These are the two major NOAA weather satellite programs under current development. For comparison, check out Comcast's current market cap: $65B. No way in hell they'd undertake a risky $7-10B investment for a single cable channel requiring expertise in satellite design, construction, launch & operations that they don't have.
There are plenty of joint ventures for weather satellite projects (JASON 3 being the current most visible project underway) as well as data sharing from foreign satellite programs to the US (MetOp for example), but basically it all comes down to money. We can afford to build them. NOAA has a long history of operating these polar orbiting satellites. The program under discussion here was called NPOESS. It was a joint project with DoD and it was more or less a complete disaster - after a decade and $11B spent, no satellite was ever launched, and the ground systems have been sitting idle for so long they're due for a technology refresh. So the White House blew up the program and NOAA took the valuable pieces and it became JPSS. So the budget cuts are a sort of "punishment" for mismanagement - basically Congress wants them to get the damn birds up already.
So rather than spend money on lawyers to defend their intellectual property, they'd spend money on R&D to obfuscate their engineered products. In either case, it's not "productive".
I've worn out watching DVR'd reruns of ST:TNG and I've been annoyed that DS9 hasn't been on streaming or syndicated re-air or anything other than a DVD somewhere. I'm looking forward to seeing that series again.
Every millisecond spent on facebook is a millisecond not spent at home depot or related pursuits, not spent eating at a restaurant, not spent buying a car or driving around... Computer product importers / retailers and ISPs are pretty much the only industries that are a good fit for facebook.
I think you're wrong, and more importantly, Facebook thinks you're wrong. Read between the lines on last week's Facebook SIM story. They want users to be interacting with Facebook everywhere they go, which includes going to Home Depot, eating at restaurants, buying cars, etc. That's what location services do for Facebook. Mobile growth is the future of Facebook, and they're already halfway there.
Note that I'm not attaching any value judgments to this strategy or its intended outcome for society. I'm just making business observations.
I wish I had known about this book three years ago. Built that system, went through four releases, and moved on. God bless whoever has to maintain it now. But my biggest performance issues were from underdocumented 3rd party vendor APIs - black box JARs that did whatever the hell they wanted to, and a bunch of headscratching from the vendor when the damn things locked up.
Do you want to explain the distinction between an optical and electronic viewfinder to the local police?
Mod point worthy. The vast majority of this discussion has been about trying to find technical means of skirting the edges of the rule, as if that would have any bearing on how the rule gets enforced. If the Kuwaiti police don't like the looks of your camera, they'll take it, and you insisting that there's no "reflex mirror" in it won't mean jack.
All the examples cited in the summary are products. Broadband internet is a service. The hardware required for broadband internet access has certainly gotten cheaper. But why does he think the service would get cheaper? I can't think of other examples of services that get cheaper over time unless there is punctuated technological advancement. Broadband gets more or less continuously faster, but no punctuation. Other services like power, water, telephone service, cable television, these have all gotten more expensive. Why would broadband service be any different?
Perhaps because QUERTY keyboards are designed to make your keystrokes alternate between left and right hands, the period is always typed by the right hand and the following space is typed by the left hand.
I have no explanation for your "between words" right thumb behavior. *shrug*
I doubt any accredited four year college or university could show that 80% of their graduates got jobs in their field. There's no mechanism for requiring that graduates stick to their field of study, and many find happiness doing other things, even if their income over time is reduced.
You might be interested to know that the federal government (under the guidance of HHS) is funding and fostering community support for development of an open source health information exchange framework. This includes the software to run the system that health care providers (think hospitals, insurance, HMOs, etc) can install and run, and administration of the network backbone to connect them (also known as the NHIN).
I wish I still had my mod points from yesterday, and I don't use them on ACs often.
Titles are irrelevant. He didn't say anything about having a staff to manage - he might be the only person at the company who's capable of that kind of software development AND responsible for managing their network, desktops, phones, etc. And he may have no authority to hire anyone else. Sometimes you get stuck in a situation where you have to do what you can.
This should be easily handled with a browser plugin.
For those of you saying "browse more with SSL", this is primarily going to benefit site owners with more targeted ads, who will know it doesn't work with SSL.
For those of you saying "use Adblock", that won't stop site owners from using this information for other purposes. Some sites will already have this information, particularly if you do e-commerce with them. But others may not. Do you really want midgetporn.com to know where you live?
Martin Gardner probably had more impact on my intellectual development and rigor of thinking as a teenager than anyone else. As an adult, his book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener" had more impact on my thoughts on philosophy than anyone else. My hat is off to him.
And yet, at the same time English (and presumably also Mandarin, with which I have no experience whatsoever) is constantly being fractured into dialects that are sometimes unintelligible to one another. You cannot conclude from the loss of distinct languages that overall human expressive capacity is diminished, only that the organizational taxonomy of human language is changing.
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comcast / weather channel has the funds to have there own weather satellites.
False.
Pentagon Pegs New Cost Estimate For NPOESS At $11.5 Billion
"The Pentagon's latest cost estimate for the scaled-back National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program is $11.5 billion through 2020"
Lockheed Martin Lands $1 Billion Weather Satellite Contract
"The GOES-R system — whose total estimate life-cycle cost is $7.7 billion — will replace the GOES-N satellite series"
These are the two major NOAA weather satellite programs under current development. For comparison, check out Comcast's current market cap: $65B. No way in hell they'd undertake a risky $7-10B investment for a single cable channel requiring expertise in satellite design, construction, launch & operations that they don't have.
There are plenty of joint ventures for weather satellite projects (JASON 3 being the current most visible project underway) as well as data sharing from foreign satellite programs to the US (MetOp for example), but basically it all comes down to money. We can afford to build them. NOAA has a long history of operating these polar orbiting satellites. The program under discussion here was called NPOESS. It was a joint project with DoD and it was more or less a complete disaster - after a decade and $11B spent, no satellite was ever launched, and the ground systems have been sitting idle for so long they're due for a technology refresh. So the White House blew up the program and NOAA took the valuable pieces and it became JPSS. So the budget cuts are a sort of "punishment" for mismanagement - basically Congress wants them to get the damn birds up already.
But was he a good repairman?
This right here is why many geeks will remain dateless. Good job, samzenpus.
So rather than spend money on lawyers to defend their intellectual property, they'd spend money on R&D to obfuscate their engineered products. In either case, it's not "productive".
Amazon will eventually drop the price to $99 or less, and at that price point buyers will be willing to accept a cheaper, ad-subsidized device.
I've worn out watching DVR'd reruns of ST:TNG and I've been annoyed that DS9 hasn't been on streaming or syndicated re-air or anything other than a DVD somewhere. I'm looking forward to seeing that series again.
Every millisecond spent on facebook is a millisecond not spent at home depot or related pursuits, not spent eating at a restaurant, not spent buying a car or driving around... Computer product importers / retailers and ISPs are pretty much the only industries that are a good fit for facebook.
I think you're wrong, and more importantly, Facebook thinks you're wrong. Read between the lines on last week's Facebook SIM story. They want users to be interacting with Facebook everywhere they go, which includes going to Home Depot, eating at restaurants, buying cars, etc. That's what location services do for Facebook. Mobile growth is the future of Facebook, and they're already halfway there.
Note that I'm not attaching any value judgments to this strategy or its intended outcome for society. I'm just making business observations.
and if this machine needs to connect to another machine beyond its LAN, how would you address it?
Agreed. I speculate that it somehow made the game either too easy or too difficult, at least with the style of level design they are using.
Did you translate this post into English with Google Translate?
I wish I had known about this book three years ago. Built that system, went through four releases, and moved on. God bless whoever has to maintain it now. But my biggest performance issues were from underdocumented 3rd party vendor APIs - black box JARs that did whatever the hell they wanted to, and a bunch of headscratching from the vendor when the damn things locked up.
"They" are working very hard to assassinate Assange's character... which might be good enough in this day and age.
Do you want to explain the distinction between an optical and electronic viewfinder to the local police?
Mod point worthy. The vast majority of this discussion has been about trying to find technical means of skirting the edges of the rule, as if that would have any bearing on how the rule gets enforced. If the Kuwaiti police don't like the looks of your camera, they'll take it, and you insisting that there's no "reflex mirror" in it won't mean jack.
All of the same benefits of Bluetooth, plus the WiFi congestion and interference headaches we already enjoy just to get Internet access???
Where do I sign up???
*rant off*
All the examples cited in the summary are products. Broadband internet is a service. The hardware required for broadband internet access has certainly gotten cheaper. But why does he think the service would get cheaper? I can't think of other examples of services that get cheaper over time unless there is punctuated technological advancement. Broadband gets more or less continuously faster, but no punctuation. Other services like power, water, telephone service, cable television, these have all gotten more expensive. Why would broadband service be any different?
You know, you could do your part to prevent this by participating in Firehose moderation. http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl
Perhaps because QUERTY keyboards are designed to make your keystrokes alternate between left and right hands, the period is always typed by the right hand and the following space is typed by the left hand. I have no explanation for your "between words" right thumb behavior. *shrug*
I doubt any accredited four year college or university could show that 80% of their graduates got jobs in their field. There's no mechanism for requiring that graduates stick to their field of study, and many find happiness doing other things, even if their income over time is reduced.
You might be interested to know that the federal government (under the guidance of HHS) is funding and fostering community support for development of an open source health information exchange framework. This includes the software to run the system that health care providers (think hospitals, insurance, HMOs, etc) can install and run, and administration of the network backbone to connect them (also known as the NHIN).
http://www.connectopensource.org/about/what-is-CONNECT
sure... with the right guns, you can get all the money, food, education and health care you want.
I wish I still had my mod points from yesterday, and I don't use them on ACs often. Titles are irrelevant. He didn't say anything about having a staff to manage - he might be the only person at the company who's capable of that kind of software development AND responsible for managing their network, desktops, phones, etc. And he may have no authority to hire anyone else. Sometimes you get stuck in a situation where you have to do what you can.
Good luck getting Apple to play along. While I prefer their design, I doubt they'd even license out the spec to other manufacturers.
This should be easily handled with a browser plugin.
For those of you saying "browse more with SSL", this is primarily going to benefit site owners with more targeted ads, who will know it doesn't work with SSL.
For those of you saying "use Adblock", that won't stop site owners from using this information for other purposes. Some sites will already have this information, particularly if you do e-commerce with them. But others may not. Do you really want midgetporn.com to know where you live?
Martin Gardner probably had more impact on my intellectual development and rigor of thinking as a teenager than anyone else. As an adult, his book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener" had more impact on my thoughts on philosophy than anyone else. My hat is off to him.
And yet, at the same time English (and presumably also Mandarin, with which I have no experience whatsoever) is constantly being fractured into dialects that are sometimes unintelligible to one another. You cannot conclude from the loss of distinct languages that overall human expressive capacity is diminished, only that the organizational taxonomy of human language is changing.