I gather zinc-air cells would be rechargeable if it weren't for the water in the air. I've heard of various companies working on rechargeable zinc-air, lithium-air, and even sodium-air.
What we really need is some kind of system that prevents jerry-mandering when redistricting. Perhaps a limit of one district crossing each political border? (city, county, etc.) Perhaps require that crossing to be contiguous along the border? Of course then you can jerry-mander the city and county borders, but that should be harder.
Humans are. Earth will continue even in an environment not hospitable to us, and life too will probably go on.
Even humans aren't that delicate. We're one of the most adaptable large species we know of. A small population of us (barring the interference of other human populations) could self-sustain on almost every part of every continent except Antarctica. (And we may be changing Antarctica to the point where we could sustain ourselves there too.)
A human civilization capable of space travel, however, appears to be delicate. If we don't get off the planet soon, our civilization could fall to a level no longer capable of building rockets to get us into space.
To get good information on Europa, you really need a lander. You might not even need to drill - organics may flow up from the ocean and get frozen in the crust. But a lander is necessary to get actual samples. In fact, if they send that Curiosity clone they're planning to Europa instead of Mars again, it might get much more interesting results!
Enceladus, on the other hand, is like Soviet Russia: Because of its geysers, samples go to you.
Even if a 3D printer were "outfitted with a built-in material re-processor that can convert virtually any carbon-based substance into filament for 3d-printing", it would need a power source too. I recall once seeing a plan for an automated wheeled vehicle that would collect and burn plants for fuel. (I searched but can't find the original source.) But it would have to roam far and wide to get enough to make a copy of itself.
This particular implementation isn't real - where would they put the luggage?
But with planes being built with more composite materials these days, I wonder if any of them can be made transparent, or at least translucent? Full side-windows and a skylight, maybe?
Then again, there's insulation to consider. It is very cold at 40,000ft (near space).
Long, long ago, I started using Sage with Firefox. When it was sort-of abandoned, I moved to Sage-Too.
Then, the main developer of Sage-Too went on a rant about not liking ad blockers, and left. Problem is, I like ad blockers and hate people who force me not to use them. The Sage project resumed working, but it didn't work with Ad Block. I managed to keep using Sage Too until I couldn't avoid upgrading from Firefox 3.6x. At that point, I cobbled together something with PHP on my local Apache server, plus Stylish in Firefox, to keep using a very Sage-like interface with Ad Block.
Point is, I'd never use an RSS reader that was on a remote server. Now my main problem is that while Firefox converts RSS feeds to HTML, Google Chrome doesn't. If I found a good RSS-to-HTML converter in PHP, I'd probably have an at-least-Github-ready "Sage Three".
But I can easily find you if I need to ask you something, instead of sending an e-mail I hope you read in a timely matter, or hoping you don't have your phone on silent.
I work from home. If you need to ask me something, IM me on skype. I'll at least start typing an answer within a minute - five if I was in the bathroom. And if I was in the bathroom at work you wouldn't have been able to find me at my desk anyway.
This is a library. The source code provided today doesn't appear to build an executable.
Does anyone know if anyone has produced any executables with this yet, or at least source I can build an executable from? Anything to improve compression on zipfiles, like kzip? Anything to improve compression on PNGs like pngout?
I'd go a little farther than that. I'd also set up an SSH server, and a firewall so nobody can connect to my machine from the outside with anything [i]but[/i] an ssh client. Then I'd tunnel all my web traffic through SSH to my Squid proxy. (Actually, I'd use Polipo.)
Of course, this assumes that your WiFi router is not directly connected to the Internet.
Despite his advocacy of the cloud and collaboration, he's also ambivalent about Wikileaks. 'It has made government and diplomacy much more challenging and ultimately less honest,' he writes at one point, 'as people fear that their private communications might become public.'
Not much more challenging. They just need a way to encrypt communications between two people. Like, say, PGP.
Come to think of it, why doesn't everybody have a PGP-enabled email system these days? Why aren't there common email clients - particularly web-based ones - that use PGP?
Note that this may not block individual attacks, but it should prevent mass cable intercepts.
I was just thinking about how Apple's products have evolved this century.
They produced the first good MP3 player, the iPod. Then others developed good MP3 players too. They moved on to the first good smartphone, the iPhone. Then others developed good smartphones too. They moved on to the first good tablet, the iPad. Then others developed good tablets too.
Apple needs a new form factor. And it seems to me that they're perfectly positioned to develop a wrist-phone-hub thing. You put a phone in a wristwatch form factor, give it a simple screen, up-to about three buttons, one camera, and lots of radio antennas and batteries in the wristband. Use Siri for most interactions with it, allow it to hook to Bluetooth headphone devices, and make it a small hotspot for your other iDevices.
I wonder how much space could be saved if parts of the OS were compressed with UPX? Or even with NTFS compression? Or is it using one of those SSDs that requires compressible data?
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Wrong Trek. This stuff looks more like these food cube things from TOS.
Of course, this is only the 21st century.
Wasn't there a guy who tried this once before?
Yes, but he wasn't American and wasn't part of an official news organization.
Of course, their phone records might still get subpoenaed.
Will EA develop games for Motorola smartphones?
Or are those not the Droids Disney is looking for?
I gather zinc-air cells would be rechargeable if it weren't for the water in the air. I've heard of various companies working on rechargeable zinc-air, lithium-air, and even sodium-air.
Yep, I remember this too. I even found the site of someone who claims to have created it. But you and he are off by 10 years - it was July 1987.
What we really need is some kind of system that prevents jerry-mandering when redistricting. Perhaps a limit of one district crossing each political border? (city, county, etc.) Perhaps require that crossing to be contiguous along the border? Of course then you can jerry-mander the city and county borders, but that should be harder.
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
(Somebody really needs to come up with a Superman UAV.)
Somebody did!
Humans are. Earth will continue even in an environment not hospitable to us, and life too will probably go on.
Even humans aren't that delicate. We're one of the most adaptable large species we know of. A small population of us (barring the interference of other human populations) could self-sustain on almost every part of every continent except Antarctica. (And we may be changing Antarctica to the point where we could sustain ourselves there too.)
A human civilization capable of space travel, however, appears to be delicate. If we don't get off the planet soon, our civilization could fall to a level no longer capable of building rockets to get us into space.
Now if only they would do support virtual terrorism instead of real terrorism.
I rather hope they don't do that either. Did you see the next story?
They should outsource to Rockstar Games. GTA set in a Star Wars universe could be fun.
Grand Theft Android? I might buy that.
- Carolyn Porco
To get good information on Europa, you really need a lander. You might not even need to drill - organics may flow up from the ocean and get frozen in the crust. But a lander is necessary to get actual samples. In fact, if they send that Curiosity clone they're planning to Europa instead of Mars again, it might get much more interesting results!
Enceladus, on the other hand, is like Soviet Russia: Because of its geysers, samples go to you.
Even if a 3D printer were "outfitted with a built-in material re-processor that can convert virtually any carbon-based substance into filament for 3d-printing", it would need a power source too. I recall once seeing a plan for an automated wheeled vehicle that would collect and burn plants for fuel. (I searched but can't find the original source.) But it would have to roam far and wide to get enough to make a copy of itself.
This particular implementation isn't real - where would they put the luggage?
But with planes being built with more composite materials these days, I wonder if any of them can be made transparent, or at least translucent? Full side-windows and a skylight, maybe?
Then again, there's insulation to consider. It is very cold at 40,000ft (near space).
My very own little Higgs boson particle. I will hug him and squeeze him and name him George.
And you can get a "Higgs boson" that you can do all that to for just $10.49 + shipping!
You didn't click the link, did you? Because the dinosaur that girl is riding is clearly not a velociraptor. Though it is a two-legged dinosaur.
Because humans have ridden dinosaurs.
Long, long ago, I started using Sage with Firefox. When it was sort-of abandoned, I moved to Sage-Too.
Then, the main developer of Sage-Too went on a rant about not liking ad blockers, and left. Problem is, I like ad blockers and hate people who force me not to use them. The Sage project resumed working, but it didn't work with Ad Block. I managed to keep using Sage Too until I couldn't avoid upgrading from Firefox 3.6x. At that point, I cobbled together something with PHP on my local Apache server, plus Stylish in Firefox, to keep using a very Sage-like interface with Ad Block.
Point is, I'd never use an RSS reader that was on a remote server. Now my main problem is that while Firefox converts RSS feeds to HTML, Google Chrome doesn't. If I found a good RSS-to-HTML converter in PHP, I'd probably have an at-least-Github-ready "Sage Three".
But I can easily find you if I need to ask you something, instead of sending an e-mail I hope you read in a timely matter, or hoping you don't have your phone on silent.
I work from home. If you need to ask me something, IM me on skype. I'll at least start typing an answer within a minute - five if I was in the bathroom. And if I was in the bathroom at work you wouldn't have been able to find me at my desk anyway.
This is a library. The source code provided today doesn't appear to build an executable.
Does anyone know if anyone has produced any executables with this yet, or at least source I can build an executable from? Anything to improve compression on zipfiles, like kzip? Anything to improve compression on PNGs like pngout?
I'd go a little farther than that. I'd also set up an SSH server, and a firewall so nobody can connect to my machine from the outside with anything [i]but[/i] an ssh client. Then I'd tunnel all my web traffic through SSH to my Squid proxy. (Actually, I'd use Polipo.)
Of course, this assumes that your WiFi router is not directly connected to the Internet.
Despite his advocacy of the cloud and collaboration, he's also ambivalent about Wikileaks. 'It has made government and diplomacy much more challenging and ultimately less honest,' he writes at one point, 'as people fear that their private communications might become public.'
Not much more challenging. They just need a way to encrypt communications between two people. Like, say, PGP.
Come to think of it, why doesn't everybody have a PGP-enabled email system these days? Why aren't there common email clients - particularly web-based ones - that use PGP?
Note that this may not block individual attacks, but it should prevent mass cable intercepts.
"Apple needs to move on to a new form factor"
I hope I didn't start this rumor. It seems like a logical thing to do, but I had no evidence they were doing it.
I was just thinking about how Apple's products have evolved this century.
They produced the first good MP3 player, the iPod. Then others developed good MP3 players too.
They moved on to the first good smartphone, the iPhone. Then others developed good smartphones too.
They moved on to the first good tablet, the iPad. Then others developed good tablets too.
Apple needs a new form factor. And it seems to me that they're perfectly positioned to develop a wrist-phone-hub thing. You put a phone in a wristwatch form factor, give it a simple screen, up-to about three buttons, one camera, and lots of radio antennas and batteries in the wristband. Use Siri for most interactions with it, allow it to hook to Bluetooth headphone devices, and make it a small hotspot for your other iDevices.
I wonder how much space could be saved if parts of the OS were compressed with UPX? Or even with NTFS compression? Or is it using one of those SSDs that requires compressible data?
The NERVA test engine is on display at Johnson Space Center, as I understand it.
National Geographic confirms your understanding.