Brilliant: First hotfix... not really working... Second hotfix......close but still no sigar.... Third hotfix... And no answer on the most important part: Why a hotfix is required in the first place. Why did they, yet again, manage to get into a situation where Azure is FUBAR.
Back in 2014 MS decided that it no longer needed QA. All the QA people either left or moved into dev if they could. Since that time they've had one embarrassing mistake after another. Hardly a coincidence.
Courts have decided (wrongly IMO) that you can not only sell your own hosting of someone else's FOSS, you can slap your own logo on it and resell it as your own closed source solution, without even having to tell the customer what's actually under the hood.
The BSD license used to have clause requiring the end product to advertise the open-source components. It didn't catch on. With the advertising clause removed, the BSD license became popular.
Where is all the water going to come from? If you keep taking the water away from Earth you're going to have a whole host of new problems.
Asteroid mining. Earth is pretty much the hardest place to get water from in our solar system: to do worse you'd need a place like the Moon or Mars where there's effectively no surface water to take.
There are plenty of "nearby" asteroids for CHON/water, aluminum, and rock. Dragging the closest of each into high orbit or the L4/5 point is just a matter of patience and existing nuclear rocket technologies (or, if robotic mining matures quickly, a CHON asteroid is made of fuel).
With a large enough dome on Mars you can literally contain and entire city complete with plant life and water systems.
Mars, frankly, sucks. The gravity is low enough that we're not sure humans can live there long-term, and that can't be fixed. The atmospheric pressure is so low that, in terms of structure engineering and safety, you have to treat it like vacuum. There's not enough light to grow food without large reflectors to concentrate the light, which is all kinds of awkward given the above, plus the constant rain of dust. There might be water somewhere on Mars, but extracting it would be quite difficult. Rad shielding is still an issue too. You'd have better luck with deep underground caverns, but then what's the point of being on Mars?
The easiest once we can build heavy structures without having to lift them off Earth's surface would be a cloud city on Venus. All the technology needed already exists (even a lot of the specific equipment), the gravity is right, the light intensity is right, the atmospheric pressure is right, there's natural rad shielding, and you don't need a closed ecosystem. If you find that you're running low on water or some trace element, you can extract it from the atmosphere. But I'm not sure the cost would ever be low enough given the distance.
Huge rotating habitats somewhere near Earth let you have all the stuff you want. Once you're at the scale of several miles across, rotating provides the sense of gravity without making anyone dizzy (a serious issue with SF rotating spaceships), and it still within non-fantasy materials strength (especially since you'd likely be making everything structural from aluminum, though steel would work too). Build a counter-rotating pair so you can correct spin over time, and stick them in a hole in an asteroid to give all the needed rad shielding and safety from small meteor strikes. Heck, stick them in the hole you dug to get all the aluminum you used to make them.
The only "fantasy technology" needed to start building huge orbital habitats so that millions can live off-planet is "robotic mining and heavy industry". And on Slashdot we shifted from asking "is that possible" to "what will all those people do once the robots take their jobs" some years ago.
Mars is a particularly difficult place to live, and I don't see why we'd ever have a presence there larger than what we have in Antarctica - which is still a permanent presence, but not anyone's idea of a colony.
Colonizing anyplace isn't going to happen until the cost of real estate comes down the the range of the most expensive cities on Earth. That's not "now", or even a decade out, but it's not fantasy either. Once we start cranking out millions of tons of rocket fuel in orbit, the math all changes and living in places with reasonable gravity, atmospheric pressure, light intensity, and water becomes just a matter of cost. Mars has none of those, sadly, but either Venus cloud cities or orbital habitats are just a matter of getting the price of off-Earth heavy structural elements down.
Well we cannot all be as cool as you. I'm sure you are much better and more impressive public speaker than he is. [/sarcasm] What were you expecting, a real life Buckaroo Banzai?
I watch a dozen YouTube channels with better lecturers and communicators. But then, those are actual professors working in their fields. I appreciate he's trying to reach out to the lowest common denominator, but that's probably why I find him annoying as fuck.
Physics fundamentals dictate that Mars will never resemble Earth, but it's human nature that people will one day live on it in a self-sustaining manner.
We could make Mars Earthlike in all but gravity and the blissfully longer day, but I'm not sure what the point would be. (Sure, that atmosphere would be lost in a million years, but so what?)
I don't think it will ever make sense. It will just be much easier to make huge orbiting habitats for those who want to escape Earth. Starting at big enough to hold 100k-1 million people, these start to make a lot of sense. You get the gravity and atmosphere you want, without the mind-boggling time that terraforming would take.
If we can only get robotic asteroid mining started, so that heavy industry isn't at the bottom of a gravity well, everything else becomes practical. And mostly-self-directed robotic mining equipment no longer sounds like far-fetched SF. More like inevitable loss of all the mining jobs on Earth. Start making millions of tons of rocket fuel in high orbit and suddenly the Solar system is ours for the taking.
Think of him as a science teacher for adults, very science illiterate adults.
Well put. I find him annoying as fuck, because he plays such a bad cliche. But, hey, if that's what sells to the cheap seats, go for it.
If you actually want to learn science as an adult, there are a ton of free lectures online from good schools, some directed specifically at older learners. Plus there are the commercial shops you'll see advertised on your favorite science and math YouTube channels.
BTW, if you've seen the stories about Amazon pulling out all the stops to avoid Oracle: this is how serious they are. They've spent years and millions to separate Java from Oracle in internal use, so they could really be Oracle-free, with full confidence in the JVM.
Scanned? In the 70s? It was a very manual process back then, and one likely abandoned after a few years given the expense.
It's also worth noting that some bills will sit in foreign bank vaults effectively forever, never returning to to US. IIRC it's something like 10% of physical currency (which is nice, since it's effectively a free loan to the US).
One theory is that he crossed the border to Canada, and took a boat from somewhere in BC to whatever country he retired in. Of course, the real mystery for any theory that has him surviving is how the heck he planned to land safely and be recovered in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest in November. He had clearly done an amazing amount of planning, though, which opens to doors to a lot of wild theories.
I kept reading, waiting for an explanation, but not given, so googled DB Cooper (no link!?) and found out they mean "hijacking".
Please speak English, not tabloid-headline made-up words.
The important bit it: the term "skyjacking" was common at the time of DB Cooper's stunt and it was the word used to describe the incident when it happened.
All words are made-up words, of course, but this one is well understood when describing this particular case. Much like the phrase "Jack the Ripper" was the creation of journalists of the time, but it's now the most-understood way to refer to that particular serial killer. The "DB Cooper skyjacking" is a similar phrase.
The Bullet cluster could have been large dark objects though. It wasn't clear is was some kind of particle until we saw the same ration of dark matter in the early universe.
Budgets are far below the Reagan years (adjusted for inflation). And the Pax Americana has lasted 70 years now. As we slip from hyperpower back to a superpower with peers, there will inevitably be a new world war, but it probably won't be a nuclear war that takes us back to the stone age. That's something.
He was squeaky clean in the one way that mattered: the Clintons had nothing on him. The Clintons used their access through the presidency to get all the blackmail material that the intelligence agencies had on all potential rivals. Hillary should have had it easy in the 2008 primary, but Obama came out of nowhere.
If he was in someone pocket the whole time, that person was a freaking genius. But then, I doubt historians will ever discover who really has the power in America.
Bitcoins are stupid, but something similar would be fantastic if required to send an email or request, with the recipient getting it. I'd feel great about getting 1,000 spam mails per day if each was a deposit in my wallet. I'd also openly invite a ddos if each request was worth a tenth of a penny.
That could also be an interesting solution to forum spam and pop-up ads!
You're just wrong on that one. We know it's there for sure. We just don't know what it is, beyond "matter particles, not moving at c". All theories of modified gravity and large dark objects (back holes, brown dwarfs) were falsified by the CMBR data. Whatever dark matter is, it was there in the early universe, in the same proportions as today, interacting with familiar matter only by gravity.
Meh, we pay more for medica* than for defense. We pay more for SS than for defense. And we're not funding either of those program fully - the unfunded liability for those programs combined is more than double the national debt.
Defense spending is the other way: we pay now for benefits accrued years down the road.
The tax on your 401k simply is adjusted to 98%. Easy-peasy.
There would be an actual revolution. The temptation will always be there of course for the US government to loot our savings, but it's not that corrupt, yet (nor is it totalitarian enough to getaway with it, yet). If things are ever that far gone, they'll likely loot university endowments and insurance pools first, so there will be warning.
Yep the cosmology community has gotten much better at coming up with bad candidates for dark matter / dark energy.
Not to mention discovering them i the first place, which wasn't that long ago. Confirmation of dark matter as some kind of slower-than-light particle only came in 2010 with the WMAP CMBR data. For the first time ever we've had cosmology with significant digits!
There has also been a ton of work on inflation theories, but that can't go much farther without a new way of looking at the universe. Discovering how to make a neutrino observatory would be revolutionary (but likely still not interest the Nobel committee).
But people living in Chicago voted for the politicians that did this.
That's not how the Chicago political machine works, or has ever worked. Quoth Wikipedia:
Chicago has a long history of political corruption,[11] dating to the incorporation of the city in 1833.[12] It has been a de facto monolithic entity of the Democratic Party from the mid 20th century onward.[13][14] Research released by the University of Illinois at Chicago reports that Chicago and Cook County's judicial district recorded 45 public corruption convictions for 2013, and 1642 convictions since 1976, when the Department of Justice began compiling statistics. This prompted many media outlets to declare Chicago the "corruption capital of America".[15] Gradel and Simpson's Corrupt Illinois (2015) provides the data behind Chicago's corrupt political culture.[16][17] They found that a tabulation of federal public corruption convictions make Chicago "undoubtedly the most corrupt city in our nation",[18] with the cost of corruption "at least" $500 million per year.[19]
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How about instead we make Earth Earthlike and save the trip?
You do you, bro. Most people have no interest in frontiers and pioneering. Some fo, though, some do.
People still use word processors? Like, to format a document for printing on dead trees? That's still a thing?
Brilliant: First hotfix... not really working... Second hotfix......close but still no sigar.... Third hotfix...
And no answer on the most important part: Why a hotfix is required in the first place. Why did they, yet again, manage to get into a situation where Azure is FUBAR.
Back in 2014 MS decided that it no longer needed QA. All the QA people either left or moved into dev if they could. Since that time they've had one embarrassing mistake after another. Hardly a coincidence.
Courts have decided (wrongly IMO) that you can not only sell your own hosting of someone else's FOSS, you can slap your own logo on it and resell it as your own closed source solution, without even having to tell the customer what's actually under the hood.
The BSD license used to have clause requiring the end product to advertise the open-source components. It didn't catch on. With the advertising clause removed, the BSD license became popular.
Where is all the water going to come from? If you keep taking the water away from Earth you're going to have a whole host of new problems.
Asteroid mining. Earth is pretty much the hardest place to get water from in our solar system: to do worse you'd need a place like the Moon or Mars where there's effectively no surface water to take.
There are plenty of "nearby" asteroids for CHON/water, aluminum, and rock. Dragging the closest of each into high orbit or the L4/5 point is just a matter of patience and existing nuclear rocket technologies (or, if robotic mining matures quickly, a CHON asteroid is made of fuel).
With a large enough dome on Mars you can literally contain and entire city complete with plant life and water systems.
Mars, frankly, sucks. The gravity is low enough that we're not sure humans can live there long-term, and that can't be fixed. The atmospheric pressure is so low that, in terms of structure engineering and safety, you have to treat it like vacuum. There's not enough light to grow food without large reflectors to concentrate the light, which is all kinds of awkward given the above, plus the constant rain of dust. There might be water somewhere on Mars, but extracting it would be quite difficult. Rad shielding is still an issue too. You'd have better luck with deep underground caverns, but then what's the point of being on Mars?
The easiest once we can build heavy structures without having to lift them off Earth's surface would be a cloud city on Venus. All the technology needed already exists (even a lot of the specific equipment), the gravity is right, the light intensity is right, the atmospheric pressure is right, there's natural rad shielding, and you don't need a closed ecosystem. If you find that you're running low on water or some trace element, you can extract it from the atmosphere. But I'm not sure the cost would ever be low enough given the distance.
Huge rotating habitats somewhere near Earth let you have all the stuff you want. Once you're at the scale of several miles across, rotating provides the sense of gravity without making anyone dizzy (a serious issue with SF rotating spaceships), and it still within non-fantasy materials strength (especially since you'd likely be making everything structural from aluminum, though steel would work too). Build a counter-rotating pair so you can correct spin over time, and stick them in a hole in an asteroid to give all the needed rad shielding and safety from small meteor strikes. Heck, stick them in the hole you dug to get all the aluminum you used to make them.
The only "fantasy technology" needed to start building huge orbital habitats so that millions can live off-planet is "robotic mining and heavy industry". And on Slashdot we shifted from asking "is that possible" to "what will all those people do once the robots take their jobs" some years ago.
Mars is a particularly difficult place to live, and I don't see why we'd ever have a presence there larger than what we have in Antarctica - which is still a permanent presence, but not anyone's idea of a colony.
Colonizing anyplace isn't going to happen until the cost of real estate comes down the the range of the most expensive cities on Earth. That's not "now", or even a decade out, but it's not fantasy either. Once we start cranking out millions of tons of rocket fuel in orbit, the math all changes and living in places with reasonable gravity, atmospheric pressure, light intensity, and water becomes just a matter of cost. Mars has none of those, sadly, but either Venus cloud cities or orbital habitats are just a matter of getting the price of off-Earth heavy structural elements down.
Well we cannot all be as cool as you. I'm sure you are much better and more impressive public speaker than he is. [/sarcasm] What were you expecting, a real life Buckaroo Banzai?
I watch a dozen YouTube channels with better lecturers and communicators. But then, those are actual professors working in their fields. I appreciate he's trying to reach out to the lowest common denominator, but that's probably why I find him annoying as fuck.
Physics fundamentals dictate that Mars will never resemble Earth, but it's human nature that people will one day live on it in a self-sustaining manner.
We could make Mars Earthlike in all but gravity and the blissfully longer day, but I'm not sure what the point would be. (Sure, that atmosphere would be lost in a million years, but so what?)
I don't think it will ever make sense. It will just be much easier to make huge orbiting habitats for those who want to escape Earth. Starting at big enough to hold 100k-1 million people, these start to make a lot of sense. You get the gravity and atmosphere you want, without the mind-boggling time that terraforming would take.
If we can only get robotic asteroid mining started, so that heavy industry isn't at the bottom of a gravity well, everything else becomes practical. And mostly-self-directed robotic mining equipment no longer sounds like far-fetched SF. More like inevitable loss of all the mining jobs on Earth. Start making millions of tons of rocket fuel in high orbit and suddenly the Solar system is ours for the taking.
Think of him as a science teacher for adults, very science illiterate adults.
Well put. I find him annoying as fuck, because he plays such a bad cliche. But, hey, if that's what sells to the cheap seats, go for it.
If you actually want to learn science as an adult, there are a ton of free lectures online from good schools, some directed specifically at older learners. Plus there are the commercial shops you'll see advertised on your favorite science and math YouTube channels.
BTW, if you've seen the stories about Amazon pulling out all the stops to avoid Oracle: this is how serious they are. They've spent years and millions to separate Java from Oracle in internal use, so they could really be Oracle-free, with full confidence in the JVM.
Scanned? In the 70s? It was a very manual process back then, and one likely abandoned after a few years given the expense.
It's also worth noting that some bills will sit in foreign bank vaults effectively forever, never returning to to US. IIRC it's something like 10% of physical currency (which is nice, since it's effectively a free loan to the US).
One theory is that he crossed the border to Canada, and took a boat from somewhere in BC to whatever country he retired in. Of course, the real mystery for any theory that has him surviving is how the heck he planned to land safely and be recovered in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest in November. He had clearly done an amazing amount of planning, though, which opens to doors to a lot of wild theories.
I kept reading, waiting for an explanation, but not given, so googled DB Cooper (no link!?) and found out they mean "hijacking".
Please speak English, not tabloid-headline made-up words.
The important bit it: the term "skyjacking" was common at the time of DB Cooper's stunt and it was the word used to describe the incident when it happened.
All words are made-up words, of course, but this one is well understood when describing this particular case. Much like the phrase "Jack the Ripper" was the creation of journalists of the time, but it's now the most-understood way to refer to that particular serial killer. The "DB Cooper skyjacking" is a similar phrase.
Nevertheless, America give more to charity per capita than anyone else. Successful people may also enjoy charity, and the evidence is that they do.
All these billions to study space and there is not a single return for all the expense.
I find it far more interesting than the billions spent on Marvel movies.
The Bullet cluster could have been large dark objects though. It wasn't clear is was some kind of particle until we saw the same ration of dark matter in the early universe.
Budgets are far below the Reagan years (adjusted for inflation). And the Pax Americana has lasted 70 years now. As we slip from hyperpower back to a superpower with peers, there will inevitably be a new world war, but it probably won't be a nuclear war that takes us back to the stone age. That's something.
and remain so squeaky clean.
He was squeaky clean in the one way that mattered: the Clintons had nothing on him. The Clintons used their access through the presidency to get all the blackmail material that the intelligence agencies had on all potential rivals. Hillary should have had it easy in the 2008 primary, but Obama came out of nowhere.
If he was in someone pocket the whole time, that person was a freaking genius. But then, I doubt historians will ever discover who really has the power in America.
If it were hey, if it were feasible for me to git paid 5 cents each time I encountered on of those, it would make things a little better.
Simple. Paid transactions.
Bitcoins are stupid, but something similar would be fantastic if required to send an email or request, with the recipient getting it. I'd feel great about getting 1,000 spam mails per day if each was a deposit in my wallet. I'd also openly invite a ddos if each request was worth a tenth of a penny.
That could also be an interesting solution to forum spam and pop-up ads!
Not even wrong.
You're just wrong on that one. We know it's there for sure. We just don't know what it is, beyond "matter particles, not moving at c". All theories of modified gravity and large dark objects (back holes, brown dwarfs) were falsified by the CMBR data. Whatever dark matter is, it was there in the early universe, in the same proportions as today, interacting with familiar matter only by gravity.
Kind of like our current defense spending .
Meh, we pay more for medica* than for defense. We pay more for SS than for defense. And we're not funding either of those program fully - the unfunded liability for those programs combined is more than double the national debt.
Defense spending is the other way: we pay now for benefits accrued years down the road.
The tax on your 401k simply is adjusted to 98%. Easy-peasy.
There would be an actual revolution. The temptation will always be there of course for the US government to loot our savings, but it's not that corrupt, yet (nor is it totalitarian enough to getaway with it, yet). If things are ever that far gone, they'll likely loot university endowments and insurance pools first, so there will be warning.
Yep the cosmology community has gotten much better at coming up with bad candidates for dark matter / dark energy.
Not to mention discovering them i the first place, which wasn't that long ago. Confirmation of dark matter as some kind of slower-than-light particle only came in 2010 with the WMAP CMBR data. For the first time ever we've had cosmology with significant digits!
There has also been a ton of work on inflation theories, but that can't go much farther without a new way of looking at the universe. Discovering how to make a neutrino observatory would be revolutionary (but likely still not interest the Nobel committee).
But people living in Chicago voted for the politicians that did this.
That's not how the Chicago political machine works, or has ever worked. Quoth Wikipedia:
Chicago has a long history of political corruption,[11] dating to the incorporation of the city in 1833.[12] It has been a de facto monolithic entity of the Democratic Party from the mid 20th century onward.[13][14] Research released by the University of Illinois at Chicago reports that Chicago and Cook County's judicial district recorded 45 public corruption convictions for 2013, and 1642 convictions since 1976, when the Department of Justice began compiling statistics. This prompted many media outlets to declare Chicago the "corruption capital of America".[15] Gradel and Simpson's Corrupt Illinois (2015) provides the data behind Chicago's corrupt political culture.[16][17] They found that a tabulation of federal public corruption convictions make Chicago "undoubtedly the most corrupt city in our nation",[18] with the cost of corruption "at least" $500 million per year.[19]