I think we'll probably want to miss out on the 'creation science' stuff
really? i'd think that would be most fun, besides being a wonderful exercise in critical thinking. i'm not an advocate of 'creation science' but to see what their view of the zoological world is would be very interesting.
wasn't some of the lost footage recovered from tapes that Pink Floyd had? I remember a news article (last year?) about some tapes Pink Floyd got from NASA to use in some music videos, which they fished out for NASA from their archives when they heard the originals were lost.
i can tell you sugar is sweet. if you ask me what sweet is, will you be equally adamant in accepting my answer, "but i cannot objectively explain that - you just have to taste it!" ? Is that too vaguely subjective for you? sometimes just experiencing it is the only way (or at least, the best way) to understand something. particularly an experience, such as usage of a UI.
I can try to be objective here, but let me point you to something that will do a much better job - look at the iPhone ads (particularly the old ones, not the new ones with the apps). They are small 30 sec nibbles of what the iPhone UI is like - and how easily useful it is. Like the one where you want to find a sushi place - it will give you directions, reviews and a phone number to call and make a reservation - all within an extremely simple UI where you don't have to hunt for the info one by one. The speed and simplicity with which you can accomplish this is - and I'm avoiding hyperbole here lest you think I am just another giddy fanboi - quite a welcome relief. this is really what the iPhone is about - utility in simplicity - not flashy games or pointless apps or mere cool factor. i sincerely wish you could shed your unreasonable antipathy towards actually trying to use the iPhone UI, so you can be a better judge of it yourself.
because it is news for nerds. comic book fandom has been intertwined with nerd/geek culture for as long as the culture existed - just because you dismiss them as childish doesn't mean they are unimportant for the rest of us.
you are getting a lifetime wireless connectivity with Sprint. I don't see this factored into their material cost. amazon (and analysts) have often stated that the cost of connectivity is overlooked when people complain about the Kindle being pricey.
I think this should be filed under the general maxim that happier workers are, generally, more productive workers.
I think the current maxim is that the more scared workers are, generally, the more productive workers. Nothing more motivational than lax job security.
Modell (n): thin, fashionable, overpriced and only for those select few of the society whose vision often overlooks function for form.
this is just bling for the glitterati. like those diamond studded cell phones, they target a niche crowd that can afford to be extravagant. In these days of $300 netbooks (and weighing ~2 lbs), very few regular buyers would plunk down 2G for a laptop; Macbook Air was partly justified in its price point when it came out but it has lost its relevance in today's market, I find it hard to conceive Dell considering this a mainstream product.
another good use of the microtransaction model would be music sales. like The Presidents' iPhone app, now bands can push through new albums for purchase within their own app. It's easy to extrapolate this to for instance Vivendi creating an app to sell albums within - an alternate iTunes if you will - and stop paying store fees for Apple, although I highly doubt Apple would let that fly. More like a band-to-band basis, particularly small artists (or even the courageous ones like radiohead) that want a direct-to-listener business model.
If the artists really want to sell their album for $2.99, wouldn't iTunes let them? This probably has more to do with artists' publicity than their music - it's like a ticker for the band, with the streamed music an added functionality.
It is a neat idea though - particularly if the music is not network linked, it's just like selling your own CDs in the market. The Tap Tap Revenge app already does this - you can download tracks through the app and the tracks reside on the phone. You can listen to them anytime through the TTR app, even in airplane mode.
Indeed! while Flatland turns out to be more of a social commentary than a scientific one (as many good sci-fi books eventually mature into), the physical concept that Spaceland is merely a 3D projection of 2D information is very interesting.
This is not the first time noise in an experiment led to a groundbreaking discovery (if this indeed turns out to be one). Kudos to the scientists - often times the compulsive search for signal obscures the importance of noise.
Is this going towards a future where students do not need to be physical present on the campus? they would attend classes from home (or basement for some) and graduate with professional degrees. while that may be well and good for knowledge and proficiency what does it do to learning about social coexistence?
oh well, i guess they could take a class for that too.
when first built most Crays were multi million dollar number crunching beasts.
A number crunching beast that costs multi-million dollars today is how I'd define a supercomputer. The reason why Crays (et al) were denoted 'Supercomputers' was because of their ability to compute way beyond what the regular computer was able to do. If today's 'regular' (as in, a $10K very powerful) computer can do 4 TFlops, I'd call a machine (such as the 'human brain simulator' proposed above that apparently costs $25 million), a supercomputer.
For fields such as technology with rapidly changing standards, price is the relatively most reliable factor for scaling.
Probably the biggest reason why NASA didn't put one in was the rovers were designed for 90 sol missions.
How did they know the dust accumulated within 90 sol days (or less) wouldn't be enough to completely cover the panels? There was no prior evidence to this - so wouldn't it have been fail-safe to have some kind of a dusting mechanism anyway?
It's hard for anyone (even NASA) to think of everthing, and it's usually the small things that fall through the cracks. So here I propose a revolutionary way of cleaning dust off the panels (no wipers needed):
Please see the schematic for a better understanding of the mechanism described herein.
A transparent film covers the panels, without hampering their photo-voltaic function.
Once ground control decides there's enough dust to be cleaned (could be 90 days or 5 years), they start up the film roll motor that starts pulling in the dusty film in and rolling fresh film out over the panels.
The scrapers at the bottom clean the dusty film to their maximum extent, providing the option of recycling the film for repeated uses (reuse=>smaller rolls=>lesser payload).
Since (now that we know) the motor doesn't have to be used frequently, this system is not a power drain. It also provides a guaranteed solar life in an atmosphere as dusty as the Mars'. The parts involved may only weigh in at a percentage of the total weight that can be justified by their obvious importance.
This idea invented by Shampoo. I have been repeatedly trying to contact NASA and Dr. Squyres but they refuse to take my calls.
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I think we'll probably want to miss out on the 'creation science' stuff
really? i'd think that would be most fun, besides being a wonderful exercise in critical thinking. i'm not an advocate of 'creation science' but to see what their view of the zoological world is would be very interesting.
There's a MANUAL?
There's a GOD?
boy that's a killer app.
what good is killing him? they would never know what happened to the missing prototype that way.
ah, times when i wish /. had an Edit Comment option. or something like google's goggles.
wasn't some of the lost footage recovered from tapes that Pink Floyd had? I remember a news article (last year?) about some tapes Pink Floyd got from NASA to use in some music videos, which they fished out for NASA from their archives when they heard the originals were lost.
These are numbers i got from apple.com as I went through the upgrade process - I am an existing AT&T customer with an old (first gen) iPhone.
i can tell you sugar is sweet. if you ask me what sweet is, will you be equally adamant in accepting my answer, "but i cannot objectively explain that - you just have to taste it!" ? Is that too vaguely subjective for you? sometimes just experiencing it is the only way (or at least, the best way) to understand something. particularly an experience, such as usage of a UI.
I can try to be objective here, but let me point you to something that will do a much better job - look at the iPhone ads (particularly the old ones, not the new ones with the apps). They are small 30 sec nibbles of what the iPhone UI is like - and how easily useful it is. Like the one where you want to find a sushi place - it will give you directions, reviews and a phone number to call and make a reservation - all within an extremely simple UI where you don't have to hunt for the info one by one. The speed and simplicity with which you can accomplish this is - and I'm avoiding hyperbole here lest you think I am just another giddy fanboi - quite a welcome relief. this is really what the iPhone is about - utility in simplicity - not flashy games or pointless apps or mere cool factor. i sincerely wish you could shed your unreasonable antipathy towards actually trying to use the iPhone UI, so you can be a better judge of it yourself.
because it is news for nerds. comic book fandom has been intertwined with nerd/geek culture for as long as the culture existed - just because you dismiss them as childish doesn't mean they are unimportant for the rest of us.
What the Flu??
Steam? sounds like vaporware to me.
you are getting a lifetime wireless connectivity with Sprint. I don't see this factored into their material cost. amazon (and analysts) have often stated that the cost of connectivity is overlooked when people complain about the Kindle being pricey.
Macho outside, really? i think Adamo is pretty much sissy all over.
I think this should be filed under the general maxim that happier workers are, generally, more productive workers.
I think the current maxim is that the more scared workers are, generally, the more productive workers. Nothing more motivational than lax job security.
Modell (n): thin, fashionable, overpriced and only for those select few of the society whose vision often overlooks function for form.
this is just bling for the glitterati. like those diamond studded cell phones, they target a niche crowd that can afford to be extravagant. In these days of $300 netbooks (and weighing ~2 lbs), very few regular buyers would plunk down 2G for a laptop; Macbook Air was partly justified in its price point when it came out but it has lost its relevance in today's market, I find it hard to conceive Dell considering this a mainstream product.
another good use of the microtransaction model would be music sales. like The Presidents' iPhone app, now bands can push through new albums for purchase within their own app. It's easy to extrapolate this to for instance Vivendi creating an app to sell albums within - an alternate iTunes if you will - and stop paying store fees for Apple, although I highly doubt Apple would let that fly. More like a band-to-band basis, particularly small artists (or even the courageous ones like radiohead) that want a direct-to-listener business model.
what do you mean, like laundry?
are you calling Mel Gibson a hamster?
does this also mean increased storage on the CD?
If the artists really want to sell their album for $2.99, wouldn't iTunes let them? This probably has more to do with artists' publicity than their music - it's like a ticker for the band, with the streamed music an added functionality.
It is a neat idea though - particularly if the music is not network linked, it's just like selling your own CDs in the market. The Tap Tap Revenge app already does this - you can download tracks through the app and the tracks reside on the phone. You can listen to them anytime through the TTR app, even in airplane mode.
and to gaze at really cold places
you mean, like Uranus?
sorry, couldn't resist.
Indeed! while Flatland turns out to be more of a social commentary than a scientific one (as many good sci-fi books eventually mature into), the physical concept that Spaceland is merely a 3D projection of 2D information is very interesting.
This is not the first time noise in an experiment led to a groundbreaking discovery (if this indeed turns out to be one). Kudos to the scientists - often times the compulsive search for signal obscures the importance of noise.
Is this going towards a future where students do not need to be physical present on the campus? they would attend classes from home (or basement for some) and graduate with professional degrees. while that may be well and good for knowledge and proficiency what does it do to learning about social coexistence?
oh well, i guess they could take a class for that too.
when first built most Crays were multi million dollar number crunching beasts.
A number crunching beast that costs multi-million dollars today is how I'd define a supercomputer. The reason why Crays (et al) were denoted 'Supercomputers' was because of their ability to compute way beyond what the regular computer was able to do. If today's 'regular' (as in, a $10K very powerful) computer can do 4 TFlops, I'd call a machine (such as the 'human brain simulator' proposed above that apparently costs $25 million), a supercomputer.
For fields such as technology with rapidly changing standards, price is the relatively most reliable factor for scaling.
Probably the biggest reason why NASA didn't put one in was the rovers were designed for 90 sol missions.
How did they know the dust accumulated within 90 sol days (or less) wouldn't be enough to completely cover the panels? There was no prior evidence to this - so wouldn't it have been fail-safe to have some kind of a dusting mechanism anyway?
It's hard for anyone (even NASA) to think of everthing, and it's usually the small things that fall through the cracks. So here I propose a revolutionary way of cleaning dust off the panels (no wipers needed):
Please see the schematic for a better understanding of the mechanism described herein.
This idea invented by Shampoo. I have been repeatedly trying to contact NASA and Dr. Squyres but they refuse to take my calls.