You missed the memo: the whole point of space exploration is to find a way to permanently get rid of our lawyers*, politicians and telemarketers. Having the thing come back would defeat the entire purpose.
Don't forget the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers.
Don't know what's wrong with your box, but 10Mbps 1080p h264 rips are smooth as butter on my 3 year old AMD X2 3800+ (running XP). It's only when I get above about 14-15Mbps that it starts to get choppy, and really who needs the quality to be that high?
Just to play devil's advocate here (I actually agree with you, but I think this argument is invalid)...
Wouldn't we have gotten more advances in technology and industry if we'd just invested the money directly in technology and industry, rather than hoping for some indeterminate, potential spin-off benefits from the space program?
My wife was just on a week-long school outdoor camp at a backwoods lodge. They did an overnight hike and the group leader forgot a can opener. There would have been no pasta sauce for dinner if she didn't have a can opener on her swiss army knife.
It's not the kind of thing you use every day (or even every year), just that one time when you really need it.
When the project you're working on has a total line count in the millions, most of which was written 10 years ago, you better be damn sure those 10 lines of code you're adding don't break some seemingly unrelated area in a seemingly unrelated way that takes someone else a week to debug.
Don't forget the 1/2 of your time you spend researching, writing documentation, and going to meetings.
Working as a professional software developer is a lot different than hacking around on your 10k line hobby project.
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."
Consider flipping a fair coin.
[snip]
If I got heads the last 100 flips, what's the chances of getting heads again?
I'd put money at around 99%. You could run some math to get a better approximation. (Consider a function f that maps prior probabilities of getting heads, p, to odds of getting 100 flips in a row. For p=0.5, f=1/2^100, and for p=1, f=1. Find the weighted midpoint of f, which is the point p on the x-axis such that half the area under f lies to the left and half lies to the right. That's the best approximation for your coin).
See, in the real world you can never be sure the coin you have is fair. You always have to consider the possibility that it's weighted and getting 100 heads in a row is nearly overwhelming evidence for that fact.
Giant asteroid strikes have occurred with frequency say ~20m years. Ice ages have occurred with frequency say ~100k years. For the average such recurring event, the most recent one will have occurred 1/2 its average frequency ago.
Assuming we know nothing else about solar storms other than one happened 170 years ago (unlikely), the best guess is that they happen with average frequency 340 years.
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Now if we could just get the Earth to stop regurgitating those deworming pills...
Now I'm even more scared that once I do have a 3-year-old I'll consider this a useful piece of advice.
You missed the memo: the whole point of space exploration is to find a way to permanently get rid of our lawyers*, politicians and telemarketers. Having the thing come back would defeat the entire purpose.
Don't forget the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers.
I'm a little scared this was modded Informative.
Here's an example - Star Wars EpIV in 10MB. I'm pretty sure you could compress this below a meg.
And you can make it 1080p if you increase your font size!
Good thing he didn't.
I'm watching the live replay at http://wechoosethemoon.org/
Don't know what's wrong with your box, but 10Mbps 1080p h264 rips are smooth as butter on my 3 year old AMD X2 3800+ (running XP). It's only when I get above about 14-15Mbps that it starts to get choppy, and really who needs the quality to be that high?
Nope, it's been up and down for at least an hour now.
I think you have an incorrect conception of the internet. I know a US Senator who could explain things to you.
Just to play devil's advocate here (I actually agree with you, but I think this argument is invalid)... Wouldn't we have gotten more advances in technology and industry if we'd just invested the money directly in technology and industry, rather than hoping for some indeterminate, potential spin-off benefits from the space program?
Many of these sites have Terms of Service stating that you are not to share your account information, including passwords, with a third party.
Since we all know that breaking a website's TOS is a felony, any applicant who fills this form should be thrown in jail.
And whoever designed the application form should be charged with aiding and abetting a felony.
Nope, he posted the same thing two days ago. I wonder how long he can keep getting modded Funny?
Except maybe the two games out right now that are bundled with it, Tiger 2010 and Grand Slam Tennis?
Only in movies, and that's because they don't usually make movies about the one-in-a-million things that didn't happen.
Pinned pupils are a pretty good sign someone is dangerously intoxicated on oxycodone (or any other opiate for that matter).
Assuming a person needs on average 2 square feet of ground space to stand in, 6.8 billion people would require 1263 square kilometers.
So Greenwich is too small, but Greater London at 1579 sqkm would be just about right.
This analysis purposefully ignores stacking possibilities, because those are just too damn awkward.
My wife was just on a week-long school outdoor camp at a backwoods lodge. They did an overnight hike and the group leader forgot a can opener. There would have been no pasta sauce for dinner if she didn't have a can opener on her swiss army knife.
It's not the kind of thing you use every day (or even every year), just that one time when you really need it.
Parent is lying. The timestamps clearly indicate that Trisexual Puppy is a copy-paste troll. He posted at 8:06, source was posted at 7:41.
When the project you're working on has a total line count in the millions, most of which was written 10 years ago, you better be damn sure those 10 lines of code you're adding don't break some seemingly unrelated area in a seemingly unrelated way that takes someone else a week to debug.
Don't forget the 1/2 of your time you spend researching, writing documentation, and going to meetings.
Working as a professional software developer is a lot different than hacking around on your 10k line hobby project.
But where can you find a 50GB bluray disc for 25 cents? Looks like about 25 bucks for a 50GB disc to me, which is 50 cents/GB. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BD-RDL-Recordable-Dual-Layer/dp/B000H4FO9G/ref=pd_bxgy_e_text_c
You must work for Verizon.
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."
How could you tell?
Consider flipping a fair coin. [snip] If I got heads the last 100 flips, what's the chances of getting heads again?
I'd put money at around 99%. You could run some math to get a better approximation. (Consider a function f that maps prior probabilities of getting heads, p, to odds of getting 100 flips in a row. For p=0.5, f=1/2^100, and for p=1, f=1. Find the weighted midpoint of f, which is the point p on the x-axis such that half the area under f lies to the left and half lies to the right. That's the best approximation for your coin).
See, in the real world you can never be sure the coin you have is fair. You always have to consider the possibility that it's weighted and getting 100 heads in a row is nearly overwhelming evidence for that fact.
Giant asteroid strikes have occurred with frequency say ~20m years. Ice ages have occurred with frequency say ~100k years. For the average such recurring event, the most recent one will have occurred 1/2 its average frequency ago.
Assuming we know nothing else about solar storms other than one happened 170 years ago (unlikely), the best guess is that they happen with average frequency 340 years.
(Modulo some adjustments for intensity, etc.)