With computing power on par with an 86 Chevy Citation and slide rules, how did we send living breathing men to the moon, and bring them back, without a hitch?
Even if we just look at the Apollo 11 mission itself, there were hitches. For one thing, the landing went "long" and that "computing power" was taking them toward a rock-strewn crater. If Armstrong hadn't taken manual control for the landing, things might've gotten really hitched.
Let's hope these idiots don't trigger a "Cyber Winter".
The world economy is becoming more and more dependent -- and interdependent -- on complicated electronic infrastructures. A nasty enough attack could hurt far more than the intended target.
So, are cell phones the advanced scouts for the upcoming and inevitable Robot Wars?
Nah, they're part of the alien invasion target acquisition system.
1) Big mofo saucer appears over every city. 2) Everyone calls everyone else to tell them about the big mofo saucer. 3) Several minutes of intense flashes from a billion precisely-targeted death rays. 4) Big mofo saucers land, aliens pile out and do obnoxious end-zone dances.
This will be fun to watch...kinda like switching on the light in a run down crack house and seeing the rats and roaches scurry for cover to hide.
The risk is that the rats and roaches may attack rather than scurry for cover. Make sure your flamethrower is fully charged before turning the light on.
All he needs to do is cut out the email alerts or better yet stop being such a sheep and don't use the site if it is so awful to him. People are so fucking emotional about the stupidest things.
How stupid is it to get so fucking emotional about the stupid things people get so fucking emotional about?
That's great, but that doesn't mean competition is bad for kids. You aren't suggesting that, right?
Not per se, no. But the implementation often does far more harm than good.
Many people seem to confuse criticism of how badly competition is often taught with criticism of competition in general. There also seems to be a fairly common view that sports are worthless unless there's some kind of competition involved.
I sometimes wonder to what extent it's connected to the grossly-simplified view of so-called "free market" economics that seems myopically focused on the competition involved. (Ditto evolution -- it's particularly exasperating when a screwed-up view of evolution is used to bolster a screwed-up view of economics.)
I eagerly await the research that identifies the genetic marker for a predisposition to seizing onto overly-simple explanations for complex traits and/or behavior.
A fair amount of what many people refer to as "common sense" seems to be preconceptions and/or personal preferences propped up with the bare minimum of after-the-fact rationalizing.
While his suggested implementation was off (and he didn't predict Facebook), Vannevar Bush arguably predicted the web, in an article in The Atlantic Monthly... in 1945.
I don't want to make a copy of the ebook. I only want to be able to lend or sell it, just like I do with pbooks. Until I can do that with ebooks, they're crippled.
... when it's possible for me to sell, swap, borrow, and/or loan them.
It seems like none of the people who design ebook systems have ever been in a used book store or a library, or have ever lent a favorite book to a friend.
No wonder they got nicked. First rule of bribery: never insult the person you're trying to bribe, especially when they're an anti-corruption official. Such people need particularly high, er, polite bribes.
I can appreciate the novelty of grinding up old junk like golf clubs, marbles, etc. But trashing a new piece of electronics for the novelty value? Not so much. There are sites out there like Smashmyxbox where pranksters would go to the effort to buy the latest and greatest novelty and then smash it in front of fans waiting in line. I could respect it more if it were an act of social commentary...
Isn't it? I could certainly see it as a commentary on materialism, commercial hype, etc. It actually reminds me a little of the time I torched a twenty dollar bill to make a point. (And no, the point I was trying to make was not "I have lots of money." I didn't.)
Or, perhaps a bit more plainly, "Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power..."
It's very hard to convince someone of this, though, when it's their party in power.
Especially when they think their elected leader was largely chosen by God.
And given that their selected leader was chosen by God, then any abuses by those in power are conveniently justified -- especially any abuses necessary to keep them in power.
... although one could say that it's not so much that one should distrust the government, but instead be able to apply the "trust, but verify" approach.
The double threat of the current Admin is that not only have they repeatedly shown themselves to be not worthy of trust, they've gone to unprecedented lengths to block verification as much as possible.
What that data seems to projects is that FF may overtake IE6... whose numbers seem to be dropping mostly because of the people switching to IE7. IE6/7 still has a comfortable lead over FF.
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Maybe the difference is how many of the analysts were called aside by their priests after Mass for a private word.
Apollo 1 was a pretty damn big hitch.
Even if we just look at the Apollo 11 mission itself, there were hitches. For one thing, the landing went "long" and that "computing power" was taking them toward a rock-strewn crater. If Armstrong hadn't taken manual control for the landing, things might've gotten really hitched.
Actually, it sounds to me like Amazon is shelling out for viral marketing, but hired a company that's not very good at it.
Let's hope these idiots don't trigger a "Cyber Winter".
The world economy is becoming more and more dependent -- and interdependent -- on complicated electronic infrastructures. A nasty enough attack could hurt far more than the intended target.
Cue human missions vs automated missions debate.
Cue government space programs vs private space programs debate.
(At least the breathing oxygen vs breathing vacuum debate would be short.)
Nah, they're part of the alien invasion target acquisition system.
1) Big mofo saucer appears over every city.
2) Everyone calls everyone else to tell them about the big mofo saucer.
3) Several minutes of intense flashes from a billion precisely-targeted death rays.
4) Big mofo saucers land, aliens pile out and do obnoxious end-zone dances.
But it's hilarious.
The risk is that the rats and roaches may attack rather than scurry for cover. Make sure your flamethrower is fully charged before turning the light on.
How stupid is it to get so fucking emotional about the stupid things people get so fucking emotional about?
Oh wait
Wow, I've never seen so much smug in a single post outside of a Prius owner's forum.
Try looking here.
Not per se, no. But the implementation often does far more harm than good.
Many people seem to confuse criticism of how badly competition is often taught with criticism of competition in general. There also seems to be a fairly common view that sports are worthless unless there's some kind of competition involved.
I sometimes wonder to what extent it's connected to the grossly-simplified view of so-called "free market" economics that seems myopically focused on the competition involved. (Ditto evolution -- it's particularly exasperating when a screwed-up view of evolution is used to bolster a screwed-up view of economics.)
I learned far more from non-competitive sports than I ever did playing competitive ones, including important lessons about recovering from failure.
I eagerly await the research that identifies the genetic marker for a predisposition to seizing onto overly-simple explanations for complex traits and/or behavior.
That's so last century. These days, take him to a quail shoot.
"Common sense isn't."
A fair amount of what many people refer to as "common sense" seems to be preconceptions and/or personal preferences propped up with the bare minimum of after-the-fact rationalizing.
While his suggested implementation was off (and he didn't predict Facebook), Vannevar Bush arguably predicted the web, in an article in The Atlantic Monthly ... in 1945.
I don't want to make a copy of the ebook. I only want to be able to lend or sell it, just like I do with pbooks. Until I can do that with ebooks, they're crippled.
... when it's possible for me to sell, swap, borrow, and/or loan them.
It seems like none of the people who design ebook systems have ever been in a used book store or a library, or have ever lent a favorite book to a friend.
No wonder they got nicked. First rule of bribery: never insult the person you're trying to bribe, especially when they're an anti-corruption official. Such people need particularly high, er, polite bribes.
Try this
It didn't work out too well.
He must not have done it right. I knew someone who made it work really well.
Once.
The double threat of the current Admin is that not only have they repeatedly shown themselves to be not worthy of trust, they've gone to unprecedented lengths to block verification as much as possible.
What that data seems to projects is that FF may overtake IE6 ... whose numbers seem to be dropping mostly because of the people switching to IE7 . IE6/7 still has a comfortable lead over FF.