Ah, the classic "don't buy from X and they'll stop" approach. That doesn't work very well if you're in the minority. And considering that many, many viewers are teens who probably use the product placement as a form of guidance, I think those in the dissent will be in the minority.
I really don't see how this applies. I can see complaining if a favorite, quality program is aired in a 2-to-1 ratio to advertisements (10 minutes program, 5 minutes commercial, repeat--I've barely sat through some like that), but if the program itself is annoyingly-packed with advertisements, do you really want to watch it?
This seems a lot like complaining to a regulatory body because your favorite program's plots were becoming increasingly lame. Watch something else, already.
URIs have become the de-facto standard for referencing documents on the Internet. Don't you think it is more useful to reference documents/objects by their unique ID rather than a URL where one instance of that document may reside?
I think these would be well-suited for identifying resources across multiple distribution networks, like the standard HTTP web, Freenet, bittorrent, file-sharing networks, etc., as well as making mirroring and distribution of load much easier.
Aragorn in the books is a flawless, comic-book hero by the time of the Council of Elrond, and is waving Anduril around at every opportunity (at Eomer, at Hama, etc.) The only real moment of any drama concerning Aragorn (as far as I'm concerned) is where he shows himself to Sauron and the Paths of the Dead. I think both moments become more interesting if Aragorn is a more vulnerable, conflicted character than he is in the books.
Probably because Tolkien was building an epic, and thus writing in a lofty, heroic style for many of the larger-than-life characters like Aragorn.
This is one of the reasons one might forgive Jackson for the changes made to the story. Lack of human flaws and drama make for less-than-stellar motion pictures.
How about reducing the population? The Economist magazine had an apropo cover story a few months ago entitles, "Can the World Afford 500 Million Americans?"
Did you happen to notice what the estimated population for the rest of the world would be by 2060?
I seem to recall reading an article that suggested the world population would double in significantly less than 57 years. Given the current population of the USA is nearly 300e6, the rate of growth of the population of the USA appears to be quite a bit less than the rest of the world.
The article went on to explain that by 2060, the U.S. population would exceed 500 million and given current consumption trends, what that would mean for the rest of the world.
Seems to me that feeding a dozen billion people would be more of an issue than a piddly little half-billion.
Heh, do you know the kind of things Plato said? Plato, like perhaps all great philosophers, is judged to be great by the originality of his ideas and arguments rather than how well such arguments correspond to either today's thinking or reality.
So, a bunch of lawyers get obscenely rich and 2 years from now we all get a $5.00 coupon toward the purchase of a new disk.
Have a class-action attorney file a class-action lawsuit against class-action attorneys for bilking members of class-actions lawsuits out of judgement/settlement money through their exhorbitant fees.
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Yes, but what if I want to use the SD card slot for what it was intended: an SD memory card, and still use my Bluetooth wireless headset. I can't understand why they try to sell a $550 to $600 piece of kit that doesn't have a $5 Bluetooth interface in it.
Absolutely correct. "Hold on a moment while I disconnect my bluetooth adapter--it will cut out my wireless headset, but I need to look up something on this other SD card..."
This is one of the reasons I absolutely love USB. Run out of available plugs? No problem, add a hub and plug into that. Insufficient bus power levels? No problem, replace one or more of the hubs with powered hubs.
Would it be technologically feasible to somehow multiplex multiple SD slots through a single slot? If so, I see a great opportunity for an add-on hardware vendor...
Here's the interesting bit. Laptops were the real hit. The grunts love them. PDA's have gone almost unused. Why? Because the battery life is so short they're virtually useless in the field.
Er, huh? I've never once used a laptop that could last more than a few hours on a full battery. Maybe they exist, but I've never had the pleasure of using one.
My Handspring Visor lasts for weeks on a single pair of AA batteries. Maybe you're referring to PocketPC type PDAs, which I hear suck up juice like the name implies.
If console and computer games can so easily influence kids, then how come we don't see hoards of them acting out Everquest or Soulcalibur scenes? Where are all the kids running around collecting rings after playing Sonic for five hours in a row? Huh? Answer me that...
I've firsthand evidence that kids around 4-6 will role-play things they've seen on video games like Final Fantasy. Not that they've actually tried to kill someone, mind you, but they do like to mimic things they think are cool.
The only problem is that TopCoder style programming contests select for speed of implementation over quality, efficiency, readability, and maintainability. Worse, since your code is challenged by other coders, the more unreadable and impenetrable your code, the less likely subtle bugs in your code will be detected in the short challenge period.
Still, it was nice when they were awarding $300 for first place in your room in Division I for contests every week. When they dropped the prize money for weekly matches, there wasn't a compelling reason to spend my time on it.
Could astronauts finally have a means to meaningfully interact with people on the ground. We can finally lock them in a small room with an interactive version of thier [sic] girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband and get all the talk they want on the 6-8 month trip to mars. Now all we have to do is make a program that can acticipate answers from our loved ones.
I presume by that last sentence you mean an interactive simulation of a love one, rather than a live display of the real thing. With Mars anywhere from 3 to 20 light minutes away from earth, any kid of interactive dialog with the real loved one on Earth would be pretty slow.
When you have a wife and three kids, nearly every trip involving the whole family, in or out of town, makes an economy car undersized. I'd love it if there were hybrid minivans or small SUVs.
I have a nice fuel-efficient 2001 Civic LX for commuting to work, but the family just won't fit in it. Okay, everyone can squeeze into it in an emergency, but it's intolerably cramped. This is why we have a Saturn VUE for my wife, since it seats five, isn't huge, and gets decent MPG.
The lagrange points are more like areas, and they move a bit due to the gravity of other bodies like the moon and sun. But considering the vast distances involved, if you're within a few kilometers a few tiny Ion thrusters will keep things in place. Plenty of room for a bunch of structures at each point.
I wasn't so much concerned with collision, but with interference with the existing observatories.
For instance, the orbits of other things placed at L1 could cause them to occasionally occlude SOHO's view of the Sun. I haven't seen what the profile of orbits at L1 look like, and I also don't know what kind of orbit SOHO has there, so I can only speculate.
I'd think the situation with MAP at L2 might be more likely to have problems, since it was placed there to be in the Earth's Solar umbra (IIRC) and anything else in the area could conceivably mess with MAP's sensitive infrared sensors. Maybe not, though, since it looks like L2 is a common place for NASA to send infrared observatories.
The NASA Space Transportation System (STS), or "Space Shuttle," was the pioneering effort at producing a partially reusable launch system. Conceived in the late 60's, the Shuttle has proven to be an incredible machine that has opened up new dimensions of space missions in the two decades since first flight. No launch system ever developed comes close in terms of overall mission capabilities of the STS.
However, the launch costs currently associated with Shuttle flight are not dramatically different (per pound deliverable to orbit) than expendable systems.
Not to mention that the STS fleet was originally supposed to be flying around 60 missions per year, which is about 12 times the rate they've actually flown.
Clearly the shuttle isn't what they're looking for when considering real reusability, low cost, and frequent use.
I'm floored that a Congressional bill would even mention Lagrange points.
However, they call for travelling to L1 and L2 to build "large-scale space structures such as would be required for scientific observatories". Aren't L1 and L2 already occupied by the SOHO and MAP observatories, respectively? I haven't checked the decommission dates for those observatories, but does this imply they would be building something nearby, risking those existing observatories?
Also, this bill makes lots of noise about doings things from LEO to elsewhere, but is strangely quiet about getting stuff from the surface to LEO. Is this a deliberate omission?
I realize that this column is mostly about identity theft, but is anyone else bothered by the idea that the USPS, given specific instructions to hold your mail, can just go ahead and deliver it, and then not be responsible for the screw-up (and the resulting havoc)?
This is the result of giving a quasi-governmental agency a monopoly on delivering mail. Let private companies like FedEx, UPS, et al. compete by delivering regular mail instead of only parcels and express mail, and this problem (and possibly the USPS) would evaporate quickly.
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Ah, the classic "don't buy from X and they'll stop" approach. That doesn't work very well if you're in the minority. And considering that many, many viewers are teens who probably use the product placement as a form of guidance, I think those in the dissent will be in the minority.
I really don't see how this applies. I can see complaining if a favorite, quality program is aired in a 2-to-1 ratio to advertisements (10 minutes program, 5 minutes commercial, repeat--I've barely sat through some like that), but if the program itself is annoyingly-packed with advertisements, do you really want to watch it?
This seems a lot like complaining to a regulatory body because your favorite program's plots were becoming increasingly lame. Watch something else, already.
URIs have become the de-facto standard for referencing documents on the Internet. Don't you think it is more useful to reference documents/objects by their unique ID rather than a URL where one instance of that document may reside?
I think these would be well-suited for identifying resources across multiple distribution networks, like the standard HTTP web, Freenet, bittorrent, file-sharing networks, etc., as well as making mirroring and distribution of load much easier.
Aragorn in the books is a flawless, comic-book hero by the time of the Council of Elrond, and is waving Anduril around at every opportunity (at Eomer, at Hama, etc.) The only real moment of any drama concerning Aragorn (as far as I'm concerned) is where he shows himself to Sauron and the Paths of the Dead. I think both moments become more interesting if Aragorn is a more vulnerable, conflicted character than he is in the books.
Probably because Tolkien was building an epic, and thus writing in a lofty, heroic style for many of the larger-than-life characters like Aragorn.
This is one of the reasons one might forgive Jackson for the changes made to the story. Lack of human flaws and drama make for less-than-stellar motion pictures.
How about reducing the population? The Economist magazine had an apropo cover story a few months ago entitles, "Can the World Afford 500 Million Americans?"
Did you happen to notice what the estimated population for the rest of the world would be by 2060?
I seem to recall reading an article that suggested the world population would double in significantly less than 57 years. Given the current population of the USA is nearly 300e6, the rate of growth of the population of the USA appears to be quite a bit less than the rest of the world.
The article went on to explain that by 2060, the U.S. population would exceed 500 million and given current consumption trends, what that would mean for the rest of the world.
Seems to me that feeding a dozen billion people would be more of an issue than a piddly little half-billion.
Why couldn't we put this lab in orbit? That way we wouldn't have to compensate for so much extraneous gravitational noise.
Because "microgravity" does not mean "a minimum of gravity".
Heh, do you know the kind of things Plato said? Plato, like perhaps all great philosophers, is judged to be great by the originality of his ideas and arguments rather than how well such arguments correspond to either today's thinking or reality.
In today's world, we call this a consultant.
You gotta wonder what gets these people out of bed day in and day out.
I'd love to get paid for 30 years to continually look for something and not get canned for failing to deliver.
So, a bunch of lawyers get obscenely rich and 2 years from now we all get a $5.00 coupon toward the purchase of a new disk.
Have a class-action attorney file a class-action lawsuit against class-action attorneys for bilking members of class-actions lawsuits out of judgement/settlement money through their exhorbitant fees.
It makes one wonder... how do nerds reproduce?
Why, binary fission of course...
Break the upgrade cycle and maybe the bastards will start treating us like intelligent consumers.
If most consumers weren't sheeple, maybe this would work. "Intelligent consumer" is a minority.
Yes, but what if I want to use the SD card slot for what it was intended: an SD memory card, and still use my Bluetooth wireless headset. I can't understand why they try to sell a $550 to $600 piece of kit that doesn't have a $5 Bluetooth interface in it.
Absolutely correct. "Hold on a moment while I disconnect my bluetooth adapter--it will cut out my wireless headset, but I need to look up something on this other SD card..."
This is one of the reasons I absolutely love USB. Run out of available plugs? No problem, add a hub and plug into that. Insufficient bus power levels? No problem, replace one or more of the hubs with powered hubs.
Would it be technologically feasible to somehow multiplex multiple SD slots through a single slot? If so, I see a great opportunity for an add-on hardware vendor...
Here's the interesting bit. Laptops were the real hit. The grunts love them. PDA's have gone almost unused. Why? Because the battery life is so short they're virtually useless in the field.
Er, huh? I've never once used a laptop that could last more than a few hours on a full battery. Maybe they exist, but I've never had the pleasure of using one.
My Handspring Visor lasts for weeks on a single pair of AA batteries. Maybe you're referring to PocketPC type PDAs, which I hear suck up juice like the name implies.
Then again neither is the Treo, or at least it wasn't initally designed to be a Palm it was designed to be a Handspring.
Not to those of us who got used to Handspring implying the presence of a Springboard expansion slot.
If console and computer games can so easily influence kids, then how come we don't see hoards of them acting out Everquest or Soulcalibur scenes? Where are all the kids running around collecting rings after playing Sonic for five hours in a row? Huh? Answer me that...
I've firsthand evidence that kids around 4-6 will role-play things they've seen on video games like Final Fantasy. Not that they've actually tried to kill someone, mind you, but they do like to mimic things they think are cool.
Crap, I was just reading an article on this yesterday, but now I can't find it.
The article claimed it was technically legal to:
- Make a copy of your music CD
- Loan that CD to a friend
- Your friend copies the CD
- Your friend returns the CD to you.
but that it was illegal for you to actually make a copy and give it directly to your friend, even though the results are essentially the same.I really wish I could remember where I was reading that.
The only problem is that TopCoder style programming contests select for speed of implementation over quality, efficiency, readability, and maintainability. Worse, since your code is challenged by other coders, the more unreadable and impenetrable your code, the less likely subtle bugs in your code will be detected in the short challenge period.
Still, it was nice when they were awarding $300 for first place in your room in Division I for contests every week. When they dropped the prize money for weekly matches, there wasn't a compelling reason to spend my time on it.
Could astronauts finally have a means to meaningfully interact with people on the ground. We can finally lock them in a small room with an interactive version of thier [sic] girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband and get all the talk they want on the 6-8 month trip to mars. Now all we have to do is make a program that can acticipate answers from our loved ones.
I presume by that last sentence you mean an interactive simulation of a love one, rather than a live display of the real thing. With Mars anywhere from 3 to 20 light minutes away from earth, any kid of interactive dialog with the real loved one on Earth would be pretty slow.
I imagine even water is outlawed under this law, after all you can drown from it.
Heck, you can die from drinking too much water, too.
haha, so you want them it run a piece of copper from the aircraft to the earth?
I'm sure the other poster meant grounding referring to a connection to a common conductor representing base voltage, not to a metal spike in the soil.
When you have a wife and three kids, nearly every trip involving the whole family, in or out of town, makes an economy car undersized. I'd love it if there were hybrid minivans or small SUVs.
I have a nice fuel-efficient 2001 Civic LX for commuting to work, but the family just won't fit in it. Okay, everyone can squeeze into it in an emergency, but it's intolerably cramped. This is why we have a Saturn VUE for my wife, since it seats five, isn't huge, and gets decent MPG.
The lagrange points are more like areas, and they move a bit due to the gravity of other bodies like the moon and sun. But considering the vast distances involved, if you're within a few kilometers a few tiny Ion thrusters will keep things in place. Plenty of room for a bunch of structures at each point.
I wasn't so much concerned with collision, but with interference with the existing observatories.
For instance, the orbits of other things placed at L1 could cause them to occasionally occlude SOHO's view of the Sun. I haven't seen what the profile of orbits at L1 look like, and I also don't know what kind of orbit SOHO has there, so I can only speculate.
I'd think the situation with MAP at L2 might be more likely to have problems, since it was placed there to be in the Earth's Solar umbra (IIRC) and anything else in the area could conceivably mess with MAP's sensitive infrared sensors. Maybe not, though, since it looks like L2 is a common place for NASA to send infrared observatories.
For certain values of "reusable":Not to mention that the STS fleet was originally supposed to be flying around 60 missions per year, which is about 12 times the rate they've actually flown.
Clearly the shuttle isn't what they're looking for when considering real reusability, low cost, and frequent use.
That's fantastic. Perhaps one day you will learn the diffrence between 'illegal' and 'immoral'
You snipped the part where I actually addressed your comment, which was
Boycott whatever you like, but it's immoral to boycott on other people's behalf just because you can.
Please explain how one boycotts something "on other people's behalf".
I'm floored that a Congressional bill would even mention Lagrange points.
However, they call for travelling to L1 and L2 to build "large-scale space structures such as would be required for scientific observatories". Aren't L1 and L2 already occupied by the SOHO and MAP observatories, respectively? I haven't checked the decommission dates for those observatories, but does this imply they would be building something nearby, risking those existing observatories?
Also, this bill makes lots of noise about doings things from LEO to elsewhere, but is strangely quiet about getting stuff from the surface to LEO. Is this a deliberate omission?
I realize that this column is mostly about identity theft, but is anyone else bothered by the idea that the USPS, given specific instructions to hold your mail, can just go ahead and deliver it, and then not be responsible for the screw-up (and the resulting havoc)?
This is the result of giving a quasi-governmental agency a monopoly on delivering mail. Let private companies like FedEx, UPS, et al. compete by delivering regular mail instead of only parcels and express mail, and this problem (and possibly the USPS) would evaporate quickly.