I'm not denying that you're correct, but as a non-speaker, I'd be quite interested to hear your translation and interpretation of the text. I think that might even be a more effective means of persuasion than cussing the GP out and insulting his intelligence.
I used the Wi-Spy 2.4i and easily tracked down a source of interference (in my case, a wireless rear-view trailer camera) in a crowded convention hall in a matter of minutes, and I didn't even know what I was doing at the time. It was crapping all over my Wi-Fi network, and as soon as they shut it off, I was back in business again.
I've since upgraded to the 2.4x model and track down Wi-Fi interference all the time. I would consider $99 cheap, consumer grade equipment. (Assuming you already own a laptop.)
Dumb question, why was Halliburton cementing this rig shut in preparation for abandonment by Horizon?
Math is not my strong suit, but here goes. Conservative estimates say the untended well is spewing 5,000 barrels of crude oil a day into the gulf. BP estimates it might take 90 days to seal off the leak. That's 450,000 barrels of oil that is just coming up from the ocean floor on its own, no pumping. (This makes sense, as oil is lighter than water and would naturally rise out of the hole.)
Crude oil is currently selling for $86.19 a barrel (even higher in the futures market.) That's almost $39 million worth of oil that is, again, just bubbling up on its own. The good lord only knows how much is actually in the oil field, but I'd guess it's probably much, much higher. I don't know much about the intricacies of oil harvesting, but why would they be abandoning this much easily obtainable oil after they've already done the enormously difficult and expensive task of poking a hole in the earth almost a mile below sea level?
This just doesn't make sense.
Interesting, but what would happen to their current business model? (which has proven HIGHLY profitable since its inception.) How many ads do you see on Amazon.com? None, because they sell just about everything. Also, it would take Google many years and billions of dollars in capital to switch their business model. They would have to build up a distribution infrastructure, cut deals with suppliers, develop marketing tools, etc. True they have money to burn, but why, when they're doing OK as it is?
In the end, Google is pretty good at being Google, and doesn't really need to crack into a completely different market, like selling everything, at least, not yet. Maybe years down the road, or maybe they could sneak into it very slowly, but I just don't see this as a practical business move any time soon.
This might be flamebait, but more advanced how? Just because a society doesn't want to build smoke-belching factories or travel to other star systems (to mine fuel for smoke-belching factories and travel to other star systems) why are they less advanced? Did you see the movie? The deity they prayed to was real, as in really existed and interacted with them on a day-to-day basis, so the fact that they worshiped that deity doesn't make them primitive. That deity also healed them, so they weren't in need of the same type of medical science that we have. They had plenty of food from the lush world on which they lived. So they didn't have iPods and cell phones and cars, does that really make humanity more advanced?
I play EVE Online. (Online MMORPG with spaceships.) One of my corporation's (guild) favorite tactics is to deliberately allow a spy into our corp. Then we feed them some decent intel, usually giving up a couple ships in the process. This solidifies the spy's status as a source of valuable information. Then we'll feed them some monumentally bad intel. Since they think they have good intel, nine times out of ten, they'll leave their real assets unattended or move their fleet in a completely unprotected manner since they think we're ten solar systems away.
Ah yes... disinformation. Way better than real intel, and much less costly.
why didn't the DoD just start passing a fake feed from the drone? They could have added another encrypted channel for the real feed, which I would assume is trivial given the military's budget. Then pass fake data over the unencrypted channel. Sometimes disinformation to the enemy is far more valuable than real intelligence. I can see a bunch of jihadis sitting around watching a tv screen. "Look at those infidels. They are going to blow up the wrong building! Our secret base is 100 kilometers away! Say, does anyone else hear that noi..." [BOOM]
More important, why is there a difference in consumer versus commercial grade mattresses? I mean, take a vacuum cleaner for example. A commercial vacuum gets used for 8-12 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. My home vacuum cleaner gets used once a week for a couple hours. My $50 vacuum cleaner would last about 3 weeks in a hotel, so I can understand that there can and should be a fundamental difference in how they are built. But hotel mattresses get slept on just as much as my mattress at home. There is no difference, really, except that it gets used by different people instead of the same person every night. So why is there even a need for a commercial grade?
Why would Orwell be proud? I think he would be horrified. He wasn't adulating the society in 1984, he was writing in fear for what ours might become. The book was supposed to serve as a wakeup call. The fact that we're inching closer to this society might make his prediction correct, but I don't think he'd be happy about that.
you don't even offer any proof that it is a "big scam"
Google "Ted Williams", "Chatsworth Scandal"
I don't doubt that some day we'll be able to freeze/revive persons, but this 'industry' is so fraught with scandal and corruption that a reasonable conclusion is that it's a big scam in its current state. I mean, you walk into a Vegas casino, and there's a nonzero chance you'll walk out a multi-billionaire, but that doesn't justify it as a rational means of making money.
You imply that the GP must be an unethical person, because he sees this as a scam, but I would argue he's just a person observant of historical behaviors.
I think that the punchline to the joke will be that once we've found a way to freeze/thaw people successfully, we're going to find that the trick to doing it is in the freezing, not the thawing.
I helped one of my clients move from an office building they'd had since the 1940's. The powder-blue metal desks they used actually had ashtrays embedded into them. Relics from a bygone era I suppose.
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Additionally, you should be modded redundant.
Percentage of people with an IQ higher than 140: 0.31349%
Percentage of people claiming to have an IQ higher than 140: 37.68717%
(Based on numbers I just made up)
You realize that this is not a real Norse myth, right? Right?
I'm not denying that you're correct, but as a non-speaker, I'd be quite interested to hear your translation and interpretation of the text. I think that might even be a more effective means of persuasion than cussing the GP out and insulting his intelligence.
I used the Wi-Spy 2.4i and easily tracked down a source of interference (in my case, a wireless rear-view trailer camera) in a crowded convention hall in a matter of minutes, and I didn't even know what I was doing at the time. It was crapping all over my Wi-Fi network, and as soon as they shut it off, I was back in business again.
I've since upgraded to the 2.4x model and track down Wi-Fi interference all the time. I would consider $99 cheap, consumer grade equipment. (Assuming you already own a laptop.)
I'm glad to know I'm not the only sysadmin that has trouble typing "serve" without automatically adding an 'r' at the end.
You allow users?
I didn't imply a hidden agenda. Just wondering. And clearly this was a good place to ask the question because I got two good answers.
Dumb question, why was Halliburton cementing this rig shut in preparation for abandonment by Horizon? Math is not my strong suit, but here goes. Conservative estimates say the untended well is spewing 5,000 barrels of crude oil a day into the gulf. BP estimates it might take 90 days to seal off the leak. That's 450,000 barrels of oil that is just coming up from the ocean floor on its own, no pumping. (This makes sense, as oil is lighter than water and would naturally rise out of the hole.) Crude oil is currently selling for $86.19 a barrel (even higher in the futures market.) That's almost $39 million worth of oil that is, again, just bubbling up on its own. The good lord only knows how much is actually in the oil field, but I'd guess it's probably much, much higher. I don't know much about the intricacies of oil harvesting, but why would they be abandoning this much easily obtainable oil after they've already done the enormously difficult and expensive task of poking a hole in the earth almost a mile below sea level? This just doesn't make sense.
Meteor shit!
Oh, Jordy Verrill, you lunkhead!
I believe you may be thinking of Engadget.
You do one hell of an impression of a schizophrenic. Or you are one...
Interesting, but what would happen to their current business model? (which has proven HIGHLY profitable since its inception.) How many ads do you see on Amazon.com? None, because they sell just about everything. Also, it would take Google many years and billions of dollars in capital to switch their business model. They would have to build up a distribution infrastructure, cut deals with suppliers, develop marketing tools, etc. True they have money to burn, but why, when they're doing OK as it is?
In the end, Google is pretty good at being Google, and doesn't really need to crack into a completely different market, like selling everything, at least, not yet. Maybe years down the road, or maybe they could sneak into it very slowly, but I just don't see this as a practical business move any time soon.
This might be flamebait, but more advanced how? Just because a society doesn't want to build smoke-belching factories or travel to other star systems (to mine fuel for smoke-belching factories and travel to other star systems) why are they less advanced? Did you see the movie? The deity they prayed to was real, as in really existed and interacted with them on a day-to-day basis, so the fact that they worshiped that deity doesn't make them primitive. That deity also healed them, so they weren't in need of the same type of medical science that we have. They had plenty of food from the lush world on which they lived. So they didn't have iPods and cell phones and cars, does that really make humanity more advanced?
Can a post be both sad and funny at the same time? Is there a modifier for it?
You need to use 2 cameras.
I play EVE Online. (Online MMORPG with spaceships.) One of my corporation's (guild) favorite tactics is to deliberately allow a spy into our corp. Then we feed them some decent intel, usually giving up a couple ships in the process. This solidifies the spy's status as a source of valuable information. Then we'll feed them some monumentally bad intel. Since they think they have good intel, nine times out of ten, they'll leave their real assets unattended or move their fleet in a completely unprotected manner since they think we're ten solar systems away.
Ah yes... disinformation. Way better than real intel, and much less costly.
why didn't the DoD just start passing a fake feed from the drone? They could have added another encrypted channel for the real feed, which I would assume is trivial given the military's budget. Then pass fake data over the unencrypted channel. Sometimes disinformation to the enemy is far more valuable than real intelligence. I can see a bunch of jihadis sitting around watching a tv screen. "Look at those infidels. They are going to blow up the wrong building! Our secret base is 100 kilometers away! Say, does anyone else hear that noi..." [BOOM]
More important, why is there a difference in consumer versus commercial grade mattresses? I mean, take a vacuum cleaner for example. A commercial vacuum gets used for 8-12 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. My home vacuum cleaner gets used once a week for a couple hours. My $50 vacuum cleaner would last about 3 weeks in a hotel, so I can understand that there can and should be a fundamental difference in how they are built. But hotel mattresses get slept on just as much as my mattress at home. There is no difference, really, except that it gets used by different people instead of the same person every night. So why is there even a need for a commercial grade?
Why would Orwell be proud? I think he would be horrified. He wasn't adulating the society in 1984, he was writing in fear for what ours might become. The book was supposed to serve as a wakeup call. The fact that we're inching closer to this society might make his prediction correct, but I don't think he'd be happy about that.
I stared at that spinning little ball of light for like 3 minutes before I realized it was just waiting for the video to load.
you don't even offer any proof that it is a "big scam"
Google "Ted Williams", "Chatsworth Scandal"
I don't doubt that some day we'll be able to freeze/revive persons, but this 'industry' is so fraught with scandal and corruption that a reasonable conclusion is that it's a big scam in its current state. I mean, you walk into a Vegas casino, and there's a nonzero chance you'll walk out a multi-billionaire, but that doesn't justify it as a rational means of making money.
You imply that the GP must be an unethical person, because he sees this as a scam, but I would argue he's just a person observant of historical behaviors. I think that the punchline to the joke will be that once we've found a way to freeze/thaw people successfully, we're going to find that the trick to doing it is in the freezing, not the thawing.
I helped one of my clients move from an office building they'd had since the 1940's. The powder-blue metal desks they used actually had ashtrays embedded into them. Relics from a bygone era I suppose.
Mel Gibson and Paris Hilton did a research paper together? Man, I'd love to read that...
Whoever modded this offtopic clearly missed the reference.