That's nice. And what will you do once you get there? Play some awesome networked FPS games?
The moon seems to have very little of use to us, moon dust is nasty sandpaper that sticks to everything and will probably give you silicosis of the lung, plus the lower gravity is worse for human bodies. (And if you say Helium-3 fusion, you are a complete and total space nutter idiot. We're not even near basic fusion yet, and He3 is not the easiest fuel to fuse.) It's a dead rock full of nothing but basalt. And even more important, the latency is low enough that we can easily control robotic missions from down here. Why go to all the expense of sending humans when we haven't even put rovers on it since the last Apollo mission? It's a total tourist trap. "My parents went to the moon and all I got was this T-shirt."
At least Mars has some amount of H2O and CO2 to work with. The perchlorates might be poisonous to Earth life, but at least you don't need a hard-vacuum space suit to go walking around outside. Both places are harsh environments, but Mars is a lot less so.
I think the real question is which one is more likely to have elements other than organics and rocks. In other words, is there gold in them thar hills?
I just got an update downloaded like two days ago for 18.0.0.160 and hadn't installed it yet. Now it's already two numbers obsolete? And the number one use of this festering pile is to deliver ads that take over your page and scream at you.
My wheelie bins are BOTH blue. The only difference is that the recycling one has a gray lid with the word "RECYCLING" stamped on top. I keep worrying that if I only put out the recycling bin, the regular garbage truck will empty it, thus wasting my effort to keep track of the recyclables. So I make sure to put out the trash bin too even when it's nearly empty.
Re:The problem is that landfills are too cheap
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Soda can aluminum isn't just aluminum, its a special alloy of mostly aluminum that is optimized for the can stamping process. So it's worth more than plain aluminum. I figured out that they pay about 2-3 cents a can at recycling centers. And that's in a state that doesn't have a bottle deposit tax. On my way to work in the morning, which is near a recycling center, I often seen people walking along the street with two or three enormous five-foot tall garbage bags full of cans (presumably un-crushed or they'd be too heavy for a bag that size).
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That cracked.com link also points out a general problem with the general level of human stupidity. (a person is smart, people are dumb)
So first of all, for the love of all that is good and holy (also, my work gloves), do not put things that are drenched in your bodily fluids in the recycling bin. Piss-soaked bed liners and used diapers and, holy shit, bloody tampons just end up going to the landfill via a more roundabout route. I suppose I can understand the mindset -- not knowing any better, people assume everything under the Sun can be crapped in, cleansed with fire, and then reused. I hate to say it, but that's just not how it works.
(etc.) People also put the stupidest crap into the Goodwill donation bins. I know because they have a "salvage outlet" store here where they take the stuff the either doesn't sell or they don't want to take the time to put it on a regular store shelf, and put into enormous bins for people to go all shark feeding frenzy over. Though at least they don't go as far as stuff with bodily fluids and excrement all over it.
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I was perfectly happy with having a second bin to put just paper/cardboard in, and the old recycling truck also had a separate bin for paper. I even have a pile in the corner of the back yard where I dump my leaves every year (a no-maintenance compost pile) and put what little wet garbage I produce on that.
But then the greenie-weenies (this is Austin TX, the first place that California's silly ideas appear) just had to have their single-stream recycling and goals of recycling an absurd portion of trash. So now I have a second enormous wheelie-bin (along with my enormous trash wheelie-bin) for recyclables. And to make it all more fun, now they only collect recycling every other week, and I have to look on a calendar to see if there's recycling this week.
Are you talking about the "Read 151 replies" link where an immensely pointless and stupid "Share" button is now?
How could you fail to miss that digit in the upper right corner of every front page article summary that rudely obscures part of the headline of the article? Yes, that is where it went. Or you could just click on the headline itself, which has worked since around the time that ENIAC was young.
That's what the PHBs who order these kind of changes (often so they can look like they're doing something) never think about. When you've done something to break the trust of a community, no matter how on the decline said community may be, it's very hard to repair the damage to your reputation afterward. Slashdot Beta would have been a worse mistake if they hadn't had the "&nobeta=1" escape clause, but fortunately that meant they only went half way before the community pushed back. (And I still think the "text over images" design meme is stupid. Just look at this abomination of web design.)
How many of you out there are still avoiding the use of FTDI's USB serial chips? And how many of you instantly wrote them off and gave them the "unperson" treatment?
Just wait until people start pushing ads to these things. One day you open your refrigerator door it plays the Dr. Pepper jingle. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?
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Cigarettes full stop. this shouldnt even be a fucking debate.
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Table sugar is 100% sucrose, which breaks down into 50% fructose and 50% glucose. 55F/45S (assuming you didn't brain fart when you wrote that) would break down to 77.5F/22.5G.
If it ever is able to play the Burger King games, those would become compatible with three systems. They were the only dual-executable Xbox games I am aware of, containing both an x86 and a PPC binary, as well as both SD and HD assets.
It's not like it hasn't been done before. And there probably is a specific list of games you can use with it because they would have to tweak the emulation for games that do more unusual things, or are CPU-bound in ways that are bad for what is presumably dynamic recompilation emulation.
Just think of the possibilities of Bayesian MTG cards... now instead of being full of GET TAXI CAB IN INDIA, the/. submission queue could be turned into an entertaining and enjoyable* game!
* for certain values of entertaining and enjoyable that may not apply to people who don't like CCGs
It's all about the pork, and protecting those Shuttle-era jobs. (Never mind that NASA is a relatively small budget item and there's no good reason they couldn't add to SLS while keeping Commercial Crew funded.)
Shame on me for RTFA, but yes, the $2M is for a complete replacement. The original system also used some custom RF hack to talk to the various buildings that operates on the same frequency as maintenance's walkie-talkies. But who could resist the opportunity for fresh pork spending? School administrators just love off-cycle bond elections with catchy names like "Warm, Safe and Dry" that few people show up for so they have a big fat piggy bank to spend.
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So are you saying that he's a trans-Martian?
That's nice. And what will you do once you get there? Play some awesome networked FPS games?
The moon seems to have very little of use to us, moon dust is nasty sandpaper that sticks to everything and will probably give you silicosis of the lung, plus the lower gravity is worse for human bodies. (And if you say Helium-3 fusion, you are a complete and total space nutter idiot. We're not even near basic fusion yet, and He3 is not the easiest fuel to fuse.) It's a dead rock full of nothing but basalt. And even more important, the latency is low enough that we can easily control robotic missions from down here. Why go to all the expense of sending humans when we haven't even put rovers on it since the last Apollo mission? It's a total tourist trap. "My parents went to the moon and all I got was this T-shirt."
At least Mars has some amount of H2O and CO2 to work with. The perchlorates might be poisonous to Earth life, but at least you don't need a hard-vacuum space suit to go walking around outside. Both places are harsh environments, but Mars is a lot less so.
I think the real question is which one is more likely to have elements other than organics and rocks. In other words, is there gold in them thar hills?
Basicially, he is The Man Who Sold Mars.
I just got an update downloaded like two days ago for 18.0.0.160 and hadn't installed it yet. Now it's already two numbers obsolete? And the number one use of this festering pile is to deliver ads that take over your page and scream at you.
My wheelie bins are BOTH blue. The only difference is that the recycling one has a gray lid with the word "RECYCLING" stamped on top. I keep worrying that if I only put out the recycling bin, the regular garbage truck will empty it, thus wasting my effort to keep track of the recyclables. So I make sure to put out the trash bin too even when it's nearly empty.
Soda can aluminum isn't just aluminum, its a special alloy of mostly aluminum that is optimized for the can stamping process. So it's worth more than plain aluminum. I figured out that they pay about 2-3 cents a can at recycling centers. And that's in a state that doesn't have a bottle deposit tax. On my way to work in the morning, which is near a recycling center, I often seen people walking along the street with two or three enormous five-foot tall garbage bags full of cans (presumably un-crushed or they'd be too heavy for a bag that size).
Also, tell me that simply melting cans down isn't easier and cheaper than electrolytically ripping the aluminum atoms out of the ore with lots of heat and electricity. Seriously, aluminum atoms like to bond with shit very tightly. Before we had that, aluminum was a rare metal on par with silver, even though it's one of the most common elements in the earth's crust.
That cracked.com link also points out a general problem with the general level of human stupidity. (a person is smart, people are dumb)
So first of all, for the love of all that is good and holy (also, my work gloves), do not put things that are drenched in your bodily fluids in the recycling bin. Piss-soaked bed liners and used diapers and, holy shit, bloody tampons just end up going to the landfill via a more roundabout route. I suppose I can understand the mindset -- not knowing any better, people assume everything under the Sun can be crapped in, cleansed with fire, and then reused. I hate to say it, but that's just not how it works.
(etc.) People also put the stupidest crap into the Goodwill donation bins. I know because they have a "salvage outlet" store here where they take the stuff the either doesn't sell or they don't want to take the time to put it on a regular store shelf, and put into enormous bins for people to go all shark feeding frenzy over. Though at least they don't go as far as stuff with bodily fluids and excrement all over it.
I was perfectly happy with having a second bin to put just paper/cardboard in, and the old recycling truck also had a separate bin for paper. I even have a pile in the corner of the back yard where I dump my leaves every year (a no-maintenance compost pile) and put what little wet garbage I produce on that.
But then the greenie-weenies (this is Austin TX, the first place that California's silly ideas appear) just had to have their single-stream recycling and goals of recycling an absurd portion of trash. So now I have a second enormous wheelie-bin (along with my enormous trash wheelie-bin) for recyclables. And to make it all more fun, now they only collect recycling every other week, and I have to look on a calendar to see if there's recycling this week.
In the immortal words of Ernestine the telephone operator, "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company!"
And in this case, it's very true. Verizon, formerly GTE, was the second largest phone company in the US during the Ma Bell era.
Does anyone burn music to CDs anymore? Aside from artists making them to sell at small gigs, that is, in which case who exactly is that tax going to?
Are you talking about the "Read 151 replies" link where an immensely pointless and stupid "Share" button is now?
How could you fail to miss that digit in the upper right corner of every front page article summary that rudely obscures part of the headline of the article? Yes, that is where it went. Or you could just click on the headline itself, which has worked since around the time that ENIAC was young.
That's what the PHBs who order these kind of changes (often so they can look like they're doing something) never think about. When you've done something to break the trust of a community, no matter how on the decline said community may be, it's very hard to repair the damage to your reputation afterward. Slashdot Beta would have been a worse mistake if they hadn't had the "&nobeta=1" escape clause, but fortunately that meant they only went half way before the community pushed back. (And I still think the "text over images" design meme is stupid. Just look at this abomination of web design.)
How many of you out there are still avoiding the use of FTDI's USB serial chips? And how many of you instantly wrote them off and gave them the "unperson" treatment?
(as a C++ guy, we don't get to do this)
That's because you aren't using Clang. One of the reasons Apple ditched GCC was so that they could get live recompile for Xcode.
Just wait until people start pushing ads to these things. One day you open your refrigerator door it plays the Dr. Pepper jingle. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?
Cigarettes full stop. this shouldnt even be a fucking debate.
Just remember what happened the last time we outlawed a favorite addiction of Americans.
Table sugar is 100% sucrose, which breaks down into 50% fructose and 50% glucose. 55F/45S (assuming you didn't brain fart when you wrote that) would break down to 77.5F/22.5G.
I've noticed on those late night TV commercials, the really crappy stuff has two random digits in the domain name.
And I'm sure that everyone will still undercook the Dino Wellington.
If you say this then you haven't been to a place that truly curates the music to improve the dining experience.
No, but I've been in more than a few places that truly crank up the music to improve not being able to hear the person across the table.
So have you gone to PC games... on a Microsoft operating system?
If it ever is able to play the Burger King games, those would become compatible with three systems. They were the only dual-executable Xbox games I am aware of, containing both an x86 and a PPC binary, as well as both SD and HD assets.
It's not like it hasn't been done before. And there probably is a specific list of games you can use with it because they would have to tweak the emulation for games that do more unusual things, or are CPU-bound in ways that are bad for what is presumably dynamic recompilation emulation.
Just think of the possibilities of Bayesian MTG cards... now instead of being full of GET TAXI CAB IN INDIA, the /. submission queue could be turned into an entertaining and enjoyable* game!
* for certain values of entertaining and enjoyable that may not apply to people who don't like CCGs
It's all about the pork, and protecting those Shuttle-era jobs. (Never mind that NASA is a relatively small budget item and there's no good reason they couldn't add to SLS while keeping Commercial Crew funded.)
Remember those Shuttle main engines that they removed (replaced with mock-ups) before sending them off to museums? Yeah, well the test stands are still at Stennis, and the 2010 legislation ordering SLS required NASA to use existing Shuttle technology where possible, so SLS will launch with SSMEs removed from Shuttle orbiters before they were sent to museums. Those SSMEs are being test-fired once again at Stennis. That's right, the actual same Shuttle engines that they had to refurbish after every flight.
Shame on me for RTFA, but yes, the $2M is for a complete replacement. The original system also used some custom RF hack to talk to the various buildings that operates on the same frequency as maintenance's walkie-talkies. But who could resist the opportunity for fresh pork spending? School administrators just love off-cycle bond elections with catchy names like "Warm, Safe and Dry" that few people show up for so they have a big fat piggy bank to spend.