fact that their's nothing in space to go up to yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm not), but this is primary reason to build the space elevator: to put something up there to begin with. Sure we can add on to the space station but imagine the number of projects that'll open up when their funding support needs suddenly drops by 50% and more.
earpopping? transit entertainment? You're putting people on it? It's a cargo elevator in concept although I suppose you could put people in it if they were properly secured in some sort space capable craft.
gravity? It's being kept up by the spin of the Earth. The only unaddressed concern you've mentioned (aside from terrorism, kids, aliens and lightning which I'm just going to ignore) is jetstream, by which I think you mean wind? I'm not sure what a 200 mph gust would do it it but they better have a plan for it.
It's plain to see that the article submitter, who is undoubtedly an American, didn't take into account that China is on the other side of the planet and that the "9" in the article, when viewed right-side up is actually a "6", and that the correct story is that China has switched over to IPv6.
wait.. then it wouldn't be IPv6 for them either, it'd be 9^dI.
I really prefer Nintendo-ish graphics to xbox and ps2. I see this comparison like the comparison between unreal and other online first person shooters. We can't make it look perfectly real, so let's not try. Let's make it fun, pleasing and bright. The player won't expect things to look any certain way so anyplace we fall shy of our goal won't look bad.
In another ten years, yes games will be breathtaking. I'm waiting for real time rendered faces that don't suck, and I'm sure the software is sitting around waiting for the hardware to support it. In the mean time I'm not playing any of the games that try to do it and fail disgustingly behind. I want a smooth, colorful, featureful, bright and stimulating game. The vast majority of PS2/XBox games are specifically not that. They try their hardest to add as much detail as possible and you end up with a gloomy, fuzzy screen.
Oh yes I mentioned it before somewhere but Nintendo focuses much more on gameplay which makes it all the more worth it.
A scientist is much less likely to have self ambition than the capitalist success stories we normally elect. If your president isn't altruistic then you're doomed to corruption. I really wonder how many people we've elected to become elected to help themselves and others, or perhaps more like on a bet or even another sort of 'mile high club'.
"You own a nice car? I used to be president! See this guy in a suit? His name's Larry and he'll kill you if I tell him too. Won't get in trouble neither!"
I don't remember exactly but a while earlier there was a patent described on slashdot which was simply a mix of a couple basic techniques. My analogy (although incorrect and over-simplifed) was the notion of patenting the mix of peanut butter, jelly, and bread, even if you have no obvious ownership over the rest.
Actually I am remembering now. It was the concept of having a window fade when not in use, and fade more as it is not being used, patented by Apple. This combines time and variable transparency. Other examples already existed where putting the window in the background made the window more transparent but the Apple folks apparently were awarded a patent simply for fading it with respect to time. To reiterate: they took a preexisting idea, took the next logical step, and now own a patent on it. There was no advancement made by this in any way with the (very slight) possible exception that the UI itself can be said to be improved, and I think that'd be a hard case to prove.
Watch someone patent rotating desktop backgrounds based on the weather. To my knowledge it hasn't been done, so by the logic of the patent office it deserves a patent to protect it's.. uhh.. umm. money?
This country doesn't have the proper mindset to give up the freedom of cars yet, and as you say we certainly don't have the infrastructure. However I for one would go happily bonkers over an east coast bullet train. I think a west coast bullet train would also be very nice. Our rail system does need a lot of work (after all the American motto is do it first, do it worst (electricity, anyone?)). I think trains in Connecticut also have a very low speed limit so there's a number of things that need to be worked on.
Privacy through implementation. A guard doesn't need to know who you are or anything about you and can still tell if you are safe. How's that? The implementation of the security device. For example say the security scanner takes both eye scan and prints to identify. Then it pops up your name and photo. The security guy looks at the photo and asks your name. If it matches, you pass through. This gives this particular security person no way in which to get people's information. Not only can he not just look up a random person even if he could copy the eyes and prints of a person, all he'd get is a photo and a name. That's already available.
That's just one simple example. If for any reason the ID could not be made then obviously more questions would be needed beyond prints and retinel. Again this information isn't available for retreival, but as an index to information. So you can crunch SSN#'s and names all you want but the system would probably cut you off quickly.
Dang I gotta end my post now. Anyway I'm just saying things can be done which aren't 100% successful but would stop innocent snooping and most attempts at non-innocent snooping.
Kind of. Take me for example. I wanted to play old games with people across the internet which required an IPX network. Microsoft's home grown solution is their VPN client/esrver package which is naturally built into the entire user/security system. Anyway I wanted to use this system for gaming, just one problem: I had/have windows xp professional. This version of windows has an arbitrary limit of one VPN connection. If I want multiple VPN connections I need to buy Advanced Server. Now coming from their point of view there might be some sort of reason for this cripple ware, but coming from my point of view they want me to pay a couple thousand bucks to play old games.
How does this make me feel? Infuriated. I have yet to find a suitable replacement (there used to be a few online services which created IPX networks but you had to play by their rules and pay monthly fees). Thank you Microsoft, for dangling the carrot in front of my face, letting me smell it, and then ripping it away. The final snub is (I am told) when installing Advanced Server it asks you how many connections you want to be able to accept.
Ah well it really just comes down to me complaining, but it sure doesn't make me like Microsoft anymore. Remember when Notepad used to have an arbitrary file size limit? (The limit value wasn't arbitrary, the fact that they had it was) Good times.
Did you know that you can take your CD Rom, only plug in the power supply (no IDE), and if the cd rom isn't crap (if it has more than one button, unlike my current one, and has a headphone jack) you can play the CD? Again, that's without the connect to the computer at all. I did this back home for fun since I had an extra power supply. (The supply didn't require a motherboard connection to turn on.)
I'm sorry but this post deserves a medal. I know I'm tooting my own horn but after starting at +1 (karma) this post dropped to -1 troll. Now, through years of fighting adversity it has risen to the rank of +4.
For some more on topic info I'd like to suggest this microwave power plant of sorts could be made with a lot less danger simply by putting more of it in orbit. I would like to ask what the point is of collecting a lot of solar energy is, if you're simply turning it into another kind of solar energy, and then capturing that and turning into more useable electricity. If a space elevator is to have a cable going from Earth to orbit, surely the same could be done for a geosynchronous power plant device? That is, capture the sun's energy and send it to Earth as electricity. The downside would be the amount of equipment that would be on the ground that is now in space (therefore more expensive and oh such much harder to fix), but we're looking at a futuristic power plant anyway. I couldn't say what to make the power cords out of, if there'd be multiple ones or perhaps just two really big ones (well I assume now). I don't know what kind of side effects the magnetic field created by such a device could do. It just seems to completely bypass the safety issue which I feel is the most pressing.
You so nailed it. I seriously avoid people in places like Best Buy. "Can I help you?" More like can I help them. The only reason they have the job is because they initiate every conversation so it looks like their working (to be fair, they are trying). One store I walked into lately (it wasn't a best buy) was very small-- about the size of say, the electronics department at walmart. There were at least eight sales reps standing around, and a couple customers. I tried to do some quick math to figure out how they could possibly make money but I lost interest (trying to get out of the store as fast as possible).
If I need help, I'll ask. If you can replace a job with a bunch of inanimate signs then from a practicality standpoint I'd say do it. I hate to say fire people who might be trying but it just seems like they try to hard. Sales reps should not be overachievers. I would rather they are bitter and hostile to me. Hell I'd rather they smell bad. Actually scratch. The majority of sales reps are already overly friendly, bitter and hostile. Also most can't afford the deodorant that they so say you need without trying to insult you (until you say no). Actually at this point I'm just rambling so if you haven't hit the back button on your browser yet we might as well have a conversation. I regret to inform you that it will be quite one way but I have a feeling you already knew this. Well anyway as some background I grew up in Maine in a small town. The university was the lifeblood of the area and because of it we had a downtown with more restaurants than our town was worth. The only fast food to speak of is Subway which isn't strictly unhealthy, but rather has the feeling of being in a dentist's office. That is, a dentist's office with roast beef and a cute petite female behind the counter. This has caught me as quite odd. Every cute petite female I knew in high school has worked at a subway and virtually every subway I go to has a cute petite female behind the counter. I don't know if they're trying to tell me that I'll turn into a cute petite female if I eat their subs. I certainly hope not because I don't have nearly enough experience putting on makeup. The extent of that being deodorant, which I see as a polish for the olfactory sense. The funny thing about that word is you wonder what factory the guy had in mind who named it. Obviously some factory smelled really bad and needed some cleaning. The problem with cleaning things is that bristles on brushes are far too weak to get any real scrubbing down except for the toilet brush. I think many people would have an aversion to using the toilet brush on anything but the toilet, however I think they could be convinced otherwise simply by buying two toilet brushes and using only one on the toilet, and using the other on everything else needed. This brings me back to the guinea pigs I used to own. I thought their cage was too small so I gave them free range over a large section of tiled floor. The floor was white before the guinea pigs were there and it's now a rich musky yellow color/smell. I can't think of any makeup that will work on that floor as bleach failed it quite easily. I used enough bleach to kill a medium sized animal. I know that this is the amount I used because I consider myself a medium sized animal and I'd be quite dead if I stayed in the room. That's why I left the room which was nice because I could go out doors. Being from Maine we have a large forest in the back and a brook to play in. It's not deep enough to swim but the rocks are there so you can sure give yourself a bad time. During the spring the water would be very strong from all the melting snow which is exactly the kind of water you do not want to fall in, and so I did. Actually twice: once in the winter, once in the spring. All I can remember about the spring incident is that I was wearing a sweater. The thing about sweaters is that chewing on them gives me chills all over. I hate it so much but I just cannot resist the urge to take a bite. It's such a horrible feeling and to top it all off my sweater might now be ripped or at the very least wet. Wet was exactly my concern after falling into the water.
This is coming from the philosophy that you don't want to pay for anything that does not directly benefit yourself, such as people who don't have children not paying for public schools. I kind of understand this belief and it comes from people not seeing indirect benefits. As I learned in an economics class you gain overall by giving money to the education system in straight $, it's just not direct.
While a minority of the government's money comes from personal income tax, I think it would be advantageous if people could select roughly how their tax should be used. As an example I'd select "strong use" for education (grants, public schooling), welfare and international issues while "minimal use" for things like the US military budget (active roll, not research). This would actually give people a direct voice as to how the country should spend money (although as I said it wouldn't be a very strong one because most of the money spent doesn't come from personal income tax). Morever this would actually give people a small voice in how things should actually be run (elections don't work as well because millions need to have the same view or else yours doesn't matter). I'm not suggesting anyone have the ability to opt out of taxes because they think society owes them for some reason.
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fact that their's nothing in space to go up to yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm not), but this is primary reason to build the space elevator: to put something up there to begin with. Sure we can add on to the space station but imagine the number of projects that'll open up when their funding support needs suddenly drops by 50% and more.
earpopping? transit entertainment? You're putting people on it? It's a cargo elevator in concept although I suppose you could put people in it if they were properly secured in some sort space capable craft.
gravity? It's being kept up by the spin of the Earth. The only unaddressed concern you've mentioned (aside from terrorism, kids, aliens and lightning which I'm just going to ignore) is jetstream, by which I think you mean wind? I'm not sure what a 200 mph gust would do it it but they better have a plan for it.
I hope they don't see my weed garden.
If it has the features of 3 AND the ability of 2 any boolean logitician will tell you that the version number should be 6.
Actually only 3:
Shopping Network
Golf
Scrambled Porn
It's plain to see that the article submitter, who is undoubtedly an American, didn't take into account that China is on the other side of the planet and that the "9" in the article, when viewed right-side up is actually a "6", and that the correct story is that China has switched over to IPv6.
wait.. then it wouldn't be IPv6 for them either, it'd be 9^dI.
I really prefer Nintendo-ish graphics to xbox and ps2. I see this comparison like the comparison between unreal and other online first person shooters. We can't make it look perfectly real, so let's not try. Let's make it fun, pleasing and bright. The player won't expect things to look any certain way so anyplace we fall shy of our goal won't look bad.
In another ten years, yes games will be breathtaking. I'm waiting for real time rendered faces that don't suck, and I'm sure the software is sitting around waiting for the hardware to support it. In the mean time I'm not playing any of the games that try to do it and fail disgustingly behind. I want a smooth, colorful, featureful, bright and stimulating game. The vast majority of PS2/XBox games are specifically not that. They try their hardest to add as much detail as possible and you end up with a gloomy, fuzzy screen.
Oh yes I mentioned it before somewhere but Nintendo focuses much more on gameplay which makes it all the more worth it.
A scientist is much less likely to have self ambition than the capitalist success stories we normally elect. If your president isn't altruistic then you're doomed to corruption. I really wonder how many people we've elected to become elected to help themselves and others, or perhaps more like on a bet or even another sort of 'mile high club'.
"You own a nice car? I used to be president! See this guy in a suit? His name's Larry and he'll kill you if I tell him too. Won't get in trouble neither!"
I don't remember exactly but a while earlier there was a patent described on slashdot which was simply a mix of a couple basic techniques. My analogy (although incorrect and over-simplifed) was the notion of patenting the mix of peanut butter, jelly, and bread, even if you have no obvious ownership over the rest.
Actually I am remembering now. It was the concept of having a window fade when not in use, and fade more as it is not being used, patented by Apple. This combines time and variable transparency. Other examples already existed where putting the window in the background made the window more transparent but the Apple folks apparently were awarded a patent simply for fading it with respect to time. To reiterate: they took a preexisting idea, took the next logical step, and now own a patent on it. There was no advancement made by this in any way with the (very slight) possible exception that the UI itself can be said to be improved, and I think that'd be a hard case to prove.
Watch someone patent rotating desktop backgrounds based on the weather. To my knowledge it hasn't been done, so by the logic of the patent office it deserves a patent to protect it's.. uhh.. umm. money?
Simple. Compulsory citizenship for all Malaysians. Oh wait
Close. It'll be Micro$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$oft.
Really close though.
This country doesn't have the proper mindset to give up the freedom of cars yet, and as you say we certainly don't have the infrastructure. However I for one would go happily bonkers over an east coast bullet train. I think a west coast bullet train would also be very nice. Our rail system does need a lot of work (after all the American motto is do it first, do it worst (electricity, anyone?)). I think trains in Connecticut also have a very low speed limit so there's a number of things that need to be worked on.
Joe Sixpack has a computer? Oh wait, you mean a six pack in the fridge, not a six pack on the abdomen
That's nothing, I'm keeping my whole mailing address when I move.
Privacy through implementation. A guard doesn't need to know who you are or anything about you and can still tell if you are safe. How's that? The implementation of the security device. For example say the security scanner takes both eye scan and prints to identify. Then it pops up your name and photo. The security guy looks at the photo and asks your name. If it matches, you pass through. This gives this particular security person no way in which to get people's information. Not only can he not just look up a random person even if he could copy the eyes and prints of a person, all he'd get is a photo and a name. That's already available.
That's just one simple example. If for any reason the ID could not be made then obviously more questions would be needed beyond prints and retinel. Again this information isn't available for retreival, but as an index to information. So you can crunch SSN#'s and names all you want but the system would probably cut you off quickly.
Dang I gotta end my post now. Anyway I'm just saying things can be done which aren't 100% successful but would stop innocent snooping and most attempts at non-innocent snooping.
I hear it adds 50 gigahorses of torque to the hard drive.
As a former Intel intern I can vouch that what this man says is completely true.
"You look good in that. Trust me. You won't regret it in 20 years."
Kind of. Take me for example. I wanted to play old games with people across the internet which required an IPX network. Microsoft's home grown solution is their VPN client/esrver package which is naturally built into the entire user/security system. Anyway I wanted to use this system for gaming, just one problem: I had/have windows xp professional. This version of windows has an arbitrary limit of one VPN connection. If I want multiple VPN connections I need to buy Advanced Server. Now coming from their point of view there might be some sort of reason for this cripple ware, but coming from my point of view they want me to pay a couple thousand bucks to play old games.
How does this make me feel? Infuriated. I have yet to find a suitable replacement (there used to be a few online services which created IPX networks but you had to play by their rules and pay monthly fees). Thank you Microsoft, for dangling the carrot in front of my face, letting me smell it, and then ripping it away. The final snub is (I am told) when installing Advanced Server it asks you how many connections you want to be able to accept.
Ah well it really just comes down to me complaining, but it sure doesn't make me like Microsoft anymore. Remember when Notepad used to have an arbitrary file size limit? (The limit value wasn't arbitrary, the fact that they had it was) Good times.
In this instance it was me being yelled at to join a C&C generals game ty very much.
That is no Haiku.
Hakui's fit a form factor.
That has no timing.
Did you know that you can take your CD Rom, only plug in the power supply (no IDE), and if the cd rom isn't crap (if it has more than one button, unlike my current one, and has a headphone jack) you can play the CD? Again, that's without the connect to the computer at all. I did this back home for fun since I had an extra power supply. (The supply didn't require a motherboard connection to turn on.)
I'm sorry but this post deserves a medal. I know I'm tooting my own horn but after starting at +1 (karma) this post dropped to -1 troll. Now, through years of fighting adversity it has risen to the rank of +4.
For some more on topic info I'd like to suggest this microwave power plant of sorts could be made with a lot less danger simply by putting more of it in orbit. I would like to ask what the point is of collecting a lot of solar energy is, if you're simply turning it into another kind of solar energy, and then capturing that and turning into more useable electricity. If a space elevator is to have a cable going from Earth to orbit, surely the same could be done for a geosynchronous power plant device? That is, capture the sun's energy and send it to Earth as electricity. The downside would be the amount of equipment that would be on the ground that is now in space (therefore more expensive and oh such much harder to fix), but we're looking at a futuristic power plant anyway. I couldn't say what to make the power cords out of, if there'd be multiple ones or perhaps just two really big ones (well I assume now). I don't know what kind of side effects the magnetic field created by such a device could do. It just seems to completely bypass the safety issue which I feel is the most pressing.
Sorry I don't get my info about the future from video games. I get them from flash-forwards in the Simpsons and occasionally Futurama.
Really? I read this back in 1971.
I wasn't born yet but let's not let that get in the way.
You so nailed it. I seriously avoid people in places like Best Buy. "Can I help you?" More like can I help them. The only reason they have the job is because they initiate every conversation so it looks like their working (to be fair, they are trying). One store I walked into lately (it wasn't a best buy) was very small-- about the size of say, the electronics department at walmart. There were at least eight sales reps standing around, and a couple customers. I tried to do some quick math to figure out how they could possibly make money but I lost interest (trying to get out of the store as fast as possible).
If I need help, I'll ask. If you can replace a job with a bunch of inanimate signs then from a practicality standpoint I'd say do it. I hate to say fire people who might be trying but it just seems like they try to hard. Sales reps should not be overachievers. I would rather they are bitter and hostile to me. Hell I'd rather they smell bad. Actually scratch. The majority of sales reps are already overly friendly, bitter and hostile. Also most can't afford the deodorant that they so say you need without trying to insult you (until you say no). Actually at this point I'm just rambling so if you haven't hit the back button on your browser yet we might as well have a conversation. I regret to inform you that it will be quite one way but I have a feeling you already knew this. Well anyway as some background I grew up in Maine in a small town. The university was the lifeblood of the area and because of it we had a downtown with more restaurants than our town was worth. The only fast food to speak of is Subway which isn't strictly unhealthy, but rather has the feeling of being in a dentist's office. That is, a dentist's office with roast beef and a cute petite female behind the counter. This has caught me as quite odd. Every cute petite female I knew in high school has worked at a subway and virtually every subway I go to has a cute petite female behind the counter. I don't know if they're trying to tell me that I'll turn into a cute petite female if I eat their subs. I certainly hope not because I don't have nearly enough experience putting on makeup. The extent of that being deodorant, which I see as a polish for the olfactory sense. The funny thing about that word is you wonder what factory the guy had in mind who named it. Obviously some factory smelled really bad and needed some cleaning. The problem with cleaning things is that bristles on brushes are far too weak to get any real scrubbing down except for the toilet brush. I think many people would have an aversion to using the toilet brush on anything but the toilet, however I think they could be convinced otherwise simply by buying two toilet brushes and using only one on the toilet, and using the other on everything else needed. This brings me back to the guinea pigs I used to own. I thought their cage was too small so I gave them free range over a large section of tiled floor. The floor was white before the guinea pigs were there and it's now a rich musky yellow color/smell. I can't think of any makeup that will work on that floor as bleach failed it quite easily. I used enough bleach to kill a medium sized animal. I know that this is the amount I used because I consider myself a medium sized animal and I'd be quite dead if I stayed in the room. That's why I left the room which was nice because I could go out doors. Being from Maine we have a large forest in the back and a brook to play in. It's not deep enough to swim but the rocks are there so you can sure give yourself a bad time. During the spring the water would be very strong from all the melting snow which is exactly the kind of water you do not want to fall in, and so I did. Actually twice: once in the winter, once in the spring. All I can remember about the spring incident is that I was wearing a sweater. The thing about sweaters is that chewing on them gives me chills all over. I hate it so much but I just cannot resist the urge to take a bite. It's such a horrible feeling and to top it all off my sweater might now be ripped or at the very least wet. Wet was exactly my concern after falling into the water.
Yup.
This is coming from the philosophy that you don't want to pay for anything that does not directly benefit yourself, such as people who don't have children not paying for public schools. I kind of understand this belief and it comes from people not seeing indirect benefits. As I learned in an economics class you gain overall by giving money to the education system in straight $, it's just not direct.
While a minority of the government's money comes from personal income tax, I think it would be advantageous if people could select roughly how their tax should be used. As an example I'd select "strong use" for education (grants, public schooling), welfare and international issues while "minimal use" for things like the US military budget (active roll, not research). This would actually give people a direct voice as to how the country should spend money (although as I said it wouldn't be a very strong one because most of the money spent doesn't come from personal income tax). Morever this would actually give people a small voice in how things should actually be run (elections don't work as well because millions need to have the same view or else yours doesn't matter). I'm not suggesting anyone have the ability to opt out of taxes because they think society owes them for some reason.