Goldmine is an apt adjective but perhaps not the way you intended.
Jobs has hosted Bill Clinton at Jobs' house and is a long time Democratic contributor.
OTOH, Google is also a major Democratic contributor.
Which way the Obama administration decides to go - to block the purchase or ignore the obvious anti trust issues may well depend on which side ponies up the most "contributions."
The case reminds me of Eddie DeBartolo, the former 49'ers owner, getting shook down by Governor Edwards of Louisiana. DeBartolo wanted a riverboat gambling license and Edwards wanted cash in exchange. Louisiana politics were notoriously corrupt so if you were going to do business there, you had a choice, pay the bribe or don't do business. Evidently Russia has the same kind of business rules.
A group of us went to see How To Train your Dragon a few weeks back- great movie if you haven't seen it.
I have zip binocular vision so out of curiosity I asked the other 5 adults how the effect worked for them. We were all surprised to learn that each of us experienced 3d differently. The range of responses went from my "I can't tell the difference..." to "I felt like I was flying on a Dragon's back and had to move to avoid being hit..." Some folks were closer to my experience, things were in 3d but the effect was marginal and others tended towards the other end but didn't quite feel like they were immersed in the experience.
I had no idea binocular vision capability is spread out on a gradient. I had assumed you either had it or you didn't. So perhaps, your binocular vision lies closer to mine than to the person who felt like dodging obstacles.
I can easily see that if my brain was tricked into thinking I was in imminent danger or thinking I was flying how great the effect would be.
Here's the patent on the secret built-in camera
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They had to kill Michael Uy after the patent was filed so he wouldn't tell anybody about it. RIP Michael. Excuse me, someone is knocking on my do
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There are way too many MBAs out there who think suits trump techs. It's not true. A great company needs both great leaders and great workers.
Jack Welch at GE figured out that the way to ensure he had great people working for him was to reward the top tier workers to keep them and fire the bottom tier on an annual basis. The tiers weren't static - a person who was getting feedback that they were near the firing tier could start working harder or start looking for another job if they weren't motivated. A person who was near the top tier and wanted the top tier perks could bust their ass and displace someone in the top tier. People in the middle tier were sure their jobs were secure as long as they stayed productive.
It was harsh but the result was that while Welch led GE, the company did very, very well. Welch defined the fitness function and let evolution build GE for him. It was hard for a manager who had a good staff to have to fire his least productive workers on a regular basis but since everyone knew that was how the company was run, the people who didn't like it moved on.
The FCC knew Comcast was going to win quite a while back. Comcast's basic argument rests on the fact that the FCC didn't follow it's own rules in how it created the net neutrality rule. Since the rules weren't followed for creating a new rule, Comcast argued the net neutrality rule was unenforceable.
The FCC recognized Comcast had a point and restarted the rule making process to enable them to legally enforce net neutrality.
Personally, I'd like to see the FCC say that if you own a cable or phone company, you can't provide internet service. We've just been through the consequences of companies that were too big to fail failing and are quite a bit poorer because of it. Letting monopolies form is just taking us down that path again.
Both At&t and the cables are scared shitless that the Internet will make their business models obsolete. Of course, they're right.
Anandtech has an excellent review of the new chip. The AMD chip is compared against the latest Xeon. In some situations such as OLTP and ERP, the AMD offering lives down to it's name Mangy Cores. In HTP and data-mining, Anandtech gives the nod to AMD.
I cycle to work and clean up after the ride one of two ways.
If I have a meeting coming up, I'll take a sponge bath. That is, I'll strip down to my waist, wet a bit of my towel and wipe all over. Follow that up with a bit of soap, then wipe again with the wet part of the towel to wipe off the soap. Finally, dry off with the dry part. Takes maybe 2-3 minutes tops. It's not as nice as taking a shower but it works.
If I have more time, I'll use the shower at work.
Knowing I had the shower at work got me started but I eventually figured out I could get by with just a sponge bath and a change of clothes. Shirts and pants come out fine if you roll them into a log before putting them in a backpack.
Not only are boots on the ground important, but you have to have enough to hold the territory you've gained. It was a hard lesson from the Iraq war that this administration doesn't appear to have learned.
Michael Yon has a great, non-partisan, blog on the war in Afghanistan. Yon is a blogger who used to be a Special Forces member and can see situations developing years before most folks can.
I stopped reading your post after the first paragraph because it was so fact-free.
The crater is 1 mile wide, not 3. The Barringer meteor was known to be an iron meteorite based on the debris found by the early settlers. The debris field was around 10 miles in diameter so San Francisco would have been safe. The earthquake the impact generated is thought to have been around a Magnitude 5, an event I've experienced more than once here in California. Exciting when it happens but not that big a deal in the overall scheme of things.
The impact would have been spectacular if you'd been within 50 miles but the rest of the folks in Arizona would have wondered wtf and then gone on with their daily activities. The folks in New Mexico probably never noticed it.
Ok I lied. I did read the rest of your post to see what other absurdities it held. And, verily, even though I'm an atheist, the good lord smiled upon my efforts...
It's not as if we're doing nothing right now. When we eventually see an asteroid headed our way that's large enough to warrant a response, odds are it'll be spotted way before impact. If it's a genuine hazard, it'll be big which means it will be visible to those good souls who make it their business to look for such a hazard. When that happens, assuming we haven't bombed ourselves back to the stone age, we'll be able to deal with the threat then. If we've bombed ourselves to oblivion, then we're toast anyway.
In the meantime, setting up a moon base to deal with the hazard is absurd.
We'll go to the Moon on a permanent basis if and when there's money to be made. It's what drove Isabella to back Columbus and it's what convinced Congress to underwrite Lewis and Clark. Both investments paid off in spades. The Moon has yet to promise any such return which is why we never went back.
You laugh but it's a pattern that repeats over and over. In the early 20th century, the Mexicans developed a passion for Hellman's mayonnaise. Forget that you could make better at home, it had to be Hellman's. Only problem was, Hellman's was manufactured in England and so it had to be shipped. The Titanic was carrying tons of Hellman's when it went down. It was a national tragedy as the shipment was the entire month's supply for Mexico. The Mexicans were so shocked by the loss, that they've commemorated the loss ever since. They call it the sinko de mayo.
Of course. Shelling an infected person's house always stops infection dead in its tracks. The explosion is so hot it's guaranteed to sterilize everything within a 100 feet. If Mexico City wasn't land locked we would have sent the Navy in to deal with the disease at the first sign.
If they form a monastery around the clock it may survive. The monastery need not be religious, it just needs people who are willing to carry on the original vision. I'd bet there are enough people who would be willing to donate a year, or more, of their lives to maintaining something that was designed to last 10,000 years. A sort of "carrying the flame" kind of altruism. The monastery would be devoted to seeing that we don't forget how to manufacture things and as part of its mission, it could be continually rebuilding the clock. The Japanese have some Shinto temples they've routinely destroyed and rebuilt every 20 years.
Sustaining 1G for several years isn't magic. It's just advanced technology.
James Powell, the co-inventor of super-conducting maglev, described a mechanism to build a 1G rocket to travel to the stars. His basic idea was to use Mercury as a solar collector to manufacture a few tons of anti-matter. When you react the anti-matter, you get both power and ejectable mass moving at very high speed. A sci-fi author, Charles Pelligrino, wrote up the idea in the appendix to his book, Flying to Valhalla.
The Orion designers were thinking that once they got the first version working to ferry between the planets, they could build a star ship that would get to Alpha Centauri for $100 Billion in 1960 dollars. The cost was so far out of reach, the idea was almost forgotten.
The point is, you don't need magic to travel at 1G, you need resources.
Oh look. Another non-climate-scientist who thinks nearly all of the climate scientists are wrong about the climate.
If you don't think physicists should be criticizing climatologists, how about meteorologists? If not the meteorologists or physicists, just who is qualified to criticize them?
The problem is there isn't a climate 'scientist' that can produce a model he published in 1990 that accurately forecast today's climate. Things like number of hurricanes, mean global temperature, etc. I'm not talking about getting one or two things right - I'm talking about getting a majority of the metrics right.
Without verifiable predictions, it isn't science.
By the way, your choice of terminology shows you missed the boat. It's no longer 'Global Warming' - it's 'Global Change.' The new phrasing is a hedge from the climatologists acknowledging that they can't accurately forecast what's going to happen but whatever does happen, they'll claim they forecast it. London Broil? Check. London Freeze? Check. They've got models that cover both scenarios - they just don't know which one will play out.
In college I drove an Austin-Healey 3000 that somehow felt faster at 45 mph than my Mazda RX-8 (or even my Toyota Highlander Hybrid) feels at 75 mph. That was a good thing.'"
Unless you arrive at your destination exhausted because the car was nagging at you the whole way. Back in my college days, I drove from Northern Calif to Southern in a noisy, rattletrap. I pulled into Pasadena around 5 hours after starting and was bone tired from the drive. So tired in fact, I didn't notice a kid crossing in front of a stopped car in the next lane. The stopped car driver realized I wasn't slowing down, saw that the kid was in jeopardy and so he leaned on his horn. Had that driver not blasted his horn, I could well have hit the kid. As it was, I'm sure the kid never realized how close he came to being hit because he stopped and glared at the horn blower.
Quieter, smoother cars just don't fatigue you as much as cars used to. I think that's a good thing. Being in an accident because you're tired, not so much.
>The U2 was rammed by another aircraft, not shot down.
Hmmm. The article you linked says:
the U-2 was eventually hit and brought down near Degtyarsk, Ural Region, by a salvo of fourteen SA-2 Guideline (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missiles.
I recall reading years ago that Powers is believed to have fallen asleep as the plane was on autopilot. The autopilot malfunctioned and he dropped within range of the Russian missiles. IIRC, the source was the Puzzle Palace but I can't swear to that. Even still, that story, whatever its source, could have been a concoction to cover for the CIA not knowing the Soviets had missiles that could reach the U-2.
An article over at Popular Mechanics announces that, for the first time, solar cells have been manufactured for the much sought-after figure of $1/Watt.
A family watching the Super Bowl has a reasonable expectation that they won't be subjected to someone else's idea of what acceptable sexual mores are these days. It was a football game, not a Victoria Secret premier.
Personally, I don't care about porn being available but I can sympathize with folks who were offended by Go Daddy's poor taste. I watched the game at a friend's house and ofter the Go Daddy Ad aired, they decided to switch registrars for their family domain away from Go Daddy.
Though it's possible we are the first, it's as likely as winning the lottery. Someone has to do it but the chance of that someone being you is so small that you should first rule out other, more plausible, scenarios.
My favorite is that only the paranoid survive. Civilizations that learn to communicate quietly are the ones that survive. Broadcasting your existence is a great way of advertising 'livable real estate here!' and inviting other civilizations over for a look see. Not too smart if it turns out they end up wanting your planet.
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Goldmine is an apt adjective but perhaps not the way you intended.
Jobs has hosted Bill Clinton at Jobs' house and is a long time Democratic contributor.
OTOH, Google is also a major Democratic contributor.
Which way the Obama administration decides to go - to block the purchase or ignore the obvious anti trust issues may well depend on which side ponies up the most "contributions."
Remember - Rahm and Obama hail from Chicago.
You may be right.
The case reminds me of Eddie DeBartolo, the former 49'ers owner, getting shook down by Governor Edwards of Louisiana. DeBartolo wanted a riverboat gambling license and Edwards wanted cash in exchange. Louisiana politics were notoriously corrupt so if you were going to do business there, you had a choice, pay the bribe or don't do business. Evidently Russia has the same kind of business rules.
A group of us went to see How To Train your Dragon a few weeks back- great movie if you haven't seen it.
I have zip binocular vision so out of curiosity I asked the other 5 adults how the effect worked for them. We were all surprised to learn that each of us experienced 3d differently. The range of responses went from my "I can't tell the difference..." to "I felt like I was flying on a Dragon's back and had to move to avoid being hit..." Some folks were closer to my experience, things were in 3d but the effect was marginal and others tended towards the other end but didn't quite feel like they were immersed in the experience.
I had no idea binocular vision capability is spread out on a gradient. I had assumed you either had it or you didn't. So perhaps, your binocular vision lies closer to mine than to the person who felt like dodging obstacles.
I can easily see that if my brain was tricked into thinking I was in imminent danger or thinking I was flying how great the effect would be.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=NBKaAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
They had to kill Michael Uy after the patent was filed so he wouldn't tell anybody about it. RIP Michael. Excuse me, someone is knocking on my do
There are way too many MBAs out there who think suits trump techs. It's not true. A great company needs both great leaders and great workers.
Jack Welch at GE figured out that the way to ensure he had great people working for him was to reward the top tier workers to keep them and fire the bottom tier on an annual basis. The tiers weren't static - a person who was getting feedback that they were near the firing tier could start working harder or start looking for another job if they weren't motivated. A person who was near the top tier and wanted the top tier perks could bust their ass and displace someone in the top tier. People in the middle tier were sure their jobs were secure as long as they stayed productive.
It was harsh but the result was that while Welch led GE, the company did very, very well. Welch defined the fitness function and let evolution build GE for him. It was hard for a manager who had a good staff to have to fire his least productive workers on a regular basis but since everyone knew that was how the company was run, the people who didn't like it moved on.
The FCC knew Comcast was going to win quite a while back. Comcast's basic argument rests on the fact that the FCC didn't follow it's own rules in how it created the net neutrality rule. Since the rules weren't followed for creating a new rule, Comcast argued the net neutrality rule was unenforceable.
The FCC recognized Comcast had a point and restarted the rule making process to enable them to legally enforce net neutrality.
Personally, I'd like to see the FCC say that if you own a cable or phone company, you can't provide internet service. We've just been through the consequences of companies that were too big to fail failing and are quite a bit poorer because of it. Letting monopolies form is just taking us down that path again.
Both At&t and the cables are scared shitless that the Internet will make their business models obsolete. Of course, they're right.
Anandtech has an excellent review of the new chip. The AMD chip is compared against the latest Xeon. In some situations such as OLTP and ERP, the AMD offering lives down to it's name Mangy Cores. In HTP and data-mining, Anandtech gives the nod to AMD.
So choose depending on your needs.
Nothing is 100%. We wouldn't be able to stop a full-on onslaught from the Russians. If nothing else, they could just overwhelm the number of lasers.
However, if this tool can prevent Israel and Iran from nuking it out, it may well be worth the price.
I cycle to work and clean up after the ride one of two ways.
Knowing I had the shower at work got me started but I eventually figured out I could get by with just a sponge bath and a change of clothes. Shirts and pants come out fine if you roll them into a log before putting them in a backpack.
Not only are boots on the ground important, but you have to have enough to hold the territory you've gained. It was a hard lesson from the Iraq war that this administration doesn't appear to have learned.
Michael Yon has a great, non-partisan, blog on the war in Afghanistan. Yon is a blogger who used to be a Special Forces member and can see situations developing years before most folks can.
I stopped reading your post after the first paragraph because it was so fact-free.
The crater is 1 mile wide, not 3. The Barringer meteor was known to be an iron meteorite based on the debris found by the early settlers. The debris field was around 10 miles in diameter so San Francisco would have been safe. The earthquake the impact generated is thought to have been around a Magnitude 5, an event I've experienced more than once here in California. Exciting when it happens but not that big a deal in the overall scheme of things.
The impact would have been spectacular if you'd been within 50 miles but the rest of the folks in Arizona would have wondered wtf and then gone on with their daily activities. The folks in New Mexico probably never noticed it.
Ok I lied. I did read the rest of your post to see what other absurdities it held. And, verily, even though I'm an atheist, the good lord smiled upon my efforts...
It's not as if we're doing nothing right now. When we eventually see an asteroid headed our way that's large enough to warrant a response, odds are it'll be spotted way before impact. If it's a genuine hazard, it'll be big which means it will be visible to those good souls who make it their business to look for such a hazard. When that happens, assuming we haven't bombed ourselves back to the stone age, we'll be able to deal with the threat then. If we've bombed ourselves to oblivion, then we're toast anyway.
In the meantime, setting up a moon base to deal with the hazard is absurd.
We'll go to the Moon on a permanent basis if and when there's money to be made. It's what drove Isabella to back Columbus and it's what convinced Congress to underwrite Lewis and Clark. Both investments paid off in spades. The Moon has yet to promise any such return which is why we never went back.
This first-hand article gives a bit of insight into how Bill Gates ran Microsoft. Certainly doesn't give the impression that Gates was stupid.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
You laugh but it's a pattern that repeats over and over. In the early 20th century, the Mexicans developed a passion for Hellman's mayonnaise. Forget that you could make better at home, it had to be Hellman's. Only problem was, Hellman's was manufactured in England and so it had to be shipped. The Titanic was carrying tons of Hellman's when it went down. It was a national tragedy as the shipment was the entire month's supply for Mexico. The Mexicans were so shocked by the loss, that they've commemorated the loss ever since. They call it the sinko de mayo.
Of course. Shelling an infected person's house always stops infection dead in its tracks. The explosion is so hot it's guaranteed to sterilize everything within a 100 feet. If Mexico City wasn't land locked we would have sent the Navy in to deal with the disease at the first sign.
If they form a monastery around the clock it may survive. The monastery need not be religious, it just needs people who are willing to carry on the original vision. I'd bet there are enough people who would be willing to donate a year, or more, of their lives to maintaining something that was designed to last 10,000 years. A sort of "carrying the flame" kind of altruism. The monastery would be devoted to seeing that we don't forget how to manufacture things and as part of its mission, it could be continually rebuilding the clock. The Japanese have some Shinto temples they've routinely destroyed and rebuilt every 20 years.
Sustaining 1G for several years isn't magic. It's just advanced technology.
James Powell, the co-inventor of super-conducting maglev, described a mechanism to build a 1G rocket to travel to the stars. His basic idea was to use Mercury as a solar collector to manufacture a few tons of anti-matter. When you react the anti-matter, you get both power and ejectable mass moving at very high speed. A sci-fi author, Charles Pelligrino, wrote up the idea in the appendix to his book, Flying to Valhalla.
The Orion designers were thinking that once they got the first version working to ferry between the planets, they could build a star ship that would get to Alpha Centauri for $100 Billion in 1960 dollars. The cost was so far out of reach, the idea was almost forgotten.
The point is, you don't need magic to travel at 1G, you need resources.
If you don't think physicists should be criticizing climatologists, how about meteorologists? If not the meteorologists or physicists, just who is qualified to criticize them?
The problem is there isn't a climate 'scientist' that can produce a model he published in 1990 that accurately forecast today's climate. Things like number of hurricanes, mean global temperature, etc. I'm not talking about getting one or two things right - I'm talking about getting a majority of the metrics right.
Without verifiable predictions, it isn't science.
By the way, your choice of terminology shows you missed the boat. It's no longer 'Global Warming' - it's 'Global Change.' The new phrasing is a hedge from the climatologists acknowledging that they can't accurately forecast what's going to happen but whatever does happen, they'll claim they forecast it. London Broil? Check. London Freeze? Check. They've got models that cover both scenarios - they just don't know which one will play out.
Here's a twitter feed that provides more current information than the sfgate story.
Unless you arrive at your destination exhausted because the car was nagging at you the whole way. Back in my college days, I drove from Northern Calif to Southern in a noisy, rattletrap. I pulled into Pasadena around 5 hours after starting and was bone tired from the drive. So tired in fact, I didn't notice a kid crossing in front of a stopped car in the next lane. The stopped car driver realized I wasn't slowing down, saw that the kid was in jeopardy and so he leaned on his horn. Had that driver not blasted his horn, I could well have hit the kid. As it was, I'm sure the kid never realized how close he came to being hit because he stopped and glared at the horn blower.
Quieter, smoother cars just don't fatigue you as much as cars used to. I think that's a good thing. Being in an accident because you're tired, not so much.
>The U2 was rammed by another aircraft, not shot down.
Hmmm. The article you linked says:
I recall reading years ago that Powers is believed to have fallen asleep as the plane was on autopilot. The autopilot malfunctioned and he dropped within range of the Russian missiles. IIRC, the source was the Puzzle Palace but I can't swear to that. Even still, that story, whatever its source, could have been a concoction to cover for the CIA not knowing the Soviets had missiles that could reach the U-2.
An article over at Popular Mechanics announces that, for the first time, solar cells have been manufactured for the much sought-after figure of $1/Watt.
What about this time? That was over a year ago.
I may be wrong but I thought you only use JSON when you're passing messages between trusted sources.
Is that perception incorrect?
If a statement is true, it's a fact. If it's false, it's not a fact.
A false fact doesn't exist. Just because a statement is asserted as a fact does not make it a fact.
BTW, anyone who uses wikipedia as an authoritative source is an idiot.
A family watching the Super Bowl has a reasonable expectation that they won't be subjected to someone else's idea of what acceptable sexual mores are these days. It was a football game, not a Victoria Secret premier.
Personally, I don't care about porn being available but I can sympathize with folks who were offended by Go Daddy's poor taste. I watched the game at a friend's house and ofter the Go Daddy Ad aired, they decided to switch registrars for their family domain away from Go Daddy.
Though it's possible we are the first, it's as likely as winning the lottery. Someone has to do it but the chance of that someone being you is so small that you should first rule out other, more plausible, scenarios.
My favorite is that only the paranoid survive. Civilizations that learn to communicate quietly are the ones that survive. Broadcasting your existence is a great way of advertising 'livable real estate here!' and inviting other civilizations over for a look see. Not too smart if it turns out they end up wanting your planet.