Heh... Holographic storage has been in the making since the 50's when they figured out that they might be able to do it. And about every 5-10 years, they trot out a new big "push" to plug the new concept in the tech, this time with discs as opposed to something more akin to Star Trek's "isolinear chips", which is what they were on about some 2 or so decades ago.
To whit, many are begging that they don't do it... Army of Darkness was a nice cap to the whole thing. I'd rather they did a re-spin of the stuff over a fourth in the series in this case- not that I think they should do a re-spin either.
Heh... Folks, downmod me all you want- the reality is there for anyone to see for themselves. Defense spending (which is where the money comes from for paying for those wars...) is at 25% in the US for total Federal expenditures (from the Office of Budget Management...) and less than that elsewhere in the Western world. 23% of that is spent on Medicare and Medicaid (of which roughly 1/2 of that is Medicaid...), 21% on Social Security disbursements, 13% purely on Welfare, and 18% comprising the rest. Of that 18% NASA's budget (1% of that 18% slice...seriously...) is a pittance- and they've been slashing Defense and NASA for a while and GROWING the others.
Heh... You missed the point. If you thought it was pretty damned expensive to get it to LEO, it's even more so for GSO or one of the Lagranges. If it was as "easy" as people keep making the argument for...they would have DONE it because of the very waste you're talking about- it makes it useful for longer and less likely to cause problems dirtside, coupled with the expense we sunk into it (It should be noted that this is where people come up with the Space Program being a "waste" because of the dollars and effort involved without looking at where it brought us...). The delta-V to put the thing into GSO is a brutal 3.2 km/S that MUST be paid all at once. It's weighing in at 412,289 kg of mass. Even though it was assembled over time, you're still talking about boosting portions of roughly 460 Tons into geosync.
You're going to have to add about 2 or so kilometers per second delta-V to the thing just to inject it into lunar orbit and 4.3 to inject it towards Mars. That's adding that much to 417,289 kg (Roughly 460 Tons if on Earth...) of mass all at ONCE. Where and HOW are you going to get THAT much fuel and have engines that actually can impart that much energy to that much mass?
C'mon...we don't have the tech to do that right at the moment. We've been pissing the resources to properly develop that down the drain on other useless pursuits (and I don't mean just the wars around the world, either...).
Really? What would they DO with it- and how would they pay for maintaining it in LEO? Do you have ANY idea just how "small" the thing is? Space Hotel? Not likely- and it'd cost a couple of million per person at least for a 1-2 week stay. Try again.
Heh... As much as I'd like to think we're "better" than this, there's thousands upon thousands of years of "development" towards this reality. What we do with it remains to be seen- but we're deluding ourselves if we think that warfare won't be present in some form for many millennia to come. How we direct it, form it, will determine if we're actually "better" now. Those that claim that we're "better than this" delude themselves into thinking you can just simply deny the impulses and give them NO outlets. Sorry, doesn't work that way. So, if humanity is to survive, it needs to focus the impulses instead of lying to our collective selves about it- which is all any of us are doing right now. About like the notions about "social" programs- which is where most of the money that the Western governments seem to be spending is going.
War? Do you think it was War that tightened the budgets? Heh...boy are you kidding yourself. It's all these social programs that did that. Gotta pay for all those on Welfare and similar things, you know.
In truth, you will want to try to establish resources on and under the surface of the Moon over time. Cheaper than either in terms of the energy budget needed to do what needs to be done. In many cases, the crucial resources past a critical point are on the Moon itself and the ISS isn't really a good Geosync base of operations. You need something quite a bit bigger there in one of the Lagrange points for it to be useful for what you're talking to.
They're not kidding about energy budgets. It's going to "cost more" to set up Moon base operations in energy budget- but you can spread it out over time. Years, really. But those "expensive" investments will pay out after you've done it as it's cheaper to utilise the resources on the Moon to fabricate many of the things for a space vessel and other tech stuff- and it costs less to get it back to the Earth and into orbit and elsewhere from off the Moon than it would be from Earth.
Boosting the ISS into one of the Geosync slots is going to be an immediate energy cost that simply will be not worth the investment and needs to be paid out the moment you opt to boost it. There's entirely too much energy needed at once that we just don't have good resources or tech to provide to make it worth doing.
In actuality, we need BOTH things. There's actually enough resources for maintaining low gravity manufacturing, etc. on the Moon (which we actually need to start getting to if you're going to travel to the stars in the first place...) and we need those experiments on the ISS (Which isn't zero gravity (If it was, you wouldn't need to constantly push it back into orbit...), but close enough to count for what we're needing right now...) for the reasons you give.
The brutal truth of the matter is that we're pouring money into "social" programs that are hopelessly mis-managed and we keep trimming the budgets for doing this stuff because "it's unnecessary" (Never mind that we're where we are mainly because of the space and defense budgets of the world...). Something we need to realise isn't a useful utilisation of our collective resources as a species.
It's a new OS basing itself off of the Linux kernel that Android's using- which is un-needed.
- You don't need to use Bionic for what they're doing- glibc will suffice. Especially if you're not allowing native code. - You don't need the IPC framework Android's using- or any of the other deviations to the kernel. You could use the mainline Linux kernel for this. Really.
Gotta wonder what they're smoking in their pipe there. Let's just fragment the hell out of things a little bit more for something that won't get very far if they don't back down from the "no native code" position. I don't care HOW fast their engine is- javascript will be slower than Java/Dalvik, which is 10-40% slower than native code.
No native code? Sorry, guys...that's a Fail. Even the other JavaScript-like framework allows some native code because you're not going to get games and other push the envelope code to work well with things.
Please look at the first slots of the tax table. Note that the minimum tax for where you've earned any money is $1. Note that this is owed for $5-15. Now, look at the $1300 starting point on the next column is $130. The reality is that you're dead wrong on things. The minimum is 10% of gross income.
Please look at the line for 1990 and later. W2 employees will pay 7.65% of their gross earnings. Self-employed people will pay in 15.3%. Unless you're self-employed, you will never exceed your Income Tax liability in FICA. You will exceed your liability for FICA taxes, if self employed, when you earn approximately 60k/yr.
I suggest you do a bit of research before spouting off figures. You're gravely wrong on this subject. And it's appeals to emotion without proper facts behind them that has brought all of us to the situations we now face these days.
Why was this moderated "Troll"? It's an observation of what MIGHT have actually occurred. Why attribute malice to something that's easily explained with other things- it can go either way there.
A BS degree proving you can think? Heh... It is to laugh. They typically don't teach you to think these days- they teach you all sorts of odd notions in a misplaced line of thought that they need to "prepare you for the workforce". The degree in question is just proving that you can pass four years' worth of this odd assortment of classes in many cases with many schools.
An MS is a bit better as it's focused towards doing that task, actually- especially if you're doing a Thesis instead of the test route. Maybe someday I'll even get back to trying to get mine.
I would not recommend someone getting the PhD unless they plan on being a Professor somewhere, getting lucky in getting a research job, or scoring an executive officer role somewhere- at least right now that is. "Overqualified" is often what I hear told to my friends and associates that have Doctorates.
Actually, we still need something that educates people to actually form coherent chains of thought and to know when to seek information elsewhere. Experience and Aptitude testing won't get that for you. Unfortunately, the Education system, including the College system, has become more of an indoctrination machine- so it needs to be overhauled or replaced. What you propose, though, isn't enough.
Doesn't matter what the story is. Unless they're going to offer a decent deal, it's done- they offer little, if anything, that is worth what they're demanding right at the moment.
Ah...but you're missing out on quite a few things there...
~1.35 Million HC Tablets checked in. 3+ million Nooks. How many tablets running Froyo or Gingerbread because the vendors are "iffy" right at the moment with HC and waiting until ICS?
Quite simply, there's quite a few more Android tablets out there than your estimate. How many? Not sure- trying to find the numbers on those from that third line I gave you. It's a lot- but you can't just go off of Honeycomb activations to see what the space looks like. Not really.
It probably doesn't- because B&N wasn't claiming it to be a tablet but purely an e-reader until they pushed the Froyo based update wherein they officially expanded the abilities on the out-of-box machines. The biggest problem of the tablet sales is that they went with Honeycomb with most of them instead of doing a variant like Cyanogenmod's done for devices like the NC and the G-Tablet. Gingerbread or Froyo could've already mostly handled a tablet without the stuff that they did with Honeycomb- even though what they did there is a major jump all the same. Now, having said this...if the prices on the devices were a little more compelling and Honeycomb a bit more robust...be a differing story on the uptake. Not everyone likes/wants Apple's stuff- and there's quite a few that would like to see an Android tablet. If they'd not stubbed their toes on this, we'd really not be having this conversation.
Indeed...but the thing is...that's not saying a lot all the same. If they'd quit intimating infringements to mug companies over instead of talking with the people that could honestly deal with them on the subject, I'd buy the thinking a bit better. As it stands...
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Heh... Holographic storage has been in the making since the 50's when they figured out that they might be able to do it. And about every 5-10 years, they trot out a new big "push" to plug the new concept in the tech, this time with discs as opposed to something more akin to Star Trek's "isolinear chips", which is what they were on about some 2 or so decades ago.
Heh... You got that right McCain's nothing more than a Republican In Name Only.
To whit, many are begging that they don't do it... Army of Darkness was a nice cap to the whole thing. I'd rather they did a re-spin of the stuff over a fourth in the series in this case- not that I think they should do a re-spin either.
Heh... They did that with America's Funniest Home Videos years ago...
Heh... Folks, downmod me all you want- the reality is there for anyone to see for themselves. Defense spending (which is where the money comes from for paying for those wars...) is at 25% in the US for total Federal expenditures (from the Office of Budget Management...) and less than that elsewhere in the Western world. 23% of that is spent on Medicare and Medicaid (of which roughly 1/2 of that is Medicaid...), 21% on Social Security disbursements, 13% purely on Welfare, and 18% comprising the rest. Of that 18% NASA's budget (1% of that 18% slice...seriously...) is a pittance- and they've been slashing Defense and NASA for a while and GROWING the others.
Here...go look it up for yourselves...
You might view what I said in the parent post as a troll- but the truth is the truth.
Heh... You missed the point. If you thought it was pretty damned expensive to get it to LEO, it's even more so for GSO or one of the Lagranges. If it was as "easy" as people keep making the argument for...they would have DONE it because of the very waste you're talking about- it makes it useful for longer and less likely to cause problems dirtside, coupled with the expense we sunk into it (It should be noted that this is where people come up with the Space Program being a "waste" because of the dollars and effort involved without looking at where it brought us...). The delta-V to put the thing into GSO is a brutal 3.2 km/S that MUST be paid all at once. It's weighing in at 412,289 kg of mass. Even though it was assembled over time, you're still talking about boosting portions of roughly 460 Tons into geosync.
You're going to have to add about 2 or so kilometers per second delta-V to the thing just to inject it into lunar orbit and 4.3 to inject it towards Mars. That's adding that much to 417,289 kg (Roughly 460 Tons if on Earth...) of mass all at ONCE. Where and HOW are you going to get THAT much fuel and have engines that actually can impart that much energy to that much mass?
C'mon...we don't have the tech to do that right at the moment. We've been pissing the resources to properly develop that down the drain on other useless pursuits (and I don't mean just the wars around the world, either...).
Really? What would they DO with it- and how would they pay for maintaining it in LEO? Do you have ANY idea just how "small" the thing is? Space Hotel? Not likely- and it'd cost a couple of million per person at least for a 1-2 week stay. Try again.
Heh... As much as I'd like to think we're "better" than this, there's thousands upon thousands of years of "development" towards this reality. What we do with it remains to be seen- but we're deluding ourselves if we think that warfare won't be present in some form for many millennia to come. How we direct it, form it, will determine if we're actually "better" now. Those that claim that we're "better than this" delude themselves into thinking you can just simply deny the impulses and give them NO outlets. Sorry, doesn't work that way. So, if humanity is to survive, it needs to focus the impulses instead of lying to our collective selves about it- which is all any of us are doing right now. About like the notions about "social" programs- which is where most of the money that the Western governments seem to be spending is going.
War? Do you think it was War that tightened the budgets? Heh...boy are you kidding yourself. It's all these social programs that did that. Gotta pay for all those on Welfare and similar things, you know.
In truth, you will want to try to establish resources on and under the surface of the Moon over time. Cheaper than either in terms of the energy budget needed to do what needs to be done. In many cases, the crucial resources past a critical point are on the Moon itself and the ISS isn't really a good Geosync base of operations. You need something quite a bit bigger there in one of the Lagrange points for it to be useful for what you're talking to.
They're not kidding about energy budgets. It's going to "cost more" to set up Moon base operations in energy budget- but you can spread it out over time. Years, really. But those "expensive" investments will pay out after you've done it as it's cheaper to utilise the resources on the Moon to fabricate many of the things for a space vessel and other tech stuff- and it costs less to get it back to the Earth and into orbit and elsewhere from off the Moon than it would be from Earth.
Boosting the ISS into one of the Geosync slots is going to be an immediate energy cost that simply will be not worth the investment and needs to be paid out the moment you opt to boost it. There's entirely too much energy needed at once that we just don't have good resources or tech to provide to make it worth doing.
In actuality, we need BOTH things. There's actually enough resources for maintaining low gravity manufacturing, etc. on the Moon (which we actually need to start getting to if you're going to travel to the stars in the first place...) and we need those experiments on the ISS (Which isn't zero gravity (If it was, you wouldn't need to constantly push it back into orbit...), but close enough to count for what we're needing right now...) for the reasons you give.
The brutal truth of the matter is that we're pouring money into "social" programs that are hopelessly mis-managed and we keep trimming the budgets for doing this stuff because "it's unnecessary" (Never mind that we're where we are mainly because of the space and defense budgets of the world...). Something we need to realise isn't a useful utilisation of our collective resources as a species.
Heh... I'm asking, "What the fork?" myself...
It's a new OS basing itself off of the Linux kernel that Android's using- which is un-needed.
- You don't need to use Bionic for what they're doing- glibc will suffice. Especially if you're not allowing native code.
- You don't need the IPC framework Android's using- or any of the other deviations to the kernel. You could use the mainline Linux kernel for this. Really.
Gotta wonder what they're smoking in their pipe there. Let's just fragment the hell out of things a little bit more for something that won't get very far if they don't back down from the "no native code" position. I don't care HOW fast their engine is- javascript will be slower than Java/Dalvik, which is 10-40% slower than native code.
No native code? Sorry, guys...that's a Fail. Even the other JavaScript-like framework allows some native code because you're not going to get games and other push the envelope code to work well with things.
2% of their gross? Really?? FICA being more than the Income Tax?
Here's the 2010 1040 Tax Tables
Please look at the first slots of the tax table. Note that the minimum tax for where you've earned any money is $1. Note that this is owed for $5-15. Now, look at the $1300 starting point on the next column is $130. The reality is that you're dead wrong on things. The minimum is 10% of gross income.
FICA Tax Rate Table
Please look at the line for 1990 and later. W2 employees will pay 7.65% of their gross earnings. Self-employed people will pay in 15.3%. Unless you're self-employed, you will never exceed your Income Tax liability in FICA. You will exceed your liability for FICA taxes, if self employed, when you earn approximately 60k/yr.
I suggest you do a bit of research before spouting off figures. You're gravely wrong on this subject. And it's appeals to emotion without proper facts behind them that has brought all of us to the situations we now face these days.
Why was this moderated "Troll"? It's an observation of what MIGHT have actually occurred. Why attribute malice to something that's easily explained with other things- it can go either way there.
A BS degree proving you can think? Heh... It is to laugh. They typically don't teach you to think these days- they teach you all sorts of odd notions in a misplaced line of thought that they need to "prepare you for the workforce". The degree in question is just proving that you can pass four years' worth of this odd assortment of classes in many cases with many schools.
An MS is a bit better as it's focused towards doing that task, actually- especially if you're doing a Thesis instead of the test route. Maybe someday I'll even get back to trying to get mine.
I would not recommend someone getting the PhD unless they plan on being a Professor somewhere, getting lucky in getting a research job, or scoring an executive officer role somewhere- at least right now that is. "Overqualified" is often what I hear told to my friends and associates that have Doctorates.
Actually, we still need something that educates people to actually form coherent chains of thought and to know when to seek information elsewhere. Experience and Aptitude testing won't get that for you. Unfortunately, the Education system, including the College system, has become more of an indoctrination machine- so it needs to be overhauled or replaced. What you propose, though, isn't enough.
Considering that Internet access is FAR removed from Universal and it's prohibitively expensive for many areas to stream video, I think not.
It's quite simple, really. Don't buy. Don't infringe.
Doesn't matter what the story is. Unless they're going to offer a decent deal, it's done- they offer little, if anything, that is worth what they're demanding right at the moment.
Ah...but you're missing out on quite a few things there...
~1.35 Million HC Tablets checked in.
3+ million Nooks.
How many tablets running Froyo or Gingerbread because the vendors are "iffy" right at the moment with HC and waiting until ICS?
Quite simply, there's quite a few more Android tablets out there than your estimate. How many? Not sure- trying to find the numbers on those from that third line I gave you. It's a lot- but you can't just go off of Honeycomb activations to see what the space looks like. Not really.
Heh... I would want the hardware and not the OS. Make for a decent target for Linux/MeeGo. The OS would just be a waste as it'd never get used. :-D
Heh... Nothing like a little bit of extreme temperature analysis, eh?
It probably doesn't- because B&N wasn't claiming it to be a tablet but purely an e-reader until they pushed the Froyo based update wherein they officially expanded the abilities on the out-of-box machines. The biggest problem of the tablet sales is that they went with Honeycomb with most of them instead of doing a variant like Cyanogenmod's done for devices like the NC and the G-Tablet. Gingerbread or Froyo could've already mostly handled a tablet without the stuff that they did with Honeycomb- even though what they did there is a major jump all the same. Now, having said this...if the prices on the devices were a little more compelling and Honeycomb a bit more robust...be a differing story on the uptake. Not everyone likes/wants Apple's stuff- and there's quite a few that would like to see an Android tablet. If they'd not stubbed their toes on this, we'd really not be having this conversation.
Indeed...but the thing is...that's not saying a lot all the same. If they'd quit intimating infringements to mug companies over instead of talking with the people that could honestly deal with them on the subject, I'd buy the thinking a bit better. As it stands...