The problem isn't leibenschraum (apologies to German readers if I spelled that wrong). It's scarcity of resources.
Yes. And resources will become more scarce in decades to come. Just think, when oil reserves give out, no more plastic (let alone fuel). My prediction when this happens - massive wars, and starvation.
Today's high ag output is supported by chemical fertilizers and pesticides, made from petroleum, remember. Ever heard the history behind Easter Island?
My advice: think about the world your grandchildren will be inheriting.
Maintaining the current population of earth is quite unnecessary. The earth would get along just fine with 5% of the current human population. Just think of the benefits to the environment.
IIRC, those that follow such trends predict the world population will peak at about 10 billion people, sometime this century. The birth rate in most countries is steadily decreasing.
Did X Prize specify the maximum time allowed from launch to reaching the space?
Well, indirectly. Since the second flight must be completed within two weeks of the first, you'ld have up to two weeks to reach space from launch, assuming zero turnaround time.
Gold and Platinum have a lot of the same desirable metallurgical properties, ones that aren't found in other metals. Unfortunately both metals are rare, and, hence, very expensive. Electronics manufacturers would love to be able to plate all connectors in gold. Gold is also an extremely good reflector of infrared radiation. (Yes that's a real gold film on the wrapping of the outside of the lunar landers and satellites for thermal protection)
I wouldn't doubt that technology developed for nuclear submarines was used in man spacecraft. In particular, the CO2 scrubbers that are needed to remove the carbon dioxide from the air the astronauts breath were probably first developed for submarines.
I think ther are enough people willing to pay a couple of hundred thousand dollars to get a ride into space. A millionaire in the U.S is not all that uncommon these days. Also, somewhere on the web I read something that said like Scaled Composites thought that the cost of a flight could be in the neighborhood of $80K - $100K. (That's what it would cost Scaled to do one of these flights.) So yes indeed, this could be a profitable venture for them.
There are a lot of potential uses for platinum, but because of its expense, engineeres and scientists are forced to 'make do' with other materials and metals. It has some of nice properties, mallebility and being fairly inert being two of them.
The price would surely fall, but the demand would grow as well.
I've managed to eliminate flash support from my
version of Netscape. This was for the same reason you state. Most flash content is those very annoying ads. Flash slows the downloads as well. Tough nougies for those sites that expect my browser to support flash.
One of the reasons the wealthy are wealthy is that they know how to save.
While it's true that not having the motivation to save will prevent one from ever becoming wealthy, having the motivation is insufficient to obtain wealth.
When the amount a person is able to earn at an average job is so low that it is insufficient to pay for the persons BASIC needs (food, housing, transportaion to&from work, basic medical), that person will be unable to save any money. If the people need government subsidies to exist, something is grossly wrong with the economic system. Laws need to be enacted to force employers to pay a livable wage. Additionally, tariffs need to be enacted on imports from countries whose people live under similar destitute conditions, to prevent wage erosion and provide jobs in the home country. The money from the tarifs should go back to the exporting country to help their people obtain basic shelter, food, and basic medical.)
My ISP provides a spam filtering service on my email. For me, it works pretty good. About 5 % of the mail that ends up in my inbox is spam and only about 1% of the mail that ends up classified as spam is something that wasn't. About 2/3 of the mail that i receive is spam. Even the small amount of spam I get in my inbox I can almost always tell its spam by the subject or the address line. If i can tell it's spam it gets deleted without being opened. If it's in the spam box, it gets deleted without being opened, unless I recognize the sender as someone that I want email from.
The spam filter is a classifier that you can provide feedback to in order to train it. When you open a message, it shows up on a screen that allows you click on either of two buttons to tell the classifier whether or not the message was spam. If it starts misclassifying too many messages, I update its training with several messages.
This spam filter works for me. It's provided by the ISP so I don't know the name of the package really.
Yeah, I remember those VAX clusters and how when you logged in, there was this system that selected a machine in the cluster to which you'ld be assigned. To determine which machines weren't busy, it looked at how much network I/O the machine was doing and put you on the machine doing the least amount of I/O. Only one problem, when a machine got real busy, it tended to thrash around disk a lot and not do much network I/O.
It may not be big enough for PCs but it is certainly large enough for many embedded applications. Sure PCs could use some non-volitile ram, but woud it be necessary for their entire memory?
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Yes. And resources will become more scarce in decades to come. Just think, when oil reserves give out, no more plastic (let alone fuel). My prediction when this happens - massive wars, and starvation. Today's high ag output is supported by chemical fertilizers and pesticides, made from petroleum, remember. Ever heard the history behind Easter Island? My advice: think about the world your grandchildren will be inheriting.
Maintaining the current population of earth is quite unnecessary. The earth would get along just fine with 5% of the current human population. Just think of the benefits to the environment.
IIRC, those that follow such trends predict the world population will peak at about 10 billion people, sometime this century. The birth rate in most countries is steadily decreasing.
Maybe this is the thing that is used to mate the Shuttle to the 747 that caries it from Edwards AFB back to Florida on occasion.
Well, indirectly. Since the second flight must be completed within two weeks of the first, you'ld have up to two weeks to reach space from launch, assuming zero turnaround time.
Same here. The guy definitely has a 'can do' attitude. Seems like anything he sets his mind on doing, he'll get it done.
Gold and Platinum have a lot of the same desirable metallurgical properties, ones that aren't found in other metals. Unfortunately both metals are rare, and, hence, very expensive. Electronics manufacturers would love to be able to plate all connectors in gold. Gold is also an extremely good reflector of infrared radiation. (Yes that's a real gold film on the wrapping of the outside of the lunar landers and satellites for thermal protection)
I wouldn't doubt that technology developed for nuclear submarines was used in man spacecraft. In particular, the CO2 scrubbers that are needed to remove the carbon dioxide from the air the astronauts breath were probably first developed for submarines.
I think ther are enough people willing to pay a couple of hundred thousand dollars to get a ride into space. A millionaire in the U.S is not all that uncommon these days. Also, somewhere on the web I read something that said like Scaled Composites thought that the cost of a flight could be in the neighborhood of $80K - $100K. (That's what it would cost Scaled to do one of these flights.) So yes indeed, this could be a profitable venture for them.
There are a lot of potential uses for platinum, but because of its expense, engineeres and scientists are forced to 'make do' with other materials and metals. It has some of nice properties, mallebility and being fairly inert being two of them. The price would surely fall, but the demand would grow as well.
Compared with the Dell Axim X30 (base Model)
- The 1715 costs more ($279 vs $199)
- The 1715 offers less performance. (see benchmark on reviews)
Such a deal - 2/3 the performace at 3/2 the price!!
I've managed to eliminate flash support from my version of Netscape. This was for the same reason you state. Most flash content is those very annoying ads. Flash slows the downloads as well. Tough nougies for those sites that expect my browser to support flash.
Tell me more so I know how to keep it off my systems.
One of the reasons the wealthy are wealthy is that they know how to save. While it's true that not having the motivation to save will prevent one from ever becoming wealthy, having the motivation is insufficient to obtain wealth. When the amount a person is able to earn at an average job is so low that it is insufficient to pay for the persons BASIC needs (food, housing, transportaion to&from work, basic medical), that person will be unable to save any money. If the people need government subsidies to exist, something is grossly wrong with the economic system. Laws need to be enacted to force employers to pay a livable wage. Additionally, tariffs need to be enacted on imports from countries whose people live under similar destitute conditions, to prevent wage erosion and provide jobs in the home country. The money from the tarifs should go back to the exporting country to help their people obtain basic shelter, food, and basic medical.)
He was the only american that when he went against the Soviet champ, the rest of america rooted for the Soviet.
The guy was totally unlikable as a person. A worthless POS.
I use 'view', which is equivalent to vi -R (vi in readonly mode) instead.
How about a plastic inflatable one?
Hummer
That'd give you lung cancer pretty quick.
My ISP provides a spam filtering service on my email. For me, it works pretty good. About 5 % of the mail that ends up in my inbox is spam and only about 1% of the mail that ends up classified as spam is something that wasn't. About 2/3 of the mail that i receive is spam. Even the small amount of spam I get in my inbox I can almost always tell its spam by the subject or the address line. If i can tell it's spam it gets deleted without being opened. If it's in the spam box, it gets deleted without being opened, unless I recognize the sender as someone that I want email from.
The spam filter is a classifier that you can provide feedback to in order to train it. When you open a message, it shows up on a screen that allows you click on either of two buttons to tell the classifier whether or not the message was spam. If it starts misclassifying too many messages, I update its training with several messages.
This spam filter works for me. It's provided by the ISP so I don't know the name of the package really.
EVE and TPU? I used EDI. (roughly equivalent to UNIX's ed)
Yeah, I remember those VAX clusters and how when you logged in, there was this system that selected a machine in the cluster to which you'ld be assigned. To determine which machines weren't busy, it looked at how much network I/O the machine was doing and put you on the machine doing the least amount of I/O. Only one problem, when a machine got real busy, it tended to thrash around disk a lot and not do much network I/O.
Several of Intel's latest Pentium chips were designed in Israel. Don't think the US holds a monopoly on chip designers.
I hope everyone realizes that the site is a spoof.
Na, just go down to your local grocery store. They should have some.
It may not be big enough for PCs but it is certainly large enough for many embedded applications. Sure PCs could use some non-volitile ram, but woud it be necessary for their entire memory?