In the book, "The Case for Mars" the author, also the creator of the Mars Direct Plan, argues skipping the moon all-together and go straight to Mars. This is because Mars is full of resources that could be used to make a self sustaining colony, whereas a Lunar base requires everything to come from Earth. Differences between a Lunar Base and the ISS? The Lunar base is on the Moon, and on the Moon you can do geology and astronomy particularly well; on ISS, there's not much useful science.
I'm not sure cruising to asteroids is the answer, but at least there are probably lots of interesting and diverse resources, and the missions could be made lightweight(no lander required). The geology of Asteroids is probably alot different than the Moon's because there was no volcanic past or differentiation. But my opinion is, cut to the chase, go to Mars, its the most interesting thing out there.
Maybe these planets are similar to Earth after the collision that resulted in the Moon. If so it would be incredibly useful for learning about the formation of the Earth and the Moon. as well as our geologic history.
As I recall there is some discussion in the original about Ix pushing the boundaries of when something is AI and when its not, Wikipedia is alright, a pocket calculator isn't. Dune Messiah has more in-depth conversations about the technology, and specifically names the Butlerian Jihad. Children of Dune I don't remember anything about AI. But in God Emperor, there are specific references to Leto remembering participants in the war, and he begins researching computer technology on Ix, which by the later books is standard use on military ships so they don't need navigators. And for the record, in the Anderson/Brian Herbert books, its the cyborgs who take over, then create the evil AI. Cyborgs lie like they are lawyers.
Creationist Interpretation : "God came up with something he liked, so he repeated his design; I mean it must have taken awhile to design millions of organisms, He must have recycled ideas somewhere"
Mass Effect's inventory system works pretty conveniently after about a half hour of getting to know what's going on. It is certainly better than KoTOR's . I hope they include party influence in ME2 like Obsidian put into KoTOR2. Mass Effect was probably the coolest and most innovative game I have played since KoTOR, since they both redefined the pinnacle of console gaming. Anybody who gets a chance to play Mass Effect should definitely play it, but be warned, playing Mass Effect will control your life as long as you are playing it.
My main agenda would be to promote personal responsibility. I would also promote states rights, I think alot of bureaucracy could be avoided by having more local control of things. One example for states being healthcare and on an even more local level education. A good policy in one part of the country is often not a good policy on the other side of the country. I'd work to remove federal control of most things, not unlike Ron Paul, I'm not a supporter of his, though I think he has the right philosophy. I'd then work on accomplishing goals to restore people's pride in America by promoting cutting edge science research, aiding developing countries and space exploration. I'd try to take a pragmatic approach to climate issues, trying to find more innovative solutions to climate issues than things like a carbon tax, for example spending money to reforest parts of America. Also, I'd try to simplify the tax code by either having a simpler graduated income tax, with less exemptions and lower percentages, or institute a consumption tax that is somehow graduated. In terms of Iraq and terrorism, I would try to accomplish specific goals and start to reduce US troop levels as soon as it was reasonable to do so, but certainly make sure that the country was stable first. For other threats to security, I'd follow Asimov "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", and try to use our might in more precise ways to achieve a desired goal, one scenario I could imagine is if things go bad in Iran, to simply use our air power to stop anything from entering the country, after a few weeks the country would run out of food and water, so the government would be overthrown, or change itself entirely to stop the blockade. But to sum it all up, basically promote responsibility and fairness,restore American pride, and focus on how to solve our problems without resorting to full-scale invasions.
I've always wondered what resolution would something need to be to be indistinguishable from reality. Clearly this is particular pixel density, I guess a simple experiment would be to play a dvd, and wait to see how far back you have to walk to make it indistinguishable from reality.
This is a big step for biotech, and I'm glad to see it, improving longevity and quality of life is a noble goal in science. I wonder when the development is complete, a machine organ replacements, or cellular organ replacements are the ones that better/more popular.
How long does it take till this spreads to all criminals, then slowly spreads into the population. The privacy issues are obvious, today dogs can get chips under their skin to help if they get lost, tomorrow the government may use them to find a "person of interest". Thats not to say there are not benefits to the idea. Namely, being able to tie personal identification to the chip (no more REAL ID), and being able to tie personal bank accounts to that chip as well. That's not to say its a good idea, but there are some positive impacts if applied to the whole population.
I went to CES a year ago, but all my work for the show was done before it opened. I then had the full 4 days to roam the show and see what I liked. The biggest flashiest booths at the show were Microsoft and Intel, right across from each other. I once heard "Hey when you're done with those quad-cores check out Vista!" Needless to say alot of the booths were useless, I mean at least 20 thousand square feet was devoted to big tv's, and the car audio floor was just fancy cars. The small company booths were fantastic with tons of new and interesting ideas and gadgets. The most satisfying part of the show was when I visited the Microsoft booth and waited until the Vista attendants went to the bathroom, and I grabbed 5 minutes on Vista and somehow managed to crash the system.
You're thinking of Plato's Republic, where he argues that the rulers ought to be trained from a young age to be rulers and that they not have any private ownership and the state provides whatever they need so that they can focus on ruling their nation the best way possible without any competing ambitions.
I'm glad that private institutions/individuals care about pure science and exploration enough to build this. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they licensed the telescope in order to turn it into a profit maker.
I like having Sega on third-party software, I'm happy to buy games from SEGA, but I'd never put down $400 for a console just to play those games as first-party titles. Besides, I enjoy Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
How does one qualify to be the "Copyright Czar" ? RIAA/MPAA lawyer extraordinaire? Divine Right? Crony? Generic Pain in the Ass? Recent recipient of "Biggest Douche in the Universe"?
Bush made the decision in wake of the Columbia accident based on the opinion of a safety panel. At the same time the Orion program was announced to replace it and to add the Moon and Mars missions. With half a percent of the federal budget, and NASA splitting that money among exploration, ISS work and environmental studies of Earth, theres not alot of money to throw at the Orion program to make it happen sooner. Without much money, there can't be as many engineers hired at once, so fewer engineers do the work over a longer period. But there is nothing that says the next president can't do whatever they want when it comes to NASA initiatives. They could say : "Alright, lets quadruple NASA Orion development" or just as easily "Lets take away all of NASA's money and put it to giving healthcare to the underprivileged", and I don't know where any candidate stands on those issues
I have a friend who is unfortunately a very big Microsoft fan. He has a Zune, an Xbox 360, Vista, and anything Microsoft possible. After IE7 comes out, we are hanging out and he asks: "Hey, I just got the new internet explorer, and I don't really like it that much, what do use?" He's used Firefox ever since.
I'm not surprised there's shortages in stores, and large amounts on eBay. The employees in the stores get first dibs on the consoles when they come in, so they buy up most of them and sell them on eBay for big profit. This is at least what my classmate who works at Best Buy during breaks told me.
Sounds good, I'm glad someone is actively trying to make the internet a safer place for people in general, as well as cleaning up search pages for people who can spot malware sites from the search engine. This is also good for Google, thanks to their fantastic business model: "the more people who use the internet on a regular basis, the more money we make".
Right to privacy is not a specific constitutional right. It is inferred from a couple different amendments,(3,4,10 I believe) so claiming that someone who is a strict constitutionalist would be big supporter of privacy would not work. That doesn't mean the right doesn't exist, but it does mean that it is open to more interpretation than other "rights". I always hate a "right to privacy" debate, because it doesn't have any sort of set definition.
My question here is what is wrong with the exclusivity of the iPhone? I don't know German/EU monopoly laws, but I don't think TMobile has enough market share to qualify as a monopoly anywhere. If not, I don't see what is really wrong here, I mean does Apple computer hardware in Germany have to be able to compatible with Windows? It looks like Vodafone wants a piece of the iPhone pie, and are using every legal action to limit the impact TMobile gets from it.
Thanks to all of the issues with Vista, its got a bad reputation. It requires a modern computer, yet most people are happy with what they have, and don't have any reason to migrate to Vista. I am actually extremely satisfied with Vista, but I got Vista Premium from my school, so I didn't pay directly for it. I also have a fairly beefed up computer (3 GB RAM). The problem isn't bugs or boot times, its running times, Vista is just about as fast on 3 GB RAM as when I has 1 GB RAM and was using XP. Now that I've gotten used to it, I like the way Vista does things. But again, people like me don't decide Vista's success, its people who went out and got a $600 computer 5 years ago, and have only known XP. What percentage of people who use a computer today ever used Windows 3.1? Windows 95 through XP are very similar in terms of operation. Vista is a fairly big shift, and getting millions of people who only understand one set of GUIs to change GUIs is an almost impossible task.
Exactly, has anyone played Mario galaxy? Point-set-match. Owning both Halo 3 and Galaxy, Galaxy is by far a superior game. Halo 3 is great, but is a stepped up Halo 2, and doesn't try to do anything new, I played it every night when it first came out, but now its down to a night per week or so, which is how much I was playing Halo 2 when Halo 3 came out. Anyways, Wii also has the fantastic quality of having a buzz about how cool it is. What does this mean? Its a magnet for getting girls to come to my dorm room. "Oh, you have a Wii, guy I met yesterday, we should get together and play that sometime." Its happened at least 6 times to me in the past year. The Wii get-together also makes a great follow-up date, because its laid back, fun, and is a good way to get to know someone.
America in that past 20 years has constantly been making policy based on trying to be a good guy, and that just pisses people off because that's such a holier than thou attitude about things. If American policy was "If you want the internet, Russians/European Union folks, do something about it besides whining", it would make people upset in the short run, but if this was always policy, our true allies (not-Russia) would be happier because they benefited more. To quote Thucydides: "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must." No state maintains a status of power when it is willing to surrender authority to other states.
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In the book, "The Case for Mars" the author, also the creator of the Mars Direct Plan, argues skipping the moon all-together and go straight to Mars. This is because Mars is full of resources that could be used to make a self sustaining colony, whereas a Lunar base requires everything to come from Earth. Differences between a Lunar Base and the ISS? The Lunar base is on the Moon, and on the Moon you can do geology and astronomy particularly well; on ISS, there's not much useful science.
I'm not sure cruising to asteroids is the answer, but at least there are probably lots of interesting and diverse resources, and the missions could be made lightweight(no lander required). The geology of Asteroids is probably alot different than the Moon's because there was no volcanic past or differentiation. But my opinion is, cut to the chase, go to Mars, its the most interesting thing out there.
Maybe these planets are similar to Earth after the collision that resulted in the Moon. If so it would be incredibly useful for learning about the formation of the Earth and the Moon. as well as our geologic history.
As I recall there is some discussion in the original about Ix pushing the boundaries of when something is AI and when its not, Wikipedia is alright, a pocket calculator isn't. Dune Messiah has more in-depth conversations about the technology, and specifically names the Butlerian Jihad. Children of Dune I don't remember anything about AI. But in God Emperor, there are specific references to Leto remembering participants in the war, and he begins researching computer technology on Ix, which by the later books is standard use on military ships so they don't need navigators. And for the record, in the Anderson/Brian Herbert books, its the cyborgs who take over, then create the evil AI. Cyborgs lie like they are lawyers.
Creationist Interpretation : "God came up with something he liked, so he repeated his design; I mean it must have taken awhile to design millions of organisms, He must have recycled ideas somewhere"
Mass Effect's inventory system works pretty conveniently after about a half hour of getting to know what's going on. It is certainly better than KoTOR's . I hope they include party influence in ME2 like Obsidian put into KoTOR2. Mass Effect was probably the coolest and most innovative game I have played since KoTOR, since they both redefined the pinnacle of console gaming. Anybody who gets a chance to play Mass Effect should definitely play it, but be warned, playing Mass Effect will control your life as long as you are playing it.
My main agenda would be to promote personal responsibility. I would also promote states rights, I think alot of bureaucracy could be avoided by having more local control of things. One example for states being healthcare and on an even more local level education. A good policy in one part of the country is often not a good policy on the other side of the country. I'd work to remove federal control of most things, not unlike Ron Paul, I'm not a supporter of his, though I think he has the right philosophy. I'd then work on accomplishing goals to restore people's pride in America by promoting cutting edge science research, aiding developing countries and space exploration. I'd try to take a pragmatic approach to climate issues, trying to find more innovative solutions to climate issues than things like a carbon tax, for example spending money to reforest parts of America. Also, I'd try to simplify the tax code by either having a simpler graduated income tax, with less exemptions and lower percentages, or institute a consumption tax that is somehow graduated. In terms of Iraq and terrorism, I would try to accomplish specific goals and start to reduce US troop levels as soon as it was reasonable to do so, but certainly make sure that the country was stable first. For other threats to security, I'd follow Asimov "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", and try to use our might in more precise ways to achieve a desired goal, one scenario I could imagine is if things go bad in Iran, to simply use our air power to stop anything from entering the country, after a few weeks the country would run out of food and water, so the government would be overthrown, or change itself entirely to stop the blockade. But to sum it all up, basically promote responsibility and fairness,restore American pride, and focus on how to solve our problems without resorting to full-scale invasions.
I've always wondered what resolution would something need to be to be indistinguishable from reality. Clearly this is particular pixel density, I guess a simple experiment would be to play a dvd, and wait to see how far back you have to walk to make it indistinguishable from reality.
This is a big step for biotech, and I'm glad to see it, improving longevity and quality of life is a noble goal in science. I wonder when the development is complete, a machine organ replacements, or cellular organ replacements are the ones that better/more popular.
How long does it take till this spreads to all criminals, then slowly spreads into the population. The privacy issues are obvious, today dogs can get chips under their skin to help if they get lost, tomorrow the government may use them to find a "person of interest". Thats not to say there are not benefits to the idea. Namely, being able to tie personal identification to the chip (no more REAL ID), and being able to tie personal bank accounts to that chip as well. That's not to say its a good idea, but there are some positive impacts if applied to the whole population.
I went to CES a year ago, but all my work for the show was done before it opened. I then had the full 4 days to roam the show and see what I liked. The biggest flashiest booths at the show were Microsoft and Intel, right across from each other. I once heard "Hey when you're done with those quad-cores check out Vista!" Needless to say alot of the booths were useless, I mean at least 20 thousand square feet was devoted to big tv's, and the car audio floor was just fancy cars. The small company booths were fantastic with tons of new and interesting ideas and gadgets. The most satisfying part of the show was when I visited the Microsoft booth and waited until the Vista attendants went to the bathroom, and I grabbed 5 minutes on Vista and somehow managed to crash the system.
You're thinking of Plato's Republic, where he argues that the rulers ought to be trained from a young age to be rulers and that they not have any private ownership and the state provides whatever they need so that they can focus on ruling their nation the best way possible without any competing ambitions.
I'm glad that private institutions/individuals care about pure science and exploration enough to build this. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they licensed the telescope in order to turn it into a profit maker.
I like having Sega on third-party software, I'm happy to buy games from SEGA, but I'd never put down $400 for a console just to play those games as first-party titles. Besides, I enjoy Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
How does one qualify to be the "Copyright Czar" ? RIAA/MPAA lawyer extraordinaire? Divine Right? Crony? Generic Pain in the Ass? Recent recipient of "Biggest Douche in the Universe"?
Maybe they were exposed 13,000 years ago and got dusted by meteorites?
Bush made the decision in wake of the Columbia accident based on the opinion of a safety panel. At the same time the Orion program was announced to replace it and to add the Moon and Mars missions. With half a percent of the federal budget, and NASA splitting that money among exploration, ISS work and environmental studies of Earth, theres not alot of money to throw at the Orion program to make it happen sooner. Without much money, there can't be as many engineers hired at once, so fewer engineers do the work over a longer period. But there is nothing that says the next president can't do whatever they want when it comes to NASA initiatives. They could say : "Alright, lets quadruple NASA Orion development" or just as easily "Lets take away all of NASA's money and put it to giving healthcare to the underprivileged", and I don't know where any candidate stands on those issues
I have a friend who is unfortunately a very big Microsoft fan. He has a Zune, an Xbox 360, Vista, and anything Microsoft possible. After IE7 comes out, we are hanging out and he asks: "Hey, I just got the new internet explorer, and I don't really like it that much, what do use?" He's used Firefox ever since.
I'm not surprised there's shortages in stores, and large amounts on eBay. The employees in the stores get first dibs on the consoles when they come in, so they buy up most of them and sell them on eBay for big profit. This is at least what my classmate who works at Best Buy during breaks told me.
Sounds good, I'm glad someone is actively trying to make the internet a safer place for people in general, as well as cleaning up search pages for people who can spot malware sites from the search engine. This is also good for Google, thanks to their fantastic business model: "the more people who use the internet on a regular basis, the more money we make".
Right to privacy is not a specific constitutional right. It is inferred from a couple different amendments,(3,4,10 I believe) so claiming that someone who is a strict constitutionalist would be big supporter of privacy would not work. That doesn't mean the right doesn't exist, but it does mean that it is open to more interpretation than other "rights". I always hate a "right to privacy" debate, because it doesn't have any sort of set definition.
Here's hoping it works, the less controversial science is the more likely projects will get funded for it. Just look at cloning in the US.
My question here is what is wrong with the exclusivity of the iPhone? I don't know German/EU monopoly laws, but I don't think TMobile has enough market share to qualify as a monopoly anywhere. If not, I don't see what is really wrong here, I mean does Apple computer hardware in Germany have to be able to compatible with Windows? It looks like Vodafone wants a piece of the iPhone pie, and are using every legal action to limit the impact TMobile gets from it.
Thanks to all of the issues with Vista, its got a bad reputation. It requires a modern computer, yet most people are happy with what they have, and don't have any reason to migrate to Vista. I am actually extremely satisfied with Vista, but I got Vista Premium from my school, so I didn't pay directly for it. I also have a fairly beefed up computer (3 GB RAM). The problem isn't bugs or boot times, its running times, Vista is just about as fast on 3 GB RAM as when I has 1 GB RAM and was using XP. Now that I've gotten used to it, I like the way Vista does things. But again, people like me don't decide Vista's success, its people who went out and got a $600 computer 5 years ago, and have only known XP. What percentage of people who use a computer today ever used Windows 3.1? Windows 95 through XP are very similar in terms of operation. Vista is a fairly big shift, and getting millions of people who only understand one set of GUIs to change GUIs is an almost impossible task.
Exactly, has anyone played Mario galaxy? Point-set-match. Owning both Halo 3 and Galaxy, Galaxy is by far a superior game. Halo 3 is great, but is a stepped up Halo 2, and doesn't try to do anything new, I played it every night when it first came out, but now its down to a night per week or so, which is how much I was playing Halo 2 when Halo 3 came out. Anyways, Wii also has the fantastic quality of having a buzz about how cool it is. What does this mean? Its a magnet for getting girls to come to my dorm room. "Oh, you have a Wii, guy I met yesterday, we should get together and play that sometime." Its happened at least 6 times to me in the past year. The Wii get-together also makes a great follow-up date, because its laid back, fun, and is a good way to get to know someone.
America in that past 20 years has constantly been making policy based on trying to be a good guy, and that just pisses people off because that's such a holier than thou attitude about things. If American policy was "If you want the internet, Russians/European Union folks, do something about it besides whining", it would make people upset in the short run, but if this was always policy, our true allies (not-Russia) would be happier because they benefited more. To quote Thucydides: "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must." No state maintains a status of power when it is willing to surrender authority to other states.