The ST team is also developing low cost solar cells using a full organic approach, in which a mixture of electron-acceptor and electron-donor organic materials is sandwiched between two electrodes. The nanostructure of this blend is crucial for the cell performance because the electron-donor and electron-acceptor materials have to be in an intimate contact at distances below 10 nm. ST plans to use Fullerene (C60) as the electron-acceptor material and an organic copper compound as the electron-donor.
"These R&D activities, which exploit the expertise we have in nanotechnology, complement and augment the commitment that ST has made to be a CO2-neutral company by 2010," says Coffa. "In addition to ensuring that our own industrial activities have minimal impact on the environment, we are developing many new technologies that we hope will bring substantial ecological benefits."
I mean, how far can you go after you get an 'alert'? Can you drive it home to recharge it or do you have to beg for an electrical outlet so you don't have to drag your heavy, expensive, silly toy home?
10 August 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 Mass: 386 kg.
Lunar Orbiter I was launched from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 13 at 3:26 p.m. EDT August 10 to photograph possible Apollo landing sites from lunar orbit. The Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle injected the spacecraft into its planned 90-hour trajectory to the moon.
This wasn't an apollo craft, this was Lunar Orbiter 1. No people. Not sent up by a Saturn V, an Atlas-Agena D. No landing on the moon or re-lift off. Just an Orbiter almost four decades ago.
The article mentions that it is lightweight, only 367kg but NASA's first lunar orbiter weighted 386kg. So 40 years later we have a 19kg savings and it takes 15 months to get there. I love progress...
You can hang up the phone but for them to be disallowed from even calling you seems good for us but from their perspective, obviously bad. And note that politicians and charities can still wake you up though, just not businesses.
From the article, "Lawmakers were quick to criticize the court's decision, arguing that they had given the FTC the authority to implement the list." But did they give the FTC the authority to break freedom of speech laws? What gives politicians and charities the right to bother us after hours but not businesses?
I'm sure they'll appeal quickly and it could well pass as is but lawmakers make the laws and judges interpret them. If they decide that the law is bad, they'll do what is necessary in their ruling.
If she really is a computer neophyte, do you truly believe she has a Wi-Fi setup? I'm not very Mac aware; do they come with Wi-Fi out of the box or something, waiting to be sniffed? I doubt it.
If you still have a DOS setup anywhere, try to get a copy of the original System Shock as well. The graphics aren't great but in many ways it has better game play than the sequel because they didn't try to do a role playing aspect which didn't work too well in SSII IMO. The game is also less linear as there is a central elevator which takes you pretty much anywhere in the game so you have more choice in the order you accomplish your goals. With the plot level at its highest difficulty setting it is extremely challenging as there are time limits on the tasks and you have only 8 hours to complete the whole game. The first time I finished it I required 28 hours (I know because it is displayed after the winning sequence)! That doesn't include restoring saved games either.
In SSII you gotta love the graphics of the inside of the many. It came from video of a stomach scoping of one of the developers!
The envionmental aspects of both games, the music, the sounds, the stories are very memorable. More memborable than some movies. There are some MP3s around of level music and some montages of music, sounds and the little audio stories sprinkled throughout the game. I enjoy it more than most movie soundtracks.
And why bother with a lunar base? Is there anything there worth bothering with?
How about resources? The Moon has resources that could be mined for use so we don't have to escape from the larger earth gravity well every time we do a mission. The missions from orbit seem to imply an assembly-in-orbit plan which is cool but assembly on the Moon might work even better.
Well, $50 million and $200 million are not a big slice of even NASA's current budget so they will be easy to slap on today. They won't accomplish much with that money, however, aside from some initial planning and research. To really do what is proposed will add much more, at least an average of $2 billion per year more according to most estimates of what it will take to get to Mars.
Hopefully some new technologies like nuclear electric propulsion will turn out to be fit for this sort of purpose to cut the travel time to Mars down to a reasonable level so we can survive the largest problem with such a mission, radiation. Since Bush likes nuclear technology, this one might even fly.
Play tic-tac-toe? "Stojanovic has lost to MAYA more than a 100 times." With semi-intelligent players I thought this game was pretty much guaranteed to generate a draw?
I've worked in companies and so have colleages which have had some military contracts and in my experience with army, navy, air force, et al, the project leaders don't feel good about starting ANYthing until they have a cool acronym for it. No lie, until the acronym is set, no other work is done. The acronym is job #1 for the military planners.
My problem with the argument that it might just be the real thing from a real God, is that I must ask the question, which God? Which Religion? Who is right? Who is wrong? Is Sunday the day off or Saturday? Does a being which created the universe really care? Are all the prophets right? How can they be?
From the outside looking in at all the different religions with their different teachings (no matter how you try to reconcile the differences, some remain), it is obvious to an atheist that at least some of the beliefs are wrong. Each incompatible diety cannot have created the universe. If one of them did, then the rest of them do not exist but try telling that to all the different believers.
Is there room for a God in the universe? Sure, but I won't believe in one and certainly won't worship one based upon ancient texts alone. Asking begged questions doesn't help either.
When is a person a cyborb? Is a joint replacement enough to qualify? How about a pin and/or screw to hold a bone together? Or does it require some electrical or electronic parts to become a cyborb?
Do we shun people with pacemakers? Cochlear implants? Hip replacements? I don't think so.
Will we shun people who get them done electively, rather than because they are required? I see some jealousy today, "those breasts are fake," etc. but I don't think we classify people with augmented physical appearances as subhuman, do we? Extreme Makeover might make people look subhuman but they're really people.
Will people with implanted encyclopedias really be thought of as losing their human rights because of a computer in their head? I doubt it...
If all reporters were engineers, I think news would be less slanted and more factually-based. But, most people are ignorant about the world around them, so there's no need to have the facts right.
We can't all be domain experts. Articles on all sorts of subjects are poorly written due to lack of domain knowledge and research on the reporter's part. We notice the computer domain errors in print and movies because we work in this area but I'm sure surgeons, biologists and other experts groan at articles which we accept due to ignorance on our own part.
The lack of any research ability is the sad part about all these reporters as I always thought this would be a key skill for a journalist but getting a weak article submitted early (first post, anyone?) seems more important than doing it right. Hey, maybe software engineers should be journalists after all, we could release articles early and then release service packs and patches later... its not a retraction, its a feature.
I used to think of SCO as a drunk in a knife fight, wildly stabbing about in the hope of drawing blood. This article indicates to me its more like a duel between two masters.
Hey, I just saw that Jackie Chan flick last night!
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A robotic vaccuum cleaner sounds great to me, since I've got 3 kids under the age of 16 months and hence a titanic workload just to keep the house under control.
Wow, you'd trust your three young children around an expensive robotic vacuum cleaner? They'd wreck it for sure! Are you sure you have a 15-month old child?
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Official company press release.
I mean, how far can you go after you get an 'alert'? Can you drive it home to recharge it or do you have to beg for an electrical outlet so you don't have to drag your heavy, expensive, silly toy home?
Seriously, though, this is a problem with most vehicles when they run out of fuel/charge. No battery guage on a Segway, I assume or just user error?
From the webpage I linked:
This wasn't an apollo craft, this was Lunar Orbiter 1. No people. Not sent up by a Saturn V, an Atlas-Agena D. No landing on the moon or re-lift off. Just an Orbiter almost four decades ago.
The article mentions that it is lightweight, only 367kg but NASA's first lunar orbiter weighted 386kg. So 40 years later we have a 19kg savings and it takes 15 months to get there. I love progress...
See this page about octopus circulatory systems. The oxygen carrying chemical is called hemocyanin, not cyanoglobin, and does contain copper.
Blue copper-based horseshoe crab blood also contains hemocyanin.
You can hang up the phone but for them to be disallowed from even calling you seems good for us but from their perspective, obviously bad. And note that politicians and charities can still wake you up though, just not businesses.
From the article, "Lawmakers were quick to criticize the court's decision, arguing that they had given the FTC the authority to implement the list." But did they give the FTC the authority to break freedom of speech laws? What gives politicians and charities the right to bother us after hours but not businesses?
I'm sure they'll appeal quickly and it could well pass as is but lawmakers make the laws and judges interpret them. If they decide that the law is bad, they'll do what is necessary in their ruling.
If she really is a computer neophyte, do you truly believe she has a Wi-Fi setup? I'm not very Mac aware; do they come with Wi-Fi out of the box or something, waiting to be sniffed? I doubt it.
Sorry, it is full of popups. Using Netscape with popups off you're OK but from IE you'll get screens full. Sorry, sorry...
Blame Canada!
If you still have a DOS setup anywhere, try to get a copy of the original System Shock as well. The graphics aren't great but in many ways it has better game play than the sequel because they didn't try to do a role playing aspect which didn't work too well in SSII IMO. The game is also less linear as there is a central elevator which takes you pretty much anywhere in the game so you have more choice in the order you accomplish your goals. With the plot level at its highest difficulty setting it is extremely challenging as there are time limits on the tasks and you have only 8 hours to complete the whole game. The first time I finished it I required 28 hours (I know because it is displayed after the winning sequence)! That doesn't include restoring saved games either.
In SSII you gotta love the graphics of the inside of the many. It came from video of a stomach scoping of one of the developers!
The envionmental aspects of both games, the music, the sounds, the stories are very memorable. More memborable than some movies. There are some MP3s around of level music and some montages of music, sounds and the little audio stories sprinkled throughout the game. I enjoy it more than most movie soundtracks.
System Shock III, please someone make a SSIII!
How about resources? The Moon has resources that could be mined for use so we don't have to escape from the larger earth gravity well every time we do a mission. The missions from orbit seem to imply an assembly-in-orbit plan which is cool but assembly on the Moon might work even better.
Well, $50 million and $200 million are not a big slice of even NASA's current budget so they will be easy to slap on today. They won't accomplish much with that money, however, aside from some initial planning and research. To really do what is proposed will add much more, at least an average of $2 billion per year more according to most estimates of what it will take to get to Mars.
Hopefully some new technologies like nuclear electric propulsion will turn out to be fit for this sort of purpose to cut the travel time to Mars down to a reasonable level so we can survive the largest problem with such a mission, radiation. Since Bush likes nuclear technology, this one might even fly.
Play tic-tac-toe? "Stojanovic has lost to MAYA more than a 100 times." With semi-intelligent players I thought this game was pretty much guaranteed to generate a draw?
It sounds like these Battlebots can cancel you, and not just in Soviet Russia...
I've worked in companies and so have colleages which have had some military contracts and in my experience with army, navy, air force, et al, the project leaders don't feel good about starting ANYthing until they have a cool acronym for it. No lie, until the acronym is set, no other work is done. The acronym is job #1 for the military planners.
My problem with the argument that it might just be the real thing from a real God, is that I must ask the question, which God? Which Religion? Who is right? Who is wrong? Is Sunday the day off or Saturday? Does a being which created the universe really care? Are all the prophets right? How can they be?
From the outside looking in at all the different religions with their different teachings (no matter how you try to reconcile the differences, some remain), it is obvious to an atheist that at least some of the beliefs are wrong. Each incompatible diety cannot have created the universe. If one of them did, then the rest of them do not exist but try telling that to all the different believers.
Is there room for a God in the universe? Sure, but I won't believe in one and certainly won't worship one based upon ancient texts alone. Asking begged questions doesn't help either.
Thanks, everyone, for not jumping on my (at least consistent use of the) typo 'cyborb'. Seems I could use a Speak'n'Spell implant...
When is a person a cyborb? Is a joint replacement enough to qualify? How about a pin and/or screw to hold a bone together? Or does it require some electrical or electronic parts to become a cyborb?
Do we shun people with pacemakers? Cochlear implants? Hip replacements? I don't think so.
Will we shun people who get them done electively, rather than because they are required? I see some jealousy today, "those breasts are fake," etc. but I don't think we classify people with augmented physical appearances as subhuman, do we? Extreme Makeover might make people look subhuman but they're really people.
Will people with implanted encyclopedias really be thought of as losing their human rights because of a computer in their head? I doubt it...
We can't all be domain experts. Articles on all sorts of subjects are poorly written due to lack of domain knowledge and research on the reporter's part. We notice the computer domain errors in print and movies because we work in this area but I'm sure surgeons, biologists and other experts groan at articles which we accept due to ignorance on our own part.
The lack of any research ability is the sad part about all these reporters as I always thought this would be a key skill for a journalist but getting a weak article submitted early (first post, anyone?) seems more important than doing it right. Hey, maybe software engineers should be journalists after all, we could release articles early and then release service packs and patches later... its not a retraction, its a feature.
It's called AstroTurf (TM).
Hey, I just saw that Jackie Chan flick last night!
Wow, you'd trust your three young children around an expensive robotic vacuum cleaner? They'd wreck it for sure! Are you sure you have a 15-month old child?