I disagree. There's so much bloated garbage code out there because the people in charge always desire quantity over quality. Sure there are plenty of bad coders out there, but even they could do a great deal to clean up their code if they were only given the time to do it.
I don't know if you're serious or not but I've seen enough of people who actually think that a collision could be kept secret that I'll reply. Even if the all of the professional astronomers who've calculated the orbit of 2007 TU24 kept their mouths shut, there's still hundreds of amateurs out there who have the capability to measure this object's orbit with enough precision to know whether or not it's going to hit us. You wouldn't be able to get them to keep their mouths shut.
Why are there sex-offender databases that anyone can go look at online, but there's no assault-and-battery database or murder database?
That's easy. Our society believes assault-and-battery and murder are lesser crimes than child molesting. I'm not sure I agree with the murder part, but that's how it is nonetheless.
Less PCs out there means less people learning to code means less competition for my job. Maybe I can stop working 10 hours days to keep ahead of the other guy.
Bought a new 200 gig hard drive maybe 4 or 5 years ago. They had just come out and I paid through the nose for it. When I got it home and tried to connect it, I discovered it wasn't a 200 gig drive at all but a 10 megabyte drive...yes megabyte. I took it back to the store and they questioned me pretty heavily. They said that this couldn't happen because all returns went back to the manufacturer. To which I said, "Look, all I know is I bought this expensive hard drive and this antique is inside. I know how this looks, but that's what happened. I want my money back, or I want a 200 gig hard drive." They made me stand there for an hour, I guess to see if I start to sweat and make a break for it...but they finally gave me my new hard drive. I guess I lucked out.
[quote]i mean a really big bright one that eats the whole sky[/quote]
Hyukatake had a tail that stretched across half the sky at its best. You guys don't know this because you live under a gigantic light bubble.
I would think the light curve that they used to calculate the density of this planet could be explained by the planet capturing ejected stellar matter, and essentially have an enormous cloud in orbit around it. We see something similar with Saturn's rings (albeit not ejected stellar gasses). The planet has an orbit of 3.5 days so it must be incredibly close to the star...close enough to grab the ejected gasses maybe?
There's not really anything about the shuttle that's useful in making a missile aside from the main engines which will probably be conspicuously missing from MS's 3D program. Saturn V is just one big missile. It's comparable to making a 3D program of the Apollo command module. There's not much in there useful to missile engineers. Not that I agree with any of it though. There's nothing all that secret about rocket engines that hasn't been printed before.
Give me a break. Scaled Composites wasn't a competitor. They've just been squashed by the military industrial complex. I expect we'll see very little from them now.
Look, while different cultures have different opinions on what should be blocked, I think *every* culture agrees that the Internet as-is, unfiltered is not safe for minors, unless you're one of those laizze-faire parents that think all forms of age limits on movies, games, pornography and so on are bunk
You're right. Because I'm sure cavemen and women all adjourned to a seperate caves to change furs, or engage in sexual activity. This prevented the caveyouth from seeing what surely would have corrupted their poor little caveminds.
Genius opinion of the day: You all can have your own moral beliefs, just as long as they don't differ from the ones I feel really strongly about.
Adaptive optics are overcoming the problems with imaging through the atmosphere.
And since you brought up Hubble... all you Hubble-repair-mission fanboys out there might take into consideration that sending up the space shuttle costs somewhere between $500 million and $1.5 billion (depending on who you ask). Now consider that this telescope cost $180 million to build. Can you imagine what kind of ground based optical telescope you could make for $1.5 billion? It would outperform Hubble by leaps and bounds.
I find myself thinking "Are these the arms of a spiral?", then I close one eye, squint the other, stand on my head and rub my tummy for 2 minutes, then I click "Star/Don't know". Indeed, nothing looks like it does in the tutorials. Everything is either a pixelated blur, or a pixelated blur which might have arms (or maybe pixelated diffraction rings). I just feel like I'm screwing up their data by answering.
If you consider privacy to be a trivial matter then why is the removal of privacy one of the first things done to prisoners, cult members, or hostages to break them down mentally? Let's not forgot new soldiers in boot camp. Removing their privacy forces compliance and conformance.
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No sir. I can write totally original crappy code. :)
I disagree. There's so much bloated garbage code out there because the people in charge always desire quantity over quality. Sure there are plenty of bad coders out there, but even they could do a great deal to clean up their code if they were only given the time to do it.
I don't know if you're serious or not but I've seen enough of people who actually think that a collision could be kept secret that I'll reply. Even if the all of the professional astronomers who've calculated the orbit of 2007 TU24 kept their mouths shut, there's still hundreds of amateurs out there who have the capability to measure this object's orbit with enough precision to know whether or not it's going to hit us. You wouldn't be able to get them to keep their mouths shut.
If Geiger counters are outlawed, then only outlaws will have Geiger counters.
This will get you started. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/info/Astrometry.html#name
That's easy. Our society believes assault-and-battery and murder are lesser crimes than child molesting. I'm not sure I agree with the murder part, but that's how it is nonetheless.
Unfortunate fact: The masses don't unfuck themselves until their wallets or their stomachs are empty.
Umm, no. This statement is just asinine.
Less PCs out there means less people learning to code means less competition for my job. Maybe I can stop working 10 hours days to keep ahead of the other guy.
So we're going to get a version of Chuck, but with more hot chicks? God TV sucks. I want my Firefly back.
Bought a new 200 gig hard drive maybe 4 or 5 years ago. They had just come out and I paid through the nose for it. When I got it home and tried to connect it, I discovered it wasn't a 200 gig drive at all but a 10 megabyte drive...yes megabyte. I took it back to the store and they questioned me pretty heavily. They said that this couldn't happen because all returns went back to the manufacturer. To which I said, "Look, all I know is I bought this expensive hard drive and this antique is inside. I know how this looks, but that's what happened. I want my money back, or I want a 200 gig hard drive." They made me stand there for an hour, I guess to see if I start to sweat and make a break for it...but they finally gave me my new hard drive. I guess I lucked out.
[quote]i mean a really big bright one that eats the whole sky[/quote] Hyukatake had a tail that stretched across half the sky at its best. You guys don't know this because you live under a gigantic light bubble.
Security Protected? Meaning what? You have to login to Windows?
I would think the light curve that they used to calculate the density of this planet could be explained by the planet capturing ejected stellar matter, and essentially have an enormous cloud in orbit around it. We see something similar with Saturn's rings (albeit not ejected stellar gasses). The planet has an orbit of 3.5 days so it must be incredibly close to the star...close enough to grab the ejected gasses maybe?
There's not really anything about the shuttle that's useful in making a missile aside from the main engines which will probably be conspicuously missing from MS's 3D program. Saturn V is just one big missile. It's comparable to making a 3D program of the Apollo command module. There's not much in there useful to missile engineers. Not that I agree with any of it though. There's nothing all that secret about rocket engines that hasn't been printed before.
A robot can make decisions autonomously. A remote control car with a gun on it is not a robot.
Give me a break. Scaled Composites wasn't a competitor. They've just been squashed by the military industrial complex. I expect we'll see very little from them now.
They might as well have been purchased by the US Government. I guess we'll never see private space flight.
You're right. Because I'm sure cavemen and women all adjourned to a seperate caves to change furs, or engage in sexual activity. This prevented the caveyouth from seeing what surely would have corrupted their poor little caveminds.
Genius opinion of the day: You all can have your own moral beliefs, just as long as they don't differ from the ones I feel really strongly about.
Adaptive optics are overcoming the problems with imaging through the atmosphere. And since you brought up Hubble... all you Hubble-repair-mission fanboys out there might take into consideration that sending up the space shuttle costs somewhere between $500 million and $1.5 billion (depending on who you ask). Now consider that this telescope cost $180 million to build. Can you imagine what kind of ground based optical telescope you could make for $1.5 billion? It would outperform Hubble by leaps and bounds.
...charge $1 million less for a toilet than they do for a ticket to the space station?
I would like to remind you that not too long ago having sex for pleasure was considered "unbalanced".