Programming a dishwasher is simple, doesn't need much of a language.
Although of course back in the early days of robotics people were thinking of general purpose humanoid style robots doing the household chores, including dishes. (like the Dad in Robots) and it would take some effort to program that task (its mentioned in Heinleins The Door to Summer
Thats OK if you have a (truly) unlimited internet. If something like this happened, every ISP would have data caps/overcharges, and the price would go up for those that already do
The only thing I could think of that would fit that title would be something we haven't built yet: A Beanstalk A Skyhook A Clarke Tower An Orbital Tower A space elevator
I think the last term would be the one most/. readers would be familiar with, they are all names for the same obital construct
I sure would appreciate some of that Global Warming around here. Can't get above 50F no matter what.
I assume from your use of the F scale that you are in America. Most of the rest of the world has moved to C Of course both scales are misleading, we should be using an absolute scale like Kelvin
Its currently winter in America, so what is wrong with 50F ? You think thats cold?
I wasn't born in the USA, but have lived here for 12 years. On the local TV weather this morning they were talking about tomorrow morning being negative 50 F (wind chill) with actual temperatures being below -22 F That is nothing unusual for this time of year, its why I planned to be on vacation right now, since I walk to work, and don't like walking home in the morning against NW winds when its below -20F But it was colder than this in December (at one stage it was -27F actual temperature. now thats cold
Which shows that people (in the US) don't understand climate, or weather, and the fact that climate change means an increase in theextremes of weather. Theres a drought and state of emergency in California, here in the midwest we have had our coldest December for a long time, and plenty of record lows, a week or two ago it was colder here than at the south pole (Or on Mars) And USians still don't believe in climate change...
But the nearest local warehouse is 3 states over. If they had a warehouse in this state then I would have to pay sales tax, so I wouldn't be ordering from Amazon anyway.
There was another online company that had an "Instant" delivery option. It was called ACME , and when Wile E Coyote pressed to order button the item materialised above his head, and promptly fell on him.
(I think this was in Looney Tunes - back in action )
In December I ordered a 64oz bottle of humidifier cleaning fluid. When it arrived it was completely frozen solid, and leaked as I started to thaw it oit. I called Amazon and they gave me a full refund, I didn't even have to return the item. I thought that was pretty good, considering it was obviously the carriers fault, not Amazons
There was morre than one book, and most of them were short stories. Gil the ARM was the main character (ARM was the UN police force) Death by Ecstasy was a very good story
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Programming a dishwasher is simple, doesn't need much of a language.
Although of course back in the early days of robotics people were thinking of general purpose humanoid style robots doing the household chores, including dishes. (like the Dad in Robots) and it would take some effort to program that task (its mentioned in Heinleins The Door to Summer
"It astounds me how people keep voting for Kang or Kodos."
Klingons aren't eligible to run for President of the USA, but if they were I would vote for Kahless
Ancient Aliens is on H2 IIRC
Thats OK if you have a (truly) unlimited internet.
If something like this happened, every ISP would have data caps/overcharges, and the price would go up for those that already do
The only thing I could think of that would fit that title would be something we haven't built yet:
A Beanstalk
A Skyhook
A Clarke Tower
An Orbital Tower
A space elevator
I think the last term would be the one most /. readers would be familiar with, they are all names for the same obital construct
"1500W per square meter of solar energy hits the Earth on sunny days"
You do know that the Earth isn't flat, right?
It was a sunny day here today, and by about 2pm local time it had reached a nice 250 Kelvins
Solar power would be fine on a Ringworld, but building a Ringworld in the first place takes a lot of energy.
I wouldn't say that, even though I have switched to LibreOffice, thats more because I don't trust Oracle...
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I haven't yet read the Belisarius series (By Eric Flint and David Drake)
I take it this is something to do with those stories.
Is it available as an Ebook?
Actually they never stopped selling Win7 , at least into the business market. Many desktops were Win7/8 Pro
Must be a slow news day. I don't think nerds give a fsck about either Rodman, or the 2 bit dictator of NK
Its certainly not stuff that matters
I wonder when the next earthquake, tsunami, typhoon, or other disaster will hit Japan.
I sure would appreciate some of that Global Warming around here. Can't get above 50F no matter what.
I assume from your use of the F scale that you are in America. Most of the rest of the world has moved to C
Of course both scales are misleading, we should be using an absolute scale like Kelvin
Its currently winter in America, so what is wrong with 50F ? You think thats cold?
I wasn't born in the USA, but have lived here for 12 years.
On the local TV weather this morning they were talking about tomorrow morning being negative 50 F (wind chill)
with actual temperatures being below -22 F That is nothing unusual for this time of year, its why I planned to be on vacation right now, since I walk to work, and don't like walking home in the morning against NW winds when its below -20F
But it was colder than this in December (at one stage it was -27F actual temperature. now thats cold
Which shows that people (in the US) don't understand climate, or weather, and the fact that climate change means an increase in theextremes of weather.
Theres a drought and state of emergency in California, here in the midwest we have had our coldest December for a long time, and plenty of record lows, a week or two ago it was colder here than at the south pole (Or on Mars)
And USians still don't believe in climate change...
"Daily 12.000.000 usd worth of bitcoin"
US$12 is not a lot of money
But the nearest local warehouse is 3 states over. If they had a warehouse in this state then I would have to pay sales tax, so I wouldn't be ordering from Amazon anyway.
There was another online company that had an "Instant" delivery option.
It was called ACME , and when Wile E Coyote pressed to order button the item materialised above his head, and promptly fell on him.
(I think this was in Looney Tunes - back in action )
In December I ordered a 64oz bottle of humidifier cleaning fluid. When it arrived it was completely frozen solid, and leaked as I started to thaw it oit. I called Amazon and they gave me a full refund, I didn't even have to return the item. I thought that was pretty good, considering it was obviously the carriers fault, not Amazons
"On a regular basis I hear from people exhorting me to abandon Amazon.com and only buy books at my local bricks and mortar retailer."
Thats just silly unless Amazon has a presence in your State, or you don't pay sales tax on books in your State.
"Another solution would be to repeal motorcycle helmet laws."
Also ban seat belts in cars and make texting while driving compulsory.
(I didn't read the book"
There was morre than one book, and most of them were short stories. Gil the ARM was the main character (ARM was the UN police force)
Death by Ecstasy was a very good story
"massive solar panels the size of a basketball court,"
can we please have proper units for measuring things in space?
The Sun is still working on turning Hydrogen into Helium
But it will get round to Carbon eventuallu
" which allowed hackers to steak magnetic card-strip data on 40 million debit- and credit cards"
Of course steak is very much a luxury food in Russia