OK, that's actually a pretty cool idea. I regret my initial hasty reply of "maybe nothing". You also reminded me of the first program I ever encountered (and I suspect we all encountered it by 2nd grade). It worked like this:
For a picture of a naked lady, turn to page 45.
45: The teacher is ugly. Naked ladies are on page 89.
And so on, and so forth.
It was a simple language, but not well structured. Mostly statements and gotos; but it did have conditionals, perhaps even before Lisp: If you want to see an explosion, turn to page 10, otherwise turn the page.
Of course you can't have the student's marking up books now can you? Yep, the first programming language a kid learned, and it was fun, intuitive and just a bit subversive. Nothing changed when we went electronic.
When I was in 1st or 2nd grade, the whole idea of a computer in the home was still science fiction. One day, we were marched into a room at the school and shown some kind of hookup--in retrospect it was probably a lineprinter based hookup to the school's mainframe. We were shown a couple of printouts and I always rememeber what they said. "In order to work with this printout, you need to be good at math. In order to work with that one, you need to be good at reading".
The whole thing was a dog and pony show of course, designed to encourage us to study so that some day we could work with the cool sci-fi machine that filled a room with hums and clicks, and sent men to the Moon.
That was the only in-class computer "instruction" I had until highschool. I ended up writing software for a living a number of years.
In other words, 2nd grade? You could tell them there are little gremlins in the machine and that it'll make rainbows and unicorns if they press the right buttons. Some even say that the average child doesn't have the neural connections to handle some problems until they approach puberty. I know that some math was a real PiTA for me until jr. High, and then it got easier.
Also, I learned more computing outside of class than in it. I came to college knowing how to use a lookup table to make a program 3 pages which most people used 11 pages of if-then statements to accomplish because that's all they were taught. Ahhhh, good times. That said, I do sometimes wish I'd had more formal training. I got realy embarassed one time not knowing the meaning of the phrase "side effect", and I know that probably would not have happened if I'd had a hardcore MIT-style Lisp based CS curriculum instead of my own hacking and a few Pascal-based courses as part of a BSEE.
Meanwhile, California did nothing except impose water restrictions. Result? A near record Sierra snowfall. Reservoirs would be filled to the brim here, except that some of them are kept below capacity because the dams that hold them back are considered to be below seismic standards.
The generation that operated in finance during the 1929 crash had passed away. Note, their kids are still alive; but they weren't actually on Wall Street. Those kids remember the hurricane of 1938 and told some of us about it. My mom was riding a streetcar in Worcester, MA which was forced to stop in that howling wind and rain. She was terrified. This is many miles inland from the ocean, and definitely New England. The real victims were on Long Island. I've been told they still find bits and pieces from houses that used to be there.
Of course now there are no streetcars, and if there were people would have warning enough not to ride them. Back then? Nothing but vague reports from ships at sea, some notion that something bad might be coming...
Some guys in the office showed me Slashdot. I spent months lurking and doing the occasional AC post. Like many Slashdotters I resist the whole concept of registration if I can avoid it (think New York Times). Slashdot was different. I've always wondered "what might have been" in terms of UID prestige if only I had been more eager about it.
Well, it was a bit of a rant. If you've just got 1.5mbps, then yeah, you need a fatter pipe. Your situation might be more common than mine, where I'm sitting on the end of a cable modem that blazes; but my older hardware chokes on 1080p video and script-heavy sites.
You dont need a license to transmit laser light for data transmission
You do need a license to relay weaker signals from the surface of the planet up to an orbital platform controlled by a 3rd party.
If your probe can send signals up to an orbital platform you don't need as much power (lasers do attenuate over distance). There might be a significant weight penalty for a direct Earth-Mars laser with each probe. If you save the weight, you can send more probes to different locations instead of launching your own BFLaser with each probe.
If we had an orbital relay station with excess bandwidth, it would make sense to sell it to somebody. From their PoV, it would make sense to buy the bandwidth because they could launch more probes or concentrate on something other than the communication infrastructure (comparative advantage, etc.).
IANACost analyst for space agencies, so maybe the math doesn't work. It's just an idea. Hopefully I've fleshed it out to the point where it makes sense now.
My Internet is plenty fast. Browsers are slow. OK, the browser combined withe the web site is slow. Chrome does JavaScript really well, blazingly fast. That's only half the problem though. The other half of the problem is that YOUR WEBSITE DOESN'T NEED THOSE SCRIPTS. Yes, I'm shouting. If I were a web designer, I would have embedded a video of a guy shouting using Javascript, along with 10 ads and several other embedded videos, and some Flash. At least half the embeds would contain exploits for IE/Windows and attempts at exploits for other browser/OS combos.
Anyway, plenty of bandwidth. We don't need a fatter pipe. We need less shit being flushed into the sewer that the Internet has become.
Any possibility of licensing spectrum to the Russians, the Chinese, or other countries that want to send probes to Mars? Fractional T-1 to Mars in exchange for a Soyuz ride or something...
How much is that in bitcoin? Are cheesy "collectible" coins the new push on Slashdot? Maybe Slashdot's parent corporation will do a deal with Franklin Mint. Home Shopping Channel, here we come!
Yay for phlogiston and aether. Dark matter might end up on the list of ideas that physcists turned to in order to explain things that had other explanations. La plus ca change...
So. What would it look like if we found it, and in what general area might we find it. I guess there's a good chance it went into the ocean, which is tough. OTOH, maybe it could have spiraled in towards land. There's an awful lot of state park, national park, and BLM land in california. It'd be quite a find for somebody hiking in the desert, if they knew what they had just found was something other than ordinary aircraft wreckage or part of an old jeep that somebody set on fire.
Without a high-energy society, there is no Apple. Without plastics, there are many missing parts. Without diesel powered container cargo vessels, you must make your products locally for much more money. Without energy intensive semiconductor fab, there is no product. Without electricity the product is not powered. Most importantly, without high-energy freeing up labor, nobody can afford your device. They would be too busy plowing fields with draft horses.
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OK, that's actually a pretty cool idea. I regret my initial hasty reply of "maybe nothing". You also reminded me of the first program I ever encountered (and I suspect we all encountered it by 2nd grade). It worked like this:
For a picture of a naked lady, turn to page 45.
45: The teacher is ugly. Naked ladies are on page 89.
And so on, and so forth.
It was a simple language, but not well structured. Mostly statements and gotos; but it did have conditionals, perhaps even before Lisp: If you want to see an explosion, turn to page 10, otherwise turn the page.
Of course you can't have the student's marking up books now can you? Yep, the first programming language a kid learned, and it was fun, intuitive and just a bit subversive. Nothing changed when we went electronic.
When I was in 1st or 2nd grade, the whole idea of a computer in the home was still science fiction. One day, we were marched into a room at the school and shown some kind of hookup--in retrospect it was probably a lineprinter based hookup to the school's mainframe. We were shown a couple of printouts and I always rememeber what they said. "In order to work with this printout, you need to be good at math. In order to work with that one, you need to be good at reading".
The whole thing was a dog and pony show of course, designed to encourage us to study so that some day we could work with the cool sci-fi machine that filled a room with hums and clicks, and sent men to the Moon.
That was the only in-class computer "instruction" I had until highschool. I ended up writing software for a living a number of years.
In other words, 2nd grade? You could tell them there are little gremlins in the machine and that it'll make rainbows and unicorns if they press the right buttons. Some even say that the average child doesn't have the neural connections to handle some problems until they approach puberty. I know that some math was a real PiTA for me until jr. High, and then it got easier.
Also, I learned more computing outside of class than in it. I came to college knowing how to use a lookup table to make a program 3 pages which most people used 11 pages of if-then statements to accomplish because that's all they were taught. Ahhhh, good times. That said, I do sometimes wish I'd had more formal training. I got realy embarassed one time not knowing the meaning of the phrase "side effect", and I know that probably would not have happened if I'd had a hardcore MIT-style Lisp based CS curriculum instead of my own hacking and a few Pascal-based courses as part of a BSEE.
Oh boy, an ad hominem attack. I'm sold!
Is that the thought process they're expecting on the other side?
I didn't even bother to read the article, because plainly whoever wrote it is a pompous ass.
Now that I've got that out in the open, they should be humble and gracious going forward.
Meanwhile, California did nothing except impose water restrictions. Result? A near record Sierra snowfall. Reservoirs would be filled to the brim here, except that some of them are kept below capacity because the dams that hold them back are considered to be below seismic standards.
The generation that operated in finance during the 1929 crash had passed away. Note, their kids are still alive; but they weren't actually on Wall Street. Those kids remember the hurricane of 1938 and told some of us about it. My mom was riding a streetcar in Worcester, MA which was forced to stop in that howling wind and rain. She was terrified. This is many miles inland from the ocean, and definitely New England. The real victims were on Long Island. I've been told they still find bits and pieces from houses that used to be there.
Of course now there are no streetcars, and if there were people would have warning enough not to ride them. Back then? Nothing but vague reports from ships at sea, some notion that something bad might be coming...
Some guys in the office showed me Slashdot. I spent months lurking and doing the occasional AC post. Like many Slashdotters I resist the whole concept of registration if I can avoid it (think New York Times). Slashdot was different. I've always wondered "what might have been" in terms of UID prestige if only I had been more eager about it.
Well, it was a bit of a rant. If you've just got 1.5mbps, then yeah, you need a fatter pipe. Your situation might be more common than mine, where I'm sitting on the end of a cable modem that blazes; but my older hardware chokes on 1080p video and script-heavy sites.
You dont need a license to transmit laser light for data transmission
You do need a license to relay weaker signals from the surface of the planet up to an orbital platform controlled by a 3rd party.
If your probe can send signals up to an orbital platform you don't need as much power (lasers do attenuate over distance). There might be a significant weight penalty for a direct Earth-Mars laser with each probe. If you save the weight, you can send more probes to different locations instead of launching your own BFLaser with each probe.
If we had an orbital relay station with excess bandwidth, it would make sense to sell it to somebody. From their PoV, it would make sense to buy the bandwidth because they could launch more probes or concentrate on something other than the communication infrastructure (comparative advantage, etc.).
IANACost analyst for space agencies, so maybe the math doesn't work. It's just an idea. Hopefully I've fleshed it out to the point where it makes sense now.
My Internet is plenty fast. Browsers are slow. OK, the browser combined withe the web site is slow. Chrome does JavaScript really well, blazingly fast. That's only half the problem though. The other half of the problem is that YOUR WEBSITE DOESN'T NEED THOSE SCRIPTS. Yes, I'm shouting. If I were a web designer, I would have embedded a video of a guy shouting using Javascript, along with 10 ads and several other embedded videos, and some Flash. At least half the embeds would contain exploits for IE/Windows and attempts at exploits for other browser/OS combos.
Anyway, plenty of bandwidth. We don't need a fatter pipe. We need less shit being flushed into the sewer that the Internet has become.
Any possibility of licensing spectrum to the Russians, the Chinese, or other countries that want to send probes to Mars? Fractional T-1 to Mars in exchange for a Soyuz ride or something...
newest Packt book: 'Programming with Python 2.5'.
They're hiring for that; but only if you have at least 10 years experience.
Their secret to making the balloon fly higher? Remove letters to reduce weight.
How much is that in bitcoin? Are cheesy "collectible" coins the new push on Slashdot? Maybe Slashdot's parent corporation will do a deal with Franklin Mint. Home Shopping Channel, here we come!
Yay for phlogiston and aether. Dark matter might end up on the list of ideas that physcists turned to in order to explain things that had other explanations. La plus ca change...
They should use Jean Luc Picard because everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people
So. What would it look like if we found it, and in what general area might we find it. I guess there's a good chance it went into the ocean, which is tough. OTOH, maybe it could have spiraled in towards land. There's an awful lot of state park, national park, and BLM land in california. It'd be quite a find for somebody hiking in the desert, if they knew what they had just found was something other than ordinary aircraft wreckage or part of an old jeep that somebody set on fire.
Without a high-energy society, there is no Apple. Without plastics, there are many missing parts. Without diesel powered container cargo vessels, you must make your products locally for much more money. Without energy intensive semiconductor fab, there is no product. Without electricity the product is not powered. Most importantly, without high-energy freeing up labor, nobody can afford your device. They would be too busy plowing fields with draft horses.
.We could psychoanalyze the hell out of this, or we could air-gap the stuff that really matters and be done with it.
The US government is going to roll something into a crater? Is this Slashdot or the finance pages?
I see goats all the time here taking down high grass. This works well in CA because you only need to take the grass down for the dry season.
In climates with year-round rain, the goats would have to be trucked in more often.
If you don't want barnyard animals running around, my other suggestion is "plant trees". Mowing them is much less frequent, and much more profitable.
The highways deliver us all kinds of goods which prolong life. They also deliver traffic fatalities.
One is easy to measure. The other isn't.
This tendancy to focus on the metric that's easily measured is a problem in a lot of places...
A blog post about mental illness and startups.
My tweet along a similar line, from some time ago.
OK. I may or may not be intelligent; but I think I'm wise enough to just drop this.
You used the words "adept", and "knowledgeable". Then you said those things don't equal more intelligence. If they don't, then what does?
If it has more than one verse, it's some kind of poetry or a song. If it has an infinite number of verses, it's Vogon poetry.