Comment Re:Managers make that decision (Score 1) 694
You should always include reference to original
http://xkcd.com/875/
You should always include reference to original
http://xkcd.com/875/
Even though the communist party committed crimes against humanity on a regular basis the Soviet Union wasn't an evil empire with sole purpose of doing evil. The leadership did everything they could to fortify and extend their power but there were also normal people living their everyday lives trying to build better future for their children.
Did you really believe *all* that western propaganda that insisted everything done behind iron curtain is evil? Also that Swedish socialism == communism == evil?
No.
I've been watching progress of Yann LeCun on this topic for years now. Cool to finally see an application.
Do you really know what an atom is, or that a Higgs boson is a rather important thing, or did you simply accept they were what someone told you they were?
As much I understood from philosophy of science the science is set of models that describe universe we live in. Often the models are incompatible - an atom means different things to different people as there are different models (classical physics, quantum physics, etc.) to describe atoms and they are all right to extent. Right is even the chemistry teacher who uses tennis balls to describe atoms in a molecule.
While it might be difficult to understand the cutting edge of science it's easy to understand high school physics. There are plenty of appliances in kitchen that once belonged in leading scientific labs such as light bulb, refrigerator, boiler, radio, tv, etc. People don't just believe they work - they KNOW they work and often HOW they work.
It's roughly 100 times less energetic, not a big deal for Japan.
Nope; just Athens that is in Georgia that is in America.
Europeans find it amusing that Athens is in Georgia.
The diffuse part got me puzzled - the beam is one degree wide and works over 50m distance so it can't be diffuse. The camera flash is way more powerful than 75W but due shortness of the pulse not very energetic. The article did not mention anything about flashing light.
How is it different from looking into a laser?
They drift because they move and fast relative to ground based clock. At those speeds the drift or time traveling predicted by special relativity becomes noticeable. Even our peaceful corner of the universe is a crazy place to be
Even with absolutely precise clocks we would have to count in relativistic effects. The satellites move relative to ground based clock at significant speed and that will cause them to travel in time by microscopic amounts.
An earthquake may take out the clocks the GPS satellites are synced against.
The browser might be faster but I hate the way android changes page layout during zooming.
Give the engineers some credit, they designed these things in 50s. More than tsunami resistance they probably worried about whether it'll work at all and will it be stable. It's not like they could model everything at that time - a pocket calculator has more processing power than computers had at this time.
You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.
