The easiest way to prevent heart attacks is to pick parents that aren't prone to that issue.
Otherwise, if you need your heart fixed, yeah, I'd say patch it up.
Unlike most slashdot posters, I look to see if someone has already stated what I was thinking.
In this case you have.
If there is anything of value on the moon, worth bringing back in quantity, it would seem to be the perfect place to start with a space elevator.
No atmosphere and less gravity, along with it's relative proximity to Earth makes it a good testbed for such an endevour.
However, the costs involved necessitate that there is something on the moon worth the effort - as a strictly R&D, proof-of-concept deal, even the Moon is too far away to build it just because "it is there".
Doesn't pass my smell test as an investment
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Google's Insular Nature
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Seems like another dot-bomb in the making.
Not totally, if you were in early (IPO) you made money, but not now.
Look, I use Google all the time... but I fail to see how they make one dime from me.
By contrast, take eBay. I use them too -- at least I can see how they have directly made a few hundred bucks from me over the last few years, for services rendered.
ebay is 2/3 the price of goog (P/E ratios), so, right off the bat, goog stock ought to drop $100 USD just to be priced similar to eBay... then, maybe both of the aforementioned stocks could drop in value by half again, just to be priced more in line with other stocks... (P/E 20-ish).
Everyone talks about poor African children benefiting from these devices, but that is not what I see when I look at the distro map. Only Nigeria and Egypt are "green".
What really sticks out is China and India - seems to me, with all the bitching on Slashdot about outsourcing from the West to those places, China and India ought to be on their own in funding this program.
If I were to pledge is there any way to be chose the recipient country?
If the laptops are donated proportionally based on population, almost all of them will be going to one of those two countries...
Sounds like a great deal for China - get paid to manufacture them, then have them donated to their citizens too!
This product was prominently displayed at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention last month.
It seems like the main thrust of the (very large) MSFT exhibit was VOD (video on demand), but WMP 11 was prominently displayed, along with a promised new buy-your-music-online program... the partner's name escapes me at the moment.
With a plane that fast fuel costs are irrelevant - you just fill up and take off without paying at the pump. Who can catch you?
Of course you can only fly out of each airport once before you have to repaint the plane to disguise it! Eventually all that extra paint will slow down the plane... hmmm maybe you are right. Oh! I know - don't use paint! They can change colors with sharpies!
So why didn't the name change?
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If civilization has deteriorated to the point that the future critters no longer have the technology to detect the danger, maybe a good old fashioned dose of mutation will kick-start them back on the path!
You only have the "standard big bang theory" - what you want is the "unlimited big bang theory", sure, the milage isn't as good, but damn, no other physicists will leave you in their [cosmic] dust!
The repo man uses the tow-away method too. Even though they have a legal right to snatch a car in default they don't like to stick around for a confrontation anymore than a thief does. 20 minutes is a long time.
The escalator was probably there before the fitness center. Most businesses don't own the space they are in, they just lease it. Businesses come and go.
Still, it is a funny picture. It is also funny to see businesses housed in distinctive buildings - I've seen sushi places in what obviously used to be an IHOP and other restaurants in ex-Wienerschnitzel buildings. I haven't seen any of those fried-check "barn" buildings lately, but they were around long after the chicken was gone.
Maybe the escalator pictured used to go to a "Home Country Buffet"!
I started watching "24" for the first time this year, because the buzz was that it was good - and while I do enjoy the fast pacing of the plot and the twists, the novelty quickly wears off if you ever let your "suspension of disbelief" slip for too long.
Comic book action stuff aside, one of the things that kicks the belief out, are the frequent computer superheroics. "Oh, I just machine coded up a thing-a-ma-bobbie to frammit the security on that secure line." (Ok, that's not a direct quote from the show - I said I watch it, not that I was an obsessive quote collecting fan.)
I am sure the same thing happens in just about any field that takes any expertise - entertainment media is bound to get things wrong, because their expertise is entertaining, not the subject matter of the plot vehicle. (Often on purpose - I mean who wants to watch a "real-time" show on a long drawn-out legal battle, for instance.)
In the end, the patient needs to be better at the end of the hour, the case solved, and the Internet deliver whatever lines it needed to to finish the story.
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But that is a lot of work!
The easiest way to prevent heart attacks is to pick parents that aren't prone to that issue. Otherwise, if you need your heart fixed, yeah, I'd say patch it up.
In this case you have.
If there is anything of value on the moon, worth bringing back in quantity, it would seem to be the perfect place to start with a space elevator.
No atmosphere and less gravity, along with it's relative proximity to Earth makes it a good testbed for such an endevour.
However, the costs involved necessitate that there is something on the moon worth the effort - as a strictly R&D, proof-of-concept deal, even the Moon is too far away to build it just because "it is there".
Not totally, if you were in early (IPO) you made money, but not now.
Look, I use Google all the time... but I fail to see how they make one dime from me.
By contrast, take eBay. I use them too -- at least I can see how they have directly made a few hundred bucks from me over the last few years, for services rendered.
ebay is 2/3 the price of goog (P/E ratios), so, right off the bat, goog stock ought to drop $100 USD just to be priced similar to eBay... then, maybe both of the aforementioned stocks could drop in value by half again, just to be priced more in line with other stocks... (P/E 20-ish).
What really sticks out is China and India - seems to me, with all the bitching on Slashdot about outsourcing from the West to those places, China and India ought to be on their own in funding this program.
If I were to pledge is there any way to be chose the recipient country?
If the laptops are donated proportionally based on population, almost all of them will be going to one of those two countries...
Sounds like a great deal for China - get paid to manufacture them, then have them donated to their citizens too!
Metric: Negatory - do not advance.
English: No don't stop. [oooooh]
And comes as standard equipment.
That sounds right, I was too lazy to look it up.
It seems like the main thrust of the (very large) MSFT exhibit was VOD (video on demand), but WMP 11 was prominently displayed, along with a promised new buy-your-music-online program... the partner's name escapes me at the moment.
Literally.
Who knew?
Here is the off-topic, off-color reference
Of course you can only fly out of each airport once before you have to repaint the plane to disguise it! Eventually all that extra paint will slow down the plane... hmmm maybe you are right. Oh! I know - don't use paint! They can change colors with sharpies!
Now that it is version 7 shouldn't it be vii?
I think you are saying I should keep my computers out of the bathtub, right?
If civilization has deteriorated to the point that the future critters no longer have the technology to detect the danger, maybe a good old fashioned dose of mutation will kick-start them back on the path!
Customers who use websites might not like that stuff, but customers who buy websites often love it and ask for it by name, and pay by the hour!
Thanks!
You only have the "standard big bang theory" - what you want is the "unlimited big bang theory", sure, the milage isn't as good, but damn, no other physicists will leave you in their [cosmic] dust!
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The repo man uses the tow-away method too. Even though they have a legal right to snatch a car in default they don't like to stick around for a confrontation anymore than a thief does. 20 minutes is a long time.
Still, it is a funny picture. It is also funny to see businesses housed in distinctive buildings - I've seen sushi places in what obviously used to be an IHOP and other restaurants in ex-Wienerschnitzel buildings. I haven't seen any of those fried-check "barn" buildings lately, but they were around long after the chicken was gone.
Maybe the escalator pictured used to go to a "Home Country Buffet"!
I always thought that 60's SF writers were postulating the future loss of the technology of "the fuse". That's why stuff was always blowing up.
Comic book action stuff aside, one of the things that kicks the belief out, are the frequent computer superheroics. "Oh, I just machine coded up a thing-a-ma-bobbie to frammit the security on that secure line." (Ok, that's not a direct quote from the show - I said I watch it, not that I was an obsessive quote collecting fan.)
I am sure the same thing happens in just about any field that takes any expertise - entertainment media is bound to get things wrong, because their expertise is entertaining, not the subject matter of the plot vehicle. (Often on purpose - I mean who wants to watch a "real-time" show on a long drawn-out legal battle, for instance.)
In the end, the patient needs to be better at the end of the hour, the case solved, and the Internet deliver whatever lines it needed to to finish the story.
Cool, sounds good to me :-)
I'm not getting older, just better.
Point taken.
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