Nicely said. This whole exercise is pointless. The universe doesn't need humanity. If earth is destroyed in a million years, people living here won't be comforted by the knowledge that other humans have colonized Alpha Centauri. People who argue about humanity's need to expand and explore ignore the fact that all previous colonization paid dividends to those who financed the efforts, there's no payback to us for the sacrifices we'd have to make.
Even if it could be done--and I highly doubt it--spring a tiny leak and air pressure will instantly fill your vacuum, turning your lighter than air-craft into a falling brick. Yes, you could use multiple vacuum chambers so the leak wouldn't fill the whole vacuum, but then you're looking at more mass. It ain't gonna happen, barring some kind of nano-material miracle.
By definition, a vacuum can't fill anything. But semantics aside, to build a hollow, vacuum-filled structure that would be strong enough not to be crushed by air pressure, the skin would have to be so heavy that it wouldn't fly.
See for yourself, and keep in mind that the can in the video does not have a true vacuum inside it, just lower air pressure than the surrounding atmosphere.
The automotive features you mention all produce tangible benefits. The only benefit to 3d is it looks cooler...and a lot of us don't think it's cool enough to be worth the bother or expense. To me, it's a gimmicky distraction that costs more and requires me to wear glasses. No benefit at all. But if it sells, they'll shoot it. Oh, and get off my lawn!
Apparently, you don't understand my point. Yes, it may very well be cheaper to re-create all the media on the dead drive than to pay $360,000 per terabyte to store it on the server. But the CIO should have his nuts cracked for forcing his customers to make that choice. If IT is making up all their expenses by charging insanely high rates for data storage, their funding model is seriously flawed.
Our shop charges a flat rate that includes basic support and services, if you need more than that you pay a nominal fee, depending on what you need. If they gave everything away except storage and tried to make it all up there, no one would use net storage and we'd have a broke IT shop.
No. Inflation has risen 29% since January 2000, that's nowhere close to 200%. ( My mistake in the first post, 1 dollar to 3 dollars is 200% increase, not 300). Nice for you that you're income has quadrupled, but don't assume that's been across the board for everybody.
If the IT department's blatant over charging causes his department to rely on local hard drives to store all their media and a drive goes pfft!, there goes a ton of man-hours.
They should charge a flat rate per person, then a minimal amount per gig to encourage users to store critical data on the server, rather than on client hard drives.
Our IT shop charges $35/gig per year for raided and backed-to-tape storage. Still no bargain, but at least within the realm of sanity. If you need a lot of storage, they'll cost out purchasing and maintaining dedicated hardware for your needs.
1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas
2. Atmospheric CO2 has increased by 36% since 1832
3. US oil production peaked almost 40 years ago
4. India and China are adding millions of new cars on their roads every year, increasing worldwide demand for oil. China recently surpassed the US as the world biggest automobile market, and they still have plenty of potential to expand
5. Spending our dollars to import oil is hurting our economy
6. When the oil industry swore less than a year ago that offshore drilling was completely safe, they were lying
7. Alternatives to burning carbon for energy exist and grow cheaper and more efficient each year
8. Mining coal is dangerous (collapsed mines) and incredibly destructive(mountain top removal)
Given all the above, I can't see any logical argument against reducing our carbon usage, even if you don't believe in AGW.
We've removed carbon sequestered in the ground and burned it into the atmosphere, increasing atmospheric CO2 by 36% over 1832 levels. How's that for power over the entire planet?
...you have a point. I mean, our paper has always been very strict about verifying the identity of writers of letters to the editor. So what's the difference?
Google. No employer is going to sift through thousands of newspapers to see if you wrote any LTE's they don't approve of. But googling? Oh heck yes, in a heartbeat.
I still agree with the newspapers on this, but it sucks that some people will be--justifiably--afraid to speak up.
True. I was in the Amsterdam airport a couple years ago, and my friend got her shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk and took a nasty header. And she hadn't even been smoking anything....yet.
that socialist treaty! If the free market has decide to let black and brown children wallow in our toxic waste for pennies a day, who are we to argue? All hail the invisible hand!
1. Rogue developer writes crap app and gets in App Store
2. Rogue developer hacks iTunes account and purchases his own app with it
3. Apple charges hacked account and transfers funds to rogue developer
4. Hackee finds out he's been ripped off and has to fight with Apple for refund
Solution: Replace step 3 with: Apple transfers funds for untrusted developers to an escrow account for 30 days before paying out. A developer can become trusted after a set amount of sales or time, whichever comes last.
4. Apple cheerfully refunds money because it never left its pocket. Minus a handling fee if Steve is feeling evil.
I administer hundreds of Windows boxes used by thousands of virus-loving students. If you take the time tweaking policies, you can lock them down hard. It's a PIA, but should be mandatory for kiosk applications.
If these kiosks were locked down properly, they wouldn't be hosting these viruses. Users should only be able to write to one directory, or better yet a partition, and it should be wiped on logout.
Issue bonds, and pay for them from the revenue raised by charging customers for internet service. Pretty simple.
My house is about 3 blocks outside the jurisdiction of an electricity co-op, instead I deal with a huge mega-corporation. The co-op takes much better care of their customers.
our library had about a hundred 270s, and yeah, they did drop like flies. But I'm pretty sure Dell fessed up to the problem and sent some techs with boxes of capacitors to replace all the originals, or could be they just swapped mobos. But I'm sure they admitted the problem, really no way they could deny it with the quantity we had.
you'd see that a lot of mainstream media outlets use the same polling company...and none of them realized they were being defrauded. They're not some fly by night outfit, they had a good rep in the industry.
Daily Kos frequently posts the results of several polling organizations, in addition to those they commissioned. Rasmussen almost always shows Republicans several points higher than the other polls.
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Nicely said. This whole exercise is pointless. The universe doesn't need humanity. If earth is destroyed in a million years, people living here won't be comforted by the knowledge that other humans have colonized Alpha Centauri. People who argue about humanity's need to expand and explore ignore the fact that all previous colonization paid dividends to those who financed the efforts, there's no payback to us for the sacrifices we'd have to make.
Even if it could be done--and I highly doubt it--spring a tiny leak and air pressure will instantly fill your vacuum, turning your lighter than air-craft into a falling brick. Yes, you could use multiple vacuum chambers so the leak wouldn't fill the whole vacuum, but then you're looking at more mass. It ain't gonna happen, barring some kind of nano-material miracle.
By definition, a vacuum can't fill anything. But semantics aside, to build a hollow, vacuum-filled structure that would be strong enough not to be crushed by air pressure, the skin would have to be so heavy that it wouldn't fly.
See for yourself, and keep in mind that the can in the video does not have a true vacuum inside it, just lower air pressure than the surrounding atmosphere.
The automotive features you mention all produce tangible benefits. The only benefit to 3d is it looks cooler...and a lot of us don't think it's cool enough to be worth the bother or expense. To me, it's a gimmicky distraction that costs more and requires me to wear glasses. No benefit at all. But if it sells, they'll shoot it. Oh, and get off my lawn!
Apparently, you don't understand my point. Yes, it may very well be cheaper to re-create all the media on the dead drive than to pay $360,000 per terabyte to store it on the server. But the CIO should have his nuts cracked for forcing his customers to make that choice. If IT is making up all their expenses by charging insanely high rates for data storage, their funding model is seriously flawed.
Our shop charges a flat rate that includes basic support and services, if you need more than that you pay a nominal fee, depending on what you need. If they gave everything away except storage and tried to make it all up there, no one would use net storage and we'd have a broke IT shop.
No. Inflation has risen 29% since January 2000, that's nowhere close to 200%. ( My mistake in the first post, 1 dollar to 3 dollars is 200% increase, not 300). Nice for you that you're income has quadrupled, but don't assume that's been across the board for everybody.
If the IT department's blatant over charging causes his department to rely on local hard drives to store all their media and a drive goes pfft!, there goes a ton of man-hours. They should charge a flat rate per person, then a minimal amount per gig to encourage users to store critical data on the server, rather than on client hard drives.
Our IT shop charges $35/gig per year for raided and backed-to-tape storage. Still no bargain, but at least within the realm of sanity. If you need a lot of storage, they'll cost out purchasing and maintaining dedicated hardware for your needs.
1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas
2. Atmospheric CO2 has increased by 36% since 1832
3. US oil production peaked almost 40 years ago
4. India and China are adding millions of new cars on their roads every year, increasing worldwide demand for oil. China recently surpassed the US as the world biggest automobile market, and they still have plenty of potential to expand
5. Spending our dollars to import oil is hurting our economy
6. When the oil industry swore less than a year ago that offshore drilling was completely safe, they were lying
7. Alternatives to burning carbon for energy exist and grow cheaper and more efficient each year
8. Mining coal is dangerous (collapsed mines) and incredibly destructive(mountain top removal)
Given all the above, I can't see any logical argument against reducing our carbon usage, even if you don't believe in AGW.
We've removed carbon sequestered in the ground and burned it into the atmosphere, increasing atmospheric CO2 by 36% over 1832 levels. How's that for power over the entire planet?
Gas prices 10 years ago were about a buck a gallon. Now it's $3+, that's a 300 percent increase. Are you broke yet?
Tons of our tax dollars go to subsidize the oil industry. Jack up the gas tax, kill CAFE, quit subsidizing oil, and I'll be happy.
...if that were possible
...you have a point. I mean, our paper has always been very strict about verifying the identity of writers of letters to the editor. So what's the difference? Google. No employer is going to sift through thousands of newspapers to see if you wrote any LTE's they don't approve of. But googling? Oh heck yes, in a heartbeat.
I still agree with the newspapers on this, but it sucks that some people will be--justifiably--afraid to speak up.
"AFAIK exersize has never been shown to boost the immune system (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)."
You're sort of wrong. Moderate exercise boosts the immune system, go over 90 minutes and it's temporarily weakened. Maybe.
True. I was in the Amsterdam airport a couple years ago, and my friend got her shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk and took a nasty header. And she hadn't even been smoking anything....yet.
that socialist treaty! If the free market has decide to let black and brown children wallow in our toxic waste for pennies a day, who are we to argue? All hail the invisible hand!
Let's make sure I understand the problem:
1. Rogue developer writes crap app and gets in App Store
2. Rogue developer hacks iTunes account and purchases his own app with it
3. Apple charges hacked account and transfers funds to rogue developer
4. Hackee finds out he's been ripped off and has to fight with Apple for refund
Solution: Replace step 3 with: Apple transfers funds for untrusted developers to an escrow account for 30 days before paying out. A developer can become trusted after a set amount of sales or time, whichever comes last.
4. Apple cheerfully refunds money because it never left its pocket. Minus a handling fee if Steve is feeling evil.
I administer hundreds of Windows boxes used by thousands of virus-loving students. If you take the time tweaking policies, you can lock them down hard. It's a PIA, but should be mandatory for kiosk applications.
If these kiosks were locked down properly, they wouldn't be hosting these viruses. Users should only be able to write to one directory, or better yet a partition, and it should be wiped on logout.
Issue bonds, and pay for them from the revenue raised by charging customers for internet service. Pretty simple.
My house is about 3 blocks outside the jurisdiction of an electricity co-op, instead I deal with a huge mega-corporation. The co-op takes much better care of their customers.
God would I love to see that on some corporation's mission statement!
our library had about a hundred 270s, and yeah, they did drop like flies. But I'm pretty sure Dell fessed up to the problem and sent some techs with boxes of capacitors to replace all the originals, or could be they just swapped mobos. But I'm sure they admitted the problem, really no way they could deny it with the quantity we had.
Topcoder was joking, son!
you'd see that a lot of mainstream media outlets use the same polling company...and none of them realized they were being defrauded. They're not some fly by night outfit, they had a good rep in the industry.
Daily Kos frequently posts the results of several polling organizations, in addition to those they commissioned. Rasmussen almost always shows Republicans several points higher than the other polls.
Jeez, get yourself a DVI cable and HDMI-DVI adapter and save your vision!