You'd think by now there would be a standard way to drill loose material. (For example, I've heard of projects injecting water and freezing it, then dig through the ice-mix. But there must be a better solution by now; a recoverable geopolymer, injectable, texture of chalk when set?)
Commercial vomit comet flights are $5000 per person (plus tax.) For a couple of minutes of interrupted zero-g (15 parabolas of 30 seconds each, spread over an hour.)
$10k for a ten minute sub-orbital flight would sell like hotcakes. $10k for 90 minutes in orbit would have a waiting list of years.
However, you have to ask what danger could be fixed in space, relative to the Milky Way's position relative to the position of background galaxies. Everything is moving relative to everything else, why would a line between the centre of our galaxy and an arbitrary deep space object be a permanent danger?
This has been tried. I believe that many early (crap) machine translation systems were based on that. Apparently it doesn't work. The super-language devolves into a database of one-to-one exceptions so quickly, that you might as well treat each language pair separately.
(In the same way that human-readable programming languages always end up as just plain programming languages.)
These results contradict the arguments based on degrading home values used by [...] opponents
Members of home associations that ban solar panels aren't really arguing that panels lower property prices, they're arguing "I don't want to see it". It's the same with most HA rules aimed at "protecting property values".
And my point was; refusing to upgrade because of the version number is the sort of retarded obsessive geek stupidity that hurts open source projects.
You want innovation, then scream every time they move a fucking button. When a browser has the sort of market share of Firefox, nothing the devs do will be respected. Especially because it's popular with geeks. Make it easier to use, and they scream about dumbing it down "for Grandmothers". Remove the menubar by default, and the same fucktards whine about having to press one extra key to show it again. Add a feature, and they scream about bloat and demand a minimalist Firefox where you use extensions to add features. Remove a feature, and they scream about having to download an extension!
Look at the whining about the Chrome-like tabs-on-top change in FF4. A single setting in about:config apparently switches it back. But from the noise, you'd think Firefox turned every website into OMGPonies!
If you want to use Chrome, go and use it. If you want to fork Firefox, go for it, others have. If you want to use IE9, you know you can, thanks to the threat from Firefox and the features MS stole, it's actually a useful product.
I would, but I, personally, can't stand Firefox4... ahem... 3.8.
FF4 would be 3.7, FF5 would be 3.8.
They [did bad things]
The OP was acting as if all those things were somehow caused by the change from N.n versioning to N versioning. I was trying to point out that the previous versioning system was completely arbitrary, and the new versioning system is completely arbitrary. Calling it version 5, or 4.1, or 3.8, or 1.12.2, doesn't make the slightest difference to the actual product.
willing to sacrifice their original base users (techies and geeks) for greater popularity among normal users.
I can remember Lotus 123 being described as the IBM-PC's "Killer App" (the one which makes the product indispensable for business. One of the older graphics suites was the early Mac's killer app for designers. Email, later the browser, was the Internet's killer app.)
I have 3.6, and it seems I'll be sticking to it until this "my version number is bigger then yours" insanity finally ejaculates
<Sigh> Just close your eyes really tight, and say "It's version 3.8! It's version 3.8! It's version 3.8!" and click download. And then stop whining about something that was completely arbitrary to begin with.
That doesn't give police the right to seize your office
Actually it does. Police routinely cordon off crime-scenes during an investigation.
pending another burglary attempt [...] even if it is suspected the burglar might be using your office as a rendezvous point with his other criminal buddies.
And police can certainly act to prevent a crime. For an IRL situation, I doubt they would even need the court-order if they had a "reasonable belief" that a crime was being committed within a building.
Grandparent is referring to countries with laws (or proposals for laws) which require ISPs to cut off net access after receiving three accusations of piracy from a copyright holder.
Later they claimed to not have any working cars because that one was charging. [...] it never did run out, they could have kept filming but they pretended it ran flat.
They didn't say it was flat. Remember the test, Tesla vs Lotus? They started the race, the first Tesla had problems with its brakes, as the Tesla techs worked on it, they brought out the second fully charged Tesla, refuelled the Lotus, and started again. The second Tesla had engine problems, so it wasn't a fair test. By then the first Tesla's brakes would have been fixed, but it had already been driven and so needed to be topped up. For the Lotus, that took two minutes; for the Tesla...
Later, using the data from the two cars, the Tesla boffins worked out that the range would have been 55 miles, so Top Gear included that in the voice-over.
The footage exaggerates the problems, and clearly many people thought the Tesla's were flat, but this is Top Gear! It's not EuroNCAP. Their point remains, the quoted "ranges" for electric cars are misleading, and deliberately so. With liquid fuel, you run out, you stop and fill up. With electrics, you're finished for the day. What's the "range" of the Lotus? You could drive the Lotus across a continent, stopping only for fuel and meals and driver changes. The Tesla, 211 miles a day.
I think you, like a number of posters, have misunderstood the Slashdot April Fool's tradition. It consists of a) one stupid "feature" on the site, and b) April Fool's articles written by other sites, as submitted by/. users. The editors don't create the mock articles.
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Since nuclear accidents are inevitable, it would be good to get a hotshot team of retired engineers prepared for any emergency at any reactor.
That's an awesome idea.
This should be a professional requirement in the field.
That's a terrible idea. And completely undermines the integrity of any team(s) you create.
"The problem"?
You'd think by now there would be a standard way to drill loose material. (For example, I've heard of projects injecting water and freezing it, then dig through the ice-mix. But there must be a better solution by now; a recoverable geopolymer, injectable, texture of chalk when set?)
Lamely replying to myself....
Commercial vomit comet flights are $5000 per person (plus tax.) For a couple of minutes of interrupted zero-g (15 parabolas of 30 seconds each, spread over an hour.)
$10k for a ten minute sub-orbital flight would sell like hotcakes. $10k for 90 minutes in orbit would have a waiting list of years.
That isn't totally unreasonable, but how many times are you willing to pay 10K to visit space?
Apparently most of the pre-booked flights for sub-orbital flights are researchers. That's a market where they'd go up regularly.
Don't get hung up on the word "tourist", it just means "not crew".
90 minutes, from anywhere with a space-port to anywhere with a recovery team. $10k a seat would be an easy sell.
The Permian-Triassic Extinction, "the Earth's most severe extinction event", occurred ~250Mya.
However, you have to ask what danger could be fixed in space, relative to the Milky Way's position relative to the position of background galaxies. Everything is moving relative to everything else, why would a line between the centre of our galaxy and an arbitrary deep space object be a permanent danger?
This has been tried. I believe that many early (crap) machine translation systems were based on that. Apparently it doesn't work. The super-language devolves into a database of one-to-one exceptions so quickly, that you might as well treat each language pair separately.
(In the same way that human-readable programming languages always end up as just plain programming languages.)
"Bob", "Tony", and "stole". Who should the police arrest? Grammar contains meaning just as vocabulary does.
Compound words can replace most grammar. (Bob-acting, Tony-from, stole. Bob-acting, stole, Tony-from. Tony-from, Bob-acting, stole.)
Mon avion est plein de la mère putain de serpents?
Sigh. I just burned 15 mod-points on lesser posts. So I mod this up, with the power of my mind.
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A metaphor for spousal abuse does seem a more appropriate name for the relationship between Congress and NASA.
These results contradict the arguments based on degrading home values used by [...] opponents
Members of home associations that ban solar panels aren't really arguing that panels lower property prices, they're arguing "I don't want to see it". It's the same with most HA rules aimed at "protecting property values".
1. "User settings"
2. "Delete Account"
3. "Yes"
And my point was; this is pointless.
And my point was; refusing to upgrade because of the version number is the sort of retarded obsessive geek stupidity that hurts open source projects.
You want innovation, then scream every time they move a fucking button. When a browser has the sort of market share of Firefox, nothing the devs do will be respected. Especially because it's popular with geeks. Make it easier to use, and they scream about dumbing it down "for Grandmothers". Remove the menubar by default, and the same fucktards whine about having to press one extra key to show it again. Add a feature, and they scream about bloat and demand a minimalist Firefox where you use extensions to add features. Remove a feature, and they scream about having to download an extension!
Look at the whining about the Chrome-like tabs-on-top change in FF4. A single setting in about:config apparently switches it back. But from the noise, you'd think Firefox turned every website into OMGPonies!
If you want to use Chrome, go and use it. If you want to fork Firefox, go for it, others have. If you want to use IE9, you know you can, thanks to the threat from Firefox and the features MS stole, it's actually a useful product.
I would, but I, personally, can't stand Firefox4... ahem... 3.8.
FF4 would be 3.7, FF5 would be 3.8.
They [did bad things]
The OP was acting as if all those things were somehow caused by the change from N.n versioning to N versioning. I was trying to point out that the previous versioning system was completely arbitrary, and the new versioning system is completely arbitrary. Calling it version 5, or 4.1, or 3.8, or 1.12.2, doesn't make the slightest difference to the actual product.
willing to sacrifice their original base users (techies and geeks) for greater popularity among normal users.
Gasp! The monsters!
I can remember Lotus 123 being described as the IBM-PC's "Killer App" (the one which makes the product indispensable for business. One of the older graphics suites was the early Mac's killer app for designers. Email, later the browser, was the Internet's killer app.)
I have 3.6, and it seems I'll be sticking to it until this "my version number is bigger then yours" insanity finally ejaculates
<Sigh> Just close your eyes really tight, and say "It's version 3.8! It's version 3.8! It's version 3.8!" and click download. And then stop whining about something that was completely arbitrary to begin with.
In what way are these rings "wedding rings"?
That doesn't give police the right to seize your office
Actually it does. Police routinely cordon off crime-scenes during an investigation.
pending another burglary attempt [...] even if it is suspected the burglar might be using your office as a rendezvous point with his other criminal buddies.
And police can certainly act to prevent a crime. For an IRL situation, I doubt they would even need the court-order if they had a "reasonable belief" that a crime was being committed within a building.
Grandparent is referring to countries with laws (or proposals for laws) which require ISPs to cut off net access after receiving three accusations of piracy from a copyright holder.
Later they claimed to not have any working cars because that one was charging. [...] it never did run out, they could have kept filming but they pretended it ran flat.
They didn't say it was flat. Remember the test, Tesla vs Lotus? They started the race, the first Tesla had problems with its brakes, as the Tesla techs worked on it, they brought out the second fully charged Tesla, refuelled the Lotus, and started again. The second Tesla had engine problems, so it wasn't a fair test. By then the first Tesla's brakes would have been fixed, but it had already been driven and so needed to be topped up. For the Lotus, that took two minutes; for the Tesla...
Later, using the data from the two cars, the Tesla boffins worked out that the range would have been 55 miles, so Top Gear included that in the voice-over.
The footage exaggerates the problems, and clearly many people thought the Tesla's were flat, but this is Top Gear! It's not EuroNCAP. Their point remains, the quoted "ranges" for electric cars are misleading, and deliberately so. With liquid fuel, you run out, you stop and fill up. With electrics, you're finished for the day. What's the "range" of the Lotus? You could drive the Lotus across a continent, stopping only for fuel and meals and driver changes. The Tesla, 211 miles a day.
I think you, like a number of posters, have misunderstood the Slashdot April Fool's tradition. It consists of a) one stupid "feature" on the site, and b) April Fool's articles written by other sites, as submitted by /. users. The editors don't create the mock articles.
Mod parent +1 "Accepted".