Other fields, particle accelerators, neutrino research etc... that people hardly understand, may not gather the same amount of enthusiasm.
While I agree that people hardly understand other fields, sometimes it's not a bad thing that they're not enthusiastic.
There was plenty of enthusiasm against the LHC. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I don't recall another scientific project of that scale that faced as much public, and even government, concern in my lifetime. Some of those people sounded like they were on the verge of getting out the pitchforks and torches.
Cassini having plutonium fuel was about as close as I can recall, but even that was a blip by comparison to the LHC.
Indeed that was pretty amazing. But he ditched the aircraft. Even the citation for the award in the excerpt below from your link states as such.
The entire crew of Flight 1549 was awarded the Master's Medal of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. The award citation read, "This emergency ditching and evacuation, with the loss of no lives, is a heroic and unique aviation achievement.
A ton of research goes into Vettes that goes toward lighter materials, aerodynamics, and overall performance. Much of it ends up improving mileage and such in other cars years later. With eco mode, the current Corvette gets 29 mpg on the highway. The current Honda Accord gets 36 MPG.
Additionally, there are a very small number of Vettes sold, and a very small percentage of those see much road time as it is. And most are kept in excellent running condition. You average ecnobox is going to go through more fuel per year than most any Corvette out there.
Disclaimer, I do own a Corvette which I probably average going through less than 200 gallons of gas per year in. Which is quite a bit more than most Vette owners I know go through.
This always makes me laugh. There's no such thing as a "water landing" in a commercial airliner. It's a crash. At least that's what every commercial airline pilot I've spoken to says. But I guess that even saying the work "crash" during any announcement freaks some people out.
Actually, it doesn't. You just have to know how. All it takes is the skill to pull it off, and the cojones to laugh at the EULA/Warranty warnings.
That's exactly why I use iTunes to develop all of my WMD projects.
From the iTunes EULA:
"You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."
two roommates in Tulsa, OklahomaÂstabbed each other with broken beer bottles in a debateÂ
I wasn't on the debate team in school, but I'm pretty sure once you start using whatever is within arms reach as a weapon to physically attack your opponent, it's no longer a "debate". Or perhaps this is some new definition of the word.
I don't know. Do you happen to know what type of radioactive material is in those barrels? Once the steel and concrete are gone, don't you think ocean currents could move it around? It's 30 miles from half moon bay. What's to keep it from washing ashore at some point in the future? Look at all the crap that washed ashore from Japan after the tsunami at Fukushima.
Except it's Old English for good bye. The usage of it as slang for breasts is believed to be American (as far as I've seen) and as far as I know, dates back to 1997.
People don't just watch that show because of that. They can go to their own IT department to witness it on any given day. 20-30 years ago that show wouldn't have been green lighted, and rightly so. It would have bombed because most people would have been afraid of being caught watching it.
Clowns are creepy has hell. No one would want to hang out with them.
Most non-nerds are not going to put such images on their desktop background. For one, they risk being labelled a "nerd".
The 1980's are over. Being a nerd doesn't carry the same stigma it once did. I remember seeing a commercial for rice cakes, or something, ten or so years ago where the actor in it listed all of the things she was/trying to be. Mother, wife, blah, blah, and ended with "wanna be computer nerd"
The television show, The Big Bang Theory, is pulling in 15 to 20 million viewers per episode.
So, no, I don't think too many people are worried about it. Hell, back when I had enough free time to worry about what my background was, I always had people comment on how cool the images from Hubble looked as my background.
Regardless, my original comment was meant as a joke.
I had an Apple 2 from a couple year prior also. It was a much better computer by every point, other than maybe size/weight. Well, it did have less RAM once I added the 16K RAM pack to the Sinclair. I also had a TI 99/4A from the year before the Sinclair was released. I got the Sinclair for the novelty and because it was relatively cheap. So, no, it was not elegant even then.
âoeItâ(TM)s your fatherâ(TM)s Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This is the weapon of a computer hacker. Not as clumsy or as random as an iphone, but a more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Um, yeah. I had one of those, and elegant is not a word that was used to describe them, even when new. Being that I was alive back then, I can also assure you that it was not a more civilized age either. Crime and pollution were much worse than now. Racial prejudices were starting to die off, and sexual orientation prejudices were very prevalent.
For years, the hackers were the guardians of peace and justice in the internet. Before the dark times, before the NSA.â
I'll give you that. Hackers were pretty damn benevolent. Most cracking was meant to be more for humor or to see if you could do it, than anything harmful. But the internet was a much different place. You wouldn't recognize it. Nor could most of us afford to be on it more than 10 hours a month, connecting with our 300 baud modems. The NSA were also the "good guys" back then. They were "No Such Agency" and hadn't turned on the population they were tasked to protect.
And yes, I saw that movie you are referring to when it was in the theaters for the first time. That was when it was called "Star Wars". No Episode anything.
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Well this should make the John Birch Society happy at least. ;-)
Oh, and get your heart to beat at 500 bpm, or something. ;-)
Other fields, particle accelerators, neutrino research etc... that people hardly understand, may not gather the same amount of enthusiasm.
While I agree that people hardly understand other fields, sometimes it's not a bad thing that they're not enthusiastic.
There was plenty of enthusiasm against the LHC. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I don't recall another scientific project of that scale that faced as much public, and even government, concern in my lifetime. Some of those people sounded like they were on the verge of getting out the pitchforks and torches.
Cassini having plutonium fuel was about as close as I can recall, but even that was a blip by comparison to the LHC.
No, it was the galactic equivalent of Eternal September. They just saying "hi" to the entire galaxy.
The use of irregardless is on the rise ffs.
So is the rampant use of acronyms.
The entire crew of Flight 1549 was awarded the Master's Medal of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. The award citation read, "This emergency ditching and evacuation, with the loss of no lives, is a heroic and unique aviation achievement.
Also to sell vettes and other crap.
A ton of research goes into Vettes that goes toward lighter materials, aerodynamics, and overall performance. Much of it ends up improving mileage and such in other cars years later. With eco mode, the current Corvette gets 29 mpg on the highway. The current Honda Accord gets 36 MPG.
Additionally, there are a very small number of Vettes sold, and a very small percentage of those see much road time as it is. And most are kept in excellent running condition. You average ecnobox is going to go through more fuel per year than most any Corvette out there.
Disclaimer, I do own a Corvette which I probably average going through less than 200 gallons of gas per year in. Which is quite a bit more than most Vette owners I know go through.
This always makes me laugh. There's no such thing as a "water landing" in a commercial airliner. It's a crash. At least that's what every commercial airline pilot I've spoken to says. But I guess that even saying the work "crash" during any announcement freaks some people out.
The markets aren't there for this sort of thing, they're primarily there to fund businesses.
How exactly does high frequency trading fund businesses?
Actually, it doesn't. You just have to know how. All it takes is the skill to pull it off, and the cojones to laugh at the EULA/Warranty warnings.
That's exactly why I use iTunes to develop all of my WMD projects.
From the iTunes EULA: "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."
two roommates in Tulsa, OklahomaÂstabbed each other with broken beer bottles in a debateÂ
I wasn't on the debate team in school, but I'm pretty sure once you start using whatever is within arms reach as a weapon to physically attack your opponent, it's no longer a "debate". Or perhaps this is some new definition of the word.
I don't know. Do you happen to know what type of radioactive material is in those barrels? Once the steel and concrete are gone, don't you think ocean currents could move it around? It's 30 miles from half moon bay. What's to keep it from washing ashore at some point in the future? Look at all the crap that washed ashore from Japan after the tsunami at Fukushima.
"which were protected by thick walls of steel" Iron eating bacteria are working on that right now.
"But he is doubtful that they pose any health or environmental risk..."
To him or his generation.
Feeding Godzilla is always foolish
FTFY.
Except it's Old English for good bye. The usage of it as slang for breasts is believed to be American (as far as I've seen) and as far as I know, dates back to 1997.
Seriously, Tata?!?!? WHO PICKED THAT?!
Seriously, who picked Ta Ta's as a slang term for boobs? Tata industries was founded by Jamshedji Tata in 1868.
People don't just watch that show because of that. They can go to their own IT department to witness it on any given day. 20-30 years ago that show wouldn't have been green lighted, and rightly so. It would have bombed because most people would have been afraid of being caught watching it.
Clowns are creepy has hell. No one would want to hang out with them.
I wonder what kind of warning will it give if a cat jumps into the drivers seat?
Most non-nerds are not going to put such images on their desktop background. For one, they risk being labelled a "nerd".
The 1980's are over. Being a nerd doesn't carry the same stigma it once did. I remember seeing a commercial for rice cakes, or something, ten or so years ago where the actor in it listed all of the things she was/trying to be. Mother, wife, blah, blah, and ended with "wanna be computer nerd"
The television show, The Big Bang Theory, is pulling in 15 to 20 million viewers per episode.
So, no, I don't think too many people are worried about it. Hell, back when I had enough free time to worry about what my background was, I always had people comment on how cool the images from Hubble looked as my background.
Regardless, my original comment was meant as a joke.
Except this is /. The average person does not come here. That's why I stated "our" desktops and not "everyone's" desktop.
Exactly. Windows 8.
More like Longhorn/Vista.
What use does the average person have forÂanyÂphoto of outer space objects?
Are you joking? NASA probably creates more desktop background images for our computers than any other single entity. ;)
I had an Apple 2 from a couple year prior also. It was a much better computer by every point, other than maybe size/weight. Well, it did have less RAM once I added the 16K RAM pack to the Sinclair. I also had a TI 99/4A from the year before the Sinclair was released. I got the Sinclair for the novelty and because it was relatively cheap. So, no, it was not elegant even then.
âoeItâ(TM)s your fatherâ(TM)s Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This is the weapon of a computer hacker. Not as clumsy or as random as an iphone, but a more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Um, yeah. I had one of those, and elegant is not a word that was used to describe them, even when new. Being that I was alive back then, I can also assure you that it was not a more civilized age either. Crime and pollution were much worse than now. Racial prejudices were starting to die off, and sexual orientation prejudices were very prevalent.
For years, the hackers were the guardians of peace and justice in the internet. Before the dark times, before the NSA.â
I'll give you that. Hackers were pretty damn benevolent. Most cracking was meant to be more for humor or to see if you could do it, than anything harmful. But the internet was a much different place. You wouldn't recognize it. Nor could most of us afford to be on it more than 10 hours a month, connecting with our 300 baud modems. The NSA were also the "good guys" back then. They were "No Such Agency" and hadn't turned on the population they were tasked to protect.
And yes, I saw that movie you are referring to when it was in the theaters for the first time. That was when it was called "Star Wars". No Episode anything.
640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Congratulations, I think you found an instance where that is true.