The cable will have some "slack" probably since things like wind will move it around. Given it's total length 5m is a very small distance. Seeing how much force the cable is already dealing with (and how big they're planning to make the safety margins) it would seem odd to me if it snapped from the force it exerts due to attempts at shrinking.
The cost for humans would be decently larger, shielding weights a lot more than a person for example. In addition, they need to send up food, water, waste disposal, climate control, etc. since someone will need to live in there for almost a week. Also, initial costs for a space elevator won't be $20/lb since you need to pay off the cost of building the thing (and people seem to always underestimate the costs since it makes their product/service/idea look better; the shuttle was supposed to be $1/lb or less originally).
As for nuclear, if they get a few good test launches and keep the cost down then people will use it. It'd probably be safer than regular rockets since they don't have to worry as much about weight so they can add more safety devices.
Then go and have fun reading yoru DNA. Keep in mind that if they couldn't make money from it then they would have never sequenced it so either way you don't see it, why complain?
Yup. If the parent wants the data to be free then eh can pay for it or do it himself. Thsi was a purely private effort and has every right to keep the data private. And there WAS a public project to sequence the human genome which did rather well. If you want the data to be public then the public has to pay for it, or have some altruistic individual pay for it. Can't get something for nothing. The parent really should keep the following in mind: if the data wasn't private then there would be no Celera data (still would have data from public genome project) to begin with since Celera would not have done the work. This way there is at least someone who can benefit from it instead of no one.
Because we're talking about regular users and windows is graphic based? The closest thing to integration I've seen is the right click and RunAs for an application however that isn't exactly user friendly (it's the easiest thing to implement so that's what MS did).
As for su... are you honestly unable to comprehend the difference between a command line tool for a mostly command line based OS and a command line tool (with bad documentation) for a mostly GUI based OS?
Also, what does su have to do with anything? We're talking about windows and users running as Admin. Why would you expect users to use a cumbersome interface, simply because Linux may not have a better one?
I use Gentoo because it works for me. I use it on a secondary computer and before Gentoo I tried SuSe and Mandrake, with the former being a pain and a half to get working (network drivers just did not get detected correctly) and the second not installing. So I I've stuck with it and have reinstalled a few times, each time learning something new (usually by borking it beyond my ability to repair). It's a secondary system (mostly a server now) so every so often I "emerge world" and continue with whatever else I was doing.
uh... As someone else mentioned eugenics was a quite popular movement until the Nazis came around. Yes that means it was popular in the US and Britain and probably would have stayed so had the Nazis not come.
And lobotomies were done as "psychiatric" procedures in the US up to the 1950's or so, with around 50k or so performed. There was at least some support for them in the medical community and if nothing else there wasn't wide spread objection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Maybe they will in 20 years, there is no profit right now for the type of things the government does and the initial costs are too great for any sane investor. If you're going to complain about how much the Shuttle incident has "set us back" then private space companies are not the answer. You can't have it both ways.
I forgot to add, also if you can't tell the difference between hitting a weak brick wall and a reinforced concrete wall, then there is again not much I can do.
If you don't know the difference between a plane going 30mph and 400mph then I really can't say much except insults. Can't help someone who lacks that much common sense.
...They knew Bin Laden may potentially want to hijack an airplane using an unknown person, with the location and final goals likewise unknown... real detail there.
First of all we're not gonna be sure till we have 6 years left and I doubt anyone would launch a mission given the low projected odds as fo right now. Either way, ion drives will do jack shit as the problem is getting the requires mass into orbit (thus the need for an island). Once it's there Orion engines no longer produce much pollution (at Earth).
We've already exploded so many surface nukes it's not even funny, and it's probably not that hard to get a few islands. I'm sure you'd be changing your tune very quickly if the rock was going to hit your country but then again people are selfish by nature.
On that note, how about we use one of those fuckin islands which are going to be destroyed by the asterodi anyway... eiehter way they're gone so we might as well use them for something. I doubt the people would mind too much either, as most would have evacuated anyway (seeing as a giant rock was going to fall on their heads).
I'm stating a fact, going to prison in the US gives you a high risk of being ass rapped which for most people offsets any theoretical benefits of the visit (ie: free food, etc.).
But GE is a way of doing that, you alter the implanted cells so that they no longer trigger the immune system. It's not a long term solution probably (and somewhat limited) however it's probably easier than altering a person's whole immune system. Granted this only works if the substance that triggers the immune system is not vital to the function of the cells (oe more than one version exists in the human population and the person only reacts to one specific version).
The government among other things should ensure stability in both the short and long term, and vast inequality does not help stability (lower classes can get uppity sometimes). All your money is worthless if the peasants rebel, storm your house, and kill you and your whole family.
Hell, even in a hospital your medical files go through tons of people (or at least they have access to them, I think someone did a count for a routine operation and it reached over 70). And thats not counting all the unofficial ways your info gets around (ie: "hey, Bob you wouldn't belive this patient I got..." etc.).
As someone else said, you simply lack imagination. Research and simulation, as well as companies will need faster processors.
In addition, gaming is a large segment of the market. What do you think powers your ultra-hip console: magic gnomes? No it's called a cpu, amazing isn't it?
As for your lack of imagination, consider a rescue dog or any of the other uses of trained dogs. Now imagine trying to teach a mouse to do those things. I doubt you'd get very far by the simple fact that the dog's brain is so much bigger. What you're saying in essence is that "well we have a mouse, why would we ever need anything more."
I for one want intelligent computers (or at least ones which seem intelligent), robots that can do useful things (real time imagine processing alone kills modern comps), and so on.
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The cable will have some "slack" probably since things like wind will move it around. Given it's total length 5m is a very small distance. Seeing how much force the cable is already dealing with (and how big they're planning to make the safety margins) it would seem odd to me if it snapped from the force it exerts due to attempts at shrinking.
The cost for humans would be decently larger, shielding weights a lot more than a person for example. In addition, they need to send up food, water, waste disposal, climate control, etc. since someone will need to live in there for almost a week. Also, initial costs for a space elevator won't be $20/lb since you need to pay off the cost of building the thing (and people seem to always underestimate the costs since it makes their product/service/idea look better; the shuttle was supposed to be $1/lb or less originally).
As for nuclear, if they get a few good test launches and keep the cost down then people will use it. It'd probably be safer than regular rockets since they don't have to worry as much about weight so they can add more safety devices.
Then go and have fun reading yoru DNA. Keep in mind that if they couldn't make money from it then they would have never sequenced it so either way you don't see it, why complain?
if they went through the effort of finding a gene, it's function, etc. then potentially however the sequencing itself does not do any of this.
Yup. If the parent wants the data to be free then eh can pay for it or do it himself. Thsi was a purely private effort and has every right to keep the data private.
And there WAS a public project to sequence the human genome which did rather well. If you want the data to be public then the public has to pay for it, or have some altruistic individual pay for it. Can't get something for nothing.
The parent really should keep the following in mind: if the data wasn't private then there would be no Celera data (still would have data from public genome project) to begin with since Celera would not have done the work. This way there is at least someone who can benefit from it instead of no one.
Because we're talking about regular users and windows is graphic based? The closest thing to integration I've seen is the right click and RunAs for an application however that isn't exactly user friendly (it's the easiest thing to implement so that's what MS did).
... are you honestly unable to comprehend the difference between a command line tool for a mostly command line based OS and a command line tool (with bad documentation) for a mostly GUI based OS?
As for su
Also, what does su have to do with anything? We're talking about windows and users running as Admin. Why would you expect users to use a cumbersome interface, simply because Linux may not have a better one?
...and people wonder why everyone runs as Admin. I'm sorry but that is a half-assed implementation and thus has limited uses.
I use Gentoo because it works for me. I use it on a secondary computer and before Gentoo I tried SuSe and Mandrake, with the former being a pain and a half to get working (network drivers just did not get detected correctly) and the second not installing. So I
I've stuck with it and have reinstalled a few times, each time learning something new (usually by borking it beyond my ability to repair). It's a secondary system (mostly a server now) so every so often I "emerge world" and continue with whatever else I was doing.
uh... As someone else mentioned eugenics was a quite popular movement until the Nazis came around. Yes that means it was popular in the US and Britain and probably would have stayed so had the Nazis not come.
And lobotomies were done as "psychiatric" procedures in the US up to the 1950's or so, with around 50k or so performed. There was at least some support for them in the medical community and if nothing else there wasn't wide spread objection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Or we'll be grateful that so few people took him seriously. Back in the day they would call proponent of lobotomies and eugenics visionaries as well.
Maybe they will in 20 years, there is no profit right now for the type of things the government does and the initial costs are too great for any sane investor. If you're going to complain about how much the Shuttle incident has "set us back" then private space companies are not the answer. You can't have it both ways.
I forgot to add, also if you can't tell the difference between hitting a weak brick wall and a reinforced concrete wall, then there is again not much I can do.
If you don't know the difference between a plane going 30mph and 400mph then I really can't say much except insults. Can't help someone who lacks that much common sense.
...are you really that much of a moron, please tell me you're joking.
...They knew Bin Laden may potentially want to hijack an airplane using an unknown person, with the location and final goals likewise unknown... real detail there.
First of all we're not gonna be sure till we have 6 years left and I doubt anyone would launch a mission given the low projected odds as fo right now. Either way, ion drives will do jack shit as the problem is getting the requires mass into orbit (thus the need for an island). Once it's there Orion engines no longer produce much pollution (at Earth).
... eiehter way they're gone so we might as well use them for something. I doubt the people would mind too much either, as most would have evacuated anyway (seeing as a giant rock was going to fall on their heads).
We've already exploded so many surface nukes it's not even funny, and it's probably not that hard to get a few islands. I'm sure you'd be changing your tune very quickly if the rock was going to hit your country but then again people are selfish by nature.
On that note, how about we use one of those fuckin islands which are going to be destroyed by the asterodi anyway
I'm stating a fact, going to prison in the US gives you a high risk of being ass rapped which for most people offsets any theoretical benefits of the visit (ie: free food, etc.).
But GE is a way of doing that, you alter the implanted cells so that they no longer trigger the immune system. It's not a long term solution probably (and somewhat limited) however it's probably easier than altering a person's whole immune system. Granted this only works if the substance that triggers the immune system is not vital to the function of the cells (oe more than one version exists in the human population and the person only reacts to one specific version).
So we lose a large island and some people get cancer ... better than losing a medium continent.
Two words: "ass rape"
The government among other things should ensure stability in both the short and long term, and vast inequality does not help stability (lower classes can get uppity sometimes). All your money is worthless if the peasants rebel, storm your house, and kill you and your whole family.
Hell, even in a hospital your medical files go through tons of people (or at least they have access to them, I think someone did a count for a routine operation and it reached over 70). And thats not counting all the unofficial ways your info gets around (ie: "hey, Bob you wouldn't belive this patient I got..." etc.).
The Russians probably... then again it'd be more amusing if it was the Chinese.
More like 50 times as much.
As someone else said, you simply lack imagination. Research and simulation, as well as companies will need faster processors.
In addition, gaming is a large segment of the market. What do you think powers your ultra-hip console: magic gnomes? No it's called a cpu, amazing isn't it?
As for your lack of imagination, consider a rescue dog or any of the other uses of trained dogs. Now imagine trying to teach a mouse to do those things. I doubt you'd get very far by the simple fact that the dog's brain is so much bigger. What you're saying in essence is that "well we have a mouse, why would we ever need anything more."
I for one want intelligent computers (or at least ones which seem intelligent), robots that can do useful things (real time imagine processing alone kills modern comps), and so on.