It still is confusing. It seems to be plugged into the hub using some weird cable.
With a regular USB hub, the type A clients cannot talk to each other, so if you plug this in a hub directly (in a type A connector), it can't see the keyboard. And if it's meant to be plugged into the type B connector on the hub (which it looks like from the picture), then it should have a standard type A female connector on the device, so you could use a standard type-A/type-B cable.
The point of progress is that you get to reap the benefits yourself. Setting up a moon base, so that people 10 million years from now have a place to go to when a big asteroid hits has no benefits to yourself, your children, grand children, or anybody you know.
What is useful/attractive about a permanent moon base ? Would you be just as excited if there was a permanent base in the Gobi desert, with self-sustaining vehicles traveling back and forth on a routine route, humans not only getting to the Gobi desert, but getting there routinely, experience in desert mining, and a significant leap towards making desert travel easy and common ?
Besides the higher 'cool' factor of a moon base, is there anything else ?
This plan won't help. There is no significant amount of regular helium on the moon. This is about the rare helium-3 isotope, of which is there is only 1 ppm on the moon, and even less on earth.
Sure, for short distances and/or small probes, it works fine. With an insane budget, you can even have 2 men walk pointlessly on the moon for a few hours.
For bigger stuff, like mining, terraforming, or human travel to other planets, we need better gear.
The sensation of pain is very sensitive to placebo effects, much more so than other physical properties of the body. It makes sense because the placebo effect is controlled by the brain, just like the sensation of pain.
considering modern physics is only about a century old, I'd say it's premature to make any long-term predictions based on our primitive science
The smart thing to do would be to wait until we have better physics, and thenexplore space. There's no point using old shitty physics that's not going work anyway.
And as long as solar power on earth is cheaper/Watt than in orbit, let's build it on earth.
Nobody said the system works perfectly. Especially considering these patterns have evolved at a slow rate, and our culture has experienced pretty dramatic changes in a few years. We are living in much bigger groups for instance. Our brains are wired for smaller groups, where you know everybody, and where the chance is much greater that this person will be nice to you in the future.
More correctly, the 6502 was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch. Both engineers were working for Motorola, but the 6502 was an underground project. Management didn't approve of their efforts to create a cheaper version of the 6800. They left, and started working for MOS to finish the design.
It wasn't ad-hominem, and not directed to you personally. Just a statement about typical reactions, based on observations of other conspiracy-theory believers.
Compare with the Apollo project. We have excellent photographs, but people who believe in a hoax are not convinced. The fact that the photographs are sharp enough to see the stars only points their attention to the fact the stars are missing (being ignorant to the fact they shouldn't be visible in the first place)
Put enough detail in the scan of the birth certificate that you can see the paper fibers, and some people will claim there's something wrong with the fibers.
The fact that Obama's birth announcement was in two Hawaiian newspapers should be enough evidence already. Unless he has a time machine, how could he have forged that ?
The resolution is perfect for showing the whole thing on a browser, in typical web-resolution. If it were some 600 DPI scan, it would takes ages to load, and be slow to display.
And if you're at the point where you need to see the ink and fiber to be convinced, you're most likely not going to be convinced anyway. Like I said, if someone wanted to go through the effort of producing a fake document, it would be fairly easy to produce one with realistic ink and paper. All you need to do is take an actual pen, write on actual paper, and scan it.
Not necessarily. The production for Apple is a very specific IC, by and for Apple, and it wouldn't take any business away from their x86 line. In the meantime, they make some extra money. Makes perfect sense.
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Sure, but it's not fair to compare its price to OLPC, which does come with a screen, keyboard and other IO devices.
Besides, the $25 is only an expected price. The thing isn't for sale yet, so it could become more expensive when it hits the market.
If they're losing $7 billion/year, it doesn't look like the USPS can handle the job either.
It still is confusing. It seems to be plugged into the hub using some weird cable.
With a regular USB hub, the type A clients cannot talk to each other, so if you plug this in a hub directly (in a type A connector), it can't see the keyboard. And if it's meant to be plugged into the type B connector on the hub (which it looks like from the picture), then it should have a standard type A female connector on the device, so you could use a standard type-A/type-B cable.
Except it doesn't come with keyboard, screen or power supply. And I'm not sure a case is included either.
If the idea is to plug in a keyboard, then why does it have a male USB plug, and not a female ?
The point of progress is that you get to reap the benefits yourself. Setting up a moon base, so that people 10 million years from now have a place to go to when a big asteroid hits has no benefits to yourself, your children, grand children, or anybody you know.
It's much easier to just not care about long term survivability.
What is useful/attractive about a permanent moon base ? Would you be just as excited if there was a permanent base in the Gobi desert, with self-sustaining vehicles traveling back and forth on a routine route, humans not only getting to the Gobi desert, but getting there routinely, experience in desert mining, and a significant leap towards making desert travel easy and common ?
Besides the higher 'cool' factor of a moon base, is there anything else ?
This plan won't help. There is no significant amount of regular helium on the moon. This is about the rare helium-3 isotope, of which is there is only 1 ppm on the moon, and even less on earth.
I've never seen those.
Apparently, carrying over genes is the only reason.
Placebo effects are not just imaginations. Maybe you were just unconsciously tensing up the muscle, and the therapy made you relax it.
Sure, for short distances and/or small probes, it works fine. With an insane budget, you can even have 2 men walk pointlessly on the moon for a few hours.
For bigger stuff, like mining, terraforming, or human travel to other planets, we need better gear.
The sensation of pain is very sensitive to placebo effects, much more so than other physical properties of the body. It makes sense because the placebo effect is controlled by the brain, just like the sensation of pain.
The smart thing to do would be to wait until we have better physics, and thenexplore space. There's no point using old shitty physics that's not going work anyway.
And as long as solar power on earth is cheaper/Watt than in orbit, let's build it on earth.
Nobody said the system works perfectly. Especially considering these patterns have evolved at a slow rate, and our culture has experienced pretty dramatic changes in a few years. We are living in much bigger groups for instance. Our brains are wired for smaller groups, where you know everybody, and where the chance is much greater that this person will be nice to you in the future.
Well, I guess your toes must have turned into prunes after 6 years.
No, Woz was thinking it was obvious when he designed the Apple II. It's just 40 years later when he's commenting on it.
Depends on where you live. For a lot of people, it's free.
More correctly, the 6502 was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch. Both engineers were working for Motorola, but the 6502 was an underground project. Management didn't approve of their efforts to create a cheaper version of the 6800. They left, and started working for MOS to finish the design.
It wasn't ad-hominem, and not directed to you personally. Just a statement about typical reactions, based on observations of other conspiracy-theory believers.
Compare with the Apollo project. We have excellent photographs, but people who believe in a hoax are not convinced. The fact that the photographs are sharp enough to see the stars only points their attention to the fact the stars are missing (being ignorant to the fact they shouldn't be visible in the first place)
Put enough detail in the scan of the birth certificate that you can see the paper fibers, and some people will claim there's something wrong with the fibers.
The fact that Obama's birth announcement was in two Hawaiian newspapers should be enough evidence already. Unless he has a time machine, how could he have forged that ?
As long as the programs are written in a high-level language, and the tool chains are compatible, it shouldn't be a lot of work to recompile the apps.
The resolution is perfect for showing the whole thing on a browser, in typical web-resolution. If it were some 600 DPI scan, it would takes ages to load, and be slow to display.
And if you're at the point where you need to see the ink and fiber to be convinced, you're most likely not going to be convinced anyway. Like I said, if someone wanted to go through the effort of producing a fake document, it would be fairly easy to produce one with realistic ink and paper. All you need to do is take an actual pen, write on actual paper, and scan it.
It's kinda hard to show the real thing to a few million people. I'm sure Obama's busy schedule doesn't allow him touring the country.
Not necessarily. The production for Apple is a very specific IC, by and for Apple, and it wouldn't take any business away from their x86 line. In the meantime, they make some extra money. Makes perfect sense.