fire projectiles weighing a few kilograms at speeds of up to 3 kilometers per second.
That's in the neighborhood of 9,480 feet per second. About twice the speed of a high velocity bullet. A projectile weighing kilograms going twice the speed of a bullet.
Who besides me wants to forget the space thing and launch those projectiles against ground targets?
This research is decades old, started by the Dept. of Energy in the mid-70's in the wake of the '74 Arab oil embargo. Then there's this group who told me they had most of the hard problems solved and already had successful pilot tests. That was two years ago. So how can scale commercial still be 10 years off?
I'm wondering if it isn't like the EV-1, GM's electric car. GM didn't want it, oil companies definitely didn't want it, parts manufacturers, mechanics, and state governments faced with losing fuel tax revenues didn't want it (at least right away). On the opposition side of algae oil would be the Saudis, who fund several prominent think tanks in D.C. that tend to be the home of retired politicians and a near endless supply of campaign cash. The oil companies making a lot of money off the status quo and just about anyone in the transportation pipeline.
It will be interesting to see how many players with an interest in the status quo will be inserting themselves into the development of algae oil.
Journalists get caught up in the moment; we get excited and we post stupid crap from a foreign language student blog and call it news. And then within half a minute -- bloggers being what they are -- the news gets repeated and repeated until it becomes fact. Fact that can affect share prices or ruin lives.
That doesn't even address how that problem compounds when the news organization in question has a political agenda or has their talking points of the day handed down from political operatives in exile. There's no allegiance to the truth or journalistic integrity. Fact checking is secondary to staying on message, even if the facts get kicked around in the process. No corrections for stories that turn out to be false, no apologies when lives (or countries) are ruined. It's not a news organization, it's a front for propaganda.
I think a news organization promoting itself as say fair and balanced while hiding an agenda behind a veneer of respectability is far greater threat to both individuals and the country than the occasional weekend early release accident.
It was an email special. When drive space is that cheap you can have complete redundant backups and store one off site.
I don't see a problem with using a cloud storage provider for redundant off site backup. At least you'd have the data, even if it took a week to restore. If you could prioritize the restore, important and active customers first, everything else later, that might not be all that bad.
On our volunteer fire department. Particularly the EMS people. We see a lot of people with chronic respiratory diseases, COPD, and the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. The flu could kill them. Since they spend most of their time shut in, first responders are a possible vector.
So, yeah, we're getting flu shots and so are the ambulance and hospital people. If you're in the military, they vaccinate you against shit I've never even heard of.
This win was more a rebuke to the conservatives than anything else.
And instead of just saying "congratulations" and moving on, they have to keep gripping about how undeserved it is. Trying to tear down the award because it makes them look bad.
I'm sure they'll take the opportunity to remind everyone how relentlessly negative they are.
He couldn't use the telephone to do 2 minutes of investigation before biting? He runs an agency with "investigation" in their name yet accepts email at face value? Let me guess, all their phones have been disconnected because they're a security risk.
Besides, if he was checking on his accounts regularly, he'd know if there was any unusual activity.
This says a lot about the head of the FBI, none of it particularly flattering. He accepts whatever comes across his desk at face value, doesn't do any actual fact checking himself and doesn't stay on top of things.
How many Linux households have a token Windows box? There are good reasons to keep a Winders box around for the occasional piece of Windows only software (I use mine for video editing) but there isn't as much compelling Mac software. And you might buy a PC that already has Windows on it and it's a pretty popular gaming platform. So there are several paths to a token PC.
In video editing, the Mac app would probably be FCP. But a full price copy of FCP is over $1,000, plus you have pay through the wazzoo for the hardware. There are several Windows NLE's that rival FCP in features and undercut it in price. And, if you have a PC for any of the other reasons outlined above, that makes the Apple investment that much less attractive.
Until the government steps in and mandates the complete IPv6 spec, it's not going to happen. It's been dragging along for years. Someone...and I'm not sure who...is going to have to declare an end to older standards and set a transition date. There's a lot of good reasons to do it, just no looming cliff to force the issue.
Then we can look forward to old network engineers standing up at public meetings and screaming to keep the government out of their internets.;)
Were US entry policies to blame... perhaps. Has President Obama done anything to make things easier? Not really.
He's had 9 months, inheriting a cratering economy, failing banking sector, automotive sector and a health care crisis. I think he's done damn job with what he was given to work with. You don't change direction in a bureaucracy like DHS overnight. Besides, as soon as he starts looking at it or proposing changes, you'll be screaming about how Obama is leaving the country open to attack.
Pathetic AND predictable. Maybe you noticed it was people from outside the US raising this issue? No? That's not surprising.
Nothing but criticism and negativity. I'm sick of it, sick of you. This country would be farther ahead if we carved off a section and let you have your own space. I'd be all for that. You already have a propaganda cable channel and chain of newspapers you can take with you. Vile, disgusting, angry, small-minded, pathetic people. It sucks to have to call you countrymen.
It may be faint consolation, but TSA and DHS are just as thugish and dickish to US citizens as they are to our guests.
I remember coming back to the U.K. from France and one of the customs guys dashed over to me. I thought it was a passport check, even though everyone else was just walking by. He wasn't checking my passport, he was running over to open the gate for me because I was dragging a suitcase and had my hands full with my passport, which he didn't even look at.
Fingerprints, retinal scans, confiscating laptops and other portable data devices. The way we treat people coming here, I don't blame them for not wanting to visit. Not one bit.
What I think is astounding is the pure gall of the conservatives, blaming president Obama for not getting the Olympics when it was their crap ass policies and politics that put in place the anal probe, 3rd world border treatment afforded our guests these days. Like we're going to forget who was behind it all. But that's been the pattern right along. Absolving themselves from any accountability by trying to pin it on someone else. Pathetic.
I really don't blame you for not wanting to visit. We've brought this on ourselves.
The national average for cars is approximately 25 miles per gallon
We need to be finding ways to get people out of their cars, not enabling that lifestyle. It's more than gas mileage, it's all the overhead it takes to support the roadways. We spend a collective fortune on highways so you can have a semi-private box to convey you from one place to another. I'd also like to see your numbers on the national gas mileage average. Because I can guarantee you around here it's closer to half that.
A more fair efficiency comparison would be to air travel. Not to mention adding in the costs of airport maintenance, air traffic control and the cost of aircraft. Quite aside from the fact the flying experience sucks ass these days. We managed to pick the two most expensive and inefficient methods of travel and neglected the infrastructure for the more comfortable efficient alternatives.
When you're comparing costs, you have to look at the whole cost of the infrastructure. Getting the tracks in place isn't much more expensive than a highway but the maintenance costs over a period of years is a fraction of highway maintenance.
We don't need to worry about equipment maintenance.
For the scenario you described, I think S3 would be a good choice. Likewise if a bigger company had a division or department with out-sized or highly variable data storage needs, might work in that situation as well. Judging by the number of objects, a lot of people are finding uses for that capacity.
I know for a while Walmart was using some paint-by-numbers hosted application provider that was based on ASP. Don't know if they still do, but for those one-off, quick and dirty applications it's a better option than using Access and it would work until your developers had an opportunity to have a go at it.
As someone who is no longer in school, I say lets add some days.
I agree. Shorten summer vacation to July. US students spend less time in school that most industrialized countries, so the baloney about them learning less just doesn't wash. We're losing ground in science and engineering and if that means more time in school, then pack your books, kiddo.
What some of you are really saying is won't have as much time to spend on a WoW server or run up your score on Guitar Hero.
While the netbooks are loaded with many hundreds of dollars worth of software, 2GB of RAM, and a 6-hour battery, the cost to the NSW Department of Education is under $435 (US) a unit.
The netbooks have hundreds of dollars of software loaded and still only cost $435 a unit. So the cost of the unit is being subsidized and the department is hailing this as some big leap forward in cost of ownership? And some of the big changes are related to the BIOS.
Already, the department has noted the loss or damage of just six netbooks out of the 20,000 rolled out since August - and have tracked one teacher using their device on a field trip in New Zealand.
Yeah, really cool that the school can track and potentially monitor everyone using one of these devices, even if the machine is not physically turned on via the RFID tags. Now there's a big win.
DET also uses the AppLocker functionality within Windows 7 to dictate which applications can be installed on the device.
Even better. Add McAfee filtering to control content and MSFT's own antivirus technology...add up what all that would cost in a real world enterprise. Just the software costs alone would dwarf the cost of the device.
I look at the cost of the device, the software and all the centralized control and think, "Or just install Linux and get 95% of that functionality right out of gate." And the 5% you don't get is the spying and monitoring part. What lesson is the school teaching here?
This is certainly a win for someone, but I'm not sure it's the students and teachers.
I'll tell you why they do this, they are outright fucking dumb.
I'll second that. Unless there's a big fine involved, one big enough to effect someone's bonus, they're not worried about it. The banking industry is living proof of the phrase "strain out a gnat and swallow a camel".
If you count backward from January, that puts conception around April/May. Right around graduation. So if you suppose the poor and less educated would be getting married and starting a family instead of getting ready for college, that might explain some of it.
It would probably be just as interesting to track the birth rates correlated to surges in beer and Jagermeister sales.
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fire projectiles weighing a few kilograms at speeds of up to 3 kilometers per second.
That's in the neighborhood of 9,480 feet per second. About twice the speed of a high velocity bullet. A projectile weighing kilograms going twice the speed of a bullet.
Who besides me wants to forget the space thing and launch those projectiles against ground targets?
This research is decades old, started by the Dept. of Energy in the mid-70's in the wake of the '74 Arab oil embargo. Then there's this group who told me they had most of the hard problems solved and already had successful pilot tests. That was two years ago. So how can scale commercial still be 10 years off?
I'm wondering if it isn't like the EV-1, GM's electric car. GM didn't want it, oil companies definitely didn't want it, parts manufacturers, mechanics, and state governments faced with losing fuel tax revenues didn't want it (at least right away). On the opposition side of algae oil would be the Saudis, who fund several prominent think tanks in D.C. that tend to be the home of retired politicians and a near endless supply of campaign cash. The oil companies making a lot of money off the status quo and just about anyone in the transportation pipeline.
It will be interesting to see how many players with an interest in the status quo will be inserting themselves into the development of algae oil.
It's amazing how many times the name "Microsoft" and the words "catastrophic failure" end up in the same headline.
Journalists get caught up in the moment; we get excited and we post stupid crap from a foreign language student blog and call it news. And then within half a minute -- bloggers being what they are -- the news gets repeated and repeated until it becomes fact. Fact that can affect share prices or ruin lives.
That doesn't even address how that problem compounds when the news organization in question has a political agenda or has their talking points of the day handed down from political operatives in exile. There's no allegiance to the truth or journalistic integrity. Fact checking is secondary to staying on message, even if the facts get kicked around in the process. No corrections for stories that turn out to be false, no apologies when lives (or countries) are ruined. It's not a news organization, it's a front for propaganda.
I think a news organization promoting itself as say fair and balanced while hiding an agenda behind a veneer of respectability is far greater threat to both individuals and the country than the occasional weekend early release accident.
Gosh, what tragedy. Guess we'll just have to suck it up and get by without their relentlessly negative hate spew.
Don't let the search engine door hit you on the way out bunghole.
It was an email special. When drive space is that cheap you can have complete redundant backups and store one off site.
I don't see a problem with using a cloud storage provider for redundant off site backup. At least you'd have the data, even if it took a week to restore. If you could prioritize the restore, important and active customers first, everything else later, that might not be all that bad.
On our volunteer fire department. Particularly the EMS people. We see a lot of people with chronic respiratory diseases, COPD, and the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. The flu could kill them. Since they spend most of their time shut in, first responders are a possible vector.
So, yeah, we're getting flu shots and so are the ambulance and hospital people. If you're in the military, they vaccinate you against shit I've never even heard of.
Windows Server will now join, trust and replicate a Samba-based Active Directory using Microsoft-native protocols.
Now I have to get ready for the 4 horsemen, rain of fire and the end of time.
I think fudging your resume is a big red flag.
If they're lying to clients, they're probably lying to you.
This win was more a rebuke to the conservatives than anything else.
And instead of just saying "congratulations" and moving on, they have to keep gripping about how undeserved it is. Trying to tear down the award because it makes them look bad.
I'm sure they'll take the opportunity to remind everyone how relentlessly negative they are.
I'm more concerned about someone hacking a Predator or Reaper.
He couldn't use the telephone to do 2 minutes of investigation before biting? He runs an agency with "investigation" in their name yet accepts email at face value? Let me guess, all their phones have been disconnected because they're a security risk.
Besides, if he was checking on his accounts regularly, he'd know if there was any unusual activity.
This says a lot about the head of the FBI, none of it particularly flattering. He accepts whatever comes across his desk at face value, doesn't do any actual fact checking himself and doesn't stay on top of things.
Yeah, I'm inspired with confidence.
How many Linux households have a token Windows box? There are good reasons to keep a Winders box around for the occasional piece of Windows only software (I use mine for video editing) but there isn't as much compelling Mac software. And you might buy a PC that already has Windows on it and it's a pretty popular gaming platform. So there are several paths to a token PC.
In video editing, the Mac app would probably be FCP. But a full price copy of FCP is over $1,000, plus you have pay through the wazzoo for the hardware. There are several Windows NLE's that rival FCP in features and undercut it in price. And, if you have a PC for any of the other reasons outlined above, that makes the Apple investment that much less attractive.
Until the government steps in and mandates the complete IPv6 spec, it's not going to happen. It's been dragging along for years. Someone...and I'm not sure who...is going to have to declare an end to older standards and set a transition date. There's a lot of good reasons to do it, just no looming cliff to force the issue.
Then we can look forward to old network engineers standing up at public meetings and screaming to keep the government out of their internets. ;)
Michael Geist did some digging and revealed this as a lie...
Canada has a conservative government after all.
Were US entry policies to blame... perhaps. Has President Obama done anything to make things easier? Not really.
He's had 9 months, inheriting a cratering economy, failing banking sector, automotive sector and a health care crisis. I think he's done damn job with what he was given to work with. You don't change direction in a bureaucracy like DHS overnight. Besides, as soon as he starts looking at it or proposing changes, you'll be screaming about how Obama is leaving the country open to attack.
Pathetic AND predictable. Maybe you noticed it was people from outside the US raising this issue? No? That's not surprising.
Nothing but criticism and negativity. I'm sick of it, sick of you. This country would be farther ahead if we carved off a section and let you have your own space. I'd be all for that. You already have a propaganda cable channel and chain of newspapers you can take with you. Vile, disgusting, angry, small-minded, pathetic people. It sucks to have to call you countrymen.
I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
It may be faint consolation, but TSA and DHS are just as thugish and dickish to US citizens as they are to our guests.
I remember coming back to the U.K. from France and one of the customs guys dashed over to me. I thought it was a passport check, even though everyone else was just walking by. He wasn't checking my passport, he was running over to open the gate for me because I was dragging a suitcase and had my hands full with my passport, which he didn't even look at.
Fingerprints, retinal scans, confiscating laptops and other portable data devices. The way we treat people coming here, I don't blame them for not wanting to visit. Not one bit.
What I think is astounding is the pure gall of the conservatives, blaming president Obama for not getting the Olympics when it was their crap ass policies and politics that put in place the anal probe, 3rd world border treatment afforded our guests these days. Like we're going to forget who was behind it all. But that's been the pattern right along. Absolving themselves from any accountability by trying to pin it on someone else. Pathetic.
I really don't blame you for not wanting to visit. We've brought this on ourselves.
You waste 45 minutes driving while your boss could be working while he is sitting on the train, because he isn't driving.
Exactly. Not only can you work on the train, you can drink on the train. So you're not only missing work time, you're missing drinking time.
That has to figure in to the equation somewhere.
The national average for cars is approximately 25 miles per gallon
We need to be finding ways to get people out of their cars, not enabling that lifestyle. It's more than gas mileage, it's all the overhead it takes to support the roadways. We spend a collective fortune on highways so you can have a semi-private box to convey you from one place to another. I'd also like to see your numbers on the national gas mileage average. Because I can guarantee you around here it's closer to half that.
A more fair efficiency comparison would be to air travel. Not to mention adding in the costs of airport maintenance, air traffic control and the cost of aircraft. Quite aside from the fact the flying experience sucks ass these days. We managed to pick the two most expensive and inefficient methods of travel and neglected the infrastructure for the more comfortable efficient alternatives.
When you're comparing costs, you have to look at the whole cost of the infrastructure. Getting the tracks in place isn't much more expensive than a highway but the maintenance costs over a period of years is a fraction of highway maintenance.
We don't need to worry about equipment maintenance.
For the scenario you described, I think S3 would be a good choice. Likewise if a bigger company had a division or department with out-sized or highly variable data storage needs, might work in that situation as well. Judging by the number of objects, a lot of people are finding uses for that capacity.
I know for a while Walmart was using some paint-by-numbers hosted application provider that was based on ASP. Don't know if they still do, but for those one-off, quick and dirty applications it's a better option than using Access and it would work until your developers had an opportunity to have a go at it.
As someone who is no longer in school, I say lets add some days.
I agree. Shorten summer vacation to July. US students spend less time in school that most industrialized countries, so the baloney about them learning less just doesn't wash. We're losing ground in science and engineering and if that means more time in school, then pack your books, kiddo.
What some of you are really saying is won't have as much time to spend on a WoW server or run up your score on Guitar Hero.
Cry me a river.
Slow news day.
While the netbooks are loaded with many hundreds of dollars worth of software, 2GB of RAM, and a 6-hour battery, the cost to the NSW Department of Education is under $435 (US) a unit.
The netbooks have hundreds of dollars of software loaded and still only cost $435 a unit. So the cost of the unit is being subsidized and the department is hailing this as some big leap forward in cost of ownership? And some of the big changes are related to the BIOS.
Already, the department has noted the loss or damage of just six netbooks out of the 20,000 rolled out since August - and have tracked one teacher using their device on a field trip in New Zealand.
Yeah, really cool that the school can track and potentially monitor everyone using one of these devices, even if the machine is not physically turned on via the RFID tags. Now there's a big win.
DET also uses the AppLocker functionality within Windows 7 to dictate which applications can be installed on the device.
Even better. Add McAfee filtering to control content and MSFT's own antivirus technology...add up what all that would cost in a real world enterprise. Just the software costs alone would dwarf the cost of the device.
I look at the cost of the device, the software and all the centralized control and think, "Or just install Linux and get 95% of that functionality right out of gate." And the 5% you don't get is the spying and monitoring part. What lesson is the school teaching here?
This is certainly a win for someone, but I'm not sure it's the students and teachers.
I'll tell you why they do this, they are outright fucking dumb.
I'll second that. Unless there's a big fine involved, one big enough to effect someone's bonus, they're not worried about it. The banking industry is living proof of the phrase "strain out a gnat and swallow a camel".
If you count backward from January, that puts conception around April/May. Right around graduation. So if you suppose the poor and less educated would be getting married and starting a family instead of getting ready for college, that might explain some of it.
It would probably be just as interesting to track the birth rates correlated to surges in beer and Jagermeister sales.