I got a bad feeling about this. You think your cable bill was high? Just wait until every genera from various providers with varying content costs $5/mo.
What gets me is that they have given up on Google Fiber. If Google can't make that work, how can anyone? Something is very wrong, and I suspect it is over regulation and corporate collusion with prior players (AT&T and Verizon). That doesn't bode well for the future of the Internet.
Whenever the main stream media wips up a shit storm to discredit some science and witch hunt those behind it, you know something else is afoot. Science doesn't work that way. If Fleischmann and Pons were right or wrong then other scientists are going to verify it, one way or the other, and that's that. At worst, it comes out that they did sloppy work and it looks bad on their CVs. But thats it and life goes on. That's how real science works -- in fact the vast majority or hypotheses and experiments prove to be wrong.
My guess is, it proved a very easy way for entrenched interests to defiance research into energy sources that could seriously disrupt the status quo.
It is quite doable but some significant things have to happen.
1. Open standard for e-documents. PDF doesn't cut it. And there has to be an easy way to create them, something like Markdown but better. 2. Ubiquitous storage. Basically cloud storage has to become something like a shared social distributed system that all have access to. 3. E-Readers have to be cheap, light, fast and have long battery life -- and standardized like a PC so many companies can provide them.
My niece got a full blown case of the measles form the vaccine. The doctor was a bit shocked. But law measle cases have to be reported to the CDC, which the doctor did. But CDC stats never recorded the case. Getting the measles from the vaccine doesn't count. See how that works?
Measles vaccines are attenuated -- which means it contains a live strain. If just a fraction of a fraction of this attenuated strain gets transmitted, some will ultimately mutate into alternate forms and reappear. Giving such a large breeding ground to these viruses might eventually lead to a strain even worse than any known natural strain.
Things are rarely black-and-white, though most people seem to see it that way. It's dangerous when our leaders loose color vision, but it is easy to understand why. Just follow the green.
At our current rate of growth Earth has less than 400 years before a runaway effect will take hold here as well. Calculations show that the oceans will literally boil away by then. And these aren't climate models. They are basic thermodynamic models. No doubt we will curb our growth rate well before then, but will it be too little too late?
Its all rigged to make Clinton President. I mean really, the only way she could win is by running against Trump. How many months now have we heard Trump bashing on every station on every show all day and all night. It is all we hear in the Media. Trump is a Manchurian candidate, whether he knows it or not, just like McCain and Palin were before him. His sole purpose is to loose.
If we were smart we'd all vote for Gary Johnson (although that probably wouldn't matter either, since I am sure they control the tally machines too).
What worries me is how sure he is they will be the first. I read another article about the person heading up the same program at NASA (can't recall her name right off, sorry) and she said pretty much the same thing -- absolutely positive they would be there first. Now, their time line puts that is the 2030s. That's behind SpaceX's schedule, so unless they know something....
Very well said. Following your lead let me add a few points as well.
* Heavy trucks will not crush the panels. If I recall correctly, the first thing they did was check with an MIT material physicists to see if it was possible, and the answer was effectively, "easy peasy". * Moreover, the added cost of making the panel that durable is no more than the added infrastructure cost to make solar canopies. * Ice/snow melting can work. Nay-sayers always imagine the panels trying to melt a block of ice sitting on them. That's not what they have to do. By simply raising the temperature just above freezing the panels will prevent snow and ice from forming in the first place. That has a much lower energy requirement than melting a preformed pack of snow or block of ice. Moreover, even if they have to draw power from the grid, it is still way better than snow-plows and salt. * Obviously early applications will be sidewalks, cross-walks and parking lots. Just because its not in a road yet, does not a failure make. You got to walk before you can run. Also, even if those were the only applications they are ever used for, it would still be a huge success and benefit to our infrastructure..
Is it worth saving? How hard can be to send up a repair mission and readjust the orbit? I mean if you can't do that, what the hell are you doing in space to begin with?.... Oh, military.
I often do research for projects and end up with a set of related tabs open all at once. How nice it would be to be able to save those tabs to a file, so I don't have to leave them open in a separate window all the time.
You know, it's the simple things that really make the difference.
I've used it. It's not bad, but so far it's not really enough to pull me from Ubuntu (or Debian on servers). I have tried lots of distros and if you want a Linux that "just works", thus far I have found nothing as complete the original Ubuntu. Eventually I'll give them another shake, but I'll probably wait a few more releases.
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I got a bad feeling about this. You think your cable bill was high? Just wait until every genera from various providers with varying content costs $5/mo.
What gets me is that they have given up on Google Fiber. If Google can't make that work, how can anyone? Something is very wrong, and I suspect it is over regulation and corporate collusion with prior players (AT&T and Verizon). That doesn't bode well for the future of the Internet.
Whenever the main stream media wips up a shit storm to discredit some science and witch hunt those behind it, you know something else is afoot. Science doesn't work that way. If Fleischmann and Pons were right or wrong then other scientists are going to verify it, one way or the other, and that's that. At worst, it comes out that they did sloppy work and it looks bad on their CVs. But thats it and life goes on. That's how real science works -- in fact the vast majority or hypotheses and experiments prove to be wrong.
My guess is, it proved a very easy way for entrenched interests to defiance research into energy sources that could seriously disrupt the status quo.
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As more than half the cores have to remain ideal most of the time to keep it from over heating.
Its odd but sometimes I miss the Soviet Union. Seems like the U.S.A. was better for having a strong rival.
It is quite doable but some significant things have to happen.
1. Open standard for e-documents. PDF doesn't cut it. And there has to be an easy way to create them, something like Markdown but better.
2. Ubiquitous storage. Basically cloud storage has to become something like a shared social distributed system that all have access to.
3. E-Readers have to be cheap, light, fast and have long battery life -- and standardized like a PC so many companies can provide them.
And have what are essentially slaves to dig up new ones.
My niece got a full blown case of the measles form the vaccine. The doctor was a bit shocked. But law measle cases have to be reported to the CDC, which the doctor did. But CDC stats never recorded the case. Getting the measles from the vaccine doesn't count. See how that works?
Measles vaccines are attenuated -- which means it contains a live strain. If just a fraction of a fraction of this attenuated strain gets transmitted, some will ultimately mutate into alternate forms and reappear. Giving such a large breeding ground to these viruses might eventually lead to a strain even worse than any known natural strain.
Things are rarely black-and-white, though most people seem to see it that way. It's dangerous when our leaders loose color vision, but it is easy to understand why. Just follow the green.
Burn the witches!
KILL THE MESSENGER!
At our current rate of growth Earth has less than 400 years before a runaway effect will take hold here as well. Calculations show that the oceans will literally boil away by then. And these aren't climate models. They are basic thermodynamic models. No doubt we will curb our growth rate well before then, but will it be too little too late?
Its all rigged to make Clinton President. I mean really, the only way she could win is by running against Trump. How many months now have we heard Trump bashing on every station on every show all day and all night. It is all we hear in the Media. Trump is a Manchurian candidate, whether he knows it or not, just like McCain and Palin were before him. His sole purpose is to loose.
If we were smart we'd all vote for Gary Johnson (although that probably wouldn't matter either, since I am sure they control the tally machines too).
Elon Musk's new favorite song is going to be Sabatoge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/real-martians-how-to-protect-astronauts-from-space-radiation-on-mars
What worries me is how sure he is they will be the first. I read another article about the person heading up the same program at NASA (can't recall her name right off, sorry) and she said pretty much the same thing -- absolutely positive they would be there first. Now, their time line puts that is the 2030s. That's behind SpaceX's schedule, so unless they know something....
Very well said. Following your lead let me add a few points as well.
* Heavy trucks will not crush the panels. If I recall correctly, the first thing they did was check with an MIT material physicists to see if it was possible, and the answer was effectively, "easy peasy".
* Moreover, the added cost of making the panel that durable is no more than the added infrastructure cost to make solar canopies.
* Ice/snow melting can work. Nay-sayers always imagine the panels trying to melt a block of ice sitting on them. That's not what they have to do. By simply raising the temperature just above freezing the panels will prevent snow and ice from forming in the first place. That has a much lower energy requirement than melting a preformed pack of snow or block of ice. Moreover, even if they have to draw power from the grid, it is still way better than snow-plows and salt.
* Obviously early applications will be sidewalks, cross-walks and parking lots. Just because its not in a road yet, does not a failure make. You got to walk before you can run. Also, even if those were the only applications they are ever used for, it would still be a huge success and benefit to our infrastructure..
Slahsdot should seriously consider getting rid of comments. There is nothing but assholes and Debbie Downers commenting on this site anymore.
How good political posters are at what they do.
Swift in the top 10? Good lord.
And Java is a C based language? You might as well say it is a Fortran based language.
Is it worth saving? How hard can be to send up a repair mission and readjust the orbit? I mean if you can't do that, what the hell are you doing in space to begin with? .... Oh, military.
I often do research for projects and end up with a set of related tabs open all at once. How nice it would be to be able to save those tabs to a file, so I don't have to leave them open in a separate window all the time.
You know, it's the simple things that really make the difference.
And yet it has been reported that the chief scientist said he *had gotten it working*.
I've used it. It's not bad, but so far it's not really enough to pull me from Ubuntu (or Debian on servers). I have tried lots of distros and if you want a Linux that "just works", thus far I have found nothing as complete the original Ubuntu. Eventually I'll give them another shake, but I'll probably wait a few more releases.
Sigh. HDBaseT. Sigh.
I just wish someone would figure out a way to get off the planet without a blasted explosion under their ass.