1) It's a testbed. The technology is new. Prices will fall if it's successful. If it weren't expensive to try, we'd be having this already. 2) They're in the tropics. Frequent rains will not only disturb solar collection, it will likely cause excessive required maintenance on the panels. 3) It's a frigging island. Construction-space is limited. Putting the solar array in orbit means you have *oodles* of space (no pun) for solar panels, many times greater than what you could get on any island. Also, no clouds, and no storms to interfere with your collection. Beaming it down should be done only when atmospheric conditions allow it, so that you won't get runaway beams melting people. This does mean they have to buffer the energy somehow, but that can be done. 4) Mobile power would be useful. Drive a few capacitor trucks and a receiver to a disaster site, and have the satelite beam power there when in favorable circumstances. No need for a fuel supply. Same goes for battlefields.
It's probably not the be-all and end-all of energy production, but it's a very good idea to test this out, mainly because of the potential. The amount of solar panels you can put up there without causing any interference on earth (ie, by blacking out a significant portion of desert climates), as well as the fact that a mobile power platform means you can burst-transmit power to any area that needs it in the event of a catastrophy. No landlines required.
Claiming that AIDS and HIV are unlinked is politicking, not science, just like claiming that humans are 'definitely' a cause of global warming, and that global warming is bad.
The CO2 content of the atmosphere does not cause the globe to heat up or cool down. Historically, CO2 levels and temperature correlate strongly. The problem is that CO2 levels peak about 800 years *after* temperature peaks, and only after a rise in temperature does the CO2 content of the atmosphere change.
Also, it is colder now, globally, than it was in the Medieval Warm Period, and there was no large-scale industrialization then (although there *was* a large leap forward for humankind). Likewise during about 3000 years in the Bronze Age, when humanity flourished and temperatures were higher still.
Got this from "The Great Global Warming Swindle", which is obviously biased. The UN panel on climate change correctly bashed that documentary on a few points, but the claims I repeat here they didn't touch. I wonder why? Maybe because they're actually correct?
I think that rocket scientists are notoriously bad at doing AIDS and cancer research. I think that, given a budget that *isn't* aimed at bankrupting your nation, it's possible to fund both to satisfying degrees of effectiveness. Therefore, you've created a false dichotomy, which is not a good argument.
Also, maybe we should figure out how to live on that giant red rock in the sky *before* things here slide down to unlivable levels.
Why? Two main reasons: - The NANP breaks the idea of "one nation, one country calling code". You can not easily tell, from a number, whether you're calling Puerto Rico (probably just +1787, but maybe they'll get a new range) or Montreal. - NANP has no provisions for determining whether a number is mobile or not; all numbers are geographically based. Most advanced countries *do* make the distinction.
Sounds a lot like First Person View: R/C aircraft with cameras patched into VR goggles (optionally with pan'n'tilt cameras controlled by motion sensor)
All prices in the Dutch Apple store, at least, include VAT. I consider import duties a non-issue (Apple doesn't build the devices in the US, and I'd be surprised if they get shipped from $CHEAP_COUNTRY via the US to Europe). Delivery is free of charge, same as US.
So all I'm left with is the international gouging. For example a Mac Mini 2GHz costs US$1142 in a European apple store.
As for the tacking on VAT at the register stuff... It's tough to notice an increase from 19% to 20% VAT in general products.
NBC had a chance to become not an American broadcasting company, but a global one, with the use of the Internet. But they decided to restrict their service to US-only.
Why the hell, NBC, do you think people download shows, rather than just TiVo them?!
Would it be too onerous for them to find sponsors in target countries that it's not worth the effort? It would devalue sales of series to foreign broadcasters, but not incredibly so for the forseeable future. Offer downloadable 720p and 480p XVids containing appropriate commercials, and offer them promptly, and you'd expand your audience significantly.
The weak dollar is no excuse. Take a look at (say) the Dutch Apple store and the US one. Prices are transferred directly, with the dollar-sign scratched out and a euro-sign stuck in.
Yes, that means we pay about 40% more than Americans... Fuck you all.:)
While ultimately the cause of failed formatting is me, it would be a fine convenience if Slashdot could upgrade its commenting system by six years or so. Maybe even eight years, so they can offer live previews, so that the bloody warning becomes redundant.
I keep having that feeling that I want to go to Japan at some point in my life, just for the weirdness of it.
I do not know Toshiba or Panasonic as cell phone makers. At all. I think I may have once heard of a Panasonic cell a long time ago. Part of this may be rebranding, but a lot of the phones just don't ever make it out of Japan.
If you want a feature laden phone here (Netherlands), Nokia is where it's at, and somehow I think they do poorly in Japan. I now have an N95, which is a fairly decent 5MP camera (with autofocus and a functional flash), built-in 3G networking, bluetooth, wifi, and GPS. How *does* Nokia do in Japan?
I was going to make some smart-ass comment about how they're not inferior at all, that's FUD, etc. But then you mentioned "in Japan".
I occasionally skim product releases there. It seems we get about 20% of all cool computing and phone products released there, if that. What's the deal?
Bad points: - It's got a 14.1" screen - It weighs 2.4kg ("System unit only". Does that mean without battery?)
From what I've found, the Eee PC 701 has a 7" screen and weighs under a kilogram, all inclusive. Normally you pay through the nose for that kind of size.
Yes, he has a lot of brains, and a lot of guts. And if he keeps flying homemade helicopters without regard for safety, these will be on display over a wide area soon enough.
Executing illegal orders deserves legal consequences, I agree. But these soldiers were under someone's command. Someone who gave them the order. The fact that this illegal order was carried out, meaning the soldiers in question should be charged, in no goddamned way exculpates those higher up in the command structure.
Try thinking of "just following orders" not as a way of escaping your own responsibility, but as a way of point out the greater breach of the responsibility placed in superior officers.
Five years and over counts as hard time in my book. I'd rather we reserve that for crimes against people, and keep lower punishments the domain of crimes against property.
Regardless of the self-important attitude you display here ("Oooh, he wasted my time! Let's put him away for a decade!"), he did not destroy anyone's life, and thus should not be punished as harshly as those who did.
The fact that it is a cumulative crime is a further reason to *not* punish based on your criterium. They're not the only ones causing you all this aggravation. In fact, any one spammer is usually ignored. It's only when there are dozens of them that it becomes a pain. Do you want to punish the one for the aggravation of the many? Yes, I suppose you would.
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He was not subdued, which is rather the point.
A person in a blind panic or rage is very hard to restrain, even by half a dozen people, and especially in cramped quarters. I've seen nutjobs who were still giving trouble right until they were strapped face-down in a gurney, and even then you'd better hope nothing breaks.
If you are too far gone to care about being hurt, the only way someone can stop you is by physically preventing your body from moving; shooting, tasering, breaking limbs or sedating. Sedatives can't be administered in many of these instances (and I don't even know if it's legal). That leaves the physical. Do not underestimate this.
That said, yes, they probably should have done it differently, and they do deserve to be charged with unintentional manslaughter (or whatever the charges are for being unintentionally guilty of a death).
That one is great. I can see that they are the same color only when they're joined fully. Even when the line touches the 'white' square a little I can't see it yet. Nice one.
(Wow, I fired up/. For something to read while I was waiting for my lightwave test render to finish, and heres an article on/. About modeling programs. What are the odds?)
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1) It's a testbed. The technology is new. Prices will fall if it's successful. If it weren't expensive to try, we'd be having this already.
2) They're in the tropics. Frequent rains will not only disturb solar collection, it will likely cause excessive required maintenance on the panels.
3) It's a frigging island. Construction-space is limited. Putting the solar array in orbit means you have *oodles* of space (no pun) for solar panels, many times greater than what you could get on any island. Also, no clouds, and no storms to interfere with your collection. Beaming it down should be done only when atmospheric conditions allow it, so that you won't get runaway beams melting people. This does mean they have to buffer the energy somehow, but that can be done.
4) Mobile power would be useful. Drive a few capacitor trucks and a receiver to a disaster site, and have the satelite beam power there when in favorable circumstances. No need for a fuel supply. Same goes for battlefields.
It's probably not the be-all and end-all of energy production, but it's a very good idea to test this out, mainly because of the potential. The amount of solar panels you can put up there without causing any interference on earth (ie, by blacking out a significant portion of desert climates), as well as the fact that a mobile power platform means you can burst-transmit power to any area that needs it in the event of a catastrophy. No landlines required.
Claiming that AIDS and HIV are unlinked is politicking, not science, just like claiming that humans are 'definitely' a cause of global warming, and that global warming is bad.
The CO2 content of the atmosphere does not cause the globe to heat up or cool down. Historically, CO2 levels and temperature correlate strongly. The problem is that CO2 levels peak about 800 years *after* temperature peaks, and only after a rise in temperature does the CO2 content of the atmosphere change.
Also, it is colder now, globally, than it was in the Medieval Warm Period, and there was no large-scale industrialization then (although there *was* a large leap forward for humankind). Likewise during about 3000 years in the Bronze Age, when humanity flourished and temperatures were higher still.
Got this from "The Great Global Warming Swindle", which is obviously biased. The UN panel on climate change correctly bashed that documentary on a few points, but the claims I repeat here they didn't touch. I wonder why? Maybe because they're actually correct?
See The Great Global Warming Swindle
I think that rocket scientists are notoriously bad at doing AIDS and cancer research. I think that, given a budget that *isn't* aimed at bankrupting your nation, it's possible to fund both to satisfying degrees of effectiveness. Therefore, you've created a false dichotomy, which is not a good argument.
Also, maybe we should figure out how to live on that giant red rock in the sky *before* things here slide down to unlivable levels.
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Why? Two main reasons:
- The NANP breaks the idea of "one nation, one country calling code". You can not easily tell, from a number, whether you're calling Puerto Rico (probably just +1787, but maybe they'll get a new range) or Montreal.
- NANP has no provisions for determining whether a number is mobile or not; all numbers are geographically based. Most advanced countries *do* make the distinction.
Sounds a lot like First Person View: R/C aircraft with cameras patched into VR goggles (optionally with pan'n'tilt cameras controlled by motion sensor)
See for example:
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Voluntary subscription television makers exist. Compared to the Beeb, they suck ass. So no, let's not have the Brits attempt your proposal.
All prices in the Dutch Apple store, at least, include VAT. I consider import duties a non-issue (Apple doesn't build the devices in the US, and I'd be surprised if they get shipped from $CHEAP_COUNTRY via the US to Europe). Delivery is free of charge, same as US.
So all I'm left with is the international gouging. For example a Mac Mini 2GHz costs US$1142 in a European apple store.
As for the tacking on VAT at the register stuff... It's tough to notice an increase from 19% to 20% VAT in general products.
NBC had a chance to become not an American broadcasting company, but a global one, with the use of the Internet. But they decided to restrict their service to US-only.
Why the hell, NBC, do you think people download shows, rather than just TiVo them?!
Would it be too onerous for them to find sponsors in target countries that it's not worth the effort? It would devalue sales of series to foreign broadcasters, but not incredibly so for the forseeable future. Offer downloadable 720p and 480p XVids containing appropriate commercials, and offer them promptly, and you'd expand your audience significantly.
The weak dollar is no excuse. Take a look at (say) the Dutch Apple store and the US one. Prices are transferred directly, with the dollar-sign scratched out and a euro-sign stuck in.
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Yes, that means we pay about 40% more than Americans... Fuck you all.
That pitted a 15-year-old big Volvo stationwagon vs a Renault Modus compact. The compact demolished the Volvo.
I also like this Smart crash test.
While ultimately the cause of failed formatting is me, it would be a fine convenience if Slashdot could upgrade its commenting system by six years or so. Maybe even eight years, so they can offer live previews, so that the bloody warning becomes redundant.
Actively blocking the signal means you annoy and endanger cell phone callers even outside your establishment.
(and why does Slashdot not allow editing of posts, like any site since 1998?)
Actively blocking the signal means you annoy and endanger cell phone callers even outside your establishment.
I keep having that feeling that I want to go to Japan at some point in my life, just for the weirdness of it.
I do not know Toshiba or Panasonic as cell phone makers. At all. I think I may have once heard of a Panasonic cell a long time ago. Part of this may be rebranding, but a lot of the phones just don't ever make it out of Japan.
If you want a feature laden phone here (Netherlands), Nokia is where it's at, and somehow I think they do poorly in Japan. I now have an N95, which is a fairly decent 5MP camera (with autofocus and a functional flash), built-in 3G networking, bluetooth, wifi, and GPS. How *does* Nokia do in Japan?
I was going to make some smart-ass comment about how they're not inferior at all, that's FUD, etc. But then you mentioned "in Japan".
I occasionally skim product releases there. It seems we get about 20% of all cool computing and phone products released there, if that. What's the deal?
Bad points:
- It's got a 14.1" screen
- It weighs 2.4kg ("System unit only". Does that mean without battery?)
From what I've found, the Eee PC 701 has a 7" screen and weighs under a kilogram, all inclusive. Normally you pay through the nose for that kind of size.
Yes, he has a lot of brains, and a lot of guts. And if he keeps flying homemade helicopters without regard for safety, these will be on display over a wide area soon enough.
Still, kudos.
Executing illegal orders deserves legal consequences, I agree. But these soldiers were under someone's command. Someone who gave them the order. The fact that this illegal order was carried out, meaning the soldiers in question should be charged, in no goddamned way exculpates those higher up in the command structure.
Try thinking of "just following orders" not as a way of escaping your own responsibility, but as a way of point out the greater breach of the responsibility placed in superior officers.
Operator hammers and sickles little old ladies!
Five years and over counts as hard time in my book. I'd rather we reserve that for crimes against people, and keep lower punishments the domain of crimes against property.
Regardless of the self-important attitude you display here ("Oooh, he wasted my time! Let's put him away for a decade!"), he did not destroy anyone's life, and thus should not be punished as harshly as those who did.
The fact that it is a cumulative crime is a further reason to *not* punish based on your criterium. They're not the only ones causing you all this aggravation. In fact, any one spammer is usually ignored. It's only when there are dozens of them that it becomes a pain. Do you want to punish the one for the aggravation of the many? Yes, I suppose you would.
He was not subdued, which is rather the point.
A person in a blind panic or rage is very hard to restrain, even by half a dozen people, and especially in cramped quarters. I've seen nutjobs who were still giving trouble right until they were strapped face-down in a gurney, and even then you'd better hope nothing breaks.
If you are too far gone to care about being hurt, the only way someone can stop you is by physically preventing your body from moving; shooting, tasering, breaking limbs or sedating. Sedatives can't be administered in many of these instances (and I don't even know if it's legal). That leaves the physical. Do not underestimate this.
That said, yes, they probably should have done it differently, and they do deserve to be charged with unintentional manslaughter (or whatever the charges are for being unintentionally guilty of a death).
That one is great. I can see that they are the same color only when they're joined fully. Even when the line touches the 'white' square a little I can't see it yet. Nice one.
I work in IT. I know some IT professionals who I'd like to see convicted too.