I was a long time member and then realized... I just wasn't getting any value out of it (personally). I'm sure many people do. But it didn't seem relevant to what I was doing nor to my interests. Sure here and there were interesting things but in general... I'd rather drop that coin elsewhere.
Utter nonsense. A US company (spaceX) could do it this week if it were truly required. Pull the Thaicom-6 off the falcon 9, put on a dragon with a seat (or seats), some oxygen candles and a CO2 scrubber, and press the button. Do not mistake the hampering of bureaucratic red tape and with lack of capability.
But because I've been working in Ruby on Rails I see way too much "omg you gotta switch to this cool new tech which is a little more obscure and slightly less functional and certainly less reliable than what it replaces, but wow, it's new!!!!"
Been seeing a good bit of that in the python world. *oh shiny*
"the conclusions of the original report -- that the car performs poorly in cold weather, that it takes longer to fill up and that much more careful planning is needed driving it -- stand."
In other news, guy with no qualifications makes unqualified statements...
But the issue is controversial and his opinions and standing are questioned by Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford University who says that although this is an important topic, Sigman's paper is not "an impartial expert review of evidence for effects on health and child development". "Aric Sigman does not appear to have any academic or clinical position, or to have done any original research on this topic," she said. "His comments about impact of screen time on brain development and empathy seem speculative in my opinion, and the arguments that he makes could equally well be used to conclude that children should not read books."
No its ridiculous (and yet another example of the idiotic entitlement mentality destroying this once great nation) to think that somehow the US deserves seats on the Soyuz because we helped build the ISS. We (the US) had a ride to space. It was our own pimped out space taxi. We no longer have that ride... by choice, by design, by policy, yada yada. It's not Russia's job to drive us to work just because we decided to scrap our old ride BEFORE building a new one. You want to do something (possibly) productive? Write to your representatives in.gov and tell them NASA needs more $.
Isn't that reason enough? What happened to ambition, curiosity, and doing things "because it's there?"
Actually Mr "because its there" died on Everest. Don't get me wrong in many ways George Mallory was an incredible individual. However, following in his footsteps is not the path to a positive outcome.
The next generation rover Curiosity is launching around the end of November 2011. It makes the existing rovers look like rc cars. Having said that, I agree that along with bigger / better Curiosity, they should have considered a half dozen Spirit clones with different science packages. Though the issue isn't the cost of the rover, but delivering it. Its not cheap. I'd rather see the funding after Curiosity put towards a sample return mission.
I'm sure at that level of income, the Gov't will be more than happy to provide you with numerous subsidies to ensure your quality of life and continued pursuit of the American Dream.
They could rig the experiments, fudge the numbers, etc. and your average person would not be in a position to know it.
This is part of a sci-fi story... which one I can't remember... where the "friendly" aliens tell the people that the human scientists have been lying to them, hiding all kinds of technological breakthroughs, etc... to demonize the scientific community... who of course end up being the very folks who save humanity from alien annihilation!"
Yeah them chess stories sound awfully fishy. Also, as someone who lived in Tokyo for a year, I gotta say there is much variation in the microcosm that is Tokyo. Its not like a vast uniform wasteland of pachinko and soap parlors =)
I've been around Hokkaido, Kyoto, Okinawa, and more. The most "Japanese" experience to my mind at least... was exploring the Izu Hanto, just a day's train ride from the bustle of Tokyo. Your mileage may vary. To bfl, I would suggest that if you do go (and you should!)... go with as few expectations as possible. You'll enjoy it more. Even buying a loaf of bread can be an adventure sometimes.
Adding other repositories to your package manager / software sources is really that difficult? Might want to try a few searches and check out a howto or two...
Agreed! My desktop... Ubuntu, my Mythbox... Ubuntu. My always on ancient laptop... Puppy Linux (Ubuntu based now). I stick to the LTS images and don't move until a new release looks good wrt forum chatter. Thus far I'm pretty content. The only other dist catching my eye has been Mint and oh look what that is based on...;-)
"Although the reactors can be self-sustaining so that the input can be turned off, the scientists say that the reactors work better with a constant input. "
So, we have a machine that produces 8 units of energy out for every 1 unit in while consuming the nickel-hydrogen fuel, but it cannot feed back on itself? Me thinks there's a problem with their output units.
Ah see you've made my point. A trip to the new world (once they knew it was there) could be easily funded by a small group of investors. I see no small groups of investors with the technology and material to produce a colony ship to Mars. Do you?
In spirit, they are similar. The technical challenges to overcome are substantially greater. And once they are done with the technical problems, the financial costs are also relatively more significant.
Having said all of that, it is a matter of WILL alone that holds us back.
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I was a long time member and then realized... I just wasn't getting any value out of it (personally). I'm sure many people do. But it didn't seem relevant to what I was doing nor to my interests. Sure here and there were interesting things but in general... I'd rather drop that coin elsewhere.
Utter nonsense. A US company (spaceX) could do it this week if it were truly required. Pull the Thaicom-6 off the falcon 9, put on a dragon with a seat (or seats), some oxygen candles and a CO2 scrubber, and press the button. Do not mistake the hampering of bureaucratic red tape and with lack of capability.
That is so laughably insane. It must be true =) Tilting a windmills indeed.
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I'm using them myself, to wrap / webify Unix commands, wrap / webify Windows PowerShell commands
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Be veeeery careful about that input validation. Yikes.
And I suddenly feel bad I have no more mod points to share. Excellent commentary and advice all around.
But because I've been working in Ruby on Rails I see way too much "omg you gotta switch to this cool new tech which is a little more obscure and slightly less functional and certainly less reliable than what it replaces, but wow, it's new!!!!"
Been seeing a good bit of that in the python world. *oh shiny*
"the conclusions of the original report -- that the car performs poorly in cold weather, that it takes longer to fill up and that much more careful planning is needed driving it -- stand."
Why the need to lie about it then?
In other news, guy with no qualifications makes unqualified statements...
But the issue is controversial and his opinions and standing are questioned by Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford University who says that although this is an important topic, Sigman's paper is not "an impartial expert review of evidence for effects on health and child development". "Aric Sigman does not appear to have any academic or clinical position, or to have done any original research on this topic," she said. "His comments about impact of screen time on brain development and empathy seem speculative in my opinion, and the arguments that he makes could equally well be used to conclude that children should not read books."
Care to update the wiki page? At least according to that....
ATV capable of 7,667kg to orbit.
Dragon capable of 3,310 kg pressurized ( + another 3,310 non pressurized)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_space_station_cargo_vehicles
Who knows... maybe just maybe NASA is paying for token payloads until SpaceX gets their flight rate up (and thus some notion of improved reliability).
No its ridiculous (and yet another example of the idiotic entitlement mentality destroying this once great nation) to think that somehow the US deserves seats on the Soyuz because we helped build the ISS. We (the US) had a ride to space. It was our own pimped out space taxi. We no longer have that ride... by choice, by design, by policy, yada yada. It's not Russia's job to drive us to work just because we decided to scrap our old ride BEFORE building a new one. You want to do something (possibly) productive? Write to your representatives in .gov and tell them NASA needs more $.
The same way everyone else has... trial and error. Have you seen the montages? For example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qeX98tAS8
Also building cars doesn't really give you all that much expertise in building rockets.
Oblig...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFgVayrWjs
Isn't that reason enough? What happened to ambition, curiosity, and doing things "because it's there?"
Actually Mr "because its there" died on Everest. Don't get me wrong in many ways George Mallory was an incredible individual. However, following in his footsteps is not the path to a positive outcome.
First we have to deal with "abundant rare earth" elements, and now we have to listen to "silent beeping"? The future... it is so confusing.
The next generation rover Curiosity is launching around the end of November 2011. It makes the existing rovers look like rc cars. Having said that, I agree that along with bigger / better Curiosity, they should have considered a half dozen Spirit clones with different science packages. Though the issue isn't the cost of the rover, but delivering it. Its not cheap. I'd rather see the funding after Curiosity put towards a sample return mission.
I'm sure at that level of income, the Gov't will be more than happy to provide you with numerous subsidies to ensure your quality of life and continued pursuit of the American Dream.
Read the books that follow if you haven't. They figured out how to pull that fail from the fire and move on.
They could rig the experiments, fudge the numbers, etc. and your average person would not be in a position to know it.
This is part of a sci-fi story... which one I can't remember... where the "friendly" aliens tell the people that the human scientists have been lying to them, hiding all kinds of technological breakthroughs, etc... to demonize the scientific community... who of course end up being the very folks who save humanity from alien annihilation!"
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Yeah them chess stories sound awfully fishy. Also, as someone who lived in Tokyo for a year, I gotta say there is much variation in the microcosm that is Tokyo. Its not like a vast uniform wasteland of pachinko and soap parlors =)
I've been around Hokkaido, Kyoto, Okinawa, and more. The most "Japanese" experience to my mind at least... was exploring the Izu Hanto, just a day's train ride from the bustle of Tokyo. Your mileage may vary. To bfl, I would suggest that if you do go (and you should!)... go with as few expectations as possible. You'll enjoy it more. Even buying a loaf of bread can be an adventure sometimes.
Adding other repositories to your package manager / software sources is really that difficult? Might want to try a few searches and check out a howto or two...
Agreed! My desktop... Ubuntu, my Mythbox... Ubuntu. My always on ancient laptop ... Puppy Linux (Ubuntu based now). I stick to the LTS images and don't move until a new release looks good wrt forum chatter. Thus far I'm pretty content. The only other dist catching my eye has been Mint and oh look what that is based on... ;-)
So it'd be Kuro5hin?
Bravo! Bravo! That would be an awesome stage act... call it the tinfoil monologues and do another bit about aliens. You would be brilliant.
Meh, all you need to read:
"Although the reactors can be self-sustaining so that the input can be turned off, the scientists say that the reactors work better with a constant input. "
So, we have a machine that produces 8 units of energy out for every 1 unit in while consuming the nickel-hydrogen fuel, but it cannot feed back on itself? Me thinks there's a problem with their output units.
Ah see you've made my point. A trip to the new world (once they knew it was there) could be easily funded by a small group of investors. I see no small groups of investors with the technology and material to produce a colony ship to Mars. Do you?
In spirit, they are similar. The technical challenges to overcome are substantially greater. And once they are done with the technical problems, the financial costs are also relatively more significant.
Having said all of that, it is a matter of WILL alone that holds us back.