And your "record low level" is 6.6%. During our "recession," we hit a high of 6.3
Only because people dropped off unemployment completely and thus disappeared from the statistics. Had we been counting actual bodies and not just checks we'd still be in the hole right now.
6 billion people crammed on a planet, reproducing like rabits....
....and a death rate of next to nothing.
War will become just a method of controlling the population.
What this would likely do is cause us to get off this stinking rock as fast as possible. Or at least that's what I see happening from the overpopulation scenario.
And we can't do that fast enough as far as I'm concerned...
I can think of several possible solutions. Right now Apple is making OS X x86 locked to their hardware. What if Apple was to license this locking technology to hardware vendors, allowing them to sell at a premium, a machine that could run X or Windows. This would allow them to collect part of the price.
The licensing agreement could also require that the licensing chip was only available to hi-tier machines priced at similar price points as Apple machines, as well as requiring certain hardware elements (ie, built-in BT, Firewire 800, USB2, display adapters, etc).
This would allow people interested in OS X but unwilling to buy an Apple machine to get into OS X, but still retain revenue from hardware sales and maintain the quality level associated with Apple hardware. Even if there were no restrictions on price points, the hardware licensing should make up for lost margin on Apple hardware.
This would probably come to be known as the "Apple Tax" and it's the same sort of crap that we complain about Microsoft doing - "vendor locking", etc. I'm a big supporter of Apple/'Nix/Etc. but doing this would probably kill Apple's quality in favor of quantity. Then they might as well be Microsoft.
But then again it's also possible that Apple could do this and get away with it. After all Microsoft seems to be doing so.
One thing's for certain it would put Steve head-to-head with Bill and I doubt that would be good for anyone involved.
Mr Google tells me it's nearest Cassel CA, population 366, in the Mt. Lassen Area. That is a low priced area. The median home in Cassel in the 2000 Census data was valued at $130,000.
$130.000 is not low priced. My parents paid about $37,000 for their first house in the 70's and it had four bedrooms. Granted it was in a slightly slummish area of the suburban Midwest/Chicagoland but still a good deal.
In my opinion a house shouldn't cost that much without some seriously nice features and some good land.
Besides - other than physical maintenance why do the people need to live near it once it's built? I can understand temporary housing while building it but if you put it on cheap land you can afford a large amount of people to build it quickly and then go back to their real homes.
The array data can then be transmitted over land line to the most neadby town. Or am I underestimating the size of the station wagon needed?;-)
I'd like to see how you do your 360-degree treadmill. You'd have to hold the solid floor with magnets so that plastic ball can move in any direction.
Either a fluid or air under pressure between the two layers would create the effect he's thinking of.
The problems I can think of are remote sensing through the "buffering/lubrication" layer and obviously seeing through said layer. It would have to be damn clear, damn thin, and damn strong.
It wasn't fscking redundant when I posted it moderators.
And the question still stands - what good is adding another service to PayPal when they can't even get their existing services, dispute system, and watchdog stuff to work right?
All joking aside there are quite a few people, myself included, who would welcome the chance to replace the aforementioned parts since they were removed without our permission.:-(
Nice armchair logic. So when is a plasma torch no longer a plasma torch? When it no longer has the characteristics of a plasma torch. If you divide the energy output by the distance it covers while going mach 2 you get a really small amount of energy per square inch that doesn't last hardly any time at all for any given patch. Could you construct something that would still cause damage? Sure, but that would be orders of magnitude greater than the jet mounted laser described here.
OK. I'll accept that answer. The problem I see with all this is that if this is designed to hit and destroy a target at range in the air while traveling at whatever high speed then it has to be able to stay coherent and focused at range and at speed which from my "armchair logic" book means that it has to be extremely powerful and is thus a threat to the ground just by virtue of what it's designed to do.
Do you see where I'm going with this? If it's designed to destroy things at range and at speed then doesn't it's target capabilities and thus potential threat include ground targets as well?
Because the jet will be moving and the airborne object to be destroyed will also be moving. If a miss occurred, the laser beam would probably move too fast along the ground to do any damage.
A plasma torch moving at mach 2+ is still a plasma torch.
I would suspect that if it actually intersected with the planet it would do some serious flash damage as it went past.
Though obviously there is some question as to the thermal retention of the objects it passes through/over on the ground - if it's hot enough to damage a missile it will fry a person, set a house on fire, fill a house full of popcorn...
(Dang, I wish I'd watched `The Day the Earth Stood Still' over the weekend like I wanted to. Then I'd be able to include that nifty quote that Klaatu uttered about ``being good enough to get me from planet to planet''.)
Klatu: I thought you would have solved it by now. You substitute this term here---and then the answer follows by variation of parameters.
Physicist: That gives the first-order terms. But what about the higher orders?
Klatu: Negligible.
Physicist: You've tested this theory?
Klatu [shrugs]: It works to get me between planets.
I don't see how that really makes sense, since donations would be part of the revenue stream.
Yes but if the revenue stream were so strong why would they have to "hawk" their wares so much. There seems to be a constant need to "drive" the sales of webcomic related material. Some really spectacular comics just need to leave the donate button up there.
I would think that if the revenue stream for webcomics was so strong they would just have a donate button up there and forget about doign anything bur drawing webcomics.
After several years of trying to generate revenue from my online cartooning, my running total is $5.07.
Indeed. If it were so lucrative you wouldn't see webcomic artists asking for donations all the time. (Yes, I donate to some.)
I'm sure that more than a few good cartoonists were crushed when they tried to make a living on the web. Not being a cartoonist though I wouldn't know how many for sure.
It's seen as a CD ROM drive? Why? How does that even make sense? It's USB; shouldn't it mount through the OS's USB subsystems as a removable USB storage device?
My guess is that they have the USB info set so it will be recognized as a USB CD-ROM drive and so they can use Auto-start, if it's enabled, to run their software atomatically.
What little I can gleam from the site tells me that it's the front-end for a bunch of webapps or something to allow you to work with a remote desktop on any web connection.
But that's just a guess since the site is now hosed...
From my experience repairing both desktop and laptop systems I've found that until the child understands the value of the laptop you don't want to get them one. Get them a desktop first. That they can be taught to use and learn with effectively quite early. By the time they are halfway through high school, if you've taught them to think, they understand the value of things. For instance I might wait until my child got their first car before even thinking about a laptop.
Now this is all being pushed up by the fact that some schools are giving kids laptops in middle school. Loaning them out like band instruments so to speak. I think this is a mistake. At least if you're in a computer lab you're with other people not huddled off in some corner with a laptop. Granted some people do better that way but most need human interaction to grow.
One last note - from my experience if you don't want a child to break the notebook but you want to buy one for them young you better be spending about $3k US on something like a Panasonic Toughbook like they have in some police vehicles. Anything else will most likely be broken in a couple of months or less.
FMA uses a lot of technical chemistry terms in it which are mostly all accurate, besides the fact that Alchemy itself is impossible.
People could also stand to learn the lesson of "equivalent exchange" and balance in general. FMA, The Recluse books, and many other things would be great for teaching this stuff.
I'm sure though that America's schools are not there for learning so much as indoctrination so efforts to the contrary would be tough at best.
Auugh! Like my brain in the Martian atmosphere it is suddenly leaking out my ears! Run away! Run away!
Seriously though - we need more people in the US that can do this sort of math if we're going to get to Mars. I can honestly see our slipping in education as a country preventing us from reaching space.
Not that I'm opposed to seeing other countries get there I guess I'm just hoping that we can pull our US head out of our fat couch-potato @sses and be a real country again.:-(
Wait a minute...brb...there's a black pickup in my driveway and a knock at my door...
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And your "record low level" is 6.6%. During our "recession," we hit a high of 6.3
Only because people dropped off unemployment completely and thus disappeared from the statistics. Had we been counting actual bodies and not just checks we'd still be in the hole right now.
Just what we need :
6 billion people crammed on a planet, reproducing like rabits....
....and a death rate of next to nothing.
War will become just a method of controlling the population.
What this would likely do is cause us to get off this stinking rock as fast as possible. Or at least that's what I see happening from the overpopulation scenario.
And we can't do that fast enough as far as I'm concerned...
I can think of several possible solutions. Right now Apple is making OS X x86 locked to their hardware. What if Apple was to license this locking technology to hardware vendors, allowing them to sell at a premium, a machine that could run X or Windows. This would allow them to collect part of the price.
The licensing agreement could also require that the licensing chip was only available to hi-tier machines priced at similar price points as Apple machines, as well as requiring certain hardware elements (ie, built-in BT, Firewire 800, USB2, display adapters, etc).
This would allow people interested in OS X but unwilling to buy an Apple machine to get into OS X, but still retain revenue from hardware sales and maintain the quality level associated with Apple hardware. Even if there were no restrictions on price points, the hardware licensing should make up for lost margin on Apple hardware.
This would probably come to be known as the "Apple Tax" and it's the same sort of crap that we complain about Microsoft doing - "vendor locking", etc. I'm a big supporter of Apple/'Nix/Etc. but doing this would probably kill Apple's quality in favor of quantity. Then they might as well be Microsoft.
But then again it's also possible that Apple could do this and get away with it. After all Microsoft seems to be doing so.
One thing's for certain it would put Steve head-to-head with Bill and I doubt that would be good for anyone involved.
Thanks for the solid info!
I was truly just looking for a proper perspective on this as to why it wasn't being built all at once, etc. and you've answered that completely.
Mr Google tells me it's nearest Cassel CA, population 366, in the Mt. Lassen Area. That is a low priced area. The median home in Cassel in the 2000 Census data was valued at $130,000.
;-)
$130.000 is not low priced. My parents paid about $37,000 for their first house in the 70's and it had four bedrooms. Granted it was in a slightly slummish area of the suburban Midwest/Chicagoland but still a good deal.
In my opinion a house shouldn't cost that much without some seriously nice features and some good land.
Besides - other than physical maintenance why do the people need to live near it once it's built? I can understand temporary housing while building it but if you put it on cheap land you can afford a large amount of people to build it quickly and then go back to their real homes.
The array data can then be transmitted over land line to the most neadby town. Or am I underestimating the size of the station wagon needed?
I'd like to see how you do your 360-degree treadmill. You'd have to hold the solid floor with magnets so that plastic ball can move in any direction.
Either a fluid or air under pressure between the two layers would create the effect he's thinking of.
The problems I can think of are remote sensing through the "buffering/lubrication" layer and obviously seeing through said layer. It would have to be damn clear, damn thin, and damn strong.
And, we do all that work, and a stronger huricane rolls through, what then? Re-rebuild? I don't think so.
But you can be sure that if enough people whine and moan they'll spend the money. "Oh! We must save the Frech Quarter! What about all the history!"
I say it's all ruined - build "New New Orleans" on the outside edge above sea level and let the city sink completely.
*prepares to be modded into the basement*
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It wasn't fscking redundant when I posted it moderators.
And the question still stands - what good is adding another service to PayPal when they can't even get their existing services, dispute system, and watchdog stuff to work right?
...if you can't get your money out because PayPal has seized the account?
The recent donation incident with Something Awful is a good example of this.
PayPal needs to be reeled back in a little in my opinion.
Fix the existing problems first PayPal and then I might consider using you for more than tiny purchases or minor funds transfer.
Note: I _do_ use PayPal I just don't ever accept large funds through them or keep any money in the account. It's removed as fast as it comes in.
Staying circumcised would be problematical...
:-(
All joking aside there are quite a few people, myself included, who would welcome the chance to replace the aforementioned parts since they were removed without our permission.
Nice armchair logic. So when is a plasma torch no longer a plasma torch? When it no longer has the characteristics of a plasma torch. If you divide the energy output by the distance it covers while going mach 2 you get a really small amount of energy per square inch that doesn't last hardly any time at all for any given patch. Could you construct something that would still cause damage? Sure, but that would be orders of magnitude greater than the jet mounted laser described here.
OK. I'll accept that answer. The problem I see with all this is that if this is designed to hit and destroy a target at range in the air while traveling at whatever high speed then it has to be able to stay coherent and focused at range and at speed which from my "armchair logic" book means that it has to be extremely powerful and is thus a threat to the ground just by virtue of what it's designed to do.
Do you see where I'm going with this? If it's designed to destroy things at range and at speed then doesn't it's target capabilities and thus potential threat include ground targets as well?
Because the jet will be moving and the airborne object to be destroyed will also be moving. If a miss occurred, the laser beam would probably move too fast along the ground to do any damage.
;-)
A plasma torch moving at mach 2+ is still a plasma torch.
I would suspect that if it actually intersected with the planet it would do some serious flash damage as it went past.
Though obviously there is some question as to the thermal retention of the objects it passes through/over on the ground - if it's hot enough to damage a missile it will fry a person, set a house on fire, fill a house full of popcorn...
Oops! "I think we used too much!"
Grr...mis-spelled Klaatu...
There's some geek points lost right there...
(Dang, I wish I'd watched `The Day the Earth Stood Still' over the weekend like I wanted to. Then I'd be able to include that nifty quote that Klaatu uttered about ``being good enough to get me from planet to planet''.)
Klatu: I thought you would have solved it by now. You substitute this term here---and then the answer follows by variation of parameters.
Physicist: That gives the first-order terms. But what about the higher orders?
Klatu: Negligible.
Physicist: You've tested this theory?
Klatu [shrugs]: It works to get me between planets.
I don't see how that really makes sense, since donations would be part of the revenue stream.
Yes but if the revenue stream were so strong why would they have to "hawk" their wares so much. There seems to be a constant need to "drive" the sales of webcomic related material. Some really spectacular comics just need to leave the donate button up there.
I would think that if the revenue stream for webcomics was so strong they would just have a donate button up there and forget about doign anything bur drawing webcomics.
After several years of trying to generate revenue from my online cartooning, my running total is $5.07.
Indeed. If it were so lucrative you wouldn't see webcomic artists asking for donations all the time. (Yes, I donate to some.)
I'm sure that more than a few good cartoonists were crushed when they tried to make a living on the web. Not being a cartoonist though I wouldn't know how many for sure.
Someone needs to send the submitter the brochure for a good online remedial-English school...
...sheesh...
I'm still not sure what half of that posting was about.
It's obvious what's happened here - Slashdot has outsourced both it's submitters and editors overseas to non-English speaking countries.
Bad joke thinking am I but normal become it has...
Why aren't they putting things like this on top of buildings? I'm seriously asking.
It would reduce the power loss by keeping runs short as well as not taking up space that could be used for something else.
Anybody? Bueller?
It's seen as a CD ROM drive? Why? How does that even make sense? It's USB; shouldn't it mount through the OS's USB subsystems as a removable USB storage device?
My guess is that they have the USB info set so it will be recognized as a USB CD-ROM drive and so they can use Auto-start, if it's enabled, to run their software atomatically.
What little I can gleam from the site tells me that it's the front-end for a bunch of webapps or something to allow you to work with a remote desktop on any web connection.
But that's just a guess since the site is now hosed...
From my experience repairing both desktop and laptop systems I've found that until the child understands the value of the laptop you don't want to get them one. Get them a desktop first. That they can be taught to use and learn with effectively quite early. By the time they are halfway through high school, if you've taught them to think, they understand the value of things.
For instance I might wait until my child got their first car before even thinking about a laptop.
Now this is all being pushed up by the fact that some schools are giving kids laptops in middle school. Loaning them out like band instruments so to speak. I think this is a mistake. At least if you're in a computer lab you're with other people not huddled off in some corner with a laptop. Granted some people do better that way but most need human interaction to grow.
One last note - from my experience if you don't want a child to break the notebook but you want to buy one for them young you better be spending about $3k US on something like a Panasonic Toughbook like they have in some police vehicles. Anything else will most likely be broken in a couple of months or less.
Imagine sitting in a comfy chair in front of a big screen, and having this device give you "tilt" sensations co-ordinated with the on-screen action. >
While I think this is cool and all I doubt the world needs more things that motivate people to spend time on the couch so to speak.
Perhaps a portable game where you have to fight the system by walking and running?
FMA uses a lot of technical chemistry terms in it which are mostly all accurate, besides the fact that Alchemy itself is impossible.
People could also stand to learn the lesson of "equivalent exchange" and balance in general. FMA, The Recluse books, and many other things would be great for teaching this stuff.
I'm sure though that America's schools are not there for learning so much as indoctrination so efforts to the contrary would be tough at best.
Remake Wierd Science and Real Genius
Remake the first all you want but you touch the second and I hurt joo! I hurt joo bad!
I don't think there is a geek that lived through the 80's that would disagree with me either.
Seriously though = with all the dated misc. stuff that movie still rocks today! ^_^
*Best Crocodile Dundee accent*
:-(
You call that math? Now this, this is math!
*/accent*
Auugh! Like my brain in the Martian atmosphere it is suddenly leaking out my ears! Run away! Run away!
Seriously though - we need more people in the US that can do this sort of math if we're going to get to Mars. I can honestly see our slipping in education as a country preventing us from reaching space.
Not that I'm opposed to seeing other countries get there I guess I'm just hoping that we can pull our US head out of our fat couch-potato @sses and be a real country again.
Wait a minute...brb...there's a black pickup in my driveway and a knock at my door...
"I'd like one McShitzu please?"