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If you read bc90021's full response to himself and then the response to that response, you see he misposted by clicking on the wrong article.
And that mistake shows the degradation of quality that is implicit in multi-tasking (note, I am multi-tasking now, so if I seem confused, apply this bit of insight recursively!)
Considering that the commentary is supposed to be satirical, couldn't the the blogger claim parody without worry for copyright infringement? The website does claim that these pictures are not their original work (and gives credit as much as possible), and then proceeds to parody their content. Would this fly in court?
Phone is nice, but the real benefit of IMing is really in the group mode of conversation (think conference call for free and you can all talk at once with out chaos).
Also, most of the tween set are pretty mult-tasking heavy, so they have like 3 or for conversations flowing at once. Because they are 'conference' type conversations, they can ignore it for a few moments while others carry the load.
But the real breakthrough for any IM is getting everyone else on it easily. MSN is already installed, so thus lowest barrier to entry. Maybe a java client that you can include in your email (assuming that can get through firewalls or anything?).
NASA's budget is far lower than it was even 20 years ago (adjusting for inflation). I don't have the numbers (and please correct me if I'm wrong), but I remember about 10 years the budget was slashed heavily. There are two problems with NASA's management structure. The first, in terms of safety, is the current 'fly-on-the-cheap' missions that the are perfecting. The recent mars and mercury missions were of this type, and they were great successes. But even if they failed, costs were kept very low to minimize risk. But you cannot have any failures with manned spaceflight, so you are basically creating *two* types of sub-cultures that NASA will follow, and they must be carefully partitioned if they plan to do so, or the simply never fail procedure must override.
A bigger problem is talent and recruitment. Yes, everyone dreams of working for NASA when they get older, but the pay is not great and it just isn't as sexy as other things (especially in the more mundane fields). I don't know how to address this problem, I just know that NASA's average employee age is very high (though there may also be a factor that they don't layoff like a company would so less Darwinian effects).
Yes, that does pose a problem of degradation. Perhaps they could combine it with a jamming technology (ie, broadcast noise at the Wi-Fi frequency range) outside of the building. Even if there is some stray signal leaking out, the jammer would ensure that it is unusable.
And the jamming should not affect networks inside, because the wallpaper should block both ways (as I understand it). If it does not block, because of leaks, then it should be relatively easy to pickup that noisy radiation leaking in and patch it.
Perhaps the way to go is a 'wallpaper' where one side is the blocking rf choke grid, and the other side is an array antenna which is used to broadcast the blocking signal. Perhaps we should patent this (though it is predicated on us getting the blocking wallpaper to license their tech to us!).
This sounds about right. The government should provide open access, but the cost cannot be completely borne by the tax payer.
But what do you deem a reasonable cost? You could make it prohibitively expensive to keep certain people out (harkening back to the idea of Poll Taxes).
Maybe we could offer up this suggestion to the Cheney Energy Task force. Say that make a contribution to spruce up his 'undisclosed location', and we can get a copy of the memos!
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If you read bc90021's full response to himself and then the response to that response, you see he misposted by clicking on the wrong article. And that mistake shows the degradation of quality that is implicit in multi-tasking (note, I am multi-tasking now, so if I seem confused, apply this bit of insight recursively!)
With liquid lens and OLEDs, very soon most electronics will be sprayed into place!
Considering that the commentary is supposed to be satirical, couldn't the the blogger claim parody without worry for copyright infringement? The website does claim that these pictures are not their original work (and gives credit as much as possible), and then proceeds to parody their content. Would this fly in court?
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Phone is nice, but the real benefit of IMing is really in the group mode of conversation (think conference call for free and you can all talk at once with out chaos). Also, most of the tween set are pretty mult-tasking heavy, so they have like 3 or for conversations flowing at once. Because they are 'conference' type conversations, they can ignore it for a few moments while others carry the load. But the real breakthrough for any IM is getting everyone else on it easily. MSN is already installed, so thus lowest barrier to entry. Maybe a java client that you can include in your email (assuming that can get through firewalls or anything?).
A bigger problem is talent and recruitment. Yes, everyone dreams of working for NASA when they get older, but the pay is not great and it just isn't as sexy as other things (especially in the more mundane fields). I don't know how to address this problem, I just know that NASA's average employee age is very high (though there may also be a factor that they don't layoff like a company would so less Darwinian effects).
And the jamming should not affect networks inside, because the wallpaper should block both ways (as I understand it). If it does not block, because of leaks, then it should be relatively easy to pickup that noisy radiation leaking in and patch it.
Perhaps the way to go is a 'wallpaper' where one side is the blocking rf choke grid, and the other side is an array antenna which is used to broadcast the blocking signal. Perhaps we should patent this (though it is predicated on us getting the blocking wallpaper to license their tech to us!).
This sounds about right. The government should provide open access, but the cost cannot be completely borne by the tax payer. But what do you deem a reasonable cost? You could make it prohibitively expensive to keep certain people out (harkening back to the idea of Poll Taxes). Maybe we could offer up this suggestion to the Cheney Energy Task force. Say that make a contribution to spruce up his 'undisclosed location', and we can get a copy of the memos!