Eh, the land argument isn't nearly as compelling as you think it is. The population of Japan is almost exclusively clustered in 2 locations, around Tokyo and around Osaka. The Netherlands actually has a higher population density than Japan, but it's most dense area(around Amsterdam) is less dense than Tokyo is(furthermore a larger % of the population lives in the Tokyo metropolitan area than lives in around Amsterdam). Large parts of the country are essentially uninhabited mountains, any solar program is going to focus on those areas first, at least for large-scale solar farms. Right now they are mostly just used for timber, one of the few resources that Japan essentially is self-sufficient in.
But you are only looking at the problem from one aspect(# of people killed), there is a lot more involved there. After those wind accidents, did people within a 20km radius have to move out of their home and businesses for who knows how long? Is it going to take decades to clean up afterwards? These are things you have to take into consideration, just saying "well since (almost) nobody died this time, everything is A. OK!" is not a very useful way of looking at problems like this....
Well for starters it can drastically simplify logistical supply chains.... Right now if you want to ship something you either have to do air(insanely expensive) or some combination of ship, rail, and road(usually on both ends, i.e. factory -> rail -> road ->sea -> rail->road->destination) The airship is able to take advantage of existing air fields, so theoretically you could just go factory -> airship -> destination(obviously with a tiny bit of road to get it from the airport to the destination, same as shipping by plane). Obviously with JIT manufacturing being all the rage, the ability to stick to schedules will be imperative, but it isn't like road/train/ship delays are exactly unheard of either.
Probably because the product is so new, basically before it was released there were not CTOs(meaning spare capacity at the factory), and with supplies of certain parts remaining tight at least until the new year the only way to get even the stock configs to customers in a timely fashion is to either do the final assembly close to the customer or air mail it which as the GP pointed out is very expensive. My guess is that by Feb or March of next year you will see more and more stock iMacs assembled in China
Actually tests like this(not sure if its the same one or not) was something that really excited Steve Jobs towards the end(and something that supposedly his son was researching). He seems to have thought that sequencing is the next big tech boom, and paid a lot of money to have his own cancer sequenced.... So there was at least one billionaire interested in it.
Quicktime for OS X is just a tiny shell written on top of the OS media playback/editing libraries, there really isn't a whole lot you can install/uninstall there(I guess you can delete the.app, doesn't really do a whole lot).
Sony's woes also stem from the fact that it essentially got too big for it's own good and ended up competing with itself and eating itself from within. The company that practically invented the portable music market lost most of it's market share, even at home, to companies like Apple because their music arm was constantly fighting with their manufacturing arm trying to hamstring the mobile devices they sold. The result was stagnation.... I see Samsung going down a very similar path, for instance they sell phones AND sell parts to other companies that make phones. That is going to end in conflict sooner or later. For a western example look at Microsoft, massive amounts of infighting has basically given smaller, more focused companies a chance to break into what was once thought to be an impenetrable market.
Now on the flipside look at companies that don't compete with themselves, that keep their product lines streamlined. Love them or hate them, Apple's management is on the ball here. Apple has an incredibly limited product lineup, and that is on purpose. They don't want to sell devices that simply cannibalize their other offerings. Sony at one point was such a lean company, but they got too big for their own good.
Why would a creature evolve to copy the rattlesnake's warning if nothing could mistake it for the real thing.
Because things do mistake it for the real thing? In terms of energy(and evolution is nothing if not the battle for energy, and of course, becoming energy) poison production is pretty expensive. Thats why a rattlesnake prefers to rattle, and will only bite either to kill prey or when it thinks it has no other way of defending itself, thus it evolved the rattle in addition to it's venom. Shaking its tail a few times is a hell of lot cheaper than biting(not to mention it takes time for the poison to replenish).
However mimics have found an even more efficient way to scare away potential predators, keep the scare tactics but ditch the poison production. Best of both worlds!
Yup, the captain apparently failed multiple exams... In addition while having something like 3000+ flight hours, he only had 110 in the plane he was in and seems to have had very little experience in icing conditions(he was based out of Florida). The co-pilot apparently NEVER had experience in icy conditions according to the CVR:
Shaw responded, "I've never seen icing conditions. I've never de-iced. I've never seen any. I've never experienced any of that. I don't want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls . . . You know I'd have freaked out. I'd have like seen this much ice and thought, oh my gosh, we were going to crash."
For some projects you may be right, but something as complicated and critical as a file system doesn't really lend itself very well to the volunteer crowd. The intersection of people who:
a) Have the time to work on it AND
b) Have the skill to work on it
is pretty small. ReiserFS was never a volunteer project before Reiser's arrest, it was developed by him and people he hired(read paid money to) at his company. When his company went bust after his arrest the odds of ReiserFS continuing on in any real capacity without external funding fell to pretty much 0. The efforts of the volunteers is laudable, but unless Hans Reiser gave them access to some sort of machine that makes each day 48 hours long, they were never going to be able to get it production-ready.
FTS: which once was one of the mainstays of its domination of the smartphone market.
No, just no. It's domination of the smartphone market was due to the fact that it made pretty good hardware and OK software at a time when nobody else could even manage one of the 2. However as others stepped up in both categories, Nokia was slow to react and that is what put it in it's current position.
Do you seriously know any history or are you just mouthing off because you somehow think it makes you sound smarter? You are aware that opposed to a 4 1/2 year war, Japan brutally occupied Korea, raping women(and not apologizing for it), stole massive amounts of resources, almost caused near famine towards the end of the war when they started shipping all the rice out of the country to Japan etc. Not to mention continued territorial disputes and a historical animosity that goes back millennia.
But yeah, your smart ass point about something I didn't even say negates all that. Kudos.
That's sort of accurate, the manufacturers offer a couple of different seat configurations of which the airlines can choose one, but it's not like the airlines can just arbitrarily cram seats in there.
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That's not the real Santa you see, it's just Droppo wearing his clothes.
Do they use the decoy to fake their own death to get out of company-mandated "volunteering"?
Eh, the land argument isn't nearly as compelling as you think it is. The population of Japan is almost exclusively clustered in 2 locations, around Tokyo and around Osaka. The Netherlands actually has a higher population density than Japan, but it's most dense area(around Amsterdam) is less dense than Tokyo is(furthermore a larger % of the population lives in the Tokyo metropolitan area than lives in around Amsterdam). Large parts of the country are essentially uninhabited mountains, any solar program is going to focus on those areas first, at least for large-scale solar farms. Right now they are mostly just used for timber, one of the few resources that Japan essentially is self-sufficient in.
But you are only looking at the problem from one aspect(# of people killed), there is a lot more involved there. After those wind accidents, did people within a 20km radius have to move out of their home and businesses for who knows how long? Is it going to take decades to clean up afterwards? These are things you have to take into consideration, just saying "well since (almost) nobody died this time, everything is A. OK!" is not a very useful way of looking at problems like this....
Well for starters it can drastically simplify logistical supply chains.... Right now if you want to ship something you either have to do air(insanely expensive) or some combination of ship, rail, and road(usually on both ends, i.e. factory -> rail -> road ->sea -> rail->road->destination) The airship is able to take advantage of existing air fields, so theoretically you could just go factory -> airship -> destination(obviously with a tiny bit of road to get it from the airport to the destination, same as shipping by plane). Obviously with JIT manufacturing being all the rage, the ability to stick to schedules will be imperative, but it isn't like road/train/ship delays are exactly unheard of either.
Probably because the product is so new, basically before it was released there were not CTOs(meaning spare capacity at the factory), and with supplies of certain parts remaining tight at least until the new year the only way to get even the stock configs to customers in a timely fashion is to either do the final assembly close to the customer or air mail it which as the GP pointed out is very expensive. My guess is that by Feb or March of next year you will see more and more stock iMacs assembled in China
Actually tests like this(not sure if its the same one or not) was something that really excited Steve Jobs towards the end(and something that supposedly his son was researching). He seems to have thought that sequencing is the next big tech boom, and paid a lot of money to have his own cancer sequenced.... So there was at least one billionaire interested in it.
Was Chairface Chippendale on the team, and if so, who the fuck cleared him?
Don't forget a good hammer for when all else fails.
Didn't you learn ANYTHING from Zelda 2? "If all else fails, use fire!" The dude needs a flamethrower, not a hammer(or a handy fire spell).
Quicktime for OS X is just a tiny shell written on top of the OS media playback/editing libraries, there really isn't a whole lot you can install/uninstall there(I guess you can delete the .app, doesn't really do a whole lot).
The top drivers must only drive downhill, though. They get 22+ miles per kWh, which is insanely good.
Pfft, I can beat that, I have my Nissan Leaf hooked up to a horse, I'm approaching infinite miles per kWh!
Sony's woes also stem from the fact that it essentially got too big for it's own good and ended up competing with itself and eating itself from within. The company that practically invented the portable music market lost most of it's market share, even at home, to companies like Apple because their music arm was constantly fighting with their manufacturing arm trying to hamstring the mobile devices they sold. The result was stagnation.... I see Samsung going down a very similar path, for instance they sell phones AND sell parts to other companies that make phones. That is going to end in conflict sooner or later. For a western example look at Microsoft, massive amounts of infighting has basically given smaller, more focused companies a chance to break into what was once thought to be an impenetrable market.
Now on the flipside look at companies that don't compete with themselves, that keep their product lines streamlined. Love them or hate them, Apple's management is on the ball here. Apple has an incredibly limited product lineup, and that is on purpose. They don't want to sell devices that simply cannibalize their other offerings. Sony at one point was such a lean company, but they got too big for their own good.
Hey, I think I got one of your orders... "I C Weiner".... BRB, going to sit down and rest at this table in front of a bunch of tubes....
Why would a creature evolve to copy the rattlesnake's warning if nothing could mistake it for the real thing.
Because things do mistake it for the real thing? In terms of energy(and evolution is nothing if not the battle for energy, and of course, becoming energy) poison production is pretty expensive. Thats why a rattlesnake prefers to rattle, and will only bite either to kill prey or when it thinks it has no other way of defending itself, thus it evolved the rattle in addition to it's venom. Shaking its tail a few times is a hell of lot cheaper than biting(not to mention it takes time for the poison to replenish).
However mimics have found an even more efficient way to scare away potential predators, keep the scare tactics but ditch the poison production. Best of both worlds!
Yup, the captain apparently failed multiple exams... In addition while having something like 3000+ flight hours, he only had 110 in the plane he was in and seems to have had very little experience in icing conditions(he was based out of Florida). The co-pilot apparently NEVER had experience in icy conditions according to the CVR:
Shaw responded, "I've never seen icing conditions. I've never de-iced. I've never seen any. I've never experienced any of that. I don't want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls . . . You know I'd have freaked out. I'd have like seen this much ice and thought, oh my gosh, we were going to crash."
For some projects you may be right, but something as complicated and critical as a file system doesn't really lend itself very well to the volunteer crowd. The intersection of people who:
a) Have the time to work on it AND
b) Have the skill to work on it
is pretty small. ReiserFS was never a volunteer project before Reiser's arrest, it was developed by him and people he hired(read paid money to) at his company. When his company went bust after his arrest the odds of ReiserFS continuing on in any real capacity without external funding fell to pretty much 0. The efforts of the volunteers is laudable, but unless Hans Reiser gave them access to some sort of machine that makes each day 48 hours long, they were never going to be able to get it production-ready.
No, it isn't. Cannot install browsers other than IE, which makes it completely worthless.
Considering that work on C didn't begin until 6 years after Sketchpad was written, I highly doubt that the original version was written in C.
Come on "Ada" didn't even ship with GNAT installed by default, what a tease!
You realize there are these things called networks, and they aren't exactly as fast as the CPU...
The suddenists think Something Wonderful Happened ~50,000 years ago,
I think they are off by an order of magnitude, extant evidence shows that brewing alcohol only started about 10,000 years ago.
I'd give you a round of applause, but since my fingers are so gnarled from years of emacs use, I am incapable of doing so.
FTS:
which once was one of the mainstays of its domination of the smartphone market.
No, just no. It's domination of the smartphone market was due to the fact that it made pretty good hardware and OK software at a time when nobody else could even manage one of the 2. However as others stepped up in both categories, Nokia was slow to react and that is what put it in it's current position.
Do you seriously know any history or are you just mouthing off because you somehow think it makes you sound smarter? You are aware that opposed to a 4 1/2 year war, Japan brutally occupied Korea, raping women(and not apologizing for it), stole massive amounts of resources, almost caused near famine towards the end of the war when they started shipping all the rice out of the country to Japan etc. Not to mention continued territorial disputes and a historical animosity that goes back millennia.
But yeah, your smart ass point about something I didn't even say negates all that. Kudos.
That's sort of accurate, the manufacturers offer a couple of different seat configurations of which the airlines can choose one, but it's not like the airlines can just arbitrarily cram seats in there.