There are two differences between the arms dealing/swiss bank scenario and the naptser/seeland scenario:
Millions
publicity
If you have millions, and you don't want publicity, the Swiss banks will like your anus and call it candy. But Swiss banks don't want publicity - and napster relies on it. You're comparing a very private deal with a mass consumer product.
I think the idea is that the probes talk to each other using TCP/IP. What better way for projects developed by seperate governments desiring a high level of secrecy to cooperate?
I hope they come up with some good hostnames:) pathfinder.nasa.mars or scoperta.esa.mars... ?
I'm not trying to claim that civilisation as we know it will end without an IT industry, but if it weren't kinda important there wouldn't be a National Office for the Information Economy, would there?
My point was simply that regulation costs industry money. I know first hand that Ozemail have refused to run certain content for fear of litigation under the federal laws introduced last year. This is clearly making the industry uncompetitive on an international level and - although many US content providers haven't realised it - The Internet is an international media.
BTW, either you have a wild imagination or you fly a very nosey airline. I had to fill in some paperwork when I passed through customs in Singapore (October last year), but Singapore Airlines weren't about to throw me out of the plane before we landed:)
I migrated from Australia to Switzerland last year because of these laws. I had already moved my website to LA ( on dreamhost ) but the real reason wasn't my personal web site.
The harder the various Australian Governments push these absurd laws the futher behind the Australian IT industry is going to be. And when IT gets behind, the rest of the economy will follow.
Added bonus: salaries in Zurich are about 5x Sydney.
Some useful formulas:
(a) v = u+at
(b) d = u*t+(a*t^2)/2
solve (a) for t
t = (u-v)/a
but u = 0 so it becomes:
t = v/a
substitute into (b)
d = u*(v/a) + (a*(v/a)^2)/2
again u = 0, so:
d = (a*(v/a)^2)/2
with actual values:
d = (9.81*(1.9/9.81)^2)/2
d = 18 cm
Now take a look at it and try to imagine it being dropped from 25cm on Earth. Bear in mind that the surface of Eros is probably soft and sandy.
I think the bit I like best about this is that DirecTV managed to upgrade their software remotely without cuasing an interruption to the service. THAT was a ballsy thing to do before the Superbowl!
The most likely answer would seem to me to be that the mfg process *is* the movement. ie an arm starts building at the functional end, then finishes building at the attached end (which is where the power supply is?). This would mean that when the construction is complete the arm is already an armlength away.
I'm not so hot on the math here, but could it still be exponential if the movement were taken into account as part of the mfg process (simultaneous or not)?
Possibly because UI design is - because of it's nature - done by non-programmers.
You won't get a UI project off the ground without pretty screenshots, and the people who make pretty screenshots aren't usually the people who spend all night debugging a video driver.
What's more this is characteristic of OSS - people don't like applying themselves to other people's ideas, yet a UI designer is an ideas person. So OSS programmers prefer to build on Xwindows than to chase someone else's 3DUI dream.
Yes, I'm feeding stereotypes here, but most graphic designers (and UI designers) are lousy coders, and visa versa.
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Bob Mitchell said. "This might turn out to have no long-term consequences, but we want to better understand what happened before we proceed with using the wheels more."
Since when was usenet the world standard for information taxonomy?? What ICANN really ought to be doing here is creating a system based on the Library of Congress Classifications.
Let's get back to this idea that the internet is about information first, and business opportunities second.
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- Millions
- publicity
If you have millions, and you don't want publicity, the Swiss banks will like your anus and call it candy. But Swiss banks don't want publicity - and napster relies on it. You're comparing a very private deal with a mass consumer product.I think the idea is that the probes talk to each other using TCP/IP. What better way for projects developed by seperate governments desiring a high level of secrecy to cooperate?
:) pathfinder.nasa.mars or scoperta.esa.mars ... ?
I hope they come up with some good hostnames
Obviously SOHO is intended to be more than just a miner's canary - the observations give us warning, not the proximity.
Almost:
:)
8.50CHF (about $AUS9) for a VB
But my wap sony and my crusoe sony were cheap
I'm not trying to claim that civilisation as we know it will end without an IT industry, but if it weren't kinda important there wouldn't be a National Office for the Information Economy, would there?
:)
My point was simply that regulation costs industry money. I know first hand that Ozemail have refused to run certain content for fear of litigation under the federal laws introduced last year. This is clearly making the industry uncompetitive on an international level and - although many US content providers haven't realised it - The Internet is an international media.
BTW, either you have a wild imagination or you fly a very nosey airline. I had to fill in some paperwork when I passed through customs in Singapore (October last year), but Singapore Airlines weren't about to throw me out of the plane before we landed
Sit down and have a hard think about it.
I migrated from Australia to Switzerland last year because of these laws. I had already moved my website to LA ( on dreamhost ) but the real reason wasn't my personal web site.
The harder the various Australian Governments push these absurd laws the futher behind the Australian IT industry is going to be. And when IT gets behind, the rest of the economy will follow.
Added bonus: salaries in Zurich are about 5x Sydney.
I wanted to picture just how fast the collision would be so I did a bit of dusty highschool physics:
starting principles:
G(earth) = 9.81 ms-2
Near's impact speed = 1.9m/s m/s
Some useful formulas:
(a) v = u+at
(b) d = u*t+(a*t^2)/2
solve (a) for t
t = (u-v)/a
but u = 0 so it becomes:
t = v/a
substitute into (b)
d = u*(v/a) + (a*(v/a)^2)/2
again u = 0, so:
d = (a*(v/a)^2)/2
with actual values:
d = (9.81*(1.9/9.81)^2)/2
d = 18 cm
Now take a look at it and try to imagine it being dropped from 25cm on Earth. Bear in mind that the surface of Eros is probably soft and sandy.
Possible new recruits at DirecTV!
I think the bit I like best about this is that DirecTV managed to upgrade their software remotely without cuasing an interruption to the service. THAT was a ballsy thing to do before the Superbowl!
The most likely answer would seem to me to be that the mfg process *is* the movement. ie an arm starts building at the functional end, then finishes building at the attached end (which is where the power supply is?). This would mean that when the construction is complete the arm is already an armlength away.
I'm not so hot on the math here, but could it still be exponential if the movement were taken into account as part of the mfg process (simultaneous or not)?
2nd motor: (Tmfg + Tmovement)
3 + 4th motor: (Tmfg + Tmovement)
5 - 8th motor: (Tmfg + Tmovement)
- medical
- 3d rendering
- glass decoration
- personal transport
Personal transport would be the only idea likely to change the way people build cities (Jobs' quote).Take a closer look at the symbols - especially the 7 8 9 - they are quite close to modern arabic numbers.
If it's simply a new government you want to set up, it's probably cheaper and more comfortable to colonise Antartica.
:)
Fewer tourist dollars though
iarchitect.com may be the site you were thinking of. It was featured on slashdot early this year.
Possibly because UI design is - because of it's nature - done by non-programmers.
You won't get a UI project off the ground without pretty screenshots, and the people who make pretty screenshots aren't usually the people who spend all night debugging a video driver.
What's more this is characteristic of OSS - people don't like applying themselves to other people's ideas, yet a UI designer is an ideas person. So OSS programmers prefer to build on Xwindows than to chase someone else's 3DUI dream.
Yes, I'm feeding stereotypes here, but most graphic designers (and UI designers) are lousy coders, and visa versa.
WHAT??
Since when was usenet the world standard for information taxonomy?? What ICANN really ought to be doing here is creating a system based on the Library of Congress Classifications.
Let's get back to this idea that the internet is about information first, and business opportunities second.
Now we've got a milestone we can use to see if http://internettrafficreport.com/ actually works.
Hmmm... n o change yet...