but it's a bit large to be ultra portable. I have a 13", the 11" might work for you. I've seen a lot of people using iPads with bluetooth keyboards, seems like a slick and simple solution. I'm not an apple fanboi, but they do make nice hardware.
"...infrastructure and assets on the Moon won't degrade, or at least will degrade very slowly compared with infrastructure and assets built on earth."
Moon dust is incredibly sharp and jagged, because it isn't constantly blown by wind and eroded by water. And it's very fine, the result of being pulverized by asteroids. So you have very fine, extra gritty grit working it's way into everything that isn't hermetically sealed. Bad news for anything with moving parts.
Personally, I'd rather spend money on moon bases than on making wars and maintaining our empire, but that ain't happening.
I'd rather blow billions on a few moon bases than the billions the US blows maintaining 1000+ military bases around the world, most of which serve no purpose except to funnel our tax dollars out of the country. At least moon bases have potential for R&D. And they're cool.
is a real problem. Sure, eventually those aquifers will fill up again, but we'll be dead before that happens, and in the meantime how do we irrigate the crops that depend on wells for water?
I don't see it either. Banner Ads as a revenue source? How turn of the century, good luck with that. I've never even noticed an ad on Facebook, much less clicked on one. 100:1 PE ratio? Insane.
I met him many years ago, he was actually quite a nice guy. I do agree he's not a great CEO, MS' biggest problem is it's just too huge and bureaucratic and he hasn't ever addressed the problem, at least not effectively. On the other hand, his support of developers really has had payoffs for the company. I'd say he's done some things well, just not enough.
After several decades, MS with all its billions of dollars still can't make an OS that can copy files competently. But we're supposed to get excited about the fact that it's slightly better at guessing how long a copy will take....assuming it succeeds.
Not all of them, of course, but who wants to deal with the TSA and other BS when you can hop in your car, take a nap, watch a movie, and arrive at your destination? For anything under a thousand miles, I wouldn't even consider flying. I live two hours from the airport, flying anywhere means: 2 hours driving +1.5 hours park and TSA theater + 2 hours on the plane + 1 hour baggage and rental car. So 6+ hours, without counting the drive from the airport to my destination. A little less for a shorter flight, could be a lot longer with a layover or unforeseen delay. Driving may take a few hours longer but for the hassle saved it's well worth it, and I can take all the luggage I want.
I work in IT for education, believe me, most of us know what a dollar is worth and do our best to stretch them. Somebody's either on the take or a complete moron.
not the airlines, so when you fly out out of JFK Gropeco Inc will be screening you no matter which airline you choose. Feel free to complain to airport management, I'm sure they'll be very responsive.
It would be fairly trivial to set up, and the studios would have an incentive to donate DRM'd disks instead of having thousands of bootlegs floating around Afghanistan.
Movie critics aren't licensed, and nobody has ever been hurt or killed from receiving poor movie viewing advice. Nutritionists are licensed, and I've heard diet can affect your health.
...so we should just throw up our hands and let everybody practice medicine? Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Licensing isn't perfect (Guess what? Nothing is!), but it's better than doing nothing, which seems to be your recommendation.
my guess is that if accessing his website of checkboxes is free, he's fine. If he charges, he'd need a license. And he'd probably get his license pulled, because diagnosing via questionnaire is pretty damn sketchy. We're not talking about diagnosing a software glitch, this is people's health we're talking about.
As for walnuts, if you're selling them based on claimed health benefits, yes, the FDA has the responsibility of verifying those claims.
I've been working in academia for 15 years, and the free journal movement was around when I started. Like many ideas that make sense, implementing them when opposed by established interests isn't easy. Harvard getting on board should be huge. Overdue, no doubt, but that's how these things usually go. I didn't think it would take this long back then, but after seeing how the system works (or doesn't), I'm not all that surprised now.
Yes, in the short term, construction costs for green buildings are higher, although not by that much. Designing an efficient building from the ground up is orders of magnitude cheaper than trying to retrofit efficiency. The payoff comes in HVAC and lighting costs, which over the life of a building cost far more than it's construction. We actually need more government buildings like this, not less, if you don't like government waste.
I'll admit I'm skeptical about the efficacy of the fuel cell, I would think a gas co-gen set up would have been a better choice, but it's not as sexy
..I can tell you how common it is for pedestrians to step into the street without looking if they don't hear any traffic. I've had way too many close calls.So we either need smarter pedestrians or electric cars that make noise. Make mine sound like a TIE fighter, please.
...I really wish these morons would do their homework instead of doubling down on the Toyota UA fiasco, which turned out to be mostly smoke and very little fire. Same with the Audi 5000 in the 80s, there was no problem but that didn't stop people from turning it into a crisis. I'm not saying it never happens--happened to me in a '72 Suburban, aftermarket cruise control was the culprit--but it's not enough of a problem to warrant yet another regulation. But you have to read beyond the headlines to figure that out, apparently that's too hard for our regulators.
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Seriously, if that's the future of computing, I'm not sure I want to live.
Wouldn't he just shed his human-shaped carapice and welcome his brethren to Earth?
but it's a bit large to be ultra portable. I have a 13", the 11" might work for you. I've seen a lot of people using iPads with bluetooth keyboards, seems like a slick and simple solution. I'm not an apple fanboi, but they do make nice hardware.
"...infrastructure and assets on the Moon won't degrade, or at least will degrade very slowly compared with infrastructure and assets built on earth."
Moon dust is incredibly sharp and jagged, because it isn't constantly blown by wind and eroded by water. And it's very fine, the result of being pulverized by asteroids. So you have very fine, extra gritty grit working it's way into everything that isn't hermetically sealed. Bad news for anything with moving parts.
Personally, I'd rather spend money on moon bases than on making wars and maintaining our empire, but that ain't happening.
I'd rather blow billions on a few moon bases than the billions the US blows maintaining 1000+ military bases around the world, most of which serve no purpose except to funnel our tax dollars out of the country. At least moon bases have potential for R&D. And they're cool.
is a real problem. Sure, eventually those aquifers will fill up again, but we'll be dead before that happens, and in the meantime how do we irrigate the crops that depend on wells for water?
I don't see it either. Banner Ads as a revenue source? How turn of the century, good luck with that. I've never even noticed an ad on Facebook, much less clicked on one. 100:1 PE ratio? Insane.
Fool.
Money.
Bye-bye.
it doesn't explain the exploding obesity rates of the last couple decades, unless you believe that in 20 years we somehow evolved slower metabolisms.
I met him many years ago, he was actually quite a nice guy. I do agree he's not a great CEO, MS' biggest problem is it's just too huge and bureaucratic and he hasn't ever addressed the problem, at least not effectively. On the other hand, his support of developers really has had payoffs for the company. I'd say he's done some things well, just not enough.
After several decades, MS with all its billions of dollars still can't make an OS that can copy files competently. But we're supposed to get excited about the fact that it's slightly better at guessing how long a copy will take....assuming it succeeds.
Not all of them, of course, but who wants to deal with the TSA and other BS when you can hop in your car, take a nap, watch a movie, and arrive at your destination? For anything under a thousand miles, I wouldn't even consider flying. I live two hours from the airport, flying anywhere means: 2 hours driving +1.5 hours park and TSA theater + 2 hours on the plane + 1 hour baggage and rental car. So 6+ hours, without counting the drive from the airport to my destination. A little less for a shorter flight, could be a lot longer with a layover or unforeseen delay. Driving may take a few hours longer but for the hassle saved it's well worth it, and I can take all the luggage I want.
I work in IT for education, believe me, most of us know what a dollar is worth and do our best to stretch them. Somebody's either on the take or a complete moron.
...being against the airlines best interests. I'm in, shut TSA down.
not the airlines, so when you fly out out of JFK Gropeco Inc will be screening you no matter which airline you choose. Feel free to complain to airport management, I'm sure they'll be very responsive.
It would be fairly trivial to set up, and the studios would have an incentive to donate DRM'd disks instead of having thousands of bootlegs floating around Afghanistan.
Movie critics aren't licensed, and nobody has ever been hurt or killed from receiving poor movie viewing advice. Nutritionists are licensed, and I've heard diet can affect your health.
People can talk about anything, and ask money for any kind of talk. ...That's free speech.
That's an interesting definition of "free".
...so we should just throw up our hands and let everybody practice medicine? Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Licensing isn't perfect (Guess what? Nothing is!), but it's better than doing nothing, which seems to be your recommendation.
my guess is that if accessing his website of checkboxes is free, he's fine. If he charges, he'd need a license. And he'd probably get his license pulled, because diagnosing via questionnaire is pretty damn sketchy. We're not talking about diagnosing a software glitch, this is people's health we're talking about.
As for walnuts, if you're selling them based on claimed health benefits, yes, the FDA has the responsibility of verifying those claims.
It's not like anyone could be hurt from following their advice if they have no idea what their talking about. End snark.
Nicely said.
I've been working in academia for 15 years, and the free journal movement was around when I started. Like many ideas that make sense, implementing them when opposed by established interests isn't easy. Harvard getting on board should be huge. Overdue, no doubt, but that's how these things usually go. I didn't think it would take this long back then, but after seeing how the system works (or doesn't), I'm not all that surprised now.
Yes, in the short term, construction costs for green buildings are higher, although not by that much. Designing an efficient building from the ground up is orders of magnitude cheaper than trying to retrofit efficiency. The payoff comes in HVAC and lighting costs, which over the life of a building cost far more than it's construction. We actually need more government buildings like this, not less, if you don't like government waste.
I'll admit I'm skeptical about the efficacy of the fuel cell, I would think a gas co-gen set up would have been a better choice, but it's not as sexy
..I can tell you how common it is for pedestrians to step into the street without looking if they don't hear any traffic. I've had way too many close calls.So we either need smarter pedestrians or electric cars that make noise. Make mine sound like a TIE fighter, please.
...I really wish these morons would do their homework instead of doubling down on the Toyota UA fiasco, which turned out to be mostly smoke and very little fire. Same with the Audi 5000 in the 80s, there was no problem but that didn't stop people from turning it into a crisis. I'm not saying it never happens--happened to me in a '72 Suburban, aftermarket cruise control was the culprit--but it's not enough of a problem to warrant yet another regulation. But you have to read beyond the headlines to figure that out, apparently that's too hard for our regulators.