Seeing as how Mars has 1/3rd earth gravity and seeing as how less gravity causes bone loss because our bodies need to respond to our own weight to maintain bone density, seems to me that the ideal suit would be one which weighed just enough to compensate for the lack of gravity. Hopefully the amount of shielding needed would not account for all the extra weight so you could make suits one-size-fits-all and just add extra weight as needed per person.
How many Ferraris do you own? How about Armani suits? What about a Rolex or a pair of Ferragamo shoes?
Fashionable has never been equated with commodity. Fashion sets the trend, then the rest of the industry tries to match it while balancing supply and demand to the lowest common denominator.
This will become a popular game title. It has several elements useful in a game... a compelling story, defined scenes, a villain and episodes of discreet action that are easily translated into gameplay. If you are going to make a direct movie to game translation these are the things you need in the movie. If not, follow the example of a previous post wherein the game sticks to the spirit of the movie, not the plot. Keep the characters consistent and keep the background story consistent... everything else can be arbitrary.
System profiler will show you installed kernel extensions etc. as well as a full list of applications. It does not show you command line executables however, just packages.
Do a search on created and modified dates including hidden files. This should show you any new stuff. Filter on known extensions...ai,.doc, etc. one at a time, look through for anything supicious, then filter them all out again to see what's left. Start looking.
1mm is awful thin... why not use kevlar and carbon fibre at 15mm? BTW how do we achieve vacuum in the lab, surely we don't use materials unknown to man?
In any case pressure drops the further you get from the surface so just use gas to get you high enough then start pumping it out of cells or just let it escape through natural expansion through a one way valve, then pump out the rest to create more lift as needed.
Oh the other thing i forgot is that when using rigid materials you don't need to use a sphere... any shape will do for a vacuum container, a long elipse for instance or an aerodynamically designed wing....
The sad thing is that as of right now Oil is the only thing the entire nation of Iraq has to trade. Until now it has been run soley for the benefit of one man. Until now the entire nation of Iraq has been subjected to slow attrition by means of genocide.
Nobody seems to realize that we may be fighting a war for something other than material gain. And that does include the right of a people to construction, production and transportation and yes even amortization. Yes a whole new economy will soon exist in the world and it will benefit us all.
BTW we still need plastic and all the other products created from petroleum.
Low power devices have been powered via hand-crank for decades. Future and current tech could also allow for kinematic energy, ie: pendulum or flywheel based generators like found in some watches. There is always solar power and I seem to recall some researchers in Japan developing a glucose powered generator;-p though carrying around big sacks of fructose syrup may not work out so well... maybe dual purpose human/electronics energy source?
In any case there are many alternatives to battery power and even battery power should be well-improved by the time this system is ready to deploy... 3 years out we'll have those long lasting hydrogen cells powered by methanol or the like.
Oh yeah, I just recalled that people are working on RF based power collectors for low power devices, like sensors.. basically collects power from ambient radio waves.
Lots of options here.
As for the sensitivity of electronics... many advances have been made in that field, especially in solid state devices like memory.
I think you may be underestimating the capabilities... especially when you're not talking about bleeding edge stuff, the applications described don't need the lastest tech, they need ruggedized, miniaturized but mature tech that is already available with some integration methods which are becoming available "real soon".
Hmmm.... while you are correct, I believe that Apple knows that real developers will understand exactly how to use this SDK.
They also know that this news will get published internationally and be a major PR move for them... so, they use a dumbed down version that more laymen and would-be technology editors and reviewers can understand so as to get the most bang for their PR buck.
huh? the whole escrow service was the scam... the scammer set up a fake website that appeared to be secured and verified somehow... in fact the website apparently was taken down as soon as the package was shipped... not to mention the domain was connected to an individual not a company and and how could you not see that it is an obvious scam?
Social Engineering "as we know it" is going to be impossible to combat or educate against.
No amount of technology or education can or more accurately 'will' stop SE from being effective.
The only hope is that most thieves are too dumb to use it.Those who are smart enough almost deserve to get away with it.
SE requires knowledge of methods, practices and the weaknesses inherent in such.
A smart business will simply acknowledge the existence of such and absorb minimal losses associated... and raise prices accordingly. Very similar to piracy of IP.
It will happen and you can do very little to stop it and what you can do will cost you more than the loss involved.
Soooooo.... minimize, minimize, minimize.... your losses as much as possible by identifying effective deterents and ignoring all else.
I'm sure companies do this already.... co this may or may not have been an effective exercise... was it realistic in terms of statistical attempts to steal merchandise? Probably not though it can identify weak areas in security that can be improved to catch less skilled SE perps...
Why yes, we can imagine NBA fans fighting each other over a lost game... in fact, several riots broke out in LA one year, 2000 to be exact it did happen..
here's a 'mellow' account of what happened:
http://www.canoe.ca/NBAPlayoffs00/jun21_nba.html
" LOS ANGELES -- Conclusions arrived late Monday night after authorities locked reporters into the Staples Center for their own protection from overindulgent, so-called "fans:"
1) Post-game statistical breakdown: Helicopters covering the breaking -- as in glass -- story of the riot after the NBA final outnumbered torched vehicles 8-5. The police lost two squad cars to the flames.
2) In the midst of a riot, one does not know whether to turn from, or to, nervous police wielding truncheons and wearing full riot gear, although it should be said that every Los Angeles police officer who was encountered during one reporter's nervous post-game dash to his rental car was polite, helpful and respectful.
3) The Indiana Pacers, a team full of heart and pluck, lost the championship series to the Los Angeles Lakers not necessarily because of Shaquille O'Neal's scoring, but because they were not able to control the Lakers' offensive rebounding. "
touche, you certainly know economic Straw Man well enough. I agree and concur with this posting, though I'd love to read what you're 'long' post would be as well.
I try not to think about future debt too much;( but I think it could be inferred from my comments about past debts that the system includes future debt... ie: we are still paying for past debts and are creating new ones for the future generations to pay for with their labor/taxes.
Your point about notes vs certificates is well stated and yes according to the economic straw-man whatever, they won't admit to it anyways... each US born citizen is valued around 800k when they are assigned their ssn and birth certificate, hmmm certificate, sounds like they give it to your parents whom assume that debt in your stead when they accept the certificate of birth... then at 18 years they pass it on to you to work off. In return you get a vote and security and whatever else a US citizen has by right of birth.
Well... if you never take advantage of any of those birth rights you have been screwed... too bad they don't tell you these things in high school or even undergrad school. More people would figure out how to at least redeem their blank check, which of course is backed by their tax dollars. Seems to me I do recall something called a "Social contract" though... maybe this is what they were talking about, just without the dollar values?
I'm rambling, but you already said all the good stuff.
thanks for the reply.
p.s. makes you wonder why the conservatives are Pro-Life though... more notes and certificates to issue, more people to redeem those debts. How can the wealthy create more wealth for themselves if the poor aren't pumping out children to pay for it all? In the meanwhile we should be encouraging immigration so that we can lessen the burden on our selves... people from out of the country aren't accounted for as tax payers but they still pay taxes and perform labor... brand new wealth but undocumented... sorry rambling again.
Hmmm they may have a bias but there are a lot of them. I tend to agree with them but then again they are my friends and I most likely share the bias. To further explain my point:
Undergrad program curriculum seem to look a lot like a checklist and not a very deep one at that. I always thought that checklists were for Trade Schools, not Universities. So when did University curriculum switch to trade preparation? Are the jobs available so specialized now that even the Undergrads need such single-minded exam passing methods? I always thought you were there to learn how to learn, to receive the tools you would need to further your own education. Seems to me that what gets churned out are a lot of dead ends instead of a lot of open minds.
Completely agree. Most of the people I meet who have degrees can barely carry on a conversation, much less be an effective employee. Just because you are capable of showing up on time doesn't mean you've learned anything. University curriculum is a joke for the majority of the departments and doesn't get even remotely rigorous until you've entered a graduate program. At least that is what my graduate degree and post doc friends tell me...
I don't even have an associate's degree, seemed like a big waste of time for the career I'm in and truthfully it would have been... though a master's in communication would eventually help me, after 10 years of ladder climbing, who knows if what I learned then would even be relevant though?
"rhetorical question. If you follow around US federal reserve notes,from the second they are poof created, they are all tax dollars already, ie, it's all been taxed into government ownership previously. If you are dealing in FRNs, none of it is your property. None, zero. It's all the governments (well, a private banks paper), and they let you use some of it. And being legal debt instruments, they start out as a debt, and you get paid with a debt,you attempt to pay off a debt by transferring another debt, and so on. They retax their own debt, and so on. " Just remember that nobody generates value... we just move it around anyways... my labor for your goods, my goods for your labor, my currency which represents my labor for your goods, the currency still represents my labor, but it is backed by cumulative debt of millions who owe labor or goods to us all... either as a result of a trade that happened today or one that happened twenty years ago and is still being repaid...
yes the tax process is over simplified when you realize how the trade economy really works and it probably errs on the side of government but at the same time can you imagine having to deal with tax law that was any more complicated than it is now?
So anyways, when does a complicated trade economy become a con? Do you think your labor is overvalued? maybe you're work isn't worth nearly as much as you think... if so then you are a part of 'the con'. How do you determine the value of labor anyways?
The alternative would be to directly trade without currency, man would that be a pain... I mean who do you trade with to get a car? The guys who make it, the guys who designed it, the guys who shipped it, the guys who manage it all?
Personally I think the current system works pretty damn well all things considered. The streets are paved, the sewers work, the land is protected, laws are upheld, water is available, trash is disposed of... utilities work almost all the time...;-p
I don't mind being taxed for those things. The people who manage it all might get overpaid a little... don't know cause I can't be bothered to find out, I'm too busy living my life, thanks to those people I don't have to worry about any of it, just pay taxes. yep, I trade labor for convenience. who'd a thunk it?
Did it happen to be released right after the Columbine, CO killings? If so then you have your answer.
Americans really responded to news of junior high kids serially massacreing their fellow students.
Has anything like it happened in Japan or is it all an imaginary situation, possibly based on the prozac induced insanity that happened in our own backyard?
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Seeing as how Mars has 1/3rd earth gravity and seeing as how less gravity causes bone loss because our bodies need to respond to our own weight to maintain bone density, seems to me that the ideal suit would be one which weighed just enough to compensate for the lack of gravity. Hopefully the amount of shielding needed would not account for all the extra weight so you could make suits one-size-fits-all and just add extra weight as needed per person.
How many Ferraris do you own? How about Armani suits? What about a Rolex or a pair of Ferragamo shoes?
Fashionable has never been equated with commodity. Fashion sets the trend, then the rest of the industry tries to match it while balancing supply and demand to the lowest common denominator.
They've already put their domain up for sale!
This will become a popular game title. It has several elements useful in a game... a compelling story, defined scenes, a villain and episodes of discreet action that are easily translated into gameplay. If you are going to make a direct movie to game translation these are the things you need in the movie. If not, follow the example of a previous post wherein the game sticks to the spirit of the movie, not the plot. Keep the characters consistent and keep the background story consistent... everything else can be arbitrary.
System profiler will show you installed kernel extensions etc. as well as a full list of applications. It does not show you command line executables however, just packages.
.ai, .doc, etc. one at a time, look through for anything supicious, then filter them all out again to see what's left. Start looking.
Do a search on created and modified dates including hidden files. This should show you any new stuff. Filter on known extensions..
1mm is awful thin... why not use kevlar and carbon fibre at 15mm? BTW how do we achieve vacuum in the lab, surely we don't use materials unknown to man?
In any case pressure drops the further you get from the surface so just use gas to get you high enough then start pumping it out of cells or just let it escape through natural expansion through a one way valve, then pump out the rest to create more lift as needed.
Oh the other thing i forgot is that when using rigid materials you don't need to use a sphere... any shape will do for a vacuum container, a long elipse for instance or an aerodynamically designed wing....
just a few random thoughts
The sad thing is that as of right now Oil is the only thing the entire nation of Iraq has to trade. Until now it has been run soley for the benefit of one man. Until now the entire nation of Iraq has been subjected to slow attrition by means of genocide.
Nobody seems to realize that we may be fighting a war for something other than material gain. And that does include the right of a people to construction, production and transportation and yes even amortization. Yes a whole new economy will soon exist in the world and it will benefit us all.
BTW we still need plastic and all the other products created from petroleum.
Low power devices have been powered via hand-crank for decades. Future and current tech could also allow for kinematic energy, ie: pendulum or flywheel based generators like found in some watches. There is always solar power and I seem to recall some researchers in Japan developing a glucose powered generator ;-p though carrying around big sacks of fructose syrup may not work out so well... maybe dual purpose human/electronics energy source?
In any case there are many alternatives to battery power and even battery power should be well-improved by the time this system is ready to deploy... 3 years out we'll have those long lasting hydrogen cells powered by methanol or the like.
Oh yeah, I just recalled that people are working on RF based power collectors for low power devices, like sensors.. basically collects power from ambient radio waves.
Lots of options here.
As for the sensitivity of electronics... many advances have been made in that field, especially in solid state devices like memory.
I think you may be underestimating the capabilities... especially when you're not talking about bleeding edge stuff, the applications described don't need the lastest tech, they need ruggedized, miniaturized but mature tech that is already available with some integration methods which are becoming available "real soon".
Hmmm.... while you are correct, I believe that Apple knows that real developers will understand exactly how to use this SDK.
They also know that this news will get published internationally and be a major PR move for them... so, they use a dumbed down version that more laymen and would-be technology editors and reviewers can understand so as to get the most bang for their PR buck.
Need examples?
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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057
Two separate cases. Possibly due to lax security but not because there weren't policies in place.
huh? the whole escrow service was the scam... the scammer set up a fake website that appeared to be secured and verified somehow... in fact the website apparently was taken down as soon as the package was shipped... not to mention the domain was connected to an individual not a company and and how could you not see that it is an obvious scam?
Social Engineering "as we know it" is going to be impossible to combat or educate against.
No amount of technology or education can or more accurately 'will' stop SE from being effective.
The only hope is that most thieves are too dumb to use it.Those who are smart enough almost deserve to get away with it.
SE requires knowledge of methods, practices and the weaknesses inherent in such.
A smart business will simply acknowledge the existence of such and absorb minimal losses associated... and raise prices accordingly. Very similar to piracy of IP.
It will happen and you can do very little to stop it and what you can do will cost you more than the loss involved.
Soooooo.... minimize, minimize, minimize.... your losses as much as possible by identifying effective deterents and ignoring all else.
I'm sure companies do this already.... co this may or may not have been an effective exercise... was it realistic in terms of statistical attempts to steal merchandise? Probably not though it can identify weak areas in security that can be improved to catch less skilled SE perps...
Why yes, we can imagine NBA fans fighting each other over a lost game... in fact, several riots broke out in LA one year, 2000 to be exact it did happen..
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here's a 'mellow' account of what happened:
http://www.canoe.ca/NBAPlayoffs00/jun21_nba.htm
" LOS ANGELES -- Conclusions arrived late Monday night after authorities locked reporters into the Staples Center for their own protection from overindulgent, so-called "fans:"
1) Post-game statistical breakdown: Helicopters covering the breaking -- as in glass -- story of the riot after the NBA final outnumbered torched vehicles 8-5. The police lost two squad cars to the flames.
2) In the midst of a riot, one does not know whether to turn from, or to, nervous police wielding truncheons and wearing full riot gear, although it should be said that every Los Angeles police officer who was encountered during one reporter's nervous post-game dash to his rental car was polite, helpful and respectful.
3) The Indiana Pacers, a team full of heart and pluck, lost the championship series to the Los Angeles Lakers not necessarily because of Shaquille O'Neal's scoring, but because they were not able to control the Lakers' offensive rebounding. "
Dude, I really want to see this parallel universe... doesn't he even have pictures?
touche, you certainly know economic Straw Man well enough. I agree and concur with this posting, though I'd love to read what you're 'long' post would be as well.
;( but I think it could be inferred from my comments about past debts that the system includes future debt... ie: we are still paying for past debts and are creating new ones for the future generations to pay for with their labor/taxes.
I try not to think about future debt too much
Your point about notes vs certificates is well stated and yes according to the economic straw-man whatever, they won't admit to it anyways... each US born citizen is valued around 800k when they are assigned their ssn and birth certificate, hmmm certificate, sounds like they give it to your parents whom assume that debt in your stead when they accept the certificate of birth... then at 18 years they pass it on to you to work off. In return you get a vote and security and whatever else a US citizen has by right of birth.
Well... if you never take advantage of any of those birth rights you have been screwed... too bad they don't tell you these things in high school or even undergrad school. More people would figure out how to at least redeem their blank check, which of course is backed by their tax dollars. Seems to me I do recall something called a "Social contract" though... maybe this is what they were talking about, just without the dollar values?
I'm rambling, but you already said all the good stuff.
thanks for the reply.
p.s. makes you wonder why the conservatives are Pro-Life though... more notes and certificates to issue, more people to redeem those debts. How can the wealthy create more wealth for themselves if the poor aren't pumping out children to pay for it all? In the meanwhile we should be encouraging immigration so that we can lessen the burden on our selves... people from out of the country aren't accounted for as tax payers but they still pay taxes and perform labor... brand new wealth but undocumented... sorry rambling again.
So you're spaceship never breaks the sound barrier? What is the technology you speak of and why haven't you entered the contest?
IBM seems to be playing both sides this time around. Anyone know any juicy details?
Hmmm they may have a bias but there are a lot of them. I tend to agree with them but then again they are my friends and I most likely share the bias. To further explain my point:
Undergrad program curriculum seem to look a lot like a checklist and not a very deep one at that. I always thought that checklists were for Trade Schools, not Universities. So when did University curriculum switch to trade preparation? Are the jobs available so specialized now that even the Undergrads need such single-minded exam passing methods? I always thought you were there to learn how to learn, to receive the tools you would need to further your own education. Seems to me that what gets churned out are a lot of dead ends instead of a lot of open minds.
Completely agree. Most of the people I meet who have degrees can barely carry on a conversation, much less be an effective employee. Just because you are capable of showing up on time doesn't mean you've learned anything. University curriculum is a joke for the majority of the departments and doesn't get even remotely rigorous until you've entered a graduate program. At least that is what my graduate degree and post doc friends tell me...
I don't even have an associate's degree, seemed like a big waste of time for the career I'm in and truthfully it would have been... though a master's in communication would eventually help me, after 10 years of ladder climbing, who knows if what I learned then would even be relevant though?
"rhetorical question. If you follow around US federal reserve notes,from the second they are poof created, they are all tax dollars already, ie, it's all been taxed into government ownership previously. If you are dealing in FRNs, none of it is your property. None, zero. It's all the governments (well, a private banks paper), and they let you use some of it. And being legal debt instruments, they start out as a debt, and you get paid with a debt,you attempt to pay off a debt by transferring another debt, and so on. They retax their own debt, and so on.
;-p
"
Just remember that nobody generates value... we just move it around anyways... my labor for your goods, my goods for your labor, my currency which represents my labor for your goods, the currency still represents my labor, but it is backed by cumulative debt of millions who owe labor or goods to us all... either as a result of a trade that happened today or one that happened twenty years ago and is still being repaid...
yes the tax process is over simplified when you realize how the trade economy really works and it probably errs on the side of government but at the same time can you imagine having to deal with tax law that was any more complicated than it is now?
So anyways, when does a complicated trade economy become a con? Do you think your labor is overvalued? maybe you're work isn't worth nearly as much as you think... if so then you are a part of 'the con'. How do you determine the value of labor anyways?
The alternative would be to directly trade without currency, man would that be a pain... I mean who do you trade with to get a car? The guys who make it, the guys who designed it, the guys who shipped it, the guys who manage it all?
Personally I think the current system works pretty damn well all things considered. The streets are paved, the sewers work, the land is protected, laws are upheld, water is available, trash is disposed of... utilities work almost all the time...
I don't mind being taxed for those things. The people who manage it all might get overpaid a little... don't know cause I can't be bothered to find out, I'm too busy living my life, thanks to those people I don't have to worry about any of it, just pay taxes. yep, I trade labor for convenience. who'd a thunk it?
So do you.
...or a printing press!
Did it happen to be released right after the Columbine, CO killings? If so then you have your answer.
Americans really responded to news of junior high kids serially massacreing their fellow students.
Has anything like it happened in Japan or is it all an imaginary situation, possibly based on the prozac induced insanity that happened in our own backyard?
The gubment has set up a site for web site design...
www.usability.gov
could be useful
Thanks again BTW, you've just given me my new sig ;-p
"Don't know whether it's new, of course... but I did figure only sociopathic punsters like me would notice it."
unless it was used earlier in this discussion I think you may have just introduced a new word into the english language..
pickpacket
nice word.