People who need to drive 150 mph can get a powerfull sportscar - maybe even one that'll only do 2 mpg flat out.
Nobody wants a sports/race car that only gets 2 mpg.
I said flat out. Top Gear did a race with five super cars (Lamborghini Murchiolago, Mercedes McLaren, Audi R8, Ferrari 599, Aston Martin DBS) where they filled each one with exactly 1 gallon of gas, and they'd be raced around their test track. The Ferrari sputtered to a halt as the first car after 1.7 miles. This was followed shortly thereafter by the Aston Martin and the Mercedes. The Lamborghini did 4.7 miles.
The Audi won the "endurance race" at 5 miles/gallon.
But you're right. Noone would ever want to buy a Ferrari 599.
60 miles for some is less than their daily commute to work.
Ah, yes, the horrors of a car that won't fulfill EVERYONES needs. How about this - the people who drive more than 60 miles in a day can get another car. Maybe one with a bigger range.
People who need to drive 150 mph can get a powerfull sportscar - maybe even one that'll only do 2 mpg flat out.
People who need to haul a ton of stuff could get a different kind of car. Maybe one with a nice big flat section where you'd have the rear seats. Maybe a "flat bed" of sorts.
The people who have a need to drive 6 kids and their dogs every day could get something like a bus, but smaller. Miniature bus of sorts.
And maybe people like you could start to consider that there is no car in the world, that fulfills EVERYONES needs at once.
If they are donating money to a charity to combat child exploitation, can we please have that charity fight the constant "think of the kids", "harm to kids", "oh noes, kids might see this" exploitation?
Their motto should be a George Carlin quote: "Fuck the children!"
Well, if they're hiding in the sandstorm BEFORE the attack, sure.
But during? You'll be hard pressed to find a radio wave length that'll cut through what is essentially a huge but very fluffy stone and NOT cut through humans (tiny bit of water in the middle). Infrared will be blurred out. Radar will too.
What kind of advances have the military conjured into being that'll see through a sandstorm and tell you what's inside it (outside of lots and lots and lots of sand)?
The best part is that since Obama is both black and white, he really can see and convey both perspectives of America.
Allow me to chime in here. And as one who isn't tainted by the US oppression etc. of african americans for whatever... all that stuff.
He may have a white mother and an african father, but that does not make him white. It still makes him black. One look at his skin colour will tell you that. No white person will ever say "oh, Obama. Yeah, he's a white guy" and be taken serious.
Even if/though (not entirely certain) he was raised in an all white neighbourhood with all white friends and went to an all white school, he'll still be seen as black. Why? Again, look at his skin colour.
Sure, call me a racist or whatever if that makes you feel more comfortable about it. While I don't have black parrents (both of mine are caucasian), I have two cousins whose father is white and whose mother is black (from Sri Lanka). And while I've always considered them family, it's kinda hard NOT to think of the two black guys in the family photos as "white". And I'm pretty sure that if it ever came up, they'd also say that they aren't white. They're Danish, but you'd have to be more than just a little bit apologetic to claim that they're white.
How can "ruggies" be short for "rug rats"? Both are 7 charaters (not counting whitespaces). That's like saying "The WhiteHouse" is short for "The White House" because you've saved 1 single character.
Why is $ more difficult than say... {}, [] and ~? \ is the same. Piping several times is the same kind of pain as | is an [Alt Gr] modified key. As is @.
Seriously - why is one [Alt Gr] modified key worse than any of the others?
1 GB/month may SOUND like a lot, but it really isn't. Your 1 GB/month alocation would be eaten up if you have some task in the background soaking up 3.2 kb/second in bandwidth. That's how rediculously small that amount is.
33.6 kbit/second constant load on your connection would add up to 10.5 GB/month Slashdot's frontpage alone is 630 kB. 3 visits a day for a month takes up 55 MB New York Times' frontpage is 830 kB. 3 visits a day for a month takes up 72 MB TVGuide.com isn't much better at 720 kB. The basic view of gmail takes up 62 kB. The standard view is 630 kB. It would be impossible for you to download the latest WoW patch. I've no clue how much Windows Update requires, but Vista's Service Pack 1 is 435MB, XP SP 3 is 316MB. MS Office 2007 Service Pack 1 is 218 MB. Back in 2003 the average email was about 59 kilobytes in size. Spam comprises some 80 to 85% of all the email in the world, by conservative estimate, so if you're only getting 2 actual emails a day, you'll be getting 8 spam messages. This gives you a total of 17 MB/month (if you're downloading everything).
Today, all I've done for the last three hours on my computer is browse techsites and played Second Life - the totals here are 21MB up, 314 down for a total of 335 MB data. In three hours. Sounds like a lot but that's "only" 254 kb/second - pretty much the slowest ADSL connection you can get.
Forgot about listening to internet radio. 1 hour a day at 64 kbit/second is 824 MB in a month.
A standard ping packet is 32 bytes. 1 ping/second takes eats 80 MB/month.
Basicly what I'm saying is - you're fucked. A 1 GB/month usage cap is fucked up, too small and ridiculous.
To give you an idea of HOW ridiculous it is, In Denmark (25% sales tax) I can buy a 3G modem, subscription included for 6 months for 355 US$. This has no caps at all. Maximum speed is 7.2 Mbit/s, expected claimed average is between 2 and 3 Mbit/s. Every month after that the subscription is 51 US$. Roaming in Sweden is free of charge as well.
In the Shell Eco Challange 2007 the winning team drove the equivalent of 3,039 km on one liter of fuel, or 7,148 miles per gallon.
But I'm sure people will complain that "that's not a car", "a car has to have seven seats, room in the back for 2 cubic meters of crap, be able to haul a semi trailer and yada yada yada". Well, in that case, I'm pretty sure the land speed record for a "car" isn't above 120 miles/hour let alone the speed of sound.
First of all, I would want decent access to "the internet". Not sure how to do that, but one could imagine a somewhat intelligent web crawler spidering through pages that I've nominated as interesting and just sending that in big chunks.
I'd want access to movies - again, they'd need to be sent, so that's a tricky one like the one above.
Would be nice to have book. Lots and lots of books. OCR a few thousand+, ship it with me. Could do the same with movies and music I suppose.
One thing I don't think I'd want to be without would be Mechano/LEGO or something similar in large quantaties. Electric motors that would work with this and lots of solar panels.
Since this is a trip to Mars, every single piece of Mechano/LEGO going with me will be cataloged. This should be put on the internet on some kind of Wiki like website. Give others the chance to play around with what I have access to, build cool contraptions etc. Even stuff that'd come in handy for new mission style things.
LOTS of spares for everything that is brought. Not one computer, send 10 or 20 along.
Mars is aparently rich on methane, so something to use extract that with (oxygen as well). That way you could have external heating, gas powered vehicles etc.
I suspect the biggest problem (outside catastrophic problems, like immediate medical problems, base blowing up etc) would be cabin fever. Entertainment, books, movies, music, would probably aliviate that to a great extent.
Oh, and something to commit suicide with. Not a gun or anything like that. Give me... 50 suicide pills. They should be painless, not work inside the first hour. And I'd want 49 antidotes. Might not need a single one, but... just in case. Would be a shame to realise that you didn't bring any;)
Well, technically the biggest difference between "flying and diving" and "go into space and diving" is achieving either orbital or escape velocity. The extra pressure difference is rather tiny.
"To our knowledge is the described method free of patents and the author can confirm that he hasn't applied for protection."
Seriously? Can an attack on cryptography, and it's possible counter-defensives be patented? Just how much could you screw up the US financial systems, if you came up with an attack on encrypted trafficing (like the stuff banks and stock markets use), came up with the "only" defense against it, and then patented both?
Of course you'd never license the attack to anyone, but since it's patented, it's well described in public. And you'd want to get paid quite well to license the defense against this attack, wouldn't you? Say... 1% of the value of all transactions protected.
Set up a Wiki with authorization required to do anything, maybe put it on an odd port too.
The wiki will tell you if someone else is editing a document if you click edit. You always have stuff published with the newest changes. You will have history to check changes etc. You can comment on documents without it changing the document. You can attach files to your documents.
The only thing it won't really do without some added plugins is live multiedit and whiteboard for pictures/diagrams etc.
IM... well, you already said it can be multiple programs.
The only wiki I've done any kind of work with is JSPWiki, and that has the above mentioned functionality. Others may have more/less features, so just find one that fits your needs and programming skills (if you want to make new plugins that help your team)
1 suggests we should use gasoline engines instead 2 suggests the same as 1 3 suggests that we should be using wankel/rotary engines instead, since they are a LOT smaller and lighter than both gasoline and diesel engines with the same amount of horsepower, but they also rev to insane numbers (like 9,000 rpm for gear changes)
Yet "noone" wants to use that kind of engine "because it doesn't sound as cool as a V8".
Well, sure... if we ignore that the object seems to be between 130 and 11 billion light years away. In other words, you might as well find it disturbing that a strang interstellar even happens at the same time that Palin was announced as a Vice Presidential Candidate (in a 47,481 day period that's less than 1 percent off).
Hrmm... she's a massively religious nutter, isn't she? Quick, someone tell her that this is the new star of Bethlehem!
Seriously - do people who are scared of that stuff even know how little energy that is? 12 kW is roughly 16 horsepower. Being afraid of a 12 kW fission generator is pretty much like being afraid of a firecracker "gosh jolly they're the same thing as that big MOAB fuel air bomb thingie they use to clear out caves in Afghanistan!"
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I worry that kids who love the creature stage will bawl with frustration when they set foot into the galaxy.
Well... then they'll have to learn that not everything in life is easy, spoonfed to them and can be annoying. Even games.
Believe it or not, I hear that games like Baseball that are so easy when it comes to fantasy leagues can be really difficult in real life, and *gasp* sometimes even require that you practice, practice, practice all day long and still it won't get you on the team.
Uhm... wouldn't reading Playboy while on the toilet result in a bit of a mess on the floor? Now, reading it while in the bathroom is something entirely different
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How did they effectively violate his patent? You said it yourself - he failed to patent it outside the UK.
That's like saying that European software developers are effectively violating US software patents. Fuck you - they aren't in effect here.
I said flat out. Top Gear did a race with five super cars (Lamborghini Murchiolago, Mercedes McLaren, Audi R8, Ferrari 599, Aston Martin DBS) where they filled each one with exactly 1 gallon of gas, and they'd be raced around their test track. The Ferrari sputtered to a halt as the first car after 1.7 miles. This was followed shortly thereafter by the Aston Martin and the Mercedes. The Lamborghini did 4.7 miles.
The Audi won the "endurance race" at 5 miles/gallon.
But you're right. Noone would ever want to buy a Ferrari 599.
Ah, yes, the horrors of a car that won't fulfill EVERYONES needs. How about this - the people who drive more than 60 miles in a day can get another car. Maybe one with a bigger range.
People who need to drive 150 mph can get a powerfull sportscar - maybe even one that'll only do 2 mpg flat out.
People who need to haul a ton of stuff could get a different kind of car. Maybe one with a nice big flat section where you'd have the rear seats. Maybe a "flat bed" of sorts.
The people who have a need to drive 6 kids and their dogs every day could get something like a bus, but smaller. Miniature bus of sorts.
And maybe people like you could start to consider that there is no car in the world, that fulfills EVERYONES needs at once.
In other words, exactly what the German team did?
If they are donating money to a charity to combat child exploitation, can we please have that charity fight the constant "think of the kids", "harm to kids", "oh noes, kids might see this" exploitation?
Their motto should be a George Carlin quote: "Fuck the children!"
Well, if they're hiding in the sandstorm BEFORE the attack, sure.
But during? You'll be hard pressed to find a radio wave length that'll cut through what is essentially a huge but very fluffy stone and NOT cut through humans (tiny bit of water in the middle). Infrared will be blurred out. Radar will too.
What kind of advances have the military conjured into being that'll see through a sandstorm and tell you what's inside it (outside of lots and lots and lots of sand)?
Allow me to chime in here. And as one who isn't tainted by the US oppression etc. of african americans for whatever ... all that stuff.
He may have a white mother and an african father, but that does not make him white. It still makes him black. One look at his skin colour will tell you that. No white person will ever say "oh, Obama. Yeah, he's a white guy" and be taken serious.
Even if/though (not entirely certain) he was raised in an all white neighbourhood with all white friends and went to an all white school, he'll still be seen as black. Why? Again, look at his skin colour.
Sure, call me a racist or whatever if that makes you feel more comfortable about it. While I don't have black parrents (both of mine are caucasian), I have two cousins whose father is white and whose mother is black (from Sri Lanka). And while I've always considered them family, it's kinda hard NOT to think of the two black guys in the family photos as "white". And I'm pretty sure that if it ever came up, they'd also say that they aren't white. They're Danish, but you'd have to be more than just a little bit apologetic to claim that they're white.
How can "ruggies" be short for "rug rats"? Both are 7 charaters (not counting whitespaces). That's like saying "The WhiteHouse" is short for "The White House" because you've saved 1 single character.
Then use [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[key] - that's the same thing. But seriously, I've never had a problem with those keys, and I'm programming daily.
Why is $ more difficult than say ... {}, [] and ~? \ is the same. Piping several times is the same kind of pain as | is an [Alt Gr] modified key. As is @.
Seriously - why is one [Alt Gr] modified key worse than any of the others?
1 GB/month may SOUND like a lot, but it really isn't.
Your 1 GB/month alocation would be eaten up if you have some task in the background soaking up 3.2 kb/second in bandwidth. That's how rediculously small that amount is.
33.6 kbit/second constant load on your connection would add up to 10.5 GB/month
Slashdot's frontpage alone is 630 kB. 3 visits a day for a month takes up 55 MB
New York Times' frontpage is 830 kB. 3 visits a day for a month takes up 72 MB
TVGuide.com isn't much better at 720 kB.
The basic view of gmail takes up 62 kB. The standard view is 630 kB.
It would be impossible for you to download the latest WoW patch.
I've no clue how much Windows Update requires, but Vista's Service Pack 1 is 435MB, XP SP 3 is 316MB.
MS Office 2007 Service Pack 1 is 218 MB.
Back in 2003 the average email was about 59
kilobytes in size. Spam comprises some 80 to 85% of all the email in the world, by conservative estimate, so if you're only getting 2 actual emails a day, you'll be getting 8 spam messages. This gives you a total of 17 MB/month (if you're downloading everything).
Today, all I've done for the last three hours on my computer is browse techsites and played Second Life - the totals here are 21MB up, 314 down for a total of 335 MB data. In three hours. Sounds like a lot but that's "only" 254 kb/second - pretty much the slowest ADSL connection you can get.
Forgot about listening to internet radio. 1 hour a day at 64 kbit/second is 824 MB in a month.
A standard ping packet is 32 bytes. 1 ping/second takes eats 80 MB/month.
Basicly what I'm saying is - you're fucked. A 1 GB/month usage cap is fucked up, too small and ridiculous.
To give you an idea of HOW ridiculous it is, In Denmark (25% sales tax) I can buy a 3G modem, subscription included for 6 months for 355 US$. This has no caps at all. Maximum speed is 7.2 Mbit/s, expected claimed average is between 2 and 3 Mbit/s. Every month after that the subscription is 51 US$. Roaming in Sweden is free of charge as well.
That has already been done.
In the Shell Eco Challange 2007 the winning team drove the equivalent of 3,039 km on one liter of fuel, or 7,148 miles per gallon.
But I'm sure people will complain that "that's not a car", "a car has to have seven seats, room in the back for 2 cubic meters of crap, be able to haul a semi trailer and yada yada yada". Well, in that case, I'm pretty sure the land speed record for a "car" isn't above 120 miles/hour let alone the speed of sound.
First of all, I would want decent access to "the internet". Not sure how to do that, but one could imagine a somewhat intelligent web crawler spidering through pages that I've nominated as interesting and just sending that in big chunks.
I'd want access to movies - again, they'd need to be sent, so that's a tricky one like the one above.
Would be nice to have book. Lots and lots of books. OCR a few thousand+, ship it with me. Could do the same with movies and music I suppose.
One thing I don't think I'd want to be without would be Mechano/LEGO or something similar in large quantaties. Electric motors that would work with this and lots of solar panels.
Since this is a trip to Mars, every single piece of Mechano/LEGO going with me will be cataloged. This should be put on the internet on some kind of Wiki like website. Give others the chance to play around with what I have access to, build cool contraptions etc. Even stuff that'd come in handy for new mission style things.
LOTS of spares for everything that is brought. Not one computer, send 10 or 20 along.
Mars is aparently rich on methane, so something to use extract that with (oxygen as well). That way you could have external heating, gas powered vehicles etc.
I suspect the biggest problem (outside catastrophic problems, like immediate medical problems, base blowing up etc) would be cabin fever. Entertainment, books, movies, music, would probably aliviate that to a great extent.
Oh, and something to commit suicide with. Not a gun or anything like that. Give me ... 50 suicide pills. They should be painless, not work inside the first hour. And I'd want 49 antidotes. Might not need a single one, but ... just in case. Would be a shame to realise that you didn't bring any ;)
Rather unrelated question, but I'm curious.
What does the suffix "novo" mean in Russian? Or is it mere a coincidence?
Of course no - everyone knows that female elves are used as nubile slave girls.
Well, technically the biggest difference between "flying and diving" and "go into space and diving" is achieving either orbital or escape velocity. The extra pressure difference is rather tiny.
Seriously? Can an attack on cryptography, and it's possible counter-defensives be patented? Just how much could you screw up the US financial systems, if you came up with an attack on encrypted trafficing (like the stuff banks and stock markets use), came up with the "only" defense against it, and then patented both?
Of course you'd never license the attack to anyone, but since it's patented, it's well described in public. ... 1% of the value of all transactions protected.
And you'd want to get paid quite well to license the defense against this attack, wouldn't you? Say
How is that not just Wiki + IM?
Set up a Wiki with authorization required to do anything, maybe put it on an odd port too.
The wiki will tell you if someone else is editing a document if you click edit.
You always have stuff published with the newest changes.
You will have history to check changes etc.
You can comment on documents without it changing the document.
You can attach files to your documents.
The only thing it won't really do without some added plugins is live multiedit and whiteboard for pictures/diagrams etc.
IM ... well, you already said it can be multiple programs.
The only wiki I've done any kind of work with is JSPWiki, and that has the above mentioned functionality. Others may have more/less features, so just find one that fits your needs and programming skills (if you want to make new plugins that help your team)
Not a criminal issue (yet), thus no need or even grounds for the police to get involved.
As mentioned above, have your webserver prevent that kind of usage.
1 suggests we should use gasoline engines instead
2 suggests the same as 1
3 suggests that we should be using wankel/rotary engines instead, since they are a LOT smaller and lighter than both gasoline and diesel engines with the same amount of horsepower, but they also rev to insane numbers (like 9,000 rpm for gear changes)
Yet "noone" wants to use that kind of engine "because it doesn't sound as cool as a V8".
Well, sure ... if we ignore that the object seems to be between 130 and 11 billion light years away. In other words, you might as well find it disturbing that a strang interstellar even happens at the same time that Palin was announced as a Vice Presidential Candidate (in a 47,481 day period that's less than 1 percent off).
Hrmm ... she's a massively religious nutter, isn't she? Quick, someone tell her that this is the new star of Bethlehem!
In Soviet Empire light saber pwns you!
Seriously - do people who are scared of that stuff even know how little energy that is? 12 kW is roughly 16 horsepower. Being afraid of a 12 kW fission generator is pretty much like being afraid of a firecracker "gosh jolly they're the same thing as that big MOAB fuel air bomb thingie they use to clear out caves in Afghanistan!"
Well ... then they'll have to learn that not everything in life is easy, spoonfed to them and can be annoying. Even games.
Believe it or not, I hear that games like Baseball that are so easy when it comes to fantasy leagues can be really difficult in real life, and *gasp* sometimes even require that you practice, practice, practice all day long and still it won't get you on the team.
Uhm ... wouldn't reading Playboy while on the toilet result in a bit of a mess on the floor? Now, reading it while in the bathroom is something entirely different