First the cost of voice fell. Then the cost of text messaging bottomed out. Data and the ability to take your phone anywhere in the world and call anyone in the world are inevitably next.
The book seems to stop in 2004 which is Python 2.3, I believe. There have been a lot of changes since then, especially moving to 2.6. Perhaps someone could recommend a better free online resource or a more up to date book?
Not being familiar with this story, I thought perhaps you meant 1,000 MPG - then I RTFA'd. I hope that thing is fly-by-wire with a really smart auto eject seat. The usefulness of a mach 1 car is not clear to me. A 1,000 MPG car would be more productive to aim for (wether possible or not). X-prize maybe?
Funny for this just get posted. A few hours ago I was introduced to "Super Mario Bros. Crossover (Hacked!)" - I suggest the nostalgic among us give it a whirl. It's the original Super Mario Bros. except that you can play through the game as other 8 - bit Nintendo characters such Samus, Mega Man, and several others. The people who put this together did a bang up job. I blew through level 1-1 -> 7-4 in about an hour with one of the Contra guys. You get all of there weapons and attributes, the in game music even changes to accommodate the character. Anyway, I think Link and Contra guy are the most fun. If your missing the past, as I do, this is a fantastic way to relive it.
It's free on the google chrome store.
(I originally posted this as an AC - I've been posting enough the last couple years I decided I might as well log in)
Really big lithium ion batteries are not exactly common. When was the last time you bought one? Lesser scale production equals higher production costs which then equals a higher cost to the consumer. Just like we have seen with the computer industry, as the demand of PCs increased, manufactures of PC components went to greater production scale and greater production sale to meet the demand of computer manufacturers who now paid less for mass produced parts who then in turn past the savings onto the consumer.
Greater demand for and larger scale production of these batteries must come before the prices can drop significantly.
This looks to be a very rich media capable phone to be lacking mobile broadband features. I would really want this phone, but only if it could do EVDO, I have great EVDO coverage and it goes well with my Motorola Q.
Then again, it is open source all the way and this is a developers release, maybe I can hold out hope that EVDO will be developed? Or is it that mobile broadband services like EVDO and EDGE cannot be developed because they are not open standards?
Everything aside, I would love one of these over an iPhone anyday just from the looks and specs alone, and I am a Mac zealot first and a Linux zealot second. (ducks)
I used to see those around here in Kansas City. Except of coarse we used quarters and not Euros. The system seemed to work just fine to me, but at some point it must have fallen out of favour because I have not seen them for quite some time.
"fast channel changing - What's slow about pushing the button and the next channel is there? I can't even blink that fast."
Do you not have digital cable? I am sure people here with digital cable can sympathize with the horrible lag that can all to often follow pressing the appropriate button or buttons to change the channel. It's almost enough for me to send the controller flying at the tv screen sometimes.
I have Time Warner and although I like the service overall, I would switch in a heartbeat just so I don't have to wait 2 - 3 freakin seconds for the channel to change.
As far as inflatable lunar structures go, they first need to learn how to make concrete out of lunar material and material brought from Earth.
Basically, you would inflate a mold for the structure and then pour concrete over it. I could see where working with concrete or a concrete like substance would be difficult in low G and lunar tempatures, but I believe they should be looking at doing something along those lines rather just having people live in temporary ballons.
The laywers at Transmeta must surely have seen how the SCO battle recently ended. It's remarkable that they haven't taken that as lesson learned for them by someone else.
This tactic of trying to make a bunch of money via litigation before tanking a failed company is so uncertain - and with such a potential for backfire - I can't image why anyone would go that route.
If they wanted to make money before closing up shop, they should have sold thier patents.
"Sure, if you have a 10 year old computer the odds of you getting it up and running is unlikely, but the same could be said if you had a 10 year old Mac and tried to run OS X on it"
Well, I have a nine year old blueberry iMac with a ten gig HD and 384 megs of sdram and it runs OS 10.3.9, the iLife suite (namely iPhoto), and Office 2004 like a champ.
All of the excellent reccomendations aside, it sounds like your parents are neophytes that would be baffled by many of the avenues suggested thus far. That statement is not meant to be an insult.
The simple solution? By an external hard drive that is at least twice as large as your system hard drive. Then simply drag and drop the root windows directory, or maybe you can even drag and drop the c: drive over to the external drive. All data is now safe. Buy a legit copy of Windows, reformat the local HD and install your new copy. Then you can bring all your data back by dropping into corresponding folders. Applications on the other hand, would likely need reinstalled. At least your apps are legit, right?
Furthermore, regularily back up important files from the local HD to the external.
Also, whatever filetypes need saved are likely all going to be workable on a Mac or Linux.
Good Luck,
William aka Mac fanboy fighting hard to keep my post from turning into an offtopic advert for Apple
I looked into it and it seems the agreed on minimum qualifaction for outer space is in fact the 62 miles they are shooting for. There is still alot of atmosphere at that altitude, and I doubt that a craft could hang around very long, sinking from a reduced gravity on it's way back down to 32 feet per second squared.
I realize this is a first generation craft of a new era in space travel and that the tourism allure is the opportunity for (eventually) most people with average means can experience very low G and qualify as an astronaut I suppose.
We do not yet know what the first generation of private space travel will yield in terms of immediate practical use beyond doing it for fun and it seems to me that any of the commercial spacecraft currently being developed and tested are all suitable for rapid and eventually airline priced transcontinental travel.
We have wanted space planes for a very long time, this and other well funded private projects seem to fit the bill.
A sufficiently complex (or not so complex) technology will generally be quickly adapted to suit pruposes the original inventor did not have in mind.
One last thing about your post. When does an insightful post with funny context become nothing but score five funny? The funny tag should be able to stand alone or otherwise be coupled with any other moderation category, like: Score 5 Insightful - Score 5 Funny, where points for being funny are not actually expended or gained unless "Funny" stands alone. Just a thought, I liked your reply, it's funny and insightful.
Considering that medium orbital distance is 6,250 - 10,000 miles high, and that this craft is intended to go no higher than 62 miles, is this a spaceship, or a space plane? Is sixty-two miles qualifiable for low Earth orbit? Otherwise, it is a nice thought to be able to go 62 miles straight up and land somewhere else on Earth in short order relative to a jumbo jet.
A fine step forward eitherway. I look forward to the day when these new space companies will competing for passengers - regular people passengers.
Priceline.com, get the best rates for a moon vacation!
Yes I am he. I forgot to mention that you have to buy the stock via my paypal account. But your getting in on the ground floor of a great investment. I have some great land investments available in Iraq -trust me, this will be BIG! - and a bridge up for sale in San Fran.
We are now aware that severly damaged brains can excecute a mechanism to re-wire around the damage with remarkable results.
While it is clear that this is obviously a rare phenomenon, it can happen. Yes, it took 19 years. But how can anyone know when the repair process started and how it was initiated?
Perhaps this is due to a rare genetic mutation. But the fact is, we can now pursue, discover and refine the process. Now that sounds like potential to me.
This is unlikely to be an evolved response since in the wild a creature with this
level of brain damage would be lucky to survive 19 hours.
Evolution is a process of random genetic mutations that tend stick around because they just so happen to benefit a species. Likewise, evolution can just as easily produce genetic defects that kill the creature or reduce it to an undesirable mate. Sometimes...quite often actually, a negative gene survives and spreads through a population. This can lead to the evolution of a species that becomes inferior to what it once was. This can kill off entire species. There is no such thing as de-evolving, it's all one and the same.
How many unfortunate genetic traits have spread throught the human population over the last 10,000 years or so? Alot. How many benificial? Alot. How many pointless benign mutations? Alot.
For modern humans, this sounds like a benificial mutation to me. Now we just need to identify and master it, taking control of evolution.
"without not even knowing human psyche, it is plain murder to commit such 'research'."
If we know nothing of the function of conciousness, especially when it begins, your definitive allegation of murder makes no sense. You have defeated yourself from within your own argument. Check your premises and you will find that one of them is wrong.
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First the cost of voice fell. Then the cost of text messaging bottomed out. Data and the ability to take your phone anywhere in the world and call anyone in the world are inevitably next.
The book seems to stop in 2004 which is Python 2.3, I believe. There have been a lot of changes since then, especially moving to 2.6. Perhaps someone could recommend a better free online resource or a more up to date book?
This is why it sounded familiar.
http://slashdot.org/submission/1670400/11-Year-Old-Pilots-1325-MPG-Concept-Car
Not being familiar with this story, I thought perhaps you meant 1,000 MPG - then I RTFA'd. I hope that thing is fly-by-wire with a really smart auto eject seat. The usefulness of a mach 1 car is not clear to me. A 1,000 MPG car would be more productive to aim for (wether possible or not). X-prize maybe?
Funny for this just get posted. A few hours ago I was introduced to "Super Mario Bros. Crossover (Hacked!)" - I suggest the nostalgic among us give it a whirl. It's the original Super Mario Bros. except that you can play through the game as other 8 - bit Nintendo characters such Samus, Mega Man, and several others. The people who put this together did a bang up job. I blew through level 1-1 -> 7-4 in about an hour with one of the Contra guys. You get all of there weapons and attributes, the in game music even changes to accommodate the character. Anyway, I think Link and Contra guy are the most fun. If your missing the past, as I do, this is a fantastic way to relive it. It's free on the google chrome store. (I originally posted this as an AC - I've been posting enough the last couple years I decided I might as well log in)
It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been attributable to human error
Greater demand for and larger scale production of these batteries must come before the prices can drop significantly.
Then again, it is open source all the way and this is a developers release, maybe I can hold out hope that EVDO will be developed? Or is it that mobile broadband services like EVDO and EDGE cannot be developed because they are not open standards?
Everything aside, I would love one of these over an iPhone anyday just from the looks and specs alone, and I am a Mac zealot first and a Linux zealot second. (ducks)
I used to see those around here in Kansas City. Except of coarse we used quarters and not Euros. The system seemed to work just fine to me, but at some point it must have fallen out of favour because I have not seen them for quite some time.
Do you not have digital cable? I am sure people here with digital cable can sympathize with the horrible lag that can all to often follow pressing the appropriate button or buttons to change the channel. It's almost enough for me to send the controller flying at the tv screen sometimes. I have Time Warner and although I like the service overall, I would switch in a heartbeat just so I don't have to wait 2 - 3 freakin seconds for the channel to change.
Give me an external firewire option and I am on board.
Basically, you would inflate a mold for the structure and then pour concrete over it. I could see where working with concrete or a concrete like substance would be difficult in low G and lunar tempatures, but I believe they should be looking at doing something along those lines rather just having people live in temporary ballons.
At first I thought that read, "Vista Foul-up Already in the Works".
This tactic of trying to make a bunch of money via litigation before tanking a failed company is so uncertain - and with such a potential for backfire - I can't image why anyone would go that route.
If they wanted to make money before closing up shop, they should have sold thier patents.
-W
Well, I have a nine year old blueberry iMac with a ten gig HD and 384 megs of sdram and it runs OS 10.3.9, the iLife suite (namely iPhoto), and Office 2004 like a champ.
Just my 2 cents William
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars
The simple solution? By an external hard drive that is at least twice as large as your system hard drive. Then simply drag and drop the root windows directory, or maybe you can even drag and drop the c: drive over to the external drive. All data is now safe. Buy a legit copy of Windows, reformat the local HD and install your new copy. Then you can bring all your data back by dropping into corresponding folders. Applications on the other hand, would likely need reinstalled. At least your apps are legit, right?
Furthermore, regularily back up important files from the local HD to the external.
Also, whatever filetypes need saved are likely all going to be workable on a Mac or Linux.
Good Luck, William aka Mac fanboy fighting hard to keep my post from turning into an offtopic advert for Apple
I have no speakers at the moment; what did the machine end up spitting out that was so funny?
I realize this is a first generation craft of a new era in space travel and that the tourism allure is the opportunity for (eventually) most people with average means can experience very low G and qualify as an astronaut I suppose.
We do not yet know what the first generation of private space travel will yield in terms of immediate practical use beyond doing it for fun and it seems to me that any of the commercial spacecraft currently being developed and tested are all suitable for rapid and eventually airline priced transcontinental travel.
We have wanted space planes for a very long time, this and other well funded private projects seem to fit the bill.
A sufficiently complex (or not so complex) technology will generally be quickly adapted to suit pruposes the original inventor did not have in mind.
One last thing about your post. When does an insightful post with funny context become nothing but score five funny? The funny tag should be able to stand alone or otherwise be coupled with any other moderation category, like: Score 5 Insightful - Score 5 Funny, where points for being funny are not actually expended or gained unless "Funny" stands alone. Just a thought, I liked your reply, it's funny and insightful.
William
A fine step forward eitherway. I look forward to the day when these new space companies will competing for passengers - regular people passengers.
Priceline.com, get the best rates for a moon vacation!
Yes I am he. I forgot to mention that you have to buy the stock via my paypal account. But your getting in on the ground floor of a great investment. I have some great land investments available in Iraq -trust me, this will be BIG! - and a bridge up for sale in San Fran.
We are now aware that severly damaged brains can excecute a mechanism to re-wire around the damage with remarkable results.
While it is clear that this is obviously a rare phenomenon, it can happen. Yes, it took 19 years. But how can anyone know when the repair process started and how it was initiated?
Perhaps this is due to a rare genetic mutation. But the fact is, we can now pursue, discover and refine the process. Now that sounds like potential to me.
This is unlikely to be an evolved response since in the wild a creature with this level of brain damage would be lucky to survive 19 hours.
Evolution is a process of random genetic mutations that tend stick around because they just so happen to benefit a species. Likewise, evolution can just as easily produce genetic defects that kill the creature or reduce it to an undesirable mate. Sometimes...quite often actually, a negative gene survives and spreads through a population. This can lead to the evolution of a species that becomes inferior to what it once was. This can kill off entire species. There is no such thing as de-evolving, it's all one and the same.
How many unfortunate genetic traits have spread throught the human population over the last 10,000 years or so? Alot. How many benificial? Alot. How many pointless benign mutations? Alot.
For modern humans, this sounds like a benificial mutation to me. Now we just need to identify and master it, taking control of evolution.
If we know nothing of the function of conciousness, especially when it begins, your definitive allegation of murder makes no sense. You have defeated yourself from within your own argument. Check your premises and you will find that one of them is wrong.
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