I meant they're not utilizing economies of scale. They're not mass-producing launch vehicles or other systems, and they're not looking for a way to streamline their systems. Indeed, they're looking at slowing the whole thing down.
Example: Instead of finding a better way of shielding for reentry, they're introducing more complex ways of checking their flawed reentry system.
In order to run OpenOffice.org on a Mac, you have to first have X11 installed, then install it with Fink, then start up X11, then run soffice. To open a document you have to do all the above and then select "Open" then navigate to the document you want to open.
On Linux, you can double-click documents and they'll open.
So the native version of OS X, the kind you can install from a binary and double-click documents to open them, DOES NOT EXIST.
And why is space expensive? Because there aren't economies of scale. Because we don't have competition driving the price down. Because NASA has let us believe that space is expensive.
The Ansari X-Prize showed that, for 1% of the cost of one shuttle flight, you could develop, build, test and fly a system capable of reaching space. I'd wager that for $100 million you could send three people to orbit. Hell, Apollo only cost us $50 billion, and we actually went somewhere. Half a dozen times.
So is space expensive because it's hard, or is space expensive because we're used to going through a massive government bureaucracy to get there?
Most people who know about free software are the ones *cleaning up* spyware infested computers. If they could do it with an open-source program that they knew worked well and got all the beasties, they'd be happy to use it. Especially if it was easily extensible.
How do they wear out? They're solid state. That's like saying your P4 is going to "wear out."
The glass gets dirty, and it might get broken, but if you clean the glass regularly (once a year is good enough) and nothing breaks them (shatter-resistant glass), they'll essentially operate forever.
Decentralizing power is something we should have done in the 1950 and 60s. Eisenhower built the beloved Interstate Highways to protect from Soviet Attack. But with a nation dependent on electricity, all the Ruskies would have had to do was take out a few power plants and nobody would have electricity.
There are also generators that will run on natural gas, which is much, much cleaner than coal or oil.
Okay, they don't make much sense in Iowa, but they make a lot of sense in Pennsylvania or New York, even though we still get a lot of snow.
Peak electricity usage is on sunny, hot, summer days. If there was a way for people to sell excess electricity back into the grid, the demand would be a lot lower on those days.
So while most people are at work, their house could be providing the electricity to keep their refrigerators and clocks and air condititioners running AND to keep them cool at work, or keep the lights on in their cube, or keep their PC on.
Besides, anything that both lowers fossil fuel exhaust emissions and saves me money on my electric bill is a Good Thing.
Funny thing about State College. When school starts, the population of the city doubles from 40K to 80K. When it's home football game weekend, it doubles again to 160K.
Anti-counterfeiting isn't built into any copier yet, and the paper used in currency is simply a high cotton content. Any very expensive paper can duplicate it. And if you put it with a bunch of real money you can pass it off relatively easily.
And have you felt the new money yet? It feels like copy paper.
Why hasn't anyone created an open source spyware cleaner yet? I think that would be a perfect OSS project, since it's continually changing and needs lots of eyes to keep up to date.
OpenOffice.org for Mac shouldn't be on there until it has an OS X native version that doesn't use Java. If they don't know about OSS, I wouldn't expect them to know how to use X11.
If we made coal plants pay for cleanup and the medical treatments people need because they have asthma from the emissions, and the environmental destruction, and the economic disturbances caused by them, it would be cheaper for everyone to buy solar panels.
Conversely, if we gave the solar and wind industries as much money as we give the coal and nuclear industries, everyone would be able to afford high-quality wind and solar power.
Our energy decisions are based less on economics or smart decisions than they are on who has the most money and lobbyists.
I like to change things because I want to see if something's better or worse. That's why I choose to pay $120/year for 3GB of space on a webhost instead of $100 a year on 250MB of space on.Mac. *I* get to choose what I use to display images and calendars and personal websites, not Apple. So I can try better stuff and see if it's helpful. If it's not, then I can go back or try something else. This is the same reason I use Wordpress on my webhost instead of Blogger and Gallery instead of Flickr.
The original sucked compared to the book. Oompa Loompas aren't orange, they're short hair guys who look like us. And the elevator didn't look like that in the book, it was totally clear with buttons all over the place.
That movie pissed me off to no end. I hope this one's better.
My office has a color copier. The only things keeping me from slapping a dollar bill on there and hitting the green button are:
1) A little sign that says "don't copy money"
2) The fact I don't have a dollar on me.
When a machine found in most of the offices in America can create a passable forgery it isn't difficult to reproduce.
To increase the cost of other energy sources, simply remove the government subsidies that have been paying for plant construction and waste cleanup and disposal.
But let's see if we can reprocess the waste first, to extract as much energy as we can from it.
And maybe we should stop subsidizing nuclear and fossil fuel power generation and let the market take hold. If the government didn't pay for plant construction, plant administration, accident cleanup and waste disposal, nuclear power wouldn't be cost competitive with other forms of generation.
Steamed with a little butter and salt is best. And if you can't take the big ones, buy the frozen baby brussel sprouts. They have less of the flavor compounds that many (particularly those weaned on baby food and sweets) find distasteful.
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Example: Instead of finding a better way of shielding for reentry, they're introducing more complex ways of checking their flawed reentry system.
On Linux, you can double-click documents and they'll open.
So the native version of OS X, the kind you can install from a binary and double-click documents to open them, DOES NOT EXIST.
And before you ask; yes, I've tried NeoOffice and NeoOffice/J, and neither of them work acceptably.
The Ansari X-Prize showed that, for 1% of the cost of one shuttle flight, you could develop, build, test and fly a system capable of reaching space. I'd wager that for $100 million you could send three people to orbit. Hell, Apollo only cost us $50 billion, and we actually went somewhere. Half a dozen times.
So is space expensive because it's hard, or is space expensive because we're used to going through a massive government bureaucracy to get there?
Most people who know about free software are the ones *cleaning up* spyware infested computers. If they could do it with an open-source program that they knew worked well and got all the beasties, they'd be happy to use it. Especially if it was easily extensible.
*My* P4? I didn't know Powerbooks had P4s in them. ;-)
That would be sweet.
The glass gets dirty, and it might get broken, but if you clean the glass regularly (once a year is good enough) and nothing breaks them (shatter-resistant glass), they'll essentially operate forever.
Decentralizing power is something we should have done in the 1950 and 60s. Eisenhower built the beloved Interstate Highways to protect from Soviet Attack. But with a nation dependent on electricity, all the Ruskies would have had to do was take out a few power plants and nobody would have electricity.
There are also generators that will run on natural gas, which is much, much cleaner than coal or oil.
Peak electricity usage is on sunny, hot, summer days. If there was a way for people to sell excess electricity back into the grid, the demand would be a lot lower on those days.
So while most people are at work, their house could be providing the electricity to keep their refrigerators and clocks and air condititioners running AND to keep them cool at work, or keep the lights on in their cube, or keep their PC on.
Besides, anything that both lowers fossil fuel exhaust emissions and saves me money on my electric bill is a Good Thing.
And people wonder why I left...
And have you felt the new money yet? It feels like copy paper.
Why hasn't anyone created an open source spyware cleaner yet? I think that would be a perfect OSS project, since it's continually changing and needs lots of eyes to keep up to date.
OpenOffice.org for Mac shouldn't be on there until it has an OS X native version that doesn't use Java. If they don't know about OSS, I wouldn't expect them to know how to use X11.
Try 'cunnil'.
If we made coal plants pay for cleanup and the medical treatments people need because they have asthma from the emissions, and the environmental destruction, and the economic disturbances caused by them, it would be cheaper for everyone to buy solar panels.
Conversely, if we gave the solar and wind industries as much money as we give the coal and nuclear industries, everyone would be able to afford high-quality wind and solar power.
Our energy decisions are based less on economics or smart decisions than they are on who has the most money and lobbyists.
I like to change things because I want to see if something's better or worse. That's why I choose to pay $120/year for 3GB of space on a webhost instead of $100 a year on 250MB of space on .Mac. *I* get to choose what I use to display images and calendars and personal websites, not Apple. So I can try better stuff and see if it's helpful. If it's not, then I can go back or try something else. This is the same reason I use Wordpress on my webhost instead of Blogger and Gallery instead of Flickr.
That movie pissed me off to no end. I hope this one's better.
My office has a color copier. The only things keeping me from slapping a dollar bill on there and hitting the green button are:
1) A little sign that says "don't copy money"
2) The fact I don't have a dollar on me.
When a machine found in most of the offices in America can create a passable forgery it isn't difficult to reproduce.
PA licenses have had reflective holograms over their licenses since at least 1997 when I got mine.
To increase the cost of other energy sources, simply remove the government subsidies that have been paying for plant construction and waste cleanup and disposal.
And maybe we should stop subsidizing nuclear and fossil fuel power generation and let the market take hold. If the government didn't pay for plant construction, plant administration, accident cleanup and waste disposal, nuclear power wouldn't be cost competitive with other forms of generation.
Wait a minute...
"The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongey and bruised."
Steamed with a little butter and salt is best. And if you can't take the big ones, buy the frozen baby brussel sprouts. They have less of the flavor compounds that many (particularly those weaned on baby food and sweets) find distasteful.
This has been another off-topic post.
And this right here is how we know he's lying, children. ;-)