Don't know about the genetics part, but I seem to recall that chimps are becoming very rare and expensive for experimentation. Also, from the ethical/PR point of view people get a lot more worked up about experimening with chimps rather than cows, pigs & rabbits.
"Two objects from the launch, likely the Omid satellite and part of its booster, are circling Earth in oval-shaped orbits.
The orbits range in altitude from low points of 153 miles to high points of 235 miles and 273 miles. The orbital inclination is 55.5 degrees, according to U.S. military tracking data."
Might get (another) one - very happy with the various Eee PCs that litter the house. But get Eeebuntu. XP also runs fine on all of 'em, even the really low-end ones. (http://www.eeebuntu.org/index.php?page=download)
Kinda makes you wonder if government intervention is really necessary.
It's vital. Regardless of one's political preferences, a couple of things are clear:
1. Although the gap is closing, most forms of 'sustainable' energy production, such as wind and solar, are still more expensive then burning fossil fuel. Demand, (which drives innovation in both R&D and production technology) is closely linked to Gov. subsidy - for both installation cost and 'buy-back' of the power generated. That's why you've got so much solar in Germany & Japan - homeowners got massive subsidies.
2. Transmission infrastructure investment is required, since solar, wind and tidal generation locations are typically located a long way away from demand for the juice. These investments are massively expensive and difficult to do, for many reasons including NIMBY, hence the reluctance of the private sector to 'go it alone'.
The current situation is that: * The private sector is starved of cash, * The recent fall in oil & gas prices has once again opened the gap between fossil generation and sustainable, * Few Govs have coherent long-term plans that the private sector can use to base investments on.
So, yes, Gov intervention is really necessary.
The cash is there - few people realise that massive amounts (billions) are given away in subsidies to the oil, and now ethanol industries. If some of this money was diverted to renewables then we'd see a big difference.
These are my thoughts exactly. I was wondering if North Korea had become so insignificant to the world that people just forget about it and call South Korea "all Korea"... "
So long as they have nukes and a paranoid Gov. I don't think anybody important & intelligent is likely to forget the North Koreans, although I'm sure they'd like to...
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Thanks for that - interesting. This tends to confirm what I thought, namely that mapping the entire ocean floor to any meaningful level of detail is probably going to be prohibitively expensive?
"FTA: Although, so far, there has been only limited data collected about the sea floor, with just 10% of the habitat mapped at any useful scale for science..."
I wonder how is going to work, since I'm guessing they cannot really 'map' the bottom of the ocean in the same way they do surface objects. Satellites with radar, ships with sonar?
Stil, considering how vast the oceans are, even 10% coverage is pretty impressive.
"Is there anything the RIAA can do to reduce illegal file-sharing without generating massive amounts of bad publicity?"
Well, LOTS of things. 1. Stop treating their clients as criminals, (see earlier/. article on big downloaders also being the biggest purchasers. 2. Make more of their catalog available, faster, and more easily, to more paid download services. 2. Skip the DRM crap, (which will save money, too) 3. Divert the cash currently wasted on criminal clowns like MediaSentry and Sony rootkits to efforts to educate the public on how to download music safely, legally & cheaply. 4. Ink deals with content creators that take into account all revenue streams, (including concerts, the real money-spiners for many artists these days), with a fair share for all and which takes into consideration the investment made by production organisations in developing new talent. 5. Make it easy for people to buy/access, and archive/backup 'premium/HiRes/lossless' content (see 'DRM' above). 6. Promote standards for inteeoperability between various media storage and playback devices. Would I pay for to have my vast mp3 collection automagically tagged and sorted, with the ability to stream/upload to any device I own, and maybe grab the video if I want? Well, yes!
Now I'm going to stop dreaming, and go back to helping my teenage daughter convert a YouTube pop video for use on her iPod.
"Though it currently only holds three projects and is limited to DoD personnel for security reasons, all code is publicly viewable"
No, it's not. Code posted to.mil is only available to those with sufficient authorisation. The.com site is publicly available for those seeking more information.
So, code will be NOT be 'publicly' available - only to those on secure. Kinda as you'd expect, but rather a long way away from real FOSS.
The idea of this project is that 'full featured' Linux, (not some stripped-down, crippled horror) can be made to boot faster, so I'm not sure your comparison is valid.
Oh, crap. I now get to read articles on computing technology which were written by people who aren't even aware that, once upon a not-so-distant time, you could turn on your computer and be greeted with a cool blue-on-blue READY.-prompt within a second.
I'm ancient, credz nuked
On the other hand, us real oldies can remember the time it took to IPL a/360...
It has always been 'fast enough' for appropriate programming problems. If Ruby is too slow, you're in the wrong problem domain to use Ruby.
Note that there is, and can never be, OneTrueLanguage(TM).
Efficient development is all about playing to the advantages of the development tools available to you. Complaining about weaknesses is usually indicative of a lack of understanding.
Very true. Should not stop you working on them, (weaknesses) tho'. A lot of progress is driven by criticism - constructive or otherwise.
Windows 7 is likely more aimed at XP users and people considering the unreasonably expensive switch to Mac.
Don't see how. Most users stick with what they are given when they buy, or are supplied with, a PC. If you're changing (as a private individual), then moving to a new Mac is not that much more expensive than going for a PC. (Oh, and I'm far from being a Mac apologist).
Major corporations don't change that often, and (unfortunately for Apple) a switch to Mac would indeed be a massively risky, complex and expensive operation. But then again, so would a switch to Linux...
No, the biggest market is - and always will be - OEM pre-load. Here, Windows 7 is - from what I can see of the feature list - more of a marketing exercise than a leap forward. Certainly I cannot see myself trying to do a business case to get any of my existing customers to move from XP to W7.
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Insightful. If one looks at the post here today:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/02/2344208
About the new Acer with Intel's highly-integrated N280/GN40 chipset, you've got to wonder about the long-term viability of nVidia.
Yeah, but what if it all goes wrong, and we end up with a killing machine that loves meat and breeds like crazy? Oh wait...
Wouldn't chimp make a lot more sense?
Don't know about the genetics part, but I seem to recall that chimps are becoming very rare and expensive for experimentation. Also, from the ethical/PR point of view people get a lot more worked up about experimening with chimps rather than cows, pigs & rabbits.
Was being lazy...after digging a little
"Two objects from the launch, likely the Omid satellite and part of its booster, are circling Earth in oval-shaped orbits.
The orbits range in altitude from low points of 153 miles to high points of 235 miles and 273 miles. The orbital inclination is 55.5 degrees, according to U.S. military tracking data."
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn-090203-iran-satellite-launch.html
Some US Gov sources claim launch was a failure:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1927773920080819
Nowadays, I understand that tracking information on satellites is pretty much in the public domain. Anybody got a link for a track on this one?
Seems to be true.
Here: http://promos.asus.com/US/1000HE/ASUS/index.html
And pre-order on Amazon, for $374, this spec:
ASUS Eee PC 1000HE 10-Inch Netbook (1.66 GHz Intel Atom N280 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, Bluetooth, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Black
Link here:
http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Processor-Bluetooth-Battery/dp/B001QTXL82/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1233608330&sr=8-3
Might get (another) one - very happy with the various Eee PCs that litter the house. But get Eeebuntu. XP also runs fine on all of 'em, even the really low-end ones.
(http://www.eeebuntu.org/index.php?page=download)
Kinda makes you wonder if government intervention is really necessary.
It's vital. Regardless of one's political preferences, a couple of things are clear:
1. Although the gap is closing, most forms of 'sustainable' energy production, such as wind and solar, are still more expensive then burning fossil fuel. Demand, (which drives innovation in both R&D and production technology) is closely linked to Gov. subsidy - for both installation cost and 'buy-back' of the power generated. That's why you've got so much solar in Germany & Japan - homeowners got massive subsidies.
2. Transmission infrastructure investment is required, since solar, wind and tidal generation locations are typically located a long way away from demand for the juice. These investments are massively expensive and difficult to do, for many reasons including NIMBY, hence the reluctance of the private sector to 'go it alone'.
The current situation is that:
* The private sector is starved of cash,
* The recent fall in oil & gas prices has once again opened the gap between fossil generation and sustainable,
* Few Govs have coherent long-term plans that the private sector can use to base investments on.
So, yes, Gov intervention is really necessary.
The cash is there - few people realise that massive amounts (billions) are given away in subsidies to the oil, and now ethanol industries. If some of this money was diverted to renewables then we'd see a big difference.
Yup. Remind you of someone?
*ducks chair*
Arf!
Indeed. I resisted facebook, until I realised:
1. It was not a bad idea to keep track of what my kids were doing.
2. Very many of my (well past teenage) friends kept asking me if I was on it.
Having that that, it's mostly drivel, and linkedin.com is much better for professionals - actually has/does help me find work and keep in touch.
These are my thoughts exactly. I was wondering if North Korea had become so insignificant to the world that people just forget about it and call South Korea "all Korea"...
"
So long as they have nukes and a paranoid Gov. I don't think anybody important & intelligent is likely to forget the North Koreans, although I'm sure they'd like to...
Using the instructions here:
http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php
Thanks for that - interesting. This tends to confirm what I thought, namely that mapping the entire ocean floor to any meaningful level of detail is probably going to be prohibitively expensive?
"FTA: Although, so far, there has been only limited data collected about the sea floor, with just 10% of the habitat mapped at any useful scale for science..."
I wonder how is going to work, since I'm guessing they cannot really 'map' the bottom of the ocean in the same way they do surface objects. Satellites with radar, ships with sonar?
Stil, considering how vast the oceans are, even 10% coverage is pretty impressive.
Lamptop, then?
"Is there anything the RIAA can do to reduce illegal file-sharing without generating massive amounts of bad publicity?"
Well, LOTS of things. /. article on big downloaders also being the biggest purchasers.
1. Stop treating their clients as criminals, (see earlier
2. Make more of their catalog available, faster, and more easily, to more paid download services.
2. Skip the DRM crap, (which will save money, too)
3. Divert the cash currently wasted on criminal clowns like MediaSentry and Sony rootkits to efforts to educate the public on how to download music safely, legally & cheaply.
4. Ink deals with content creators that take into account all revenue streams, (including concerts, the real money-spiners for many artists these days), with a fair share for all and which takes into consideration the investment made by production organisations in developing new talent.
5. Make it easy for people to buy/access, and archive/backup 'premium/HiRes/lossless' content (see 'DRM' above).
6. Promote standards for inteeoperability between various media storage and playback devices. Would I pay for to have my vast mp3 collection automagically tagged and sorted, with the ability to stream/upload to any device I own, and maybe grab the video if I want? Well, yes!
Now I'm going to stop dreaming, and go back to helping my teenage daughter convert a YouTube pop video for use on her iPod.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
and here:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/12/micro-fusion-for-space-propulsion-and.html
"Though it currently only holds three projects and is limited to DoD personnel for security reasons, all code is publicly viewable"
No, it's not. Code posted to .mil is only available to those with sufficient authorisation. The .com site is publicly available for those seeking more information.
So, code will be NOT be 'publicly' available - only to those on secure. Kinda as you'd expect, but rather a long way away from real FOSS.
The idea of this project is that 'full featured' Linux, (not some stripped-down, crippled horror) can be made to boot faster, so I'm not sure your comparison is valid.
Oh, crap. I now get to read articles on computing technology which were written by people who aren't even aware that, once upon a not-so-distant time, you could turn on your computer and be greeted with a cool blue-on-blue READY.-prompt within a second.
I'm ancient, credz nuked
On the other hand, us real oldies can remember the time it took to IPL a /360...
It has always been 'fast enough' for appropriate programming problems. If Ruby is too slow, you're in the wrong problem domain to use Ruby.
Note that there is, and can never be, OneTrueLanguage(TM).
Efficient development is all about playing to the advantages of the development tools available to you. Complaining about weaknesses is usually indicative of a lack of understanding.
Very true. Should not stop you working on them, (weaknesses) tho'. A lot of progress is driven by criticism - constructive or otherwise.
Mod funny someone, please.
Windows 7 is likely more aimed at XP users and people considering the unreasonably expensive switch to Mac.
Don't see how. Most users stick with what they are given when they buy, or are supplied with, a PC. If you're changing (as a private individual), then moving to a new Mac is not that much more expensive than going for a PC. (Oh, and I'm far from being a Mac apologist).
Major corporations don't change that often, and (unfortunately for Apple) a switch to Mac would indeed be a massively risky, complex and expensive operation. But then again, so would a switch to Linux...
No, the biggest market is - and always will be - OEM pre-load. Here, Windows 7 is - from what I can see of the feature list - more of a marketing exercise than a leap forward. Certainly I cannot see myself trying to do a business case to get any of my existing customers to move from XP to W7.
Must have been a problem local to you - mine worked fine throughout
You mean they are not?
Actually, it's closer to 33% - Netcraft confirms!
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html