Actually that is far from true. UTC is about as diversified a company as you can find. While known as and still probably slightly tilted in the aerospace/defense side they include such heavy weights as Otis Elevator and Carrier. I think carrier at this point is on par if not greater than even Pratt revenue wise. In fact, if you look over the last 5 years their industrial companies are far outpacing the aero side in annual growth. A good reason why their stock is a pretty good bet, especially in times like these. Sure they won't pull a google, but if you are looking for an almost guaranteed 10%-15% over any given 5 years they are a pretty good bet.
Indeed, helicopters provide counter revolution in many ways. All of which don't rely on an atmosphere to work. In the end its all just angular velocity you need to counter, and you certainly could do it on a rover. The point of bringing up a helicopter is simply that if its been solved for an extremely complex system like that, then the moon in comparison is pretty simplistic. It can all be figured out using freshman physics.
Anchors are only heavy because they need to travel 'far' in a decent amount of time. The weight isn't there to help stop the boat, it's there to get to the bottom before you drift away from where you want to be. Far being relative to the distance a rover sits from the ground. I can drive some 6" plastic spikes into the ground for a 10'x10' canopy that will resist a 50mph wind blowing it away. That's a hell of a lot more resistence than my weight would provide.
Of course it's not this simple, however it's closer to simple than it is some colosal achievment.
Here ya go: http://www.hssensorsystems.com/hsc/proddesc_display/0,10401,CLI1_DIV25_ETI5338_PRD736,00.html
This is actually for the shuttle, the ISS uses the Russian shitter. We do however make the EMU, water processor which is used on the what goes into the toilet, ogygen generator which takes said water and produces oxygen and other environmental systems. The water is actually drinkable, but for the most part the still drink what's brought up to them.
at ~$250k a rad6000 flight board it's still a bit hard for your DIYer. I guess we could collect a few more coke bottles for deposit. If you take out the cost of the launch vehicle, and the cost of trying to ensure that people don't die because you messed something silly up it's all really pretty doable. In the end it is all just pumps, tubing, heat exchangers, motors, shrink tubing, etc. Picture the inside of a Russian sub in K-19 and you basically have it:)
The point was simply that the article makes this sound like it's some monumental feat to overcome. It simply isn't. It's been solved many times in many different scenarios. A reduced gravity does not affect the physics of negating angular velocity. Sorry, i'm long past the point where the potential to grow a crystal in space excites me. And this isn't exactly the kind of problem that makes me marvel either.
Getting there is a marvel, landing is a marvel. I'll even give them the fact that they can drive this thing around and into a crater as one. Drilling without spinning around in circles doesn't exactly launch my rocket.
I kind of like your last soution. It's pretty much the anchor technique, let its own force wedge something in until it stops. If you think about it, within an hour or so several viable ideas have come up. Perfected or proven no, but plausible. Hardly makes this seem over complex.
And for the record, I actually work on both the ISS and about to start on the Orion program. I know plenty of how NASA works and quite a bit of the hardware. Nothing magical about any of it. For the most part it's all motors and actuators and pumps and heaters, etc, just like on Earth.
The moon has one-sixth the gravity of Earth, so a lightweight rover will have a difficult job resisting drilling forces and remaining stable.
I really tire of all the sensationlism that needs to be tied to everything. Give me a break. This problem has been solved so many times it's not even funnny. How many helicopters which essentially have 0 gravitational force to keep them straight do you see spinning out of control? And that's a complex solution. I think ships anchors are a pretty old tech that's been around a while. How about firing a few pilons into the ground for anchorage. A group of 5th graders can solve this.
My guess is that instead of current hybrids recapturing energy to charge batteries they would be recaptured to produce hydrogen. At some point you still run out of hydrogen before you run out of water, but at least you refill a little less often. The big advantage of doing it this way is that you simply plug your car in and make sure it has water in it and overnight it fills its own hydrogen tank from power from the grid. For most people you'd always have a full tank each morning.
http://www.fresh2.com/
I actually have some of these as they were on sale at one of those sites that sells only CFLs and after rebate, etc, they were down to a price I thought was worth a try. In doing some research on whether to try them or not I did stumble upon one Japaneese study that basically took common smelling gases and stuck them in a contained area with one of these bulbs in them. Supposedly they did break down the gases into non ordorous compounds. The price was close enough that I gave them a shot. I placed two of them in the den which also houses the dog crates. I don't know if they work or not. It seems like they do but this is the sort of thing that is rather hard to say unless in a real test environment. Thinking on it, being winter and the house all closed in, I'd be inclined to purchase them again.
At some point it and the refridgerator are going to want to be connected to the internet. In all seriousness, between computers and game consoles and directv receivers I have 6+ things that can utilize the internet. And that number is only going to go up.
Well thats actually good to know, but I still maintain that PS is probably one of the more pirated titles. I think the install ratio far exceeds 2:1, both from CDs making the rounds and pirated downloads.
So here's some irony. Many on here would argue that the piracy of photoshop does not hurt Adobe because it wouldn't be bought anyway. However, it is hurting Gimp by reducing the number of users looking for something free.
And yes, I do think that photoshop piracy is a HUGE. As mentioned, hardly anyone would shell over $600 bucks for casual use. I bet it's pretty high on the piracy list, especially for those people who normally don't pirate but are willing to take that PS cd home from work and install it on their home computer.
What he means is to confuse people into thinking that the product does something that it doesn't, without lying. The write up is clearly meant for people to fall into the trap that many people did, thinking that this thing is a 40 watt lamp replacement that runs for 4 hours. The wording is very deliberate. It's there to generate buzz for something that isn't really worthy of it in hopes to grab some venture capitol.
For anything of length, this would actually be bad. You would quickly fill up your buffer, fooling the player into thinking it can sustain a rate that it can't. The result, 30 seconds into the movie you start clunking along. Reliable streaming depends on a constistent rate.
Because other people are making money off their work. First off, the idea that music is some sort of physical product is wrong. Music is a service. By listening, or using as things like a soundtrack, you are using their service. They expect to be paid for that service. How and what is charged is entirely up to the provider.
Should the Beatles (or michael jackson?) not have been paid by Nike for using their song as the foundation of a huge add campaign that may have generated millions of dollars? Should the stones not receive a dime for having their song as the title for CSI? Or how about all the artists whose songs were used in guitar hero, or American Idol? It's Ok for other people to get rich in part by your work?
Everyone focuses on the physical media being the product. But it isn't. The real product is the service which 'entertains' or has marketing ability. Nothing to do with when it was made. All that matters is it's current value to the market.
Yes, they are public record. How much do you think it would cost you to go to each municipality, get their data, then analyze and combine it into a usable form? Probably around $167k:)
Speaking from experience, this is actually a very complicated problem because tax zones don't map into a simple state -> county -> city -> zip. You can have cities and zips that are in multiple counties and all sorts of other funky combinations. While address works 99% of the time, you really have to define the tax zones by their long/lat coordinates because they can be that bizaar. There are companies out there that offer software to do this, and it's their business. The state just wants to get their cut. I don't see it as a big deal. This isn't exactly something that joe public cares about, but joe company does. No harm in charging joe company in my book. It's part of doing business.
By high quality they are talking about copies of the entire product, box and all. Give joe schmoe a real boxed copy of winxp and a pirated boxed copy and they wouldn't know the difference, assuming they don't notice the mispelled word here or there. This is what they are talking about. Not your torrents. I'm sure just about everyone here has gone to a computer show and seen table after table of super cheap CDs that look legit, until you look really close. In this case MS is talking about the business of pirating for profit, not the individual looking to share what they have.
Eh? A bit like the fox watching the hen house. Scientists should be the last ones deciding ethics. Society as a whole decides such things. Scientists don't like to be unemployed, and they are no more ethical than anyone else. Hard lines become not so hard when you are begging for funding.
Circa 1974. It had the best periph ever. A pump action shotgun. Long after the Odyssey keeled over we still played guns with the shotgun. It was totally realistic, at least to a 7 year old. At least it wasn't painted bright orange.
And who can forget the awesome color and graphics you used to make by static sticking plastic overlays onto your TV. Good times for all.
The corporate environment does not care about the latest and greatest uber new technology. They care about stability. Most corporations are well behind the curve with this sort of thing. We have only just now started to even think about upgrading from IE6 to IE7 and it will take a year to actually pull the plug.
There are dozens of older web applications that range from time card to ERP that are purchased applications and were tailored for IE4/5/6. The main purpose of the web browser is for the internal corporate lan, not the web. Sure FF may properly render strictly compliant pages better than IE, but guess what, these pages were created with IE in mind 5 years ago. They are purchased apps and supporting FF would be a nightmare for the help desks.
Actually, this isn't even about IE vs FF, it's about how often do you upgrade an application that is as heavily and diversly used as a web browser. In fact, the main reason we are still using IE6 here because IE7 doesn't run our current ERP systems web front end.
Now before you bitch about how crappy IE7 is, the reason it doesn't run it is because this application has JS in it that actually has '-' in it's function names! I don't know if this is actually OK in the JS spec, or if older browsers (current FF also) are lenient, but what crazy person would do such a thing? Anyway, works in IE6, works in FF even(though the corporate time card application doesnt), but doesn't in IE7 so fat chance of upgrading anytime soon.
I think much more frequent is the case where store employees are buying wiis before they ever reach the floor and selling them either on ebay or other places. I know of at least one person who does this. They buy them for their discounted value and then sell it for a $100 msrp markup. I really don't know why Games...errr...said company doesn't put a stop to it. They are losing a lot of money by letting them go at employee discount. I'm sure these places have rules to try to stop this, but they obviously aren't enforced or the people who have the ability to cover turn the other cheek are part of it (ie store managers don't stop it, and for whatever reason the regional/corporate isn't looking close enough at the numbers).
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Sure, but this is way too much of a honeypot to even think you could get away with any shinangans. Ask Martha how well things worked out for her.
I thought this was interesting. http://utc.com/press/releases/2008-03-02.htm
George David is elected President. Homeland Security raids GE.
Actually that is far from true. UTC is about as diversified a company as you can find. While known as and still probably slightly tilted in the aerospace/defense side they include such heavy weights as Otis Elevator and Carrier. I think carrier at this point is on par if not greater than even Pratt revenue wise. In fact, if you look over the last 5 years their industrial companies are far outpacing the aero side in annual growth. A good reason why their stock is a pretty good bet, especially in times like these. Sure they won't pull a google, but if you are looking for an almost guaranteed 10%-15% over any given 5 years they are a pretty good bet.
Indeed, helicopters provide counter revolution in many ways. All of which don't rely on an atmosphere to work. In the end its all just angular velocity you need to counter, and you certainly could do it on a rover. The point of bringing up a helicopter is simply that if its been solved for an extremely complex system like that, then the moon in comparison is pretty simplistic. It can all be figured out using freshman physics.
Anchors are only heavy because they need to travel 'far' in a decent amount of time. The weight isn't there to help stop the boat, it's there to get to the bottom before you drift away from where you want to be. Far being relative to the distance a rover sits from the ground. I can drive some 6" plastic spikes into the ground for a 10'x10' canopy that will resist a 50mph wind blowing it away. That's a hell of a lot more resistence than my weight would provide.
Of course it's not this simple, however it's closer to simple than it is some colosal achievment.
Depends on the size of the group. Though I have to admit it is a long time to hear 'are we there yet'.
Here ya go: http://www.hssensorsystems.com/hsc/proddesc_display/0,10401,CLI1_DIV25_ETI5338_PRD736,00.html This is actually for the shuttle, the ISS uses the Russian shitter. We do however make the EMU, water processor which is used on the what goes into the toilet, ogygen generator which takes said water and produces oxygen and other environmental systems. The water is actually drinkable, but for the most part the still drink what's brought up to them.
at ~$250k a rad6000 flight board it's still a bit hard for your DIYer. I guess we could collect a few more coke bottles for deposit. If you take out the cost of the launch vehicle, and the cost of trying to ensure that people don't die because you messed something silly up it's all really pretty doable. In the end it is all just pumps, tubing, heat exchangers, motors, shrink tubing, etc. Picture the inside of a Russian sub in K-19 and you basically have it :)
The point was simply that the article makes this sound like it's some monumental feat to overcome. It simply isn't. It's been solved many times in many different scenarios. A reduced gravity does not affect the physics of negating angular velocity. Sorry, i'm long past the point where the potential to grow a crystal in space excites me. And this isn't exactly the kind of problem that makes me marvel either.
Getting there is a marvel, landing is a marvel. I'll even give them the fact that they can drive this thing around and into a crater as one. Drilling without spinning around in circles doesn't exactly launch my rocket.
I kind of like your last soution. It's pretty much the anchor technique, let its own force wedge something in until it stops. If you think about it, within an hour or so several viable ideas have come up. Perfected or proven no, but plausible. Hardly makes this seem over complex.
And for the record, I actually work on both the ISS and about to start on the Orion program. I know plenty of how NASA works and quite a bit of the hardware. Nothing magical about any of it. For the most part it's all motors and actuators and pumps and heaters, etc, just like on Earth.
The moon has one-sixth the gravity of Earth, so a lightweight rover will have a difficult job resisting drilling forces and remaining stable.
I really tire of all the sensationlism that needs to be tied to everything. Give me a break. This problem has been solved so many times it's not even funnny. How many helicopters which essentially have 0 gravitational force to keep them straight do you see spinning out of control? And that's a complex solution. I think ships anchors are a pretty old tech that's been around a while. How about firing a few pilons into the ground for anchorage. A group of 5th graders can solve this.
My guess is that instead of current hybrids recapturing energy to charge batteries they would be recaptured to produce hydrogen. At some point you still run out of hydrogen before you run out of water, but at least you refill a little less often. The big advantage of doing it this way is that you simply plug your car in and make sure it has water in it and overnight it fills its own hydrogen tank from power from the grid. For most people you'd always have a full tank each morning.
still think it's all bs, but I like the idea.
http://www.fresh2.com/ I actually have some of these as they were on sale at one of those sites that sells only CFLs and after rebate, etc, they were down to a price I thought was worth a try. In doing some research on whether to try them or not I did stumble upon one Japaneese study that basically took common smelling gases and stuck them in a contained area with one of these bulbs in them. Supposedly they did break down the gases into non ordorous compounds. The price was close enough that I gave them a shot. I placed two of them in the den which also houses the dog crates. I don't know if they work or not. It seems like they do but this is the sort of thing that is rather hard to say unless in a real test environment. Thinking on it, being winter and the house all closed in, I'd be inclined to purchase them again.
At some point it and the refridgerator are going to want to be connected to the internet. In all seriousness, between computers and game consoles and directv receivers I have 6+ things that can utilize the internet. And that number is only going to go up.
Well, congrats on getting laid this morning. Tomorrow you'll be back to reality and see things as they are.
Well thats actually good to know, but I still maintain that PS is probably one of the more pirated titles. I think the install ratio far exceeds 2:1, both from CDs making the rounds and pirated downloads.
So here's some irony. Many on here would argue that the piracy of photoshop does not hurt Adobe because it wouldn't be bought anyway. However, it is hurting Gimp by reducing the number of users looking for something free.
And yes, I do think that photoshop piracy is a HUGE. As mentioned, hardly anyone would shell over $600 bucks for casual use. I bet it's pretty high on the piracy list, especially for those people who normally don't pirate but are willing to take that PS cd home from work and install it on their home computer.
What he means is to confuse people into thinking that the product does something that it doesn't, without lying. The write up is clearly meant for people to fall into the trap that many people did, thinking that this thing is a 40 watt lamp replacement that runs for 4 hours. The wording is very deliberate. It's there to generate buzz for something that isn't really worthy of it in hopes to grab some venture capitol.
For anything of length, this would actually be bad. You would quickly fill up your buffer, fooling the player into thinking it can sustain a rate that it can't. The result, 30 seconds into the movie you start clunking along. Reliable streaming depends on a constistent rate.
Because other people are making money off their work. First off, the idea that music is some sort of physical product is wrong. Music is a service. By listening, or using as things like a soundtrack, you are using their service. They expect to be paid for that service. How and what is charged is entirely up to the provider.
Should the Beatles (or michael jackson?) not have been paid by Nike for using their song as the foundation of a huge add campaign that may have generated millions of dollars? Should the stones not receive a dime for having their song as the title for CSI? Or how about all the artists whose songs were used in guitar hero, or American Idol? It's Ok for other people to get rich in part by your work?
Everyone focuses on the physical media being the product. But it isn't. The real product is the service which 'entertains' or has marketing ability. Nothing to do with when it was made. All that matters is it's current value to the market.
Yes, they are public record. How much do you think it would cost you to go to each municipality, get their data, then analyze and combine it into a usable form? Probably around $167k :)
Speaking from experience, this is actually a very complicated problem because tax zones don't map into a simple state -> county -> city -> zip. You can have cities and zips that are in multiple counties and all sorts of other funky combinations. While address works 99% of the time, you really have to define the tax zones by their long/lat coordinates because they can be that bizaar. There are companies out there that offer software to do this, and it's their business. The state just wants to get their cut. I don't see it as a big deal. This isn't exactly something that joe public cares about, but joe company does. No harm in charging joe company in my book. It's part of doing business.
By high quality they are talking about copies of the entire product, box and all. Give joe schmoe a real boxed copy of winxp and a pirated boxed copy and they wouldn't know the difference, assuming they don't notice the mispelled word here or there. This is what they are talking about. Not your torrents. I'm sure just about everyone here has gone to a computer show and seen table after table of super cheap CDs that look legit, until you look really close. In this case MS is talking about the business of pirating for profit, not the individual looking to share what they have.
Eh? A bit like the fox watching the hen house. Scientists should be the last ones deciding ethics. Society as a whole decides such things. Scientists don't like to be unemployed, and they are no more ethical than anyone else. Hard lines become not so hard when you are begging for funding.
Circa 1974. It had the best periph ever. A pump action shotgun. Long after the Odyssey keeled over we still played guns with the shotgun. It was totally realistic, at least to a 7 year old. At least it wasn't painted bright orange.
And who can forget the awesome color and graphics you used to make by static sticking plastic overlays onto your TV. Good times for all.
There are dozens of older web applications that range from time card to ERP that are purchased applications and were tailored for IE4/5/6. The main purpose of the web browser is for the internal corporate lan, not the web. Sure FF may properly render strictly compliant pages better than IE, but guess what, these pages were created with IE in mind 5 years ago. They are purchased apps and supporting FF would be a nightmare for the help desks.
Actually, this isn't even about IE vs FF, it's about how often do you upgrade an application that is as heavily and diversly used as a web browser. In fact, the main reason we are still using IE6 here because IE7 doesn't run our current ERP systems web front end.Now before you bitch about how crappy IE7 is, the reason it doesn't run it is because this application has JS in it that actually has '-' in it's function names! I don't know if this is actually OK in the JS spec, or if older browsers (current FF also) are lenient, but what crazy person would do such a thing? Anyway, works in IE6, works in FF even(though the corporate time card application doesnt), but doesn't in IE7 so fat chance of upgrading anytime soon.
And many people were bludgeoned with them once they started showing up in dorm rooms and people started playing Tetris at 3am.
I think much more frequent is the case where store employees are buying wiis before they ever reach the floor and selling them either on ebay or other places. I know of at least one person who does this. They buy them for their discounted value and then sell it for a $100 msrp markup. I really don't know why Games...errr...said company doesn't put a stop to it. They are losing a lot of money by letting them go at employee discount. I'm sure these places have rules to try to stop this, but they obviously aren't enforced or the people who have the ability to cover turn the other cheek are part of it (ie store managers don't stop it, and for whatever reason the regional/corporate isn't looking close enough at the numbers).