Look, the whole world culture is becoming more violent when compared to - say - the 1950s. Comics
What? The 1950s had everyone censoring violence at home and all the moral codes and such because they were sick of the debauchery and blood letting they went through. After World War II and then Korea, all followed up with the seemingly inevitable prospect of atomic war, most people didn't want to see too much blood and people getting killed because they were sick of it. But, with that said, nobody minded a good beating to watch. Friday night at the fights was a hugely popular show and NFL football back then was a lot well, less rules based, than it is today.
That's great. Let's clean up our cities, presently, crime ridden cesspools filled with the bulk of America's poor, and have them all draining welfare for even longer than they do. So, air quality helps these people live 2 years longer? Why not weigh that against the stress of being poor, which causes people to live decades less. Build some fricking factories there, for christ sake...
The GPL license is just about protecting individuals who want to develop and use software in freedom. It's up to you to take advantage of this protection or not
The best protection is public domain. Retaining ownership to force an ideological end is silly. The GPL was born out of emacs getting "ripped off" by other people... but did that stop emacs at all? Nope, we're still stuck with it, even though everyone knows vi is better....
Your analysis presumes that television will never die. I find that to be unlikely.
TV will last forever. TV's are the perfect vegetation device. Computers are fun but you have to work to use them. A TV, universal remote and a six pack are about as good as it gets.
The universe remote will never die. It costs at least $200 for a "smart phone" like an iPhone or a Google android, and those smart phones not as good for TV surfing as the $15 remote you get from Walmart. The buttons on the remote are the product of 30 years of evolutionary design, the user interfaces on set top boxes are not -that- bad, and you don't have to worry about hackers. By the time you jizz your finger into getting your smart appliance into channel changing mode, I can reach down from the couch, onto the floor, pick the remote up and change the channel.
Oh, and by the way, the batteries on my remote last way longer than your smart phone batteries.
Yeah. Afterr all the guy who all but built NASA from the ground up and who steered NASA through the Apollo years can't possibly be an important figure.
I like to differentiate myself with threading as a developer but this article is over the line.
It's absolutely absurd to say that multicore chips won't benefit a system when any modern Windows or Linux installation will not benefit users. I think I have like 20 windows open, and quite a few processes. Some of them are active, and some are not. The fact is, these systems, both Windows and Linux, and if anything, Linux, are designed to serve up multiple threads with multiple users on multiple processors. They -are- mainframe operating systems in a consumer role..
You miss the point completely. You have this notion that a bunch of Phd people are the best to man a mission to mars. I imagine you would need some, for sure, but if you just have a bunch of scientists and lawyers in a room, you wind up with the disaster in the various biosphere projects, the disaster in the ben franklin submarine research project, the infighting and politicking of every major university and the chronic failure that is the various us government bodies. bottom line is, those people screw up everything they touch, and if you are going to have a crew on a space mission, you want a ruthless leader, paid followers, such that, if one of them acts up, they go out the airlock.
Republicans are the party out of power. Democrats are big time in bed with the film and music and book industries and there's no chance those people will ever be close to Republicans either economically or culturally. So... why do Republicans support them? I'd say, we Republicans should be aggressive and go after these votes.
While I admire your enthusiasm and loyalty this is a very brain dead statement embodies what makes many people think "military intelligence" is an oxymoron.
Chuck Yeager, USAF, First American to break sound barrier Alan Shephard, US Navy, First American in Space Neil Armstrong, MS, US Navy, first man to walk on the moon. Buzz Aldrin, Phd, US Army, US Air Force, perfected space walking for USA, 2nd man to walk on moon.
to name but a few... we can skip ahead a few years and find the same sort of people today:
Eileen Collins, MS/MA, USAF... pilot of first shuttle mission post Columbia. veteran shuttle astronaut.
by the way, all of these men of Mercury and Apollo fought in wars... Yeager fought in WWII and Korea, and Armstrong and Buzz and Shepherd all fought in Korea at least. While the current group of astronauts came of age prior to America's current wars, it is safe to say that they trained in preparation for it and some flew missions in Desert Storm 1991 or Kosovo after that...
I think you underestimate the intelligence of our people in uniform. In fact, I would say that the military has plenty of people with advanced degrees, has people that function well as a team, are proved in the most extraordinary pressure test - which is combat, and, you aren't going to find a better crew to go to Mars with than them.
But... Where does it all stop? We only have so much money..
I think we need to find a better balance between quantity and quality. We're stuck in this thing where everything has to be the best at any price and as a result we have today's destroyers that cost more than a battleship did even when you adjust for inflation. Roughly put, an Iowa class battleship was about 125m in 1941, and in today's dollars that's 1.7 billion dollars. A DD(X) Zumwalt class destroyer is going to run roughly 5.9 billion dollars. We have a Navy that is essentially all capital ships where even a destroyer packs more firepower than anything, but they are so few in number that we've left the seas open to guys in dinghy's with assault rifles. A better balance is needed. We just need a good class of frigate type ships that we could have a few hundred of, and have them all over the water. They could be cannon fodder in a war with a major power, but in peacetime they would be invaluable.
I think it is safe to say that right now the Navy needs both more men and ships. The problem is that the Navy is trying to do way too much with too few ships. Not only is the Navy tasked with enforcing Pax Americana, it must also provide air support to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, be prepared to stave off North Korean ballistic missiles, monitor the Chinese, stop the pirates and by the way win the war on drugs. These sailors are going out to sea for six months to a year at a time. Those who wonder if astronauts could hang in a mission to Mars should simply hire sailors - they are out in a ship for nearly as long.
The other biggest problem with the Navy is the foolish insistence on having private shipyards build warships. The idea of having private shipyards is certainly sound - but ultimately, Naval warships are rather nothing like their civilian counterparts and so its not really right to say that privatization makes any sense. The Navy really does need to operate its own yards, take on its own construction, and just clear out some of the cost overruns and red tape as contractors want projects to overrun, but the Navy wants its ships sooner rather than later.
But in the meantime I would say that Navy needs to build really rather a lot more frigate / destroyer type of ships and have them operate in ports. Having something like a battleship would be good largely just to show the flag... but I would build something new and leave the Iowas in the museums where they belong.
I'm disappointed in the James Webb telescope because:
a) it will be shooting in infrared and that means no visible light details of the planets in our solar system, no pictures of asteroids. Yes, it will help us see stuff billions of light years away, and that's interesting, but what's going on in our solar system is pretty relevant. The easiest way to fix that, of course, is to build a solar system space telescope. Compared to bailing out a bank, I'd much rather have another space telescope.
b) it's named after a bureaucrat, not a scientist. To me, the JWS is right up there with the USS Carl Vinson, John Stennis, and any of the US warships named after presidents. It's just pathetic and sends all the wrong messages.
For christ sakes, if we are going to name it after anybody. I would even prefer naming it after a golden era sci fi writer - Bradbury, Asimov...
You can't even argue that creationism is a serious religious line of study. A good religious study is, at least in christian tradition, is deeply prayerful and meditative. It's a rejection of the flesh to try and understand the soul. It's not about this world, but the other. Becoming focused on the making of the earth and engaging in so called scientific debate as creationism does actually misses the point of religion in general and Christ in particular.
Jesus doesn't care how old the earth is. It's here, and its a sufficient vehicle within Christianity for us to make our moral choices. Arguing whether or not its some age or another only serves to deflect from the purpose of a devout Christian's life - to live in accordance with the words of Jesus as son of god. IF Christ would have wanted us to worry about the earth, he would have given us a geologists report on the mount, rather than a sermon.
I would almost argue that creationism is actually satanic!
Redhat employ _real_ kernel developers. Do oracle?
I would just throw something out there, but, Oracle pretty much is its own operating system in its own right. And, as such, it actually has to do concurrency, availability, all that ACID stuff that frankly "_real_ kernel developers" do not even bother with.
Yes, Oracle is a shitty company the U/I to this database is just terrible and always will be: but everyone knows that. We all have our Horracle stories. But, if you want to put a billion records into a database, and sleep at night, there's only one game in town, and that's Oracle. They've been doing MVCC now for almost 10 years, high availability, ROLAP stuff... been there, they did it.
Point is, if anyone knows anything about reliability, its going to be Oracle, more than it is Red Hat.
The one where they legally require you to buy your own private insurance and then call it universal healthcare? Yeah, I'm sure that one is costing the state billions.
It is, because if you cannot afford health insurance, the state picks up the tab. that's the whole key. Massachussetts has the lowest uninsured percentage in the country, by far, but it is expensive to do.
Make it all up.... the worst that could happen is that you would get fired after a few months. But, believe me, there's a lot of shoddy programmers out there, so, you'd be hard pressed to do worse than some of the "pros" that are out there.
That's your problem not mine. Get your obsolete TV fixed and get Galactica on the air...It's not fair for you to block my right to participate in a community of Galactica fans that have seen the episode because you are too lazy to watch the show.
There is a difference between a show that's still has an audience growing, and a 30 year old mov
Galactica's last episode airs tomorrow night. After that, the show is over. The show started out pretty cool with a dark sci-fi world of total cylon destruction but then kinda jumped the shark at the end of season 2. You'll see.
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If you fantasize about harming animals, you need therapy.
You don't need a shrink to eat a steak, and I certainly have thought about how I hopefully have a rifle if I see a bear or an alligator.
Look, the whole world culture is becoming more violent when compared to - say - the 1950s. Comics
What? The 1950s had everyone censoring violence at home and all the moral codes and such because they were sick of the debauchery and blood letting they went through. After World War II and then Korea, all followed up with the seemingly inevitable prospect of atomic war, most people didn't want to see too much blood and people getting killed because they were sick of it. But, with that said, nobody minded a good beating to watch. Friday night at the fights was a hugely popular show and NFL football back then was a lot well, less rules based, than it is today.
That's great. Let's clean up our cities, presently, crime ridden cesspools filled with the bulk of America's poor, and have them all draining welfare for even longer than they do. So, air quality helps these people live 2 years longer? Why not weigh that against the stress of being poor, which causes people to live decades less. Build some fricking factories there, for christ sake...
The GPL license is just about protecting individuals who want to develop and use software in freedom. It's up to you to take advantage of this protection or not
The best protection is public domain. Retaining ownership to force an ideological end is silly. The GPL was born out of emacs getting "ripped off" by other people... but did that stop emacs at all? Nope, we're still stuck with it, even though everyone knows vi is better....
Your analysis presumes that television will never die. I find that to be unlikely.
TV will last forever. TV's are the perfect vegetation device. Computers are fun but you have to work to use them. A TV, universal remote and a six pack are about as good as it gets.
The universe remote will never die. It costs at least $200 for a "smart phone" like an iPhone or a Google android, and those smart phones not as good for TV surfing as the $15 remote you get from Walmart. The buttons on the remote are the product of 30 years of evolutionary design, the user interfaces on set top boxes are not -that- bad, and you don't have to worry about hackers. By the time you jizz your finger into getting your smart appliance into channel changing mode, I can reach down from the couch, onto the floor, pick the remote up and change the channel.
Oh, and by the way, the batteries on my remote last way longer than your smart phone batteries.
With adaptive optics their images are comparable to those from Hubble
My point is that even from Hubble, Pluto is a handful of pixels. We really need a bigger space telescope for visible to keep tabs on the solar system.
we make sure that what they see is something that we absolutely could not see from the ground.
We can't see Pluto from the ground, either.
Yeah. Afterr all the guy who all but built NASA from the ground up and who steered NASA through the Apollo years can't possibly be an important figure.
Still a bureaucrat. Doesn't deserve it.
I like to differentiate myself with threading as a developer but this article is over the line.
It's absolutely absurd to say that multicore chips won't benefit a system when any modern Windows or Linux installation will not benefit users. I think I have like 20 windows open, and quite a few processes. Some of them are active, and some are not. The fact is, these systems, both Windows and Linux, and if anything, Linux, are designed to serve up multiple threads with multiple users on multiple processors. They -are- mainframe operating systems in a consumer role..
You miss the point completely. You have this notion that a bunch of Phd people are the best to man a mission to mars. I imagine you would need some, for sure, but if you just have a bunch of scientists and lawyers in a room, you wind up with the disaster in the various biosphere projects, the disaster in the ben franklin submarine research project, the infighting and politicking of every major university and the chronic failure that is the various us government bodies. bottom line is, those people screw up everything they touch, and if you are going to have a crew on a space mission, you want a ruthless leader, paid followers, such that, if one of them acts up, they go out the airlock.
The thing about libertarians is that Ron Paul sucks.
Republicans are the party out of power. Democrats are big time in bed with the film and music and book industries and there's no chance those people will ever be close to Republicans either economically or culturally. So... why do Republicans support them? I'd say, we Republicans should be aggressive and go after these votes.
While I admire your enthusiasm and loyalty this is a very brain dead statement embodies what makes many people think "military intelligence" is an oxymoron.
Chuck Yeager, USAF, First American to break sound barrier
Alan Shephard, US Navy, First American in Space
Neil Armstrong, MS, US Navy, first man to walk on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin, Phd, US Army, US Air Force, perfected space walking for USA, 2nd man to walk on moon.
to name but a few... we can skip ahead a few years and find the same sort of people today:
Eileen Collins, MS/MA, USAF... pilot of first shuttle mission post Columbia. veteran shuttle astronaut.
by the way, all of these men of Mercury and Apollo fought in wars... Yeager fought in WWII and Korea, and Armstrong and Buzz and Shepherd all fought in Korea at least. While the current group of astronauts came of age prior to America's current wars, it is safe to say that they trained in preparation for it and some flew missions in Desert Storm 1991 or Kosovo after that...
I think you underestimate the intelligence of our people in uniform. In fact, I would say that the military has plenty of people with advanced degrees, has people that function well as a team, are proved in the most extraordinary pressure test - which is combat, and, you aren't going to find a better crew to go to Mars with than them.
But... Where does it all stop? We only have so much money..
I think we need to find a better balance between quantity and quality. We're stuck in this thing where everything has to be the best at any price and as a result we have today's destroyers that cost more than a battleship did even when you adjust for inflation. Roughly put, an Iowa class battleship was about 125m in 1941, and in today's dollars that's 1.7 billion dollars. A DD(X) Zumwalt class destroyer is going to run roughly 5.9 billion dollars. We have a Navy that is essentially all capital ships where even a destroyer packs more firepower than anything, but they are so few in number that we've left the seas open to guys in dinghy's with assault rifles. A better balance is needed. We just need a good class of frigate type ships that we could have a few hundred of, and have them all over the water. They could be cannon fodder in a war with a major power, but in peacetime they would be invaluable.
I think it is safe to say that right now the Navy needs both more men and ships. The problem is that the Navy is trying to do way too much with too few ships. Not only is the Navy tasked with enforcing Pax Americana, it must also provide air support to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, be prepared to stave off North Korean ballistic missiles, monitor the Chinese, stop the pirates and by the way win the war on drugs. These sailors are going out to sea for six months to a year at a time. Those who wonder if astronauts could hang in a mission to Mars should simply hire sailors - they are out in a ship for nearly as long.
The other biggest problem with the Navy is the foolish insistence on having private shipyards build warships. The idea of having private shipyards is certainly sound - but ultimately, Naval warships are rather nothing like their civilian counterparts and so its not really right to say that privatization makes any sense. The Navy really does need to operate its own yards, take on its own construction, and just clear out some of the cost overruns and red tape as contractors want projects to overrun, but the Navy wants its ships sooner rather than later.
But in the meantime I would say that Navy needs to build really rather a lot more frigate / destroyer type of ships and have them operate in ports. Having something like a battleship would be good largely just to show the flag... but I would build something new and leave the Iowas in the museums where they belong.
I'm disappointed in the James Webb telescope because:
a) it will be shooting in infrared and that means no visible light details of the planets in our solar system, no pictures of asteroids. Yes, it will help us see stuff billions of light years away, and that's interesting, but what's going on in our solar system is pretty relevant. The easiest way to fix that, of course, is to build a solar system space telescope. Compared to bailing out a bank, I'd much rather have another space telescope.
b) it's named after a bureaucrat, not a scientist. To me, the JWS is right up there with the USS Carl Vinson, John Stennis, and any of the US warships named after presidents. It's just pathetic and sends all the wrong messages.
For christ sakes, if we are going to name it after anybody. I would even prefer naming it after a golden era sci fi writer - Bradbury, Asimov...
You can't even argue that creationism is a serious religious line of study. A good religious study is, at least in christian tradition, is deeply prayerful and meditative. It's a rejection of the flesh to try and understand the soul. It's not about this world, but the other. Becoming focused on the making of the earth and engaging in so called scientific debate as creationism does actually misses the point of religion in general and Christ in particular.
Jesus doesn't care how old the earth is. It's here, and its a sufficient vehicle within Christianity for us to make our moral choices. Arguing whether or not its some age or another only serves to deflect from the purpose of a devout Christian's life - to live in accordance with the words of Jesus as son of god. IF Christ would have wanted us to worry about the earth, he would have given us a geologists report on the mount, rather than a sermon.
I would almost argue that creationism is actually satanic!
Redhat employ _real_ kernel developers. Do oracle?
I would just throw something out there, but, Oracle pretty much is its own operating system in its own right. And, as such, it actually has to do concurrency, availability, all that ACID stuff that frankly "_real_ kernel developers" do not even bother with.
Yes, Oracle is a shitty company the U/I to this database is just terrible and always will be: but everyone knows that. We all have our Horracle stories. But, if you want to put a billion records into a database, and sleep at night, there's only one game in town, and that's Oracle. They've been doing MVCC now for almost 10 years, high availability, ROLAP stuff... been there, they did it.
Point is, if anyone knows anything about reliability, its going to be Oracle, more than it is Red Hat.
The one where they legally require you to buy your own private insurance and then call it universal healthcare? Yeah, I'm sure that one is costing the state billions.
It is, because if you cannot afford health insurance, the state picks up the tab. that's the whole key. Massachussetts has the lowest uninsured percentage in the country, by far, but it is expensive to do.
Make it all up.... the worst that could happen is that you would get fired after a few months. But, believe me, there's a lot of shoddy programmers out there, so, you'd be hard pressed to do worse than some of the "pros" that are out there.
And semi-dirty to dirty politicking if that doesn't convince them. Remember Massachusetts.
Hey, Massachusetts has to pay for that health care bill somehow!
AHAH on the server is just another request...that's the whole point
You do realize that not everyone lives in the US?
That's your problem not mine. Get your obsolete TV fixed and get Galactica on the air...It's not fair for you to block my right to participate in a community of Galactica fans that have seen the episode because you are too lazy to watch the show.
There is a difference between a show that's still has an audience growing, and a 30 year old mov
Galactica's last episode airs tomorrow night. After that, the show is over. The show started out pretty cool with a dark sci-fi world of total cylon destruction but then kinda jumped the shark at the end of season 2. You'll see.
huh, good thing that first kiss didn't turn out to be a blow job. THAT would have been awkward later
I just fell out of my chair laughing my ass off. That's the funniest damned thing I've read in weeks...