His point was not that there was nothing else available, but that there was nothing else available that would economically produce the quantities of energy. Methane and such like don't scale that well.
Bogus. Google's big competition in the States is ESRI, with their ArcGIS products. ESRI also has a free version that provides users limited functionality, and they also have a version that users pay a boat load of money for... for a LOT more functionality.
As another user pointed out, Google is not alone in this space. If Bottin has a better product, they will be able to make money with it. If all they have is a bare bones, basic map service, they are going to have a hard time to convince me.
$10K/lb was the going rate for using the shuttle, which was a massively overpriced boondoggle from the day it was planned. I think that you can shop for launch costs in the $2K/lb range without too much difficulty.
That being said, $2K/lb is still much more expensive than it should be. The actual energy per pound to low orbit is only a few bucks, assuming it were delivered from your local power plant. The problem is that you have to drag along the rocket... and the fuel to get the rocket the last 10 miles into orbit... and the fuel to get the rocket and that fuel the next to last 10 miles, etc.
It would be so much easier if we just had a sky hook.
STANDARD != FREE. Where I live, TB vaccinations are required for kids entering school. This is STANDARD. FREE is when you get somebody else to pay for it. Admittedly most of us have insurance to pay for it. Those without generally get the vaccinations for free anyway.
As other posters have noted, a lot depends on how much you exercise your brain. Yes, I'm well past 45, and yes, I do draw blanks in the middle of a conversation sometimes... but truthfully, I did the same thing back in my 20's! Yet I still find plenty of time to do new things that work my brain. I think this is much more important than anything else.
Constitutionality? The current crop of politicians (both sides) generally ignore the Constitution as much as possible. Getting things to the Supreme Court is not only a long process, but depending on court appointments can be futile.
Not only does this dump the IT costs on the employee, it often interferes with the employees private usage of the equipment. Eg: tech hardware that interfaces with the systems at work have to be locked down with the company security software, and all data on those systems is subject to inspection/audit by the company. This is at my wife's company (fortunately not mine). Needless to say, she doesn't bring any equipment to work. (I have, on occasion.)
Actually, the real concern was interference from Amateur Radio signals. The frequency range that these devices plan to use is in the 440 - 450 MHz range... which is right where a bunch of the little hand held ham radio units operate. The ARRL (National Amateur Radio Association) was the biggest group against the proposed usage, and the FCC only permitted the use with the prevision that it was Secondary to the existing licensees (HAMs). In other words, the medical devices cannot interfere with the radios, and they have to be able to live with any signals produced by radios. Here is an in depth article regarding the FCC grant.
No doubt that there are some Hams who have gone silent key still on the rolls, but most of their registrations will expire after no more than 10 years. And the dead certainly don't account for many of the new registrations (except perhaps in Chicago).
It's probably expired by now, though, or close to.
Ten years is the license term, assuming you've kept your email current with the FCC. If you haven't, and some snail mail bounced, they will have kicked you to the curb sooner.
I just logged on to burn some MOD points when I saw this posted. Just picked up my HAM Technician license last month (Grandad was a HAM back in the 60's/70's... should of earned it sooner!), and upgraded to General class this week. Aiming for Extra next year. Now I just need to convince the wife to let me spend $2K - $20K on fancy radio gear so I can talk further than the nearby 2M/70cm repeaters...
But you also need hardware to access the Internet through the ISP. I definitely don't think that the it should be imperative on the State to provide individuals hardware so they can connect to the Internet... other than the computers down at the local library.
I seriously doubt that they would have an 18 meter bust, even if they were surveying using 1950's surveying equipment. Errors that creep in using simple trigonometry are on the order of 1:100,000. GPS is a whole lot more accurate.
Absolutely. We have an African Grey, and while Shredder (name earned from an annoying habit) doesn't have Alex's vocabulary, the words he/she does use are used appropriately. E.g.: The phone rights, and as you pick up, the bird says "Hello" before you do. You head to the stairway to call the kid down for school, and you here the kid's name before you say it. The funny thing is that you can't make the bird say anything... but you can't stop it from repeating words that it wants to say.
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They're just hoping to get a better class of criminals.
His point was not that there was nothing else available, but that there was nothing else available that would economically produce the quantities of energy. Methane and such like don't scale that well.
I should say that ESRI is Google's big competitor in the MAPS field. Don't do much in Google's other areas.
Bogus. Google's big competition in the States is ESRI, with their ArcGIS products. ESRI also has a free version that provides users limited functionality, and they also have a version that users pay a boat load of money for... for a LOT more functionality.
As another user pointed out, Google is not alone in this space. If Bottin has a better product, they will be able to make money with it. If all they have is a bare bones, basic map service, they are going to have a hard time to convince me.
$10K/lb was the going rate for using the shuttle, which was a massively overpriced boondoggle from the day it was planned. I think that you can shop for launch costs in the $2K/lb range without too much difficulty.
That being said, $2K/lb is still much more expensive than it should be. The actual energy per pound to low orbit is only a few bucks, assuming it were delivered from your local power plant. The problem is that you have to drag along the rocket... and the fuel to get the rocket the last 10 miles into orbit... and the fuel to get the rocket and that fuel the next to last 10 miles, etc.
It would be so much easier if we just had a sky hook.
Cheapest economic solution that would also reduce man's carbon footprint would be to eliminate 99% of people. 100% would fix the problem permanently.
I know its been done before, but that has never stopped Hollywood...
STANDARD != FREE. Where I live, TB vaccinations are required for kids entering school. This is STANDARD. FREE is when you get somebody else to pay for it. Admittedly most of us have insurance to pay for it. Those without generally get the vaccinations for free anyway.
Hey, if they can run a multi-billion dollar satellite with a dirty rag, why can't they build data storage out of fish bits? I question how well this will work as well.
As other posters have noted, a lot depends on how much you exercise your brain. Yes, I'm well past 45, and yes, I do draw blanks in the middle of a conversation sometimes... but truthfully, I did the same thing back in my 20's! Yet I still find plenty of time to do new things that work my brain. I think this is much more important than anything else.
Constitutionality? The current crop of politicians (both sides) generally ignore the Constitution as much as possible. Getting things to the Supreme Court is not only a long process, but depending on court appointments can be futile.
Very likely. In addition, this number may include the few dev shops that still have to support legacy software for a customer that requires IE6.
1% of 200,000,000 = 2,000,000. Still a lot of copies of IE6.
'nuff said.
Come to think of it, I still haven't seen this movie. The first one was good, the second OK, the third... well, you get the picture.
Not only does this dump the IT costs on the employee, it often interferes with the employees private usage of the equipment. Eg: tech hardware that interfaces with the systems at work have to be locked down with the company security software, and all data on those systems is subject to inspection/audit by the company. This is at my wife's company (fortunately not mine). Needless to say, she doesn't bring any equipment to work. (I have, on occasion.)
Actually, the real concern was interference from Amateur Radio signals. The frequency range that these devices plan to use is in the 440 - 450 MHz range... which is right where a bunch of the little hand held ham radio units operate. The ARRL (National Amateur Radio Association) was the biggest group against the proposed usage, and the FCC only permitted the use with the prevision that it was Secondary to the existing licensees (HAMs). In other words, the medical devices cannot interfere with the radios, and they have to be able to live with any signals produced by radios. Here is an in depth article regarding the FCC grant.
And likely to stay. You actually have to study (at least a little), and spend some significant money to purchase radio equipment.
No doubt that there are some Hams who have gone silent key still on the rolls, but most of their registrations will expire after no more than 10 years. And the dead certainly don't account for many of the new registrations (except perhaps in Chicago).
It's probably expired by now, though, or close to.
Ten years is the license term, assuming you've kept your email current with the FCC. If you haven't, and some snail mail bounced, they will have kicked you to the curb sooner.
I just logged on to burn some MOD points when I saw this posted. Just picked up my HAM Technician license last month (Grandad was a HAM back in the 60's/70's... should of earned it sooner!), and upgraded to General class this week. Aiming for Extra next year. Now I just need to convince the wife to let me spend $2K - $20K on fancy radio gear so I can talk further than the nearby 2M/70cm repeaters...
But you also need hardware to access the Internet through the ISP. I definitely don't think that the it should be imperative on the State to provide individuals hardware so they can connect to the Internet... other than the computers down at the local library.
I'm glad I ditched satellite TV last month. Now I'll have to remember not to listen to the radio that day...
Return on investment was pretty good for Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. The space shuttle... not so much.
I seriously doubt that they would have an 18 meter bust, even if they were surveying using 1950's surveying equipment. Errors that creep in using simple trigonometry are on the order of 1:100,000. GPS is a whole lot more accurate.
Absolutely. We have an African Grey, and while Shredder (name earned from an annoying habit) doesn't have Alex's vocabulary, the words he/she does use are used appropriately. E.g.: The phone rights, and as you pick up, the bird says "Hello" before you do. You head to the stairway to call the kid down for school, and you here the kid's name before you say it. The funny thing is that you can't make the bird say anything... but you can't stop it from repeating words that it wants to say.