Sorry, the people that get articles created nowadays arent creators. Most of them are just self-serving wankers, add-shills and crackpots that are better off gone.
No, you are just putting to much into that story. Its just a single case of a dying alliance presented there. And even that case doesnt give an point towards some kind of "failure cascade". It just tells that if one corp is losing battles, its getting weaker, and thus likely to lose more battles if it doesnt stop. Somebody call captain obvious...
ACtually, the concord didnt need the afterburner to reach supercruise. But it happened that using is was far more efficient (with out afterburner, it spend quite a few minutes in the transition region of the speed of sound which used up way more fuel than a quick boost past the barrier)
Another thing: There IS such a thing as a desktop synchroton. As least yesterday a coworker visited a company in stanford building one.
The principle: a small 50 MeV Synchrotron (fits easily on a desk including injector) plus a infrared laser. The infraled laser is injected into the straight section, pulsed synchroneous to the electron bunches.
The magnetic field of the laser act as a "virtual undulator" with a lambda of only a few um. If you put this in the undulator equation, you can get hard x-rays (in their case 30keV) with decent brilliance out of such a weak electron beam (the fact that they have >10k undulator periods also makes it pretty monochromatic without an extra monochromator).
You STILL think to narrow. And your argument is a bit of a strawman.
The real point is: Money in = Money out, in the long term. We have a many-multi billion video games market. We have the rise of cell-phones/ringtones/ect, which suck enormous amounts of spare income out of the 15-23 target group. All that money obviously is missing somewhere else.
People might spend less money on music because of the internet, not because they download it instead, but the fact that those 50$ cable/dsl/flatrate fee are just missing somewhere else.
And nowadays, a lot of people find better things to do with their time in the web/blogosphere/ect than fullfilling their old role as mindless media consumers.
And ultimately, people who have money to spend are time-limited (as opposed to the typical teenagers that have tons of time, but not the money, and create "no loss" piracy. Or do you think that timmy would have bought those 3500 albums and 700 games he downloaded from piratbay?
1) It takes skill and dedication to widen your ass like the goatse guy. You cant buy that, you have to invest it. See. Thats no argument.
2) Well, maybe not if the "new" one became the "real" one. Which it will, considering the old farts getting past their "best before" date. 3) I am talking to you across half the world right now. Without a 30 feet fibreglass pole.
4) Point to Point communication only work because so few poeple are using them. 5) See goatse.
And your last line just shows what a narrowmindet retard you are.
> If Apple opened the iPhone to any carrier and passed off that special feature set, AT&T would likely be everyone's last carrier choice so who needs who?
If apple did that, they couldnt collect "apple tax" on all revenue made with the i-phone.
The exlusive contract was the only way for a phone carrier to consider submitting to that kind of thug tactics.
It should really read "non-anonymous ratings of movies in IMDB gives away your movie preferences". Because really, thats all the mat their "research" has.
And in fact, if you rate movies in IMDB, and your handle can be tracked, who needs the netflix data?
This whole thing is a non-issue, and the paper is so content-slim i doubt it will be accepted anywhere (well, maybe "new scientist" will print it...)
Well, the situation is different: Back than, spaceflight was a) a matter of _extreme_ national pride. b) a propaganda race with the soviet uninion and c) had lots of military synergies (all the reasearch in missile technology, ect).
Just to make a bad comparison: If the money for the war in iraq would have been spend for a moon mission, we would be there now (or the next 2 years). Just pushing 100 or 200 billions a year into it and stuff gets going.
But thats not very economic, and as there is no "real" payback, todays plans are much slower moving.
Its actually even worse. You might think of the "9-5" workday when saying that the center is 13:00. But in reality, its more like 15:00 (most people wont be a lot of time awake _before_ going to work, but lots of time after...
not as long as cars are running on gasoline. Keeping the air non-toxic, and fire-hazard after collisions (burning stuff in tunnels is a nightmare) are non-trivial tasks.
Its bad enough in car tunnels that are only a few km. Imagine intersections and stuff, too...
Also, you could only go where its rentable to dig a tunnel to. Most of this location already have one (just use the subway)
Its not like the effect used in NMR is _only_ viable at high field strengts.
Its just that higher fields (or more correctly put, higher field gradients) allow for higher resolution. Looking at this publication, they archived about 5mm resulution with a 50uT field. Real high-end small bore scanners can get 3 orders of magniture higher.
And the "maybe can it fit in a glovebox" part is _severely_ limited by the use of 7(!) Squids... Each of which will need a LN/LH cryosystem.
Still, this looks quite interesting, but its not like it completely depricates the current stuff.
That suggestion is about as realistic as finding santa clause fucking batman in a public toilet.
Use your brain: How likely would it be that people who buy _flying cars_ would fly them only to the bus-stop? And b) Wow, now instead of cars blocking everything around the houses, you have cars blocking everything around the bus stop. great.
No, he is perfectly right. Even if you discover antigravity tomorrow, it will only cause people drive their hummer v4_hover into the sears tower, do mitair collision, get horribly lost with fog/clouds , ect. Infrastructure, too. how would you scale the logistics up to orders of magnitudes more objects in the air that can potentially in each others way? How would you create the capacity for emergency response for ill-mentained fly_cars?
Propulsion (totally sci-fi a la larry niven excluded) is the smallest problem.
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Sorry, the people that get articles created nowadays arent creators.
Most of them are just self-serving wankers, add-shills and crackpots that are better off gone.
No, you are just putting to much into that story.
Its just a single case of a dying alliance presented there.
And even that case doesnt give an point towards some kind of "failure cascade".
It just tells that if one corp is losing battles, its getting weaker, and thus likely to lose more battles if it doesnt stop. Somebody call captain obvious...
ACtually, the concord didnt need the afterburner to reach supercruise.
But it happened that using is was far more efficient (with out afterburner, it spend quite a few minutes in the transition region of the speed of sound which used up way more fuel than a quick boost past the barrier)
Another thing: There IS such a thing as a desktop synchroton. As least yesterday a coworker visited a company in stanford building one.
The principle: a small 50 MeV Synchrotron (fits easily on a desk including injector) plus a infrared laser.
The infraled laser is injected into the straight section, pulsed synchroneous to the electron bunches.
The magnetic field of the laser act as a "virtual undulator" with a lambda of only a few um. If you put this in the undulator equation, you can get hard x-rays (in their case 30keV) with decent brilliance out of such a weak electron beam (the fact that they have >10k undulator periods also makes it pretty monochromatic without an extra monochromator).
Oh, if you expand the "keychain" stuff to just own, its true.
Just add up the people who have digicams (most with >1GB SDs in them)
You STILL think to narrow.
And your argument is a bit of a strawman.
The real point is: Money in = Money out, in the long term.
We have a many-multi billion video games market. We have the rise of cell-phones/ringtones/ect, which suck enormous amounts of spare income out of the 15-23 target group. All that money obviously is missing somewhere else.
People might spend less money on music because of the internet, not because they download it instead, but the fact that those 50$ cable/dsl/flatrate fee are just missing somewhere else.
And nowadays, a lot of people find better things to do with their time in the web/blogosphere/ect than fullfilling their old role as mindless media consumers.
And ultimately, people who have money to spend are time-limited (as opposed to the typical teenagers that have tons of time, but not the money, and create "no loss" piracy. Or do you think that timmy would have bought those 3500 albums and 700 games he downloaded from piratbay?
1) It takes skill and dedication to widen your ass like the goatse guy. You cant buy that, you have to invest it. See. Thats no argument.
2) Well, maybe not if the "new" one became the "real" one. Which it will, considering the old farts getting past their "best before" date.
3) I am talking to you across half the world right now. Without a 30 feet fibreglass pole.
4) Point to Point communication only work because so few poeple are using them.
5) See goatse.
And your last line just shows what a narrowmindet retard you are.
> If Apple opened the iPhone to any carrier and passed off that special feature set, AT&T would likely be everyone's last carrier choice so who needs who?
If apple did that, they couldnt collect "apple tax" on all revenue made with the i-phone.
The exlusive contract was the only way for a phone carrier to consider submitting to that kind of thug tactics.
Well, saying that quarz is just another form of silicon is like saying water is just another form of breathable air...
Plasma, meet speed of sound.
"Why are you so high, for my low density?"
"Because you are plasma, and no stupid ideal gas, slowpoke!"
It should really read "non-anonymous ratings of movies in IMDB gives away your movie preferences".
Because really, thats all the mat their "research" has.
And in fact, if you rate movies in IMDB, and your handle can be tracked, who needs the netflix data?
This whole thing is a non-issue, and the paper is so content-slim i doubt it will be accepted anywhere (well, maybe "new scientist" will print it...)
Well, the situation is different:
Back than, spaceflight was a) a matter of _extreme_ national pride. b) a propaganda race with the soviet uninion and c) had lots of military synergies (all the reasearch in missile technology, ect).
Just to make a bad comparison: If the money for the war in iraq would have been spend for a moon mission, we would be there now (or the next 2 years).
Just pushing 100 or 200 billions a year into it and stuff gets going.
But thats not very economic, and as there is no "real" payback, todays plans are much slower moving.
Sorry to taint your rose-colored glasses, but i actually remember how "inferior" IE was back then.
So inferior that we begged the sysadmin to allow IE5.0 so we didnt have to fight the sluggish piece of shit that was Netscape 4.7something all day.
Netscape messed up their stuff quite well on their own.
The mere fact that it took half a decade to de-aids the codebase after them fucking tells quite a bit.
Well, maybe they should have used that 7 years earnings to finance a nice life, and not fuel the engines of lawyers...
Its actually even worse.
You might think of the "9-5" workday when saying that the center is 13:00.
But in reality, its more like 15:00 (most people wont be a lot of time awake _before_ going to work, but lots of time after...
not as long as cars are running on gasoline.
Keeping the air non-toxic, and fire-hazard after collisions (burning stuff in tunnels is a nightmare) are non-trivial tasks.
Its bad enough in car tunnels that are only a few km. Imagine intersections and stuff, too...
Also, you could only go where its rentable to dig a tunnel to. Most of this location already have one (just use the subway)
Its not like the effect used in NMR is _only_ viable at high field strengts.
Its just that higher fields (or more correctly put, higher field gradients) allow for higher resolution.
Looking at this publication, they archived about 5mm resulution with a 50uT field.
Real high-end small bore scanners can get 3 orders of magniture higher.
And the "maybe can it fit in a glovebox" part is _severely_ limited by the use of 7(!) Squids... Each of which will need a LN/LH cryosystem.
Still, this looks quite interesting, but its not like it completely depricates the current stuff.
That suggestion is about as realistic as finding santa clause fucking batman in a public toilet.
Use your brain: How likely would it be that people who buy _flying cars_ would fly them only to the bus-stop?
And b) Wow, now instead of cars blocking everything around the houses, you have cars blocking everything around the bus stop.
great.
No, he is perfectly right.
Even if you discover antigravity tomorrow, it will only cause people drive their hummer v4_hover into the sears tower, do mitair collision, get horribly lost with fog/clouds , ect.
Infrastructure, too.
how would you scale the logistics up to orders of magnitudes more objects in the air that can potentially in each others way?
How would you create the capacity for emergency response for ill-mentained fly_cars?
Propulsion (totally sci-fi a la larry niven excluded) is the smallest problem.
You have no idea how many orders of magnitude the leakage loss of a capacitor is less than typical PSU losses.
No, thats a natural side effect of a normal, sensible person confronted with a slimy maggot like the OP.
Which shows that the people who wanted to fire her are the real idiots.
They should value her as an asset, as she is obviously very resitent to social engineering.
You keep using that word.
I dont think it means what you think it does...
Just because its a blog doesnt it make any less real than posting it as leaflets on lampposts.
If the accusations are true, than they will lose.
If they arent, they have every right to defend themselves against this libel.
At least after we send our greeting, it will take 2 or 3 generations for the extermination fleet to arrive....