the value in palm is more in their existing relationships to us cell companies than anything else. How many hardware companies are there that can boast a foothold in the market? Seriously you can count them on one hand.
i know that they read the washing instructions before they launder them for you, that's for sure. They won't do the dry-clean only stuff for you tho, you have to wait till you get to your destination for that.
whether or not it's still affected by your citation, I do not know, however, I would imagine the agency would not have extended legal action without consultation first, and this section of the law would have been a very clear obstacle, if it happens to be relevant, and it's the lawyer who then should be sacked
that *would* be cool. don't think the Martian sky has a sight like that tho
Put this in perspective, our moon, which is a fairly large night-sky (or daytime) feature, is about 1800km mean radius, (which is about a quarter the size of Earth, mind you, and we posses the largest natural satellite, relative to the planet, in the solar system), and, by the way it's about 385,000 km from earth on average, which is not very close, but it still appears quite large.
However, Phobos, and Deimos, the two small moons possessed by Mars, are a paltry 11km and 6km in mean radius, respectively. The smaller moon, Deimos, is also farther away, and would appear no more than a small dot in the sky (day or night as it would happen to be). Phobos, by virtue of it's very close orbital distance, would have a shot at actually being recognized by a lay-Martian to be something special in the sky, but it would still appear quite small when compared to the grandeur of Luna.
The photos from these pages depicting a solar transit ("eclipse") from the the surface of Mars, help provide a good metric for comprehending these relative sizes. Notice that neither moon is large enough to actually create an eclipse. Of course, on the surface of Mars, the Sun is slightly smaller than on the surface of Earth, but not by very much. Phobos' transit, Deimos' transit
Finally, both of these on first glance appear to be nothing more than lumps of rock drifting through space, hardly anything to cherish on a romantic skyline like we do the way our perfectly curved Luna hangs. But maybe I'm just being ethnocentric....
These things don't run on short term timescales. This project completed it's design review phase (suggesting many months of design prior to that) in February '06, see the citations on the project's wikipedia page
The economy was doing just fine, in fact very well, until about halloween of 2008. We're not just going to dump this mission b/c the banks are having a rough spot. The money is spent, the project has inertia too.
i'd tend to agree that 1800 miles is more than a thin skin
but where the hell do you pull 1800 from? Some quick wikipedia'ing shows the earth has a mean radius of 6371km, or nearly 4000 miles, that's radius, so the Earth is about 8000 miles in diameter on average. That's the "body", our "skin", what OP calls the ocean is described as having an average depth of 3790 meters (not km), which is roughly 2.3 miles.
A 2.3 mile thick "skin" is 0.029% of the "body's" total 8000-mile thickness. That, imo, is a thin skin.
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You're right but you've got it backwards. Today it will be 250GB, tomorrow it will still be 250 and also maybe a year from now, then they'll bump it to 500 but it won't be enough of a bump, because general web usage by then will use so much more data, what with Video+VOIP ubiquitous, collaborative working environments, many more societies depending on bandwidth donations from users to support their operations (ubuntu seeding for example), the list goes on, bitflation will never cease, just as this metaphor's counterpart, currency inflation, will never cease. We keep printing more money, and minting more bits (to an outside observer, it may look as though this is our purpose on the planet)
But, the bits, like the cash, are inherently worthless, it's what they represent that matters, the collections of them, and in what permutations, and as Moore's Law continues to increase the number of bits we can process per second, we will inevitably use more bits in our endeavors. By setting tangible quantifiable limits on this moving target, you're building a damn far down stream, the reservoir will take some time to build at the bottleneck
At the risk of proving the point of our corporate overlords, let the calculating commence
First the assumption, my quick checks clocked most youtube videos at about 30KB/s (not 30Kbps, very different), so ok, since we're not only getting the video and math is hard, let's just say you pull a continuous stream of 50K/s, for 1 hour, every day, for 1 month.
so in that 1 hour, you pull ( 50K/s * 3600s/hr ) = 180,000K watching yer anime music videos, or ~176MB, per hour. oh and you do it every day (junkie) so take your standard issue month of 30 days and you're eating about 5.2GB toobin'
what about the other 23 hours? you've used 2% of your cap in about 4% of the time you've got to hit the cap (you did that 2% in 30hrs, and you've got 30*24=720 hours total)
What it boils down to is that you get 250GB to do whatever you want with in 30 days, you could call it 8.3GB/day, 356MB/hour. 5.9MB/min. 101KB/s. Your line tops out at ~384KB/s yeah? you can use 1/4th of it, averaged over the course of the month. sorry, better live someplace without a monopoly next time.
They are trying to push new technology on their high paying customers because they can get a premium since it's a scarce resource, this will drive up production, and down the costs, and soon we'll all be toting massive flash disks all the day
The evolutionary advantage of a herd animal, being common prey, to roll over & die is in protecting the rest of the herd. They bred it into themselves, not us, ie. evolution.
You see this in the elderly herd too, they will wander away, or on the outside of the pack in a way to allow themselves as the sacrifice so the predator gang will take them and leave the strong, the females, and the young
i want one for my job. besides helping me cultivate a good persona and consistently polite behavior (things which are difficult through IM and difficult situations), i'd also have summaries of my conversations, so i could go back through that to review what we talked about, or to find details if i need to go back later.
ok, forget the pet, anybody know of a chat log summarizer i could run my gaim irc logs through?
He's not trying to silence. He says so himself. In the Letter. RTFL, i mean TFA
I want to emphasize that if you withdrawal your ads [sic] you aren't limiting their free speech, just removing your paid support of it.
Couldn't have said it better myself. What's more widely disgusting (IMHO) in this situation is not what they are saying (though IMHO, *it is*), but that (back to Spocko)
...there are guidelines at the local station level, the network level and the parent company level. So even if the inciting of violence and hate speech is ignored by the FCC, the continued violent rhetoric has been, and continues to be, approved at the station level (KSFO) the group level (KGO-KSFO) the company level (ABC Radio) and the parent company level (Disney). They are ALL aware of this speech, and because they have not acted in a meaningful way, they all are giving approval for it to continue.
[emphasis is mine]
yes indeedy, Spocko. That is one excellent hammer you must be using, because you hit ALL THOSE NAILS, right on their tiny metal HEADS. BAM! You using that hot Stileto Titanium? I bet you are, you snarky vulcan.
reading the brilliant fantasy novel "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil lately. He talks about nano machines that are ingested to provide tracking functions, they disperse amongst your cells and reside within them. Now take this tech and design a nano machine that will take up residence in skin cells, create an intelligent network amongst them (perhaps using the nervous system for communication?) and deliver the light signals from the opposite side of the body to each machine's "complement" (much the same way the cloaks and fiber optic systems work now). now: invisibility, from nano machines dissolved in solution, a potion. my guess (using the patented PullItFromMyAss technique), circa 2045.
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i think technically that's more difficult than it sounds, especially for physics faculty (ie, not cs faculty....)
but this is probably the best solution.
"you can use whatever device you want as long as you don't use the cell network, and you declare you mac address"
i thought they'd were gamifying for their employees. earn achievements to boost your salary, that kind of thing. they should do that.
the value in palm is more in their existing relationships to us cell companies than anything else. How many hardware companies are there that can boast a foothold in the market? Seriously you can count them on one hand.
i know that they read the washing instructions before they launder them for you, that's for sure. They won't do the dry-clean only stuff for you tho, you have to wait till you get to your destination for that.
web apps aren't compiled
whether or not it's still affected by your citation, I do not know, however, I would imagine the agency would not have extended legal action without consultation first, and this section of the law would have been a very clear obstacle, if it happens to be relevant, and it's the lawyer who then should be sacked
wth is that? are you guys annotating your comments in RTF?
Put this in perspective, our moon, which is a fairly large night-sky (or daytime) feature, is about 1800km mean radius, (which is about a quarter the size of Earth, mind you, and we posses the largest natural satellite, relative to the planet, in the solar system), and, by the way it's about 385,000 km from earth on average, which is not very close, but it still appears quite large.
However, Phobos, and Deimos, the two small moons possessed by Mars, are a paltry 11km and 6km in mean radius, respectively. The smaller moon, Deimos, is also farther away, and would appear no more than a small dot in the sky (day or night as it would happen to be). Phobos, by virtue of it's very close orbital distance, would have a shot at actually being recognized by a lay-Martian to be something special in the sky, but it would still appear quite small when compared to the grandeur of Luna.
The photos from these pages depicting a solar transit ("eclipse") from the the surface of Mars, help provide a good metric for comprehending these relative sizes. Notice that neither moon is large enough to actually create an eclipse. Of course, on the surface of Mars, the Sun is slightly smaller than on the surface of Earth, but not by very much. Phobos' transit, Deimos' transit
Finally, both of these on first glance appear to be nothing more than lumps of rock drifting through space, hardly anything to cherish on a romantic skyline like we do the way our perfectly curved Luna hangs. But maybe I'm just being ethnocentric....
i prayed to the spaghetti monster, and i don't have the flu. ergo, it does work
These things don't run on short term timescales. This project completed it's design review phase (suggesting many months of design prior to that) in February '06, see the citations on the project's wikipedia page
The economy was doing just fine, in fact very well, until about halloween of 2008. We're not just going to dump this mission b/c the banks are having a rough spot. The money is spent, the project has inertia too.
i believe that would result in having a wrinkle in space-time
but where the hell do you pull 1800 from? Some quick wikipedia'ing shows the earth has a mean radius of 6371km, or nearly 4000 miles, that's radius, so the Earth is about 8000 miles in diameter on average. That's the "body", our "skin", what OP calls the ocean is described as having an average depth of 3790 meters (not km), which is roughly 2.3 miles.
A 2.3 mile thick "skin" is 0.029% of the "body's" total 8000-mile thickness. That, imo, is a thin skin.
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from TFA's blip.tv link, this takes place at 11:09
You're right but you've got it backwards. Today it will be 250GB, tomorrow it will still be 250 and also maybe a year from now, then they'll bump it to 500 but it won't be enough of a bump, because general web usage by then will use so much more data, what with Video+VOIP ubiquitous, collaborative working environments, many more societies depending on bandwidth donations from users to support their operations (ubuntu seeding for example), the list goes on, bitflation will never cease, just as this metaphor's counterpart, currency inflation, will never cease. We keep printing more money, and minting more bits (to an outside observer, it may look as though this is our purpose on the planet)
But, the bits, like the cash, are inherently worthless, it's what they represent that matters, the collections of them, and in what permutations, and as Moore's Law continues to increase the number of bits we can process per second, we will inevitably use more bits in our endeavors. By setting tangible quantifiable limits on this moving target, you're building a damn far down stream, the reservoir will take some time to build at the bottleneck
At the risk of proving the point of our corporate overlords, let the calculating commence
First the assumption, my quick checks clocked most youtube videos at about 30KB/s (not 30Kbps, very different), so ok, since we're not only getting the video and math is hard, let's just say you pull a continuous stream of 50K/s, for 1 hour, every day, for 1 month.
so in that 1 hour, you pull ( 50K/s * 3600s/hr ) = 180,000K watching yer anime music videos, or ~176MB, per hour.
oh and you do it every day (junkie) so take your standard issue month of 30 days and you're eating about 5.2GB toobin'
what about the other 23 hours? you've used 2% of your cap in about 4% of the time you've got to hit the cap (you did that 2% in 30hrs, and you've got 30*24=720 hours total)
What it boils down to is that you get 250GB to do whatever you want with in 30 days,
you could call it 8.3GB/day, 356MB/hour. 5.9MB/min. 101KB/s. Your line tops out at ~384KB/s yeah? you can use 1/4th of it, averaged over the course of the month. sorry, better live someplace without a monopoly next time.
i wanted that information too, so i can index swf files in my spare time. i'm serious 8|
but they only gave it to google and some yahoo? dang
why didn't they just ask for a tractor beam?
They are trying to push new technology on their high paying customers because they can get a premium since it's a scarce resource, this will drive up production, and down the costs, and soon we'll all be toting massive flash disks all the day
I, for one, welcome our new flash disk overlords
The evolutionary advantage of a herd animal, being common prey, to roll over & die is in protecting the rest of the herd. They bred it into themselves, not us, ie. evolution. You see this in the elderly herd too, they will wander away, or on the outside of the pack in a way to allow themselves as the sacrifice so the predator gang will take them and leave the strong, the females, and the young
no way! i want to hear more, tell me about these diagonal languages plz
yay, hooray for hilarious summary writers!
Boo! to dell for fleecing rich people with too much spare time. well whatever, i guess if it's good for their stock, they can do it...
ok, forget the pet, anybody know of a chat log summarizer i could run my gaim irc logs through?
Couldn't have said it better myself. What's more widely disgusting (IMHO) in this situation is not what they are saying (though IMHO, *it is*), but that (back to Spocko)
[emphasis is mine]
yes indeedy, Spocko. That is one excellent hammer you must be using, because you hit ALL THOSE NAILS, right on their tiny metal HEADS. BAM! You using that hot Stileto Titanium? I bet you are, you snarky vulcan.
reading the brilliant fantasy novel "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil lately. He talks about nano machines that are ingested to provide tracking functions, they disperse amongst your cells and reside within them. Now take this tech and design a nano machine that will take up residence in skin cells, create an intelligent network amongst them (perhaps using the nervous system for communication?) and deliver the light signals from the opposite side of the body to each machine's "complement" (much the same way the cloaks and fiber optic systems work now). now: invisibility, from nano machines dissolved in solution, a potion. my guess (using the patented PullItFromMyAss technique), circa 2045.