Google starts plans for Moon base and Mars base, right after the space elevator is completed, and the new high power laser defense system the army is working on gets better than 19% efficiency. (to combat alien intruders) Oh, and they need the flying cars as well to round out the high tech glory.
Plus new Mars and Moon search services will be launched. Find your future lost relatives on Mars or the Moon.
1. 3-M Blackwatch tape Fed Ex'd to some safe place north.
Other than that, unless your facility is 100ft underground, resistant to groundwater, and with lots of fuel for the generator, I don't think you can do much in the midst of a really big hurricane. Doesn't sound like this one is going to be the biggest of types though.
Wasn't it Popular Mechanics that predicted in the 1970's that by the year 2000, robots would be doing all of the work, and we could all be sitting by the pool, sipping on Daiquiris? Unfortunately, they forgot about how people were going to get a paycheck. I can't believe even Slashdot would mention anything from Popular Mechanics.
Who's to say its the arsenic or the gallium that is causing the problem? BTW, the common method of extracting gallium in trace amounts from the refining of of other metals requires lots of mercury. And the the mercury is very hard to get out of gallium once it is amalgamated. So where does all of that mercury vapor go during zone melting purification? I hope not the air.
But don't worry, there are news reports all over stating that gallium and many other strategic elements will no longer exist after 2015 to 2020 as we will have exhausted the entire world's supply. And then there is helium which just heads into outer space as natural gas producers just don't give a damn about it. Not a good future for chemistry and technology.
Finally, copper is getting scarce enough that Congress had to pass a law banning the scrapping of old pennies, since the copper in them was worth more than 1 cent per piece.
Over the years I think I've touched my screen a little too much.
Seriously, regarding LCD reliability- has anyone studied it after thousands of touches, some low pressure, some higher pressure? When I touch my LCD screen, it turns dark around my finger. Doesn't look good to me.
That there might be a mirror universe of a total Open Source Microsoft XP and Vista- and then an evil company in Redmond called Ubuntu run by that Mr. Burns from the Simpsons?
I am going to write "The US Constitution for Dummies" as part of that series. However, I doubt that anyone will every buy it. Hell, on the Tonight Show, all the people they interviewed on the street a few weeks ago didn't even know who was the US VP.
and the result was a guy on LSD jumping out of a building through plate glass. Sounds like a boondoggle for big Pharma though. More worthless, tested for 3 weeks, $20 pills.
I know its the Motif widgets for OpenGL, but the latest official Mesa package available as of a couple of weeks ago does not install it or the headers.
I have programs that use that library to compile programs, plus I need the associated headers. Some OS's seem to have it and some don't. The latest Mesa release that I checked didn't have them. Perhaps they get installed via Xorg.
As I understand it, these run off alcohol. Denatured, or 200 proof? The denatured stuff often contains all sorts of crap besides methanol which might poison the catalyst.
And are we all going to have to be 21 years old then to possess the bottle of alcohol to refill the cell, or worse, drive with an alcohol fuel cell, breaking various laws.
have created this monster with the presence of too much information, in the way of X degrees of seperation? Why do VP's copy 10 different people on an email? Then those 10 people copy another 10 other people on the response. Why do they even use email, esp unencrypted when communicating overseas?
Perhaps high level executives should have closed meetings, not use email. Plus email could be compartmentalized so that certain levels of employees could communicate to their bosses and amongst themselves, but no one else.
I would hope that all of government does this, but then perhaps I'm in a dream world. Well Bush did say that he never uses emails with his staff. Perhaps the smartest thing he has ever done in office.
Slashdot Mirror
some satellites disappear, being shot down or put into an irregular orbit, as t.hey "didn't exist" to begin with?
poor old McCain.
We have seen many spotless months in the last year. See http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ http://www.solarcycle24.com/ and various parts of the propagation reports and predictions at http://www.arrl.org./
Typical Slashdot- publishing crap without verifying a shred of it.
Google starts plans for Moon base and Mars base, right after the space elevator is completed, and the new high power laser defense system the army is working on gets better than 19% efficiency. (to combat alien intruders) Oh, and they need the flying cars as well to round out the high tech glory.
Plus new Mars and Moon search services will be launched. Find your future lost relatives on Mars or the Moon.
1. 3-M Blackwatch tape Fed Ex'd to some safe place north.
Other than that, unless your facility is 100ft underground, resistant to groundwater, and with lots of fuel for the generator, I don't think you can do much in the midst of a really big hurricane. Doesn't sound like this one is going to be the biggest of types though.
Wasn't it Popular Mechanics that predicted in the 1970's that by the year 2000, robots would be doing all of the work, and we could all be sitting by the pool, sipping on Daiquiris? Unfortunately, they forgot about how people were going to get a paycheck. I can't believe even Slashdot would mention anything from Popular Mechanics.
Who's to say its the arsenic or the gallium that is causing the problem? BTW, the common method of extracting gallium in trace amounts from the refining of of other metals requires lots of mercury. And the the mercury is very hard to get out of gallium once it is amalgamated. So where does all of that mercury vapor go during zone melting purification? I hope not the air.
But don't worry, there are news reports all over stating that gallium and many other strategic elements will no longer exist after 2015 to 2020 as we will have exhausted the entire world's supply. And then there is helium which just heads into outer space as natural gas producers just don't give a damn about it. Not a good future for chemistry and technology.
Finally, copper is getting scarce enough that Congress had to pass a law banning the scrapping of old pennies, since the copper in them was worth more than 1 cent per piece.
Over the years I think I've touched my screen a little too much.
Seriously, regarding LCD reliability- has anyone studied it after thousands of touches, some low pressure, some higher pressure? When I touch my LCD screen, it turns dark around my finger. Doesn't look good to me.
That there might be a mirror universe of a total Open Source Microsoft XP and Vista- and then an evil company in Redmond called Ubuntu run by that Mr. Burns from the Simpsons?
if they start patenting pot strains and issuing DMCA pot slash-down notices, I'm really going to be pissed.
Lisa: Dad, look what I made for the science fair!
Homer: What good is that? It just keeps spinning and spinning.
My version of hydrogen fuel- all spin, no substance. (of course Lisa had invented a perpetual motion maching)
I am going to write "The US Constitution for Dummies" as part of that series. However, I doubt that anyone will every buy it. Hell, on the Tonight Show, all the people they interviewed on the street a few weeks ago didn't even know who was the US VP.
and the result was a guy on LSD jumping out of a building through plate glass. Sounds like a boondoggle for big Pharma though. More worthless, tested for 3 weeks, $20 pills.
I think it was titled "The Blob."
soon the status quo will be reached as the Pound will eventually be worth 1/10 of the USD or Euro.
that this was a Python language article. But then it was obfuscated, so I knew it must be about Perl.
can read and what is going to be in it, then I want the government to pay my monthly Comcast bill. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
that I as one, fully support our new disagreeable Slashdot overlords.
What kind of lame ass people are they allowing to be moderators these days? Jesus.
I know its the Motif widgets for OpenGL, but the latest official Mesa package available as of a couple of weeks ago does not install it or the headers.
George Bush syndrome.
I have programs that use that library to compile programs, plus I need the associated headers. Some OS's seem to have it and some don't. The latest Mesa release that I checked didn't have them. Perhaps they get installed via Xorg.
As I understand it, these run off alcohol. Denatured, or 200 proof? The denatured stuff often contains all sorts of crap besides methanol which might poison the catalyst.
And are we all going to have to be 21 years old then to possess the bottle of alcohol to refill the cell, or worse, drive with an alcohol fuel cell, breaking various laws.
have created this monster with the presence of too much information, in the way of X degrees of seperation? Why do VP's copy 10 different people on an email? Then those 10 people copy another 10 other people on the response. Why do they even use email, esp unencrypted when communicating overseas?
Perhaps high level executives should have closed meetings, not use email. Plus email could be compartmentalized so that certain levels of employees could communicate to their bosses and amongst themselves, but no one else.
I would hope that all of government does this, but then perhaps I'm in a dream world. Well Bush did say that he never uses emails with his staff. Perhaps the smartest thing he has ever done in office.
why can't they fake a clear blue sky?