Right, but if it could be built, perhaps it could begin to change the entire mentality around surburban sprawl.
If business-people could get from Chicago to Minneapolis, or Denver, or St Louis, at a fraction of the cost they do now, do you think businesses just might decide that an office building downtown would be a good idea? People might just decide they are willing to travel more (I know a fair number of people who are too scared too fly).
Just some thoughts, sort of "build it and they will come" mentality.
My mind has just gone nuts on this one. Keep in mind I didn't get much sleep last night, and have been kinda stressed, but here goes:
What about sending useful, reusable machinery ahead of us/our probes to Mars?
Your idea about a machine that puts itself together does sound interesting, although if one mission should fail, does the entire thing fall apart? Would it be worth it to simply send pieces of a unit to Mars which can put itself together over time to create some sort of sustainable power generator? Of course, there must be dirt/dust/environmental issues and other obstacles, but is it possible anyway?
That way, future vehicles could land (or try to) near the generator and, whenever necessary, plug into it for more power. Perhaps that thing could havelittle bays where the rover could rove (or whatever they do) right into it for protection, or to sit out the Martian winter.
It sure sounds to me like we've begun littering Mars with dispoasble junk, just like Earth. Why not set a precendent by introducing a sustainable energy source there and allow any nation to simply plug right into it for their missions?
Could we do this for the moon as well? As stated earlier, landing anything on the moon would be MUCH easier than Mars, so couldn't we have a robot (or pieces of one) build itself into a basic structure or two up there ahead of time? I'm sure it has been thought of, and I know there are issues with moon dust, so perhaps my little day-dream is a little uninformed.
Should anyone ever decide that Mars is a good place to visit (I think Venus should be first, but IANA Astrophysicist) a scheme like this might give them a place to begin. Sure, the generator might only be able to power a flashlight or two, but it would be a starting point.
Just a thought from someone who wishes he had a more technical background in this sort of thing.
What I use at our home office is a token. I just press a little button on it and I use the password (which is good for about 30 seconds) that pops up on the screen. Granted, i connect to work through a vpn, but having the token makes for a new password every time I log in.
Of course there are other passwords that are static, but does anyone know whether this would be a better solution, having one-time-use passwords more often? Probably much more expensinve on a number of levels.
The pig farmers ARE the problem! They impead our progress as a nation by limiting the supply of bacon! Deregulate the bacon market, allow bacon to flow freely through our economy. It will be a Free Bacon Economy, and Milton Fried-Bacon-man will be our [puppet] leader! Vote for me and this bright future of change and hopeful bacon can be ours!
Our current government is broken and not democratic! My solution involves free bacon for everyone. If you love bacon, vote for me in the upcoming election.
See isn't that the way the democratic process is supposed to work?
While this is an interesting idea, it seems to me like getting a majority of people (enough to redefine government) to put confidence in a governmental system such as this would be hard. Getting people to understand it, then putting confidence in an untried system, would be difficult. It's like Linux versus mainstream OSes: Linux is being adopted because it's been working in the wings for years as a reasonable alternative in some instances. It has a reputation.
Also, when the Founding Fathers came to the table they WERE the best and brightest in many ways. As I've seen so many places, would even be possible to recruit the best and brightest, gut the system, and put them in place? Could a movement like that in Amrica occur? What would be the fallout? I imagine many of our political and economic ties would be severed with other countries and it could very well crash our economy.
While a new government may sound good in principal, keep in mind that government has fostered relationships with other countries for a very long time. Can we give them up?
Just the wording on something like this is disturbing, though I realize not ALL Muslims would talk about this issue in this way. "We Muslims". Right there, they are not only setting themselves apart as a group, but also saying they only ever speak as one group.
Funny, when the rest of the world turns around and stereotypes them, they get all offended. I say it's a double standard.
Lucas Arts had a great system for making up music on the fly. As the situation changed in X-wing and TIE Fighter, the music would as well. It worked well enough, and it's been over ten years. What happened? Why couldn't this be implemented more often?
Ha! I'm in the financial business, so I'm getting a kick out of these (or am I secretly recording all of this so we can thin the herd as necessary, hmm? )
I meant "conspiracy theory" in a light-hearted way, and I am interested in actually seeing details about your original post (regarding industrial giants and whatnot). I imagine others would be, too.
Why don't we do an infrastructure bailout plan as well?
A few billion for alternative energy in the mojave desert. A few billion for NASA. A few billion for science education funding at all public schools in the U.S. A few billion for water preservation (hello, it's the next oil)
Take the rest (680 billion), bail out wallstreet and ease up the credit markets.
Sure, inflation will get out of hand, but at least some infrastructure will be laid to handle the employment, inflation, and other crises that could certainly tackle the U.S. economy over the next couple of years.
Yes, I actually used the word "tackle" in a slashdot post.
Let me be the first to say: Can you explain in a bit more detail? While I don't want to subscribe to conspiracy theories, if you have some names and details to back this up I'm sure it would enlighten us all.
I can respect that the author was trying to build something with character. However, reading the initial strips indicates to me that he was going for a comic that was traditionally funny. Absurdist, yes, but one-off funny. It was ok, but not gut-bustingly funny (to me).
I call this Rolling Stones syndrome. Make enough comics for long enough, and you will have hits eventually. Is there a possibility that people are just mapping humor onto something, much like people map profundity onto modern art? "Oh, you're just not sophisticated enough."
I bring these up not to be a bastard, but as someone who decided to go back and begin reading Achewood from the beginning to see if I find it funny.
Honestly? I really dislike bulldogs. I don't care if they're cats, or rats, or whatever they're SUPPOSED to be, they look like bulldogs and it's been a turn-off. I'm giving it a chance anyway, as someone who has read Achewood before. I can see where the author was trying to make some humor, but to me it falls completely flat.
However, it takes every kind of people as they say.
I ran out of mod points earlier today, so I can't mod parent up.
In addition to some of the science issues mentioned, which the candidates may not have specific views on given the technical nature of some of them, would it not be prudent for us as a community to supply questions that ask about science education (new ways of doing it as well as funding) and infrastructure updates/funding that can ensure America stays in the race as an intellectual superpower over the long term?
Maybe I should just go and submit that as a question...
As someone who basically grew up on Sierra adventure games (King's Quest was ythe first adventure game I ever played, on the IBM PC Jr, with IR Keyboard!) I have to wonder what in the world their problem is.
King's Quest? Space Quest? The adventure games haven't gotten a lot of play the last ten years, but now that we see Sam & Max coming back, and episodic content online, how hard would it be to create a 3rd person Quest for Glory action/adventure RPG? Count me as first in line to get that one!
Phantasmagoria? Gabriel Knight? Those two *at least* could be crafted into horror/action games. Not that they should.
I really hope these games dont' get buried under legal BS as so many important titles have in the past. There's a lot of marketing potential there, and if it's done the right way it could make whoever has the rights a nice little pile of cash, and maybe a new following.
Oh, I'm not particularly happy about either party.
As someone who has seen a loss of about 5 million bucks in our overall book of business over the last 10 months, I can assure you that I only have eyes for a thrifty, prudent administration which is nowhere to be found. I'm not trying to lean left or right (I'm kind of tired of those terms anyway) but I am trying to point out that we may be in for a very big, bad surprise in the coming years. Foreign companies are already eyeing U.S. markets hungrily (they have a LOT more savings than we do), so if it's not U.S. corporatiosn that buy out the government eventually, it might just be international developed interests.
The only upside I see to that is better beer and Jaffa Cakes:)
I'm aware this has been going on for decades, I simply use the word BushCo so that I don't have to write 5 pages on the history of the (yes) neocon movement. btw, if I'm also not mistaken, the entire neocon movement has been one designed to fleece people into thinking that they are liberals and are all for smaller government and conservation, specifically during the run-up to Reagan (though it could have been Tricky Dick part 2 also). It's really a genius political move and quite insidious. It started mainly on college campuses and has been expanded into the mainstream over decades.
I'm not sure it matters too much who gets in. Yes, I know that one at least has the promise of change, I'm aware of that.
As I understand it, one of the aims of the neoconservative movement is to bankrupt the government, paying out to neocon interests in the process. When the government hurts enough, they will go to the corporations to help them and thereby be indebted to the corporations (ultimately fascism).
The current financial situation is so far beyond broken that it seems to me BushCo has won. They've successfully repealed enough legislation that the financial system fails. I'm in the financial industry, and without government intervention I can tell you we would have had another Great Depression. The government naturally steps in to help out, and they are forced to pick up the tab for these corporations (yes, I know it's supposed to be a loan. Look at the S&L crisis, "loan" is a farce)
Basically, the government is spending so far beyond the tax base now that we could see some serious inflation. I have to wonder if BushCo has already won, as the government may have a hard time recouping its already bloated losses.
Just a thought, really. I'm sure others with a deeper knowledge of economics could chime in on this one too.
Couldn't they just hook the new system into the current data that's being provided from RADAR and other sources alongside the old equipment? Hire testers (retired air traffic controllers?) to test use the systems and see how they hold up. Once enough data has been gathered, allow the some of the data to be fed to the actual ATCs, perhaps let them use the system side by side (not sure how that would work). Maybe it would be even better to just build a new ATC Tower with the systems built in already, hire an extra shift of ATCs or testers, provide training, and one day in the future just do a hot swap.
I realize the are hurdles, but unless I'm missing something (IANAATC) it seems possible, if costly.
Alternatively they could test it out at regional airports first, as the equipment and changeover is likely to be on a smaller scale.
There DOES seem to be a big following online for it with Live. It's pretty cool to play all those old games on the system, and I do know a fair number of people who use the system a lot.
Train wreck? I agree. Will it continue on? Probably. Flawed and broken, though fortunately people actually have a choice in the console market.
It would, however, be interesting if XBOX dropped out and left only Sony and Nintendo.
It depends on emotion. if people *think* the stock is worth the price, they'll hold it or buy. Apple is in the same boat.
I think MS is in a precarious position. If one of their bets doesn't pay off soon (XBOX, Vista, or otherwise) I think they will have a few people to answer to.
Lowering the price seems like a desperation move, although the system HAS been out for 3 years now.
Slashdot Mirror
Right, but if it could be built, perhaps it could begin to change the entire mentality around surburban sprawl.
If business-people could get from Chicago to Minneapolis, or Denver, or St Louis, at a fraction of the cost they do now, do you think businesses just might decide that an office building downtown would be a good idea? People might just decide they are willing to travel more (I know a fair number of people who are too scared too fly).
Just some thoughts, sort of "build it and they will come" mentality.
My mind has just gone nuts on this one. Keep in mind I didn't get much sleep last night, and have been kinda stressed, but here goes:
What about sending useful, reusable machinery ahead of us/our probes to Mars?
Your idea about a machine that puts itself together does sound interesting, although if one mission should fail, does the entire thing fall apart? Would it be worth it to simply send pieces of a unit to Mars which can put itself together over time to create some sort of sustainable power generator? Of course, there must be dirt/dust/environmental issues and other obstacles, but is it possible anyway?
That way, future vehicles could land (or try to) near the generator and, whenever necessary, plug into it for more power. Perhaps that thing could havelittle bays where the rover could rove (or whatever they do) right into it for protection, or to sit out the Martian winter.
It sure sounds to me like we've begun littering Mars with dispoasble junk, just like Earth. Why not set a precendent by introducing a sustainable energy source there and allow any nation to simply plug right into it for their missions?
Could we do this for the moon as well? As stated earlier, landing anything on the moon would be MUCH easier than Mars, so couldn't we have a robot (or pieces of one) build itself into a basic structure or two up there ahead of time? I'm sure it has been thought of, and I know there are issues with moon dust, so perhaps my little day-dream is a little uninformed.
Should anyone ever decide that Mars is a good place to visit (I think Venus should be first, but IANA Astrophysicist) a scheme like this might give them a place to begin. Sure, the generator might only be able to power a flashlight or two, but it would be a starting point.
Just a thought from someone who wishes he had a more technical background in this sort of thing.
What I use at our home office is a token. I just press a little button on it and I use the password (which is good for about 30 seconds) that pops up on the screen. Granted, i connect to work through a vpn, but having the token makes for a new password every time I log in.
Of course there are other passwords that are static, but does anyone know whether this would be a better solution, having one-time-use passwords more often? Probably much more expensinve on a number of levels.
I wouldn't compare her to that, either, unless all you want her to do is SELL lingerie.
The pig farmers ARE the problem! They impead our progress as a nation by limiting the supply of bacon! Deregulate the bacon market, allow bacon to flow freely through our economy. It will be a Free Bacon Economy, and Milton Fried-Bacon-man will be our [puppet] leader! Vote for me and this bright future of change and hopeful bacon can be ours!
Yous in Pork-ituity,
The Man in the Bacon Mask
Our current government is broken and not democratic!
My solution involves free bacon for everyone. If you love bacon, vote for me in the upcoming election.
See isn't that the way the democratic process is supposed to work?
A few thoughts:
While this is an interesting idea, it seems to me like getting a majority of people (enough to redefine government) to put confidence in a governmental system such as this would be hard. Getting people to understand it, then putting confidence in an untried system, would be difficult. It's like Linux versus mainstream OSes: Linux is being adopted because it's been working in the wings for years as a reasonable alternative in some instances. It has a reputation.
Also, when the Founding Fathers came to the table they WERE the best and brightest in many ways. As I've seen so many places, would even be possible to recruit the best and brightest, gut the system, and put them in place? Could a movement like that in Amrica occur? What would be the fallout? I imagine many of our political and economic ties would be severed with other countries and it could very well crash our economy.
While a new government may sound good in principal, keep in mind that government has fostered relationships with other countries for a very long time. Can we give them up?
Just the wording on something like this is disturbing, though I realize not ALL Muslims would talk about this issue in this way.
"We Muslims". Right there, they are not only setting themselves apart as a group, but also saying they only ever speak as one group.
Funny, when the rest of the world turns around and stereotypes them, they get all offended. I say it's a double standard.
Oh wow! David Byrne is going to love this!
Lucas Arts had a great system for making up music on the fly. As the situation changed in X-wing and TIE Fighter, the music would as well. It worked well enough, and it's been over ten years. What happened? Why couldn't this be implemented more often?
Ha! I'm in the financial business, so I'm getting a kick out of these (or am I secretly recording all of this so we can thin the herd as necessary, hmm? )
I meant "conspiracy theory" in a light-hearted way, and I am interested in actually seeing details about your original post (regarding industrial giants and whatnot). I imagine others would be, too.
Why don't we do an infrastructure bailout plan as well?
A few billion for alternative energy in the mojave desert.
A few billion for NASA.
A few billion for science education funding at all public schools in the U.S.
A few billion for water preservation (hello, it's the next oil)
Take the rest (680 billion), bail out wallstreet and ease up the credit markets.
Sure, inflation will get out of hand, but at least some infrastructure will be laid to handle the employment, inflation, and other crises that could certainly tackle the U.S. economy over the next couple of years.
Yes, I actually used the word "tackle" in a slashdot post.
Let me be the first to say: Can you explain in a bit more detail? While I don't want to subscribe to conspiracy theories, if you have some names and details to back this up I'm sure it would enlighten us all.
I have Karma to burn...
Mike broke the Hubble, Mike broke the hubble!
I can respect that the author was trying to build something with character. However, reading the initial strips indicates to me that he was going for a comic that was traditionally funny. Absurdist, yes, but one-off funny. It was ok, but not gut-bustingly funny (to me).
I call this Rolling Stones syndrome. Make enough comics for long enough, and you will have hits eventually. Is there a possibility that people are just mapping humor onto something, much like people map profundity onto modern art? "Oh, you're just not sophisticated enough."
I bring these up not to be a bastard, but as someone who decided to go back and begin reading Achewood from the beginning to see if I find it funny.
Honestly? I really dislike bulldogs. I don't care if they're cats, or rats, or whatever they're SUPPOSED to be, they look like bulldogs and it's been a turn-off. I'm giving it a chance anyway, as someone who has read Achewood before. I can see where the author was trying to make some humor, but to me it falls completely flat.
However, it takes every kind of people as they say.
I ran out of mod points earlier today, so I can't mod parent up.
In addition to some of the science issues mentioned, which the candidates may not have specific views on given the technical nature of some of them, would it not be prudent for us as a community to supply questions that ask about science education (new ways of doing it as well as funding) and infrastructure updates/funding that can ensure America stays in the race as an intellectual superpower over the long term?
Maybe I should just go and submit that as a question...
As someone who basically grew up on Sierra adventure games (King's Quest was ythe first adventure game I ever played, on the IBM PC Jr, with IR Keyboard!) I have to wonder what in the world their problem is.
King's Quest? Space Quest? The adventure games haven't gotten a lot of play the last ten years, but now that we see Sam & Max coming back, and episodic content online, how hard would it be to create a 3rd person Quest for Glory action/adventure RPG? Count me as first in line to get that one!
Phantasmagoria? Gabriel Knight? Those two *at least* could be crafted into horror/action games. Not that they should.
I really hope these games dont' get buried under legal BS as so many important titles have in the past. There's a lot of marketing potential there, and if it's done the right way it could make whoever has the rights a nice little pile of cash, and maybe a new following.
Too bad, I had visions of this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/12/20/
Oh, I'm not particularly happy about either party.
As someone who has seen a loss of about 5 million bucks in our overall book of business over the last 10 months, I can assure you that I only have eyes for a thrifty, prudent administration which is nowhere to be found. I'm not trying to lean left or right (I'm kind of tired of those terms anyway) but I am trying to point out that we may be in for a very big, bad surprise in the coming years. Foreign companies are already eyeing U.S. markets hungrily (they have a LOT more savings than we do), so if it's not U.S. corporatiosn that buy out the government eventually, it might just be international developed interests.
The only upside I see to that is better beer and Jaffa Cakes :)
I'm aware this has been going on for decades, I simply use the word BushCo so that I don't have to write 5 pages on the history of the (yes) neocon movement. btw, if I'm also not mistaken, the entire neocon movement has been one designed to fleece people into thinking that they are liberals and are all for smaller government and conservation, specifically during the run-up to Reagan (though it could have been Tricky Dick part 2 also). It's really a genius political move and quite insidious. It started mainly on college campuses and has been expanded into the mainstream over decades.
I'm not sure it matters too much who gets in. Yes, I know that one at least has the promise of change, I'm aware of that.
As I understand it, one of the aims of the neoconservative movement is to bankrupt the government, paying out to neocon interests in the process. When the government hurts enough, they will go to the corporations to help them and thereby be indebted to the corporations (ultimately fascism).
The current financial situation is so far beyond broken that it seems to me BushCo has won. They've successfully repealed enough legislation that the financial system fails. I'm in the financial industry, and without government intervention I can tell you we would have had another Great Depression. The government naturally steps in to help out, and they are forced to pick up the tab for these corporations (yes, I know it's supposed to be a loan. Look at the S&L crisis, "loan" is a farce)
Basically, the government is spending so far beyond the tax base now that we could see some serious inflation. I have to wonder if BushCo has already won, as the government may have a hard time recouping its already bloated losses.
Just a thought, really. I'm sure others with a deeper knowledge of economics could chime in on this one too.
Couldn't they just hook the new system into the current data that's being provided from RADAR and other sources alongside the old equipment? Hire testers (retired air traffic controllers?) to test use the systems and see how they hold up. Once enough data has been gathered, allow the some of the data to be fed to the actual ATCs, perhaps let them use the system side by side (not sure how that would work). Maybe it would be even better to just build a new ATC Tower with the systems built in already, hire an extra shift of ATCs or testers, provide training, and one day in the future just do a hot swap.
I realize the are hurdles, but unless I'm missing something (IANAATC) it seems possible, if costly.
Alternatively they could test it out at regional airports first, as the equipment and changeover is likely to be on a smaller scale.
Worst console? Hm.
There DOES seem to be a big following online for it with Live. It's pretty cool to play all those old games on the system, and I do know a fair number of people who use the system a lot.
Train wreck? I agree. Will it continue on? Probably. Flawed and broken, though fortunately people actually have a choice in the console market.
It would, however, be interesting if XBOX dropped out and left only Sony and Nintendo.
It depends on emotion. if people *think* the stock is worth the price, they'll hold it or buy.
Apple is in the same boat.
I think MS is in a precarious position. If one of their bets doesn't pay off soon (XBOX, Vista, or otherwise) I think they will have a few people to answer to.
Lowering the price seems like a desperation move, although the system HAS been out for 3 years now.
...and why would you know what it's like to smoke a whole bag of weed, hmmmm?
Yeah, Offtopic, I know, I know.