Not sure where this was mentioned, but I believe the only one currently is up in Union Square in San Francisco. Haven't verified it, but I do remember reading that somewhere.
I've got a question. Is there a reason why all of our planets orbit on basically the same plane? Why would it matter with a spherical body at the center? Do the planet's gravitational pull interact with each other enough to bring this about, or is this a big coincidence that makes our Solar System Kick Ass? If that's true, then maybe the fact that Pluto's does not follow the normal convention enough to make it not a planet (if that's part of the definition of course).
I was reading an article about digital music in relation to this saying how at the current rate of storage capicity increases will allow us to store the enitre library of currently published CDs in mp3 format on what the typical hard drive you could get for $150 is in 12 years. In relation to your comment though, I believe that there will always be another step up in terms of storage space.
In the digital music example, perhaps people will prefer to use actual WAV files instead of mp3s so they don't lose any of the musical data eliminated in mp3s, and past that, ripped verisions of DVD-Audio, or Super CDs. It seems that this analogy will hold true for a variety of digitial mediums. It's not necessarily the programs themselves that will increase in size at this rate, it's the data files. Given the choice of a larger data file that will give more detail for what is trying to be accomplished, people will choose the larger file if their it fits within their storage capicity and their processors will be able to process them, which of course they will since good old Moore's law applies to those as well.
Maybe we will reach that maximum, but I don't think it will be for a while.
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Not sure where this was mentioned, but I believe the only one currently is up in Union Square in San Francisco. Haven't verified it, but I do remember reading that somewhere.
It's just a bad joke. Don't worry about it.
I've got a question. Is there a reason why all of our planets orbit on basically the same plane? Why would it matter with a spherical body at the center? Do the planet's gravitational pull interact with each other enough to bring this about, or is this a big coincidence that makes our Solar System Kick Ass? If that's true, then maybe the fact that Pluto's does not follow the normal convention enough to make it not a planet (if that's part of the definition of course).
I was reading an article about digital music in relation to this saying how at the current rate of storage capicity increases will allow us to store the enitre library of currently published CDs in mp3 format on what the typical hard drive you could get for $150 is in 12 years. In relation to your comment though, I believe that there will always be another step up in terms of storage space.
In the digital music example, perhaps people will prefer to use actual WAV files instead of mp3s so they don't lose any of the musical data eliminated in mp3s, and past that, ripped verisions of DVD-Audio, or Super CDs. It seems that this analogy will hold true for a variety of digitial mediums. It's not necessarily the programs themselves that will increase in size at this rate, it's the data files. Given the choice of a larger data file that will give more detail for what is trying to be accomplished, people will choose the larger file if their it fits within their storage capicity and their processors will be able to process them, which of course they will since good old Moore's law applies to those as well.
Maybe we will reach that maximum, but I don't think it will be for a while.
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or does this thing folded up look like one of those seat cushions you would take to a football game?
...but try something different.
I applaud their desire to try something different,
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