Comment Re:Stars have also gotten smaller. (Score 1) 126
At least, according to Van Gogh.
Or eyeglasses have gotten better.
At least, according to Van Gogh.
Or eyeglasses have gotten better.
This air-hybrid system uses nitrogen, hydraulic fluid, a hydraulic motor, and a couple of high-pressure tanks. I imagine it shouldn't cost much more than this flywheel, and it should store energy much longer.
If kids are in an intensive study program, then the intensive study program can afford to give the kids one-on-one attention and help them learn. If not, then in many cases parents are the only ones who can afford to give the kids one-on-one attention and help them learn.
You asked for it, you got it! Though the downside is these two fast cores don't include AVX, AVX2, or a few other instruction sets.
I'd even pay extra for a DRM-free version.
Maybe, but in that case you could simply get a NUC instead.
On one hand, an equivalent NUC is cheaper at $290.
On the other hand, the ASUS comes with a (small) SSD, RAM, and "a custom wireless ASUS Chrome keyboard and mouse that are collectively valued at $49." The NUC comes with none of those. Together those probably cost more than the $80 difference in price.
On the other hand, you could get a last-generation NUC with an i3 for $180.
On the other hand, there's a lower-end ASUS Chromebox, with a Celeron, RAM, and an SSD, also for $180. (No keyboard/mouse with this one.)
On the other hand, I'm running out of hands!
You'd be better off investing in more efficient coal-burning plants that cause less waste and less pollution, including GHG emissions, from the same unit of coal.
How about taking it one plant at a time? Make a list of the least efficient coal plants in the country. (Or, potentially, the world.) Buy them out and shut them down one at a time.
The industry then has the choice, in each case, of building a much more efficient coal plant, a much more efficient natural gas plant, or building a bunch of wind turbines, solar plants, or solar arrays. Any of which will substantially cut carbon emissions - though some more than others. Hopefully they'll start with the renewable and/or gas solutions. When they start building new coal plants, it might be time to re-think the strategy.
Im sure others have similar stories
I've long thought this is an obvious application for electric vehicles, what with predictable routes and whatnot. Another one would be the small local delivery mail trucks, especially as those things are constantly stopping and starting - a very inefficient way to use an ICE, and one which puts a lot of wear on the engine.
A theory is science that's been proven one or more times. A law is science that was proven a very long time ago. But it seems like we need a name for settled theories.
I suggest a scientific "conviction". How do you get a conviction? You prove something beyond a reasonable doubt. Of course, a conviction can be overturned. One piece of solid evidence can do it. But there is strong reason to believe that for most convictions such evidence will never appear.
I'm not referring to picocells for 4G, exactly.
1. I'm referencing the specific pCell technology I linked to, which apparently creates pockets of constructive interference around devices connected to the pCell, and generally destructive interference elsewhere.
2. I'm suggesting using similar technology, not to run 4G, but to run WiFi. It seems like it should reduce interference between individuals' routers, without requiring one big-brother network.
Isn't there some way they could create pCells around each device, so nobody would interfere with anyone else?
The next question is, could that be done in each individual's router(s), or does it require the collective network described here?
Most non-Windows O/S users generally look forward to their upgrades, Windows users suffer from anxiety of losing data, being forced into a new UX paradigm, and a general fear of doing anything "technical". If it's not broken....
Speak for yourself. I'm a Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE edition user. Every time an Update Pack comes around, I suffer from anxiety of breaking applications. One recent update killed the pulseaudio driver I use to play Unreal Tournament '99. Also, a couple of update packs ago, they discontinued support for XFCE and dumped me on Cinnamon (a different UX paradigm). It took me awhile to figure out how to get back to XFCE, and now I just hope they don't break it by accident, since they don't support it anymore.
I've been looking for a way to compile applications for Windows and CUDA/OpenCL, without installing Windows. So I tried ReactOS a week or two ago.
So I installed the VM, fine. It loaded fine. Then I tried to insert the virtual Visual Studio Express 2008 CD. Result: ReactOS can't read ISOs with long filenames.
OK, next I extracted the relevant part (Visual C++ 2008) in the Linux host OS, and tried to access it over Samba/SMB. I entered \\192.168.my.pc\dir in ReactOS Explorer. I expected a dialog to appear asking for my username and password. What actually happened? Nothing. No dialog, no effect at all.
I haven't even tried installing any part of Visual Studio yet because Samba access is essential for what I want to do.
Repetitive != Hard
Once you understand the concepts then doing 100 problems is no more difficult than doing 10. It just takes 10x longer to finish them all.
I disagree completely. Repetition leads to boredom. Boredom leads to difficulty concentrating. Difficulty concentrating makes it hard.
And that is the purpose of assigning a large number of tasks. Someone who does NOT understand the concept can work through 10 problems in an hour. Someone who DOES understand the concepts can do 10 problems in a minute.
When I started being home-schooled (for health reasons, not religious reasons), my Mom bought Saxon math books. They may still have a large number of problems, e.g. 100, but they mix up old types of math problems with newly learned types. That way I didn't forget old learning and I was less bored, while still learning new material.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
