Obviously you've never heard of FPGA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array While you can't add new connections in the strictest sense, you could could conceivably create a chip with a whole bunch of generic unused hardware and in the rest of the hardware program an algorithm that allows new connections to be made with that raw material.
They aren't their for convenience, they are clearly there to move people faster. I ride mass transit to work in the morning and home in the afternoon. Both stations have escalators, both have very narrow staircases. The escalators are there so that a large volume of people (10 commuter train cars worth) can get in or out of the station quickly, since we all arrive at the same time. People completely ignore this and just stand their like a lummox. It is frustrating to no end. I can't even take the stairs because they are one or two people wide at best, and there is always someone lumbering up them extremely slowly.
The purpose of the death penalty is twofold one part being punishment for the crime, but the other part is as a deterrent for future crimes. I think that news of an execution, if we are going to perform them, should be publicized to as wide an audience as possible, and this would certainly include media such as Twitter.
haha yeah, epic bad reading on my part. In my head I was comparing my $2 billion # to $1.5 billion. It's just not my day I guess. Anyhow my original point that download != lost sale is still valid here.
Agreed, but we saw this coming, in fact I saw this coming a year and a half ago when I posted this comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095153&cid=26492161 with some quick math that put an estimate at around $2 Billion. Not bad for back of the envelope math.
I watched it twice. In the first video I was impressed by the same thing as you, the vectoring stabilizing the falling rocket. On the second watch I was even more impressed when I realized even after the drogue shoot and free fall, the rocket landed just a foot or two from it's original takeoff point. So the vectoring didn't just stabilize the rocket, it also steered it back to the takeoff point.
They have a capsule tech called Dragon that can hold 7 crew. They actually had a dummy Dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 launched today. I think the life support stuff is still a ways off, but they should be capable of launching crewed missions a few years into the future.
TFA clearly states it's not the right type of star to cause gamma rays upon explosion, so unless either our observations or our understanding are seriously flawed that should not be an issue.
How about beer produced with 45 MILLION year old yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae (aka brewer’s yeast)) cultivated from a piece of amber. I've tried it and it's damn good too: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/brewery/
I haven't read Valis, but I don't see Ubik as particularly film-able either. Guess people said that about "Watchmen" though, and other than the changed ending, I thought it did a good job capturing the book, minus some depth.
"A solar sail with some sort of laser/lens system in the solar system is also possible. Horribly inefficient and expensive given existing technology but I don't think it's theoretically impossible. This might give you something like 0.2c or more."
If you read this, you'd quickly realize that ALL apps fall under at least one of the 7 categories, namely ALL apps could potentially take advantage of "Fast App Switching". If it looks like multi-tasking, and your apps don't need to do anything in the background, then what's the difference?
Those apps will get terrible ratings and very few sales. I've seen this happen many times on the app store already, the consumer still has some control, they aren't FORCED to buy every app.
I'd estimate I see somewhere near that already. A lot of apps have used them relatively unobtrusively, for instance on their menu or loading screens. iAd at least doesn't boot you from you app if you touch an add accidentally.
The home solutions already exist, they are already in many apps I have used (I've seen many ad-mod banners in fact). I bet 40% is similar to what companies like ad-mod take, plus Apple provides you API's to easily add the functionality to you app. Plus the ads don't kick you out of your application if you click on them. It's not any worse than the current solutions and in some ways it's better. iAd is only bad if it ends up encouraging a huge number of apps that didn't intend to have ads to include them just because it's easy and they might make a few extra bucks.
Have you actually used an iPad? I have a Asus Eee 901, and I can tell you that web pages seem to load much faster on the iPad and that once they are loaded the look better and scroll smoother. My netbook can't really handle 90% of the flash out there and neither have other netbooks I've tried, so I the "doesn't play flash" argument really doesn't hold up unless you compare the iPad to a desktop or more powerful (and usually larger) notebook.
My netbook is quite awkward for all the places I really want to use it, on the coach, in bed, on the pooper, and on the train in the morning, while the iPad is not (ok any computing device is a bit awkward on the pooper, but hey as long as you wash your hand before you touch it again....). If you actually saw the iPad in person you'd realize that the screen pretty much dominates the quality of any netbook screen, plus it's much lighter than any netbook with a 10hr battery life (you need at least 6cells right?). Also the software stack on the iPad really is good, on the netbook you are stuck using desktop conventions on screen not designed for modern interface elements, with a tiny keyboard and often a cramped touchpad (granted some Eees, the 901 included have very nice touchpads).
My experience so far with the iPad is that it's a really nice device, and since I've been a desktop-netbook user I could easily move to desktop-iPad.
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Even at relativistic speeds, what are the odds of hitting an asteroid in interstellar space? They have to be pretty slim.
Obviously you've never heard of FPGA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array While you can't add new connections in the strictest sense, you could could conceivably create a chip with a whole bunch of generic unused hardware and in the rest of the hardware program an algorithm that allows new connections to be made with that raw material.
Whoever smelt it dealt it.
No I don't live in London. Also I apologize to all the readers of my comment for the total abuse of their and there :(
They aren't their for convenience, they are clearly there to move people faster. I ride mass transit to work in the morning and home in the afternoon. Both stations have escalators, both have very narrow staircases. The escalators are there so that a large volume of people (10 commuter train cars worth) can get in or out of the station quickly, since we all arrive at the same time. People completely ignore this and just stand their like a lummox. It is frustrating to no end. I can't even take the stairs because they are one or two people wide at best, and there is always someone lumbering up them extremely slowly.
All it takes is one popular app, and a large number of Android users will have their data user/stolen/abused without permission.
The purpose of the death penalty is twofold one part being punishment for the crime, but the other part is as a deterrent for future crimes. I think that news of an execution, if we are going to perform them, should be publicized to as wide an audience as possible, and this would certainly include media such as Twitter.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
haha yeah, epic bad reading on my part. In my head I was comparing my $2 billion # to $1.5 billion. It's just not my day I guess. Anyhow my original point that download != lost sale is still valid here.
Agreed, but we saw this coming, in fact I saw this coming a year and a half ago when I posted this comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095153&cid=26492161 with some quick math that put an estimate at around $2 Billion. Not bad for back of the envelope math.
These aren't designed to be orbital designs. The VTVL ships are indented for sub-orbital flight.
I watched it twice. In the first video I was impressed by the same thing as you, the vectoring stabilizing the falling rocket. On the second watch I was even more impressed when I realized even after the drogue shoot and free fall, the rocket landed just a foot or two from it's original takeoff point. So the vectoring didn't just stabilize the rocket, it also steered it back to the takeoff point.
"4. Unicorns.
I mean, as long as I'm asking I might as well get it all out there."
There's an app for that:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/robot-unicorn-attack/id374791544?mt=8
As long as you don't mind your unicorns being of the robotic type.
Downmass = ability to bring mass through re-entry?
They have a capsule tech called Dragon that can hold 7 crew. They actually had a dummy Dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 launched today. I think the life support stuff is still a ways off, but they should be capable of launching crewed missions a few years into the future.
TFA clearly states it's not the right type of star to cause gamma rays upon explosion, so unless either our observations or our understanding are seriously flawed that should not be an issue.
How about beer produced with 45 MILLION year old yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae (aka brewer’s yeast)) cultivated from a piece of amber. I've tried it and it's damn good too: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/brewery/
The poster above you was making that point that "man" in man-hour DOESN'T refer to gender. Man in that context refers to human, as in our species.
I haven't read Valis, but I don't see Ubik as particularly film-able either. Guess people said that about "Watchmen" though, and other than the changed ending, I thought it did a good job capturing the book, minus some depth.
"A solar sail with some sort of laser/lens system in the solar system is also possible. Horribly inefficient and expensive given existing technology but I don't think it's theoretically impossible. This might give you something like 0.2c or more."
Yeah, but how do you stop?
If you read this, you'd quickly realize that ALL apps fall under at least one of the 7 categories, namely ALL apps could potentially take advantage of "Fast App Switching". If it looks like multi-tasking, and your apps don't need to do anything in the background, then what's the difference?
Those apps will get terrible ratings and very few sales. I've seen this happen many times on the app store already, the consumer still has some control, they aren't FORCED to buy every app.
I'd estimate I see somewhere near that already. A lot of apps have used them relatively unobtrusively, for instance on their menu or loading screens. iAd at least doesn't boot you from you app if you touch an add accidentally.
The home solutions already exist, they are already in many apps I have used (I've seen many ad-mod banners in fact). I bet 40% is similar to what companies like ad-mod take, plus Apple provides you API's to easily add the functionality to you app. Plus the ads don't kick you out of your application if you click on them. It's not any worse than the current solutions and in some ways it's better. iAd is only bad if it ends up encouraging a huge number of apps that didn't intend to have ads to include them just because it's easy and they might make a few extra bucks.
Have you actually used an iPad? I have a Asus Eee 901, and I can tell you that web pages seem to load much faster on the iPad and that once they are loaded the look better and scroll smoother. My netbook can't really handle 90% of the flash out there and neither have other netbooks I've tried, so I the "doesn't play flash" argument really doesn't hold up unless you compare the iPad to a desktop or more powerful (and usually larger) notebook.
My netbook is quite awkward for all the places I really want to use it, on the coach, in bed, on the pooper, and on the train in the morning, while the iPad is not (ok any computing device is a bit awkward on the pooper, but hey as long as you wash your hand before you touch it again....). If you actually saw the iPad in person you'd realize that the screen pretty much dominates the quality of any netbook screen, plus it's much lighter than any netbook with a 10hr battery life (you need at least 6cells right?). Also the software stack on the iPad really is good, on the netbook you are stuck using desktop conventions on screen not designed for modern interface elements, with a tiny keyboard and often a cramped touchpad (granted some Eees, the 901 included have very nice touchpads).
My experience so far with the iPad is that it's a really nice device, and since I've been a desktop-netbook user I could easily move to desktop-iPad.