You're falling prey to the George Lucas effect. Sure, we could have made a better looking design, as long as we don't mind sacrificing cost and safety. And extraterrestrial landings become far easier with less mass and less complexity, not more.
What part of unproven is in melting ice to get water? Then purifying it, just to be safe?
What part is unproven in turning water into oxygen and hydrogen? You know, water is H20
What part is unproven in separating different types of gases from each other?
Nothing! I believe we have already not only invented fire, but also carbon filtration. We have been turning H20 into 2xH and O for a reaally long time now, and we have definitively been separating gasses from each other, you know, you can just go and buy Co2, H, NOx and other gasses today, no problem almost anywhere in the modern world.
Sure those pieces are easy enough on Earth. The single rover is supposed to load 60 kilos of soil into the Life Support Unit at a time, and it is supposed to produce 3 liters of water and 1/4 kg of oxygen per day. Being able to do that consistently for years is what I see as the main thing that needs to be proven. Note that NASA says a single human needs 3.5 times that amount daily, so I guess they will have to import a lot of oxygen.
Also, purifying the water will also require reverse osmosis, because carbon filters do not remove much in the way of perchlorate (which NASA believes is common in Mars soil) or other inorganic compounds. And the contaminants in a pile of Martian soil will be made up almost entirely by such things. I'm simply assuming the power requirements for all of these things is not an issue, but that's still an area of concern since they're relying entirely on solar power. Hopefully they don't get any extended dust storms, and hopefully the rover can be operated manually in case of failure, since there is only one.
Two of those missions are the Life Support Units, which are supposed to arrive in 2021, that are supposed to extract water and useful gases from the soil and atmosphere. That's entirely new and unproven technology, and they've only got one year between landing the life support units and sending the astronauts. That's just begging for trouble. Realistically they have to understand the actual production capability and the lifespan first (on top of making certain they actually work correctly in the first place!), so they can plan properly for margin and schedule replacement units.
One of the main arguments they make is that Mars One only uses existing technology, but we've never tried to extract and use resources from other planetary bodies before.
If I recall correctly, newer versions of Flash player no longer put stuff in/tmp and you have to dig through/proc instead. But I agree with one of your responses above that you should probably just make it output AAC since that's usually the format it's in (it goes way faster that way, too).
Revenge isn't rational. When I was first laid off, I stole the department's best set of pliars. Not because they were worth much, but because they were really nice pliars and I just felt really annoyed. Me and a coworker were exactly equal in qualifications, skill and productivity, so it was fairly clear that the decision over who to fire came down to him being the one willing to go down the pub with the boss and play the occasional game of football.
And there's the problem with this survey: you ask a bunch of people with reasonably good-paying jobs if they'd take some revenge if they got fired, in this economy, when most of them don't deserve it? But it should come as no surprise when the survey was conducted by Cyber-Ark, who sells three products:
Got a time machine then? I mean, I'm no YECer myself believing more in Theistic Evolution (evolution as God's engineering methodology, as opposed to Intelligent Design, I'm a software designer myself and I know very little intelligence goes into anybody's design), but even I have to admit that absent a written historical record from 11,000 years ago, I can't actively disprove YEC. I'm pretty sure we have good evidence that is far older than that; BUT absent a time machine, I can't rule out that evidence being created as is 10,000 years ago.
By the same token, there are many other religions in the world whose ideas directly conflict with yours (and have precisely the same amount of evidence: an old book purported to be nonfiction and a group of people that have practiced that religion for a long time), so you can't rule them out either. So what made you choose this particular belief? Clearly you already do some mental gymnastics to sidestep at least some of the obvious physical impossibilities (shoehorning the overwhelmingly probable concept of evolution into a belief system that traditionally includes nothing like it), so why bother holding to the rest?
Personally, I considered myself a Christian some time ago, but I started over when I realized how many modifications I was making to make it work scientifically, along with the realization that, had I been born to one of the other 67% of people in the world who have different beliefs, I also would have started out believing something different.
Also, I think explanations like god-guided evolution are evidence of the phenomenon that was posted earlier this week on Slashdot: scientific literacy doesn't help people approach the world more scientifically, it just makes them try to use that knowledge to justify (or fit that knowledge into) their existing world view.
Think about this:
Mt. Everest is roughly 5.5 miles high. These "high surface features" are a little short of 2x that height and the satellites will fly roughly one Mt. Everest over that (equivalent to the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner).
Now imagine that you will have the good fortune of standing on that surface feature watching it fly by at roughly 36,000 km/h or roughly 50x faster than a commercial airliner.
Don't forget it's the size of a washing machine. So I can definitely imagine seeing, at most, a speck of light for a brief moment if the angles between me, the spacecraft, and the sun are just right, assuming I'm looking in exactly the right direction. That would be awesome!
Well the term "God-fearing" does mean "deeply religious." One of my friends occasionally posts atheist stuff on Facebook, and typically one of his relatives will chime in with a warning that he will be judged someday. That's at least part of the fear: fear that they will be deemed unworthy and sent to Hell if they don't follow what their religion claims is morally right. The other part is just the higher level fear of the unknown, which is what really spawned religion in the first place.
I like the argument that religion is the original form of gamification. But instead of points and badges, we earn the privilege of not being tortured for all eternity.
The nice thing about the whole situation is that the men who are unable to control their porn and video game addiction won't breed as much, and future generations are less likely to have those traits (through environmental influence if not genetic). Well, either that, or women start to feed our addictions. Natural selection kicks ass.
I'm in the same position in a small business (so we're no longer a start-up after 10+ years), and after trying the "free" software route for a while I went back to all MS. 90% of the people you hire come "pre-trained" in your typical Office applications, and the savings in training cost (my time and their time) easily pays for the licenses.
It probably depends on a lot of factors like location and the product/service, but I would think in today's job market you could just hire people who are more familiar with non-Microsoft products to avoid the training issue completely. Unfortunately the submitter already works with several other people so it might already be too late for that.
Many prostitutes are actually slaves and their lives are broken beyond their will. Comments like the one I respond to represent how the people whose wives, sisters or daughters would never be taken in this illegal-but-true slavery (thanks God!), yet these people (yes, I know you're not among them) are 'ok' with supporting the business possibly built on slavery. When one buys something, it doesn't mean it wasn't stolen. Think twice and stop promoting this, even in a joke.
I read this comment a couple times, but I don't quite understand your English. Are you saying other countries' prostitutes are better? What about cleanliness? The latter is, after all, what the song is about.
I used to prefer the various *GPL licenses until I read the OGRE development team's post about switching from LGPL (plus a commercial license option) to MIT for version 1.7. The key paragraph for me was this:
While not requiring modified source to be released might initially seem like giving up an important motivator to contribute code back to the community, we’ve noticed something in recent years: 99% of useful code contributions come from people who are motivated to participate in the project regardless of what the license tells them they have to do. It’s our experience that a certain percentage of the user community will always participate and contribute back, and therefore encouraging adoption via simpler licensing is likely to result in more contributions overall than coersion via complex and restrictive licensing does. In addition, people who are internally motivated to participate tend to provide much higher quality and more usable contributions than those who only do it because they are forced to.
Which is to say that they're using a video player even worse than JWPlayer in terms of performance and stability (seeking leads to the infinite spinning disc, the video catching up to the buffering leads to a complete halt, and the video plays back with drops and hangs (literally, I couldn't interact with the thing for 20 seconds just now).
You think that's bad; I can't even get to the video. The advertisement plays perfectly, though. I should know, I refreshed three times trying to get past the infinite spinning disc when it's trying to load the video.
Note that it's not just more light that will hit the asteroid, but also a sparse cloud of ions with measurable mass. But still, the effect will not be sustained enough to cause a major disturbance, or even be distinguishable from measurement noise.
TOKYO, Japan -- Sony released their heavily anticipated and much hyped Playstation 4 Entertainment System today, but the games are nowhere to be found. Developers agree the hardware specs are extremely impressive, but nobody knows how to actually make games for it. Thankfully, the latest member of this venerable line of consoles is backwards compatible with the games of all previous generations.
"I think we got it perfect this time," says Sony chairman Kaz Hirai, "we expect our internal studios won't figure out how to make games for at least another few months. Third party developers should take even longer. We figure the PS4 should be hitting its stride right when the PS5 hits the market several years down the road."
How difficult will it be to develop games for that one? When asked the question, Hirai rubs his hands together, a gleeful smile spreading across his face.
I'm not sure tectonic plate activity really moves a planet over from the 'dead' category to the 'mostly dead' category (also known as 'slightly alive'). Unless of course you just found Thor hanging out there running around banging mountains flat or something.
Perhaps you meant to say "Moon not as geologically stable as we thought." ?
I don't know, can we still try a miracle asteroid with chocolate frosting (to make it go down easier)?
Keep this in mind for the post-zombie apocalypse cannibalism era, old muscular ex-military weightlifter dude like me is almost the definition of not good eats.
Ha! I can beat that, I have hardly any muscle at all! Go get 'im, cannibals!
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A large but trivial example...
How about a small but perfect example: running more than one program at once.
I'm not sure where this idea that multiple cores isn't useful came from, but it's dead wrong. Many individual programs might not be written to take advantage of parallel processing, but the OS will quite handily dispatch different programs to different cores.
Wikipedia talks about this a bit, but the lunar interpretation means Enoch was 5 when he had Methuselah. More "realistic" ages are achieved if you just assume the ages were multiplied by ten.
Funny bit is, back in the days I went to church, there were nutjob answers to everything, and as a kid, that shit was presented as if it made a damn bit of sense (it was grownups telling me, so it HAD to be truth by definition).
Shit man, that's what most of the posters in the thread above you are doing, and they're getting modded up for it. I hope you're right and I'm just missing the underlying tone, or I guess it might be interesting if you're studying mythology or something. Either way I just wasted several minutes of my life staring at the Reply block trying to think of a way to respond to that utter nonsense without too many expletives.
By the way, if you like the Internet, and would like to see it not become cable television, you really need to drop $10 or a double-sawbuck on them. They use every nickel they get to do good work, and I promise it will make you feel really good.
Optionally, wait for the next Humble Bundle (should only be a couple months at most, at the rate they're going), and get some games out of the deal. Instead of the tax deduction, that is. They always get a solid chunk of my purchases.
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Probably lying upon piles and piles of money.
You're falling prey to the George Lucas effect. Sure, we could have made a better looking design, as long as we don't mind sacrificing cost and safety. And extraterrestrial landings become far easier with less mass and less complexity, not more.
Ok let's see.
What part of unproven is in melting ice to get water? Then purifying it, just to be safe? What part is unproven in turning water into oxygen and hydrogen? You know, water is H20 What part is unproven in separating different types of gases from each other?
Nothing! I believe we have already not only invented fire, but also carbon filtration. We have been turning H20 into 2xH and O for a reaally long time now, and we have definitively been separating gasses from each other, you know, you can just go and buy Co2, H, NOx and other gasses today, no problem almost anywhere in the modern world.
Sure those pieces are easy enough on Earth. The single rover is supposed to load 60 kilos of soil into the Life Support Unit at a time, and it is supposed to produce 3 liters of water and 1/4 kg of oxygen per day. Being able to do that consistently for years is what I see as the main thing that needs to be proven. Note that NASA says a single human needs 3.5 times that amount daily, so I guess they will have to import a lot of oxygen.
Also, purifying the water will also require reverse osmosis, because carbon filters do not remove much in the way of perchlorate (which NASA believes is common in Mars soil) or other inorganic compounds. And the contaminants in a pile of Martian soil will be made up almost entirely by such things. I'm simply assuming the power requirements for all of these things is not an issue, but that's still an area of concern since they're relying entirely on solar power. Hopefully they don't get any extended dust storms, and hopefully the rover can be operated manually in case of failure, since there is only one.
Two of those missions are the Life Support Units, which are supposed to arrive in 2021, that are supposed to extract water and useful gases from the soil and atmosphere. That's entirely new and unproven technology, and they've only got one year between landing the life support units and sending the astronauts. That's just begging for trouble. Realistically they have to understand the actual production capability and the lifespan first (on top of making certain they actually work correctly in the first place!), so they can plan properly for margin and schedule replacement units.
One of the main arguments they make is that Mars One only uses existing technology, but we've never tried to extract and use resources from other planetary bodies before.
Linux: /tmp
$ cd
$ ffmpeg -i FlashFoO bar.mp3
Done...
If I recall correctly, newer versions of Flash player no longer put stuff in /tmp and you have to dig through /proc instead. But I agree with one of your responses above that you should probably just make it output AAC since that's usually the format it's in (it goes way faster that way, too).
Revenge isn't rational. When I was first laid off, I stole the department's best set of pliars. Not because they were worth much, but because they were really nice pliars and I just felt really annoyed. Me and a coworker were exactly equal in qualifications, skill and productivity, so it was fairly clear that the decision over who to fire came down to him being the one willing to go down the pub with the boss and play the occasional game of football.
And there's the problem with this survey: you ask a bunch of people with reasonably good-paying jobs if they'd take some revenge if they got fired, in this economy, when most of them don't deserve it? But it should come as no surprise when the survey was conducted by Cyber-Ark, who sells three products:
Got a time machine then? I mean, I'm no YECer myself believing more in Theistic Evolution (evolution as God's engineering methodology, as opposed to Intelligent Design, I'm a software designer myself and I know very little intelligence goes into anybody's design), but even I have to admit that absent a written historical record from 11,000 years ago, I can't actively disprove YEC. I'm pretty sure we have good evidence that is far older than that; BUT absent a time machine, I can't rule out that evidence being created as is 10,000 years ago.
By the same token, there are many other religions in the world whose ideas directly conflict with yours (and have precisely the same amount of evidence: an old book purported to be nonfiction and a group of people that have practiced that religion for a long time), so you can't rule them out either. So what made you choose this particular belief? Clearly you already do some mental gymnastics to sidestep at least some of the obvious physical impossibilities (shoehorning the overwhelmingly probable concept of evolution into a belief system that traditionally includes nothing like it), so why bother holding to the rest?
Personally, I considered myself a Christian some time ago, but I started over when I realized how many modifications I was making to make it work scientifically, along with the realization that, had I been born to one of the other 67% of people in the world who have different beliefs, I also would have started out believing something different.
Also, I think explanations like god-guided evolution are evidence of the phenomenon that was posted earlier this week on Slashdot: scientific literacy doesn't help people approach the world more scientifically, it just makes them try to use that knowledge to justify (or fit that knowledge into) their existing world view.
Apparently Notch agrees. He is listed as the second highest contributor.
He's pretty much always the highest single contributor. The other "guy" is a group of people who pool their money solely to be the highest one.
Think about this: Mt. Everest is roughly 5.5 miles high. These "high surface features" are a little short of 2x that height and the satellites will fly roughly one Mt. Everest over that (equivalent to the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner). Now imagine that you will have the good fortune of standing on that surface feature watching it fly by at roughly 36,000 km/h or roughly 50x faster than a commercial airliner.
Don't forget it's the size of a washing machine. So I can definitely imagine seeing, at most, a speck of light for a brief moment if the angles between me, the spacecraft, and the sun are just right, assuming I'm looking in exactly the right direction. That would be awesome!
No, we all know the moon is not made of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbeque spare ribs, would you eat it then?
Well the term "God-fearing" does mean "deeply religious." One of my friends occasionally posts atheist stuff on Facebook, and typically one of his relatives will chime in with a warning that he will be judged someday. That's at least part of the fear: fear that they will be deemed unworthy and sent to Hell if they don't follow what their religion claims is morally right. The other part is just the higher level fear of the unknown, which is what really spawned religion in the first place.
I like the argument that religion is the original form of gamification. But instead of points and badges, we earn the privilege of not being tortured for all eternity.
The nice thing about the whole situation is that the men who are unable to control their porn and video game addiction won't breed as much, and future generations are less likely to have those traits (through environmental influence if not genetic). Well, either that, or women start to feed our addictions. Natural selection kicks ass.
I'm in the same position in a small business (so we're no longer a start-up after 10+ years), and after trying the "free" software route for a while I went back to all MS. 90% of the people you hire come "pre-trained" in your typical Office applications, and the savings in training cost (my time and their time) easily pays for the licenses.
It probably depends on a lot of factors like location and the product/service, but I would think in today's job market you could just hire people who are more familiar with non-Microsoft products to avoid the training issue completely. Unfortunately the submitter already works with several other people so it might already be too late for that.
I see your schwartz is as big as mine.
Many prostitutes are actually slaves and their lives are broken beyond their will. Comments like the one I respond to represent how the people whose wives, sisters or daughters would never be taken in this illegal-but-true slavery (thanks God!), yet these people (yes, I know you're not among them) are 'ok' with supporting the business possibly built on slavery. When one buys something, it doesn't mean it wasn't stolen. Think twice and stop promoting this, even in a joke.
I read this comment a couple times, but I don't quite understand your English. Are you saying other countries' prostitutes are better? What about cleanliness? The latter is, after all, what the song is about.
While not requiring modified source to be released might initially seem like giving up an important motivator to contribute code back to the community, we’ve noticed something in recent years: 99% of useful code contributions come from people who are motivated to participate in the project regardless of what the license tells them they have to do. It’s our experience that a certain percentage of the user community will always participate and contribute back, and therefore encouraging adoption via simpler licensing is likely to result in more contributions overall than coersion via complex and restrictive licensing does. In addition, people who are internally motivated to participate tend to provide much higher quality and more usable contributions than those who only do it because they are forced to.
No, they're 'rethinking video with Ooyala'.
Which is to say that they're using a video player even worse than JWPlayer in terms of performance and stability (seeking leads to the infinite spinning disc, the video catching up to the buffering leads to a complete halt, and the video plays back with drops and hangs (literally, I couldn't interact with the thing for 20 seconds just now).
You think that's bad; I can't even get to the video. The advertisement plays perfectly, though. I should know, I refreshed three times trying to get past the infinite spinning disc when it's trying to load the video.
Note that it's not just more light that will hit the asteroid, but also a sparse cloud of ions with measurable mass. But still, the effect will not be sustained enough to cause a major disturbance, or even be distinguishable from measurement noise.
TOKYO, Japan -- Sony released their heavily anticipated and much hyped Playstation 4 Entertainment System today, but the games are nowhere to be found. Developers agree the hardware specs are extremely impressive, but nobody knows how to actually make games for it. Thankfully, the latest member of this venerable line of consoles is backwards compatible with the games of all previous generations.
"I think we got it perfect this time," says Sony chairman Kaz Hirai, "we expect our internal studios won't figure out how to make games for at least another few months. Third party developers should take even longer. We figure the PS4 should be hitting its stride right when the PS5 hits the market several years down the road."
How difficult will it be to develop games for that one? When asked the question, Hirai rubs his hands together, a gleeful smile spreading across his face.
"Impossible."
I'm not sure tectonic plate activity really moves a planet over from the 'dead' category to the 'mostly dead' category (also known as 'slightly alive'). Unless of course you just found Thor hanging out there running around banging mountains flat or something.
Perhaps you meant to say "Moon not as geologically stable as we thought." ?
I don't know, can we still try a miracle asteroid with chocolate frosting (to make it go down easier)?
Keep this in mind for the post-zombie apocalypse cannibalism era, old muscular ex-military weightlifter dude like me is almost the definition of not good eats.
Ha! I can beat that, I have hardly any muscle at all! Go get 'im, cannibals!
A large but trivial example...
How about a small but perfect example: running more than one program at once.
I'm not sure where this idea that multiple cores isn't useful came from, but it's dead wrong. Many individual programs might not be written to take advantage of parallel processing, but the OS will quite handily dispatch different programs to different cores.
Wikipedia talks about this a bit, but the lunar interpretation means Enoch was 5 when he had Methuselah. More "realistic" ages are achieved if you just assume the ages were multiplied by ten.
Funny bit is, back in the days I went to church, there were nutjob answers to everything, and as a kid, that shit was presented as if it made a damn bit of sense (it was grownups telling me, so it HAD to be truth by definition).
Shit man, that's what most of the posters in the thread above you are doing, and they're getting modded up for it. I hope you're right and I'm just missing the underlying tone, or I guess it might be interesting if you're studying mythology or something. Either way I just wasted several minutes of my life staring at the Reply block trying to think of a way to respond to that utter nonsense without too many expletives.
By the way, if you like the Internet, and would like to see it not become cable television, you really need to drop $10 or a double-sawbuck on them. They use every nickel they get to do good work, and I promise it will make you feel really good.
Optionally, wait for the next Humble Bundle (should only be a couple months at most, at the rate they're going), and get some games out of the deal. Instead of the tax deduction, that is. They always get a solid chunk of my purchases.