To get 2 meter resolution on the moon's surface from the earth, you'd need a telescope 100m in diameter. The largest earth-based telescope we have is 10m in diameter.
And moreover, you'd have to put it in space, because otherwise you'd just be magnifying the heat waves in the earth's atmosphere. (This is a problem you start seeing in telescopes only 10 *inches* across, so yeah, it's a big deal)
This is, of course, prohibitively expensive. You may as well build it on the moon, because it would be cheaper to manufacture it there instead of trying to build a rocket large enough to get it into earth orbit.
Worse than the technical problems, is that the moon hoaxers will still say it's a hoax. They simply don't want to believe, therefore they don't. Already they choose to ignore the blazingly obvious evidence that we *have* been to the moon, so showing them more pictures isn't going to change anything. The fact that most of them are barking mad doesn't help matters.
For $1000, I can build a computer that plays the same games. Hell, I can even run a web server, firewall my network, print pictures from my digital camera, download porn, do my homework, and search for alien radio signals, *all at the same time*.
Oh, and it makes a much better game system than the console.
People never buy computers *just* to play games. That's why they buy computers instead of consoles.
There's a difference between "trying" and "succeeding". Trying is what MSM does (in no small part because I've never even heard of them, unless you mean MSN). Succeeding is what Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini did when they were journalists. Although Fox does tend to do a decent job on occasion - for example their moon hoax show - generally they tend to look like kooks when they do the news. Geraldo, anyone?
That's priceless. He's clueless because the war in Iraq, well, isn't illegal, and was done with the blessing of the UN. Hell, American troops *haven't* been slaughtering civilians just because they can. And they haven't violated the Geneva convention at all. Hell, this war very clearly wasn't about breaking the UN embargo on Iraqi oil, either. Or about finishing what daddy started.
Oh no, this war was all about fighting terrorism. Because you know, there have just been *so* many Iraqi terrorists in the past little while, that we just had to go out there and hunt them down. And hey, we were done with Bin Laden anyway.
Going back to the dawn of the printing press, you see much more emotion and variety until fairly recent times.
Yes, we call that "journalistic ethics" and "balanced reporting."
Sure, you could say that it was more interesting when newspapers were blatantly communist or uber capitalist, or blazingly socialist, but to say the least, it's NOT cool to go around lying to the public and whipping up a panic for your own personal gain.
F1 and other motor sports absolutly leaped on the capabilty of modern communication to allow the driver to communicate with the pit crew. At speeds your average street car could only reach by being dropped from a plane.
That's not multitasking though. What the F1 drivers are doing is concentrating on the race. They are talking to the pit crew about the state of their car, not what they need to pick up at the store on the way home, not what the kids just did to the carpet, not to your boss about why you're late for work. The F1 driver is already thinking about the responsiveness of his steering due to tire wear when he contacts the pit.
The world has changed while you were playing Everquest, man. Now gamers aren't hardware geeks that never come out of their parents' basements. They're basically any male under the age of 40, and most of the females under 25. Playing Xbox with your friends is a social thing these days, and it's hard to find a kid that doesn't play.
I can't think of any modern antivirus software that leaves it up to the user to manually update the virus definitions. The best antivirus software does it silently at least once a day without having to ask anyone if it's okay, because too many people would just hit "Cancel" to get it out of the way.
Yeah, I thought that I could keep the lions and tigers and bears away just by having a clue too. That is, until about 3 years ago when my boss found about 4 viruses on my work computer. Now, that's a whole lot less than the 45000 viruses that we found on one customer's computer one day, but it showed me that it is no longer true that you can keep out the viruses by the methods you employ.
Also, when you say "I haven't gotten any spyware in a long time and (to my knowledge) have never been infected by a virus/trojan/worm", is very telling. This means you've never bothered to scan your computer, because you're in denial about the state of its security.
Considering that about more than 90% of computer users don't even have enough of a clue to do what you're doing, it's a reasonable assumption that "no antivirus == pwn3d".
Once politicians hear that ports are a solution to some problem, they're going to try to implement stupid solutions to problems they don't understand. What the heck are they going to think when they hear about ports that have nothing to do with porn?
"Port 80? Good lord. I've heard about ports. Ports are bad. They're what porn runs on."
Kind of like how "Internet" was synonymous with "child porn" in the mid-90's.
I doubt it. Personally, I work as a sysadmin for an ISP, and most of my real work is done in SSH and a web browser. Firefox by itself is a heavy-duty application, and requires something at least 1Ghz to run it without stupid wait times. Another heavy hitter is our customer database, which runs on Filemaker. I wish I didn't have to use it at all, but it's big and bloated and sucks back CPU time like popcorn. It needs a fast machine.
Aside from that, yeah, I could probably work on a 486.
Our secondary nameserver is a P133 that's been running continuously for the past 11 years. Anytime we install new hardware on our network, we cross our fingers and pray it doesn't die horribly in the first 3 months, because it has a tendency to do so.
Either they don't make 'em like they used to, or because the thing has been around that long, it means it will be around for quite a lot longer. We want hardware that refuses to die on our network, and some of the applications aren't that resource intensive.
Heh. Cute. Except that the government is already taking that money from us in the first place. They're just doing silly things with it currently, like paying off the national debt, thus improving the economic stability of the country.
The problem is that the US is a democracy. That means that (with some important exceptions) what the majority says, goes.
What you propose is equivalent to a gay man in Kansas changing what the public thinks of him. Not only does the public not want to listen, but they've declared him an enemy of the people. If they had their way, they'd have him tarred and feathered (figuratively or not). That's why gays all live in the city where they have at least some modicum of acceptance.
Let's see... where have open standards met with wild success...
- The PC. Without industry standards that are accepted by everyone, your PC would still cost $5000, and be made by IBM or some other massive company that decides for you which operating system, software, and programming language you're allowed to use. IBM tried to control this market with proprietary hardware and an iron fist, and failed miserably. The MCI bus nailed shut that coffin pretty well.
- The Internet. Without industry standards that are accepted by everyone, noone would be able to communicate between their high-priced online services that serve mostly to herd cattle^Wpeople to even more high-priced subscription services. Because after all, anyone who has enough money to afford one of those $5000 computers is clearly loaded.
- The telephone system. Without industry standards that were enforced by the government, your phone would still be available in three colours: black, black, and black.
- The power grid. Without standard shaped plugs, you'd be forced to choose which appliance conforms to what your power grid wants, rather than whatever appliance you like. And worse, there'd probably be plenty of competition around too.
- Money.
Standards enable millions of business to exist, and enrich the choices available on the market. Not just for consumers, but for industry, commerce, and government too.
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To get 2 meter resolution on the moon's surface from the earth, you'd need a telescope 100m in diameter. The largest earth-based telescope we have is 10m in diameter.
And moreover, you'd have to put it in space, because otherwise you'd just be magnifying the heat waves in the earth's atmosphere. (This is a problem you start seeing in telescopes only 10 *inches* across, so yeah, it's a big deal)
This is, of course, prohibitively expensive. You may as well build it on the moon, because it would be cheaper to manufacture it there instead of trying to build a rocket large enough to get it into earth orbit.
Worse than the technical problems, is that the moon hoaxers will still say it's a hoax. They simply don't want to believe, therefore they don't. Already they choose to ignore the blazingly obvious evidence that we *have* been to the moon, so showing them more pictures isn't going to change anything. The fact that most of them are barking mad doesn't help matters.
For $150 (or more) I can buy a game console.
For $1000, I can build a computer that plays the same games. Hell, I can even run a web server, firewall my network, print pictures from my digital camera, download porn, do my homework, and search for alien radio signals, *all at the same time*.
Oh, and it makes a much better game system than the console.
People never buy computers *just* to play games. That's why they buy computers instead of consoles.
Which is exactly what today's MSM does!
There's a difference between "trying" and "succeeding". Trying is what MSM does (in no small part because I've never even heard of them, unless you mean MSN). Succeeding is what Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini did when they were journalists. Although Fox does tend to do a decent job on occasion - for example their moon hoax show - generally they tend to look like kooks when they do the news. Geraldo, anyone?
Clearly, this is the real issue at hand. The man really needs a blowjob.
I'm pretty sure that this is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they fought and died so that we might have a nation free from tyranny.
I'm not so great with my American history, but if I'm not mistaken, the country's founding fathers founded the country after all the killing was done.
That's priceless. He's clueless because the war in Iraq, well, isn't illegal, and was done with the blessing of the UN. Hell, American troops *haven't* been slaughtering civilians just because they can. And they haven't violated the Geneva convention at all. Hell, this war very clearly wasn't about breaking the UN embargo on Iraqi oil, either. Or about finishing what daddy started.
Oh no, this war was all about fighting terrorism. Because you know, there have just been *so* many Iraqi terrorists in the past little while, that we just had to go out there and hunt them down. And hey, we were done with Bin Laden anyway.
Where is he again?
That's not a slashdotting. That's just getting warmed up. This is a slashdotting:
4:16PM up 2 minutes, 1 user, load averages: 0.1, 0.27, 0.51
Going back to the dawn of the printing press, you see much more emotion and variety until fairly recent times.
Yes, we call that "journalistic ethics" and "balanced reporting."
Sure, you could say that it was more interesting when newspapers were blatantly communist or uber capitalist, or blazingly socialist, but to say the least, it's NOT cool to go around lying to the public and whipping up a panic for your own personal gain.
F1 and other motor sports absolutly leaped on the capabilty of modern communication to allow the driver to communicate with the pit crew. At speeds your average street car could only reach by being dropped from a plane.
That's not multitasking though. What the F1 drivers are doing is concentrating on the race. They are talking to the pit crew about the state of their car, not what they need to pick up at the store on the way home, not what the kids just did to the carpet, not to your boss about why you're late for work. The F1 driver is already thinking about the responsiveness of his steering due to tire wear when he contacts the pit.
The world has changed while you were playing Everquest, man. Now gamers aren't hardware geeks that never come out of their parents' basements. They're basically any male under the age of 40, and most of the females under 25. Playing Xbox with your friends is a social thing these days, and it's hard to find a kid that doesn't play.
You know, anything that discourages people from buying cars in the Motor City is evil and communist. Public transit just will not do.
Yeah, we have that here in Vancouver too.
I can't think of any modern antivirus software that leaves it up to the user to manually update the virus definitions. The best antivirus software does it silently at least once a day without having to ask anyone if it's okay, because too many people would just hit "Cancel" to get it out of the way.
Yeah, I thought that I could keep the lions and tigers and bears away just by having a clue too. That is, until about 3 years ago when my boss found about 4 viruses on my work computer. Now, that's a whole lot less than the 45000 viruses that we found on one customer's computer one day, but it showed me that it is no longer true that you can keep out the viruses by the methods you employ.
Also, when you say "I haven't gotten any spyware in a long time and (to my knowledge) have never been infected by a virus/trojan/worm", is very telling. This means you've never bothered to scan your computer, because you're in denial about the state of its security.
Considering that about more than 90% of computer users don't even have enough of a clue to do what you're doing, it's a reasonable assumption that "no antivirus == pwn3d".
That's funny. Because Rap has been around for so long now, that old people are listening to it.
No, that just means he's over the age of 22.
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Mirabilis hasn't released an actual 1.0 version in oh, 10 years.
Once politicians hear that ports are a solution to some problem, they're going to try to implement stupid solutions to problems they don't understand. What the heck are they going to think when they hear about ports that have nothing to do with porn?
"Port 80? Good lord. I've heard about ports. Ports are bad. They're what porn runs on."
Kind of like how "Internet" was synonymous with "child porn" in the mid-90's.
I doubt it. Personally, I work as a sysadmin for an ISP, and most of my real work is done in SSH and a web browser. Firefox by itself is a heavy-duty application, and requires something at least 1Ghz to run it without stupid wait times. Another heavy hitter is our customer database, which runs on Filemaker. I wish I didn't have to use it at all, but it's big and bloated and sucks back CPU time like popcorn. It needs a fast machine.
Aside from that, yeah, I could probably work on a 486.
*cough*
Our secondary nameserver is a P133 that's been running continuously for the past 11 years. Anytime we install new hardware on our network, we cross our fingers and pray it doesn't die horribly in the first 3 months, because it has a tendency to do so.
Either they don't make 'em like they used to, or because the thing has been around that long, it means it will be around for quite a lot longer. We want hardware that refuses to die on our network, and some of the applications aren't that resource intensive.
Heh. Cute. Except that the government is already taking that money from us in the first place. They're just doing silly things with it currently, like paying off the national debt, thus improving the economic stability of the country.
The problem is that the US is a democracy. That means that (with some important exceptions) what the majority says, goes.
What you propose is equivalent to a gay man in Kansas changing what the public thinks of him. Not only does the public not want to listen, but they've declared him an enemy of the people. If they had their way, they'd have him tarred and feathered (figuratively or not). That's why gays all live in the city where they have at least some modicum of acceptance.
I hear people get mugged in the states. I've never even heard of that here.
That same acre on a good year (like this year!) will yield about 250 bushels of corn.
And presto, you have crisco!
Let's see... where have open standards met with wild success...
- The PC. Without industry standards that are accepted by everyone, your PC would still cost $5000, and be made by IBM or some other massive company that decides for you which operating system, software, and programming language you're allowed to use. IBM tried to control this market with proprietary hardware and an iron fist, and failed miserably. The MCI bus nailed shut that coffin pretty well.
- The Internet. Without industry standards that are accepted by everyone, noone would be able to communicate between their high-priced online services that serve mostly to herd cattle^Wpeople to even more high-priced subscription services. Because after all, anyone who has enough money to afford one of those $5000 computers is clearly loaded.
- The telephone system. Without industry standards that were enforced by the government, your phone would still be available in three colours: black, black, and black.
- The power grid. Without standard shaped plugs, you'd be forced to choose which appliance conforms to what your power grid wants, rather than whatever appliance you like. And worse, there'd probably be plenty of competition around too.
- Money.
Standards enable millions of business to exist, and enrich the choices available on the market. Not just for consumers, but for industry, commerce, and government too.