If only there were a way to automate that. Use some kind of storehouse for the information, and be able to do a valuable sorting on lots of data. I realize that would be thousands, maybe even millions, of computations for just one route. Someone should invent something that can do that kind of math automatically instead of having to do it all by hand.
Once they figure this one out, they should really tackle routing automotive traffic between points, accounting for the multiple possible paths, varying speed limits, and typical traffic patterns. Once google figures out this airline thing with less than 100,000 worldwide flights a day, I'll bet in just a couple of years they can figure out an automotive traffic routing algorithm that covers the hundreds of millions of possibilities for automotive travel in the US!
Still, it only costs about 30% more in actual dollars than it did in 1999 to fly cross country
As it should. Personnel cost has gone down, computing and information management has gotten more efficient. Overall seats booked per flight has gone up. Jet-A is only one small part of the equation. Inflation across all goods and services has only been 28-30% in that time frame.
You clearly didn't work in the cooling business. To them, they sky WAS falling, and it was falling on them. Until they found a replacement (which was more expensive and less efficient, but legal). Dismantling is a very harsh word.
IMO, at least someone is taking a crack at it, and nobody will be too saddened if it turns out to be a bust.
Then again, I'd also like someone to prove that Moller was right about all his predictions, and build a working flying car that looks like his prototype. But mining asteroids is cool, too.
You are under the false impression, apparently, that engineers and scientists run NASA. NASA projects are managed by engineers and scientists, but it is run by bureaucrats which, like their brothers in the business world, must show measurable progress on a time scale which is shorter than is necessary for the public good. Without progress, there is no funding; without funding, there is no project. And failures are utterly forbidden.
I believe it was Golden who said that NASA needed to take more risks to advance science. We (the engineers) completed his sentence by adding, "but failure is still not acceptable." How many failures are you allowed in an eight-nines organization? Answer: not enough.
It's about offering services. You can't offer services in restricted fields - like medicine, public accounting, engineering, and - apparently - nutrition, without being licensed.
I really kind of like this. A group of rich guys with a bent towards science fiction are doing a proof of concept mission that is - quite honestly - to risky for a big organization like NASA.
This is such a phenomenally more interesting use of their money than a huge yacht or a private island or buying a baseball team. I say go for it.
FWIW, I believe the target asteroid size is 500T, which is the same order of magnitude (barely, factor of 7.5) as the one that re-entered and blew up with apparently no ground damage over the US west coast last night.
There isn't any for the first trip. Still, how much would you pay to put 100 tons of iron, or water, or oxygen into earth or lunar orbit? $10,000/lb is a round figure, and bulk launches could probably come in at as little as $500-$1000/lb. A million dollars a ton is a pretty hefty sum of money.
People who hate the government should move somewhere else. It's usually what states-rights advocates recommend for people who don't like their state's policies - just move to a different state!
It's almost guaranteed that UF Football is a profit center. Yes, many programs cost more to run than they bring in, but perennial top 10 teams, especially those in the big conferences (SEC , oh yes) make money. Lots of it.
Yeah, and my though is: "Son of a bitch, that's an extra 4 months I'll be out from under my AT&T contract." When I don't upgrade every 20 months, it's like giving AT&T a free raise. I sure as hell don't want to upgrade now, though, or it'll be 2.5 more years before it worth getting a new phone and they're willing to subsidize again.
In a way, the government is 99% like Google. Yes, they're "spying" on you with computers. The people behind those computers, however, don't give a rat's ass about you most of the time, though. The difference is that with the government, if you trip one of their triggers, they really will have you personally identified and tracked. For practical purposes though, you are very, very likely not to be one of those people.
For example, how often do you come in contact with someone that has the same last four digits of your current phone number? It's pretty rare - so rare that it stands out and is very noticable. And yet as rare as that is, at that kind of frequency, the government would have to be monitoring over a half a million people just in the US. Actively tracking a human being and analyzing the data is a fairly manpower-intensive project.
Paranoid people are, for the most part, still paranoid - they have an irrational belief that the government is tracking them. And they're probably wrong.
No if you're outside of the US, you're fair game. It's all about national security. You can bitch and whine all you want, but unless you've got a fleet of nuclear bombers you're willing to use on DC, NY, and LA, and a missile defense network that can take out incoming MRV payloads with 100% efficiency you don't have any ground to complain.
The big deal isn't that the US is spying on foreign nationals, it's that they're spying on their own citizens.
Theft is the unlawful transferring of an asset between two parties - it requires a taking, a possession, and a deprivation. In the case of information, there is no "original," merely copies or instances, all identical. By removing the instance from one party and depositing it into the control of a second party, against the first party's will, theft has occurred.
It's a necessary distinction only because in nearly all cases (such as this one) that is not what happens.
It matters less what you are doing with the flow of your metric, and more on your net balance.
Whether I spend $300/mo on digital services or buy a bigger house than I need, or a nicer car than is necessary for my requirements, it's the same dollar at the end of the day. Americans are gaining weight because of easy access to high-calorie food that is made to be appealing through advertising and instant sensory gratification. Americans are not saving because our entire economy is based on spending as much as possible on things which are made to be appealing through advertising and instant sensory gratification.
Once a country has something that resembles democracy you crush those fuckin' pirates right off the Internet with the iron fist of righteousness, so that no one else dares to threaten your position of power and control
Have you every actually had Taster's Choice? I argue that your premise may actually be false, or at least that the product of the event may be indistinguishable from the normal brewing method.
Sorry to self-correct - acceleration is a vector, it has both magnitude and direction. By summing all of the acceleration vectors, you get a resultant which determines the rate of change of your velocity.
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If only there were a way to automate that. Use some kind of storehouse for the information, and be able to do a valuable sorting on lots of data. I realize that would be thousands, maybe even millions, of computations for just one route. Someone should invent something that can do that kind of math automatically instead of having to do it all by hand.
Once they figure this one out, they should really tackle routing automotive traffic between points, accounting for the multiple possible paths, varying speed limits, and typical traffic patterns. Once google figures out this airline thing with less than 100,000 worldwide flights a day, I'll bet in just a couple of years they can figure out an automotive traffic routing algorithm that covers the hundreds of millions of possibilities for automotive travel in the US!
Still, it only costs about 30% more in actual dollars than it did in 1999 to fly cross country
As it should. Personnel cost has gone down, computing and information management has gotten more efficient. Overall seats booked per flight has gone up. Jet-A is only one small part of the equation. Inflation across all goods and services has only been 28-30% in that time frame.
You clearly didn't work in the cooling business. To them, they sky WAS falling, and it was falling on them. Until they found a replacement (which was more expensive and less efficient, but legal). Dismantling is a very harsh word.
IMO, at least someone is taking a crack at it, and nobody will be too saddened if it turns out to be a bust.
Then again, I'd also like someone to prove that Moller was right about all his predictions, and build a working flying car that looks like his prototype. But mining asteroids is cool, too.
You are under the false impression, apparently, that engineers and scientists run NASA. NASA projects are managed by engineers and scientists, but it is run by bureaucrats which, like their brothers in the business world, must show measurable progress on a time scale which is shorter than is necessary for the public good. Without progress, there is no funding; without funding, there is no project. And failures are utterly forbidden.
I believe it was Golden who said that NASA needed to take more risks to advance science. We (the engineers) completed his sentence by adding, "but failure is still not acceptable." How many failures are you allowed in an eight-nines organization? Answer: not enough.
Ah, to have such a simple life as to fit in 28GB of space.
It's about offering services. You can't offer services in restricted fields - like medicine, public accounting, engineering, and - apparently - nutrition, without being licensed.
I really kind of like this. A group of rich guys with a bent towards science fiction are doing a proof of concept mission that is - quite honestly - to risky for a big organization like NASA.
This is such a phenomenally more interesting use of their money than a huge yacht or a private island or buying a baseball team. I say go for it.
FWIW, I believe the target asteroid size is 500T, which is the same order of magnitude (barely, factor of 7.5) as the one that re-entered and blew up with apparently no ground damage over the US west coast last night.
There isn't any for the first trip. Still, how much would you pay to put 100 tons of iron, or water, or oxygen into earth or lunar orbit? $10,000/lb is a round figure, and bulk launches could probably come in at as little as $500-$1000/lb. A million dollars a ton is a pretty hefty sum of money.
People who hate the government should move somewhere else. It's usually what states-rights advocates recommend for people who don't like their state's policies - just move to a different state!
It's almost guaranteed that UF Football is a profit center. Yes, many programs cost more to run than they bring in, but perennial top 10 teams, especially those in the big conferences (SEC , oh yes) make money. Lots of it.
Yeah, and my though is: "Son of a bitch, that's an extra 4 months I'll be out from under my AT&T contract." When I don't upgrade every 20 months, it's like giving AT&T a free raise. I sure as hell don't want to upgrade now, though, or it'll be 2.5 more years before it worth getting a new phone and they're willing to subsidize again.
In a way, the government is 99% like Google. Yes, they're "spying" on you with computers. The people behind those computers, however, don't give a rat's ass about you most of the time, though. The difference is that with the government, if you trip one of their triggers, they really will have you personally identified and tracked. For practical purposes though, you are very, very likely not to be one of those people.
For example, how often do you come in contact with someone that has the same last four digits of your current phone number? It's pretty rare - so rare that it stands out and is very noticable. And yet as rare as that is, at that kind of frequency, the government would have to be monitoring over a half a million people just in the US. Actively tracking a human being and analyzing the data is a fairly manpower-intensive project.
Paranoid people are, for the most part, still paranoid - they have an irrational belief that the government is tracking them. And they're probably wrong.
No if you're outside of the US, you're fair game. It's all about national security. You can bitch and whine all you want, but unless you've got a fleet of nuclear bombers you're willing to use on DC, NY, and LA, and a missile defense network that can take out incoming MRV payloads with 100% efficiency you don't have any ground to complain.
The big deal isn't that the US is spying on foreign nationals, it's that they're spying on their own citizens.
You're conflating hard goods with digital goods.
Theft is the unlawful transferring of an asset between two parties - it requires a taking, a possession, and a deprivation. In the case of information, there is no "original," merely copies or instances, all identical. By removing the instance from one party and depositing it into the control of a second party, against the first party's will, theft has occurred.
It's a necessary distinction only because in nearly all cases (such as this one) that is not what happens.
It matters less what you are doing with the flow of your metric, and more on your net balance.
Whether I spend $300/mo on digital services or buy a bigger house than I need, or a nicer car than is necessary for my requirements, it's the same dollar at the end of the day. Americans are gaining weight because of easy access to high-calorie food that is made to be appealing through advertising and instant sensory gratification. Americans are not saving because our entire economy is based on spending as much as possible on things which are made to be appealing through advertising and instant sensory gratification.
Once a country has something that resembles democracy you crush those fuckin' pirates right off the Internet with the iron fist of righteousness, so that no one else dares to threaten your position of power and control
Of course data "can" be stolen. You make a copy on your system and delete it from the original and all backups. But nobody actually does this.
Have you every actually had Taster's Choice? I argue that your premise may actually be false, or at least that the product of the event may be indistinguishable from the normal brewing method.
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Exactly. Google is doing this for millions of people on Google Voice, and they're getting ad revenue to boot.
And makes you feel like you're looking at the Martrix. Blonde, brunette, redhead...
Sorry to self-correct - acceleration is a vector, it has both magnitude and direction. By summing all of the acceleration vectors, you get a resultant which determines the rate of change of your velocity.
Acceleration can be positive or negative.
Small to medium denomination, non-sequentially number bills would be my preference.