Take a look at The Brain for an innovation in browsing. I'd like to see more sites adopt this sort of navigation scheme. Something that's always bothered me about browsers (I use IE primarily, as I'm one of those unfortunates that is locked into Windows) is the disgusting underuse of the "Forward" button. I don't know how many times I've backed up on a path, gone down some other path, then wanted to get back to where I was. I could back up to the fork point, but didn't have any "Forward" options other than where I just came from.
No, they'll be looking for ways to leverage this new catalytic technology to extract hydrogen from gasoline or diesel, allowing fuel cell vehicles to run from their products.
Whaddya mean "too old for PXE?" That's a function of the network card. If, by chance, you're using an oldy-moldy Intel PRO100B adapter (circa 1995 vintage), check the PXE ROM socket to see if there's a chip in it. Newer ones (circa 1998) had the chip soldered onto the card, which turned out to be cheaper when flash prices came down.
My point was that, if you're chatting with someone using a "rich" client like MSN Messenger or AIM, and your buddy makes a joke and puts one of those little winky icons inline in the text, that might count as a "peer-to-peer file transfer."
As for me, I've d/l'd no mp3s and several avis/movs in the last month. The same can be said for the previous year. I'm one of those (rare?) people that, while disgusted with the RIAA, still buys his own music. My wife thinks my habit of supporting local bands by buying their poorly-produced CDs after a show is a little weird. All I have to do, though, is make one little mention of her shoe collection...
Did I count those zeroes right? 2.3 billion files exchanged each month?
I wonder what they're considering a "file." If they're counting the gifs and jpegs for smileys, emoticons, ads, backgrounds for the chat clients and whatnot, that doesn't seem like a fair comparisson.
I graduated in '85, and we had two labs full of Apple ][ machines. I had learned Apple BASIC and Pascal by that time. Not bad for a little vocational high school in a farming town, eh?
Oh, yeah, we had typewriters, too.
---
"The question before us is, is the children being educated?"
I'm pretty sure that the solar density at Mars is too weak to be useful for this application. Mars solar density is 589.2 W/m^2, versus Earth's 1367.6 W/m^2, a ratio of.431 (source).
Solar cells would have to get a lot more efficient to put this contraption on Mars.
Using the same argument (devices connected to devices that are connected to the Internet), 802.11 doesn't connect you to the Internet, either. Usually it's connected to a router that uses DSL/Cable to connect to the Internet. But, then, what is the Internet? (oh, sorry about that) It's a bunch of devices connected together with a variety of telecommunication links.
It sort of makes you wonder how easy it will be to frame someone for a crime (or series of them). Imagine a mob boss deciding to frame someone for murder by delving into TIA databases and finding people connected to their "victim." Three or four seemingly random murders will quickly be linked to this one guy who had connections to all of them. He'll be locked up, and no one will be the wiser.
Well, maybe we could use a factor of weight versus mileage, so that lightweight fuel suckers came out in the same category as heavyweights that are super fuel efficient. Then the SUVs like the Suburban that get around 10 mpg (sorry, dunno what that is in km/l, maybe 4 or so) and weigh only slightly less than Mt Everest really pay the tax, and the Jetta TurboDiesel (referenced above) at 2500 # and 50 mpg hardly pays anything.
As a resident of Portland, Oregon, I suspect that it will be defeated. We tend to be progressive here, but not idiotic (as a trend, not a rule).
Even though I drive a full-sized Chevy pickup that (unfortunately) drinks pretty heavily at the pump, I'd vote for a higher gas tax if its needed. I think that people who drive heavy, inefficient vehicles, which are most detrimental to roads, should pay a higher tax. Those who drive compact, fuel-efficient cars should be rewarded, not only for their lessened impact on the environment but their reduced impact on the road infrastructure.
I've got a cousin that lives in B.C. (Canada). He said that he remembers his zip code (V0JIE0) as "Very old jeans in every office." Now, the sentance makes little sense, but it evidently works, because I remember it after about ten years and I've never used it for anything.
That's what this gun does as well. Sixty rounds is from three 20-round magazines held together by integrated interlocks, the "technology" they were touting. No tape required. I'm not even sure you'd have to stop at three, other than the fact that it would get unwieldly when you were using one on the end and had (10?) 20-round magazines hanging out one side. That's a lot of weight.
Well, the whole point behind the Mars Direct mission (and the Mars Society) is that it's not "the US" doing the project, but a private group, and an international one at that. Lots of volunteer hours are going into it, lots of universities are contributing to it, and lots of science is getting done.
The other thing to consider is the economic value of a manned mission to Mars. Read Greg Benford's The Martian Race some time. It's a very plausible situation (and a good story).
Actually, it depends on what type of energy you use.
The major cost for launching payloads to orbit (or, in NASA's case "costloads") isn't in the fuel to get there but in the price of the vehicle, all or part of which is always expendible, and the infrastructure that supports the launch (much of which is required, some of which is unnecessary).
The advent of a fully-reusable launch vehicle will dramatically reduce the cost to send mass to orbit. Check out the X-Prize site, a much-referenced "project" on Slashdot, for some information. Google for more if you're unconvinced.
Foot-pound is a measurement of torque, and isn't nonsense. You should, I would say, appreciate it next time you get your tires changed, because the lugs need to be torqued down with a certain amount of force to keep from coming off at highway speeds. The wrench used by the mechanic (should) use foot-pounds (assuming you're in America) for the measurement.
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Take a look at The Brain for an innovation in browsing. I'd like to see more sites adopt this sort of navigation scheme. Something that's always bothered me about browsers (I use IE primarily, as I'm one of those unfortunates that is locked into Windows) is the disgusting underuse of the "Forward" button. I don't know how many times I've backed up on a path, gone down some other path, then wanted to get back to where I was. I could back up to the fork point, but didn't have any "Forward" options other than where I just came from.
...or cigarette lighters?
No, they'll be looking for ways to leverage this new catalytic technology to extract hydrogen from gasoline or diesel, allowing fuel cell vehicles to run from their products.
Whaddya mean "too old for PXE?" That's a function of the network card. If, by chance, you're using an oldy-moldy Intel PRO100B adapter (circa 1995 vintage), check the PXE ROM socket to see if there's a chip in it. Newer ones (circa 1998) had the chip soldered onto the card, which turned out to be cheaper when flash prices came down.
My point was that, if you're chatting with someone using a "rich" client like MSN Messenger or AIM, and your buddy makes a joke and puts one of those little winky icons inline in the text, that might count as a "peer-to-peer file transfer."
As for me, I've d/l'd no mp3s and several avis/movs in the last month. The same can be said for the previous year. I'm one of those (rare?) people that, while disgusted with the RIAA, still buys his own music. My wife thinks my habit of supporting local bands by buying their poorly-produced CDs after a show is a little weird. All I have to do, though, is make one little mention of her shoe collection...
I wonder what they're considering a "file." If they're counting the gifs and jpegs for smileys, emoticons, ads, backgrounds for the chat clients and whatnot, that doesn't seem like a fair comparisson.
What am I saying? This is Congress at work...
I think you meant "woo" consumers. I know it was a typo, but it's a funny one...
I graduated in '85, and we had two labs full of Apple ][ machines. I had learned Apple BASIC and Pascal by that time. Not bad for a little vocational high school in a farming town, eh? Oh, yeah, we had typewriters, too. --- "The question before us is, is the children being educated?"
"Do not speak against the Distribution,
nor belive those who do.
They will be shown to be the charlatans that they are."
Of course, I could be completely off base... ;^)
Solar cells would have to get a lot more efficient to put this contraption on Mars.
Using the same argument (devices connected to devices that are connected to the Internet), 802.11 doesn't connect you to the Internet, either. Usually it's connected to a router that uses DSL/Cable to connect to the Internet. But, then, what is the Internet? (oh, sorry about that) It's a bunch of devices connected together with a variety of telecommunication links.
I used it to staple the cover sheet on my TPS report.
It sort of makes you wonder how easy it will be to frame someone for a crime (or series of them). Imagine a mob boss deciding to frame someone for murder by delving into TIA databases and finding people connected to their "victim." Three or four seemingly random murders will quickly be linked to this one guy who had connections to all of them. He'll be locked up, and no one will be the wiser.
That sounds really bleak. Where did you sleep?
Are lawsuites collections of lawsuits that are filed together and interact? America, I think we have a new word!
Well, maybe we could use a factor of weight versus mileage, so that lightweight fuel suckers came out in the same category as heavyweights that are super fuel efficient. Then the SUVs like the Suburban that get around 10 mpg (sorry, dunno what that is in km/l, maybe 4 or so) and weigh only slightly less than Mt Everest really pay the tax, and the Jetta TurboDiesel (referenced above) at 2500 # and 50 mpg hardly pays anything.
IBM: You can get better, but you can't pay more.
As a resident of Portland, Oregon, I suspect that it will be defeated. We tend to be progressive here, but not idiotic (as a trend, not a rule).
Even though I drive a full-sized Chevy pickup that (unfortunately) drinks pretty heavily at the pump, I'd vote for a higher gas tax if its needed. I think that people who drive heavy, inefficient vehicles, which are most detrimental to roads, should pay a higher tax. Those who drive compact, fuel-efficient cars should be rewarded, not only for their lessened impact on the environment but their reduced impact on the road infrastructure.
What, with the newly updated top level domains, I'd be looking for god.info.
I've got a cousin that lives in B.C. (Canada). He said that he remembers his zip code (V0JIE0) as "Very old jeans in every office." Now, the sentance makes little sense, but it evidently works, because I remember it after about ten years and I've never used it for anything.
That's what this gun does as well. Sixty rounds is from three 20-round magazines held together by integrated interlocks, the "technology" they were touting. No tape required. I'm not even sure you'd have to stop at three, other than the fact that it would get unwieldly when you were using one on the end and had (10?) 20-round magazines hanging out one side. That's a lot of weight.
The other thing to consider is the economic value of a manned mission to Mars. Read Greg Benford's The Martian Race some time. It's a very plausible situation (and a good story).
The major cost for launching payloads to orbit (or, in NASA's case "costloads") isn't in the fuel to get there but in the price of the vehicle, all or part of which is always expendible, and the infrastructure that supports the launch (much of which is required, some of which is unnecessary).
The advent of a fully-reusable launch vehicle will dramatically reduce the cost to send mass to orbit. Check out the X-Prize site, a much-referenced "project" on Slashdot, for some information. Google for more if you're unconvinced.
It's "Dakota."
Foot-pound is a measurement of torque, and isn't nonsense. You should, I would say, appreciate it next time you get your tires changed, because the lugs need to be torqued down with a certain amount of force to keep from coming off at highway speeds. The wrench used by the mechanic (should) use foot-pounds (assuming you're in America) for the measurement.
But, yeah, what the heck good is a stone?