A pump-and-dump scheme is kind of like a snake oil venture. It requires a good salesman that can work up a crowd. With an engaging, outgoing personality (not an introverted nerd).
Can you imagine a BitOil scheme, created by computer nerds, writing mail to people and explaining how it's superior to regular snake oil due to its technical features such as (blah blah). It ain't gonna work. You need to get a hot chick, a magic act, a shill, a strongman, and put an act together.
it wouldn't be criminal liability if the car owner was operating autonomously in good faith, just liability.
I'd imagine a big-pocket company such as Google could offer blanket indemnity for all purchasers if it was sure that its product was very safe, i.e. it didn't think the autonomous cars would run over people very often. Same for traffic violations, they could offer to pay for any tickets if they were sure their systems were that good.
If they *didn't* offer any such indemnity, and if there's no law shielding autonomous car owners while in automatic mode, nobody would ever buy the damn thing... obviously.
interesting idea, but NASA is having a hard enough time sending up crew and supplies to ISS in LEO.... if they had to send them to LUNAR orbit, well good luck with that.
and if sprinkling fairy dust on rainbows begets unicorns and world peace, everyone could live in love and harmony!
However, we live in the real world. The big dogs on the block always push little ones around. Been like that since the first homo erectus climbed down from the trees. You think the any of the previous powers were "respected citizens" that "minded their own business"? How about the British empire? Soviet? Chinese? French? (yes the French were actually a major power as recently as the 19th century)
As far as US goes, it's actually quite benign in comparison to every other dominant power that came before it. What do you think the (insert empire name) would've done in (insert troublespot name)?
But anyhow it looks like all you USA haters will be getting your wish soon. America is declining fast, and the next big dog seems to be lining up to take its place already. You probably know who that is.
I also use clonezilla alot, and I agree it's a good product in terms of function. But it has the shit-worst user interface ever (for something that's at least moderately popular). Its UI looks like a badly copied version of the text menu from the mid-90's Slackware installer, I swear.
If you're fighting a real enemy who can shoot back, a carrier fleet is just a target-rich environment for cheap missiles. This is the modern equivalent of building battleships before WWII only to see them sunk by cheap aircraft.
That's true enough, but you need to keep in mind that carriers are highly mobile offensive weapons. An attacker chooses when and where to strike.
In WW2, tanks were already quite vulnerable. Heavy cannons and RPGs (bazooka, panzerfaust etc) could lay waste to any tank. So they must've been completely useless in WW2, right? No, in fact tanks dominated the battlefield. Because they were highly mobile -- they could go wherever and strike whenever they wanted.
Hmm yeah that makes sense. I guess that's why Burt is out there building rocketplanes and making millions of dollars, and slashdot posters are... doing whatever it is they do in their basement:P
Googling for some data here -- a 747 weighs about 400,000 pounds empty and can carry its own weight, so a six-engine 747 should be able to haul 600,000 pounds.
Now a Falcon 9 weighs 735,000 pounds at launch, with a 23,000 pound payload -- 3.1%. With some Rutan composite skillz the Stratolaunch plane should be able to carry a Falcon 9. With the 3% fuel savings from air launching, the payload doubles to 46,000 pounds! Pretty damn good, I'd say.
When they say airport operations, they're not talking about TSA strip searches. They're talking about running day-to-day operations efficiently (like an airline) to save money. That pretty much boils down to:
Re-using the craft -- a 747 doesn't jettison and throw away its engines or aeroshell or anything else after each flight, everything gets reused
Making refueling cheaper -- most rocket fuels are hard to handle and requires exotic equipment and lots of personnel to service. Which is why RP-1 (kerosene) is the way to go. SpaceX uses RP-1 on all the Falcons for this reason
Landing the craft where you want it, like an airliner -- if you can land back at the same place you launch from, that results in huge savings. If you have to splash down in the middle of the Pacific, like NASA capsules, you need dozens of ships and thousands of Navy personnel to find and retrieve you. That's very expensive. Or in the case of the Shuttle, launching from Florida and landing in California means you have to lug that huge orbiter 3000 miles every time you fly.
Wouldn't a stronger pull require less fuel to get there since the Jovian gravity is pulling you there?
That's correct, if your goal is to impact Jupiter.
If your goal is to enter Jupiter's ORBIT however, the strong gravity pull means you have to spend a lot of fuel and increase your speed to match Jupiter's obital velocity, which is quite high.
Except things like Netflix... if Silverlight or Flash didn't exist, you couldn't watch Hollywood movies or TV shows because the studios simply will not allow their content to be shown on the web without some kind of a DRM.
Apple wastes a gazillion dollars trying to get the Galaxy tablet banned, and fail... only to find out later that Samsung kills the product themselves due to slow sales, a la HP Touchpad and RIM whatever
the AT&T today is in name only. It has no relation to the great company started by Alexander Graham Bell in the 19th century.
AT&T ceased to exist after the Feds broke it up in the 1980's. Apparently some dog turd of a company called Cingular merged with another turd company (SBC), and bought the name from yet another company (PacBell), and they decided to call the resulting mega-turd AT&T.
What do we do now? Shoot radio broadcasts in that direction?
Yeah, we could do that.
Start building a probe?
No, it would take literally millions of years for a probe to get there using current technology. Better bone up on R&D and try to invent fusion rockets or warp drive first.
but you wouldn't wanna spend your vacation there... big planet, heavy gravity... girls there are probably built like East European wrestlers with thunder thighs that could swat you like a fly.
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consumers could care less
No they couldn't. Consumers don't care about accessing company files.
A pump-and-dump scheme is kind of like a snake oil venture. It requires a good salesman that can work up a crowd. With an engaging, outgoing personality (not an introverted nerd).
Can you imagine a BitOil scheme, created by computer nerds, writing mail to people and explaining how it's superior to regular snake oil due to its technical features such as (blah blah). It ain't gonna work. You need to get a hot chick, a magic act, a shill, a strongman, and put an act together.
Watch here for an example
i'll bet this wouldn't have happened
which seems to be the case, then by spending all your time on facebook and twitter you will fit right in socially.
it wouldn't be criminal liability if the car owner was operating autonomously in good faith, just liability.
I'd imagine a big-pocket company such as Google could offer blanket indemnity for all purchasers if it was sure that its product was very safe, i.e. it didn't think the autonomous cars would run over people very often. Same for traffic violations, they could offer to pay for any tickets if they were sure their systems were that good.
If they *didn't* offer any such indemnity, and if there's no law shielding autonomous car owners while in automatic mode, nobody would ever buy the damn thing... obviously.
interesting idea, but NASA is having a hard enough time sending up crew and supplies to ISS in LEO.... if they had to send them to LUNAR orbit, well good luck with that.
Just show them old pictures of Willow Run. A B-24 every 30 minutes.
Different era, my friend. Those days are long gone, along with the Greatest Generation.
You might as well be claiming "Italy is still a military power, go watch some footage of Caesar's legions kicking ass."
it gives me crystal-clear digital connection to my monitor, and unlike HDMI, it works every time without fail.
and if sprinkling fairy dust on rainbows begets unicorns and world peace, everyone could live in love and harmony!
However, we live in the real world. The big dogs on the block always push little ones around. Been like that since the first homo erectus climbed down from the trees. You think the any of the previous powers were "respected citizens" that "minded their own business"? How about the British empire? Soviet? Chinese? French? (yes the French were actually a major power as recently as the 19th century)
As far as US goes, it's actually quite benign in comparison to every other dominant power that came before it. What do you think the (insert empire name) would've done in (insert troublespot name)?
But anyhow it looks like all you USA haters will be getting your wish soon. America is declining fast, and the next big dog seems to be lining up to take its place already. You probably know who that is.
But be careful what you wish for.
I also use clonezilla alot, and I agree it's a good product in terms of function. But it has the shit-worst user interface ever (for something that's at least moderately popular). Its UI looks like a badly copied version of the text menu from the mid-90's Slackware installer, I swear.
Blu ray is not proprietary, any more than the CD format is proprietary.
... [if IE] statements...
why was writing for iOS so much easier than Android? I'm just asking out of curiosity, since I've done neither.
Is Objective-C that much easier than Java? I thought it would be the other way around.
If you're fighting a real enemy who can shoot back, a carrier fleet is just a target-rich environment for cheap missiles. This is the modern equivalent of building battleships before WWII only to see them sunk by cheap aircraft.
That's true enough, but you need to keep in mind that carriers are highly mobile offensive weapons. An attacker chooses when and where to strike.
In WW2, tanks were already quite vulnerable. Heavy cannons and RPGs (bazooka, panzerfaust etc) could lay waste to any tank. So they must've been completely useless in WW2, right? No, in fact tanks dominated the battlefield. Because they were highly mobile -- they could go wherever and strike whenever they wanted.
what version of IE are you talking about? IE 9 is quite good. I can make most pages work fine without resorting to
Hmm yeah that makes sense. I guess that's why Burt is out there building rocketplanes and making millions of dollars, and slashdot posters are... doing whatever it is they do in their basement :P
Googling for some data here -- a 747 weighs about 400,000 pounds empty and can carry its own weight, so a six-engine 747 should be able to haul 600,000 pounds.
Now a Falcon 9 weighs 735,000 pounds at launch, with a 23,000 pound payload -- 3.1%. With some Rutan composite skillz the Stratolaunch plane should be able to carry a Falcon 9. With the 3% fuel savings from air launching, the payload doubles to 46,000 pounds! Pretty damn good, I'd say.
When they say airport operations, they're not talking about TSA strip searches. They're talking about running day-to-day operations efficiently (like an airline) to save money. That pretty much boils down to:
Wouldn't a stronger pull require less fuel to get there since the Jovian gravity is pulling you there?
That's correct, if your goal is to impact Jupiter.
If your goal is to enter Jupiter's ORBIT however, the strong gravity pull means you have to spend a lot of fuel and increase your speed to match Jupiter's obital velocity, which is quite high.
I predict that the ESA probe will die if it attempts to land on Europa.
23,000 pounds of payload into LEO (13,000 pounds if you don't count Dragon capsule itself)
That's damn cheap!
Except things like Netflix... if Silverlight or Flash didn't exist, you couldn't watch Hollywood movies or TV shows because the studios simply will not allow their content to be shown on the web without some kind of a DRM.
Apple wastes a gazillion dollars trying to get the Galaxy tablet banned, and fail... only to find out later that Samsung kills the product themselves due to slow sales, a la HP Touchpad and RIM whatever
the AT&T today is in name only. It has no relation to the great company started by Alexander Graham Bell in the 19th century.
AT&T ceased to exist after the Feds broke it up in the 1980's. Apparently some dog turd of a company called Cingular merged with another turd company (SBC), and bought the name from yet another company (PacBell), and they decided to call the resulting mega-turd AT&T.
What do we do now? Shoot radio broadcasts in that direction?
Yeah, we could do that.
Start building a probe?
No, it would take literally millions of years for a probe to get there using current technology. Better bone up on R&D and try to invent fusion rockets or warp drive first.
but you wouldn't wanna spend your vacation there... big planet, heavy gravity... girls there are probably built like East European wrestlers with thunder thighs that could swat you like a fly.