It's now almost 3 years since a private company got a human into space. These are the guys who said NASA didn't have the right stuff and private startups were the future. Where are those private startups now?
In 2003 everyone said get rid of the space shuttle. It was too dangerous. Build a new launch vehicle.
Then the Earth science projects started getting cancelled. People started losing their jobs. It was time to bring global warming back. Now we suddenly needed those earth science projects. Those low Earth orbit projects the Clinton beurocrats said weren't doing anything for us actually were doing everything for us.
Then came new medicare entitlements, new social security entitlements. NASA's 2007 appropriations got cancelled in favor of new medicare bills. Now the Ares vehicles are on hold. The space shuttle is back. It's now seen as a victim of Dubya's stupidity. Flakey tiles, flakey boosters, and flakey managers are here to stay.
In 100 years, after all the Earthlings kill themselves off and China colonizes Mars, there won't be a single living being who still believes the moon landings ever happened. The doubts would just grow in number. The media, empowered by Digg brain implants that disable independant thought, would declare the moon landings a hoax.
There would be no way to prove otherwise, not only because humans would be incapable of independant thought outside Digg, but because China would have destroyed the moon in retaliation for Condoleeza questioning human rights violations.
As in many other things, it's now common to prove things by disproving everything else. Now by disproving the existence of any water on the surface, they're convinced of a huge storehouse of water underground.
Sony isn't working on a dual format player. To fully implement HDDVD and BD in today's cost structure would require rebooting the player every time you changed formats. The emphasis is on reducing the cost of manufacturing the player by reducing front panel buttons, and fixing bugs in the current player.
Terrorists will figure out that the weapon isn't lethal. They'll learn to ignore the pain. They'll end up killing more of u.s.. Politicians will call the use of non lethal ray guns an attack on Islam. Voters will insist on electing democrats to pull out of Iraq, but instead be handed tax increases and more entitlement programs. Hillary will blow herself up on Air Force One to protest the war, taking out vice president Dean. Nancy Pelosi will become president.
And all because you made a pitch for a crummy microwave gun.
Sounds like a heard of sheep. Do they blindly rush out to test every idea like that? You'd think the cloud of evaporated urine, Lysol, grease, and Ramen created by heating it would be more harmful than rinsing it.
The nice thing about google video was that it worked and it was simple. You could resize the video arbitrarily. Unfortunately simplicity and functionality doesn't make money.
Isn't this the 3rd year these startups have been pitching supercapacitors? The first one was in San Diego. In exchange for a super sized check, they gave you a 5F capacitor that supported up to 1V and recharged 100 times before it died. Still nothing new to report here.
The "electric car revolution" is a funny thing. As soon as you cross the Sunol grade, all the hybrids, vegetable oil, methane, ethanol, corn starch, soybean powered cars disappear and you're back in giant SUV land.
They're already testing BD+ compatibility and preparing firmware updates for the set-top boxes in BD world headquarters. There will be no more Cyberlink support.
BD+ isn't a technology. All BD+ is, is an exception in the warranty that lets them disable customer's hard earned products without getting sued. Cyberlink knew the risk in basing a business on software players and they lost.
They'll find out as we have in consumer electronics, it's a lot of different companies with incompatible needs stepping on each other that makes stuff not work. The standards process just encapsulates the incompatible needs in a wrapper and creates new jobs for standards VP's.
You end up with most of the budget spent on reimplementing thousands of requirements because each member mandated each requirement for your inclusion in the consortium, not because you needed every thousandth component.
Always thought the single pixel idea would be more practical in a reflector telescope. Such a telescope could have a much higher dynamic range than any other telescope due to the extra money available for the pixel. The telescope would use the Earth's rotation to scan one axis and servos to scan the other axis.
Remember when this all started and China kept saying, "No, we don't want to destroy satellites." and all the pundits kept saying "George Bush is a war monger! China means us no harm." Suspect this is going to end the same way Iraq ended, with the nieve Americans wishing for peace, getting blown away by foreign superpowers, and politicians conveniently turning it around by saying, "This is what you get for being sick capitalist bastards."
Better get used to watching Serenity over and over because you're not likely to see any more movies released with PowerDVD keys. That takes care of software players for HDDVD and there will definitely be no software players for Blu-Ray.
After the land, the biggest cost in building a house is the building materials. Labor is a tiny fraction. House building machines have been around for 100 years.
In the war between fancy new products and astronomy, the fancy new products always win. Only 7 days after the prime observing time, thousands of iPhone headlines, 24 hour Steve Jobless coverage, and Pirates of Silicon Valley marathons, did a small blurb appear about the brightest comet in 10 years having come and gone.
Amazing how with the most advanced communication technology and the ability for everyone to know everything, we are still victims of the most basic human desire to idolize the few strong leaders at the expense of everything else.
Originally they said it would be very faint. It wasn't until 7 days after the prime observing time that the news managed to cut through the iPhone noise, but by then it was too late.
It was invisible to the naked eye on Saturday. Only after greatly amplifying the frames in software did the comet emerge. It probably won't be visible after Sunday.
30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds, 10 to 12 metre waves, undersea cables that always break. Isn't there some other country they could be writing software in that doesn't have all these problems?
US wasn't metric because the building materials they dealt with were too big for cm but too small for m.
Today building materials measured in inches and feet are no longer affordable in dollars. They're going to start buying smaller building materials and that's going to be the turning point for metric.
Despite claims to the contrary by a startup which says they'll have it working by June, there's no evidence of Java on this phone. Based on the trouble they're having getting Java to work on Blu-Ray, it would be surprising if Java ever worked well enough on iPhone for the Jobless Man to permit it.
More amazing than the lack of Java is the lack of interest in the subject. It's like unless Steve mentions it, people automatically discount it on their own.
Companies like IBM normally require employees to file patents to keep their jobs, no matter how trivial they are. Now they're going to war against their own employees for filing trivial patents. What did they think was going to happen? Going to war against your own employees sounds like something an American company would do.
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You wanted a corporate hero you could idolise and devote your life to. Now you have to put up with whatever your corporate guru wants you to know.
It's now almost 3 years since a private company got a human into space. These are the guys who said NASA didn't have the right stuff and private startups were the future. Where are those private startups now?
In 2003 everyone said get rid of the space shuttle. It was too dangerous. Build a new launch vehicle.
Then the Earth science projects started getting cancelled. People started losing their jobs. It was time to bring global warming back. Now we suddenly needed those earth science projects. Those low Earth orbit projects the Clinton beurocrats said weren't doing anything for us actually were doing everything for us.
Then came new medicare entitlements, new social security entitlements. NASA's 2007 appropriations got cancelled in favor of new medicare bills. Now the Ares vehicles are on hold. The space shuttle is back. It's now seen as a victim of Dubya's stupidity. Flakey tiles, flakey boosters, and flakey managers are here to stay.
In 100 years, after all the Earthlings kill themselves off and China colonizes Mars, there won't be a single living being who still believes the moon landings ever happened. The doubts would just grow in number. The media, empowered by Digg brain implants that disable independant thought, would declare the moon landings a hoax.
There would be no way to prove otherwise, not only because humans would be incapable of independant thought outside Digg, but because China would have destroyed the moon in retaliation for Condoleeza questioning human rights violations.
As in many other things, it's now common to prove things by disproving everything else. Now by disproving the existence of any water on the surface, they're convinced of a huge storehouse of water underground.
Sony isn't working on a dual format player. To fully implement HDDVD and BD in today's cost structure would require rebooting the player every time you changed formats. The emphasis is on reducing the cost of manufacturing the player by reducing front panel buttons, and fixing bugs in the current player.
Terrorists will figure out that the weapon isn't lethal. They'll learn to ignore the pain. They'll end up killing more of u.s.. Politicians will call the use of non lethal ray guns an attack on Islam. Voters will insist on electing democrats to pull out of Iraq, but instead be handed tax increases and more entitlement programs. Hillary will blow herself up on Air Force One to protest the war, taking out vice president Dean. Nancy Pelosi will become president.
And all because you made a pitch for a crummy microwave gun.
> sent people hurrying to test the idea this week
Sounds like a heard of sheep. Do they blindly rush out to test every idea like that? You'd think the cloud of evaporated urine, Lysol, grease, and Ramen created by heating it would be more harmful than rinsing it.
The nice thing about google video was that it worked and it was simple. You could resize the video arbitrarily. Unfortunately simplicity and functionality doesn't make money.
Isn't this the 3rd year these startups have been pitching supercapacitors? The first one was in San Diego. In exchange for a super sized check, they gave you a 5F capacitor that supported up to 1V and recharged 100 times before it died. Still nothing new to report here.
The "electric car revolution" is a funny thing. As soon as you cross the Sunol grade, all the hybrids, vegetable oil, methane, ethanol, corn starch, soybean powered cars disappear and you're back in giant SUV land.
They're already testing BD+ compatibility and preparing firmware updates for the set-top boxes in BD world headquarters. There will be no more Cyberlink support.
BD+ isn't a technology. All BD+ is, is an exception in the warranty that lets them disable customer's hard earned products without getting sued. Cyberlink knew the risk in basing a business on software players and they lost.
They'll find out as we have in consumer electronics, it's a lot of different companies with incompatible needs stepping on each other that makes stuff not work. The standards process just encapsulates the incompatible needs in a wrapper and creates new jobs for standards VP's.
You end up with most of the budget spent on reimplementing thousands of requirements because each member mandated each requirement for your inclusion in the consortium, not because you needed every thousandth component.
Everyone loves Jim Cramer because he's a celebrity, be he's the biggest stock pumper of all.
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says it fragmented into hundreds of pieces, effectively denying anyone else access to that orbit.
Always thought the single pixel idea would be more practical in a reflector telescope. Such a telescope could have a much higher dynamic range than any other telescope due to the extra money available for the pixel. The telescope would use the Earth's rotation to scan one axis and servos to scan the other axis.
Remember when this all started and China kept saying, "No, we don't want to destroy satellites." and all the pundits kept saying "George Bush is a war monger! China means us no harm." Suspect this is going to end the same way Iraq ended, with the nieve Americans wishing for peace, getting blown away by foreign superpowers, and politicians conveniently turning it around by saying, "This is what you get for being sick capitalist bastards."
Better get used to watching Serenity over and over because you're not likely to see any more movies released with PowerDVD keys. That takes care of software players for HDDVD and there will definitely be no software players for Blu-Ray.
After the land, the biggest cost in building a house is the building materials. Labor is a tiny fraction. House building machines have been around for 100 years.
In the war between fancy new products and astronomy, the fancy new products always win. Only 7 days after the prime observing time, thousands of iPhone headlines, 24 hour Steve Jobless coverage, and Pirates of Silicon Valley marathons, did a small blurb appear about the brightest comet in 10 years having come and gone.
Amazing how with the most advanced communication technology and the ability for everyone to know everything, we are still victims of the most basic human desire to idolize the few strong leaders at the expense of everything else.
Originally they said it would be very faint. It wasn't until 7 days after the prime observing time that the news managed to cut through the iPhone noise, but by then it was too late.
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It was invisible to the naked eye on Saturday. Only after greatly amplifying the frames in software did the comet emerge. It probably won't be visible after Sunday.
Threw some photos of the comet on http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=11514
and made a movie of it right until it was 50 pixels above the horizon. The movie may get uploaded if there's any interest.
30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds, 10 to 12 metre waves, undersea cables that always break. Isn't there some other country they could be writing software in that doesn't have all these problems?
US wasn't metric because the building materials they dealt with were too big for cm but too small for m.
Today building materials measured in inches and feet are no longer affordable in dollars. They're going to start buying smaller building materials and that's going to be the turning point for metric.
If AACS works like they said it would, the compromised software player won't be supported anymore, leaving 999,999 more keys still uncracked.
Despite claims to the contrary by a startup which says they'll have it working by June, there's no evidence of Java on this phone. Based on the trouble they're having getting Java to work on Blu-Ray, it would be surprising if Java ever worked well enough on iPhone for the Jobless Man to permit it.
More amazing than the lack of Java is the lack of interest in the subject. It's like unless Steve mentions it, people automatically discount it on their own.
Companies like IBM normally require employees to file patents to keep their jobs, no matter how trivial they are. Now they're going to war against their own employees for filing trivial patents. What did they think was going to happen? Going to war against your own employees sounds like something an American company would do.