And with a GPS card and some topographic maps... voila! A hiker's (or forester's, or geologist's, etc.) wet dream. Add some software to render the map in 3-D and do cross-sections and you would have one extremely useful product.
I found this sitewhere this guy claims that Boron would be a safer, more efficient, and friendlier fuel for transportation. He makes an interesting case... but IANAS. Ok, I got a BSc in Chemistry wayyyy back but I was a C student;-) Anyway worth looking at.
I agree Hydrogen's a safer fuel than gasoline, but all the same, a pressure vessel filled with 20 Kelvin liquid seated behind my arse doesn't tickle my fancy either. However, there are much safer ways to store Hydrogen. Metal hydride and carbon adsorption looks promising, asnd great strides are being made in fuel cell technologies. But the one I hope really succeeds is plain old Borax!
Not sure if you were serious, but, actually that would be a good idea for toll highways. Install an inductor on the underbody of the car, and lay power alog the centers of the lanes. Electric vehicles could recharge as they drave, and hybrids could shut off the engine.
And here I was thinking "This guy must be using Babelfish to write his posts"! Clever! People might just assume hes Japanese and give him the benefit of the doubt. With some work, he might just have a KarmaWhoreBot on his hands.
It's been reported that a major studio has optioned the rights to "Little Archie vs. Richie Rich". Other potential projects include: Garfield vs. Snoopy Dilbert vs. Drabble Star Wars vs. Star Trek Hello Kitty vs. Godzilla
...I have copies of the terrorists hand-book on my computer, I hate G.W.Bush (I even had 3 of my comments removed from slashdot for threatening the president...
Maybe, deep down you're just lonely and are craving attention. You know, the kind of down-home, loving attention only a personal visit from the Secret Service can bring...
They tend to take these things rather seriously. If you haven't already had a little chat in your living room with these fine gentlemen (or ladies, as the case may be), then you probably will. Do they read Slashdot? You bet your a$$ they do. And somewhere there's a folder now with your name on it.
You know what would be ironic? If a good size asteroid hit the Earth, enough to kill millions of people but not billions, say, and that explosion mistakenly triggered a Russian nuclear attack on the U.S., and then the U.S. responded...
Nope. Not gonna happen. Why? Two-Phase burst. Nuclear detonations have a characteristic visual signature: 1) Initial EM burst (Mostly hard gammas and X-Rays, but also visual) 2.) Air burned opaque by X-Rays, shockwave causes air compression and ignition.
An asteroid impact would lack this signature and not be registered by the satellites that watch for this type of event. As asteroid airbursts of kiloton and greater size occur with regular frequency, they would certainly know the difference.
Simplistic summary by non-Physics major. Feel free to poke holes in it.
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Seriously... doesn't this announcement come at a strange time, when IBM plans to phase out it's IDE hard drives in the short term...
Yup... I don't think IBM would've given up 40 years of technical leadership in hard-drive technology if it hadn't already seen the writing on the wall. In the short term, hard drives have become a commodity business and it's been harder and harder for IBM (and others) to squeeze a profit from the business. Long term, hard drives are a buggy-whip business - a technological dead-end. That's why IBM has poured so much money into basic research on quantum devices and molectronics.
EBay is successful because they have no warehouse, have no stock (merchandise), their customers pay for the shipping. So they have very low overhead and they get a cut on every transaction. Plus much of the sstuff you find on eBay you can't find at the corner store. As long as eBay is popular, they have a license to print money.
Amazon sells books and video. Any self-respecting town has at least one big-box bookmart like Borders (or Chapters/Indigo here up North). You pay good $$$ shipping cross-country what you can usually buy or special-order down the street. Useful for hard-to-find items, or for shipping gifts, but that's a niche category. They have high overhead and are in competition with local booksellers. Amazon is IMHO more in the pets.com category ("order pet food online! only $20 for shipping!") than in the eBay category.
IRAN? Hello? Who do you think is on the receieving end of this money? Ummm... An entrepreneur? A freewheeling capitalist with little regard for American Copyright law and the WTO?
Seriously, if you mean to say that Iranian citizen=Terrorist then either you are: A) A troll B) Extremely ignorant
The vast majority of Iranians are tired of this little Islamic Revolution and just want to get back to business. Since they've actually had to live with it for the last 20 years they tend to be much less militant than others in the Middle East. It's the government (and then, just the clerical half) that's militant.
"Bally's limits would still allow for plenty of planets out there, but it could also mean there are far fewer than some researchers have expected. 'Either planetary systems form very fast,' Bally said, 'or we will find planet development to be rare. Something like 5 percent of stars will have planets.'"
Well, the number of planets in our galaxy is 200-400 million by current estimates. 5 percent of 200 million gives us 10 million planetary systems as a floor figure. For our galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies. So don't get your panties in a bunch quite yet, folks.
I think 'coasting' is being too gracious. The dialogue is wooden, yes. The plot is poorly written, agreed. But the acting, is simply AWFUL. Anakin and Amidala had no chemistry going whatsoever, so the love interest is utterly unbelieveable. Anakin's portrayal of his gowing 'attitude problem' was ridiculous. He was acting like a spoiled child. The only character I could relate with was Jango Fett! That said, Yoda, ass he does certainly kick! And that pretty much made the movie for me. But honestly, George has obviously lost the plot in a big way, and nobody's told him yet (that he'll listen to).
OK, so I can't find any links specifically relating to the above story. But seriously, finding stories on how BSA screws over schools is (no pun intended) child's play.
I still think the ekranoplan is perfect for island hopping travel in the eastern Caribbean Sea islands.
'Cept for all the sailboats about. "Oops, sorry 'bout that,mon!" Seriously, though, WIGs use a lot of their fuel during lift-off and landing, so short-haul flights would tend to be extremely inefficient IMHO. The Soviets had the right idea - these things are tailor-made for heavy-lift assault, high-speed torpredo or missile craft, and naval patrol. I can see them used as civillian river transport, much like hydrofoils are used in East Asia, but I'd be nervous about setting them loose in the crowded waters of the caribbean.
Forget Orlynoks... I want a LUN! I can't believe the Russian left that thing to rot in a Volga shipyard, it would've made the world's navies pretty much obsolete.
Actually IGS tends to be vendor-agnostic: They'll happily support HP and Sun boxen as well as IBM. Same goes for software. That's why customers trust them; they know they aren't just an extension of IBM sales (tempting as that might be, that'd destroy their credibility).
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I can't wait til they merge the capabilities of GRACE into a more agile robot such as ASIMO.
And with a GPS card and some topographic maps... voila! A hiker's (or forester's, or geologist's, etc.) wet dream. Add some software to render the map in 3-D and do cross-sections and you would have one extremely useful product.
I found this sitewhere this guy claims that Boron would be a safer, more efficient, and friendlier fuel for transportation. He makes an interesting case... but IANAS. Ok, I got a BSc in Chemistry wayyyy back but I was a C student ;-) Anyway worth looking at.
I agree Hydrogen's a safer fuel than gasoline, but all the same, a pressure vessel filled with 20 Kelvin liquid seated behind my arse doesn't tickle my fancy either. However, there are much safer ways to store Hydrogen. Metal hydride and carbon adsorption looks promising, asnd great strides are being made in fuel cell technologies. But the one I hope really succeeds is plain old Borax!
Not sure if you were serious, but, actually that would be a good idea for toll highways. Install an inductor on the underbody of the car, and lay power alog the centers of the lanes. Electric vehicles could recharge as they drave, and hybrids could shut off the engine.
And here I was thinking "This guy must be using Babelfish to write his posts"! Clever! People might just assume hes Japanese and give him the benefit of the doubt. With some work, he might just have a KarmaWhoreBot on his hands.
It's been reported that a major studio has optioned the rights to "Little Archie vs. Richie Rich".
Other potential projects include:
Garfield vs. Snoopy
Dilbert vs. Drabble
Star Wars vs. Star Trek
Hello Kitty vs. Godzilla
...I have copies of the terrorists hand-book on my computer, I hate G.W.Bush (I even had 3 of my comments removed from slashdot for threatening the president...
Maybe, deep down you're just lonely and are craving attention. You know, the kind of down-home, loving attention only a personal visit from the Secret Service can bring...
They tend to take these things rather seriously. If you haven't already had a little chat in your living room with these fine gentlemen (or ladies, as the case may be), then you probably will. Do they read Slashdot? You bet your a$$ they do. And somewhere there's a folder now with your name on it.
You know what would be ironic? If a good size asteroid hit the Earth, enough to kill millions of people but not billions, say, and that explosion mistakenly triggered a Russian nuclear attack on the U.S., and then the U.S. responded...
Nope. Not gonna happen. Why? Two-Phase burst. Nuclear detonations have a characteristic visual signature:
1) Initial EM burst (Mostly hard gammas and X-Rays, but also visual)
2.) Air burned opaque by X-Rays, shockwave causes air compression and ignition.
An asteroid impact would lack this signature and
not be registered by the satellites that watch for this type of event. As asteroid airbursts of kiloton and greater size occur with regular frequency, they would certainly know the difference.
Simplistic summary by non-Physics major. Feel free to poke holes in it.
Seriously... doesn't this announcement come at a strange time, when IBM plans to phase out it's IDE hard drives in the short term...
Yup... I don't think IBM would've given up 40 years of technical leadership in hard-drive technology if it hadn't already seen the writing on the wall. In the short term, hard drives have become a commodity business and it's been harder and harder for IBM (and others) to squeeze a profit from the business. Long term, hard drives are a buggy-whip business - a technological dead-end. That's why IBM has poured so much money into basic research on quantum devices and molectronics.
EBay is successful because they have no warehouse, have no stock (merchandise), their customers pay for the shipping. So they have very low overhead and they get a cut on every transaction. Plus much of the sstuff you find on eBay you can't find at the corner store. As long as eBay is popular, they have a license to print money.
Amazon sells books and video. Any self-respecting town has at least one big-box bookmart like Borders (or Chapters/Indigo here up North). You pay good $$$ shipping cross-country what you can usually buy or special-order down the street. Useful for hard-to-find items, or for shipping gifts, but that's a niche category. They have high overhead and are in competition with local booksellers. Amazon is IMHO more in the pets.com category ("order pet food online! only $20 for shipping!") than in the eBay category.
That's just mean! Poor thing...
"I see dead business models"?
IRAN? Hello? Who do you think is on the receieving end of this money?
Ummm... An entrepreneur? A freewheeling capitalist with little regard for American Copyright law and the WTO?
Seriously, if you mean to say that Iranian citizen=Terrorist then either you are:
A) A troll
B) Extremely ignorant
The vast majority of Iranians are tired of this little Islamic Revolution and just want to get back to business. Since they've actually had to live with it for the last 20 years they tend to be much less militant than others in the Middle East. It's the government (and then, just the clerical half) that's militant.
"Bally's limits would still allow for plenty of planets out there, but it could also mean there are far fewer than some researchers have expected. 'Either planetary systems form very fast,' Bally said, 'or we will find planet development to be rare. Something like 5 percent of stars will have planets.'"
Well, the number of planets in our galaxy is 200-400 million by current estimates.
5 percent of 200 million gives us 10 million planetary systems as a floor figure. For our galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies. So don't get your panties in a bunch quite yet, folks.
I think 'coasting' is being too gracious. The dialogue is wooden, yes. The plot is poorly written, agreed. But the acting, is simply AWFUL. Anakin and Amidala had no chemistry going whatsoever, so the love interest is utterly unbelieveable. Anakin's portrayal of his gowing 'attitude problem' was ridiculous. He was acting like a spoiled child. The only character I could relate with was Jango Fett! That said, Yoda, ass he does certainly kick! And that pretty much made the movie for me. But honestly, George has obviously lost the plot in a big way, and nobody's told him yet (that he'll listen to).
"... and absolute power is actually pretty neat."
Spoken by an anonymous Clinton staffer
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?Arti cleID=2828 o soft_school/index2.html n sing/BSALetter.doc (Sorry, I know, MS Word)
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/micr
http://www.microsoft.com/education/downloads/lice
OK, so I can't find any links specifically relating to the above story. But seriously, finding stories on how BSA screws over schools is (no pun intended) child's play.
Best Troll Ever.
I still think the ekranoplan is perfect for island hopping travel in the eastern Caribbean Sea islands.
'Cept for all the sailboats about. "Oops, sorry 'bout that,mon!"
Seriously, though, WIGs use a lot of their fuel during lift-off and landing, so short-haul flights would tend to be extremely inefficient IMHO. The Soviets had the right idea - these things are tailor-made for heavy-lift assault, high-speed torpredo or missile craft, and naval patrol. I can see them used as civillian river transport, much like hydrofoils are used in East Asia, but I'd be nervous about setting them loose in the crowded waters of the caribbean.
Forget Orlynoks... I want a LUN! I can't believe the Russian left that thing to rot in a Volga shipyard, it would've made the world's navies pretty much obsolete.
I hope you're joking. If not, then thanks for increasing our costs, buddy!
Zellers, right?
Has anyone ever thought to try and get a Grand Jury investigation against the BSA under the RICO statute?
Actually IGS tends to be vendor-agnostic: They'll happily support HP and Sun boxen as well as IBM. Same goes for software. That's why customers trust them; they know they aren't just an extension of IBM sales (tempting as that might be, that'd destroy their credibility).
(Yes, I work for IBM. Just not for IGS).