Why does this suprise anyone.
Congress has been preventing it's own taxpayer research from being made public for almost 30 years!
If not for wikileaks and renegade congressional staffers these 6,780 reports would never see the light of day.
You make an assertion about how someone has or hasn't been proven guilty and don't even know the proper standard to be used.
Perhaps you should actually know what you're talking about before shooting off your mouth. Especially when the fate of several living persons hangs in the balance, along with the concept of justice for the people.
Welcome to the world, where not everyone thinks your "special" like mommy and daddy.
And unless you care to refute my actual point about where you got your "education", then it's still valid.
When I was in India it was considered acceptable practice (by the people I was with anyway) to use a pen to open the shutter so the "international" plug I had with me (two prongs) would go into the wall, of course the damn thing kept falling out all the time.
Don't you think there just might be an opportunity to take a scarce commodity (teachers as you point out) and through the use of technology and a non-scarce commodity (OLPC laptops) allow a few good teachers to be amplified and broadcast to a wider group?
I mean you pretty much made the case for the OLPC laptops in your post...
Lesson-plans and resource publication and access and even interaction through email are possible even through a "hub and spoke" WAN implementation with meet-up places for the kids where they have network access.
You better tell John Moffat that very large bodies are extremely well-approximated by Newton so he can stop wasting his time on Tensor-Vector-Scalar gravity.
Dark matter seems like far from settled science to me. But it always does amaze me how dark matter proponents tend to treat it's existence just like the followers of intelligent design treat God.
So you don't think an application developer wanting to do something as simple as text searches to provide document integration capabilities should be considered?
Let the word processor people make our documents as incomprehensible as possible?
All I could think about when I saw the picture was "claiming" the iceberg and creating te world's most exclusive floating bar...
Of course the frozen daiquiris and iced vodka shots would contribute to its demise.
I appreciate your insight. You make it clear that the tether is the thing.
I would be fascinated to learn more about the climbing robots being developed. I could understand and study that aspect much easier than I could the tether technology.
Any resources you could point me to for more information?
Why can't they make the tether resemble a giant 35mm film strip?
I think I undertsand that to achieve the strength necessary, the carbon nano-tube structures need to be relatively long and contiguous, but the portions on the edge would only need to be locally strong enough to support the weight of the climber not the weight of the tether itself. And the climber could use an arbitrary large number of the "sockets" on the edge.
Perhaps there are good reasons why this wouldn't work, but if it could it would simplify the mechanics of climbing significantly by reducing the need to grasp the tether so tightly that localized changes in thickness would prevent operation.
Not to take anything anyway from your company, since you claim they got the job done, but I have been involved in several large scale projects where my team or company that I was part of at the time was the second or even in one case the fourth company to try and build a specific system for a client.
In a couple of those cases it was blatantly obvious that the prior company had drastically under-bid, tried to fit some known solution into the problem at hand, or was trying to incorrectly use new technology or system methods (c/s to web was a big one).
But in almost all the other cases, if you paid attention you would see that the client themselves had gone through a significant learning process through the prior attempts. They tended to be more organized, more specific, and more ameniable to being told what they wanted or that the way they were asking for it wouldn't work.
They were more educated, more able, and more willing to interface with a development team in a productive manner.
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Why does this suprise anyone. Congress has been preventing it's own taxpayer research from being made public for almost 30 years! If not for wikileaks and renegade congressional staffers these 6,780 reports would never see the light of day.
Probably a cosmic ray.... http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/Cosmic.aspx
Boo fucking hoo...
You make an assertion about how someone has or hasn't been proven guilty and don't even know the proper standard to be used.
Perhaps you should actually know what you're talking about before shooting off your mouth. Especially when the fate of several living persons hangs in the balance, along with the concept of justice for the people.
Welcome to the world, where not everyone thinks your "special" like mommy and daddy.
And unless you care to refute my actual point about where you got your "education", then it's still valid.
Here in the US it's "beyond a reasonable doubt" NOT "beyond a shadow of a doubt".
Nice to see you've been brainwashed by TV and movies.
When I was in India it was considered acceptable practice (by the people I was with anyway) to use a pen to open the shutter so the "international" plug I had with me (two prongs) would go into the wall, of course the damn thing kept falling out all the time.
No I am not an electrical engineer.
I want to see the patent on this "wireless paper" you have developed that is able to travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers with little effort.
And be updated from a central point without having to send out more paper and keep track of the pieces of paper.
Next, you're going to day I've been mailing letters with the US postal service for all these years, while there been a more efficient method...
FPFPFPFP indeed.
Don't you think there just might be an opportunity to take a scarce commodity (teachers as you point out) and through the use of technology and a non-scarce commodity (OLPC laptops) allow a few good teachers to be amplified and broadcast to a wider group?
I mean you pretty much made the case for the OLPC laptops in your post...
Lesson-plans and resource publication and access and even interaction through email are possible even through a "hub and spoke" WAN implementation with meet-up places for the kids where they have network access.
I guess I follow the gist of your example but it falls apart upon close scrutiny:
No Belgian drinks American beer.
Ummm
I think you missed the point.
Laughing at bad weather means I can drive through it instead of fly through it.
Trip takes longer obviously but is possible to do "safely".
Of course I am very skeptical this will go anywhere; especially in the US.
Thanks for getting that stuck in my head all day...
bastard.
What a cogent, informative post. Very nicely done!
Not a Lotus Elise...
Seriously that is one hard to get into car.
You better tell John Moffat that very large bodies are extremely well-approximated by Newton so he can stop wasting his time on Tensor-Vector-Scalar gravity.
Dark matter seems like far from settled science to me. But it always does amaze me how dark matter proponents tend to treat it's existence just like the followers of intelligent design treat God.
So you don't think an application developer wanting to do something as simple as text searches to provide document integration capabilities should be considered? Let the word processor people make our documents as incomprehensible as possible?
A better question may be how many INTELLIGENT agencies does the US have?
umm... p
Plus there's that whole problem of the planet moving through space...
Apple picks up on this and starts cranking out ultra-black iPods?
All I could think about when I saw the picture was "claiming" the iceberg and creating te world's most exclusive floating bar... Of course the frozen daiquiris and iced vodka shots would contribute to its demise.
Most useful way would be to put messages on food since a significant portion of the population lives on the threshold of survival.
I appreciate your insight. You make it clear that the tether is the thing. I would be fascinated to learn more about the climbing robots being developed. I could understand and study that aspect much easier than I could the tether technology. Any resources you could point me to for more information?
Why can't they make the tether resemble a giant 35mm film strip? I think I undertsand that to achieve the strength necessary, the carbon nano-tube structures need to be relatively long and contiguous, but the portions on the edge would only need to be locally strong enough to support the weight of the climber not the weight of the tether itself. And the climber could use an arbitrary large number of the "sockets" on the edge. Perhaps there are good reasons why this wouldn't work, but if it could it would simplify the mechanics of climbing significantly by reducing the need to grasp the tether so tightly that localized changes in thickness would prevent operation.
There are no players that refuse to play non-DRM content.
Yes, but realistically how long will that last?
Do you think the big manufacturers are going to continue to produce devices that play non-DRM content? What's in it for them?
The 30th is a Tuesday.
Is it going to come bundled with the first security patch or will I have to download it separately?
Nice.
Well, they didn't get to be a bigallion dollar company by treating their customers fairly now did they...
Crap, that's what I've been doing wrong.
Not to take anything anyway from your company, since you claim they got the job done, but I have been involved in several large scale projects where my team or company that I was part of at the time was the second or even in one case the fourth company to try and build a specific system for a client.
In a couple of those cases it was blatantly obvious that the prior company had drastically under-bid, tried to fit some known solution into the problem at hand, or was trying to incorrectly use new technology or system methods (c/s to web was a big one).
But in almost all the other cases, if you paid attention you would see that the client themselves had gone through a significant learning process through the prior attempts. They tended to be more organized, more specific, and more ameniable to being told what they wanted or that the way they were asking for it wouldn't work.
They were more educated, more able, and more willing to interface with a development team in a productive manner.