Don't know about that! I live in Ohio and the last lingering part of Ike took down a maple in my front yard! Broke it in half, and it was a widowmaker, as it was leaning on another tree and didn't fall all the way down! Those cost a bit extra to get taken care of!
Most, if not all, present day satellites do not have fuel tanks that are made to be refueled, a lot have tanks that aren't even accessible from the exterior. They are going to have to come up with some kind of a way to put a hole in a tank, that doesn't put metal shaving inside, and install a refueling port that is perfectly sealed to the tank for this to be able to work. Might have to wait for the next gen of satellites before starting this service. Though NASA being NASA, they have pulled off some amazing things in the past, duct tape and CO2 removal canisters comes to mind!
Their past strategy insures that business will continue to use a Microsoft OS as long as they need access to their legacy documents exactly as they were created. With their purposely none standard formats Microsoft has effectively locked in anyone that doesn't want to spend massive amounts of time and money to insure that all documents converted to a different format are actually as they were created. They don't have to be Good, and they don't care if they are liked are not, because they have your balls in a vise!
They have another way to get free DRM Free ebooks also, All the CDs that were included with the hard back books are available for download either as an ISO file or as individual titles at http://baencd.freedoors.org/ There are a lot of good books there!
Not Stellar, but deserves much better than he has gotten. He writes some really enjoyable SF, if on the Racy side! His stuff is only available in eBook formats form various places, but his website http://www.abintrapress.com/ has a deal for 33 of his books for $30.00. His 3rd World Products series is like eating pistachios, very hard to quit after the first one!
My Phone is a Phone! Still hanging on to my old flip phone that fits in the bottom of my shirt pocket sideways, it is used to make phone calls, I also have a Bluetooth headset for driving on long trips! If I want to haul around something that doesn't fit in my pocket, I have a netbook for that! eReader fits in either rear pocket in Jeans or inside jacket pocket and the charge lasts over a week of intense reading, so don't need to read on a phone that is going to go dead before the day is over! I don't text, so no keyboard needed either! So no use for a tablet, If I am at home, there is a computer that does all that, If I am out and about, I don't carry a briefcase, messenger bag, purse or anything else a tablet would fit in, unless I am on a trip then the afore mentioned netbook goes with me, and since I have that, why would I need a tablet or a humongous phone!
There are a few ways you can mess up with Thermal paste, but THIS is Sony we are talking about, if it is possible to get it wrong, they are the ones to do it! Memory Stick anyone!
If they can make it usable at a lower cost and still run Angry Birds and Netflix and be halfway decently secure, they should have a winner, as long as they can get the rest of the must have apps people want!
I'm Pretty sure that most of the objects in the Solar System are not in the shadow of another object more than a minuscule portion of the time! So what didn't show on the first pic will show on the next, unless time between pics coincidently coincides with the orbital periodicity of the object, the probablitity of this continuing for a long period of time is vanishingly small! Now a very low albedo on the other hand, will make it hard to see some things!
I would think that it would also help track down just about everything in the Solar system, when using successive pictures of the same portion of the sky in a "Blinker" box or whatever they use in place of that now. Dark matter is all fine and dandy, but the location and trajectory of Asteroids and comets are of a different degree of importance!
We have enough water in the oceans that we won't miss the tiddly bit used for fuel, especially when most of it will fall back to earth as rain anyhow! As to the rest of your rant! Nothing can be recycled 100%, you are going to have to add a bit now and then to make up the difference! One fair sized nickle-iron asteroid contains more iron than man has mined in his whole existence, to say nothing of Carbonaceous Chondrites, Hydrocarbons from Jupiter and Saturn systems and Water and volatiles from Comets! The resources ON Earth are a drop in the bucket to what is in the rest of the Solar System! Oil running out? WE can take the Hydrocarbon, water and Solar Energy and make enough to drop on your head so you can really ruin the earth forever! Alternatively we can build the solar power satellites and beam down clean power that will let you only have to worry about the waste heat from your vehicles, etc. The problem is right now we are spending your Capital (Finite Resources of Earth) instead of investing it in a way that will insure our future with access to the almost unlimited resources of the Solar System!
What are they going to find on a rock in space that is not already available on THIS rock in space?
A whole lot of useful material that you don't have to lift into orbit! The original Post got it wrong! Why ship the stuff down to earth, unless it is something extremely rare and expensive, and also something you don't need in orbit! Just use the material to build your Ships and Space Stations and power satellites! Heck of a lot cheaper than lifting it into orbit first!
That is not the only problem you get with massive extraction of fossil water! Checkout the problems around Las Vegas, where due to the pumping they have land subsidence ruining whole neighborhood, cracking roads, shifting foundations, etc.
Might be enough for a re-forestation project large enough to flip the climate back to Savannah, that is if they could keep them from using the trees for firewood and the goats from eating the bark long enough for it to have an effect!
One thing that we could foresee is that it would make solar power viable on a large scale. It would solve the problem of transmission from large scale solar power sources in ideal locations, like the Sahara to their point of use in the rest of the world!
The Atari 1040ST had its operating system on eproms, I have yet to see a computer virus that came eiqipped to erase and reprogram an eprom, it takes UV light to erase one! eeproms on the other hand are vulnerable to exploits! Of course TOS was quite small compared to modern OSes!
Totally agree! Someone should take a good look at evidence of the Pre-Columbian civilizations that existed in the Americas before imported diseases wiped out major parts of the population.
Did anyone else notice that? How long till they have the cap down to 1GB if they keep knocking 5% off each month? No matter how much they reduce usage, there will still be a top 5% to complain about and throttle!
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Speaking of Publishers. The only ones I know of that seems to be doing it right is Baen! They have been doing ebooks for quite a while, do not use DRM, have a free library where readers can get hooked on the start of any one of a number of series that their authors turn out, are bringing new authors into the field, Hopefully they will continue to flourish as they have most of my favorite authors in their stable!
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I second that, though my reader of choice is the Sony Reader! You just can't beat E-ink display for a read anywhere you could read a paper book experience! Nice thing about the Sony is I can also have my family picture display as a slideshow to bore people with, and listen to my music with a head set while reading, though that does shorten battery life quite a bit, otherwise I charge less than once a week! Figured by the Kindle and Nook method it will last at least a month!
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Don't know about that! I live in Ohio and the last lingering part of Ike took down a maple in my front yard! Broke it in half, and it was a widowmaker, as it was leaning on another tree and didn't fall all the way down! Those cost a bit extra to get taken care of!
Most, if not all, present day satellites do not have fuel tanks that are made to be refueled, a lot have tanks that aren't even accessible from the exterior. They are going to have to come up with some kind of a way to put a hole in a tank, that doesn't put metal shaving inside, and install a refueling port that is perfectly sealed to the tank for this to be able to work. Might have to wait for the next gen of satellites before starting this service. Though NASA being NASA, they have pulled off some amazing things in the past, duct tape and CO2 removal canisters comes to mind!
Their past strategy insures that business will continue to use a Microsoft OS as long as they need access to their legacy documents exactly as they were created. With their purposely none standard formats Microsoft has effectively locked in anyone that doesn't want to spend massive amounts of time and money to insure that all documents converted to a different format are actually as they were created. They don't have to be Good, and they don't care if they are liked are not, because they have your balls in a vise!
They have another way to get free DRM Free ebooks also, All the CDs that were included with the hard back books are available for download either as an ISO file or as individual titles at http://baencd.freedoors.org/ There are a lot of good books there!
Not Stellar, but deserves much better than he has gotten. He writes some really enjoyable SF, if on the Racy side! His stuff is only available in eBook formats form various places, but his website http://www.abintrapress.com/ has a deal for 33 of his books for $30.00. His 3rd World Products series is like eating pistachios, very hard to quit after the first one!
I have to agree, that was a great series to read! As I sit here, I can see the whole series sitting on the shelf! I plan to re-read it pretty soon!
If I remember rightly Kilgore Trout was a Philip José Farmer pen name for his book Venus on the Half Shell.
My Phone is a Phone! Still hanging on to my old flip phone that fits in the bottom of my shirt pocket sideways, it is used to make phone calls, I also have a Bluetooth headset for driving on long trips! If I want to haul around something that doesn't fit in my pocket, I have a netbook for that! eReader fits in either rear pocket in Jeans or inside jacket pocket and the charge lasts over a week of intense reading, so don't need to read on a phone that is going to go dead before the day is over! I don't text, so no keyboard needed either! So no use for a tablet, If I am at home, there is a computer that does all that, If I am out and about, I don't carry a briefcase, messenger bag, purse or anything else a tablet would fit in, unless I am on a trip then the afore mentioned netbook goes with me, and since I have that, why would I need a tablet or a humongous phone!
There are a few ways you can mess up with Thermal paste, but THIS is Sony we are talking about, if it is possible to get it wrong, they are the ones to do it! Memory Stick anyone!
If they can make it usable at a lower cost and still run Angry Birds and Netflix and be halfway decently secure, they should have a winner, as long as they can get the rest of the must have apps people want!
I'm Pretty sure that most of the objects in the Solar System are not in the shadow of another object more than a minuscule portion of the time! So what didn't show on the first pic will show on the next, unless time between pics coincidently coincides with the orbital periodicity of the object, the probablitity of this continuing for a long period of time is vanishingly small! Now a very low albedo on the other hand, will make it hard to see some things!
I would think that it would also help track down just about everything in the Solar system, when using successive pictures of the same portion of the sky in a "Blinker" box or whatever they use in place of that now. Dark matter is all fine and dandy, but the location and trajectory of Asteroids and comets are of a different degree of importance!
We have enough water in the oceans that we won't miss the tiddly bit used for fuel, especially when most of it will fall back to earth as rain anyhow! As to the rest of your rant! Nothing can be recycled 100%, you are going to have to add a bit now and then to make up the difference! One fair sized nickle-iron asteroid contains more iron than man has mined in his whole existence, to say nothing of Carbonaceous Chondrites, Hydrocarbons from Jupiter and Saturn systems and Water and volatiles from Comets! The resources ON Earth are a drop in the bucket to what is in the rest of the Solar System! Oil running out? WE can take the Hydrocarbon, water and Solar Energy and make enough to drop on your head so you can really ruin the earth forever! Alternatively we can build the solar power satellites and beam down clean power that will let you only have to worry about the waste heat from your vehicles, etc. The problem is right now we are spending your Capital (Finite Resources of Earth) instead of investing it in a way that will insure our future with access to the almost unlimited resources of the Solar System!
What are they going to find on a rock in space that is not already available on THIS rock in space? A whole lot of useful material that you don't have to lift into orbit! The original Post got it wrong! Why ship the stuff down to earth, unless it is something extremely rare and expensive, and also something you don't need in orbit! Just use the material to build your Ships and Space Stations and power satellites! Heck of a lot cheaper than lifting it into orbit first!
That is not the only problem you get with massive extraction of fossil water! Checkout the problems around Las Vegas, where due to the pumping they have land subsidence ruining whole neighborhood, cracking roads, shifting foundations, etc.
Might be enough for a re-forestation project large enough to flip the climate back to Savannah, that is if they could keep them from using the trees for firewood and the goats from eating the bark long enough for it to have an effect!
One thing that we could foresee is that it would make solar power viable on a large scale. It would solve the problem of transmission from large scale solar power sources in ideal locations, like the Sahara to their point of use in the rest of the world!
The Atari 1040ST had its operating system on eproms, I have yet to see a computer virus that came eiqipped to erase and reprogram an eprom, it takes UV light to erase one! eeproms on the other hand are vulnerable to exploits! Of course TOS was quite small compared to modern OSes!
Totally agree! Someone should take a good look at evidence of the Pre-Columbian civilizations that existed in the Americas before imported diseases wiped out major parts of the population.
Did anyone else notice that? How long till they have the cap down to 1GB if they keep knocking 5% off each month? No matter how much they reduce usage, there will still be a top 5% to complain about and throttle!
Speaking of Publishers. The only ones I know of that seems to be doing it right is Baen! They have been doing ebooks for quite a while, do not use DRM, have a free library where readers can get hooked on the start of any one of a number of series that their authors turn out, are bringing new authors into the field, Hopefully they will continue to flourish as they have most of my favorite authors in their stable!
I second that, though my reader of choice is the Sony Reader! You just can't beat E-ink display for a read anywhere you could read a paper book experience! Nice thing about the Sony is I can also have my family picture display as a slideshow to bore people with, and listen to my music with a head set while reading, though that does shorten battery life quite a bit, otherwise I charge less than once a week! Figured by the Kindle and Nook method it will last at least a month!
Well, they are getting better! The Japanese version makes Soylent Green look appetizing by comparison! Talk about a literal shit sandwich!!
I either have to stay up later or get up much earlier! That was the first thought that came into my mind! This would be great for the LACs!
Right, except for those like Cory Doctorow, that release their work under creative Commons and for Publication for profit at the same time!