We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction... we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation.
Someone needs to remind these guys that something is only Science Fiction until it becomes Science Fact. Nothing wrong with calling it Suspended Animation if that's EXACTLY what it is.
It's not. This seems more like an induced coma than anything. I doubt it slows or stops aging which is what I would call suspended animation. This may be, however, the first step towards that goal.
So show of hands here, who has a 622 Mbps at home? That's right, as of this article, your "last mile" officially sucks more than LADEE's last 250,000 miles
You're paying $29.99 a month. LADEE cost over $300 million.
It makes your seals ware out faster, but that's about it. Most people drive around with half their seals and gaskets shot, leaking oil and getting crap millage anyway. So it's not like they'd notice. People that have no clue how their car works have a bigger detrimental impact on the environment than any fault in the design of cars. I see Chevy volts all around me now, yet when I pull up to them at a red light I can hear the engine running. Meaning they've bought an electric car, aren't charging it and driving around on the generator probably burning more fuel than if they had just bought a gas car. You can't engineer the stupid out of people.
Every time NASA has a budget crunch, they look for the most popular program they have an suggest that's the first one to go. How many times was the Hubble mission in jeopardy? I'm all for giving NASA more money, it's one of the few things government does that doesn't involve screwing one group of people or another, but I've heard them crying wolf far to often to come running this time.
Indeed. I am so grateful that the FCC required me to pay more in order to subsidize the lifestyle choices of other people.
I've never understood the hate as of late.
Me neither. This is such a wonderful country. It would be so unfair if people were expected to deal with the consequences of their own decisions without coerced assistance from people that made more sensible choices.
Those "other people" are generally poor, and didn't chose to live where they do. We're not talking about the dude that lives in the estate outside of town... he'd just get a cellular modem. Most of the people without internet service today are in the rural south, appalachia, the rocky mountains, Indian reservations (the ones that didn't sell out to the casino gods), the dakotas, etc...
I understand that slahdotters are generally "me me me" but give me a fucking break. The small increase you'll see on your phone bill will pale in comparison to the increase later in your income taxes as all "those other people" go on welfare because they can't even access their local jobs website and there's no such thing as newspapers anymore. Crawl out of your miopic hole and view the world from somewhere more than 50ft from your doorstep.
... google fiber's gigabit speeds, Cox should also commit to rolling out google fiber's reasonable prices.
They can't. I get sick of posting this but: The cost to provide you internet is directly proportional to the density of the population where you live. Google is only installing fiber in very dense areas. As a result it's very very cheap for them to do this. Cable and telco companies have to provide service to a wider array of customers. Cable companies do so in somewhat less dense areas and telcos provide it in fairly remote areas. It costs you about the same to install a remote and provide service when theres 100 houses in the area as it does when there's 5. The difference is how many people are paying you when you're done. Googles only installing in areas where their equipment can serve thousands of people.
What you're really asking for here is tiered services. Those that live outside of city centers should pay for living there. And you, living in an urban area should get very fast service and low rates. To get what you want, rural folks... people in older neighborhoods, are going to pay more for much slower speeds... if they can get internet at all. I personally think we'll all be worse off if that happened.
People have no idea how much tech support costs. I used to run a tech support department in the 90s (on the technical side, not a manager) and it was always funny when customer would claim to have been "Ripped off" because they waited on hold for 10min.
How much did you pay for the device? Take that, the figure out how much profit the manufacture is getting. 1/3 of the sale price would be very generous. Figure out how long you were on the phone with support. Assume the support worker is making minimum wage: $7.25 (they made more but lets just assume) multiply... subtract... The manufacture pretty much loses all profit as soon as you call them. They first tried putting support on-line. But the people who needed support were usually so un-tech savvy they couldn't even open a browser. (this was the 90s) So then they tried IVR (phone tree support) but people were too impatient and just skipped it. They tried raising the price of the product but people wouldn't pay. Then they tried charging for support. People flipped out and every call turned into an hour long bitch session. Then they moved support out of the country so they could hire bellow minimum wage. But then the customers started screaming because people "Didn't speak English" That kind of bugged me because I trained staff from Jamaica and India, and they were all very intelligent people. Far more skilled than the people calling in and complaining.
Finally they just put up forums and said "screw it" and shut down support all together. I got laid off, got a hell of a lot better job and the general public just ended up forgetting that there was ever such a thing as phone support.
You had me until Jesse Jackson got involved. That guy is a crook and an extortionist. Usually he's only interested in how diverse your company is until you donate to his rainbow push coalition. Suddenly it doesn't matter if you're diverse after that.
Inherited? Are we the babysitters of the world now? Why did anyone have to inherit anything? It's none of our business. If we want to be responsible for the peoples of the middle east, we need to invade and annex them. If they're not part of the united states then we need to leave them alone. Simple as that. We can't unilaterally determine that we're in charge of how their government operates while at the same time deny them the constitutional freedoms we long ago decided the governed deserve! If they have to be governed as we decide, then they deserve the same freedom we have. If we're not providing both, we're providing nothing.
The whole of the nightmare in the middle east right now is the fault of the united states.
The British Mandate and the Balfour Declaration had far more influence upon the nationalities, peoples, and borders of the Middle East than did any influence of the United States.
Yes, they're mad about Israel. I think we're all quite aware of that. I'm not even talking that far back. I'm talking about what we did in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan in the 70s and 80s. The very governments we fight to day were installed by us, or a result of our policies.
Life in prison is cheaper than execution... why we bother to spend all this time and money putting them to a morally questionable end when we could just lock them up for half the price I'll never understand. Even if you're out for revenge, why put them out of their misery? Isn't 60 years in prison worse than 5 years of trials followed by an injection?
I still don't understand why the lethal injection isn't just a bunch of heroin that's been confiscated in the latest raid. People OD on heroin without being horribly uncomfortable.
But I can't see a real practical use for it in the near future other than some newer, more spectacular teen texting while driving accidents.
The real money will be combining this with an overlay and transparent background in a device like google glass. The initial product will likely suck, but the patents they'd soak up will be extremely valuable in the future.
Nevada's got a fair number of fault lines. I know there was a lot of politics involved in Yucca mountain, but I do know that there are a number of real concerns in regards to fault lines and similar.
Real concerns? No...
There was a fault line discovered after the site was built. But it did not run under the storage facility. It an under a nearby area where waste was supposed to cool before storage. They moved this cooling area to avoid the fault line. There are earthquakes in the area, there are everywhere... Also keep in mind, the size of the seismic activity needed to harm the facility in any way would have to be so large that any hazardous waste leak that resulted from it would be more of an afterthought compared to the destruction from the quake itself.
What the NSA is doing to foreigners IS harming Americans. It's destroying our reputation, destroying our business contracts, and alienating the entire world. How would you feel if China or Russia developed some new technology that allowed them to listen to all of your phone calls and then they went about doing just that?
Just because something doesn't implicitly violate the constitution doesn't mean it's right and just. How many foreigners are you willing to sacrifice for your own safety? How many dictators are we going to install? People are we going to torture? Freedoms are we going to crush? The whole of the nightmare in the middle east right now is the fault of the united states. Every dictator in recent memory was a product of the CIA/NSA's attempts to secure the low price of oil. All the misery you see there now was to make it cheaper for you to get to work in the morning, not to protect you from "terrorists". We're murdering hundreds of thousands of people, men, women and children, all in some insane game of simcity, trying to fix the mess we created. At some point we need to just back away and let these people live their lives. WE are the problem. Not them. If some of their crazies manage to knock down a few of our buildings well... we deserve it.
No we're not. No war was ever declared and the majority of our troops have left. At best our troops are in an advisory role now. We're training and supporting the afghan military. Once again we invade a country under the pretense of protecting the innocent citizens of that country... but what we really end up doing is victimizing those very citizens. I wont even bother with "if it's legal"... our government clearly doesn't care... but it's immoral, unjust and completely ineffectual. Despite having every phone in the country tapped it took us how long to catch Bin Laden?
To explain further... metric expansion is the central premise of the big bang theory. SPACE is growing larger... the matter within it is not moving away from each other. (well they might be but that's not relevant) So if you and I were standing next to each other and not moving, the distance between us would still be growing. On small scales the effect isn't even measurable it's so small. But the effect increases with the more distance between us. When you get to galactic scales the effect is enormous. The speed of light limit is a result of the geometry of space-time. Think of it like a right triangle... you change one line, and that affects the angles and lengths of the others. Expansion is like changing the size and shape of the paper the triangle is drawn on.
Or at least that's always been my understanding. Physicists feel free to correct me. Time Cube guys, stay out of it.:-)
I recall reading somewhere - and I hope a historian can come along and correct this - that most modern settlements are at a significant elevation because they're on top of the middens and trash of all the previous settlers on that site. If we actually dug out the areas we currently stand on, we'd find all sorts of interesting trash.
Chicago is about 3' higher than it's supposed to be and juts out into the lake quite a ways because it's built on top the great fire of 1871. There are still a few buildings left from before the fire that sit significantly bellow street level. They look odd when driving through the area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
If that was your only worry about opening a bar... Here in Montreal within a week you'll have your local thugs muscling in. No matter how upscale the neighborhood looks during the day. I used to work in Old Montreal when there was a broad daylight assassination on my street. The bar also had regular stabbings at night...
Yea, I have an uncle that ran a bar as well. Those guys tend to stop bothering you when you pull a 12guage out from under the counter. You can't do that in Montreal though I don't think.
Finally, a dozen passengers can enjoy a "tailor-made experience" in the VIP Room, which will cost an even €50,000 ($68,000) to book – all of those people will also get a watch and a flight suit.
Do they scrub it down between flight? Maybe not on discount flights. Mmmm will smell great...
Bring your cat...
That depends on how they design it. A while back I was going to start my own bar and when it came to the bathroom design I was going to have it tiled, floor, ceiling and walls. With shower heads in the ceiling and a central drain with an industrial garbage disposal in the floor. The plumber thought I was a genius when he quoted it(probably because it wasn't going to be cheap) but I eventually abandon the entire venture when I realized I'd be a hardcore alcoholic within 6 months if I went ahead with it.
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Why do we care what she thinks?
Because she was in the Beavis and Butthead movie of course.
We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction... we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation.
Someone needs to remind these guys that something is only Science Fiction until it becomes Science Fact.
Nothing wrong with calling it Suspended Animation if that's EXACTLY what it is.
It's not. This seems more like an induced coma than anything. I doubt it slows or stops aging which is what I would call suspended animation. This may be, however, the first step towards that goal.
So show of hands here, who has a 622 Mbps at home? That's right, as of this article, your "last mile" officially sucks more than LADEE's last 250,000 miles
You're paying $29.99 a month.
LADEE cost over $300 million.
It makes your seals ware out faster, but that's about it. Most people drive around with half their seals and gaskets shot, leaking oil and getting crap millage anyway. So it's not like they'd notice. People that have no clue how their car works have a bigger detrimental impact on the environment than any fault in the design of cars. I see Chevy volts all around me now, yet when I pull up to them at a red light I can hear the engine running. Meaning they've bought an electric car, aren't charging it and driving around on the generator probably burning more fuel than if they had just bought a gas car. You can't engineer the stupid out of people.
Every time NASA has a budget crunch, they look for the most popular program they have an suggest that's the first one to go. How many times was the Hubble mission in jeopardy? I'm all for giving NASA more money, it's one of the few things government does that doesn't involve screwing one group of people or another, but I've heard them crying wolf far to often to come running this time.
The FCC is soooo awesome for doing this!
Indeed. I am so grateful that the FCC required me to pay more in order to subsidize the lifestyle choices of other people.
I've never understood the hate as of late.
Me neither. This is such a wonderful country. It would be so unfair if people were expected to deal with the consequences of their own decisions without coerced assistance from people that made more sensible choices.
Those "other people" are generally poor, and didn't chose to live where they do. We're not talking about the dude that lives in the estate outside of town... he'd just get a cellular modem. Most of the people without internet service today are in the rural south, appalachia, the rocky mountains, Indian reservations (the ones that didn't sell out to the casino gods), the dakotas, etc...
I understand that slahdotters are generally "me me me" but give me a fucking break. The small increase you'll see on your phone bill will pale in comparison to the increase later in your income taxes as all "those other people" go on welfare because they can't even access their local jobs website and there's no such thing as newspapers anymore. Crawl out of your miopic hole and view the world from somewhere more than 50ft from your doorstep.
... google fiber's gigabit speeds, Cox should also commit to rolling out google fiber's reasonable prices.
They can't. I get sick of posting this but:
The cost to provide you internet is directly proportional to the density of the population where you live. Google is only installing fiber in very dense areas. As a result it's very very cheap for them to do this. Cable and telco companies have to provide service to a wider array of customers. Cable companies do so in somewhat less dense areas and telcos provide it in fairly remote areas. It costs you about the same to install a remote and provide service when theres 100 houses in the area as it does when there's 5. The difference is how many people are paying you when you're done. Googles only installing in areas where their equipment can serve thousands of people.
What you're really asking for here is tiered services. Those that live outside of city centers should pay for living there. And you, living in an urban area should get very fast service and low rates. To get what you want, rural folks... people in older neighborhoods, are going to pay more for much slower speeds... if they can get internet at all. I personally think we'll all be worse off if that happened.
People have no idea how much tech support costs. I used to run a tech support department in the 90s (on the technical side, not a manager) and it was always funny when customer would claim to have been "Ripped off" because they waited on hold for 10min.
How much did you pay for the device?
Take that, the figure out how much profit the manufacture is getting. 1/3 of the sale price would be very generous.
Figure out how long you were on the phone with support.
Assume the support worker is making minimum wage: $7.25 (they made more but lets just assume)
multiply... subtract...
The manufacture pretty much loses all profit as soon as you call them.
They first tried putting support on-line. But the people who needed support were usually so un-tech savvy they couldn't even open a browser. (this was the 90s)
So then they tried IVR (phone tree support) but people were too impatient and just skipped it.
They tried raising the price of the product but people wouldn't pay.
Then they tried charging for support. People flipped out and every call turned into an hour long bitch session.
Then they moved support out of the country so they could hire bellow minimum wage. But then the customers started screaming because people "Didn't speak English" That kind of bugged me because I trained staff from Jamaica and India, and they were all very intelligent people. Far more skilled than the people calling in and complaining.
Finally they just put up forums and said "screw it" and shut down support all together. I got laid off, got a hell of a lot better job and the general public just ended up forgetting that there was ever such a thing as phone support.
You had me until Jesse Jackson got involved. That guy is a crook and an extortionist. Usually he's only interested in how diverse your company is until you donate to his rainbow push coalition. Suddenly it doesn't matter if you're diverse after that.
Inherited? Are we the babysitters of the world now? Why did anyone have to inherit anything? It's none of our business. If we want to be responsible for the peoples of the middle east, we need to invade and annex them. If they're not part of the united states then we need to leave them alone. Simple as that. We can't unilaterally determine that we're in charge of how their government operates while at the same time deny them the constitutional freedoms we long ago decided the governed deserve! If they have to be governed as we decide, then they deserve the same freedom we have. If we're not providing both, we're providing nothing.
The British Mandate and the Balfour Declaration had far more influence upon the nationalities, peoples, and borders of the Middle East than did any influence of the United States.
Yes, they're mad about Israel. I think we're all quite aware of that. I'm not even talking that far back. I'm talking about what we did in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan in the 70s and 80s. The very governments we fight to day were installed by us, or a result of our policies.
Life in prison is cheaper than execution... why we bother to spend all this time and money putting them to a morally questionable end when we could just lock them up for half the price I'll never understand. Even if you're out for revenge, why put them out of their misery? Isn't 60 years in prison worse than 5 years of trials followed by an injection?
I still don't understand why the lethal injection isn't just a bunch of heroin that's been confiscated in the latest raid. People OD on heroin without being horribly uncomfortable.
You've apparently never OD'd.
If there's one thing we can be sure has hurt children's ability to learn, it's teachers unions. So I find this a bit ironic to say the least.
This will likely be paired with Googles Project Tango for the next version of the nexus: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/20...
But I can't see a real practical use for it in the near future other than some newer, more spectacular teen texting while driving accidents.
The real money will be combining this with an overlay and transparent background in a device like google glass. The initial product will likely suck, but the patents they'd soak up will be extremely valuable in the future.
Nevada's got a fair number of fault lines. I know there was a lot of politics involved in Yucca mountain, but I do know that there are a number of real concerns in regards to fault lines and similar.
Real concerns? No...
There was a fault line discovered after the site was built. But it did not run under the storage facility. It an under a nearby area where waste was supposed to cool before storage. They moved this cooling area to avoid the fault line. There are earthquakes in the area, there are everywhere... Also keep in mind, the size of the seismic activity needed to harm the facility in any way would have to be so large that any hazardous waste leak that resulted from it would be more of an afterthought compared to the destruction from the quake itself.
yea, like soap with bacteria in it. :-)
Yogurt enema anyone?
What the NSA is doing to foreigners IS harming Americans. It's destroying our reputation, destroying our business contracts, and alienating the entire world. How would you feel if China or Russia developed some new technology that allowed them to listen to all of your phone calls and then they went about doing just that?
Just because something doesn't implicitly violate the constitution doesn't mean it's right and just. How many foreigners are you willing to sacrifice for your own safety? How many dictators are we going to install? People are we going to torture? Freedoms are we going to crush? The whole of the nightmare in the middle east right now is the fault of the united states. Every dictator in recent memory was a product of the CIA/NSA's attempts to secure the low price of oil. All the misery you see there now was to make it cheaper for you to get to work in the morning, not to protect you from "terrorists". We're murdering hundreds of thousands of people, men, women and children, all in some insane game of simcity, trying to fix the mess we created. At some point we need to just back away and let these people live their lives. WE are the problem. Not them. If some of their crazies manage to knock down a few of our buildings well... we deserve it.
After all, we were at war there.
No we're not. No war was ever declared and the majority of our troops have left. At best our troops are in an advisory role now. We're training and supporting the afghan military. Once again we invade a country under the pretense of protecting the innocent citizens of that country... but what we really end up doing is victimizing those very citizens. I wont even bother with "if it's legal"... our government clearly doesn't care... but it's immoral, unjust and completely ineffectual. Despite having every phone in the country tapped it took us how long to catch Bin Laden?
To explain further... metric expansion is the central premise of the big bang theory. SPACE is growing larger... the matter within it is not moving away from each other. (well they might be but that's not relevant) So if you and I were standing next to each other and not moving, the distance between us would still be growing. On small scales the effect isn't even measurable it's so small. But the effect increases with the more distance between us. When you get to galactic scales the effect is enormous. The speed of light limit is a result of the geometry of space-time. Think of it like a right triangle... you change one line, and that affects the angles and lengths of the others. Expansion is like changing the size and shape of the paper the triangle is drawn on.
Or at least that's always been my understanding. Physicists feel free to correct me. Time Cube guys, stay out of it. :-)
I recall reading somewhere - and I hope a historian can come along and correct this - that most modern settlements are at a significant elevation because they're on top of the middens and trash of all the previous settlers on that site. If we actually dug out the areas we currently stand on, we'd find all sorts of interesting trash.
Chicago is about 3' higher than it's supposed to be and juts out into the lake quite a ways because it's built on top the great fire of 1871. There are still a few buildings left from before the fire that sit significantly bellow street level. They look odd when driving through the area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
That's like 1/3902 libraries of congress!
If that was your only worry about opening a bar... Here in Montreal within a week you'll have your local thugs muscling in. No matter how upscale the neighborhood looks during the day. I used to work in Old Montreal when there was a broad daylight assassination on my street. The bar also had regular stabbings at night...
Yea, I have an uncle that ran a bar as well. Those guys tend to stop bothering you when you pull a 12guage out from under the counter. You can't do that in Montreal though I don't think.
FTFA:
Finally, a dozen passengers can enjoy a "tailor-made experience" in the VIP Room, which will cost an even €50,000 ($68,000) to book – all of those people will also get a watch and a flight suit.
and a 0G lap dance!
Gives a new meaning to Hurling Through Space...
Do they scrub it down between flight? Maybe not on discount flights. Mmmm will smell great...
Bring your cat...
That depends on how they design it. A while back I was going to start my own bar and when it came to the bathroom design I was going to have it tiled, floor, ceiling and walls. With shower heads in the ceiling and a central drain with an industrial garbage disposal in the floor. The plumber thought I was a genius when he quoted it(probably because it wasn't going to be cheap) but I eventually abandon the entire venture when I realized I'd be a hardcore alcoholic within 6 months if I went ahead with it.