It's more cost effective if they make it to their destination. Keep in mind we are still at the "will it explode?" and "if it doesn't explode, will it avoid crashing?" and "if it doesn't crash, will it keep working?"
Wouldn't it be more cost effective if they launched multiple vehicles at at time instead of just one? Perhaps NASA could work with other nations by building more rovers and letting them launch their own. If it's going to be in the name of science, why not?
With all the self driving technology we have now, (and will have by 2020), why not make it faster, and give it a capability to cover 20 or 50 miles a day or some such.
The rovers we've sent really don't have the capability out of sight of their landing zone. That makes picking landing sites a huge challenge.
With a slightly taller vehicle with a wider stance (bigger wheels) you could probably cover most of the martian terrain at substantial speed, totally autonomously. It could map as it went, and pick up soils samples and process them on the run, or pause to do so.
And then people use Bing because they can't get to RottenTomatoes or IMDB through Google? And everyone says "Google is broken" and they show just how flippant they are when it comes to searching?
Bing has the same problem handling automated takedowns.
If all the big search companies put the studios on notice that misuse of take downs (automated or not) will result in their interests being also taken down, this nonsense would stop.
Also, none of these web data usage studies takes into account the number of old iphones used only on wifi as the users have moved on to to newer phones. I have two of these sitting around my house. They run news update apps 24/7. The kids use them for web surfing occasionally. But because they are behind a router, web sites can't tell if its one, two, or seven. So in that case, what the web site can gather from it's logs speaks more to the installed base and durability of ancient IOS devices than the amount of actual use.
I have to give credit to Apple that even users of the positively ancient iPhone 3GS still get first tier support. You would be hard pressed to find an Android phone from that era with official support for Jelly Bean. Maybe one of the Nexus phones?
Um, no, that's not entirely true.
Ask anyone who has installed IOS5 or IOS6 on an old iPhone 3G, or even a 3Gs. Its horrible.
Large portions of new and marvelous best-thing-ever features are just not present on the old phones, (even those features that do not technically require new hardware elements, or are so slow as to be unusable. Battery life goes to hell, even with after Apple attempts to fix it. Most people who do this immediately hop on the net looking for a way to revert, the rest give up and run out to buy the latest iPhone (which was the plan all along). There is a lot of advice to simply not upgrade old phones.
Even iPhone 4 users are wary about updating to IOS6.
If anything the fact that you can install IOS6 on older devices speaks only to how little the iPhone has really progressed over time.
Take them all down, plus any link relating to the studio, all studio movies, show times, or anything similar.
Make the bastards pay for promotion like they did in the days of newspaper advertising. Charge them 10 million dollars per movie studio, 1 million per movie, and 100k per site to get back into Google's index.
Dear Mr Hamadoun Toure: If it won't be curbed or controlled why not define attempts to do so as a crime against humanity and access to the internet a human right?
Could it be that you know it is already curbed and controlled and monitored and blocked.
Oh, look, your nose is growing and your pants seem to be on fire.
were all features that arrived very late in the game, long after they had been available on Android for years. You can't come around talking about the stuff that only arrived with IOS 5, and maintain any credibility. Unlike some people, I got fed up waiting for IOS to catch up with real world functionality.
"Therefore, there is no rapid back and forth seeking involved on CD playing to induce wear on the mechanism."
Never use that thing called "Next Track/Next Chapter," have ya?
You might want to look into the features that your optical drive equipment (and supporting software, if any is required) has had for two+ decades.
You don't record that way. Further it is far far slower than a disk drive in these kinds of movements. It would be instructional for you to take the case off of an old DVD player some time and watch it go about its business. Compared to a hard drive it works at a rather leisurely pace.
Why is Slashdot attempting to live blog the pursuit of a suspected murderer who appears to be mentally ill? We get that he once owned a software company, but that was a long time ago.
Personally, I'm rooting for the cops. They don't seem to be trying too hard. Like parents letting him run around tire himself out before they pick him up and change his diapers and put him back to bed.
The whole thing is starting to remind me of the book Shutter Island.
Belize is not your average tin-horn central american dictatorship. Where ever the British went they tended to leave behind good government. Why won't he just walk in and answer the questions? Nothing makes you look quite as guilty as acting guilty.
good way to decrease its funding chances in the government subsidies to researchers. That's bad news for those who actually have the condition--lessening the chances for their eventual cure.
So no harm, no foul then?
Do you know anyone "cured" by psychiatrist? (Other than being drugged into a stupor).
But Wall was a contractor. Not an employee. As such, it was within reason that he procure his own tools. By what ever means. He had specific deliverable. His tools were not a specified deliverable.
Its different when you are an employee. When you are an employee, anything you do is now days considered work for hire. Plus, when you are applying for a job, and the terms are dictated, and you've been months out of work, do you walk away and fry up your convictions for dinner?
Works from 2002 to date. Any original works of authorship from 2002 to the present are automatically copyright protected from the moment of their creation. You may still register a copyright in order to establish the date of copyright protection and provide better protection against copyright infringement, but it's not necessary to register a copyright in order for a work to be protected.
What is the problem? You still get the product you want at the price you were willing to pay. They just happen to own the rights to resell it. Sounds to me you are equivocating salaried employees with ownership.
But what if the employer hired you expressly to develop a commercial product?
You build it on their nickle, and again in parallel in your garage in the evening. You sneak out an patent it one day before turning over the finished work assignment.
The employer can't sell it, because you own the patent. His entire investment in the project is lost.
Its EXACTLY this kind of situation that caused employers to write these "We Own Your Work" contract terms into employment agreements in the first place.
I've actually had an employer that wanted to license what I developed at home, and he wanted to pay me to convert it to his mainframe platform. Since this was back in the days prior to there being such draconian "all your inventions are belong to us" clauses, the negotiations went smoothly.
I retained ownership. He got a non-transferable perpetual license to both the PC and Mainframe versions. I got a mainframe version using his resources. No money changed hands. Everybody happy.
The actual danger as a burn hazard/ignition source is still limited by the total battery capacity of the device(even assuming that the manufacturer entirely cheaped out on fuses or other protection). A hypothetical attacker could do as much damage, probably more, just by shorting the battery with a length of wire or a paper clip or something...
Good point. The fact that they let li-poly batteries on the plane is amazing enough. Something powered by said batteries would be far less risky.
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As a country, the US stopped giving a shit a very long time ago.
Really? So why is there so much blue lines on this graffic, and why do ALL the successful landers have blue lines?
http://thethinkerblog.com/images/missions_to_mars.jpg
It's more cost effective if they make it to their destination. Keep in mind we are still at the "will it explode?" and "if it doesn't explode, will it avoid crashing?" and "if it doesn't crash, will it keep working?"
Look at the track record.
Its not half as bad as you make it out to be.
All those that end in a Black Dot are failures.
Anything ending in a gray dot was meant to be a Orbiter.
Those with white dots are landers.
The success rate is getting better, (and the lines are getting blue-er.) Since 2000, almost every launch has succeeded.
Wouldn't it be more cost effective if they launched multiple vehicles at at time instead of just one? Perhaps NASA could work with other nations by building more rovers and letting them launch their own. If it's going to be in the name of science, why not?
With all the self driving technology we have now, (and will have by 2020), why not make it faster, and give it a capability to cover 20 or 50 miles a day or some such.
The rovers we've sent really don't have the capability out of sight of their landing zone. That makes picking landing sites a huge challenge.
With a slightly taller vehicle with a wider stance (bigger wheels) you could probably cover most of the martian terrain at substantial speed, totally autonomously.
It could map as it went, and pick up soils samples and process them on the run, or pause to do so.
And then people use Bing because they can't get to RottenTomatoes or IMDB through Google? And everyone says "Google is broken" and they show just how flippant they are when it comes to searching?
Bing has the same problem handling automated takedowns.
If all the big search companies put the studios on notice that misuse of take downs (automated or not) will result in their interests being also taken down, this nonsense would stop.
Don't always confuse the data consumed by the iPhone as any real indication of "doing more".
There are serious bugs in the IOS system, some of them long standing ones that cause huge cellular data usage that users can't explain and can't control. There are numerous HUGE threads on Apple support forums about high unexplained data useage. And SIRI is not the only data hog.
Also, none of these web data usage studies takes into account the number of old iphones used only on wifi as the users have moved on to to newer phones. I have two of these sitting around my house. They run news update apps 24/7. The kids use them for web surfing occasionally. But because they are behind a router, web sites can't tell if its one, two, or seven. So in that case, what the web site can gather from it's logs speaks more to the installed base and durability of ancient IOS devices than the amount of actual use.
I have to give credit to Apple that even users of the positively ancient iPhone 3GS still get first tier support. You would be hard pressed to find an Android phone from that era with official support for Jelly Bean. Maybe one of the Nexus phones?
Um, no, that's not entirely true.
Ask anyone who has installed IOS5 or IOS6 on an old iPhone 3G, or even a 3Gs. Its horrible.
Large portions of new and marvelous best-thing-ever features are just not present on the old phones, (even those features that do not technically require new hardware elements, or are so slow as to be unusable. Battery life goes to hell, even with after Apple attempts to fix it. Most people who do this immediately hop on the net looking for a way to revert, the rest give up and run out to buy the latest iPhone (which was the plan all along). There is a lot of advice to simply not upgrade old phones.
Even iPhone 4 users are wary about updating to IOS6.
If anything the fact that you can install IOS6 on older devices speaks only to how little the iPhone has really progressed over time.
Take them all down, plus any link relating to the studio, all studio movies, show times, or anything similar.
Make the bastards pay for promotion like they did in the days of newspaper advertising. Charge them 10 million dollars per movie studio, 1 million per movie, and 100k per site to get back into Google's index.
If all they were trying to do was monetize it, we could hold our nose and probably live with that. If that was ALL they are trying to do.
Exactly!
Dear Mr Hamadoun Toure: If it won't be curbed or controlled why not define attempts to do so as a crime against humanity and access to the internet a human right?
Could it be that you know it is already curbed and controlled and monitored and blocked.
Oh, look, your nose is growing and your pants seem to be on fire.
Update the OS,
Backup
Activate
Restore
were all features that arrived very late in the game, long after they had been available on Android for years.
You can't come around talking about the stuff that only arrived with IOS 5, and maintain any credibility.
Unlike some people, I got fed up waiting for IOS to catch up with real world functionality.
"Therefore, there is no rapid back and forth seeking involved on CD playing to induce wear on the mechanism."
Never use that thing called "Next Track/Next Chapter," have ya?
You might want to look into the features that your optical drive equipment (and supporting software, if any is required) has had for two+ decades.
You don't record that way.
Further it is far far slower than a disk drive in these kinds of movements.
It would be instructional for you to take the case off of an old DVD player some time and watch it go about its business. Compared to a hard drive it works at a rather leisurely pace.
Why is Slashdot attempting to live blog the pursuit of a suspected murderer who appears to be mentally ill? We get that he once owned a software company, but that was a long time ago.
Personally, I'm rooting for the cops. They don't seem to be trying too hard. Like parents letting him run around tire himself out before they pick him up and change his diapers and put him back to bed.
The whole thing is starting to remind me of the book Shutter Island.
And he's running because......?
Belize is not your average tin-horn central american dictatorship. Where ever the British went they tended to leave behind good government. Why won't he just walk in and answer the questions? Nothing makes you look quite as guilty as acting guilty.
good way to decrease its funding chances in the government subsidies to researchers.
That's bad news for those who actually have the condition--lessening the chances for their eventual cure.
So no harm, no foul then?
Do you know anyone "cured" by psychiatrist?
(Other than being drugged into a stupor).
It's not a disease.
Well, not by that name any more any way.
One artificial psychiatric definition down, about 3500 to go.
The discussion is about employees. See the main title of this entire story.
But Wall was a contractor. Not an employee.
As such, it was within reason that he procure his own tools. By what ever means.
He had specific deliverable. His tools were not a specified deliverable.
Its different when you are an employee. When you are an employee, anything you do is now days considered work for hire.
Plus, when you are applying for a job, and the terms are dictated, and you've been months out of work, do you walk away and fry up your convictions for dinner?
officially never dead.
Just what does that mean?
If some other entity is automatically granted the rights to the hypothetical engineer above's work, what incentive does it provide for him to bother?
The other incentive is his pay check.
Wrong. Copyright exists from the moment of PUBLISHING.
See here: http://www.life123.com/career-money/business-law/copyright/when-does-copyright-protection-begin.shtml
Works from 2002 to date.
Any original works of authorship from 2002 to the present are automatically copyright protected from the moment of their creation. You may still register a copyright in order to establish the date of copyright protection and provide better protection against copyright infringement, but it's not necessary to register a copyright in order for a work to be protected.
I think I covered that.
What is the problem? You still get the product you want at the price you were willing to pay. They just happen to own the rights to resell it. Sounds to me you are equivocating salaried employees with ownership.
But what if the employer hired you expressly to develop a commercial product?
You build it on their nickle, and again in parallel in your garage in the evening.
You sneak out an patent it one day before turning over the finished work assignment.
The employer can't sell it, because you own the patent. His entire investment in the project is lost.
Its EXACTLY this kind of situation that caused employers to write these "We Own Your Work" contract terms into employment agreements in the first place.
I've actually had an employer that wanted to license what I developed at home, and he wanted to pay me to convert it to his mainframe platform.
Since this was back in the days prior to there being such draconian "all your inventions are belong to us" clauses, the negotiations went smoothly.
I retained ownership.
He got a non-transferable perpetual license to both the PC and Mainframe versions.
I got a mainframe version using his resources.
No money changed hands.
Everybody happy.
Its always worse when lawyers are involved.
The actual danger as a burn hazard/ignition source is still limited by the total battery capacity of the device(even assuming that the manufacturer entirely cheaped out on fuses or other protection). A hypothetical attacker could do as much damage, probably more, just by shorting the battery with a length of wire or a paper clip or something...
Good point. The fact that they let li-poly batteries on the plane is amazing enough. Something powered by said batteries would be far less risky.
The RW head is not bigger nor heaver. That is where you miss the boat.