It would be nice if they could create inexpensive shatter-proof windows here on Earth using this technology....and the fact that it contains aluminium means that perhaps the windows could be used to generate solar power...
Greed has little to do with it - local squabbles and tribal warfare are usually the culprit. The motive for squabbles and warfare? Greed. You two just differ on the scale.
Hey, here's an idea! Why don't you and some of your green friends build your own waste processing plant? What with all these fantabulous ideas you've got, you should have no problem raising the capital and showing a profit. Granted, you might have to deal with some of those nasty engineering types, but you can always wash your hands afterwards.... Straw man and ad hominem. He was explaining the big picture. Just because he didn't mention the design aspects in detail doesn't mean he hasn't considered them, or that it's impractical. Stop trolling.
What I would love to see is the ability to stream Netflix vids to my PS3....screw having to buy all these separate gadgets, let alone the space they take up.
My electricity and water suppliers are not able to put these restrictive terms into their contracts Apples and oranges. Electricity and water are both metered services. Broadband, by and large, isn't.
I'm going to disagree with many here...
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...and say that putting your family through some short-term sacrifice/danger/inconvenience may not be a bad thing is the longer-term payoff is worth it. Let's say you take a temporary income hit in order to switch careers. The payoff is that you're happier, don't snap at the kids and wife as much, have higher earning potential, feel more satisfaction with your life. Sounds worth it to me. My reaction to all of these 'dig ditches and put up with it for the sake of your family' posters is that they're being overly fatalistic.
Man...talk about boring. I hope this never comes about. I for one own cars/bikes that are fun to drive, and I enjoy them. Good, then you can go off-road with them and jeopardise only your own life instead of mine as well. Meanwhile, those of us who prefer safety and convenience to 'fun' will have orderly, wreck-free roads.
However, as people like to say, even bad data is better than no data. Given no data, people will hopefully acknowledge the fact and tread cautiously. Bad data gives one false confidence and leads to disastrous outcomes.
I'm sure Vista will be adopted eventually, but it will probably take another 5 years because it is as popular as XP is now. And by then, Windows 7 will be out. Let's face it: Vista is nothing more than the Son of Millennium Edition. Very few people adopted that steaming turd, preferring instead to wait for XP to show up a year or so later. Same thing will happen with Vista. Much as Microsoft would prefer that everybody go out and buy a new system, many people are going to wait on the sidelines because their current systems are Good Enough(tm). When they do upgrade in the next several years, they'll have lots of options: a flavour of *BSD (including OSX), Linux, or Windows 7. Vista is merely a stop-gap.
10m doesn't seem like a lot, but it's more than enough to cover most apartments / houses, and I expect it will be possible to get signal at much greater distances, with degraded signal. 2.5Gbps over 20m, wirelessly, would rock. Yeah, some type of repeater would be nice. Although if placed centrally enough, 10m isn't that shabby.
I'm speaking strictly as an amateur (and outsider) here, but I imagine the mechanism also exists for mtDNA. However because the mtDNA genome has ~16000 base pairs vs. the 3 billion base pairs of nuclear DNA, the difference would be proportionally that much greater. Any biologists willing to pipe up and tell me I'm on the right track or that I'm full of shit?:)
There are exciting developments in CO2-based plastics. CO2 can be 'sequestered' into useful products rather than requiring the use of non-renewable petroleum-derived feedstocks.
those of us running our own undersea fiber. What, don't you? Pfft, luddite. Well I had mine but some NSA spy^H^H^H^Hidiot seaman with a wayward anchor took them out.
I don't play WoW, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it uses Torrents for updates and patching. You're absolutely correct. When I had Comcast, it would take me all day to receive a patch of several MB in size because the download kept getting reset. Since I've switched to FIOS, I've had no such problem.
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It would be nice if they could create inexpensive shatter-proof windows here on Earth using this technology....and the fact that it contains aluminium means that perhaps the windows could be used to generate solar power...
Great points. If others call me your fanboi, so be it, and fuck them.
Hey, here's an idea! Why don't you and some of your green friends build your own waste processing plant? What with all these fantabulous ideas you've got, you should have no problem raising the capital and showing a profit. Granted, you might have to deal with some of those nasty engineering types, but you can always wash your hands afterwards.... Straw man and ad hominem. He was explaining the big picture. Just because he didn't mention the design aspects in detail doesn't mean he hasn't considered them, or that it's impractical. Stop trolling.
I hate me-too posts, but I'm going to cast my vote in agreement that the explanation is too simple. This stinks of scapegoating.
What I would love to see is the ability to stream Netflix vids to my PS3....screw having to buy all these separate gadgets, let alone the space they take up.
....failing that, recycle them, because with a brand-new Acer laptop costing me ~$500, there's no point in running an old PII/PIII laptop.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. People can innovate in whatever field they want. The fact that you don't approve is utterly irrelevant.
Funny, I have IE8 beta on my XP machine and have installed SP3 with no problems at all...
edit: ....may not be a bad thing IF....
...and say that putting your family through some short-term sacrifice/danger/inconvenience may not be a bad thing is the longer-term payoff is worth it. Let's say you take a temporary income hit in order to switch careers. The payoff is that you're happier, don't snap at the kids and wife as much, have higher earning potential, feel more satisfaction with your life. Sounds worth it to me. My reaction to all of these 'dig ditches and put up with it for the sake of your family' posters is that they're being overly fatalistic.
Yeah, let's just kill all the mutants!
Or how about legally forbidding use of SSN's for anything other than claiming social security benefits?
I'm speaking strictly as an amateur (and outsider) here, but I imagine the mechanism also exists for mtDNA. However because the mtDNA genome has ~16000 base pairs vs. the 3 billion base pairs of nuclear DNA, the difference would be proportionally that much greater. Any biologists willing to pipe up and tell me I'm on the right track or that I'm full of shit? :)
There are exciting developments in CO2-based plastics. CO2 can be 'sequestered' into useful products rather than requiring the use of non-renewable petroleum-derived feedstocks.