Actually, about 7-10%. Some amusing trivia, also, is that red-green color blindness is an exclusively male affliction. Furthermore, about 8% of people have some issue with color. It may not be as obvious as "blindness"--it may just be that you don't have as many receptors. So that bright red that is supposed to attract people's attention may not be so bright.
It's also my understanding that, when using shades, women see more shades of color than men do. Which explains why when you go shopping with a woman and she says, "That's more of an autumn than a red," when you suggest she check out that "red dress," don't argue with her. She's probably right.
Again, nothing wrong with using color. Just don't use it as the only indicator of status.
The problem with using color, of course, is that a certain group of people are color blind.
I'm reminded of an old friend of mine who is red/green color blind. He was trying to troubleshoot a problem with a router which had a light above each plug which would show red if there was a problem or green if it was good. Needless to say, he could tell the light was on but he couldn't tell if it was green or red. He had to grab someone else and have them sit there and say whether connections were red or green.
Color is good to use, but make sure that you have some sort of redundant information. Don't use a red checkmark for bad and a green checkmark for good, for example, without having some piece of redundant information (e.g., the word "Failed") after it.
I'm afraid that even if Space X comes to the rescue and gives us a 2-order magnitude (factor of 100) reduction in launch costs it still doesn't make economic sense. As other posters have mentioned, why not just put it on earth?
It may make economic sense in Japan.
Here's some entertaining statistics: Japan has a population of about 127,000,000, or about 1/3 the United States. All those people live in 152,411 square miles, or a space about the size of Montana.
Imagine land prices in Montana if 1/3 of the population of the US moved there and you might start to get the picture. Remember, these are the people who built an island to put down an airport because there wasn't room.
Now extrapolate that population out to, say, 2030 (which is when they would be looking at having this working) and understand that they're probably not going to get any new land and you might start to see where it would make economic sense.
Well, in Japan's case, you have the problem where there isn't much ground to collect energy from. Sure, here in the US, we have great big wide open spaces where we could put solar collectors.
And we'd really rather that they not start trying to collect more land...
Fair enough. But--and again, I may be seeing this wrong--if we had an area that had 1,000 rocks and 1,000,000,000 grains of sand and constructed a ratio based on this and then we discovered that, in fact, there were 10,000,000,000 grains of sand, wouldn't that mean that the ratio is wrong, not there were more rocks that we somehow hadn't discovered?
What I'm guessing is that the theory says that for every 1,000,000 grains of sand on the beach, there is one rock the size of your fist. There are 1,000,000,000 grains of sand, so there must be 1,000 rocks. What these guys are saying is that there are, in fact, 10,000,000,000 grains so there must be 10,000 rocks.
If I'm drawing the analogy correctly, I'm not sure I understand how they got the relationship between grains of sand and rocks and how they know that's accurate.
It seems that even though it could destroy a city every 100 years, in actual fact I has never happened in recorded history.
Sodom and Gomorrah? Also, keep in mind if this theory is accurate, this was an asteroid strike in the Alps that managed to wipe out a couple of cities in the middle east.
It's easy to find electricity. On the other hand, it can be tricky to find electricity to charge your car.
First, lots of electricity is inside buildings. The owners of these buildings tend to get annoyed when you drive your car into them or start running extension cords out the door. Second, lots of electricity is of the 110 volt variety. That means it can take 16 hours to give you full charge. So that extension cord running out of the lobby will probably be noticed.
But it is an interesting idea. I wouldn't be surprised if tow companies aren't considering adding a "fast charger" so that if you die someplace, you can give them a buzz and they'll come give you a charge. Of course, what you'd pay for that is another question...
I'm actually in a similar boat and I agree--I see no overwhelming reason to replace my watch for the moment and I'll see what unfurls in the smart-watch realm. About the only time I seriously miss having a watch is when I'm bicycling and that's mostly due to an issue with my GPS-based bike computer.
"Well, yeah, I suppose the Teslas are nice cars and all but what if they break down? What if Tesla goes out of business? Who will you find to fix your $80,000 car then? If you're in the market for an electric car, you should probably wait until next year when we'll have our electric cars out and you can take it to your trusted Mercedes mechanic rather than having to deal with some fly-by-night company..."
By the way, I took a look at the B-class Mercedes. It may just be me, but I'm not a big fan of the Tesla Model S' styling. That said, the Mercedes B class is just plain ugly.
I know what surprised me is the implied attribution.
So I grab a pretty picture of people eating cookies and put it on my website where I advertise my home-made cookies. We can debate whether that is theft or not.
What's surprising is that the person in question is a photographer and, therefore, it's implied that the pictures on the website advertising his photography business are pictures that he took.
Personally, that's where I have the issue. Not so much in the "stealing" of images but "stealing" the credit for those images.
Actually, as of late, they haven't been passing. Again, you have to stay up to date. There are a bunch of legacy laws that need to be overturned, granted, but you're not seeing any new laws banning gay marriage in the last year or two--the last ban was back in 2012.
That said, I agree with you about splitting the two. In an ideal world, that would be the way to go. Unfortunately, I could imagine a lot of people suddenly being upset that their government sanctioned "marriage" suddenly has become a government sanctioned "civil union."
They'll hire someone locally to tow your car out to California so that they can then impound it.:^D
Seriously, one of the great things about SF and NYC is that you don't need a car! There are plenty of transportation options. Hell, even a cab isn't too horrible in the city.
This is not a question over whether or not what the NSA was doing in the past violated the constitution, but that what they are doing right now violates the constitution.
The question is whether or not there is a reason that a final ruling has to be given right now.
How is what the NSA is doing affecting you right now, such that they have to stop immediately? How will a, say, 1 year delay affect you? During that year, are you likely to be deprived of your life? Liberty? A large amount of money?
No? Then it's probably worthwhile to let the system work the way it was intended.
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Actually, about 7-10%. Some amusing trivia, also, is that red-green color blindness is an exclusively male affliction. Furthermore, about 8% of people have some issue with color. It may not be as obvious as "blindness"--it may just be that you don't have as many receptors. So that bright red that is supposed to attract people's attention may not be so bright.
It's also my understanding that, when using shades, women see more shades of color than men do. Which explains why when you go shopping with a woman and she says, "That's more of an autumn than a red," when you suggest she check out that "red dress," don't argue with her. She's probably right.
Again, nothing wrong with using color. Just don't use it as the only indicator of status.
The problem with using color, of course, is that a certain group of people are color blind.
I'm reminded of an old friend of mine who is red/green color blind. He was trying to troubleshoot a problem with a router which had a light above each plug which would show red if there was a problem or green if it was good. Needless to say, he could tell the light was on but he couldn't tell if it was green or red. He had to grab someone else and have them sit there and say whether connections were red or green.
Color is good to use, but make sure that you have some sort of redundant information. Don't use a red checkmark for bad and a green checkmark for good, for example, without having some piece of redundant information (e.g., the word "Failed") after it.
I'm fine with the drilling. I just have issues with the Keystone XXXXXXXL pipeline they're planning on building...
SpaceX hasn't managed a single flight with an acceptable level of reliability.
Acceptable to who? NASA seems pretty happy the last time they delivered supplies to ISS.
Hell, every Apollo flight had some kind of major failure. That's why you build in redundancies.
I'm afraid that even if Space X comes to the rescue and gives us a 2-order magnitude (factor of 100) reduction in launch costs it still doesn't make economic sense. As other posters have mentioned, why not just put it on earth?
It may make economic sense in Japan.
Here's some entertaining statistics: Japan has a population of about 127,000,000, or about 1/3 the United States. All those people live in 152,411 square miles, or a space about the size of Montana.
Imagine land prices in Montana if 1/3 of the population of the US moved there and you might start to get the picture. Remember, these are the people who built an island to put down an airport because there wasn't room.
Now extrapolate that population out to, say, 2030 (which is when they would be looking at having this working) and understand that they're probably not going to get any new land and you might start to see where it would make economic sense.
Well, in Japan's case, you have the problem where there isn't much ground to collect energy from. Sure, here in the US, we have great big wide open spaces where we could put solar collectors.
And we'd really rather that they not start trying to collect more land...
Fair enough. But--and again, I may be seeing this wrong--if we had an area that had 1,000 rocks and 1,000,000,000 grains of sand and constructed a ratio based on this and then we discovered that, in fact, there were 10,000,000,000 grains of sand, wouldn't that mean that the ratio is wrong, not there were more rocks that we somehow hadn't discovered?
I'm not sure I get this.
What I'm guessing is that the theory says that for every 1,000,000 grains of sand on the beach, there is one rock the size of your fist. There are 1,000,000,000 grains of sand, so there must be 1,000 rocks. What these guys are saying is that there are, in fact, 10,000,000,000 grains so there must be 10,000 rocks.
If I'm drawing the analogy correctly, I'm not sure I understand how they got the relationship between grains of sand and rocks and how they know that's accurate.
It seems that even though it could destroy a city every 100 years, in actual fact I has never happened in recorded history.
Sodom and Gomorrah? Also, keep in mind if this theory is accurate, this was an asteroid strike in the Alps that managed to wipe out a couple of cities in the middle east.
silicon carbide, titanium carbide, boron (the hardest element) boron carbide, and boron nitride.
All of which would make a really crappy screen cover.
It's easy to find electricity. On the other hand, it can be tricky to find electricity to charge your car.
First, lots of electricity is inside buildings. The owners of these buildings tend to get annoyed when you drive your car into them or start running extension cords out the door. Second, lots of electricity is of the 110 volt variety. That means it can take 16 hours to give you full charge. So that extension cord running out of the lobby will probably be noticed.
But it is an interesting idea. I wouldn't be surprised if tow companies aren't considering adding a "fast charger" so that if you die someplace, you can give them a buzz and they'll come give you a charge. Of course, what you'd pay for that is another question...
I'm actually in a similar boat and I agree--I see no overwhelming reason to replace my watch for the moment and I'll see what unfurls in the smart-watch realm. About the only time I seriously miss having a watch is when I'm bicycling and that's mostly due to an issue with my GPS-based bike computer.
Exactly. This is basically Mercedes FUD.
"Well, yeah, I suppose the Teslas are nice cars and all but what if they break down? What if Tesla goes out of business? Who will you find to fix your $80,000 car then? If you're in the market for an electric car, you should probably wait until next year when we'll have our electric cars out and you can take it to your trusted Mercedes mechanic rather than having to deal with some fly-by-night company..."
By the way, I took a look at the B-class Mercedes. It may just be me, but I'm not a big fan of the Tesla Model S' styling. That said, the Mercedes B class is just plain ugly.
It was first photographed by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 December 2004. It was first photographed by any spacecraft in 1981.
The Netherlands Space Office?
Hey, somebody has to take pictures/video for the rest of us...
I was thinking of the line from the summary "into orbit." They didn't say which orbit. Mars? Earth? Sun?
Step 1: Drop Atomic Bomb on Mars.
Step 2: Collect money when pieces of Mars enter into Mars orbit or Solar orbit.
I dunno if you could get a nuclear bomb to Mars for under $250,000, so I'm not sure there's a "Step 3: Profit!" here.
You don't have to go that far--just move to Liechtenstein.
I know what surprised me is the implied attribution.
So I grab a pretty picture of people eating cookies and put it on my website where I advertise my home-made cookies. We can debate whether that is theft or not.
What's surprising is that the person in question is a photographer and, therefore, it's implied that the pictures on the website advertising his photography business are pictures that he took.
Personally, that's where I have the issue. Not so much in the "stealing" of images but "stealing" the credit for those images.
Regardless of what some advocacy organization says [...]
Like The Washington Post and ABC News?
Actually, as of late, they haven't been passing. Again, you have to stay up to date. There are a bunch of legacy laws that need to be overturned, granted, but you're not seeing any new laws banning gay marriage in the last year or two--the last ban was back in 2012.
But the reality is that the majority of US residents are still somewhat negative about gay marriage.
Nope. Gotta stay up on the news...
That said, I agree with you about splitting the two. In an ideal world, that would be the way to go. Unfortunately, I could imagine a lot of people suddenly being upset that their government sanctioned "marriage" suddenly has become a government sanctioned "civil union."
Fortunately, they have Alcatraz...
They'll hire someone locally to tow your car out to California so that they can then impound it. :^D
Seriously, one of the great things about SF and NYC is that you don't need a car! There are plenty of transportation options. Hell, even a cab isn't too horrible in the city.
This is not a question over whether or not what the NSA was doing in the past violated the constitution, but that what they are doing right now violates the constitution.
The question is whether or not there is a reason that a final ruling has to be given right now.
How is what the NSA is doing affecting you right now, such that they have to stop immediately? How will a, say, 1 year delay affect you? During that year, are you likely to be deprived of your life? Liberty? A large amount of money?
No? Then it's probably worthwhile to let the system work the way it was intended.
My mom sure isn't going to be wrestling 00 gauge charge cables into a connector.
Years ago, they had these things called "Gas Station Attendants."
Just sayin'...