Generally, the use of the phrase "Sci Fi" indicates that the speaker is a clueless outsider who would never read, watch or appreciate Science Fiction. True aficionados use SF or Science Fiction.
Seriously, just burn it down and start from scratch. The shuttle is such an economic disaster. It isn't even close to being competitive. Why would we possibly want to build a new one?
And as far as anyone trying to do physics in Imperial units... it's just braindead.
It's mind-boggling that they say it could cost $370,000,000 to convert the drawings. Aren't they stored in electronic form? The cost should be almost zero if they are. If not -- well I don't even know what to say -- it's just unbelievable.
I've been using Foldershare for several months now to synchronize several folders on three different machines. It has worked well so far and it is free. It's available at: https://www.foldershare.com/
Let's say 2,000,000 people were affected, and it wasted 1 hour of their time. That's 2,000,000 hours of human time. The average life is about 450,000 hours. Moreover, it was intentional. He destroyed at least four entire lives!! He deserves death, or whatever penalty you think a pre-meditated mass murderer deserves.
This stuff is expected only from the incompetent. This almost exactly mirrors the origin or Murphy's law. There is no progress in failing to learn the same lesson over and over again!
I don't see why you think that Linux is relegated to the low to medium level servers. I have found that ported apps run 5 to 10 times faster on Linux (with PC hardware) that on Sun's best machines.
I've moved EVERYTHING from Solaris to Linux in the past year, and we are getting much higher performance at 1/3 to 1/5 of the hardware cost.
I had a Toto toilet installed in my apartment for about $1500. It was great; the seat was always heated, it had hot and cold water jets -- with adjustable temperature and aim, and it even had a sort of hair dryer thingy -- except blowing from down below. Best of all, it had a remote control!
Wow, imagine another way to do it.
Just type: 'man ls' and it would tell you all of the options and their meanings. Or even a GUI version -- let's call it 'xman'. Someone should start coding today!
Also check out the Iowa Electronic Market. They have legal gambling on the election. And the current prices on this link:
http://128.255.244.60/quotes/29.html
can essentially be interpreted as probability of winning.
This story is unbelievably old. Has anyone been to a display of dinosaurs bones in a museum lately? They are all displayed with the neck horizontal now. Or is your primary source of information cartoons?:)
The national debt is not part of the money supply. You are completely wrong.
A loan from one member of the public to another mediated by a bank does -- as you say -- increase the money supply. But a loan from the public to the government (e.g. a treasury bond) does not. Money supply is essentially cash, various types of checking and savings accounts, and perhaps short term securities (I'm being vague because there are several definitions) held by the public.
When the government pays off debt, they give cash to a member of the public (increasing the money supply) in exchange for a treasury bond.
Spending the surplus paying down the deficit has precisely the same effect on the money supply as a tax cut. To pay down the deficit, the government buys treasury bonds in the open market -- or forgoes new issuance. The effect on the amount of cash in circulation is identical.
Local Cable, and Telephone service over the 'last mile' constitute an area of the economy which lends itself to a technical monopoly (one of several types of natural monopolies). In such cases, even the staunchest capitalist would at least consider that a government run monopoly might be the best solution.
The best possible example of this is the local road system. Does anyone seriously propose that competing companies build alternative roads to your house and that they compete freely?!
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In the form of a Hellfire missile...
Anonymouse, just because your tv has been telling you something for forty years doesn't mean it is true or cool.
Generally, the use of the phrase "Sci Fi" indicates that the speaker is a clueless outsider who would never read, watch or appreciate Science Fiction. True aficionados use SF or Science Fiction.
Need Another Space Agency.
Seriously, just burn it down and start from scratch. The shuttle is such an economic disaster. It isn't even close to being competitive. Why would we possibly want to build a new one?
And as far as anyone trying to do physics in Imperial units... it's just braindead.
It's mind-boggling that they say it could cost $370,000,000 to convert the drawings. Aren't they stored in electronic form? The cost should be almost zero if they are. If not -- well I don't even know what to say -- it's just unbelievable.
It's that easy. Boot time -- 0 seconds.
Pentagon squanders $800 million of your hard earned cash.
I've been using Foldershare for several months now to synchronize several folders on three different machines. It has worked well so far and it is free. It's available at: https://www.foldershare.com/
Here's the premise as I understand it:
A man find's his work and his life unsatisfying. He is unable to express his individuality and to have the sort of life he wants.
His proposed solution: to spend his nights with other losers punching them and trying to hurt them while they try to do the same to him.
How is this an improvement? To me it seems far worse.
Kyle: Watch out Stan, genetic engineers are crazy!!!
South Park, Episode 105, An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
Let's say 2,000,000 people were affected, and it wasted 1 hour of their time. That's 2,000,000 hours of human time. The average life is about 450,000 hours. Moreover, it was intentional. He destroyed at least four entire lives!! He deserves death, or whatever penalty you think a pre-meditated mass murderer deserves.
P.S. I'm not kidding.
This stuff is expected only from the incompetent. This almost exactly mirrors the origin or Murphy's law. There is no progress in failing to learn the same lesson over and over again!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T57746A89
Go to the gym 3 days a week and work hard for an hour and study some martial art. It will repay you many times over.
With live TV: you press pause, make yourself a sandwich, make a phone call, and then watch the whole show without commercials.
I don't see why you think that Linux is relegated to the low to medium level servers. I have found that ported apps run 5 to 10 times faster on Linux (with PC hardware) that on Sun's best machines.
I've moved EVERYTHING from Solaris to Linux in the past year, and we are getting much higher performance at 1/3 to 1/5 of the hardware cost.
I had a Toto toilet installed in my apartment for about $1500. It was great; the seat was always heated, it had hot and cold water jets -- with adjustable temperature and aim, and it even had a sort of hair dryer thingy -- except blowing from down below. Best of all, it had a remote control!
Full OO makes Ruby far more intuitive than other scripting languages:
If you want the length of a string:
"Hello".length;
Or how about the length of an array:
[1, 2, 5, 9].length;
Of course, you can do this with variables too:
a = "Hello";
a.length;
There is great documentation available online at:
www.rubycentral.com
You can never get overflow, numbers are automatically converted to the Bignum class if they get too large.
OO fun with files:
f = File.new("out", "w");
f.chmod(0644);
For an online book on Ruby, check out the following:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/index.html
Check out: http://www.rubycentral.com/ or, more specifially: http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/index.html
Wow, imagine another way to do it. Just type: 'man ls' and it would tell you all of the options and their meanings. Or even a GUI version -- let's call it 'xman'. Someone should start coding today!
Also check out the Iowa Electronic Market. They have legal gambling on the election. And the current prices on this link: http://128.255.244.60/quotes/29.html can essentially be interpreted as probability of winning.
This story is unbelievably old. Has anyone been to a display of dinosaurs bones in a museum lately? They are all displayed with the neck horizontal now. Or is your primary source of information cartoons? :)
The national debt is not part of the money supply. You are completely wrong. A loan from one member of the public to another mediated by a bank does -- as you say -- increase the money supply. But a loan from the public to the government (e.g. a treasury bond) does not. Money supply is essentially cash, various types of checking and savings accounts, and perhaps short term securities (I'm being vague because there are several definitions) held by the public. When the government pays off debt, they give cash to a member of the public (increasing the money supply) in exchange for a treasury bond.
Spending the surplus paying down the deficit has precisely the same effect on the money supply as a tax cut. To pay down the deficit, the government buys treasury bonds in the open market -- or forgoes new issuance. The effect on the amount of cash in circulation is identical.
Local Cable, and Telephone service over the 'last mile' constitute an area of the economy which lends itself to a technical monopoly (one of several types of natural monopolies). In such cases, even the staunchest capitalist would at least consider that a government run monopoly might be the best solution. The best possible example of this is the local road system. Does anyone seriously propose that competing companies build alternative roads to your house and that they compete freely?!
I'd much rather have him working on "Snow Crash" or one of his other masterpieces than some piece of warmed over dreck like Batman...
If you recall the book, 42 is not the meaning of life, it is the answer to 'The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.'