I don't have a needle phobia, but as I currently have to puncture my fingers multiple times a day to check my blood sugar, an implanted device that could give me a readout would be pretty awesome.
There isn't really any such thing as a "get-there-fast manner" in space. The distances involved are literally astronomical, and the faster you want to go, the more reaction mass you have to carry, which in turn makes it more difficult to accelerate. (Ion drives don't have this problem, but also accelerate really, really slowly; their main advantage is that they're cheaper to get into orbit in the first place, not that they'll get where they're going any faster.) No matter what, you need to be able to operate a mission for years, and that requires building things incredibly robustly. NASA has been building many things for only a few hundred million dollars lately, which is a big improvement over the billions that older missions cost, but it's still a lot compared to £25m -- for that, it's unlikely that it would make it to the point where it could actually do any science before dying.
When I first got into computing, I never once thought about whether I would be seeing advertising in relation to it. It wasn't to consume more, nor was it to reject advertising elsewhere. The idea of worrying about how much advertising there would be in an entire area of technology never even occurred to me; what the technology did was vastly more important.
Every raise I've gotten since I started my job in 2003 has been more than 10% (one was about 75%), and I've gotten one most years. On the other hand, I started out at $10,000 a year (AmeriCorps VISTA stipend), so that's not really saying much.
The innovation is that in this case, the screen is twice the size, but half of it is covered by the keyboard when it's attached. The screen itself is flexible -- you fold the entire thing in half, with no hinge.
Alternatively, just move to Massachusetts. Since MA started requiring all state residents to have health insurance, they've made it easy for anyone to buy individual insurance, with no restrictions, through the Commonwealth Choice program (and there's extra assistance through Commonwealth Care if your income is low enough). I have a mess of pre-existing conditions (diabetes, asthma), and all I had to do was pick a plan and start paying. Depending on the size of deductible and copays, premiums vary widely: I'm paying about $380/month as an under-30 individual with no family, but that's for no deductible and pretty low copays, which are helpful given how much regular care and prescriptions I need; you can pay several times less per month if you think you're likely to need less in an average year. And, of course, you get to deduct the premiums from your taxes if you're self-employed.
My girlfriend has the same problem (and she has a Kindle), and I tend to agree that the Kindle is better just as a book reader. A color screen with the ability to handle animation is better for a lot of other applications, though. I predict that it won't be long before there are devices with Pixel Qi screens or similar that can do both.
Uh, that would be about 1.5 days—there are 86,400 seconds in a day. That's assuming that they maintain their maximum flight speed the whole time, of course.
Those were listed as possible reasons for the tablet leaks. The article was written by a former Apple employee, so he knows how these things commonly work, but he doesn't know specifics in this case—it could be just one of those reasons, or several.
The 70s? Try the 90s. My best friend in middle and high school was on a party line, but that didn't stop us from calling each other up and chatting through terminal windows. Yes, we could just as easily have used voice... but it was more exciting this way. No idea what the effective speed was, but it didn't matter much for just text.
In my house, we had an index card on the fridge with "Phone In Use" on one side and "Phone Free" on the other. Occasionally someone would forget to check the card before making a call, but usually it worked pretty well.
Not really -- typewriter manufacturing is much less exact than PC manufacturing, and that combined with differences in wear patterns means that even two typewriters of the exact same model, used to type the same text by the same typist, will not produce identical output. Whether you care about those differences is a different question, but they are detectable, which cannot be said of the output of computers.
They've actually just moved the power issues to a different part: now the cord breaks where it connects to the MagSafe tip. My girlfriend is on her third one, I think. Admittedly, that's a much cheaper part to replace, so it is an improvement, but it would still be nice if they could find a way to spread out the force a bit more to prevent that kind of breakage.
Great. Now how about some train stations to go with those airports? Boston South Station, New York Penn Station, Philadelphia 30th Street Station, and Washington Union Station would be a good start. Add Chicago Union Station and Los Angeles Union Station for those outside the Northeast Corridor.
Sure, 5 kN is great for a 1 tonne spacecraft. Problem is, each engine masses 300 kg, and you need a thousand of them to produce those 5 kN, which is already 300 tonnes. If you want a payload in that one tonne spacecraft, you've got room for about one of these things, which means only 5 N of thrust, and your acceleration is only 0.005 m/s^2. It's going to take quite a while to get around the solar system at that rate, let alone make it to Alpha Centauri.
Amtrak is subsizided by the feds. There IS a way that this could compete with airfare, just not fairly.
Airlines get subsidized by the feds, too -- consider all the airlines that have been bailed out in the past twenty years (some of them multiple times), plus federal funding for airports.
I don't think my written spelling has deteriorated; however, my typed spelling has. Specifically, I make a lot of homophone errors when typing, which I didn't use to. The interesting thing is that while my production has deteriorated, my recognition has not, so I still notice when I make errors -- but only after I've typed out the word. With something like their/there/they're, I can even type the wrong one, recognize the error, type the other wrong one, and only then get it right.
They could just tax gasoline more. You know, the driving-related thing that they already tax. That has the side benefit of helping to cut down on pollution more than a flat per-mile tax, too.
Power corrupts. This is not just a pithy saying, it has happened time and again throughout history. See the Stanford Prison Experiment for an empirical view, as well. We've already seen the beginnings of this in the U.S.: when law enforcement is given the ability to search people, take away their rights, and lock them up without presenting evidence, that is exactly what they do. Constant surveillance means constant suspicion of everyone, and when everyone is under suspicion, no one is presumed innocent.
You may say that you have nothing to hide, but I really doubt it. Have you ever jaywalked? Gone even a mile above the speed limit? Or not even broken the law, but done something that might be just a little bit suspicious: talked to someone in another country? Snuck some food into a movie theater? Gone for a walk late at night? And how would you feel about a camera in your bathroom? Your bedroom? The voting booth?
Not really, unless those sites already have other serious security problems. The PHP code only runs on the server, and is thus invisible to the end user: all they see is the generated HTML. If your PHP code is exposed to the outside world, you're doing something wrong.
Yeah, I don't get it either. Especially since in this case they really can't expect people to buy books from Amazon: my girlfriend has had one for over a month, has been using it quite a lot, and hasn't paid for any content yet. Instead, she's been getting stuff from Project Gutenberg, publishers which offer some things free, etc.
Of course, they are still subsidizing the cost of the wireless connection.
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I don't have a needle phobia, but as I currently have to puncture my fingers multiple times a day to check my blood sugar, an implanted device that could give me a readout would be pretty awesome.
There isn't really any such thing as a "get-there-fast manner" in space. The distances involved are literally astronomical, and the faster you want to go, the more reaction mass you have to carry, which in turn makes it more difficult to accelerate. (Ion drives don't have this problem, but also accelerate really, really slowly; their main advantage is that they're cheaper to get into orbit in the first place, not that they'll get where they're going any faster.) No matter what, you need to be able to operate a mission for years, and that requires building things incredibly robustly. NASA has been building many things for only a few hundred million dollars lately, which is a big improvement over the billions that older missions cost, but it's still a lot compared to £25m -- for that, it's unlikely that it would make it to the point where it could actually do any science before dying.
When I first got into computing, I never once thought about whether I would be seeing advertising in relation to it. It wasn't to consume more, nor was it to reject advertising elsewhere. The idea of worrying about how much advertising there would be in an entire area of technology never even occurred to me; what the technology did was vastly more important.
Every raise I've gotten since I started my job in 2003 has been more than 10% (one was about 75%), and I've gotten one most years. On the other hand, I started out at $10,000 a year (AmeriCorps VISTA stipend), so that's not really saying much.
The innovation is that in this case, the screen is twice the size, but half of it is covered by the keyboard when it's attached. The screen itself is flexible -- you fold the entire thing in half, with no hinge.
Alternatively, just move to Massachusetts. Since MA started requiring all state residents to have health insurance, they've made it easy for anyone to buy individual insurance, with no restrictions, through the Commonwealth Choice program (and there's extra assistance through Commonwealth Care if your income is low enough). I have a mess of pre-existing conditions (diabetes, asthma), and all I had to do was pick a plan and start paying. Depending on the size of deductible and copays, premiums vary widely: I'm paying about $380/month as an under-30 individual with no family, but that's for no deductible and pretty low copays, which are helpful given how much regular care and prescriptions I need; you can pay several times less per month if you think you're likely to need less in an average year. And, of course, you get to deduct the premiums from your taxes if you're self-employed.
My girlfriend has the same problem (and she has a Kindle), and I tend to agree that the Kindle is better just as a book reader. A color screen with the ability to handle animation is better for a lot of other applications, though. I predict that it won't be long before there are devices with Pixel Qi screens or similar that can do both.
Yeah, and it will only cost an extra $30/month compared to the built-in 3G!
Uh, that would be about 1.5 days—there are 86,400 seconds in a day. That's assuming that they maintain their maximum flight speed the whole time, of course.
Those were listed as possible reasons for the tablet leaks. The article was written by a former Apple employee, so he knows how these things commonly work, but he doesn't know specifics in this case—it could be just one of those reasons, or several.
Don't know about you, but when I was a kid I used to sled on hills, not on roads.
The 70s? Try the 90s. My best friend in middle and high school was on a party line, but that didn't stop us from calling each other up and chatting through terminal windows. Yes, we could just as easily have used voice... but it was more exciting this way. No idea what the effective speed was, but it didn't matter much for just text.
In my house, we had an index card on the fridge with "Phone In Use" on one side and "Phone Free" on the other. Occasionally someone would forget to check the card before making a call, but usually it worked pretty well.
Not really -- typewriter manufacturing is much less exact than PC manufacturing, and that combined with differences in wear patterns means that even two typewriters of the exact same model, used to type the same text by the same typist, will not produce identical output. Whether you care about those differences is a different question, but they are detectable, which cannot be said of the output of computers.
They've actually just moved the power issues to a different part: now the cord breaks where it connects to the MagSafe tip. My girlfriend is on her third one, I think. Admittedly, that's a much cheaper part to replace, so it is an improvement, but it would still be nice if they could find a way to spread out the force a bit more to prevent that kind of breakage.
Great. Now how about some train stations to go with those airports? Boston South Station, New York Penn Station, Philadelphia 30th Street Station, and Washington Union Station would be a good start. Add Chicago Union Station and Los Angeles Union Station for those outside the Northeast Corridor.
Sure, 5 kN is great for a 1 tonne spacecraft. Problem is, each engine masses 300 kg, and you need a thousand of them to produce those 5 kN, which is already 300 tonnes. If you want a payload in that one tonne spacecraft, you've got room for about one of these things, which means only 5 N of thrust, and your acceleration is only 0.005 m/s^2. It's going to take quite a while to get around the solar system at that rate, let alone make it to Alpha Centauri.
Amtrak is subsizided by the feds. There IS a way that this could compete with airfare, just not fairly.
Airlines get subsidized by the feds, too -- consider all the airlines that have been bailed out in the past twenty years (some of them multiple times), plus federal funding for airports.
I don't think my written spelling has deteriorated; however, my typed spelling has. Specifically, I make a lot of homophone errors when typing, which I didn't use to. The interesting thing is that while my production has deteriorated, my recognition has not, so I still notice when I make errors -- but only after I've typed out the word. With something like their/there/they're, I can even type the wrong one, recognize the error, type the other wrong one, and only then get it right.
Hey, it could be worse: you could be speaking German.
They could just tax gasoline more. You know, the driving-related thing that they already tax. That has the side benefit of helping to cut down on pollution more than a flat per-mile tax, too.
At least, as of a year and a half ago, according to the State of Privacy Map.
Power corrupts. This is not just a pithy saying, it has happened time and again throughout history. See the Stanford Prison Experiment for an empirical view, as well. We've already seen the beginnings of this in the U.S.: when law enforcement is given the ability to search people, take away their rights, and lock them up without presenting evidence, that is exactly what they do. Constant surveillance means constant suspicion of everyone, and when everyone is under suspicion, no one is presumed innocent.
You may say that you have nothing to hide, but I really doubt it. Have you ever jaywalked? Gone even a mile above the speed limit? Or not even broken the law, but done something that might be just a little bit suspicious: talked to someone in another country? Snuck some food into a movie theater? Gone for a walk late at night? And how would you feel about a camera in your bathroom? Your bedroom? The voting booth?
Not really, unless those sites already have other serious security problems. The PHP code only runs on the server, and is thus invisible to the end user: all they see is the generated HTML. If your PHP code is exposed to the outside world, you're doing something wrong.
Yeah, I don't get it either. Especially since in this case they really can't expect people to buy books from Amazon: my girlfriend has had one for over a month, has been using it quite a lot, and hasn't paid for any content yet. Instead, she's been getting stuff from Project Gutenberg, publishers which offer some things free, etc. Of course, they are still subsidizing the cost of the wireless connection.