The establishment is afraid. That is why you are seeing the negative anti-intellectual arguments. BitCoin could upset the current system of the world. The people at the top of that system are afraid of that happening.
I saw a presentation given on this at NASA. It is truly an amazing feat of technology. They only need about 2TB of data, the system is not connected to the internet. They can currently beat Jeopardy champions 70% of the time (there is luck involved). They use multiple methods of finding the answer then weigh them to come up with an uncertainty factor.
The grand champions they are playing against are in a class unto themselves compared with Jeopardy winners in general.
It's not surprising they have gained market share, but it is not because of the quality of the search engine, rather heavy handed forcing of the engine on unwitting customers. Somehow, many of my friends and families computers started defaulting to the bing search engine in both IE and FireFox, perhaps after a windows update. Microsoft changed the defaults of the browsers without giving the user an option and it was not trivial to return the default search engine to Google. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I didn't like it.
I think a high def lightweight HMD would really change things. It is an idea who's time has come. I could sit in bed or on the train and work as if I were in my office and interact with data in new ways.
Not to mention the games!
Ryan
If this was a NASA issue, they would give the cost of the hardware involved. Why don't they do this for military issues? Then the public would realize how expensive the military is. I bet those subs burn through $100K a day and cost $1B.
Supporting SpaceX/Orbital in this endeavour could be a game changer for the whole space industry. SpaceX is charging half of going rate for launches. Once they get flying regularly, NASA and commercial projects will be able to spend more on satellites and less on launching which means more spacecraft, science, and bandwidth.
It would be great if NASA would make all it's documents publicly available. I work in the industry and it would make my job easier. However, most of NASAs technology is publicly available through publications. Anytime they come up with something novel, it gets into a conference or journal. Between conference proceedings, journals, and textbooks, almost every technology NASA uses is publicly available. From the very beginning of a project NASA programs have to have a 'technology transfer plan' to get any new tech to industry. They even put out an annual book on new NASA technologies and other uses for them. Compare this to the military space program which has double the annual budget and gives the public nothing back but wrong intelligence.
3D printing services have been around forever. I work for a huge company, and we generally use a service since it is cheaper than owning and operating your own machine. solidconcepts is a good example. Web based 3D printing services have been around for like 5-7 years. The good companies can have the part in your hand next day.
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The establishment is afraid. That is why you are seeing the negative anti-intellectual arguments. BitCoin could upset the current system of the world. The people at the top of that system are afraid of that happening.
120km isn't that high, barely high enough to call space. The difference between this and an orbital launch is orders of magnitude in difficulty.
I saw a presentation given on this at NASA. It is truly an amazing feat of technology. They only need about 2TB of data, the system is not connected to the internet. They can currently beat Jeopardy champions 70% of the time (there is luck involved). They use multiple methods of finding the answer then weigh them to come up with an uncertainty factor. The grand champions they are playing against are in a class unto themselves compared with Jeopardy winners in general.
NASA runs an internal site called SpaceBook. Facebook has to watch it's image with the new movie coming out.
It's not surprising they have gained market share, but it is not because of the quality of the search engine, rather heavy handed forcing of the engine on unwitting customers. Somehow, many of my friends and families computers started defaulting to the bing search engine in both IE and FireFox, perhaps after a windows update. Microsoft changed the defaults of the browsers without giving the user an option and it was not trivial to return the default search engine to Google. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I didn't like it.
I think a high def lightweight HMD would really change things. It is an idea who's time has come. I could sit in bed or on the train and work as if I were in my office and interact with data in new ways. Not to mention the games! Ryan
If this was a NASA issue, they would give the cost of the hardware involved. Why don't they do this for military issues? Then the public would realize how expensive the military is. I bet those subs burn through $100K a day and cost $1B.
Supporting SpaceX/Orbital in this endeavour could be a game changer for the whole space industry. SpaceX is charging half of going rate for launches. Once they get flying regularly, NASA and commercial projects will be able to spend more on satellites and less on launching which means more spacecraft, science, and bandwidth.
It would be great if NASA would make all it's documents publicly available. I work in the industry and it would make my job easier. However, most of NASAs technology is publicly available through publications. Anytime they come up with something novel, it gets into a conference or journal. Between conference proceedings, journals, and textbooks, almost every technology NASA uses is publicly available. From the very beginning of a project NASA programs have to have a 'technology transfer plan' to get any new tech to industry. They even put out an annual book on new NASA technologies and other uses for them. Compare this to the military space program which has double the annual budget and gives the public nothing back but wrong intelligence.
3D printing services have been around forever. I work for a huge company, and we generally use a service since it is cheaper than owning and operating your own machine. solidconcepts is a good example. Web based 3D printing services have been around for like 5-7 years. The good companies can have the part in your hand next day.