Things can be dual licensed... lots of software is licensed OSS as well as commercial for just these reasons of conflicting prior agreements. So entities with legal contracts restraining them could license the material in some non-conflicting way as long as it's also release to PD or CC.
Please... you think those Greeks weren't milking their Olympic games events for every penny nail they could get donated? A lot has changed since the Greeks were the shiznit but some things never change... manpower is still manpower and it still costs resources.. if you can get it for the price of sponsorship rather than grain or timber... hell yeah, you can't trade status very often anyways... it's only valuable to the first person who gets it... nobody likes sloppy seconds.
That just means the installation must be really efficient to compete with existing energy providers... or existing energy providers must become as expensive as this new energy producer. I suspect that in 20 years they will be close to meeting in the middle.
Depends on operating costs for a Fusion reactor... if the upfront cost can be paid back in another 20 years and operating expenses do not eat up more than half the revenue.. it will do well. If operating costs/upgrades/maintenance/etc. do eat up the majority of revenues and it has to be subsidized for very long well may as well leave it as experimental tech that we may use for a spaceship or something (after we spend big bucks to miniaturize it somehow).
It's gravitational entanglement that keeps everything in line of course... it comes from everything with mass (which is everything that is something) and it acts at a distance so things don't even need to be near each other to affect each other. In fact I'm affecting all of you right now with my little slice of gravity... sure it ain't much but it does the job.
The question is, with gravity, does the moon orbit with the center of the earth, or does it orbit with where the center of the earth was 1.2 seconds ago. If the moon orbits with the center of the earth, then gravity is not subject to the speed of light. If it orbits with where the earth was 1.2 seconds ago, then it is subject to the speed of light. From everything I've ever studied, there has never been any mention of this being differentiated. I've never heard it brought up even. It is a 20 mile difference in where the center of the moon's orbit should be. Such a distance should be measurable with our current level of technology. This is of course keeping in mind that both bodies orbit around a common center of mass, but still, the location of the centers should be off by where the moon and earth were 1.2 seconds earlier.
- find the reference yourself... it's not impressive but it's a good question.
The reason people interpret is to get to the next level. Ever played a puzzle game where you didn't know how everything worked? You wander around gathering clues as to how the system operates and then make a leap of faith, sometimes quite literally... going someplace off screen or where there doesn't appear to be anything but based on the clues you just know there should be something there. These clues are not empirical evidence... they're just clues that give you hunches and you follow them up based on intuition.
Sometimes they work out and you get to the next level. Or maybe you're the type who buys the Game Guide because you don't know how to interpret and need facts to make a decision. "Oh that's where it was? Would've never guessed it." - Some people do guess it.
Interpretations allow you to create a fictional model that has merit based on your observations. Philosophy has a lot to do with this. Philosophy is your baseline assumption about how things SHOULD work in an ideal system for what you WANT to find out.
The problem most people have is that they subscribe to only one Philosophy... which limits their options. They do this because they want to be a champion... they want to have continuity in their lives... they want to be the guy who bet on a long shot and won, just to prove the other guy/world wrong and they're right.
A better methodology is to accept all Philosophy as potential starting points for creating your models of systems. Each may be valid in a special circumstance and one may become the most valid over time for the most circumstances... but you shouldn't simply throw the others out, if they are elegant then they are elegant and should be kept around as an example of an elegant philosophy which just doesn't fit the data, right now.
Tiger Toes. You know the old game rhyme, 'catch a tiger by it's toe, if he hollers let him go, my mama told me to pick the very best one and you are IT!'
See IT is in that rhyme and the 'buttons' that get clicked are simply graphical representations of Tiger Toes... you pick one and then it's the one you picked. Simple really and it has nothing to do with tabs.. which BTW are taken from paper organization products, which doesn't make any sense on a computer.
Furthermore: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!
He's the creator and has every right to monetize his creation as much as possible but a broadway play? Why not a musical? does he have no integrity left?
This is why I went back to DC (Darkhorse) comics in the early 90s when I was still an avid comic book reader... the Marvel stories had gone all disney and merchandising on me. This is like Lucas rewriting the star wars history to include Jar Jar and adding Mitochlorians to explain the force... bullshit for the masses with no imagination. It's like when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got turned into pizza eating surfer dudes by Archie comics instead of the violent vengeful outcasts that they were when Eastman and Laird created them (wishing those guys could have made some money off their original characters instead of having to sell out to take care of their families).
#1 isn't the issue then... assuming that the browser is rich enough in capability to do the job. AFAIK iPhone has all the rich clients 99% of people are interested in. Email, IM, Web. Web is the catchall... for typical applications it will be enough even with limited connectivity. You only need to download the script libraries once for apps like Writely or Google Docs... then it's just sending and receiving small 100k packets for updating text. I wouldn't want to use Adobe's new online Photoshop tools with low bandwidth but if I was on a WiFi network I might try it out.
I think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yes it could be better and probably will improve in the next gen but they probably went with something less ambitious for good reasons... price, stability, maturity and availability would be good reasons. Are those next gen networks available in all areas or just major metros? They obviously cost more right now and would simply add to the cost of the subscription... and benefit a minority of users.
I could go on but this is a 'nuff said moment... without case examples available there's really no data to discuss.
#1 will be circumvented by everyone via web applications. Google will give you office apps, email and chat, 37 Signals will give you project management tools, MySpace will... well whatever it is that MySpace does. Lots more will get started, optimized for ease of use on phones too... forget WAP it's full Web2.0 capability only in a smallish form factor.
Q: What's the most expensive official iPod Apple has ever sold to consumers?
A: Prior to the release of the iPod photo, the answer was limited edition iPods laser-engraved with the buyer's choice of four alternatives: the signatures of musicians Beck or Madonna, the logo of band No Doubt, or the signature of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk. Asking price: $49 over the retail price of each iPod, or $548 for the then top-priced 20 GB iPod. The new premium iPod is the 60GB iPod photo, sold for $599.
I suppose it depends on the region. The product costs the same regardless of where you live but people who live in expensive regions usually also make more money to cover living expenses... so end up having more free income as well proportionally... anyways, I see lots of kids with video iPods around where I live.. and a PSP or Gameboy in the other pocket.
It's been a while since I looked at iPod prices but I assure you that it was $600 for the top of the line iPod photo not more than 2 years ago. Which just goes to show that these prices for the iPhone won't last forever.. they'll go down too.
Parents buy their kids $500/$600 iPods right? (hint... they do) So what's the difference... the parents get to spend $600 on a phone/iPod and can a) save money by not getting their kid the latest iPod and the latest phone or b) spend a little more on the phone aspect of it but gain a lot of capability (mapping, web browser, etc) for their kid.. we're talking 14 yr olds here not 5 yr olds in any case. And hey, throw a calculator, an agenda and bookmarks to wikipedia and you just might get away with not buying the kid a computer at all.. just get them the $300 game console and an iPhone and their good to go and can:
1) email 2) IM 3) browse websites 4) play handheld games (save an extra $200 by not getting the latest PSP for them) 5) phone 6) addressbook 7) agenda/calendar
When my kid is old enough I'd gladly get them an (advanced) iPhone for $600 + service fee and a $300 game console, if it means I can avoid having to get them a PC + Handheld Gaming + DVD player + Music Player + Phone + Service fees
They want to find out what the MySpace demographic is interested in. Rather than attempt to construct surveys that cover all the things people on MySpace may or may not be interested in they'll just put up current events 'news' articles and see what they think about those. Then through categories and tagging of articles (users may never see the tags but their stats software will) they can do some reasonably accurate analysis of demographic interests.
It's just more data collection... pretty good idea as far as it goes. I wouldn't be surprised if DIGG is doing the same (they should be monetizing it if they're not doing so already).
HTAs are not web applications... they are desktop apps with a GUI written in html + css that has access to web services but is also open to all the browser security problems that come from being a generic internet client app.
Why anyone would want to deal with the extra cruft of a browser when developing a desktop app is beyond me but hey do what you want, not my prob.
All the issues you've brought up are related to using a WEB Browser to do desktop app stuff. FF is not a thin client... it's a WEB Browser so I wouldn't expect it to do all that crap you mentioned. What I would expect it and IE to do is to respect standards and maintain an reasonable level of security on the WEB.
If it's a clone it's a normal animal, if the procedure to do the cloning works correctly... with the same dna as it's older sibling, like somehow having twins that were born months or years apart. How that dna is expressed as genes and proteins, etc is not predetemined... so a cow cloned from a white cow with a big black patch over it's eye will probably have a black patch or patches somewhere but not necessarily over the eye. A clone is not a mutant or genetically engineered... just genetically replicated (same as invitro or regular sexual reproduction).
So if you pair up two clones from the same dna parent... well it's the same as pairing up two siblings... could be a problem. Pair up two clones from separate dna parents... no problems.
On the topic of MHDs, it appears that they can also produce energy.....
Would be interesting to see a combination effort to create a Magnetohydrodynamics Generator to generate both electricity and a magnetic field. Power the ship and protect it from basic radiation and small particles at the same time.
So what you're saying is that our spaceships don't need a strong magnetic field... they need a really big magnetic field. Good info. So what we need is something that generates a large but relatively weak field and we're in business.
ChapterToolMe is a nice interface for the Apple ChapterTool utility to make simply chaptered AAC file for your podcast. You can add pictures and link to your chapter in one click.
Feeder is a fully featured application for creating, editing and publishing RSS and iTunes podcast feeds. Here are just some of its many features: Create, download and import RSS 2.0 and iTunes podcast feeds Full support for the iTunes RSS podcasting extensions Drag and drop enclosure files to create new items Automatically tag audio and video files with artwork, artist, etc in all popular podcast formats including MP3s, M4As, M4Vs (iPod video) and QuickTime movies Quick and easy feed editing with auto-complete, templates, HTML tags and previews Customizable interface easily adapts to the task at hand Validates feeds to the RSS and iTunes specifications Upload artwork and enclosure files when publishing Publish with FTP, SFTP,.Mac or to folders on disk Ping online services after publishing to notify them of changes
If not I'm sure that someone somewhere has wrapped up that CLI tool in a nifty Cocoa GUI app..
Depends how quickly the material liquifies under pressure and then restabiizes... if it does it within milliseconds, migrates to the area left cracked and then hardens in place all you have to worry about is a slightly off plum wall or a wall/foundation with a little shift in it.
Comparing this to an airbag is ridiculous... maybe if you picked crumple zones? Yes crumple zones are a far more accurate comparison if you have to go to vehicle safety measures to make your point.
To answer your statement... this won't prevent initial damage but will definitely stop the cascade effect of one crack leading to another to another and will definitely help with aftershocks, where the building is damaged in the initial quake and then reduced to rubble by the aftershocks, this will seal up the destabilizing cracks so that the aftershocks won't have such an easy job to do.
hmmm good thing we didn't then eh... not any modern version of a monkey in any case... our ancestors split from the modern monkey 10s of millions of years ago, so no we did not evolve from monkeys, though we do have a common ancestor with the great apes way way back 7 million years: Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Here's the timeline if you want to see where we split from monkeys... circa 35 MYA.
OT rant: OH and birth control, preferably through properly timed intercourse, is a much better version of abortion if you don't want children... and marriage is a religious sacrament between a man and a woman for the creation of a familial bond in anticipation of having children... so gay couples who aren't going to adopt or have children via surrogates don't need it, neither do straight couples who don't plan to stay together for more than 5 years. You want a tax break, buy a house. You want non-tax related marriage rights... sign a contract that gives you those rights without the religious ceremony.
Yeah I like their idea more... my first thought when seeing flying turbines was of a giant wind-sock with turbines down the centerline... this MARS thing looks close to that. Keep it aloft with a balloon and you're set... I can see a whole new set of windfarms like this... just a big tethered together set of wind-sock/turbines waving in the jetstream cranking out energy
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Things can be dual licensed... lots of software is licensed OSS as well as commercial for just these reasons of conflicting prior agreements. So entities with legal contracts restraining them could license the material in some non-conflicting way as long as it's also release to PD or CC.
Please... you think those Greeks weren't milking their Olympic games events for every penny nail they could get donated? A lot has changed since the Greeks were the shiznit but some things never change... manpower is still manpower and it still costs resources.. if you can get it for the price of sponsorship rather than grain or timber... hell yeah, you can't trade status very often anyways... it's only valuable to the first person who gets it... nobody likes sloppy seconds.
That just means the installation must be really efficient to compete with existing energy providers... or existing energy providers must become as expensive as this new energy producer. I suspect that in 20 years they will be close to meeting in the middle.
Depends on operating costs for a Fusion reactor... if the upfront cost can be paid back in another 20 years and operating expenses do not eat up more than half the revenue.. it will do well. If operating costs/upgrades/maintenance/etc. do eat up the majority of revenues and it has to be subsidized for very long well may as well leave it as experimental tech that we may use for a spaceship or something (after we spend big bucks to miniaturize it somehow).
The second part of that dialogue:
Mom: You don't have detailed files on Human anatomy though right?
The Cuisinator: *long pause* uhmm NO, wikipedia tells me that is the correct answer.
Son: Mom, I have to get to school.... now Mom, Let's Go! (I love you Mr. Cuisinator).
- find the reference yourself... it's not impressive but it's a good question.
The reason people interpret is to get to the next level. Ever played a puzzle game where you didn't know how everything worked? You wander around gathering clues as to how the system operates and then make a leap of faith, sometimes quite literally... going someplace off screen or where there doesn't appear to be anything but based on the clues you just know there should be something there. These clues are not empirical evidence... they're just clues that give you hunches and you follow them up based on intuition.
Sometimes they work out and you get to the next level. Or maybe you're the type who buys the Game Guide because you don't know how to interpret and need facts to make a decision. "Oh that's where it was? Would've never guessed it." - Some people do guess it.
Interpretations allow you to create a fictional model that has merit based on your observations. Philosophy has a lot to do with this. Philosophy is your baseline assumption about how things SHOULD work in an ideal system for what you WANT to find out.
The problem most people have is that they subscribe to only one Philosophy... which limits their options. They do this because they want to be a champion... they want to have continuity in their lives... they want to be the guy who bet on a long shot and won, just to prove the other guy/world wrong and they're right.
A better methodology is to accept all Philosophy as potential starting points for creating your models of systems. Each may be valid in a special circumstance and one may become the most valid over time for the most circumstances... but you shouldn't simply throw the others out, if they are elegant then they are elegant and should be kept around as an example of an elegant philosophy which just doesn't fit the data, right now.
Tiger Toes. You know the old game rhyme, 'catch a tiger by it's toe, if he hollers let him go, my mama told me to pick the very best one and you are IT!'
See IT is in that rhyme and the 'buttons' that get clicked are simply graphical representations of Tiger Toes... you pick one and then it's the one you picked. Simple really and it has nothing to do with tabs.. which BTW are taken from paper organization products, which doesn't make any sense on a computer.
Furthermore: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!
"Cancel or allow?"
He's the creator and has every right to monetize his creation as much as possible but a broadway play? Why not a musical? does he have no integrity left?
This is why I went back to DC (Darkhorse) comics in the early 90s when I was still an avid comic book reader... the Marvel stories had gone all disney and merchandising on me. This is like Lucas rewriting the star wars history to include Jar Jar and adding Mitochlorians to explain the force... bullshit for the masses with no imagination. It's like when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got turned into pizza eating surfer dudes by Archie comics instead of the violent vengeful outcasts that they were when Eastman and Laird created them (wishing those guys could have made some money off their original characters instead of having to sell out to take care of their families).
#1 isn't the issue then... assuming that the browser is rich enough in capability to do the job. AFAIK iPhone has all the rich clients 99% of people are interested in. Email, IM, Web. Web is the catchall... for typical applications it will be enough even with limited connectivity. You only need to download the script libraries once for apps like Writely or Google Docs... then it's just sending and receiving small 100k packets for updating text. I wouldn't want to use Adobe's new online Photoshop tools with low bandwidth but if I was on a WiFi network I might try it out.
I think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yes it could be better and probably will improve in the next gen but they probably went with something less ambitious for good reasons... price, stability, maturity and availability would be good reasons. Are those next gen networks available in all areas or just major metros? They obviously cost more right now and would simply add to the cost of the subscription... and benefit a minority of users.
I could go on but this is a 'nuff said moment... without case examples available there's really no data to discuss.
Yes we know... you hate EDGE.
#1 will be circumvented by everyone via web applications. Google will give you office apps, email and chat, 37 Signals will give you project management tools, MySpace will... well whatever it is that MySpace does. Lots more will get started, optimized for ease of use on phones too... forget WAP it's full Web2.0 capability only in a smallish form factor.
ilounge would beg to differ in their history of iPod, also I know because several friends of mine went out and bought them ASAP, damn the price... then complained loudly about the price.
I suppose it depends on the region. The product costs the same regardless of where you live but people who live in expensive regions usually also make more money to cover living expenses... so end up having more free income as well proportionally... anyways, I see lots of kids with video iPods around where I live.. and a PSP or Gameboy in the other pocket.
It's been a while since I looked at iPod prices but I assure you that it was $600 for the top of the line iPod photo not more than 2 years ago. Which just goes to show that these prices for the iPhone won't last forever.. they'll go down too.
Parents buy their kids $500/$600 iPods right? (hint... they do) So what's the difference... the parents get to spend $600 on a phone/iPod and can a) save money by not getting their kid the latest iPod and the latest phone or b) spend a little more on the phone aspect of it but gain a lot of capability (mapping, web browser, etc) for their kid.. we're talking 14 yr olds here not 5 yr olds in any case. And hey, throw a calculator, an agenda and bookmarks to wikipedia and you just might get away with not buying the kid a computer at all.. just get them the $300 game console and an iPhone and their good to go and can:
1) email
2) IM
3) browse websites
4) play handheld games (save an extra $200 by not getting the latest PSP for them)
5) phone
6) addressbook
7) agenda/calendar
When my kid is old enough I'd gladly get them an (advanced) iPhone for $600 + service fee and a $300 game console, if it means I can avoid having to get them a PC + Handheld Gaming + DVD player + Music Player + Phone + Service fees
They want to find out what the MySpace demographic is interested in. Rather than attempt to construct surveys that cover all the things people on MySpace may or may not be interested in they'll just put up current events 'news' articles and see what they think about those. Then through categories and tagging of articles (users may never see the tags but their stats software will) they can do some reasonably accurate analysis of demographic interests.
It's just more data collection... pretty good idea as far as it goes. I wouldn't be surprised if DIGG is doing the same (they should be monetizing it if they're not doing so already).
HTAs are not web applications... they are desktop apps with a GUI written in html + css that has access to web services but is also open to all the browser security problems that come from being a generic internet client app.
Why anyone would want to deal with the extra cruft of a browser when developing a desktop app is beyond me but hey do what you want, not my prob.
All the issues you've brought up are related to using a WEB Browser to do desktop app stuff. FF is not a thin client... it's a WEB Browser so I wouldn't expect it to do all that crap you mentioned. What I would expect it and IE to do is to respect standards and maintain an reasonable level of security on the WEB.
If it's a clone it's a normal animal, if the procedure to do the cloning works correctly... with the same dna as it's older sibling, like somehow having twins that were born months or years apart. How that dna is expressed as genes and proteins, etc is not predetemined... so a cow cloned from a white cow with a big black patch over it's eye will probably have a black patch or patches somewhere but not necessarily over the eye. A clone is not a mutant or genetically engineered... just genetically replicated (same as invitro or regular sexual reproduction).
So if you pair up two clones from the same dna parent... well it's the same as pairing up two siblings... could be a problem. Pair up two clones from separate dna parents... no problems.
On the topic of MHDs, it appears that they can also produce energy.....
Would be interesting to see a combination effort to create a Magnetohydrodynamics Generator to generate both electricity and a magnetic field. Power the ship and protect it from basic radiation and small particles at the same time.
So what you're saying is that our spaceships don't need a strong magnetic field... they need a really big magnetic field. Good info. So what we need is something that generates a large but relatively weak field and we're in business.
Fluid Dynamos (which is what the earth uses for it's field) seem like a good candidate.
Replying to myself cause I just found the CLI GUI wrapper for you:
ChapterToolMe
ChapterToolMe is a nice interface for the Apple ChapterTool utility to make simply chaptered AAC file for your podcast. You can add pictures and link to your chapter in one click.
Feeder
If not I'm sure that someone somewhere has wrapped up that CLI tool in a nifty Cocoa GUI app..
Depends how quickly the material liquifies under pressure and then restabiizes... if it does it within milliseconds, migrates to the area left cracked and then hardens in place all you have to worry about is a slightly off plum wall or a wall/foundation with a little shift in it.
Comparing this to an airbag is ridiculous... maybe if you picked crumple zones? Yes crumple zones are a far more accurate comparison if you have to go to vehicle safety measures to make your point.
To answer your statement... this won't prevent initial damage but will definitely stop the cascade effect of one crack leading to another to another and will definitely help with aftershocks, where the building is damaged in the initial quake and then reduced to rubble by the aftershocks, this will seal up the destabilizing cracks so that the aftershocks won't have such an easy job to do.
hmmm good thing we didn't then eh... not any modern version of a monkey in any case... our ancestors split from the modern monkey 10s of millions of years ago, so no we did not evolve from monkeys, though we do have a common ancestor with the great apes way way back 7 million years: Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Here's the timeline if you want to see where we split from monkeys... circa 35 MYA.
OT rant:
OH and birth control, preferably through properly timed intercourse, is a much better version of abortion if you don't want children... and marriage is a religious sacrament between a man and a woman for the creation of a familial bond in anticipation of having children... so gay couples who aren't going to adopt or have children via surrogates don't need it, neither do straight couples who don't plan to stay together for more than 5 years. You want a tax break, buy a house. You want non-tax related marriage rights... sign a contract that gives you those rights without the religious ceremony.
Yeah I like their idea more... my first thought when seeing flying turbines was of a giant wind-sock with turbines down the centerline... this MARS thing looks close to that. Keep it aloft with a balloon and you're set... I can see a whole new set of windfarms like this... just a big tethered together set of wind-sock/turbines waving in the jetstream cranking out energy