So don't use multi-stage and only use Orion in deep space?
The I remember talking around a plan for a Saturn rocket in the late 60s had several redundant steam-rockets. I don't know if that was actually what NASA was talking about. It appeared that by the late 70's we could have had a vertical takeoff and landing single stage to orbit Saturn class space craft with just water as an emission. Fully re-usable. It would have had the power and fuel to leave orbit with a vehicle which could return intact. If one thinks a Saturn V taking off would be interesting to watch, imagine seeing one land?
I also am a libertarian but had a much earlier allegiance to space flight, having been born in the late 50s. I think the USA needs to treat space flight just like it treats the Coast Guard and other uniformed services. They should work on Search and Rescue and Interdiction. Research for its own sake is right out.
Even developing an infrastructure, like roads and highways, to promote US economic development in space is not a good argument for what has been done so far, since NASA has implemented not only the road, but the bus and truck as well and have NOT given access to these things to private trucking and taxi companies. NASA should get out of the cargo business and go straight for the SAR and Interdiction roles. To that end I think they should establish Moon-flight and Interplanetary operations. Either might be automated/remotely controlled, but they should be capable of performing inspection and/or rescue/retrieval operations of live passengers.
The other thing I think the US Gov should be doing is promoting the use of nuclear fuel in both Earth to LEO and interplanetary flight. Chemical fuel is such a joke.
The problem I have with Green technology is not the Green technology. It is the threat of losing access to the not-so-green technology. The access would not go away because the not-so-green technology isn't popular, but rather because the liberty to use the not-so-green technology is unimportant to many people.
The unsupported theory that the Earth is heating up because of the use of the not-so-green technology is being used as a political tool to limit liberty.
So... we look for the supporting data. A theory with incomplete supporting data should not be used as a justification for limiting liberty!
I thought one of the points of patent law was to create a library of knowledge. The idea is that if an inventor has to keep the invention secret or obscured in order to make money on it, the knowledge could be lost. Patents give temporary protection to the inventor (or their supreme corporate overlord).
If mathematics were patentable, then eventually the knowledge is available to all and the mathematician (or their supreme corporate overlord) gets rights for some certain period of time.
This doesn't seem to be that much of a problem, or does it?
I think they will find something else to scare us with. They will have to in order to further increase the percentage of our earnings they can control and further increase the percentage of the population that is dependent on government for life.
You Americans have one set of rulers: the majority shareholders of the largest corporations in the country. They call the shots. The government is there for show. For shits and giggles, if you will.
So how do I buy into this one of these largest of corporations?
The most important thing any journalist can do is declare the source of the article, i.e. identify that it is from an eye-witness, or a source article (by name or link) so interested people can go back to the source if the writer is not the originator of the "fact". This would really flatten out the delivery tree because any journalist could then go back to the first textual copy of the story and short out all of the bad bits that were added in between.
ATT should charge more on overcrowded cell-sites and less on lightly loaded cell-sites. Also they should show the consumer what and where they are. This does two things, keeps sales up in areas where sales are low, and shows the users in the areas where insufficient network resources exist, how horrible the vendor is, or something. Oh well.
I sent it back in September. The navigation was atrocious and slow, the books I would read cost more in electronic form than in paper form and had much more severe licensing than the paper form. Translating PDF media to Kindle form resulted in something much less readable than on a laptop. The web browser was pathetic. The display wasn't as high contrast as a 40 yr old paperback. The keyboard letter labels are too small. The darn thing was way too expensive for what it was.
Some of us would like to be able to tell at a glance whether having 2.3.4 might cause problems when transferring data to a 3.4.5 installation. You try doing that with between version 36978 and 87498.
How much environmental damage would be done by manufacturing and maintaining all of these things? I suspect that a hundred nuke plants would do less damage.
The trick is to use the people being hired to break CAPCHA to monitor the computer camera. Instead of hiring these people to do things that are evil, hire them to recognize the legitimate owner of the laptop and to grant access. Now, instead of having the micro brain of the laptop doing facial recognition, we have the wetware brain in some remote call-center perform the facial recognition. They could trivially spot the 2D fake image and make a determination that somebody was trying to crack into your laptop.
I agree with the AC. The dangerous and new thing that we see now is that entities outside of my local community are now doing and learning things about me that were not practical before. The further away from personA that personB is, the less personB will value personA's perspectives and properties. This may be seen in every application of power, money, and etc. Funding, administration, taxation, law, are all less efficient, or more detrimental, when larger groups are involved than they are with smaller groups. IMHO
Does the community here accept that blocking funding to something is the same thing as blocking something? Or does blocking something require creating laws making some such or another illegal at the federal level (this probably being unconstitutional on the face of it).
Seriously? Did I do my math correctly? 40GB per month? 15MB/sec? It would take under an hour to go over the monthly allowance? That's nuts. This would be like getting a cellphone plan that only has 40minutes of plan-minutes per month, with no nights and weekends or in-network calling. Who would go for that? I guess there is a subtle difference in that a computer doesn't NEED to saturate its pipe for the entire time but still.
I'd go with DSL and to heck with the peak throughput.
There are those that will tell you that C and asm jobs are much more rare than C++, C# and Java. They may be right. I can tell you, as director of Firmware Engineering of the company I'm with, that it is MUCH MUCH harder to find unemployed C and asm 8/16-bit micro engineers than it is to find MSWindows, Linux, big system, C#, java and etc programmers.
My recommendation would be to go to http://www.ti.com/ez430 and for $20 buy yourself a eZ430-F2013. That comes with a MSWindows GUI demo package of a C compiler, assembler, simulator and debugger, with the real TI CPU. With this you can get your hands dirty writing firmware for your own application. It's worth it. It will really enhance your resume going into many lines of work in the embedded/firmware engineer lines of work.
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It would be a shame if geek-ness was TREATED to eliminate it.
There is an opposing side? This IS news.
The US is taken over by leftists. Who can afford luxury items anymore?
So don't use multi-stage and only use Orion in deep space?
The I remember talking around a plan for a Saturn rocket in the late 60s had several redundant steam-rockets. I don't know if that was actually what NASA was talking about. It appeared that by the late 70's we could have had a vertical takeoff and landing single stage to orbit Saturn class space craft with just water as an emission. Fully re-usable. It would have had the power and fuel to leave orbit with a vehicle which could return intact. If one thinks a Saturn V taking off would be interesting to watch, imagine seeing one land?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket has some info about NERVA rockets. Saturn C-5N is a Nuclear version of the Saturn 1st stage, http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/saturnv.htm I don't know what it's propellent was supposed to be but I'm sure that info is out on the web someplace.
Damn Jane Fonda for convincing the public that nuclear power was bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16wwln-freakonomics-t.html
I also am a libertarian but had a much earlier allegiance to space flight, having been born in the late 50s. I think the USA needs to treat space flight just like it treats the Coast Guard and other uniformed services. They should work on Search and Rescue and Interdiction. Research for its own sake is right out.
Even developing an infrastructure, like roads and highways, to promote US economic development in space is not a good argument for what has been done so far, since NASA has implemented not only the road, but the bus and truck as well and have NOT given access to these things to private trucking and taxi companies. NASA should get out of the cargo business and go straight for the SAR and Interdiction roles. To that end I think they should establish Moon-flight and Interplanetary operations. Either might be automated/remotely controlled, but they should be capable of performing inspection and/or rescue/retrieval operations of live passengers.
The other thing I think the US Gov should be doing is promoting the use of nuclear fuel in both Earth to LEO and interplanetary flight. Chemical fuel is such a joke.
The problem I have with Green technology is not the Green technology. It is the threat of losing access to the not-so-green technology. The access would not go away because the not-so-green technology isn't popular, but rather because the liberty to use the not-so-green technology is unimportant to many people.
The unsupported theory that the Earth is heating up because of the use of the not-so-green technology is being used as a political tool to limit liberty.
So... we look for the supporting data. A theory with incomplete supporting data should not be used as a justification for limiting liberty!
I ordered the dirt.
I don't think he was calling the lack of patents socialist. he was calling the slashdotters' naive agenda socialist.
I thought one of the points of patent law was to create a library of knowledge. The idea is that if an inventor has to keep the invention secret or obscured in order to make money on it, the knowledge could be lost. Patents give temporary protection to the inventor (or their supreme corporate overlord).
If mathematics were patentable, then eventually the knowledge is available to all and the mathematician (or their supreme corporate overlord) gets rights for some certain period of time.
This doesn't seem to be that much of a problem, or does it?
I think they will find something else to scare us with. They will have to in order to further increase the percentage of our earnings they can control and further increase the percentage of the population that is dependent on government for life.
You Americans have one set of rulers: the majority shareholders of the largest corporations in the country. They call the shots. The government is there for show. For shits and giggles, if you will.
So how do I buy into this one of these largest of corporations?
Oh wait. You are just an AC being stupid.
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The most important thing any journalist can do is declare the source of the article, i.e. identify that it is from an eye-witness, or a source article (by name or link) so interested people can go back to the source if the writer is not the originator of the "fact". This would really flatten out the delivery tree because any journalist could then go back to the first textual copy of the story and short out all of the bad bits that were added in between.
ATT should charge more on overcrowded cell-sites and less on lightly loaded cell-sites. Also they should show the consumer what and where they are. This does two things, keeps sales up in areas where sales are low, and shows the users in the areas where insufficient network resources exist, how horrible the vendor is, or something. Oh well.
I sent it back in September.
The navigation was atrocious and slow, the books I would read cost more in electronic form than in paper form and had much more severe licensing than the paper form. Translating PDF media to Kindle form resulted in something much less readable than on a laptop. The web browser was pathetic. The display wasn't as high contrast as a 40 yr old paperback. The keyboard letter labels are too small.
The darn thing was way too expensive for what it was.
Some of us would like to be able to tell at a glance whether having 2.3.4 might cause problems when transferring data to a 3.4.5 installation. You try doing that with between version 36978 and 87498.
I like it.
How much environmental damage would be done by manufacturing and maintaining all of these things? I suspect that a hundred nuke plants would do less damage.
Many programmers will improve their neatness and attention to coding standards if they know the code review is in the future.
The trick is to use the people being hired to break CAPCHA to monitor the computer camera. Instead of hiring these people to do things that are evil, hire them to recognize the legitimate owner of the laptop and to grant access. Now, instead of having the micro brain of the laptop doing facial recognition, we have the wetware brain in some remote call-center perform the facial recognition. They could trivially spot the 2D fake image and make a determination that somebody was trying to crack into your laptop.
As we seek the preponderance of false results loosely coupling the precipitate with the bandwidth, we limit latency at all costs.
I agree with the AC. The dangerous and new thing that we see now is that entities outside of my local community are now doing and learning things about me that were not practical before. The further away from personA that personB is, the less personB will value personA's perspectives and properties. This may be seen in every application of power, money, and etc. Funding, administration, taxation, law, are all less efficient, or more detrimental, when larger groups are involved than they are with smaller groups. IMHO
Does the community here ...
...Quit being so close-minded...
glitch, I'm with you. I'm not quick to do anything. I asked the question to see what people think about it.
I think expecting (or approving) FEDERAL funding for ANYTHING not specified in the Constitution is anti-American.
Does the community here accept that blocking funding to something is the same thing as blocking something? Or does blocking something require creating laws making some such or another illegal at the federal level (this probably being unconstitutional on the face of it).
Seriously? Did I do my math correctly? 40GB per month? 15MB/sec? It would take under an hour to go over the monthly allowance? That's nuts. This would be like getting a cellphone plan that only has 40minutes of plan-minutes per month, with no nights and weekends or in-network calling. Who would go for that? I guess there is a subtle difference in that a computer doesn't NEED to saturate its pipe for the entire time but still.
I'd go with DSL and to heck with the peak throughput.
There are those that will tell you that C and asm jobs are much more rare than C++, C# and Java. They may be right. I can tell you, as director of Firmware Engineering of the company I'm with, that it is MUCH MUCH harder to find unemployed C and asm 8/16-bit micro engineers than it is to find MSWindows, Linux, big system, C#, java and etc programmers.
My recommendation would be to go to http://www.ti.com/ez430 and for $20 buy yourself a eZ430-F2013. That comes with a MSWindows GUI demo package of a C compiler, assembler, simulator and debugger, with the real TI CPU. With this you can get your hands dirty writing firmware for your own application. It's worth it. It will really enhance your resume going into many lines of work in the embedded/firmware engineer lines of work.