The warheads are cheap. The expensive parts of them are made that is the fission material. The other part that has to be replaced is the Tritium and that has to be replaced as it decays. It is the delivery systems. The Ohio class subs are getting old as are the Trident missiles. The D5 is at least 20 years old and the Subs that carry them are getting close to 30 years old. It costs a good percentage of the cost of a new sub to refuel and update an old one. Also you have to keep making new subs so you can make new subs. You have to keep the knowledge alive because it would take a long to recreate it if you need it. It isn't the number of warheads that is the cost driver but the cost of the delivery systems. The Minuteman III is at least 40 years old. It was supposed to be replaced by MX but that was retired early because of START. It was too big to keep. Bombers do tend to be good investments for the US. The B-52 sure was. The B-1 and B-2 are also being used today. Even if you cut the warheads in half you would still have about the same costs to build the workable deterrent. You can argue that we don't need any or not but with Russia building new Missiles, subs, and possible bombers and China building new Subs and missiles I can not honestly say that we are ready to beat our swords into plowshares.
The article didn't have anything about using retros at all. Even if it does I will bet you that they also use a parachute and They will without out a doubt use atmospheric drag. You can not land on a planet with any atmosphere without atmospheric drag in part. Well unless you are using magic or a teleport device which is at this point also magic. Over all the linked article was very short on details.
Dragon can land with a 6,000 lb+ payload on Earth. So with Mars much thinner atmosphere and slightly lower gravity can the dragon land the same payload? It may need a larger parachute and or carry a lighter payload. And what did the Vikings weigh? I remember them being a bit large.
Hurd was a Victim of Good Enough. Linux turned out to be good enough for most people. People want to be part of something important and want to matter so they tend to work on projects that are popular. Some of it is ego and some of it I fear is that people don't want to feel like they are wasting their effort. There a lot of projects that really are very interesting that just don't get the publicity or help they need. Like The Haiku Project http://www.haiku-os.org/ Free VMS http://www.freevms.net/ AROS http://aros.sourceforge.net/ Dragonfly BSD http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ And Minix 3 http://www.minix3.org/ I really like the ideas behind Minix3 It could be a very interesting project if it gets enough support.
"Accelerometers exist. Their purpose is to give orientation data." No there function is measure acceleration not orientation. There ability to measure orientation is actually pretty limited. A gyro or magnetometer can actually work better. "Devices which use orientation data to chance screen layout exist." Yes but for some of those monitors it was a contact on the piviot and for others it was a mercury switch not an accelerometer.
"Are you saying that using a device for it's intended purpose to do something people have done before is non-obvious?" A. As the very name of the device states that is not it's intended purpose. B. It depends. You make stuff out of atoms so does that mean any invention created from atoms is obvious? Of course that is an extreme case. This patient may be valid. If so Apple has a strangle hold on the industry. It is a hardware patient and not a software patient and unless Nokia or some rotating monitor maker used the same method it could very well be a valid patient.
But in that case the person was actively selling to people not just acting as an advertiser. The Amazon associates are not actively selling to people in the state but are acting as an advertiser. It is no different that if a magazine included a an add that they got paid for by the sale that came from the ad. That is why I said it was fuzzy.
Then it would be the associate that is responsible to collect the sales tax. The associate is not an employee of Amazons if Amazon is acting as the wholesale provider in this case then it is as always the retailer that is responsible for collecting the sales tax. This is nothing but an ad where the payment is based on click through and purchase vs just click through.
That is another issue. California doesn't want to go after them because they don't want Amazon to pull out those jobs so they are glad to ignore that little detail. What will happen is that States without sales tax will get all the companies that just don't want to collect them. It will be great for those states.
You don't by anything from the Associate. You buy it from Amazon and then associate gets a finders fee. The associate is just advertising the product. They do not collect any money from you, they do not ship the product to you. They in effect just have a link on their site to Amazon. They are acting as advertising for Amazon nothing more. Should a magazine company have to pay sales tax on a subscription? Think about it I get the card to subscribe to the magazine in one that I bought at a store. Does that make the store the magazine publishers presence in my state? Yes it is really fuzzy because you don't buy the book from the Associate if you did the the Associate would be resonsible for collecting the sales tax and not Amazon.
Yep sales tax rates very from town to town. Amazon might have a the staff to deal with it but it would be a nightmare. Just imagine how bad it will be for some little we retailer or even worse some small traditional catalog company. Some where Moonchild organic and heirloom seed company in New Hampshire is looking down the barrel of a the California department of taxes because someone in California has a link to their Mother Merry tomato seeds on their blog along with a google ad for the website. Oh and if you say that they will not go after a little company like that, is that fair? The law should be the law for everyone right?
That is a very fuzzy presence. The associates put links on their sites which are just advertisements for items in Amazons store. That would be like saying that a company has a presence in a state because they bought an add on a local TV show.
Or that Slashdot slams any other website for putting up titles that are absolute lies just just to get clicks... I mean this is really disgusting and Slashdot should be absolutely ashamed! FTFA "The changes were revealed on the Google+ account belonging to the Social Statistics compiler Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. He explained that some Google+ members could no longer be tracked as they had further closed off their accounts on Tuesday. Interesting that Zuckerberg, the man so happy to gather and share so much of everyone else's data on Facebook, is suddenly so protective over his own."
You have lies, damn lies, statistics and then Slashdot headlines. Really guys that is so sad.
Okay you just start out with KISS and then wrote about multiple sub accounts and controls and public image and... Seems simpler to me to just teach people that if your an ass in public people will see you and know you as an ass.
You can not always use technology to solve social or in this case cultural problems. We have created in many ways a very odd culture of entitlement. People will have the most personal conversations in the middle of a store or a check out line and expect others to not hear here them. They would be offended if you asked them to not user loud profanities while your standing in a checkout line at the grocery store with your two year old but at the same time would be so offended of one commented on their loud conversation. People expect to post pictures of themselves on Facebook with a bong and not have an employer see it or judge them for it. We seem to live in a world where people think they can do anything they want and be protected by somebody from the results of their actions. I find it so odd that people seem to find it "unfair" to be judged by their words and deeds? Maybe it is just that I have reached the point in my life where I choose to not do anything I am would ashamed of people knowing about. Yes somethings are private in my life but those are things I keep private. I don't take pictures or blog about those things.
I often find that science earmarks get hit a lot by both parties. Pork is almost always money spend on some other state. McCain also listed a few million dollars being spend for seismic studies in Missouri as park barrel I am sure that he put both on the list after an aid briefed him like this. "Obama wants $3 million dollars for a projector that puts pictures on the wall." and "Some congress man wants to spend x million of dollars studying earthquakes in Missouri! Who ever heard of earthquakes in Missouri?" As the average person about both of those even an educated one like a lawyer and they will probably give you the same reaction as McCain. I wonder how many other Pork projects I hear about are actually good projects that I just don't understand.
Of course even saying that I have to wonder why the federal government was going to buy a projector for a planetarium. Couldn't they get donations?
I wonder if Military Grade is the same as what we called MilSpec. The US military did a lot of work back in the day to create specifications so what they actually bought wasn't crap. I have not read up on the history but my best guess is that the Army and Navy got into it right after the civil war. During the Civil war a lot of crooks tried to get rich selling junk to the military. Combine that with the rise of things like Steam powered iron clad and later steel warships and it all makes sense. Even today people that build homebuilt aircraft out of wood will reference US Army service manuals and specifications published in the 1920s and 1930s. Milspec in electronics usually means smaller tolerances, greater enviromental range, more resistance to shock, and higher MTBF. Usually with a higher cost.
Sigh.... A social network is for sharing. I find it just so odd that people expect that what they post on a social network would be private. I find that idea as dumb as a candy bar that will protect you from over eating.
You do not have to go that far. The solution is not that hard. Just don't put anything on a social networking site that is private. The problem really seems to be that people don't know the difference between public and private. What you do in the privacy of your own home is private. Other things like medical and banking are private. What you do outside those areas is public. You funnel a beer naked at a party and you are doing it in public. The idea of a "private party" is a mistake because just because everybody and their dog isn't allowed to be there odds are that people will talk. Now they will talk, blog, post pictures, and post video but that is just a matter of degree. Think about it. Is it wrong to judge a person based on their words and deeds? Even if you have some fantasy perfect privacy social site nothing is going to stop some old classmate from publishing that picture of you on their blog with your name on it. The Internet has made the world in to a small town where you really have a hard time just fading in to a sea of faces. That is just reality so deal with it and take responsibly for your actions.
Your living in a fantasy. Germany is a net importer of power and that will come from France which is 80% nuclear and building more all the time. Your just using Nuclear power from France and now depending on French engineering and French safety regulations to keep your lights on and keep you safe. Add in more imports of Natural Gas from Russia that they can turn off at a whim... Well hope that clears it up for you. Germany has very little in the way of solar potental. Last time I looked nice empty desserts with 300+ days of sunshine where pretty rare in Germany. I guess you have some wind but that will not replace your reactors. So you will be burning coal, imported natural gas, and imported nuclear energy from France. Just when did logic become a scarce resource in Germany. Well at least Europe will be safe from Germany every becoming a major economic or political force again.
During our last hurricane we lost cell service in 18 hours stayed down for 5 days. Power went out for a week, Phone service never went down. Cable TV.......
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The warheads are cheap. The expensive parts of them are made that is the fission material. The other part that has to be replaced is the Tritium and that has to be replaced as it decays.
It is the delivery systems. The Ohio class subs are getting old as are the Trident missiles. The D5 is at least 20 years old and the Subs that carry them are getting close to 30 years old. It costs a good percentage of the cost of a new sub to refuel and update an old one. Also you have to keep making new subs so you can make new subs. You have to keep the knowledge alive because it would take a long to recreate it if you need it.
It isn't the number of warheads that is the cost driver but the cost of the delivery systems. The Minuteman III is at least 40 years old. It was supposed to be replaced by MX but that was retired early because of START. It was too big to keep. Bombers do tend to be good investments for the US. The B-52 sure was. The B-1 and B-2 are also being used today. Even if you cut the warheads in half you would still have about the same costs to build the workable deterrent. You can argue that we don't need any or not but with Russia building new Missiles, subs, and possible bombers and China building new Subs and missiles I can not honestly say that we are ready to beat our swords into plowshares.
The article didn't have anything about using retros at all. Even if it does I will bet you that they also use a parachute and They will without out a doubt use atmospheric drag. You can not land on a planet with any atmosphere without atmospheric drag in part. Well unless you are using magic or a teleport device which is at this point also magic. Over all the linked article was very short on details.
Dragon can land with a 6,000 lb+ payload on Earth.
So with Mars much thinner atmosphere and slightly lower gravity can the dragon land the same payload? It may need a larger parachute and or carry a lighter payload.
And what did the Vikings weigh? I remember them being a bit large.
Hurd was a Victim of Good Enough.
Linux turned out to be good enough for most people. People want to be part of something important and want to matter so they tend to work on projects that are popular. Some of it is ego and some of it I fear is that people don't want to feel like they are wasting their effort.
There a lot of projects that really are very interesting that just don't get the publicity or help they need.
Like
The Haiku Project http://www.haiku-os.org/
Free VMS http://www.freevms.net/
AROS http://aros.sourceforge.net/
Dragonfly BSD http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
And Minix 3 http://www.minix3.org/
I really like the ideas behind Minix3 It could be a very interesting project if it gets enough support.
If he is under 25 then yes.
"Accelerometers exist. Their purpose is to give orientation data."
No there function is measure acceleration not orientation. There ability to measure orientation is actually pretty limited. A gyro or magnetometer can actually work better.
"Devices which use orientation data to chance screen layout exist."
Yes but for some of those monitors it was a contact on the piviot and for others it was a mercury switch not an accelerometer.
"Are you saying that using a device for it's intended purpose to do something people have done before is non-obvious?"
A. As the very name of the device states that is not it's intended purpose.
B. It depends. You make stuff out of atoms so does that mean any invention created from atoms is obvious? Of course that is an extreme case.
This patient may be valid. If so Apple has a strangle hold on the industry. It is a hardware patient and not a software patient and unless Nokia or some rotating monitor maker used the same method it could very well be a valid patient.
Yea this was a bit of a yawn I was expecting custom firmware and maybe a hack to add a SATA port.
But in that case the person was actively selling to people not just acting as an advertiser. The Amazon associates are not actively selling to people in the state but are acting as an advertiser. It is no different that if a magazine included a an add that they got paid for by the sale that came from the ad. That is why I said it was fuzzy.
Then it would be the associate that is responsible to collect the sales tax. The associate is not an employee of Amazons if Amazon is acting as the wholesale provider in this case then it is as always the retailer that is responsible for collecting the sales tax.
This is nothing but an ad where the payment is based on click through and purchase vs just click through.
That is another issue. California doesn't want to go after them because they don't want Amazon to pull out those jobs so they are glad to ignore that little detail.
What will happen is that States without sales tax will get all the companies that just don't want to collect them.
It will be great for those states.
You don't by anything from the Associate. You buy it from Amazon and then associate gets a finders fee. The associate is just advertising the product. They do not collect any money from you, they do not ship the product to you. They in effect just have a link on their site to Amazon.
They are acting as advertising for Amazon nothing more. Should a magazine company have to pay sales tax on a subscription? Think about it I get the card to subscribe to the magazine in one that I bought at a store. Does that make the store the magazine publishers presence in my state? Yes it is really fuzzy because you don't buy the book from the Associate if you did the the Associate would be resonsible for collecting the sales tax and not Amazon.
Yep sales tax rates very from town to town. Amazon might have a the staff to deal with it but it would be a nightmare. Just imagine how bad it will be for some little we retailer or even worse some small traditional catalog company. Some where Moonchild organic and heirloom seed company in New Hampshire is looking down the barrel of a the California department of taxes because someone in California has a link to their Mother Merry tomato seeds on their blog along with a google ad for the website.
Oh and if you say that they will not go after a little company like that, is that fair? The law should be the law for everyone right?
Actually it could be well over hundred years.
That is a very fuzzy presence. The associates put links on their sites which are just advertisements for items in Amazons store. That would be like saying that a company has a presence in a state because they bought an add on a local TV show.
Or that Slashdot slams any other website for putting up titles that are absolute lies just just to get clicks...
I mean this is really disgusting and Slashdot should be absolutely ashamed!
FTFA
"The changes were revealed on the Google+ account belonging to the Social Statistics compiler Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. He explained that some Google+ members could no longer be tracked as they had further closed off their accounts on Tuesday. Interesting that Zuckerberg, the man so happy to gather and share so much of everyone else's data on Facebook, is suddenly so protective over his own."
You have lies, damn lies, statistics and then Slashdot headlines.
Really guys that is so sad.
Or airliner and space craft simulators? So in other words aerospace spec or to be really honest. Just high resolution.
Okay you just start out with KISS and then wrote about multiple sub accounts and controls and public image and...
Seems simpler to me to just teach people that if your an ass in public people will see you and know you as an ass.
You can not always use technology to solve social or in this case cultural problems. We have created in many ways a very odd culture of entitlement. People will have the most personal conversations in the middle of a store or a check out line and expect others to not hear here them. They would be offended if you asked them to not user loud profanities while your standing in a checkout line at the grocery store with your two year old but at the same time would be so offended of one commented on their loud conversation. People expect to post pictures of themselves on Facebook with a bong and not have an employer see it or judge them for it.
We seem to live in a world where people think they can do anything they want and be protected by somebody from the results of their actions. I find it so odd that people seem to find it "unfair" to be judged by their words and deeds?
Maybe it is just that I have reached the point in my life where I choose to not do anything I am would ashamed of people knowing about. Yes somethings are private in my life but those are things I keep private. I don't take pictures or blog about those things.
I often find that science earmarks get hit a lot by both parties. Pork is almost always money spend on some other state. McCain also listed a few million dollars being spend for seismic studies in Missouri as park barrel I am sure that he put both on the list after an aid briefed him like this.
"Obama wants $3 million dollars for a projector that puts pictures on the wall."
and
"Some congress man wants to spend x million of dollars studying earthquakes in Missouri! Who ever heard of earthquakes in Missouri?"
As the average person about both of those even an educated one like a lawyer and they will probably give you the same reaction as McCain. I wonder how many other Pork projects I hear about are actually good projects that I just don't understand.
Of course even saying that I have to wonder why the federal government was going to buy a projector for a planetarium. Couldn't they get donations?
I wonder if Military Grade is the same as what we called MilSpec. The US military did a lot of work back in the day to create specifications so what they actually bought wasn't crap. I have not read up on the history but my best guess is that the Army and Navy got into it right after the civil war. During the Civil war a lot of crooks tried to get rich selling junk to the military. Combine that with the rise of things like Steam powered iron clad and later steel warships and it all makes sense. Even today people that build homebuilt aircraft out of wood will reference US Army service manuals and specifications published in the 1920s and 1930s.
Milspec in electronics usually means smaller tolerances, greater enviromental range, more resistance to shock, and higher MTBF. Usually with a higher cost.
Sigh....
A social network is for sharing. I find it just so odd that people expect that what they post on a social network would be private. I find that idea as dumb as a candy bar that will protect you from over eating.
You do not have to go that far. The solution is not that hard. Just don't put anything on a social networking site that is private. The problem really seems to be that people don't know the difference between public and private. What you do in the privacy of your own home is private. Other things like medical and banking are private. What you do outside those areas is public. You funnel a beer naked at a party and you are doing it in public. The idea of a "private party" is a mistake because just because everybody and their dog isn't allowed to be there odds are that people will talk. Now they will talk, blog, post pictures, and post video but that is just a matter of degree.
Think about it. Is it wrong to judge a person based on their words and deeds? Even if you have some fantasy perfect privacy social site nothing is going to stop some old classmate from publishing that picture of you on their blog with your name on it.
The Internet has made the world in to a small town where you really have a hard time just fading in to a sea of faces. That is just reality so deal with it and take responsibly for your actions.
It is a good plan. Put the fantasy far enough out that it will fail after you are out of power.
Your living in a fantasy. Germany is a net importer of power and that will come from France which is 80% nuclear and building more all the time. Your just using Nuclear power from France and now depending on French engineering and French safety regulations to keep your lights on and keep you safe.
Add in more imports of Natural Gas from Russia that they can turn off at a whim... Well hope that clears it up for you. Germany has very little in the way of solar potental. Last time I looked nice empty desserts with 300+ days of sunshine where pretty rare in Germany. I guess you have some wind but that will not replace your reactors. So you will be burning coal, imported natural gas, and imported nuclear energy from France. Just when did logic become a scarce resource in Germany. Well at least Europe will be safe from Germany every becoming a major economic or political force again.
During our last hurricane we lost cell service in 18 hours stayed down for 5 days. Power went out for a week, Phone service never went down. Cable TV.......
I live where there is hurricains. We keep an old style phone just for that issue. You can get them for about $10. It is very nice to have.