Yeah, but that's Iceland and New Zealand. We're talking about Japan. There are not likely to be geothermal resources to exploit on a chain of volcanic islands like Japan.
Do not look at enhanced geothermal systems. They do not exist! Continue to argue the relative merits of nuclear and coal. Geothermal is not the cheap, clean, safe renewable locally sourced baseload power you are looking for.
It will be handy when VMWare's hypervisor on ARM goes production, as this is 50 percent more bandwidth than a typical enterprise VMHost. You'll be able to build a cloud cluster in your pocket.
Your disbelief in innate, irredeemable, objective evil reveals a lack of experience, a sheltered existence so alien to many of us that true communication on this topic is impossible. We lack the common reference that gives meaning to the words. For your sake I hope it stays that way. Or you're lying, as evil folk are known to do.
A little back-channel grease will slick the skids for your competition. Google's having these troubles too, both in the US and in China. It's just stalling though and will come to nothing.
You see, even if you have the entire government in your pocket you still have to come out with a desirable product.
It means that in addition to taking over the us DOJ, they have inserted themselves at the peak of the us Internet. They intend to shut down free expression on the Internet by any means necessary. These people are dangerous.
It's called stuffing the panel. We learned about this during the Office Open XML standardization campaign with ISO. There is no level of corruption these bastards won't sink to. Something must be done. Don't think this guy is the end of it. He's just the camel's nose.
Phobos and Deimos are nearly zero G and they are believed to have at least some water. I'm not sure if a trip to Phobos counts as a trip to Mars.
It's not necessary that the Mars-to-mars moon shuttle travel with the passengers. Mars is well known to have vast amounts of water and it's not required that humans participate onsite in mining it and transforming it into rocket fuel. It may be more convenient and cost efficient to get our zero-G water from the asteroid belt, where it's abundant rather than mining it from Phobos or shuttling it up from Mars - but that may take longer.
It's not required that the Mars-to-orbit shuttle travel with the passengers either.
This was a very good article and I recommend it. But think about it for a minute.
If this is true then to Google the offer looks like this: NewCo with huge market share, legendary brand and immense resources offers Google an opportunity for short-term profit if Google will only betray the numerous partners who helped build a dynamic Android ecosystem, depriving them of the well-earned benefits of their investment and risk. Instead NewCo would be the preferred partner with special advantage and access. Google would reap huge benefits of instant market share and credibility with NewCo's legendary engineering and marketing expertise. Now this would be evil for Google to do, which some here would tell us is reason enough for Google to take the bait. But let's set that aside for a moment. It would be immensely profitable in the short term - if their new friend NewCo remained constant in delivery of their promises despite their insistence that Google betray theirs (do you see the logical failure here?)
Google's thinking long term - they bought Android long before the iPhone launched. In the longer term the betrayed partners would obviously look for another platform to support (WebOS?) rather than play second fiddle, deprecating Android as some say those very same OEMs are now abandoning Windows Phone. NewCo, standing alone in the field would not be able to sustain the robust and diverse product developments that an entire field of partners could, and would have no hope of filling all the retailers shelves to overflowing with competitive products, nor drawing the huge stable of developers - the very problems Windows Phone is now sufferring from. And so the ecosystem would fail, Android would fail, and ultimately this short-term boon to Google would be a poison that destroyed both their good name and their mobile efforts. It was, of course, a transparent trap relying on greed and a failure of constant character - disloyalty for profit. It was the usual devil's bargain of brief comfort at leisure for the small, small price of your immortal soul. And of course there's the risk that people who demand betrayal aren't generally trustworthy themselves: a key indicator you're dealing with Old Nick. Google's Android was on a course to rip the guts out of NewCo's market share anyway (and it seems they were right according to the fine article). And so Google squinted at the generous offer of the NewCo CEO (and recent Microsoft senior executive) and said "Thanks, but no." and walked him out before reminding security not to let him back in and heading down to the onsite gym for a quick shower. That was probably the right, the smart, and the good thing to do all at the same time.
And then Nokia toddled over to Redmond and got this deal straight away, because it was a slam-dunk obvious win for them: is that what you're telling me? All that remains is to figure out which of the pair got cheated more.
Maybe HP and Dell should have a look at this story. There's a lesson here for them - if the story is true.
Some of the largest investors in Nokia Finnish retirement funds. Notably the funds of the very same government personnel who would conduct this investigation. Elop may have to retire in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with Finland when this is over.
The plan was to transfer Nokia's own retirement funds to third-party insurers in 2008. I don't know if that went through or not.
Be careful with that phrase "not possible". It's a tricky one.
If they so lost confidence that the felt they could not distinguish themselves with quality design and engineering on a level field, the right thing to do would have been to lock the doors that very day and sell the assets off to the highest bidder, returning the value to the shareholders intact.
However, it's a far cry from round trips to Mars. That needs a lot of exotic development and is in uncharted territory, unlike everything else that SpaceX has done before.
There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about getting humans to Mars and back once you've got them in the can headed the right way. At that point it's a zero-G submarine.
LEO is the big obstacle. Earth's gravity well is a killer -- it's the largest of any rocky body in the solar system. If we can make LEO cheap and easy -- which just happens to be Elon Musk's major goal with SpaceX -- then we've made the rest of the solar system significantly cheaper and easier.
Well that's the deal, isn't it? If we had a nice orbital colony rolling along, it wouldn't be any big deal to get the residents to Mars and back.
Once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." - Robert Heinlein.
There are lots of nice icy bodies out there in low G, and with the right engineering and some robots we could get a nice big hunk of that back to Earth orbit so we wouldn't have to drag so much water (and the propellant it's made of) up the well.
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Yeah, but that's Iceland and New Zealand. We're talking about Japan. There are not likely to be geothermal resources to exploit on a chain of volcanic islands like Japan.
Do not look at enhanced geothermal systems. They do not exist! Continue to argue the relative merits of nuclear and coal. Geothermal is not the cheap, clean, safe renewable locally sourced baseload power you are looking for.
Look, for $90M a throw I'd hold the thing every month until the hangers-on gave up. Turn it into a profit center.
Bigger venue. If 100K people want to attend your event and pay $900 each, rent a bigger tent.
It will be handy when VMWare's hypervisor on ARM goes production, as this is 50 percent more bandwidth than a typical enterprise VMHost. You'll be able to build a cloud cluster in your pocket.
Your disbelief in innate, irredeemable, objective evil reveals a lack of experience, a sheltered existence so alien to many of us that true communication on this topic is impossible. We lack the common reference that gives meaning to the words. For your sake I hope it stays that way. Or you're lying, as evil folk are known to do.
A little back-channel grease will slick the skids for your competition. Google's having these troubles too, both in the US and in China. It's just stalling though and will come to nothing.
You see, even if you have the entire government in your pocket you still have to come out with a desirable product.
It means that in addition to taking over the us DOJ, they have inserted themselves at the peak of the us Internet. They intend to shut down free expression on the Internet by any means necessary. These people are dangerous.
Leopard. Spots.
Other than that, Mrs. Kennedy, how was the parade?
It's called stuffing the panel. We learned about this during the Office Open XML standardization campaign with ISO. There is no level of corruption these bastards won't sink to. Something must be done. Don't think this guy is the end of it. He's just the camel's nose.
Or maybe just repurpose the sites for an appropriate use. Can you say "paintball arena"?
They earn a lot though, eh?
But the rat takes the same amount of time to digest as a mouse, near enough. There is a limit to how much a snake can or will eat.
Phobos and Deimos are nearly zero G and they are believed to have at least some water. I'm not sure if a trip to Phobos counts as a trip to Mars.
It's not necessary that the Mars-to-mars moon shuttle travel with the passengers. Mars is well known to have vast amounts of water and it's not required that humans participate onsite in mining it and transforming it into rocket fuel. It may be more convenient and cost efficient to get our zero-G water from the asteroid belt, where it's abundant rather than mining it from Phobos or shuttling it up from Mars - but that may take longer.
It's not required that the Mars-to-orbit shuttle travel with the passengers either.
This was a very good article and I recommend it. But think about it for a minute.
If this is true then to Google the offer looks like this: NewCo with huge market share, legendary brand and immense resources offers Google an opportunity for short-term profit if Google will only betray the numerous partners who helped build a dynamic Android ecosystem, depriving them of the well-earned benefits of their investment and risk. Instead NewCo would be the preferred partner with special advantage and access. Google would reap huge benefits of instant market share and credibility with NewCo's legendary engineering and marketing expertise. Now this would be evil for Google to do, which some here would tell us is reason enough for Google to take the bait. But let's set that aside for a moment. It would be immensely profitable in the short term - if their new friend NewCo remained constant in delivery of their promises despite their insistence that Google betray theirs (do you see the logical failure here?)
Google's thinking long term - they bought Android long before the iPhone launched. In the longer term the betrayed partners would obviously look for another platform to support (WebOS?) rather than play second fiddle, deprecating Android as some say those very same OEMs are now abandoning Windows Phone. NewCo, standing alone in the field would not be able to sustain the robust and diverse product developments that an entire field of partners could, and would have no hope of filling all the retailers shelves to overflowing with competitive products, nor drawing the huge stable of developers - the very problems Windows Phone is now sufferring from. And so the ecosystem would fail, Android would fail, and ultimately this short-term boon to Google would be a poison that destroyed both their good name and their mobile efforts. It was, of course, a transparent trap relying on greed and a failure of constant character - disloyalty for profit. It was the usual devil's bargain of brief comfort at leisure for the small, small price of your immortal soul. And of course there's the risk that people who demand betrayal aren't generally trustworthy themselves: a key indicator you're dealing with Old Nick. Google's Android was on a course to rip the guts out of NewCo's market share anyway (and it seems they were right according to the fine article). And so Google squinted at the generous offer of the NewCo CEO (and recent Microsoft senior executive) and said "Thanks, but no." and walked him out before reminding security not to let him back in and heading down to the onsite gym for a quick shower. That was probably the right, the smart, and the good thing to do all at the same time.
And then Nokia toddled over to Redmond and got this deal straight away, because it was a slam-dunk obvious win for them: is that what you're telling me? All that remains is to figure out which of the pair got cheated more.
Maybe HP and Dell should have a look at this story. There's a lesson here for them - if the story is true.
Some of the largest investors in Nokia Finnish retirement funds. Notably the funds of the very same government personnel who would conduct this investigation. Elop may have to retire in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with Finland when this is over.
The plan was to transfer Nokia's own retirement funds to third-party insurers in 2008. I don't know if that went through or not.
Be careful with that phrase "not possible". It's a tricky one.
If they so lost confidence that the felt they could not distinguish themselves with quality design and engineering on a level field, the right thing to do would have been to lock the doors that very day and sell the assets off to the highest bidder, returning the value to the shareholders intact.
We already knew at the time that Windows Phone wasn't taking off.
I think he was actually going for "a plausible cover story" to keep the executives out of prison.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
However, it's a far cry from round trips to Mars. That needs a lot of exotic development and is in uncharted territory, unlike everything else that SpaceX has done before.
There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about getting humans to Mars and back once you've got them in the can headed the right way. At that point it's a zero-G submarine.
LEO is the big obstacle. Earth's gravity well is a killer -- it's the largest of any rocky body in the solar system. If we can make LEO cheap and easy -- which just happens to be Elon Musk's major goal with SpaceX -- then we've made the rest of the solar system significantly cheaper and easier.
Well that's the deal, isn't it? If we had a nice orbital colony rolling along, it wouldn't be any big deal to get the residents to Mars and back.
Once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." - Robert Heinlein.
There are lots of nice icy bodies out there in low G, and with the right engineering and some robots we could get a nice big hunk of that back to Earth orbit so we wouldn't have to drag so much water (and the propellant it's made of) up the well.
The horror! Have you sought counselling for the trauma? Are you finding the injury disabling?
According to the second link they already did this, so he never did get his stuff back.