Still you need to fight momentum. If you have a ship big enough to hold heavy people with heavier supplies that is a lot of momentum to fight all the time. Sure we can burst speed of multiple G's but once the fuel runs out and the ship goes at a constant speed we are down to 0g.
My Hope if we could build a space craft that can accelerate 9.8m/s^2 (1g) for the duration of going to Mars and Back. You go to at 1g half way to mars, then you decelerate at 1g the other half. Orbit for a period of time. Drop down a landing party for a while. And go back at 1g half way decelerate at 1g the other half. Then you would have a good long range mission with out the 0g effect messing up the body.
Nothing is perfect in the world and they are tradeoffs. If you believe that something is perfect (terrestrially speaking (I don't care to debate if God Exists or is perfect or not, today)) Then you are probably wrong.
Everything has an up side and down side to it, whether or not the upside make it worth it or not, is open to debate. That is why we have free speech, it is so we can be allowed to look at the universe with our own objectives and try to measure if the up side or down side is worth it. However Free Speech often comes with broadcasting misinformation, outward lies, or just ignorants. In order to keep free speech working we need to keep our education levels up so we can help spot this.
Propaganda, is sending one side of the issue and blocking debate about it. If your side is well thought out and expressed, there could be a lot less idiocracy about the topic, but it is limited and prevents growth, however this is often abused and used to spread lies as well.
Saying you should block all sites that say something negative about your beliefs is trying to say I want you to be part of our propaganda engine. And restricting free speech.
Now Google biggest value is in Good Will, an accounting term to express Brand Recognition and Trust. If Google were to degrade their customers trust, they will go to different sites and ruen Google.
Calculus express the idea Optimality, and gives you the tools to help calculate it.
For example say we have good government project that we are paying with our tax dollars, its benefit per cost ratio follows a y= log(x) type of scale. So it comes to a point where you should be informed enough to say. No we shouldn't need to put more money in this service because the cost is too great for the marginal benefits it will receive, vs getting caught up in the political feel good nonsense of, see the good that we have already done, imagine what we could do with more... You don't need to imagine you can work it out, it isn't that much better. Conversely it could mean at the current price range on that same Log scale that you should increase money as the slope at the new price point adds more value vs cost of the service.
Even if you are not solving Calculus equations you have learned a skill to help you understand the world, and by doing those assignments in school helps you understand at least on a grand scale on how to manage things.
I am ok with engineers taking humanity. However humanity majors needs to take some real math and science.
No one should graduate a 4 year college without at least 2 semesters of calculious and one 200 level or above elective in math and 2 lab science. And colleges shouldn't water them down for humanity majors. They fail they take the class over again.
The interesting thing about SETI it is one of those projects where the side effect technology is more important then their main research goal. Scanning Space Radio signals trying to find Extraterrestrial life is in itself rather futile goal.
1. Radio Waves bounce off atmosphere. Sure it does get threw however most of our random singles from TV really get so bombarded by static that the waves data is nearly traceable due to the static from space. Even before we leave the solar system.
2. Radio is only used for a short period of time. We have been using radio for about 150 years, and for long range broadcasting it is getting much slimmer. As we have built an infrastructure to send most data without radio, we use radio for short range broadcasts. So say we have about 500 years of useful radio useage. In terms of tracing a society that is like a blip. So you need to find the star, with a planet, with life, who is intelligent, has an instinct to build stuff, figured they needed radio, happen to run across similar experiments to discover it, had the engineering mindset to make something out of it, used it over the alternatives, and hasn't outgrown it. This is slim pickings. If you think about it, it was said the burning of the Library of Alexandria set mankind back 500 years. Who knows how things would be different.
"Environmentalists" Will not be happy until we live like we did back in the 1700's. We shouldn't care about these people, but what we should be doing, is lowering our damage, and finding new technology that can keep or improve our quality of life and use less Carbon while doing this. By doing this we will have to make some Environmental trade offs. It may mean cutting down trees, or dealing with radioactive waste, Genetically Modified Plants, or unsightly buildings in residential areas. If you want to lower carbon, what will be the tradeoff.
Like... Encouraging children to get into STEM Degrees. The moon landing back in the 1960's but a large boom into these careers. Although a small portion of them will be working on the space missions. The interest in these things as a kid will make them far more interested in the topics. Getting kids interested in Science Technology Engineering and Math, will help them get off their butts go to college and get in less serious trouble.
Our Environment. Sure launching a rocket into space take huge amounts of carbon. But to figure out how to get people to survive and thrive on the Moon and Mars (extremely harsh conditions, and little energy sources) will create technology that we can use here on earth. Hey that solar panel on the moon can keep a small city running with a half a month of darkness, means on earth we could at least get it to run half a small city. Plus it will need to be small and light to get there. Extracting Drinking water out of the brimy pools on mars, would help us get drinking water out of our oceans and deserts.
Agriculture, these people will need to be self sufficient, in a bubble, imagine what we could do with these ideas on earth.
Health Care. The people in colonies on the Moon and Mars can get sick, we will need to find new procedures to fix these problems. They can be transferred back to earth as a cheaper solution to many problems.
All fine and good if your business runs nimble enough to handle this. But Enterprise class is software for the slow lumbering business where it would take Months or years for the people who needs to know to migrate off the system to actually know about it. Then they will need to setup a migration team and find an alternate products and all a bunch of other nonsense.
Enterprise software usually Sucks Majorly. But it sucks consistently, and that is why they buy it.
For the most part the people who are hacking into you isn't that personal, you are just an open system with the vulnerability. Hacking back will not do too much except for making it personal. If you want to solve the problem you will need to redo your security.
Besides most hackers will jump from system to system to make it hard to detect. I remember trying to trace a hacker back, I gave up after going into 3 or 4 systems across the globe. Realizing that I could part of the problem not the solution I gave up. And then went on improving security.
Well if you are Talking in the car with a passenger, he can tell you, Dude you need to stop your car. Vs talking to some one who doesn't have a stake in your driving safety (and can't know if he does).
I just recently got in an accident. I have a hands free unit. The phone rang, and the split second it took me to read who it was on the dashboard was long enough for me not to keep my eyes on the road to see the car in front of me doing a quick stop. I didn't even pick up the phone, I was just wondering who it was, and it showed right on the dashboard.
If I am driving and someone is with me, and I get too distracted, or when I am riding with someone and see that they are about to do something dangerious. I can say, Hey the car is stopping!.
Who cares about buses. I would like to just Drive up park my car on the train. Let it travel the 200+ miles to the closest city. Get off and drive the rest of the way to my destination.
1. It would be convenient, as you will keep your car. 2. It will be safer, as you are not focusing on driving all the time. 3. It will be greener, 1 ton 500 miles on a gallon of fuel. 4. It would be more comfortable. As you can sit back and relax as the bulk of the travel takes you where you need to go.
The key is Next year. Before if you were 4 years out of date it was like using a dinosaur of a PC. Now we can go 6 years or even 8 years. Every year you wished you got that system as it was noticeable better. This isn't as much the case anymore.
The Term PC has been redefined many many times over.
PC Stands for Personal Computer. originally was was to differentiate from expensive mainframes where they would share processing. But a computer you can buy and own yourself at home. Those covered a big range including Atari, Apple, IBM, TI, Commodore... You had a PC, But it might be an IBM PC or an IBM Compatible PC. Or an Apple PC or a Macintosh PC...
The Intel x86 (IBM and IBM Compatibles PC's which were called at the time) got market dominance. When you said PC you meant the x86 CPU. and the others were by brands. Laptops when they came out were very underpowered compared to their Desktop Counterparts, so they Didn't get the PC classification for a while, so a PC meant an x86 Desktop unit. Then as Laptops in terms of performance caught up to the Desktop, it got the PC title. As to express any x86 system able to run Windows. Now we have smartphone and tablet coming to the market, which have moved PC to include Non Windows running systems, including Macs. However excludes light weight systems such as tables. Now Tablets are getting more powerful so they may be adding the PC list.
Is the PC Dying. Well no, we still need personal computers. Is the Desktop/Laptop needing a keyboard dying. Yes kinda, it is dying in terms it isn't needed to function all the time. We will still need them but in a more limited fashion.
The problem is they are so many ways to judge performance. GHZ are good for comparing like processors. MIPS are good for similar instruction sets. FLOPS are good for similar code (That uses floating points)
You then add these per watt if you want to show it off for a mobile device.
Ok Source code for OLD GAMES, So games that have already been pirated and hacked, but lets the the source so we could compile it before we play it. SDK, that would be handy, if only you wanted to be licensed with the gaming company, to you know distribute your code. Even OSS projects would avoid it as to not get sued for using a pirated SDK.
So when he gets arrested for hacking, they will just add Pirating to the list too. Good thinking!
Except for that Fiction element. Science fiction tends to have that one little thing that makes the robots go off their programming, without a Safe Default mode. You know to make it a good story, that people will want to read.
No one wants to hear about the little boy who got killed for crossing a zone labeled you will be shot if entered, because he crossed the area. Or in case of a major malfunction where they will not power down. You just kinda shoot them down from the air, or just send in a new batch battle droids to dismantle the other.
Science Fiction is fiction so to make it a good story you need a real plot. Real life is often more boring. And those problems that come with technology we kinda learn to deal with them.
You must be just a miserable person. Here is a little tip for life, being overly critical of everything isn't proof that you are smart or know what you are talking about. I like the show, however sometimes I feel they go too far to try to portate the stereotype of the geek, but once you realise that, just let it slide and enjoy the show. You probably won't get a life awakening moments in it, but get a few chuckles out of it.
It is probably the best show around that express Geek type culture out there without it, being overly negative about it. These guys do find Girls, they do work past some of their personality flaws. They are shown as Humans, not as some sort of freaks. Is it perfect, no. But I wouldn't expect it to be, otherwise it wouldn't appeal to much of an audience.
When you get into middle management, you need to put aside your tech skills and do things differently. First you get dictated from above to Do this (There may have been times where you put your argument in place, however you loss) So you need to implement the bad idea, By doing this you need to try to make it work. So you look like your are incompetent, when really the problem comes further above, and their egos won't listen.
Managers don't need to be highly technical, just enough to understand the Tech Talk and convert it to Businessman talk.
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Still you need to fight momentum. If you have a ship big enough to hold heavy people with heavier supplies that is a lot of momentum to fight all the time. Sure we can burst speed of multiple G's but once the fuel runs out and the ship goes at a constant speed we are down to 0g.
Beats me I was just being a Smart Ass
My Hope if we could build a space craft that can accelerate 9.8m/s^2 (1g) for the duration of going to Mars and Back. You go to at 1g half way to mars, then you decelerate at 1g the other half. Orbit for a period of time. Drop down a landing party for a while. And go back at 1g half way decelerate at 1g the other half. Then you would have a good long range mission with out the 0g effect messing up the body.
Because it isn't abstract.
So everyone missed out on getting a diverse education.
to master economics you need calculus.
Nothing is perfect in the world and they are tradeoffs. If you believe that something is perfect (terrestrially speaking (I don't care to debate if God Exists or is perfect or not, today)) Then you are probably wrong.
Everything has an up side and down side to it, whether or not the upside make it worth it or not, is open to debate. That is why we have free speech, it is so we can be allowed to look at the universe with our own objectives and try to measure if the up side or down side is worth it. However Free Speech often comes with broadcasting misinformation, outward lies, or just ignorants. In order to keep free speech working we need to keep our education levels up so we can help spot this.
Propaganda, is sending one side of the issue and blocking debate about it. If your side is well thought out and expressed, there could be a lot less idiocracy about the topic, but it is limited and prevents growth, however this is often abused and used to spread lies as well.
Saying you should block all sites that say something negative about your beliefs is trying to say I want you to be part of our propaganda engine. And restricting free speech.
Now Google biggest value is in Good Will, an accounting term to express Brand Recognition and Trust. If Google were to degrade their customers trust, they will go to different sites and ruen Google.
Calculus express the idea Optimality, and gives you the tools to help calculate it.
For example say we have good government project that we are paying with our tax dollars, its benefit per cost ratio follows a y= log(x) type of scale. So it comes to a point where you should be informed enough to say. No we shouldn't need to put more money in this service because the cost is too great for the marginal benefits it will receive, vs getting caught up in the political feel good nonsense of, see the good that we have already done, imagine what we could do with more... You don't need to imagine you can work it out, it isn't that much better. Conversely it could mean at the current price range on that same Log scale that you should increase money as the slope at the new price point adds more value vs cost of the service.
Even if you are not solving Calculus equations you have learned a skill to help you understand the world, and by doing those assignments in school helps you understand at least on a grand scale on how to manage things.
I am ok with engineers taking humanity. However humanity majors needs to take some real math and science.
No one should graduate a 4 year college without at least 2 semesters of calculious and one 200 level or above elective in math and 2 lab science. And colleges shouldn't water them down for humanity majors. They fail they take the class over again.
The interesting thing about SETI it is one of those projects where the side effect technology is more important then their main research goal.
Scanning Space Radio signals trying to find Extraterrestrial life is in itself rather futile goal.
1. Radio Waves bounce off atmosphere. Sure it does get threw however most of our random singles from TV really get so bombarded by static that the waves data is nearly traceable due to the static from space. Even before we leave the solar system.
2. Radio is only used for a short period of time. We have been using radio for about 150 years, and for long range broadcasting it is getting much slimmer. As we have built an infrastructure to send most data without radio, we use radio for short range broadcasts. So say we have about 500 years of useful radio useage. In terms of tracing a society that is like a blip. So you need to find the star, with a planet, with life, who is intelligent, has an instinct to build stuff, figured they needed radio, happen to run across similar experiments to discover it, had the engineering mindset to make something out of it, used it over the alternatives, and hasn't outgrown it. This is slim pickings. If you think about it, it was said the burning of the Library of Alexandria set mankind back 500 years. Who knows how things would be different.
"Environmentalists" Will not be happy until we live like we did back in the 1700's. We shouldn't care about these people, but what we should be doing, is lowering our damage, and finding new technology that can keep or improve our quality of life and use less Carbon while doing this. By doing this we will have to make some Environmental trade offs. It may mean cutting down trees, or dealing with radioactive waste, Genetically Modified Plants, or unsightly buildings in residential areas. If you want to lower carbon, what will be the tradeoff.
Like...
Encouraging children to get into STEM Degrees. The moon landing back in the 1960's but a large boom into these careers. Although a small portion of them will be working on the space missions. The interest in these things as a kid will make them far more interested in the topics. Getting kids interested in Science Technology Engineering and Math, will help them get off their butts go to college and get in less serious trouble.
Our Environment. Sure launching a rocket into space take huge amounts of carbon. But to figure out how to get people to survive and thrive on the Moon and Mars (extremely harsh conditions, and little energy sources) will create technology that we can use here on earth. Hey that solar panel on the moon can keep a small city running with a half a month of darkness, means on earth we could at least get it to run half a small city. Plus it will need to be small and light to get there. Extracting Drinking water out of the brimy pools on mars, would help us get drinking water out of our oceans and deserts.
Agriculture, these people will need to be self sufficient, in a bubble, imagine what we could do with these ideas on earth.
Health Care. The people in colonies on the Moon and Mars can get sick, we will need to find new procedures to fix these problems. They can be transferred back to earth as a cheaper solution to many problems.
Those are just a few.
All fine and good if your business runs nimble enough to handle this. But Enterprise class is software for the slow lumbering business where it would take Months or years for the people who needs to know to migrate off the system to actually know about it. Then they will need to setup a migration team and find an alternate products and all a bunch of other nonsense.
Enterprise software usually Sucks Majorly. But it sucks consistently, and that is why they buy it.
For the most part the people who are hacking into you isn't that personal, you are just an open system with the vulnerability. Hacking back will not do too much except for making it personal. If you want to solve the problem you will need to redo your security.
Besides most hackers will jump from system to system to make it hard to detect. I remember trying to trace a hacker back, I gave up after going into 3 or 4 systems across the globe. Realizing that I could part of the problem not the solution I gave up. And then went on improving security.
Well if you are Talking in the car with a passenger, he can tell you, Dude you need to stop your car. Vs talking to some one who doesn't have a stake in your driving safety (and can't know if he does).
I just recently got in an accident. I have a hands free unit. The phone rang, and the split second it took me to read who it was on the dashboard was long enough for me not to keep my eyes on the road to see the car in front of me doing a quick stop.
I didn't even pick up the phone, I was just wondering who it was, and it showed right on the dashboard.
If I am driving and someone is with me, and I get too distracted, or when I am riding with someone and see that they are about to do something dangerious. I can say, Hey the car is stopping!.
Who cares about buses. I would like to just Drive up park my car on the train. Let it travel the 200+ miles to the closest city. Get off and drive the rest of the way to my destination.
1. It would be convenient, as you will keep your car.
2. It will be safer, as you are not focusing on driving all the time.
3. It will be greener, 1 ton 500 miles on a gallon of fuel.
4. It would be more comfortable. As you can sit back and relax as the bulk of the travel takes you where you need to go.
The key is Next year.
Before if you were 4 years out of date it was like using a dinosaur of a PC. Now we can go 6 years or even 8 years.
Every year you wished you got that system as it was noticeable better. This isn't as much the case anymore.
The Term PC has been redefined many many times over.
PC Stands for Personal Computer.
originally was was to differentiate from expensive mainframes where they would share processing. But a computer you can buy and own yourself at home. Those covered a big range including Atari, Apple, IBM, TI, Commodore... You had a PC, But it might be an IBM PC or an IBM Compatible PC. Or an Apple PC or a Macintosh PC...
The Intel x86 (IBM and IBM Compatibles PC's which were called at the time) got market dominance. When you said PC you meant the x86 CPU. and the others were by brands.
Laptops when they came out were very underpowered compared to their Desktop Counterparts, so they Didn't get the PC classification for a while, so a PC meant an x86 Desktop unit.
Then as Laptops in terms of performance caught up to the Desktop, it got the PC title. As to express any x86 system able to run Windows.
Now we have smartphone and tablet coming to the market, which have moved PC to include Non Windows running systems, including Macs. However excludes light weight systems such as tables.
Now Tablets are getting more powerful so they may be adding the PC list.
Is the PC Dying. Well no, we still need personal computers. Is the Desktop/Laptop needing a keyboard dying. Yes kinda, it is dying in terms it isn't needed to function all the time. We will still need them but in a more limited fashion.
The problem is they are so many ways to judge performance.
GHZ are good for comparing like processors.
MIPS are good for similar instruction sets.
FLOPS are good for similar code (That uses floating points)
You then add these per watt if you want to show it off for a mobile device.
You needed Donkey Kong Junior just to make you hit 2.0 Gigabytes exactly. Right?
Besides that, that is a big So What in data.
Ok Source code for OLD GAMES, So games that have already been pirated and hacked, but lets the the source so we could compile it before we play it.
SDK, that would be handy, if only you wanted to be licensed with the gaming company, to you know distribute your code. Even OSS projects would avoid it as to not get sued for using a pirated SDK.
So when he gets arrested for hacking, they will just add Pirating to the list too. Good thinking!
Except for that Fiction element.
Science fiction tends to have that one little thing that makes the robots go off their programming, without a Safe Default mode. You know to make it a good story, that people will want to read.
No one wants to hear about the little boy who got killed for crossing a zone labeled you will be shot if entered, because he crossed the area. Or in case of a major malfunction where they will not power down. You just kinda shoot them down from the air, or just send in a new batch battle droids to dismantle the other.
Science Fiction is fiction so to make it a good story you need a real plot. Real life is often more boring. And those problems that come with technology we kinda learn to deal with them.
You must be just a miserable person.
Here is a little tip for life, being overly critical of everything isn't proof that you are smart or know what you are talking about.
I like the show, however sometimes I feel they go too far to try to portate the stereotype of the geek, but once you realise that, just let it slide and enjoy the show. You probably won't get a life awakening moments in it, but get a few chuckles out of it.
It is probably the best show around that express Geek type culture out there without it, being overly negative about it. These guys do find Girls, they do work past some of their personality flaws. They are shown as Humans, not as some sort of freaks. Is it perfect, no. But I wouldn't expect it to be, otherwise it wouldn't appeal to much of an audience.
I have always prefered Bernadette myself, She just has curves in the right places.
When you get into middle management, you need to put aside your tech skills and do things differently.
First you get dictated from above to Do this (There may have been times where you put your argument in place, however you loss) So you need to implement the bad idea, By doing this you need to try to make it work. So you look like your are incompetent, when really the problem comes further above, and their egos won't listen.
Managers don't need to be highly technical, just enough to understand the Tech Talk and convert it to Businessman talk.