Well, we've ruined tanks by dumping concrete dummy bombs onto them from 40k feet. They weren't really 'destroyed', but enough stuff was sprung and dented that it wasn't usable anymore. We did that because they had parked them right next to a school.
Kinetic kill devices are nice in that they aren't really dangerous after they hit.
Probably because captioning, if it goes over the picture, would annoy the normal customers, who outnumber the deaf by a considerable margin. It wouldn't be bad if it's not on the picture, or you're given a filter or something.
Also, it might not be expensive, but there was an article on/. about how movie theaters are underpowering their bulbs to be cheap.
He probably should have just submitted the data entered at his site directly to the appropriate script on Odeon's site.
But if you read the emails, he did. I know I've done this a couple of times, you can send a html form to any address. If I could get a copy of the old site, I'd be able to verify in about a minute. Heck, the browser won't even send the data to the guy's server, it'll go to odeous's.
The problem might be limited supply. Think about it, you're offering cable channels, internet, and now VoD, all of which take bandwidth.
If you have a better selection than the rental places and you price it less than the rental places, you'll kill them. Now all the people are trying to watch your VoD rather than renting. Say your service can feed 100 people per cable run, but your cable run is to a 1000 people. What happens friday night when everybody wants to watch a movie?
Now having a Tivo like box might help. You set up broadcast and use like ~10 users worth of bandwidth to keep streaming the really popular movies. When the user buys the VoD, the box picks up the stream, if there is one, to the HD while picking up the fresh one for immediate play. If possible, feed the movie at 5x or 10x rate so that sooner or later the movie watcher is going to switch over to the common stream. Have a computer deciding on the fly which movie to fast-stream. If the Tivo-analog has enough HD, you could even have it capture the common movie streams 'just in case'.
Right to privacy, yes, in the sense that companies & strangers can't hound them. Parents, however...
'arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation.'
As a minor are considered incompetent to enter contracts, etc... Their guardians have the right to monitor their actions. I bet the difference between the USA and the 'rest of the word(read EU)' is smaller than what you might think. It's just codified differently.
Not that much of a factor, considering how much your average american overeats. I personally could easily deal with another 500 calories a day expenditure...
Newspeople are looking for sensationalism. Best states for this are: close running, late reporting, and large enough to flip the standing to the cadidate it decides for.
Truth is, GWB counted on the support of the smaller states to outbalance states like California and New York. North Dakota & Montana- Each worth 3 votes, and can be courted at far less cost than, say Florida.
Now, what a candidate will do is divide states into groups: Strongly for me: advertising is mostly fundraising Strongly for my opponent: Don't waste my time/funding Mildly for me: Campaign lightly for funding/make sure Mildly for my opponent: Campaign lightly, force my opponent to spend money to make sure of the state. Undecided: The war ground. Both sides are fighting for ratings.
Alot of this is due to the malpractice suits, where the prosecutor will press the point 'If only they had run this test, it would have been detected!'.
This is why, as stated elsewhere, some people consider the guitar amp part of the instrument. It's like violins. You can get a violin for $100, or you can try to get a Stradivari for under a million.
Some instruments have variable sound boards that let you do with wood what you do with an amp, alter and amplify the sound in various ways.
Besides, for most of us who don't play electric guitar or are in a band with one, our only need for amplifiers is for our pre-manufactured music. There we want the most accurate amplification, not the modifications made by a overdriven tube amp.
DeCSS was basically a reverse engineered copy of the decryption portion of a dvd player, not to mention using a key.
To join the group, besides paying $$$, you have to agree to all sorts of rules about player operation like listening to the force play flag, macrovision, and region coding. Oh, and not disclosing some of the specifications (they're a trade secret).
If they go %y under, you give them a bonus. Also, you have a bid system. Whoever bids lowest gets the contract. If they fail to deliver too badly, they're barred from further contracts.
They may be a bit lumbering, but at least they aren't trying for 10x profit margins. I mean, most of their investments are for automated factories that put cars together for less manpower/cost than what it would take to do it by hand.
As for the aerospace industries go, I agree completely that they can learn from other industries. If only that they'll get more business if they didn't try for 10-100x profit margins. This would benefit the industry in many ways, starting with lower prices leading to more purchases, leading to the benefits of mass production, lowering costs even more.
I guess it's the fault of cost+ contracts. I mean, if you make more money the more you spend, you're not really concerned about cutting costs, are you?
More launches and a certain amount of KISS is what will drop launch costs. It would even result in safer launches, as you experience from earlier launches can be used much more easily to fix future problems.
Water's heavy: A kilo of water weighs the same as a kilo of anything else;). Technically once it's there it doesn't weigh much at all. It is somewhat massive, but alot of metals have it beat.
I'd hope they don't end up drinking it, as it would become radioactive over time. Not very, but I still wouldn't want to drink it.
As for it being used, the biggist indicator for radiation shielding is mass. The more mass you have between you and the radiation source, the more radiation will be absorbed before it reaches you. Besides, the extra shielding probably won't be needed until we're either sending a ship to mars or using a higher orbit.
Water would be nice because as long as you keep it a liquid, you could pump it around to beef up shielding, towards the sun, for example. It's also cheap and stable.
High tolerance requirements is a known issue. Have you looked at the tolerances of a typical four-cylinder car engine? They're actually often tighter than airplane engines and space equipment!
One of the big problems with the space system is the one-off nature of all to much of their equipment. If you're going to be building hundreds of thousands of a single model of car, you can set up production lines to construct them cheaply and effectivly, even with tight tolerances.
As for the valve being for plumbing, I doubt it, as it was still $3000, and was for the air system.
The point is to get away from gravity for some of these manufacturing tasks. Gravity is one factor that we can't eliminate in our manufacturing processes right now, and it actually has some fairly major effects. There are a number of ideas that we could make this or that better in microgravity, but there's no telling until we try.
It's not that thin, they're looking at ~20 layers right now, a number of them kevlar. Also, how thick are the walls of the shuttle/ISS? Thick walls need weight whether they're stiff or flexable.
Don't think of a cloth/rubber ballon. Think Soccer ball. Alot of things that'll punture a soccer ball will do the same to a car door.
And how is this risk any worse than a hard-shelled craft cracking or warping itself apart? They're already looking at these having better impact resistance than metal skinned craft.
Odds are that a seal failure would result in a slow loss of atmosphere. An alarm sounds, the passangers pile into the return vehicle, and they either fix it or abandon the station for the duration.
This isn't being made out of 10c rubber ballon material.
The car market is a mass-production, mature industry. The space industry is not.
Think about how much a hand built car used to cost (include inflation), before Ford came along and made the process more efficient. That's along the lines of what this guy is trying to do. Just the fact that he managed to get a valve for $3k instead of $300k indicates that costs can be cut.
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How about we make driving illegal? That way it's much easier to spot the drunk drivers!
Making something illegal just because it could be used to mask something else illegal is just wrong.
So long as they aren't radioactive, or poisonous, or sharp, or heavy, or ...
I was talking about a concrete bomb.
What? You couldn't keep up with Zeus?
Well, we've ruined tanks by dumping concrete dummy bombs onto them from 40k feet. They weren't really 'destroyed', but enough stuff was sprung and dented that it wasn't usable anymore. We did that because they had parked them right next to a school.
Kinetic kill devices are nice in that they aren't really dangerous after they hit.
Probably because captioning, if it goes over the picture, would annoy the normal customers, who outnumber the deaf by a considerable margin. It wouldn't be bad if it's not on the picture, or you're given a filter or something.
/. about how movie theaters are underpowering their bulbs to be cheap.
Also, it might not be expensive, but there was an article on
But if you read the emails, he did. I know I've done this a couple of times, you can send a html form to any address. If I could get a copy of the old site, I'd be able to verify in about a minute. Heck, the browser won't even send the data to the guy's server, it'll go to odeous's.
The problem might be limited supply. Think about it, you're offering cable channels, internet, and now VoD, all of which take bandwidth.
If you have a better selection than the rental places and you price it less than the rental places, you'll kill them. Now all the people are trying to watch your VoD rather than renting. Say your service can feed 100 people per cable run, but your cable run is to a 1000 people. What happens friday night when everybody wants to watch a movie?
Now having a Tivo like box might help. You set up broadcast and use like ~10 users worth of bandwidth to keep streaming the really popular movies. When the user buys the VoD, the box picks up the stream, if there is one, to the HD while picking up the fresh one for immediate play. If possible, feed the movie at 5x or 10x rate so that sooner or later the movie watcher is going to switch over to the common stream. Have a computer deciding on the fly which movie to fast-stream. If the Tivo-analog has enough HD, you could even have it capture the common movie streams 'just in case'.
As a minor are considered incompetent to enter contracts, etc... Their guardians have the right to monitor their actions.
I bet the difference between the USA and the 'rest of the word(read EU)' is smaller than what you might think. It's just codified differently.
Not that much of a factor, considering how much your average american overeats. I personally could easily deal with another 500 calories a day expenditure...
Why a cross? Why not fill in the bubble? I mean, just about everybody's taken a standardized test, right? Why make it harder for the machine?
Newspeople are looking for sensationalism. Best states for this are: close running, late reporting, and large enough to flip the standing to the cadidate it decides for.
Truth is, GWB counted on the support of the smaller states to outbalance states like California and New York. North Dakota & Montana- Each worth 3 votes, and can be courted at far less cost than, say Florida.
Now, what a candidate will do is divide states into groups:
Strongly for me: advertising is mostly fundraising
Strongly for my opponent: Don't waste my time/funding
Mildly for me: Campaign lightly for funding/make sure
Mildly for my opponent: Campaign lightly, force my opponent to spend money to make sure of the state.
Undecided: The war ground. Both sides are fighting for ratings.
Alot of this is due to the malpractice suits, where the prosecutor will press the point 'If only they had run this test, it would have been detected!'.
For some real fun, some people are coloring their real firearms neon colors...
I've seen a flourescent pink hangun before... I think it was 9mm.
This is why, as stated elsewhere, some people consider the guitar amp part of the instrument. It's like violins. You can get a violin for $100, or you can try to get a Stradivari for under a million.
Some instruments have variable sound boards that let you do with wood what you do with an amp, alter and amplify the sound in various ways.
Besides, for most of us who don't play electric guitar or are in a band with one, our only need for amplifiers is for our pre-manufactured music. There we want the most accurate amplification, not the modifications made by a overdriven tube amp.
DeCSS was basically a reverse engineered copy of the decryption portion of a dvd player, not to mention using a key.
To join the group, besides paying $$$, you have to agree to all sorts of rules about player operation like listening to the force play flag, macrovision, and region coding. Oh, and not disclosing some of the specifications (they're a trade secret).
If they go %y under, you give them a bonus. Also, you have a bid system. Whoever bids lowest gets the contract. If they fail to deliver too badly, they're barred from further contracts.
They may be a bit lumbering, but at least they aren't trying for 10x profit margins. I mean, most of their investments are for automated factories that put cars together for less manpower/cost than what it would take to do it by hand.
As for the aerospace industries go, I agree completely that they can learn from other industries. If only that they'll get more business if they didn't try for 10-100x profit margins. This would benefit the industry in many ways, starting with lower prices leading to more purchases, leading to the benefits of mass production, lowering costs even more.
I guess it's the fault of cost+ contracts. I mean, if you make more money the more you spend, you're not really concerned about cutting costs, are you?
More launches and a certain amount of KISS is what will drop launch costs. It would even result in safer launches, as you experience from earlier launches can be used much more easily to fix future problems.
Water's heavy: A kilo of water weighs the same as a kilo of anything else ;). Technically once it's there it doesn't weigh much at all. It is somewhat massive, but alot of metals have it beat.
I'd hope they don't end up drinking it, as it would become radioactive over time. Not very, but I still wouldn't want to drink it.
As for it being used, the biggist indicator for radiation shielding is mass. The more mass you have between you and the radiation source, the more radiation will be absorbed before it reaches you. Besides, the extra shielding probably won't be needed until we're either sending a ship to mars or using a higher orbit.
Water would be nice because as long as you keep it a liquid, you could pump it around to beef up shielding, towards the sun, for example. It's also cheap and stable.
I've heard water.
On the other hand, think about how much shielding a metal-skinned craft really has. This isn't going to have any less, relativly speaking.
Don't forget the old saying 'There's a sucker born every minute'.
Internet scams are only an outgrowth of technology. This has been a problem from before written history. Remember the moneychangers?
High tolerance requirements is a known issue. Have you looked at the tolerances of a typical four-cylinder car engine? They're actually often tighter than airplane engines and space equipment!
One of the big problems with the space system is the one-off nature of all to much of their equipment. If you're going to be building hundreds of thousands of a single model of car, you can set up production lines to construct them cheaply and effectivly, even with tight tolerances.
As for the valve being for plumbing, I doubt it, as it was still $3000, and was for the air system.
The point is to get away from gravity for some of these manufacturing tasks. Gravity is one factor that we can't eliminate in our manufacturing processes right now, and it actually has some fairly major effects. There are a number of ideas that we could make this or that better in microgravity, but there's no telling until we try.
"necessarily thin skin"
It's not that thin, they're looking at ~20 layers right now, a number of them kevlar. Also, how thick are the walls of the shuttle/ISS? Thick walls need weight whether they're stiff or flexable.
Don't think of a cloth/rubber ballon. Think Soccer ball. Alot of things that'll punture a soccer ball will do the same to a car door.
And how is this risk any worse than a hard-shelled craft cracking or warping itself apart? They're already looking at these having better impact resistance than metal skinned craft.
Odds are that a seal failure would result in a slow loss of atmosphere. An alarm sounds, the passangers pile into the return vehicle, and they either fix it or abandon the station for the duration.
This isn't being made out of 10c rubber ballon material.
The car market is a mass-production, mature industry. The space industry is not.
Think about how much a hand built car used to cost (include inflation), before Ford came along and made the process more efficient. That's along the lines of what this guy is trying to do. Just the fact that he managed to get a valve for $3k instead of $300k indicates that costs can be cut.