Neither party in the US take space exploration at all seriously, because there is no short term quick money to be made. So we are spending roughly
1/3 of the budget that we really need to "do space right". We need to adopt a more "Japanese " style long term approach to research and profit making. But
this requires the American people to rethink their mindset, which shows no probability of occurring.
Having said that, it is idiotic to throw away a station we spent so many years building away. We have it, and it is much cheaper to maintain it than to
build another one later. For that matter I have yet to see a valid reason given to retire the shuttle. Now there may be safety reasons for doing so, but I've never seen them in print, most of what I've seen is that "the shuttle is old, we need new and shiny", at they very least it should be used until new technology has been fully tested.
We have too many "pointy haired bosses of BOTH parties" running the country.
I have a borderline Genius IQ, I can also not remember people's names worth a darn. I am great at logic puzzles and that sort of thing, but introduce me to someone at a party and a week later I will remember meeting them, I will remember what profession they are in, I will remember most of the conversation. But remember their name? Unlikely at best.
One of my ex-roommates at college took graduate level math his freshman year, and remedial English, I used to kid him that his IQ
was 39+400i very high but mostly imaginary. He was a "complex" individual;-)
I don't particularly mind a second author finishing up an almost complete story after an author dies. I
DO mind a writer schlocking together something completely new and selling it under another authors
name. Asimov had his own unique style, anyone else
writing for him will not be able to properly copy it.
Hmmph, It has to be one heck of a game for me to shell out that much cash, and that was before the economy went south. Typically I
won't bother with anything over $40 unless it has absolutely top reviews and these days I seldom consider anything over $30. For every
"keeper" quality game like "Civilization", I have at least 2-3 that I played a few times and then got bored with. Board games are a better
value for the money than many computer games, and I hardly ever play those anymore. OH yes, I EXPECT the game to be BUG FREE
if you want me to pay big bucks for it. I don't recall ever needing a PATCH for a board game.....
Since capitalism is based on economic competition, and Microsoft does every thing possible to avoid competition, including flouting international
law against monopolies. Microsoft is ANTI-capitalistic, it is more of a form of corporate Marxism, where the company rather than the state is GOD.
China is more Capitalistic than Microsoft by far. IMO
"The more you (they) tighten their grip the more (gaming) systems will slip through their (corporate) fingers...."
Hmm, does that make Sony the "Sith Lord" and Nintendo the "Dark Apprentice" or is it the other way?
I would include a player for any media you have. I am still trying to cope with all my Mom's trays of slides...Oh, and make sure you include descriptions
of the participants, I have a lot of old slides of people I presume are cousins, but I am not sure exactly who they are....
Maybe the delay is so they can put LAN back in. Naww, that would make too much sense. It's just so it can go on the books for next years sales, as most companies have written off this Christmas.
The second school is the better choice by far, you need to to learn to think in terms of algorithms and structures, and not just in terms of one language.
++ sarcastic humor mode ON ++
Still, both schools seem to be teaching you just "fluffy little" languages. You need CORE languages like COBOL, FORTRAN, RPGII, programs that run on BIG IRON, manly programs with LINE NUMBERS and GOTO's, then son you'll be a REAL programmer....
You really can't call yourself a programmer until you have written a text editor in FORTRAN IV!;-);-);-)
++ sarcastic humor mode OFF ++
Make sure you take some database stuff, though, I took operating system theory and compiler construction in college, not nearly as many jobs for that as for DB, although DB is as boring as hell in comparison.
Also every computer security class you can lay your hands on, security czars will have jobs for the foreseeable future.
TOS Enterprise could do about warp 8, but there was a chance of engine damage above warp 6. There was 1 episode where an alien took over and modded the engines and it did around warp 14 or so.
There was a computer game in the 70's called trek or strtrk it place a limit of warp 10 as the max speed a star ship could travel. The closer you got to warp 10 the greater the probability you would time warp. I think the voyager episode was a tribute of sorts to the computer game " +++";-)
The rest of the series had a faster than warp 10 being possible. Maybe there where parallel universes and warp 10 was the limit in one but not the other.;-)
Microsoft has been found guilty in the courts of
breaking numerous anti-monopoly laws. They simply
pay the fines and continue the same bad behavior.
We should put teeth into the laws by stripping the right to hold patents from the offending companies. The resulting patents should be made public domain.
This would end Microsoft's bad behavior and even
better would probably end Microsoft as we know it.
I would usually balk at paying more than $30 or so, I
would only pay $50 if the game had rave reviews or I
was really happy with previous releases from that company.
Under Ex Prez George Bush's "New World Economy" where everyone is paid minimum wage, I will consider paying $20, but only if the game is an absolute MUST HAVE. If not, maybe $10, and it better NOT have any crappy copy protection like SPORE did.
I have a Linux box, I can program my own games. They will not have glitzy graphics like the gaming house ones, but they are just as much fun. I am working on upgrading a version of ROGUE that I found on Source Forge, just as entertaining as things like EverQuest but you don't need a $6000 graphics card to play it.
There have always been people who swear, and there
have always been people who are offended by it.
Society ALWAYS censors those it considers impolite,
the question is WHO leads the censorship?
In older times the Church had greater influence on
speech than today. If you said certain things you
would be labeled as a "moral reprobate", and "nice" people would not associate with you.
Today we have "Political" censorship if you refer
to someone with words referring to their skin color, or sexual orientation, you will have the
"Politically Correct Posse" trying to get you
lynched, figuratively if not literally. It is
the same play, just different actors.
Always remember, a "Bigot" is someone who calls others "bigots"....In doing so they reveal their
own hatreds and prejudices.
When my hi tech job was out sourced I eventually
found work as a store clerk at about 55% of my
previous wages.
So I basically stopped buying everything but food.
In a typical year at my old salary I might have spent $8000 or more on Computers, TV's, Clothes, DVD's Etc.
In 2008 I spent under $500 on consumer goods. A few DVD's 2 Computer Games, some underwear. I only
eat out at places with a dollar menu, and when I do I almost always spend $4 or less.
So by reducing my salary by 50% I now by 80-90%
less "Stuff". Sounds like a great plan for economic meltdown to me.
If you want to get Golden Eggs, you have to buy
the goose some corn. You cheap twit!
I must Totally Disagree with your assessment. Religious conservatives make up about 35% of the electorate, and the Republican Party cannot win without them. It is the "Moderate Neocons" that Bush has been sucking up to who are the core of the problem. These people are for Big Oil, Raping the Middle Class to appease the rich, and outsourcing our jobs to get cheap labor. Religion is NOT part of there agenda, which is simply to suck the life blood from the economy.
The Republican platform, should be one of "Traditional Family Values", balancing the budget, "growing the middle class" and providing a strong national defense. It is the "Big Oil Industrialist" types who are ruining the party.
Sarah Palin, while possibly not the brightest candidate, is in spirit from the same type of Republican, that gave us Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt,
and Ronald Reagan. Despite the fact that John Mc Cain is a RINO, I almost voted for the ticket, just because of Sarah. Almost. But the Republicans will no longer get my vote until they move back to the RIGHT and quit worrying about what the "Moderates" think.
I read an article a good 15 years ago about the skin
on the back being light sensitive, and about stimulating it to produce a very crude form of "vision" (About the same level of granularity as
say a game of "pong" or blocky Apple II graphics!)
So I'm not sure what is new about this, except for
maybe better image granularity...
The combination of the dotcom crash and the Bush Administration outsourcing everything in it's quest for cheap labor means that IT jobs are tough to find
right now. In Oregon the unemployment rate was 60% higher than in the rest of the country and sending out a resume was as good has dumping it in the trash.
Be prepared to relocate ANYWHERE if you want a job. Consider a contract position out of the country. Any
place where they have oil has a booming economy right now, but the results of the election in November may change the "Hot" job markets.
Consider going back for a MBA to go with your Computer training. Pointy Haired Bosses are always
hired, even if they really don't do much. (Sigh).
[For some reason this site does not accept my attempts to paginate, sorry it looks like 1 big sentance;-) ]
Which is why I am voting 3rd party this election. I
do not believe either major party candidate is worthy of my vote. Do I think the 3rd party types have any chance of winning? Not really, but if third party candidates took 20% or so of the vote away from major parties, it might force them to do a reality check.
When you go to the store to buy beer. You must
present an expensive piece of ID to show you are of age, just saying you are an adult will not get you
beer. This is not really any different, except the
state government not the CA's grants the certificate.
Now if you are calling for the CA's to be replaced be a government agency because it might be cheaper, then maybe you are right. But self signed certificates are
inherently insecure and should never be accepted.
Just like no sane store clerk would sell a 10 year
old beer because he shlocked together a homemade
ID saying he was 21, so sane user would accept a self signed certificate. END of discussion.
For those of you that remember the Paranoia game that
was set in a futuristic post-apocoliptic San Fransisco this is what happens when you annoy a High
Programmer. They should have sent in a troubleshooting team (with lasers and tac nukes) to deal with the problem. Or maybe they still will.;-)
When I was In college a typical breakfast was:
4-8 strips of bacon
3- two egg omeletts
1-2 plates hashbrowns
1 bowl of cereal
2 glasses fruit juice
2-3 glasses milk
1-2 english muffins
1 cup hot chocolate
I LOST weight on this and had normal cholesterol
Now at 50 my breakfast is more likely to be:
1 bowl of cereal
2 strips bacon (paper thin microwave stuff)
1 glass fruit juice
And I have to fight not to gain weight on that and
my cholesterol is borderline high.
2 factors that are AT LEAST as important as how much
you eat;
1) stress I GAINED 40 POUNDS IN 1 YEAR when I had
to take care of a sick family member. (And my diet was NOT significantly different)
2) Additives in food. Get rid of all the chemical crap, hormones, High Fructose Corn Sugar etc. that our
corporate overlords feed us instead of REAL FOOD
and our metabolisms would not be confused and wacked out. The insurance companies should sue the food companies for unsafe food.
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Apparently there are more than enough "pointy haired bosses" so that every one can have one.
Neither party in the US take space exploration at all seriously, because there is no short term quick money to be made. So we are spending roughly 1/3 of the budget that we really need to "do space right". We need to adopt a more "Japanese " style long term approach to research and profit making. But this requires the American people to rethink their mindset, which shows no probability of occurring. Having said that, it is idiotic to throw away a station we spent so many years building away. We have it, and it is much cheaper to maintain it than to build another one later. For that matter I have yet to see a valid reason given to retire the shuttle. Now there may be safety reasons for doing so, but I've never seen them in print, most of what I've seen is that "the shuttle is old, we need new and shiny", at they very least it should be used until new technology has been fully tested. We have too many "pointy haired bosses of BOTH parties" running the country.
I'm going to wish them into the cornfield too!
I have a borderline Genius IQ, I can also not remember people's names worth a darn. I am great at logic puzzles and that sort of thing, but introduce me to someone at a party and a week later I will remember meeting them, I will remember what profession they are in, I will remember most of the conversation. But remember their name? Unlikely at best. One of my ex-roommates at college took graduate level math his freshman year, and remedial English, I used to kid him that his IQ was 39+400i very high but mostly imaginary. He was a "complex" individual ;-)
I don't particularly mind a second author finishing up an almost complete story after an author dies. I DO mind a writer schlocking together something completely new and selling it under another authors name. Asimov had his own unique style, anyone else writing for him will not be able to properly copy it.
Hmmph, It has to be one heck of a game for me to shell out that much cash, and that was before the economy went south. Typically I won't bother with anything over $40 unless it has absolutely top reviews and these days I seldom consider anything over $30. For every "keeper" quality game like "Civilization", I have at least 2-3 that I played a few times and then got bored with. Board games are a better value for the money than many computer games, and I hardly ever play those anymore. OH yes, I EXPECT the game to be BUG FREE if you want me to pay big bucks for it. I don't recall ever needing a PATCH for a board game.....
Since capitalism is based on economic competition, and Microsoft does every thing possible to avoid competition, including flouting international law against monopolies. Microsoft is ANTI-capitalistic, it is more of a form of corporate Marxism, where the company rather than the state is GOD. China is more Capitalistic than Microsoft by far. IMO
"The more you (they) tighten their grip the more (gaming) systems will slip through their (corporate) fingers...." Hmm, does that make Sony the "Sith Lord" and Nintendo the "Dark Apprentice" or is it the other way?
I would include a player for any media you have. I am still trying to cope with all my Mom's trays of slides...Oh, and make sure you include descriptions of the participants, I have a lot of old slides of people I presume are cousins, but I am not sure exactly who they are....
Most of the gamers I know are 55-65 years old, 2/3's of them know COBOL...
Maybe the delay is so they can put LAN back in. Naww, that would make too much sense. It's just so it can go on the books for next years sales, as most companies have written off this Christmas.
The second school is the better choice by far, you need to to learn to think in terms of algorithms and structures, and not just in terms of one language. ++ sarcastic humor mode ON ++ Still, both schools seem to be teaching you just "fluffy little" languages. You need CORE languages like COBOL, FORTRAN, RPGII, programs that run on BIG IRON, manly programs with LINE NUMBERS and GOTO's, then son you'll be a REAL programmer.... You really can't call yourself a programmer until you have written a text editor in FORTRAN IV! ;-) ;-) ;-)
++ sarcastic humor mode OFF ++
Make sure you take some database stuff, though, I took operating system theory and compiler construction in college, not nearly as many jobs for that as for DB, although DB is as boring as hell in comparison.
Also every computer security class you can lay your hands on, security czars will have jobs for the foreseeable future.
TOS Enterprise could do about warp 8, but there was a chance of engine damage above warp 6. There was 1 episode where an alien took over and modded the engines and it did around warp 14 or so. There was a computer game in the 70's called trek or strtrk it place a limit of warp 10 as the max speed a star ship could travel. The closer you got to warp 10 the greater the probability you would time warp. I think the voyager episode was a tribute of sorts to the computer game " +++" ;-)
The rest of the series had a faster than warp 10 being possible. Maybe there where parallel universes and warp 10 was the limit in one but not the other. ;-)
Microsoft has been found guilty in the courts of breaking numerous anti-monopoly laws. They simply pay the fines and continue the same bad behavior. We should put teeth into the laws by stripping the right to hold patents from the offending companies. The resulting patents should be made public domain. This would end Microsoft's bad behavior and even better would probably end Microsoft as we know it.
I would usually balk at paying more than $30 or so, I would only pay $50 if the game had rave reviews or I was really happy with previous releases from that company. Under Ex Prez George Bush's "New World Economy" where everyone is paid minimum wage, I will consider paying $20, but only if the game is an absolute MUST HAVE. If not, maybe $10, and it better NOT have any crappy copy protection like SPORE did. I have a Linux box, I can program my own games. They will not have glitzy graphics like the gaming house ones, but they are just as much fun. I am working on upgrading a version of ROGUE that I found on Source Forge, just as entertaining as things like EverQuest but you don't need a $6000 graphics card to play it.
At least that is my understanding...
There have always been people who swear, and there have always been people who are offended by it. Society ALWAYS censors those it considers impolite, the question is WHO leads the censorship? In older times the Church had greater influence on speech than today. If you said certain things you would be labeled as a "moral reprobate", and "nice" people would not associate with you. Today we have "Political" censorship if you refer to someone with words referring to their skin color, or sexual orientation, you will have the "Politically Correct Posse" trying to get you lynched, figuratively if not literally. It is the same play, just different actors. Always remember, a "Bigot" is someone who calls others "bigots"....In doing so they reveal their own hatreds and prejudices.
When my hi tech job was out sourced I eventually found work as a store clerk at about 55% of my previous wages. So I basically stopped buying everything but food. In a typical year at my old salary I might have spent $8000 or more on Computers, TV's, Clothes, DVD's Etc. In 2008 I spent under $500 on consumer goods. A few DVD's 2 Computer Games, some underwear. I only eat out at places with a dollar menu, and when I do I almost always spend $4 or less. So by reducing my salary by 50% I now by 80-90% less "Stuff". Sounds like a great plan for economic meltdown to me. If you want to get Golden Eggs, you have to buy the goose some corn. You cheap twit!
I must Totally Disagree with your assessment. Religious conservatives make up about 35% of the electorate, and the Republican Party cannot win without them. It is the "Moderate Neocons" that Bush has been sucking up to who are the core of the problem. These people are for Big Oil, Raping the Middle Class to appease the rich, and outsourcing our jobs to get cheap labor. Religion is NOT part of there agenda, which is simply to suck the life blood from the economy. The Republican platform, should be one of "Traditional Family Values", balancing the budget, "growing the middle class" and providing a strong national defense. It is the "Big Oil Industrialist" types who are ruining the party. Sarah Palin, while possibly not the brightest candidate, is in spirit from the same type of Republican, that gave us Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. Despite the fact that John Mc Cain is a RINO, I almost voted for the ticket, just because of Sarah. Almost. But the Republicans will no longer get my vote until they move back to the RIGHT and quit worrying about what the "Moderates" think.
I read an article a good 15 years ago about the skin on the back being light sensitive, and about stimulating it to produce a very crude form of "vision" (About the same level of granularity as say a game of "pong" or blocky Apple II graphics!) So I'm not sure what is new about this, except for maybe better image granularity...
The combination of the dotcom crash and the Bush Administration outsourcing everything in it's quest for cheap labor means that IT jobs are tough to find right now. In Oregon the unemployment rate was 60% higher than in the rest of the country and sending out a resume was as good has dumping it in the trash. Be prepared to relocate ANYWHERE if you want a job. Consider a contract position out of the country. Any place where they have oil has a booming economy right now, but the results of the election in November may change the "Hot" job markets. Consider going back for a MBA to go with your Computer training. Pointy Haired Bosses are always hired, even if they really don't do much. (Sigh). [For some reason this site does not accept my attempts to paginate, sorry it looks like 1 big sentance ;-) ]
Which is why I am voting 3rd party this election. I do not believe either major party candidate is worthy of my vote. Do I think the 3rd party types have any chance of winning? Not really, but if third party candidates took 20% or so of the vote away from major parties, it might force them to do a reality check.
When you go to the store to buy beer. You must present an expensive piece of ID to show you are of age, just saying you are an adult will not get you beer. This is not really any different, except the state government not the CA's grants the certificate. Now if you are calling for the CA's to be replaced be a government agency because it might be cheaper, then maybe you are right. But self signed certificates are inherently insecure and should never be accepted. Just like no sane store clerk would sell a 10 year old beer because he shlocked together a homemade ID saying he was 21, so sane user would accept a self signed certificate. END of discussion.
For those of you that remember the Paranoia game that was set in a futuristic post-apocoliptic San Fransisco this is what happens when you annoy a High Programmer. They should have sent in a troubleshooting team (with lasers and tac nukes) to deal with the problem. Or maybe they still will. ;-)
When I was In college a typical breakfast was: 4-8 strips of bacon 3- two egg omeletts 1-2 plates hashbrowns 1 bowl of cereal 2 glasses fruit juice 2-3 glasses milk 1-2 english muffins 1 cup hot chocolate I LOST weight on this and had normal cholesterol Now at 50 my breakfast is more likely to be: 1 bowl of cereal 2 strips bacon (paper thin microwave stuff) 1 glass fruit juice And I have to fight not to gain weight on that and my cholesterol is borderline high. 2 factors that are AT LEAST as important as how much you eat; 1) stress I GAINED 40 POUNDS IN 1 YEAR when I had to take care of a sick family member. (And my diet was NOT significantly different) 2) Additives in food. Get rid of all the chemical crap, hormones, High Fructose Corn Sugar etc. that our corporate overlords feed us instead of REAL FOOD and our metabolisms would not be confused and wacked out. The insurance companies should sue the food companies for unsafe food.