TFA is wrong. My dad works for Xerox, and I was talking to him about this article. He designs software for the big docutechs, and he assured me that this is the market they are in and they have far more market share then those numbers would allow.
I'm not sure where those numbers came from - [maybe they just forgot to include Xerox?] but this is the area that Xerox makes most of its money in now.
well, first you would dig a pilot hole. Ideally, you would put this along a planned axis [the air inside the spinning asteroid would be thinniest along the axises, so air loss would be minimized later]
The pilot hole goes all the way to the center of the asteroid. If it is determined the asteroid is strong enough, progress continues, otherwise it would become a mining colony.
The asteroid is then hollowed out from the center, with the removed material taken out the pilot hole. While this is being done, small rockets will increase the rotational rate of the asteroid to super-fast speeds. Eventually, the disired diameter and simulated gravity are achieved.
At this point, a massive gate is attached at the mouth of the pilot hole. This gate will become the asteroid's space port once it is inhabited. The pressure is then built up, and if the atmosphere holds, soil is shipped in and buildings are put up, and then the settlers move in.
The major problem you would have with this is the need for a massive amount of artificial lighting in the early-generations of asteroid settlement. Eventually, as the technology is refined, I could see the narrow pilot hole replaced with massive windows that will let in the sunlight.
You hollow out the asteroid, re-enforce the walls, fill it with air and spin it. It will only really work with the tougher Iron asteroids, though, the weaker "rubble piles" won't work.
Seriously. The major hurtle is "Is a computer easier to use then a car" Almost everyone has a car, or at least knows how to drive one.
If computers are on that level of complexity then I think most people will end up adopting one. Computers will never be as easy to use as a toaster, because they do so much more then warming bread.
Um, everyone over the age of 18 is eligible to vote, that is about 210 million people out of 290 million.
120 million actually bothered to vote in the last election, and 61 million voted for Bush. Now from that I can see where you say "a quarter of the population gets to choose".
However, You make it sound like its only one group that gets out to vote, while it is really varing percentages of every group over 18 that votes. The people who don't vote are usually the people in the middle who don't really care who wins. This makes it exceedingly difficult to oppress the majority, since they will feel the need to vote and will turn out en mass in the next election.
Finally, the religious right controls the country right now! You make it sound like they are a tiny oppressed minority. If you are looking for the oppressed in America today, I can tell you where to look, and it isn't the white, right-wing suburbs. Its still the poor, black disatvantaged inner cities that are still stuck in a vicious poverty cycle.
If you want to talk about the oppressed groups among whites its almost certainly the gay community. The atheists always take a hammering in speeches, but its impossible to tell who they are, usually, so they usually get a pass.
Anyway, its true that America is ruled by the people who show up and not neccesairly the majority. But if you think the religious right is the oppressed group in America today, you need to check into the loonie bin. Or get a job on talk radio.
Um, the sega Genesis was backwards compatible with the Sega Master System [with an adaptor, although the Genesis had the Master System Z80 proc in it, so the adaptor just matched pinouts].
I'm pretty sure most people consider the Genesis to be successful. It could also be argued that the Gamecube was backwards compatible with GB/C/A carts.
okay, this is going seriously OT, but you are completely forgetting Quantum Theory. Hiesenburg's uncertainty principle introduces a level of randomness which makes predetermination problematic, at best.
If it wasn't for uncertainty and the resulting 'lopsidded' big bang, there would be equal amounts of mater and antimatter, and whatever hadn't been annihlated would be equaly distributed throughout the universe - the existance of galaxies proves that didn't happen.
You really think there are more XBoxes in the world then PS2s.
He was refering to month to month sales for the past few months. In other words, he was saying that the Xbox is currently outselling the PS2. In the November / December Christmas season, the Xbox sold about 1.5 million units, compared to 1.3 million PS2s [this may be do to shortages of the new mini PStwo, but it is still fact]. The PS2 still has a much larger installed base, though [well over 60% of all current-gen consoles]
Before we discuss everything else, just keep in mind that Democrats won the recount even without these extra ballots, which makes the whole rest of this debate academic.
This isn't the "oops we found a box with only democratic ballots in it" Thing that happened during Johnson's Texas senate bid in 1948. These are verified ballots that were, basically, intially rejected do to incompetance. It was only caught because the Democratic county Chairman's ballot was one of the rejected ones. On closer inspection, they found that 700-odd ballots were completely rejected by mistake. The Republican Secretary of state agrees that these ballots were rejected by accident.
And if you are still skeptical, the ballots split 4-3 [Gregoire-Rossi], which is a similar margin to the rest of the ballots from King County.
And if you are still skeptical, then I'm sorry, your just being an illogical partisan [something I've been guilty of sometimes, I admit]
Those sort who attack and kill non-military targets purely to influence poltics or religion (or both) are my definition of terrorist.
I would say that, by your own definition, President Bush is a terrorist, because he attacked a non-military target [Iraq, with no Al-Queda connections and no WMD] purely for his own political ends.
Note, I am not saying I Think Bush is a terrorist, merely pointing out that he is by your definition.
because like I said before the ballots that have the highest fault rate are in highly democratic areas. The repulbican areas have ballots with lower margins of error / no paper trails and therefore recounts there would have less of an impact.
PS - Great Grandparent post is just wrong - Ohio uses punch card ballots for the most part. Whomever modded it "informative" needs to check thier facts first next time.
Ohio doesn't use electronic voting. Over 70% of the state [including Cleveland, where I live and voted] still use the old "hanging chad" ballots.
The only regions that use the electronic voting machines are the wealthy republican suburban areas. Therefore any recount will help Kerry. Whether it will help enough is anyone's guess.
Ah, I wish I had some mod points now. Someone needs to mod you +5 insightful.
You articulated exactly what I was thinking, and almost anything I say would be redundant. I think this would actually be a good thing, because, [as you mentioned] the artic is warming at an alarming rate, and I think we should do anything we can to cool it back down to prevent massive flooding from melting icecaps.
People forget the heat waste problems of nuclear plants. Lake Ontario has 3 nuclear power plants and, If I remember correctly, they raise the temperature of the lake by a couple of degrees. That might not seem significant but the increased evaporation rates from the extra heat may be to blame for the increased percipitation rates around the lake.
I suppose I'll feed this troll.
You do realize you can hate President Bush AND hate Osama Bin Laden, right? You don't seriously think that Liberal Europeans like Islamic extremeism, do you? France has even go so far as to ban islamic dress in schools [a bad idea, IMHO, because it causes more problems then it solves]. The people of New York City overwhelmingly voted against Bush. I suppose they must love Bin Laden too! New Yorkers do have plenty of firsthand experience in dealing with him...
I suspect what Kerry knows that we don't know is that there aren't enough valid provisional ballots in Ohio to cover the gap between him and Bush. This is a pretty crappy day for america though.
yeah, you are right. I can't believe how stupid people are. Remember, though, that Americans who travel abroad tend to be more democratic [little d] then the general population. I travel abroad a lot, and I voted for Kerry in Ohio, so please don't hate me.
I'm a big Kerry supporter and I agree with most of what you say. However, I have to take note with your phrase
"You got what you deserved when you voted four years ago."
Gore won the popular vote by 0.5%. Even assuming the vote count in Flordia was fair, the majority of Americans opposed Bush in 2000, so I would have to say we got the opposite of what we deserved when we voted 4 years ago.
and after Nintendo spured Sony they changed thier minds again, built the thing with the help of Phillips, and then changed thier minds AGAIN. Phillips ended up releasing it as the stand-alone CD-i.
Well there are two factors fighting against each other. Democrats are less likely to vote then republicans, but undecideds usually break 2-1 for the challenger.
However everyone aknowledges that democratic turnout will be higher then usual this election. How much higher is up for debate. This is why polls are all over the place in terms of "likely voters" vs. "Registered Voters"
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TFA is wrong. My dad works for Xerox, and I was talking to him about this article. He designs software for the big docutechs, and he assured me that this is the market they are in and they have far more market share then those numbers would allow. I'm not sure where those numbers came from - [maybe they just forgot to include Xerox?] but this is the area that Xerox makes most of its money in now.
well, first you would dig a pilot hole. Ideally, you would put this along a planned axis [the air inside the spinning asteroid would be thinniest along the axises, so air loss would be minimized later]
The pilot hole goes all the way to the center of the asteroid. If it is determined the asteroid is strong enough, progress continues, otherwise it would become a mining colony.
The asteroid is then hollowed out from the center, with the removed material taken out the pilot hole. While this is being done, small rockets will increase the rotational rate of the asteroid to super-fast speeds. Eventually, the disired diameter and simulated gravity are achieved.
At this point, a massive gate is attached at the mouth of the pilot hole. This gate will become the asteroid's space port once it is inhabited. The pressure is then built up, and if the atmosphere holds, soil is shipped in and buildings are put up, and then the settlers move in.
The major problem you would have with this is the need for a massive amount of artificial lighting in the early-generations of asteroid settlement. Eventually, as the technology is refined, I could see the narrow pilot hole replaced with massive windows that will let in the sunlight.
You hollow out the asteroid, re-enforce the walls, fill it with air and spin it.
It will only really work with the tougher Iron asteroids, though, the weaker "rubble piles" won't work.
Seriously. The major hurtle is "Is a computer easier to use then a car" Almost everyone has a car, or at least knows how to drive one. If computers are on that level of complexity then I think most people will end up adopting one. Computers will never be as easy to use as a toaster, because they do so much more then warming bread.
120 million actually bothered to vote in the last election, and 61 million voted for Bush. Now from that I can see where you say "a quarter of the population gets to choose".
However, You make it sound like its only one group that gets out to vote, while it is really varing percentages of every group over 18 that votes. The people who don't vote are usually the people in the middle who don't really care who wins. This makes it exceedingly difficult to oppress the majority, since they will feel the need to vote and will turn out en mass in the next election.
Finally, the religious right controls the country right now! You make it sound like they are a tiny oppressed minority. If you are looking for the oppressed in America today, I can tell you where to look, and it isn't the white, right-wing suburbs. Its still the poor, black disatvantaged inner cities that are still stuck in a vicious poverty cycle.
If you want to talk about the oppressed groups among whites its almost certainly the gay community. The atheists always take a hammering in speeches, but its impossible to tell who they are, usually, so they usually get a pass.
Anyway, its true that America is ruled by the people who show up and not neccesairly the majority. But if you think the religious right is the oppressed group in America today, you need to check into the loonie bin. Or get a job on talk radio.
Um, the sega Genesis was backwards compatible with the Sega Master System [with an adaptor, although the Genesis had the Master System Z80 proc in it, so the adaptor just matched pinouts]. I'm pretty sure most people consider the Genesis to be successful. It could also be argued that the Gamecube was backwards compatible with GB/C/A carts.
Really? Because I can think of several Japanese-made Xbox exclusives:
Dead or Alive 3
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Ninja Gaiden
Gunvalkarye [made by Sega, although it might have been Sega of America]
Anyway, I'm sure there are more; I don't think Tecmo is the only Japanese second-party developer for Xbox.
okay, this is going seriously OT, but you are completely forgetting Quantum Theory. Hiesenburg's uncertainty principle introduces a level of randomness which makes predetermination problematic, at best. If it wasn't for uncertainty and the resulting 'lopsidded' big bang, there would be equal amounts of mater and antimatter, and whatever hadn't been annihlated would be equaly distributed throughout the universe - the existance of galaxies proves that didn't happen.
Xboxes outselling PS2s
You really think there are more XBoxes in the world then PS2s.
He was refering to month to month sales for the past few months. In other words, he was saying that the Xbox is currently outselling the PS2. In the November / December Christmas season, the Xbox sold about 1.5 million units, compared to 1.3 million PS2s [this may be do to shortages of the new mini PStwo, but it is still fact]. The PS2 still has a much larger installed base, though [well over 60% of all current-gen consoles]
Before we discuss everything else, just keep in mind that Democrats won the recount even without these extra ballots, which makes the whole rest of this debate academic. This isn't the "oops we found a box with only democratic ballots in it" Thing that happened during Johnson's Texas senate bid in 1948. These are verified ballots that were, basically, intially rejected do to incompetance. It was only caught because the Democratic county Chairman's ballot was one of the rejected ones. On closer inspection, they found that 700-odd ballots were completely rejected by mistake. The Republican Secretary of state agrees that these ballots were rejected by accident. And if you are still skeptical, the ballots split 4-3 [Gregoire-Rossi], which is a similar margin to the rest of the ballots from King County. And if you are still skeptical, then I'm sorry, your just being an illogical partisan [something I've been guilty of sometimes, I admit]
Those sort who attack and kill non-military targets purely to influence poltics or religion (or both) are my definition of terrorist.
I would say that, by your own definition, President Bush is a terrorist, because he attacked a non-military target [Iraq, with no Al-Queda connections and no WMD] purely for his own political ends.
Note, I am not saying I Think Bush is a terrorist, merely pointing out that he is by your definition.
exactly. Thanks for putting it succiently.
because like I said before the ballots that have the highest fault rate are in highly democratic areas. The repulbican areas have ballots with lower margins of error / no paper trails and therefore recounts there would have less of an impact. PS - Great Grandparent post is just wrong - Ohio uses punch card ballots for the most part. Whomever modded it "informative" needs to check thier facts first next time.
Ohio doesn't use electronic voting. Over 70% of the state [including Cleveland, where I live and voted] still use the old "hanging chad" ballots.
The only regions that use the electronic voting machines are the wealthy republican suburban areas. Therefore any recount will help Kerry. Whether it will help enough is anyone's guess.
Ah, I wish I had some mod points now. Someone needs to mod you +5 insightful.
You articulated exactly what I was thinking, and almost anything I say would be redundant. I think this would actually be a good thing, because, [as you mentioned] the artic is warming at an alarming rate, and I think we should do anything we can to cool it back down to prevent massive flooding from melting icecaps.
People forget the heat waste problems of nuclear plants. Lake Ontario has 3 nuclear power plants and, If I remember correctly, they raise the temperature of the lake by a couple of degrees. That might not seem significant but the increased evaporation rates from the extra heat may be to blame for the increased percipitation rates around the lake.
I suppose I'll feed this troll.
You do realize you can hate President Bush AND hate Osama Bin Laden, right?
You don't seriously think that Liberal Europeans like Islamic extremeism, do you? France has even go so far as to ban islamic dress in schools [a bad idea, IMHO, because it causes more problems then it solves].
The people of New York City overwhelmingly voted against Bush. I suppose they must love Bin Laden too! New Yorkers do have plenty of firsthand experience in dealing with him...
I suspect what Kerry knows that we don't know is that there aren't enough valid provisional ballots in Ohio to cover the gap between him and Bush. This is a pretty crappy day for america though.
yeah, you are right. I can't believe how stupid people are. Remember, though, that Americans who travel abroad tend to be more democratic [little d] then the general population. I travel abroad a lot, and I voted for Kerry in Ohio, so please don't hate me.
Yeah, I can't see Texas going democratic again until 2020 or so.
grr html formatting took out the "less than" sign, its supposed to say "or is 27 less then 15 now?".
None of the other coastal states have more then 15? really? What about Flordia? or is 27 15 now?
Gore won the popular vote by 0.5%. Even assuming the vote count in Flordia was fair, the majority of Americans opposed Bush in 2000, so I would have to say we got the opposite of what we deserved when we voted 4 years ago.
and after Nintendo spured Sony they changed thier minds again, built the thing with the help of Phillips, and then changed thier minds AGAIN. Phillips ended up releasing it as the stand-alone CD-i.
Well there are two factors fighting against each other. Democrats are less likely to vote then republicans, but undecideds usually break 2-1 for the challenger.
However everyone aknowledges that democratic turnout will be higher then usual this election. How much higher is up for debate. This is why polls are all over the place in terms of "likely voters" vs. "Registered Voters"
sadly yes. When I saw the headline I thought it was talking about some new homebrew atari 2600 games or something. I'm only 20 and I'm already old....