Hopefully they are dependable. With the heat of engines I'm not sure how long they would last. One good thing is that it'll flood the market with cheap high power lasers. Importing the parts my have to go by the FDA since they regulate lasers.
It'd be nice if where I work would either upgrade our IE6 or install Firefox. I'd prefer they install Firefox but they see that as some kind of sin. People have gotten witten up for installing it when alot of people had admin rights. Needless to say they took the admin rights away.
I'd rather see a wiki that covers more than pin-outs. Specs on all kinds of tech such as buses, motherboards, drive jumper settings along with how to ID cards.
Some roads can get downright ugly and dangerous when they aren't maintained. When I delivered pizza in a semi-rural area I had to drive on some roads that were so bad they were less roads and more just paths of clumped asphalt and potholes narrowing to one lane where road sides washed away. One such road close to the store had hundreds of people living on it and was so bad we refused to deliver on it. The city and county contested who was to maintain it, each saying the other was. It was technically outside the city but the county mostly ignored it. It finally got fixed just before I went into the IT industry.
I would suspect that blowing dust from dirt and gravel roads contribute to health and environmental damage. Breathing the dust can't be good for people and animals. In areas where the dust could be carried north then land on glaciers it could cause them to melt faster.
I learned to drive on dirt and gravel roads. I see so many people in the DFW area that have never driven on anything but pavement so when they hit a loose or slippery surface they have no clue how to drive. I saw one young girl sitting in her car crying after sliding on an icy patch. I've always said to people that dirt or gravel is the best surface to learn to drive on. People should be required to be able to handle sliding out on a loose or slick surface before getting their driver's license. A timid person behind a wheel is more dangerous than someone that knows how to handle vehicles on different surfaces.
Gravel and dirt are definitely cheaper to maintain. I wonder if brick wouldn't make a better surface. They last for a very long time. Some Roman brick roads are still in use in Europe. It also seems to me that they would give better traction. I've never been on a high speed brick road but it seems to me that road noise might provide an incentive for drivers to keep their speed down.
IT and management ignore the issue because they know users leave they're machines on and locked most of the time so they can quickly get logged back in. The company I work for gives people no time to get logged. It's sign in and start working or else they consider you late.
A simple way to change this is to pass a law saying that employees have to be allowed 10 minutes to boot and log into their PCs at the start of their shift. It would force companies to schedule people to overlap and look for other ways to save money like on electricty by powering down PCs when not in use.
I don't understand Microsoft. MS has almost no development costs with XP anymore except what's needed to patch it and there is still a major demand for it. That makes it a cash cow. Mostly all they need to do with it is package it, ship it and let it roll the $$$$$$$ in for them. By allowing vendors to put it on computers, they don't really even have packing and shipping costs either which means even less overhead.
I just want a computer with a virtualized BIOS/Mini parent OS at boot that would be able to run multiple operating systems at the same time while giving them semi-direct access to the hardware to increase the speed. The ability to tie a VM to a single processor core would be nice too.
It's possible that the 12 regeneration limit was imposed by the time lord council, no council, no limit. They had the power to grant extra regenerations so it's a plausible explanation. Especially considering that the Master was given an extra regeneration then was able to regenerate on his own after that.
Most likely those subcortical connections are there as a link to the reflex system. High level visual processing would likely take too much time to process for reflex action. Damage to the subcortical links but not to the visual cortex would likely make for someone that's slower to react to visual stimulus and very clumsy.
Split the difference, set it to 30 minutes between standard and DST then leave it there. Everyone is equally happy and unhappy. Maybe this is too much common sense for the goverments around the world.
I find hyper-milers annoying as they cause me to use more fuel from the traffic congestion they cause. They just become obstacles on the highway causing people to break, change lanes, speed back up or causing the whole column of traffic to stop all together. They rarely look at the chaos they create behind them.
Actually the Amiga OS is a bit different from BeOS and OS/2. It did reach a critical mass back in the late '80s and early '90s. Amiga PCs were everywhere and heavily used in the graphics and video industries. It only subsided because the execs at Commodore would rather take trips to the Bahamas than invest in marketing. When Commodore went bankrupt; the video industry was scrambling to locate Amiga 4000s; driving prices up to higher than retail on them. It was years before low priced alternatives were available to them. The Amiga was also at the core of the game industry for years back then for players and developers. Had Commodore Execs been smarter, the computer industry would have been a much different place these days.
Could have something to do with three volcanos going off in Alaska and the Aleutian islands. I've noticed the temperature in Texas drop and we've gotten a lot of rain after the 3rd one went off and cold fronts have come down from that area.
I used various Amiga systems for more than ten years and never wrote a copperlist once. However I did do a lot of system configuring, scripting, interlinking apps with scripts, network configuration, hardware modification and some C programming. Many of those are still way more valid than shoving a modified nintendo in the face of 3rd world children. Computer logic on the Amiga is not so different than those used on newer systems, it just gives you more of an opportunity to break things without the system trying to cover for you.
There is plenty of solar energy on Mars. They use it to power the Mars probes and rovers. Solar energy collection systems are getting cheaper all the time. As for materials processing; that really isn't a problem on a planetary surface. Humans have been doing that for thousands of years. On a planetary surface you don't have to worry too much about containment of non-volatile materials, you just drop it in piles. Gravity does the containment.
Zero G materials processing is something we've never done. You have to worry about containment and mass of everything.
You seem to be fixated on the distance issue. The distance isn't the issue. In space it's more about how much energy you have to expend to get where you want to go. Getting colony materials out of the Earth's gravity well is most of the problem/cost. Once you've done that, getting it to Mars hardly costs a thing except a smaller amount of fuel and six months of travel time.
The space station is a money pit. Outside of a few minor science experiments most of what goes on is just to keep it going.
Mars has all the easy accessible volatiles needed to make human breathable atmosphere. As for the gravity, it may be 1/3 G but it's enough to drastically reduce the amount of exercise needed. There is enough variation in the human species to allow us to adapt to 1/3 G.
Buildings on Mars will need far fewer supports than on Earth. Even if you have the raw material available on asteroids, you still have to process it. On Mars you just build your base structure then bulldoze regolith over it or just build in a natural underground structure. Building in a small crater would simplify things too.
Well gravity wells overcome a host of problems both biological and technological that space habitats have. Humans and animals can't stay in zero G for long periods. We need the stress of gravity on our bodies. People would require intense exercise on the moon or Mars to keep from loosing bone mass. They may one day overcome that with drugs or genetic engineering but they haven't yet. Atmospheres of planets or building under the regolith of a planet or moon also offer protection from radiation that space habitats don't have unless they use very expensive and massive shielding.
So, for the moment, space habitats aren't the most intelligent or economical way to go unless it's a asteroid mining colony.
I for one hope they don't find any life on Mars because if they discover even a single non-Earth origin microbe it will mean the end of any possibility of colonizing or even terraforming Mars. Every religious and nature group will come out against us going to Mars for science and colonization. Plus you'll get the people fearful of Martian life getting to Earth against it too. Life on Mars would almost mean the end of Space exploration for the foreseeable future.
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Hopefully they are dependable. With the heat of engines I'm not sure how long they would last. One good thing is that it'll flood the market with cheap high power lasers. Importing the parts my have to go by the FDA since they regulate lasers.
It'd be nice if where I work would either upgrade our IE6 or install Firefox. I'd prefer they install Firefox but they see that as some kind of sin. People have gotten witten up for installing it when alot of people had admin rights. Needless to say they took the admin rights away.
I'd rather see a wiki that covers more than pin-outs. Specs on all kinds of tech such as buses, motherboards, drive jumper settings along with how to ID cards.
There is a good, bad & ugly side to this.
Some roads can get downright ugly and dangerous when they aren't maintained. When I delivered pizza in a semi-rural area I had to drive on some roads that were so bad they were less roads and more just paths of clumped asphalt and potholes narrowing to one lane where road sides washed away. One such road close to the store had hundreds of people living on it and was so bad we refused to deliver on it. The city and county contested who was to maintain it, each saying the other was. It was technically outside the city but the county mostly ignored it. It finally got fixed just before I went into the IT industry.
I would suspect that blowing dust from dirt and gravel roads contribute to health and environmental damage. Breathing the dust can't be good for people and animals. In areas where the dust could be carried north then land on glaciers it could cause them to melt faster.
I learned to drive on dirt and gravel roads. I see so many people in the DFW area that have never driven on anything but pavement so when they hit a loose or slippery surface they have no clue how to drive. I saw one young girl sitting in her car crying after sliding on an icy patch. I've always said to people that dirt or gravel is the best surface to learn to drive on. People should be required to be able to handle sliding out on a loose or slick surface before getting their driver's license. A timid person behind a wheel is more dangerous than someone that knows how to handle vehicles on different surfaces.
Gravel and dirt are definitely cheaper to maintain. I wonder if brick wouldn't make a better surface. They last for a very long time. Some Roman brick roads are still in use in Europe. It also seems to me that they would give better traction. I've never been on a high speed brick road but it seems to me that road noise might provide an incentive for drivers to keep their speed down.
If you can't just say "no" to them then make them use a guest account and block the common sites they go to on it eventually they'll get the hint.
IT and management ignore the issue because they know users leave they're machines on and locked most of the time so they can quickly get logged back in. The company I work for gives people no time to get logged. It's sign in and start working or else they consider you late.
A simple way to change this is to pass a law saying that employees have to be allowed 10 minutes to boot and log into their PCs at the start of their shift. It would force companies to schedule people to overlap and look for other ways to save money like on electricty by powering down PCs when not in use.
I don't understand Microsoft. MS has almost no development costs with XP anymore except what's needed to patch it and there is still a major demand for it. That makes it a cash cow. Mostly all they need to do with it is package it, ship it and let it roll the $$$$$$$ in for them. By allowing vendors to put it on computers, they don't really even have packing and shipping costs either which means even less overhead.
I just want a computer with a virtualized BIOS/Mini parent OS at boot that would be able to run multiple operating systems at the same time while giving them semi-direct access to the hardware to increase the speed. The ability to tie a VM to a single processor core would be nice too.
I wonder what the real price of it would be without the Sony (I'm better than any other company so I can charge what I want) markup.
I have a 4 day work week 10 hours a day. I much prefer that as I get 3 days off every week.
It's possible that the 12 regeneration limit was imposed by the time lord council, no council, no limit. They had the power to grant extra regenerations so it's a plausible explanation. Especially considering that the Master was given an extra regeneration then was able to regenerate on his own after that.
Most likely those subcortical connections are there as a link to the reflex system. High level visual processing would likely take too much time to process for reflex action. Damage to the subcortical links but not to the visual cortex would likely make for someone that's slower to react to visual stimulus and very clumsy.
I'm suprised she didn't market her voice to the electronics industry for products like GPS devices.
Does anyone else think that he looked like James Cromwell (Zefram Cochrane)?
Split the difference, set it to 30 minutes between standard and DST then leave it there. Everyone is equally happy and unhappy. Maybe this is too much common sense for the goverments around the world.
I find hyper-milers annoying as they cause me to use more fuel from the traffic congestion they cause. They just become obstacles on the highway causing people to break, change lanes, speed back up or causing the whole column of traffic to stop all together. They rarely look at the chaos they create behind them.
Actually the Amiga OS is a bit different from BeOS and OS/2. It did reach a critical mass back in the late '80s and early '90s. Amiga PCs were everywhere and heavily used in the graphics and video industries. It only subsided because the execs at Commodore would rather take trips to the Bahamas than invest in marketing. When Commodore went bankrupt; the video industry was scrambling to locate Amiga 4000s; driving prices up to higher than retail on them. It was years before low priced alternatives were available to them. The Amiga was also at the core of the game industry for years back then for players and developers. Had Commodore Execs been smarter, the computer industry would have been a much different place these days.
Could have something to do with three volcanos going off in Alaska and the Aleutian islands. I've noticed the temperature in Texas drop and we've gotten a lot of rain after the 3rd one went off and cold fronts have come down from that area.
I used various Amiga systems for more than ten years and never wrote a copperlist once. However I did do a lot of system configuring, scripting, interlinking apps with scripts, network configuration, hardware modification and some C programming. Many of those are still way more valid than shoving a modified nintendo in the face of 3rd world children. Computer logic on the Amiga is not so different than those used on newer systems, it just gives you more of an opportunity to break things without the system trying to cover for you.
They should base it on the Amiga. Many things people would learn in it are valid for newer systems.
There is plenty of solar energy on Mars. They use it to power the Mars probes and rovers. Solar energy collection systems are getting cheaper all the time. As for materials processing; that really isn't a problem on a planetary surface. Humans have been doing that for thousands of years. On a planetary surface you don't have to worry too much about containment of non-volatile materials, you just drop it in piles. Gravity does the containment.
Zero G materials processing is something we've never done. You have to worry about containment and mass of everything.
You seem to be fixated on the distance issue. The distance isn't the issue. In space it's more about how much energy you have to expend to get where you want to go. Getting colony materials out of the Earth's gravity well is most of the problem/cost. Once you've done that, getting it to Mars hardly costs a thing except a smaller amount of fuel and six months of travel time.
I suggest you read A Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin.
The space station is a money pit. Outside of a few minor science experiments most of what goes on is just to keep it going.
Mars has all the easy accessible volatiles needed to make human breathable atmosphere. As for the gravity, it may be 1/3 G but it's enough to drastically reduce the amount of exercise needed. There is enough variation in the human species to allow us to adapt to 1/3 G. Buildings on Mars will need far fewer supports than on Earth. Even if you have the raw material available on asteroids, you still have to process it. On Mars you just build your base structure then bulldoze regolith over it or just build in a natural underground structure. Building in a small crater would simplify things too.
Well gravity wells overcome a host of problems both biological and technological that space habitats have. Humans and animals can't stay in zero G for long periods. We need the stress of gravity on our bodies. People would require intense exercise on the moon or Mars to keep from loosing bone mass. They may one day overcome that with drugs or genetic engineering but they haven't yet. Atmospheres of planets or building under the regolith of a planet or moon also offer protection from radiation that space habitats don't have unless they use very expensive and massive shielding.
So, for the moment, space habitats aren't the most intelligent or economical way to go unless it's a asteroid mining colony.
I for one hope they don't find any life on Mars because if they discover even a single non-Earth origin microbe it will mean the end of any possibility of colonizing or even terraforming Mars. Every religious and nature group will come out against us going to Mars for science and colonization. Plus you'll get the people fearful of Martian life getting to Earth against it too. Life on Mars would almost mean the end of Space exploration for the foreseeable future.
One more reason not to use Vista...