A better idea would be to let the building owners sublet out their rooves so that they could have a greenhouse on each building. The roof gets the most sunshine and is generally underused. Construction costs would be diffused out on a building by building basis instead of building a dedicated building.
Make it so that looking down from the Empire State you see vegetation ontop of everything.
Or, to put it another way (for those who still think the US is doing well in Iraq): Think of terrorism like a vicious, unpredictable animal that wants to attack you. That's easy enough. But there's a twist: it gets stronger every time you shoot at it, bomb it or do anything violent towards it. Why are you still shooting at it?
This is the lamest analogy I've seen in a long time. It might apply to the Irish (which did not have a world conquest motivation) but not to Al Queda. You admit the animal is vicisous, unpredicatable and wants to attack you so you are basically saying lie down and die rather than risk making it stronger. If the end result is to be killed by the animal either way I think I'd rather risk fighting, hoping that the enemy doesn't actually get stronger but that it has better manipulated world opinion into thinking that way (Bush's big failure has been in the court of public opinion).
If you think the other option is to retreat you are saying you'd be happy to eventual fight against that viscious, unpredicatable animal later when it is far, far stronger from conquests. Either that or just kill the gays, enslave the women, and give up on booze and bacon, and pray to Mecca five times a day.
From the political arena. The USA is bashed constantly. As the 800 pound guerrilla it's expected and faults are highlighted and the good stuff rapidly forgotten or intentionally ignored. I imagine bashing the British Empire was fashionable in it's day.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Nothing!
Not that it's the same thing (as the French cowardice Meme) but a lot of the world's problems can be reasonably blamed on the way the French and British bungled the peace after WW1. Too tough on the Germans helped ensure WW2. Screwed up dividing the Ottoman Empire (didn't listen to Wilson) and led to decades of fun in the Middle East. Then after the Suez Crisis both nations washed their hands of everything leaving the US (with our lack of foreign policy experience) to try to keep it all together while they give us shit.
Yeah the French lost 3 million, that is sad, but it was French Generals ordering mass waves assaults into German machine guns at Verdun that caused those dead.
Do some research. The Nazi's were surprised by the French willingness to help. The Vichi government had them in railroad cars before the Germans even asked.
And thinking man's sci-fi tends to be dystopian nightmares of doom and gloom. A few still manage to be entertaining (Brazil, Blade Runner, Soylant Green, Matrix) but all to often they are dull and elitist movies (Gattaca, Logans Run).
Perhaps proper science fiction is just better read than watched.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the initial paragraph but you would certainly burn up in the Sun's Corona as the Sun is emitting heat constantly. The heat does not have to be transmitted by air otherwise we would not feel it on Earth.
Nasa should do what it takes, manned and robotic, to get enough Helium 3 to see if it can be used for fusion power as many scientists suspect. If so they can make plans on how to get the stuff down here (a) contract someone to get it (b) Provide a refueling in orbit gas station (c) get it themselves, and then change the world.
If the Helium 3 doesn't pan out NASA should worry about asteroid defense and helping the private sector get out of low earth orbit so the US has some say/stake in the exploration of the system.
Because an AI cannot actually role-play at this point. As a DM/GM the AI can only spit out a few pre-planned phrases and clues. So the computer games take on the aspects that are doable and ignore the ones that make the game really fun.
What I would like to see is a multiplayer capable game that looked like Warcraft, that was set up so a GM could create and populate the maps and control some or all of the NPCs. Basically the game would simply be the tools that brought out the role-playing and work with the strengths of both systems.
A hotel in tropical Northern Australia could use a few of these to generate power and fresh water while at the same time removing the sticky dampness from the air. The things could work as somewhat of a air conditioner throughout the tropics if it works. Yeah it is still hot, but a dry heat is usually easier to tolerate.
What would happen if you had a bunch of these up the East coast sucking water out of a pre-hurricane storm. Could you suck enough out to make a difference?
What would happen if you had a bunch off the coast taking in water from the air and then pumping it by pipeline to cities like San Diego and LA that could use the water (and power) but aren't particularly humid.
Alcatraz was shut down because it cost too much to bring fresh water in everyday. That sort of issue goes away if this invention works.
I'm sure its probably vaporware but if it works there are some interesting applications.
Rumors about different weapons systems being packed in pig grease would have been floated long ago followed by a number of anti-aircraft missiles geared to explode rather than fire released into the arms market. The combination would slow down the number of folks willing or able to learn to shoot such systems. Especially if false data about which missile systems are compromised were floated at some point when the bad guys started figuring things out.
Denial by the CIA would just confirm things in peoples minds that it must be true.
This is not rocket science. Many of the folks in the middle east are willing believers of conspiracy theories. We should be planting a few.
What are the odds that if Rush Limbaugh produced the alternate viewpoint for half his broadcast to satisfy this law the content would be presented in a way Democrats would think was fair and not a bunch of strawmen presented in a humorous manner and fighting the complaints in court and wrapping himself in Free Speach.
Do the Democrats really want to be considered the party of censorship for such a short term gain that cannot possibly survive a trip to the Supreme Court?
RAID would be useful because harddrives can fail and if you've got the backups of multiple Macs on a single system you've got a single point of failure which undoes the whole point. A RAID, if I understand correctly, is multiple harddrives synced so that they back themselves up. Building myself is also beside the point because I'm talking about a product with Apple's ease of use for all the people that don't backup, don't know they should backup, and who are going to be furious when Apple's response to a failure is to reformat the harddrive (or replace it) and they'll have to reload their CD's/Videos and other media content all over again.
The other thing is it could become possible for Apple to upgrade the backup box at some point, if it had Raids, so that iTunes would be store there all the time, freeing up space on the macs and laptops, allowing them to avoid increasing the size of the harddrives over and over, and perhaps allowing a Flash Memory solution at some point when memory prices drop enough. Because if anyone is going to do a flashmemory harddrive laptop you know it'll be Apple and this sort of thing would ease the transition.
I'm talking about something that could backup multiple macs, using time machine, wirelessly. Currently an external drive would have to be plugged in from one to another which is annoying and something that will be forgotten. I won't even discuss.Mac because the size requirements of iTunes are well beyond that already.
With the growing size of iTunes files, with video added it'll only get worse. I think Apple would do the world a bit of good if they came up with a server dedicated to backups. Something that joe AOL doesn't have to think about, it just wirelessly connects and backsup iTunes files once a week or something. The beast would need lots of space, perhaps a Raid array so the thing itself is redundant in case of failure. It could have gimpy specs otherwise.
If the beast has reasonable specs it could act as a file server as well, freeing up space on laptops and desktops that are now being hogged by iTunes files. Because you know the problem will only get worse.
Personally I think a bullet-proof, super-simple OS would sell. Apple used to have a simplified Finder, someone needs to take that concept further. Not to replace the complicated version Slashdot folks know and love but to simplify the life for those that we get tired of providing tech support to.
Imagine the desktop looking like Apple's Front Row. Giant Email, Browser, textedit, and Photo icons to cover the most basic stuff they will use. A giant Red On/Off button in the corner of the screen where it won't be accidentally clicked by frail twitchy hands guided by weak eyes. Basically the kind of thing you see on your cellphone but enlarged for the computer.
Regarding hybrids. It is cheaper to have single packaging that to produce and distribute two different disks (HD-DVD and DVD). So why not put both in the same packaging you ask? Because we all know you'd buy it and give the unused DVD (HD-DVD) off to your friend.
Creating a hybrid solves both of these problems leaving only the BluRay issue.
Frankly I care less about the home entertainment value of either HD-DVD or BluRay. I'm not bleeding edge enough to care anymore. Let them fight, I let NetFlix buy my discs for me anyway these days.
I think most people believe global warming is probably real. After all there is evidence that Mars has been warming up as well over the same period of time. There is also evidence that volcanoes spew out some nasty stuff that can warm up the planet. The question is should we screw up our economies when man is probably not even close to the biggest source?
You don't need to store the things in your parking lot. You could store these things in a standard wharehouse that wouldn't require special cooling systems and locks. Then when you need to expand you move the pallets of Mountain Dew and printer paper and make room.
Although the idea of a couple of them in the parking lot, covered in graffiti has a sort of William Gibson visual to it.
Exactly, this is cargo cult thinking from China. If we build a better internet suddenly we'll become more advanced. The reason the internet helped the US economy is because it was open and allowed for free exchange of ideas. A ChiCom internet that doesn't allow that won't be the same.
The point is not marketing vs engineering. The comment is making fun of an poorly designed sentence. It doesn't say designed, priced, and produced so that it will/should or might succeed. It says "So that it succeeds., then the product may be a success."
I think that is a well crafted bit of snark that your hanging your own issues upon.
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A better idea would be to let the building owners sublet out their rooves so that they could have a greenhouse on each building. The roof gets the most sunshine and is generally underused. Construction costs would be diffused out on a building by building basis instead of building a dedicated building. Make it so that looking down from the Empire State you see vegetation ontop of everything.
Or, to put it another way (for those who still think the US is doing well in Iraq): Think of terrorism like a vicious, unpredictable animal that wants to attack you. That's easy enough. But there's a twist: it gets stronger every time you shoot at it, bomb it or do anything violent towards it. Why are you still shooting at it? This is the lamest analogy I've seen in a long time. It might apply to the Irish (which did not have a world conquest motivation) but not to Al Queda. You admit the animal is vicisous, unpredicatable and wants to attack you so you are basically saying lie down and die rather than risk making it stronger. If the end result is to be killed by the animal either way I think I'd rather risk fighting, hoping that the enemy doesn't actually get stronger but that it has better manipulated world opinion into thinking that way (Bush's big failure has been in the court of public opinion). If you think the other option is to retreat you are saying you'd be happy to eventual fight against that viscious, unpredicatable animal later when it is far, far stronger from conquests. Either that or just kill the gays, enslave the women, and give up on booze and bacon, and pray to Mecca five times a day.
I was supporting your point, not contesting it.
From the political arena. The USA is bashed constantly. As the 800 pound guerrilla it's expected and faults are highlighted and the good stuff rapidly forgotten or intentionally ignored. I imagine bashing the British Empire was fashionable in it's day.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Nothing!
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Not that it's the same thing (as the French cowardice Meme) but a lot of the world's problems can be reasonably blamed on the way the French and British bungled the peace after WW1. Too tough on the Germans helped ensure WW2. Screwed up dividing the Ottoman Empire (didn't listen to Wilson) and led to decades of fun in the Middle East. Then after the Suez Crisis both nations washed their hands of everything leaving the US (with our lack of foreign policy experience) to try to keep it all together while they give us shit. Yeah the French lost 3 million, that is sad, but it was French Generals ordering mass waves assaults into German machine guns at Verdun that caused those dead.
Do some research. The Nazi's were surprised by the French willingness to help. The Vichi government had them in railroad cars before the Germans even asked.
And thinking man's sci-fi tends to be dystopian nightmares of doom and gloom. A few still manage to be entertaining (Brazil, Blade Runner, Soylant Green, Matrix) but all to often they are dull and elitist movies (Gattaca, Logans Run). Perhaps proper science fiction is just better read than watched.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the initial paragraph but you would certainly burn up in the Sun's Corona as the Sun is emitting heat constantly. The heat does not have to be transmitted by air otherwise we would not feel it on Earth.
Nasa should do what it takes, manned and robotic, to get enough Helium 3 to see if it can be used for fusion power as many scientists suspect. If so they can make plans on how to get the stuff down here (a) contract someone to get it (b) Provide a refueling in orbit gas station (c) get it themselves, and then change the world. If the Helium 3 doesn't pan out NASA should worry about asteroid defense and helping the private sector get out of low earth orbit so the US has some say/stake in the exploration of the system.
Because an AI cannot actually role-play at this point. As a DM/GM the AI can only spit out a few pre-planned phrases and clues. So the computer games take on the aspects that are doable and ignore the ones that make the game really fun. What I would like to see is a multiplayer capable game that looked like Warcraft, that was set up so a GM could create and populate the maps and control some or all of the NPCs. Basically the game would simply be the tools that brought out the role-playing and work with the strengths of both systems.
Because we don't need any more mad scientists around.
A hotel in tropical Northern Australia could use a few of these to generate power and fresh water while at the same time removing the sticky dampness from the air. The things could work as somewhat of a air conditioner throughout the tropics if it works. Yeah it is still hot, but a dry heat is usually easier to tolerate. What would happen if you had a bunch of these up the East coast sucking water out of a pre-hurricane storm. Could you suck enough out to make a difference? What would happen if you had a bunch off the coast taking in water from the air and then pumping it by pipeline to cities like San Diego and LA that could use the water (and power) but aren't particularly humid. Alcatraz was shut down because it cost too much to bring fresh water in everyday. That sort of issue goes away if this invention works. I'm sure its probably vaporware but if it works there are some interesting applications.
Rumors about different weapons systems being packed in pig grease would have been floated long ago followed by a number of anti-aircraft missiles geared to explode rather than fire released into the arms market. The combination would slow down the number of folks willing or able to learn to shoot such systems. Especially if false data about which missile systems are compromised were floated at some point when the bad guys started figuring things out. Denial by the CIA would just confirm things in peoples minds that it must be true. This is not rocket science. Many of the folks in the middle east are willing believers of conspiracy theories. We should be planting a few.
What are the odds that if Rush Limbaugh produced the alternate viewpoint for half his broadcast to satisfy this law the content would be presented in a way Democrats would think was fair and not a bunch of strawmen presented in a humorous manner and fighting the complaints in court and wrapping himself in Free Speach. Do the Democrats really want to be considered the party of censorship for such a short term gain that cannot possibly survive a trip to the Supreme Court?
RAID would be useful because harddrives can fail and if you've got the backups of multiple Macs on a single system you've got a single point of failure which undoes the whole point. A RAID, if I understand correctly, is multiple harddrives synced so that they back themselves up. Building myself is also beside the point because I'm talking about a product with Apple's ease of use for all the people that don't backup, don't know they should backup, and who are going to be furious when Apple's response to a failure is to reformat the harddrive (or replace it) and they'll have to reload their CD's/Videos and other media content all over again. The other thing is it could become possible for Apple to upgrade the backup box at some point, if it had Raids, so that iTunes would be store there all the time, freeing up space on the macs and laptops, allowing them to avoid increasing the size of the harddrives over and over, and perhaps allowing a Flash Memory solution at some point when memory prices drop enough. Because if anyone is going to do a flashmemory harddrive laptop you know it'll be Apple and this sort of thing would ease the transition.
I'm talking about something that could backup multiple macs, using time machine, wirelessly. Currently an external drive would have to be plugged in from one to another which is annoying and something that will be forgotten. I won't even discuss .Mac because the size requirements of iTunes are well beyond that already.
With the growing size of iTunes files, with video added it'll only get worse. I think Apple would do the world a bit of good if they came up with a server dedicated to backups. Something that joe AOL doesn't have to think about, it just wirelessly connects and backsup iTunes files once a week or something. The beast would need lots of space, perhaps a Raid array so the thing itself is redundant in case of failure. It could have gimpy specs otherwise. If the beast has reasonable specs it could act as a file server as well, freeing up space on laptops and desktops that are now being hogged by iTunes files. Because you know the problem will only get worse.
Personally I think a bullet-proof, super-simple OS would sell. Apple used to have a simplified Finder, someone needs to take that concept further. Not to replace the complicated version Slashdot folks know and love but to simplify the life for those that we get tired of providing tech support to. Imagine the desktop looking like Apple's Front Row. Giant Email, Browser, textedit, and Photo icons to cover the most basic stuff they will use. A giant Red On/Off button in the corner of the screen where it won't be accidentally clicked by frail twitchy hands guided by weak eyes. Basically the kind of thing you see on your cellphone but enlarged for the computer.
Regarding hybrids. It is cheaper to have single packaging that to produce and distribute two different disks (HD-DVD and DVD). So why not put both in the same packaging you ask? Because we all know you'd buy it and give the unused DVD (HD-DVD) off to your friend. Creating a hybrid solves both of these problems leaving only the BluRay issue. Frankly I care less about the home entertainment value of either HD-DVD or BluRay. I'm not bleeding edge enough to care anymore. Let them fight, I let NetFlix buy my discs for me anyway these days.
I think most people believe global warming is probably real. After all there is evidence that Mars has been warming up as well over the same period of time. There is also evidence that volcanoes spew out some nasty stuff that can warm up the planet. The question is should we screw up our economies when man is probably not even close to the biggest source?
You don't need to store the things in your parking lot. You could store these things in a standard wharehouse that wouldn't require special cooling systems and locks. Then when you need to expand you move the pallets of Mountain Dew and printer paper and make room. Although the idea of a couple of them in the parking lot, covered in graffiti has a sort of William Gibson visual to it.
Perhaps you are not sure which I was replying to as well because I wasn't applying to you.
Exactly, this is cargo cult thinking from China. If we build a better internet suddenly we'll become more advanced. The reason the internet helped the US economy is because it was open and allowed for free exchange of ideas. A ChiCom internet that doesn't allow that won't be the same.
The point is not marketing vs engineering. The comment is making fun of an poorly designed sentence. It doesn't say designed, priced, and produced so that it will/should or might succeed. It says "So that it succeeds., then the product may be a success." I think that is a well crafted bit of snark that your hanging your own issues upon.