Well, Kiwi my friend, we won't have that pretty soon. Most nukular fission plants are due for decommisioning, and if they are continued to be recommisioned while way past their expiration date, we may need to employ Half-Life 2 experts...
Americans don't want to store the nukular waste, and we don't want to build new, more efficient(nukularly) pebble bed reactors to replace the old ones. wtfbbq. We're dumb sometimes.
Actually, the topic article is basically a *review* of the exact Spectrum article that you've posted. Maybe they should rename Slashdot to Science Digested...
That article was actually pretty good -- once the manufacturing processs for nanotubes they'll be nicely popular. Kinda like the fiber-optics explosion recently -- once the tower-extrusion method was perfected, BAM!
From what I understand, nanotubes are grown in a wafer-fab type of setting... not very good for large structures like space elevators and bike frames.
Yes, I remember when terraserver.microsoft.com was in beta around 5 years ago(back before *beta* was cool) and a friend of mine used it to check property lines on a rural piece of land he intended to purchase...
Microsoft had chosen to keep it a closed, fee-based service, and it subsequently was a bit stifled in development and acceptance.
All Google did was open it up and keep it free, and it seems to be more widespread.
Of the two approaches, Microsoft prefers to make money on its own terms as they have always done. Whereas, Google seems to be letting the market dictate where the technology is moving as well as how(if) they will profit from it...
DST != Deep Space Ten, a new, exciting, reality based Star Trek series that is exactly one order of magnitude in quality above any previous space station-centered plotlines.
I don't think ethanol will be going away anytime soon, assuming we can find better ways to use it (or if the auto manufacturers embrace it more readily).
Last year, a newsblurb came out from the U of MN (got corn?) regarding: The first reactor capable of producing hydrogen from a renewable fuel source - ethanol - efficiently enough to hold economic potential... Full Text Here
It's interesting that he was able to dig up the name/maiden name/address of the wife of a former ambassador/editorialist, but he was not able to dig up any connection of hers to the CIA or any other information that would even be *close* to newsworthy. Yet, the article's views-to-news is that he was able to do this in ~30min. But, this is having apriori knowledge that she was working for the CIA.
Had the reporter started from scratch, his methodology would have been: 1. Pick a random friend/enemy. 2. LexisNexis for as much info as possible. 3. Google Map it. 4. Drive up to the home address and ask: "Are you a CIA agent?" 5. Repeat 1-4 until the answer is yes. 6. Profit!
Not quite a newsflash -- since the game developers have moved away from cartridges, they've been selling consoles at a loss. A disc-game costs ~1cent to make and sells ~$50, it only takes a couple sales per gamer to recoup...
Some patents filed are pretty general and can be summed up in a few words like "using customer viewing histories to generate recommendations." This particular patent, however, is not all that general and is actually very detailed, yet broad.
It details not only the weighting system used to generate the recommendations (recently purchased + highly rated = higher weight), in the same category, but in other store areas as well. It weights differently based upon whether an item is placed in the cart, searched for, placed on the wish list, bid on in online auction(?), purchased as a gift, or merely favorably reviewed.
So, Amazon is basically saving their customer's viewing/browsing tendencies as data. Now, they've patented the usage of this data to generate more sales. It seems like a good idea to me.
Based upon your inference that the patent of inferring A to B purchases is stupid, you have violated Amazon's patent on Stupid Inferences and thus owe us one *million* dollars.
That's why one shouldn't download "illegal mp3's" because they want the music -- that would be stealing. Now, if you just classify it as "civil disobedience" it's then OK...
Yet, by posting the "best firewall configurations" to Slashdot, it's most likely that they will soon come to be "not-the-best". After all, isn't internet security more of a king of the hill paradigm -- where one minute you've got the "best hw/sw" but then subsequently become the most targeted?
And yes, it does impinge upon that darn ol' security-through-obscurity argument...
just read the wikipedia entry, but I still believe in the atmospheric broadening thought. If you look at the moon when it is right at the horizon, you'll notice that it is not round, but oval-shaped. This implies that the "bottom portion" is broadening in shape because its light is passing through more atmosphere. The "top portion" retains the round shape of the moon as its light is passing through fewer layers of turbulence.
Looks like BBC just read the wikipedia entry and decided it was newsworthy.
when the celestial object is more near to the horizon, the light from it is traveling through more atmosphere. this leads to both a broadening of the object(yet, a blurrier object) as well as a red shift in the light.
Yeah, if I can get out of the grocery store under $160/person / month I'm lucky... unfortunately, you've have to work on your neighbor's share for Whole Foods, as I'm not in the 20min drive time region...
I guess I didn't realize the article ranked these companies solely on 4-year growth -- if you re-sort according to overall sales Whole Foods falls well below Nike,Toyota,VS, which all seem like they're much more established worldwide.
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Well, Kiwi my friend, we won't have that pretty soon. Most nukular fission plants are due for decommisioning, and if they are continued to be recommisioned while way past their expiration date, we may need to employ Half-Life 2 experts...
Americans don't want to store the nukular waste, and we don't want to build new, more efficient(nukularly) pebble bed reactors to replace the old ones. wtfbbq. We're dumb sometimes.
Actually, the topic article is basically a *review* of the exact Spectrum article that you've posted. Maybe they should rename Slashdot to Science Digested...
That article was actually pretty good -- once the manufacturing processs for nanotubes they'll be nicely popular. Kinda like the fiber-optics explosion recently -- once the tower-extrusion method was perfected, BAM!
From what I understand, nanotubes are grown in a wafer-fab type of setting... not very good for large structures like space elevators and bike frames.
heh, I read the part:
Stage I, Block I is a LEO vehicle...
as:
Stage I, Block I is a LEGO vehicle...
Finally, now those British Beaniacs can release their 8-year-in-the-making Mr. Bean tributes remixed to include *words*.
Or for those of you that have your Habla Espanol filter set incorrectly:
Cual quieres mejor?
a) Estilo de joven Slashdot:
Tim Berners-Lee (si necesitas explicar, leyendo el sitio que me encanta como frijoles) esta entrevistado.
b) Estilo Profesional:
Tim Berners-Lee esta entrevistado.
Was the judge a tall black man with sideburns and a gavel that read "BMF" ?
From an evolutionary standpoint, isn't it better to pass on your genes and die, than to not have children and live forever?
That being said, wouldn't evolutionists want to have as many children as possible to increase the probability of success for their genes?
How about:
No one under 18 for selected viewings -- not for MPAA ratings sake, but because sometimes you just can't stand other peoples children.
He did pretty well -- although the maps have no markings, the satellite imagery does give 1m resolution and allows lat/long input.
"PC Load Letter?!?! WTF does that mean???"
Yes, I remember when terraserver.microsoft.com was in beta around 5 years ago(back before *beta* was cool) and a friend of mine used it to check property lines on a rural piece of land he intended to purchase...
Microsoft had chosen to keep it a closed, fee-based service, and it subsequently was a bit stifled in development and acceptance.
All Google did was open it up and keep it free, and it seems to be more widespread.
Of the two approaches, Microsoft prefers to make money on its own terms as they have always done. Whereas, Google seems to be letting the market dictate where the technology is moving as well as how(if) they will profit from it...
DST != Deep Space Ten, a new, exciting, reality based Star Trek series that is exactly one order of magnitude in quality above any previous space station-centered plotlines.
I don't think ethanol will be going away anytime soon, assuming we can find better ways to use it (or if the auto manufacturers embrace it more readily).
Last year, a newsblurb came out from the U of MN (got corn?) regarding:
The first reactor capable of producing hydrogen from a renewable fuel source - ethanol - efficiently enough to hold economic potential...
Full Text Here
It's interesting that he was able to dig up the name/maiden name/address of the wife of a former ambassador/editorialist, but he was not able to dig up any connection of hers to the CIA or any other information that would even be *close* to newsworthy. Yet, the article's views-to-news is that he was able to do this in ~30min. But, this is having apriori knowledge that she was working for the CIA.
Had the reporter started from scratch, his methodology would have been:
1. Pick a random friend/enemy.
2. LexisNexis for as much info as possible.
3. Google Map it.
4. Drive up to the home address and ask: "Are you a CIA agent?"
5. Repeat 1-4 until the answer is yes.
6. Profit!
Not quite a newsflash -- since the game developers have moved away from cartridges, they've been selling consoles at a loss. A disc-game costs ~1cent to make and sells ~$50, it only takes a couple sales per gamer to recoup...
Some patents filed are pretty general and can be summed up in a few words like "using customer viewing histories to generate recommendations." This particular patent, however, is not all that general and is actually very detailed, yet broad.
It details not only the weighting system used to generate the recommendations (recently purchased + highly rated = higher weight), in the same category, but in other store areas as well. It weights differently based upon whether an item is placed in the cart, searched for, placed on the wish list, bid on in online auction(?), purchased as a gift, or merely favorably reviewed.
So, Amazon is basically saving their customer's viewing/browsing tendencies as data. Now, they've patented the usage of this data to generate more sales. It seems like a good idea to me.
Flamebait? That's such a waste of a mod point... Oh well, at least this loose cannon moderator didn't label it insightful...
Dear Chris Cleveland,
Based upon your inference that the patent of inferring A to B purchases is stupid, you have violated Amazon's patent on Stupid Inferences and thus owe us one *million* dollars.
--Jeff B.
That's why one shouldn't download "illegal mp3's" because they want the music -- that would be stealing. Now, if you just classify it as "civil disobedience" it's then OK...
Yet, by posting the "best firewall configurations" to Slashdot, it's most likely that they will soon come to be "not-the-best". After all, isn't internet security more of a king of the hill paradigm -- where one minute you've got the "best hw/sw" but then subsequently become the most targeted?
And yes, it does impinge upon that darn ol' security-through-obscurity argument...
just read the wikipedia entry, but I still believe in the atmospheric broadening thought. If you look at the moon when it is right at the horizon, you'll notice that it is not round, but oval-shaped. This implies that the "bottom portion" is broadening in shape because its light is passing through more atmosphere. The "top portion" retains the round shape of the moon as its light is passing through fewer layers of turbulence.
Looks like BBC just read the wikipedia entry and decided it was newsworthy.
when the celestial object is more near to the horizon, the light from it is traveling through more atmosphere. this leads to both a broadening of the object(yet, a blurrier object) as well as a red shift in the light.
easy peasy, martin scorsese
definitely the Flash.
what's all this about browser's now?
Actually, I count 3 MS articles to your 2 Googles for the current mainpage queue...
but, your post sounds much better than:
Microsoft for Microsoft...
Yeah, if I can get out of the grocery store under $160/person / month I'm lucky... unfortunately, you've have to work on your neighbor's share for Whole Foods, as I'm not in the 20min drive time region...
I guess I didn't realize the article ranked these companies solely on 4-year growth -- if you re-sort according to overall sales Whole Foods falls well below Nike,Toyota,VS, which all seem like they're much more established worldwide.