What, GnuPG and Java don't run on Windows? I'm talking open (Java is debatable) and platform agnostic. There's a world of difference in many cases between the existing Windows versions... Thankfully XP is here, so maybe the "One Windows" world will be a little more sane in the future...
Oh yes, I've heard of Nanking, and seen plenty of photographs and eye witness reports and plenty of POW reports to know that the Japanese of WWII were absolutely horrid.
My only point was the the U.S.A. provoked Japan (not that they needed much provocation to attack us). Given how things were going, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
GnuPG encrypted data with a password in your head such that the person needs to break into your house, threaten your kids at gunpoint, or be telepathic. Sounds much better to me.
The problem with a client-side solution is making it platform agnostic. Java offers a solution... maybe we need something else, javascript 10.0 or some such.
While some of us got a real education the current overusage of the word ergo on many a high-tech geek website is directly attributable to the Matrix. Most people using it have little idea what it means, just that it sounds cool.
Either lobby GWB(insert local mega-politician here) to break yet another treaty, or renounce your citizenship, found a nation someone on earth, and reject to sign said treaty. Otherwise, land on said celestial body, and set up a defense force that destroys every object attempting to land or orbit without permission.
There's a limit to what we can do keeping "illegal immigrants" out of our country without A: Closing the borders B: Shooting people, no questions asked.
I'd rather let a few thousand illegal immigrants into the U.S. than let even a dozen get shot needlessly.
And everyone conveniently ignores the fact that we pretty much provoked the Japanese into bombing us... That and the fact they'd have to eventually anyway, since they wanted the Philippines. Might as well make it a sneak attack.
No, I'm sure Tolkien in walking Middle Earth somewhere, happy knowing that his creation is finally getting the theatrical airing it deserves. Christ, each movie is nearly 4 HOURS LONG... It's a double triple feature, man...;-)
NT 4.0 never, I repeat NEVER came with an ls command. 7 years of using NT 4.0, and every time I wanted ls, I had to install either cygwin, Hamilton C Shell, MKS, or SFU. Or write my own.
So I don't understand, your document has two mutually exclusive statements in it. One, that nuclear power is 20% of all generating capacity in the United States, second only to coal, and that 39% of generating capacity is oil. Both cannot be true.
You are correct that materials cost is negligible. In fact, for nearly any plastic item these days, the material cost is pretty low. It's the energy cost. Those fabs and machines and heat treaters don't run themselves, nor do they have little hamsters running eternally in little hamster generators.
(Oh it's WAY too early for sarcasm, my apologies!)
Or is what the document saying, that 39% of all oil imports are designated for power consumption? In which case that would be workable.:-/ Hmm, in which case, I've wasted my breath.
If you've ever seen plastics made (and I have, I've done it), there is an immense energy cost associated with it. There is also a big capital machinery cost, true, but the per-unit cost of energy is significant.
Ugh. Doesn't anyone get it? Humans weren't kept around for their power generating potential, that was just misdirection on the part of the Machines. Humans were kept around for their humanity... argh!!!
Even me, the complete dimwit, figured that out early on...
Except your logic is flawed in that oil is not used primarily for power generation. Natural gas and coal far outstrip oil in terms of power production in the U.S.
From your document: In 2002, U.S. nuclear power generation reached a record 780 billion kWh, or about 20% of total U.S. electricity generation, second only to coal in the U.S. electricity generation mix.
High-tech is NOTHING if not energy intensive. You think those computers just pop into existence? No, significant amounts of processing and manufacturing go into creating the PCB's, CPUs, and aluminum used in computers. Services, though, you have a point.:-)
You would never want to fire direct from the moon to earth, since the earth revolves something like 340 degrees every day with respect to the moon. you'd want to fire it to constellation of GEO satellites, 3 or 4 such that you are always pointing away from the earth, so you'd only want to aim at satellites that are setting or rising with respect to the moon. I'd choose setting satellites, since as one satellite sets/gets too far from the lunar transmitting station, another satellite leaves earth's disc, and the tracking signal automatically comes into the transmitters field of view. Even if a satellite blew up/disappeared, the transmitter could stop, reset to neutral, and await the next receiver to come into it's field of view, and restart.
Hell, the transmitter could be physically designed so that it could never point directly at earth (since the lunar orientation doesn't change appreciably with respect to earth) a neutral position could be the very edge of the earth so even in a malfunction of the transmitter, the power beam goes into deep space.
Which is not necessarily true. Put 10KW of power generating potential on 20 million homes, and you have what? 200 GW of power. Considering in America that the average homeowner uses 1-2KW/h of power when their home is mostly empty, that leaves a daily surplus available for industry. Figure that on a daily basis 40-60% of your solar power generating potential is available (to account for cloud-cover), and during daylight hours you score ~80-120 GW of power. That's quite a sizeable chunk, don't you think?
While you are correct, had there been no reliable ocean transport available to Columbus, even if there had been a reliable private money market, he still wouldn't have "discovered" the New World, because no private financier would have taken the risk on "unproven ocean technology".
Then again, maybe there just is no possible reward available within a 50-100 year time span to make it worthwhile to private investment?
Urban legend, the drawings for the Saturn V have not been lost. It's the act of procuring 40 yo computers and electronics and parts that makes creating new Saturn V rockets too difficult. We'd be better off starting from scratch (but maybe revitalize the F-1 engines).
NASA can't go to the moon now because there's no rocket to take them there, so yes, you are correct. NASA cannot build said rocket because they do not have the political ability to:
1) Kill the shuttle for money, it's necessary at this time to finish the Space Station
2) Get more money to fund building a heavy launch vehicle, or Earth/Lunar transfer vehicle
so you are right again, in that they cannot.
You are incorrect, however, if suggesting that NASA cannot go to the moon because they do not have the technical ability. They've done it once, it's a well known problem, and learning to do it again wouldn't be too hard, just not timely. They are more than smart enough to do it. Just give them the money and the mandate, and it'll get done.
Many would say this country has been rotting at it's core since we stopped going to the moon. I certainly would. We've had some good things come along, but nothing radical...
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What, GnuPG and Java don't run on Windows? I'm talking open (Java is debatable) and platform agnostic. There's a world of difference in many cases between the existing Windows versions... Thankfully XP is here, so maybe the "One Windows" world will be a little more sane in the future...
Yup, it was a troll. Only a troll, nothing but a troll. If the troll doesn't fit, you must acquit and all that happy sappy jazz. HAND. :-)
Oh yes, I've heard of Nanking, and seen plenty of photographs and eye witness reports and plenty of POW reports to know that the Japanese of WWII were absolutely horrid.
My only point was the the U.S.A. provoked Japan (not that they needed much provocation to attack us). Given how things were going, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
GnuPG encrypted data with a password in your head such that the person needs to break into your house, threaten your kids at gunpoint, or be telepathic. Sounds much better to me.
The problem with a client-side solution is making it platform agnostic. Java offers a solution... maybe we need something else, javascript 10.0 or some such.
While some of us got a real education the current overusage of the word ergo on many a high-tech geek website is directly attributable to the Matrix. Most people using it have little idea what it means, just that it sounds cool.
Either lobby GWB(insert local mega-politician here) to break yet another treaty, or renounce your citizenship, found a nation someone on earth, and reject to sign said treaty. Otherwise, land on said celestial body, and set up a defense force that destroys every object attempting to land or orbit without permission.
Was that EST? Daylight saving adjusted?
Which is true. The only question is, which was the real defeat, Saruman at Orthanc, or Saruman at the Shire?
Those who read the books know the real answer.
Even if I have to piss in a cup...
Whatever happened to intermissions?
There's a limit to what we can do keeping "illegal immigrants" out of our country without A: Closing the borders B: Shooting people, no questions asked.
I'd rather let a few thousand illegal immigrants into the U.S. than let even a dozen get shot needlessly.
And everyone conveniently ignores the fact that we pretty much provoked the Japanese into bombing us... That and the fact they'd have to eventually anyway, since they wanted the Philippines. Might as well make it a sneak attack.
Hey, if Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Odyssey into the Minds Eye, and Heavy Metal didn't convince you of that, nothing will... ;-)
No, I'm sure Tolkien in walking Middle Earth somewhere, happy knowing that his creation is finally getting the theatrical airing it deserves. Christ, each movie is nearly 4 HOURS LONG... It's a double triple feature, man... ;-)
NT 4.0 never, I repeat NEVER came with an ls command. 7 years of using NT 4.0, and every time I wanted ls, I had to install either cygwin, Hamilton C Shell, MKS, or SFU. Or write my own.
-Chris Kaminski
Good thing, because it is! :-)
Yeah, if you could even GET 32MB simm's back in 1993...
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So I don't understand, your document has two mutually exclusive statements in it. One, that nuclear power is 20% of all generating capacity in the United States, second only to coal, and that 39% of generating capacity is oil. Both cannot be true.
:-/ Hmm, in which case, I've wasted my breath.
You are correct that materials cost is negligible. In fact, for nearly any plastic item these days, the material cost is pretty low. It's the energy cost. Those fabs and machines and heat treaters don't run themselves, nor do they have little hamsters running eternally in little hamster generators.
(Oh it's WAY too early for sarcasm, my apologies!)
Or is what the document saying, that 39% of all oil imports are designated for power consumption? In which case that would be workable.
If you've ever seen plastics made (and I have, I've done it), there is an immense energy cost associated with it. There is also a big capital machinery cost, true, but the per-unit cost of energy is significant.
I really don't know... do I?
Ugh. Doesn't anyone get it? Humans weren't kept around for their power generating potential, that was just misdirection on the part of the Machines. Humans were kept around for their humanity... argh!!!
Even me, the complete dimwit, figured that out early on...
From your document:
In 2002, U.S. nuclear power generation reached a record 780 billion kWh, or about 20% of total U.S. electricity generation, second only to coal in the U.S. electricity generation mix.
High-tech is NOTHING if not energy intensive. You think those computers just pop into existence? No, significant amounts of processing and manufacturing go into creating the PCB's, CPUs, and aluminum used in computers. Services, though, you have a point. :-)
You would never want to fire direct from the moon to earth, since the earth revolves something like 340 degrees every day with respect to the moon. you'd want to fire it to constellation of GEO satellites, 3 or 4 such that you are always pointing away from the earth, so you'd only want to aim at satellites that are setting or rising with respect to the moon. I'd choose setting satellites, since as one satellite sets/gets too far from the lunar transmitting station, another satellite leaves earth's disc, and the tracking signal automatically comes into the transmitters field of view. Even if a satellite blew up/disappeared, the transmitter could stop, reset to neutral, and await the next receiver to come into it's field of view, and restart.
Hell, the transmitter could be physically designed so that it could never point directly at earth (since the lunar orientation doesn't change appreciably with respect to earth) a neutral position could be the very edge of the earth so even in a malfunction of the transmitter, the power beam goes into deep space.
Which is not necessarily true. Put 10KW of power generating potential on 20 million homes, and you have what? 200 GW of power. Considering in America that the average homeowner uses 1-2KW/h of power when their home is mostly empty, that leaves a daily surplus available for industry. Figure that on a daily basis 40-60% of your solar power generating potential is available (to account for cloud-cover), and during daylight hours you score ~80-120 GW of power. That's quite a sizeable chunk, don't you think?
While you are correct, had there been no reliable ocean transport available to Columbus, even if there had been a reliable private money market, he still wouldn't have "discovered" the New World, because no private financier would have taken the risk on "unproven ocean technology".
Then again, maybe there just is no possible reward available within a 50-100 year time span to make it worthwhile to private investment?
Urban legend, the drawings for the Saturn V have not been lost. It's the act of procuring 40 yo computers and electronics and parts that makes creating new Saturn V rockets too difficult. We'd be better off starting from scratch (but maybe revitalize the F-1 engines).
NASA can't go to the moon now because there's no rocket to take them there, so yes, you are correct. NASA cannot build said rocket because they do not have the political ability to:
1) Kill the shuttle for money, it's necessary at this time to finish the Space Station
2) Get more money to fund building a heavy launch vehicle, or Earth/Lunar transfer vehicle
so you are right again, in that they cannot.
You are incorrect, however, if suggesting that NASA cannot go to the moon because they do not have the technical ability. They've done it once, it's a well known problem, and learning to do it again wouldn't be too hard, just not timely. They are more than smart enough to do it. Just give them the money and the mandate, and it'll get done.
Many would say this country has been rotting at it's core since we stopped going to the moon. I certainly would. We've had some good things come along, but nothing radical...