As long as the cameras are in public places or with the approval of the owner of private garages, it is not illegal.
If I follow you around all day every day with a camera, recording your every move, I can and will be charged with something. Probably stalking or harassment.
$100 worth of batteries will cost several million dollars worth of fuel over the life of an aircraft. Plus a few hundred thousand for the added maintenance, testing, and engineering. It's not the unit cost of the equipment, it's the cost it takes to actually fly that equipment halfway around the world on a regular basis. There is a reason next day air shipping on a 50 lb box is a couple hundred dollars.
Yes, climate regulations will have to be forced, against large and extremely well funded resistance. It won't work, quite frankly. Not because of people like you who don't want to pay 10% more on their heating and cooling bill, but because of people like the Koch brothers who will happily spend tens of millions of dollars to protect their interests.
The voice search garbage that nobody uses makes it even worse.
Eh? Voice search is pretty much worthless, but the other stuff that comes with it is pretty nice. "Make an appointment for next thursday at 3pm: doctors appointment" is a lot easier than opening the calendar app and creating one by hand. If I have complaints with it, it's that it doesn't do enough thing (Why oh why can't I say: "call X on speakerphone"?).
are still moving at a high percentage of light-speed.
Except they're not, not even close. In fact, they seem to moving substantially slower than a high powered rifle round. And a gob of plasma in those dimensions would have a "mass" of something like a fraction of a milligram. You could still be delivering a substantial amount of energy through heat though.
As for sounds, if you really want an explantation the only commonly offered one that makes sense is that the ships simulate the sounds of nearby events to give the pilots an intuitive tactical awareness of what's going on around them. You'd absolutely still need a precise radar screen showing nearby fighters, but I see nothing inherently invalid with having the cockpit setup with 10.2 surround and making "pew pew" sound effects when someone is shooting at you.
He explicitly says "pay for the inches you watch". Furthermore, my current phone is 1080p, same as my TV. There are 4k phones in the works right now (despite the questionable quality gains). There are still movie theaters in my area that are limited to essentially 1080p. Pay per pixel does not produce the market that he is describing.
If we forgo execution to save an innocent man, but condemn two more to die, we have failed; it is necessary to accept our flaws and do what is necessary to save lives.
Nope. I'd rather a raving, murderous madman kills 2 innocent people than "the system" kills 1. To put it bluntly, the system represents me. I am, in some small way, responsible for it's actions. I am responsible for what I do and what is done in my name, I am not responsible for what a random murderer does.
The only "realistic" (and I use the term loosely) options other than rockets are: Space Elevator: We just don't have the materials technology to do this yet, and even if we did the costs would be astronomical. Launch Loop (or other kinetic energy structure): Might be possible with today's technology, but it would be fragile, error prone, delicate, etc. And if something goes wrong, you're not out a rocket, you're out your entire launch system. Space Gun: Acceleration forces are too high for manned flight. Space Plane: Probably doable, but the total lift capacity would be a fraction what a rocket can deliver. Skyhook: Maybe possible today but there's a lot of unknowns. Not to mention a single skyhook wouldn't be enough to replace our rocket capacity, you'd need several, possibly as many as a dozen. Laser propulsion: A ways off, and you'll have a lot of people concerned about you building a multi-megawatt laser installation. By definition if it can launch a rocket it can vaporize large amounts of metal in a mater of seconds. Orbital airship: Actually merits a chuckle to me but someone somewhere thinks is a possibility. No word on how you're going to stabilize and maintain pressure on a kilometer long hypersonic blimp. Orion Drive: Ok, I'm in. Just don't tell the environmentalists.
For the record, I agree with you. I'd like to see every one of these concepts receive real funding. But in the end rockets are always going to be part of the equation, at least for the next 100 years.
What you don't understand is how close we came to all the things the parent post was talking about, every time a game changing technology shows up funding gets cut, or an accident occurs, or it doesn't work quite as well as expected in the trials (but still pretty darn well) so it gets shelved as too risky. NASA had plans drawn up for nuclear powered rockets when the space age started winding down (to be clear, this would be a rocket using a nuclear pile to heat exhaust, the exhaust itself would be non-nuclear). They had plans for a round trip to Venus using the cleaned out fuel tanks for living space. They had plans to boost the expended shuttle external fuel tanks into low earth orbit and join them up to create a space station (a single fuel tank would more than double the living space of the ISS).
Then comes the host of long burn engine technologies that are only just leaving the lab and getting set to space: ion engines were invented decades before they were used in flight, VASMIR has been in development since the 90's, Aerospike engines almost as long. My point isn't that all these technologies would have worked out at the time, my point is that we didn't get them anything like enough funding to find out.
Move to the country, I had shop in high school available all the way from woodworking and drafting to metal working to engine repair. Granted, that was about 10 years ago, but so far as I know the classes are still offered (they were quite popular when I was there).
Yes, but the consumer could give Hulu permission to save, say 2 hours of content locally, and let Hulu guess what content the user will want later (with the option for the user request specific shows). If I watch 2 episodes of Futurama on the bus to work every day it won't take long for Hulu to figure that out and grab it over Wifi when available, falling back to 4g if it's guessed wrong or I do something unexpected. I won't be perfect but the worst case would be what we have now and the best case would be almost no mobile data usage.
Well then that would just be a silly decision. What's the legal justification for such a ruling? Other than "we don't like what Aereo's doing but we don't want to destroy the up and coming cloud industry" there isn't one.
If Aereo wins, the cable companies would be able to save money by erecting Aereo-style antenna arrays for their cable feeds, bypassing payments to the networks.
It's not just the antennae, Aereo keeps and transmits an individual copy of the show which owned specifically by the user requesting it. Unless Cable is going to set up a channel on the line for each and every subscriber, which can only be accessed by them and many of which will be duplications of each other, they don't have the same legal justification. Now, they could do it the same way Aereo does it, saving the shows for each customer and delivering it over an IP video stream, but they can't just broadcast it to all their subscribers as a single "channel".
The fact that it's cheaper to create thousands of antennae and record thousands of hours of duplicated content and then deliver it using internet bandwidth rather than paying a fee to the providers and doing a simple broadcast says a lot about whats wrong with the content industry.
I doubt it's significant but hey, math is fun so here we go!
They don't really say what the distribution of the impacts was at least not in a way that's easily accessed, statistically it's likely to be mostly smaller impacts but like I said, I doubt the answer will be significant so lets do an absolute worst case of 2 600 kiloton events every year. That makes 1200000 tons of TNT worth of energy every year. Google tells me 1 ton of TNT is equal to 4.18 gigajoules of energy so that comes out to 5*10^15 joules per year. That comes out to 1.4 megawatt hours. While large, it pales in comparison to the 143,000,000,000 megawatt hours that the human race uses every year (which in turn pales in comparison to the amount of energy the sun puts into the planet every year)
About 3% of the planets land area is considered "urban". Taking into account the oceans that makes for right around 1% of the total surface area of the planet. That means that any given year there's about a 2% chance of an asteroid explosion happening over a major population area. That means a 1/3 chance of a significant (greater than 1 kiloton) explosion over an urban area over a 50 year time span. That's not crazy high, and most of those will occur at high altitudes, but it's certainly not once in 5000 years.
I love how Apple has shown time and time again what the majority of customers want... except of course that the iPhone market share is a fraction what Android's is. And the mac market share is less than that of the much reviled Windows 8, not to mention about a fourth that of the no longer supported, 13 year old Windows XP. Apple doesn't know what the masses want, they know what a relatively small, though highly visible, affluent, influential group want.
Because he knowingly went out of his way to make copies of seeds that he knew were protected by patent law. I hate Monsanto's business strategy, more because I think it completely undermines the potential for genetically modified seeds than anything else. But the guy knew exactly what he was doing. Just because he did it with a field and a bottle of round up instead of a genetics lab doesn't change the facts.
This article feels like all those ads you see at the bottom of news stories that are disguised to look like related news. They all talk about how great things are in Detroit and how cheap the land and buildings are and how the economy is "booming". Is it sad that Slashdot has fallen so far that my suspicion meter is starting to move when I see articles like this?
It's been done several times in fact, though I don't know if it's ever really been a central plot line.
The Revelation Space series has shades of that, but it's mostly background information that doesn't come directly into play. The "Amerikano" generation ships that colonized nearby stars (often less than ideally inhabitable) which were massively outstripped once the "light huggers" which could make the trip in a few years subjective time.
The Sector General has something similar, though with FTL ships replacing the generation ships. I think they find one of the old ships drifting through space, the inhabitants all dead or nearly.
Slashdot Mirror
As long as the cameras are in public places or with the approval of the owner of private garages, it is not illegal.
If I follow you around all day every day with a camera, recording your every move, I can and will be charged with something. Probably stalking or harassment.
$100 worth of batteries will cost several million dollars worth of fuel over the life of an aircraft. Plus a few hundred thousand for the added maintenance, testing, and engineering. It's not the unit cost of the equipment, it's the cost it takes to actually fly that equipment halfway around the world on a regular basis. There is a reason next day air shipping on a 50 lb box is a couple hundred dollars.
I now have a mental image of Amish using elephants to farm and clear land.
Wait, so they want more of these industries to be cash based and perhaps un/under-report income tax???
Yes. That way they can come crashing down and get the businesses totally shut down instead of just economically neutered.
Yes, climate regulations will have to be forced, against large and extremely well funded resistance. It won't work, quite frankly. Not because of people like you who don't want to pay 10% more on their heating and cooling bill, but because of people like the Koch brothers who will happily spend tens of millions of dollars to protect their interests.
The voice search garbage that nobody uses makes it even worse.
Eh? Voice search is pretty much worthless, but the other stuff that comes with it is pretty nice. "Make an appointment for next thursday at 3pm: doctors appointment" is a lot easier than opening the calendar app and creating one by hand. If I have complaints with it, it's that it doesn't do enough thing (Why oh why can't I say: "call X on speakerphone"?).
are still moving at a high percentage of light-speed.
Except they're not, not even close. In fact, they seem to moving substantially slower than a high powered rifle round. And a gob of plasma in those dimensions would have a "mass" of something like a fraction of a milligram. You could still be delivering a substantial amount of energy through heat though.
As for sounds, if you really want an explantation the only commonly offered one that makes sense is that the ships simulate the sounds of nearby events to give the pilots an intuitive tactical awareness of what's going on around them. You'd absolutely still need a precise radar screen showing nearby fighters, but I see nothing inherently invalid with having the cockpit setup with 10.2 surround and making "pew pew" sound effects when someone is shooting at you.
He explicitly says "pay for the inches you watch". Furthermore, my current phone is 1080p, same as my TV. There are 4k phones in the works right now (despite the questionable quality gains). There are still movie theaters in my area that are limited to essentially 1080p. Pay per pixel does not produce the market that he is describing.
If we forgo execution to save an innocent man, but condemn two more to die, we have failed; it is necessary to accept our flaws and do what is necessary to save lives.
Nope. I'd rather a raving, murderous madman kills 2 innocent people than "the system" kills 1. To put it bluntly, the system represents me. I am, in some small way, responsible for it's actions. I am responsible for what I do and what is done in my name, I am not responsible for what a random murderer does.
And what, pray tell, causes the water to go downward?
The only "realistic" (and I use the term loosely) options other than rockets are:
Space Elevator: We just don't have the materials technology to do this yet, and even if we did the costs would be astronomical.
Launch Loop (or other kinetic energy structure): Might be possible with today's technology, but it would be fragile, error prone, delicate, etc. And if something goes wrong, you're not out a rocket, you're out your entire launch system.
Space Gun: Acceleration forces are too high for manned flight.
Space Plane: Probably doable, but the total lift capacity would be a fraction what a rocket can deliver.
Skyhook: Maybe possible today but there's a lot of unknowns. Not to mention a single skyhook wouldn't be enough to replace our rocket capacity, you'd need several, possibly as many as a dozen.
Laser propulsion: A ways off, and you'll have a lot of people concerned about you building a multi-megawatt laser installation. By definition if it can launch a rocket it can vaporize large amounts of metal in a mater of seconds.
Orbital airship: Actually merits a chuckle to me but someone somewhere thinks is a possibility. No word on how you're going to stabilize and maintain pressure on a kilometer long hypersonic blimp.
Orion Drive: Ok, I'm in. Just don't tell the environmentalists.
For the record, I agree with you. I'd like to see every one of these concepts receive real funding. But in the end rockets are always going to be part of the equation, at least for the next 100 years.
What you don't understand is how close we came to all the things the parent post was talking about, every time a game changing technology shows up funding gets cut, or an accident occurs, or it doesn't work quite as well as expected in the trials (but still pretty darn well) so it gets shelved as too risky. NASA had plans drawn up for nuclear powered rockets when the space age started winding down (to be clear, this would be a rocket using a nuclear pile to heat exhaust, the exhaust itself would be non-nuclear). They had plans for a round trip to Venus using the cleaned out fuel tanks for living space. They had plans to boost the expended shuttle external fuel tanks into low earth orbit and join them up to create a space station (a single fuel tank would more than double the living space of the ISS).
Then comes the host of long burn engine technologies that are only just leaving the lab and getting set to space: ion engines were invented decades before they were used in flight, VASMIR has been in development since the 90's, Aerospike engines almost as long. My point isn't that all these technologies would have worked out at the time, my point is that we didn't get them anything like enough funding to find out.
Move to the country, I had shop in high school available all the way from woodworking and drafting to metal working to engine repair. Granted, that was about 10 years ago, but so far as I know the classes are still offered (they were quite popular when I was there).
Yes, but the consumer could give Hulu permission to save, say 2 hours of content locally, and let Hulu guess what content the user will want later (with the option for the user request specific shows). If I watch 2 episodes of Futurama on the bus to work every day it won't take long for Hulu to figure that out and grab it over Wifi when available, falling back to 4g if it's guessed wrong or I do something unexpected. I won't be perfect but the worst case would be what we have now and the best case would be almost no mobile data usage.
Well then that would just be a silly decision. What's the legal justification for such a ruling? Other than "we don't like what Aereo's doing but we don't want to destroy the up and coming cloud industry" there isn't one.
If Aereo wins, the cable companies would be able to save money by erecting Aereo-style antenna arrays for their cable feeds, bypassing payments to the networks.
It's not just the antennae, Aereo keeps and transmits an individual copy of the show which owned specifically by the user requesting it. Unless Cable is going to set up a channel on the line for each and every subscriber, which can only be accessed by them and many of which will be duplications of each other, they don't have the same legal justification. Now, they could do it the same way Aereo does it, saving the shows for each customer and delivering it over an IP video stream, but they can't just broadcast it to all their subscribers as a single "channel".
The fact that it's cheaper to create thousands of antennae and record thousands of hours of duplicated content and then deliver it using internet bandwidth rather than paying a fee to the providers and doing a simple broadcast says a lot about whats wrong with the content industry.
I doubt it's significant but hey, math is fun so here we go!
They don't really say what the distribution of the impacts was at least not in a way that's easily accessed, statistically it's likely to be mostly smaller impacts but like I said, I doubt the answer will be significant so lets do an absolute worst case of 2 600 kiloton events every year. That makes 1200000 tons of TNT worth of energy every year. Google tells me 1 ton of TNT is equal to 4.18 gigajoules of energy so that comes out to 5*10^15 joules per year. That comes out to 1.4 megawatt hours. While large, it pales in comparison to the 143,000,000,000 megawatt hours that the human race uses every year (which in turn pales in comparison to the amount of energy the sun puts into the planet every year)
About 3% of the planets land area is considered "urban". Taking into account the oceans that makes for right around 1% of the total surface area of the planet. That means that any given year there's about a 2% chance of an asteroid explosion happening over a major population area. That means a 1/3 chance of a significant (greater than 1 kiloton) explosion over an urban area over a 50 year time span. That's not crazy high, and most of those will occur at high altitudes, but it's certainly not once in 5000 years.
I love how Apple has shown time and time again what the majority of customers want... except of course that the iPhone market share is a fraction what Android's is. And the mac market share is less than that of the much reviled Windows 8, not to mention about a fourth that of the no longer supported, 13 year old Windows XP. Apple doesn't know what the masses want, they know what a relatively small, though highly visible, affluent, influential group want.
The DMCA that didn't exist at the time...
They soft landed, that's a success whether they are recovered or not. You didn't expect them to stand upright in the water like a buoy did you?
Because he knowingly went out of his way to make copies of seeds that he knew were protected by patent law. I hate Monsanto's business strategy, more because I think it completely undermines the potential for genetically modified seeds than anything else. But the guy knew exactly what he was doing. Just because he did it with a field and a bottle of round up instead of a genetics lab doesn't change the facts.
Back in the day I played the heck out of my Nintendo Gamecube.
God I'm getting old.
This article feels like all those ads you see at the bottom of news stories that are disguised to look like related news. They all talk about how great things are in Detroit and how cheap the land and buildings are and how the economy is "booming". Is it sad that Slashdot has fallen so far that my suspicion meter is starting to move when I see articles like this?
It's been done several times in fact, though I don't know if it's ever really been a central plot line.
The Revelation Space series has shades of that, but it's mostly background information that doesn't come directly into play. The "Amerikano" generation ships that colonized nearby stars (often less than ideally inhabitable) which were massively outstripped once the "light huggers" which could make the trip in a few years subjective time.
The Sector General has something similar, though with FTL ships replacing the generation ships. I think they find one of the old ships drifting through space, the inhabitants all dead or nearly.