Whether we like it or not, some of us accept the right of sovereign peoples to self-determination.
Though this stance itself ends up muddled, really looks a bit like lip service regarding those events. We don't really want it. Mubarak is very much "our guy"... it's ultimately easier to convince a dictator (vs. "sovereign people with self-determination") to see and do things the "proper way".
But yeah, it will probably not end too bad - but I'm not sure why there's "unless" in the last section about the army. It seems like Mohamed ElBaradei is being designated as the next "democratically" chosen savior.
(BTW, "theocracy driven by Sharia law" is a bit too far in context of, most likely, Iran; even with the Revolution and its effects, its still quite secular and modern, for the region / including our "allies")
There are relatively subtle signs that our science is incomplete. For what you wish for, it would have to be very, very wrong. A Universe with FTL (=time travel) would be most likely very different from the one we observe (and which agrees remarkably well with our understanding of it)
It seems to be a very fundamental limit; I wouldn't be too surprised if even more integral to our reality than we suspect now. Inertia appears to act like a gravitational influence from the rest of the Universe. Of course you'll say "so what?"... well, that brings with it few headaches, like requirement for instantaneousness or requiring the "interaction" to go backwards in time! Couple it with how the Universe doesn't appear to have signs of expansive intelligence which developed (that's almost exactly equivalent to "will ever develop"!) FTL / time travel. Trying to work around it might not matter - the relative values, properties and characters of interactions remaining similarly limited for all sensible Universes.
Don't treat works of fiction like an oracle (airplanes from "our" time, as envisioned ~130 years ago, probably a mix of rapid advances in marine tech + a large doze of wishful thinking... I don't see much in common with the boring reality... but, the best part in this case - we even can build them! Basically: take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy. Nobody in their right mind would).
Can't you at least see that wishful thinking must have limits? Don't extrapolate progress (hm, I've seen a nice movie recently... one happening in 2010); if anything, relative technological stability with shorts spurts of progress is a normal state for our species.
(but you might start by building a ship with a hull not constrained by Archimedes' principle... its over 2 thousand years old, surely should be easier to ignore!)
Don't work in the realm of works of fiction (airplanes from our times, as envisioned ~130 years ago.... I seem to notice few differences). But while you insist (hey, where we would be without trying, right? Right?) - maybe start with building a hull for ships which isn't constrained by Archimedes' principle? (it's quite old, at over 2 thousand years, should be much easier to ignore...)
Most Orion design studies were about interplanetary travels. Orion is barely able to do "fun" interstellar - the most advanced designs limited to ~0.1c, in the range of a human lifetime to the nearest stars. But expect few of those lifetimes.
If we ever try direct approach - the colonists might be miniaturized and in deep hibernation (we can already do that last dream!). IMHO most likely just spreading gradually, over thousands of years, further and further into the Oort cloud (estimated one trillion comets; there's really no reason to go to some random, almost certainly completely uninhabitable, inner system)... until some groups will hitch a ride via the cloud of some passing star. That will still allow us to colonize the galaxy very rapidly, in geological scale.
And don't expect wishful thinking from works of fiction to come true.
I really wonder if people here (and also Google or Twitter) will remain so supportive if the end result turns out to vaguely (!!) resemble the Iranian Revolution from 3 decades ago...
Part 3 of the latest State of the Mobile Web report from Opera has the answer. Look particularly close at "top handsets" in each of the top20 countries; how unusual some places are, when compared to more typical ones.
Motorola - certainly, they'll hardly make anything, hardly have anything under their control. LG - sort of outside context, they almost might be seen as a "legislated" competition to... Samsung. Which grows wildly. And invests in hard R&D and manufacturing of all the building blocks.
So, the OS might be common - but with strong control of other ingredients (used also by other manufacturers) they might very well be a powerhouse surpassing the significance of... Intel (trying to find possibly the closest analogy)
(which of course is not really a route viable for Nokia)
Seemingly short lifetimes of devices, in some places (most people throughout the world are on prepaid and own their phone) are in large part determined by addiction to "free" handsets during carrier contract renewals. The devices themselves are getting into "good enough" area.
Yes, of course... I'm just saying, they might not have much choice at some relatively soon point (and also adopting - they serve way too large variety of segments to go mainly Android). Not quite to the point of how it once became much harder to get personal computer which wasn't PC/MS-DOS/Wintel, but...
"Smartphone" platform (or at least what is at this day considered one by pundits); S40 is the most-shipped mobile platform by a very wide margin.
The other news - Symbian is the first smarthpone platform which broke annual shipments of 100 million units. Because you know, it also has big growth / more than overall growth of mobile sales / the whole market is expanding (including one quite unusual - also in basically not having any Nokia presence - place finally allowed by carriers its share of growth in smartphones and their shipments there)
Plus, generally, I wouldn't mind a landscape analogous to browser marketshare in Ukraine or Russia; but if you prefer a repeat of desktop OS situation... (that said, Nokia will probably adopt also Android relatively soon, and they should quickly catch up via their supply/etc. chains - similar to how Samsung is at the top despite late start - and so the new PC/MS-DOS/Wintel, in mobile world, will fully arrive... hopefully without the pitfalls of MS / already Google could fix some aspects: for example some functions relying a bit too much, unnecesserily, on data access - good for Google, great for carriers, not so great for too many potential users, we don't need such things repeating)
Another big news - ZTE (yeah, ever heard of them?) is now in the top5 of mobile phone vendors - ahead of RIM, only behind Nokia, Samsung and LG.
Plus their energy comes from external source... and since, when finally released, only small part ought to escape into space - processes involved in their creation seems to add to the mass of the planet.
Would be interesting to calculate the output of the biosphere in terms of deposited mass from solar radiation...
(though I will probably now wonder more - how do stargates accelerate incoming object to the orbital velocity of their base?;) )
Somebody who is unable to abstain from driving drunk seems generally ill-suited to functioning in modern society... (I'm not sure if we can talk about the initial existence of freedom / free will in such case anyway; hence also privacy having less meaning)
I never really considered OTRAG to be African... certainly no more than Ariane 5 being South American (or Soyuz - Asian). Too bad it didn't even really get a chance..
And hopefully no more of
Nkoloso, at least from the evidence we have to go on, was something closer to a cargo cult leader than a scientist. What remains fascinating to us today is that he drew on the sublimity of space travel -- not religious sentiment -- to win friends and influence people. It's a reminder of the power that space travel had in the popular imagination of the 1960s.
That's not "letting the rock catch up to it from behind", that's "letting the rock pass it, quite rapidly". And you cannot slingshot via body around which you are orbiting, that in itself requires already relatively fast passes / what we're doing with pretty much every interplanetary probe (also using Earth, but as, for one hypothetical example: 1) launch from Earth 2) slingshot during Venus flyby 3) second Venus slingshot 4) Earth slingshot 5) Jupiter slingshot 6)... )
As I said, quite a kick (one of more powerful rockets used, fairly small probe) - plus it's much closer (possibly not enough, you would need to do calculations) than it looks; that escape velocity of New Horizons doesn't include how, with Apophis approach, effects which often are used to ease getting into orbit, might get in our way; or change of orbital inclination around the Sun. Plus exceptionally small launch window.
Do not forget to mention how, if anything, the realization of the consequences of Michelson-Morley experiment (and also the then triumphant wave theory hitting some dualities) had shown also many further limits of our world. And those effects were, ultimately, quite large.
If the Pioneer anomaly exists, it's exceedingly minuscule. Sensible proportions of dark matter and dark energy dictated by cosmological models... surprisingly in line with those suggested by observations. Or, one of my favorites: how inertia appears to act like a gravitational influence from the rest of the Universe... but this has a major headache of, for one example, requiring the interaction to go backwards in time! Couple it with how the Universe doesn't appear to have signs of expansive intelligence which developed (that's almost equivalent to "will ever develop"!) FTL / time travel - and I wouldn't be too surprised if our speed of light limit will turn out to be even more fundamental than we thought. Or, to put it another way, maybe so ingrained into other basics, that trying to work around it doesn't matter - the relative values, properties and character remaining similarly limited for all sensible Universes.
Don't get me wrong - escaping our constraints would be great. But wishful thinking certainly has its limits.
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Whether we like it or not, some of us accept the right of sovereign peoples to self-determination.
Though this stance itself ends up muddled, really looks a bit like lip service regarding those events. We don't really want it. Mubarak is very much "our guy"... it's ultimately easier to convince a dictator (vs. "sovereign people with self-determination") to see and do things the "proper way".
But yeah, it will probably not end too bad - but I'm not sure why there's "unless" in the last section about the army. It seems like Mohamed ElBaradei is being designated as the next "democratically" chosen savior.
(BTW, "theocracy driven by Sharia law" is a bit too far in context of, most likely, Iran; even with the Revolution and its effects, its still quite secular and modern, for the region / including our "allies")
In chaos, the most ruthless and absolutely focused people tend to have the biggest upper hand.
historically, they tend to always be behind Apple getting to the marketplace, but still somehow end up at the front of the line
You mean...once? (a big one to be sure, but...)
Nokia overhauled itself drastically many, many times; and also quite recently. Check their history.
So, this quantum teleportation stuff is not about Star Trek transporters? ;)
How far back do we need to go to find large populations exercising in wishful thinking of supernatural beings and zombification? Oh, wait...
There are relatively subtle signs that our science is incomplete. For what you wish for, it would have to be very, very wrong. A Universe with FTL (=time travel) would be most likely very different from the one we observe (and which agrees remarkably well with our understanding of it)
... well, that brings with it few headaches, like requirement for instantaneousness or requiring the "interaction" to go backwards in time! Couple it with how the Universe doesn't appear to have signs of expansive intelligence which developed (that's almost exactly equivalent to "will ever develop"!) FTL / time travel. Trying to work around it might not matter - the relative values, properties and characters of interactions remaining similarly limited for all sensible Universes.
... I don't see much in common with the boring reality ... but, the best part in this case - we even can build them! Basically: take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy. Nobody in their right mind would).
... one happening in 2010); if anything, relative technological stability with shorts spurts of progress is a normal state for our species.
... its over 2 thousand years old, surely should be easier to ignore!)
It seems to be a very fundamental limit; I wouldn't be too surprised if even more integral to our reality than we suspect now. Inertia appears to act like a gravitational influence from the rest of the Universe. Of course you'll say "so what?"
Don't treat works of fiction like an oracle (airplanes from "our" time, as envisioned ~130 years ago, probably a mix of rapid advances in marine tech + a large doze of wishful thinking
Can't you at least see that wishful thinking must have limits? Don't extrapolate progress (hm, I've seen a nice movie recently
(but you might start by building a ship with a hull not constrained by Archimedes' principle
How many times...
.... I seem to notice few differences). But while you insist (hey, where we would be without trying, right? Right?) - maybe start with building a hull for ships which isn't constrained by Archimedes' principle? (it's quite old, at over 2 thousand years, should be much easier to ignore...)
Don't work in the realm of works of fiction (airplanes from our times, as envisioned ~130 years ago
Did our recent impactor of a comet (which also seem to be largely a case of rubble pile, but even finer...) flew through it?
Most Orion design studies were about interplanetary travels. Orion is barely able to do "fun" interstellar - the most advanced designs limited to ~0.1c, in the range of a human lifetime to the nearest stars. But expect few of those lifetimes.
... until some groups will hitch a ride via the cloud of some passing star. That will still allow us to colonize the galaxy very rapidly, in geological scale.
If we ever try direct approach - the colonists might be miniaturized and in deep hibernation (we can already do that last dream!). IMHO most likely just spreading gradually, over thousands of years, further and further into the Oort cloud (estimated one trillion comets; there's really no reason to go to some random, almost certainly completely uninhabitable, inner system)
And don't expect wishful thinking from works of fiction to come true.
No hardware acceleration of the GUI (that's supposedly coming in the next version...)
I really wonder if people here (and also Google or Twitter) will remain so supportive if the end result turns out to vaguely (!!) resemble the Iranian Revolution from 3 decades ago...
Part 3 of the latest State of the Mobile Web report from Opera has the answer. Look particularly close at "top handsets" in each of the top20 countries; how unusual some places are, when compared to more typical ones.
Motorola - certainly, they'll hardly make anything, hardly have anything under their control. LG - sort of outside context, they almost might be seen as a "legislated" competition to ... Samsung. Which grows wildly. And invests in hard R&D and manufacturing of all the building blocks.
... Intel (trying to find possibly the closest analogy)
So, the OS might be common - but with strong control of other ingredients (used also by other manufacturers) they might very well be a powerhouse surpassing the significance of
(which of course is not really a route viable for Nokia)
Seemingly short lifetimes of devices, in some places (most people throughout the world are on prepaid and own their phone) are in large part determined by addiction to "free" handsets during carrier contract renewals. The devices themselves are getting into "good enough" area.
I take it you never touched Qt? (which is the officially promoted way for some time now; while supporting ~4 year old phones)
Actually, the numbers from TFA apparently include the Chinese versions (two now, iirc); counting them together has its own problems of course.
Yes, of course ... I'm just saying, they might not have much choice at some relatively soon point (and also adopting - they serve way too large variety of segments to go mainly Android). Not quite to the point of how it once became much harder to get personal computer which wasn't PC/MS-DOS/Wintel, but...
"Smartphone" platform (or at least what is at this day considered one by pundits); S40 is the most-shipped mobile platform by a very wide margin.
... hopefully without the pitfalls of MS / already Google could fix some aspects: for example some functions relying a bit too much, unnecesserily, on data access - good for Google, great for carriers, not so great for too many potential users, we don't need such things repeating)
The other news - Symbian is the first smarthpone platform which broke annual shipments of 100 million units. Because you know, it also has big growth / more than overall growth of mobile sales / the whole market is expanding (including one quite unusual - also in basically not having any Nokia presence - place finally allowed by carriers its share of growth in smartphones and their shipments there)
Plus, generally, I wouldn't mind a landscape analogous to browser marketshare in Ukraine or Russia; but if you prefer a repeat of desktop OS situation... (that said, Nokia will probably adopt also Android relatively soon, and they should quickly catch up via their supply/etc. chains - similar to how Samsung is at the top despite late start - and so the new PC/MS-DOS/Wintel, in mobile world, will fully arrive
Another big news - ZTE (yeah, ever heard of them?) is now in the top5 of mobile phone vendors - ahead of RIM, only behind Nokia, Samsung and LG.
Plus their energy comes from external source ... and since, when finally released, only small part ought to escape into space - processes involved in their creation seems to add to the mass of the planet.
;) )
Would be interesting to calculate the output of the biosphere in terms of deposited mass from solar radiation...
(though I will probably now wonder more - how do stargates accelerate incoming object to the orbital velocity of their base?
Somebody who is unable to abstain from driving drunk seems generally ill-suited to functioning in modern society... (I'm not sure if we can talk about the initial existence of freedom / free will in such case anyway; hence also privacy having less meaning)
And hopefully no more of
Nkoloso, at least from the evidence we have to go on, was something closer to a cargo cult leader than a scientist. What remains fascinating to us today is that he drew on the sublimity of space travel -- not religious sentiment -- to win friends and influence people. It's a reminder of the power that space travel had in the popular imagination of the 1960s.
( Old, Weird Tech: The Zambian Space Cult of the 1960s ;) ... if we ever seriously venture into space, what other cuddly pet could be possibly better? ;p (not only agility or hygiene, also the theme of them being chosen already when the space is scarce and conditions hard ... )
Edward Makuka Nkoloso )
Though I seriously wonder about the mentioned cats
That's not "letting the rock catch up to it from behind", that's "letting the rock pass it, quite rapidly". And you cannot slingshot via body around which you are orbiting, that in itself requires already relatively fast passes / what we're doing with pretty much every interplanetary probe (also using Earth, but as, for one hypothetical example: 1) launch from Earth 2) slingshot during Venus flyby 3) second Venus slingshot 4) Earth slingshot 5) Jupiter slingshot 6) ... )
As I said, quite a kick (one of more powerful rockets used, fairly small probe) - plus it's much closer (possibly not enough, you would need to do calculations) than it looks; that escape velocity of New Horizons doesn't include how, with Apophis approach, effects which often are used to ease getting into orbit, might get in our way; or change of orbital inclination around the Sun. Plus exceptionally small launch window.
Do not forget to mention how, if anything, the realization of the consequences of Michelson-Morley experiment (and also the then triumphant wave theory hitting some dualities) had shown also many further limits of our world. And those effects were, ultimately, quite large.
... surprisingly in line with those suggested by observations. Or, one of my favorites: how inertia appears to act like a gravitational influence from the rest of the Universe ... but this has a major headache of, for one example, requiring the interaction to go backwards in time! Couple it with how the Universe doesn't appear to have signs of expansive intelligence which developed (that's almost equivalent to "will ever develop"!) FTL / time travel - and I wouldn't be too surprised if our speed of light limit will turn out to be even more fundamental than we thought. Or, to put it another way, maybe so ingrained into other basics, that trying to work around it doesn't matter - the relative values, properties and character remaining similarly limited for all sensible Universes.
If the Pioneer anomaly exists, it's exceedingly minuscule. Sensible proportions of dark matter and dark energy dictated by cosmological models
Don't get me wrong - escaping our constraints would be great. But wishful thinking certainly has its limits.