FYI... the reason food comes in tubes in space isn't because it's not edible in space. It's because normal food weighs a lot (comparatively), and therefore costs thousands to shoot into the air. So this really falls under "make space travel cheaper".
We may be able to use existing hybrid/electric engines to get more out of our 1-2 gallons. A Prius rates 60/55, while a Civic Hybrid rate 48/47 (city MPG/highway MPG). So if we're talking 100% effeciency in getting those watts into our engine, you can go 47 to 110 miles in an hour. Not optimal for highway driving for sure, but then consider my normal day.
I drive 8 miles to work in the morning, and 8 miles home in the afternoon. I might go 5 miles out of my way to go to church. If I schedule my grocery shopping, that's only 2 miles down the road. Suburbanite living sounds like a fine application for such a vehicle.
I'll probably stick with my 27 MPG CR-V for as long as I can have it for longer days, but the above consists of about 75% of my miles during a given week.
So what's wrong with having a wiki for this particular purpose?
Most developers agree that it's a PITA to maintain a FAQ... responsible developers should, but who among us is perfect?:-)
Other users usually know the answers to frequently asked questions... or have more time to feel out an answer, etc. etc. It sounds like a good application for a wiki.
Having now skimmed the article, it looks like he gives wikis a mention, but not enough face time to merit weighing the positives and negatives.
I agreed with one guy in this story about how AT&T switching to OS X would be prohibitively expensive, but it appears that AT&T found a way to get their OS on a $150 system. Good job!
How is this insightful? You act as if it isn't real.
From here -- In psychological addition, the individual may or may not be physically addicted to a substance, but craves the "source," which may be a substance or behavior, in order to decrease severe anxiety and stress. Psychological addiction includes sexual addiction, gambling, internet, addiction to computer games, and/or substances such as alcohol or drugs. Despite the impact on work and relationships, individuals will go to great lengths to calm the severe stress and anxiety that occurs with the absence of the substance or behavior to which they are addicted, regardless of the consequences.
What about this definition of addiction? Addiction has been defined as "A primary, chronic disease, characterized by impaired control over the use of a psychoactive substance and/or behavior. Clinically, the manifestations occur along biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual dimensions (2)." (source: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web2/mschlimme.html
I have a little bit of firsthand experience... roommate #2 in college played computer games (no, I don't remember which one) 'til 6 or 7 in the morning. Roommate #4 was an Everquest fanatic. My point is that like gambling, drug, and alcohol addictions, which are pretty much well established as being legitimate addictions, gaming addiction has the exact same effects on the people addicted, society (to a lesser scale, because less people are addicted), and to the addict's circle of family and friends.
Telling people to put the damn controller down doesn't do any good when they're physically (or physiologically) unable to. Treat it like the disease that it is.
Good lord, the comic strip is already posted via Akamai. If that goes down, I think we'll all be talking around the water cooler about other things besides comics...
Slightly on-topic... if you like online comics, visit your favorite 8-bit FF characters reborn at 8-bit Theatre. 3 years, 4 hurricanes, still going strong. No I don't run the site, just read it.
It's good to see this 'trial run' work the way it's supposed to for the time when something bigger and more dangerous threatens. The ability of the USGS to monitor, detect, and predict volcano eruptions probably means that threats like the 70,000+ casualty disaster of Krakatoa and 25,000+ casualty disaster of Pompeii will probably not happen here.
If people in the Ring of Fire areas get as much lead time as people in Florida do about hurricanes, there should be no reason for a large amount of fatalities due to predictable volcanic activity... except maybe that Tacoma doesn't have an evacuation plan in case Mt. Ranier goes. I'm not sure what the probability is of unpredictable, sudden, catatsrophic volcanic activity, though.
Tone of voice probably didn't matter with regards to the sentence, as it was just a statement of fact. Any bias in this particular sentence would be introduced by the reader.
I am not a seismologist or a volcanologist, but instinct tells me... no.
---begin speculation---
The fact that is backing me up here is the recent 7.9 earthquake up in Alaska in 2002. Link here.. The sheer length of the break during that earthquake is staggering -- 150 miles (something like 300-odd km) of ground was shifted.
While I am aware there are differences between tectonic movements in Alaska and plate movements on the West Coast, I still think that in order for the two to be related, seismic measurements between Mt. St. Helens and Parkside (Parkridge?) would reflect that. That's about 1,000 km. The data doesn't reflect that.
I can vouch for the RealPlayer JPL stream link... have been listening to it successfully for 17 minutes with no issues. It's a 350 Kbps stream, and I've been averaging 345.4 Kbps. Those guys over at JPL have quite a pipe!
What is the problem with alternative explanations for natural phenomena that we observe? The concrete evidence we have is what we can measure, from a strictly scientific point of view. Evolutionary theory puts the pieces together to determine our origin as starting from simple building blocks building up to complex ones, while creationary theory assumes we all started complex and explains the observations from there. People seem to get riled up over the assumption, but I haven't read that many arguments against the explanations (there are a few, I know.)
Looking at Darwin's case study... Not being a biologist, it is hard for me to determine the extent that evolution shapes the animal environment versus natural selection. If you started with a whole bunch of species, it's not too hard to imagine the best species adaptable to their environment sticking around and surviving. I know the evolution argument... that's what I grew up on.
Another hot topic is actually *questioning* carbon dating (gasp!)... what is the accuracy of carbon dating? Would what the site asserts (Each system has to be a closed system; that is, nothing can contaminate any of the parents or the daughter products while they are going through their decay process) be true? I would really appreciate it if people on both sides got more to defending their sides than just saying "This isn't true."
Come on. There's real questions, observations, and theories out there. Stop trying to box the scientific questions that a study of creationism can pose into mere fables. And creationists should stop trying to say that evolution was completely invented either... but you can understand the resistance when that's all that's been taught for the last 40 years.
Sure I am. It's the intended application as implicated by the poster. If the idea is to make something like running around with my powerbook in my backpack easy and widely accessible (read: not having to download obscure 3rd party apps), having the powerbook go to sleep on me is a slight hurdle.
The article also doesn't say what is and is not possible with the wireless transfer they talk about, so I couldn't comment about that. But with 802.11a having been out for a few years now, I was wondering why it hasn't been an option to get images from one camera to another.
I can see photographers shooting sporting events with a 12" Powerbook in a backpack receiving images to its 80GB drive and automatically uploading them to SI.
I can't... I'm pretty sure all PowerBooks go to sleep when you shut the computer lid. Assuming you shut it correctly, of course. You can 'trick' the computer into thinking the lid is open when it's really not, but I don't recommend it, because you don't really know what the computer's going to do when it comes to going back to sleep or staying awake.:-) I've tried.
Nonetheless, being able to set up a 'base station' of sorts with a computer receiving pictures off the network is pretty neat. About damn time, too... I'll be waiting for the $250 version.
think that the real problem this article points out (but dosen't mention) is that the numbers of skilled Linux administrators are thinning. Even worse, the number of Linux administrators that only think they are skilled is increasing. Many of my peers going through college now like Windows because that is all they have ever known and don't want to bother learning Linux.
You've hit on something here. The only way I could possibly learn Linux is through... my Cygwin environment at work, and my OS X Powerbook. For all the comments I've read on Slashdot regarding Linux training, the "right way to do things", and arguments about which distro is the best to learn... it seems like there's just confusion about what constitutes learning and 'when you know enough'. That's what certifications supposedly are for, but I think mere mention of the letters "MSCE" sends chills down developers' spines. I would like to think I'm learning, but knowing I could always fall back on the GUI sorta makes me feel like I'm "cheating":-)
If Linux is going to take off, this type of situation is just one of those 'baby steps' that Linux will have to go through while the technological community-at-large creates some sort of structure for Linux. In the meantime, this article was an interesting anecdote, but I'm pretty sure more than a few companies are quite happy with their Windows-to-Linux move.
Now to try to get Linux SysAdmin certification... wait...
The civil engineer / Lego building side of you will appreciate this game... this is one of the few games that I've paid for to play on the Mac. Also, to give you an idea of quality, it was an Independent Games Festival winner in 2002 or 2003. The original concept has been in development since at least 2000 when the 2-D version was released.
Umm... in general, corporations also want to dump inventory and take the loss now. Inventory is a bad thing... it's supply that you spent money to make and are spending money to keep. If you lose the inventory at a discounted price, at least you take in revenue and don't incur storage costs. See "Memory in the late 1990's" for another example.
If they think hurricanes in Florida did a decent job of taking out some spammers, they should wait 'til the next 6.0M+ earthquake hits Silicon Valley...
The NHC does do that if you read their discussions. The forecasters take the model output and input their own experience and observations (the ridge over Bermuda isn't as strong as the model initialized it to be, one model predicted a trough to dig in 100 miles further than it actually did, etc.) When they say they favor the GFDL, or NOGAPS, or , they'll adjust the forecast accordingly.
Interestingly, they've still been off (100 mi. east w/ Charley, 300 mi. west w/ Ivan) and that's just because hurricanes are hard to predict.
Joe Bastardi at Accuweather runs a pretty good commentary (pay only, sadly) on hurricanes and he has a lot of experience to draw from... he correctly forecast the 2 category jump in Charley about a day in advance. Don't know if he hit the forecast track, though. Frankly, if you hit the forecast track even once in such an environment as this, I'd consider you pretty lucky.
Charley was hard to forecast because of both anticipating the recurvature, weak steering currents, the angle of attack on the Florida coast, and because the media insisted Tampa would be hit when the hurricane warning was issued for basically the whole Florida west coast. Something like Andrew was relatively easy to forecast because of environmental conditions -- it was at latitude and longitude X and Y, and there was a strong high pressure system over the ocean steering it into Homestead.
Okay, I should make a point before this post gets longer, so... each hurricane is different. But I can definitely observe that in the current, weak-steering-current environment, all of the models, forecasters, the Weather Channel, and armchair forecasters can try taking shots at guessing where it's going and how strong. And they all may just be wrong.
I am under the general impression that any lock that's not shoddy (Master, perhaps?) will work for an application, because we're assuming that other people that have what you have haven't secured their stuff at all.
It's why car thieves, between two Hondas, would rather go for the one without a Club (regardless of how useless it is) than the one with one. It's just easier.
Of course, when it comes to choosing between an '87 Corolla and a clubbed Porsche, chances are the thief will go for the Porsche. At that point, I hope you have a satellite tracker...
1.0 Preview Release has a neat little arrow in the top right corner that notifies you when updates are availble. I can't confirm that it works the way it's supposed to, i.e. uninstalling and reinstalling / upgrading Firefox for you. Or if it automatically installs patches. There haven't been any versions of new browsers or any patches yet. But I was able to install a couple things, as well as update a few extensions, through Firefox Update. It's in Tools --> Options... --> Advanced --> Software Update. Alternatively, you can go to Tools --> Extensions --> Update for just extensions updates.
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FYI... the reason food comes in tubes in space isn't because it's not edible in space. It's because normal food weighs a lot (comparatively), and therefore costs thousands to shoot into the air. So this really falls under "make space travel cheaper".
I drive 8 miles to work in the morning, and 8 miles home in the afternoon. I might go 5 miles out of my way to go to church. If I schedule my grocery shopping, that's only 2 miles down the road. Suburbanite living sounds like a fine application for such a vehicle.
I'll probably stick with my 27 MPG CR-V for as long as I can have it for longer days, but the above consists of about 75% of my miles during a given week.
On the bright side, that's a good start for your uptime!
Most developers agree that it's a PITA to maintain a FAQ... responsible developers should, but who among us is perfect? :-)
Other users usually know the answers to frequently asked questions... or have more time to feel out an answer, etc. etc. It sounds like a good application for a wiki.
Having now skimmed the article, it looks like he gives wikis a mention, but not enough face time to merit weighing the positives and negatives.
I agreed with one guy in this story about how AT&T switching to OS X would be prohibitively expensive, but it appears that AT&T found a way to get their OS on a $150 system. Good job!
From here -- In psychological addition, the individual may or may not be physically addicted to a substance, but craves the "source," which may be a substance or behavior, in order to decrease severe anxiety and stress. Psychological addiction includes sexual addiction, gambling, internet, addiction to computer games, and/or substances such as alcohol or drugs. Despite the impact on work and relationships, individuals will go to great lengths to calm the severe stress and anxiety that occurs with the absence of the substance or behavior to which they are addicted, regardless of the consequences.
Or is it better to post about Everquest widows?
What about this definition of addiction? Addiction has been defined as "A primary, chronic disease, characterized by impaired control over the use of a psychoactive substance and/or behavior. Clinically, the manifestations occur along biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual dimensions (2)." (source: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web2 /mschlimme.html
I have a little bit of firsthand experience... roommate #2 in college played computer games (no, I don't remember which one) 'til 6 or 7 in the morning. Roommate #4 was an Everquest fanatic. My point is that like gambling, drug, and alcohol addictions, which are pretty much well established as being legitimate addictions, gaming addiction has the exact same effects on the people addicted, society (to a lesser scale, because less people are addicted), and to the addict's circle of family and friends.
Telling people to put the damn controller down doesn't do any good when they're physically (or physiologically) unable to. Treat it like the disease that it is.
Slightly on-topic... if you like online comics, visit your favorite 8-bit FF characters reborn at 8-bit Theatre. 3 years, 4 hurricanes, still going strong. No I don't run the site, just read it.
If people in the Ring of Fire areas get as much lead time as people in Florida do about hurricanes, there should be no reason for a large amount of fatalities due to predictable volcanic activity... except maybe that Tacoma doesn't have an evacuation plan in case Mt. Ranier goes. I'm not sure what the probability is of unpredictable, sudden, catatsrophic volcanic activity, though.
Or, one could say that the action had a chilling effect on privacy.
<gets ready for beating>
Tone of voice probably didn't matter with regards to the sentence, as it was just a statement of fact. Any bias in this particular sentence would be introduced by the reader.
---begin speculation---
The fact that is backing me up here is the recent 7.9 earthquake up in Alaska in 2002. Link here.. The sheer length of the break during that earthquake is staggering -- 150 miles (something like 300-odd km) of ground was shifted.
While I am aware there are differences between tectonic movements in Alaska and plate movements on the West Coast, I still think that in order for the two to be related, seismic measurements between Mt. St. Helens and Parkside (Parkridge?) would reflect that. That's about 1,000 km. The data doesn't reflect that.
I can vouch for the RealPlayer JPL stream link... have been listening to it successfully for 17 minutes with no issues. It's a 350 Kbps stream, and I've been averaging 345.4 Kbps. Those guys over at JPL have quite a pipe!
(This better not get me banned from Wikipedia...) :-)
What is the problem with alternative explanations for natural phenomena that we observe? The concrete evidence we have is what we can measure, from a strictly scientific point of view. Evolutionary theory puts the pieces together to determine our origin as starting from simple building blocks building up to complex ones, while creationary theory assumes we all started complex and explains the observations from there. People seem to get riled up over the assumption, but I haven't read that many arguments against the explanations (there are a few, I know.)
Looking at Darwin's case study... Not being a biologist, it is hard for me to determine the extent that evolution shapes the animal environment versus natural selection. If you started with a whole bunch of species, it's not too hard to imagine the best species adaptable to their environment sticking around and surviving. I know the evolution argument... that's what I grew up on.
Another hot topic is actually *questioning* carbon dating (gasp!)... what is the accuracy of carbon dating? Would what the site asserts (Each system has to be a closed system; that is, nothing can contaminate any of the parents or the daughter products while they are going through their decay process) be true? I would really appreciate it if people on both sides got more to defending their sides than just saying "This isn't true."
Come on. There's real questions, observations, and theories out there. Stop trying to box the scientific questions that a study of creationism can pose into mere fables. And creationists should stop trying to say that evolution was completely invented either... but you can understand the resistance when that's all that's been taught for the last 40 years.
The article also doesn't say what is and is not possible with the wireless transfer they talk about, so I couldn't comment about that. But with 802.11a having been out for a few years now, I was wondering why it hasn't been an option to get images from one camera to another.
I can't... I'm pretty sure all PowerBooks go to sleep when you shut the computer lid. Assuming you shut it correctly, of course. You can 'trick' the computer into thinking the lid is open when it's really not, but I don't recommend it, because you don't really know what the computer's going to do when it comes to going back to sleep or staying awake. :-) I've tried.
Nonetheless, being able to set up a 'base station' of sorts with a computer receiving pictures off the network is pretty neat. About damn time, too... I'll be waiting for the $250 version.
To anybody who develops OpenSSH here on /., thanks for your hard work. :-)
You've hit on something here. The only way I could possibly learn Linux is through... my Cygwin environment at work, and my OS X Powerbook. For all the comments I've read on Slashdot regarding Linux training, the "right way to do things", and arguments about which distro is the best to learn... it seems like there's just confusion about what constitutes learning and 'when you know enough'. That's what certifications supposedly are for, but I think mere mention of the letters "MSCE" sends chills down developers' spines. I would like to think I'm learning, but knowing I could always fall back on the GUI sorta makes me feel like I'm "cheating" :-)
If Linux is going to take off, this type of situation is just one of those 'baby steps' that Linux will have to go through while the technological community-at-large creates some sort of structure for Linux. In the meantime, this article was an interesting anecdote, but I'm pretty sure more than a few companies are quite happy with their Windows-to-Linux move.
Now to try to get Linux SysAdmin certification... wait...
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The civil engineer / Lego building side of you will appreciate this game... this is one of the few games that I've paid for to play on the Mac. Also, to give you an idea of quality, it was an Independent Games Festival winner in 2002 or 2003. The original concept has been in development since at least 2000 when the 2-D version was released.
Umm... in general, corporations also want to dump inventory and take the loss now. Inventory is a bad thing... it's supply that you spent money to make and are spending money to keep. If you lose the inventory at a discounted price, at least you take in revenue and don't incur storage costs. See "Memory in the late 1990's" for another example.
If they think hurricanes in Florida did a decent job of taking out some spammers, they should wait 'til the next 6.0M+ earthquake hits Silicon Valley...
Interestingly, they've still been off (100 mi. east w/ Charley, 300 mi. west w/ Ivan) and that's just because hurricanes are hard to predict.
Joe Bastardi at Accuweather runs a pretty good commentary (pay only, sadly) on hurricanes and he has a lot of experience to draw from... he correctly forecast the 2 category jump in Charley about a day in advance. Don't know if he hit the forecast track, though. Frankly, if you hit the forecast track even once in such an environment as this, I'd consider you pretty lucky.
Charley was hard to forecast because of both anticipating the recurvature, weak steering currents, the angle of attack on the Florida coast, and because the media insisted Tampa would be hit when the hurricane warning was issued for basically the whole Florida west coast. Something like Andrew was relatively easy to forecast because of environmental conditions -- it was at latitude and longitude X and Y, and there was a strong high pressure system over the ocean steering it into Homestead.
Okay, I should make a point before this post gets longer, so... each hurricane is different. But I can definitely observe that in the current, weak-steering-current environment, all of the models, forecasters, the Weather Channel, and armchair forecasters can try taking shots at guessing where it's going and how strong. And they all may just be wrong.
It's why car thieves, between two Hondas, would rather go for the one without a Club (regardless of how useless it is) than the one with one. It's just easier.
Of course, when it comes to choosing between an '87 Corolla and a clubbed Porsche, chances are the thief will go for the Porsche. At that point, I hope you have a satellite tracker...
1.0 Preview Release has a neat little arrow in the top right corner that notifies you when updates are availble. I can't confirm that it works the way it's supposed to, i.e. uninstalling and reinstalling / upgrading Firefox for you. Or if it automatically installs patches. There haven't been any versions of new browsers or any patches yet. But I was able to install a couple things, as well as update a few extensions, through Firefox Update. It's in Tools --> Options... --> Advanced --> Software Update. Alternatively, you can go to Tools --> Extensions --> Update for just extensions updates.