The problem is getting the data back to Earth. I would assume that it would be an un-staffed observatory, in which case, you'd need to do one of the following:
send up a courier to swap out SD cards every few weeks.
set up a network connecting the station with a transmitter which has line-of-site to the Earth.
put a couple of satellites in orbit which are in line-of-sight to the far side of the moon, so that the data could be relayed back to Earth.
The last option is probably the cheapest, but it's still a significant added expense on the set-up and maintenance of such a station.
I actually don't think that there's anything wrong with the district plan. There's definitely a place for allowing kids to express themselves without being overloaded with corrections. If kids are encouraged to read and continue to write, they'll learn how to spell.
My parents read to me every day when I was a baby, and so I could read pretty well before kindergarten. But I'm sure my written grammar and spelling skills had not progressed to their current state. I am equally certain that everything I wrote did not come back covered in red ink. Didn't matter, though, since I love reading, I figured the stuff out myself.
Maybe it wasn't bad schooling; maybe your daughter's priorities lie elsewhere. Maybe she's musical or artistic. Or a mathematician or a physicist. Or an Olympian-class athlete. If her spelling bugs you, work with her on it; don't point fingers and call an organizational entity stupid. It's silly.
I think that attorney-client privilege would prevent this. Not only would he be disbarred, but I believe that his clients would probably not have much difficulty getting anything they divulged to him stricken from the record, including their existence on the client list.
Entrapment is in the eye of the beholder, and while a police officer who has gotten proper warrants, or who is working on reasonable actionable knowledge will get a very different response from a judge than a private citizen who is just laying traps.
Of course, there's the question of the spirit of the law. If you really believe that this guy was setting up the "booby trap" ISP in order to help end the scourge of spam, then the outcome seems harsh. However, if you deem--as the judge apparently did--that he's just in it to make profit and that the people that he entrapped were being sucked into arbitrary litigation, then the outcome will seem quite appropriate.
I would have modded you down but there is no "-1 Incorrect". I guess I could have done an overrated, but that just seems mean.
My two 5.8 GHz cordless phones--one for my work line, and one for my home line--sound worlds better than my cell phone. Most importantly, they don't have the latency and echo that is so common on all cell phone calls I've ever had.
What's worst is any call where there's more than one cell phone call involved. People are always talking over each other and that real-time cadence that's so nice about in-person and land-line calls just goes away. It reminds me of back when a significant amount of intl'l calls went over satellite when I was a kid; it was impossible to have a normal conversation.
But back to my cordless phones: unless you are in a dense urban environment where everyone else is using the same channels as you on their cordless phones, or unless you're using out of date technology like 2.4 GHz phones that interfere with 802.11x, static is a non-issue. Oh yeah, I guess there are probably really cheap ones with bad transmitters, but I bought one of my phones at Costco, one at Radio Shack and spent less than $100 on each of them four and six years ago.
Finally, my office is in the finished basement of my house. If I tried to have a conference call with clients using my cell phone, I'd get dropped calls 90% of the time.
Don't forget, if it's a hybrid, the electric motor kicks in for short acceleration bursts. So even if the thing were using an old VW Dasher diesel engine--70 HP, IIRC--it might feel totally like a racer.
Every home system I've owned--including the iPods that my wife and I have used--have had music-oriented names. Jazz, Blues, Funk, Hip-Hop, Bebop, Fusion, Rock. I think that's it. The hard drives on the Mac systems have had movie character names, including Marcellus, Jules and Vincent, to name a few.
I remember at the Open Computing Facility at UCB we had a naming convention of "natural disasters". Tsunami, Flood, Hailstorm, Sandstorm, Blizzard, Locusts... and a few more, but I'm starting to confuse it with the Passover story, since I don't think that Blood, Frogs and Darkness were part of the network.
OK, I haven't R'd TFA, but is it possible that some of that increase is due to better manufacturing techniques of paper bills? Maybe those bills are in circulation longer, and so they are more likely to cross the path of a coke-head.
Sorry, gotta call BS on this, AC. It's one thing to break the DMCA because you want backups of your own music, or you want to be able to play that music on a device that's not officially supported. But to simply copy the music because you don't want to pay for it is a choice, pure and simple. If you don't like the price, well, you don't need what they're selling, and you don't have to buy it.
Whether or not it's stealing is one thing. But it is indeed use without compensation. Buying from iTunes or Amazon or any number of other DRM-free vendors is a perfectly reasonable solution. To claim that it's rape is childish and ignorant because if you say "no" to their product, they won't take your money.
I remember taking them. They said I should be either a fashion photographer or a priest. And amazingly enough, I'm both now!
Joking aside, they were a little silly, but the introduction of genetics is a little scary.
It used to be, once upon a time, that you had to list your parents names and occupations when applying for a job. If you were trying to be a banker and your father was a miller, good luck to ya.
I think this is a great idea, although I would modify the process as follows:
Charge a smaller amount (i.e. $0.001) but do it on a per-recipient basis, rather than a per-email basis.
Have 80% fund go to the charity.
Have 20% go as a CentMail credit to CentMail-using recipients of the email, so that for each 5 stamped emails you receive, you can send one out for free.
For any recipients who are not on CentMail compliant services, the final 20% goes directly to the charity.
I proposed something like this years ago as a method of resolving the SPAM problem, and while there are many naysayers and as many real technical and political challenges to the process, the only way to ensure that nobody sends out spamvertisements to millions of recipients is to raise the cost of emailing from nothing to something. Even if it's a tiny fraction of a penny, the ROI drops significantly and spammers move on to greener pastures.
Gee, if they could make it small enough to fit into an IE toolbar, they could even get people to start using it without even knowing they're doing so! Like that awesome FunWebProducts toolbar that made it so easy for me to add smilies to my chats!
As someone who works on Windows all day and on a Mac all night, I have one *objective* metric on this topic: If I don't reboot my Windows system at least every few days, it gets slow and unreliable, and things start crashing; on my Mac, if it weren't for system updates, I'd never reboot the thing.
That one factor alone makes OS X superior to Windows in my book. Compared to Linux/BSD, well, I like those options fine and I use them for servers (well, not BSD for several years now), but as far as desktop/laptop/gui applications, I'm just more familiar with OS X and haven't been tempted to jump ship.
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Mmmm. Crackers make me hungry. I'm a snacker.
Don't you mean homophones?
The last option is probably the cheapest, but it's still a significant added expense on the set-up and maintenance of such a station.
It puts the lotion into the basket!
I actually don't think that there's anything wrong with the district plan. There's definitely a place for allowing kids to express themselves without being overloaded with corrections. If kids are encouraged to read and continue to write, they'll learn how to spell.
My parents read to me every day when I was a baby, and so I could read pretty well before kindergarten. But I'm sure my written grammar and spelling skills had not progressed to their current state. I am equally certain that everything I wrote did not come back covered in red ink. Didn't matter, though, since I love reading, I figured the stuff out myself.
Maybe it wasn't bad schooling; maybe your daughter's priorities lie elsewhere. Maybe she's musical or artistic. Or a mathematician or a physicist. Or an Olympian-class athlete. If her spelling bugs you, work with her on it; don't point fingers and call an organizational entity stupid. It's silly.
Yeah, I'm kind of ashamed, but it's so rare to get here before anyone else, and I had nothing useful to say.
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I think that attorney-client privilege would prevent this. Not only would he be disbarred, but I believe that his clients would probably not have much difficulty getting anything they divulged to him stricken from the record, including their existence on the client list.
Entrapment is in the eye of the beholder, and while a police officer who has gotten proper warrants, or who is working on reasonable actionable knowledge will get a very different response from a judge than a private citizen who is just laying traps.
Of course, there's the question of the spirit of the law. If you really believe that this guy was setting up the "booby trap" ISP in order to help end the scourge of spam, then the outcome seems harsh. However, if you deem--as the judge apparently did--that he's just in it to make profit and that the people that he entrapped were being sucked into arbitrary litigation, then the outcome will seem quite appropriate.
I would have modded you down but there is no "-1 Incorrect". I guess I could have done an overrated, but that just seems mean.
My two 5.8 GHz cordless phones--one for my work line, and one for my home line--sound worlds better than my cell phone. Most importantly, they don't have the latency and echo that is so common on all cell phone calls I've ever had.
What's worst is any call where there's more than one cell phone call involved. People are always talking over each other and that real-time cadence that's so nice about in-person and land-line calls just goes away. It reminds me of back when a significant amount of intl'l calls went over satellite when I was a kid; it was impossible to have a normal conversation.
But back to my cordless phones: unless you are in a dense urban environment where everyone else is using the same channels as you on their cordless phones, or unless you're using out of date technology like 2.4 GHz phones that interfere with 802.11x, static is a non-issue. Oh yeah, I guess there are probably really cheap ones with bad transmitters, but I bought one of my phones at Costco, one at Radio Shack and spent less than $100 on each of them four and six years ago.
Finally, my office is in the finished basement of my house. If I tried to have a conference call with clients using my cell phone, I'd get dropped calls 90% of the time.
And that number may be big. But that being said, 0.01% of Internet users is still, potentially, hundreds of thousands of users.
My favorite is w.tf. But it's apparently not the page you're looking for.
Don't forget, if it's a hybrid, the electric motor kicks in for short acceleration bursts. So even if the thing were using an old VW Dasher diesel engine--70 HP, IIRC--it might feel totally like a racer.
Every home system I've owned--including the iPods that my wife and I have used--have had music-oriented names. Jazz, Blues, Funk, Hip-Hop, Bebop, Fusion, Rock. I think that's it. The hard drives on the Mac systems have had movie character names, including Marcellus, Jules and Vincent, to name a few.
I remember at the Open Computing Facility at UCB we had a naming convention of "natural disasters". Tsunami, Flood, Hailstorm, Sandstorm, Blizzard, Locusts... and a few more, but I'm starting to confuse it with the Passover story, since I don't think that Blood, Frogs and Darkness were part of the network.
OK, I haven't R'd TFA, but is it possible that some of that increase is due to better manufacturing techniques of paper bills? Maybe those bills are in circulation longer, and so they are more likely to cross the path of a coke-head.
OK, I guess I'll go RTFA.
Sorry, gotta call BS on this, AC. It's one thing to break the DMCA because you want backups of your own music, or you want to be able to play that music on a device that's not officially supported. But to simply copy the music because you don't want to pay for it is a choice, pure and simple. If you don't like the price, well, you don't need what they're selling, and you don't have to buy it.
Whether or not it's stealing is one thing. But it is indeed use without compensation. Buying from iTunes or Amazon or any number of other DRM-free vendors is a perfectly reasonable solution. To claim that it's rape is childish and ignorant because if you say "no" to their product, they won't take your money.
I remember taking them. They said I should be either a fashion photographer or a priest. And amazingly enough, I'm both now!
Joking aside, they were a little silly, but the introduction of genetics is a little scary.
It used to be, once upon a time, that you had to list your parents names and occupations when applying for a job. If you were trying to be a banker and your father was a miller, good luck to ya.
I proposed something like this years ago as a method of resolving the SPAM problem, and while there are many naysayers and as many real technical and political challenges to the process, the only way to ensure that nobody sends out spamvertisements to millions of recipients is to raise the cost of emailing from nothing to something. Even if it's a tiny fraction of a penny, the ROI drops significantly and spammers move on to greener pastures.
that is, increasing interdependence on each other
That sounds like communism! Are you an Obamanaut shilling his health care "reforms"?
Right. Google killing Microsoft with Chrome is like MS killing Apple with the Zune.
Except for one thing: you don't need to buy it; my understanding is that Chrome will be free.
Gee, if they could make it small enough to fit into an IE toolbar, they could even get people to start using it without even knowing they're doing so! Like that awesome FunWebProducts toolbar that made it so easy for me to add smilies to my chats!
As someone who works on Windows all day and on a Mac all night, I have one *objective* metric on this topic: If I don't reboot my Windows system at least every few days, it gets slow and unreliable, and things start crashing; on my Mac, if it weren't for system updates, I'd never reboot the thing.
That one factor alone makes OS X superior to Windows in my book. Compared to Linux/BSD, well, I like those options fine and I use them for servers (well, not BSD for several years now), but as far as desktop/laptop/gui applications, I'm just more familiar with OS X and haven't been tempted to jump ship.
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