They're not doing this for the benefit of investors, but of themselves. If people are paying a crazy 80+ P/E and my stock is at $300, why not do a secondary offering while the getting's good? Better than giving up the same amount of control in the company when P/E has halved or more.
What would I do with all recorded music? I couldn't possibly listen to it all in my lifetime. I'd need some sort of intelligent agent to find things that I'd like and play those so that I don't waste time listening to things I'm not interested in.
How is this "problem" any different that finding music you like at the music store or on Amazon? I don't see how having all the info locally causes a new problem, but it does make it immediately available once you find what you want. Ditto for stuff outside of music.
Well my point wasn't who the ad vendor was, but that you have a pattern of making posts that contain links to "more here:". These links always point to your own blog, which generates ad revenue.
Seems like a clever way to get good traffic, but feels sketchy to me. It feels sketchy because it would be easy to explicitly state you were linking to your own blog. Instead, it's ambiguous, with a possible connotation that you found, not authored, the link. For example, earlier yesterday you wrote:
One of the best things I've read on this subject was yesterday. More here: [blogs.com]
When I read that, while a lawyer could probably interpret it differently, I sure got the impression that your post said the best thing you read on the subject was your own blog. That's the strongest example, but I always get that feeling when I see your posts. That's my $0.02.
This is the kind of "in the box" thinking that prevents progress.
From TFA,
The plan would separate the jobs of hauling people and cargo into orbit and would put the payloads on top of the rockets - as far as possible from the dangers of firing engines and falling debris, which were responsible for the accidents that destroyed the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003.
it sounds like they have a pretty good reason to do so. Just because Goddard did it doesn't make it easy or safe.
Perhaps we should also look into making an in-orbit shuttle that stays in space and can move between LEO, the ISS, and the moon.
They have definitely thought about similar ideas. NASA suggested a taxi between US LEO and ISS (Russian) LEO as a thesis project in 1994. I mentioned it in the second part of a recent post of mine.
But not all features are necessarily supported. From the compatability chart:
Windows 2000 or Windows XP See the Mouse control panel.
Also, this dislaimer underneath the proclamation of Windows support:
Works with standard input driver included with Windows XP and 2000. No additional software required.
Put it together and I think only the features a default mouse driver support will work on this. Now maybe it's compatible with the drivers for 11 gajillion button MS and Logitech mice, but I wouldn't bet on it.
My guess is that stores will move to rfid to handle their security.
What are those things they use now? You know, the weird large things attached to clothes that the cashier always struggles with, the fake UPC symbols with wires inside, the odd pillars by the exit that are always going off while noone cares. Are they some non-RFID sensor technology or do you mean that they will attach their existing RFID sensors to a computer system and record the data?
12-17 year olds don't have jobs. Therefore they are always superuser on their system. At big companies, the corporate desktop is locked down. You can't necessarily install IM for personal use. Or you can, but you can't get it through the application proxy.
On unrestricted machines, I try IM before sending an email. At work (which is about 1/2 my waking hours), I must use email.
Yeah, but going from 10m to 0m is going from 2 atm to 1 atm. The scenario in the parent is going from 1 atm to 0 atm. If multiples matter instead of absolute pressure differential, things might behave pretty badly as your denominator approaches zero.
In fact, this site http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/vacuum.h tml says you lose consciousness in a vacuum in under 10 seconds and die in about 90 seconds.
Tangent: I don't think they pressurize space craft, or aircraft for that matter fully to 1 atm. For example, there's a need to pop equalize your ears as aircraft take off and land, just like when diving. The shuttle is pressurized to ~25% of pressure at sea level.
For more, see this very informative page. http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/ EXLibrary/DOCS/EIC017.HTML
Yeah, but that's different from a 3rd party doubleclick cookie. In that case they're not aggregating data on many users within one site. They're aggregating data on one user across many sites. It's like following me around all day as I run errands and keeping notes with the intent of trying to sell me something supplementary or complementary to what you saw me buy. That would be annoying. If someone's trying to get inside my head to figure out what I'm doing, I want the ability to stop them.
DoubleClick is a recognizable name and I could just remove their cookie or choose to trust them as a reputable company. But if you enable 3rd party cookies there's so many unknown names that it's impossible to know who's who or who's trustworhty. That's why I delete cookies.
I can see those needs for a business, but at home I really can handle much lower availability. I mean, if I understand what the "service availability" represents in the conclusion link, your service level means that for every 10,000 calls to or from you, only one or none could not go through or disconnect before you finish.
Even when my VoIP is out, it still goes to voicemail. I'm not a huge phone user, so 10,000 calls is roughly 7 years worth of calls. Personally, I can live with more than one call in 7 years winding up in voicemail.
This just in from the I need a nice-sounding stat dept:
Still 95% compatible with Windows XP
It's not from TFA, so I gather the OP measured it. How do you measure this compatibility? I bet that number varies widely depending on who's measuring and what their criteria are.
#1 "new and better are mutually exclusive"
You are saying there is no way to improve UI. If new (change) is mutually exclusive with better than then only thing left is old (unchanged). Without change, there's no way to get better leaving a permanent status quo. By adhering to these arguments we'd still have rotary phones, analog clocks, and the command line.
#2 They didn't introduce a new UI element, they just learned how to make existing ones match the page.
Launch lattitude also determines the lowest cost orbital inclination (The angle at which the orbit path crosses the equator). Most US spacecraft are in an orbit relative to KSC. Unless the new launch site is at a similar lattitude, it will cost extra fuel to rotate to the correct inclination. Note KSC (28N) and Vandenberg (the West Coast launch facility at 34N) are at similar lattitude. Also, not all launches are eastwards. A launch facility along a north/south coast permits higher inclination launches (such as polar) without the downrange concerns noted above.
An interesting (to me) tangent to this relates to the ISS. Russia's main launch site is much further north than KSC, so Russia's default orbital inclination is a larger angle (~50 as opposed to ~30). ISS is at Russian inclination to allow their unmanned supply craft larger payload (less fuel = more payload) when travelling there. This means US visits are less efficient. I know NASA has considered an orbital "space taxi" to service ISS that could ferry shipments between US and Russian inclinations.
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They're not doing this for the benefit of investors, but of themselves. If people are paying a crazy 80+ P/E and my stock is at $300, why not do a secondary offering while the getting's good? Better than giving up the same amount of control in the company when P/E has halved or more.
I'm sure there's a slashdot term for this, but this post links to the poster's (Ohmster = Mparekh) blog that runs Google ads.
Because this guy has already done it at 3kbps http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/08/01/10132 18&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=13213 122
Or you're misinterpretting events. Check out a prior post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/07/29/18502 34
12-17 year olds don't have jobs. Therefore they are always superuser on their system. At big companies, the corporate desktop is locked down. You can't necessarily install IM for personal use. Or you can, but you can't get it through the application proxy. On unrestricted machines, I try IM before sending an email. At work (which is about 1/2 my waking hours), I must use email.
Yeah, but going from 10m to 0m is going from 2 atm to 1 atm. The scenario in the parent is going from 1 atm to 0 atm. If multiples matter instead of absolute pressure differential, things might behave pretty badly as your denominator approaches zero. In fact, this site http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/vacuum.h tml says you lose consciousness in a vacuum in under 10 seconds and die in about 90 seconds.
/ EXLibrary/DOCS/EIC017.HTML
Tangent: I don't think they pressurize space craft, or aircraft for that matter fully to 1 atm. For example, there's a need to pop equalize your ears as aircraft take off and land, just like when diving. The shuttle is pressurized to ~25% of pressure at sea level. For more, see this very informative page. http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration
Yeah, but that's different from a 3rd party doubleclick cookie. In that case they're not aggregating data on many users within one site. They're aggregating data on one user across many sites. It's like following me around all day as I run errands and keeping notes with the intent of trying to sell me something supplementary or complementary to what you saw me buy. That would be annoying. If someone's trying to get inside my head to figure out what I'm doing, I want the ability to stop them. DoubleClick is a recognizable name and I could just remove their cookie or choose to trust them as a reputable company. But if you enable 3rd party cookies there's so many unknown names that it's impossible to know who's who or who's trustworhty. That's why I delete cookies.
I can see those needs for a business, but at home I really can handle much lower availability. I mean, if I understand what the "service availability" represents in the conclusion link, your service level means that for every 10,000 calls to or from you, only one or none could not go through or disconnect before you finish. Even when my VoIP is out, it still goes to voicemail. I'm not a huge phone user, so 10,000 calls is roughly 7 years worth of calls. Personally, I can live with more than one call in 7 years winding up in voicemail.
I doubt Andersen used the Creative Commons License when he wrote.
1. The parent wanted support like Java/C# where there is no recompile 2. You mean putting GTK/Qt (or something) into the C++ standard?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/13/005247
#1 "new and better are mutually exclusive"
You are saying there is no way to improve UI. If new (change) is mutually exclusive with better than then only thing left is old (unchanged). Without change, there's no way to get better leaving a permanent status quo. By adhering to these arguments we'd still have rotary phones, analog clocks, and the command line.
#2 They didn't introduce a new UI element, they just learned how to make existing ones match the page.
See other redundant posts about Epson and Canon doing this for years :)
Don't Java and C#'s GUI stuff rely on an intervening VM so that write-once run-(mostly)anywhere can handle the GUI? How would this work for C++?
Launch lattitude also determines the lowest cost orbital inclination (The angle at which the orbit path crosses the equator). Most US spacecraft are in an orbit relative to KSC. Unless the new launch site is at a similar lattitude, it will cost extra fuel to rotate to the correct inclination. Note KSC (28N) and Vandenberg (the West Coast launch facility at 34N) are at similar lattitude. Also, not all launches are eastwards. A launch facility along a north/south coast permits higher inclination launches (such as polar) without the downrange concerns noted above.
An interesting (to me) tangent to this relates to the ISS. Russia's main launch site is much further north than KSC, so Russia's default orbital inclination is a larger angle (~50 as opposed to ~30). ISS is at Russian inclination to allow their unmanned supply craft larger payload (less fuel = more payload) when travelling there. This means US visits are less efficient. I know NASA has considered an orbital "space taxi" to service ISS that could ferry shipments between US and Russian inclinations.
What US minors have been sent to jail for dozens of years for stealing a movie?
See Absolute's, not LoJack's site http://absolute.com/Public/computracepersonal/note book-security.asp for details.