All of the fools in this thread mentioning "meteorite bombardment" have not the foggiest. Moonquakes are a lot more powerful and a lot deeper than the faint tremors that would be caused by surface impacts.
But that's no surprise that people aren't interested in moonquakes or never heard of them before, even if they're lunar scientists. Even NASA didn't want to acknowledge their existence at first.
I didnt see ay mention of moonquakes. Considering these are a real and verified occurrence and considering the considerable amount of energy they release as has been recorded, any prediction of the structural integrity of lava tubes in the moon that doesnt take moonquakes into account is likely to be wrong.
Out of the like, 3 of these continuation series that I took a look at a couple of years ago, this was IMHO the best one that was getting the least attention. I'm glad to hear that they've made it through their kickstarter.
Probably so. I just checked the incoming updates and the problematic one was in the list, and I do have VS2010 installed. However, I did not install the particular subgroup of tools that the patch is mentioned to target. Good thing I crawled through the list looking for the specific KB#'s of incoming updates and unchecked it. If I were less cautious I would have been hitting "Install" feeling safe under the assumption that since I didn't have those tools installed in VS2010 that I would not be targeted for that update.
I and several of my friends can personally vouch for the mood elevating and mental focusing properties of Ginkgo. And I take ginseng regularly for various personal reasons. I can state with some confidence that I don't believe it's a placebo effect, by the strength of the results.
Oh, I'm sorry did I not show enough concern for the details of your multilayered legal maneuvering? Should I pay more attention to your Federal Lawyers and Corporate Lawyers.giving each other handjobs over coffee? Because for a second there I thought we were actually talking about EATING AWAY AT THE FUCKING MOON.
Man, this'll toe-- toe-- TOTALLY work! All the people programming all the appz will Get Right On It. Watch, I bet you, even the NSA will butt out of the RSA and basically everything else. The world is our oyster and it's in the palm of our hand, and we only have to close our hand, thus shutting the oyster, to keep our pearls locked away safe where nobody can kick them.
Why are you assuming a warrant hasn't already been obtained by the time this technology is being used? In some places it is ridiculously easy to obtain a search warrant.
In this case, considering that the method of search does not involve entry into the home or even setting foot on the premises, should a warrant once obtained even need to be delivered before this method of search can begin?
That's sort of insulting IMHO, to refer to a technical description as "mumbo-jumbo". Also, having once had a web site titled "mumbo jumbo" that caught me some flack for the name itself, I know that the words "mumbo jumbo" are racially charged. Overall, not words that should be coming from this judge's mouth. Who cares about the jurors when this judge's manners are clearly setting a bias against the defendant as just one member of this "mumbo jumbo" society of shady "techies" that go around mucking up our simple, phone-nosing lives.
I cast some pretty serious doubt onto the legitimacy of the claim that this machine passes a Turing Test, so much as the Turing Testers fail to be convincingly human.
Also, the robot went down much earlier than the appearance of this slashdot article, so for everybody saying the site got "slashdotted", hate to break your bubble but the world doesn't revolve around/.
Because I, for one, don't understand a FUCKING thing about allllllll of this Anti-Beta graffito all over Slashdot.
You stupid fucks are basically now Public Nuisance #1. It's gotten nothing done and it should get nothing done because any number of simple assholes shouldn't have any affect on any SYSOPs policies.
All you've managed to do is be a bunch of simpletons pissing off people who could give a fuck less how the site ends up looking as long as it serves its purpose. And the purpose of Slashdot isn't served by you assclowns bitching up and down every last mother fucking cascade.
You haven't made ANY point, you didn't HAVE any fucking point to begin with, and it's not old now -- it was fucking pointless and old to begin with.
Wait, I was wrong, it did change ONE fucking thing:
If it goes on much longer, it's going to change how much time I spend learning how to filter the bejesus out of crowds of moronic assclowns. If I have to "enemy" five, ten, a dozen idiots every visit to the threads just to make sure I don't have to see what is likely to become an infantile never ending fucking story, then I'll do that. All you're gauranteeing is that eventually you'll be completely fucking ignored.
"Why have graphical code generators that could seemingly open coding to the masses gone nowhere? At a minimum wouldn't that eliminate time dealing with syntax errors?"
Where is "nowhere"? Also, what are you referring to when you say "that"? I'm lost in parsing this sentence. And how does a graphical interface eliminate syntactical expressiveness and therefore the potential for syntactical error? Are you suggesting that a language is better off not having any combinations of operators that could potentially result in syntactical error, with everything parsed as equally valid?
"Shouldn't there be a simpler, more robust way to translate an algorithm into something a computer can understand? One that's language agnostic and without all the cryptic jargon? It seems we're still only one layer of abstraction from assembly code."
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. What cryptic jargon? Have you ever actually used assembly or ANSI-C ? They are pretty un-jargon as far as languages go. Jargon is higher-order language that is so built up on technical definitions defined recursively by further technical definitions, that the language is so specialized, that only a specialized segment of the population can understand it. Most mnemonics (which C for example is -- a mnemonic for assembly, albeit in modern versions accompanied by many helpful and useful tools on the side)... most mnemonics are by definition easier to understand than jargon. And most programming languages are mnemonic in some way, shape, or form. When you say we're one layer of abstraction from assembly code, I'm not entirely clear whether you think that's good or bad, or if you're just cleverly trolling us all.
"I consider myself someone who 'gets code,' but I'm not a programmer. I enjoy thinking through algorithms and writing basic scripts, but I get bogged down in more complex code. Maybe I lack patience, but really, why are we still writing text based code?"
Everybody gets bogged down in more complex code. That's why there are numerous attempts at simplifying coding in general. Procedural code, functional-argument code, object-oriented programming, it's all an attempt to put more and more "ease of use" into the programmer's life.
These methods don't always work, period, let alone for everybody or even for all coders. The Java language is the current best case in point of this. Java shows what can go wrong with not only a programming language but any tool, or project, or system when it suffers from too many eggs in one basket -itis.
I myself suffered programming burnout at a young age. I had been programming since 8 years old but never quite "got" it, just inputting code from magazines (back when we still did that) and modifying strings and variables. I understood GOTO and GOSUB but still didn't grasp that these essentially put procedural programming in the hands of lined BASIC.
I remember when I met one BBS sysop when I was BBSing and SYSOPing in the early 90's, around the time I was 15 or 16. I had asked him for advice in programming this QBASIC thing I was making. I kept getting out of memory errors. And he said if the program is too big, I'm likely to get that particular error and he asked to see my program. Well, it was all lined code (which QBASIC still supported) and because I had no sense of procedure, what I had was an attempt to hard-wire the entire game including all of its choices.
Learning procedure and function was pretty amazing, but the same helpful SYSOP went further and started teaching me C++. So now I was learning pointers and references as variables, functions as arguments, and recursive programming. I started getting headaches, my head was actually physically overheating when I was programming, and I gave out. I didn't program anything from the age of 16 until about roughly 26 or so.
I approached returning to code with a fresh perspective. I wanted to learn 8086 assembly, but I didn
I've been watching the game since the 80's, and I can tell you that it's a very common strategy to bet low on the Daily Double if you don't feel like you're in mastery of the category. Even more common is to bet less money than would severely cripple your score against the score of the next player beneath you given the remaining board. So obviously your citation of the spirit of the game is, like most unwritten rules, largely in your head.
It is fun for me because this is exactly how I played with my family and friends on numerous "at home" versions including computer and console software over the decades (and no, I didn't know all the answers -- it's just a good strategy). I like seeing the more intelligent player triumph and I hope this becomes how Jeopardy is played in the future -- the high-scoring brackets are desired foremost and the lower stuff is pigeon poop to be swooped up by the scavengers or stolen from their beaks. The programmers will have to change up where the Daily Doubles are located but this will not stop the trend of smarter or more confident players grabbing the higher scoring brackets sooner to keep them away from the others.
The money would be put to much better use in somehow keeping Mississippians in Mississippi. I get tired of them moving up here to Michigan and spreading sprawl, crime, racism and ghetto trash culture.
In chemistry and physics courses you'll find you often do lab work not in discovery of new things but to prove things that are already known. It turns out to be pretty simple to do an experiment to prove that two related theories can be measurably shown to be not false, through some apparatus under some paradigm.
So this woman used existing knowledge of how GPS works, of audio modulated data, and a chase that she also apparently knew the location of, and showed that the location of the chase matches the location being communicated. Okay, so that's cool.
But what did she accomplish? I am, of course, asking this from the "how is this news" rostrum. It's a great proof of theory but what the hell does it have to do with anything?
Oh, wait. The elephant in the room. I see what's going on, here, you geeks got all fucked up in the head again because here comes another woman with skills.
A man who turns into putty for women isn't trustworthy, you know that? Strong women prey on those guys and they become security concerns.
If you can't treat women as equals, then all of your wowie-zowie about women "doing guy things" is empty. You're more self-impressed at other males than impressed at this woman's potential.
So in other words, rotate the ship at regular intervals doing this acceleration and deceleration until you get to the end of the trip. It's the same two force vectors cut up into pieces and interleaved. The repeated turns would add to the overall cost but the same amount of fuel would be spent on the same two overall vectors of acceleration.
What *I* find "interesting" is that even though old grandparents have always been saying things like "It's not that grandma's getting stupid, sweetie, it's just that when you're my age you know so much that it takes awhile to remember what you know", none of that matters if the newest generation hasn't climbed out of their dungeons to announce that they simulated the same thing on a computer. Relevance, anyone? Reverence, maybe?
The "subset" response from AC is total bullshit. Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering are two entirely different career fields. Idiot self-imposed know it all's like AC are who's behind the article for instance not knowing the damn difference. One's not a subset of the other, both are a subset for sure of engineering dealing with electricity but frankly I don't think you'll find any career fields that expect both skill sets from you. Having taken college courses in both, let me assure you, one's not a subset of the other and having a degree in both does mean taking two almost entirely separate degrees. The engineer planning a power station is not going to be prepared for the engineer planning transistor logic, and vice versa. The guy climbing a pole and the guy soldering a board are not going to be interchangeable.
Since neither the parent nor TFA seem to comprehend the difference between Electronic Engineering and Electrical Engineering, I have no idea WTF the article is even trying to say.
As a proponent of the death penalty, I agree that this would be a tremendous step forward in penal death methodology. You wouldn't even need a hammer to smash the whole head, just restrain the head and piston a solid bar about three inches in diameter straight through from side to side.
I don't think the admonishment should have been "one commandment you should abide by", rather it should have been "a moral you yourself obviously abide by".
You could attack the commenter's stance just by pointing out the hypocrisy of demanding murder in return for murder. Either murder's wrong, or it's not.
I think the situation is muddy enough, thanks, without the interjections of the religious.
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All of the fools in this thread mentioning "meteorite bombardment" have not the foggiest. Moonquakes are a lot more powerful and a lot deeper than the faint tremors that would be caused by surface impacts.
But that's no surprise that people aren't interested in moonquakes or never heard of them before, even if they're lunar scientists. Even NASA didn't want to acknowledge their existence at first.
But look at them, now: http://science.nasa.gov/scienc...
The truth is that nobody is sure what causes the most powerful moonquakes.
I didnt see ay mention of moonquakes. Considering these are a real and verified occurrence and considering the considerable amount of energy they release as has been recorded, any prediction of the structural integrity of lava tubes in the moon that doesnt take moonquakes into account is likely to be wrong.
It would appear that Wikipedia redirects "Uruguay syndrome" to Nuclear_meltdown#China_syndrome.
Out of the like, 3 of these continuation series that I took a look at a couple of years ago, this was IMHO the best one that was getting the least attention. I'm glad to hear that they've made it through their kickstarter.
Probably so. I just checked the incoming updates and the problematic one was in the list, and I do have VS2010 installed. However, I did not install the particular subgroup of tools that the patch is mentioned to target. Good thing I crawled through the list looking for the specific KB#'s of incoming updates and unchecked it. If I were less cautious I would have been hitting "Install" feeling safe under the assumption that since I didn't have those tools installed in VS2010 that I would not be targeted for that update.
I and several of my friends can personally vouch for the mood elevating and mental focusing properties of Ginkgo. And I take ginseng regularly for various personal reasons. I can state with some confidence that I don't believe it's a placebo effect, by the strength of the results.
Oh, I'm sorry did I not show enough concern for the details of your multilayered legal maneuvering? Should I pay more attention to your Federal Lawyers and Corporate Lawyers.giving each other handjobs over coffee? Because for a second there I thought we were actually talking about EATING AWAY AT THE FUCKING MOON.
Man, this'll toe-- toe-- TOTALLY work! All the people programming all the appz will Get Right On It. Watch, I bet you, even the NSA will butt out of the RSA and basically everything else. The world is our oyster and it's in the palm of our hand, and we only have to close our hand, thus shutting the oyster, to keep our pearls locked away safe where nobody can kick them.
Why are you assuming a warrant hasn't already been obtained by the time this technology is being used? In some places it is ridiculously easy to obtain a search warrant.
In this case, considering that the method of search does not involve entry into the home or even setting foot on the premises, should a warrant once obtained even need to be delivered before this method of search can begin?
That's sort of insulting IMHO, to refer to a technical description as "mumbo-jumbo". Also, having once had a web site titled "mumbo jumbo" that caught me some flack for the name itself, I know that the words "mumbo jumbo" are racially charged. Overall, not words that should be coming from this judge's mouth. Who cares about the jurors when this judge's manners are clearly setting a bias against the defendant as just one member of this "mumbo jumbo" society of shady "techies" that go around mucking up our simple, phone-nosing lives.
I cast some pretty serious doubt onto the legitimacy of the claim that this machine passes a Turing Test, so much as the Turing Testers fail to be convincingly human.
Also, the robot went down much earlier than the appearance of this slashdot article, so for everybody saying the site got "slashdotted", hate to break your bubble but the world doesn't revolve around /.
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"In spades"? Really?
I think you say so prematurely.
Because I, for one, don't understand a FUCKING thing about allllllll of this Anti-Beta graffito all over Slashdot.
You stupid fucks are basically now Public Nuisance #1. It's gotten nothing done and it should get nothing done because any number of simple assholes shouldn't have any affect on any SYSOPs policies.
All you've managed to do is be a bunch of simpletons pissing off people who could give a fuck less how the site ends up looking as long as it serves its purpose. And the purpose of Slashdot isn't served by you assclowns bitching up and down every last mother fucking cascade.
You haven't made ANY point, you didn't HAVE any fucking point to begin with, and it's not old now -- it was fucking pointless and old to begin with.
Wait, I was wrong, it did change ONE fucking thing:
If it goes on much longer, it's going to change how much time I spend learning how to filter the bejesus out of crowds of moronic assclowns. If I have to "enemy" five, ten, a dozen idiots every visit to the threads just to make sure I don't have to see what is likely to become an infantile never ending fucking story, then I'll do that. All you're gauranteeing is that eventually you'll be completely fucking ignored.
I hope you have a shitty fucking day!
"Why have graphical code generators that could seemingly open coding to the masses gone nowhere? At a minimum wouldn't that eliminate time dealing with syntax errors?"
Where is "nowhere"? Also, what are you referring to when you say "that"? I'm lost in parsing this sentence. And how does a graphical interface eliminate syntactical expressiveness and therefore the potential for syntactical error? Are you suggesting that a language is better off not having any combinations of operators that could potentially result in syntactical error, with everything parsed as equally valid?
"Shouldn't there be a simpler, more robust way to translate an algorithm into something a computer can understand? One that's language agnostic and without all the cryptic jargon? It seems we're still only one layer of abstraction from assembly code."
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. What cryptic jargon? Have you ever actually used assembly or ANSI-C ? They are pretty un-jargon as far as languages go. Jargon is higher-order language that is so built up on technical definitions defined recursively by further technical definitions, that the language is so specialized, that only a specialized segment of the population can understand it. Most mnemonics (which C for example is -- a mnemonic for assembly, albeit in modern versions accompanied by many helpful and useful tools on the side) ... most mnemonics are by definition easier to understand than jargon. And most programming languages are mnemonic in some way, shape, or form. When you say we're one layer of abstraction from assembly code, I'm not entirely clear whether you think that's good or bad, or if you're just cleverly trolling us all.
"I consider myself someone who 'gets code,' but I'm not a programmer. I enjoy thinking through algorithms and writing basic scripts, but I get bogged down in more complex code. Maybe I lack patience, but really, why are we still writing text based code?"
Everybody gets bogged down in more complex code. That's why there are numerous attempts at simplifying coding in general. Procedural code, functional-argument code, object-oriented programming, it's all an attempt to put more and more "ease of use" into the programmer's life.
These methods don't always work, period, let alone for everybody or even for all coders. The Java language is the current best case in point of this. Java shows what can go wrong with not only a programming language but any tool, or project, or system when it suffers from too many eggs in one basket -itis.
I myself suffered programming burnout at a young age. I had been programming since 8 years old but never quite "got" it, just inputting code from magazines (back when we still did that) and modifying strings and variables. I understood GOTO and GOSUB but still didn't grasp that these essentially put procedural programming in the hands of lined BASIC.
I remember when I met one BBS sysop when I was BBSing and SYSOPing in the early 90's, around the time I was 15 or 16. I had asked him for advice in programming this QBASIC thing I was making. I kept getting out of memory errors. And he said if the program is too big, I'm likely to get that particular error and he asked to see my program. Well, it was all lined code (which QBASIC still supported) and because I had no sense of procedure, what I had was an attempt to hard-wire the entire game including all of its choices.
Learning procedure and function was pretty amazing, but the same helpful SYSOP went further and started teaching me C++. So now I was learning pointers and references as variables, functions as arguments, and recursive programming. I started getting headaches, my head was actually physically overheating when I was programming, and I gave out. I didn't program anything from the age of 16 until about roughly 26 or so.
I approached returning to code with a fresh perspective. I wanted to learn 8086 assembly, but I didn
I've been watching the game since the 80's, and I can tell you that it's a very common strategy to bet low on the Daily Double if you don't feel like you're in mastery of the category. Even more common is to bet less money than would severely cripple your score against the score of the next player beneath you given the remaining board. So obviously your citation of the spirit of the game is, like most unwritten rules, largely in your head.
It is fun for me because this is exactly how I played with my family and friends on numerous "at home" versions including computer and console software over the decades (and no, I didn't know all the answers -- it's just a good strategy). I like seeing the more intelligent player triumph and I hope this becomes how Jeopardy is played in the future -- the high-scoring brackets are desired foremost and the lower stuff is pigeon poop to be swooped up by the scavengers or stolen from their beaks. The programmers will have to change up where the Daily Doubles are located but this will not stop the trend of smarter or more confident players grabbing the higher scoring brackets sooner to keep them away from the others.
I personally am too old, broken down, and poor to start the needed coup, but will gladly join in if it ever happens.
Free Riders only serve to scuttle their political boats.
The money would be put to much better use in somehow keeping Mississippians in Mississippi. I get tired of them moving up here to Michigan and spreading sprawl, crime, racism and ghetto trash culture.
In chemistry and physics courses you'll find you often do lab work not in discovery of new things but to prove things that are already known. It turns out to be pretty simple to do an experiment to prove that two related theories can be measurably shown to be not false, through some apparatus under some paradigm.
So this woman used existing knowledge of how GPS works, of audio modulated data, and a chase that she also apparently knew the location of, and showed that the location of the chase matches the location being communicated. Okay, so that's cool.
But what did she accomplish? I am, of course, asking this from the "how is this news" rostrum. It's a great proof of theory but what the hell does it have to do with anything?
Oh, wait. The elephant in the room. I see what's going on, here, you geeks got all fucked up in the head again because here comes another woman with skills.
A man who turns into putty for women isn't trustworthy, you know that? Strong women prey on those guys and they become security concerns.
If you can't treat women as equals, then all of your wowie-zowie about women "doing guy things" is empty. You're more self-impressed at other males than impressed at this woman's potential.
So in other words, rotate the ship at regular intervals doing this acceleration and deceleration until you get to the end of the trip. It's the same two force vectors cut up into pieces and interleaved. The repeated turns would add to the overall cost but the same amount of fuel would be spent on the same two overall vectors of acceleration.
What *I* find "interesting" is that even though old grandparents have always been saying things like "It's not that grandma's getting stupid, sweetie, it's just that when you're my age you know so much that it takes awhile to remember what you know", none of that matters if the newest generation hasn't climbed out of their dungeons to announce that they simulated the same thing on a computer. Relevance, anyone? Reverence, maybe?
At first I was like "hatchbacks are cool though" until I realized the article meant "backdoors".
The "subset" response from AC is total bullshit. Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering are two entirely different career fields. Idiot self-imposed know it all's like AC are who's behind the article for instance not knowing the damn difference. One's not a subset of the other, both are a subset for sure of engineering dealing with electricity but frankly I don't think you'll find any career fields that expect both skill sets from you. Having taken college courses in both, let me assure you, one's not a subset of the other and having a degree in both does mean taking two almost entirely separate degrees. The engineer planning a power station is not going to be prepared for the engineer planning transistor logic, and vice versa. The guy climbing a pole and the guy soldering a board are not going to be interchangeable.
Since neither the parent nor TFA seem to comprehend the difference between Electronic Engineering and Electrical Engineering, I have no idea WTF the article is even trying to say.
As a proponent of the death penalty, I agree that this would be a tremendous step forward in penal death methodology. You wouldn't even need a hammer to smash the whole head, just restrain the head and piston a solid bar about three inches in diameter straight through from side to side.
I don't think the admonishment should have been "one commandment you should abide by", rather it should have been "a moral you yourself obviously abide by".
You could attack the commenter's stance just by pointing out the hypocrisy of demanding murder in return for murder. Either murder's wrong, or it's not.
I think the situation is muddy enough, thanks, without the interjections of the religious.