That's why it's all about industrial amounts. Mars is only losing a few grams of atmosphere a second to space. Once they really begin to start building, the net result will be positive once they are making more than 3000 kg of iron a day. Before that, they'll probably be sequestering such for use in tunnels, sealed habitats, and rockets anyway. What's released to the atmosphere will probably just be benefitial waste unless they start doing serious terraforming stuff like atmosphere processing plants like we saw in Aliens.
Every "colonizing Mars" plan has these holes. People say "create an atmosphere" or "dig caves" to live in. With what? There is no Home Depot on Mars. How do you create an atmosphere? How do you keep it when there is no magnetosphere? It is a mystery! But who cares - we are going to MARS!
Perhaps if there was a company that created boring machines to make tunnels, like a Boring Company. Then smelt the iron and other metals from the oxides on Mars to finish the tunnel interiors, and use the left over oxygen to help fill the newly built tunnels.
How are you going to smelt these minerals? Burn coal?
Electric arc furnaces. Probably driven by solar but nuclear might also be a possibility. Smelting such on industrial scales would create free oxygen to add to the atmosphere. If they could find a source of hydrogen or carbon which seem fairly rare on Mars, that could be turned into more water and carbon dioxide. In long term, it might make a bit of difference to the Martian atmosphere, but pretty much only because it is already so thin that it would be considered a medium vacuum here on Earth.
So basically, they're unable to hire anyone who knows how to use Google?
No, of course, they know how to use Google. The problem is that they are not willing to learn. Twenty years ago, it was Macs, even though the Windows interface was pretty much the same as they copied it. People just didn't even want to try. I got sent to a lot of places because I knew how to work on Mac and nobody else would even try, a decision supported at the admin level because they didn't want to have to support Macs even though the effort was trivial. Today, it's the same with Linux and I get sent out to work on Linux installs because I'm willing to.
IT, computer systems, and hospital billing are such a clusterfuck any solutions in healthcare that don't address them are a waste of time. Single payer fixes nothing when hour long services and bags of mostly saline solution are billed at the same rates as luxury SUVs.
And as somebody who has dealt with all those, the problems are almost all caused by the insurance companies and the way they manipulate every hospitals MCR to play them off against each other and smaller clinics.
The have billions of dollars (in foreign currency). However, it is doubtful that these money can be used to create jobs. Jobs are necessary to do things. For example produce iPhones.
How about hire people to build new Mac computers. They haven't really done anything in three years. Part of that is that they scavenged people from the Mac side of things to build iPhones. Meanwhile, Tim has stated they expect people to buy a new Mac computer every three years, but there literally hasn't been a new Mac Pro to buy in over three years.
I've never been in prison but I used to do music fanzines that got a lot of correspondence from such, and in my experience, their is no standard prison set up for anything. They all seem to have their own rules. Some would not allow personal correspondence, only printed material. Some would not allow printed material, only personal correspondence. Some you could not send money to, only stamps. Some you could not send stamps, only money. Some you couldn't send either but you could give the prison money to put into their PX account, which may or may not carry stamps.
You just have to be careful what you choose. Look at the goals, are they realistic? Look at the people involved. Are that raising enough money? Do they want too much money?
Look at if they have ever done anything previously. Seriously, jumping in on an out of nowhere hardware gadget that seems great that doesn't have a prototype is just begging to wish you had played the lotto instead. Even if they do have a prototype, it might be easy to produce twenty of such items in their spare time and send to backers, but if they get successful and need to produce 10,000, the added complication will often cause them to fail. If somebody is producing a significant item, such as a physical product, and doesn't have a company, pervious successful Kickstarter, or some sort of history behind them, it's probably going to fail.
I've done 30 or so, and while some run over time, most have produced the final product, and only two are still in progress. Perhaps you are just bad at choosing what to back? Still, a friend who is pretty much a professional Kickstarter Organizer has said that it is pretty much a matter of betting you reputation and personal contacts. Most people don't back something they don't know about or whose creators aren't already known. Personally, the stuff I back is pretty much all small runs by small companies for niche products or one off items by artists and writers that already have produced product that I am familiar with. I doubt I'd ever do the sort of hardware projects you seem to.
In my opinion, the "Disneyfying" and turnaround began with the Lego Star Wars video game in 2005. It did more, in my opinion, for the brand than anything else. Practically everyone I knew had a copy, even people who weren't big lego fans. The Star Wars co-branding, in my opinion, has been one of the biggest pieces. The Lego movies, mindstorms, etc. all add to the bottom line but it all started with the video games.
I will say that this is because the game was fun, not because it was Star Wars or Lego, although being both helped. I remember being at a friends house with a group where they had it and we all played it. It was simple and fun and at least two of the people there went out and bought it because of that. I have also heard friends speak of buying the newest Lego game because they have had so much fun playing the earlier ones.
This isn't rocket science. What sort of a moron would print a document IN THE NSA and then hand that original to a reporter?
She needs to go to prison for the maximum span.
Given that she did just about nothing to hide her identity and, in fact, seemed to be purposely laying clues by doing things like using her work computer to contact the site, and general suspicions about her personality due to her name change, I really begin to wonder if she didn't mean to get caught in some sort of seeking of Herostratic glory.
At this point the expression has devolved into a buzzword. Millennial this, Millennial that. When something is perceived as bad link it with 'Millennials' and it will generate even more clicks
We should just go back to calling them Hipsters. That's been the generic word for twenty-somethings since the 1920's. It's already getting to a point where Millennial isn't appropriate anymore when speaking about what the new trends are.
Do the drop the X designation?? Almost a decade if flight, I think it passed the test , and what would its new designator be ?
I don't think so. All the X-planes have been test vehicles to test new tech that would hopefully be integrated into other designs. Quite a few of the x-planes have been space planes or lifting body tests that have probably contributed to the X-37B. Although most never made it to reality or flew, the Air Force has apparently been wanting a space plane for a long time, since the 60's at least with the X-20. That this one was built and has been flown several times, and that they have released some of the uses (experimental thrusters, for example), it is probably being used as a test bed for other tech that can be fit into the payload for use in other planes. No need for a production run and unless they develop some new spaceplane or lifting body tech, no need to build a new x-plane.
I remember when Bush was still in office and the beginnings of this were going around. People here on/. were familiar with the workings of the telcom industry and saying, "the only way they could be scanning suspected terrorists communications, is if they were scanning everybodies." It was just how the system was set up at the time. There were also reports of various rooms in the telcom nodes that the usual IT didn't deal with. This was all pretty much illegal because although they could get any warrant they wanted for anybody, even after the fact, there was no way the courts would ok a warrant for everybody, which is what they would need, in order to do what they were doing. Hense all the FISA stuff. Under Obama, he did not stop it and it became more widely known and admitted. They may have cut back, but only because the tech now exists for them to narrow their scans which puts less work load on them and their equipment.
I picked up a Mac Plus and replaced the external 5mb HD with a 500mb SCSI drive. On that I have Lunar Rescue, Sim City (B&W), and Ancient Art of War which I play every now and then. I also occationally run across a MacPaint file to look at. I've kept all my old Zip, Jazz, and other SCSI drives incase of need to get stuff of said media as well as a PowerPC laptop with SCSI, but have never needed them. My first Intel Mac Pro still running 10.6 so I can use PowerPC software and drivers and gets a lot of work as a project station as my older expensive scanner is on there as well as some software that has image gallery creation options I like better than the newer software I have. Of course I originally built it to play SMACX but finally got that on GOG.
Oh, absolutely. He's pretty much the opposite of what one expects a politician to be. I'm still not sure that's a bad thing, because politicians are on the whole so very bad.
We're watching the American version of King Ralph play out in real life.
Actually, I wish I had read the Memoirs of US Grant back in high school. His account of the Mexican-AMerican war, reasons for it, creation of Texas, how it related to the Civil War, the chronological account of Civil War itself through his campaigns, and the reasons for it are all put forward in nice straight forward language and easy to understand form that I think would have been a lot more help than the standard texts. Sure it skips most of the Eastern stuff but actually puts history into perspective with reasons rather than just a lot or random dates to be memorized.
If people wanted to take down aircraft, they would be able to take down aircraft. They don't want to take down aircraft - they want to terrify the easily frightened so that the easily frightened will overreact and do insane stupid shit like we have in the US.
I have actually wondered if this isn't some sort of weird terrorist counter-intel scheme. Come up with a dozen hair-brained but possibly conceivable attack methods that should require action by the US. Spread them individually through separate cell branches of the terrorist network to work on. See which ones are acted upon to prevent to determine where the leaks are and then they could concentrate on that cell.
I walked away from Apple in 2000 over a similar kind of thing.
The elimination of SCSI, ADB and traditional serial ports meant that if I wanted a new Mac, I was going to have to replace all of my peripherals and that was just a bridge too far.
LK
Must have sucked to switch to Intel only to have them get rid of parallel ports and old serial buses also. Not to mention all those new ISA boards you bought that won't fit into your next Intel motherboard. I mean really, when you have specialty gear that is still doing its job, you just have to freeze the hardware and wait till it makes sense to get new specialty gear and get a new set. It's like this at all the places I've worked for both platforms and it's like this at my house too. I practically have a Mac museum from Mac Plus' up to run various hardware/software I want to still run. I had the same thing on the PC side too but eventually stopped caring about those games enough to even have a Windows machine.
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That's why it's all about industrial amounts. Mars is only losing a few grams of atmosphere a second to space. Once they really begin to start building, the net result will be positive once they are making more than 3000 kg of iron a day. Before that, they'll probably be sequestering such for use in tunnels, sealed habitats, and rockets anyway. What's released to the atmosphere will probably just be benefitial waste unless they start doing serious terraforming stuff like atmosphere processing plants like we saw in Aliens.
Every "colonizing Mars" plan has these holes. People say "create an atmosphere" or "dig caves" to live in. With what? There is no Home Depot on Mars. How do you create an atmosphere? How do you keep it when there is no magnetosphere? It is a mystery! But who cares - we are going to MARS!
Perhaps if there was a company that created boring machines to make tunnels, like a Boring Company. Then smelt the iron and other metals from the oxides on Mars to finish the tunnel interiors, and use the left over oxygen to help fill the newly built tunnels.
What?
Don't they need to do a 5 year EIS? Mars is pristine. What if they introduce pathogenic that wipe out whatever life may be hiding there?
Not really. The entire planet is covered with perclorates which are sterilizing agents.
I never understood this argument. Why is it so critical for our race to not go extinct?
Because when it really comes down to it, that is the entire point of life.
How are you going to smelt these minerals? Burn coal?
Electric arc furnaces. Probably driven by solar but nuclear might also be a possibility. Smelting such on industrial scales would create free oxygen to add to the atmosphere. If they could find a source of hydrogen or carbon which seem fairly rare on Mars, that could be turned into more water and carbon dioxide. In long term, it might make a bit of difference to the Martian atmosphere, but pretty much only because it is already so thin that it would be considered a medium vacuum here on Earth.
So basically, they're unable to hire anyone who knows how to use Google?
No, of course, they know how to use Google. The problem is that they are not willing to learn. Twenty years ago, it was Macs, even though the Windows interface was pretty much the same as they copied it. People just didn't even want to try. I got sent to a lot of places because I knew how to work on Mac and nobody else would even try, a decision supported at the admin level because they didn't want to have to support Macs even though the effort was trivial. Today, it's the same with Linux and I get sent out to work on Linux installs because I'm willing to.
That's a better business plan than some companies out there.
IT, computer systems, and hospital billing are such a clusterfuck any solutions in healthcare that don't address them are a waste of time. Single payer fixes nothing when hour long services and bags of mostly saline solution are billed at the same rates as luxury SUVs.
And as somebody who has dealt with all those, the problems are almost all caused by the insurance companies and the way they manipulate every hospitals MCR to play them off against each other and smaller clinics.
The have billions of dollars (in foreign currency). However, it is doubtful that these money can be used to create jobs. Jobs are necessary to do things. For example produce iPhones.
How about hire people to build new Mac computers. They haven't really done anything in three years. Part of that is that they scavenged people from the Mac side of things to build iPhones. Meanwhile, Tim has stated they expect people to buy a new Mac computer every three years, but there literally hasn't been a new Mac Pro to buy in over three years.
You guys should really start logging in so we can tell which one of you is Locke and which one is Demosthenes.
...I think this is not standard at all prisons.
I've never been in prison but I used to do music fanzines that got a lot of correspondence from such, and in my experience, their is no standard prison set up for anything. They all seem to have their own rules. Some would not allow personal correspondence, only printed material. Some would not allow printed material, only personal correspondence. Some you could not send money to, only stamps. Some you could not send stamps, only money. Some you couldn't send either but you could give the prison money to put into their PX account, which may or may not carry stamps.
You just have to be careful what you choose. Look at the goals, are they realistic? Look at the people involved. Are that raising enough money? Do they want too much money?
Look at if they have ever done anything previously. Seriously, jumping in on an out of nowhere hardware gadget that seems great that doesn't have a prototype is just begging to wish you had played the lotto instead. Even if they do have a prototype, it might be easy to produce twenty of such items in their spare time and send to backers, but if they get successful and need to produce 10,000, the added complication will often cause them to fail. If somebody is producing a significant item, such as a physical product, and doesn't have a company, pervious successful Kickstarter, or some sort of history behind them, it's probably going to fail.
It's more newsworthy when one actually succeeds.
I've done 30 or so, and while some run over time, most have produced the final product, and only two are still in progress. Perhaps you are just bad at choosing what to back? Still, a friend who is pretty much a professional Kickstarter Organizer has said that it is pretty much a matter of betting you reputation and personal contacts. Most people don't back something they don't know about or whose creators aren't already known. Personally, the stuff I back is pretty much all small runs by small companies for niche products or one off items by artists and writers that already have produced product that I am familiar with. I doubt I'd ever do the sort of hardware projects you seem to.
*Waiting to see reward levels and variety of swag*
In my opinion, the "Disneyfying" and turnaround began with the Lego Star Wars video game in 2005. It did more, in my opinion, for the brand than anything else. Practically everyone I knew had a copy, even people who weren't big lego fans. The Star Wars co-branding, in my opinion, has been one of the biggest pieces. The Lego movies, mindstorms, etc. all add to the bottom line but it all started with the video games.
I will say that this is because the game was fun, not because it was Star Wars or Lego, although being both helped. I remember being at a friends house with a group where they had it and we all played it. It was simple and fun and at least two of the people there went out and bought it because of that. I have also heard friends speak of buying the newest Lego game because they have had so much fun playing the earlier ones.
Dammit, I went to Switzerland
Oh well, go see Ayers Rock instead. It can't be more than a couple of hours train ride east.
More to the North, in Austria.
This isn't rocket science. What sort of a moron would print a document IN THE NSA and then hand that original to a reporter?
She needs to go to prison for the maximum span.
Given that she did just about nothing to hide her identity and, in fact, seemed to be purposely laying clues by doing things like using her work computer to contact the site, and general suspicions about her personality due to her name change, I really begin to wonder if she didn't mean to get caught in some sort of seeking of Herostratic glory.
At this point the expression has devolved into a buzzword. Millennial this, Millennial that. When something is perceived as bad link it with 'Millennials' and it will generate even more clicks
We should just go back to calling them Hipsters. That's been the generic word for twenty-somethings since the 1920's. It's already getting to a point where Millennial isn't appropriate anymore when speaking about what the new trends are.
Do the drop the X designation?? Almost a decade if flight, I think it passed the test , and what would its new designator be ?
I don't think so. All the X-planes have been test vehicles to test new tech that would hopefully be integrated into other designs. Quite a few of the x-planes have been space planes or lifting body tests that have probably contributed to the X-37B. Although most never made it to reality or flew, the Air Force has apparently been wanting a space plane for a long time, since the 60's at least with the X-20. That this one was built and has been flown several times, and that they have released some of the uses (experimental thrusters, for example), it is probably being used as a test bed for other tech that can be fit into the payload for use in other planes. No need for a production run and unless they develop some new spaceplane or lifting body tech, no need to build a new x-plane.
A round-about away of saying "All of them"
I remember when Bush was still in office and the beginnings of this were going around. People here on /. were familiar with the workings of the telcom industry and saying, "the only way they could be scanning suspected terrorists communications, is if they were scanning everybodies." It was just how the system was set up at the time. There were also reports of various rooms in the telcom nodes that the usual IT didn't deal with. This was all pretty much illegal because although they could get any warrant they wanted for anybody, even after the fact, there was no way the courts would ok a warrant for everybody, which is what they would need, in order to do what they were doing. Hense all the FISA stuff. Under Obama, he did not stop it and it became more widely known and admitted. They may have cut back, but only because the tech now exists for them to narrow their scans which puts less work load on them and their equipment.
I picked up a Mac Plus and replaced the external 5mb HD with a 500mb SCSI drive. On that I have Lunar Rescue, Sim City (B&W), and Ancient Art of War which I play every now and then. I also occationally run across a MacPaint file to look at. I've kept all my old Zip, Jazz, and other SCSI drives incase of need to get stuff of said media as well as a PowerPC laptop with SCSI, but have never needed them. My first Intel Mac Pro still running 10.6 so I can use PowerPC software and drivers and gets a lot of work as a project station as my older expensive scanner is on there as well as some software that has image gallery creation options I like better than the newer software I have. Of course I originally built it to play SMACX but finally got that on GOG.
Oh, absolutely. He's pretty much the opposite of what one expects a politician to be. I'm still not sure that's a bad thing, because politicians are on the whole so very bad.
We're watching the American version of King Ralph play out in real life.
Actually, I wish I had read the Memoirs of US Grant back in high school. His account of the Mexican-AMerican war, reasons for it, creation of Texas, how it related to the Civil War, the chronological account of Civil War itself through his campaigns, and the reasons for it are all put forward in nice straight forward language and easy to understand form that I think would have been a lot more help than the standard texts. Sure it skips most of the Eastern stuff but actually puts history into perspective with reasons rather than just a lot or random dates to be memorized.
If people wanted to take down aircraft, they would be able to take down aircraft. They don't want to take down aircraft - they want to terrify the easily frightened so that the easily frightened will overreact and do insane stupid shit like we have in the US.
I have actually wondered if this isn't some sort of weird terrorist counter-intel scheme. Come up with a dozen hair-brained but possibly conceivable attack methods that should require action by the US. Spread them individually through separate cell branches of the terrorist network to work on. See which ones are acted upon to prevent to determine where the leaks are and then they could concentrate on that cell.
I walked away from Apple in 2000 over a similar kind of thing.
The elimination of SCSI, ADB and traditional serial ports meant that if I wanted a new Mac, I was going to have to replace all of my peripherals and that was just a bridge too far.
LK
Must have sucked to switch to Intel only to have them get rid of parallel ports and old serial buses also. Not to mention all those new ISA boards you bought that won't fit into your next Intel motherboard. I mean really, when you have specialty gear that is still doing its job, you just have to freeze the hardware and wait till it makes sense to get new specialty gear and get a new set. It's like this at all the places I've worked for both platforms and it's like this at my house too. I practically have a Mac museum from Mac Plus' up to run various hardware/software I want to still run. I had the same thing on the PC side too but eventually stopped caring about those games enough to even have a Windows machine.