The ISS has a mass of approximately 417,000 kg and it's made of comparatively light materials when you are talking about building something out of 1" steel. And that is only made for six people living in a pretty cramped lifestyle. Do you really expect a human colony to exist of just six people and live in basically a large submarine? The population size is going to be a lot larger and they are going to need a lot more space. Every person is going to need their own space. Take a look at what each astronaut has on the ISS, especially when there is gravity they won't be sleeping "standing up". Then you are going to need communal areas, kitchens, medical areas, and so on. Not every space will be dedicated to work. Plus a colony will probably have children at some point so you need that whole infrastructure too. Plus the ISS doesn't even have space for growing food.
Maybe it would take too long to reacquire everything that were tracking when you jump from view to view versus when you physically turn your head. I don't know if this is the case or not. You still have to re-orientate yourself either way but maybe we're wired to do more efficiently one way. It's possible that the brain can be doing the tracking while we're turning our head so the effect isn't as bad. I'm just guessing. But considering the amount of money they put into the project I would hope that they thought of doing something like putting a view of the back on the visor.
Hey, they are building it just like every Agile software development project I've seen done.
You wanted a plane, okay, here you go! Oh, you wanted it to fly. We'll get back to you in a couple of years.... Here's your flying plane. What? It needs stealth? Be right back. We'll need more money.... Right. We've got your stealth flying plane. STOVL? I'm sure you didn't mention that before. That's gonna cost a LOT extra.... (5 years later) Voila! Two models. Normal and STOVL. Both fly and with stealth. Missiles? Where are we gonna put those? We'll have to get back to you about that.... Okay, we figured out how to put a couple missiles on and keep it stealthy. That's all right? Supersonic!?!?...
It's not going to solve the problem that the plane itself is physically unable to fly the moves required in a dogfight. The pilot isn't the limiting factor.
No, the parent is so involved that they built a time machine to identify when their child's teacher had a problem in school and went back in time to fix the problem so that they could become a great teacher for their own child to excel!
At least around here there doesn't seem to be anyone building apartments anymore. Builders are putting up lots of condos and selling them. It probably lets them get their money back fairly quickly compared to renting out the units. Some people are buying individual units in these buildings and renting them out but the supply of apartments has remained fairly constant for the past couple of decades. I can't remember a large building going up for rental units in that time but can think of at least five being constructed for condos right now in just the parts of town that I frequent.
You are assuming that they have suspects. There are lots of cases where all they have is just the sample of DNA and no suspects at all. If someone is assaulted and manages to scratch the other person there is DNA evidence but not necessarily a known suspect. Same goes for sexual assault though a different type of DNA. And it seems like they can get DNA off of lots of different things now (pizza?) so they can collect it in cases where they don't have suspects. Plus there's DNA evidence from plenty of cold cases that they could re-examine with this technique.
So in the free trial to promote the service Apple is supposed to pick up all the costs. It seems unfair since the artists since the artists are receiving some benefit of exposure during the trial too. I think it would be fair to have some sort of reduced fees during the trial period to recognize the fact that Apple still has expenses related to providing the service.
I don't like the argument the artists are using that since Apple is using the free period to promote Apple's service then Apple should pay all of the artists fees. There are lots of ways that the artists are getting promoted yet they still expect to get paid for it. How come they never have to make a sacrifice for the sake of promotion? It's always someone else that needs to make the sacrifice and never themselves. Yes, I can understand that there are many struggling artists out there but the ones that are complaining the loudest are those that have the most money. Taylor Swift could easily make do without three month of royalties from streaming from Apples service but she's the one that screamed the loudest. H
I don't think the pope holds any moral authority. No pope will until the church stops hiding the child molesters and hands them over, along with any files, over to the proper authorities for prosecution. While the church protects these scum from the law then they can't tell us what is right or wrong.
Back when I was a sysadmin for a government department I had been assigned a couple of chassis of HP blades that were bought in one of the famous fiscal year end splurges. For the most part I had no use for them and I didn't even install Linux on them. I think I only ever used a couple of blades and I hated them. It was the first generation and they ran very hot and we had lots of issues with bad RAM. The other three chassis on the rack belonged to the VMWare team and were in heavy use.
Since I had no need for the servers to be on I tried to have the blades turned off but the VMWare team was always turning them on. I would go on occasionally and turn off all of my machines but not long after they would be back on doing absolutely nothing. I never got a good answer from them why my servers had to be turned on wasting electricity and heating up the data centre (especially since special cooling had to be installed for the HP blades, yes they ran that hot).
The first Intel MacBook Pros didn't last as long. They had the Core Duo processor which wasn't compatible with 10.7. I think the next iteration of the laptops had the Core 2 Duo (which were 64-bit instead of 32-bit) and where supported longer. But I didn't get 7 years of current OS X releases on that laptop. It ran for a long time though.
Or, the out of the 80 million potential Apple customers only a quarter of them are interested in streaming music since they already a number of choices. Not everyone with an Apple device is going to be interested in streaming music. I'm one of them.
I know that these people weren't doing other contracts. After I left that department they had a shift in philosophy and felt that they were spending too much on contractors so they offered all of their contractors employment. Most of them took the offers. One day they were a contractor and the next day they were an employee. Same work and responsibilities.
I used to be a contractor doing programming and I would go into offices all the time and use the clients systems and have a desk. The only real difference was that I had to be careful of not going over 39 continuous weeks at one place. It was monitored pretty carefully by the CRA (the Canadian of the IRS). You either found another contract or took a 13 week holiday (that was a popular option with contractors at Nortel). Strangely enough the 39 week limit was never enforced at the federal government. I knew contractors there that were there for over a decade straight. They routinely gave out contracts that lasted multiple years in length.
I've been very happy with STRIP from Zetetic. I have nothing to do with them except being a happy customer from back in the Palm days. The only thing I don't like is that they charge for their iPhone and iPad versions so I just run the iPhone version on my iPad and it works fine.
I had the same problem as you except I was looking after 70+ computers as a sysadmin about a decade ago. Used to store them on my Palm with a program called STRIP by Zetetic. Now I have their app on my iOS devices. It's not as flashy as LastPass but then it doesn't store all your passwords on the Internet either.
Plus it might be nice if you didn't have to keep paying hundred of thousands of dollars to drill deeper wells because everyone is sucking the water out of the aquifers.
We haven't been transporting water from one place to another for thousands of years, at least not on the scale of what is happening in California (and China).
As for desalination, I don't know why people keep suggesting it as a solution. Yes it is possible to supply the water needs for what comes our of your tap. However it is much, much too expensive, environmentally damaging, and energy intensive to scale up to meeting the needs of agriculture. Farming is an order of magnitude greater in it's requirements for water. So if the population is unwilling to build a series of desalination plants to provide drinking water I somehow doubt that they are going to want to build at least ten times that number to provide water to a bunch of almond trees.
I'd say that those farms haven't worked for generations. It's just the true costs of farming in a water poor region haven't been felt as badly before and the poor decisions on the past are being felt. You have some farmers see water being transported by their fields when they aren't being allocated any to other farms with unlimited allocations just because of when the allocations where given out. And people are draining the aquifers as fast as they can drill the wells without thinking of the consequences. Or if they do think of them they still do it because if they don't their neighbours will and they want the water before it's gone.
No, farming in an area when you absolutely need to have water transported in so that you can harvest a crop doesn't work in the long run. Just like our system of having to increase the loads of artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides every year.
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The ISS has a mass of approximately 417,000 kg and it's made of comparatively light materials when you are talking about building something out of 1" steel. And that is only made for six people living in a pretty cramped lifestyle. Do you really expect a human colony to exist of just six people and live in basically a large submarine? The population size is going to be a lot larger and they are going to need a lot more space. Every person is going to need their own space. Take a look at what each astronaut has on the ISS, especially when there is gravity they won't be sleeping "standing up". Then you are going to need communal areas, kitchens, medical areas, and so on. Not every space will be dedicated to work. Plus a colony will probably have children at some point so you need that whole infrastructure too. Plus the ISS doesn't even have space for growing food.
Maybe it would take too long to reacquire everything that were tracking when you jump from view to view versus when you physically turn your head. I don't know if this is the case or not. You still have to re-orientate yourself either way but maybe we're wired to do more efficiently one way. It's possible that the brain can be doing the tracking while we're turning our head so the effect isn't as bad. I'm just guessing. But considering the amount of money they put into the project I would hope that they thought of doing something like putting a view of the back on the visor.
Hey, they are building it just like every Agile software development project I've seen done.
You wanted a plane, okay, here you go! ... ... ... (5 years later) ... ...
Oh, you wanted it to fly. We'll get back to you in a couple of years.
Here's your flying plane. What? It needs stealth?
Be right back. We'll need more money.
Right. We've got your stealth flying plane.
STOVL? I'm sure you didn't mention that before. That's gonna cost a LOT extra.
Voila! Two models. Normal and STOVL. Both fly and with stealth.
Missiles? Where are we gonna put those? We'll have to get back to you about that.
Okay, we figured out how to put a couple missiles on and keep it stealthy. That's all right?
Supersonic!?!?
It's not going to solve the problem that the plane itself is physically unable to fly the moves required in a dogfight. The pilot isn't the limiting factor.
Maybe they could just ask the enemy to fly to a better altitude before starting the dogfight?
No, the parent is so involved that they built a time machine to identify when their child's teacher had a problem in school and went back in time to fix the problem so that they could become a great teacher for their own child to excel!
The Russians have floating nuclear power stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
At least around here there doesn't seem to be anyone building apartments anymore. Builders are putting up lots of condos and selling them. It probably lets them get their money back fairly quickly compared to renting out the units. Some people are buying individual units in these buildings and renting them out but the supply of apartments has remained fairly constant for the past couple of decades. I can't remember a large building going up for rental units in that time but can think of at least five being constructed for condos right now in just the parts of town that I frequent.
You are assuming that they have suspects. There are lots of cases where all they have is just the sample of DNA and no suspects at all. If someone is assaulted and manages to scratch the other person there is DNA evidence but not necessarily a known suspect. Same goes for sexual assault though a different type of DNA. And it seems like they can get DNA off of lots of different things now (pizza?) so they can collect it in cases where they don't have suspects. Plus there's DNA evidence from plenty of cold cases that they could re-examine with this technique.
So in the free trial to promote the service Apple is supposed to pick up all the costs. It seems unfair since the artists since the artists are receiving some benefit of exposure during the trial too. I think it would be fair to have some sort of reduced fees during the trial period to recognize the fact that Apple still has expenses related to providing the service.
I don't like the argument the artists are using that since Apple is using the free period to promote Apple's service then Apple should pay all of the artists fees. There are lots of ways that the artists are getting promoted yet they still expect to get paid for it. How come they never have to make a sacrifice for the sake of promotion? It's always someone else that needs to make the sacrifice and never themselves. Yes, I can understand that there are many struggling artists out there but the ones that are complaining the loudest are those that have the most money. Taylor Swift could easily make do without three month of royalties from streaming from Apples service but she's the one that screamed the loudest. H
I don't think the pope holds any moral authority. No pope will until the church stops hiding the child molesters and hands them over, along with any files, over to the proper authorities for prosecution. While the church protects these scum from the law then they can't tell us what is right or wrong.
Back when I was a sysadmin for a government department I had been assigned a couple of chassis of HP blades that were bought in one of the famous fiscal year end splurges. For the most part I had no use for them and I didn't even install Linux on them. I think I only ever used a couple of blades and I hated them. It was the first generation and they ran very hot and we had lots of issues with bad RAM. The other three chassis on the rack belonged to the VMWare team and were in heavy use.
Since I had no need for the servers to be on I tried to have the blades turned off but the VMWare team was always turning them on. I would go on occasionally and turn off all of my machines but not long after they would be back on doing absolutely nothing. I never got a good answer from them why my servers had to be turned on wasting electricity and heating up the data centre (especially since special cooling had to be installed for the HP blades, yes they ran that hot).
Apple's real problem is that they need to fix the bloated mess that they call iTunes (and the Podcast app).
The first Intel MacBook Pros didn't last as long. They had the Core Duo processor which wasn't compatible with 10.7. I think the next iteration of the laptops had the Core 2 Duo (which were 64-bit instead of 32-bit) and where supported longer. But I didn't get 7 years of current OS X releases on that laptop. It ran for a long time though.
Or, the out of the 80 million potential Apple customers only a quarter of them are interested in streaming music since they already a number of choices. Not everyone with an Apple device is going to be interested in streaming music. I'm one of them.
I know that these people weren't doing other contracts. After I left that department they had a shift in philosophy and felt that they were spending too much on contractors so they offered all of their contractors employment. Most of them took the offers. One day they were a contractor and the next day they were an employee. Same work and responsibilities.
I used to be a contractor doing programming and I would go into offices all the time and use the clients systems and have a desk. The only real difference was that I had to be careful of not going over 39 continuous weeks at one place. It was monitored pretty carefully by the CRA (the Canadian of the IRS). You either found another contract or took a 13 week holiday (that was a popular option with contractors at Nortel). Strangely enough the 39 week limit was never enforced at the federal government. I knew contractors there that were there for over a decade straight. They routinely gave out contracts that lasted multiple years in length.
A sport invented to make cricket look exciting.
(No offense intended. I actually like cricket.)
Media too since you can't pirate something if you don't have it to pirate from.
I've been very happy with STRIP from Zetetic. I have nothing to do with them except being a happy customer from back in the Palm days. The only thing I don't like is that they charge for their iPhone and iPad versions so I just run the iPhone version on my iPad and it works fine.
I had the same problem as you except I was looking after 70+ computers as a sysadmin about a decade ago. Used to store them on my Palm with a program called STRIP by Zetetic. Now I have their app on my iOS devices. It's not as flashy as LastPass but then it doesn't store all your passwords on the Internet either.
Because that worked so well for Nortel when they wanted to turn everything into a switch.
Plus it might be nice if you didn't have to keep paying hundred of thousands of dollars to drill deeper wells because everyone is sucking the water out of the aquifers.
We haven't been transporting water from one place to another for thousands of years, at least not on the scale of what is happening in California (and China).
As for desalination, I don't know why people keep suggesting it as a solution. Yes it is possible to supply the water needs for what comes our of your tap. However it is much, much too expensive, environmentally damaging, and energy intensive to scale up to meeting the needs of agriculture. Farming is an order of magnitude greater in it's requirements for water. So if the population is unwilling to build a series of desalination plants to provide drinking water I somehow doubt that they are going to want to build at least ten times that number to provide water to a bunch of almond trees.
I'd say that those farms haven't worked for generations. It's just the true costs of farming in a water poor region haven't been felt as badly before and the poor decisions on the past are being felt. You have some farmers see water being transported by their fields when they aren't being allocated any to other farms with unlimited allocations just because of when the allocations where given out. And people are draining the aquifers as fast as they can drill the wells without thinking of the consequences. Or if they do think of them they still do it because if they don't their neighbours will and they want the water before it's gone.
No, farming in an area when you absolutely need to have water transported in so that you can harvest a crop doesn't work in the long run. Just like our system of having to increase the loads of artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides every year.