Azure was released in 2010, Amazon EC was released in 2006.
Hotmail was originally not Microsoft. It was run on Unix boxes, and I remember reading an article at the time that MS took it over that stated for every unix box replaced, MS has to provide 5 windows 2000 boxes. Since that time it has floundered. Essentially unchanged, it is the only email provider to still use a paged static interface, where Yahoo and Gmail are now using ajax Gmail is till paged but it shows 100 messages at a time (they prefer you to search) but hotmail is still 25, IIRC. The mobile interface to hotmail is laughable at best.
It seems that all of MS's copied products - hotmail, Azure, Zune are all done with a "me too" attitude of just having something so that they don't get left behind. They don't really try to make these "me too" products as industry leaders. But here's the catch. I know plenty of IT people who will always choose MS's offering because, as I was told "you don't get in trouble for choosing MS". And that knowledge seems to be built into MS's offerings.
You say Mars has 1/3 the gravity of earth, the moon as 1/6th so that's half. Not a huge difference once you're considering gravity. The moon as water as well. With that, you're back into the situation where the moon is better.
At either location an air leak is catastrophic. It will take a very long time to recover from an air leak on mars, and what you replace it with will be mostly carbon dioxide which will need to be converted to oxegen by plants. Speaking of plants, where do they get their light from? The moon gets way more light and because it doesn't have dust storms your solar panel array won't ever be damaged or dirtied.
Finally any catastrophic scenario is mitigated by a 2-day journey home, not a 6-month one.
On the novelty meters out there, on which I've blown a 0.10, is absolutely too drunk to drive, so I am not satin 0.3 or anything close that. I should have known that in this geeky crowd people would actually do the math and figure 0.32. That's my fault.
However I remember a distinct campaign that said 0.02 was the legal threshold for getting into trouble. According to online calculators I am drunk after one drink. That much I know is ludicrous.
I can't think this is a good idea. At least in the US, where our BAC limits are 25% of what actually impairs driving. Don't get me wrong, I'm not for anyone driving drunk and injuring or killing someone else (what you do to yourself I do not care about) but the whole BAC thing is an estimate that is cut in half for "good measure" then cut in half again.
I think I should be able to go in and modify any app's permissions after the fact. The "accept permissions" button should only set those requested permissions as default, then I should have an app that can revoke them. Currently the app developer gets all the power because people don't know what the permissions tie to and how they actually get used/abused. Such an ability would make app authors think twice...
Because there is the idea that what you enter into one app on your phone is not available to another app. If I accept the "terms of use" for facebook, I do not also consent to having them go through my text messages. When I turn off location services for facebook I do not expect them to still access my location.
It was during the New Deal that the judicial modification of contracts was hotly debated. The jurisprudence was created that judges can indeed alter contracts with a stroke of their pen. "Pray [they] do not alter it any further"
Whatever you do, do not believe these two reasons. Never use then as a justification to not do something.
1. If it was worth doing, someone else would have already done it. (No market) 2. Someone else is already doing it, so there is no point in you doing it too. (No profit, too much competition)
Commerce happens because of value and value alone. No one has done it just like you, or will do it just like you. Facebook wasn't first but their way won. Apple didn't invent computers or phones but they went on to make the best, and incredible profits even while charging a premium.
Watch the definitions. Texas might import twice what it produces, but how much is refined and shipped back out?
Specifically your link states: "Texas’s 27 petroleum refineries can process more than 4.7 million barrels of crude oil per day, and they account for more than one-fourth of total U.S. refining capacity. "
And that is exactly what I am talking about. That one state is 25% of our refining capacity.
As a regular international traveler I can say: The entire airport system is only as good as its weakest link. Because not every passenger is scanned with these devices the security level of the flight is only as high as the worst scanned person. Given that these scanners are only at some airports and only domestic ones, the entirety of our airspace is compromised. I find no increased security. However if everyone were was scanned, then T-Hz scanned (combination scanning) then it could be argued that the double screening method added some security.
Every time I fly across the ocean I have to use one of those Thz scanners, but coming back I'm not put through one. This only makes a small material difference - that is the amount of fuel on the plane. This effectively nullifies any benefit the scanners have.
Kaizen is the term used for continua process improvement. It was used in the early 80's in Japan and has since ford other car manufactures to adopt the practice. Quality is no accident. It is a process.
With Kaizen working onthe mechanical components, the next major improvement is the electrical bonding of paint to the body. This produces a protective coating that does not rust easily.
These two changes alone are why we see so many more "historic" tagged vehicles on the road. This of course has resulted in a new phenomenon: Planned Obsolescence. With vehicles lasting longer, they need to increase your motivation for buying before the car dies. Before that, you used to get parts cheap. My truck (1980 Scout II) was essentially unchanged from 1972-1980, with only minor tweaks (grills, steering box shaft diameter changed, and a few changes like carbs over the years for emissions standards)
Here's the gist: Gleick posed as someone on the board of the Hearland Institute and had someone send him internal documents. He then wrote his own document, bolstered by information gleamed from other true documents, threw it in the mix and claimed it as theirs. To hide his authorship, he scanned a print out into PDF and released the scanned document. Of course, the most objectionable content about targeting teachers and the like are all Gleick's words and not the Institutes.
On top of all that, they don't let you know what size or where the chip is in your passport, so you have no idea how close to broken your passport is. I have one of these passports and there is no way to tell. You can't feel it in the paper.
What the Atrix gave you was a half-assed linux environment, that was not networked. To get the webtop to talk, you had to tether it to you phone. Which means you had to downgrade your unlimited plan to 4gig, then buy a tethering feature. Meanwhile your phone was plugged into the lapdock port, which was behind the webtop LCD.
The difference is this should not require any changes to your plan, and your phone should remain accessible.
One big holdup for me buying a webtop with my Atrix was that I needed to downgrade from unlimited data to 4Gig, then buy a separate tethering plan, which is absurd. This looks like and even better solution, because I can keep my unlimited plan.
If I am a land owner do I also own the rights to the air above my property? Do I have a right to privacy that extends vertically? How far? Do I have a right to prevent trespassers?
I believe there is already some precedent, as commercial airliners have a right to fly. However I believe you'd have a right to the airspace up too the highest allowable kite ( 500' ) which is also the lowest altitude for a plane.
Interestingly enough just because you "own" the property, your don't have all rights to it. The state government has the rights, and can sell mining rights separately from housing rights. Your deed/title does not typically include these additional rights.
True it's not a gold standard, but it is some kind of standard that locks the dollar into some real value, rather than have some bureaucrats in Washington be able to devalue the dollar for their financial agendas.
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Azure was released in 2010, Amazon EC was released in 2006.
Hotmail was originally not Microsoft. It was run on Unix boxes, and I remember reading an article at the time that MS took it over that stated for every unix box replaced, MS has to provide 5 windows 2000 boxes. Since that time it has floundered. Essentially unchanged, it is the only email provider to still use a paged static interface, where Yahoo and Gmail are now using ajax Gmail is till paged but it shows 100 messages at a time (they prefer you to search) but hotmail is still 25, IIRC. The mobile interface to hotmail is laughable at best.
It seems that all of MS's copied products - hotmail, Azure, Zune are all done with a "me too" attitude of just having something so that they don't get left behind. They don't really try to make these "me too" products as industry leaders. But here's the catch. I know plenty of IT people who will always choose MS's offering because, as I was told "you don't get in trouble for choosing MS". And that knowledge seems to be built into MS's offerings.
Ok, I'l bite. Why would mars be self-sustaining?
You say Mars has 1/3 the gravity of earth, the moon as 1/6th so that's half. Not a huge difference once you're considering gravity.
The moon as water as well. With that, you're back into the situation where the moon is better.
At either location an air leak is catastrophic. It will take a very long time to recover from an air leak on mars, and what you replace it with will be mostly carbon dioxide which will need to be converted to oxegen by plants. Speaking of plants, where do they get their light from? The moon gets way more light and because it doesn't have dust storms your solar panel array won't ever be damaged or dirtied.
Finally any catastrophic scenario is mitigated by a 2-day journey home, not a 6-month one.
Until we have an established moon base, we shouldn't even attempt Mars.
Consider:
So just shine an orange light on the moon and call it Mars.
The moon is better anyway
On the novelty meters out there, on which I've blown a 0.10, is absolutely too drunk to drive, so I am not satin 0.3 or anything close that. I should have known that in this geeky crowd people would actually do the math and figure 0.32. That's my fault.
However I remember a distinct campaign that said 0.02 was the legal threshold for getting into trouble. According to online calculators I am drunk after one drink. That much I know is ludicrous.
I can't think this is a good idea. At least in the US, where our BAC limits are 25% of what actually impairs driving. Don't get me wrong, I'm not for anyone driving drunk and injuring or killing someone else (what you do to yourself I do not care about) but the whole BAC thing is an estimate that is cut in half for "good measure" then cut in half again.
You can read more about the whole "Drunk Driving Exception" here
I think I should be able to go in and modify any app's permissions after the fact. The "accept permissions" button should only set those requested permissions as default, then I should have an app that can revoke them. Currently the app developer gets all the power because people don't know what the permissions tie to and how they actually get used/abused. Such an ability would make app authors think twice...
Because there is the idea that what you enter into one app on your phone is not available to another app.
If I accept the "terms of use" for facebook, I do not also consent to having them go through my text messages.
When I turn off location services for facebook I do not expect them to still access my location.
It was during the New Deal that the judicial modification of contracts was hotly debated. The jurisprudence was created that judges can indeed alter contracts with a stroke of their pen. "Pray [they] do not alter it any further"
It's the only way to prevent counterfeit money.
It would take 2 years to get a new refinery online. The economic damage in the two years would be crippling to the entire nation.
Whatever you do, do not believe these two reasons. Never use then as a justification to not do something.
1. If it was worth doing, someone else would have already done it. (No market)
2. Someone else is already doing it, so there is no point in you doing it too. (No profit, too much competition)
Commerce happens because of value and value alone. No one has done it just like you, or will do it just like you. Facebook wasn't first but their way won. Apple didn't invent computers or phones but they went on to make the best, and incredible profits even while charging a premium.
Watch the definitions. Texas might import twice what it produces, but how much is refined and shipped back out?
Specifically your link states: "Texas’s 27 petroleum refineries can process more than 4.7 million barrels of crude oil per day, and they account for more than one-fourth of total U.S. refining capacity. "
And that is exactly what I am talking about. That one state is 25% of our refining capacity.
I would assume LHR would due to the fact that it's a major international hub. But I have yet to see one there.
Texas could just begin withholding oil in response.
As a regular international traveler I can say:
The entire airport system is only as good as its weakest link. Because not every passenger is scanned with these devices the security level of the flight is only as high as the worst scanned person. Given that these scanners are only at some airports and only domestic ones, the entirety of our airspace is compromised. I find no increased security. However if everyone were was scanned, then T-Hz scanned (combination scanning) then it could be argued that the double screening method added some security.
Every time I fly across the ocean I have to use one of those Thz scanners, but coming back I'm not put through one. This only makes a small material difference - that is the amount of fuel on the plane. This effectively nullifies any benefit the scanners have.
Does this mean I get first and second breakfast too? Those hobbits were on to something!!
Kaizen is the term used for continua process improvement. It was used in the early 80's in Japan and has since ford other car manufactures to adopt the practice. Quality is no accident. It is a process.
With Kaizen working onthe mechanical components, the next major improvement is the electrical bonding of paint to the body. This produces a protective coating that does not rust easily.
These two changes alone are why we see so many more "historic" tagged vehicles on the road. This of course has resulted in a new phenomenon: Planned Obsolescence. With vehicles lasting longer, they need to increase your motivation for buying before the car dies. Before that, you used to get parts cheap. My truck (1980 Scout II) was essentially unchanged from 1972-1980, with only minor tweaks (grills, steering box shaft diameter changed, and a few changes like carbs over the years for emissions standards)
Important information has come forward.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/15/notes-on-the-fake-heartland-document/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/20/breaking-gleick-confesses/#more-57113
Here's the gist:
Gleick posed as someone on the board of the Hearland Institute and had someone send him internal documents. He then wrote his own document, bolstered by information gleamed from other true documents, threw it in the mix and claimed it as theirs. To hide his authorship, he scanned a print out into PDF and released the scanned document. Of course, the most objectionable content about targeting teachers and the like are all Gleick's words and not the Institutes.
He has now come forward and admitted his actions.
My $100 RFID reader can read my passport at a distance of about 4"
On top of all that, they don't let you know what size or where the chip is in your passport, so you have no idea how close to broken your passport is. I have one of these passports and there is no way to tell. You can't feel it in the paper.
What the Atrix gave you was a half-assed linux environment, that was not networked. To get the webtop to talk, you had to tether it to you phone. Which means you had to downgrade your unlimited plan to 4gig, then buy a tethering feature. Meanwhile your phone was plugged into the lapdock port, which was behind the webtop LCD.
The difference is this should not require any changes to your plan, and your phone should remain accessible.
One big holdup for me buying a webtop with my Atrix was that I needed to downgrade from unlimited data to 4Gig, then buy a separate tethering plan, which is absurd. This looks like and even better solution, because I can keep my unlimited plan.
If I am a land owner do I also own the rights to the air above my property?
Do I have a right to privacy that extends vertically? How far?
Do I have a right to prevent trespassers?
I believe there is already some precedent, as commercial airliners have a right to fly. However I believe you'd have a right to the airspace up too the highest allowable kite ( 500' ) which is also the lowest altitude for a plane.
Interestingly enough just because you "own" the property, your don't have all rights to it. The state government has the rights, and can sell mining rights separately from housing rights. Your deed/title does not typically include these additional rights.
True it's not a gold standard, but it is some kind of standard that locks the dollar into some real value, rather than have some bureaucrats in Washington be able to devalue the dollar for their financial agendas.
Its rather embarrassing when you think about it.