Oh yes, definitely, very not new...
During the Industrial Revolution, factory owners were declaring that it was a waste of time for children to be going to school when they could better be spent making money mining for coal or scrubbing pots in factories. Why waste their time learning when clearly a child's life is better spent earning profits?
So...
> Would the series be better if they dressed these characters like professionals and grown-ups?
I thought some really good Troi episodes (like all 1 of them?) were the ones where she WAS put into a uniform and advanced her career, like where she took the Command exam and learned that sometimes you have to order your friends to their deaths to save the ship. She advanced to the rank of Lt. Commander after that if I remember correctly.
All other Troi episodes are meant to be avoided, of course.
Also, as others mentioned in his Graphics Programming Black Book (which I have), he led and popularized the use of Mode X in VGA adapter cards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Having square pixels at 320x240 was significantly easier than having to deal with the odd 320x200 resolution.
The article only gives Simplified Chinese examples, but is this happening to Traditional Chinese searches too? The two are machine translatable (except probably for one or two characters) so I would not be surprised if search engines simplified things by converting to one or the other before doing a search. So I suspect both.
Which is kinda huge. It's not just Chinese searches from the US or any other country, what about searches from Hong Kong and Taiwan, which use Traditional? Censoring on behalf of the Communist Government in these places would seriously be looked down on.
And what about Singapore which uses Simplified Chinese? I don't imagine they will be pleased to suffer Mainland censorship either.
I sure hope it's just a glitch. Probably not Microsoft automatically kowtowing to China. Probably.
There was a joke about this I read from somewhere. In Silicon Valley, collaboration means working together to achieve. In Washington DC, collaboration means being shot for treason.
Make sure your company encourages the former.
> How can people be so ignorant of something that happened only a few years ago?
At some point it becomes: "Do not assume idiocy where maliciousness becomes the most logical explanation."
Then again, the people merely parroting incorrect talking points could be stupid. But it is most likely a conspiracy to rewrite the truth through excessive high volume. How else can you win if all your points were proven wrong anyways?
Sorry, forgot the link to the data, if anyone's actually even interested.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/221666/net-income-of-rim-since-2009/
Blackberry, net income 2009 - 2011
2009 - $1.893B
2010 - $2.457B
2011 - $3.411B! You call that circling the drain?
Mere net income quarterly or yearly does not give you the whole picture. Or else you'll be in the same situation with BlackBerry. You're right though. It's now actually called, "Circling the RIM."
You may get more mileage (pun intended!) by doing things that hybrid cars do today. Rather than take energy away from the power of the torque which you need, you could try and recapture the waste energy, such as heat and sound. Or as they do today, recapture energy during the breaking.
I don't know what the efficiencies are though...
If you watched Enterprise and--okay, okay! I know most people hate it but please, hear me out...
If you watched Star Trek Enterprise, they met an alien species who had holodeck-like technology in their era. But they didn't give them the technology or anything.
Even if you totally dismiss the Enterprise episodes, this is a plausible explanation. That Janeway and others could have used a holodeck made by a different species outside the Federation, and it wasn't until a few years later that the technology was traded to the Federation members and/or became widespread enough that anyone had easy access. Maybe she went to an alien theme park and had fun in one, but it wasn't like that species was going to hand out plans to the technology to just anyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety
Just adding some more details here.
In general hydrogen is a much safer gas than typical automotive fuel such as gas or diesel. This is because hydrogen alone cannot combust and requires an oxygen source. Hydrogen storage is a bit safer too since it is lighter than air and floats up. You simply need to allow it to escape at the top and simple fanning lowers the hydrogen to oxygen mixture below the point of combustion easily. As opposed to gas which in vapor form still sits on the ground and requires much less oxygen to combust.
And as you said if a tank is punctured and then ignited, it will burn outside the tank; it will not explode the tank, since the pure hydrogen inside cannot combust. The flame outside however does burn at a very, very high temperature and is invisible since it gives off photons in the ultraviolet wavelength.
The problem with fuel cells however is the energy chain. Electrolysis is not a good way to create hydrogen because most countries, or at least the US cannot keep up with electricity demands (at least currently) should cars and other products be switched over. The primary way hydrogen is manufactured now, if my data is still current is through natural gas. And therefore this doesn't get us away from traditional carbon issues. The potential of hydrogen is possibly good intermediate storage, or at least another vector of energy research we can pursue.
As for those people who say 'Hindenburg,' the problem with that, should they actually read the link they should know that the hydrogen cannot burn by itself and requires another source of oxygen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster#Fire.27s_initial_fuel One of the theories implicates the iron oxide in the paint, and another speculates on a leakage of oxygen into the blimp. Although, as we saw the Hindenburg burned bright red, we know it was not the hydrogen burning by itself since it doesn't burn in the visible color spectrum.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/energy-japan-mof-idUSL4N0AT00Y20130124
"Japan's LNG imports soared 11.2 percent to a record high of 87.31 million tonnes in 2012, driven by an increased need for fuel to generate electricity after the
nuclear sector was hit by the Fukushima crisis, government data showed on Thursday."
"Japan paid a record price for crude at $114.90 per barrel last year, compared with $108.65 in 2011."
This goes to what you were saying. There may be alternative energy sources for some countries, but for some, the only way to go is nuclear. Japan is indeed trying to restart most (they've restarted 2) of their reactors, despite the intense protest against doing so. But their fuel costs have caused them to go from a net exporter country to a net importer country. And now they are screwed.
Even if they're increasing LNG, they're still burning coal and oil. All of these pollute, and the dirtier they are, the more people they kill, more than thousands per year. Nuclear kills no one, probably because we are so paranoid about it.
In honor of the time before xkcd, but in the style of such:
5. Secretly sell short gold prior to the news of this really getting out.
6. Profit again!
7. Get arrested for benefiting from manipulating markets.
8. Go to jail and write a book.
9. Profit!
Ah, life is ever interesting...
You know, the more you cut the more you can cure. Eventually you can remove every brain disease if you cut out the entire brain. What an idea!
Also, I have this 100% weight loss program people should check out...
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
