Simple answer: Stillness isn't a monotonic function of altitude.
Simplified more complicated answer: Air comes in layers, many layers, depending on the local weather, but there are generally several major layers covering the whole earth (stratosphere, troposphere, etc.). Each layer has its own characteristics of temperature gradient and general wind pattern. Between the layers is where the most turbulence is, because air really doesn't like shearing. And in one of the upper layers winds of hundreds of kph are typical, and turbulence is as well.
The only data security is to have only trustworthy people securing the data. The mechanisms involved are irrelevant once that second person gets involved. It also helps if, while you are trusting them, they know they can trust you to use the system to secure the right information.
In other words, we can see everything within 14 "inches" of our polka-dot, but nothing farther than that, even though the balloon is 5X wider than that.
So the idea is that we can see the back and front windshields of the car in front of us, but can only see the road-spray bouncing off its windshield from the car in front of it.
As for "second inflation", that's an interesting hypothesis, but which particles will be erased from existence to cause it?
I didn't see it until it had a few hundred thousand members and was being used by non-geeky students and their parents. Maybe the first few thousand were somewhat geeky, but it spread to non-geek student populations quickly, and from there to their non-student relations. As a whole, its rise is one of the least geeky things on the internet.
Geeks were on other fora, ignoring the limitations of facebook and the low geek quotient of its clientele. Until it just got so big it could no longer be ignored.
I bought one, because on a friend's phone it seemed slick and impressive for the couple of things I tried.
But shortly after I bought it I determined that it's very shallow in the content department, and depended more heavily on users adding content than I expected, so it's not going to get any better owing to a lack of critical mass.
Which, it occurs to me, is the sort of thing people are saying about the Android platform itself. Although, anything with 100,000 different apps can't be said to be "shallow", even if a lot of those apps are shallow themselves. So the parallel isn't quite right.
I found one that turns the iPhone market into the Android market. Works on pads as well as phones. Somehow the guy who implemented it got canned as CEO of Google for doing it, too...
Now subtract time to get the public's attention, time to direct that attention towards political action to fund a mission, time to arrange the prime contracts for the mission, time to design the system well enough to let subcontracts, time to develop the components, time to integrate the components, and time to launch the vehicle and travel to the asteroid.
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They gave it to Obama for not being another Republican President and Chicken-hawk.
If you think that's not "doing something" then you must be curing cancer twice a day.
Yes. In fact, you can have a beowulf cluster of them.
"We found out people were getting information from these devices, instead of through our filters."
"We've got a paranoid delusion for that."
"We decide. You download."
"No way are we at Microsoft letting Chrome users off the hook for autoplayed videos with our advertisements in them."
Simple answer: Stillness isn't a monotonic function of altitude.
Simplified more complicated answer: Air comes in layers, many layers, depending on the local weather, but there are generally several major layers covering the whole earth (stratosphere, troposphere, etc.). Each layer has its own characteristics of temperature gradient and general wind pattern. Between the layers is where the most turbulence is, because air really doesn't like shearing. And in one of the upper layers winds of hundreds of kph are typical, and turbulence is as well.
The only data security is to have only trustworthy people securing the data. The mechanisms involved are irrelevant once that second person gets involved. It also helps if, while you are trusting them, they know they can trust you to use the system to secure the right information.
In other words, we can see everything within 14 "inches" of our polka-dot, but nothing farther than that, even though the balloon is 5X wider than that.
So the idea is that we can see the back and front windshields of the car in front of us, but can only see the road-spray bouncing off its windshield from the car in front of it.
As for "second inflation", that's an interesting hypothesis, but which particles will be erased from existence to cause it?
/. should delete accounts of people who think /. should delete the accounts of people for speaking certain words.
We call those people "Luddites", and send them back to their facebook pages.
telephone? don't you have IM or twitter or facebook?
Just like the gork who posted this to /. three days after the entire twitterverse had it...
I didn't see it until it had a few hundred thousand members and was being used by non-geeky students and their parents. Maybe the first few thousand were somewhat geeky, but it spread to non-geek student populations quickly, and from there to their non-student relations. As a whole, its rise is one of the least geeky things on the internet.
Geeks were on other fora, ignoring the limitations of facebook and the low geek quotient of its clientele. Until it just got so big it could no longer be ignored.
I bought one, because on a friend's phone it seemed slick and impressive for the couple of things I tried.
But shortly after I bought it I determined that it's very shallow in the content department, and depended more heavily on users adding content than I expected, so it's not going to get any better owing to a lack of critical mass.
Which, it occurs to me, is the sort of thing people are saying about the Android platform itself. Although, anything with 100,000 different apps can't be said to be "shallow", even if a lot of those apps are shallow themselves. So the parallel isn't quite right.
A sorting algorithm that actually works would make them go to the bottom of the list, which is better than banishing them altogether.
This is the likely answer.
Better documentation for a computing may not convice a CIO, but it convinces the developers.
I found one that turns the iPhone market into the Android market. Works on pads as well as phones. Somehow the guy who implemented it got canned as CEO of Google for doing it, too...
How about fart apps in your favorite sports team's colors?
I think Google's going for that, here.
I don't expect a few hundred devs on the payroll to turn out an additional 200k apps in any timeframe.
But what they will do is turn out a consistent level of quality in porting applications from Google's online systems to the app store.
And in the meantime they may come up with a few hundred new ideas.
The ads in Angry Birds are the Hard skill level.
Well, first of all, geeks were hardly the early adopters of facebook.
Twitter, maybe. Facebook, no.
And when "all these people" are using -- nay, customizing -- Eclipse, then they will also be geeks.
Just because they've picked up the easy stuff, which geeks engineered to be easy to pick up, doesn't make them geeky.
a bottle full of morphine would help a lot more
Now subtract time to get the public's attention, time to direct that attention towards political action to fund a mission, time to arrange the prime contracts for the mission, time to design the system well enough to let subcontracts, time to develop the components, time to integrate the components, and time to launch the vehicle and travel to the asteroid.
We'll probably miss it by 8 months.
AMD's stock went up because Intel raised revenue estimates.