I think this would be a good time to seek some formal honours for PJ. Granted she has all the respect she has earned from the community over the course of the SCO epic, but it would be nice to find some appropriate gesture to show her in some tangible way just how valuable we believe she is as a person.
I don't know what she includes in her formal qualifications, but an honourary doctorate from some high profile law school (whether she has an LLD already or whatnot) would probably not go astray. For that matter, I wouldn't think a Presidential Medal of Freedom would be inappropriate either, but that's just me. PJ has not been just a breath of fresh air, she's been the only air we had. To honour her appropriately for that accomplishment would also be to honour an example of where people exercised their democratic right to resist bullying by people who see the courts as just another business tool.
Consider that the anchors could be springs with 1 meter play...
You need to ensure that the downward motion of the ribbon would accelerate at a rate such as to be faster than the cabin falling (Equations for a Falling Body). The springs would have to be quite strong to shift 20 tons one meter that quickly. Composition and cooling of the springs would be an interesting bit of engineering.
Another question to consider -- will the resonant frequency necessary to raise the cabin change with altitude? Considering the mass of the cabin would be constant, I'd think a lower gravitational force near the top of the ladder would change the profile of the required frequency a bit.
it's like a 300 mile long guitar string with a slide going up and down.
More like a 300 mile long air guitar string, the way it's going.
But don't worry about acquiring sufficient power, you can consider the elevator is a long resonant conductor cutting magnetic field lines. Or the world's largest bloody Van De Graff Generator, one or t'other.
As stated earlier today, the correct solution would be to launch it all into the sun,
And as also stated earlier today, that's expensive. Would be cheaper (although not much more correct, really) to dump it on the far side of the Moon, where there's at least a hope of recovering it when we need it again later on down the track. This stuff is potentially quite useful.
your correct, but don't rule out that psychology changes also. The US as a country is in such a mental flux right now anything that seems viable that could produce jobs and get us out of the middle east would be acceptable.
Valid point. It would not do to ignore the effect of a large cultural sea change on technology investment patterns.
Solar = Electricity = Electrolysis = hydrogen = infinite storage of the energy for fuel cells.
Unless you're talking about hydrogen fuel cells (with the problems associated with hydrogen storage -- that stuff slips through anything) the chemicals used in different FC electrolytes can be pretty scary too. Potassium hydroxide anyone? Molten phosphoric acid?
I'm not trying to play "who's the worst" here, I just want to point out that the best solution will be the one that can be measured -- in detail -- as being the least polluting overall, not necessarily the one that that best evokes the image of the Sun Maid Raisin lady and fun outings in the park.
Broward, I put your site on my Chrome bookmarks bar. Interesting.
But I think you might be looking at the right trend and interpreting it from an inside view. Let's look at it exvolute: Is it possible that rather than the 2007 inflection being an echo of a down vector in the technology acceptance curve, that the inflection is actually an echo of the greater economic text, which the inflection was predicting?
I am remembering 2000 and how the D-Store dot-bomb trigger point was actually a bit of a whip crack from suppliers being unable to match supply chain to B2C catalogue (I was there, and I saw it). Taken all together, your current inflection + the reference to the 2000 downturn in Internet spending, I am beginning to wonder if Internet acceptance (or spending, or ?metric) isn't going to become a predictor of economic health, rather than a following trend.
Actually, the person who writes the minutes of the meeting controls pretty much everything, past present and future. Remember that next time you're in a meeting, and people look around longing for someone to step up and volunteer...
Also, won't they fall into the same "couldn't prove defendants had shared their files with anyone other than investigators" situation? (Imagine if they say that my episode is downloaded 50,000 times!)
"Which was, your Honour, the number of downloads we expect the defendant to have made over the term of infringement, three months, via defendant's Internet connection which I believe Your Honour can be shown to be from defendant's laptop using it's built-in fifty-six thousand bit per second (scowls and raises eyebrow significantly at jury) Modulator-Demodulator unit over a known telephone line identified as belonging to..."
Being somewhat chronologically privileged myself I take a little umbrage at linking "older" with "technologically deficient". No problems setting things up for the technically deficient, but it seems to me with us older folks -- except where medically contraindicated -- you're just insulting our intelligence with this entire attitude. Remember many of us have lived through very nearly the entire computer revolution, and a few of us built it. I pre-date ENIAC, myself.
If you ever wanted to figure out just how a virtual memory manager can work (or how you can do more with data structures and interrupts than you can with algorithms) the ancient and technically out of date "VMS Internals and Data Structures" has a lot of operating system explanation that is largely still relevant today. You may not need to ever tune a Vax/VMS system again in your entire life, but knowing the sorts of hoops OS' need to go through -- even in one example -- gives you a better appreciation of what's computable and what ain't.
It's deep background. Remember this is the book about the operating system designed by the guy who later went on to develop Windows NT. Among other things, it shows you just how omitting one of the KESU rings in a hardware architecture can give you bonus security problems for years. The deep understanding of how you orchestrate multiple process threads asynchronously with IO devices you can get from this study gives you man-behind-the-curtain cred when you're trying to dissect a truly thorny problem, or understand just why your system may have hung at that point.
A refresh of the patent system, in the sense that the ownership of a patent could not be transferred away from the original inventor, might go a long way toward reinvigorating innovation. It's a personal thing, then -- making it worth your while to innovate knowing the patent trolls, law firms, HR policies and accountants can't take away your essential contribution, allowing you to stick your neck out without fear of some industry bullying you out of what's yours. Limit the transfer to licensing, but do not transfer ownership of the instrument itself, nor permit exclusive arrangements that are out of the original patent holder's control. This may or may not be how you do it, but people aren't going to invent if they can't reap the proceeds of their unique contribution to society. This may be excessively Horatio Algier, but dammit I have an idea to build something now and I'm afraid to commit it to paper.
If the example of managed funds is any example, a disturbingly large component of the world's wealth lives nowhere else but the common spreadsheet. Oh there are registries, of course, the ledger is there -- but I've seen a lot of institutional financial reporting that is based entirely on opaque spreadsheet macros. It isn't like the information isn't there, it's just bloody inaccessible due to the medium. The stuff is largely written in VBA with less than perfect QA. At least the stuff is portable, anyway.
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I think this would be a good time to seek some formal honours for PJ. Granted she has all the respect she has earned from the community over the course of the SCO epic, but it would be nice to find some appropriate gesture to show her in some tangible way just how valuable we believe she is as a person.
I don't know what she includes in her formal qualifications, but an honourary doctorate from some high profile law school (whether she has an LLD already or whatnot) would probably not go astray. For that matter, I wouldn't think a Presidential Medal of Freedom would be inappropriate either, but that's just me. PJ has not been just a breath of fresh air, she's been the only air we had. To honour her appropriately for that accomplishment would also be to honour an example of where people exercised their democratic right to resist bullying by people who see the courts as just another business tool.
Consider that the anchors could be springs with 1 meter play...
You need to ensure that the downward motion of the ribbon would accelerate at a rate such as to be faster than the cabin falling (Equations for a Falling Body). The springs would have to be quite strong to shift 20 tons one meter that quickly. Composition and cooling of the springs would be an interesting bit of engineering.
Another question to consider -- will the resonant frequency necessary to raise the cabin change with altitude? Considering the mass of the cabin would be constant, I'd think a lower gravitational force near the top of the ladder would change the profile of the required frequency a bit.
It's one thing to vibrate a broomstick in that manner, and quite another to do so with a 36,000 km space elevator...
Isn't the tether going to be vibrating anyway? There's a lot of atmosphere moving past the part that's in the atmosphere.
it's like a 300 mile long guitar string with a slide going up and down.
More like a 300 mile long air guitar string, the way it's going.
But don't worry about acquiring sufficient power, you can consider the elevator is a long resonant conductor cutting magnetic field lines. Or the world's largest bloody Van De Graff Generator, one or t'other.
Fix 1.5 bugs per week was the target...
Tax the rat farms.
As stated earlier today, the correct solution would be to launch it all into the sun,
And as also stated earlier today, that's expensive. Would be cheaper (although not much more correct, really) to dump it on the far side of the Moon, where there's at least a hope of recovering it when we need it again later on down the track. This stuff is potentially quite useful.
your correct, but don't rule out that psychology changes also. The US as a country is in such a mental flux right now anything that seems viable that could produce jobs and get us out of the middle east would be acceptable.
Valid point. It would not do to ignore the effect of a large cultural sea change on technology investment patterns.
Solar = Electricity = Electrolysis = hydrogen = infinite storage of the energy for fuel cells.
Unless you're talking about hydrogen fuel cells (with the problems associated with hydrogen storage -- that stuff slips through anything) the chemicals used in different FC electrolytes can be pretty scary too. Potassium hydroxide anyone? Molten phosphoric acid?
I'm not trying to play "who's the worst" here, I just want to point out that the best solution will be the one that can be measured -- in detail -- as being the least polluting overall, not necessarily the one that that best evokes the image of the Sun Maid Raisin lady and fun outings in the park.
Broward, I put your site on my Chrome bookmarks bar. Interesting.
But I think you might be looking at the right trend and interpreting it from an inside view. Let's look at it exvolute: Is it possible that rather than the 2007 inflection being an echo of a down vector in the technology acceptance curve, that the inflection is actually an echo of the greater economic text, which the inflection was predicting?
I am remembering 2000 and how the D-Store dot-bomb trigger point was actually a bit of a whip crack from suppliers being unable to match supply chain to B2C catalogue (I was there, and I saw it). Taken all together, your current inflection + the reference to the 2000 downturn in Internet spending, I am beginning to wonder if Internet acceptance (or spending, or ?metric) isn't going to become a predictor of economic health, rather than a following trend.
Your thoughts?
I got a six-page letter back from them, defending their position. Nothing new in it.
Actually, the person who writes the minutes of the meeting controls pretty much everything, past present and future. Remember that next time you're in a meeting, and people look around longing for someone to step up and volunteer...
Sorry but I cant think of a single company/brand/product that had its origins in the Great Depression.
Hoover ;P
...Copenhagen-based DtecNet Software ApS
I thought DtecNet was VMS based. I can't read that company name without wanting to add a "::" suffix...
As you will see, the ninja is behind the middle bush. **BOOM**
Unless of course all three of your compasses are giving you different readings. In that case, you simply yell "Where the hell is my sextant."
Astrolabe FTW!
I want a wallet made out of Borean Leather, +50 Armor.
If Apple's doomed the minute Jobs is no longer running the helm, you might as well start running...
You could probably say that about any other high profile figure in the fashion industry.
Also, won't they fall into the same "couldn't prove defendants had shared their files with anyone other than investigators" situation? (Imagine if they say that my episode is downloaded 50,000 times!)
"Which was, your Honour, the number of downloads we expect the defendant to have made over the term of infringement, three months, via defendant's Internet connection which I believe Your Honour can be shown to be from defendant's laptop using it's built-in fifty-six thousand bit per second (scowls and raises eyebrow significantly at jury) Modulator-Demodulator unit over a known telephone line identified as belonging to ..."
What democratic countries? England? Since when is a monarchy with a storefront...
Yow! Claws. Great rant. Would you care for a dish of cream?
Apparently some of the sharp minds behind MediaSentry got transferred to the Marketing department, and some others to accounting.
Lowering the average IQ of both groups, no doubt.
Took me a moment to figure that could actually be the reason behind MediaSentry's financial woes. Good joke, Voyager529.
or an older, technically deficient person
Being somewhat chronologically privileged myself I take a little umbrage at linking "older" with "technologically deficient". No problems setting things up for the technically deficient, but it seems to me with us older folks -- except where medically contraindicated -- you're just insulting our intelligence with this entire attitude. Remember many of us have lived through very nearly the entire computer revolution, and a few of us built it. I pre-date ENIAC, myself.
Oh go play on the lawn, that's what it's for.
I hope I'm not being to obscure with this one.
If you ever wanted to figure out just how a virtual memory manager can work (or how you can do more with data structures and interrupts than you can with algorithms) the ancient and technically out of date "VMS Internals and Data Structures" has a lot of operating system explanation that is largely still relevant today. You may not need to ever tune a Vax/VMS system again in your entire life, but knowing the sorts of hoops OS' need to go through -- even in one example -- gives you a better appreciation of what's computable and what ain't.
It's deep background. Remember this is the book about the operating system designed by the guy who later went on to develop Windows NT. Among other things, it shows you just how omitting one of the KESU rings in a hardware architecture can give you bonus security problems for years. The deep understanding of how you orchestrate multiple process threads asynchronously with IO devices you can get from this study gives you man-behind-the-curtain cred when you're trying to dissect a truly thorny problem, or understand just why your system may have hung at that point.
And I love the little chapter heading quotes.
A refresh of the patent system, in the sense that the ownership of a patent could not be transferred away from the original inventor, might go a long way toward reinvigorating innovation. It's a personal thing, then -- making it worth your while to innovate knowing the patent trolls, law firms, HR policies and accountants can't take away your essential contribution, allowing you to stick your neck out without fear of some industry bullying you out of what's yours. Limit the transfer to licensing, but do not transfer ownership of the instrument itself, nor permit exclusive arrangements that are out of the original patent holder's control. This may or may not be how you do it, but people aren't going to invent if they can't reap the proceeds of their unique contribution to society. This may be excessively Horatio Algier, but dammit I have an idea to build something now and I'm afraid to commit it to paper.
If the example of managed funds is any example, a disturbingly large component of the world's wealth lives nowhere else but the common spreadsheet. Oh there are registries, of course, the ledger is there -- but I've seen a lot of institutional financial reporting that is based entirely on opaque spreadsheet macros. It isn't like the information isn't there, it's just bloody inaccessible due to the medium. The stuff is largely written in VBA with less than perfect QA. At least the stuff is portable, anyway.
Sturgeon's Law.