Nope, but interesting that my former employer wasn't alone in moving to Moscow... is it really that cheap? From all I hear, Moscow's one of the most expensive places in the world...
Similar story, only with Russia in the hot-seat of countries. Development moved to Moscow, "high-cost non-core" locations cleaned out of any significant development resources (in my case, Sydney). And now I hear they're asking the few that remain where the abandoned codebase was checked in, while they bring on twice as many (but at half the cost!) to replace those who were unceremoniously shown the door.
+1 to parent. The point is that the man apologising represents the government of the nation, which is in a sense continuous. Apologies to dead men aside, as the parent notes it's the precedent that it sets which is relevant.
Of course few of us actually admit that Holden is really based in Detroit, or Ford in Dearborn across the pond.
To be fair though, Commodores, Falcons, and the HSV & FPV brethren aren't made outside Australia, despite the fact that many a tourist from the US or the UK admire them quite a lot; we get quite a bit of metal and features for our money, which only partially makes up for the ridiculous prices we pay for most imports.
I'm not saying that a Moon base needs to be utterly self sustaining to be a model, but to a large extent it would be an ideal proving ground for some primary technologies when looking to establish a Mars base. Radiation shielding, biosphere construction and maintenance, extended timeframe life support systems on extra-terrestrial environments and so on - there's only so much we can do with orbiting labs like the ISS, and it makes more sense to try it out in the neighbourhood before going all-in for Mars.
Corrosion resistance, malleability and its alloying properties were actually well known before conductivity gave it a "modern" use - its rarity and corrosion resistance is exactly what made it valuable as a monetary exchange token, and the malleability and alloying made it so useful in creating jewellery.
When you say that the majority of it is simply locked up in vaults, you forget that until very recently, that represented the basis of a currency and to "use" it would be the equivalent of, say, using bank notes for toilet paper. The "expectation of future trade" is pretty much the definition of the word "money", after all.
Gold's actually a very useful metal in its own right, being corrosion-resistant, extremely malleable, high conductivity and a great alloy. It's not just a pretty element, y'know.
Sure it does. We're just looking for a shorter way to, uh, Alpha Centauri, with the hope of finding a second Earth out there somewhere.
Anyway, while Columbus might have headed out with the idea of finding India, the point made in TFS is about pilgrims and settlers, who made the journey not for discovery but for "a new life", though as pointed out elsewhere, that's because it was a case of going to somewhere known to be resource-rich and people-poor. Mars promises red dust and rocks, so far.
I'd still say there's little point going that far for the first off-planet colony without at least having a working model on the moon. Moonbase launches could also cut down take-off fuel requirements.
I'm not sure I'd trust the judgement of the Pentagon given the amount of controlled US technology previously exported to Pakistan over the last 50 years or thereabouts - since India's always had a cosy relationship with Russia, as demonstrated here, Pakistan was long the beneficiary of US aid, both economic and military, and continues to be with the Afghani front of the war on terror.
India suspects much of this aid was funnelled by the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) into the Kashmiri terrorist separatist groups.
Why did they have CD burning capabilities in these PCs
Once upon a time, networks weren't exactly the fastest way to get stuff around, especially if it was big enough to justify burning a CD, an updated version of floppy sneakernet.
Agreed - I was throwing 4kg (~8.8lbs) about 8 meters, and I wasn't exactly competition worthy at my school. Surely marines can throw 10lbs with a bit of training, and no need to worry about a foul line!
I think if you'd made the effort to have a look at the records, I did discount the record by a bit, and being a former shotputter myself I can hazard a guess at how far they can throw it - but there's still an expectation that these guys could be trained up. These are marines after all.
There's a practical limit to the CO2 that the oceans can absorb.
I think the point being made above is that if we're sucking the CO2 out of the ocean in the first place, it'll make a buffer to absorb what we've extracted. Or to use an analogy, we're emptying the carbon sink on the one hand and topping it up with the other, hopefully leaving things even.
I'll assume that's a UK thing I wasn't aware of during my time there - Australians use kg as the weight reference. The "fair number of people" was more global - e.g., India still uses feet & inches for heights, but most everything else is metric.
That isn't correct either. They later removed pieces of the PS2 hardware which were emulated, but it still required some of the original chips. No version of the PS3 has ever had pure software emulation.
Neither is that - Japan & America had the hardware emulation at launch, PAL territories (EU/AU) had software. This was later replaced too, along with dropping the flash card readers. See the wikipedia table of models to see how frequently Sony have changed their minds (presumably in the hunt for cost cutting).
[Metric system -] is the U.S. the *last* hold-out?
Nope, you're in good company with Myanmar (Burma) and Liberia.
(less facetiously, the UK still uses miles for distances and miles per hour for speed, and fair number of people still use feet & inches for human height)
heir rules are made known when downloading the SDK and paying the 99$ fee.
I think the issue at hand is that the rules aren't actually made clear - see this blog of rejections for examples of things that have caught developers out.
It would only be a "BIG PROBLEM" (tm) if they were the only game in town. Vote with your wallet.
In terms of possible earnings, the iPhone might not be the only game in town, but it is probably the best game in town - it's got global reach, increasing market penetration, and a standard platform (iPhone gen 1, 3G or 3GS; or iPod Touch gen 1 or 2, all with the same mode of interaction), which makes it very easy to code for, as opposed to the multitude of permutations for Android or WinMo.
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Nope, but interesting that my former employer wasn't alone in moving to Moscow... is it really that cheap? From all I hear, Moscow's one of the most expensive places in the world...
Similar story, only with Russia in the hot-seat of countries. Development moved to Moscow, "high-cost non-core" locations cleaned out of any significant development resources (in my case, Sydney). And now I hear they're asking the few that remain where the abandoned codebase was checked in, while they bring on twice as many (but at half the cost!) to replace those who were unceremoniously shown the door.
The day "caffeine" becomes a word that is objectionable to a non-trivial chunk of my customer base is the day I know the PC crazies have won.
+1 to parent. The point is that the man apologising represents the government of the nation, which is in a sense continuous. Apologies to dead men aside, as the parent notes it's the precedent that it sets which is relevant.
Of course few of us actually admit that Holden is really based in Detroit, or Ford in Dearborn across the pond.
To be fair though, Commodores, Falcons, and the HSV & FPV brethren aren't made outside Australia, despite the fact that many a tourist from the US or the UK admire them quite a lot; we get quite a bit of metal and features for our money, which only partially makes up for the ridiculous prices we pay for most imports.
I'm not saying that a Moon base needs to be utterly self sustaining to be a model, but to a large extent it would be an ideal proving ground for some primary technologies when looking to establish a Mars base. Radiation shielding, biosphere construction and maintenance, extended timeframe life support systems on extra-terrestrial environments and so on - there's only so much we can do with orbiting labs like the ISS, and it makes more sense to try it out in the neighbourhood before going all-in for Mars.
Corrosion resistance, malleability and its alloying properties were actually well known before conductivity gave it a "modern" use - its rarity and corrosion resistance is exactly what made it valuable as a monetary exchange token, and the malleability and alloying made it so useful in creating jewellery.
When you say that the majority of it is simply locked up in vaults, you forget that until very recently, that represented the basis of a currency and to "use" it would be the equivalent of, say, using bank notes for toilet paper. The "expectation of future trade" is pretty much the definition of the word "money", after all.
Gold's actually a very useful metal in its own right, being corrosion-resistant, extremely malleable, high conductivity and a great alloy. It's not just a pretty element, y'know.
Sure it does. We're just looking for a shorter way to, uh, Alpha Centauri, with the hope of finding a second Earth out there somewhere.
Anyway, while Columbus might have headed out with the idea of finding India, the point made in TFS is about pilgrims and settlers, who made the journey not for discovery but for "a new life", though as pointed out elsewhere, that's because it was a case of going to somewhere known to be resource-rich and people-poor. Mars promises red dust and rocks, so far.
I'd still say there's little point going that far for the first off-planet colony without at least having a working model on the moon. Moonbase launches could also cut down take-off fuel requirements.
I'm not sure I'd trust the judgement of the Pentagon given the amount of controlled US technology previously exported to Pakistan over the last 50 years or thereabouts - since India's always had a cosy relationship with Russia, as demonstrated here, Pakistan was long the beneficiary of US aid, both economic and military, and continues to be with the Afghani front of the war on terror.
India suspects much of this aid was funnelled by the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) into the Kashmiri terrorist separatist groups.
At that point you're gonna wanna play around with superconductivity a bit. Wonder what that does to conventional silicon...
Oops, consider me corrected, and also surprised.
I think that's talking post-tax-post-expenses (i.e. $30k x 40y = $1,200,000)
(now there's a depressing thought.)
Why did they have CD burning capabilities in these PCs
Once upon a time, networks weren't exactly the fastest way to get stuff around, especially if it was big enough to justify burning a CD, an updated version of floppy sneakernet.
There's an option at some meters here in Australia to send an SMS to a premium number which pays for the spot, and the machine prints out the ticket.
Agreed - I was throwing 4kg (~8.8lbs) about 8 meters, and I wasn't exactly competition worthy at my school. Surely marines can throw 10lbs with a bit of training, and no need to worry about a foul line!
I think if you'd made the effort to have a look at the records, I did discount the record by a bit, and being a former shotputter myself I can hazard a guess at how far they can throw it - but there's still an expectation that these guys could be trained up. These are marines after all.
There's a practical limit to the CO2 that the oceans can absorb.
I think the point being made above is that if we're sucking the CO2 out of the ocean in the first place, it'll make a buffer to absorb what we've extracted. Or to use an analogy, we're emptying the carbon sink on the one hand and topping it up with the other, hopefully leaving things even.
how far can you heave a 10lb weight into a situation that you can't see directly in front of you?
How about approximately 15 - 20 meters?
I'll assume that's a UK thing I wasn't aware of during my time there - Australians use kg as the weight reference. The "fair number of people" was more global - e.g., India still uses feet & inches for heights, but most everything else is metric.
That isn't correct either. They later removed pieces of the PS2 hardware which were emulated, but it still required some of the original chips. No version of the PS3 has ever had pure software emulation.
Neither is that - Japan & America had the hardware emulation at launch, PAL territories (EU/AU) had software. This was later replaced too, along with dropping the flash card readers. See the wikipedia table of models to see how frequently Sony have changed their minds (presumably in the hunt for cost cutting).
I'd be worried if their "is it secure?" test was along the lines of "is it safe from an untrained tween with an internet browser?"
[Metric system -] is the U.S. the *last* hold-out?
Nope, you're in good company with Myanmar (Burma) and Liberia.
(less facetiously, the UK still uses miles for distances and miles per hour for speed, and fair number of people still use feet & inches for human height)
heir rules are made known when downloading the SDK and paying the 99$ fee.
I think the issue at hand is that the rules aren't actually made clear - see this blog of rejections for examples of things that have caught developers out.
It would only be a "BIG PROBLEM" (tm) if they were the only game in town. Vote with your wallet.
In terms of possible earnings, the iPhone might not be the only game in town, but it is probably the best game in town - it's got global reach, increasing market penetration, and a standard platform (iPhone gen 1, 3G or 3GS; or iPod Touch gen 1 or 2, all with the same mode of interaction), which makes it very easy to code for, as opposed to the multitude of permutations for Android or WinMo.
That's all good, but... goatse?
Someone, give this man an Insightful +5.