I do agree. It drives me nut to see a big Walmart distribution center near where I live. it is next to a railroad line but all the cargo comes in by truck! And I said that you can power trains with electricity but it would take years and billions of dollars to do the conversion. Also rail does not go everywhere.
Frankly engineering sounds like the right place for it. if you create an IT department then you will probably be pushed more under the business unit and that could be really bad. You will go from "we need this to keep running" to "how will this expense increase profits". Of course the real reason for this push maybe that the Author wants to move up and become a "department" head.
Not at all. That is the big lie. Solar != oil at least in the US. Solar makes electricity. One percent of the electricity in the US is from oil. Solar and Wind make up more than 3% of the US production. Solar at best competes with coal and natural gas. The thing is that for every kw of wind and solar the power companies build one kw of gas fired peaking plants to handle cloudy days and still days. Oil is mostly used for transportation. You can not "practically" power ships, aircraft, and large long haul trucks with electricity. Electric cars are still very rare and even if they become popular it will take many years for them to grow to a large percentage of the market. Trains also use oil in the US but in theory at least some could be electrified but again that would be a multi year project and cost many billions of dollars.
The whole solar and wind can free us from oil is a marketing lie.
Visual Basic is not basic. You are correct that True Basic and Visual Basic where used for real apps. Since the author was referencing the Basic from the 8 bit days I pointed out that very few really useful programs where written in Basic back in the day.
Until we where very developed we would have no idea that it was not natural. Frankly our extremely large moon already surved that function very well. Not to mention that the very act of developing larger and larger telescopes shows a desire to explore other celestial bodies. Simple truth is that trying to decide what is hidden enough for an alien race that is capable of interstellar flight is a fools errand. But then again it is also most likely a fools errand to look for artifacts on the moon. My choice is based on what is the simplest to do that will most likely achieve the same goal. At least this will be a cheap project and we may get some better maps of the moon from it.
That came from low earth orbit. Nothing from a very high orbit has fallen. For instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_1 is expected to last 200+years and has a much lower orbit than the one I mentioned or one could look at the rather large natural satellite that has been in orbit around the Earth for a very long time.
Why on the moon? Why not in a high orbit around the earth. No need to land anything and it would be easier to spot for any technologically advanced society. Put a really big shinny metal ball in orbit at say 70,000 km and it will stay in orbit for geological time scales and if big enough be visible with a telescope from earth. How bit it needs to be will depend on how shiny and how bit of a telescope you are using. It doesn't have to be heavy just big.
SIGINT aircraft are very good at picking out that sort of thing. Even using a directional will not help a lot. 1. The repeaters need an omni to pick up the handhelds. Frankly a directional pointing right at your gathering points would make them easier to find. 2. the farther you are from the transmitter the farther the bottom of the lobe will be from the horizon. Not to mention that the lobe it's self would spreads in the vertical. So even if they use a directional they will still be detected. Something like this a MC-12W would have no problems with this network much less something like an EP-3 or RC-136 rivit joint
I was just trying to avoid the whole. Free to write but cost to distribute issue. I am an IOS developer and you are correct that you can get the SDK for free you just have to pay to distribute it.
Okay where to start. 1. Navigation satellites are not in geosynchronous orbit to start with so what does that have to do with anything? 2. There are more than one type of "spy" satellite. Imaging is only type. Elint and Sigint satellites are often in geosynchronous orbit. They site over a country hovering up all the radio transmissions that it can including things like radar.
So would these make good spy satellites? That depends on what you mean by spying? For some missions they may have a use. Even a relatively small camera could spot a large warship or tanker at sea. A pretty simple receiver could pick up strong radar transmissions as well. The US puts radiation sensors on the GPS satellites to monitor the nuclear test band treaty.
I wonder if the Iridium constellation is being used for Sigint. You have a world wide coverage with satellites with really big antennas. Using doppler shift and the different spots they should have little trouble picking up many types of radars.
Agreed. The one thing lacking with using ereaders is the ability to ask "how do you do x". Tutors would be great but not everybody can educate their own children. Some are not educated themselves or have no desire to educate their children. Those kids often do very poorly in the school system we have now but with this system they would be totally doomed.
We don't have a nice "Visual Basic" for smart phones because. a. Visual Basic is a Microsoft language. b. Most programers don't want Basic at all. Really Basic is so limited in it's standard from that it is about useless. Java is not hard to use. Really take a look at the vast number of apps on Android and IOS and the whole idea that Google and Apple do not want people writing their own apps is just dumb. You can get the Android SDK for free and start writing what ever you want. Add in the fact that you have a huge number of online resources for documentation and help and the simple fact is that it is now easier to write a "real app" today than it ever was back in the day of the Bit fun. BTW very few "real" programs where written in basic even then. You used Assembly if you where lucky or a machine language monitor if you where not to write real apps back in the 8 bit days. The simple truth is that if you sit down and learn the SDKs that are available you will have a much better development platform than anyone back in the AppleII, C64, Atari 400/800 days ever dreamed off having.
"You assume that the eco-terrorists are the bad guys. Releasing a few research animals, or driving spikes into trees, or hell even committing their own 9/11 level terrorist attack is small potatos "
I suggest that you read what you wrote. AKA That eco-terrorists are justified in their action even if it involves mass murder to do some "greater" good. That is the classic tactic of all great evil. You see the simple truth is everybody is the "hero" of their own story. The people that blew up the WTC thought that what they where doing was good. McVeigh, Kaczynski, Manson, Stalin, Pol Pott, and many others all thought that their acts where "small" potatoes compared to the evil they where trying to stop or the good that where trying to do. That is the face of true evil.
Not to mention that the act of releasing lab animals has nothing to do with climate change at all. No, eco-terrorists are bad guys. They do nothing but marginalize those that they agree with and alienate the population as a whole. They in fact harm the very cause they foolishly thing they are trying to help. Anytime you minimize the evil of mass murder for a cause you are justifying and doing evil.
Allow or make it easy? The point is that Amazon and BN sold these devices as being abile to do certain things. As long as they do those things they are keeping their side of the bargain.
"Hey, if you want to bake the planet like ant under a magnifying glass, go for it. I'll be dead by the time it happens. I'm only here to warn you. Hope you don't care too much about what sort of world your grandchildren inherit."
So the only way is to kill people off to agree with you? Again Evil... Justification.
Everything just about is a computer or has a computer in it. That is where things get fuzzy. Should you have the ability to change the software on all of them. Take cars for example. They have lots of computers. Lots of people will reprogram the ECM but what about the CPU that controls the anitlock brakes? I am all for the hacking of devices but I can see the manufactures point of view. They made a devices that does xyz and sells it as doing xyz. They never told you that you could root it. At least the Fire allows third party apps to be side loaded.
"You assume that the eco-terrorists are the bad guys. Releasing a few research animals, or driving spikes into trees, or hell even committing their own 9/11 level terrorist attack is small potatos compared to what is going to happen to this world if "
And that is the the true face of evil, justification.
Actually you are off about Gas. Gas was used in WWII. The Italians used it in Africa and the Japanese used it in China. What stopped the use of gas in WWII was the fear of retaliation in kind. Both sides kept large supplies on hand just in case and the Germans developed the first nerve gas agents. They didn't use them in large part because Hitler hated gas for good reason. He as gassed in WWI.
As to this virus making a good weapon? Well it depends on one detail. Can you create a vacine for it. If so it is about a perfect weapon. Imagine if North Korea had it and a vaccine. They could vaccinate all loyal North Koreans and then release the virus around the world. Some North Koreans would die from it so no finger would be pointed at them but the majority would live. Then you have the rest of the world suffering massive deaths. With half of South Korea sick or dead the North could roll over the South and unify Korea. The rest of the world would be in such poor shape they could do nothing to stop it and the New Korea would grow in strength.
One does wonder. If some research created a super deadly easy to spread virus would it be wise to release that information to the public. This does remind me of nuclear weapons in many ways. the scientists told the military that their was no way to keep them a secret because their are no secrets in physics. The Universe allows for nuclear weapons so they are their for anyone to find if they look. The same is probably true for biomedical research as well. The question is then what do you do about knowledge that could easily kill millions of people if someone is crazy enough to use it?
True. I guess people do not understand that flying a jet fighter is hard. Simple truth is that their are no bad F-22 pilots. If you are anything less than extremely good you just don't fly the F-22.
He didn't sell it. It is more like someone getting a year for "buying" an engagement ring for $5 and then leaving it on a counter for any one else to take.
Really? Do you honestly think anyone didn't got to the Movie because they downloaded a work copy of it without special effects? So now we have to PAY for this guy to go to prison for a while. He will probably not be their for a year but lets say he is. So we have to feed, cloth, provide medical care, and security for this guy for a year to protect us from people uploading bad copies of bad movies? Really is this even a good use of resources? Sorry folks but this is a stupid waste. Fine him $5000 and be done with it.
Sorry but air starvation is a terrible thing to deal with. Hold your breath for a minute while doing anything that takes effort and skill and see what happens. This system MUST BE FIXED. Breathing is not an option it is mandatory.
Well yes and no. I work under the concept that you should never write anything that you do not want to world to read. If something is super private or sensitive I do not post it publicly. Of course about 12 years ago I found out that another company was Googleing me and had figured out what I was working on based on posts I had made in newsgroups. I now use a few different names for those posts.
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I do agree. It drives me nut to see a big Walmart distribution center near where I live. it is next to a railroad line but all the cargo comes in by truck!
And I said that you can power trains with electricity but it would take years and billions of dollars to do the conversion. Also rail does not go everywhere.
Frankly engineering sounds like the right place for it. if you create an IT department then you will probably be pushed more under the business unit and that could be really bad.
You will go from "we need this to keep running" to "how will this expense increase profits".
Of course the real reason for this push maybe that the Author wants to move up and become a "department" head.
Not at all.
That is the big lie. Solar != oil at least in the US.
Solar makes electricity. One percent of the electricity in the US is from oil. Solar and Wind make up more than 3% of the US production. Solar at best competes with coal and natural gas. The thing is that for every kw of wind and solar the power companies build one kw of gas fired peaking plants to handle cloudy days and still days.
Oil is mostly used for transportation. You can not "practically" power ships, aircraft, and large long haul trucks with electricity. Electric cars are still very rare and even if they become popular it will take many years for them to grow to a large percentage of the market. Trains also use oil in the US but in theory at least some could be electrified but again that would be a multi year project and cost many billions of dollars.
The whole solar and wind can free us from oil is a marketing lie.
Visual Basic is not basic. You are correct that True Basic and Visual Basic where used for real apps. Since the author was referencing the Basic from the 8 bit days I pointed out that very few really useful programs where written in Basic back in the day.
Until we where very developed we would have no idea that it was not natural. Frankly our extremely large moon already surved that function very well. Not to mention that the very act of developing larger and larger telescopes shows a desire to explore other celestial bodies.
Simple truth is that trying to decide what is hidden enough for an alien race that is capable of interstellar flight is a fools errand. But then again it is also most likely a fools errand to look for artifacts on the moon. My choice is based on what is the simplest to do that will most likely achieve the same goal. At least this will be a cheap project and we may get some better maps of the moon from it.
That came from low earth orbit. Nothing from a very high orbit has fallen. For instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_1 is expected to last 200+years and has a much lower orbit than the one I mentioned or one could look at the rather large natural satellite that has been in orbit around the Earth for a very long time.
Why on the moon? Why not in a high orbit around the earth. No need to land anything and it would be easier to spot for any technologically advanced society. Put a really big shinny metal ball in orbit at say 70,000 km and it will stay in orbit for geological time scales and if big enough be visible with a telescope from earth. How bit it needs to be will depend on how shiny and how bit of a telescope you are using. It doesn't have to be heavy just big.
SIGINT aircraft are very good at picking out that sort of thing. Even using a directional will not help a lot.
1. The repeaters need an omni to pick up the handhelds. Frankly a directional pointing right at your gathering points would make them easier to find.
2. the farther you are from the transmitter the farther the bottom of the lobe will be from the horizon. Not to mention that the lobe it's self would spreads in the vertical. So even if they use a directional they will still be detected.
Something like this a MC-12W would have no problems with this network much less something like an EP-3 or RC-136 rivit joint
Thanks I never saw that. It is useless to me because I am not a visual basic user/developer but someone will find use for it.
I was just trying to avoid the whole. Free to write but cost to distribute issue. I am an IOS developer and you are correct that you can get the SDK for free you just have to pay to distribute it.
Okay where to start.
1. Navigation satellites are not in geosynchronous orbit to start with so what does that have to do with anything?
2. There are more than one type of "spy" satellite. Imaging is only type. Elint and Sigint satellites are often in geosynchronous orbit. They site over a country hovering up all the radio transmissions that it can including things like radar.
So would these make good spy satellites? That depends on what you mean by spying? For some missions they may have a use. Even a relatively small camera could spot a large warship or tanker at sea. A pretty simple receiver could pick up strong radar transmissions as well. The US puts radiation sensors on the GPS satellites to monitor the nuclear test band treaty.
I wonder if the Iridium constellation is being used for Sigint. You have a world wide coverage with satellites with really big antennas. Using doppler shift and the different spots they should have little trouble picking up many types of radars.
Agreed. The one thing lacking with using ereaders is the ability to ask "how do you do x". Tutors would be great but not everybody can educate their own children. Some are not educated themselves or have no desire to educate their children. Those kids often do very poorly in the school system we have now but with this system they would be totally doomed.
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We don't have a nice "Visual Basic" for smart phones because.
a. Visual Basic is a Microsoft language.
b. Most programers don't want Basic at all. Really Basic is so limited in it's standard from that it is about useless.
Java is not hard to use. Really take a look at the vast number of apps on Android and IOS and the whole idea that Google and Apple do not want people writing their own apps is just dumb.
You can get the Android SDK for free and start writing what ever you want. Add in the fact that you have a huge number of online resources for documentation and help and the simple fact is that it is now easier to write a "real app" today than it ever was back in the day of the Bit fun.
BTW very few "real" programs where written in basic even then. You used Assembly if you where lucky or a machine language monitor if you where not to write real apps back in the 8 bit days.
The simple truth is that if you sit down and learn the SDKs that are available you will have a much better development platform than anyone back in the AppleII, C64, Atari 400/800 days ever dreamed off having.
"You assume that the eco-terrorists are the bad guys. Releasing a few research animals, or driving spikes into trees, or hell even committing their own 9/11 level terrorist attack is small potatos "
I suggest that you read what you wrote. AKA That eco-terrorists are justified in their action even if it involves mass murder to do some "greater" good.
That is the classic tactic of all great evil. You see the simple truth is everybody is the "hero" of their own story. The people that blew up the WTC thought that what they where doing was good. McVeigh, Kaczynski, Manson, Stalin, Pol Pott, and many others all thought that their acts where "small" potatoes compared to the evil they where trying to stop or the good that where trying to do. That is the face of true evil.
Not to mention that the act of releasing lab animals has nothing to do with climate change at all.
No, eco-terrorists are bad guys. They do nothing but marginalize those that they agree with and alienate the population as a whole. They in fact harm the very cause they foolishly thing they are trying to help.
Anytime you minimize the evil of mass murder for a cause you are justifying and doing evil.
Allow or make it easy?
The point is that Amazon and BN sold these devices as being abile to do certain things. As long as they do those things they are keeping their side of the bargain.
"Hey, if you want to bake the planet like ant under a magnifying glass, go for it. I'll be dead by the time it happens. I'm only here to warn you. Hope you don't care too much about what sort of world your grandchildren inherit."
So the only way is to kill people off to agree with you?
Again Evil... Justification.
Everything just about is a computer or has a computer in it.
That is where things get fuzzy. Should you have the ability to change the software on all of them. Take cars for example. They have lots of computers. Lots of people will reprogram the ECM but what about the CPU that controls the anitlock brakes?
I am all for the hacking of devices but I can see the manufactures point of view. They made a devices that does xyz and sells it as doing xyz. They never told you that you could root it.
At least the Fire allows third party apps to be side loaded.
"You assume that the eco-terrorists are the bad guys. Releasing a few research animals, or driving spikes into trees, or hell even committing their own 9/11 level terrorist attack is small potatos compared to what is going to happen to this world if "
And that is the the true face of evil, justification.
Actually you are off about Gas.
Gas was used in WWII. The Italians used it in Africa and the Japanese used it in China. What stopped the use of gas in WWII was the fear of retaliation in kind. Both sides kept large supplies on hand just in case and the Germans developed the first nerve gas agents. They didn't use them in large part because Hitler hated gas for good reason. He as gassed in WWI.
As to this virus making a good weapon? Well it depends on one detail. Can you create a vacine for it. If so it is about a perfect weapon. Imagine if North Korea had it and a vaccine. They could vaccinate all loyal North Koreans and then release the virus around the world. Some North Koreans would die from it so no finger would be pointed at them but the majority would live. Then you have the rest of the world suffering massive deaths. With half of South Korea sick or dead the North could roll over the South and unify Korea. The rest of the world would be in such poor shape they could do nothing to stop it and the New Korea would grow in strength.
One does wonder.
If some research created a super deadly easy to spread virus would it be wise to release that information to the public. This does remind me of nuclear weapons in many ways. the scientists told the military that their was no way to keep them a secret because their are no secrets in physics. The Universe allows for nuclear weapons so they are their for anyone to find if they look. The same is probably true for biomedical research as well. The question is then what do you do about knowledge that could easily kill millions of people if someone is crazy enough to use it?
True. I guess people do not understand that flying a jet fighter is hard. Simple truth is that their are no bad F-22 pilots. If you are anything less than extremely good you just don't fly the F-22.
He didn't sell it.
It is more like someone getting a year for "buying" an engagement ring for $5 and then leaving it on a counter for any one else to take.
Really? Do you honestly think anyone didn't got to the Movie because they downloaded a work copy of it without special effects?
So now we have to PAY for this guy to go to prison for a while. He will probably not be their for a year but lets say he is. So we have to feed, cloth, provide medical care, and security for this guy for a year to protect us from people uploading bad copies of bad movies?
Really is this even a good use of resources?
Sorry folks but this is a stupid waste. Fine him $5000 and be done with it.
Sorry but air starvation is a terrible thing to deal with. Hold your breath for a minute while doing anything that takes effort and skill and see what happens.
This system MUST BE FIXED. Breathing is not an option it is mandatory.
Well yes and no.
I work under the concept that you should never write anything that you do not want to world to read. If something is super private or sensitive I do not post it publicly. Of course about 12 years ago I found out that another company was Googleing me and had figured out what I was working on based on posts I had made in newsgroups. I now use a few different names for those posts.