If the spacecraft and habitat had some abundant source of energy (fission or fusion reactor for instance) could the power be used to generate a magnetic field to provide shielding the way it does on earth? Or is the amount of radiation / power required an insurmountable problem with our near-future technology?
Capitalism is really the "Least Dirty Shirt", mostly because it better acknowledges human behavior I think. Marxism and the Communist ideals that follow from it are actually quite egalitarian; they express the view that everybody should help each other and share equally in the profits from doing so. But like Capitalism, the implementations of the Marxist ideals always are flawed. The reason Capitalism tends to come out ahead in the end is that it provides people with a better incentive to work than just benefiting society as a whole. Work provides personal gain, and the benefit to society is kind of a side-effect. This leads to all the issues mentioned in the article, but still tends to perform better because the net productivity of the capitalist society is higher.
Yes we repay the borrowed money... by borrowing more money. If a business borrows money from new investors to pay the older ones, they call that a Ponzi Scheme. Here we call it Government.
The house had no internet, satellite, phone, and if I remember right, OBL gave up on using cell phones and radios also. It's possible the operation in the house was a zero-tech kind of thing, couriers, word-of-mouth only. There were kids in the house, perhaps the only thing they will find on the computer is Dora the Explorer.
there is truth in your sarcasm, the earth will be just fine. It has endured worse. It has it's own systems to correct ecological imbalances, even ones like this.
The problem is, for the earth, a few thousand years is considered instant healing.
So no it's not the end of the world. But on our time scale, it could still be a disaster of unprecedented proportions that we will have to deal with through our lifetimes.
I say teach them the really old one I used on our PDP-8 in high school (Fortran IV maybe?). Anyway single-letter variables, some of them are ints and some are floats, and you just have to know which are which. Type in on an ASR 33 Teletype, print on paper tape to save. Fun times, fun times.
I wonder how they are ordering their table results. If I put in "star trek characters" for instance, I do indeed get a first set of ten that are all from ST.
#1 is Spock (the Zachary Quinto version, but OK good)
Kirk however is #6 after Riker, Troi, Picard, and Neelix.
Neelix? c'mon google, that's a fail.
I'll buy that we have the ability to find the debris. I think though that the impact of something like this vs. the water was very energetic (much more than say a plane crash), and probably didn't leave very big pieces.
Just because you make your numbers for a quarter doesn't mean that your expenses are going to match (or hopefully be lower than) your income going forward. Bookings and sales projections for the rest of the year are probably much lower and they can't support their current cost structure. IT companies really don't have any other way to cut costs besides getting rid of people, unfortunately.
Yes. You have to pay the one-time $100 developer fee. And Apple has the right to veto apps or developers, yes.
But this is not your typical SDK kind of arrangement like with palm pilot or something. Apple is going to host developer apps on iTunes, and handle all of the credit-card transactions, app storage etc. You set the price on the iTunes store, Apple gives you 70% of each purchase. Free apps will be hosted for free, Apple does not charge.
This is a huge opportunity for all sorts of developers, everything from one-man freeware operations, up to gaming giants such as EA (porting Spore to iPhone).
There are like 100,000 developers signed on already. (So if it really was true 90% have been rejected, we would be talking about a million people wanting to develop on the iPhone!)
Personally, I think this it will end up being a big gaming platform and will seriously eat into the PSP space.
The 'benefit' of mosquitoes, like other parasites, is that they spread disease. While this hardly sounds like a benefit from the human perspective, at the ecosystem level this works to reduce populations and encourage natural selection. This works to ensure the population remains strong, but does not grow to overwhelm the food supply or other species.
OK, I admit I'm a cheap bastard and I do Netflix instead of Cable/Satellite, but I've got the antenna for local channels and a few older TVs, so I'm going to need one of these puppies. Here's the list of elegible converter boxes from the web site. Any opinions on which one is the best box, or experiences using any of these?
The 'revolutionary' thing about the iPhone touch keyboard is not that it's a better keyboard than a real tactile one. In fact, it's worse than a real keyboard in terms of accuracy and speed, even with the spell correcting and magnifying keys and click sound etc. The real value of the iPhone keyboard is that it does not take up real estate on your phone, which leaves room for a big screen for other things; pictures, movies, maps, etc. without making the phone a huge unwieldy monster.
In spite of it's shortcomings, it is still more than sufficient for typing search keywords, web urls, quick messages and replies, but if you are a mobile email addict and actually send lots of email, you are probably better off with a blackberry.
Our internet service comes from our light department. Our town has no cable, and DSL covers only about half the town due to it's size. Last year the municipal light dept rolled out WiMax. It's not perfect, but it's damn better than dial-up. Before they went ahead though they had to write a letter to Verizon to get permission to enter the market, presumably due to this law or fear of it. Fortunately Verizon said yes (our town has only 1500 or so homes in it, so they probably didn't care - too busy rolling Fios out to people who already have broadband I guess)
If Verizon had said no for some reason though, my phone line would be busy right now, and I probably wouldn't have loaded this article yet. So yes it's a good thing for competition in existing broadband markets, but it may also encourage other frightened municipalities from providing missing service.
If it was just upgrading you'd be right - no reason to probably. But if you wanted to buy a new computer you'd find you don't have a choice, you get Vista. At least at the major online venues like Dell, HP, etc.
My (very unscientific) sampling during the holiday shopping rush seems to support this. After stopping in several mall game stores (EB Games, Gamestop, etc.) that take trade-ins, I saw dozens of used PSPs for sale, and new ones could be had just about everywhere. Several stores were out of new DSes though, and I don't think I saw any used ones for sale at these shops.
...Plus they let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 Parsecs, get away from Imperial Star Destroyers, and you can fix them by taking C3PO to the back and plugging him in.
Because when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Australia was the side of the earth facing the moon. Parkes Observatory had the responsibility of establishing the video feed and relaying it back to Houston....And it almost didnt happen. There was a power failure just before the landing, and Parkes 'lost' the moon on tracking. They had to eyeball it by looking out the window and pointing the dish at the moon. For a fascinating look into these events, I suggest the movie The Dish
After watching this, you might not be surprised why the boxes were lost.. its a pretty rinky-dink operation from the security standpoint.
Overcharging of Li-ion Batteries causes Lithium Oxide to be converted to Metallic Lithium, which can explode. Chargers must actively control the charging current and monitor the cell temperature to prevent this from happening. It's probably reasonably failure-proof, but it does sound complex enough that once in a while, it's gonna happen.
So to paraphrase Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist CEO):
The company has 21 employees and has been profitable since 1999. They have no venture capitalists or stock holders so they are beholden to no one. Their policy is to only implement things users want. Users don't want banner ads. They aren't above charging commerical interests who use the site for profit, such as real estate brokers.
And that's pretty much it. The guy is happy and making enough money as-is, apparently.
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If the spacecraft and habitat had some abundant source of energy (fission or fusion reactor for instance) could the power be used to generate a magnetic field to provide shielding the way it does on earth? Or is the amount of radiation / power required an insurmountable problem with our near-future technology?
Seems like if you are unable to monitor/regulate your drinking, you are probably also unable to get your act together enough to use smart ice cubes.
Capitalism is really the "Least Dirty Shirt", mostly because it better acknowledges human behavior I think. Marxism and the Communist ideals that follow from it are actually quite egalitarian; they express the view that everybody should help each other and share equally in the profits from doing so. But like Capitalism, the implementations of the Marxist ideals always are flawed. The reason Capitalism tends to come out ahead in the end is that it provides people with a better incentive to work than just benefiting society as a whole. Work provides personal gain, and the benefit to society is kind of a side-effect. This leads to all the issues mentioned in the article, but still tends to perform better because the net productivity of the capitalist society is higher.
Yes we repay the borrowed money... by borrowing more money. If a business borrows money from new investors to pay the older ones, they call that a Ponzi Scheme. Here we call it Government.
The house had no internet, satellite, phone, and if I remember right, OBL gave up on using cell phones and radios also. It's possible the operation in the house was a zero-tech kind of thing, couriers, word-of-mouth only. There were kids in the house, perhaps the only thing they will find on the computer is Dora the Explorer.
Notch will approve.
So no it's not the end of the world. But on our time scale, it could still be a disaster of unprecedented proportions that we will have to deal with through our lifetimes.
I say teach them the really old one I used on our PDP-8 in high school (Fortran IV maybe?). Anyway single-letter variables, some of them are ints and some are floats, and you just have to know which are which. Type in on an ASR 33 Teletype, print on paper tape to save. Fun times, fun times.
I wonder how they are ordering their table results. If I put in "star trek characters" for instance, I do indeed get a first set of ten that are all from ST.
#1 is Spock (the Zachary Quinto version, but OK good)
Kirk however is #6 after Riker, Troi, Picard, and Neelix.
Neelix? c'mon google, that's a fail.
I'll buy that we have the ability to find the debris. I think though that the impact of something like this vs. the water was very energetic (much more than say a plane crash), and probably didn't leave very big pieces.
Space Olympics FTW!
Just because you make your numbers for a quarter doesn't mean that your expenses are going to match (or hopefully be lower than) your income going forward. Bookings and sales projections for the rest of the year are probably much lower and they can't support their current cost structure. IT companies really don't have any other way to cut costs besides getting rid of people, unfortunately.
Yes. You have to pay the one-time $100 developer fee. And Apple has the right to veto apps or developers, yes. But this is not your typical SDK kind of arrangement like with palm pilot or something. Apple is going to host developer apps on iTunes, and handle all of the credit-card transactions, app storage etc. You set the price on the iTunes store, Apple gives you 70% of each purchase. Free apps will be hosted for free, Apple does not charge. This is a huge opportunity for all sorts of developers, everything from one-man freeware operations, up to gaming giants such as EA (porting Spore to iPhone). There are like 100,000 developers signed on already. (So if it really was true 90% have been rejected, we would be talking about a million people wanting to develop on the iPhone!) Personally, I think this it will end up being a big gaming platform and will seriously eat into the PSP space.
The 'benefit' of mosquitoes, like other parasites, is that they spread disease. While this hardly sounds like a benefit from the human perspective, at the ecosystem level this works to reduce populations and encourage natural selection. This works to ensure the population remains strong, but does not grow to overwhelm the food supply or other species.
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Thanks!In spite of it's shortcomings, it is still more than sufficient for typing search keywords, web urls, quick messages and replies, but if you are a mobile email addict and actually send lots of email, you are probably better off with a blackberry.
Our internet service comes from our light department. Our town has no cable, and DSL covers only about half the town due to it's size. Last year the municipal light dept rolled out WiMax. It's not perfect, but it's damn better than dial-up. Before they went ahead though they had to write a letter to Verizon to get permission to enter the market, presumably due to this law or fear of it. Fortunately Verizon said yes (our town has only 1500 or so homes in it, so they probably didn't care - too busy rolling Fios out to people who already have broadband I guess) If Verizon had said no for some reason though, my phone line would be busy right now, and I probably wouldn't have loaded this article yet. So yes it's a good thing for competition in existing broadband markets, but it may also encourage other frightened municipalities from providing missing service.
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If it was just upgrading you'd be right - no reason to probably. But if you wanted to buy a new computer you'd find you don't have a choice, you get Vista. At least at the major online venues like Dell, HP, etc.
My (very unscientific) sampling during the holiday shopping rush seems to support this. After stopping in several mall game stores (EB Games, Gamestop, etc.) that take trade-ins, I saw dozens of used PSPs for sale, and new ones could be had just about everywhere. Several stores were out of new DSes though, and I don't think I saw any used ones for sale at these shops.
Oh wait. Hybrid Drives? Never mind.
After watching this, you might not be surprised why the boxes were lost.. its a pretty rinky-dink operation from the security standpoint.
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And that's pretty much it. The guy is happy and making enough money as-is, apparently.