I think the tech is pretty much available now, just that the political will simply isn't there.
There also lies a problem that these things have to be discovered before anything can be done about it. Finding and tracking 1km+ objects isn't necessarily easy, often potential close calls aren't known until a few days before (or even after!) the fact, and some of the means of preventing hits take time to set in motion even after developing them.
You are correct, the risk of dying due to an asteroid hit is small. It is high enough to justify paying a few researchers to track down the objects, but not yet enough to justify a defense unless a viable threat is found.
That is RABID, as in foaming at the mouth angry people, much like computer people that argue Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux.
Rabit is too close to rabbit, so that would include a connotation that they multiply rapidly, but any look at a 'Trek convention's attendance would show that they mostly aren't getting any sex, much less children.
Nope. April 1st isn't for another 18 days. Nice try though.
Ugh, thanks for reminding me though, I have to remember to NOT log in on April 1. It's good for a joke or two but when nearly ever frickin' site and forum has a big April Fools thing, it cuts the value of the Internet from minimal to nil for an entire day.
$1.77 is still less than half that of most other industrialized countries, although I expect some of that is because the US government doesn't tax it as much and possibly even subsidizes it. The cost of fuel goes up much less than inflation.
Somehow, I'd expect that people would treat energy with more respect if its cost had followed inflation.
It is pretty well established now that at the time of Gulf War II that Iraq wasn't a direct threat to the US, but Iraq was doing everything it could for over a decade to drag and stop inspections, so there was no reason to know this. Now that we're in, I think it would be unethical to just yank back out without replacing its government.
I know the US has done some terrible crap, but the blame can be sprinkled around like manure.
I do find it interesting that no one really seems to give a damn about the oppressed, how many people had Saddam killed? It is always someone else's problem. Europe pretty much didn't give a damn about the genocides happening in the Balkans. Ditto for Africa, which Europe was responsible for fucking over Africa several times over during the colonizations. The Arab world generally didn't like Saddam, but didn't do jack to stop what he was doing, sometimes even defending his right to be a murderous despot who has killed maybe over a hundred times more people than Gulf War II did.
Nearly all the industrialized nations have a blank CD-R tax, at minimum, on the Music CD-R. The only difference is that Canada was one of the last into that group, and that their tax is pretty high.
The PlayStation system name has been around for a long time though, what is it, on twelve years? Nintendo's been through three TV console systems through that time, all of them being different, but the handheld name has remained the same, being Game Boy, Pocket, Color and Advance, over a period of over fifteen years now.
The price of the first runs were similar. A year later the price of cartridges new remain very close to the same, but the optical games were often repriced to $20.
Relative the NSA, DHS isn't too terribly secretive about their purchases, it's pretty well known that they have a huge Microsoft contract and the amount, there was a slashdot story on it last year..
One thing I'm curious about is, rather than a huge RAM pretending to be a drive, why not just use lots of RAM as RAM? Granted, I suppose that getting a computer that can fit a sizable fraction of a terrabyte's worth of RAM sticks, I'd think it would be a preferable way to do it.
Actually, while the first encode degrades the audio, the RIAA's beef is that each copy of that encoded file can be duplicated exactly. CD->tape->tape is generally going to be crap. CD->MP3->copy MP3 to another device usually means that the audio has only gone through one degradation.
Well, Disney is the only anime distributor in the US that can get partly acceptable theatrical penetration.
Bandai, Manga, Pioneer and ADV barely get the things in ten screens in the US, I think Disney gets about 150 in the US and at least ten in Canada. IIRC, Disney also gets dub and subtitle prints out.
Disney is IMO also pretty well on par with dubbing quality with Ghibli products. Every dub has its miscasts, some show it more than others.
Steel manufacture does take a lot of water, but I don't think it is as bad as IC manufacture where the water becomes toxic.
Also, the water does cycle over again, but minimizing use means that infrastructure needs to be updated less often and less energy used to push the water around.
Actually, IIRC, New Line HAS announced a mega box-set that includes the three extended edition sets plus a blooper DVD. I sure hope the blooper DVD is available separately for all those people that bought the EEs all along.
Hmmm. While not a replication, I have found and downloaded PDF specs that would allow a model builder to scratch build a scale model of the entire space station. I think it was on NASA's site somewhere, but it has been about five years since I've downloaded them. I think I strarted redrawing the specs for easier readability, I never got around to cutting plastic.
Unfortunately, if the resources are needed, then computer manufacturers will have to put it in. Being able to stuff a machine with RAM isn't hard, it just costs money. I have three systems that will take 4GB of RAM, it simply isn't necessary, I rarely use more than 300MB at any one time.
I do have 1GB of RAM in my system, I'd just rather it be used for something worthwhile rather than unnecessary bloat.
For one, hard drives doesn't keep pace. All that data has to be loaded from somewhere, so responsiveness from boot time lags. Execution time probably lags as the CPU has to churn through all that crap.
BTW, right now, my Firefox is reading 34MB with seven open tabs. Thunderbird is at 18MB.
The biggest memory hog right now is Photoshop, and that's only taking 140MB of memory, even that is being pretty wastefull as I was only editing 32MB worth of pictures, and they are now all but closed except for the main program.
I really hadn't had any ink problems with refilled cartridges. I bet printer makers intentionally monkey with formulations to cause trouble with refillers though, but someone is bound to figure it out and make money from it.
I agree about the missing cable business, but I really make it a point to not buy the same-branded cable but someone else's alternative, so far the connectors are standard.
Heck, I bought a printer from someone because they didn't even use it, much less open it, it didn't even include a black ink cartridge.
You know, I certainly can't get interested in supporting a cause where a third of its text on its site is in upper case, in bold or is a link. That almost makes me sick just thinking about it.
From what I've heard from a few sources, Harlan is kind of an ass anyway so I really can't pick "sides" in AOL vs. Harlan, not that who I'd advocate for makes much difference in the courts.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the tech is pretty much available now, just that the political will simply isn't there.
There also lies a problem that these things have to be discovered before anything can be done about it. Finding and tracking 1km+ objects isn't necessarily easy, often potential close calls aren't known until a few days before (or even after!) the fact, and some of the means of preventing hits take time to set in motion even after developing them.
You are correct, the risk of dying due to an asteroid hit is small. It is high enough to justify paying a few researchers to track down the objects, but not yet enough to justify a defense unless a viable threat is found.
Hey, there's nothing like converting a low-res display and computer hardware to make a high-tech $300+ version of a $10 picture frame.
avoid rabit Trekkies
That is RABID, as in foaming at the mouth angry people, much like computer people that argue Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux.
Rabit is too close to rabbit, so that would include a connotation that they multiply rapidly, but any look at a 'Trek convention's attendance would show that they mostly aren't getting any sex, much less children.
Nope. April 1st isn't for another 18 days. Nice try though.
Ugh, thanks for reminding me though, I have to remember to NOT log in on April 1. It's good for a joke or two but when nearly ever frickin' site and forum has a big April Fools thing, it cuts the value of the Internet from minimal to nil for an entire day.
$1.77 is still less than half that of most other industrialized countries, although I expect some of that is because the US government doesn't tax it as much and possibly even subsidizes it. The cost of fuel goes up much less than inflation.
Somehow, I'd expect that people would treat energy with more respect if its cost had followed inflation.
I dunno.
I think it is a two way street.
It is pretty well established now that at the time of Gulf War II that Iraq wasn't a direct threat to the US, but Iraq was doing everything it could for over a decade to drag and stop inspections, so there was no reason to know this. Now that we're in, I think it would be unethical to just yank back out without replacing its government.
I know the US has done some terrible crap, but the blame can be sprinkled around like manure.
I do find it interesting that no one really seems to give a damn about the oppressed, how many people had Saddam killed? It is always someone else's problem. Europe pretty much didn't give a damn about the genocides happening in the Balkans. Ditto for Africa, which Europe was responsible for fucking over Africa several times over during the colonizations. The Arab world generally didn't like Saddam, but didn't do jack to stop what he was doing, sometimes even defending his right to be a murderous despot who has killed maybe over a hundred times more people than Gulf War II did.
If you boil a frog, it doesn't know that it's in trouble until its legs are paralyzed and can't escape. Yup.
Just to make sure readers know:
Snopes on Frog Boiling
In short, the adage isn't literally true, although it might be figuratively true.
It's often not just a mirror though, they change the names, contacts and ad referrals as if they own the site content.
An ethical person that mirrors at least discloses the fact that it is a mirror.
I don't think it matters. Conspiracy theorists aren't worried about inconvenient facts, they will make up something else to try to explain it away.
Nearly all the industrialized nations have a blank CD-R tax, at minimum, on the Music CD-R. The only difference is that Canada was one of the last into that group, and that their tax is pretty high.
The PlayStation system name has been around for a long time though, what is it, on twelve years? Nintendo's been through three TV console systems through that time, all of them being different, but the handheld name has remained the same, being Game Boy, Pocket, Color and Advance, over a period of over fifteen years now.
The price of the first runs were similar. A year later the price of cartridges new remain very close to the same, but the optical games were often repriced to $20.
Relative the NSA, DHS isn't too terribly secretive about their purchases, it's pretty well known that they have a huge Microsoft contract and the amount, there was a slashdot story on it last year..
One thing I'm curious about is, rather than a huge RAM pretending to be a drive, why not just use lots of RAM as RAM? Granted, I suppose that getting a computer that can fit a sizable fraction of a terrabyte's worth of RAM sticks, I'd think it would be a preferable way to do it.
Actually, while the first encode degrades the audio, the RIAA's beef is that each copy of that encoded file can be duplicated exactly. CD->tape->tape is generally going to be crap. CD->MP3->copy MP3 to another device usually means that the audio has only gone through one degradation.
Now we have bloatware in the HARDWARE too!!!!
We've had bloat ware in hardware for quite some time, called ia32. And thankfully, AMD has upped the ante to a 64 bit instruction set.
Well, Disney is the only anime distributor in the US that can get partly acceptable theatrical penetration.
Bandai, Manga, Pioneer and ADV barely get the things in ten screens in the US, I think Disney gets about 150 in the US and at least ten in Canada. IIRC, Disney also gets dub and subtitle prints out.
Disney is IMO also pretty well on par with dubbing quality with Ghibli products. Every dub has its miscasts, some show it more than others.
Steel manufacture does take a lot of water, but I don't think it is as bad as IC manufacture where the water becomes toxic.
Also, the water does cycle over again, but minimizing use means that infrastructure needs to be updated less often and less energy used to push the water around.
The one box set to rule them all?
Actually, IIRC, New Line HAS announced a mega box-set that includes the three extended edition sets plus a blooper DVD. I sure hope the blooper DVD is available separately for all those people that bought the EEs all along.
Hmmm. While not a replication, I have found and downloaded PDF specs that would allow a model builder to scratch build a scale model of the entire space station. I think it was on NASA's site somewhere, but it has been about five years since I've downloaded them. I think I strarted redrawing the specs for easier readability, I never got around to cutting plastic.
The problem is that AT&T sold defective phones. And there's any surprise that the fix eliminates features people paid money for?
How would you like it if Ford sold Mustangs that performed much worse than expected, and as a fix, gave you a Pinto as a replacement?
Unfortunately, if the resources are needed, then computer manufacturers will have to put it in. Being able to stuff a machine with RAM isn't hard, it just costs money. I have three systems that will take 4GB of RAM, it simply isn't necessary, I rarely use more than 300MB at any one time.
I do have 1GB of RAM in my system, I'd just rather it be used for something worthwhile rather than unnecessary bloat.
For one, hard drives doesn't keep pace. All that data has to be loaded from somewhere, so responsiveness from boot time lags. Execution time probably lags as the CPU has to churn through all that crap.
BTW, right now, my Firefox is reading 34MB with seven open tabs. Thunderbird is at 18MB.
The biggest memory hog right now is Photoshop, and that's only taking 140MB of memory, even that is being pretty wastefull as I was only editing 32MB worth of pictures, and they are now all but closed except for the main program.
I really hadn't had any ink problems with refilled cartridges. I bet printer makers intentionally monkey with formulations to cause trouble with refillers though, but someone is bound to figure it out and make money from it.
I agree about the missing cable business, but I really make it a point to not buy the same-branded cable but someone else's alternative, so far the connectors are standard.
Heck, I bought a printer from someone because they didn't even use it, much less open it, it didn't even include a black ink cartridge.
You know, I certainly can't get interested in supporting a cause where a third of its text on its site is in upper case, in bold or is a link. That almost makes me sick just thinking about it.
From what I've heard from a few sources, Harlan is kind of an ass anyway so I really can't pick "sides" in AOL vs. Harlan, not that who I'd advocate for makes much difference in the courts.