"This is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science education."
How is Myth busters in any way useful for promoting science education?
Perhaps we should start learning to drive by watching Top Gear.
If I wanted my kids to become interested in cars I'd certainly want them watching TopGear. Similarly, Mythbusters seems like an entertaining way to introduce my kids to science that doesn't involve some drab, low-cost PBS production.
I fail to see your connection between using Mythbusters to "promote science education" and using it to actually train scientists, like your Top Gear analogy implies.
Aside from the fact that a working sunshade is likely decades, if not centuries, in the future and therefore may occur past the lifetime of the UN, aren't there other applications for a planetary sunshade such as blocking solar storms? I'm referring to ACC and Stephen Baxter's Sunstorm
I imagine trucks would be the first to try this out as they driver for longer periods, and it seems to be that they have more sleep-related accidents (at least I see more reports about them).
Interestingly, when installing 2010, it asked me whether I wanted to enable OpenDocument formats. I was torougly surprised by that. That's another admittance of Microsoft that OpenOffice is a treath.
It's better to support the format and keep users on your software than not support it and potentially risk losing them.
One reason I haven't switched is that I hate learning new software (as do most users), and I've never directly paid for an Office license, instead having it pre-installed or received through a MSDNAA.
I can call a special number that immediately texts me usage statistics for my plan. Also, every time I've gone international, as soon as I connect to a foreign carrier ATT sends me a text informing me of the current Intl rates.
I don't know if they send an automatic message warning that you're reaching a limit (I have unlimited everything), they at least provide me a simple, easy method for checking.
A five-meter-sized near-Earth asteroid from the undiscovered population of about 30 million would be expected to pass daily within a lunar distance, and one might strike Earth’s atmosphere about every 2 years on average.If an asteroid of the size of 2010 TD54 were to enter Earth’s atmosphere, it would be expected to burn up high in the atmosphere and cause no damage to Earth’s surface.
Is it because we know about it? If this happens daily and would cause no harm if striking the Earth...then why is it newsworthy?
I suppose this could be used to record an entire game and then go back and track what each player was saying during the game based on their positions on the court. I'd be interested to see if this could be used in a football stadium (domed or not) with all the extra noise and people.
Didn't you know that g-men spend most of their days chasing after bad guys on helicopters and spend their lunch breaks training white-lotus kung-fu with Chuck Norris' beard?...you don't think they really go through hours of paperwork do you?
If I wanted an iPhone, I would have gotten one. But since I wanted to write my own apps, Android was a much more attractive platform.
Rather, it means nothing to Android users who are also programmers/developers. Perhaps you haven't talked to a mobile-tech layperson in a while. Many customers are dying for an iPhone to become available on their networks. There's still a large chunk of users who would rather wait than switch carriers.
...battle for control over our mobile devices. Fuck it, I don't care anymore. The war certainly won't be won in its current direction. It needs fundamental change at the consumer level.
What I find exciting is the prospect of a lot of young minds trying to figure out how to get a probe there with the capability of communicating back (within a reasonable time frame) what it finds. And then the science, if it is a habitable planet, of trying to visit it.
We need a new catalyst to spark imagination and an intense drive to succeed in the sciences.
Even if it is impossible to venture there, the discoveries and new technologies that we _do_ develop that doesn't quite reach the goal, but is above anything we currently have... Exciting!
Give me funding to go to grad school and (more importantly) grants to pay me for this kind of research and I'll gladly quit my well paying salaried+benefits day job to go pursue my childhood dreams.
...to be found near us, wouldn't "they" have identified Earth as a potential harborer of life and a) attempted communication, b) sent robots, or c) tried to visit? Any meaningful discussion on getting to this place is useless without the technology to actually get there.
I think it's pretty telling that a company that is considered to employ such brilliance and be on the technological forefront in the end exists simply to peddle adverts. Surely there are better uses of the resources.
Is peddling adverts not their entire business plan?
Advertisers pay money to put ads on shows. Google charges $2 to skip the ads...are they pocketing the money or giving it to advertisers as compensation?
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"This is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science education."
How is Myth busters in any way useful for promoting science education?
Perhaps we should start learning to drive by watching Top Gear.
If I wanted my kids to become interested in cars I'd certainly want them watching TopGear. Similarly, Mythbusters seems like an entertaining way to introduce my kids to science that doesn't involve some drab, low-cost PBS production. I fail to see your connection between using Mythbusters to "promote science education" and using it to actually train scientists, like your Top Gear analogy implies.
Aside from the fact that a working sunshade is likely decades, if not centuries, in the future and therefore may occur past the lifetime of the UN, aren't there other applications for a planetary sunshade such as blocking solar storms? I'm referring to ACC and Stephen Baxter's Sunstorm
Michael Chertoff needs a good lesson in the Internet or some hacker somewhere is going to cream his (or her) pants if this gets implemented.
I imagine trucks would be the first to try this out as they driver for longer periods, and it seems to be that they have more sleep-related accidents (at least I see more reports about them).
How is this related to YRO? This isn't a threat to anyone's rights online, not even privacy.
Interestingly, when installing 2010, it asked me whether I wanted to enable OpenDocument formats. I was torougly surprised by that. That's another admittance of Microsoft that OpenOffice is a treath.
It's better to support the format and keep users on your software than not support it and potentially risk losing them.
One reason I haven't switched is that I hate learning new software (as do most users), and I've never directly paid for an Office license, instead having it pre-installed or received through a MSDNAA.
I can call a special number that immediately texts me usage statistics for my plan. Also, every time I've gone international, as soon as I connect to a foreign carrier ATT sends me a text informing me of the current Intl rates. I don't know if they send an automatic message warning that you're reaching a limit (I have unlimited everything), they at least provide me a simple, easy method for checking.
A five-meter-sized near-Earth asteroid from the undiscovered population of about 30 million would be expected to pass daily within a lunar distance, and one might strike Earth’s atmosphere about every 2 years on average.If an asteroid of the size of 2010 TD54 were to enter Earth’s atmosphere, it would be expected to burn up high in the atmosphere and cause no damage to Earth’s surface.
Is it because we know about it? If this happens daily and would cause no harm if striking the Earth...then why is it newsworthy?
Compared to, say, the new Cowboys Stadium, yes.
I suppose this could be used to record an entire game and then go back and track what each player was saying during the game based on their positions on the court. I'd be interested to see if this could be used in a football stadium (domed or not) with all the extra noise and people.
The hardware certainly isn't "personal" whatsoever. I would think that is the first test to determine if a computer really is "personal."
I think the fear is that this will contain exponentially more data than do HTTP cookies.
"big, multinational electronics company"
It doesn't take a genius to know the answer is IBM
Didn't you know that g-men spend most of their days chasing after bad guys on helicopters and spend their lunch breaks training white-lotus kung-fu with Chuck Norris' beard? ...you don't think they really go through hours of paperwork do you?
one new plan imagines using old shuttle parts, including pieces of the tank, to build a new moon rocket.
This seems to be taken from Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars in which the interplanetary spacecraft is composed of used shuttle fuel tanks.
If I wanted an iPhone, I would have gotten one. But since I wanted to write my own apps, Android was a much more attractive platform.
Rather, it means nothing to Android users who are also programmers/developers. Perhaps you haven't talked to a mobile-tech layperson in a while. Many customers are dying for an iPhone to become available on their networks. There's still a large chunk of users who would rather wait than switch carriers.
Brain cells, and an entire brain (especially a mammal's) are two separate beasts.
...battle for control over our mobile devices. Fuck it, I don't care anymore. The war certainly won't be won in its current direction. It needs fundamental change at the consumer level.
Who the hell is in charge of the software patent division?
Restrict them to a subnet that only contains pages related to removing the malicious software.
All the more reason to use a structured definition of what constitutes an infected machine instead of pure judgement.
What I find exciting is the prospect of a lot of young minds trying to figure out how to get a probe there with the capability of communicating back (within a reasonable time frame) what it finds. And then the science, if it is a habitable planet, of trying to visit it.
We need a new catalyst to spark imagination and an intense drive to succeed in the sciences.
Even if it is impossible to venture there, the discoveries and new technologies that we _do_ develop that doesn't quite reach the goal, but is above anything we currently have... Exciting!
Give me funding to go to grad school and (more importantly) grants to pay me for this kind of research and I'll gladly quit my well paying salaried+benefits day job to go pursue my childhood dreams.
...to be found near us, wouldn't "they" have identified Earth as a potential harborer of life and a) attempted communication, b) sent robots, or c) tried to visit? Any meaningful discussion on getting to this place is useless without the technology to actually get there.
I think it's pretty telling that a company that is considered to employ such brilliance and be on the technological forefront in the end exists simply to peddle adverts. Surely there are better uses of the resources.
Is peddling adverts not their entire business plan?
Advertisers pay money to put ads on shows. Google charges $2 to skip the ads...are they pocketing the money or giving it to advertisers as compensation?