Not by taking to the streets, by taking to the boardrooms (and courtrooms and congress chambers). In 20 years, the generation that grew up loathing the copyright moguls will be the ones making the decisions, and I'd be willing to bet that they'll make their decisions a little differently than the groups that are in charge now.
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Somewhat different, the man suffered from Locked-In Syndrome, which can look like a coma or vegetative state but is in fact different. Ussually people who are locked-in have control over their eye movements and blinking, but very little else. It is through eye movements that they can often communicate, abliet very slowly. One person, Jean-Dominique Bauby, was actually able to write a book about the experience of being locked in: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was later made into a movie of the same name. It's pretty clear that the episode of house was based on that man's experiences.
Not to mention that this has been the rule of most brokerage firms already, so much so that I was under the impression that it was a FINRA rule already. Solution? Don't put your place of business on your profile and don't talk about investments, not really that hard.
Yep, that's the gyst of it, but to really understand the details you need to know so much backstory that even after reading it 2 or 3 times I can't relate it. I'm modded funny above but I was only half joking, I understand the plot but would not be able to relate it to someone else. To approach a detailed summary, you need to have an understanding of:
-The Empire -The CHOAM -The Guild -How the three above fit together -The distribution of atomics throughout the empire -The Bene Gesserit and all that that implies especially:
-The Missionaria Protectiva, the story doesn't make sense without it
-The Genetic Memories
-Their search for the Kwisatz Haderach and what that is -The Fremen, especially difficult given their essentially Arabic culture, not one audiences are familiar with -The technology, especially
-Shields
-Las Guns
-Their rather explosive interactions -The spice and how the worms fit in with it (which may not have even been related in the first book come to think of it).
Screw Ender's Game, make Ender's Shadow (and yes I know the proposed movie was meant to be a combination of the two). Ender's Shadow is both more interesting and more emotional. More of it can be told on the ground rather than in space and you won't have to beat poeple over the head with the 'twist' so they know what's going on. Bean's story also follows the mono-myth much more strictly, which as a general rule produces more popular media. You don't have to worry about making the obviously psychopathic older brother turn into the benevolent dictator nor do you have to worry about the heavy handed religious messages about population control. Finally, Bean never loves the Buggers the way Ender does, eliminating the need to convince the audience to hate them and then love them all in a two hour time period.
Even then it would take massive changes for it to work in a cinematic setting, changes that the hardcore fans wouldn't agree with. You'd have to replace the battle room sequences with something done in gravity for one thing; there's just no way, even with modern CGI, to make those scenes believable. You'll also have to up the ages for all the characters, it just isn't possible to find the number quality child actors you'd need to populate the battle school.
I used to think that about the Lord of the Rings though, and somehow that managed to become one of the most successful set of movies ever. It's not that I don't agree with you, just that I for one have been proven wrong before. The sheer weight of the massive backstory and unusual technology, combined with the basis in Arabic and other non-western cultures make it hard to make a mainstream version of Dune that is at all true to the books.
Right now the motivation is tourism, but the real future is in mining. The estimated worth of a 1 mile diameter asteroid is around $20 trillion dollars. More if the asteroid contains water and volatiles that can be used to continue exploration and exploitation of the asteroid belt. The key there is 'exploitation'. When explorers wandered the wilderness of the America's don't forget that they also brought miners, traders, and settlers with them. That is where the future is, and I can only hope that an NEO is the unofficial new target for NASA.
There's $3 billion in the budget starting immediately to develope a heavy lift capability, considering that Ares V developement wasn't suposed to start for several years yet. Whatever solution they come up with should be delivered earlier than the Ares V would have been.
Assuming they follow a similar plan to the Android phones, I don't see a problem. I can install any software I want on my phone (Settings->Applications->Unknown Sources), including overwriting the operating system. There are certain kinds of programs that I agreed not to run when I signed up with my service provider, but that doesn't have anything to do with the device.
and there's certainly no technical reason why AMBs can't work
Sure there is. A dumb missile is always going to be a couple orders of magnitude cheaper to build than an interceptor. All the enemy has to do is keep firing until we run out of interceptors, or fire a volley with enough targets that we can't accurately track them, or saturate the radar installations with attacks until one finally gets through (a >90% success rate would be pretty incredible, and it only takes one well aimed missile to take out a target).
A missile defense system can only ever work against a limited number of incoming missiles, launched in a rather haphazard way; it's purposes are A) Limited attacks by rouge nations/generals/terrorists or B) Defense against a counter-attack after a major (nuclear) war has already been won.
Even if the mainstream media never covered it, the difference is still enormous. For one thing, you can still find those articles on the internet, something you wouldn't be able to do in China if it were the Chinese government. For another thing, the writers of those articles aren't arrested, kidnapped, torchured, killed, or harvested for organds. If you really don't see the difference... I don't even know what to say.
But you can't deny that desperation can lead to crime. If the expected payout is $75K a year and I expect to make $2K a year at a legal job, that's $73,000 against the risk of getting caught. That's a choice between living in a shack, eating whatever you can afford that week, or having everything you ever dreamed. If you could find work making $10k a year, the difference then becomes being comfortable enough to raise a family without worying about your children starving or having everything you ever wanted.
I'm certainly not saying don't punish the criminals. If someone shoplifts bread because their child is starving I can understand that and defend that, these people make the local equivilent of a million dollars and do so year after year; they know what they're doing is wrong and there is no moral recourse for it, they deserve to be punished. But there is a cost (risk) and a benifit to doing crime, upping the risk of getting caught should be only one side of a two edged sword. Giving people legal opportunities to support their family and meet their dreams needs to be the other side of it.
School is less than 50% about those education goals through, even ignoring the lack of science as a goal. The other 50% is about learning to socialize (with other children and adults); that includes learning how to deal with bullies, unfair teachers, members of the opposite sex, and fights among friends. It's also learning to deal with problems without parental help and dealing with soul-crushing failures. Not to mention learning the fact that different people of authority will expect wildly different things from them, what are they going to do if you, as their only teacher pre-college, are a micro-manager and their college professors aren't (or vice verse).
This isn't against you necessarily, I don't know anything about you or the social situation of your family and I don't pretend to, but I think we've all met home school kids at some point that simply didn't know how to do any of those things. That struggled to know what their teachers or bosses expected of them, had difficulty forming meaningful relationships, and couldn't deal with criticism or ideas that contradicted what they learned earlier in life.
What about when the order comes in for a wagon specialy designed for the purpose? China demands that they change their product in a way that everyone in the company has to recognize is unethical, but everyone just goes along with it and claims they're just following orders.
Didn't Accelerando have 'deuling' for corporations to settle disputes? Where the duel was a competition set up by the judge to determine which corporation was best for the economy. If I remember right the example in the book was which corp could set up the best trade agreement with the newly contacted aliens.
SETI assumes that aliens will be actively trying to be found, they look at the frequencies they do because they are either A) Fundemental values that are important to physics, B) Able to penetrate the interstellar medium well, or preferably C) both. I believe the most commonly inspected frequencies have something to do with the physical properties of Hydrogen, such that they would be discovered by a technological society and also penetrate interstellar gas well.
I believe there have been a few surveys done looking for mega-scale engineering projects, obviously they didn't find anything that couldn't be explained without little green men. SETI and Fermilab have both invested computing power into anylizing the results of the infrared surveys.
Did I miss something or is the summary just leaving something out? $400,000 to write a single takedown notice, which youtube complied to immediatly? Again, I haven't read the whole wall of text yet, but that seems like a very unreasonably number for that kind of service; you have to wonder if the cost would be less if they weren't expecting to recoup the fees from Universal.
Or they could just go outside for 10 minutes a day *gasp* without sunscreen. Crazy, I know (and not necissarily effective in certain latitudes during the winter) but it would solve the problem very easily, no changes needed.
Stack arrays of them on top of each other between the CPU and the heat sync. Even if the temperature gradient is tiny over each layer it will add up, and even 1000 of them would be less than a millimeter thick.
If their failure rate is high, they won't get very many launches before NASA says enough and stops buying from them. The best way to maximize profit is with more launches, launches that will only take place if certain safety requirements are met. In the meantime, you do realize that NASA gets paid to put commercial satellites into orbit right? And that they have a limited budget, tight time-tables, and various government offices breathing down their necks?
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Not by taking to the streets, by taking to the boardrooms (and courtrooms and congress chambers). In 20 years, the generation that grew up loathing the copyright moguls will be the ones making the decisions, and I'd be willing to bet that they'll make their decisions a little differently than the groups that are in charge now.
No no, that's on Rupert (er... wait, I'm mixing future histories aren't I?)
It looks like you're getting married, would you like to...
() Perform background check on your fiance
() Take out a loan to pay for the reception
() Invite Clippy... Please? I'm so lonely...
Somewhat different, the man suffered from Locked-In Syndrome, which can look like a coma or vegetative state but is in fact different. Ussually people who are locked-in have control over their eye movements and blinking, but very little else. It is through eye movements that they can often communicate, abliet very slowly. One person, Jean-Dominique Bauby, was actually able to write a book about the experience of being locked in: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was later made into a movie of the same name. It's pretty clear that the episode of house was based on that man's experiences.
Not to mention that this has been the rule of most brokerage firms already, so much so that I was under the impression that it was a FINRA rule already. Solution? Don't put your place of business on your profile and don't talk about investments, not really that hard.
Yep, that's the gyst of it, but to really understand the details you need to know so much backstory that even after reading it 2 or 3 times I can't relate it. I'm modded funny above but I was only half joking, I understand the plot but would not be able to relate it to someone else. To approach a detailed summary, you need to have an understanding of:
-The Empire
-The CHOAM
-The Guild
-How the three above fit together
-The distribution of atomics throughout the empire
-The Bene Gesserit and all that that implies especially:
-The Missionaria Protectiva, the story doesn't make sense without it
-The Genetic Memories
-Their search for the Kwisatz Haderach and what that is
-The Fremen, especially difficult given their essentially Arabic culture, not one audiences are familiar with
-The technology, especially
-Shields
-Las Guns
-Their rather explosive interactions
-The spice and how the worms fit in with it (which may not have even been related in the first book come to think of it).
Screw Ender's Game, make Ender's Shadow (and yes I know the proposed movie was meant to be a combination of the two). Ender's Shadow is both more interesting and more emotional. More of it can be told on the ground rather than in space and you won't have to beat poeple over the head with the 'twist' so they know what's going on. Bean's story also follows the mono-myth much more strictly, which as a general rule produces more popular media. You don't have to worry about making the obviously psychopathic older brother turn into the benevolent dictator nor do you have to worry about the heavy handed religious messages about population control. Finally, Bean never loves the Buggers the way Ender does, eliminating the need to convince the audience to hate them and then love them all in a two hour time period.
Even then it would take massive changes for it to work in a cinematic setting, changes that the hardcore fans wouldn't agree with. You'd have to replace the battle room sequences with something done in gravity for one thing; there's just no way, even with modern CGI, to make those scenes believable. You'll also have to up the ages for all the characters, it just isn't possible to find the number quality child actors you'd need to populate the battle school.
I used to think that about the Lord of the Rings though, and somehow that managed to become one of the most successful set of movies ever. It's not that I don't agree with you, just that I for one have been proven wrong before. The sheer weight of the massive backstory and unusual technology, combined with the basis in Arabic and other non-western cultures make it hard to make a mainstream version of Dune that is at all true to the books.
Hell, I've read all the original books (written by Frank himself) and I still don't think I could summarize the plot.
Right now the motivation is tourism, but the real future is in mining. The estimated worth of a 1 mile diameter asteroid is around $20 trillion dollars. More if the asteroid contains water and volatiles that can be used to continue exploration and exploitation of the asteroid belt. The key there is 'exploitation'. When explorers wandered the wilderness of the America's don't forget that they also brought miners, traders, and settlers with them. That is where the future is, and I can only hope that an NEO is the unofficial new target for NASA.
There's $3 billion in the budget starting immediately to develope a heavy lift capability, considering that Ares V developement wasn't suposed to start for several years yet. Whatever solution they come up with should be delivered earlier than the Ares V would have been.
Assuming they follow a similar plan to the Android phones, I don't see a problem. I can install any software I want on my phone (Settings->Applications->Unknown Sources), including overwriting the operating system. There are certain kinds of programs that I agreed not to run when I signed up with my service provider, but that doesn't have anything to do with the device.
and there's certainly no technical reason why AMBs can't work
Sure there is. A dumb missile is always going to be a couple orders of magnitude cheaper to build than an interceptor. All the enemy has to do is keep firing until we run out of interceptors, or fire a volley with enough targets that we can't accurately track them, or saturate the radar installations with attacks until one finally gets through (a >90% success rate would be pretty incredible, and it only takes one well aimed missile to take out a target).
A missile defense system can only ever work against a limited number of incoming missiles, launched in a rather haphazard way; it's purposes are A) Limited attacks by rouge nations/generals/terrorists or B) Defense against a counter-attack after a major (nuclear) war has already been won.
Even if the mainstream media never covered it, the difference is still enormous. For one thing, you can still find those articles on the internet, something you wouldn't be able to do in China if it were the Chinese government. For another thing, the writers of those articles aren't arrested, kidnapped, torchured, killed, or harvested for organds. If you really don't see the difference... I don't even know what to say.
But you can't deny that desperation can lead to crime. If the expected payout is $75K a year and I expect to make $2K a year at a legal job, that's $73,000 against the risk of getting caught. That's a choice between living in a shack, eating whatever you can afford that week, or having everything you ever dreamed. If you could find work making $10k a year, the difference then becomes being comfortable enough to raise a family without worying about your children starving or having everything you ever wanted.
I'm certainly not saying don't punish the criminals. If someone shoplifts bread because their child is starving I can understand that and defend that, these people make the local equivilent of a million dollars and do so year after year; they know what they're doing is wrong and there is no moral recourse for it, they deserve to be punished. But there is a cost (risk) and a benifit to doing crime, upping the risk of getting caught should be only one side of a two edged sword. Giving people legal opportunities to support their family and meet their dreams needs to be the other side of it.
School is less than 50% about those education goals through, even ignoring the lack of science as a goal. The other 50% is about learning to socialize (with other children and adults); that includes learning how to deal with bullies, unfair teachers, members of the opposite sex, and fights among friends. It's also learning to deal with problems without parental help and dealing with soul-crushing failures. Not to mention learning the fact that different people of authority will expect wildly different things from them, what are they going to do if you, as their only teacher pre-college, are a micro-manager and their college professors aren't (or vice verse).
This isn't against you necessarily, I don't know anything about you or the social situation of your family and I don't pretend to, but I think we've all met home school kids at some point that simply didn't know how to do any of those things. That struggled to know what their teachers or bosses expected of them, had difficulty forming meaningful relationships, and couldn't deal with criticism or ideas that contradicted what they learned earlier in life.
What about when the order comes in for a wagon specialy designed for the purpose? China demands that they change their product in a way that everyone in the company has to recognize is unethical, but everyone just goes along with it and claims they're just following orders.
Didn't Accelerando have 'deuling' for corporations to settle disputes? Where the duel was a competition set up by the judge to determine which corporation was best for the economy. If I remember right the example in the book was which corp could set up the best trade agreement with the newly contacted aliens.
Live sporting events and knowing the exact location of the nearest tornado, to name a couple.
Couldn't that be covered with a $10 antenna and, if necissary, a $30 converter box?
SETI assumes that aliens will be actively trying to be found, they look at the frequencies they do because they are either A) Fundemental values that are important to physics, B) Able to penetrate the interstellar medium well, or preferably C) both. I believe the most commonly inspected frequencies have something to do with the physical properties of Hydrogen, such that they would be discovered by a technological society and also penetrate interstellar gas well.
I believe there have been a few surveys done looking for mega-scale engineering projects, obviously they didn't find anything that couldn't be explained without little green men. SETI and Fermilab have both invested computing power into anylizing the results of the infrared surveys.
Did I miss something or is the summary just leaving something out? $400,000 to write a single takedown notice, which youtube complied to immediatly? Again, I haven't read the whole wall of text yet, but that seems like a very unreasonably number for that kind of service; you have to wonder if the cost would be less if they weren't expecting to recoup the fees from Universal.
Or they could just go outside for 10 minutes a day *gasp* without sunscreen. Crazy, I know (and not necissarily effective in certain latitudes during the winter) but it would solve the problem very easily, no changes needed.
Stack arrays of them on top of each other between the CPU and the heat sync. Even if the temperature gradient is tiny over each layer it will add up, and even 1000 of them would be less than a millimeter thick.
If their failure rate is high, they won't get very many launches before NASA says enough and stops buying from them. The best way to maximize profit is with more launches, launches that will only take place if certain safety requirements are met. In the meantime, you do realize that NASA gets paid to put commercial satellites into orbit right? And that they have a limited budget, tight time-tables, and various government offices breathing down their necks?
Because everyone wants to live right next to their local waste processing plant.