The vast majority of applications can be installed by dragging them into the Applications folder. Or they can be run from an archive. The magic required to do this on the OS level is pretty minimal.
nuclear IS dangerous, dirty, and while not impossible to maintain, it's still very difficult as engineers still do not understand everything that happens to the materials with the pressures, radiation, and temperatures involved. Unfortunately, the only other real solution for mass production is coal, which is much more dangerous in both the short and long term even when the plant is operating properly. In the short term coal is poisoning the air with large amounts of radiation, mercury, and other poisons. In the long term it's probably going to impact our climate (although this is not fully provable without a statistically significant number of identical earths to experiment with). While alternative sources can help quite a bit, everything combined at peak efficiency is not enough to cover current consumption.
Perhaps if congress repurposed the $12b-$20b a year it currently donates to very profitable energy companies to fund research into safer reactor design and solar research, we could have safer reactors and cheap solar cells made out of organic materials. Cheap solar cells would allow us to provide power to those in sunny remote areas without having to extend the grid in a very expensive way, saving quite a bit in line maintenance costs. Research could help implement reactor designs which produce waste which will degrade in decades, reducing long term safety issues significantly.
Complain to your city council for the lack of infrastructure. Complain to your state government that they need to do more to take away the licenses of people who refuse to drive safely (you have to nearly kill someone to lose your license in most states). Ride slowly in the summer, spend just a little money on some gear to ride in the winter. I've been cycling to work for a few years now, and even when it's -7F outside, it's still a lot nicer than dealing with vehicle maintenance and traffic.
Electric cars simply solve the wrong problem. It's never going to be possible to produce a 2,000lb vehicle to move a 200lb payload.
Even with hydrogen, you need quite a large volume to lift anything. About 1 cubic meter per kilogram, or about 85 cubic meters of hydrogen to life the average adult. Which means you'd need a sphere at least 5.5m in diameter, or over 18 feet. Besides the fact that everyone would have to triple the size of their parking spaces, such a large shape has a huge drag coefficient, so only low speeds in low winds are possible.
Lighter than air vehicles have been around forever, and it doesn't seem like newer materials will help all that much.
Contracting can help keep costs down if you can make companies bid against each other and force everyone to stay efficient. You also need to make sure that your bidding process has minimal political interference and that your QA and cost auditing is a separate contract. Having seen the operations of government offices and government manufacturing contractors, I can tell you that the contractors are far more efficient. As long as you prevent the contractor from defrauding the government or cost cutting on quality, you get a relatively good product in the end. You also need to make sure that the legislative branch doesn't get involved too much, or else you will end up with specifications meant to favor a manufacturer in a certain district rather than to improve the final designs. Obviously there are some situations where this does not apply, such as using mercenaries instead of the armed forces.
$100B is an absurd amount of money. Estimates for the "space elevator" are far less than that. I'm sure if you split a lot less than that at private contractors to develop competing designs with a prize for the best winner, you could come up with something amazing. The join strike fighter competition seems to have produced a pretty solid aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_competition
"Try and fail" can be a bad approach when you're dealing with the space shuttle, which is simultaneously the least reliable and most expensive option.
Another option would have been to bring back the Saturn V, which despite having 10 times the payload capacity of the shuttle, costs less for a single launch. We could have had the space station built long ago for much less cost if we weren't so hell bent on using our space shuttles for everything.
You could always reply to a post in the article, which undoes all your moderations. Of course, you might lose some mod points if your post isn't clearly relevant.
What do you expect when the most communist aspect of the US is the road system. It's federally subsidized with tens of billions of tax dollars each year and almost all of your freedoms are null and void "for the good of the whole" and it does nothing but encourage wealth redistribution through inefficient consumption.
Or builds a 200 mpg car by replacing the iron shell with plastic, preventing the total collapse of the US car industry and Western Civilization? Just think how many more mpg it would get if you built a bicycle out of it instead
There's no need for a study, it has been done plenty of times. The problem is that we need to remember why we're trying to prevent terror plots in the first place. We want to prevent them to guarantee the public's freedoms. Turning the country into a giant police state does not help meet this goal.
But do you think this AI could be smart enough to convince a human to speak the password into an elaborately decorated terminal buried deep within the Villa Straylight?
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It is rumored that the linksys wrt54g has a DC-DC regulator which will run with between 10-30v of input power. Between this and its ability to run linux, its perfect for a versatile solar powered application.
Since CD audio suffers from quantization noise at higher frequencies of human hearing, it's possible that lossy compression at high bit rate (such as 2048k) from a better input source might still provide higher quality audio.
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I wonder if it will be powerful enough to separate my religion porn from my technology porn and categorize appropriately
How soon until we're required to use multiple carriers so the government can negotiate the lowest rate?
The vast majority of applications can be installed by dragging them into the Applications folder. Or they can be run from an archive. The magic required to do this on the OS level is pretty minimal.
nuclear IS dangerous, dirty, and while not impossible to maintain, it's still very difficult as engineers still do not understand everything that happens to the materials with the pressures, radiation, and temperatures involved. Unfortunately, the only other real solution for mass production is coal, which is much more dangerous in both the short and long term even when the plant is operating properly. In the short term coal is poisoning the air with large amounts of radiation, mercury, and other poisons. In the long term it's probably going to impact our climate (although this is not fully provable without a statistically significant number of identical earths to experiment with). While alternative sources can help quite a bit, everything combined at peak efficiency is not enough to cover current consumption.
Perhaps if congress repurposed the $12b-$20b a year it currently donates to very profitable energy companies to fund research into safer reactor design and solar research, we could have safer reactors and cheap solar cells made out of organic materials. Cheap solar cells would allow us to provide power to those in sunny remote areas without having to extend the grid in a very expensive way, saving quite a bit in line maintenance costs. Research could help implement reactor designs which produce waste which will degrade in decades, reducing long term safety issues significantly.
Complain to your city council for the lack of infrastructure. Complain to your state government that they need to do more to take away the licenses of people who refuse to drive safely (you have to nearly kill someone to lose your license in most states). Ride slowly in the summer, spend just a little money on some gear to ride in the winter. I've been cycling to work for a few years now, and even when it's -7F outside, it's still a lot nicer than dealing with vehicle maintenance and traffic.
Electric cars simply solve the wrong problem. It's never going to be possible to produce a 2,000lb vehicle to move a 200lb payload.
Just create a "guest pass," and they won't need to sign up: http://www.flickr.com/help/guestpass/
Even with hydrogen, you need quite a large volume to lift anything. About 1 cubic meter per kilogram, or about 85 cubic meters of hydrogen to life the average adult. Which means you'd need a sphere at least 5.5m in diameter, or over 18 feet. Besides the fact that everyone would have to triple the size of their parking spaces, such a large shape has a huge drag coefficient, so only low speeds in low winds are possible.
Lighter than air vehicles have been around forever, and it doesn't seem like newer materials will help all that much.
Contracting can help keep costs down if you can make companies bid against each other and force everyone to stay efficient. You also need to make sure that your bidding process has minimal political interference and that your QA and cost auditing is a separate contract. Having seen the operations of government offices and government manufacturing contractors, I can tell you that the contractors are far more efficient. As long as you prevent the contractor from defrauding the government or cost cutting on quality, you get a relatively good product in the end. You also need to make sure that the legislative branch doesn't get involved too much, or else you will end up with specifications meant to favor a manufacturer in a certain district rather than to improve the final designs. Obviously there are some situations where this does not apply, such as using mercenaries instead of the armed forces.
$100B is an absurd amount of money. Estimates for the "space elevator" are far less than that. I'm sure if you split a lot less than that at private contractors to develop competing designs with a prize for the best winner, you could come up with something amazing. The join strike fighter competition seems to have produced a pretty solid aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_competition
Perhaps our government should try more conventional methods of finding wanted terrorists first? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nawaf-phonebook.jpg
"Try and fail" can be a bad approach when you're dealing with the space shuttle, which is simultaneously the least reliable and most expensive option.
Another option would have been to bring back the Saturn V, which despite having 10 times the payload capacity of the shuttle, costs less for a single launch. We could have had the space station built long ago for much less cost if we weren't so hell bent on using our space shuttles for everything.
You could always reply to a post in the article, which undoes all your moderations. Of course, you might lose some mod points if your post isn't clearly relevant.
Perhaps they're referring to the state? Although if it's a plastic, it's probably an amorphous solid and lacks a crystalline structure like steel.
What do you expect when the most communist aspect of the US is the road system. It's federally subsidized with tens of billions of tax dollars each year and almost all of your freedoms are null and void "for the good of the whole" and it does nothing but encourage wealth redistribution through inefficient consumption.
Opt out. Don't drive.
Maybe the RIAA should check the president's ipod? http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/16/gw-bushs-ipod-contai.html
This a common misconception. The average suicide bomber tends to have middle class origins. Quite a few are college educated.
I, for one, am welcomed by our new soviet russian overlords!
Your $4000 TV should be able to take a cablecard, which addresses those issues.
There's no need for a study, it has been done plenty of times. The problem is that we need to remember why we're trying to prevent terror plots in the first place. We want to prevent them to guarantee the public's freedoms. Turning the country into a giant police state does not help meet this goal.
But do you think this AI could be smart enough to convince a human to speak the password into an elaborately decorated terminal buried deep within the Villa Straylight?
It is rumored that the linksys wrt54g has a DC-DC regulator which will run with between 10-30v of input power. Between this and its ability to run linux, its perfect for a versatile solar powered application.
They should go a step further and allow college students to network with the 9 year old children making the products they're buying.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ has quite a few. A lot of them didn't quite make it.
Since CD audio suffers from quantization noise at higher frequencies of human hearing, it's possible that lossy compression at high bit rate (such as 2048k) from a better input source might still provide higher quality audio.