Rocket motors, servo actuators, casing... probably cheap. Ruggedized computers, comm equipment, on-board sensors, etc, can get kinda pricey. I'm actually surprised these things come in at 100k per shot considering the amount of high end stuff that has to live inside the missile rather than the ground station.
This is my justification for being a hardass about data types and mathematical proofs of correctness for critical sections of code. If your website crashes because you used a float when your should have used a double, or a double where you should have used a long long int, no one cares. If the clock on your process control gets screwy after a bit, then you have a physical problem.
...led at least some non-white-male potential presenters deciding not to submit proposals.)
If true, then it's even stupider. Free people cannot condition their behaviour on that of the most offendible in the group. For the same reason that the entire education system cannot (K-PhD) be conditioned on the abilities of the stupidest portion of the population, and for the same reason that my income cannot be conditioned on the earning power of the laziest portion of the population.
Considering that the native population of Europe is almost all white, I'd say it's about as disgraceful to have all white speakers at a European conference as it is to have all East Asian speakers at a Chinese conference. Jeez. I can't take this nonsense seriously, no matter how hard I try to force myself.
Power usage. I've got the same set of AAA batteries in my TI83+ that I put in back in college, and the thing still works. iphones and their ilk need to be recharged every day, sometimes more than once, just to run basic functionality. For quick calculations at your desk, or more to the point, away from your desk, nothing will beat a dead simple, low power device with physical buttons.
Because the US constitution says the vote happens on Nov 6. You start making exceptions for hurricanes, do you extend those to nasty thunderstorms, or a little bit of snow on the ground, or below freezing temperatures, or global warming in general? Some things you just have to be a stickler for.
The solar-powered UAV's that NASA built in the early 2000's were a giant flying wing (~100-200ft wingspan) with a few hundred pounds of payload. These things were fairly fragile (the last one broke up in a high wind gust), so to scale them up to man-rated safety standards would make them prohibitively large. It may be possible to make something the size of a 747 or a B2 that carries one or two people on solar power alone, but that's not the best use of airplane parts to get massive numbers of people from point A to point B.
And just another analogy. Designing a good lock requires knowing how to pick locks. Knowing how to pick a lock requires picking locks for practice frequently. Picking locks frequently does NOT require being a burglar. Adrenaline junkies do that. Security geeks wanting a job with the lock company don't. That's the difference.
A snitch or an informant, no. An undercover agent, on the other hand, damn well better be able to write up an after action report and be able to present its contents in a clear, coherent, and noncombative manner to either a judge or a jury or his boss without the Question Authority Tourette's popping out with every other breath.
Get something clear: being an effective anything requires having a rod up your ass that you put there yourself. To outside observers, it might look like a counter-culture Fuck You to your coworkers/superiors, but it's not that. Network defense requires engineering. Good engineers have rods up their asses when on company time and need to communicate profusely. Making a buck as a grey/black hat does not require these things to nearly the same extent.
I don't want a "good hacker" whose tendencies toward "counter-culture" are a hard-wired reflex. I want a competent engineer who understands what he's working with and knows how to be effective: sometimes by kissing ass, more often than not by saying "fuck off and let me work" with the right level of polish (sometimes none). If your idea of the best of the pool is someone who hacks and tinkers without being able to buckle down to do some real engineering (which means not just being able to pull off epic shit, but doing it in such a way that it's clear that it accomplishes the objective and isn't only documented between the guy's ears), you're asking for movie hackers, not for what you need.
More importantly, the same UN that with alarming frequency tasks tin-pot banana republics with chairmanships of various human rights committees. The internet needs to remain benignly neglected by a stable democracy with constitutional protections for free speech and a long track record of mostly refraining from reneging on those protections. Right now, that describes the US a lot better than it describes the majority of UN member states, and better than some the civilized nations of Europe.
The bigger questions are: how blindly white is it already and how massive is it. You need a very good handle on both numbers if you're trying to 1) get a tight estimate on its trajectory and 2) try to perturb it with radiation pressure. Either way, you need to visit the asteroid with a probe to get those numbers before you know if painting it white (or black) will give you enough delta v over the timescale you need.
Every time Wayland comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it won't run over a network, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are.
Every time the electric car comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it won't go more than 100 miles without a long recharge, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are.
Every time the web appliance comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it won't do anything besides surf the web, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are.
Every time the Segway comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it's too expensive and can't actually live up to the promises of changing urban design, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are.
Do the words "deal-breaking deficiency" mean anything?
You are obviously neither a programmer nor a true user of information technology. Also, plenty of Mac users install X11 on their Macs specifically so that they can run stuff on Unix/Linux servers in X11 sessions.
It's native to the windowing system on both the local and remote machine and there is absolutely nothing I need to do to either system to pop up a remote display other than insert a 'DISPLAY=remote-host:0.0' in front of the command line.
I'm pretty sure you could build yourself a whole bunch of ground-based dishes, or even a few geo-stationary relay stations, for the cost of a moon base and relay infrastructure to get the data from the far side to the near side. There are reasons to put stuff on the far side of the moon, but handling comm traffic from the dozen or so probes we've put out there isn't one of them.
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Justified anger != moral high ground
And the Sinai. Wasn't pretty in either instance. And I thought they didn't let anyone settle in the Golan?
that translates to Lebensraum.
Only if it grows a lot faster than this particular instance has.
Outbread "them" before "they" outbread you. Universal solution for all demographic problems. Quit bitching and start fucking.
Rocket motors, servo actuators, casing... probably cheap. Ruggedized computers, comm equipment, on-board sensors, etc, can get kinda pricey. I'm actually surprised these things come in at 100k per shot considering the amount of high end stuff that has to live inside the missile rather than the ground station.
This is my justification for being a hardass about data types and mathematical proofs of correctness for critical sections of code. If your website crashes because you used a float when your should have used a double, or a double where you should have used a long long int, no one cares. If the clock on your process control gets screwy after a bit, then you have a physical problem.
What can I say? All the smart suicide bombers are gone, and you've got to deal with the dumbasses left over.
Sad, but true.
Interesting post. Here's a topic for discussion: Noble Savage or Decadent Civilization: which would you prefer to live under?
Considering that the native population of Europe is almost all white, I'd say it's about as disgraceful to have all white speakers at a European conference as it is to have all East Asian speakers at a Chinese conference. Jeez. I can't take this nonsense seriously, no matter how hard I try to force myself.
Power usage. I've got the same set of AAA batteries in my TI83+ that I put in back in college, and the thing still works. iphones and their ilk need to be recharged every day, sometimes more than once, just to run basic functionality. For quick calculations at your desk, or more to the point, away from your desk, nothing will beat a dead simple, low power device with physical buttons.
Because the US constitution says the vote happens on Nov 6. You start making exceptions for hurricanes, do you extend those to nasty thunderstorms, or a little bit of snow on the ground, or below freezing temperatures, or global warming in general? Some things you just have to be a stickler for.
The solar-powered UAV's that NASA built in the early 2000's were a giant flying wing (~100-200ft wingspan) with a few hundred pounds of payload. These things were fairly fragile (the last one broke up in a high wind gust), so to scale them up to man-rated safety standards would make them prohibitively large. It may be possible to make something the size of a 747 or a B2 that carries one or two people on solar power alone, but that's not the best use of airplane parts to get massive numbers of people from point A to point B.
And just another analogy. Designing a good lock requires knowing how to pick locks. Knowing how to pick a lock requires picking locks for practice frequently. Picking locks frequently does NOT require being a burglar. Adrenaline junkies do that. Security geeks wanting a job with the lock company don't. That's the difference.
A snitch or an informant, no. An undercover agent, on the other hand, damn well better be able to write up an after action report and be able to present its contents in a clear, coherent, and noncombative manner to either a judge or a jury or his boss without the Question Authority Tourette's popping out with every other breath.
Get something clear: being an effective anything requires having a rod up your ass that you put there yourself. To outside observers, it might look like a counter-culture Fuck You to your coworkers/superiors, but it's not that. Network defense requires engineering. Good engineers have rods up their asses when on company time and need to communicate profusely. Making a buck as a grey/black hat does not require these things to nearly the same extent.
I don't want a "good hacker" whose tendencies toward "counter-culture" are a hard-wired reflex. I want a competent engineer who understands what he's working with and knows how to be effective: sometimes by kissing ass, more often than not by saying "fuck off and let me work" with the right level of polish (sometimes none). If your idea of the best of the pool is someone who hacks and tinkers without being able to buckle down to do some real engineering (which means not just being able to pull off epic shit, but doing it in such a way that it's clear that it accomplishes the objective and isn't only documented between the guy's ears), you're asking for movie hackers, not for what you need.
More importantly, the same UN that with alarming frequency tasks tin-pot banana republics with chairmanships of various human rights committees. The internet needs to remain benignly neglected by a stable democracy with constitutional protections for free speech and a long track record of mostly refraining from reneging on those protections. Right now, that describes the US a lot better than it describes the majority of UN member states, and better than some the civilized nations of Europe.
The bigger questions are: how blindly white is it already and how massive is it. You need a very good handle on both numbers if you're trying to 1) get a tight estimate on its trajectory and 2) try to perturb it with radiation pressure. Either way, you need to visit the asteroid with a probe to get those numbers before you know if painting it white (or black) will give you enough delta v over the timescale you need.
And it crashed! Stick to X11.
Every time Wayland comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it won't run over a network, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are.
Every time the electric car comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it won't go more than 100 miles without a long recharge, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are. Every time the web appliance comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it won't do anything besides surf the web, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are. Every time the Segway comes up, people come out of the woodwork to declare it a failure because it's too expensive and can't actually live up to the promises of changing urban design, but that's the only real gripe I've seen. You say there are others, I'm curious to know what they are. Do the words "deal-breaking deficiency" mean anything?
You are obviously neither a programmer nor a true user of information technology. Also, plenty of Mac users install X11 on their Macs specifically so that they can run stuff on Unix/Linux servers in X11 sessions.
It's native to the windowing system on both the local and remote machine and there is absolutely nothing I need to do to either system to pop up a remote display other than insert a 'DISPLAY=remote-host:0.0' in front of the command line.
Arafat wasn't George W Bush either. So it fits.
I'm pretty sure you could build yourself a whole bunch of ground-based dishes, or even a few geo-stationary relay stations, for the cost of a moon base and relay infrastructure to get the data from the far side to the near side. There are reasons to put stuff on the far side of the moon, but handling comm traffic from the dozen or so probes we've put out there isn't one of them.