Option 3: A smart phone that doesn't expect me to be a falsebook/twatter obsessive and just works as a smart phone with some computing & browsing (and farting if I choose) capabilities.
Congrats! Thanks to 2009, you have just described the starting state of every smartphone. You don't have to visit their 'markets' and install Facebook/Twitter/etc apps and choose to enter log-in info. Just because the TV ads say you can do everything doesn't mean you have to do anything.
I assume you mean "a vehicle in LEO by definition can't stay over one place like a geosynchronous satellite to observe the same region over an extended period of time." If so, yes, granted, of course. I'm just speculating things that the air force could use a space plane for, if they ever reached the point of having it available for rapid deployment.
My logic (against a rival spacefaring nation): If you build it on a satellite, a strategically deployed paint fleck can render you defenseless until you can arrange for another satellite and launcher. Make a satellite maneuverable enough to dodge strategically deployed paint flecks and the fuel requirements may make your satellite huge and/or short lived. Put it on a space plane and you can dodge all you want, and just relaunch as needed if you don't dodge well enough.
My logic (against rogue states): if you build it on a geostationary satellite and guess wrong as to where the next threat is coming from, you now need another satellite. If you build it on a network of satellites, you need the whole bloody network to not have blind spots. If you build it on space planes, you just fly them over whomever is the rogue of the moment.
My logic (against the UN): satellites are subject to international treaties regarding the weaponizing of space. Planes-that-work-like-satellites are less so.
Christians do have the advantage in the "whose religion is inherently violent" mudslinging match that nobody was killed in Jesus name while Jesus was alive, or while any of his students were alive, or their students, or their students, or their students, or their students. It took several HUNDRED YEARS for people to start killing in Jesus name. Why? Because Jesus made it very clear you were not supposed to kill in his name, even to the point of literally turning your other cheek to somebody who was slapping you in the face. It was not until Christianity became the dominant regional religion and rulers began looking for justifications for political wars and capital punishment that killings began, and then continued in force for ~1300 years, largely until the enlightenment pulled out a lot of dusty verses.
I'm one of them. "Old McCain" was pretty much my ideal candidate. "New McCain" as spun for the presidency with new and improved(!) opinions on all issues was not. In fact, I believe Obama is a lot closer to old McCain than new McCain is. And Palin hit the Peter Principle as soon as she left local governance. I very nearly bought a "Republicans for Obama" bumper sticker after that announcement.
And I still support this prez. Not his owned-by-wall-street dithering, but his practical efforts to keep the country from running off the rails, which, Fox News yellow journalism invented terrors aside, he's doing a pretty darn good job of. I was especially impressed with his handling of the Stupak amendment, and the revelation that during all the healthcare debacle he was quietly putting together the largest nuclear summit in decades. Who knew?
That's my persistent nightmare -- that Steve Jobs is slowly training people that his evil app store should be the only way to buy software, by moving the iPhone OS up through the equipment. It would not surprise me at all to see the next iteration be on the 13" MacBook, as a new NetBook class, as soon as the pendulum swings away from tablets again. And from there it would jump to all the non "pro" devices...and Steve would laugh all the way to the bank. Which, by then, he would also own.
It also has the advantage of dramatically decreasing latency and processor needs, which present serious challenges for embedded devices even when there is scads of bandwidth available. On my Android phone (Verizon 3G and local WiFi), Opera Mini consistently smokes the built-in browser.
We need to drill for oil domestically,while at the same time having a Kennedy style "get off of gas in 10 years" development program.
I'm with you so long as you don't fall for the McCain claptrap that starting to explore and drill now will have significant production online before the 10 years is up. The oil economy isn't just a truck you can throw things on. You have to build a new series of tubes first (site finds, drill rigs, transports, refineries). That takes years, by which time the demand destruction from high oil prices will have created low oil prices, and the new production will drop the prices further, just in time to bankrupt the companies making the new environmentally friendly producs.
... the post office is charging $0.42 per text message, and it takes days to get there!
Yes, but a post office text message can contain about 840 Verizon text messages and a memory card with 16 GB of data. Trying to send that over a cell phone would take half a week of data transfer and cost you three arms and a leg!
If they have an IE-only site (like Netflix Watch-Now) I set the homepage on IE to Netflix, and the homepage on Firefox to whatever their homepage was. I tell them "The orange fox is the internet, the blue E is Netflix." Works fine.
There is one way you could make it work very well: spread the RUMOR you have a ship-burning death ray, and build a bunch of really shiny blinding mirrors. When ships charge, shine it in their faces while shooting fire-arrows. Voila, surviving sailors report you have fire arrows AND a death ray (not knowing only one actually worked), and nobody attacks your city from the sea for a century.
I believe it was by design -- like expansion joints on a bridge -- since everything needed to expand as it heated, the easiest thing to do using the non-pliable materials available was leave gaps. Just a guess.
Slashdot Mirror
Option 3: A smart phone that doesn't expect me to be a falsebook/twatter obsessive and just works as a smart phone with some computing & browsing (and farting if I choose) capabilities.
Congrats! Thanks to 2009, you have just described the starting state of every smartphone. You don't have to visit their 'markets' and install Facebook/Twitter/etc apps and choose to enter log-in info. Just because the TV ads say you can do everything doesn't mean you have to do anything.
I assume you mean "a vehicle in LEO by definition can't stay over one place like a geosynchronous satellite to observe the same region over an extended period of time." If so, yes, granted, of course. I'm just speculating things that the air force could use a space plane for, if they ever reached the point of having it available for rapid deployment.
My logic (against a rival spacefaring nation): If you build it on a satellite, a strategically deployed paint fleck can render you defenseless until you can arrange for another satellite and launcher. Make a satellite maneuverable enough to dodge strategically deployed paint flecks and the fuel requirements may make your satellite huge and/or short lived. Put it on a space plane and you can dodge all you want, and just relaunch as needed if you don't dodge well enough.
My logic (against rogue states): if you build it on a geostationary satellite and guess wrong as to where the next threat is coming from, you now need another satellite. If you build it on a network of satellites, you need the whole bloody network to not have blind spots. If you build it on space planes, you just fly them over whomever is the rogue of the moment.
My logic (against the UN): satellites are subject to international treaties regarding the weaponizing of space. Planes-that-work-like-satellites are less so.
The moral might be that people will pervert anything, given a motive and chance.
Could not agree with you more!
Christians do have the advantage in the "whose religion is inherently violent" mudslinging match that nobody was killed in Jesus name while Jesus was alive, or while any of his students were alive, or their students, or their students, or their students, or their students. It took several HUNDRED YEARS for people to start killing in Jesus name. Why? Because Jesus made it very clear you were not supposed to kill in his name, even to the point of literally turning your other cheek to somebody who was slapping you in the face. It was not until Christianity became the dominant regional religion and rulers began looking for justifications for political wars and capital punishment that killings began, and then continued in force for ~1300 years, largely until the enlightenment pulled out a lot of dusty verses.
Muhammad, on the other hand, personally led the Muslim armies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad#Beginning_of_armed_conflict
I'm one of them. "Old McCain" was pretty much my ideal candidate. "New McCain" as spun for the presidency with new and improved(!) opinions on all issues was not. In fact, I believe Obama is a lot closer to old McCain than new McCain is. And Palin hit the Peter Principle as soon as she left local governance. I very nearly bought a "Republicans for Obama" bumper sticker after that announcement.
And I still support this prez. Not his owned-by-wall-street dithering, but his practical efforts to keep the country from running off the rails, which, Fox News yellow journalism invented terrors aside, he's doing a pretty darn good job of. I was especially impressed with his handling of the Stupak amendment, and the revelation that during all the healthcare debacle he was quietly putting together the largest nuclear summit in decades. Who knew?
I wonder how many MS employees will chose using one of those abominations over getting sacked
None. The real question is -- how many will chose one for their 11 year old daughter, for whom they might not want a fully enabled smartphone?
if programmers wrote programs the way lawyers make laws, a
would be written as a 20 pages of code, at least..
Yes, but you'd be paid $200 an hour to write it, and could expense the pork rinds. You may be on to something...
That's my persistent nightmare -- that Steve Jobs is slowly training people that his evil app store should be the only way to buy software, by moving the iPhone OS up through the equipment. It would not surprise me at all to see the next iteration be on the 13" MacBook, as a new NetBook class, as soon as the pendulum swings away from tablets again. And from there it would jump to all the non "pro" devices...and Steve would laugh all the way to the bank. Which, by then, he would also own.
It also has the advantage of dramatically decreasing latency and processor needs, which present serious challenges for embedded devices even when there is scads of bandwidth available. On my Android phone (Verizon 3G and local WiFi), Opera Mini consistently smokes the built-in browser.
The article does not say "80% of PDF exploits," it says "80% of ALL SOFTWARE exploits."
Wired's survey put Verizon's 3G network at an average of 1.9 Mbps / ~240 KBps. If that's the case, we're talking 12 minutes of saturation per day. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/3g-speed-test/
We need to drill for oil domestically,while at the same time having a Kennedy style "get off of gas in 10 years" development program.
I'm with you so long as you don't fall for the McCain claptrap that starting to explore and drill now will have significant production online before the 10 years is up. The oil economy isn't just a truck you can throw things on. You have to build a new series of tubes first (site finds, drill rigs, transports, refineries). That takes years, by which time the demand destruction from high oil prices will have created low oil prices, and the new production will drop the prices further, just in time to bankrupt the companies making the new environmentally friendly producs.
The "Drill" crowd makes me sad.
... the post office is charging $0.42 per text message, and it takes days to get there!
Yes, but a post office text message can contain about 840 Verizon text messages and a memory card with 16 GB of data. Trying to send that over a cell phone would take half a week of data transfer and cost you three arms and a leg!
What proof do you have that a given career equates to being able to automatically assume someone's cluefulness level about a give subject?
Proof? You can't handle the proof.
He's an 80+ year old Senator. I can guarantee his staff don't "send" him the internets. They print him the internets.
But if God is all good and all powerful, why would he allow Jar Jar Binks to happen?
Because it distracted Lucas from his original, far more heinous idea?
Not surprising, really, if you remember Once More, with Feeling.
Remember it? In my house we sing it!
Bunnies...it must be bunnies!
I got lots of stares those first few ears.
You know, if you sterilize the needles, you get fewer stares and go through fewer ears...
Or you get the contract and immediately resell it on one of the contract trade sites: http://www.google.com/search?q=trade+cell+phone+contract
Or a bit of dirt in somebody's shoe after travelling, or on an imported potato, or...
Easier done than said.
If they have an IE-only site (like Netflix Watch-Now) I set the homepage on IE to Netflix, and the homepage on Firefox to whatever their homepage was. I tell them "The orange fox is the internet, the blue E is Netflix." Works fine.
Amen. I LOVE the awesomebar, since more often than not I'm looking for something in my bookmarks, or I remember the title instead of the URL.
There is one way you could make it work very well: spread the RUMOR you have a ship-burning death ray, and build a bunch of really shiny blinding mirrors. When ships charge, shine it in their faces while shooting fire-arrows. Voila, surviving sailors report you have fire arrows AND a death ray (not knowing only one actually worked), and nobody attacks your city from the sea for a century.
I believe it was by design -- like expansion joints on a bridge -- since everything needed to expand as it heated, the easiest thing to do using the non-pliable materials available was leave gaps. Just a guess.