Why would you ever want to wear clothes to change color based on the weather? Suddenly, your well-coordinated ensemble turns into a clown suit... sounds unappealing to me.
Idea for a new slashdot poll: "Assume your local library replaces bar codes with RFID tags. Are you ACTUALLY worried that this will be a material violation of your privacy?"
Come on, people, aren't there about a million more important things to worry about?!
I like what I see about the G5. It looks like it would make a great workstation, but at $4,198 few people could afford it. Unless you're doing high end video manipulation or DNA sequencing I can't see someone being able to justify spending that much on this, unless they are rolling around in money.
Try pricing out a comparable machine from Dell (w/ dual 3GHz Xeons). You'll see that the Dell is significantly more expensive than the G5.
Techies ought to focus on how to take money from the wealthy and decrease the world's dependency on corporations, or even private companies (that later become corporations), by building cooperatives and collectives.
But the payoff is huge! The average starting salary for a graduate in my MBA program is about $75,000.
Interesting point. But what's the causality here? Perhaps the people who are admitted to your program are especially talented individuals who could earn $75k without the extra time in school (and sinking that amount or more into two years of tuition!).
The GMAT, a test required to get into business school in the US, includes two 30-minute essay questions. Your responses are graded by a human grader and a computer program on a scale of 0 to 6. Your score is then a composite of the two scores.
ETS actually has a web site where you can do a sample essay that their server will grade for you.
It is beholden to a group of corporate interests and it is controlled by a tight group of neoconservatives who want to control the whole Middle East...
Conspiracy theories are fun, aren't they? They're also easy to debunk. If by this so-called "group of corporate interests" you mean large multinational corporations, then you're referring to a group of organizations that is beholden to - guess who - the American public, which owns the vast majority of their shares. If you knew anything about corporate finance, you'd have realized this.
I have no clue what you mean by a "tight group of neoconservatives". Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, after all, are not known for their economic views, which is what the title "neoconservative" typically refers to.
How in the world did the parent get modded up to insightful?
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the number one post-9/11 karma whoring technique. Take a post about some new technology designed to make us safe and then figure out a way to make the technology sound sinister and threatening to our rights. I live and work in NYC and, frankly, I'm about a million times more afraid of terrorists, drug dealers and the like than I am of our own government.
If you feel otherwise - i.e. are more afraid of Bush than the Islamist radical or coke runner next door - then you're either a lunatic or - perhaps - are a criminal yourself.
Funny, I never thought of the BBC as a typical source of anti-US FUD.
The first hypersonic plane useable as a bomber was actually proposed 20 years ago by President Reagan. See here or here for a description. Notice that the picture in the BBC article and the pictures on the referenced web sites are essentially identical. Also read the following quote from the second link I provided:
"We're talking about the speed of response of an ICBM and the flexibility and recallability of a bomber, packaged in a plane that can scramble, get into orbit, and change orbit so the Soviets can't get a reading accurate enough to shoot at it. It offers strategic force survivability -- a fleet could sit alert like B-52s."
This was news 20 years ago.
(By the way, the program was abandoned because (1) the technology was too hard and (2) ICBMs gave us all the international strike capability we need.)
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This site describes the telescopes that comprise the interferometer used to make the observations: http://www.eso.org/projects/vlti/
Quote: The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) consists in the coherent combination of the four VLT Unit Telescopes and of several moveable 1.8m Auxiliary Telescopes. Once fully operational, the VLTI will provide both a high sensitivity as well as milli-arcsec angular resolution provided by baselines of up to 200m length.
What a silly question. If American company XYZ can send these jobs overseas and - by doing so - pay less than it would for the equivalent domestic labor, then XYZ will naturally tend to lower its prices (why? because to make more money, it has to sell more goods and the best way to sell more goods in this case is to lower prices). These lowered prices will make all Americans better off.
Of course, if you're not a capitalist, you probably disagree with the above statement, but if you're not a capitalist, you're also on the wrong side of history.
According to an article published by Jane's Space Directory, published by the highly-respected Jane's defense consultancy.
The first Improved Crystal was launched in 1990, followed by successors in February 1992, December 1995 and December 1996. Each Improved Crystal costs in excess of US$1 billion with a further US$400 million spent on launch costs.
Technical capabilities allow Improved Crystal to resolve square or circular objects as small as 10cm but linear structures of 5-8cm can also be detected. With this resolution the visible optical spectrum can differentiate uniformed people from civilian personnel and determine the size and carrying capacity of small vehicles or two-wheeled motorised equipment. Infra-red imaging allows camouflage and vegetation to be identified as well as natural surface flora modified by the presence of groups of several people.
Looking at the broadcasts of all the emergency workers covered in soot made me wonder what kind of threat is posed by inhaling the dust in lower Manhattan.
For example: The use of asbestos in building construction was curtailed at around the same time that the WTC was completed (I admit my source is a "father of a friend"); was any used in constructing the WTC?
My prayers go out to the victims and their families.
There's also a CNN article which has a bit more information.
Did anyone else notice the amusing inaccuracy in the CNN story?
"But the monitor can now show 32,000 vivid colors, far more than the 256 of the original Game Boy -- a spectacular hit selling more than 100 million worldwide since going on sale 11 years ago."
I don't know about you, but 11 years ago, my original Game Boy couldn't display any colors.
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So is this one of those situations where limelight = green glow?
Why would you ever want to wear clothes to change color based on the weather? Suddenly, your well-coordinated ensemble turns into a clown suit... sounds unappealing to me.
Idea for a new slashdot poll:
"Assume your local library replaces bar codes with RFID tags. Are you ACTUALLY worried that this will be a material violation of your privacy?"
Come on, people, aren't there about a million more important things to worry about?!
Try pricing out a comparable machine from Dell (w/ dual 3GHz Xeons). You'll see that the Dell is significantly more expensive than the G5.
Walter Sullivan, a science writer and editor for The New York Times, died in 1996.
Spooky.
That is correct. It costs $200 to take the GMAT!
Jonathan
ETS actually has a web site where you can do a sample essay that their server will grade for you.
More info can be found here.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the number one post-9/11 karma whoring technique. Take a post about some new technology designed to make us safe and then figure out a way to make the technology sound sinister and threatening to our rights. I live and work in NYC and, frankly, I'm about a million times more afraid of terrorists, drug dealers and the like than I am of our own government.
If you feel otherwise - i.e. are more afraid of Bush than the Islamist radical or coke runner next door - then you're either a lunatic or - perhaps - are a criminal yourself.
The first hypersonic plane useable as a bomber was actually proposed 20 years ago by President Reagan. See here or here for a description. Notice that the picture in the BBC article and the pictures on the referenced web sites are essentially identical. Also read the following quote from the second link I provided:
This was news 20 years ago.(By the way, the program was abandoned because (1) the technology was too hard and (2) ICBMs gave us all the international strike capability we need.)
This site describes the telescopes that comprise the interferometer used to make the observations:
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlti/
Quote:
The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) consists in the coherent combination of the four VLT Unit Telescopes and of several moveable 1.8m Auxiliary Telescopes. Once fully operational, the VLTI will provide both a high sensitivity as well as milli-arcsec angular resolution provided by baselines of up to 200m length.
Can America lose these jobs and still prosper?
What a silly question. If American company XYZ can send these jobs overseas and - by doing so - pay less than it would for the equivalent domestic labor, then XYZ will naturally tend to lower its prices (why? because to make more money, it has to sell more goods and the best way to sell more goods in this case is to lower prices). These lowered prices will make all Americans better off.
Of course, if you're not a capitalist, you probably disagree with the above statement, but if you're not a capitalist, you're also on the wrong side of history.
Jonathan
Jonathan
And, of course, the link to the article is here.
The first Improved Crystal was launched in 1990, followed by successors in February 1992, December 1995 and December 1996. Each Improved Crystal costs in excess of US$1 billion with a further US$400 million spent on launch costs.
Technical capabilities allow Improved Crystal to resolve square or circular objects as small as 10cm but linear structures of 5-8cm can also be detected. With this resolution the visible optical spectrum can differentiate uniformed people from civilian personnel and determine the size and carrying capacity of small vehicles or two-wheeled motorised equipment. Infra-red imaging allows camouflage and vegetation to be identified as well as natural surface flora modified by the presence of groups of several people.
Looking at the broadcasts of all the emergency workers covered in soot made me wonder what kind of threat is posed by inhaling the dust in lower Manhattan.
For example: The use of asbestos in building construction was curtailed at around the same time that the WTC was completed (I admit my source is a "father of a friend"); was any used in constructing the WTC?
My prayers go out to the victims and their families.
Jonathan
Did anyone else notice the amusing inaccuracy in the CNN story?
"But the monitor can now show 32,000 vivid colors, far more than the 256 of the original Game Boy -- a spectacular hit selling more than 100 million worldwide since going on sale 11 years ago."
I don't know about you, but 11 years ago, my original Game Boy couldn't display any colors.