For the first 30 years of NASA, though, computers weren't small and powerful enough. Thus the focus on manned flight.
Nonsense. Pioneer, Mariner, Voyager, etc. All the Earth-observation sats. Even Apollo sample return was within reach of an unmanned program, given the Luna 16 sample return that occurred during the Apollo program. Humans did nothing in the first 30 years that unmanned missions couldn't, except being "humans in space".
The only things humans are better than robots is in-orbit construction and fixing the robots. Two things that NASA is now avoiding like the plague in mission planning.
More common in multi-company buildings, I think. I've only seen it once. It's a pain (and embarrassing the first time you encounter it. I prefer to use stairs to go down floors [never up, fat-boy don't climb] since it's almost always faster than the elevators.)
Then you didn't have a choice but to work vertically. But I've seen it in campuses with long 4-5 story buildings. People looking for an empty meeting-room will go to the other end of the building before they go one floor up. They'll swap offices on the same floor without a thought, but will announce changing floors like they are going to work in a different building, or even for a different company. They'll walk down the length of the building on a whim to see if someone's in their office, but will ring upstairs first to check first to avoid a "wasted trip". Totally different psychology.
You'd think so, but in reality there's greater isolation between floors than mere distance. If the land is cheap enough, always go horizontal.
I'd be willing to bet that Apple employees will treat travel to areas directly above/below them as if it were "further" than walking half way around the ring on their own floor.
Slashdot also lets you read it, even post, without an account.
Likewise, you can view a Twitter feed or follow a link to a tweeted pic, even through you don't have an account. Ditto a Myspace band-page (or whatever people use Myspace for.) I believe G+ is the same (not sure. I have a gmail account, and thanks to their insistent cross-liking, I apparently have every other G-account.) In other words, they are all "on the web".
Facebook requires you to have a Facebook account and logged in merely to read a posting on someone else's wall, even if you are following a direct link. They are not "on the Web". They are a distinct, private service that happens to use the internet for access.
Worse than Slashdot, worse than Twitter, worse than Myspace, worse even than Google. They are AOL of the 21st century.
More likely, and more common, rupturing a fuel-line near the engine. Fuel spraying over the hot engine or exhaust tends to ignite easily. (Or breaking the fuel filter, or damaging the fuel pump, or...)
Coincidentally, this would be roughly the same place that the Tesla was struck.
The original tape was just rubber adhesive applied to a type of waterproof canvas called "duck cloth". Hence "duck tape".
The modern plastic-coated cloth tape is correctly called "duct tape", which is the industry it comes from. Although, just to confuse things further, they don't use duct-tape to tape ducts any more, they use much thinner silver plastic tape. So you can buy "Duck Brand Duct Tape" which is neither duck tape nor duct tape.
The term "Begging the question" is the obscure name of an logical fallacy (circular reasoning), used only by people only when talking about logical fallacies. It uses the archaic form of "begging" to mean "assuming". And it is never used conversationally.
The phrase "which begs the question [followed by the question]" is a simple English phrase that means no more than the words it uses, used conversationally and understood by anyone who can speak English.
Everyone who learns about the former goes through a period where they bristle at the latter. It make them feel superior, but it demonstrates the opposite.
I like the new design elements, but I have some suggestions.
The new ultra-narrow format is good, but the sidebar takes up too small a portion of it. The current ratio of main:sidebar is perhaps 2:1, but I think 3:2 would be better, maybe even 1:1. Also the side-bar should sort of hover inexactly when I scroll, maybe vanishing as I scroll then weirdly fading back in, I see that on many websites and I always really notice it! Anything would be better than having the sidebar attached to the main page, that's sooooo 2005.
Animated ads are okay, but I think more elements in the side-bar should move continuously while I'm trying to read. And have you considered making the "popular now" box continuously side-scrolling? This is pretty standard on many sites now, see your own Dice.com homepage for an example of this awesomely eye-catching gimmick!
Hmmm. Indenting comment threads. It's certainly an improvement how you've deemphasised threads so much, but is it really necessary to have them at all? Why not just bite the bullet and get rid of the threads and indenting altogether and just display the comments flat in order of posting.
The pop-over menu on the Topics tab is great. I love how it pops up instantly when you are moving your mouse down from your browser's tab bar, you don't even have to pause for a tenth of a second! And it's great how you have to move the mouse cursor so much further to get the pop-up to close, then move back up to what you are actually trying to click on. I think more page elements should have large boxes that instantly pop-up when you are trying to mouse past them!
Some additional suggestions:
It would also be nice to have big social media buttons pop-up whenever I mouse over each story! I see that on many sites and blogs, and assume you're already working on it.
I think you should limit access for non-subscibers. Say 5 articles a month? This would encourage lots of new subscribers.
And don't forget to welcome me to the site by greying out the page and popping up a little box encouraging me to sign up for email notifications, or inviting me to sample other Dice.com properties. I know I appreciate that on every other site that does it!
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Congratulations on the new design, you are really moving in a positive direction. Keep up the good work. More generic pictures, less text please!
I hate this and I hate every web site that does this.
A partial solution for Firefox users is the addon NoSquint. It allows you to separately zoom site and text. So for a site as pointlessly narrow as Slashdot/beta you zoom the site setting to say 150 to 170%, then zoom the text back down to 50-70%.
It's not perfect, you can't increase the width without zooming non-text elements which can produce some weirdness occasionally. But it is better than the stupid narrow format of Slashdot/beta. Although it won't solve the problem of the hiding the text of each story behind "Read More" JS bullshit.
[Pro-tip: Global-settings/Exceptions/Pattern:"*.blogspot"/Add-exception/OK. Save you much annoyance.]
[[Optizoom might be the Chrome equivalent. Possibly.]]
The SpaceX Falcon 9 is built largely around previously-tested designs,
New engines in the first stage, in a new arrangement, in a new thrust frame, new avionics systems, new comms system, new engine in the second stage, new lengthened/narrowed tanks/housings for both stages, and a new payload shroud. And every part of that had to work just to get the payload into orbit. On top of that, they added extras for recovery and multiple engine restarts.
Not to disagree with your point, but apparently there is a limit on testing reusability in missions. For example, they won't be able to attempt it in the next two flights due to the demands of the payloads. So the first flight that will be able to make another attempt will be the next CRS flight, and NASA may rule that out for safety reasons since they are the primary client.
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For the first 30 years of NASA, though, computers weren't small and powerful enough. Thus the focus on manned flight.
Nonsense. Pioneer, Mariner, Voyager, etc. All the Earth-observation sats. Even Apollo sample return was within reach of an unmanned program, given the Luna 16 sample return that occurred during the Apollo program. Humans did nothing in the first 30 years that unmanned missions couldn't, except being "humans in space".
The only things humans are better than robots is in-orbit construction and fixing the robots. Two things that NASA is now avoiding like the plague in mission planning.
Not on live TV.
Don't worry, a Mars mission will be on a 3 to 20 minute delay.
More common in multi-company buildings, I think. I've only seen it once. It's a pain (and embarrassing the first time you encounter it. I prefer to use stairs to go down floors [never up, fat-boy don't climb] since it's almost always faster than the elevators.)
Then you didn't have a choice but to work vertically. But I've seen it in campuses with long 4-5 story buildings. People looking for an empty meeting-room will go to the other end of the building before they go one floor up. They'll swap offices on the same floor without a thought, but will announce changing floors like they are going to work in a different building, or even for a different company. They'll walk down the length of the building on a whim to see if someone's in their office, but will ring upstairs first to check first to avoid a "wasted trip". Totally different psychology.
Headline: "Wheel shaped thing looks vaguely like other wheel shaped thing!" Stop the presses.
Samsung: Korean HQ
Gates Foundation: Seattle HQ
Microsoft:Redmond Campus
You'd think so, but in reality there's greater isolation between floors than mere distance. If the land is cheap enough, always go horizontal.
I'd be willing to bet that Apple employees will treat travel to areas directly above/below them as if it were "further" than walking half way around the ring on their own floor.
Slashdot also lets you read it, even post, without an account.
Likewise, you can view a Twitter feed or follow a link to a tweeted pic, even through you don't have an account. Ditto a Myspace band-page (or whatever people use Myspace for.) I believe G+ is the same (not sure. I have a gmail account, and thanks to their insistent cross-liking, I apparently have every other G-account.) In other words, they are all "on the web".
Facebook requires you to have a Facebook account and logged in merely to read a posting on someone else's wall, even if you are following a direct link. They are not "on the Web". They are a distinct, private service that happens to use the internet for access.
Worse than Slashdot, worse than Twitter, worse than Myspace, worse even than Google. They are AOL of the 21st century.
You have a New Alert.
More likely, and more common, rupturing a fuel-line near the engine. Fuel spraying over the hot engine or exhaust tends to ignite easily. (Or breaking the fuel filter, or damaging the fuel pump, or...)
Coincidentally, this would be roughly the same place that the Tesla was struck.
The original tape was just rubber adhesive applied to a type of waterproof canvas called "duck cloth". Hence "duck tape".
The modern plastic-coated cloth tape is correctly called "duct tape", which is the industry it comes from. Although, just to confuse things further, they don't use duct-tape to tape ducts any more, they use much thinner silver plastic tape. So you can buy "Duck Brand Duct Tape" which is neither duck tape nor duct tape.
I think this is the only worthwhile comment I've read on this entire page.
of an logical fallacy
used only by people only when
Heh.
It make them feel superior, but it demonstrates the opposite.
The term "Begging the question" is the obscure name of an logical fallacy (circular reasoning), used only by people only when talking about logical fallacies. It uses the archaic form of "begging" to mean "assuming". And it is never used conversationally.
The phrase "which begs the question [followed by the question]" is a simple English phrase that means no more than the words it uses, used conversationally and understood by anyone who can speak English.
Everyone who learns about the former goes through a period where they bristle at the latter. It make them feel superior, but it demonstrates the opposite.
I like the new design elements, but I have some suggestions.
The new ultra-narrow format is good, but the sidebar takes up too small a portion of it. The current ratio of main:sidebar is perhaps 2:1, but I think 3:2 would be better, maybe even 1:1. Also the side-bar should sort of hover inexactly when I scroll, maybe vanishing as I scroll then weirdly fading back in, I see that on many websites and I always really notice it! Anything would be better than having the sidebar attached to the main page, that's sooooo 2005.
Animated ads are okay, but I think more elements in the side-bar should move continuously while I'm trying to read. And have you considered making the "popular now" box continuously side-scrolling? This is pretty standard on many sites now, see your own Dice.com homepage for an example of this awesomely eye-catching gimmick!
Hmmm. Indenting comment threads. It's certainly an improvement how you've deemphasised threads so much, but is it really necessary to have them at all? Why not just bite the bullet and get rid of the threads and indenting altogether and just display the comments flat in order of posting.
The pop-over menu on the Topics tab is great. I love how it pops up instantly when you are moving your mouse down from your browser's tab bar, you don't even have to pause for a tenth of a second! And it's great how you have to move the mouse cursor so much further to get the pop-up to close, then move back up to what you are actually trying to click on. I think more page elements should have large boxes that instantly pop-up when you are trying to mouse past them!
Some additional suggestions:
It would also be nice to have big social media buttons pop-up whenever I mouse over each story! I see that on many sites and blogs, and assume you're already working on it.
I think you should limit access for non-subscibers. Say 5 articles a month? This would encourage lots of new subscribers.
And don't forget to welcome me to the site by greying out the page and popping up a little box encouraging me to sign up for email notifications, or inviting me to sample other Dice.com properties. I know I appreciate that on every other site that does it!
---
Congratulations on the new design, you are really moving in a positive direction. Keep up the good work. More generic pictures, less text please!
"I'm an asshole hipster designer and it looks fine on my 14" Viewsonic at 800x600" column.
Actually, it appears designed for a 9:16 format tablet.
The subject.
Although it won't solve the problem of the hiding the text of each story behind "Read More" JS bullshit.
Oh god, I just checked properly and it's a normal story link. There's actually no way to read the summary text on the home page.
I hate this and I hate every web site that does this.
A partial solution for Firefox users is the addon NoSquint. It allows you to separately zoom site and text. So for a site as pointlessly narrow as Slashdot/beta you zoom the site setting to say 150 to 170%, then zoom the text back down to 50-70%.
It's not perfect, you can't increase the width without zooming non-text elements which can produce some weirdness occasionally. But it is better than the stupid narrow format of Slashdot/beta. Although it won't solve the problem of the hiding the text of each story behind "Read More" JS bullshit.
[Pro-tip: Global-settings/Exceptions/Pattern:"*.blogspot"/Add-exception/OK. Save you much annoyance.]
[[Optizoom might be the Chrome equivalent. Possibly.]]
The SpaceX Falcon 9 is built largely around previously-tested designs,
New engines in the first stage, in a new arrangement, in a new thrust frame, new avionics systems, new comms system, new engine in the second stage, new lengthened/narrowed tanks/housings for both stages, and a new payload shroud. And every part of that had to work just to get the payload into orbit. On top of that, they added extras for recovery and multiple engine restarts.
Sure sounds like a test flight to me.
Dude, CamelCase. That was really hard to parse. #GreasedYodaDollShovedUpMyAss. See how much easier that is?
Not to disagree with your point, but apparently there is a limit on testing reusability in missions. For example, they won't be able to attempt it in the next two flights due to the demands of the payloads. So the first flight that will be able to make another attempt will be the next CRS flight, and NASA may rule that out for safety reasons since they are the primary client.
Quaid, start the reactor. Free Mars.
Hashtags are getting ridiculous.
"#WomensDrivingAffectsOvariesAndPelvises"
Were they worried about getting confused with the always popular "#WomensDrivingAffectsOvaries"?
The Black Hole is an underrated gem that deserves a good remake
"who directed Disney's 2010 blockbuster Tron: Legacy [...] who wrote the original script for the Alien prequel Prometheus"
Good luck with that.