That's my point too. Behind the 'great firewall' they can probably track back to the individual person if they have to from the IP address.
IMO censorship by the company doesn't have a hope of working. It's kind of like Nupedia, nice in theory, but the 'pedia will probably stay small that way (you're limited by how quickly the censors can authorise stuff and you may have to pay them or there will be a limited supply of people with enough spare time etc...)
On the other hand, self censorship where the IP addresses are logged, and there's report buttons and possibly rewards for turning people in, that might work...
In other words, policing rather than bureaucracy. With the threat of being hauled off somewhere.
As others have noted the engineers are long retired.
But ironically, in any case the engineers decided (probably very wisely) that going faster than mach ~2.02 causes problems with the airframe, and in particular the nose cone... guess what problems the Japanese are having with their mach mucho vehicle?
Specifically, the engineers decided to make it easy for themselves and use aluminium for constructing Concorde, and got a working vehicle; whilst spending less than the American companies, who tried to go faster (Mach 2.5+) and hence had more problems and thus didn't get any working hardware.
Of course we all know that Concorde economically failed, but it wasn't really the fault of the engineers that the market instantly dried up as soon as they'd got it working...
And it's probably compressed by Google on their servers.
And if you send a multimegabyte file around in an attachment, I bet they only store one copy between all the people that have that particular file in their email.
Stuff like that would save a *lot* of space.
The failure might well have been something to do with the LOX insulation jacket that didn't come off at launch. In the video you can see it dangling and being blown around by the airflow and seems to get into the exhaust jet. It could easily have wrapped around some of the pipes and broke them or something.
If you're looking for it, you can see the LOX blanket didn't detach properly. So that would have been thrashing around in the chaotic airflow behind the vehicle, and trailing into the exhaust plume. Seriously not good.
For example, if the blanket wrapped around a feedpipe for the engine and then got tugged by the plume or the airflow it could easily have disabled the engines.
Blankets like that are a known reliability issue, that's why the Shuttle has spray-on insulation on it's ET (not that that's been exactly briliantly reliable either, but it's probably more reliable than it would have been if it had had external blankets.)
In many cases the problems in poor countries are to do with poor living conditions from disease, lack of natural resources, difficult climate and so forth, far more so than cultural issues.
He would get future sales off products like Microsoft Office, and it would give people a clear upgrade path to desktops and more expensive laptops which run XP etc.
Yes, the fact that he wouldn't make any money on this laptop, when he previously suggested that windows would be a good idea, has nothing to do with his comments. His comments shouldn't be seen in this context at all. That would be wrong.
Erm, no. No difference between the two. Both exert a force to accelerate matter in one direction to accelerate themselves in the opposite direction (a reaction force). Force=mass*acceleration. That is the force exerted to accelerate the mass in a direction, generates an equal but opposite reaction force on the source body (ie a rocket). The acceleration observed on the 2 elements depends on the mass. Very high accelerations on gas but small on the rocket.
There is a big difference actually, a mass driver on a planetary/lunar/asteroid surface is much more efficient. That's because the planet is much heavier than the rocket and doesn't get accelerated significantly by the rocket as the rocket pushes off of it; but gaseous exhaust does tremendously; and the gaseous exhaust ends up going very fast and carries away lots of energy (energy is proportional to speed *squared*; whereas momentum is only speed times mass.)
Actually if you do the maths for minimum energy you want the heaviest reaction mass you can get.
1. Ore grade just isn't that good compared to what you find on earth. Extracting platinum from a solid block of nickel amalgam is really energy intensive, and the other "stony" asteroids have not gone through the hydrothermal concentration of metals of the terrestrial deposits.
True, it's energy intensive, but solar furnaces are available 24x7. It's just a big bit of bent aluminum foil- *really* lightweight to pack. Several thousand degrees... (surface temperature of the sun). Costs very little. And platinum is very expensive (it's used for catalytic converters for cars, and cars are popular, so at a few hundred dollars a gram, so it doesn't take many tonnes to turn a profit.)
2. The time it takes for a piece of capital equipment to return any materials to earth from an asteroid is enormous compared to the delivery of lunar mass to earth orbit. Since any mass in earth orbit is worth hundreds of dollars a pound and the time is so short for delivery, it makes a lot more sense to use lunar material in earth orbit than it does to use asteroidal material on the earth's surface.
Depends. The delta-v to return stuff from say, Phobos or Deimos is much less than that needed from the moon though. And it's not entirely true that mass in earth orbit is worth hundreds of dollars, if you deliver stuff from asteroids/moons; delivery can be much cheaper than that.
You've missed the point though. If he's a productive worker, then the company is more likely to want to keep him.
He's:
a) got a family to feed (i.e. he's likely to be dependable worker.)
b) buying a house in the area (i.e. he's likely to not need to move due for housing/schooling reasons)
c) they don't need to increase his salary any more (his mortgage will be decreasing over time, and he probably can't afford to move or it's less likely that he will be able to, so the company would be in a good bargaining position.)
So basically the company gains stuff from this situation too. If they didn't pony up the extra, he's probably leaving at some point in the next year or so; the company would then have to pay up to maybe a years salary to train his successor up, including recruitment costs. So the company isn't so far out of pocket as you might expect.
If you're using an operating system that isn't made of Swiss cheese, pretty much the only way for an attacker to violate your system is if you let them.
As far as I can tell, essentially all major operating systems are made of swiss cheese.
Actually, there is an upside to this technology- DRM hardware also permits ensuring that third parties can't modify Microsoft operating system (or Linux for that matter).
So your system can be more secure.
That's not otherwise possible right now, because the software to check it can be changed (if there is a security hole to allow it to be, but there nearly always is one).
But hardware is unchangeable.
At the end of the day, DRM is a technology, and technologies are amoral. It's the possible uses it can be put to that are inherently evil or helpful.
1) Cell phones are the wrong frequency. They are 800, 900, 1800, or 1900 MHz depending on the service. To make water heat up, you need to be at the frequency water resonates which is 2.4GHz.
That's not actually correct- there's basically an absorption band and it is quite wide (10s of gigahertz) in fact; other frequencies off the peak of the absorption band don't work quite as efficiently, but certainly they do work.
Mackerel is packed full of omega 3, protein and lots of good stuff.
I can get tins of mackerel in a mustard sauce, reasonably inexpensively, with a pull lid. It's a *fantastic* snack.
One time at work I got to work in the morning, hadn't had any breakfast and I was sitting in the corner wimpering, and the guys around me decided to do an IQ test; I was feeling dumb as a rock, but after a tin of mackerel my brain was really zipping and I scored 159 (normally I scored 124), and I trashed the 2 other guys score (139 and 100 IRC):-)
I blamed the mackerel. That and a crappy IQ test that emphasised the visual stuff I excel at. But my brain was definitely ticking along.
Protein has the lowest GI, and because mackerel is a wild fish the fish actually have to swim around, so there is some carbs in there; plus the mustard sauce had a little in too.
The only downside is that mackerel is relatively high in mercury, so you're best off eating it once or twice a week. I eat north atlantic salmon the rest of the time, it has the lowest mercury, and reasonably good omega 3.
Yes, but the virus seems to increase the rate you lay down fat. In other words consider two people (e.g. twins) who weigh the same and eat the same, except one has the virus and the other doesn't.
The one with the virus will have a bigger body fat percentage than the one without because the fat cells suck up the nutrients faster than the muscle cells.
That's doubly bad news, because it means the one with the virus will have smaller muscles. And muscles consume calories even when you're not exercising. So the one with the virus is likely to start gaining weight, even eating the same as the other.
But it doesn't mean you should stay away from fat people to avoid catching anything. The damage is done when they get the virus initially, and then the virus is cleared away. So it's the skinny guy with 'a cold' you want to watch out for.
Actually a small black hole would fall to the center of the Earth and start munching. It would take- I forget exactly how long, weeks to consume the whole Earth.
But these are way too small, they might get one atom before evaporating. One atom isn't enough to keep a hungry youngster growing and they starve to death. How sad!
Yeah, but on the upside, detecting that kind of stupidity with software filters isn't as hard as you might think. They tend to use give away phrases like 'opportunity of a lifetime!' 'make money fast' etc. etc.
Actually, the very fact that there was no effect when the herbicide was applied tells me straightaway that it very probably was cross contamination.
Whilst herbicides do put pressure on plants/weeds to evolve resistance to herbicides, in practice a total protection against the herbicide is very rare- it's much more common for the plant to evolve so as to be somewhat damaged by the herbicide, but survive; resistance rather than being immune to the herbicide. That's because natural evolution is reasonably slow by human timescales and evolution takes while to find the right combo of genes by blind chance, whereas humans are smart. But in this case the plant is said to be completely immune to the herbicide. That's very probably a manmade problem.
Contrast this with what happened when the USA started spraying drug crops in South America with herbicides. Suddenly, this plant evolved that was resistant to it and it was rapidly selected for by the farmers and spread pretty widely. A botanist got hold of a piece, and analysis showed it was a natural mutation. It was possible to still kill it with the sprays but it took an enormously larger dose.
In Iraq as well, one of the first things that was passed by the Coalition interim government was a resolution making it mandatory for farmers to buy sterile seeds.
Do you have a cite for that? I heard that too, but when I checked out the rules, so far as I could see the rules only said 'if you grow GM crops, you have to respect the IP of the company that made the seeds'. Nowhere that I could see did they force you to buy GM crops. And there wasn't a ban on keeping your own seed stock if you hadn't bought it from a company that had modified it in some way.
Because the implemented SemiProtection mechanism doesn't scale well to the whole wikipedia. (If nothing else it would probably stop new users from joining the wikipedia, and the wiki would gradually die.)
The right mechanism IMHO is probably something like: Timed stabilisation mechanism; and that can be applied across the whole wiki.
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IMO censorship by the company doesn't have a hope of working. It's kind of like Nupedia, nice in theory, but the 'pedia will probably stay small that way (you're limited by how quickly the censors can authorise stuff and you may have to pay them or there will be a limited supply of people with enough spare time etc...)
On the other hand, self censorship where the IP addresses are logged, and there's report buttons and possibly rewards for turning people in, that might work...
In other words, policing rather than bureaucracy. With the threat of being hauled off somewhere.
But ironically, in any case the engineers decided (probably very wisely) that going faster than mach ~2.02 causes problems with the airframe, and in particular the nose cone... guess what problems the Japanese are having with their mach mucho vehicle?
Specifically, the engineers decided to make it easy for themselves and use aluminium for constructing Concorde, and got a working vehicle; whilst spending less than the American companies, who tried to go faster (Mach 2.5+) and hence had more problems and thus didn't get any working hardware.
Of course we all know that Concorde economically failed, but it wasn't really the fault of the engineers that the market instantly dried up as soon as they'd got it working...
And it's probably compressed by Google on their servers. And if you send a multimegabyte file around in an attachment, I bet they only store one copy between all the people that have that particular file in their email. Stuff like that would save a *lot* of space.
The failure might well have been something to do with the LOX insulation jacket that didn't come off at launch. In the video you can see it dangling and being blown around by the airflow and seems to get into the exhaust jet. It could easily have wrapped around some of the pipes and broke them or something.
For example, if the blanket wrapped around a feedpipe for the engine and then got tugged by the plume or the airflow it could easily have disabled the engines.
Blankets like that are a known reliability issue, that's why the Shuttle has spray-on insulation on it's ET (not that that's been exactly briliantly reliable either, but it's probably more reliable than it would have been if it had had external blankets.)
In many cases the problems in poor countries are to do with poor living conditions from disease, lack of natural resources, difficult climate and so forth, far more so than cultural issues.
He would get future sales off products like Microsoft Office, and it would give people a clear upgrade path to desktops and more expensive laptops which run XP etc.
Yes, the fact that he wouldn't make any money on this laptop, when he previously suggested that windows would be a good idea, has nothing to do with his comments. His comments shouldn't be seen in this context at all. That would be wrong.
There is a big difference actually, a mass driver on a planetary/lunar/asteroid surface is much more efficient. That's because the planet is much heavier than the rocket and doesn't get accelerated significantly by the rocket as the rocket pushes off of it; but gaseous exhaust does tremendously; and the gaseous exhaust ends up going very fast and carries away lots of energy (energy is proportional to speed *squared*; whereas momentum is only speed times mass.)
Actually if you do the maths for minimum energy you want the heaviest reaction mass you can get.
True, it's energy intensive, but solar furnaces are available 24x7. It's just a big bit of bent aluminum foil- *really* lightweight to pack. Several thousand degrees... (surface temperature of the sun). Costs very little. And platinum is very expensive (it's used for catalytic converters for cars, and cars are popular, so at a few hundred dollars a gram, so it doesn't take many tonnes to turn a profit.)
2. The time it takes for a piece of capital equipment to return any materials to earth from an asteroid is enormous compared to the delivery of lunar mass to earth orbit. Since any mass in earth orbit is worth hundreds of dollars a pound and the time is so short for delivery, it makes a lot more sense to use lunar material in earth orbit than it does to use asteroidal material on the earth's surface.
Depends. The delta-v to return stuff from say, Phobos or Deimos is much less than that needed from the moon though. And it's not entirely true that mass in earth orbit is worth hundreds of dollars, if you deliver stuff from asteroids/moons; delivery can be much cheaper than that.
He's:
a) got a family to feed (i.e. he's likely to be dependable worker.)
b) buying a house in the area (i.e. he's likely to not need to move due for housing/schooling reasons)
c) they don't need to increase his salary any more (his mortgage will be decreasing over time, and he probably can't afford to move or it's less likely that he will be able to, so the company would be in a good bargaining position.)
So basically the company gains stuff from this situation too. If they didn't pony up the extra, he's probably leaving at some point in the next year or so; the company would then have to pay up to maybe a years salary to train his successor up, including recruitment costs. So the company isn't so far out of pocket as you might expect.
As far as I can tell, essentially all major operating systems are made of swiss cheese.
So your system can be more secure.
That's not otherwise possible right now, because the software to check it can be changed (if there is a security hole to allow it to be, but there nearly always is one).
But hardware is unchangeable.
At the end of the day, DRM is a technology, and technologies are amoral. It's the possible uses it can be put to that are inherently evil or helpful.
Just don't expect any more big payrises... they've got you over a barrel... :-(
That's not actually correct- there's basically an absorption band and it is quite wide (10s of gigahertz) in fact; other frequencies off the peak of the absorption band don't work quite as efficiently, but certainly they do work.
Mackerel is packed full of omega 3, protein and lots of good stuff.
I can get tins of mackerel in a mustard sauce, reasonably inexpensively, with a pull lid. It's a *fantastic* snack.
One time at work I got to work in the morning, hadn't had any breakfast and I was sitting in the corner wimpering, and the guys around me decided to do an IQ test; I was feeling dumb as a rock, but after a tin of mackerel my brain was really zipping and I scored 159 (normally I scored 124), and I trashed the 2 other guys score (139 and 100 IRC) :-)
I blamed the mackerel. That and a crappy IQ test that emphasised the visual stuff I excel at. But my brain was definitely ticking along.
Protein has the lowest GI, and because mackerel is a wild fish the fish actually have to swim around, so there is some carbs in there; plus the mustard sauce had a little in too.
The only downside is that mackerel is relatively high in mercury, so you're best off eating it once or twice a week. I eat north atlantic salmon the rest of the time, it has the lowest mercury, and reasonably good omega 3.
The one with the virus will have a bigger body fat percentage than the one without because the fat cells suck up the nutrients faster than the muscle cells.
That's doubly bad news, because it means the one with the virus will have smaller muscles. And muscles consume calories even when you're not exercising. So the one with the virus is likely to start gaining weight, even eating the same as the other.
But it doesn't mean you should stay away from fat people to avoid catching anything. The damage is done when they get the virus initially, and then the virus is cleared away. So it's the skinny guy with 'a cold' you want to watch out for.
Is that a full featured hard drive in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
But these are way too small, they might get one atom before evaporating. One atom isn't enough to keep a hungry youngster growing and they starve to death. How sad!
Yeah, but on the upside, detecting that kind of stupidity with software filters isn't as hard as you might think. They tend to use give away phrases like 'opportunity of a lifetime!' 'make money fast' etc. etc.
I like. That could work politically. I also wonder how easy it would be to get myself put on the children list. :-)
Whilst herbicides do put pressure on plants/weeds to evolve resistance to herbicides, in practice a total protection against the herbicide is very rare- it's much more common for the plant to evolve so as to be somewhat damaged by the herbicide, but survive; resistance rather than being immune to the herbicide. That's because natural evolution is reasonably slow by human timescales and evolution takes while to find the right combo of genes by blind chance, whereas humans are smart. But in this case the plant is said to be completely immune to the herbicide. That's very probably a manmade problem.
Contrast this with what happened when the USA started spraying drug crops in South America with herbicides. Suddenly, this plant evolved that was resistant to it and it was rapidly selected for by the farmers and spread pretty widely. A botanist got hold of a piece, and analysis showed it was a natural mutation. It was possible to still kill it with the sprays but it took an enormously larger dose.
Do you have a cite for that? I heard that too, but when I checked out the rules, so far as I could see the rules only said 'if you grow GM crops, you have to respect the IP of the company that made the seeds'. Nowhere that I could see did they force you to buy GM crops. And there wasn't a ban on keeping your own seed stock if you hadn't bought it from a company that had modified it in some way.
The right mechanism IMHO is probably something like: Timed stabilisation mechanism; and that can be applied across the whole wiki.
Careful here, sucrose is broken down in the body to roughly equal parts of glucose and fructose.