You obviously don't work at the management/executive level. These jobs started out sourcing years and years ago. It is quite desirable for the management and executives of large corporations to be world savvy and experienced.
Sure, Farscape was ok. I'm sure I saw at least 20% of the episodes in a haphazard fashion.
But Firefly. I did not miss a one. So of course it did not make it out of its first season.
At least I can now preorder (due out Dec 9) the entire season from Amazon for $34. Plus extras!
# DVD Features:
* Commentary on Serenity Part 1 & 2, The Train Job, Shindig, Out of Gas, War Stories, Objects in Space, and The Message
* Deleted scenes from Serenity, Our Mrs. Reynolds, Objects in Space
* Featurettes: "Here's How How It Was" (making of), "Serenity: The Tenth Character," "Joss' Tour of the Set"
* Alan Tudyk's audition
* Gag reel
* Joss sings the Firefly theme
* Easter egg: Adam Baldwin sings "Hero of Canton"
* Full-screen format
* Number of discs: 4
This is good news all around. The more military power the USA has, and effective ways to deliver it, the more secure the world becomes.
Already mentioned is the use of a titanium rod as a payload. Kinetic weapons have the possibility to deliver effective yields greater than any of our current chemical devices.
This will also push the development of a real replacement for that space pig the shuttle as well as hypersonic passenger planes. The military will blow up as many prototypes as necessary to make it work. They're not as sensitive to adverse publicity as the camera hogs at NASA.
True, one must take everything one reads (why yes, even on the net) with a grain of salt and judge based on cross verification and one's on experience.
But even if some of the points are strained... there is some truth in most of them.
As for nothing better... here's an article from a genealogist, that is a few years old, pointing out that there were already better algorithms on the market.
There are only a few reasons to go to the Moon that I can see.
1. Scientific. These are pretty weak. Some nice radio and optical telescopes could be set up on the dark side. However, the next Space Telescope will be placed at Lagrange Point 2. That's pretty clean from Earthly interference and cheaper than the Moon. Exploration? Really, what are we going to find that will be useful that can not be done robotically?
2. Commercial. The solar cell idea is just stupid. Stick with Nuclear here on earth. Cheap, clean, and practically infinite. Maybe, someday, fusion will displace it. If so, H3 mining might be a winner for being on the Moon. I'm sure that will drive the Moon environmentalists up a tree. (hee hee). I can just see the protestors and signs now, "Stop Strip Mining the Moon! It's destroying the view from the earth for Spotted Owls." If we could ever make the per pound (screw you metric guys) cost to high orbit cheap enough... vacations would be a good reason to put up a colony. Just look at Vegas and Cancun. There's some serious scratch.
3. Political. That's why we (the US) went the first time. That's what the Chinese are up too. The US may have to do it just to keep the Chinese from being the only ones there. National pride can be an odd thing.
But the biggest political reason will be to get the fuck off Earth. That may be a while. Or a well funded cult may be the first to go. Too bad the Hal Bop guys are gone. It's easier to catch a lift on a Comet from the low gee of the Moon.
1. A severe earthquake in November 1999 followed by a tsunami, caused extensive damage to the northern island of Pentecote and left thousands homeless. Another powerful earthquake in January 2002 caused extensive damage in the capital, Port-Vila, and surrounding areas, and also was followed by a tsunami.
2. Population 65 years and over: 3.3%. Health care issues in the middle of the Pacific? Yes!
Among other things they mention that diamond's charge carrier mobility is three times better.
Diamond transistors could in theory deliver one watt of power at 100 gigahertz, or billion cycles per second, said Isberg. This is five times faster has been achieved using the semiconductor Gallium Arsenide.
Diamond-based electronics would also be better than existing semiconductor materials for high-temperature applications, said Isberg. Diamond conducts heat 15 times more efficiently than silicon, and therefore cools faster.
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A word of advice... Don't label the pirated software your "family" sells.
You will get caught.
Good God man, this will never work!
After 63,000 miles of listening to elevator music, everyone will be insane!
You obviously don't work at the management/executive level. These jobs started out sourcing years and years ago. It is quite desirable for the management and executives of large corporations to be world savvy and experienced.
Sure, Farscape was ok. I'm sure I saw at least 20% of the episodes in a haphazard fashion.
But Firefly. I did not miss a one. So of course it did not make it out of its first season.
At least I can now preorder (due out Dec 9) the entire season from Amazon for $34. Plus extras!
# DVD Features:
* Commentary on Serenity Part 1 & 2, The Train Job, Shindig, Out of Gas, War Stories, Objects in Space, and The Message
* Deleted scenes from Serenity, Our Mrs. Reynolds, Objects in Space
* Featurettes: "Here's How How It Was" (making of), "Serenity: The Tenth Character," "Joss' Tour of the Set"
* Alan Tudyk's audition
* Gag reel
* Joss sings the Firefly theme
* Easter egg: Adam Baldwin sings "Hero of Canton"
* Full-screen format
* Number of discs: 4
Save it to film.
Which is why we need more capacity in production as well as transmission.
Those that are against this (enviro-nuts, nimbys) will be the death of us all.
Less "You can't disprove all the irrational arbitrary assertions of fantasy danger that I make so you can't do it."
More reason, science, transmission lines, and nuclear power plants.
All of life is about risk. None of us get out alive. I hate to break it to you but there is no life after death either.
So stop letting stupid fearful people make the rest of us suffer. Let's enjoy life with plentiful power, wonder drugs, air conditioning, and cable.
Who the hell is that?
For the Greeks, Deus Ex Machina always worked.
For us, the damn thing is broken, and Moriarty is about to leave the holodeck.
Now crime can be preventented before it happens.
Thanks for the Duck Tape Uncle Sam!
Already mentioned is the use of a titanium rod as a payload. Kinetic weapons have the possibility to deliver effective yields greater than any of our current chemical devices.
This will also push the development of a real replacement for that space pig the shuttle as well as hypersonic passenger planes. The military will blow up as many prototypes as necessary to make it work. They're not as sensitive to adverse publicity as the camera hogs at NASA.
Maybe we'll get that moon colony after all!
True, one must take everything one reads (why yes, even on the net) with a grain of salt and judge based on cross verification and one's on experience.
But even if some of the points are strained... there is some truth in most of them.
As for nothing better... here's an article from a genealogist, that is a few years old, pointing out that there were already better algorithms on the market.
Here's a good run down on soundex and ten problems with it.
When can I get one of these as an add-on for my copy of America's Army?
Maybe they can give them away for free to kids to get an early start on training.
Heinlein would be proud.
There are only a few reasons to go to the Moon that I can see.
1. Scientific. These are pretty weak. Some nice radio and optical telescopes could be set up on the dark side. However, the next Space Telescope will be placed at Lagrange Point 2. That's pretty clean from Earthly interference and cheaper than the Moon. Exploration? Really, what are we going to find that will be useful that can not be done robotically?
2. Commercial. The solar cell idea is just stupid. Stick with Nuclear here on earth. Cheap, clean, and practically infinite. Maybe, someday, fusion will displace it. If so, H3 mining might be a winner for being on the Moon. I'm sure that will drive the Moon environmentalists up a tree. (hee hee). I can just see the protestors and signs now, "Stop Strip Mining the Moon! It's destroying the view from the earth for Spotted Owls." If we could ever make the per pound (screw you metric guys) cost to high orbit cheap enough... vacations would be a good reason to put up a colony. Just look at Vegas and Cancun. There's some serious scratch.
3. Political. That's why we (the US) went the first time. That's what the Chinese are up too. The US may have to do it just to keep the Chinese from being the only ones there. National pride can be an odd thing.
But the biggest political reason will be to get the fuck off Earth. That may be a while. Or a well funded cult may be the first to go. Too bad the Hal Bop guys are gone. It's easier to catch a lift on a Comet from the low gee of the Moon.
I use this Mail Toaster for FreeBSD.
Gold, it's a lot harder to conterfiet. And when you do, it's radioactive.
I'm holding out for the version driven by Massive.
And let's not forget the ASCII Babes.
I still prefer old school. ASCII as Art.
The Female Form
Cinema
Reasons not to retire there:
1. A severe earthquake in November 1999 followed by a tsunami, caused extensive damage to the northern island of Pentecote and left thousands homeless. Another powerful earthquake in January 2002 caused extensive damage in the capital, Port-Vila, and surrounding areas, and also was followed by a tsunami.
2. Population 65 years and over: 3.3%. Health care issues in the middle of the Pacific? Yes!
I've been following the Moller SkyCar for years. Like most vaporware it seems to always be just about to ship.
I think my feelings are best summed up by Fox Mulder, "I want to believe!"
The most stunning thing I learned reading this article is that you now have to pay to watch CNN video clips.
What are they thinking?
Here are some US Government produced specifications for making a geiger counter from materials found around the house.
The idea of using diamond as a semiconductor has been kicking around for years with quite a bit of research being done world wide.
Technology Research News has an article published in September that discusses this.
Among other things they mention that diamond's charge carrier mobility is three times better.
Diamond transistors could in theory deliver one watt of power at 100 gigahertz, or billion cycles per second, said Isberg. This is five times faster has been achieved using the semiconductor Gallium Arsenide.
Diamond-based electronics would also be better than existing semiconductor materials for high-temperature applications, said Isberg. Diamond conducts heat 15 times more efficiently than silicon, and therefore cools faster.
etc. etc.