You're assuming that it's encryption that's the problem. In my case, it's a problem with the size of data vs. how much bandwidth I can use. I get an allocation of 20GB a month, and even that's very expensive. Backing up my 5+ TB to the cloud is simply not an option.
Cloud is very trendy right now, but that doesn't mean it's a one-size-fits-all.
Capturing the energy is precisely the problem -- there will be WAY too much of it floating about being captured by critical systems. Dissipating it safely would be first prize. As for storing it... no way. We don't have the technology to store zetajoules of energy!!
I did a very quick study on capturing the energy from lightning storms. It turns out that where I am (South Africa) has so much lightning that theoretically if we captured all of the energy from every strike, we could power the entire country. (turns out it's about 1:1, oddly enough.)... but the problem is that you'd have to build seriously enormous capacitors with bus bars the size of... buses... and the entire exercise would be insanely expensive as a result.
Bottom line is that huge bursts of energy are simply not economical to harvest.
If we're ever to permanently escape the cradle of humanity, this is the way to do it. I'm just disappointed that they're setting their target date 28 years in the future!
There will be nay-sayers, of course -- "It can't be done" "It will be too expensive" etc... but I believe that once we actually get down to accomplishing this, it will turn out to be both easier and cheaper than we expect. And, of course, once we have ONE elevator, putting up new ones will be much quicker & cheaper than putting up the first one.
KSP is a game where the player creates and manages his own space program. Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals to fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space.
Version 0.13 is free for now and forever, but subsequent versions will be paid for. Currently they are selling for $9/copy, but this price will increase up to the final sale price as development progresses. Once you've paid, you have access to all future versions.
I highly recommend it -- I've wasted many hours on this, it's just great!
HTML is obsolete. It's time for a new, simpler and richer markup language.
Hear, hear!!!!!
Seriously, does nobody else think this?? HTML is the spawn of the devil!! Let's get something else that's far more sane going! HTML has innumerable flaws, not least of which is its insane verbosity. Guess that comes from having XML as a parent...
IF you want to run e.g. Apache and IIS on the same machine, they can't both use the same ports. I've been in this situation before, and had to run one of my servers on a different port, IIRC it was 81. So maybe this chap's got three webservers?
Big fucking deal. So you spent some time cleaning orphaned registry entries -- so the hell what? That's 5 minutes of your life you'll never get back. And if you'd left those entries there... well, SO WHAT? So nothing. You would never have noticed the difference.
Hey msobkow has a really great point here -- that using non-US tlds conveniently bypasses SOPA in every meaningful way. Howabout we all migrate to.tv ? <trollface/>
Gives me a massive warning in my browser. Seems the antivirus companies just accept what they're told? Time for them to update their definition for this site.
Yeah and I call bullshit on that -- writing stuff down is just manual labour, pure and simple. The key is properly grokking the subject matter - then you remember it.
They're probably very good geologists trying to do a difficult job. They screwed up this time. Rather than prosecute them, time and energy should be directed toward improving the geology department, rather than trying to prosecute those who are only trying to help as best they can.
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F=ma, in a universe where negative mass exists, would probably have to be 'fixed' to be F=|m|a.
Mod this guy up!! (out of mod points :( )
Maybe the first step is to de-dup the existing data.
Actually, there IS a good question. Is there some piece of OSS software that can do this for me? ('doze')
You're assuming that it's encryption that's the problem. In my case, it's a problem with the size of data vs. how much bandwidth I can use. I get an allocation of 20GB a month, and even that's very expensive. Backing up my 5+ TB to the cloud is simply not an option.
Cloud is very trendy right now, but that doesn't mean it's a one-size-fits-all.
at subsidence farming.
You, sir, are undermining your own argument!
I believe both Zunes made last year were manufactured in Sweden.
Capturing the energy is precisely the problem -- there will be WAY too much of it floating about being captured by critical systems. Dissipating it safely would be first prize. As for storing it ... no way. We don't have the technology to store zetajoules of energy!!
I did a very quick study on capturing the energy from lightning storms. It turns out that where I am (South Africa) has so much lightning that theoretically if we captured all of the energy from every strike, we could power the entire country. (turns out it's about 1:1, oddly enough.) ... but the problem is that you'd have to build seriously enormous capacitors with bus bars the size of ... buses ... and the entire exercise would be insanely expensive as a result.
Bottom line is that huge bursts of energy are simply not economical to harvest.
Oops brain fart. Well spotted.
If we're ever to permanently escape the cradle of humanity, this is the way to do it. I'm just disappointed that they're setting their target date 28 years in the future!
There will be nay-sayers, of course -- "It can't be done" "It will be too expensive" etc... but I believe that once we actually get down to accomplishing this, it will turn out to be both easier and cheaper than we expect. And, of course, once we have ONE elevator, putting up new ones will be much quicker & cheaper than putting up the first one.
Then I can finally move to L5!! ("Home on Lagrange" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_on_Lagrange_(The_L5_Song))
http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
KSP is a game where the player creates and manages his own space program.
Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals to fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space.
Version 0.13 is free for now and forever, but subsequent versions will be paid for. Currently they are selling for $9/copy, but this price will increase up to the final sale price as development progresses. Once you've paid, you have access to all future versions.
I highly recommend it -- I've wasted many hours on this, it's just great!
HTML is obsolete. It's time for a new, simpler and richer markup language.
Hear, hear!!!!!
Seriously, does nobody else think this?? HTML is the spawn of the devil!! Let's get something else that's far more sane going! HTML has innumerable flaws, not least of which is its insane verbosity. Guess that comes from having XML as a parent ...
These meetings built rapport between staff
FTFY
Ah, quite. You are probably correct!
IF you want to run e.g. Apache and IIS on the same machine, they can't both use the same ports. I've been in this situation before, and had to run one of my servers on a different port, IIRC it was 81. So maybe this chap's got three webservers?
Big fucking deal. So you spent some time cleaning orphaned registry entries -- so the hell what? That's 5 minutes of your life you'll never get back. And if you'd left those entries there ... well, SO WHAT? So nothing. You would never have noticed the difference.
Somebody mod this guy way, way up. Symantec is far worse than Ebola.
You insensitive clod! I live in the Southern Hemisphere, way way South. It's much easier to get to the ANTarctic.
Hey msobkow has a really great point here -- that using non-US tlds conveniently bypasses SOPA in every meaningful way. Howabout we all migrate to .tv ? <trollface/>
How very efficient -- how very German?
Seriously, Facebook should be more worried about Web 2.0 suicide ...
Gives me a massive warning in my browser. Seems the antivirus companies just accept what they're told? Time for them to update their definition for this site.
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
I'll see your .sig, and raise you mine.
Yeah and I call bullshit on that -- writing stuff down is just manual labour, pure and simple. The key is properly grokking the subject matter - then you remember it.
So, [[Citation Needed]]
They're probably very good geologists trying to do a difficult job. They screwed up this time. Rather than prosecute them, time and energy should be directed toward improving the geology department, rather than trying to prosecute those who are only trying to help as best they can.
There haven't been any updates to the site in many months. Dead links left and right.
Last release was a year ago. From http://www.gocosmos.org/index.en.aspx :
Aug 3, 2010 - MS5 released
There are bugs! - But we didn't want to hold MS5 any longer since MS4 was released 9 months ago.
That's 13 months without a release. And this is news how?
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