ahh... it appears you have misread the dotbomb businesss manual. There is no profit in the list. number 5 should have read 'spend money on office perks and dog walks until the venture capitol runs out, then move on to next venture'
A while back there was some stories on solid state drives in a variety of sizes. Considering how cheap memory is these days I wonder why they are not becoming mainstream. Did the poof off into the land of vaporware?
is why this made the front page as a repost but the story about the space shuttles being grounded didn't... between the two stories I'd say that the shuttle fleet being grounded is much higher in importance and pertinence.
I wonder; if less dense/less metals present how would that effect a planets chances at developing life in the first place. It would seem that less density and less metals would result in a stripped off atmosphere due to proportionately lower power magnetoshpere. There has to be some correlation there in how all of those affect each other.
just thinking out loud. anyone who could explain this please do
I've been a fan of research in the field of gerontology for some time. The estimated upper limit is 120-130 years. Good information can be found at walford.com. The site is run by Roy and Lisa Walford, who are scientists and nutritionists in the field. They are pushing the envelope through a technique called CRaN(Caloric restriction and Nutrient supplmentation). The lab research at various universities has been very promising so far.
What I have really found interesting about the research has been that in lab animals who live to almost double thier lifespans on a CR diet (versus the adlib control groups who die half way through the experiments) is that they are functionally 'younger' at their advanced ages than their control counterparts at the same ages. This would be like 'feeling' like your in your 50's or 60's and actually being a centenarian. That is encouraging information because what good is it to be 120 if you have the quality of life of someone who lived 120 very hard and tiring years?
There are a few out there who belive that the envelope could be pushed to 400 years. I don't want to get your hopes up on those people because the bulk of their ideas have been rejected in the gerontology field.
The actual practice of CR is very difficult(trust me on this, my wife and I have been trying to get it down for two years and still find it to be a tremendous amount of work..). Not for the average person. Check out their stuff.
A long time ago, I got a job right out of high school making $14.75 hr to start doing CAD work. It was the 'new' thing in the design and engineering industry. Then all of these 'schools'(boy am I using that term loosely) opened up and mass produced CAD users. The pay scale fell out of the industry from what I was making to $7.50 an hr and it stayed that way for a few years. At that price per hour I decided that cleaning pools(at $9.00/hr) and bouncing people out of night clubs(at $50-200 per shift) was a much better paying series of jobs.
Over time many firms realized that a good draftsman who understands what they draw is a quantum leap forward of people who can 'do' CAD(like a real expensive etch a sketch). I eventually went back to the world of architecture and the pay scale had moved back into the high teens/low twenty dollar per hour range for people with my background.
So, I can't say this surprises me to see this happen in IT. This won't be the last time the industry sees this happen, especially when everyone and his brother is rushing out to become an MCSE because they are (if you belive the radio ads) 'in demand and paying more than $60,000 a year to start.'
Good luck to the folks in that sector. You all are going to need it.
ok, you've got a point in that statement. However, I think that if a movie like Apollo 13 is made that maybe the movie industry should consider kicking back a few bucks to NASA for it or come up with some pr related scheme to enhance NASA's budget somehow. I think it would be great for NASA to make their own movies but the amount of paperwork it would take for them to do it would far outweigh any profit they could make. Not only that but I'd rather see them focus on space stuff not movie making, unless you are one of those who subscribes to the whole 'Moon landings were a fraud and filmed at NASA' conspiracy.
Let a third party do it and let them profit while kicking some back to NASA. If enough were done that way voluntarily then we could see NASA flourish once again.
I agree. I always thought it would be cool to set up something like movie theaters charging a buck extra and kicking it out to NASA when showing a flick like Apollo 13, Star Wars, ET... I would do that, heck a few bucks that way would make for more scifi/sci history flicks at the box office. $0.25 would be cool on the rentals of this genre too.
Only problem with this kind of thing is that once it gets started we'll be seeing a condom tax for sex flicks, needy kids tax for disney flicks, church reparations for demonic flicks, stoner tax on jay and silent bob flicks for drug rehab programs... where do you draw the line?
I am glad they are doing this for a multitude of reasons. Besides the role reversal that's going on.
When we had competition there was a space race. To the moon at that time. These days China is catching up with thier space program and plans for a Chinese Mars mission is not beyond their vision. The Russians are surpassing the space tourist milestone and everyone should be happy. This will open up a lot of other doors to the future.
And where have we 'evolved' our program to? Oh yeah, if your not perfect in every conceivable way or make the mistake of criticizing NASA you will never get to be a US space tourist. That is of course IF we ever take a step in that direction with our program or allow US businesses to compete for space.
Anyway... glad to see the Russians are doing this. It will make them the first commercially successful manned space program and really put our noses to the grindstone for a bit. A little humility lesson as the result of competition in an open market goes a very long way.
You point out a classic flaw in our system of doing things. We should be spending our monies wisely not popularly. I don't know how to convince the voters. I don't claim to but I would love to see the look on some of their faces when they realize they could have ferried 75 to 100 people into space on soviet rockets for the price of one shuttle launch.
It doesn't HAVE to be; Shuttle launches are about $500+ million not including upgrades and other mission costs. Soviet launches (rocket and Soyuz capsule) about $15-20 million.
Ok, so they are not the same as far as crew count and payload. Considering how obscelenely expensive shuttle launches are I think we need to step away from the shuttles for a bit and look at the big picture. If we can't get launch costs down to small percentages of what they are we are screwed. The 25:1 ratio (say 20million per soviet rocket) we could buy launches from them; lots of them and get far better usage out of our $. The reusable launch capabilities of the shuttle aren't saving us any money. In the time the shuttle has been flying we haven't come up with any alternatives for manned launches.
I don't like nukes and I don't like blowing them up on our little planet. They present long term after effects that are scary.
That said, I really don't want to have other countries have weapons capabilities that we don't. We can't give up that nuclear wildcard and we can't be afraid to use them if the need arises.
What it grandma turns out to be hip to porn?
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Just a thought; spam, fax spam and the like wouldn't be so prevalent if nobody ever responded to them.
I don't know who is. Maybe someone's Grandma really is buying all this viagra, drug alternatives, long distance, cellular services, satellite dishes, descramblers, life insurance, gambling, banned porn and getting killer toner deals with free vacation giveaways while making $1500-20,000 a week from home on their free stock tips.
You can find out about OSDN's ad pricing by following the "advertising" link in the left navigation bar. Rates for the current banner type (468x60) start at $40 per 1,000 views.
How about this for a tiered membership option. Make it easy enough to buy a 'banner' membership. Say you pay a premium like $50 for the year and slashdot randomly inserts you banner 1,000 times over the course of the year for your membership.
It'd be easy enough to do and you could highlight user sponsored banners( a gold border when they display), maybe then the site users would even make the click through to support this idea.
Ok, admittedly I speak three languages; English, Hungarian and Spanish (the Cuban flavor of it... and yes there is a big difference). So the monolinguist concept does not apply to me. I was born into a family where Hungarian was the primary language and I only spoke Hungarian until about 4. By the age of 5 I was completely bilingual (added English) and by 10 lost most of the Hungarian. At 28 Istarted to relearn my mother tongue and it was a very hard process. Spanish I picked up in jr high and high school but didn't use(and had to learn a different version than what I was taught in school) until I moved to Miami.
Hold on a sec, I am not here to present my life story just a thought; In all the years learning and unlearning languages I picked up a few others and this may shatter several of your impressions about yourselves being monolinguistic English only speakers;
If you are a coder you probably alrteady 'speak', 'read' and 'write' syntactically correctly in several 'foreign' languages like perl, C, VB, LISP, etc. I wonder how this would have affected the research. Any ideas from real linguistics folks out there???
I hate stories like this. The title would lead you to belive that http:// is on its way to being dead. While that may or may not be true in regards to hhtp the same could be said for anything and everything(face it we are all a little closer to the day WE are going to die with every tick of the clock).
What I want to know is this; what is going to replace http? The article really doesn't say other than alluding to p2p as the way of the future.
Now, I may agree that p2p will be way cool as its uses are just barely beginning to be explored but I don't think we will see http disappear any time soon. I wouldn't be surprised if five years from now things are essentially the same as they are now in this respect and http is still a staple of many things web related.
And this;
"We have to do something to make it (HTTP) less important," said Box. "If we rely on HTTP we will melt the Internet. We at least have to raise the level of abstraction, so that we have an industry-wide way to do long-running requests--I need a way to send a request to a server and not the get result for five days."
Why? If you make a request and it takes you that long to respond... your clients will search for a different source for the data. How many customers do websites lose for loading slow in the first place? You might as well use snailmail for that kind of stuff.
So... mod me down if you must but somebody please explain what Box is talking about here.
Actually, if I remember correct the crew could be shielded in a container of water about 18" thick on all sides. The configuration could be that the water would be stored in the outer hull of the living quarters and create a safe zone. Considering how much water they would want to take anyway this doesn't sound like a bad idea with the exception that water is fairly heavy to get up into orbit.
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The wife probably wouldn't approve, but I'm not sure that would be enough to stop me...
hehe... I was thinking that too!
ahh... it appears you have misread the dotbomb businesss manual. There is no profit in the list. number 5 should have read 'spend money on office perks and dog walks until the venture capitol runs out, then move on to next venture'
Hope that helps clear things up for you:)
A while back there was some stories on solid state drives in a variety of sizes. Considering how cheap memory is these days I wonder why they are not becoming mainstream. Did the poof off into the land of vaporware?
is why this made the front page as a repost but the story about the space shuttles being grounded didn't... between the two stories I'd say that the shuttle fleet being grounded is much higher in importance and pertinence.
..and still nobody has written up the spidergoat story...
...lower density implies less metal available
I wonder; if less dense/less metals present how would that effect a planets chances at developing life in the first place. It would seem that less density and less metals would result in a stripped off atmosphere due to proportionately lower power magnetoshpere. There has to be some correlation there in how all of those affect each other.
just thinking out loud. anyone who could explain this please do
This is a great hack. Keep track of your friends on campus, sneak up on them for a little mischief, etc.
;)
I wonder how many are going to bust each other for fibbing about their location
Wasn't it idsoftware who had the ads with the gaming machine in the basement and toilet as the seat?
I've been a fan of research in the field of gerontology for some time. The estimated upper limit is 120-130 years. Good information can be found at walford.com. The site is run by Roy and Lisa Walford, who are scientists and nutritionists in the field. They are pushing the envelope through a technique called CRaN(Caloric restriction and Nutrient supplmentation). The lab research at various universities has been very promising so far.
What I have really found interesting about the research has been that in lab animals who live to almost double thier lifespans on a CR diet (versus the adlib control groups who die half way through the experiments) is that they are functionally 'younger' at their advanced ages than their control counterparts at the same ages. This would be like 'feeling' like your in your 50's or 60's and actually being a centenarian. That is encouraging information because what good is it to be 120 if you have the quality of life of someone who lived 120 very hard and tiring years?
There are a few out there who belive that the envelope could be pushed to 400 years. I don't want to get your hopes up on those people because the bulk of their ideas have been rejected in the gerontology field.
The actual practice of CR is very difficult(trust me on this, my wife and I have been trying to get it down for two years and still find it to be a tremendous amount of work..). Not for the average person. Check out their stuff.
hrm... If I recall correctly the Viking lander had a soil sample explode when water was added to it.
Anyone with info on the validity of this?
A long time ago, I got a job right out of high school making $14.75 hr to start doing CAD work. It was the 'new' thing in the design and engineering industry. Then all of these 'schools'(boy am I using that term loosely) opened up and mass produced CAD users. The pay scale fell out of the industry from what I was making to $7.50 an hr and it stayed that way for a few years. At that price per hour I decided that cleaning pools(at $9.00/hr) and bouncing people out of night clubs(at $50-200 per shift) was a much better paying series of jobs.
Over time many firms realized that a good draftsman who understands what they draw is a quantum leap forward of people who can 'do' CAD(like a real expensive etch a sketch). I eventually went back to the world of architecture and the pay scale had moved back into the high teens/low twenty dollar per hour range for people with my background.
So, I can't say this surprises me to see this happen in IT. This won't be the last time the industry sees this happen, especially when everyone and his brother is rushing out to become an MCSE because they are (if you belive the radio ads) 'in demand and paying more than $60,000 a year to start.'
Good luck to the folks in that sector. You all are going to need it.
ok, you've got a point in that statement. However, I think that if a movie like Apollo 13 is made that maybe the movie industry should consider kicking back a few bucks to NASA for it or come up with some pr related scheme to enhance NASA's budget somehow. I think it would be great for NASA to make their own movies but the amount of paperwork it would take for them to do it would far outweigh any profit they could make. Not only that but I'd rather see them focus on space stuff not movie making, unless you are one of those who subscribes to the whole 'Moon landings were a fraud and filmed at NASA' conspiracy.
Let a third party do it and let them profit while kicking some back to NASA. If enough were done that way voluntarily then we could see NASA flourish once again.
I personally favour the idiot tax.
uhh... dude its already here, they call it a lottery.
I agree. I always thought it would be cool to set up something like movie theaters charging a buck extra and kicking it out to NASA when showing a flick like Apollo 13, Star Wars, ET... I would do that, heck a few bucks that way would make for more scifi/sci history flicks at the box office. $0.25 would be cool on the rentals of this genre too.
Only problem with this kind of thing is that once it gets started we'll be seeing a condom tax for sex flicks, needy kids tax for disney flicks, church reparations for demonic flicks, stoner tax on jay and silent bob flicks for drug rehab programs... where do you draw the line?
I am glad they are doing this for a multitude of reasons. Besides the role reversal that's going on.
When we had competition there was a space race. To the moon at that time. These days China is catching up with thier space program and plans for a Chinese Mars mission is not beyond their vision. The Russians are surpassing the space tourist milestone and everyone should be happy. This will open up a lot of other doors to the future.
And where have we 'evolved' our program to? Oh yeah, if your not perfect in every conceivable way or make the mistake of criticizing NASA you will never get to be a US space tourist. That is of course IF we ever take a step in that direction with our program or allow US businesses to compete for space.
Anyway... glad to see the Russians are doing this. It will make them the first commercially successful manned space program and really put our noses to the grindstone for a bit. A little humility lesson as the result of competition in an open market goes a very long way.
You point out a classic flaw in our system of doing things. We should be spending our monies wisely not popularly. I don't know how to convince the voters. I don't claim to but I would love to see the look on some of their faces when they realize they could have ferried 75 to 100 people into space on soviet rockets for the price of one shuttle launch.
It doesn't HAVE to be; Shuttle launches are about $500+ million not including upgrades and other mission costs. Soviet launches (rocket and Soyuz capsule) about $15-20 million.
Ok, so they are not the same as far as crew count and payload. Considering how obscelenely expensive shuttle launches are I think we need to step away from the shuttles for a bit and look at the big picture. If we can't get launch costs down to small percentages of what they are we are screwed. The 25:1 ratio (say 20million per soviet rocket) we could buy launches from them; lots of them and get far better usage out of our $. The reusable launch capabilities of the shuttle aren't saving us any money. In the time the shuttle has been flying we haven't come up with any alternatives for manned launches.
I don't like nukes and I don't like blowing them up on our little planet. They present long term after effects that are scary.
That said, I really don't want to have other countries have weapons capabilities that we don't. We can't give up that nuclear wildcard and we can't be afraid to use them if the need arises.
Just a thought; spam, fax spam and the like wouldn't be so prevalent if nobody ever responded to them.
I don't know who is. Maybe someone's Grandma really is buying all this viagra, drug alternatives, long distance, cellular services, satellite dishes, descramblers, life insurance, gambling, banned porn and getting killer toner deals with free vacation giveaways while making $1500-20,000 a week from home on their free stock tips.
You can find out about OSDN's ad pricing by following the "advertising" link in the left navigation bar. Rates for the current banner type (468x60) start at $40 per 1,000 views.
How about this for a tiered membership option. Make it easy enough to buy a 'banner' membership. Say you pay a premium like $50 for the year and slashdot randomly inserts you banner 1,000 times over the course of the year for your membership.
It'd be easy enough to do and you could highlight user sponsored banners( a gold border when they display), maybe then the site users would even make the click through to support this idea.
Ok, admittedly I speak three languages; English, Hungarian and Spanish (the Cuban flavor of it... and yes there is a big difference). So the monolinguist concept does not apply to me. I was born into a family where Hungarian was the primary language and I only spoke Hungarian until about 4. By the age of 5 I was completely bilingual (added English) and by 10 lost most of the Hungarian. At 28 Istarted to relearn my mother tongue and it was a very hard process. Spanish I picked up in jr high and high school but didn't use(and had to learn a different version than what I was taught in school) until I moved to Miami.
Hold on a sec, I am not here to present my life story just a thought; In all the years learning and unlearning languages I picked up a few others and this may shatter several of your impressions about yourselves being monolinguistic English only speakers;
If you are a coder you probably alrteady 'speak', 'read' and 'write' syntactically correctly in several 'foreign' languages like perl, C, VB, LISP, etc. I wonder how this would have affected the research. Any ideas from real linguistics folks out there???
ok but for someone like me who never really considered this it is still interesting :)
What I want to know is this; what is going to replace http? The article really doesn't say other than alluding to p2p as the way of the future.
Now, I may agree that p2p will be way cool as its uses are just barely beginning to be explored but I don't think we will see http disappear any time soon. I wouldn't be surprised if five years from now things are essentially the same as they are now in this respect and http is still a staple of many things web related.
And this;
Why? If you make a request and it takes you that long to respond... your clients will search for a different source for the data. How many customers do websites lose for loading slow in the first place? You might as well use snailmail for that kind of stuff.
So... mod me down if you must but somebody please explain what Box is talking about here.
Woah, I remember reading about that a few months back. To be honest, I forgot about the bubble being capable of acting as shields. thanks :)
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Actually, if I remember correct the crew could be shielded in a container of water about 18" thick on all sides. The configuration could be that the water would be stored in the outer hull of the living quarters and create a safe zone. Considering how much water they would want to take anyway this doesn't sound like a bad idea with the exception that water is fairly heavy to get up into orbit.