It's kind of like how you can see over the other cars if you drive and SUV. But if everyone got an SUV, then you are back in the original situation but now everyone pays more for gas per mile.
There, fixed it. BTW, what is baseball, and why don't people do it here in my mother's basement?
Water = yes, gold = not really. Gold is about the most useless of all the elements. Yes, you can use it for wiring, but copper is about as good and much more plentiful. Gold is mainly valuable because fruit cakes think it is valuable.
You do realize that Steve Jobs thinks of Apple as a hardware manufacturer. The rest of the stuff he does because it makes the hardware work the way he wants it to work. You can question it, but your company isn't as successful as his (if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?).
It depends on how you view copyright. Copyright is also about protecting your artistic vision in your piece, not just about making money. So, if a movie theater buys a copy of my film and then cuts out scenes, I can sue them and force them to stop if I don't want the film to appear in that form. After all, it has my name on it, and it is my work. This seems like their best avenue of attack (and I think it is the one that worked for them before in the other article linked in the slashdot header).
However, I agree that if YOU modify the game (not someone else modifying and reselling it) then I see no harm or foul.
When is "used to be"? I know people in their 80s who went to college to get a job.
I also don't understand how you could learn most advanced subjects without a mentor to walk you through. Learning quantum mechanics without a teacher who can interact one on one with you is... probably very difficult. Learning how to write also requires interaction from what I've seen.
Most state college admissions offices will tell you it is their job to admit those students who can succeed at their college. Obviously they will not always be right, and sometimes they might take a chance on a student who they think can work their butt off, but usually their goal is to admit students who will complete a degree at the university.
The University of Phoenix is currently being raked over the coals for not graduating a sufficient fraction of students (16% by federal standards) (from the NYT). Also, it is a for profit university, I'd just as soon volunteer at a local manufacturing plant as at a for profit university.
The claim of government interference in the article are actually that when the government bailed out Chrystler, it didn't make some decisions that the author wished they had. But without government interference (the bailout) there would not have been a Chrysler either.
screw that. We need to let the bush tax cuts expire, full stop. When they went into effect I was about a median earner and I didn't even care the cut was so small, but added up over all of us, it is several trillion dollars over the next 10 years. I say balance the budget and let them expire.
If the fuel tanks consume energy, or the drive is not 100% efficient at converting energy to thrust, than you need more than 99.9% of the mass of the ship to be fuel. You also have to make the fuel, which requires something like 10^25 joules of energy (55 tones of matter and 55 tones of anti-matter). Even with 1 PW generator (more than the total electrical generating capacity of the earth) and assuming perfect anti-mater energy conversion (a huge assumption) this would take over 300 years to generate. Add in any energy loss or inefficiency and your quickly talking about thousands of years of sitting in the dark waiting for the battery on this to charge. Plus, this is all to move 0.2 tons of ship. And that ship has to store 110 tons of fuel as well as all payload. If you want to build a bigger ship... more energy is required.
Also, to scoop 55 tons of mater out of interstellar space (10^-20 g/cc) you will need a collector of size 1 sq km. keeping in mind that that collector has to be 100% efficient and not use energy...unless you want to make more anti-mater and an even larger collector.
I think you don't appreciate that this is not just "engineering challenges" this is totally out of our league.
Low speed is the way to go. These distances are just long, they are incredible and there is no stopping points between here and there... no refueling spots, nowhere to repair, nowhere to resupply.
If you want humans to go, you should probably plan on first building a ship that can sustain itself in space for a few centuries and then think about going somewhere else... very slowly.
But why do it now? Perhaps in a few thousand years we will have black hole generators and 10^25 J will be nothing (just burning ~ 110 tons of matter). Maybe we could even do it all with just matter drives and a black hole.
The President can do a lot, he just has to sick someone else on the topic like a bull dog. He also has to be really picky about his battles.
I can think of many examples from situations I know of.
Exmaples:
under Bush, the administration did manage to decrease the number of payroll offices substantially and keep (mainly) the the good ones, and decreased the travel authorization/reimbursement IT systems to the less crappy ones (btw private industry guys, is there such a thing as a good travel authorization/reimbursement system?).
Clinton decreased the number of senior executives (people making about $140,000 in DC) substantially while increasing the number of minority senior executives.
Clinton, with Gore's help, increased the number of contractors in the civilian services. He did this not by forcing contracting on the government agencies, but by making a process and forcing them to look at some of their employees every year.
Bush, with Rumsfeld's help, increased the number of contractors in the military. Not sure how this worked, it might have all been from the top.
You have to realize, the US government is too large to control from DC. It works best when there is central minimum requirements that vary with the task at hand and how you meet them is left up to some local manager.
I got the estimate from a slashdot article, though, I was off by a factor of about 2 (it is only 180,000 years). It was really just a reference to that article. But maybe you know how to build a ship that is 99.9% fuel and can do this. BTW, that 0.1% has to include the anti-mater fuel tank, the mater fuel tank, the thrusters, and the payload. Oh, and the fuel tanks can't consume any energy or require repair for 180,000 years.
Uh, what do you think social security is? It is an insurance policy that you are forced to buy. This is settled law. The only difference is that health care has way more choices--you don't just have to go with the "public plan."
Yeah, what if they are patent trolls and point out that most of their patents predate ours so all of ours are invalid. Then we are really screwed and we don't get the FTL without paying the license fee for it and everything else.
Interestingly, your answers actually point out that this can happen, which I thought was wrong when I made my first post. Individual atoms of Helium escape due to being kicked up past the escape velocity in the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution of atoms. But this is a statistical property of the atoms in the gas, so a macroscopic particle is not likely to get that much energy... but Brownian motion is a property of a macroscopic object within a fluid and says that sometimes large objects can take on particle like properties. This is doubly true when the interactions are rare enough (i.e. when the air pressure is really low).
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It's kind of like how you can see over the other cars if you drive and SUV. But if everyone got an SUV, then you are back in the original situation but now everyone pays more for gas per mile.
There, fixed it. BTW, what is baseball, and why don't people do it here in my mother's basement?
Water = yes, gold = not really. Gold is about the most useless of all the elements. Yes, you can use it for wiring, but copper is about as good and much more plentiful. Gold is mainly valuable because fruit cakes think it is valuable.
Not when they are reduced, but they could be part of compounds. (i.e gold nitrate)
You do realize that Steve Jobs thinks of Apple as a hardware manufacturer. The rest of the stuff he does because it makes the hardware work the way he wants it to work. You can question it, but your company isn't as successful as his (if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?).
wow, "nuke it from orbit." I haven't seen you for awhile. What are you 24 years old already?
I think it is funny that slashdotters think that the only reason to use a non iOS is for software development.
As if someone who believes this tripe would be caught dead (in public) with an Apple product.
I think the point is that there is no reason for NSA not to hack the satellite and use it for their own purposes--because, hey, free com satellite.
Why? .n is faster than 100- and slower than Gigabit. If you want a wired computer... a MBA is probably not for you.
It depends on how you view copyright. Copyright is also about protecting your artistic vision in your piece, not just about making money. So, if a movie theater buys a copy of my film and then cuts out scenes, I can sue them and force them to stop if I don't want the film to appear in that form. After all, it has my name on it, and it is my work. This seems like their best avenue of attack (and I think it is the one that worked for them before in the other article linked in the slashdot header).
However, I agree that if YOU modify the game (not someone else modifying and reselling it) then I see no harm or foul.
Wow, that is about the worst modding I've seen in a long time.
When is "used to be"? I know people in their 80s who went to college to get a job.
I also don't understand how you could learn most advanced subjects without a mentor to walk you through. Learning quantum mechanics without a teacher who can interact one on one with you is... probably very difficult. Learning how to write also requires interaction from what I've seen.
Most state college admissions offices will tell you it is their job to admit those students who can succeed at their college. Obviously they will not always be right, and sometimes they might take a chance on a student who they think can work their butt off, but usually their goal is to admit students who will complete a degree at the university.
so, you are saying that learning does not go on at college? Just a way to prove that you can work hard?
The University of Phoenix is currently being raked over the coals for not graduating a sufficient fraction of students (16% by federal standards) (from the NYT). Also, it is a for profit university, I'd just as soon volunteer at a local manufacturing plant as at a for profit university.
The claim of government interference in the article are actually that when the government bailed out Chrystler, it didn't make some decisions that the author wished they had. But without government interference (the bailout) there would not have been a Chrysler either.
trying to get around rules like this where the end result is self reward and might hurt others is very anti-social.
screw that. We need to let the bush tax cuts expire, full stop. When they went into effect I was about a median earner and I didn't even care the cut was so small, but added up over all of us, it is several trillion dollars over the next 10 years. I say balance the budget and let them expire.
If the fuel tanks consume energy, or the drive is not 100% efficient at converting energy to thrust, than you need more than 99.9% of the mass of the ship to be fuel. You also have to make the fuel, which requires something like 10^25 joules of energy (55 tones of matter and 55 tones of anti-matter). Even with 1 PW generator (more than the total electrical generating capacity of the earth) and assuming perfect anti-mater energy conversion (a huge assumption) this would take over 300 years to generate. Add in any energy loss or inefficiency and your quickly talking about thousands of years of sitting in the dark waiting for the battery on this to charge. Plus, this is all to move 0.2 tons of ship. And that ship has to store 110 tons of fuel as well as all payload. If you want to build a bigger ship... more energy is required.
Also, to scoop 55 tons of mater out of interstellar space (10^-20 g/cc) you will need a collector of size 1 sq km. keeping in mind that that collector has to be 100% efficient and not use energy...unless you want to make more anti-mater and an even larger collector.
I think you don't appreciate that this is not just "engineering challenges" this is totally out of our league.
Low speed is the way to go. These distances are just long, they are incredible and there is no stopping points between here and there... no refueling spots, nowhere to repair, nowhere to resupply.
If you want humans to go, you should probably plan on first building a ship that can sustain itself in space for a few centuries and then think about going somewhere else... very slowly.
But why do it now? Perhaps in a few thousand years we will have black hole generators and 10^25 J will be nothing (just burning ~ 110 tons of matter). Maybe we could even do it all with just matter drives and a black hole.
The President can do a lot, he just has to sick someone else on the topic like a bull dog. He also has to be really picky about his battles.
I can think of many examples from situations I know of.
Exmaples:
You have to realize, the US government is too large to control from DC. It works best when there is central minimum requirements that vary with the task at hand and how you meet them is left up to some local manager.
I got the estimate from a slashdot article, though, I was off by a factor of about 2 (it is only 180,000 years). It was really just a reference to that article. But maybe you know how to build a ship that is 99.9% fuel and can do this. BTW, that 0.1% has to include the anti-mater fuel tank, the mater fuel tank, the thrusters, and the payload. Oh, and the fuel tanks can't consume any energy or require repair for 180,000 years.
Glad this story came up before we launched a probe for a 400,000 year flight. Wow would that have been a letdown.
Uh, what do you think social security is? It is an insurance policy that you are forced to buy. This is settled law. The only difference is that health care has way more choices--you don't just have to go with the "public plan."
Yeah, what if they are patent trolls and point out that most of their patents predate ours so all of ours are invalid. Then we are really screwed and we don't get the FTL without paying the license fee for it and everything else.
Interestingly, your answers actually point out that this can happen, which I thought was wrong when I made my first post. Individual atoms of Helium escape due to being kicked up past the escape velocity in the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution of atoms. But this is a statistical property of the atoms in the gas, so a macroscopic particle is not likely to get that much energy... but Brownian motion is a property of a macroscopic object within a fluid and says that sometimes large objects can take on particle like properties. This is doubly true when the interactions are rare enough (i.e. when the air pressure is really low).