My wife picked up our touchpad yesterday from Harvey Norman for 98 AUD. Its hard not to be happy at that price. I can see that most of the time we will use the web browser to it doesn't matter much what operating system we run.
Microsoft fight tooth and nail against floating licenses. I occasionally need visio at work so I have a $1000 copy of visio installed on my windows box even though at any given time we are using 10% of the licenses we own. The limiting case is the hospital where 99% of what you do is in this purpose built hospital management system (or whatever) but this little corner case hangs around where somebody needs to type up a letter for somebody's doctor or draft a letter of resignation or whatever so they chuck in a free word processor to fill the gap.
But I don't think there is any long term planning in it. No reuse. Just I need a document now and then I will probably throw it away.
most of us probably have hardware we bought at one point that was obsolete just to tinker with.
No kidding. I have a tablet PC which I bought second hand for $50. It runs windows 3.1 and is loaded with an application for managing telecommunication systems.
Maybe its not. If you had a large pool of staff who needed to edit the occasional office document (say a doctor who needs to fill out an HR form) then a free office package makes a lot of sense.
If their medical staff are filling out medical or office forms stored in Word format, their IT staff has no idea what they're doing.
I think its stupid too but its the normal way things are done at my workplace.
Maybe its not. If you had a large pool of staff who needed to edit the occasional office document (say a doctor who needs to fill out an HR form) then a free office package makes a lot of sense.
Fighter jets generally rely on ejection seats for situations where they lose power. None of them glide well and many can't glide at all. Parachutes are cheap and the payload for a balloon should be able to use one.
Yeah what they need is to be able to take on ballast at the end of the flight. My best guess would be to use solar energy to compress and liquefy air, and then dump the gas at the start of the next flight.
I have had a couple of supposed emails from New York City telling me I have parking fines to pay, with executables attached and called zip files. I live in Australia and the first one made my wife go WTF?
If Google keeps the business running the total cost of buying Motorola Mobile is almost zero. Google has the cash and it had to be parked somewhere. But if they run the business down their 12 billion bucks are gone.
Why? It only has to support itself against centrifugal forces and the gravitational gradient along its length. It could be assembled in orbit from smaller lengths of cable.
Easier to build because it is shorter, and because stresses are lower it can be made with materials available today. A proper space elevator still requires the development of new materials. Stress on the skyhook would be complicated by the changing gravity gradient as it rotates, but it should be easy to model.
Say you use it to send mass to the moon. For every 1000kg of food, fuel and people you send up, you send down 1100kg of lunar rock. This shifts the the centre of gravity of the rotating tether to a higher altitude every time two payloads are exchanged. Each end of the tether drops down to 10 or 20 km altitude, and at a low speed. Its motion relative to the ground would be mostly vertical. The amount of energy lost on each rotation would be fairly small and could be offset by importing rock from places outside our gravity well.
Putting the whole structure in orbit and spinning it up would certainly be expensive, but it might be possible to build it on the moon and send it down the gravity well.
The cable spins end over end. Attach masses to both ends at the same time. One mass at the top of the arc, the other mass at the bottom. Both masses match velocity with and end of the cable. During a half rotation the two masses exchange momentum.
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My wife picked up our touchpad yesterday from Harvey Norman for 98 AUD. Its hard not to be happy at that price. I can see that most of the time we will use the web browser to it doesn't matter much what operating system we run.
Microsoft fight tooth and nail against floating licenses. I occasionally need visio at work so I have a $1000 copy of visio installed on my windows box even though at any given time we are using 10% of the licenses we own. The limiting case is the hospital where 99% of what you do is in this purpose built hospital management system (or whatever) but this little corner case hangs around where somebody needs to type up a letter for somebody's doctor or draft a letter of resignation or whatever so they chuck in a free word processor to fill the gap.
But I don't think there is any long term planning in it. No reuse. Just I need a document now and then I will probably throw it away.
Makes me wonder if somebody will try to market a $99 WebOS tablet with cheap hardware.
most of us probably have hardware we bought at one point that was obsolete just to tinker with.
No kidding. I have a tablet PC which I bought second hand for $50. It runs windows 3.1 and is loaded with an application for managing telecommunication systems.
It won't smell too good, thats for sure.
Maybe its not. If you had a large pool of staff who needed to edit the occasional office document (say a doctor who needs to fill out an HR form) then a free office package makes a lot of sense.
If their medical staff are filling out medical or office forms stored in Word format, their IT staff has no idea what they're doing.
I think its stupid too but its the normal way things are done at my workplace.
Maybe its not. If you had a large pool of staff who needed to edit the occasional office document (say a doctor who needs to fill out an HR form) then a free office package makes a lot of sense.
Fighter jets generally rely on ejection seats for situations where they lose power. None of them glide well and many can't glide at all. Parachutes are cheap and the payload for a balloon should be able to use one.
Yeah what they need is to be able to take on ballast at the end of the flight. My best guess would be to use solar energy to compress and liquefy air, and then dump the gas at the start of the next flight.
I tried to poke around on the host device to see what I could find, but didn't get anywhere with it
If you drill down to something called TCAS or FMS I advise you to leave it alone.
I know a guy from the UAE, where they have massive China-level blocking and censorship. And everyone there simply has at least one VPN
But will they cut his head off if the VPN or downloaded content is found on his system?
Not very sporting to shoot at an unarmed opponent without giving the other guy a chance...
Yeah I noticed than when I installed gnome 3 on ubuntu it pulled in something which broke the pager on gnome 2.
I have had a couple of supposed emails from New York City telling me I have parking fines to pay, with executables attached and called zip files. I live in Australia and the first one made my wife go WTF?
Gnome2 should be available in the package repositories for a few years yet, even if it is not installed by default.
Enlightenment has a great tablet oriented desktop and it still works fine on the desktop, and it is more configurable than gnome.
They will shortly be a small company with 12 billion dollars in the bank.
If Google keeps the business running the total cost of buying Motorola Mobile is almost zero. Google has the cash and it had to be parked somewhere. But if they run the business down their 12 billion bucks are gone.
Prone to methane eruptions no doubt.
Do you reckon this planet is covered by monoliths? Maybe its going to explode.
Why? It only has to support itself against centrifugal forces and the gravitational gradient along its length. It could be assembled in orbit from smaller lengths of cable.
I use it as a spell checker and I never follow the links.
Easier to build because it is shorter, and because stresses are lower it can be made with materials available today. A proper space elevator still requires the development of new materials. Stress on the skyhook would be complicated by the changing gravity gradient as it rotates, but it should be easy to model.
Say you use it to send mass to the moon. For every 1000kg of food, fuel and people you send up, you send down 1100kg of lunar rock. This shifts the the centre of gravity of the rotating tether to a higher altitude every time two payloads are exchanged. Each end of the tether drops down to 10 or 20 km altitude, and at a low speed. Its motion relative to the ground would be mostly vertical. The amount of energy lost on each rotation would be fairly small and could be offset by importing rock from places outside our gravity well.
Putting the whole structure in orbit and spinning it up would certainly be expensive, but it might be possible to build it on the moon and send it down the gravity well.
The cable spins end over end. Attach masses to both ends at the same time. One mass at the top of the arc, the other mass at the bottom. Both masses match velocity with and end of the cable. During a half rotation the two masses exchange momentum.