It would take way too much delta vee and it would only wind up being a future hazard as parts get banged off of it. And more importantly there's no point in doing so.
It can't maintain it's orbit without regular maintenance so a planned de-orbit is mandatory once the station is no longer in active use. One of the oversights in Skylab was that a de-orbit provision was not included in it's design.
Apple is a company that makes its money primarily through the sale of boutique computer and electronics equipment. Their equipment happens to need an OS. Sure, there are some higher end applications for video and music that have created a niche market, but at the moment they make their money on selling trendy computers and electronics to trendy people at trendy prices.
Not quite true. Apple sells a boutique package. After all if it was just hardware it could have gone the Sony route, folded up it's OS and become Yet Another Windows Clone. What they sell is boutique hardware and a boutique software package optimized for the hardware.... the Digital Lifestyle.
I'm putting my hope for the future of space exploration in private hands. Not because I fetishize the free market, or because I think government is evil, but because human spaceflight is way too important to be put in the hands of the American electorate, which is probably the stupidest and most poorly-informed decision-making body since the Athenian ekklesia.
Private spaceflight if it gets beyond the rich kid stunt level into the practical orbital level will owe much to programs like NASA that never would have found it's genesis in the private sector.
But to be fair, I wouldn't put all of the blame on the American electorate. I'd say a significant amount rests with NASA's continued inability to sell itself to anyone but the Trekkies. They had piles of good material to energise the public, but they never made any use of it.
I know I'm a layperson, but I think astrophysics really needs to move beyond the assumption that if we can't see it it isn't there. The more closely we're able to study space the more we find that it's full of stuff of every size at every conceivable distance. I honestly thing it's safe at this point to assume that nearly every star has planets as a simple matter of the nature of stellar accretion processes, and further that for every star that's bright enough to see there are probably a dozen too dim. This is why we can't figure out dark matter/energy.
If the arrangement of discovered exoplanets has taught us anything, it's that most of our safe classic assumptions need to be wadded up and thrown in the nearest dustbin. And yes you are a layperson who probably knows nothing about the practice of astronomy or astrophysics, or high energy physics. It's not a matter of "seeing" or 'not seeing". If something exists it makes it's imprint, it's footprint in the universe around it, in the gasses it's thrown off, it's interaction with other things or just the presence of it's gravity. Astronomy does not make simplistic assumptions like the one you put out. Right now it's about building the best possible model to fit the observations we make now and predict what we'll make in the future.
Real story: the WHO lacked the guts to put this cellphone nonsense to bed once and for all. Studies that ask people with brain cancers "How much did you use your phone?" are pretty much all they had, and they seem to be the definition of "Confirmation Bias."
In other news, the media fails science forever, but we knew that already.
I think they did put in a bit more effort than that. low level EMF radiation is not a trivial issue. And if you read the reports instead of concentrating on being shrill they did identify particular groups at risk, such as infants whose parents use cellphone music to keep their toddlers quiet and basically park an active phone next to young developing skulls and brains for hours on end. It also depended a lot on shape, Many flip phones because of their geometry kept the radiating part sufficiently away to be much less a concern, but almsot all smartphones today are unibody designs which means the EMF emitting body and screen is in direct contact with your head.
BSD:
OSX: I can't really say much about it. Are OSX Gnome apps considered first class citizens or are they marginalized much the same way it is in windows?
Considering that by it's nature, Gnome doesn't really place nicely with the OSX api, it's more like that it inherently marginalizes itself. Of course there is nothing preventing it from making use of OS X's BSD core or working as a main desktop in a Darwin system which would make that the same as a BSD answer. That of course would require more specific work in each case.
BBCAmerica hasn't created a SciFi network. What they've done is identified a few key shows which appeal to American fans, a.k.a. Doctor Who, Top Gear, Battlestar Galactica, Ramsey's Kitchen Shouting show, and Star Trek, and have used them as anchor points for some other shows to fill in the network. In fact it looks like it's getting to the point where time devoted to Star Trek and American produced shows may actually outweigh the Brit content as far as air time goes. It's essentially a network driven by previously established fan content.
Why every time Foxconn is mentioned it is automatically associated with Apple. Foxconn manufacturers for large number of clients including Logitech and Dell. Maybe I'm just being new again?
You're not a true Slashdotter if you don't bash Apple.... for it's Stallmanesque crime of not being "open" tech..
If he hadn't asked for such an unreasonable amount for his BeOS, he would have been back instead of Jobs.
But then again considering how things turned out, it probably turned out for the best.
What's so bad about those choices is that they all involve design compromises. which make the machine larger, cost more, and don't exactly help with core markets. Thing is all these things you want... are not relevant in Apple's marketing strategy. There is no benefit to apple to compromise it's prime market just to make a dozen tech geeks who probably still won't buy the product happy.
Wozniak is a master of technology and probably computer education. But he's no replacement for the single-minded obsession to detail that is Steve Jobs. However he would be a much nicer person to work for, and maybe he could be the unifing force behind the various heirs that Jobs would leave behind. Only caveat though.... he's no spring chicken himself.
Apple isn't putting anyone in jail. What they did...and did rightly was to tell Toyota to stop encouraging people to jailbreak thier phones and violating thier terms of use.
And quite frankly since hackers in Russia are busy trying to squelch Livejournal to squelch out one of the few unified areas of actual free public discussion and dissent, I've long put aside any myths regarding hackers as misunderstood champions of freedom.
For a short time there was a cooperative experiment going on with MTA, PATH, and NJ Transit which provided a unified sytem of fares that connected a small set of NJ bus lines in the Hoboken/Jersey City area to the New York subway via Path using MasterCard swipe technology. After spending several months installing the neccessary hardware the experiment was yanked about 3 months or less after start up with the only announcement that the program was ending without commentary.
At about the same time, similar "Paypass" payments that I used to make at Duane Reade and Seven/Eleven stopped being processed by Chase, again with no published reason.
It seems to be good indication that NFC has a lot of "not there yet" in terms of security.
.. is really an accidental collateral result of that the purpose of the original project that spawned little miracles like TCP/IP... a self rerouting network that would preserve communication between key military centers in the event of outages caused by a bombardment, conventional or nuclear.
These emregency bunkers have very little to do with the commercial/public Internet of today.
Capitalism is a darwinian process that ultimately leads to monopolism unless active intervention takes place. It happened before in the 19th century and it took trust-busting legislation to correct the problem. The will to use that same kind of power does not exist today, and the monopolies have far greater leverage than they did in the 1800s.
Angy Birds, for example, collects a heck of a lot of personal information on the iPhone. Why? Because the user isn't warned about it. Their Android application has so far been much cleaner, mostly because Android asks the user to give the app permission to access certain data.
They had to.... the writing on the wall was clear for the future of Symbion.... a dead end with no future compared to an operating system that hosts the potential for open-ended application acquisition. In this case it was the marriage of two partners that were desperate for complementary ends. Microsoft needed a hardware vendor that would give it's Mobile platform a renewed reason for existence. And Nokia was left to choose between Google and Microsoft. (remember that while Android may be "free", it's a revenue stream for Google in terms of the Android Store) And apparantly the folks from Redmond were the more aggressive suitor.
Call it what it is: religion. And no, that does not exclude the "Left".
If you see this as only religous blowback, you're having a serious underestimation as to what's at stake for the climate deniers. To accept idea of human-influenced climate change threathens the economic foundations of powerful economic interests who would have thier applecarts severely upset by the changes we'd have to make if we started taking our carbon footprint more seriously as a civilisation. Humans have a profound capability for self-denial that is hardly limited to matters of religion.
Literature isn't a luxury or a fluff science... It goes to the very root on how we communicate to each other on matters not only of idenitity and politic, but of science and it's perception. It is the framework in which thought is expressed, conveyed, and absorbed.
It may be a lot more than two orders of magnitude. We still don't understand quite fully the significance of having a very large satelite like the Moon played in the development of life on this planet. With all the other things that could have gone wrong or ended life on this planet, with the wide scale evidence that almost every exo-system out there shows evidence of extreme violent planetary re-arrangement, we may very well be looking at well well beyond a mere "two" orders of magnitude.
The probability for habitable worlds may be low enough that the average "Earth" may be located so far apart that we may never detect another within the lifetime of our species.
It's quite conceivable that we are effectively alone in the universe, at least to the extent that any other intelligence is located so far away we'll never detect a sign of it, or it, us.
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It would take way too much delta vee and it would only wind up being a future hazard as parts get banged off of it. And more importantly there's no point in doing so. It can't maintain it's orbit without regular maintenance so a planned de-orbit is mandatory once the station is no longer in active use. One of the oversights in Skylab was that a de-orbit provision was not included in it's design.
Apple is a company that makes its money primarily through the sale of boutique computer and electronics equipment. Their equipment happens to need an OS. Sure, there are some higher end applications for video and music that have created a niche market, but at the moment they make their money on selling trendy computers and electronics to trendy people at trendy prices.
Not quite true. Apple sells a boutique package. After all if it was just hardware it could have gone the Sony route, folded up it's OS and become Yet Another Windows Clone. What they sell is boutique hardware and a boutique software package optimized for the hardware.... the Digital Lifestyle.
I'm putting my hope for the future of space exploration in private hands. Not because I fetishize the free market, or because I think government is evil, but because human spaceflight is way too important to be put in the hands of the American electorate, which is probably the stupidest and most poorly-informed decision-making body since the Athenian ekklesia.
Private spaceflight if it gets beyond the rich kid stunt level into the practical orbital level will owe much to programs like NASA that never would have found it's genesis in the private sector. But to be fair, I wouldn't put all of the blame on the American electorate. I'd say a significant amount rests with NASA's continued inability to sell itself to anyone but the Trekkies. They had piles of good material to energise the public, but they never made any use of it.
I know I'm a layperson, but I think astrophysics really needs to move beyond the assumption that if we can't see it it isn't there. The more closely we're able to study space the more we find that it's full of stuff of every size at every conceivable distance. I honestly thing it's safe at this point to assume that nearly every star has planets as a simple matter of the nature of stellar accretion processes, and further that for every star that's bright enough to see there are probably a dozen too dim. This is why we can't figure out dark matter/energy.
If the arrangement of discovered exoplanets has taught us anything, it's that most of our safe classic assumptions need to be wadded up and thrown in the nearest dustbin. And yes you are a layperson who probably knows nothing about the practice of astronomy or astrophysics, or high energy physics. It's not a matter of "seeing" or 'not seeing". If something exists it makes it's imprint, it's footprint in the universe around it, in the gasses it's thrown off, it's interaction with other things or just the presence of it's gravity. Astronomy does not make simplistic assumptions like the one you put out. Right now it's about building the best possible model to fit the observations we make now and predict what we'll make in the future.
... yet despite my fondest hopes it's not going away. Like Flash Silverlight will either sell it self or be relegated to serving Netflix.
Not if it's streaming music from the internet. Smartphones use thier cellular connection a lot more than dumbphones.
Real story: the WHO lacked the guts to put this cellphone nonsense to bed once and for all. Studies that ask people with brain cancers "How much did you use your phone?" are pretty much all they had, and they seem to be the definition of "Confirmation Bias."
In other news, the media fails science forever, but we knew that already.
I think they did put in a bit more effort than that. low level EMF radiation is not a trivial issue. And if you read the reports instead of concentrating on being shrill they did identify particular groups at risk, such as infants whose parents use cellphone music to keep their toddlers quiet and basically park an active phone next to young developing skulls and brains for hours on end. It also depended a lot on shape, Many flip phones because of their geometry kept the radiating part sufficiently away to be much less a concern, but almsot all smartphones today are unibody designs which means the EMF emitting body and screen is in direct contact with your head.
Important thing to remember, HTC phones aren't Android phones. They're "Android plus extras, and some of those extras come from Microsoft.
BSD: OSX: I can't really say much about it. Are OSX Gnome apps considered first class citizens or are they marginalized much the same way it is in windows?
Considering that by it's nature, Gnome doesn't really place nicely with the OSX api, it's more like that it inherently marginalizes itself. Of course there is nothing preventing it from making use of OS X's BSD core or working as a main desktop in a Darwin system which would make that the same as a BSD answer. That of course would require more specific work in each case.
BBCAmerica hasn't created a SciFi network. What they've done is identified a few key shows which appeal to American fans, a.k.a. Doctor Who, Top Gear, Battlestar Galactica, Ramsey's Kitchen Shouting show, and Star Trek, and have used them as anchor points for some other shows to fill in the network. In fact it looks like it's getting to the point where time devoted to Star Trek and American produced shows may actually outweigh the Brit content as far as air time goes. It's essentially a network driven by previously established fan content.
That Apple simply has nothing new to release?
Why every time Foxconn is mentioned it is automatically associated with Apple. Foxconn manufacturers for large number of clients including Logitech and Dell. Maybe I'm just being new again?
You're not a true Slashdotter if you don't bash Apple.... for it's Stallmanesque crime of not being "open" tech..
He's a lot cooler than Woz.
If he hadn't asked for such an unreasonable amount for his BeOS, he would have been back instead of Jobs. But then again considering how things turned out, it probably turned out for the best.
What's so bad about those choices is that they all involve design compromises. which make the machine larger, cost more, and don't exactly help with core markets. Thing is all these things you want... are not relevant in Apple's marketing strategy. There is no benefit to apple to compromise it's prime market just to make a dozen tech geeks who probably still won't buy the product happy.
Wozniak is a master of technology and probably computer education. But he's no replacement for the single-minded obsession to detail that is Steve Jobs. However he would be a much nicer person to work for, and maybe he could be the unifing force behind the various heirs that Jobs would leave behind. Only caveat though.... he's no spring chicken himself.
Apple isn't putting anyone in jail. What they did...and did rightly was to tell Toyota to stop encouraging people to jailbreak thier phones and violating thier terms of use. And quite frankly since hackers in Russia are busy trying to squelch Livejournal to squelch out one of the few unified areas of actual free public discussion and dissent, I've long put aside any myths regarding hackers as misunderstood champions of freedom.
For a short time there was a cooperative experiment going on with MTA, PATH, and NJ Transit which provided a unified sytem of fares that connected a small set of NJ bus lines in the Hoboken/Jersey City area to the New York subway via Path using MasterCard swipe technology. After spending several months installing the neccessary hardware the experiment was yanked about 3 months or less after start up with the only announcement that the program was ending without commentary. At about the same time, similar "Paypass" payments that I used to make at Duane Reade and Seven/Eleven stopped being processed by Chase, again with no published reason. It seems to be good indication that NFC has a lot of "not there yet" in terms of security.
.. is really an accidental collateral result of that the purpose of the original project that spawned little miracles like TCP/IP... a self rerouting network that would preserve communication between key military centers in the event of outages caused by a bombardment, conventional or nuclear. These emregency bunkers have very little to do with the commercial/public Internet of today.
This isn't an American initative. Corporations are multi-national and as such their movements are as well.
Capitalism is a darwinian process that ultimately leads to monopolism unless active intervention takes place. It happened before in the 19th century and it took trust-busting legislation to correct the problem. The will to use that same kind of power does not exist today, and the monopolies have far greater leverage than they did in the 1800s.
Angy Birds, for example, collects a heck of a lot of personal information on the iPhone. Why? Because the user isn't warned about it. Their Android application has so far been much cleaner, mostly because Android asks the user to give the app permission to access certain data.
Link: http://www.observer.com/2010/media/angry-birds-and-other-must-have-apps-collect-more-personal-data-you-think
Not much of a distinction because if you don't agree you don't get to play.
They had to.... the writing on the wall was clear for the future of Symbion.... a dead end with no future compared to an operating system that hosts the potential for open-ended application acquisition. In this case it was the marriage of two partners that were desperate for complementary ends. Microsoft needed a hardware vendor that would give it's Mobile platform a renewed reason for existence. And Nokia was left to choose between Google and Microsoft. (remember that while Android may be "free", it's a revenue stream for Google in terms of the Android Store) And apparantly the folks from Redmond were the more aggressive suitor.
Call it what it is: religion. And no, that does not exclude the "Left".
If you see this as only religous blowback, you're having a serious underestimation as to what's at stake for the climate deniers. To accept idea of human-influenced climate change threathens the economic foundations of powerful economic interests who would have thier applecarts severely upset by the changes we'd have to make if we started taking our carbon footprint more seriously as a civilisation. Humans have a profound capability for self-denial that is hardly limited to matters of religion.
Literature isn't a luxury or a fluff science... It goes to the very root on how we communicate to each other on matters not only of idenitity and politic, but of science and it's perception. It is the framework in which thought is expressed, conveyed, and absorbed.
It may be a lot more than two orders of magnitude. We still don't understand quite fully the significance of having a very large satelite like the Moon played in the development of life on this planet. With all the other things that could have gone wrong or ended life on this planet, with the wide scale evidence that almost every exo-system out there shows evidence of extreme violent planetary re-arrangement, we may very well be looking at well well beyond a mere "two" orders of magnitude. The probability for habitable worlds may be low enough that the average "Earth" may be located so far apart that we may never detect another within the lifetime of our species. It's quite conceivable that we are effectively alone in the universe, at least to the extent that any other intelligence is located so far away we'll never detect a sign of it, or it, us.