Out of curiosity, why was the parent modded funny? If such an economic colapse was to happen then this is genuinly good advice but I suppose that most people don't even want to consider the possibility of it coming to be, much less being prepared for it...
In order to maintain airspeed velocity, a manned SP2S would need to beat its wings 43 times every second, am I right?
In related news AeroVironment has announced that they will be dividing their SP2S project into two branches, one to follow more stationary targets and the other to track people traveling over large distances. The more stationary version will be known as the African Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare Air Vehicle System (ASP2S) and its migratory cousin with be known as the European SP2S or ESP2S.
While I agree with you, lets look at a different tool and problem, shall we? In China
it's illegal for a doctor to reveal the sex of a fetus. While at first you may think this is absurd, you must realize that in many cases a male heir is valued over a female and with the one child law many parents would instantly abort until they got their heir. Obviously the social troubles that this could result in wouldn't be easy to deal with.
In this case I find the solution (though I doubt it works all the time) to this problem to be quite adequate even though it's the mentality of the people that's the original problem, and to go back to the original topic, just because Google isn't the one at fault doesn't mean that they should ignore it.
The voters, too. Someone keeps electing these morons.
You know, while I understand why government officials (particularly the ones higher up) are referred to as morons and the like, I think it's far more likely that they're well aware that they're dishonest with the public and serve themselves and come across as idiots because of their tangled web of lies which really doesn't matter that much once you consider how easy it is to sway public opinion with propaganda.
Of course, given that the great majority of candidates are self-serving (morons) to begin with it's not surprising that people like this get elected. Oh well, I guess I'll just find a less-restrictive place to live when things become too oppressive for me =).
This is unlike we in the USA who have to be mindful of what the world will think about our actions.
I don't know about that, the US government (at least the highest levels of it) seemed quite willing to turn a blind eye to all the protests against the invasion of a sovereign country, torture, invasions of privacy and who knows what else from both domestic sources and foreign without any trouble.
If we're going to use nuclear power, why use small nuclear power plants to drill for oil, instead of using it directly? Isn't this the worst of both worlds?
Perhaps because the potential gains were calculated and are considerably greater than just using the reactors for power? Don't forget that the ever-increasing price of oil is probably only going to make this venture even more profitable.
3) xkcd isn't a such a good comic. Yes, I get the references, but merely referencing things your audience is familiar with is a cheap excuse for humor.
Now they just need to bring the price down where I can afford it - a $50 35mm camera is still the cheaper option.
That depends on how much film you plan to get developed over the lifetime of your camera. I was using 35mm film for a while but ended up saving quite a bit after making the intial investment to go digital. Also worth noting is that my skill in taking pictures definitely went up as I could immediately see the results.
Why don't you try modding your camera for IR yourself? On a hot day these things can supposedly see through clothing... though it's a pretty damn sleazy (and probably illegal) thing to do;-)
Olympus needs to focus on battery life. With flash on, my Olympus camera gets about three shots per charge on a new battery.
It's possible your battery is just old or a defect but if you tried framing your pictures by using the peephole and turn off the screen, you'd definitely get more pictures from each charge.
There is a growing perception that touch means touch - using your finger. Using an inert stylus (like Windows Mobile devices) is a very poor second. But having to use a special purpose magnetic stylus is a FAIL.
I disagree. If I'm able to replace both my textbooks and take notes in this device with a stylus I'd stop having to bring both books and a notebook to campus everyday. It'd be even better if it had handwriting recognition and let me write equations all in the same file. In fact, once I get all those features at a reasonable price I think I'll invest in a new epaper gadget, though I may have to wait a while.
This is probably off topic but I get the feeling that had the parent AC had the user name Newyorkcountrylawyer the comment would've been modded to +5 in no time. It'd be interesting to see if the users that are consistently modded up (sometimes for simply agreeing or confirming opinions) ever experiment to see whether their comments get modded as high when posting as mere ACs.
Actually, the major problem with the US is distance.
Japan is the size of California, France is 4/5th the size of Texas (size of France / size of Texas).
We've spread out- look at the cities of Asia and Europe- fairly tight; but they too have the same problem of broadband out in the country side.
That said, there still is no excuse for the crappy service that we live with, and the competition should be encouraged by ending excursively.
I've got one word for you: Sweden
They've got a lower population density and faster connections.
People may feel like the pod they're currently in is "theirs". And we've seen what people do in their own cars and how they can treat them: eating, smoking, littering, f#%&ing, you name it. Then consider also what people do in/on city buses and subway systems. After a pod has been in service for the first 48 hours, will it be clean/sanitary enough that others will want to use it?
I imagine that there's a simple solution to this, for the food and vandelism you could identify the culprits with the payment method (like a rechargeable card that linked to your ID) combined with videocameras. The cameras would also prevent most people from having sex in them if the videos are played on TV like they do in Spain;-). Of course, the thing I dislike about this is "they" could find out exactly when and where you go any time you use this service.
Five years. It's always five years.
Tomorrow would be nice for once.
OK, I'll do it! Just this morning I discovered an almost entirely free way to build a solar cell with an efficiency over 80%! But as I'm exhausted from all my hard work (it took me a few hours to get the construction right) I'll post the instructions on Wikileaks sometime tomorrow and everyone will be able to have access to much cheaper energy. Have a nice day!
You cannot take them away, citizen, non-citizen, good guy, bad guy.
Inalienable.
Liberty was an inalienable right once... long ago...
Oh that's an easy one to get around, the government just needs to redefine "human" and then everything they've been doing will be back in the green;-).
Name an alternative medicine and it almost certainly HAS been looked into and debunked. These people are True Believers. They don't let pesky things like scientific dismissal of their ideas get in their way.
I like the way you use the word 'scientific' as if it's the ender of all doubt for rational people and anyone that questions it isn't. Scientific method in itself is great but that doesn't mean that the people using it are.
Overall I have a lot of faith in science but when there are multi billion-dollar markets involved like the one pharmaceutical companies are in, there tend to be some less than scrupulous people around and as a result it wouldn't surprise me if results are skewed for the sole purpose of maintaining their hold on the market. Put simply, if someone managed to make a pill that could cure everything, do you really think that they'd sell it?
Now before someone jumps on my back, I'm not saying that it necessarily happens or that there aren't good people that really want to help, I just think it's worth considering other options (even if you end up discarding them) and where it is that other people's interests lie... though I admit that it sometimes takes a long time to reach any conclusions on what it is I believe;-)
Repeat after me: The plural of anecdote is NOT data.
I never claimed it was, I just meant that it's worth looking into before completely dismissing herbal medicines. Feel free to misinterpret my comment however you want.
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A good example of this is chiropracty. those doctors know a lot more about muscle skeletle injury diagnosis that the orthopedic surgeons I have been to. But they also then reccomend all kinds of crazy cures like aroma therapy and magnets. SO the quality of their patient asseement skills gets tossed out with the bathwater of their bullshit cures.
I agree that there are a lot of quacks that are in it for the money, but when I was in China my friend with a slipped disk was having some serious back pains and went to a doctor of Chinese medicine. After a fire-cupping and drinking herbal teas for a week he helt much better.
When having to choose between monsanto and microsoft as the supreme example of an outright criminal corporation it's a tough choice.
I don't know about you but when it comes to corporate monopolies I mind a lot more when it's food having less genetic variety compared to one company's OS being run on every computer; and then there are the dominant terminator seeds that spread to neighboring fields so that regular crops can no longer be grown... at least there's no virus on my Mac that uninstalls OSX and replaces it with Vista.
So I suppose that while *some* of their actions are similar, the bigger criminal is easily Monsanto.
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What's with the troll moderation on the GP? He/she was making a joke.
Out of curiosity, why was the parent modded funny? If such an economic colapse was to happen then this is genuinly good advice but I suppose that most people don't even want to consider the possibility of it coming to be, much less being prepared for it...
Or maybe it was a joke and I just missed it?
A 450 gram, 29-inch wing span, battery powered vehicle ISN'T MANNED???? WTF?
Sweet babby Jebus!
In order to maintain airspeed velocity, a manned SP2S would need to beat its wings 43 times every second, am I right?
In related news AeroVironment has announced that they will be dividing their SP2S project into two branches, one to follow more stationary targets and the other to track people traveling over large distances. The more stationary version will be known as the African Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare Air Vehicle System (ASP2S) and its migratory cousin with be known as the European SP2S or ESP2S.
it's the prejudices of these japanese people
While I agree with you, lets look at a different tool and problem, shall we? In China it's illegal for a doctor to reveal the sex of a fetus. While at first you may think this is absurd, you must realize that in many cases a male heir is valued over a female and with the one child law many parents would instantly abort until they got their heir. Obviously the social troubles that this could result in wouldn't be easy to deal with.
In this case I find the solution (though I doubt it works all the time) to this problem to be quite adequate even though it's the mentality of the people that's the original problem, and to go back to the original topic, just because Google isn't the one at fault doesn't mean that they should ignore it.
The voters, too. Someone keeps electing these morons.
You know, while I understand why government officials (particularly the ones higher up) are referred to as morons and the like, I think it's far more likely that they're well aware that they're dishonest with the public and serve themselves and come across as idiots because of their tangled web of lies which really doesn't matter that much once you consider how easy it is to sway public opinion with propaganda.
Of course, given that the great majority of candidates are self-serving (morons) to begin with it's not surprising that people like this get elected. Oh well, I guess I'll just find a less-restrictive place to live when things become too oppressive for me =).
This is unlike we in the USA who have to be mindful of what the world will think about our actions.
I don't know about that, the US government (at least the highest levels of it) seemed quite willing to turn a blind eye to all the protests against the invasion of a sovereign country, torture, invasions of privacy and who knows what else from both domestic sources and foreign without any trouble.
Pot and kettle indeed.
If we're going to use nuclear power, why use small nuclear power plants to drill for oil, instead of using it directly? Isn't this the worst of both worlds?
Perhaps because the potential gains were calculated and are considerably greater than just using the reactors for power? Don't forget that the ever-increasing price of oil is probably only going to make this venture even more profitable.
3) xkcd isn't a such a good comic. Yes, I get the references, but merely referencing things your audience is familiar with is a cheap excuse for humor.
I fart in your general direction!
Now they just need to bring the price down where I can afford it - a $50 35mm camera is still the cheaper option.
That depends on how much film you plan to get developed over the lifetime of your camera. I was using 35mm film for a while but ended up saving quite a bit after making the intial investment to go digital. Also worth noting is that my skill in taking pictures definitely went up as I could immediately see the results.
Why don't you try modding your camera for IR yourself? On a hot day these things can supposedly see through clothing... though it's a pretty damn sleazy (and probably illegal) thing to do ;-)
Olympus needs to focus on battery life. With flash on, my Olympus camera gets about three shots per charge on a new battery.
It's possible your battery is just old or a defect but if you tried framing your pictures by using the peephole and turn off the screen, you'd definitely get more pictures from each charge.
There is a growing perception that touch means touch - using your finger. Using an inert stylus (like Windows Mobile devices) is a very poor second. But having to use a special purpose magnetic stylus is a FAIL.
I disagree. If I'm able to replace both my textbooks and take notes in this device with a stylus I'd stop having to bring both books and a notebook to campus everyday. It'd be even better if it had handwriting recognition and let me write equations all in the same file. In fact, once I get all those features at a reasonable price I think I'll invest in a new epaper gadget, though I may have to wait a while.
This is probably off topic but I get the feeling that had the parent AC had the user name Newyorkcountrylawyer the comment would've been modded to +5 in no time. It'd be interesting to see if the users that are consistently modded up (sometimes for simply agreeing or confirming opinions) ever experiment to see whether their comments get modded as high when posting as mere ACs.
Just a thought I wanted to share.
What kind of geek are you? Just make a project out of it ;-)
Actually, the major problem with the US is distance. Japan is the size of California, France is 4/5th the size of Texas (size of France / size of Texas). We've spread out- look at the cities of Asia and Europe- fairly tight; but they too have the same problem of broadband out in the country side.
That said, there still is no excuse for the crappy service that we live with, and the competition should be encouraged by ending excursively.
I've got one word for you: Sweden
They've got a lower population density and faster connections.
People may feel like the pod they're currently in is "theirs". And we've seen what people do in their own cars and how they can treat them: eating, smoking, littering, f#%&ing, you name it. Then consider also what people do in/on city buses and subway systems. After a pod has been in service for the first 48 hours, will it be clean/sanitary enough that others will want to use it?
I imagine that there's a simple solution to this, for the food and vandelism you could identify the culprits with the payment method (like a rechargeable card that linked to your ID) combined with videocameras. The cameras would also prevent most people from having sex in them if the videos are played on TV like they do in Spain ;-). Of course, the thing I dislike about this is "they" could find out exactly when and where you go any time you use this service.
Five years. It's always five years. Tomorrow would be nice for once.
OK, I'll do it! Just this morning I discovered an almost entirely free way to build a solar cell with an efficiency over 80%! But as I'm exhausted from all my hard work (it took me a few hours to get the construction right) I'll post the instructions on Wikileaks sometime tomorrow and everyone will be able to have access to much cheaper energy. Have a nice day!
*gets assassinated*
Inalienable
You cannot take them away, citizen, non-citizen, good guy, bad guy.
Inalienable.
Liberty was an inalienable right once... long ago...
Oh that's an easy one to get around, the government just needs to redefine "human" and then everything they've been doing will be back in the green ;-).
Name an alternative medicine and it almost certainly HAS been looked into and debunked. These people are True Believers. They don't let pesky things like scientific dismissal of their ideas get in their way.
I like the way you use the word 'scientific' as if it's the ender of all doubt for rational people and anyone that questions it isn't. Scientific method in itself is great but that doesn't mean that the people using it are.
Overall I have a lot of faith in science but when there are multi billion-dollar markets involved like the one pharmaceutical companies are in, there tend to be some less than scrupulous people around and as a result it wouldn't surprise me if results are skewed for the sole purpose of maintaining their hold on the market. Put simply, if someone managed to make a pill that could cure everything, do you really think that they'd sell it?
Now before someone jumps on my back, I'm not saying that it necessarily happens or that there aren't good people that really want to help, I just think it's worth considering other options (even if you end up discarding them) and where it is that other people's interests lie... though I admit that it sometimes takes a long time to reach any conclusions on what it is I believe ;-)
Repeat after me: The plural of anecdote is NOT data.
I never claimed it was, I just meant that it's worth looking into before completely dismissing herbal medicines. Feel free to misinterpret my comment however you want.
A good example of this is chiropracty. those doctors know a lot more about muscle skeletle injury diagnosis that the orthopedic surgeons I have been to. But they also then reccomend all kinds of crazy cures like aroma therapy and magnets. SO the quality of their patient asseement skills gets tossed out with the bathwater of their bullshit cures.
I agree that there are a lot of quacks that are in it for the money, but when I was in China my friend with a slipped disk was having some serious back pains and went to a doctor of Chinese medicine. After a fire-cupping and drinking herbal teas for a week he helt much better.
>"four million times heavier than our sun"
Can we please stop with the "yo mama" jokes? Please? :-)
Obligatory xkcd
There, fixed that for ya... unless of course you meant for /.ers to start queuing to make lesbian jokes...
When having to choose between monsanto and microsoft as the supreme example of an outright criminal corporation it's a tough choice.
I don't know about you but when it comes to corporate monopolies I mind a lot more when it's food having less genetic variety compared to one company's OS being run on every computer; and then there are the dominant terminator seeds that spread to neighboring fields so that regular crops can no longer be grown... at least there's no virus on my Mac that uninstalls OSX and replaces it with Vista.
So I suppose that while *some* of their actions are similar, the bigger criminal is easily Monsanto.
I'll believe ID when they find a fossilized watch.
This looks practically fossilized =P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism