Instead of a levitated tube use more conventional means, balloons filled with hydrogen or helium. Let the balloons float it up, tethers hold it down and on target.
That should take a huge challenge out of the requirements. Balloons are cheap to build and maintain. They have a very low failure rate and the failure mode is very controllable with redundancy eg two balloons for each support node with heavy weights on them that can be dropped.
Really the entire structure could be held above ground in this way. Floated and tethered means no earthquake fears, no need to claim right of way, less environmental impact, no digging or foundation work, etc etc. just build the tube, build a tower as its start point then extend it straight out into space with more tube/track. Would be a perfectly straight line that does not follow curvature of the planet.
I tried creating on a PC but it was very unergonokic to lug it out to countryside where I was going to paint. So instead I got a tablet and a brush stylus. Much easier. Brushed some color references, sketched out a composition, then took some photos and video to remember the location better. Dropped a marker on a map using GPS so I could return later. Then I went home and sat in a comfortable lounge chair and finished the painting, uploaded to my portfolio and to Etsy to sell prints.
Node is gaining popularity because developers focused on web facing applications can write both client and server in the same language. It's a vote for convenience while attempting to address performance and scalability (don't know enough about Node to judge their success).
Microsoft has tried the same with Silverlight. It wasn't accessible enough.
I bought my wife an iPhone to replace a broken laptop. It's her only connected device. What's not smart about that? It does everything she needs and cost less and is available wherever she goes while caring for the kids. The kids play educational games on it.
We have unlimited data on AT&T and pay ~$50 mo. x 2 (I also have one) with limited call time since we pretty much just use free IM chat with each other.
Our phones are really the equivalent of a laptop for us. The phone part is like Skype. It's just another function - not the primary use case.
A good reason is that the people who make websites and web apps are leaving you behind.
IE6 is dead, IE7 has 1 year left. IE8 2 years at best and only because the Chinese are stuck with it for now (webkit is making in-roads via the Chromium engine) FF 3.6 is dead. FF 4.0 has 1 year left.
Sorry but in the near future (2013) there will be staple websites that just will not run in those dead browsers. There is too much to gain with newer tech that is fast maturing. Call it HTML 5 or whatever you want but it's coming.
I use Apple devices because they DO work better, for me. Windows has never been a good fit, always got in the way more than it ever enabled. Linux and other options are not and have not been viable for me. Sure I could use any PC to do work but effectively? No. Apples devices get out of my way. They do what I want them to, enable me, empower me.
Yes even the hardware. I can't stand non-Apple trackpads. So clumsy. Non-Apple PCs also generally have too much cruft. Too many useless function keys and buttons, all of which suck up resources, get in the way and are poorly thought out.
Same is true of Windows. Too much unnecessary crap getting in the way. Every window has a pointless toolbar, every controll panel has 50 tabbed views crammed in. Search never worked, still doesn't.
I can keep going but it really comes down to the fact that Apple's technology implementations were and are the best. That makes me more productive which means I am more successful.
So yeah I think they deserve their present success.
Technically it doesn't have to be as hard as bone if the recipient wears a brace or stays off the affected area. Anything that would have the other properties will likely be strong enough and hard enough to support the regrowth period.
Did you ever ask why? Maybe h wanted to be closer to family or maybe the schools were better. There are plenty of good reasons to live in a community distant from your work and having the freedom to make that choice is amazing.
Personally I hate commuting but if given the right circumstances (better job vs. commute vs. housing options vs. community benefits) its a choice I want to have and would rather not be penalized unnecessarily for making the choice to commute.
I lost my house (shortsale) and had to move to a new state to find work. When the scenario is one person in ten thousand then it's likely they had poor judgement. When it's nine thousand out of ten thousand the system was flawed. When the system failed it snowballed creating a gap in the economy, which ended in high unemployment through a cascade of lost revenue.
My loan was fine when I was fully employed. Companies stopped spending because the banks stopped loaning money so I had no clients. No clients, no income.
Risky mortgages propped up a false economy and high home prices. This was not common knowledge or even discoverable by a well informed home buyer.
I was defrauded and lost my principal and equity. The mortgage industry and banks are culpable for this travesty. They were both aware and in control of the factors which lead to the false economy.
I was lucky to be able to cut my losses. Not many are/were so lucky and we all deserve justice.
That's their plan. They'll be the only ones able to coordinate their stockpiles of food, water and ammunition. Well other than the military, police and emergency services. They'll be kings for a week at least!
Try to think of it this way. A web app is to the modern web what a form was for the web you are nostalgic for.
Neither a web app or a form page were a web "page" as in static, read only with text/images.
Forms did (do?) stuff. They send data to the server to be processed by a server based application.
A WebApp also does stuff. The difference (and only real difference) is that rather than send data to be processed on a server it processes it right there on the "client". The only server access needed is #1 to download, #2 to populate with any data not supplied by the user (1st or 3rd party).
All this animation fear you have is completely unrelated to and likely contrary to the stated goal of providing simple tools to get work done (for some value of work).
GEARS was the reference implementation for what has now become an HTML5 standard, WebWorkers. WebWorkers are not really about offline capabilities, local storage is the key there. There are OTOH about background processes that can run without blocking an app and later notify it when the unit of work is complete. This does mean that many traditional tasks on the desktop are now possible in a browser app, whereas previously those background tasks would need to be done on a server - which is the connection to offline apps (not required for offline apps but required for sophisticated client side apps of any kind ).
Let me guess, it was also 24 in. deep and ~72 lbs heavy? Sorry gramps nobody wants a CRT. Imagine scaling that up any bigger. Now try putting two side by side. Sure the resolution was great but the retina burn in and general awkwardness of such beasts (not to mention the cost) were killers.
Ah but don't you think the artist should/have an organization to back them? Surely Metallica and U2 have as much to gain from this suit as the plaintiffs.
Certainly much like any class action type of suit you would want to have a pitiable plaintiff rather than one with tons of cash and the lifestyle of success.
The surface irregularities mentioned are in microns. At that scale it's entirely possible that the research and application would involve material science to a great degree. The basic theoretical simulation work? Maybe not as much. The applied science, very much.
Facebook did not create wealth. It merely took wealth from other entertainment industries such as the tv and magazine/newspaper industries. Marketing dollars don't go up when a new ad platform arrives, they just get reapportioned.
A Facebook takeover campaign cost $400,000 for a week in early 2010. That was money not paid for full page ads in magazines or CPC campaigns on Google. No new wealth, just a different and temporary reallocation.
I believe we have laws against tax evasion. If the guy really lives in Cayman Islands, is no longer a resident and can still own a US corp then he/she should not pay income taxes but also gets no benefits.
If you start a business and lose 20k then that is a write off. Same with capital gains, gambling losses, etc. For long term investments you could write off the principal once but at any time up to a date of sale/liquidity, then would need to include the gains plus principal when they are realized/liquid again, optionally rolling them over to a new investment.
So yes you get a negative tax. If your only income was from capital gains then no you don't get a refund as you did not put anything in to be refunded during that tax year (just like profit loss from business).
Not so hard to follow.
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You're probably correct in absolute terms as our government doesn't know how to budget for lean times. A responsible organization otoh would set aside short term windfalls, reinvest a percentage each year in low gain industry and be prepared to pay out when the time came.
The outcome if nothing else will set the value of a digital good to be a) the same as its physical counterpart (disc) or b) less than as it has no resale value.
If you can't sell that music you bought or licensed then its value should be much lower.
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Instead of a levitated tube use more conventional means, balloons filled with hydrogen or helium. Let the balloons float it up, tethers hold it down and on target.
That should take a huge challenge out of the requirements. Balloons are cheap to build and maintain. They have a very low failure rate and the failure mode is very controllable with redundancy eg two balloons for each support node with heavy weights on them that can be dropped.
Really the entire structure could be held above ground in this way. Floated and tethered means no earthquake fears, no need to claim right of way, less environmental impact, no digging or foundation work, etc etc. just build the tube, build a tower as its start point then extend it straight out into space with more tube/track. Would be a perfectly straight line that does not follow curvature of the planet.
I tried creating on a PC but it was very unergonokic to lug it out to countryside where I was going to paint. So instead I got a tablet and a brush stylus. Much easier. Brushed some color references, sketched out a composition, then took some photos and video to remember the location better. Dropped a marker on a map using GPS so I could return later. Then I went home and sat in a comfortable lounge chair and finished the painting, uploaded to my portfolio and to Etsy to sell prints.
Creative enough?
Node is gaining popularity because developers focused on web facing applications can write both client and server in the same language. It's a vote for convenience while attempting to address performance and scalability (don't know enough about Node to judge their success).
Microsoft has tried the same with Silverlight. It wasn't accessible enough.
I thought it was awesome. Kudos. And I'm some random guy. That tells you something?
I bought my wife an iPhone to replace a broken laptop. It's her only connected device. What's not smart about that? It does everything she needs and cost less and is available wherever she goes while caring for the kids. The kids play educational games on it.
We have unlimited data on AT&T and pay ~$50 mo. x 2 (I also have one) with limited call time since we pretty much just use free IM chat with each other.
Our phones are really the equivalent of a laptop for us. The phone part is like Skype. It's just another function - not the primary use case.
A good reason is that the people who make websites and web apps are leaving you behind.
IE6 is dead, IE7 has 1 year left. IE8 2 years at best and only because the Chinese are stuck with it for now (webkit is making in-roads via the Chromium engine) FF 3.6 is dead. FF 4.0 has 1 year left.
Sorry but in the near future (2013) there will be staple websites that just will not run in those dead browsers. There is too much to gain with newer tech that is fast maturing. Call it HTML 5 or whatever you want but it's coming.
I use Apple devices because they DO work better, for me. Windows has never been a good fit, always got in the way more than it ever enabled. Linux and other options are not and have not been viable for me. Sure I could use any PC to do work but effectively? No. Apples devices get out of my way. They do what I want them to, enable me, empower me.
Yes even the hardware. I can't stand non-Apple trackpads. So clumsy. Non-Apple PCs also generally have too much cruft. Too many useless function keys and buttons, all of which suck up resources, get in the way and are poorly thought out.
Same is true of Windows. Too much unnecessary crap getting in the way. Every window has a pointless toolbar, every controll panel has 50 tabbed views crammed in. Search never worked, still doesn't.
I can keep going but it really comes down to the fact that Apple's technology implementations were and are the best. That makes me more productive which means I am more successful.
So yeah I think they deserve their present success.
Technically it doesn't have to be as hard as bone if the recipient wears a brace or stays off the affected area. Anything that would have the other properties will likely be strong enough and hard enough to support the regrowth period.
Did you ever ask why? Maybe h wanted to be closer to family or maybe the schools were better. There are plenty of good reasons to live in a community distant from your work and having the freedom to make that choice is amazing.
Personally I hate commuting but if given the right circumstances (better job vs. commute vs. housing options vs. community benefits) its a choice I want to have and would rather not be penalized unnecessarily for making the choice to commute.
I lost my house (shortsale) and had to move to a new state to find work. When the scenario is one person in ten thousand then it's likely they had poor judgement. When it's nine thousand out of ten thousand the system was flawed. When the system failed it snowballed creating a gap in the economy, which ended in high unemployment through a cascade of lost revenue.
My loan was fine when I was fully employed. Companies stopped spending because the banks stopped loaning money so I had no clients. No clients, no income.
Risky mortgages propped up a false economy and high home prices. This was not common knowledge or even discoverable by a well informed home buyer.
I was defrauded and lost my principal and equity. The mortgage industry and banks are culpable for this travesty. They were both aware and in control of the factors which lead to the false economy.
I was lucky to be able to cut my losses. Not many are/were so lucky and we all deserve justice.
The other nuts who have backup phones!
That's their plan. They'll be the only ones able to coordinate their stockpiles of food, water and ammunition. Well other than the military, police and emergency services. They'll be kings for a week at least!
Take another look.
http://processing.org/
It's been ported to nearly every language, does 2d and 3d, has a straightforward syntax and lots of math libraries, physics engines, etc etc.
Try to think of it this way. A web app is to the modern web what a form was for the web you are nostalgic for.
Neither a web app or a form page were a web "page" as in static, read only with text/images.
Forms did (do?) stuff. They send data to the server to be processed by a server based application.
A WebApp also does stuff. The difference (and only real difference) is that rather than send data to be processed on a server it processes it right there on the "client". The only server access needed is #1 to download, #2 to populate with any data not supplied by the user (1st or 3rd party).
All this animation fear you have is completely unrelated to and likely contrary to the stated goal of providing simple tools to get work done (for some value of work).
GEARS was the reference implementation for what has now become an HTML5 standard, WebWorkers. WebWorkers are not really about offline capabilities, local storage is the key there. There are OTOH about background processes that can run without blocking an app and later notify it when the unit of work is complete. This does mean that many traditional tasks on the desktop are now possible in a browser app, whereas previously those background tasks would need to be done on a server - which is the connection to offline apps (not required for offline apps but required for sophisticated client side apps of any kind ).
Why not downgrade to iOS4?
If some app doesn't support iOS4 then complain to the devs.
Let me guess, it was also 24 in. deep and ~72 lbs heavy? Sorry gramps nobody wants a CRT. Imagine scaling that up any bigger. Now try putting two side by side. Sure the resolution was great but the retina burn in and general awkwardness of such beasts (not to mention the cost) were killers.
Ah but don't you think the artist should/have an organization to back them? Surely Metallica and U2 have as much to gain from this suit as the plaintiffs.
Certainly much like any class action type of suit you would want to have a pitiable plaintiff rather than one with tons of cash and the lifestyle of success.
The surface irregularities mentioned are in microns. At that scale it's entirely possible that the research and application would involve material science to a great degree. The basic theoretical simulation work? Maybe not as much. The applied science, very much.
Facebook did not create wealth. It merely took wealth from other entertainment industries such as the tv and magazine/newspaper industries. Marketing dollars don't go up when a new ad platform arrives, they just get reapportioned.
A Facebook takeover campaign cost $400,000 for a week in early 2010. That was money not paid for full page ads in magazines or CPC campaigns on Google. No new wealth, just a different and temporary reallocation.
I believe we have laws against tax evasion. If the guy really lives in Cayman Islands, is no longer a resident and can still own a US corp then he/she should not pay income taxes but also gets no benefits.
If you start a business and lose 20k then that is a write off. Same with capital gains, gambling losses, etc. For long term investments you could write off the principal once but at any time up to a date of sale/liquidity, then would need to include the gains plus principal when they are realized/liquid again, optionally rolling them over to a new investment.
So yes you get a negative tax. If your only income was from capital gains then no you don't get a refund as you did not put anything in to be refunded during that tax year (just like profit loss from business).
Not so hard to follow.
You're probably correct in absolute terms as our government doesn't know how to budget for lean times. A responsible organization otoh would set aside short term windfalls, reinvest a percentage each year in low gain industry and be prepared to pay out when the time came.
Again, probably too much to ask for though.
The outcome if nothing else will set the value of a digital good to be a) the same as its physical counterpart (disc) or b) less than as it has no resale value.
If you can't sell that music you bought or licensed then its value should be much lower.
Start here
http://addyosmani.com/blog/short-musings-on-javascript-mv-tech-stacks/
Then go here
http://dailyjs.com/2010/02/18/framework/
And continue reading
http://dailyjs.com/tags.html#lmaf
Then read up on AMD and CommonJS along with RequireJS and Node (server side JS).
You will want to understand JSON intimately.
You can't avoid Jquery but its no longer essential with Underscore and Backbone libraries.
Dojo and ExtJs are also interesting.
There is a History of JavaScript series on DailyJS as well that will prove useful.
Good luck.