I think it's the convenience and fitting it to the present form factor. For example on Jupiter the card would be 133 mm wide; the card would measure 1296 millimeters on the Sun. On the other hand if the card would be introduced on Mercury and Venus it would definitely open new possibilities and interesting challenges for the handset design. Some say that the we should go all the way and introduce the standard on Pluto, but the fact that Pluto is not a planet anymore rules it out. Ships may have already been launched from various mobile manufacturer HQ's however and rumors are circulating about behind-the-scene talks at IAU, but this is all non-confirmed info.
Of course DARPA provided ARPANET, but the kind of global network would have been inevitably created. Military spending is not necessary; it's just the current paradigm. Research is being globally fueled by our fear of others, which is also being instigated for militarist purposes. The reality could be different.
The researchers seem to have missed the huge leftover stock of photographic film. Stopping it completely provides indefinite storage while spinning it 1 mega frame / second satisfies microsecond processing needs.
Cumulative radiation dosage from the background radiation kills us eventually. That would give maybe a few hundred years. The late years we'd be rather sick. Maybe tin foil clothing would help.
The poorest people are hit hardest. It's altogether different to live in a nation which produces industrial foodstuffs than to try to cope with the change with what you have by yourself. The international treaties are there to prevent mass migrations and the crash of social order.
It's this why the third world countries are so eager to support global action. They experience the effects first.
Exactly. I can't but fathom the determination of the Kenyans as they plough through their daily lives with multiple TV's, gaming consoles, computers, kitchen appliances and hybrid pluggable vehicles. I bet a sizable amount of Kenyans have a multiple kilowatt solarium installed for the days when the sun is momentarily behind a cloud.
Anyway, per the GDP your current electric bill in Sweden should be multiplied by 22.5 to make it equal to the share of the Kenyans. So yes, it's expensive.
You got it backwards: a higher standard of living is followed by a decrease in population growth. E.g. European countries generally have high standards of living and they have small or even negative population growth. Compare that to poor countries.
Credit cards or checks are not involved at all at least in Finland. I don't know if using them is even possible. The company sends a bill by email or then the monthly amount is directly charged from the given bank account. The customer, bank and a company can have a direct charging agreement. I'm also able to postpone the due date without an extra charge at least with my provider. Practically all of the bills are paid online and there isn't a culture of credit in the same sense as in the US. Anything paper related comes with an extra charge. The bank I use doesn't even provide cash services in their offices.
I think that the maps need to be this precise because a lot of people have second homes or cottages somewhere outside the cities, and naturally one would like to use the same operator everywhere.
Even though the eyes couldn't distinguish individual dots the adjacent dots could be used to create interesting color and other illusions - maybe depth?
The threat paradigm is not the necessary motivation to develop new technology. I'd gladly develop tech that reaches and helps people of the world to better communicate and understand each other for instance. It's just the other way to say it and it wouldn't support paranoid closed source thinking. Besides you could probably invent ten internets with the billions that DOD has just lost in the desert adventures.
I don't know what the terms of the war app store could be, but if people from around the world can develop apps for it then DARPA would head the global arms development, which is kind of a good thing because of the balance of forces. The real kicker would be to demand all software be open source.
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Venus would of course be a great easy market for current devices while Mars would provide to be a challenge.
I think it's the convenience and fitting it to the present form factor. For example on Jupiter the card would be 133 mm wide; the card would measure 1296 millimeters on the Sun. On the other hand if the card would be introduced on Mercury and Venus it would definitely open new possibilities and interesting challenges for the handset design. Some say that the we should go all the way and introduce the standard on Pluto, but the fact that Pluto is not a planet anymore rules it out. Ships may have already been launched from various mobile manufacturer HQ's however and rumors are circulating about behind-the-scene talks at IAU, but this is all non-confirmed info.
I guess it's the temperature.
A huge hot black triangle shaped spot sounds like a Freudian slip to me. Imagine if there were two circular objects tethered to the Sun...
Of course DARPA provided ARPANET, but the kind of global network would have been inevitably created. Military spending is not necessary; it's just the current paradigm. Research is being globally fueled by our fear of others, which is also being instigated for militarist purposes. The reality could be different.
See, meteorites create tourist attractions. The larger the crater the bigger the cash flow. Meteorite impacts are good for the economy.
Shouldn't you aim for the orbit of the planet than directly at the planet anyway?
Maybe the kid actually knows the root password but she phoned daddy to complain about having to enter it every f'ing time.
"And today Daniela calls me from school, because she can't add the school printer without the admin password."
The problems kid have nowadays...
The researchers seem to have missed the huge leftover stock of photographic film. Stopping it completely provides indefinite storage while spinning it 1 mega frame / second satisfies microsecond processing needs.
Better safe than sorry! If only consumers could be bred...
Lossless Red Book Audio 1411 kbit/s then, 256 kbit/s lossy mp3/aac/etc now...
If hunting has degraded to mere pest control I wouldn't call it hunting anymore. Most of today's "hunting" is a fabrication.
Cumulative radiation dosage from the background radiation kills us eventually. That would give maybe a few hundred years. The late years we'd be rather sick. Maybe tin foil clothing would help.
The poorest people are hit hardest. It's altogether different to live in a nation which produces industrial foodstuffs than to try to cope with the change with what you have by yourself. The international treaties are there to prevent mass migrations and the crash of social order.
It's this why the third world countries are so eager to support global action. They experience the effects first.
In Soviet Russia, puns think of you!
Exactly. I can't but fathom the determination of the Kenyans as they plough through their daily lives with multiple TV's, gaming consoles, computers, kitchen appliances and hybrid pluggable vehicles. I bet a sizable amount of Kenyans have a multiple kilowatt solarium installed for the days when the sun is momentarily behind a cloud.
Anyway, per the GDP your current electric bill in Sweden should be multiplied by 22.5 to make it equal to the share of the Kenyans. So yes, it's expensive.
You got it backwards: a higher standard of living is followed by a decrease in population growth. E.g. European countries generally have high standards of living and they have small or even negative population growth. Compare that to poor countries.
Exactly.
All of the countries in the world are on the same path, and the societies are homogenizing - http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Shouldn't this be appraised as the first crowdsourced space program? And look how cute and friendly the puppies are! No full body scans either!
Credit cards or checks are not involved at all at least in Finland. I don't know if using them is even possible. The company sends a bill by email or then the monthly amount is directly charged from the given bank account. The customer, bank and a company can have a direct charging agreement. I'm also able to postpone the due date without an extra charge at least with my provider. Practically all of the bills are paid online and there isn't a culture of credit in the same sense as in the US. Anything paper related comes with an extra charge. The bank I use doesn't even provide cash services in their offices.
If the government decides to do the second, well, can't exactly get around that when you're dead.
True, but they won't do that because there wouldn't be any consumers left. The revenue sources need to be kept alive and in control.
But the terrorists already got a pair too :(
The most optimal action would probably be to just stay in your room doors shut to avoid any unpleasant events.
The data is there all right. Here are a couple of maps from Finland - I don't actually know how they gather this data, but it's really thorough: http://www.elisa.fi/kuuluvuus/index.php / http://www.dna.fi/yksityisille/puhe/Kuuluvuus/kuuluvuuskartta/Sivut/Default.aspx
I think that the maps need to be this precise because a lot of people have second homes or cottages somewhere outside the cities, and naturally one would like to use the same operator everywhere.
Even though the eyes couldn't distinguish individual dots the adjacent dots could be used to create interesting color and other illusions - maybe depth?
The threat paradigm is not the necessary motivation to develop new technology. I'd gladly develop tech that reaches and helps people of the world to better communicate and understand each other for instance. It's just the other way to say it and it wouldn't support paranoid closed source thinking. Besides you could probably invent ten internets with the billions that DOD has just lost in the desert adventures.
I don't know what the terms of the war app store could be, but if people from around the world can develop apps for it then DARPA would head the global arms development, which is kind of a good thing because of the balance of forces. The real kicker would be to demand all software be open source.