I am under the impression that the two largest costs of satellites are the initial development and getting them to LEO. Anything beyond that is a lot less. So it seems to me that a fleet of indentical medium sized satellites orbiting Mars would be a very, very cool thing
A surprising number of people are one issue voters: Taxes, Abortion, Prayer in School, Gas Prices, or even the price of leasing public lands. So the candidate who speaks the correct words (in many cases despite his record) wins their vote.
Many people support the status quo, they have decent lives and they strongly dislike change, they don't see the point of spending their money on things outside of their neighborhood (be it climate research, foreign aid, or whatever) and they do NOT want to rock the boat. These people tend to vote for the same party over and over despite the current realities.
Some people voted for GWB (the 1st administration) because Bill Clinton lied about having an affair. While I have met several of these types I have only met 1 who was willing to admit that lying to start a war was worse.
There is also a sizable group of faithful christians who are republicans because the republicans claim to be christians. Within this group there exists an inner core of people who are radical fundamentalists, who are dedicated to ideas of christian reconstruction (or variations of these ideas) and while being a relatively small minority consistently make the most noise.
Here is my "Fair Disclosure" I am not a republican or a democrat.
Honestly I read American politics with a sense of detachment these days as the country so disgusted me, I moved out of it. I am fairly active in local politics where I live now, and typically I support the Green party but I don't always vote on their side of the issues or for their candidates. I vote in all of the polls I am eligible for here and in the US. In addition I honestly believe that the US in dark times and it will get worse. Between the rise of christian fundamentalism and entrenched corporate plutocracy not only has the US become a less pleasant place to live, it has become the anvil to the hammer of Muslim fundamentalism. Unfortunately I don't see the Democrats having an effective alternative... and they need one, badly.
I've heard it all now, someone from England talking about the good weather there! The reason it is not that hot in England is that the sun's rays rarely penetrate the incessant cloud cover. It's hard to have a heat wave in the middle of horizontal rain! Sure it get warm in Texas... but it's a dry heat!;)
Next he's going start up on the good "Food" they have in England. Don't you realize that the reason that England had so many colonies was because they were trying to escape the weather and the food!
I guess I should admit now that I don't need AC where I live either and I will never, ever go to Texas in the summer.
I've got a dual G5 and a Cube right now. I've upgraded the cube to the new lower power freescale processor. And a few years from now I'll upgrade the PowerMac with whatever CPU module makes sense at the time... in short I'll put off switching to Intel for as long as practical. I don't approve of Intel's business practices so I'd rather not send any money their way.
Having said all that: the instant someone hacks the MacOS 10.N to work on the one X86 box I still have, I will be using it. If someone decides to offer a PPC workstation for a reasonable price I'd consider that over a MacTel workstation. But who knows, 2007 is long time away, particularly in the tech world. Apple could switch back to PPC, they could switch to AMD, or IBM could be offering a faster platform than Apple or Intel.
Things I know I won't be using: Longhorn, Intel Processors, Intel's upcoming DRM "east fork" fiasco, ANY DRM'd device which does not like my 30 inch cinema displays. Any Apple product which has onerous DRM tendencies... well actually ANY product from ANYONE which has onerous DRM tendencies.
Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil and with the use of a catalyst glycerine and methyl esters are produced and separated out. Biodiesel can be used in any compression ignition engine (which is why it's called what it is called) and typically comes in a mix of 20% Biodiesel 80% Dino-diesel.
Ethanol is the waste product from various yeasts which consume either sugars or cellulose, which is later distilled. Ethanol is more suited to spark ignition engines which I suppose why it gets the attention it does in the US. If memory serves gasohol is 5-10% ethanol. For what it's worth I use Biodiesel almost exclusively in my car.
When the majority of Americans do not speak up against the militant police state that America has become they give their tacit approval for it, despite the fact that they can be friendly, tolerant or kind.
Please understand I am not someone who has never lived in America, I have. Not am I someone who does not know Americans, dislikes them even hates them. Also I am not someone who covets the American way of life, I've been there, done it, and I have tee-shirt. If you compare the state of affairs where I live now, Austria, to the state of affairs in America today it is very clear that America is well on its way to becoming a police state(with fascist and theocratic tendencies). It is not a 'long turn' and it is not 'may', it is here and now. I have to tell you I was raised on a diet of how great America is and to see it change like this in my lifetime truly hurts, and I'm glad my father is not alive to see it.
My point is this: America is no longer the place it used to be 20 or so years ago and the voice of Americans to those who are not Americans is a hateful and condescending one. You are right it is an unfriendly statement and it's is a shame that Americans think I'm angry, or hateful but I'm just showing them the mirror.
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It's a great place to visit, except for the people that live there
You live on Biosphere 1, it's called "Earth".
I know that sounds crazy but that's usually where I wind up anyway
and after that capitalism must go with it!
Make it a diesel and 30% more effcient and call me in morning
I am under the impression that the two largest costs of satellites are the initial development and getting them to LEO. Anything beyond that is a lot less. So it seems to me that a fleet of indentical medium sized satellites orbiting Mars would be a very, very cool thing
If you don't go don't whine
The rippoff that is tech books is surpased only by school text books
I don't live in America or France
Cheers!
Sounds perfect... It also sounds like NetFlix, you should be paying 25 bucks a month.
I listen to about 1 to 1 1/2 hours daily... you just have to find some you like. And, in the words of the Beatles it's getting better all the time!
Screw the MP3 Players, I need one for my Canon 3050D DSLR!
Yep and the patent this thing is based on is nearly as old.
Well, it excludes NASA from the bathroom in my old dorm...
So, I wonder how different the OpenBSD stack is compared to FreeBSD or MacOS X...
Where is the Freescale MPC7448?
What in the hell have they been doing?
What took so long?
Oh for fucks sake! Macrumors has been warning you not to for longer than that!
Sadly it also presumes that you actually can get something into orbit.
A surprising number of people are one issue voters: Taxes, Abortion, Prayer in School, Gas Prices, or even the price of leasing public lands. So the candidate who speaks the correct words (in many cases despite his record) wins their vote.
Many people support the status quo, they have decent lives and they strongly dislike change, they don't see the point of spending their money on things outside of their neighborhood (be it climate research, foreign aid, or whatever) and they do NOT want to rock the boat. These people tend to vote for the same party over and over despite the current realities.
Some people voted for GWB (the 1st administration) because Bill Clinton lied about having an affair. While I have met several of these types I have only met 1 who was willing to admit that lying to start a war was worse.
There is also a sizable group of faithful christians who are republicans because the republicans claim to be christians. Within this group there exists an inner core of people who are radical fundamentalists, who are dedicated to ideas of christian reconstruction (or variations of these ideas) and while being a relatively small minority consistently make the most noise.
Here is my "Fair Disclosure" I am not a republican or a democrat.
Honestly I read American politics with a sense of detachment these days as the country so disgusted me, I moved out of it. I am fairly active in local politics where I live now, and typically I support the Green party but I don't always vote on their side of the issues or for their candidates. I vote in all of the polls I am eligible for here and in the US. In addition I honestly believe that the US in dark times and it will get worse. Between the rise of christian fundamentalism and entrenched corporate plutocracy not only has the US become a less pleasant place to live, it has become the anvil to the hammer of Muslim fundamentalism. Unfortunately I don't see the Democrats having an effective alternative... and they need one, badly.
Next he's going start up on the good "Food" they have in England. Don't you realize that the reason that England had so many colonies was because they were trying to escape the weather and the food!
I guess I should admit now that I don't need AC where I live either and I will never, ever go to Texas in the summer.
Having said all that: the instant someone hacks the MacOS 10.N to work on the one X86 box I still have, I will be using it. If someone decides to offer a PPC workstation for a reasonable price I'd consider that over a MacTel workstation. But who knows, 2007 is long time away, particularly in the tech world. Apple could switch back to PPC, they could switch to AMD, or IBM could be offering a faster platform than Apple or Intel.
Things I know I won't be using: Longhorn, Intel Processors, Intel's upcoming DRM "east fork" fiasco, ANY DRM'd device which does not like my 30 inch cinema displays. Any Apple product which has onerous DRM tendencies... well actually ANY product from ANYONE which has onerous DRM tendencies.
Ethanol is the waste product from various yeasts which consume either sugars or cellulose, which is later distilled. Ethanol is more suited to spark ignition engines which I suppose why it gets the attention it does in the US. If memory serves gasohol is 5-10% ethanol. For what it's worth I use Biodiesel almost exclusively in my car.
You should check this out then http://www.skytran.net/
This is slashdot, if you didn't occasionally show your ass, you wouldn't fit in.
This has got to be the best, most lucid, most interesting post on slashdot for at least 5 years.
I'm not all together sure it is possible to really become familiar with time cube... probably because I am educated stupid!
Please understand I am not someone who has never lived in America, I have. Not am I someone who does not know Americans, dislikes them even hates them. Also I am not someone who covets the American way of life, I've been there, done it, and I have tee-shirt. If you compare the state of affairs where I live now, Austria, to the state of affairs in America today it is very clear that America is well on its way to becoming a police state(with fascist and theocratic tendencies). It is not a 'long turn' and it is not 'may', it is here and now. I have to tell you I was raised on a diet of how great America is and to see it change like this in my lifetime truly hurts, and I'm glad my father is not alive to see it.
My point is this: America is no longer the place it used to be 20 or so years ago and the voice of Americans to those who are not Americans is a hateful and condescending one. You are right it is an unfriendly statement and it's is a shame that Americans think I'm angry, or hateful but I'm just showing them the mirror.