Because Provo already built out large portions of a fiber optic network. That's where the $39million bond comes from. However, they were having trouble administering it, and were losing a lot more money every year. What they are basically saying is, "here, take over this project for us and you can have all the profits." The city wants fast internet, and Google wants to make money providing it. Wikipedia has more info.
If you want SLC to have fiber, talk to the city council. Maybe they'll take up a bond and build it, too.
Though at the end of 15 years, or long before that, the network will appear to be too slow and overburdened, because of web bloat, streaming media, tracking, MMO games and spying on everyone with cameras and the natural progression of technology.
If they'd only invent a robot which could find a parking space, get into the store, pay for it and then take it back to its space assemble it, we wouldn't need so many people =)
What that driver in the left lane is doing is seeing how many cars he/she can pass, because it's something fun to break up the monotony -- and then they suddenly realize their amusement has distracted them from getting off the highway where they want to. Seen it happen many times. Not just in California.
I assume since they are covered in radioactive anti-bodies, that they cannot reproduce and would die eventually from the radiation exposure.
And I highly doubt they would inject more than a safe limit into you if they did use these for treatment based on your level of kidney function.
Probably ending up using a whole lot less radiation then the levels that nuked you.
Yet with radiation which is resident rather than just in passing, via Radiation Therapy. Hmmm.
Even if the bacteria continue to reproduce in harmful rates, they can be treated later with antibiotics. First things first - target the cancer cells. Then you can worry about what the infection might have done to you.
One of the concerns every cancer patient will have is the potential of trading longer life later one for longer life now. Sure, back when I was treated it was about the best option available, but the idea of using radiation to kill something which has already mutated, with the potential to create a new mutation is something I'd love to see us move on from.
Magically transport them to a parallel universe or pass them through me kidneys?
I've already been nuked, lymphnodes on my lower left side, so I'm a little aware of side effects and long term prospects (so far so good, touch wood) maybe if we could train bacteria which do not require bringing in radiation we'd really be on to something.
In response to a big push by LEO in CA on the cell phone laws, I recently got one of those dorky 90's dash mounts for my phone. it's great because the phone is pretty much in my line of sight, but it's still distracting to activate the voice sms dictation. So I would say it's MUCH better than doing it by hand, but still not as good as not doing it!
Yep, driving while slightly less distracted is still driving distracted. All it takes is one of those morons who changes lanes without a signal or believes passing with no room to spare will work because you'll see them and you're sunk. Doesn't matter who is right or wrong, if you could have avoided it you could have avoided having your car towed off and dealing with the logistics of being without it. Assuming you survive.
You're apparently out of the loop. HFT stabilizes the market by adding liquidity, or so we're told.
That's just a rumor. Just like the preposterous idea that anyone really understands any of it.
Wonderful bit about how the past Fed. Chairmen haven't had a clue about it and how in the 1970's the markets only moved a million shares in a week, but now do it in a matter of seconds. Quite a lot of it is like watching a flock of birds darting this way and that. It's a current of stock trades, maybe it obeys something like Ohm's Law.
People joke and laugh about Chinese aggression, but please never forget, China is the oldest nation on the planet and arguably the second largest in size (depending on definition).
They have arguably existed in continuous (but evolving) national form since approximately 200 BC -- possibly longer if you consider the Qin takeover a civil war and treat the dynasties as more western city states.
You don't last 2000+ years as a nation without a long term plan.
I don't want to be fearmongering about Asian cultures -- but it is important to pay a potential foe respect where it's due. China knows what they're doing.
Also don't forget modern China is mostly populated and run by Han Chinese. Many of the earlier tribes of China were driven out by Han expansion and presently populate Southeast Asia and Japan. In claiming Tibet the government has effectively declared it lebensraum. Tibetans are already a minority in their own land.
I kind of envy having a government so willing to go to bat for its native industry that it's willing to go as far as to steal IP for them. In my country, the government is more than happy to sit back and watch all its industries outsource and lay off everyone, and nationalism is regarded as a bad word. China, if nothing else, believes in China.
China is playing the Long Game, they've been at it for thousands of years. It should be no surprise you hear them say one thing while they vigorously do another, the hacking into Ameirican servers are merely there to throw the US off balance. Ultimately there is an opport
Oh we love, love, love Chairman Mao! He's our saviour, our martyr, moral compass and soul We dream about him with each rice bowl! All the time he took, writing his little red book How much better he was than that old KMT schnook Oh, we love, love, love Chairman Mao and howwwww!
unity to learn the weaknesses of western systems to build better defences against attacks.
Any of Asimov's robot books (most asimov really) make for excellent sci-fi intro books.
These books, and other sci-fi books, would be fine for extra credit in a literature class, but they are inappropriate for extra credit in a science class. Science is about facts, not fiction. But Asimov is appropriate. When I was a teenager I read dozens of his non-fiction books. I remember sitting in the back of my 10th grade biology class reading Asimov's The Wellsprings of Life. That was the moment that biology "clicked" and I understood the genetic code, how "codons" worked, and it all made sense. I looked up at the teacher droning on, and wondered why they didn't just have everyone read this book.
Too true. There's almost nothing but Sci-Fi being recommended. I highly recommend posters engage in some reading of their own before recommending stuff.
Some good, thoughtful reading, which may not be easy to find in US book shops are the Science of Discworld Series, which bridge Terry Pratchett's fictional world magic with Round World science. It's good stuff.
Every [adult] Cartoon ends up with either one or both themes. That's why they wear thin.
Futurama, FG, etc..: time travel Simpsons, American Dad, etc..: current politics
Heck even the kiddies shows do the same (DragonBallZ: time travel, same flights).
The Flintstones is an interesting old cartoon to examin for changes which lead to decline - Effectively an animated Honeymooners, the gags which could be done regarding the four main characters and pet(s) were taken as far as the writers imaginations could go - then the slowly painted them into corners by adding Pebbles and Bam Bam. Certain adventures and exploits were off limits to the public sensibilities of the time - you could suggest Fred & Wilma weren't married, via the old Failed to File Cert/Justice of the Peace was a fake ploys, but don't even suggest them as Single Parents in early 1960's Television.
Futurama began painting characters into corners by exploring their background. Leela wasn't an exotic alien, but a humdrum mutant - boy, that left me underwhelmed. Might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but once she was defined there could be no more speculation. Same goes for many of the characters. The only one left which could be reinvented was Bender, which became tiresome as episodes around Bender became effectively Homer episodes. And Fry could only be an idiot only so many times. I think you need to leave a lot of mystery about characters, delving into it sparingly, with care taken to not limit a character by some boring bit of background.
Anyway, it's had a good run. Time to wrap it up. Come up with something new.
I agree with you regarding the "movies" that were really just 4 episodes with a loosely coordinated plot-line. That seemed to be more about making the economics of reviving the show work (i.e., direct to video sales plus delayed airings on CC). However, I thought they really fell flat on their face and were not engaging. It was obvious that the writers just couldn't make a 2 hour plot line broken up into 4 parts work.
However, I thought the follow-up season on CC was actually pretty decent. I would not argue that they were the best the series had to offer, but they seemed like worthwhile inclusions, imho.
Oh, I'm certain they were excellent, but the problem is they became too familiar. You can only do Fry is an idiot, so many times and it ceases to be funny.
The newer episodes just haven't had that same flare the older ones did.
A couple of them even felt forced.
Better end a series on a decent note than to drag it on forever (Simpsons, Family Guy, etc)
Like Family Guy, IMHO, the jokes and themes were funny for a while, but wear thin in time. I can't even be bothered to see what's happening on the Simpsons, since I stopped watching it about ten years ago. Futurama has effectively flogged every dead horse the writers could find. Time to move on.
"It wasn't even unusual. Storms like Sany shaped the Eastern Seaboard. Why the continued moronic assumptions history began with European settlers?"
Two thumbs up.
We're supposed to believe that before Europeans arrived, the Americas were an idyllic paradise, that suffered no storms, no earthquakes, no wars, no famine. Ehhh - Europeans brought all those evils here, along with smallpox and polio.
Geocaching has a type of cache called Earthcache, where to log a find the geocacher must read about some feature, observe and report back to the cache owner. These really are some great eye openers in what is present, but in getting the mind working on how a feature came to be, what time was involved, how climate changed during the creation of the feature.
Plesae stop calling it "super storm". It was unusual for that area. That is all. It was no where near has large a storm as have been seen in other places.
It wasn't even unusual. Storms like Sany shaped the Eastern Seaboard. Why the continued moronic assumptions history began with European settlers?
I'm an avid hiker and camper, covering considerable area in my exploration. Very often I take the time to examin my surroundings and wonder what forces shaped them. Sometimes the truth is hidden beneath grasses and behind trees, others the truth is fully exposed in rock outcrops, valley floors and mountain ranges. The Earth didn't stop changing, either, it's constantly changing. We're just a bink in the eye of time, though we're doing a marvelous job of paving ground, digging holes and pulling carbon back to the surface.
Won't stop a bomb, but would be pretty handy if people like these two chuckle heads decide to start shooting things up instead of blowing them up.
Yeah, so they can pick up a spare gun after one ambushes you, like happened in Santa Cruz not long ago. Leave law enforcement to the trained professionals.
That is because there is still an attitude that what you say isn't "etched in stone". When you write it, it is "etched in stone". So with newspapers, they were careful for their own credibility. Someone could always go back and prove you were wrong. Although you can do the same thing with video and even measure context better with video, that attitude doesn't seem to prevail. We as a society seam to expect fallacy in video.
Maybe not etched in stone, but etched in something more permanent - the internet. Somewhere I have a printscreen from November, 2000, proclaiming Al Gore as the next president of the United States. I know it didn't last on ther page for long, but I saved it. I have it somewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Because Provo already built out large portions of a fiber optic network. That's where the $39million bond comes from. However, they were having trouble administering it, and were losing a lot more money every year. What they are basically saying is, "here, take over this project for us and you can have all the profits." The city wants fast internet, and Google wants to make money providing it. Wikipedia has more info.
If you want SLC to have fiber, talk to the city council. Maybe they'll take up a bond and build it, too.
Though at the end of 15 years, or long before that, the network will appear to be too slow and overburdened, because of web bloat, streaming media, tracking, MMO games and spying on everyone with cameras and the natural progression of technology.
You're forgetting the extra robot which stands by and appreciates the Scandinavian simplicity of the furniture. That's extra.
The bad news is you'll need to buy yet another piece of Ikea furniture, a cabinet to store the robot in.
If they'd only invent a robot which could find a parking space, get into the store, pay for it and then take it back to its space assemble it, we wouldn't need so many people =)
What that driver in the left lane is doing is seeing how many cars he/she can pass, because it's something fun to break up the monotony -- and then they suddenly realize their amusement has distracted them from getting off the highway where they want to. Seen it happen many times. Not just in California.
We'll finally get to see where Leela's ancestors grew up, before moving to the big city :)
And the natural owner of the new Fukurama II nuclear plant would be Monty Burns-san!
hai! ehhhxcellent
I assume since they are covered in radioactive anti-bodies, that they cannot reproduce and would die eventually from the radiation exposure.
And I highly doubt they would inject more than a safe limit into you if they did use these for treatment based on your level of kidney function.
Probably ending up using a whole lot less radiation then the levels that nuked you.
Yet with radiation which is resident rather than just in passing, via Radiation Therapy. Hmmm.
Even if the bacteria continue to reproduce in harmful rates, they can be treated later with antibiotics. First things first - target the cancer cells. Then you can worry about what the infection might have done to you.
One of the concerns every cancer patient will have is the potential of trading longer life later one for longer life now. Sure, back when I was treated it was about the best option available, but the idea of using radiation to kill something which has already mutated, with the potential to create a new mutation is something I'd love to see us move on from.
Land uninhabitable for generations, 40+ years cleanup, trillions in compensation - yeah, I'd say it all went fairly well!
Maybe the could us it as a setting and roll out another Matt Groening show, call it Fukurama
i'd watch it
Magically transport them to a parallel universe or pass them through me kidneys?
I've already been nuked, lymphnodes on my lower left side, so I'm a little aware of side effects and long term prospects (so far so good, touch wood) maybe if we could train bacteria which do not require bringing in radiation we'd really be on to something.
Still, it's progress.
In response to a big push by LEO in CA on the cell phone laws, I recently got one of those dorky 90's dash mounts for my phone. it's great because the phone is pretty much in my line of sight, but it's still distracting to activate the voice sms dictation. So I would say it's MUCH better than doing it by hand, but still not as good as not doing it!
Yep, driving while slightly less distracted is still driving distracted. All it takes is one of those morons who changes lanes without a signal or believes passing with no room to spare will work because you'll see them and you're sunk. Doesn't matter who is right or wrong, if you could have avoided it you could have avoided having your car towed off and dealing with the logistics of being without it. Assuming you survive.
You're apparently out of the loop. HFT stabilizes the market by adding liquidity, or so we're told.
That's just a rumor. Just like the preposterous idea that anyone really understands any of it.
Wonderful bit about how the past Fed. Chairmen haven't had a clue about it and how in the 1970's the markets only moved a million shares in a week, but now do it in a matter of seconds. Quite a lot of it is like watching a flock of birds darting this way and that. It's a current of stock trades, maybe it obeys something like Ohm's Law.
People joke and laugh about Chinese aggression, but please never forget, China is the oldest nation on the planet and arguably the second largest in size (depending on definition).
They have arguably existed in continuous (but evolving) national form since approximately 200 BC -- possibly longer if you consider the Qin takeover a civil war and treat the dynasties as more western city states.
You don't last 2000+ years as a nation without a long term plan.
I don't want to be fearmongering about Asian cultures -- but it is important to pay a potential foe respect where it's due. China knows what they're doing.
Also don't forget modern China is mostly populated and run by Han Chinese. Many of the earlier tribes of China were driven out by Han expansion and presently populate Southeast Asia and Japan. In claiming Tibet the government has effectively declared it lebensraum. Tibetans are already a minority in their own land.
internet prank with stock market side effects, or intentional market disruption and subsequent gain? btw this is why I don't read tweets.
It's very revealing in what sort of morons do and base their trading upon it.
They will buy it, but seeing is believing
Do you think air batteries could become vapor ware?
I kind of envy having a government so willing to go to bat for its native industry that it's willing to go as far as to steal IP for them. In my country, the government is more than happy to sit back and watch all its industries outsource and lay off everyone, and nationalism is regarded as a bad word. China, if nothing else, believes in China.
China is playing the Long Game, they've been at it for thousands of years. It should be no surprise you hear them say one thing while they vigorously do another, the hacking into Ameirican servers are merely there to throw the US off balance. Ultimately there is an opport
Oh we love, love, love Chairman Mao!
He's our saviour, our martyr, moral compass and soul
We dream about him with each rice bowl!
All the time he took, writing his little red book
How much better he was than that old KMT schnook
Oh, we love, love, love Chairman Mao and howwwww!
unity to learn the weaknesses of western systems to build better defences against attacks.
Any of Asimov's robot books (most asimov really) make for excellent sci-fi intro books.
These books, and other sci-fi books, would be fine for extra credit in a literature class, but they are inappropriate for extra credit in a science class. Science is about facts, not fiction. But Asimov is appropriate. When I was a teenager I read dozens of his non-fiction books. I remember sitting in the back of my 10th grade biology class reading Asimov's The Wellsprings of Life. That was the moment that biology "clicked" and I understood the genetic code, how "codons" worked, and it all made sense. I looked up at the teacher droning on, and wondered why they didn't just have everyone read this book.
Too true. There's almost nothing but Sci-Fi being recommended. I highly recommend posters engage in some reading of their own before recommending stuff.
Some good, thoughtful reading, which may not be easy to find in US book shops are the Science of Discworld Series, which bridge Terry Pratchett's fictional world magic with Round World science. It's good stuff.
It's the least they should read.
Politics or Time Travel.
Every [adult] Cartoon ends up with either one or both themes. That's why they wear thin.
Futurama, FG, etc..: time travel
Simpsons, American Dad, etc..: current politics
Heck even the kiddies shows do the same (DragonBallZ: time travel, same flights).
The Flintstones is an interesting old cartoon to examin for changes which lead to decline - Effectively an animated Honeymooners, the gags which could be done regarding the four main characters and pet(s) were taken as far as the writers imaginations could go - then the slowly painted them into corners by adding Pebbles and Bam Bam. Certain adventures and exploits were off limits to the public sensibilities of the time - you could suggest Fred & Wilma weren't married, via the old Failed to File Cert/Justice of the Peace was a fake ploys, but don't even suggest them as Single Parents in early 1960's Television.
Futurama began painting characters into corners by exploring their background. Leela wasn't an exotic alien, but a humdrum mutant - boy, that left me underwhelmed. Might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but once she was defined there could be no more speculation. Same goes for many of the characters. The only one left which could be reinvented was Bender, which became tiresome as episodes around Bender became effectively Homer episodes. And Fry could only be an idiot only so many times. I think you need to leave a lot of mystery about characters, delving into it sparingly, with care taken to not limit a character by some boring bit of background.
Anyway, it's had a good run. Time to wrap it up. Come up with something new.
I agree with you regarding the "movies" that were really just 4 episodes with a loosely coordinated plot-line. That seemed to be more about making the economics of reviving the show work (i.e., direct to video sales plus delayed airings on CC). However, I thought they really fell flat on their face and were not engaging. It was obvious that the writers just couldn't make a 2 hour plot line broken up into 4 parts work.
However, I thought the follow-up season on CC was actually pretty decent. I would not argue that they were the best the series had to offer, but they seemed like worthwhile inclusions, imho.
Oh, I'm certain they were excellent, but the problem is they became too familiar. You can only do Fry is an idiot, so many times and it ceases to be funny.
The newer episodes just haven't had that same flare the older ones did.
A couple of them even felt forced.
Better end a series on a decent note than to drag it on forever (Simpsons, Family Guy, etc)
Like Family Guy, IMHO, the jokes and themes were funny for a while, but wear thin in time. I can't even be bothered to see what's happening on the Simpsons, since I stopped watching it about ten years ago. Futurama has effectively flogged every dead horse the writers could find. Time to move on.
"It wasn't even unusual. Storms like Sany shaped the Eastern Seaboard. Why the continued moronic assumptions history began with European settlers?"
Two thumbs up.
We're supposed to believe that before Europeans arrived, the Americas were an idyllic paradise, that suffered no storms, no earthquakes, no wars, no famine. Ehhh - Europeans brought all those evils here, along with smallpox and polio.
Geocaching has a type of cache called Earthcache, where to log a find the geocacher must read about some feature, observe and report back to the cache owner. These really are some great eye openers in what is present, but in getting the mind working on how a feature came to be, what time was involved, how climate changed during the creation of the feature.
Plesae stop calling it "super storm". It was unusual for that area. That is all. It was no where near has large a storm as have been seen in other places.
It wasn't even unusual. Storms like Sany shaped the Eastern Seaboard. Why the continued moronic assumptions history began with European settlers?
I'm an avid hiker and camper, covering considerable area in my exploration. Very often I take the time to examin my surroundings and wonder what forces shaped them. Sometimes the truth is hidden beneath grasses and behind trees, others the truth is fully exposed in rock outcrops, valley floors and mountain ranges. The Earth didn't stop changing, either, it's constantly changing. We're just a bink in the eye of time, though we're doing a marvelous job of paving ground, digging holes and pulling carbon back to the surface.
Enjoy the ride.
Their previous focus was providing the best submarine screendoor to keep out the oceans of malware.
They must have brought in a project manager from Redmond.
Time to get my Concealed Carry Permit.
Won't stop a bomb, but would be pretty handy if people like these two chuckle heads decide to start shooting things up instead of blowing them up.
Yeah, so they can pick up a spare gun after one ambushes you, like happened in Santa Cruz not long ago. Leave law enforcement to the trained professionals.
That is because there is still an attitude that what you say isn't "etched in stone". When you write it, it is "etched in stone". So with newspapers, they were careful for their own credibility. Someone could always go back and prove you were wrong. Although you can do the same thing with video and even measure context better with video, that attitude doesn't seem to prevail. We as a society seam to expect fallacy in video.
Maybe not etched in stone, but etched in something more permanent - the internet. Somewhere I have a printscreen from November, 2000, proclaiming Al Gore as the next president of the United States. I know it didn't last on ther page for long, but I saved it. I have it somewhere.