Pushing it out of orbit would be too expensive. The only two real options are to try to clump it all together and hopefully process it later, or push it into the atmosphere. The main problem with just chucking things down the gravity well is that you have to make sure you don't hit anything else with it! Think about international issues, insurance, etc if you end up throwing some space junk into someone else's satellite! Clumping it has issues too. Putting everything into a similar location increases the possibility of them hitting each other and creating more smaller bits flying around than you started with. Hm, I wonder how much satellite material is magnetic.:)
I don't know, it just all sounds a little weird. It imagine it's a technology test mission and all that, but I can't help but imagine their mission control rejoicing on a capture of some debris, when suddenly from the back of the room someone says "So, what do we do with the debris now that we have it?" The reply: "Why, we let it go again! We can grab and release stuff forever through the magic of solar power!"
There's no mention of fuel reserves to make some attempt to relocate object, repair them, etc. Just weird.
From the article: "It currently is impossible to detect Earthlike planets around other stars."
As I am not overly familiar with astronomy, why is this the case?
Because Earthlike planets are tiny in the Grand Scheme of Things(tm). We're talking about a "do you see that special grain of sand on that blinding welding torch which is 30 miles away" kind of tiny.
1) Unrented DVDs can be shipped to other regions where demand is greater. 2) For US movies shown in the UK (as an example), the rental company would be able to release the film before the theatrical release! Huge profits! 3) Certain countries might sell rental market DVDs at cheaper costs.
A) Complaints about redefining the second: Days, seconds minutes, etc are all based on SOLAR cycles. We aren't redefining them, Mars' rotation is! We use UTC as that standard time unit and UTC is well defined, but it isn't linked to solar cycles on Mars so it's useless to keep track of Martian days with.
B) Complaints about why: Read the article. The rover can only transmit at a time of day when the sun is up and Earth is in the sky. That is the same time of day on Mars every Martian day, but on Earth, due to the differences in rotation, shifts 39.5 minutes later each Earth day (no jokes please, you know what I mean). All NASA is saying is that mission controllers will need to do their jobs 39.5 minutes later each day because that's when the probe with be transmitting. It's not that hard to figure out! Yeesh.
Not saying evolution didnt happen, but someone explain how an organism like this bacterium could evolve due to "survival of the fittest?"
It's pretty simple really. This type of bacterium is decended from a line which figured out how to live on a new type of food that others could not. That's evolution at work. The fact that it "convert[s] 'uranium and other radionuclides dissolved in water to solid compounds that can be extracted'" is a nice side effect for us, but that has nothing to do with evolution.
Yes, I'm sure the person who asked the question "How do I get a Tivo cheap" is so interested in the concept for the DIY aspects. That's why they used "cheap" instead of asking "How do I make a Tivo to make me a better person", right? No, wait... Nice try though. You almost got me to get off my lazy ass and learn something for the good of mankind such as digital TV recording, but in the end my laziness won out so mankind is doomed. All of this studying of topics unrelated to television is such a waste, I know that now. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Now maybe people with something substantial to add to the discussion of homemade PVRs can post...
Dear PVR Zealot, The guy requested a way to make exactly a Tivo but without paying for it. The answer to that question is you can't without spending more in time and money than just buying one. He didn't ask how to make a cool hacky-thing that will spend a lot of time and money for something that isn't a Tivo. For instance, he would be well informed to know:
- The free listing data available might not be as accurate as Tivo's (perhaps it's better, he should check). - Does the homebrew PVR change channels for him? Did he even think of that? Is he going to be able to hack an infrared system up or rewire his cable box? - Does he have satellite TV? If so there are options that can be directly integrated into the system he already has.
Now, go play with your homebrew PVR, while the rest of us uninformed people actually watch TV convieniently, without spending any extra time or money to do so in a "cool" fashion.
Ok, perhaps if the company you are talking about owns the local number and the cell service, then yes, but that wouldn't be related to the new laws which are the topic of this article. That's just a limited service by one company.
The text on the top of this very page says (in simplified terms because apparently it's too complex as written) that as the probe orbits the sun (since it missed Mars), perhaps they can point it at sun a take a few readings. Nowhere does it say anything about heading off to the asteroid belt!
*sigh* That's not called a tax cut, that's called conservative economics (real conservative, not what we have now). Tax cuts refer to, well, cutting taxes not reforming spending!
Couple it with libertarianism and you get a smaller more efficient government. However, because smaller, more efficient governments do not hand out as much entitlements the people always vote for larger, bigger, more expensive government while at the same time bitching about high taxes. You gotta love the plebs.
Next thing you know someone will get the grand idea to hand out "Give me more for less!" signs when we are born to avoid long years of schooling children about how to demand "their cut" from the "government money", wholly unaware of whose money it actually used to be.
This would have been funny if the memo mentioned the next ice age instead of atmosphere thinning which somehow has changed gravity to cause orbital debris to fall, but somehow people still can breath.
Heck, my own mother, who is as non-tech-saavy as they come, is considering porting her home phone number to a wireless phone and just getting rid of the landline.
You can't do that! It only applies to switching carriers. If you move across the country, you can't keep your number, and you can't switch a landline to a cell phone either.
I have no idea why I should waste my time on the likes of you, but for just for the fun of it, lets go over a few things. First let's make sure you actually understand what we are talking about:
socialism n 1: a political theory advocating state ownership of industry 2: an economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn: socialist economy] [ant: capitalism]
Also, a market economy is generally, but I admit not always, the opposite of a socialist economy.
Second, let's look at your "examples" of thriving socialist economies (quotes from the CIA fact book):
- Sweden has achieved an enviable standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits... Privately owned firms account for about 90% of industrial output...
- Denmark: This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry
- The UK, a leading trading power and financial center, is one of the quartet of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs.
- Australia has a prosperous Western-style capitalist economy, with a per capita GDP on par with the four dominant West European economies. Rising output in the domestic economy has been offsetting the global slump, and business and consumer confidence remains robust. Australia's emphasis on reforms is another key factor behind the economy's strength.
- Canada: As an affluent, high-tech industrial society, Canada today closely resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and high living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban.
- Switzerland is a prosperous and stable modern market economy with low unemployment, a highly skilled labor force, and a per capita GDP larger than that of the big western European economies.
- Germany: Structural rigidities in the labor market - including strict regulations on laying off workers and the setting of wages on a national basis - have made unemployment a chronic problem... Corporate restructuring and growing capital markets are setting the foundations that could allow Germany to meet the long-term challenges of European economic integration and globalization, particularly if labor market rigidities are addressed.
- France is in the midst of transition, from a well-to-do modern economy that featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms. The Socialist-led government has partially or fully privatized many large companies, banks, and insurers... France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism... At the end of 2002 the government was focusing on the problems of the high cost of labor and labor market inflexibility resulting from the 35-hour workweek and restrictions on lay-offs. The government was also pushing for pension reforms and simplification of administrative procedures. The tax burden remains one of the highest in Europe.
So, let's review. Almost all the nations you listed are switching or have already switched from socialist economies to those more aligned with capitalism. I fail to see a single shining example listed that is propering due to socialist ideals. In fact, Germany and France appear to have significant problems due to socialist labor policies and are trying to do away with them (the same problem with unions in this country, which are also a bad idea in this day and age).
BTW, I love the grown-up comment. Your failure to provide even a single correct example to prove your point makes it all the more ironic. I fear I have wasted my time on a troll.
Some people think if you say it enough times, it might become true. They try it for Bush, and they try it for BSD and they fail with both. Seems like such a waste of time to me...
Yes, it is so unfair that one country would try to protect its interests and give itself an advantage. Instead, we should all share technology and promise not to hurt each other. The terrorists find it very unfair that we don't give them nuclear bombs for instance.
Looking at the incredible screenshot of Expocity for Metacity, I think to myself: how can anyone work with such a confusion of information in front of them?
You're not serious are you? You've missed the entire point of Expose. It is a method of searching for the window you want, you aren't supposed to work with the windows like that! Nice try.
PS: BTW, spreading all your documents out on the floor is a very common desktop metaphor for finding something, and Expose duplicates it nicely.
Controller/subordinate is just as offensive. Using controller regardless of the other term implies that someone is losing out on their free will. The problem with political correctness is you can never win. Anyone can come up with an excuse for anything to be offensive, which is why I find political correctness itself to be an offensive waste of energy. I'm pissed at myself for even responding.
I read that in completely the opposite meaning. It says incoming traffic is checked for safety. ISP A receives a packet from ISP B, so ISP A checks to make sure ISP B is a secure ISP and not a malicious group, known spammer/relay, etc. It doesn't sound like it deals with the user level at all.
Um, it doesn't really work like that. Small life forms will reproduce as fast as they possibly can for as long as the food source is viable. After that, the huge population starts to die off to a level that is more sustainable by the environment. This also means there is less "food" which, if the food was a contaminant, means it has been partially processed. However, no where do they "attempt to maintain their environment". That's just, well, silly. On top of that, are the bugs in question actually feeding on the contaminant or just on biological matter mixed into the pools? They might eat only non contaminants!
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Pushing it out of orbit would be too expensive. The only two real options are to try to clump it all together and hopefully process it later, or push it into the atmosphere. The main problem with just chucking things down the gravity well is that you have to make sure you don't hit anything else with it! Think about international issues, insurance, etc if you end up throwing some space junk into someone else's satellite! Clumping it has issues too. Putting everything into a similar location increases the possibility of them hitting each other and creating more smaller bits flying around than you started with. Hm, I wonder how much satellite material is magnetic. :)
I don't know, it just all sounds a little weird. It imagine it's a technology test mission and all that, but I can't help but imagine their mission control rejoicing on a capture of some debris, when suddenly from the back of the room someone says "So, what do we do with the debris now that we have it?" The reply: "Why, we let it go again! We can grab and release stuff forever through the magic of solar power!"
There's no mention of fuel reserves to make some attempt to relocate object, repair them, etc. Just weird.
From the article: "It currently is impossible to detect Earthlike planets around other stars."
As I am not overly familiar with astronomy, why is this the case?
Because Earthlike planets are tiny in the Grand Scheme of Things(tm). We're talking about a "do you see that special grain of sand on that blinding welding torch which is 30 miles away" kind of tiny.
I can think of several motives:
1) Unrented DVDs can be shipped to other regions where demand is greater.
2) For US movies shown in the UK (as an example), the rental company would be able to release the film before the theatrical release! Huge profits!
3) Certain countries might sell rental market DVDs at cheaper costs.
I took issue with that comment too, which doesn't help the credibility of the author.
BTW, it's nice to see that nearly everyone on slashdot is bitter today. Um, yay. Way to go community. bleh.
A) Complaints about redefining the second:
Days, seconds minutes, etc are all based on SOLAR cycles. We aren't redefining them, Mars' rotation is! We use UTC as that standard time unit and UTC is well defined, but it isn't linked to solar cycles on Mars so it's useless to keep track of Martian days with.
B) Complaints about why:
Read the article. The rover can only transmit at a time of day when the sun is up and Earth is in the sky. That is the same time of day on Mars every Martian day, but on Earth, due to the differences in rotation, shifts 39.5 minutes later each Earth day (no jokes please, you know what I mean). All NASA is saying is that mission controllers will need to do their jobs 39.5 minutes later each day because that's when the probe with be transmitting. It's not that hard to figure out! Yeesh.
Not saying evolution didnt happen, but someone explain how an organism like this bacterium could evolve due to "survival of the fittest?"
It's pretty simple really. This type of bacterium is decended from a line which figured out how to live on a new type of food that others could not. That's evolution at work. The fact that it "convert[s] 'uranium and other radionuclides dissolved in water to solid compounds that can be extracted'" is a nice side effect for us, but that has nothing to do with evolution.
Yes, I'm sure the person who asked the question "How do I get a Tivo cheap" is so interested in the concept for the DIY aspects. That's why they used "cheap" instead of asking "How do I make a Tivo to make me a better person", right? No, wait... Nice try though. You almost got me to get off my lazy ass and learn something for the good of mankind such as digital TV recording, but in the end my laziness won out so mankind is doomed. All of this studying of topics unrelated to television is such a waste, I know that now. Thanks for the enlightenment.
You mean, something like this? (first link I could find. I'm sure you can use Google to find more/better.)
Now maybe people with something substantial to add to the discussion of homemade PVRs can post...
Dear PVR Zealot,
The guy requested a way to make exactly a Tivo but without paying for it. The answer to that question is you can't without spending more in time and money than just buying one. He didn't ask how to make a cool hacky-thing that will spend a lot of time and money for something that isn't a Tivo. For instance, he would be well informed to know:
- The free listing data available might not be as accurate as Tivo's (perhaps it's better, he should check).
- Does the homebrew PVR change channels for him? Did he even think of that? Is he going to be able to hack an infrared system up or rewire his cable box?
- Does he have satellite TV? If so there are options that can be directly integrated into the system he already has.
Now, go play with your homebrew PVR, while the rest of us uninformed people actually watch TV convieniently, without spending any extra time or money to do so in a "cool" fashion.
Ok, perhaps if the company you are talking about owns the local number and the cell service, then yes, but that wouldn't be related to the new laws which are the topic of this article. That's just a limited service by one company.
I'd just buy a Tivo because it's easier.
The text on the top of this very page says (in simplified terms because apparently it's too complex as written) that as the probe orbits the sun (since it missed Mars), perhaps they can point it at sun a take a few readings. Nowhere does it say anything about heading off to the asteroid belt!
*sigh* That's not called a tax cut, that's called conservative economics (real conservative, not what we have now). Tax cuts refer to, well, cutting taxes not reforming spending!
Couple it with libertarianism and you get a smaller more efficient government. However, because smaller, more efficient governments do not hand out as much entitlements the people always vote for larger, bigger, more expensive government while at the same time bitching about high taxes. You gotta love the plebs.
Next thing you know someone will get the grand idea to hand out "Give me more for less!" signs when we are born to avoid long years of schooling children about how to demand "their cut" from the "government money", wholly unaware of whose money it actually used to be.
This would have been funny if the memo mentioned the next ice age instead of atmosphere thinning which somehow has changed gravity to cause orbital debris to fall, but somehow people still can breath.
Heck, my own mother, who is as non-tech-saavy as they come, is considering porting her home phone number to a wireless phone and just getting rid of the landline.
You can't do that! It only applies to switching carriers. If you move across the country, you can't keep your number, and you can't switch a landline to a cell phone either.
I have no idea why I should waste my time on the likes of you, but for just for the fun of it, lets go over a few things. First let's make sure you actually understand what we are talking about:
socialism n 1: a political theory advocating state ownership of industry 2: an economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn: socialist economy] [ant: capitalism]
Also, a market economy is generally, but I admit not always, the opposite of a socialist economy.
Second, let's look at your "examples" of thriving socialist economies (quotes from the CIA fact book):
- Sweden has achieved an enviable standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits... Privately owned firms account for about 90% of industrial output...
- Denmark: This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry
- The UK, a leading trading power and financial center, is one of the quartet of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs.
- Australia has a prosperous Western-style capitalist economy, with a per capita GDP on par with the four dominant West European economies. Rising output in the domestic economy has been offsetting the global slump, and business and consumer confidence remains robust. Australia's emphasis on reforms is another key factor behind the economy's strength.
- Canada: As an affluent, high-tech industrial society, Canada today closely resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and high living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban.
- Switzerland is a prosperous and stable modern market economy with low unemployment, a highly skilled labor force, and a per capita GDP larger than that of the big western European economies.
- Germany: Structural rigidities in the labor market - including strict regulations on laying off workers and the setting of wages on a national basis - have made unemployment a chronic problem... Corporate restructuring and growing capital markets are setting the foundations that could allow Germany to meet the long-term challenges of European economic integration and globalization, particularly if labor market rigidities are addressed.
- France is in the midst of transition, from a well-to-do modern economy that featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms. The Socialist-led government has partially or fully privatized many large companies, banks, and insurers... France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism... At the end of 2002 the government was focusing on the problems of the high cost of labor and labor market inflexibility resulting from the 35-hour workweek and restrictions on lay-offs. The government was also pushing for pension reforms and simplification of administrative procedures. The tax burden remains one of the highest in Europe.
So, let's review. Almost all the nations you listed are switching or have already switched from socialist economies to those more aligned with capitalism. I fail to see a single shining example listed that is propering due to socialist ideals. In fact, Germany and France appear to have significant problems due to socialist labor policies and are trying to do away with them (the same problem with unions in this country, which are also a bad idea in this day and age).
BTW, I love the grown-up comment. Your failure to provide even a single correct example to prove your point makes it all the more ironic. I fear I have wasted my time on a troll.
Some people think if you say it enough times, it might become true. They try it for Bush, and they try it for BSD and they fail with both. Seems like such a waste of time to me...
Yes, it is so unfair that one country would try to protect its interests and give itself an advantage. Instead, we should all share technology and promise not to hurt each other. The terrorists find it very unfair that we don't give them nuclear bombs for instance.
Oh, wait, that's right, socialism doesn't work. Nevermind.
The third inplication is that the chamber is a vacuum and the xenon is stored in a tank and expelled to generate thrust, as in actually the case.
Looking at the incredible screenshot of Expocity for Metacity, I think to myself: how can anyone work with such a confusion of information in front of them?
You're not serious are you? You've missed the entire point of Expose. It is a method of searching for the window you want, you aren't supposed to work with the windows like that! Nice try.
PS: BTW, spreading all your documents out on the floor is a very common desktop metaphor for finding something, and Expose duplicates it nicely.
Controller/subordinate is just as offensive. Using controller regardless of the other term implies that someone is losing out on their free will. The problem with political correctness is you can never win. Anyone can come up with an excuse for anything to be offensive, which is why I find political correctness itself to be an offensive waste of energy. I'm pissed at myself for even responding.
I read that in completely the opposite meaning. It says incoming traffic is checked for safety. ISP A receives a packet from ISP B, so ISP A checks to make sure ISP B is a secure ISP and not a malicious group, known spammer/relay, etc. It doesn't sound like it deals with the user level at all.
Um, it doesn't really work like that. Small life forms will reproduce as fast as they possibly can for as long as the food source is viable. After that, the huge population starts to die off to a level that is more sustainable by the environment. This also means there is less "food" which, if the food was a contaminant, means it has been partially processed. However, no where do they "attempt to maintain their environment". That's just, well, silly. On top of that, are the bugs in question actually feeding on the contaminant or just on biological matter mixed into the pools? They might eat only non contaminants!
Yeah, these are the same reasons motorcycles just aren't selling well at all. Oh, wait... reality called.