And really, they should not be wasting all that heat. It should be tied into cogeneration of something - warming up greenhouses, buildings, whatever. But they shouldn't be just wasting it.
Of course,we should not be flaring off millions of cubic feet of natural gas because it's 'cheaper' to do so, but there you have the free hand bitch slapping us around again.
And when you talk to the press talk about how they do it in Israel and what Bruce Schneier has to say about that.
The Israeli experience doesn't really scale. Remember, they essentially have one International airport - Ben Gurion. Not several thousand. Besides, if you think Americans are uncomfortable now, just wait until a plain clothes security guy comes through the aircraft cabin with an Uzi. We really don't want to emulate Israel.
Heh I'm not coming over, not because of the people, because most are just nice and friendly and quite interested when I tell them I am from the Netherlands, but I don't like being treated like a criminal when I enter a country. Having my pic taken, fingerprints etc, and that data being shared with multiple agencies, etc.
You're not being treated like a criminal. You're being treated like the rest of us citizens, comrade.
That may be cool and all, but would cost most people orders of magnitude more than commercial passenger air travel. Financially, it only makes sense if you end up flying on a weekly basis.
My biggest concern is that the general public can barely be arsed to drive to the airport safely in a system that only requires two dimensional thinking, little interaction with the rest of the world and the mental abilities of a paramecium. What would happen when they have to deal with an entire other dimension? They can't just put the plane in 4 wheel drive and drive across the median...
There are, as usual, competing ideas. Ever since hydrothermal vents were discovered to be full of living things in supposedly inhospitable conditions (which really isn't true, there is plenty of life in an abyssal plain surrounding a hydrothermal vent, it just isn't as photogenic as it's glopping around in the mud) it has been thought that perhaps these structures were candidates for nurturing very early life forms. Such vents were likely to occur as soon as water precipitated. So you have water (of some unknown ionic concentration, likely fairly anoxic), dissolved metal ions, dissolved bits of clay (both useful as a catalysts) and energy. Next thing you know kids are texting and doing drugs....
I could wave my flippers and postulate that there were micro environments in the vents that were also ion rich but that's just speculation...
Does this mean that life on exoplanets without deep seas and hydrothermal vents is still possible? Perhaps a more arid world, where water isn't quite as common as on Earth. I'm interested to see what implications this has for the search for life. It could expand the possible amount of planets that are likely to evolve life.
Sure. So far we (seem) to have only one data point for conditions that allow for biological activity. We can postulate many others but until we get probes on Mars, Arcturus and other heavenly bodies, it's just a guess.
As, of course, is TFA. Interesting theory - that current ion concentrations within the cell more or less faithfully represent the ion concentrations of some ancient ancestor due to the inherent conservation bias found in living organisms (if it works, it works, keep it around). The big problem with that idea, IMHO, is that it can just as easily be postulated that very early life was unable to keep ion gradients within the cell (because they did not have an established, complicated cell membrane) but didn't need to because, well, because they were barely conscious pond scum and didn't need the ion gradient (or whatever) found inside modern cells because they were dumb and primitive and did nothing besides make a couple more copies of themselves. Perhaps the folding and unfolding of the primitive nucleic acid (likely RNA or something similar to it) was more tolerant to ion fluxes than the complicated machinery we have now.
Interesting however. Much better than the typical PR piece.
Thus, they may have evolved anywhere where conditions were favorable for the primordial pond scum, be it hydrothermal vents or whatnot.
The problem with Samsungs (and, I think all of the other TVs) is that the software sucks. I've got a 2(?) year old 42' Samsung. Nice TV but awful interface UI, terrible USB support, non existent documentation.
This is, as has been mentioned, where Apple could conceivably break in. Allow a non technical person to hook up a DVR or find a movie, get a remote without three hundred tiny little buttons with colored squiggles. Change inputs without looking at the Janglish manual. Lock people into iTunes. Make it hard to do anything not explicitly deemed appropriate by Apple. Die after an update....
Sigh. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It really did.
Even if you wanted to monitize power outlets, the easy thing to do would be to just make a long bench with cubicles and outlets connected to a little relay that turned the outlet on or off given how many quarters / tokens / credit cards or whatever coine of the realm in use were fed to to the machine.
I think most of use could gin up a prototype in a couple of hours.
If that's what they're trying to do, Sony is thinking way too hard.
Mission control several thousand miles away from the launch site is Pork. Other that it being a convenient pestilential swamp, there was no reason to put the Manned^HLyndon B. Johnson Spacecraft Center where they did. It just happened to be in Texas which needed a few bones to be thrown in their direction.
I'm hoping their search engine finds the "nuclear" patent holed up somewhere in Motorola's recently acquired portfolio that allows them to put an end to the other companies sue everyone else wars between Apple, Samsung and every other manufacturer out there. The "one patent to trump them all" wielded by Google that could put everyone else in a hurt locker unless they calm down and agree to play nice would be a dream and allow honest development and competition to resume.
Found lying in an old basement in one of Motorola's old European offices, the door bricked over decades ago by workmen cleaning out after WWII. It will be in a dusty red leather bound book with parchment leaves, bound together with ancient cotton thread taken from Egyptian mummies.
You can't assume that inflation is constant; in fact, in the past few years the cost of everything has pretty much stayed the same or decreased, so we very well may have had close to 0 inflation.
You are either 1) Still in your basement and you mom keeps leaving food at the door or 2) you're in jail.
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And really, they should not be wasting all that heat. It should be tied into cogeneration of something - warming up greenhouses, buildings, whatever. But they shouldn't be just wasting it.
Of course,we should not be flaring off millions of cubic feet of natural gas because it's 'cheaper' to do so, but there you have the free hand bitch slapping us around again.
Reluctant homosexuality?
Cut him some slack. He's just flying on business trip, not getting psychoanalyzed.
And when you talk to the press talk about how they do it in Israel and what Bruce Schneier has to say about that.
The Israeli experience doesn't really scale. Remember, they essentially have one International airport - Ben Gurion. Not several thousand. Besides, if you think Americans are uncomfortable now, just wait until a plain clothes security guy comes through the aircraft cabin with an Uzi. We really don't want to emulate Israel.
Heh I'm not coming over, not because of the people, because most are just nice and friendly and quite interested when I tell them I am from the Netherlands, but I don't like being treated like a criminal when I enter a country. Having my pic taken, fingerprints etc, and that data being shared with multiple agencies, etc.
You're not being treated like a criminal. You're being treated like the rest of us citizens, comrade.
We don't want to scare the bejesus out of you. We want to scare The Jesus into you!
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That may be cool and all, but would cost most people orders of magnitude more than commercial passenger air travel. Financially, it only makes sense if you end up flying on a weekly basis.
My biggest concern is that the general public can barely be arsed to drive to the airport safely in a system that only requires two dimensional thinking, little interaction with the rest of the world and the mental abilities of a paramecium. What would happen when they have to deal with an entire other dimension? They can't just put the plane in 4 wheel drive and drive across the median...
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You will be getting to the point of this at some point in time, won't you?
There are, as usual, competing ideas. Ever since hydrothermal vents were discovered to be full of living things in supposedly inhospitable conditions (which really isn't true, there is plenty of life in an abyssal plain surrounding a hydrothermal vent, it just isn't as photogenic as it's glopping around in the mud) it has been thought that perhaps these structures were candidates for nurturing very early life forms. Such vents were likely to occur as soon as water precipitated. So you have water (of some unknown ionic concentration, likely fairly anoxic), dissolved metal ions, dissolved bits of clay (both useful as a catalysts) and energy. Next thing you know kids are texting and doing drugs....
I could wave my flippers and postulate that there were micro environments in the vents that were also ion rich but that's just speculation ...
Does this mean that life on exoplanets without deep seas and hydrothermal vents is still possible?
Perhaps a more arid world, where water isn't quite as common as on Earth.
I'm interested to see what implications this has for the search for life. It could expand the possible amount of planets that are likely to evolve life.
Sure. So far we (seem) to have only one data point for conditions that allow for biological activity. We can postulate many others but until we get probes on Mars, Arcturus and other heavenly bodies, it's just a guess.
As, of course, is TFA. Interesting theory - that current ion concentrations within the cell more or less faithfully represent the ion concentrations of some ancient ancestor due to the inherent conservation bias found in living organisms (if it works, it works, keep it around). The big problem with that idea, IMHO, is that it can just as easily be postulated that very early life was unable to keep ion gradients within the cell (because they did not have an established, complicated cell membrane) but didn't need to because, well, because they were barely conscious pond scum and didn't need the ion gradient (or whatever) found inside modern cells because they were dumb and primitive and did nothing besides make a couple more copies of themselves. Perhaps the folding and unfolding of the primitive nucleic acid (likely RNA or something similar to it) was more tolerant to ion fluxes than the complicated machinery we have now.
Interesting however. Much better than the typical PR piece.
Thus, they may have evolved anywhere where conditions were favorable for the primordial pond scum, be it hydrothermal vents or whatnot.
These guys are into Serious crime. They don't want to deal with small volume, unknown Operating Systems run by petty criminals.
Does anyone else giggle when they read "Serious Organized Crime Agency" with a deep voice?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Wow. You really chugged down all of that Kool-Aid in one gulp.
You feel OK? A little dizzy or anything?
The problem with Samsungs (and, I think all of the other TVs) is that the software sucks. I've got a 2(?) year old 42' Samsung. Nice TV but awful interface UI, terrible USB support, non existent documentation.
This is, as has been mentioned, where Apple could conceivably break in. Allow a non technical person to hook up a DVR or find a movie, get a remote without three hundred tiny little buttons with colored squiggles. Change inputs without looking at the Janglish manual. Lock people into iTunes. Make it hard to do anything not explicitly deemed appropriate by Apple. Die after an update....
Sigh. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It really did.
Even if you wanted to monitize power outlets, the easy thing to do would be to just make a long bench with cubicles and outlets connected to a little relay that turned the outlet on or off given how many quarters / tokens / credit cards or whatever coine of the realm in use were fed to to the machine.
I think most of use could gin up a prototype in a couple of hours.
If that's what they're trying to do, Sony is thinking way too hard.
Mission control several thousand miles away from the launch site is Pork. Other that it being a convenient pestilential swamp, there was no reason to put the Manned^HLyndon B. Johnson Spacecraft Center where they did. It just happened to be in Texas which needed a few bones to be thrown in their direction.
Kinda reminds me of something.
Why is "Europe's Spaceport" in South America? Isn't that South America's Spaceport?
Mind your own business ....
Hi Netflix, this is Linux calling...
I can't heeeere you!
I'm hoping their search engine finds the "nuclear" patent holed up somewhere in Motorola's recently acquired portfolio that allows them to put an end to the other companies sue everyone else wars between Apple, Samsung and every other manufacturer out there. The "one patent to trump them all" wielded by Google that could put everyone else in a hurt locker unless they calm down and agree to play nice would be a dream and allow honest development and competition to resume.
Found lying in an old basement in one of Motorola's old European offices, the door bricked over decades ago by workmen cleaning out after WWII. It will be in a dusty red leather bound book with parchment leaves, bound together with ancient cotton thread taken from Egyptian mummies.
Maybe they'll make a video game out of the story.
I would be totally cool wit the idea of re-setting the entire planet to, like, 1977.
Jimmy Carter again?
Surely, you jest.
You can't assume that inflation is constant; in fact, in the past few years the cost of everything has pretty much stayed the same or decreased, so we very well may have had close to 0 inflation.
You are either 1) Still in your basement and you mom keeps leaving food at the door or 2) you're in jail.
Many economists would disagree with you.
Now, as a logical fallacy is that an 'appeal to authority' or a 'reducto ad absurdum'?
With a car analogy, that would be like removing the engine to reduce the weight.
And you'd get better gas mileage to boot!
Double win!
No, and this won't either. Some users will use it, but most probably won't, either because they don't care or they don't know.
Sentence much?