If you are so head-in-the-sand where Windows security is concerned, perhaps a switch to Linux makes more sense for you and everyone (customers, clients, etc) in your immediate corporate environment.
I hope you don't have a similar attitude where Linux updates are concerned.
Someone needs to read a book on how the eye works.
You only have receptor density for reading dead center in your eye. You can't put Terminator-style displays of to the side of your FOV, because you can only see motion and coarse detail off dead center.
See this is why we need a (-1 Informative) moderation... because clearly from the tone of the post and the the majority of the replies, rational response is not the goal of this story submission.
There's TSA limits on the amount of lithium that can be in a battery. Using nanowires to hold more lithium will get you a bigger, yet far more dangerous battery you can't bring anywhere.
Its not so good in cars either, given how dangerous lithium ion batteries are. I'd rather have a RTG or a box of dynamite in my car.
Its not the thing you're dropping from orbit that needs to be concerned about the impact, its the people you're dropping it on.
You can't drop resources like that in the water because they sink. And you can't drop 500t of iron in the middle of some arid area because a) you might miss, b) there aren't many such areas and c) you'd still have to reprocess it and move it.
I totally agree, that sort of industry needs to be built up over time, but I disagree with the idea that its a reasonable way to handle the running out of resources on the ground. Using less is the only way to handle that for the imaginable future.
I had Audi tell Cafe Press to take down a t-shirt with a likeness of two Audi cars on it -- which wasn't even a photograph, it was a drawing based on a photograph I owned.
Note, they don't have any legal foundation for doing it, but they all do it. Caroll Shelby learned that lesson ten years ago when he tried to block replica Cobras from being manufactured. He got to keep his name, but not the look (nevermind the look wasn't his anyway).
I hope I wasn't really the ONLY one whose first thought was "well that pretty much decides the whole illegal immigrant discussion once the migrant workers get cybernetic exoskeletons"...
I, for one, welcome our cybernetic illegal immigrant overlords.
um... I mean... I, para uno, dan la bienvenida a nuestros overlords inmigrantes ilegales cibernéticos.
If you can figure out how to move 100,000 tons of industrial equipment from LEO to, say, the asteroid belt (so we ignore how to get 100,000 tons INTO orbit, or getting it somewhere actually more useful than an asteroid) and get it to stop there, more power to you.
Moving things in space is HARD. Stopping them once moving is HARD. Things may be "weightless" but they sure as hell still have mass, and you're not moving 100,000 tons any easier in space than on the ground. Friction isn't your problem.
We need to be doing that, but resources mined in space will be used in space -- its too hard to get things safely back to earth in any quantity.
While it sounds noble to talk about space travel, and at once level you're right, comparing what we did as a species 40 years ago and what we'd need to do to really utilize those resources on Earth is like saying getting into orbit is easy because the Chinese invented rockets two thousand years ago.
Do take a stroll by any of your local industrial plants -- doesn't matter what it is. Steel, say. Or a gas liquification plant. Now figure out how you're going to get all of that into space. Not orbit, you need it orbiting the sun, not the Earth because the stuff you're talking about what we want isn't floating around around the earth. Now figure out how you're going to shield it from radiation, and feed the hundreds of employees. And keep in mind all of that capacity is to produce something for a regional demand, not a global demand.
Even when you've got it, now figure out how you're going to get it back down to the ground. (We'll ignore the fact that most of the resources are tied up in other gravity wells...)
Your statement may be intellectually correct, but its about as realistic as sitting in the jungles of central america 12,000 years ago and taking solice in the availability of some resource you need, buried a mile inside of Everest and nowhere else.
FYI, and I know this isn't on topic, Calphalon started doing their manufacturing in China a few years back. The "normal" price for their pans dropped about 60% but they didn't move the list prices.
50% off list is paying too much. A good price is more like 70%. Amazon is famous for their Calphalon "Friday Sale" -- and those prices are really what they should be all the time.
I was almost going to be offended by your post purely on account that we do not have nearly enough Dunkin Donuts in town, but we also have no Starbucks so, in fact, you're proably right.
I can agree with you, though, on your breakdown of how the voting would go. I think you're quite correct.
ATT talks about cross licensing towers, but I'm not sure I buy that. I have no signal on my iPhone sitting at my desk, but I can see six t-mobile cells using FieldTest (the strongest at -87dbi) -- neither of which my phone will use. I have the same problem at my house -- zero to one bar on an ATT tower, 4-5 on a t-mobile. Phone was unusable until I bought a signal booster for the house.
Imagine the difference, if it helps, between Javascript and Java. The difference is that significant between what any of the Flash environments will do and a real language and framework for building real enterprise applications -- basically you probably COULD do it, but you're going to be hating life as the project grows bigger.
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Clearly ten million people don't seem to mind that much.
If you are so head-in-the-sand where Windows security is concerned, perhaps a switch to Linux makes more sense for you and everyone (customers, clients, etc) in your immediate corporate environment.
I hope you don't have a similar attitude where Linux updates are concerned.
Exactly. Take the disc out and the 360 is silent.
I read Digg.
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(and wonder how moderators will interpret posts on
Someone needs to read a book on how the eye works.
You only have receptor density for reading dead center in your eye. You can't put Terminator-style displays of to the side of your FOV, because you can only see motion and coarse detail off dead center.
See this is why we need a (-1 Informative) moderation... because clearly from the tone of the post and the the majority of the replies, rational response is not the goal of this story submission.
Wow I've seen every damn episode of Sliders and seen the LoTR movies a half dozen times each I'm sure and I never realized that was him.
What a loser I am.
Step 1: Don't post as AC
It'll never happen, at least in the US.
There's TSA limits on the amount of lithium that can be in a battery. Using nanowires to hold more lithium will get you a bigger, yet far more dangerous battery you can't bring anywhere.
Its not so good in cars either, given how dangerous lithium ion batteries are. I'd rather have a RTG or a box of dynamite in my car.
Understanding 99% of what I say correctly after 5 minutes is a lot better than the developers do...
You mean all the ones with removable batteries? Like... you know... every one?
Not that I don't agree with you -- I don't think an integrated battery is a big deal.
However, all the macs have removable batteries.
Its not the thing you're dropping from orbit that needs to be concerned about the impact, its the people you're dropping it on.
You can't drop resources like that in the water because they sink. And you can't drop 500t of iron in the middle of some arid area because a) you might miss, b) there aren't many such areas and c) you'd still have to reprocess it and move it.
I totally agree, that sort of industry needs to be built up over time, but I disagree with the idea that its a reasonable way to handle the running out of resources on the ground. Using less is the only way to handle that for the imaginable future.
I had Audi tell Cafe Press to take down a t-shirt with a likeness of two Audi cars on it -- which wasn't even a photograph, it was a drawing based on a photograph I owned.
Note, they don't have any legal foundation for doing it, but they all do it. Caroll Shelby learned that lesson ten years ago when he tried to block replica Cobras from being manufactured. He got to keep his name, but not the look (nevermind the look wasn't his anyway).
I hope I wasn't really the ONLY one whose first thought was "well that pretty much decides the whole illegal immigrant discussion once the migrant workers get cybernetic exoskeletons"...
I, for one, welcome our cybernetic illegal immigrant overlords.
um... I mean... I, para uno, dan la bienvenida a nuestros overlords inmigrantes ilegales cibernéticos.
(thanks babelfish)
If you can figure out how to move 100,000 tons of industrial equipment from LEO to, say, the asteroid belt (so we ignore how to get 100,000 tons INTO orbit, or getting it somewhere actually more useful than an asteroid) and get it to stop there, more power to you.
Moving things in space is HARD. Stopping them once moving is HARD. Things may be "weightless" but they sure as hell still have mass, and you're not moving 100,000 tons any easier in space than on the ground. Friction isn't your problem.
We need to be doing that, but resources mined in space will be used in space -- its too hard to get things safely back to earth in any quantity.
While it sounds noble to talk about space travel, and at once level you're right, comparing what we did as a species 40 years ago and what we'd need to do to really utilize those resources on Earth is like saying getting into orbit is easy because the Chinese invented rockets two thousand years ago.
Do take a stroll by any of your local industrial plants -- doesn't matter what it is. Steel, say. Or a gas liquification plant. Now figure out how you're going to get all of that into space. Not orbit, you need it orbiting the sun, not the Earth because the stuff you're talking about what we want isn't floating around around the earth. Now figure out how you're going to shield it from radiation, and feed the hundreds of employees. And keep in mind all of that capacity is to produce something for a regional demand, not a global demand.
Even when you've got it, now figure out how you're going to get it back down to the ground. (We'll ignore the fact that most of the resources are tied up in other gravity wells...)
Your statement may be intellectually correct, but its about as realistic as sitting in the jungles of central america 12,000 years ago and taking solice in the availability of some resource you need, buried a mile inside of Everest and nowhere else.
The kids are getting screwed by America's wang.
FYI, and I know this isn't on topic, Calphalon started doing their manufacturing in China a few years back. The "normal" price for their pans dropped about 60% but they didn't move the list prices.
50% off list is paying too much. A good price is more like 70%. Amazon is famous for their Calphalon "Friday Sale" -- and those prices are really what they should be all the time.
Um, what?
It stops because of friction in the mechanism. No friction, it would keep going forever.
Hey... I live in Salem.
I was almost going to be offended by your post purely on account that we do not have nearly enough Dunkin Donuts in town, but we also have no Starbucks so, in fact, you're proably right.
I can agree with you, though, on your breakdown of how the voting would go. I think you're quite correct.
Get a billion people on the road and traffic will be so bad you won't be able to go fast enough to be injured in an accident.
Actually I'd be curious to know what the number of traffic fatalities involving people IN a vehicle are in extremely dense cities...
ATT talks about cross licensing towers, but I'm not sure I buy that. I have no signal on my iPhone sitting at my desk, but I can see six t-mobile cells using FieldTest (the strongest at -87dbi) -- neither of which my phone will use. I have the same problem at my house -- zero to one bar on an ATT tower, 4-5 on a t-mobile. Phone was unusable until I bought a signal booster for the house.
Go take a flight on Southwest and tell me if thats still such a good idea.
Stop taking token (and largely meaningless) security actions as a way to both justify jobs at the TSA and to keep the American people in fear.
There ya go, no need to take shoes off or all that other ridiculousness.
No, I have. Its still not the same thing.
Imagine the difference, if it helps, between Javascript and Java. The difference is that significant between what any of the Flash environments will do and a real language and framework for building real enterprise applications -- basically you probably COULD do it, but you're going to be hating life as the project grows bigger.