That's about as idiotic as it can get. Resources that can be called upon at one time are limited. Laptops are so far down the needs list in many areas that any effort spent on them is better spent elsewhere. What the heck is a starving 13 year old going to do with a windup notebook in a place with no other electricity, or network?
Your post as well as needlessly insulting is intellectually bankrupt.
Incorrect. The United States has never had the experience of what it truly means to be Third World even in our worst Depression years, like I've said the Third World not just a poorer version of the First. No American that's been born in this country and lived entirely within it can have a proper appreciation of true starvation.
And a kid who's starving won't be taking the time to read. Even Bill Gates Sr. figured this out when some time ago he took a trip to Africa and was shown a poor village's proudest posession, a single workstation hooked up to the village's sole electrical outlet. He realised that what village needed most at that time was not a computer, but a refrigerator.
Tech toys like these have theire place and moment can help but the basick foundation of the pyramid must be built first. You need decent health, places to sleep, and a dependable food supply before cranking laptops become not only a luxury but a dangerous drain on time and energy that must be spent on survival.
Africa and the Third World aren't just poorer versions of your hometown, they're places in deep distress with a profound lack of the basic neccessities of life, and sweeping plagues which are taking an enormous toll. These are the problems that must be solved FIRST and foremost before the higher goals can be tackled.
You don't use girders for the same reason that the largest bridges are suspension bridges. You need the flexibility to deal with stress, even with something that's a geo-synch cable, there will be variations in force. The other thing is that you need something with the impossible combination of being comparatively light and strong and girder construction simply doesn't cut it.
Nanotech as it's most commonly used in sci-fi is kind of like warp drive in Star Trek, a magical invocation used to create shortcuts in story plotting but not particurlarly meaningful beyond that.
Compared to this project, the moonshot doesn't even approach cakewalk status. You have absolutly no comprehension of the sheer physical size that this would entail.
Important thing to remember, SpaceShipOne did not acheive anything near orbital velocity. In fact I'm not even sure it was close to the velocity of Alan Shepard's suborbital Mercury flight. Hence it did not have to deal with severe re-entry heating, so was spared one of the critical neccessities of the Space Shuttle. I'm not knocking the acheivement of this group, just putting it in perspective.
No such structure could withstand the tensile stress generated from being pulled at opposite ends 25,000 miles apart. Just to put some perspective here, a the length of a space elevator, depending on which source you quote is at the minimum over 3 times the diameter of the Earth itself!
In theory it works well. In practise I think it's more of a pipe dream and I believe NASA knows it. We have one football field sized structure that's taken the better part of a decade to build. We've never constructed something anywhere near the magnitude for the size this thing is going to be and as far as I know there isn't a good engineering plan on how this thing is supposed to be put up. However they're desperate for whatever good will and publicity that they can scramble to get and this competition even with all it's strings attached is a pretty good and inexpensive way to generate some.
If you don't know why the iPod is so successful, or why Apple Computer's product placement is so ubiquitous of late, the answer is short and simple.
Whatever your skill set might be, marketing simply isn't a part of it. Marketing is the main reaon why people buy stuff. It's why VHS triumphed over Betamax, why the Atari Jaguar is on Video Game Boot Hill and why Coke2, a preferred product in blind taste tests could not supplant it's predecessor.
So basically your problem is that you want your music without paying for it. You don't want to pay for the recordings, and you don't want to pay for the advertising, and presumably you don't want to pay for it by any form of licensing.
Apple doesn't "give" you that, because it's not theres to give. Commericial artists have this unreasonable desire to be paid for their work as do other folks involved in that chain between them and you.
Whatever its faults, ITMS is the first truly successful music store on the planet because it found that balance between what the demands of publishers and customers both. I defy you to come up with a superior alternative that does not involve charity or theft.
Wired ran an article on Skype. The reason that Skype can run as it does with the majority of users not going beyond the free service is that the supermode makes it possible to run a bittorrent style phone system (my choice of words). Remove it and Skype effectively ceases to exist as a commercial venture. The free solutions simply can't provide the services that Skype or anotehr commercial provider does.
As an aside, I believe Nikotel uses SIP. The software I have from them as settings for SIP servers.
That these problems were unexpected betrays a severe lack of environmental awareness. Technology isn't used in an empty space, you need to take into account all environmental factors including wildlife, as well as the environmental factors of heat, humidity, wind shear, long term stress and fatigue. Provide a high platform and high flying birds will nest on it. (Or run into it)
Nature is the ultimate check on hubris as she either gives you walls you can't surmount, tests you constantly for weakness, or patiently waits for your first fatal mistake.
Nice idea but at some point those demons called responsibilities kick in. When you've got a spouse and kids or other family that you have to take care of, I would hope that you would take a different frame of thought then a single resident in a bachelor pad might.
I used to think that way, but now with my 46th birthday coming up in less than 9 hours, I've realised that in part I've joined that "enemy over thirty.".... and that we all must at some point.
There will be a slowdown using Parrallels as opposed to Boot Camp. There is simply no way that two operating systems going simultaneously are going to have the same speed. as either running alone. The good news is that unless you're really banging hardware it'll be fast enough for most uses. (if you're doing games you really won't be running dualOS mode anyway.)
The real question is what work do you need to do? If you're only using MS Office apps, i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, than I'd simply just use the Mac versions which are quite compatible with Windows users save for the occaisonal font issue. And OS X can use Windows TrueType fonts as they are quite handily.
Unless you use a third party utility like MacDrive to make your HFS drive visible from the Windows side on it's OS level, you're pretty safe. And Boot Camp keeps both OS's even more separate since you actually have to boot in order to switch. Leopard should work flawlessly on every Mac being sold today and the bulk of which were being sold for the last 5 years at the minimum. There will be some slight caveats such as Core Graphics having certain requirements but this won't shut you out from the 99percent plus of everything else. Also remember if your brother is actually using a release of Leopard as opposed to Tiger it's still a pre-release developer's version that one should not be staking a livelihood on just yet.
If you're consulting for someone, leave the politics about SCO, Microsoft, Caldera, whatever. out the door you walked in. If I recommend software or hardware it's the one going to be the best fit for needs or budget, lawsuits, FUD, politics be dammed. Be smart and be reasonable abougt your users. Don't expect someone who's never used anything beyond Win95/98 to handle any distribution that requires any significant level of geekhood. After all, they were quite happy in that comfortable rut until now. Thier one and only concern is getting the work they need done. Your one and only concern should be that that they accomplish this in the least grief possible in whatever solution serves them best.
I've been using multi-button mice on Macs ever since they came with USB. Most included mice with computers are throwaways for my book. The Apple ones just look better. On my Macs, I've been using USB mice and trackballs from Kensington, Logitech, and Microsoft. And OS X has been supporting muti-button mice ever since before it was NeXTStep.
I'm not upset at all at this tempest over a teapot. For the first time in a long while I'm seeing a science topic being distilled all the way down to local papers like the Jersey City Journal. It's stirring discussion in classrooms and stimulating questions. A win-win for the folks that really matter.
As for myself, I view it this way. We've never really tried to define planets in a scientific way to the degree we are now. Back in the day that we thought it was just the Nine and the Asteroid Belt it wasn't a big deal. The plain fact with Pluto is that unlike the Eight, Pluto doesn't really stand out from busloads of similar Plutos that we're going to find including objects like Xena which are larger and arguaably more deserving of planet status than it is.
So we have two choices really. If we want to define planets scientifically, there's no definition that would include Pluto that won't leave us with a solar system in which Plutonian objects wind up defining the numerical majority of planets.
The other choice is to admit that we're choosing a social/political/historic definition of planets and retain Pluto under that basis. This should also be part of the topic being addressed in classrooms.
Actually with the Moon orbits that are not maintained, the way SMART's was with it's ion engines, are not stable over the long term. Remember that the moon's area of gravitational dominance, the point where its influence counts more than that of the Sun or the Earth is very small, less than 100 miles from it's surface, I'm not sure of the exact figure. However it's low enough that mascons, or particular mass concentrations cause slowing effects on orbiting bodies causing orbital decay. An object put into lunar orbit will crash to the surface within a month or so unless it's orbit is maintained.
It's quite simple. Paramount is charging that much because they know that despite how much the Trekkies might whine or complain, more than enough of them will cough up the bucks. They'll do it again for this new CGI version and again for the re-release of the "Classic Edition" of Star Trek a year or two later.
If you purchase Paramount's DVD's that's all the justification they need.
Actually I believe the moral is that most of our ideas of evil come from the fear and/or misunderstanding of the unknown. Then again if Lucien's people had their own idea of a Prime Directive, they probably wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble.
Technically not the "Devil" just an other-dimensional alien remembered as such. The Animated Series was astonishingly mature for a children's morining show. And just to bait the Trekkies, I'll go out on a limb and say the reason Roddenberry hated it so much is that the writing was good enough to show how much the orginal series was marginal by comparison. And the Aniimated Enterprise was the only truely multi-racial starship in the entire suite of series to a degree that would not be matched until Farscape.
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That's about as idiotic as it can get. Resources that can be called upon at one time are limited. Laptops are so far down the needs list in many areas that any effort spent on them is better spent elsewhere. What the heck is a starving 13 year old going to do with a windup notebook in a place with no other electricity, or network?
Your post as well as needlessly insulting is intellectually bankrupt.
Incorrect. The United States has never had the experience of what it truly means to be Third World even in our worst Depression years, like I've said the Third World not just a poorer version of the First. No American that's been born in this country and lived entirely within it can have a proper appreciation of true starvation.
And a kid who's starving won't be taking the time to read. Even Bill Gates Sr. figured this out when some time ago he took a trip to Africa and was shown a poor village's proudest posession, a single workstation hooked up to the village's sole electrical outlet. He realised that what village needed most at that time was not a computer, but a refrigerator.
Tech toys like these have theire place and moment can help but the basick foundation of the pyramid must be built first. You need decent health, places to sleep, and a dependable food supply before cranking laptops become not only a luxury but a dangerous drain on time and energy that must be spent on survival.
Africa and the Third World aren't just poorer versions of your hometown, they're places in deep distress with a profound lack of the basic neccessities of life, and sweeping plagues which are taking an enormous toll. These are the problems that must be solved FIRST and foremost before the higher goals can be tackled.
You don't use girders for the same reason that the largest bridges are suspension bridges. You need the flexibility to deal with stress, even with something that's a geo-synch cable, there will be variations in force. The other thing is that you need something with the impossible combination of being comparatively light and strong and girder construction simply doesn't cut it.
Nanotech as it's most commonly used in sci-fi is kind of like warp drive in Star Trek, a magical invocation used to create shortcuts in story plotting but not particurlarly meaningful beyond that.
Compared to this project, the moonshot doesn't even approach cakewalk status. You have absolutly no comprehension of the sheer physical size that this would entail.
Important thing to remember, SpaceShipOne did not acheive anything near orbital velocity. In fact I'm not even sure it was close to the velocity of Alan Shepard's suborbital Mercury flight. Hence it did not have to deal with severe re-entry heating, so was spared one of the critical neccessities of the Space Shuttle. I'm not knocking the acheivement of this group, just putting it in perspective.
No such structure could withstand the tensile stress generated from being pulled at opposite ends 25,000 miles apart. Just to put some perspective here, a the length of a space elevator, depending on which source you quote is at the minimum over 3 times the diameter of the Earth itself!
In theory it works well. In practise I think it's more of a pipe dream and I believe NASA knows it. We have one football field sized structure that's taken the better part of a decade to build. We've never constructed something anywhere near the magnitude for the size this thing is going to be and as far as I know there isn't a good engineering plan on how this thing is supposed to be put up. However they're desperate for whatever good will and publicity that they can scramble to get and this competition even with all it's strings attached is a pretty good and inexpensive way to generate some.
If you don't know why the iPod is so successful, or why Apple Computer's product placement is so ubiquitous of late, the answer is short and simple.
Whatever your skill set might be, marketing simply isn't a part of it. Marketing is the main reaon why people buy stuff. It's why VHS triumphed over Betamax, why the Atari Jaguar is on Video Game Boot Hill and why Coke2, a preferred product in blind taste tests could not supplant it's predecessor.
So basically your problem is that you want your music without paying for it. You don't want to pay for the recordings, and you don't want to pay for the advertising, and presumably you don't want to pay for it by any form of licensing.
Apple doesn't "give" you that, because it's not theres to give. Commericial artists have this unreasonable desire to be paid for their work as do other folks involved in that chain between them and you.
Whatever its faults, ITMS is the first truly successful music store on the planet because it found that balance between what the demands of publishers and customers both. I defy you to come up with a superior alternative that does not involve charity or theft.
Wired ran an article on Skype. The reason that Skype can run as it does with the majority of users not going beyond the free service is that the supermode makes it possible to run a bittorrent style phone system (my choice of words). Remove it and Skype effectively ceases to exist as a commercial venture. The free solutions simply can't provide the services that Skype or anotehr commercial provider does.
As an aside, I believe Nikotel uses SIP. The software I have from them as settings for SIP servers.
That these problems were unexpected betrays a severe lack of environmental awareness. Technology isn't used in an empty space, you need to take into account all environmental factors including wildlife, as well as the environmental factors of heat, humidity, wind shear, long term stress and fatigue. Provide a high platform and high flying birds will nest on it. (Or run into it)
Nature is the ultimate check on hubris as she either gives you walls you can't surmount, tests you constantly for weakness, or patiently waits for your first fatal mistake.
Nice idea but at some point those demons called responsibilities kick in. When you've got a spouse and kids or other family that you have to take care of, I would hope that you would take a different frame of thought then a single resident in a bachelor pad might.
I used to think that way, but now with my 46th birthday coming up in less than 9 hours, I've realised that in part I've joined that "enemy over thirty.".... and that we all must at some point.
There will be a slowdown using Parrallels as opposed to Boot Camp. There is simply no way that two operating systems going simultaneously are going to have the same speed. as either running alone. The good news is that unless you're really banging hardware it'll be fast enough for most uses. (if you're doing games you really won't be running dualOS mode anyway.)
The real question is what work do you need to do? If you're only using MS Office apps, i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, than I'd simply just use the Mac versions which are quite compatible with Windows users save for the occaisonal font issue. And OS X can use Windows TrueType fonts as they are quite handily.
Unless you use a third party utility like MacDrive to make your HFS drive visible from the Windows side on it's OS level, you're pretty safe. And Boot Camp keeps both OS's even more separate since you actually have to boot in order to switch. Leopard should work flawlessly on every Mac being sold today and the bulk of which were being sold for the last 5 years at the minimum. There will be some slight caveats such as Core Graphics having certain requirements but this won't shut you out from the 99percent plus of everything else. Also remember if your brother is actually using a release of Leopard as opposed to Tiger it's still a pre-release developer's version that one should not be staking a livelihood on just yet.
Figures always lie and liars always figure.
If you're consulting for someone, leave the politics about SCO, Microsoft, Caldera, whatever. out the door you walked in. If I recommend software or hardware it's the one going to be the best fit for needs or budget, lawsuits, FUD, politics be dammed. Be smart and be reasonable abougt your users. Don't expect someone who's never used anything beyond Win95/98 to handle any distribution that requires any significant level of geekhood. After all, they were quite happy in that comfortable rut until now. Thier one and only concern is getting the work they need done. Your one and only concern should be that that they accomplish this in the least grief possible in whatever solution serves them best.
You can "colonize" Mars all you want. Without precious foodstuffs and volatiles from Earth, what are you going to eat when Sol 3 goes under?
I've been using multi-button mice on Macs ever since they came with USB. Most included mice with computers are throwaways for my book. The Apple ones just look better. On my Macs, I've been using USB mice and trackballs from Kensington, Logitech, and Microsoft. And OS X has been supporting muti-button mice ever since before it was NeXTStep.
I'm not upset at all at this tempest over a teapot. For the first time in a long while I'm seeing a science topic being distilled all the way down to local papers like the Jersey City Journal. It's stirring discussion in classrooms and stimulating questions. A win-win for the folks that really matter.
As for myself, I view it this way. We've never really tried to define planets in a scientific way to the degree we are now. Back in the day that we thought it was just the Nine and the Asteroid Belt it wasn't a big deal. The plain fact with Pluto is that unlike the Eight, Pluto doesn't really stand out from busloads of similar Plutos that we're going to find including objects like Xena which are larger and arguaably more deserving of planet status than it is.
So we have two choices really. If we want to define planets scientifically, there's no definition that would include Pluto that won't leave us with a solar system in which Plutonian objects wind up defining the numerical majority of planets.
The other choice is to admit that we're choosing a social/political/historic definition of planets and retain Pluto under that basis. This should also be part of the topic being addressed in classrooms.
Actually with the Moon orbits that are not maintained, the way SMART's was with it's ion engines, are not stable over the long term. Remember that the moon's area of gravitational dominance, the point where its influence counts more than that of the Sun or the Earth is very small, less than 100 miles from it's surface, I'm not sure of the exact figure. However it's low enough that mascons, or particular mass concentrations cause slowing effects on orbiting bodies causing orbital decay. An object put into lunar orbit will crash to the surface within a month or so unless it's orbit is maintained.
It's quite simple. Paramount is charging that much because they know that despite how much the Trekkies might whine or complain, more than enough of them will cough up the bucks. They'll do it again for this new CGI version and again for the re-release of the "Classic Edition" of Star Trek a year or two later.
If you purchase Paramount's DVD's that's all the justification they need.
Actually I believe the moral is that most of our ideas of evil come from the fear and/or misunderstanding of the unknown. Then again if Lucien's people had their own idea of a Prime Directive, they probably wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble.
Technically not the "Devil" just an other-dimensional alien remembered as such. The Animated Series was astonishingly mature for a children's morining show. And just to bait the Trekkies, I'll go out on a limb and say the reason Roddenberry hated it so much is that the writing was good enough to show how much the orginal series was marginal by comparison. And the Aniimated Enterprise was the only truely multi-racial starship in the entire suite of series to a degree that would not be matched until Farscape.