There's about 1 hydrogen atom / proton per cubic meter. Even at sub-c speeds, they create seriously radioactive friction. And running into a grain of sand at some % of c would have the effect of a large bomb. So, you not only have to warp space, you have to move the matter IN the space, and do it at >c velocity. Since matter can't move >c, you can't get the protons and occasional neutrons and sand grains and other interstellar detritus out of the way. A grain of sand hitting anything at 10c would be catastrophic, and within a few hours of colliding with the interplanetary and interstellar medium would turn the ship into a glowing radioactive dead thing.
What the critics were wrong about was not that putting a man on the moon is wrong, it's the nature of poverty. Poverty is a product of a class based society. Dumping money into an anti-poverty program is just money down a rat hole if simply enables the ruling class another day of existence. It has nothing to do with a space program.
Do you drive 5 pmh over the limit all the time? You're more of a risk and your premiums go up.
Did you slow down and then just blow off a stop sign at 3AM? You're more of a risk and your premiums go up.
You might not have a DUI, but if your car always goes to the parkling lot of ChiChi's Boom Boom Room? You're more of a risk and your premiums go up.
etc.
That's who really wants this data. They want to strangle every last dime out of the consumer before automated cars take over and put them out of business.
me too. Blackboard sucks hairy alpaca balls. For all the reasons mentioned here, but here's one that is SO obvious, it hurts:
You can't upload a folder of documents directly. You have to MAKE a "Folder" and then upload each file individually. A complete time wasting pain in the ass. Fucking retarded. Drag and drop has been around HOW freakin long? This isn't rocket science - it's just Blackboard being retarded.
In 2010, your budget was US$2,415,000,000. ($2.4B or so).
You can go on fucking Amazon and get a 6 TB RAID for $376, mmmmkay? So, all you need to do is get eight of these little puppies and that will give you 48 TBs of RAIDed drives. It will cost you all of $3008. And then you just need to hire some junior flunkie to keep an eye on the thing. Pay him or her, say $50k. It's not a tough job. So, with benefits etc. it will cost, say $100k to hire them, and that includes buying the arrays and a computer to track them. Now, let's do the math. This is going to cost less than 1/2 of 1/100th of 1 percent of your budget to protect all of your precious data, in a RAID no less.
Face it - the DEA is either lying, completely full of bullshit, or so hopelessly incompetent they should all be fired.
It's nearby. They have a housing bubble, but they also have all the oil and fresh water, so as long as people need energy and are thirsty, Canada's on top of it. Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal are expensive, but only as expensive as Chicago or LA area. Thanks to all the oil being pulled out of Alberta, Canada will get warmer over time. Eventually we'll all be up around the Arctic Circle, and most of that is in Russia. Greenland is still under ice for our lifetimes, so Canada's really the easy choice.
Now, if you have some means to move, Australia is pretty cool, but I'd focus on Melbourne and points south. Much nicer, cooler, weather. The economy is rockin' but the soil is weak and it has very little fresh water.
If you don't mind isolation and are more family oriented and neighbourly, New Zealand could work for you.
Good luck. I left San Francisco for Toronto in 2006 because I saw what was coming down the pike. Sold my place that I bought for $375k for $890k. Was able to put a REALLY nice down payment on a place here in Toronto, and bought a small cottage in Prince Edward County for cash. So, if housing prices go down 20, 30% I don't really care. The poor fuckers who bought my place in SF are now underwater on their mortgage. Be smart. Look ahead. Look at basic strengths. But do get out of the USA. That place is fucking doomed.
If MS can woo developers into making lots of super cheap or free apps for their tablet, then they will do well. If they don't they're road kill.
This means easy-peasey dev environments (on the production end) and a clean, clear, and wildly easy way for users to get the apps. (on the consumption end).
Also, this tablet had damn well better be cheaper than the iPad.
It's not impossible for all this to happen - but if it's cheaper for me to get a small laptop that has more memory and more power than a datapad, I'll buy the laptop....
Because MS is almost totally balkanised. The OS group had a come to Jesus moment (facilitated by some visits from Their Owners) and came up with Metro / Win8 etc. The rest of the company is thinking "WTF?" So when it came time for the new Office, rather than implement The New Wave of MS OS garbage, they're sticking to the product plans that have been in place since the Clinton Administration. "Steady as she goes - the Office division will weather this storm... The OS team will get its telephony ass kicked by Apple. Apple's going to stop making serious computers, anyway, go back to developing for serious computers, and churn out the same old shite we've been peddling since the President of Sierra Leone, Valentine Strasser, was deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Bio. Then, we'll be back to the same old same old and own the world for another day."
It doesn't really. It's just an arbitrary made up value composed of guesswork and approximations with a heavy dollop of greed. The notion of money "compensating" for a non-economic value where you are stumbling. This: Someone rapes and batters your mother to death with a bat. What is the compensation for your loss and disgust? Follow it down: a book on Linux programming at the library costs (x) more than just buying it retail because WHO feels a sense of loss and disgust? Find out who that WHO is. You will find that there might be an author in the bunch - but maybe not - and a whack load of lawyers and middlemen...
It's not defeatism - it's realism. It's called "how to make something happen". You can't "wish upon a star" and have a Mars colony. It' doesn't work like that.
you nailed it on the head. Thank you. I am going to copy and paste this whenever some technophilic idiots say "C'mon! Let's go put colonies on Mars!" I will credit you appropriately. You get a gold star for the day.
So, you got a drive that lasts for like, EVAAAAAH. Nice. So, in 1000 years, how are you going to hook it up? Seriously. With WHAT interface? SCSI II? RS422? FireWire? And how will that machine have the proper drivers? And will electricity be 110/220v 60Hz AC? Will there BE electricity? So, let's pretend that you have the right cabling and the right interface and somehow either rehab or build a computer that can talk to the drive.
Nice. OK, and what is on the drive? Some video. And that video is in... QUICKTIME! Got drivers for that? Will your video card (do you even have a video card?) handle this data? etc. etc. etc.
Survey says? No freakin way. What will happen? It's made out of SAPPHIRE and PLATINUM! Holy fuck - STRIP IT. Who cares about DATA. The metal is more valuable....
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Because Rushkoff is wrong.
There's about 1 hydrogen atom / proton per cubic meter. Even at sub-c speeds, they create seriously radioactive friction. And running into a grain of sand at some % of c would have the effect of a large bomb. So, you not only have to warp space, you have to move the matter IN the space, and do it at >c velocity. Since matter can't move >c, you can't get the protons and occasional neutrons and sand grains and other interstellar detritus out of the way. A grain of sand hitting anything at 10c would be catastrophic, and within a few hours of colliding with the interplanetary and interstellar medium would turn the ship into a glowing radioactive dead thing.
What the critics were wrong about was not that putting a man on the moon is wrong, it's the nature of poverty. Poverty is a product of a class based society. Dumping money into an anti-poverty program is just money down a rat hole if simply enables the ruling class another day of existence. It has nothing to do with a space program.
Do you drive 5 pmh over the limit all the time? You're more of a risk and your premiums go up.
Did you slow down and then just blow off a stop sign at 3AM? You're more of a risk and your premiums go up.
You might not have a DUI, but if your car always goes to the parkling lot of ChiChi's Boom Boom Room? You're more of a risk and your premiums go up.
etc.
That's who really wants this data. They want to strangle every last dime out of the consumer before automated cars take over and put them out of business.
You can't upload a folder of documents directly. You have to MAKE a "Folder" and then upload each file individually. A complete time wasting pain in the ass. Fucking retarded. Drag and drop has been around HOW freakin long? This isn't rocket science - it's just Blackboard being retarded.
RS
that HP has no idea what the hell it's doing.
You can go on fucking Amazon and get a 6 TB RAID for $376, mmmmkay? So, all you need to do is get eight of these little puppies and that will give you 48 TBs of RAIDed drives. It will cost you all of $3008. And then you just need to hire some junior flunkie to keep an eye on the thing. Pay him or her, say $50k. It's not a tough job. So, with benefits etc. it will cost, say $100k to hire them, and that includes buying the arrays and a computer to track them. Now, let's do the math. This is going to cost less than 1/2 of 1/100th of 1 percent of your budget to protect all of your precious data, in a RAID no less.
Face it - the DEA is either lying, completely full of bullshit, or so hopelessly incompetent they should all be fired.
http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Radioactive-Seawater-Impact-Map-March-2012.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVUwG0qC9c
Fuck You.
Now, if you have some means to move, Australia is pretty cool, but I'd focus on Melbourne and points south. Much nicer, cooler, weather. The economy is rockin' but the soil is weak and it has very little fresh water.
If you don't mind isolation and are more family oriented and neighbourly, New Zealand could work for you.
Good luck. I left San Francisco for Toronto in 2006 because I saw what was coming down the pike. Sold my place that I bought for $375k for $890k. Was able to put a REALLY nice down payment on a place here in Toronto, and bought a small cottage in Prince Edward County for cash. So, if housing prices go down 20, 30% I don't really care. The poor fuckers who bought my place in SF are now underwater on their mortgage. Be smart. Look ahead. Look at basic strengths. But do get out of the USA. That place is fucking doomed.
is drop the price of the iPhone by $150.
This means easy-peasey dev environments (on the production end) and a clean, clear, and wildly easy way for users to get the apps. (on the consumption end).
Also, this tablet had damn well better be cheaper than the iPad.
It's not impossible for all this to happen - but if it's cheaper for me to get a small laptop that has more memory and more power than a datapad, I'll buy the laptop....
Fuck You.
and put them down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAXo3Wr_nYU
put your money into decriminalising drugs. Take the cartels profits away.
Fuck You.
give you a reach around as it fucks you in the ass. If that's where you keep your wallet.
thank you. My experiences are similar.
Because MS is almost totally balkanised. The OS group had a come to Jesus moment (facilitated by some visits from Their Owners) and came up with Metro / Win8 etc. The rest of the company is thinking "WTF?" So when it came time for the new Office, rather than implement The New Wave of MS OS garbage, they're sticking to the product plans that have been in place since the Clinton Administration. "Steady as she goes - the Office division will weather this storm... The OS team will get its telephony ass kicked by Apple. Apple's going to stop making serious computers, anyway, go back to developing for serious computers, and churn out the same old shite we've been peddling since the President of Sierra Leone, Valentine Strasser, was deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Bio. Then, we'll be back to the same old same old and own the world for another day."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvtY5TzqKQ
It doesn't really. It's just an arbitrary made up value composed of guesswork and approximations with a heavy dollop of greed. The notion of money "compensating" for a non-economic value where you are stumbling. This: Someone rapes and batters your mother to death with a bat. What is the compensation for your loss and disgust? Follow it down: a book on Linux programming at the library costs (x) more than just buying it retail because WHO feels a sense of loss and disgust? Find out who that WHO is. You will find that there might be an author in the bunch - but maybe not - and a whack load of lawyers and middlemen...
It's not defeatism - it's realism. It's called "how to make something happen". You can't "wish upon a star" and have a Mars colony. It' doesn't work like that.
you nailed it on the head. Thank you. I am going to copy and paste this whenever some technophilic idiots say "C'mon! Let's go put colonies on Mars!" I will credit you appropriately. You get a gold star for the day.
Nice. OK, and what is on the drive? Some video. And that video is in... QUICKTIME! Got drivers for that? Will your video card (do you even have a video card?) handle this data? etc. etc. etc.
OK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmEqeofSWw
And somehow they have to make sense out of it.
So, then they find another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSd5XTG7HTI
And now they have to make sense out of that.
Survey says? No freakin way. What will happen? It's made out of SAPPHIRE and PLATINUM! Holy fuck - STRIP IT. Who cares about DATA. The metal is more valuable....