None of that is free and those costs must be passed on to the consumer somehow to at least break even and stay alive as a business.
True, and actually, I believe that "break even" puts it in the category of a non-profit org. I once commented on the price of some replacement bolts at a small mfg company that I worked at. The prez of the company replied that he has to make a profit on everything, else he'll go out of business.
Indeed, who needs ad revenue when Uncle Sam's paying for it with taxes?
Absolutely. Since the gov needs to have good meteorological forecasts for military operations, it only makes sense for them to release to the public, since, as you say, we're paying for it anyways.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
HHTTG. Great read. I've also heard it applied to orbital mechanics, something like "aim yourself at the planet, but keep missing".
Paraphrasing Madeleine Albright: "What's the point of having such a powerful military, if we never use it?"
It's there, so we use it. If it weren't there, we wouldn't be using it.
Yep. In the various civ games I play, typically I start out as a mind-your-own-business type. So inevitably, some local civs/tribes/whatever attack. I build up an effective defensive military. Bigger players come along and attack. I build up more. Eventually it comes to "the best defense is a good offense". If Empire X is going to be a constant issue, well, let's just take care of 'em while we have the armies in the field.
It tends to win. So, is it a Machiavellian/Sun Tzu principle? Is it my Western mindset? The mindset of the game devs? All of the above?
* Not intended to be a factual statement
I don't care what tech level you're at or what you look like: there's still an m in the kinetic energy equation. Whatever your transportation goals are, they get more difficult the heavier your vehicle is.
Perhaps they've found some way to produce energy from mass.
When Curiosity was in the planning stages, 2gb for a comp was a major improvement. At some point they had to freeze the specs. If they had tried to keep up with Moore's Law, I doubt we'd have a functioning vehicle.
As far as bureaucracy goes, I hate it as much as the next person, maybe more. I wish humanity could come up with something better to ensure the success of complex projects.
It's a dog eat dog world.
Interesting studies. I gotta go take a nap, er, 1st sleep.
... it's pretty interesting to witness scientific findings, with all rigor and instrumentation techniques etc. rediscovering something your grand-grandmother could probably have told you.
Yeah, every now & then something spectacular comes out of studies of "common sense" things that everybody could have told you. I can't think of any at the moment 'cause I'm too tired.
It's called an analogy, genius. How much of your brain did you have removed?
And it's certainly an analogy that would connect w/ the
Disproof of the AC's hypothesis. Do a gedankenspiel comparing the AC's brain and a disk drive.
Throw a feather at it, it won't break.
Hit it w/ a sledgehammer, it will break.
sr
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
Greek, thanks. That's the great thing about numerology (and asstrology)...one can make up whatever one pleases. Nero was pre-ANSI, though, so no ASCII back then. EBCDIC probably.
"ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI"
Actually, it seems that most historians believe that 666 referred to Nero. Remember the scope of the New Testament. They expected the 2nd coming to be "right around the corner...all the signs are there". In the meantime, the faithful needed to be warned about Nero and what he was doing. Apparently 666 encodes "Nero" in Hebrew, or something like that. They were big into numerology back then.
I went to Wiki and found no ref to ipad or ipod in it, but found a ref link to AppleInsider...
Thursday, January 03, 2013, 06:05 pm
Corning's third-gen Gorilla Glass could be bound for next iPhone, iPad
By AppleInsider Staff
Glassmaker Corning on Thursday announced Gorilla Glass 3, a stronger, more scratch resistant version of the current substrate used in the display of Apple's iPhone and iPad lines of mobile devices.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
