Seems more like a QA problem. Energy density is important, but reliability and safety trumps implementation waivers.
Do you think Boeing would have used the high energy density if low energy density would have sufficed? They wouldn't have included those Li-Poly batteries and endured all the regulatory hassle that comes with them if they hadn't really needed it for their basic aircraft design. Which means they probably can't really replace them now. I understand that the 787 doesn't use bleed air, which saves energy, but means that you need much more electrical power to supply the formerly bleed-air driven systems (like cabin air supply and in-flight wing de-icing), hence the need for larger batteries.
But they're not entirely orthogonal, as NAT imposes a firewall by default
No it doesn't. NAT-PT just tracks TCP connections initiated from the "inside" network, rewrites the local IP and maps them to ports on the NAT machine. The outside network can still send packets to ping or open connections to any inside machine, unless you consciously throw away any packets coming from the "outside" network and not belonging to an existing connections, using e.g. some equivalent of iptables -P FORWARD REJECT. Otherwise, the only thing thay may protect you is the fact that your ISP may not route packets with destination addresses in 10.0.0.0/8 / 196.168.0.0/16 to you.
You never noticed that just about all *nix commands reads input from a file (without any arguments to point out the file)?
Strictly speaking, that's a violation of "one job one tool". Using cat is the more generic approach. cat's job is reading files given on the command line and printing their contents to stdout, and all other tools would read their input from stdin and write their output to stdout, and ideally you'd have to have something like "stdin2file" that's the opposite of cat and writes its stdin to a file given on the command line. That way, one could even pretty much do away with the shell's redirection operators, with the pipe operator being the only one that's fundamentally necessary (if you really want to be ideologic about this).
The weights and measures system you use doesn't make you more advanced or retarded (yes, retarded literally means the opposite as advanced) any more than say Chinese glyphs make them more primitive than using an alphabet. Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial, it's just a bit easier to do unit conversions with them.
No, that's not the only advantage. The other one is that you have defined SI units (second for time, metre for length, kilogram for mass, newtons for force and so on), and the combinations of those SI units are SI units again. So e.g. force is mass * length * time**-2, which is why 1 newton = 1 kg * m * s**-2. So the newton isn't just arbitrary, it's been defined in terms of other SI units. Same thing with energy: 1 joule = 1 newton * 1 meter = 1 kg * m**2 * s**-2. This has the nice effect that you can do any kind of complicated computation involving arbitrary physical quantities, and you never have to carry the units along, and you still know the unit of the result. You just have to make sure to use all inputs in SI units. So e.g. if you use meters for input lengths and newtons for input forces and joules for input energies, and the output is a power, you just know it's gonna be in Watts. That's a great convenience. And it doesn't directly have anything to do with the powers-of-ten thing -- that's just another convenience. It just has to do with the fact that combinations of SI units are SI units again, and are in common use. In the imperial system, the unit of energy 1 lb inches**2 s^-2 does not have a name, nor does anyone use it.
Yeah. Maybe having an armed guard for each school isn't practical. I didn't claim to know that it is. My main issue was the outrageous legislation that allows basically anyone, no matter what mental problems he has, to own guns. If you want to end this insanity, and think it through, this has some uncomfortable consequences, e.g. some current gun owners would have to be forced to give up their guns, and the others would have to be required by law to actually lock their guns away safely whenever they're not carrying them.
I hunt with a.270 automatic rifle, and have for nearly 10 yrs, as has my family for over 50.
You lack perspective.
'Need' open to interpretation.
When Holocaust v2.0 comes about, and you have armed military escorting you from your home to a containment camp, you're going to wish you had means to fight back.
That must be why even known psychopaths, stalkers and schizophrenics with a history of mental treatments have no problems acquiring guns and embarking on a killing spree. Because when you're going against evil scheming Nazi government overlords, you need every man you can get.
But the 2nd doesn't apply... it's a "Gun Free Zone". Isn't this what you wanted?
The point is that this all doesn't have anything to do with gun laws. Maybe it would be advisable to have a properly vetted, armed cop / security person per school. But to do that you don't need gun laws that are so loose that basically anyone can buy guns in droves. The Virginia Tech murderer was a diagnosed psychopath, an extreme loner, a known stalker of female students -- and he could still buy his guns without problems. The legislation that allows this is INSANE.
The hard data shows far more crimes prevented by guns than caused by them.
You're joking, right? Does that "hard data" count every arrest of an armed person by an armed cop as a "crime prevented by guns"? Or does it point out that if there weren't any guns in the US, there would be anarchy, with many more deaths? If you want "hard data", look at the number of murders per 100,000 people in the US versus other western countries with stricter gun laws. That at least *suggests* that just the opposite of what you claim is true.
As a publicly traded company, you risk being sued by your shareholders if you do NOT use such tax arrangements as soon as you learn about the possibility. So putting the blame on Google/MS isn't exactly rational.
It doesn't really matter anyway. Vague "mission plans" that reach 20 years into the future are just elaborate ways of saying that you don't really want to go anywhere.
It does not matter who it was with. The security clearance is contingent on the person not ever being in a position where they can be blackmailed. He broke this rule. That is the reason.
Well, what can he be blackmailed with that's connected to the affair, now that the latter has been made public?
And btw, anybody can be blackmailed with something.
Umm... did you see that Apple's stock price is back up after their announcement with China Telecom?
Incidentally, "Google" isn't winning there. Half of the "Android" tablets are Kindles, where Amazon has forked Android, slapped on a new interface, and stripped it of all of Google's apps and Play access.
Well, they can run the same Android apps, which makes the platform as a whole more attractive to developers. So the Kindle Fire's success isn't all bad news for Google.
For now, Nokia is downsizing and cost cutting big time. Their credit has been rated to junk and the company is in the red. They're trying to minimize all costs while the transition to WP is underway
Yeah, just like SGI minimized all costs while transitioning to Windows NT. Selling your soul to MS has worked amazingly well for companies in the past.
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one.
In all likelihood (heh), that statement was true, because it's a probabilistic statement. The fact that an earthquake actually happened later doesn't make the statement false. Probabilities are based on lack of knowledge. If we had total knowledge (as in Laplace's daemon), all probabilities would be either one or zero. Since that's not the case, predictions about future events are always statistical.
This will not solve any energy problems because it is not a new energy source. This process will only transfer energy from one location to a gas tank, at a net loss of energy.
It doesn't matter. If all forms of energy were equivalent, nobody would spend billions digging oil out of the ground in politically unstable regions of the world. We'd just build 20% more power plants and use that energy to power all our cars, airplanes and container vessels. But we can't, and that's the point. All those things run on oil, and nobody has figured out how to run them on generic electricity.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this consumes far more energy than it "creates".
Of course it does, but that's not the point. The point is that electrical energy that comes out of the power grids isn't easily storable, and can't power great airplanes and container ships. Petrol can do all those things.
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Seems more like a QA problem. Energy density is important, but reliability and safety trumps implementation waivers.
Do you think Boeing would have used the high energy density if low energy density would have sufficed? They wouldn't have included those Li-Poly batteries and endured all the regulatory hassle that comes with them if they hadn't really needed it for their basic aircraft design. Which means they probably can't really replace them now. I understand that the 787 doesn't use bleed air, which saves energy, but means that you need much more electrical power to supply the formerly bleed-air driven systems (like cabin air supply and in-flight wing de-icing), hence the need for larger batteries.
But they're not entirely orthogonal, as NAT imposes a firewall by default
No it doesn't. NAT-PT just tracks TCP connections initiated from the "inside" network, rewrites the local IP and maps them to ports on the NAT machine. The outside network can still send packets to ping or open connections to any inside machine, unless you consciously throw away any packets coming from the "outside" network and not belonging to an existing connections, using e.g. some equivalent of iptables -P FORWARD REJECT. Otherwise, the only thing thay may protect you is the fact that your ISP may not route packets with destination addresses in 10.0.0.0/8 / 196.168.0.0/16 to you.
You never noticed that just about all *nix commands reads input from a file (without any arguments to point out the file)?
Strictly speaking, that's a violation of "one job one tool". Using cat is the more generic approach. cat's job is reading files given on the command line and printing their contents to stdout, and all other tools would read their input from stdin and write their output to stdout, and ideally you'd have to have something like "stdin2file" that's the opposite of cat and writes its stdin to a file given on the command line. That way, one could even pretty much do away with the shell's redirection operators, with the pipe operator being the only one that's fundamentally necessary (if you really want to be ideologic about this).
The weights and measures system you use doesn't make you more advanced or retarded (yes, retarded literally means the opposite as advanced) any more than say Chinese glyphs make them more primitive than using an alphabet. Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial, it's just a bit easier to do unit conversions with them.
No, that's not the only advantage. The other one is that you have defined SI units (second for time, metre for length, kilogram for mass, newtons for force and so on), and the combinations of those SI units are SI units again. So e.g. force is mass * length * time**-2, which is why 1 newton = 1 kg * m * s**-2. So the newton isn't just arbitrary, it's been defined in terms of other SI units. Same thing with energy: 1 joule = 1 newton * 1 meter = 1 kg * m**2 * s**-2. This has the nice effect that you can do any kind of complicated computation involving arbitrary physical quantities, and you never have to carry the units along, and you still know the unit of the result. You just have to make sure to use all inputs in SI units. So e.g. if you use meters for input lengths and newtons for input forces and joules for input energies, and the output is a power, you just know it's gonna be in Watts. That's a great convenience. And it doesn't directly have anything to do with the powers-of-ten thing -- that's just another convenience. It just has to do with the fact that combinations of SI units are SI units again, and are in common use. In the imperial system, the unit of energy 1 lb inches**2 s^-2 does not have a name, nor does anyone use it.
Aren't they supposed to use those facilities for the SLS?
That Smartphone app will just replicate the remote's keyboard 1:1 on your smartphone display, so forget it.
Yeah. Maybe having an armed guard for each school isn't practical. I didn't claim to know that it is. My main issue was the outrageous legislation that allows basically anyone, no matter what mental problems he has, to own guns. If you want to end this insanity, and think it through, this has some uncomfortable consequences, e.g. some current gun owners would have to be forced to give up their guns, and the others would have to be required by law to actually lock their guns away safely whenever they're not carrying them.
I hunt with a .270 automatic rifle, and have for nearly 10 yrs, as has my family for over 50.
You lack perspective.
'Need' open to interpretation.
When Holocaust v2.0 comes about, and you have armed military escorting you from your home to a containment camp, you're going to wish you had means to fight back.
That must be why even known psychopaths, stalkers and schizophrenics with a history of mental treatments have no problems acquiring guns and embarking on a killing spree. Because when you're going against evil scheming Nazi government overlords, you need every man you can get.
No. The gunman killed the kids. The gun and bullets were simply the tools used. Should all computers be banned because hackers use them to hack?
Nobody wants to ban all guns.
Hm, I'm sorry, I think I misread you. Still, nice link, eh?
Yeah, kinda interesting. Afghanistan seems to be about as violent as France. :-P
But the 2nd doesn't apply... it's a "Gun Free Zone". Isn't this what you wanted?
The point is that this all doesn't have anything to do with gun laws. Maybe it would be advisable to have a properly vetted, armed cop / security person per school. But to do that you don't need gun laws that are so loose that basically anyone can buy guns in droves. The Virginia Tech murderer was a diagnosed psychopath, an extreme loner, a known stalker of female students -- and he could still buy his guns without problems. The legislation that allows this is INSANE.
The hard data shows far more crimes prevented by guns than caused by them.
You're joking, right? Does that "hard data" count every arrest of an armed person by an armed cop as a "crime prevented by guns"? Or does it point out that if there weren't any guns in the US, there would be anarchy, with many more deaths? If you want "hard data", look at the number of murders per 100,000 people in the US versus other western countries with stricter gun laws. That at least *suggests* that just the opposite of what you claim is true.
you can kill a lot of people just as easily with a knife.
Yeah, if you anesthetize them first.
As a publicly traded company, you risk being sued by your shareholders if you do NOT use such tax arrangements as soon as you learn about the possibility. So putting the blame on Google/MS isn't exactly rational.
It doesn't really matter anyway. Vague "mission plans" that reach 20 years into the future are just elaborate ways of saying that you don't really want to go anywhere.
4 Microsoft Engineers Predicted DRM Would Fail 10 Years Ago
OK, and when did they predict that?
Seriously, shouldn't the sentence have read something like "4 Microsoft Engineers Predicted 10 Years Ago that DRM Would Fail"?
It does not matter who it was with. The security clearance is contingent on the person not ever being in a position where they can be blackmailed. He broke this rule. That is the reason.
Well, what can he be blackmailed with that's connected to the affair, now that the latter has been made public? And btw, anybody can be blackmailed with something.
Umm... did you see that Apple's stock price is back up after their announcement with China Telecom?
Incidentally, "Google" isn't winning there. Half of the "Android" tablets are Kindles, where Amazon has forked Android, slapped on a new interface, and stripped it of all of Google's apps and Play access.
Well, they can run the same Android apps, which makes the platform as a whole more attractive to developers. So the Kindle Fire's success isn't all bad news for Google.
For now, Nokia is downsizing and cost cutting big time. Their credit has been rated to junk and the company is in the red. They're trying to minimize all costs while the transition to WP is underway
Yeah, just like SGI minimized all costs while transitioning to Windows NT. Selling your soul to MS has worked amazingly well for companies in the past.
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one.
In all likelihood (heh), that statement was true, because it's a probabilistic statement. The fact that an earthquake actually happened later doesn't make the statement false. Probabilities are based on lack of knowledge. If we had total knowledge (as in Laplace's daemon), all probabilities would be either one or zero. Since that's not the case, predictions about future events are always statistical.
it's not uncommon to hear about people still running XP at work.
WTH? In my experience it's just starting to become not so uncommon to see people running something other than Windows XP (mostly, Windows 7) at work.
What do you define as rediculous amount of money? I pay 50 USD/year for a signed ssl certificate.
...and the great thing is: Someone else probably wouldn't pay much more for a signed SSL certificate that says it's yours. :-P
This will not solve any energy problems because it is not a new energy source. This process will only transfer energy from one location to a gas tank, at a net loss of energy.
It doesn't matter. If all forms of energy were equivalent, nobody would spend billions digging oil out of the ground in politically unstable regions of the world. We'd just build 20% more power plants and use that energy to power all our cars, airplanes and container vessels. But we can't, and that's the point. All those things run on oil, and nobody has figured out how to run them on generic electricity.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this consumes far more energy than it "creates".
Of course it does, but that's not the point. The point is that electrical energy that comes out of the power grids isn't easily storable, and can't power great airplanes and container ships. Petrol can do all those things.
That is all.
"Forever" is a long time though.