Nasa has bandwidth problems because they have a flash spash page, and video on their homepage! I mean, seriously. Before they go crawling to the corporations begging for handouts, perhaps they should slim down their site a bit.
It still takes energy to compress that air, though. Nevertheless, it's an interesting development - not as a power source, but as a battery. But that's a good thing. Power is no problem. Storing it is. Also, you're right: a 747 wouldn't run off solar, but there are aircraft that do: Helios could run both day and night with solar panels and batteries. Mind you, the cruising speed of this aircraft was below 50 mph, not a very efficient means of getting around. But hey: you put those solar panels on the ground, use the energy to compress a bunch of air, stick some wings to the canister and hold on for dear life... cool. I bet it would make one hell of a racket though. Unless you discharged the air internally and used it to drive a turbine...
Scanning a document does not give a copyright to the person who performs the scan.
I'm not so sure about that. The details are a bit vague in my mind (I don't remember the details enough to google), but there was a similar case in which some dude painstakingly traveled to a bunch of museums around the world, photographed a fameous artist's works (monet, van gogh, something like that), cropped, stitched, readjusted etc., and presented them on the web. Then, someone copied them onto another website and was sued by the original photographer. Sorry the details are so scarce, perhaps someone remembers this better than I?
There's a very good reason for the ~ 50-50 split. 20 years from now, we're gunna have a bunch of British men looking overseas for mates. We CANNOT let this happen! Once women hear that accent, it's OVER. We don't stand a chance against their sexy sexy voices.
Same for hard drives. In $/GB, the best deal you can get for Ultra-ATA is a 200 or 250 GB drive. 80 gig and below drives are more expensive for the storage you get, as are the hu-freaking-mongous drives.
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The army will eat this up. They don't care about the costs, and it's perfect for them. This could be a sturdy (relative to a tent) frontline building; a small mess hall, infirmary, officer's quarters, hummer garage... the list goes on.
I've already stopped flirting with girls on IM. Although, I am working on a secret code. People that intercept my instant messages won't be able to understand a word I'm saying. I'll replace "you" with "u", "that's funny" with "lol", "skate" witk "sk8." Things like that. All in the name of privacy.
If a government action that would otherwise be illegal becomes legal under the patriot act, is that an abuse? Or does it have to be blantently obvious and clearly wrong? What about the patriot act being used for non-terrorism related purposes? Isn't that an abuse?
Daily Show viewers ought to get this one (3/10/05) but in case the joke flew right over your head, the about-to-be-appointed ambassador to the UN, John Bolton said once that the top 10 floors of the UN building in NYC ought to be chopped off. Brilliant, fprefect.
Quality is subjective. => the courts MUST give all freedoms allowed to "journalists" to anybody wishing to publish information, because that person then becomes a journalist in the most basic sense. "Freedom of the press" means just that: my freedom to distribute pamplets, periodicals, etc. You're right, the media doesn't matter. I however contend that the quality doesn't matter either.
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Nasa has bandwidth problems because they have a flash spash page, and video on their homepage! I mean, seriously. Before they go crawling to the corporations begging for handouts, perhaps they should slim down their site a bit.
...this thing is gunna be loud.
White box -> White hat -> Black hat -> Black box. WBEL seems to be a play on words.
Untitled (The Sky is Blue) looks a lot like Darth Vader's throne. Eh?
It still takes energy to compress that air, though. Nevertheless, it's an interesting development - not as a power source, but as a battery. But that's a good thing. Power is no problem. Storing it is. Also, you're right: a 747 wouldn't run off solar, but there are aircraft that do: Helios could run both day and night with solar panels and batteries. Mind you, the cruising speed of this aircraft was below 50 mph, not a very efficient means of getting around. But hey: you put those solar panels on the ground, use the energy to compress a bunch of air, stick some wings to the canister and hold on for dear life... cool. I bet it would make one hell of a racket though. Unless you discharged the air internally and used it to drive a turbine...
These batteries also drain 80% in one minute!
Oh god damn it. I even read the entire article too. *Covers eyes* Ok, do it. Mod me down to oblivion. Just get it over with!
I love Microsoft. Strike two.
Terry Strike three.
You must not be poppin your 'roids right.
I'm not so sure about that. The details are a bit vague in my mind (I don't remember the details enough to google), but there was a similar case in which some dude painstakingly traveled to a bunch of museums around the world, photographed a fameous artist's works (monet, van gogh, something like that), cropped, stitched, readjusted etc., and presented them on the web. Then, someone copied them onto another website and was sued by the original photographer. Sorry the details are so scarce, perhaps someone remembers this better than I?
There's a very good reason for the ~ 50-50 split. 20 years from now, we're gunna have a bunch of British men looking overseas for mates. We CANNOT let this happen! Once women hear that accent, it's OVER. We don't stand a chance against their sexy sexy voices.
Same for hard drives. In $/GB, the best deal you can get for Ultra-ATA is a 200 or 250 GB drive. 80 gig and below drives are more expensive for the storage you get, as are the hu-freaking-mongous drives.
Wouldn't you rather have a huge disk?
That's no moon! It's a space station! (that's the other side.)
NOT anymore!
The army will eat this up. They don't care about the costs, and it's perfect for them. This could be a sturdy (relative to a tent) frontline building; a small mess hall, infirmary, officer's quarters, hummer garage... the list goes on.
I've already stopped flirting with girls on IM. Although, I am working on a secret code. People that intercept my instant messages won't be able to understand a word I'm saying. I'll replace "you" with "u", "that's funny" with "lol", "skate" witk "sk8." Things like that. All in the name of privacy.
It's all Lubos Motl's fault. (It's funny, laugh. See the quantum loop gravity section on wikipedia.)
Que lame jokes about unit conversion.... now. No, seriously. Please do it right, guys at ESA and NASA.
If a government action that would otherwise be illegal becomes legal under the patriot act, is that an abuse? Or does it have to be blantently obvious and clearly wrong? What about the patriot act being used for non-terrorism related purposes? Isn't that an abuse?
Daily Show viewers ought to get this one (3/10/05) but in case the joke flew right over your head, the about-to-be-appointed ambassador to the UN, John Bolton said once that the top 10 floors of the UN building in NYC ought to be chopped off. Brilliant, fprefect.
And that would make MUTE moot.
Why would this be released? Isn't that sort of... illegal?
Quality is subjective. => the courts MUST give all freedoms allowed to "journalists" to anybody wishing to publish information, because that person then becomes a journalist in the most basic sense. "Freedom of the press" means just that: my freedom to distribute pamplets, periodicals, etc. You're right, the media doesn't matter. I however contend that the quality doesn't matter either.
Yeah, god forbid a cellphone company take advantage of unsavvy customers....