My understanding was that what was being logged was not the users' locations but rather that of the nearest cell tower or hotspot. But whatever, hurf durf, Steve wuz spying on us.
Extraterrestrial life may be very common in the universe, but extraterrestrial life THAT WE CAN VISIT WITHIN THE LIFE SPAN OF A HUMAN BEING is so far pretty rare. (I would say the evidence of a viable business model for a Martian mining operation is the only thing more rare.) If life, not earth-like but genuinely Martian, exists there, I for one would be willing to declare a decade hiatus to allow for its legitimate scientific study, before we descend to dork the place up with billboards and strip malls. At least, we should answer the question first before we go planting the flag.
I guess its a meaning we could dispute. By 'work' I am thinking of things like email, web browsing, accessing calendars, contacts, IM, text messaging, smart-phoney stuff like that. If instead you mean 'it does something when you power it on', then ok, it 'works'.
I see what you did there. You listed the BB tablet's screen size in inches, and the Apple's screen size in pixels.
Also you left out price. Price is kind of a big deal. If I need to buy a BB phone on order to make the BB tablet work then the price of the phone should be included with the price of the Playbook.
First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race. - John Brunner
If you want innovation in America, rather than complaining about it, you need to change something. Science and technology are fundamentally social endeavors as much as technical ones. Take a quarter of the defense budget and instead put it towards public education and basic research.
Also, I think it's a blind alley to consider innovation a zero-sum game. It is helpful rather than harmful that other countries are making serious contributions. Ultimately we are going to discover intelligent life elsewhere, and which-country-scored-fourth-in-high-school-math is going to seem like small potatoes compared to getting humanity prepped for the next phase, whatever that turns out to be.
Hey speak for yourself. I'm doing engineering RIGHT NOW that is plenty ahead of what most of the rest of the world is doing (er, hey, I would be, if I wasn't annoyed enough to be responding to this comment.) I'm tired of monday-morning engineers saying "muh muh muh, American science and engineering were so much better in the (your favorite nostalgia decade here)."
If you want better science and engineering in America, roll up your sleeves and get to work. OR, find better ways for society to incentivize those activities relative to other career paths that pay better yet create less real value to society. Also, 'people going fast' is a pretty shallow goal (but hey, WSJ so). Go cruise the NIST or NRL or NASA or national labs or NIH or MIT-LL websites and get a taste of what engineers and scientists are really up to - you might be surprised.
FWIW New Horizons is moving at 15.73 kilometers per second. If you're really looking for speed, consider Jupiter for a gravity assist.
Tcl generally lacks a lot of OOP features that might make it more supportable, but one thing in its favor - it has a very regular syntax. Parsers for Tcl will be easy to write, FWIW.
My drift here is that no one could very accurately predict the value that exploring ultimately would have, in Columbus' day, and I'm sure the same uncertainties are in effect today. This argument is much more thoroughly made in Zubrin's book, THE CASE FOR MARS, which I would encourage everyone to read. There are plenty of recent, surprising discoveries regarding Mars. There's also plenty yet to uncover there - firstly, "Hey, where is all this seasonal methane coming from, and where is it going to?"
Christopher, why, oh why, do you want to sail west? Everybody knows, it's just water and more water. And then you fall off the edge of the world. What a waste! Look, can't you even read a map?
Let me yet again recommend everybody read THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes. The descriptions of what the experience was like, on the ground to survivors of Hiroshima at various radii from the explosion are among the most difficult things I've ever read. I constantly read and hear flip comments about atomic weapons. If you think it's a great opportunity for humor, you're not really familiar with the actual history.
It's called the Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) and let me just say, it's the coolest thing that I've ever come anywhere near close to working on. Not much of a Catholic anymore but I say a littler prayer each night that NASA selects this proposal to go forward. (They are due to announce next month. Write your congressperson!)
So it's not impossible, it's actually do-able, and it's not very logical to carp about whether it's convenient or fun for astronauts to go, as we've got a tremendous amount left to learn from automated missions before we contemplate sending people there. Besides, when TiME sends back the first live footage of the ravenous methane kraken, I'm sure everyone will be glad that astronauts were not part of the first payload.
Sort of a questionable initial post here - no new candidates were actually revealed today, or anytime recently. However you can avail yourself of the raw lightcurves in bulk, and declare your own candidates, if you want to. So just go for it, if you have the time -
Um - I use my cellphone for maps and driving directions. It's probably improved my driving, as I'm not having to dork around with books of maps, large books that obstruct my view and are generally difficult to handle.
My cellphone says 'Turn left at the next intersection'. I rarely even have to glance at it.
I believe that the manned US missions to the Moon and the automated Soviet spacecraft Luna 16, Luna 20, and Luna 24 all brought lunar samples back to Earth - but who's counting?
Private spaceflight has a lot of inducement to figure out how to get stuff into earth orbit, and not very much at all to go anywhere beyond that. Trust me, I know NASA people, scientists and non-scientists. They are not pointless bureaucrats. They really want to go to the stars.
That wasn't to say that definitively their claims are false - but that given the outsize implications of their theories, a very lot of clearly supportive experiments are going to need to be done before people really start believing them.
There are several papers posted on the arXiv.org by Jenkins and Fischbach, this one is my favorite. It's about measurements done on samples of a radioactive isotope of gold - the samples are shaped differently and this alters, presumably, some aspect of their interaction with neutrinos.
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My understanding was that what was being logged was not the users' locations but rather that of the nearest cell tower or hotspot. But whatever, hurf durf, Steve wuz spying on us.
after say an 8 or 10 year exclusion period, say. But if I had to pick one, it'd be Voyager.
Extraterrestrial life may be very common in the universe, but extraterrestrial life THAT WE CAN VISIT WITHIN THE LIFE SPAN OF A HUMAN BEING is so far pretty rare. (I would say the evidence of a viable business model for a Martian mining operation is the only thing more rare.) If life, not earth-like but genuinely Martian, exists there, I for one would be willing to declare a decade hiatus to allow for its legitimate scientific study, before we descend to dork the place up with billboards and strip malls. At least, we should answer the question first before we go planting the flag.
"If there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes."
- Carl Sagan
I guess its a meaning we could dispute. By 'work' I am thinking of things like email, web browsing, accessing calendars, contacts, IM, text messaging, smart-phoney stuff like that. If instead you mean 'it does something when you power it on', then ok, it 'works'.
I see what you did there. You listed the BB tablet's screen size in inches, and the Apple's screen size in pixels.
Also you left out price. Price is kind of a big deal. If I need to buy a BB phone on order to make the BB tablet work then the price of the phone should be included with the price of the Playbook.
First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race. - John Brunner
If you want innovation in America, rather than complaining about it, you need to change something. Science and technology are fundamentally social endeavors as much as technical ones. Take a quarter of the defense budget and instead put it towards public education and basic research.
Also, I think it's a blind alley to consider innovation a zero-sum game. It is helpful rather than harmful that other countries are making serious contributions. Ultimately we are going to discover intelligent life elsewhere, and which-country-scored-fourth-in-high-school-math is going to seem like small potatoes compared to getting humanity prepped for the next phase, whatever that turns out to be.
Hey speak for yourself. I'm doing engineering RIGHT NOW that is plenty ahead of what most of the rest of the world is doing (er, hey, I would be, if I wasn't annoyed enough to be responding to this comment.) I'm tired of monday-morning engineers saying "muh muh muh, American science and engineering were so much better in the (your favorite nostalgia decade here)."
If you want better science and engineering in America, roll up your sleeves and get to work. OR, find better ways for society to incentivize those activities relative to other career paths that pay better yet create less real value to society. Also, 'people going fast' is a pretty shallow goal (but hey, WSJ so). Go cruise the NIST or NRL or NASA or national labs or NIH or MIT-LL websites and get a taste of what engineers and scientists are really up to - you might be surprised.
FWIW New Horizons is moving at 15.73 kilometers per second. If you're really looking for speed, consider Jupiter for a gravity assist.
Tcl generally lacks a lot of OOP features that might make it more supportable, but one thing in its favor - it has a very regular syntax. Parsers for Tcl will be easy to write, FWIW.
My drift here is that no one could very accurately predict the value that exploring ultimately would have, in Columbus' day, and I'm sure the same uncertainties are in effect today. This argument is much more thoroughly made in Zubrin's book, THE CASE FOR MARS, which I would encourage everyone to read. There are plenty of recent, surprising discoveries regarding Mars. There's also plenty yet to uncover there - firstly, "Hey, where is all this seasonal methane coming from, and where is it going to?"
Christopher, why, oh why, do you want to sail west? Everybody knows, it's just water and more water. And then you fall off the edge of the world. What a waste! Look, can't you even read a map?
Let me just say, their Yes channel is awesomely crappy and incomplete. Did those guys never hear of RELAYER? Hello? Classic, amirite?
Let me yet again recommend everybody read THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes. The descriptions of what the experience was like, on the ground to survivors of Hiroshima at various radii from the explosion are among the most difficult things I've ever read. I constantly read and hear flip comments about atomic weapons. If you think it's a great opportunity for humor, you're not really familiar with the actual history.
Seems like he wrote about this several years ago, now -
My employer (disclosure) has a proposal out for a NASA discovery-class mission to put a boat (yes, a boat) on the surface methane seas of Titan;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409052.stm
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010LPI....41.1236S
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/01/carnival-of-space-135-proposed-titan.html
It's called the Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) and let me just say, it's the coolest thing that I've ever come anywhere near close to working on. Not much of a Catholic anymore but I say a littler prayer each night that NASA selects this proposal to go forward. (They are due to announce next month. Write your congressperson!)
So it's not impossible, it's actually do-able, and it's not very logical to carp about whether it's convenient or fun for astronauts to go, as we've got a tremendous amount left to learn from automated missions before we contemplate sending people there. Besides, when TiME sends back the first live footage of the ravenous methane kraken, I'm sure everyone will be glad that astronauts were not part of the first payload.
Yet, I still can't get a job at Victoria's Secret.
Sort of a questionable initial post here - no new candidates were actually revealed today, or anytime recently. However you can avail yourself of the raw lightcurves in bulk, and declare your own candidates, if you want to. So just go for it, if you have the time -
Um - I use my cellphone for maps and driving directions. It's probably improved my driving, as I'm not having to dork around with books of maps, large books that obstruct my view and are generally difficult to handle.
My cellphone says 'Turn left at the next intersection'. I rarely even have to glance at it.
I believe that the manned US missions to the Moon and the automated Soviet spacecraft Luna 16, Luna 20, and Luna 24 all brought lunar samples back to Earth - but who's counting?
Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?
I'm pretty sure the federal government is not restricting you from interstellar spaceflight. Please, be my guest.
Private spaceflight has a lot of inducement to figure out how to get stuff into earth orbit, and not very much at all to go anywhere beyond that. Trust me, I know NASA people, scientists and non-scientists. They are not pointless bureaucrats. They really want to go to the stars.
That wasn't to say that definitively their claims are false - but that given the outsize implications of their theories, a very lot of clearly supportive experiments are going to need to be done before people really start believing them.
There are several papers posted on the arXiv.org by Jenkins and Fischbach, this one is my favorite. It's about measurements done on samples of a radioactive isotope of gold - the samples are shaped differently and this alters, presumably, some aspect of their interaction with neutrinos.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."