historically, telecom contributions have slightly favored the Democrats. The only reason Democrats are making a fuss about net neutrality is because they consider it to be an issue they can leverage for votes. If they truly believed in net neutrality on principle, they could've easily passed it during Obama's first term when they held the Presidency and both branches of Congress with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Not that I disagree with your first two points, but there are other legitimate reasons for not passing legislation for it in 2009-2010. One, at the time, Network Neutrality was more generally assumed to be the natural state of the Internet, so they wouldn't think there was a need for explicit legislation. Two, they assumed at the time that the FCC already had the authority to enact such rules, so again, they didn't feel there was a need for explicit legislation.
I don't know how many Democrats in Congress truly believe in the principle, but not passing legislation 10 years ago is not proof that they don't.
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using a microphone and storage device to record audio that can be listened to later for various purposes. What an innovative idea, i can't believe no one has done this before it should certainly be granted a patent.
The patent is a little more specific than that. Claim 1 describes calculating a "performance metric" based on the number of items per bag (the system detects the beeps from items being scanned and noises that indicate a bag being used). Claim 7 describes a performance metric based on the length of the line at the register by detecting "sounds associated with guests".
Serious question.... Last time I checked, absent any visible light source, nothing has any visible color. Or are they going to shine a *really* bright light on a person and exploit any translucency their skin and organs might have to image them in color?
To answer the general question, you could easily shift (and, if necessary, compress) the wavelengths of the X-rays back to the visible spectrum. That probably isn't the best strategy for creating a useful image, so it wouldn't be what this specific device is doing. I would imagine you would get a more useful image if you map specific X-ray wavelengths to specific colors, so that you get the desired color contrast (e.g. between muscle tissue and other organ tissues).
Here is a nice animation sequence showing all of the Boston landfill projects.
Many older cities, especially in Europe, followed a circular diagram, with ray streets outwards and round ones connecting them.
That's the style that Boston followed. You can see the pattern if you know to look for it. The main problem was that they quickly ran into water on all sides, so the plan ended up failing pretty miserably.
I think Boston still falls into your first category. The layout of Boston's streets was pretty much finished by 1800. After that, downtown Boston expanded via landfill of the Charles River. Urban planning wasn't really widespread by that point, and there hasn't been a major disaster that has required rebuilding the city. Compare the far south end of Manhattan, which was built mostly in the 1700s and early 1800s and is somewhat organized, with the rest of Manhattan, which was built later in the 1800s and is highly organized.
Half of present-day downtown Boston is built on landfill. The shoreline of the Charles River is significantly different than it was 250 years ago.
But it's also worth pointing out that "Awesome" was originally a synonym for "Awful". Somehow the meaning of awesome has completely swapped over time.
And neither of them now mean to cause or inspire awe.
Hitler wasn't elected chancellor because he had killed millions of people. The comparisons aren't with the Hitler of 1944, they're with the Hitler of 1933.
Please find the exact clause and wording in the Constitution where it grants the government the right to tell a private company what it can and cannot distribute to customers voluntarily consuming its services.
The Internet is just the modern equivalent of post roads.
I haven't seen Battlefield Earth, but Howard the Duck has an easy answer: it was a combination of "Because" and "Puff, puff, pass".
Mazdas are unsuitable for anyone taller than an oompa-loompah
The Miata, or all models? I'm 6' tall, and I fit just fine in my Mazda 3.
Apes, not monkeys.
Ook?
I certainly wouldn't call Howard the Duck "thought-provoking", but it was a fun movie.
Plan 9 From Outer Space and Manos are very thought-provoking. You'll be spending the entire movie, and several hours afterward, thinking, "What the fuck was that?"
If your primary criteria is total number of deaths, then I think Europeans win with the Crusades and Holocaust.
Certainly some tribes and the Aztecs had some questionable practices that were pretty brutal
You heard it here, folks; carving the still beating hearts out of (lowballing) 4,000 people in 4 days in order to celebrate the building of a temple is a "questionable practice". Rather akin to jaywalking in many ways.
More or less questionable than executing women because somebody said they were witches?
the genocidal brutality of the native population.
Different regions had different perspectives on war. Some of the pre-US tribes had a semi-civilized diplomatic system before they engaged in any sort of organized violence, but no method to even identify stray cross-tribe killings. Some tribes held an oddly simple revenge model, where any offense was met by a raid, with no actual concern for how much death or damage was done. There is a region where until a few decades ago, all offenses or suspected offenses were punished by death (it was the second generation of missionaries that was able to contact them alive). Some regions saw any inter-tribal offense as grounds to kill the other tribe entirely (until some pale-skinned boat-riders with a wierd language offered booze and guns in exchange for enslaving other tribes).
Not all tribal cultures were genocidal, but most human cultures have a history of brutality (otherwise they would've been conquered by another culture).
It's almost as if "Native Americans" isn't actually a single homogeneous group.
Name one US federal TLA agency that you do want to fuck with.
The EPA doesn't seem to really matter anymore.
Only for narrow definitions of "currently". Yes, it's lower than it was yesterday, but it's higher than it was at the beginning of the week. Yes, it's lower than it was when it reached a brief peak a few weeks ago, but it's higher than it has been for most of the past year.
Also my time isn't free. Spending an hour recharging just go to the 5 miles to home is a huge waste. If someone manages to produce hydrogen from seawater cost effectively, battery cars are effectively dead.
How long do you have to wait on the side of the road for a truck to bring you a few gallons of gasoline? I'm assuming that you're talking about running out of fuel/charge without noticing that you were getting low, because that's the only situation in which your statement makes any sense.
But they are other problems too. Our homes which we are often not in for 8-16 hours a day, which is still being heated or cooled, while we spend time in other building that are being heated or cooled then we leave for home having this building not occupied.
Programmable thermostats have been around for how many years? That problem is solved, it just isn't fully implemented yet.
In order to avoid 2C of warming by 2100, we need to have negative annual CO2 emissions by 2050
That may be true, but it will be challenging enough to convert most of our ICE vehicles to electric by 2050.
Not that challenging, I don't think. In 2018, electric cars are starting to push into "commonly available" territory. It's reasonable to predict that around 2030-2035, all new cars (for typical people, which is probably 95% of the population) will be electric. In 2050, then, the only ICE passenger cars will be 20-year-old holdovers.
And hydrogen isn't even a fuel source - it's a fuel store. It takes more energy to produce hydrogen than the hydrogen itself provides when used.
By that definition, nothing is a fuel source and everything is merely a fuel store. It's certainly more scientifically accurate, but I'm not sure that it's any more useful in everyday conversation.
It's why I use KDE. Everything is pretty much in the same place as it was 10 years ago.
One useful thing in Activities that I've found so far is that you can have separate power management settings. For programs that don't properly disable power saving (in my case, a video game emulator), you can move them to an activity that has power management turned off.
Historically, telecom contributions have slightly favored the Democrats. The only reason Democrats are making a fuss about net neutrality is because they consider it to be an issue they can leverage for votes. If they truly believed in net neutrality on principle, they could've easily passed it during Obama's first term when they held the Presidency and both branches of Congress with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Not that I disagree with your first two points, but there are other legitimate reasons for not passing legislation for it in 2009-2010. One, at the time, Network Neutrality was more generally assumed to be the natural state of the Internet, so they wouldn't think there was a need for explicit legislation. Two, they assumed at the time that the FCC already had the authority to enact such rules, so again, they didn't feel there was a need for explicit legislation.
I don't know how many Democrats in Congress truly believe in the principle, but not passing legislation 10 years ago is not proof that they don't.