Some of the reasons the cost is so high is because it's hard to get investors due to the high risk. (Kill one crew, just one, and you're likely to go under in a week).
You find a viable commercial reason for going to the moon and you'll get your investors, regardless of the risk.
"... Microsoft said Vista will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted."
Actually it's a credit bubble, due to record low interest long/short rates and of course "loose" lending standards. The inflation and speculation in housing is just a symptom of the credit bubble... but it will burst with catastrophic effects all the same.
It's a damn shame, all those years of low interest loans and what did Americans choose to do with it?? bought SUVs, bought plasma TVs, remodeled their houses, flipped real estate... all the while countries like China, India, Russia built their industrial infrastructure. Yep, I agree the pending crash is going to be very bad. Personally, I'm moving my money into the usual bear market investments... gold, energy, food producers, Swiss Francs (anything but dollars).
I think its about time the people of the world revolted against the weapon makers..
I'm not sure what your babbling on about, but in North America, Europe, Eastern Europe and in many parts of Asia the standard of living has never been higher. So I don't exactly see the masses wanting to "rock the boat."
Are you saying that hybrid cars are no more efficient than conventional internal combustion powered cars? If so, then why is the fuel comsumption so much less for hybrid cars?
Personally, I would like to see the complete energy equation for a hybrid's efficiency. That is the cost of mining/ producing the materials that go into the battery and electric motor. In fact what is the fuel consumption of an equivalent car minus the weight of the battery and electric motor.
The issue over how efficiently we can produce ethanol is not important, it's that we start using it thats important.
Already available in the midwest in the form of E85.
Even petrolium wasn't efficient to produce when we started with cars
Petroleum scaled well to efficiency due to it's energy density.
The sooner we start using a fuel we can grow, even if it's not efficient, the sooner our dependance on fossil fuels will end.
Our dependence on fossil fuels will end one of following ways: a. some disaster wipes out 2/3 of the world's population b. a "miracle" technology comes online such as fusion.
The world's population grew to 6 billion+ thanks to cheap energy, once the cheap energy is gone the population will contract.
Huge leaps in worker productivity and automated processes are also responsible for the decreased need for new labor
Employees are working longer hours and are expected to put in work during the weekends and holidays (yes, I'm bitter because I am putting in hours today)
Civil Engineers determine the limits in most cases. Things like a meridians, side railings, traffic volume, pedestrian activity, curves, pavement quality, lighting and other factors determine a speed limit.
That reminds me of a guest on the Letterman show years ago who had at that time caught one of the largest Great White sharks on record (using tackle).
Letterman set the guy up and then slammed him with "... so basically you decided to kill this beautiful animal." The audience cheered and the guest was flustered.
It's a bit tougher to get your foot in the door now then when I started, but there are a lot of high paying gigs out there in health IT (at least in the US anyway). Learning the workflow of the various clinical departments balanced with a solid tech background is a very valuable skill set at this time.
My advice would be to try and go that route if you are looking for steady employment. If you do go that route and happen to get hired by a hospital or company specializing in health IT, then I would recommend some side courses at the local community college to learn medicare/medicaid processing, HIPAA, patient management and patient accounting overview classes.
I have a good friend who manages a large theater in NYC and according to him the blockbusters are actually money losers as far as ticket sales vs the film lease is concerned. The profits are only realized in concession sales and the ad space sold before the previews. The Cuban plan would basically drive down ticket sales, which would drive down ad revenue and concession sales thus making theaters unprofitable.
Eventually I think the industry will head in the direction your talking about as the high speed infrastructure continues to improve. My bet would be a vanishing of most multiplexes with only a few large single screen theaters surviving in major metros.
Same here. I've gone through 2 Sony DVD players and 1 receiver all developing problems 2 years after purchase.
When they moved manufacturing to Mexico, Malaysia and China that was the end of Sony quality. Same goes for the other quality Japanese brands (Toshiba, Sharp).
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I don't believe you lot. Yet it doesn't surprise me. Someone develops an android, and all you can think of is, "Ooh! A MIPS R3000 based sex-machine!
... er ... em ...it would make an excellent casemod.
Not me brother! I was thinking she would make an excellent case mod
I thought he was being informative?!
On one hand, renderfarms of ~5k machines get pretty expensive already, and adding another $500k for windows liscences is no small change.
The choice wasn't Windows vs Linux, it was Linux vs IRIX. This is why SGI's stock is in the toilet.
Some of the reasons the cost is so high is because it's hard to get investors due to the high risk. (Kill one crew, just one, and you're likely to go under in a week).
You find a viable commercial reason for going to the moon and you'll get your investors, regardless of the risk.
"... Microsoft said Vista will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted."
Reboot = Coffee Break
Actually it's a credit bubble, due to record low interest long/short rates and of course "loose" lending standards. The inflation and speculation in housing is just a symptom of the credit bubble ... but it will burst with catastrophic effects all the same.
... all the while countries like China, India, Russia built their industrial infrastructure. Yep, I agree the pending crash is going to be very bad. Personally, I'm moving my money into the usual bear market investments ... gold, energy, food producers, Swiss Francs (anything but dollars).
It's a damn shame, all those years of low interest loans and what did Americans choose to do with it?? bought SUVs, bought plasma TVs, remodeled their houses, flipped real estate
Proof these missions will never happen
I think its about time the people of the world revolted against the weapon makers ..
I'm not sure what your babbling on about, but in North America, Europe, Eastern Europe and in many parts of Asia the standard of living has never been higher. So I don't exactly see the masses wanting to "rock the boat."
Ben originally posted this to sci.energy.candle and was subsequently labeled a "kook."
Are you saying that hybrid cars are no more efficient than conventional internal combustion powered cars? If so, then why is the fuel comsumption so much less for hybrid cars?
Personally, I would like to see the complete energy equation for a hybrid's efficiency. That is the cost of mining/ producing the materials that go into the battery and electric motor. In fact what is the fuel consumption of an equivalent car minus the weight of the battery and electric motor.
The issue over how efficiently we can produce ethanol is not important, it's that we start using it thats important.
Already available in the midwest in the form of E85.
Even petrolium wasn't efficient to produce when we started with cars
Petroleum scaled well to efficiency due to it's energy density.
The sooner we start using a fuel we can grow, even if it's not efficient, the sooner our dependance on fossil fuels will end.
Our dependence on fossil fuels will end one of following ways:
a. some disaster wipes out 2/3 of the world's population
b. a "miracle" technology comes online such as fusion.
The world's population grew to 6 billion+ thanks to cheap energy, once the cheap energy is gone the population will contract.
I'm still hoping my investments in Gopherspace will pay off!
Waaaaah ... the big bad hurricane is too scary ... waaaah
Thats 26 more than our greatest punk bands ... the human race is doomed!
Huge leaps in worker productivity and automated processes are also responsible for the decreased need for new labor
Employees are working longer hours and are expected to put in work during the weekends and holidays (yes, I'm bitter because I am putting in hours today)
Civil Engineers determine the limits in most cases. Things like a meridians, side railings, traffic volume, pedestrian activity, curves, pavement quality, lighting and other factors determine a speed limit.
Speeding isn't the problem at all. The problem is people with poor driving habits.
Speeding is the problem because most vehicles and roads are not made to safely handle crashes above the posted speed limits.
Come to think of it someone should be Turin on trial as well
That reminds me of a guest on the Letterman show years ago who had at that time caught one of the largest Great White sharks on record (using tackle). Letterman set the guy up and then slammed him with "... so basically you decided to kill this beautiful animal." The audience cheered and the guest was flustered.
Printer ink and razor blades are consumables. Sony is hoping to make their profit on 3rd party licensing and their own media sales.
Yes, here
It's a bit tougher to get your foot in the door now then when I started, but there are a lot of high paying gigs out there in health IT (at least in the US anyway). Learning the workflow of the various clinical departments balanced with a solid tech background is a very valuable skill set at this time.
My advice would be to try and go that route if you are looking for steady employment. If you do go that route and happen to get hired by a hospital or company specializing in health IT, then I would recommend some side courses at the local community college to learn medicare/medicaid processing, HIPAA, patient management and patient accounting overview classes.
I hear Wal-Mart is always looking for shelf stockers
I have a good friend who manages a large theater in NYC and according to him the blockbusters are actually money losers as far as ticket sales vs the film lease is concerned. The profits are only realized in concession sales and the ad space sold before the previews. The Cuban plan would basically drive down ticket sales, which would drive down ad revenue and concession sales thus making theaters unprofitable.
Eventually I think the industry will head in the direction your talking about as the high speed infrastructure continues to improve. My bet would be a vanishing of most multiplexes with only a few large single screen theaters surviving in major metros.
Same here. I've gone through 2 Sony DVD players and 1 receiver all developing problems 2 years after purchase. When they moved manufacturing to Mexico, Malaysia and China that was the end of Sony quality. Same goes for the other quality Japanese brands (Toshiba, Sharp).