Could you imagine if humans lost the ability to smell smoke? A hell of a lot more of us(no pun intended) would burn to death in fires were it not for our ability to do so.
NASA simply realizes the importance of smell in many aspects, from diagnosis of a problem to the signaling of humans that a problem exists in the first place.
Astronaut A reenters the shuttle. Astronaut B smells something OTHER then the smell of space on the suit of astronaut A as he reenters. At this point it can be assumed it is time to take a closer look at the situation.
The point is that knowing what space smells like establishes a scent baseline allowing for better analysis of the situation.
I got tired of console games that were buggy/poorly tested etc. and could NOT be patched. I was stuck with the first release version.
PC games at least gave me the aftermarket to fix problems with a game. When I could get inside them, or utilize cracks or whatnot, I began to see more cost value in a PC game. Yeah, I realize that in a perfect world, the games should be perfect on release, but they are not. For that simple reason, I choose to buy a product that at least gives me some latitude in making the fucking thing work to MY liking.
This could be used to great effect with people that have handicaps that prevent the use of standard interfaces. Gestures that they CAN perform can be programed to take the place of gestures they cannot, ones that we all take for granted.
This sounds like a perfect solution for adhering the tiles to the outside of the space shuttle, provided it can withstand the heat. Considering the glue would be on the back of the insulating tiles, does that mean the temperatures would be tolerable enough for it to work?
"Think of all the excess weight in a truck that she just doesn't need (and then she goes and makes it heavier with extra motors and batteries)."
Along with the idea of weight is the electrical cost of all the other crap she probably retained in her Ford. Stereo system, GPS unit, PCMs, all the lil' processors for everything from the wipers to the damned headlights, all of this stuff uses ELECTRICITY. The electricity consumed is also a partial explanation for shitty fuel economy. Ever wonder why those little, bare bones econo-boxes gets such good mileage? It weighs little and has minimal accessories.
What she paid $30,000 for was the continuation of a LIFESTYLE, in this case the luxury as well as the implications of the move from combustion engines to electric cars.
My guess is that if you stripped out all of the those "luxuries", it would cost FAR less to pull this off. Doing the same thing with a Ford Festiva would, in my opinion, be a better route.
I'm waiting to see which idiot does this to a Hummer........
The re-categorization or renaming of ideas, items, laws, etc. has been used many times in the past to achieve political/financial goals.
Think hemp and Marijuana, the named was changed to start afresh with a new, controlled image(a bad one) and it was put into a much stricter category of drug as far as law and government control was concerned.
It might be a good thing, in the sense that it could encourage people to maximize bandwidth.
Software that was developed with this in mind(the conservation of bandwidth) would have a market advantage over software that wasn't, protocols might improve..........who knows.
One thing is for certain, if I COULD use less bandwidth, and still get the same transfers, I would do it. Its not like I want to piss it away.
When the military is actually involved in the non-ROTC curriculum of high schools, my children will be pulled from said schools. Period.
Currently, ROTC is elective. I suspect that this is the first step in a grade school-level indoctrination, solely for the purpose of hooking our children into the military. Now when it becomes REQUIRED, then all suspicions are off the table and they have become fact.
Regardless of the content, even if it IS simply to get more students into fields that the military needs, the military has NO business in the education system outside of their own institutions. I already spend a lot of time trying to explain/counter the propaganda foisted off on my children through the media.
I will NOT have my children indoctrinated by the military as part of their (REQUIRED BY LAW) education. If it becomes a requirement, then my family will be looking for ways in which to LEAVE this country. As is, I am already totally fucking embarrassed to be an American.
"Time Magazine reports on a $4 million US Army contract to begin developing 'thought helmets' to harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops that the Army hopes will 'lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone, as well as consolidate control of the troops themselves."
It wasn't until 3 days later, when I took a deep breath and felt a pop in my side, then reproduced it several times, that I went back and asked them to take an x-ray.
Doesn't matter if the end result is well-paid doctors that cannot even diagnose a broken rib.
Regardless of HOW they get there, once they are a doctor, CONTINUED oversight will weed them out even after they have a degree.
"Filtering" classes are not the answer. Besides, knowledge is an entirely different creature then immoral action and the willingness to compromise an oath, all in the name of a dollar.
The "idiots" just cheat or do whatever they have to, to get that degree.
It stops nothing. Seriously, how many times have you gone to a Doctor and said to yourself, "This guy is an idiot."?
I've had a doctor diagnose a broken rib as pancreatitis, spent over $10k paying for doctors to diagnose a problem that I eventually figured out MYSELF with just some research on the Web(verified by 2 other doctors afterwards) and had a doctor misdiagnose a problem, then make it worse by prescribing something that exacerbated the problem.
If an idiot REALLY wants to be a doctor, he will become a doctor.
A more stringent oversight system would be more useful.
"How do people that young get access to tools to build these things?"
Parents that care? Parents that take the time to understand their children, determine their dreams and capabilities, then provide their children the means to better themselves, to achieve their dreams?
Combine it with the RFIDs that the auto industry hides in your car when they make it(as a mechanic I've found dozens, in the weirdest places, but usually glued to the underside of the vehicle and covered with undercoating), and it is pretty hard to go anywhere in a car without someone being able to track you remotely.
But its all a waste of time. Everyone knows that terrorists all ride bicycles now.
The problem that I had was that my ethics got in the way. Or, to be more precise, my job got in the way of my ethics. Fortunately, it was far easier to part with my job then my ethics. It meant taking a stand, one that may NOT have been in my best interests, financially speaking, but it was much easier to do when I looked at it another way. I simply asked myself "What example do you want to set for your children?".
Funny thing about having kids. You have to start putting you money where your mouth is.
I also got very tired of being arbitrarily lumped in with all the "bad" mechanics, simply by virtue of being a mechanic.
"While the tendency around here is to yell "Copyright - Bad!" it's entirely possible that no injustice was done in this case."
Looking into it a bit more, I'd have to agree with you on that one. It appears to be a simple case of plagiarism. That being said, and call it what you will, "plagiarism' or "Copyright Infringement", I think the case was handled well.
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Doh!
+1 insightful.
As a carryover from a previous topic regarding the smell of space, I wonder if NASA is trying to determine the smell of the martian atmosphere.
While we have no humans in place to do the smelling, could samples be taken then sent back for "smell" analysis?
Previous topic( http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/16/1533239 )already touched on the importance of the smell of space, but what about Mars?
The fact that there is mass pushing that little flag around leads me to believe that there are also chemical components to provide smell "signatures".
Bingo.
Could you imagine if humans lost the ability to smell smoke? A hell of a lot more of us(no pun intended) would burn to death in fires were it not for our ability to do so.
NASA simply realizes the importance of smell in many aspects, from diagnosis of a problem to the signaling of humans that a problem exists in the first place.
Astronaut A reenters the shuttle. Astronaut B smells something OTHER then the smell of space on the suit of astronaut A as he reenters. At this point it can be assumed it is time to take a closer look at the situation.
The point is that knowing what space smells like establishes a scent baseline allowing for better analysis of the situation.
It was sort of the other way around for me.
I got tired of console games that were buggy/poorly tested etc. and could NOT be patched. I was stuck with the first release version.
PC games at least gave me the aftermarket to fix problems with a game. When I could get inside them, or utilize cracks or whatnot, I began to see more cost value in a PC game. Yeah, I realize that in a perfect world, the games should be perfect on release, but they are not. For that simple reason, I choose to buy a product that at least gives me some latitude in making the fucking thing work to MY liking.
This could be used to great effect with people that have handicaps that prevent the use of standard interfaces. Gestures that they CAN perform can be programed to take the place of gestures they cannot, ones that we all take for granted.
This sounds like a perfect solution for adhering the tiles to the outside of the space shuttle, provided it can withstand the heat. Considering the glue would be on the back of the insulating tiles, does that mean the temperatures would be tolerable enough for it to work?
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"Think of all the excess weight in a truck that she just doesn't need (and then she goes and makes it heavier with extra motors and batteries)."
Along with the idea of weight is the electrical cost of all the other crap she probably retained in her Ford. Stereo system, GPS unit, PCMs, all the lil' processors for everything from the wipers to the damned headlights, all of this stuff uses ELECTRICITY. The electricity consumed is also a partial explanation for shitty fuel economy. Ever wonder why those little, bare bones econo-boxes gets such good mileage? It weighs little and has minimal accessories.
What she paid $30,000 for was the continuation of a LIFESTYLE, in this case the luxury as well as the implications of the move from combustion engines to electric cars.
My guess is that if you stripped out all of the those "luxuries", it would cost FAR less to pull this off. Doing the same thing with a Ford Festiva would, in my opinion, be a better route.
I'm waiting to see which idiot does this to a Hummer........
So.....a DDOS attack would be, maybe, commands given to guide said herd of cattle onto the nearby stretch of Interstate 5 in the middle of the night?
"It isn't greed at all."
Thou doth protest too much...........
The re-categorization or renaming of ideas, items, laws, etc. has been used many times in the past to achieve political/financial goals.
Think hemp and Marijuana, the named was changed to start afresh with a new, controlled image(a bad one) and it was put into a much stricter category of drug as far as law and government control was concerned.
It seems to be fairly effective too.
Couldn't this be as dangerous as stuff from space? Millions of years might have been plenty of time for us to LOSE an immunity to something.
It begs the question "Did you make sure it was safe before drinking it?".
It might be a good thing, in the sense that it could encourage people to maximize bandwidth.
Software that was developed with this in mind(the conservation of bandwidth) would have a market advantage over software that wasn't, protocols might improve..........who knows.
One thing is for certain, if I COULD use less bandwidth, and still get the same transfers, I would do it. Its not like I want to piss it away.
When the military is actually involved in the non-ROTC curriculum of high schools, my children will be pulled from said schools. Period.
Currently, ROTC is elective. I suspect that this is the first step in a grade school-level indoctrination, solely for the purpose of hooking our children into the military. Now when it becomes REQUIRED, then all suspicions are off the table and they have become fact.
Regardless of the content, even if it IS simply to get more students into fields that the military needs, the military has NO business in the education system outside of their own institutions. I already spend a lot of time trying to explain/counter the propaganda foisted off on my children through the media.
I will NOT have my children indoctrinated by the military as part of their (REQUIRED BY LAW) education. If it becomes a requirement, then my family will be looking for ways in which to LEAVE this country. As is, I am already totally fucking embarrassed to be an American.
"Time Magazine reports on a $4 million US Army contract to begin developing 'thought helmets' to harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops that the Army hopes will 'lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone, as well as consolidate control of the troops themselves."
Neither an x-ray OR a liver/kidney panel done.
It wasn't until 3 days later, when I took a deep breath and felt a pop in my side, then reproduced it several times, that I went back and asked them to take an x-ray.
Bingo, Broken rib.
I questioned the diagnosis, but he was firm.
Doesn't matter if the end result is well-paid doctors that cannot even diagnose a broken rib.
Regardless of HOW they get there, once they are a doctor, CONTINUED oversight will weed them out even after they have a degree.
"Filtering" classes are not the answer. Besides, knowledge is an entirely different creature then immoral action and the willingness to compromise an oath, all in the name of a dollar.
I could see how you might think more stringent oversight would not be a good idea considering you will be, one day, held accountable to it.
Whats wrong? Afraid of oversight? If your a "good guy" you have nothing to fear from it.
Here it is.
Save your money. The market is being heavily manipulated right now, and I seriously couldn't advise entering at this point.
The "idiots" just cheat or do whatever they have to, to get that degree.
It stops nothing. Seriously, how many times have you gone to a Doctor and said to yourself, "This guy is an idiot."?
I've had a doctor diagnose a broken rib as pancreatitis, spent over $10k paying for doctors to diagnose a problem that I eventually figured out MYSELF with just some research on the Web(verified by 2 other doctors afterwards) and had a doctor misdiagnose a problem, then make it worse by prescribing something that exacerbated the problem.
If an idiot REALLY wants to be a doctor, he will become a doctor.
A more stringent oversight system would be more useful.
"How do people that young get access to tools to build these things?"
Parents that care? Parents that take the time to understand their children, determine their dreams and capabilities, then provide their children the means to better themselves, to achieve their dreams?
Without reading every single post in this thread, might I ask the obvious(or, maybe not so obvious), if it hasn't been already?
How are the Taikonauts getting back to Mothership Earth?
What do you think they have been using to read the RFIDs in your tires? You know, the ones made mandatory by law (T.R.E.A.D. Act, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/announce/testimony/tread.html )?
Been doing this for 3-4 years now.
Combine it with the RFIDs that the auto industry hides in your car when they make it(as a mechanic I've found dozens, in the weirdest places, but usually glued to the underside of the vehicle and covered with undercoating), and it is pretty hard to go anywhere in a car without someone being able to track you remotely.
But its all a waste of time. Everyone knows that terrorists all ride bicycles now.
He blamed everyone but Microsoft?
Why does that not surprise me?
Amen, brother.
The problem that I had was that my ethics got in the way. Or, to be more precise, my job got in the way of my ethics. Fortunately, it was far easier to part with my job then my ethics. It meant taking a stand, one that may NOT have been in my best interests, financially speaking, but it was much easier to do when I looked at it another way. I simply asked myself "What example do you want to set for your children?".
Funny thing about having kids. You have to start putting you money where your mouth is.
I also got very tired of being arbitrarily lumped in with all the "bad" mechanics, simply by virtue of being a mechanic.
"While the tendency around here is to yell "Copyright - Bad!" it's entirely possible that no injustice was done in this case."
Looking into it a bit more, I'd have to agree with you on that one. It appears to be a simple case of plagiarism. That being said, and call it what you will, "plagiarism' or "Copyright Infringement", I think the case was handled well.