If you're thinking "ships taking off and landing", it's a problem, yes.
But scientists have found ways to think out of the box before. Who'd think of making gates underwater to control flooding, or floating platforms to generate power from tidal forces?
I'll come up with a crappy example. We use a crew that sits in a space station (like the ISS) with a permanently docked vehicle. They head out to place X to mine a needed mineral that justifies the cost (rare stuff... plutonium, etc.)
Now they need to get it to Earth. The Orbital Elevator has been a popular choice, but there's others. We could build the equivalent of a huge catchers mitt somewhere out in the desert - basically, coat the material that needs to be delivered in heat shielding and drop it in an orbit towards where we need it to go. I mean, if a rock the size of a tractor trailer impacts in the middle of nowhere, no big deal, right?
Now let's talk value. Let's say our miner dudes manage to get 30,000 kg of platinum. That is worth almost one BILLION dollars</DrEvil> - a hefty chunk of money that would more than justify the expense of people floatin' up there even if it took a couple of years to get it done.
I'm just poking around with imaginary numbers here, but if the resource is needed enough and in short supply, its value goes WAY up and missions like this become more and more worth the money.
1) What is your agenda?
2) Find data relating to that agenda.
3) Cite relevant reports on that agenda. People who don't read sources won't matter, but those who do can see reports from the *government* about it.
4) Advance cause.
5) ????
6) PROFIT
Hypothetical: They ditch their Office Licenses and replace Office with OpenOffice. They save $100,000/year. That $100,000 a year could be used to hire 15-20 techs part time around the year, who can work to ease the transition.
You employ 15 people (likely college students) and get rid of Office. Win/win.
I suppose I could just pull the live stream from a traffic cam (the video "monitoring the flow of traffic" kind, not the photograph "you ran a red light" kind) and have that as my desktop...
Can solar cells be recycled and reused? Since the material is so limited, they could eventually be used again after we run out.
We are limited *now*, but in 50 years we could have outer-space mining. Hell, we could have Virgin Orbital Waste Extraction where they just pluck old satellites out of Earth's orbital junkyard.
I was looking at SatPhones for a future camping trip (out in the boonies, no signal), and you can rent them from $25-$35 a week. A bit expensive, but it's easy to tell if you have signal. Can you see the sky? Yes? Then you have signal.
Perhaps they wanted to do what Apple did with OSX - mess up a lot of their legacy stuff, sure, but for greater benefit in the long run.
Honestly if it weren't for the "You have to release a new console whenever the competition does" thing, the PS3 could go for 5-7 years and still be fairly relevant.
Yes it is, without a prompt that you are not running the correct OS.
Would it really be so hard to detect the OS? And then churn out the message:
This file is for Windows Vista. You are using Windows XP. What would you like to do?
[ ] View all similar files for my operating system.
[ ] View all similar files for Vista.
[ ] View all similar files for all Windows operating systems.
[ ] Download the file anyway.
Please check all that apply. Each selection will open in a new tab.
No, it'd probably convince them to buy companies that can do shit like ESPN is doing and screw over their competition.
Who says Hulu has to make an offer? If Verizon offers them millions of dollars to only work exclusively with Verizon, who's to say Hulu wouldn't take it?
Well considering most of the laws in that place, it DOES have an appeal to some people. It's just like those Colonial re-enactment towns, except its more like going back in time to the Roaring 20s!
as I've been with them forever and have had the same email address since ethernet packets were made of steam and pigeons.
I would question the common sense of a Slashdotter who makes use of an e-mail address tied to his ISP.
I've had the offer to use one from my ISP (since I'm one of their customers, of course), but I always use external sources or ones based off of websites I own.
My inner geek wonders if there's a way to have several desktops of the same landscape with different weather and have it change based on the real weather pulled from AccuWeather.
I guess there's a downside to broadband proliferation.
"What?!" exclaim the people in the crowd...
10 years ago most sites that had fancy Flash crap had two options for loading pages: Hi Bandwidth and Low Bandwidth. Low Bandwidth had no Flash whatsoever. None! Even the ads were less annoying on many of these sites.
But now companies think everyone at least has DSL and use that as their standard... so there you go.
Slashdot Mirror
And that certainly helped you during the 8 years with W didn't it.
All those guns, but nobody could line up a shot.
Summon the lawyers
I'm out of mana! Does anyone have a potion?!
If you're thinking "ships taking off and landing", it's a problem, yes.
But scientists have found ways to think out of the box before. Who'd think of making gates underwater to control flooding, or floating platforms to generate power from tidal forces?
I'll come up with a crappy example. We use a crew that sits in a space station (like the ISS) with a permanently docked vehicle. They head out to place X to mine a needed mineral that justifies the cost (rare stuff... plutonium, etc.)
Now they need to get it to Earth. The Orbital Elevator has been a popular choice, but there's others. We could build the equivalent of a huge catchers mitt somewhere out in the desert - basically, coat the material that needs to be delivered in heat shielding and drop it in an orbit towards where we need it to go. I mean, if a rock the size of a tractor trailer impacts in the middle of nowhere, no big deal, right?
Now let's talk value. Let's say our miner dudes manage to get 30,000 kg of platinum. That is worth almost one BILLION dollars</DrEvil> - a hefty chunk of money that would more than justify the expense of people floatin' up there even if it took a couple of years to get it done.
I'm just poking around with imaginary numbers here, but if the resource is needed enough and in short supply, its value goes WAY up and missions like this become more and more worth the money.
No one has to.
1) What is your agenda?
2) Find data relating to that agenda.
3) Cite relevant reports on that agenda. People who don't read sources won't matter, but those who do can see reports from the *government* about it.
4) Advance cause.
5) ????
6) PROFIT
Hypothetical: They ditch their Office Licenses and replace Office with OpenOffice. They save $100,000/year. That $100,000 a year could be used to hire 15-20 techs part time around the year, who can work to ease the transition.
You employ 15 people (likely college students) and get rid of Office. Win/win.
I suppose I could just pull the live stream from a traffic cam (the video "monitoring the flow of traffic" kind, not the photograph "you ran a red light" kind) and have that as my desktop...
Can solar cells be recycled and reused? Since the material is so limited, they could eventually be used again after we run out.
We are limited *now*, but in 50 years we could have outer-space mining. Hell, we could have Virgin Orbital Waste Extraction where they just pluck old satellites out of Earth's orbital junkyard.
I was looking at SatPhones for a future camping trip (out in the boonies, no signal), and you can rent them from $25-$35 a week. A bit expensive, but it's easy to tell if you have signal. Can you see the sky? Yes? Then you have signal.
This was detailed on The Real Hustle.
I wonder if he gets any penalty on % chance to double click for dual wielding.
Honestly nowadays I think we need more of the Thomas-Paine-Muskets-And-Cannons Common Sense.
Perhaps they wanted to do what Apple did with OSX - mess up a lot of their legacy stuff, sure, but for greater benefit in the long run.
Honestly if it weren't for the "You have to release a new console whenever the competition does" thing, the PS3 could go for 5-7 years and still be fairly relevant.
Yes it is, without a prompt that you are not running the correct OS.
Would it really be so hard to detect the OS? And then churn out the message:
This file is for Windows Vista. You are using Windows XP. What would you like to do?
[ ] View all similar files for my operating system.
[ ] View all similar files for Vista.
[ ] View all similar files for all Windows operating systems.
[ ] Download the file anyway.
Please check all that apply. Each selection will open in a new tab.
No, it'd probably convince them to buy companies that can do shit like ESPN is doing and screw over their competition.
Who says Hulu has to make an offer? If Verizon offers them millions of dollars to only work exclusively with Verizon, who's to say Hulu wouldn't take it?
s/Hulu/$ANY_MAJOR_CONTENT_PROVIDER
Maybe they're too German (or not German enough)?
Utah is also 41st in population density. (Wow, Wikipedia really DOES have a list for everything.)
Crime is often hard to come by when there aren't many people around. This just in, undersea crime reduced by 1000% in the last ten years!
Well considering most of the laws in that place, it DOES have an appeal to some people. It's just like those Colonial re-enactment towns, except its more like going back in time to the Roaring 20s!
as I've been with them forever and have had the same email address since ethernet packets were made of steam and pigeons.
I would question the common sense of a Slashdotter who makes use of an e-mail address tied to his ISP.
I've had the offer to use one from my ISP (since I'm one of their customers, of course), but I always use external sources or ones based off of websites I own.
My inner geek wonders if there's a way to have several desktops of the same landscape with different weather and have it change based on the real weather pulled from AccuWeather.
you should consider boning up or getting out.
That's what she said!
Can you say that analogy again, but using cars?
If they're going to do this, I hope there's:
a) A way to cut the tether from the rover
b) The rover is much, much heavier than the climber
Otherwise, we're bound to hear about how the Stallone Climbing Probe slipped and dragged a rover worth millions of dollars over the side of a cliff.
I guess there's a downside to broadband proliferation.
"What?!" exclaim the people in the crowd...
10 years ago most sites that had fancy Flash crap had two options for loading pages: Hi Bandwidth and Low Bandwidth. Low Bandwidth had no Flash whatsoever. None! Even the ads were less annoying on many of these sites.
But now companies think everyone at least has DSL and use that as their standard... so there you go.
I wonder if NoScript works the same way that adblock does in regards to loading stuff?
Adblock still loads the ads, it just hides them, so you visiting still counts as a pageview. What about NoScript, though?
Who knew 00 Gundam would be so relevant to modern day international affairs?