An unmanned jet could use 360 degree viewing, updated thousands of times a second, with the aid of satellite data beemed in every second, to gain a complete view of the sky that would give it a huge advantage over any crew, even two man crews.
Certainly this isn't new in tech markets. Y oucan outsource nearly anything you want, including development of your core product. There are plenty of development shops overseas that you can contract on the cheap to develop your code end to end.
The ongoing issue will be at what point is it more advantageous to get rid of internal full-time developers.
While you may think they will always be essential, in industries like automobiles, companies like GM let companies like Dana pretty much manufacture a large part of the finished vehicle already, and the trend is to move more and more of the work to suppliers.
In the end, the cheapest way to satisfy customers will win.
I've been using Quicken/Money since 1994 and as a result on any given day I know exactly how much money I have in any one of my accounts, how much I owe on any one of my lines of credit, as well as a general estimate of what bills I will be expecting to pay over the next several weeks.
I know all of this as well - my online bank does all of this for me. You don't need Quicken to do this kind of thing. Maybe in 1994 you did.
While Quicken/Money is not going to be a substitute for good financial management
On a somewhat related note, I have found that most people who purchase these programs want to decrease expenditures, feeling that if they organize their expenses, they will reduce them.
In general I have found this not to be the case. If you simply want a category breakdown, your credit card should already provide it - mine does. Otherwise, a simple check of your accounts once a week should give you a simple idea of how your spending is going.
Simply put, the only way to reduce expenditures is to not buy things. Also, watch for monthly fees you start incurring for this service or that - these monthly fees constitute a huge drain on most people's cash, and our economy is moving more and more to a rental model where it will be hugely important to control recurring service fees.
Added to which, most banks charge for the pleasure of automagically syncing Quicken with your account (although you can still manually update Quicken with a download file for free with most banks). So you could be losing money while trying to save it.
The reason why we have representational government is because the common man cannot present his opinion on every topic the government debates. Sounds elitist? More like practical.
The government has the advantage of expert testimony, review processes, studies, etc. to determine the viability of any expenditure. Joe sixpack does not (yet).
If you did let society devolve to referenda on each expenditure, we would wind up with subsidzed pro wrestling pay-per-views and a two day work week.
We've got at least a century to go before the common man can be expected to make rational informed decisions on arbitrary matters.
Not to depress you, but scientists have recently concluded that there is no meaningful way to reverse the disruption of the polar ice shelf. Get used to seeing more and more of it break off and melt.
There's probably no way to reverse serious weather disruptions in the next century or rising water lines as a result. I have heard 17 ft as being a possible amount of rise over the next fifty years. That's dramatic.
You are totally correct. Going to Mars is such a huge deal that there is no point going unless it is a useful trip with a real purpose. Right now the technologies needed aren't there and the cost would be astronomical with little pay off.
At the very least some very strong basic science (with applications) in MEMs and nanotech, not only for the machinery needed to get to Mars, but for construction and terraforming. To make a large scale settlement there, we will have no choice but to build with local materials.
Second, major advances in space travel need to happen. We could possibly cobble together something that would get there and back but it would be of little lasting value. We need to understand more about alternative propolsion and energy adaption.
Third, we have very little useful information on human spaceflight, other than it is harmful. We need another twenty years for biotech to help offset the effects of space travel on our muscle and bones.
Fourth, some major advances in environmental science need to happen. We can barely keep the garden of paradise from turning into a sewage pit, so there's a lot of work to be done if we hope to take something as fragile as Mars and make it liveable.
Lastly computing still has a ways to go insofar as creating robust systems that can operate autonomously, although consumer applications from blenders to driveless monorail cars seem to be making progress.
We'll get there, but right now we just don't have what it takes to make the trip worthwhile.
Good post. I have some comments which should not be construed as being adversarial...just some points of disagreemtn.
1. Budget deficit is a paper tiger. We always have a budget deficit
We also have a balanced budget amendment. Both Clinton and Bush were serious about erasing the national debt as well. All of these don't make big deficits for space programs seem possible.
2. The War on Terrorism is funded largely from the existing military budget - this type of thing is actually budgeted for.
I don't know where you got this from but it doesn't jive with anything I see on CSPAN. This conflict has already create a extra cost of over $10 billion dollars. I understand there are sunk costs with reference to staffing overseas bases, but armaments and fuel are not sunk costs.
3. Castastrophe Looming with Social Security is simple FUD
Oh I agree, but its a huge voter issue, and Bush is going to have address it in some fashion. SS is dead one way or another - there is no arithmetic in the US econonmy that can save it, but don't tell that to the AARP.
In any case, even in terms of pure science I can think of a dozen different research projects more deserving. Alternative energy. Grid computing. Nanotechnology/MEMs. Genomics. etc etc.
Hotmail is the gateway by which they engage you in the Passport service. These options appear to allow MS to forward your info to other pariticipating Passport sites.
Same diff, Microsoft is sending your email address places you probably don't want it going, but users should be aware that this is probably pervasive in any Passport service they use, such as MSN messenger (may want to go and check the options on it if you use it).
We've got a budget deficit, a war on terrorism that has devolved to the US managing a quarter of the world, a huge catastrophe looming with social security, crumbling schools, a growing military budget....
All of these add up to very very little money for Mars.
I would love to be proven wrong, but I suspect that this bill will not see much debate.
I'd love to see Doc Oc, who I consider Spidey's best golden-age nemesis, in the second film.
Hopefully they'll keep the playful and good-hearted nature of the golden-age storytelling in the Spider Man series and not devolve into the infantile anti-heroism and broodiness of the Venom years.
How many ways can you rephrase it? At least UML provided some sort of vocabulary to the design phase...so the Rational folks can at least say they forwarded the state of the art.
Do you think sweathshop laborers make better running shoes?
Lowering costs helps company X put companies Y and Z out of business. Once that happens. you have less choice, so you have to put up with lower quality.
You can go off and write your own C# tools anytime you like. As long as you conform to the ECMA documents, you can claim that your tool deals with C#. Micorosft invented it but does not own it.
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An unmanned jet could use 360 degree viewing, updated thousands of times a second, with the aid of satellite data beemed in every second, to gain a complete view of the sky that would give it a huge advantage over any crew, even two man crews.
Remember you have to supply and staff the thing, and thats after you construct it.
No nation right now has the capacity to effectively do this. ISS is feasible because shuttles can dock directly with it.
The ongoing issue will be at what point is it more advantageous to get rid of internal full-time developers.
While you may think they will always be essential, in industries like automobiles, companies like GM let companies like Dana pretty much manufacture a large part of the finished vehicle already, and the trend is to move more and more of the work to suppliers.
In the end, the cheapest way to satisfy customers will win.
Just like any other sport, as long as you have fun and play well, the rest isn't important.
I know all of this as well - my online bank does all of this for me. You don't need Quicken to do this kind of thing. Maybe in 1994 you did.
While Quicken/Money is not going to be a substitute for good financial management
That was all I was really saying.
In general I have found this not to be the case. If you simply want a category breakdown, your credit card should already provide it - mine does. Otherwise, a simple check of your accounts once a week should give you a simple idea of how your spending is going.
Simply put, the only way to reduce expenditures is to not buy things. Also, watch for monthly fees you start incurring for this service or that - these monthly fees constitute a huge drain on most people's cash, and our economy is moving more and more to a rental model where it will be hugely important to control recurring service fees.
Added to which, most banks charge for the pleasure of automagically syncing Quicken with your account (although you can still manually update Quicken with a download file for free with most banks). So you could be losing money while trying to save it.
Even if it isn't possible to create a true QWERTY layout, I see no value in going with an alphabetical order.
The government has the advantage of expert testimony, review processes, studies, etc. to determine the viability of any expenditure. Joe sixpack does not (yet).
If you did let society devolve to referenda on each expenditure, we would wind up with subsidzed pro wrestling pay-per-views and a two day work week.
We've got at least a century to go before the common man can be expected to make rational informed decisions on arbitrary matters.
The "network device" workstation is dead. Sun knows it. Larry Ellison knows it. Everyone who has tried to push this model knows it.
My only advice is not to be in the room when the CEO concludes that the company must go back to PCs.
i stand corrected.
The hypocrisy of this aside, legalizing pot and leaving gun owners alone won't get you as far as Pennsylvania let alone Mars.
As for the comment about the "war on terrorism", let me get this straight, America shouldn't defend itself, but instead go to Mars. Okay!
There's probably no way to reverse serious weather disruptions in the next century or rising water lines as a result. I have heard 17 ft as being a possible amount of rise over the next fifty years. That's dramatic.
At the very least some very strong basic science (with applications) in MEMs and nanotech, not only for the machinery needed to get to Mars, but for construction and terraforming. To make a large scale settlement there, we will have no choice but to build with local materials.
Second, major advances in space travel need to happen. We could possibly cobble together something that would get there and back but it would be of little lasting value. We need to understand more about alternative propolsion and energy adaption.
Third, we have very little useful information on human spaceflight, other than it is harmful. We need another twenty years for biotech to help offset the effects of space travel on our muscle and bones.
Fourth, some major advances in environmental science need to happen. We can barely keep the garden of paradise from turning into a sewage pit, so there's a lot of work to be done if we hope to take something as fragile as Mars and make it liveable.
Lastly computing still has a ways to go insofar as creating robust systems that can operate autonomously, although consumer applications from blenders to driveless monorail cars seem to be making progress.
We'll get there, but right now we just don't have what it takes to make the trip worthwhile.
Good post. I have some comments which should not be construed as being adversarial...just some points of disagreemtn.
1. Budget deficit is a paper tiger. We always have a budget deficit
We also have a balanced budget amendment. Both Clinton and Bush were serious about erasing the national debt as well. All of these don't make big deficits for space programs seem possible.
2. The War on Terrorism is funded largely from the existing military budget - this type of thing is actually budgeted for.
I don't know where you got this from but it doesn't jive with anything I see on CSPAN. This conflict has already create a extra cost of over $10 billion dollars. I understand there are sunk costs with reference to staffing overseas bases, but armaments and fuel are not sunk costs.
3. Castastrophe Looming with Social Security is simple FUD
Oh I agree, but its a huge voter issue, and Bush is going to have address it in some fashion. SS is dead one way or another - there is no arithmetic in the US econonmy that can save it, but don't tell that to the AARP.
In any case, even in terms of pure science I can think of a dozen different research projects more deserving. Alternative energy. Grid computing. Nanotechnology/MEMs. Genomics. etc etc.
Same diff, Microsoft is sending your email address places you probably don't want it going, but users should be aware that this is probably pervasive in any Passport service they use, such as MSN messenger (may want to go and check the options on it if you use it).
All of these add up to very very little money for Mars.
I would love to be proven wrong, but I suspect that this bill will not see much debate.
My San Jose home rolled slightly, and BART has stopped for a bit, but life goes on.
Getting this thing from Russia to your backyard is going to cost at least another million.
Hopefully they'll keep the playful and good-hearted nature of the golden-age storytelling in the Spider Man series and not devolve into the infantile anti-heroism and broodiness of the Venom years.
whoops.
Biz 2.0 readers likely understand the difference between a true open standard and reverse-engineered documentation.
I suspect this is not a coincidence.
How many ways can you rephrase it? At least UML provided some sort of vocabulary to the design phase...so the Rational folks can at least say they forwarded the state of the art.
Lowering costs helps company X put companies Y and Z out of business. Once that happens. you have less choice, so you have to put up with lower quality.
You can go off and write your own C# tools anytime you like. As long as you conform to the ECMA documents, you can claim that your tool deals with C#. Micorosft invented it but does not own it.