We'll find something new to do now. Here is lots of new blue goo now. New goo. Blue goo. Gooey. Goeey. Blue goo, New goo. Gluey. Gluey.
Gooey goo for chewy chewing! That's what that Goo-Goose is doing Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir? If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir, with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir. Do, sir.
Mr. Fox, sir, I won't do it. I can't say it. I won't chew it.
Yeah, I'm no physicist, but even I was wondering about that whole "spherical shape" thing. Ever since high school, I've had the notion that electrons are probabilistic, with no "knowable" location or shape.
Depends on the book I suppose, but "pennies" is an exaggeration. Even for high volume print runs, you'll be lucky to get more than a signature or two worth of pages for that price. You're right of course that the vast majority goes to ancillary costs, but a thick hardcover book will still cost a couple of bucks to produce, much more for a low-volume print job. By contrast, going digital is practically free.
Just spitballing here... triangulating between/. membership and back pain... but I suspect the root of your problem could be the amount of time you spend in front of a computer. If so, check out inversion therapy, it has made a huge difference in my life. I had a slipped disc a few years back, but with the inversion table I feel better than before.
Are you suggesting that early Hominidae were not apes?
If you mean that evolution doesn't suggest that we evolved from modern apes, then I see your point. But I think it's more accurate to say evolution suggests that we are apes.
Just for the record, I don't agree with the police on this, I'm just spitballing some ideas on protecting the user from unwanted hassles. The real "solution" is for cops to start obeying the constitution and judges to stop issuing warrants without probable cause. But since that doesn't seem likely anytime soon, better make sure you set a secure password on your router.
Devil's advocate: But wouldn't that allow two people to game the system? One acts as the patsy, the other downloads GB's of child porn off the unprotected router, and both walk away scott-free.
While I agree that the "best" solution is to put hefty blow-back on the idiots who authorize these raids, I think a more practical (ie: likely to actually happen) solution would be for router manufacturers to stop shipping products with an empty/trivial admin password... and then REQUIRE the user to set their own password as part of the setup process.
If there's a problem, and you need to allow remote access for tech-support (and if you can't remember your own password) just hit the reset button, which resets to password to a preset value, which can be looked up when you read off the serial number to tech-support over the phone. For extra credit, you could print the "reset" password on the label, right next to the serial number.
That brings up an interesting question: Is Boeing (or Lockheed, etc.) a "private" company or a pseudo-government agency, along the same lines as the Federal Reserve Bank?
I agree that SpaceX's vertical integration has allowed them to make great strides (along with the decades of NASA's basic research they have to work from), but I don't think the "entrenched" contractors will be able to stop them, especially since Obama has decided to steer NASA toward commercial launch services. Then again, politics is a finicky business... and the "entrenched" players definitely have an advantage on that ground.
Ultimately I don't think it matters. SpaceX is offering launch services at a competitive rate. That ought to be enough to keep them in the game. (Anyway, I hope so...;-)
Yes, the Dragon capsule is cool. I like their idea of combining the launch escape system with a landing system, to obviate the need for an ocean "splashdown" recovery. And they're on track to under-sell the Russians on a rocket ride to orbit within the next couple of years.
That's what gives me pause... My gut reaction is to think this is too big of a job for one company, but Musk seems genuinely intent on this goal, and seems to be marking all the early steps toward that goal. (Heavy lift? Check. Man-rated? Check...) Even so, that's just a start. They're going to have to step up their current development trend by an order of magnitude, at least, in order to reach Mars, and that's a tall order for such a short timespan.
I wish them the best of luck. And, to paraphrase Hobson, I'll be watching their progress with great anticipation and eagerness.
Yes, but not just about porn. This has been going on for decades, but porn is probably the earliest iteration of it, at least in the last century or so. Add to that alcohol, "drugs" (ie: those not patented by big-pharma)... and the latest and greatest bogey-man of all, terrorism. Nixon may have started the War On Drugs, but it was little more than an afterthought until Reagan doubled-down on that fool's errand. It was bad enough back then, but the American police-state just went into overdrive after 9/11. Brazil, here we come!
Coincidentally, I saw a video of Elon Musk on YouTube recently where he addressed this issue. (Might have been an "@Google" talk, not sure.) In the Q&A someone asked why he didn't use a "reusable" shuttle-type design, and he said that wings just don't make sense for a reentry vehicle. The shape is aerodynamically unstable under such conditions, requiring complex software to keep it steady, and this was ultimately the weakness that felled Columbia. OTOH, the teardrop shape is inherently stable (and steerable), and there's no reason it can't be reusable too.
> I'm guessing this is to fire up everyone else, like "We're ready to do the rocketry... are you ready for the rest?"
I reckon you're right about that. And there are already some others working on various pieces of the puzzle, such as Bigelow's inflatable habitat pods, which seem a good fit for NASA's Nautilus-X design. Still, its such a huge undertaking... it's hard to imagine even a consortium of "Musk-like" rich boyz pulling it off in such a short time. In any case, it's damn nice to see space news starting to get exciting again. It's been a long time.
Agreed. I was skeptical when they announced the plan to ditch Ares and go with commercial launch services, but SpaceX has been steadily chugging along in the meantime, racking up a pretty successful track record. The Falcon rocket has performed well (from what I can see, not being a rocket scientist myself), and I've read/heard that the Merlin engine is a simple, reliable design.
I must say I'm still a bit skeptical about the 10~15 year target. For orbiting Mars, sure, but to actually land on Mars?
Then again, if a nation state could land on the moon in under a decade with 1960's technology, perhaps a private company could do it in under 15 with 2010's technology. I hope they do.
While I heartily support the effort, this isn't exactly news. Musk has said similar things in the past couple of years, but this time he happens to have said it to the Wall Street Journal.
IANAEE but I understand your points. I don't think we need fully "internet style" power routing at the national scale, but it seems much more feasible at a neighborhood level, assuming a range of micro-power installations by individuals. For example, there's generally a transformer hub in most neighborhoods, if some kind of storage capacity can be installed at the same level, then the various windmills and solar panels in the area can all contribute. Sending power "upstream" to other neighborhoods or regions would be nice too, but is harder to do for all the reasons you cite. I like the "smart grid" concept, but clearly it's not on the shelf just waiting for deployment. In the meantime, it's nice to see the micro-power trend gaining momentum.
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We'll find something
new to do now.
Here is lots of
new blue goo now.
New goo. Blue goo.
Gooey. Goeey.
Blue goo, New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.
Gooey goo
for chewy chewing!
That's what that
Goo-Goose is doing
Do you choose to
chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir,
choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose,
chew, sir. Do, sir.
Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.
I can't say it.
I won't chew it.
He has patents on how to file lawsuits? I guess for Microsoft that would go under the heading "business methods".
Just wondering... does "wang ba" mean "internet bar" in Chinese? Here in Taiwan they're called "wang ka (dian)" for "internet coffee (shop)".
Yeah, I'm no physicist, but even I was wondering about that whole "spherical shape" thing. Ever since high school, I've had the notion that electrons are probabilistic, with no "knowable" location or shape.
Yeah, but his staff was too long.
Aaargh! It's bad enough in the browser... now YOU can read my mind too?! Stop it!
That's the spirit! Keep trying, buddy! You can get that clasp open! She wants you to!
So that's where homeless people come from!
Damn it! You made me spill my beer.
> mammals and and insects produce the same olfactory codes even though there are differences in how the brain achieves this.
How do we "know" that the codes are the same? I don't doubt what you say, I'm just curious.
> It costs pennies to print a book.
Depends on the book I suppose, but "pennies" is an exaggeration. Even for high volume print runs, you'll be lucky to get more than a signature or two worth of pages for that price. You're right of course that the vast majority goes to ancillary costs, but a thick hardcover book will still cost a couple of bucks to produce, much more for a low-volume print job. By contrast, going digital is practically free.
Just spitballing here... triangulating between /. membership and back pain... but I suspect the root of your problem could be the amount of time you spend in front of a computer. If so, check out inversion therapy, it has made a huge difference in my life. I had a slipped disc a few years back, but with the inversion table I feel better than before.
Must'a forgot his sweat pants and Nikes.
Are you suggesting that early Hominidae were not apes?
If you mean that evolution doesn't suggest that we evolved from modern apes, then I see your point. But I think it's more accurate to say evolution suggests that we are apes.
Just for the record, I don't agree with the police on this, I'm just spitballing some ideas on protecting the user from unwanted hassles. The real "solution" is for cops to start obeying the constitution and judges to stop issuing warrants without probable cause. But since that doesn't seem likely anytime soon, better make sure you set a secure password on your router.
Devil's advocate: But wouldn't that allow two people to game the system? One acts as the patsy, the other downloads GB's of child porn off the unprotected router, and both walk away scott-free.
While I agree that the "best" solution is to put hefty blow-back on the idiots who authorize these raids, I think a more practical (ie: likely to actually happen) solution would be for router manufacturers to stop shipping products with an empty/trivial admin password... and then REQUIRE the user to set their own password as part of the setup process.
If there's a problem, and you need to allow remote access for tech-support (and if you can't remember your own password) just hit the reset button, which resets to password to a preset value, which can be looked up when you read off the serial number to tech-support over the phone. For extra credit, you could print the "reset" password on the label, right next to the serial number.
That brings up an interesting question: Is Boeing (or Lockheed, etc.) a "private" company or a pseudo-government agency, along the same lines as the Federal Reserve Bank?
I agree that SpaceX's vertical integration has allowed them to make great strides (along with the decades of NASA's basic research they have to work from), but I don't think the "entrenched" contractors will be able to stop them, especially since Obama has decided to steer NASA toward commercial launch services. Then again, politics is a finicky business... and the "entrenched" players definitely have an advantage on that ground.
Ultimately I don't think it matters. SpaceX is offering launch services at a competitive rate. That ought to be enough to keep them in the game. (Anyway, I hope so...;-)
Yes, the Dragon capsule is cool. I like their idea of combining the launch escape system with a landing system, to obviate the need for an ocean "splashdown" recovery. And they're on track to under-sell the Russians on a rocket ride to orbit within the next couple of years.
That's what gives me pause... My gut reaction is to think this is too big of a job for one company, but Musk seems genuinely intent on this goal, and seems to be marking all the early steps toward that goal. (Heavy lift? Check. Man-rated? Check...) Even so, that's just a start. They're going to have to step up their current development trend by an order of magnitude, at least, in order to reach Mars, and that's a tall order for such a short timespan.
I wish them the best of luck. And, to paraphrase Hobson, I'll be watching their progress with great anticipation and eagerness.
Yes, but not just about porn. This has been going on for decades, but porn is probably the earliest iteration of it, at least in the last century or so. Add to that alcohol, "drugs" (ie: those not patented by big-pharma)... and the latest and greatest bogey-man of all, terrorism. Nixon may have started the War On Drugs, but it was little more than an afterthought until Reagan doubled-down on that fool's errand. It was bad enough back then, but the American police-state just went into overdrive after 9/11. Brazil, here we come!
Coincidentally, I saw a video of Elon Musk on YouTube recently where he addressed this issue. (Might have been an "@Google" talk, not sure.) In the Q&A someone asked why he didn't use a "reusable" shuttle-type design, and he said that wings just don't make sense for a reentry vehicle. The shape is aerodynamically unstable under such conditions, requiring complex software to keep it steady, and this was ultimately the weakness that felled Columbia. OTOH, the teardrop shape is inherently stable (and steerable), and there's no reason it can't be reusable too.
> I'm guessing this is to fire up everyone else, like "We're ready to do the rocketry... are you ready for the rest?"
I reckon you're right about that. And there are already some others working on various pieces of the puzzle, such as Bigelow's inflatable habitat pods, which seem a good fit for NASA's Nautilus-X design. Still, its such a huge undertaking... it's hard to imagine even a consortium of "Musk-like" rich boyz pulling it off in such a short time. In any case, it's damn nice to see space news starting to get exciting again. It's been a long time.
Agreed. I was skeptical when they announced the plan to ditch Ares and go with commercial launch services, but SpaceX has been steadily chugging along in the meantime, racking up a pretty successful track record. The Falcon rocket has performed well (from what I can see, not being a rocket scientist myself), and I've read/heard that the Merlin engine is a simple, reliable design.
I must say I'm still a bit skeptical about the 10~15 year target. For orbiting Mars, sure, but to actually land on Mars?
Then again, if a nation state could land on the moon in under a decade with 1960's technology, perhaps a private company could do it in under 15 with 2010's technology. I hope they do.
While I heartily support the effort, this isn't exactly news. Musk has said similar things in the past couple of years, but this time he happens to have said it to the Wall Street Journal.
IANAEE but I understand your points. I don't think we need fully "internet style" power routing at the national scale, but it seems much more feasible at a neighborhood level, assuming a range of micro-power installations by individuals. For example, there's generally a transformer hub in most neighborhoods, if some kind of storage capacity can be installed at the same level, then the various windmills and solar panels in the area can all contribute. Sending power "upstream" to other neighborhoods or regions would be nice too, but is harder to do for all the reasons you cite. I like the "smart grid" concept, but clearly it's not on the shelf just waiting for deployment. In the meantime, it's nice to see the micro-power trend gaining momentum.
> And do what?
How about an Open Fuel Standard? That would quickly and easily decouple our transportation from imported oil.
Just one example of many things that government can do to steer our economic development in a better direction.