I hope it rotates only 180 degrees (or less) then rotates back. Rigging plumbing, sewage, power, cable, phone, etc for full 360 degree rotation will be tricky.
Why not just go wireless? It's the wave of the future ya know.
It is definately possible for even a government with multiple layers of beurocracy to pass stupid laws. What about "internment" camps for the japaneese during WWII? Personally I think freedom of press and democracy (anyone can get involved) is important to stopping stupid laws and policies, though not much can stop the "What about the Children?" mentality and fearmongering. I will agree that fast decsions can be bad, but I dissagree that excessive burocracy stops fast decsions.
Wikipedia says that there are a bunch of different classification schemes, but even using the 6-kingdom model, you have Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Of which a spider would fall into the catagory as an animal. If you look at the pylums (the next sub-catagory) a spider would be under Anthropoda which apparently stands for jointed feet.
The success of arthropods is related to their hard exoskeleton, segmentation, and jointed appendages. The appendages are used for feeding, sensory reception, defence, and locomotion. The muscle system is more or less assisted by hydraulics originated from the blood pressure created by the heart [2]. The hydraulic system in spiders is especially well developed.
So technically it IS an animal, and is closely related to crabs. ..*shrug* IMHO it is arguable since we humans always try to classify things into distinct catagories even though there are always exceptions, I'm sure someone will disagree w/ me.
"Given that there are a number of IDE & SATA drives hitting the market for under 150$ I guess I just dont see what the big deal is."
Yeah, because blockbuster is definately gonna be renting out SATA drives soon. ..The reason why it is worth it is because the media will be worth pennies (if that). Say you wanted to store x gigaquads of data (I love the word gigaquads, yes I know it's meaningless). Would you buy zillions of SATA hard drives or 1 hd-dvd burner drive, and zillions of discs. They are apples and oranges, you cant really compare them like that.
Certification vs. Education
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I love the way we are taking education these days. I am currently in college and I notice that the institution is not at all what I expected. No one goes because they want to learn more about their field and want to be educated about it, they go because it is a certification they can put on their resume, which will determine if they get hired or not, or determine if they make $35K a year or $75K a year. I don't even know who I am angry at, the managers of the corporations that use college degrees instead of work experience to determine a candidate's worth, or the universities that take in tuition and try to pump out degrees with little idea at whether the student is actually "educated" or if they just learned "how to replicate the process" for the test and then forgot the information the next day.
This applies here too. Essentially they are assessing worth by attaching a numerical value to "intelligence" or "education". Most of the time if you just went to these schools and sat down in the classes you would get a better idea than assigning some standardized test. Then again, the costs associated with that would be astronomical and end up taking away from what the schools have. ..I guess standardized testing is just the best solution at the moment.
I don't care what you mod me (if at all) this was just a stupid rant, I just wonder if its me or if others out there agree.
So the long-term cost may be lower because you can spend less on cleaning your prestigious HQ.
Maybe so, but I don't think contractors will suggest the 30% increase because "it makes the air better" or "it stays whiter". I do applaud the innovation, but I think it is reserved for specialized applications, like artistic buildings (where that super white shine really matters) or dense post-industrialized cities with huge budgets and also lots of pollution.
30% increase in price may not convince those that don't consider the environment that important. Maybe in some places like California or parts of Europe this will take off, but I don't see it becoming commonplace for industrialized or developing cities.
Yeah, cuz back in the day when the population was much smaller, there were no such things as war (over land), famine, pollution. Sure humans made less of an impact on the Earth on a global scale (ie global warming), but I think your utopian view of a less populus world is inherently flawed. Cities from the early days of the industrial revolution were heavily polluted, and also had less people in them.
I think its perfectly natural to forgive inaccuracies like that if you aren't familiar with the material. For instance, my mother is horrible with computers, she knows that they can't do half the things they do in the movies, but it doesn't really bother her. Now have her sit down and watch tv show House (She's a doctor) and she will fret the whole way through. What am I getting at? It's easy to look past the 1 or 2 facts you know about a subject and enjoy the fiction, but if you are an expert it's natural for your mind to dissect it.
So while I watch House and think "I doubt that that many people could get soo many rare diseases" she thinks "Those test results aren't indicitive of that, why don't they screen for this? That disease can't progress that quickly. That disease doesn't present symptoms like that at all! Doctors don't go to patients houses like that. " etc etc It's hard to shut that voice out.
I'm assuming that they would try to patent this so they could block other companies from creating this sort of software. ..if Sony decides to go Pro-P2P the RIAA would shit themsleves.
"Wait, you mean that a company that wronged me and my fellow countrymen might be under legal penalty? You mean I might have as much right to my privacy as my government?"
It's not as simple as that, the NSA has a certain degree of authority that they most certainly abused. If a government agency that high up came to you and told you to do something that wouldn't really affect your company financially would you do it? I assume that the telcos thought they would be in way more trouble if they didn't comply, the NSA would make them their enemies (Would you want to be on the bad side of the NSA?) that the media would tear them apart for assisting "terrorists". As an informed slashdottter, I am appalled. From a business and PR perspective, I can sympathize.
The true evil here is the NSA, while it is a common stratagy for the executive branch to pretend it has more power than it does, these guys took it way too far. Don't get me wrong I think the telcos should have thought a bit longer, hopefully they will get some sort of punishment so there is more of an incentive for companies to think before they comply with a government request.
Three hours after the announcement that Google Checkout would no longer be accepted as payment for items on eBay. Google announced plans to blacklist the eBay.com domain from its search engine. Google spokesman Harrold Harris commented "Eat me eBay. We can do them more harm then they can do us; Google Checkout was just a Beta anyway." More at eleven.
That's not my IP number and I'm not using Windows, I'm using a Mac.
Have no fear, thats just the information from whoever cached the site to a mirror. Its not the actual site itself. And I assume that string at the bottom was just part of the "code".
Electrons do move from negative to positive, but the "current" as defined by Ohm's Law does "flow" from positive to negative. Way back when they didnt know which direction stuff moved, so they defined it as moving from positive to negative for the sake of their mathematical calculations. Right hand rule, left hand rule. . bah semantics.
Ok, either that is some weird coincidence, or you managed to whip that up and get first post too. ..if its the latter, kudos man. That is the most elaborate first post ever, and one of the most thought out as well.
Re:Mars Exploration Rovers and the future
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The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were bigger than Soujourner (sp?). It makes sense that after a big success, expansion would be done to further increase that success. What exactly upsets you? The fact that they aren't sending an identical probe to a different place to get more data? Each rover mission has a specific goal in mind, in spirit and opportunities place, to confirm that there was once water. That goal has been accomplished, why would we send the same kind of probe down there to further support it? I say we move on to newer and better things.
I think the problem is that people dont realize that anything they put in their could be read by anyone, not just people they wouldn't mind reading it. Not only that, but it's possible that whatever they type won't go away either, even if they want it to. The internet has a nifty ability to be able to save anything. . . as the old cliche goes, once it's out on the internet, you can never get rid of it. So while someone may like that their friends may read their blog, or perhaps a random stranger, and offer a tidbit of advice/dialog, there are also marketers, stalkers, government, etc.
Imagine how well a stalker could get to know his/her victim just by reading everything available on their victim's blog, from day 1. Sure many of the topics may be mundane, but it adds up fast. ..Personally, I'd be a bit more reserved about it, if I dont want a marketer/stalker/government knowing it, I don't put it on the internet, and I would think that would be common sense.
Re:Seems primitive. (Resolution v. Lightgathering)
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Are you sure about the capabilities of such an array? There are two main properties to a radio telescope (or any telescope for that matter) and that is Resolution and Lightgathering. By increasing the diameter of the collecting dish you increase both the resolution and lightgathering capacity. By creating an array using interferometry you can increase resolution to create a "virtual" dish with a diameter equal to the distance from one end of the array to the other. This doesn't, however, increase lightgathering capacity the same way. Let me propose a crude analogy: think of dishes as buckets, you can put two buckets 50ft apart and infer how much rain fell between them by adding them and dividing by two, but if it was just a drizzle, your data wont be so hot. If however, you have a 50ft bucket, you're gonna collect a lot of water.
So an array of a bunch of teeny TV sattelite dishes wont have as much surface area as a dish a kilometer wide. So yes we could resolve a planet, but it would have to be bright enough to be seen.
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I hope it rotates only 180 degrees (or less) then rotates back. Rigging plumbing, sewage, power, cable, phone, etc for full 360 degree rotation will be tricky.
Why not just go wireless? It's the wave of the future ya know.
It is definately possible for even a government with multiple layers of beurocracy to pass stupid laws. What about "internment" camps for the japaneese during WWII? Personally I think freedom of press and democracy (anyone can get involved) is important to stopping stupid laws and policies, though not much can stop the "What about the Children?" mentality and fearmongering. I will agree that fast decsions can be bad, but I dissagree that excessive burocracy stops fast decsions.
So technically it IS an animal, and is closely related to crabs. .
Yeah, I told you about it tomorrow.
"Given that there are a number of IDE & SATA drives hitting the market for under 150$ I guess I just dont see what the big deal is."
.The reason why it is worth it is because the media will be worth pennies (if that). Say you wanted to store x gigaquads of data (I love the word gigaquads, yes I know it's meaningless). Would you buy zillions of SATA hard drives or 1 hd-dvd burner drive, and zillions of discs. They are apples and oranges, you cant really compare them like that.
Yeah, because blockbuster is definately gonna be renting out SATA drives soon. .
I love the way we are taking education these days. I am currently in college and I notice that the institution is not at all what I expected. No one goes because they want to learn more about their field and want to be educated about it, they go because it is a certification they can put on their resume, which will determine if they get hired or not, or determine if they make $35K a year or $75K a year. I don't even know who I am angry at, the managers of the corporations that use college degrees instead of work experience to determine a candidate's worth, or the universities that take in tuition and try to pump out degrees with little idea at whether the student is actually "educated" or if they just learned "how to replicate the process" for the test and then forgot the information the next day. .I guess standardized testing is just the best solution at the moment.
This applies here too. Essentially they are assessing worth by attaching a numerical value to "intelligence" or "education". Most of the time if you just went to these schools and sat down in the classes you would get a better idea than assigning some standardized test. Then again, the costs associated with that would be astronomical and end up taking away from what the schools have. .
I don't care what you mod me (if at all) this was just a stupid rant, I just wonder if its me or if others out there agree.
So the long-term cost may be lower because you can spend less on cleaning your prestigious HQ.
Maybe so, but I don't think contractors will suggest the 30% increase because "it makes the air better" or "it stays whiter". I do applaud the innovation, but I think it is reserved for specialized applications, like artistic buildings (where that super white shine really matters) or dense post-industrialized cities with huge budgets and also lots of pollution.
30% increase in price may not convince those that don't consider the environment that important. Maybe in some places like California or parts of Europe this will take off, but I don't see it becoming commonplace for industrialized or developing cities.
So you're saying, you know for a fact that Neanderthals and Crog-Magnon's (modern humans) do interbreed?
Yeah, cuz back in the day when the population was much smaller, there were no such things as war (over land), famine, pollution. Sure humans made less of an impact on the Earth on a global scale (ie global warming), but I think your utopian view of a less populus world is inherently flawed. Cities from the early days of the industrial revolution were heavily polluted, and also had less people in them.
dude, you already screwed up, first digit is j. . .every electrical engineer knows that. .
I think its perfectly natural to forgive inaccuracies like that if you aren't familiar with the material. For instance, my mother is horrible with computers, she knows that they can't do half the things they do in the movies, but it doesn't really bother her. Now have her sit down and watch tv show House (She's a doctor) and she will fret the whole way through. What am I getting at? It's easy to look past the 1 or 2 facts you know about a subject and enjoy the fiction, but if you are an expert it's natural for your mind to dissect it.
So while I watch House and think "I doubt that that many people could get soo many rare diseases" she thinks "Those test results aren't indicitive of that, why don't they screen for this? That disease can't progress that quickly. That disease doesn't present symptoms like that at all! Doctors don't go to patients houses like that. " etc etc It's hard to shut that voice out.
I'm assuming that they would try to patent this so they could block other companies from creating this sort of software. . .if Sony decides to go Pro-P2P the RIAA would shit themsleves.
"Wait, you mean that a company that wronged me and my fellow countrymen might be under legal penalty? You mean I might have as much right to my privacy as my government?"
It's not as simple as that, the NSA has a certain degree of authority that they most certainly abused. If a government agency that high up came to you and told you to do something that wouldn't really affect your company financially would you do it? I assume that the telcos thought they would be in way more trouble if they didn't comply, the NSA would make them their enemies (Would you want to be on the bad side of the NSA?) that the media would tear them apart for assisting "terrorists". As an informed slashdottter, I am appalled. From a business and PR perspective, I can sympathize.
The true evil here is the NSA, while it is a common stratagy for the executive branch to pretend it has more power than it does, these guys took it way too far. Don't get me wrong I think the telcos should have thought a bit longer, hopefully they will get some sort of punishment so there is more of an incentive for companies to think before they comply with a government request.
Three hours after the announcement that Google Checkout would no longer be accepted as payment for items on eBay. Google announced plans to blacklist the eBay.com domain from its search engine. Google spokesman Harrold Harris commented "Eat me eBay. We can do them more harm then they can do us; Google Checkout was just a Beta anyway." More at eleven.
That's not my IP number and I'm not using Windows, I'm using a Mac.
Have no fear, thats just the information from whoever cached the site to a mirror. Its not the actual site itself. And I assume that string at the bottom was just part of the "code".
Electrons do move from negative to positive, but the "current" as defined by Ohm's Law does "flow" from positive to negative. Way back when they didnt know which direction stuff moved, so they defined it as moving from positive to negative for the sake of their mathematical calculations. Right hand rule, left hand rule. . bah semantics.
Buy a game console for its games. Buy a media player for its media playing abilities.
.oh and wordprocessing/surfing :-p. Or do you subscribe to the "Jack of all trades, master of none" philosophy?
Why not get a computer to do both. .
If I want to talk to an inanimate object in my house, I'll continue to address the cat.
.but talking to your taxidermied cat is just weird. . .
Talking to your pet cat is one thing. .
Hate to be a grammar nazi. . .but that should be. "Asimov should sue, that is, if we weren't dead."
Wait a second. . .
Ok, either that is some weird coincidence, or you managed to whip that up and get first post too. . .if its the latter, kudos man. That is the most elaborate first post ever, and one of the most thought out as well.
The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were bigger than Soujourner (sp?). It makes sense that after a big success, expansion would be done to further increase that success. What exactly upsets you? The fact that they aren't sending an identical probe to a different place to get more data? Each rover mission has a specific goal in mind, in spirit and opportunities place, to confirm that there was once water. That goal has been accomplished, why would we send the same kind of probe down there to further support it? I say we move on to newer and better things.
I think the problem is that people dont realize that anything they put in their could be read by anyone, not just people they wouldn't mind reading it. Not only that, but it's possible that whatever they type won't go away either, even if they want it to. The internet has a nifty ability to be able to save anything. . . as the old cliche goes, once it's out on the internet, you can never get rid of it. So while someone may like that their friends may read their blog, or perhaps a random stranger, and offer a tidbit of advice/dialog, there are also marketers, stalkers, government, etc.
.Personally, I'd be a bit more reserved about it, if I dont want a marketer/stalker/government knowing it, I don't put it on the internet, and I would think that would be common sense.
Imagine how well a stalker could get to know his/her victim just by reading everything available on their victim's blog, from day 1. Sure many of the topics may be mundane, but it adds up fast. .
Are you sure about the capabilities of such an array? There are two main properties to a radio telescope (or any telescope for that matter) and that is Resolution and Lightgathering. By increasing the diameter of the collecting dish you increase both the resolution and lightgathering capacity. By creating an array using interferometry you can increase resolution to create a "virtual" dish with a diameter equal to the distance from one end of the array to the other. This doesn't, however, increase lightgathering capacity the same way. Let me propose a crude analogy: think of dishes as buckets, you can put two buckets 50ft apart and infer how much rain fell between them by adding them and dividing by two, but if it was just a drizzle, your data wont be so hot. If however, you have a 50ft bucket, you're gonna collect a lot of water.
So an array of a bunch of teeny TV sattelite dishes wont have as much surface area as a dish a kilometer wide. So yes we could resolve a planet, but it would have to be bright enough to be seen.
"...it raises hopes for what will be possible from the ITER reactor, expected to be finished in 2016."
Look at that, it'll be completed in exactly 10 years. Finally, this time 10 years means 10 years.