having a sterile environment for a birth sounds prohibitive, as does raising a newly born in space (at the moment). You have to think about special food, diapers (or something similar),
Being a father myself, I can shed a slight amount of light on the dark corners of ignorance in your post.
You don't need a sterile environment to give birth in. Most hospitals these days don't bother anymore. Sterile needles for stitches afterwards are necessary, but that's trivial.
You don't need special food. You need to feed the mother, who produces said special food for said newborn. Certainly you've heard of lactation? Either way, her dietary needs do increase.
And diapers don't have to be disposable. It's way more convenient if they are, but it's not strictly necessary.
And of course, the best way to avoid having kids in space while still having sex is this thing called birth control.
The real problems with sex in space have more to do with the fact that you're trapped with 7 or 8 people in a tin can barely the size of a bachelor pad. If the ship were much larger, then these problems would go away. Unfortunately the amount of power required to make that happen is prohibitive.
There's two reasons there's no reason to bother anymore.
#1: You probably have no clue where the e-mail actually originated. And even if you are educated enough to interpret the headers of your e-mail, #2 becomes the problem. #2: These days, 99.9% of the IP addresses that send spam belong to retirees running Windows 98 on dialup connections who use less than 30 hours per month. As soon as I take the time to go through our dialup logs (or our ADSL logs) and track them down, I immediately recognize them (and/or their usage logs and tech support histories confirm it anyway) as being entirely harmless 3rd party victims. I send them a polite form e-mail about how their computer is infected with a virus, and to please go to free.grisoft.com to download a virus scanner. 98% of the time I never hear a response back, even if I know they check their e-mail on a regular basis. It remains the length and breadth of what I can do to fix the problem (If I had control over our ADSL network, I would have restricted outgoing SMTP to a few servers years ago).
Um, I live in the city and all 5 of the naked eye planets are clearly visible. Lots of stars are visible too - just not nearly as many as in the country.
As such, the only arguments you'll see the mainstream make against perfect enforcement is the posibility of corruption or misuse.
Oh, you mean like how the camera monitors currently pay extra special attention to pretty girls, blacks, and muslims? Now the cameras can make them feel uncomfortable not just by following them, but can spew forth racial slurs and wolf-whistles.
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Well that's fantastic then. We've just established that women buy SUVs because they're safer. And what makes them safer? Not stability. Not extra power. It's about two tonnes of extra weight. And it's not like that's going to save your ass when someone runs a light and t-bones you right in the driver's side door. Or better yet, when *you* run into an intersection because the asshole in front of you is stopped on a green light. Oops. The license plate of the truck that just killed you started with "FD", for Fire Department. Fat lot of good that extra weight will do you when there's cement trucks and 18 wheelers on the road.
Hell, I'm going to outdo you all. I'm going to drive to work in a fucking sherman tank. If I can't crush what's in my way, I'll blast it. Fuck everyone else on the road. I'm going to keep *my* ass safe at all cost.
Hi, I work for an ISP that provides ADSL. We're not a wholesaler though, so we have to go through the local incumbent to provision it. And I'm going to take exception to one particular bit of ignorance you are spewing into/.:
First of all, I don't know the current limit, but last I checked (~3 years ago) SBC sold DSL to 14,000 feet. Second of all, back when they were pacific bell they sold to 17,000 feet. I used to live in a house in Santa Cruz at about 17,500 feet that they gave service to anyway, and we were able to consistently reach our peak speeds downstream.
There is no hard and fast distance limit on ADSL availability. Technically, it's possible to provide ADSL to 20,000 feet from the CO. *IF* your phone line is in pristine condition. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a phone line in pristine condition. A lot can happen in 17,000 feet, and typically it does. Heck, there's spots 4 blocks from a CO that can't be provisioned because the wiring is fubar and it would take 10 years to fix it. You only got excellent service at 17,500 because you had horseshoes and 4-leaf clovers coming out your ass. Half the people at 17,000 feet would get service that works only half the time. And once people started suing their local telcos for saying ADSL was available in places that it wasn't, they said "well fuck it, we'll only provision to 14,000 just to be safe". So now it's not the telco's fault for not provisioning to 17,000 feet, it's the asshats in the public that whinged when they couldn't.
As for the original article, the company I work for used to have that very map. It used to show us where ADSL was theoretically possible, and where it had been proven not to be. The problem is that when we could look up someone's address and notice that it was not available there, but it was available across the street, we would call up the telco and beg them to try it anyway. This caused them much aggravation and extra work, typically for hundreds of dollars per attempt, without really knowing whether or not they would actually get a subscriber or not. If you were the lineman who was performing my physics experiments, you'd probably get pretty pissed off at me after a while of doing that too. So now we just get a yes or no answer from the database. No more whinging from customers who are bitterly disappointed about being just out of range, no more experiments, no more angry customers who say "but you promised!"
If you want to know where the COs are to determine your availability, I suggest using Google Earth to search for the enormous microwave antennas that mark their location. It's not like they can keep *that* a secret.
Here's a hint: I grew up in a small town. The size of my entire grade 10 class was 26. Admittedly, this sort of thing also lends itself to being a monoculture of culture. But that's not the point. Sure, the smart kids liked heavy metal, but most metalheads were total Neanderthals. The movie FUBAR is an accurate depiction in this regard.
I know for absolute certain that the kids in *my* highschool that listened to heavy metal were most certainly not the best and the brightest. But that was back when bands like Metallica and Megadeth were at the top of the music charts, and Jerry Falwell and Tipper Gore were trying to make a political career out of the genre.
I think that this article is more like "nerdy kids listen to music that isn't cool."
The big problem with DDT is that while it may save humans, it makes it so that predator birds can't have baby predator birds. Bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and pelicans were nearly wiped out because of DDT.
I can definitively say that game companies (and lots of other companies for that matter) want graduates that are 1) Experienced, 2) Youthful and energetic, 3) Hard working, 4) willing to work for little pay 5) In touch with their audience (see also 2, although under 17 would be ideal) 6) also agree that This Is The Way It's Supposed To Be, 7) Single, and 8) willing to work in excess of 168 hours a week.
libertarians know very much that freedom requires responsibility. and that's the problem today. people want to be able to do whatever they want, yet want none of the responsibility and desire to blame others.
Do you *seriously* believe that you can *change* that? It's becoming ever more obvious that once people are nice and cozy, they will sacrifice anything to continue to be nice and cozy, including and especially the things that *made* them nice and cozy in the first place. You want safety and security? Well fantastic! Vote for me, and I'll take away all those nasty freedoms that have been letting the Bad People do their work!
So... vaccum-insulated thermoses are less effective than styrofoam-insulated thermoses?
I could swear that was not actually the case, and that conduction (especially with materials that conduct heat well) is more effective than radiation. As a result, you freeze to death much more slowly in a vacuum far from the sun (or in the shadow of the earth, an environment regularly explored by Astronauts) than you would if you were dipped into a vat of Nitrogen that was the same temperature of 2.73K.
Um, yeah. If you had watched the episode in question instead of dismissing their findings out of hand, you would know that they found that low-velocity bullets remained intact and even lethal up to about 4 feet (the number escapes me, but the findings do not) under the surface. Supersonic bullets on the other hand were utterly destroyed when they hit the water and were not lethal even at 2 feet underwater.
As an aside, police forensic scientists use a container of water to non-destructively catch bullets fired from handguns so that they can match the styrations to bullets used in murders.
Also, Mythbusters is indeed science. They take a theory, (ie, a myth) and test it rigorously *enough* to determine whether or not it's true. They even document their processes enough to be reproducable by someone else, something that not every scientist has done in the past (see also the original discovery of Penicillin). If you compare this to "real" science experiments done in high school and college level classes, you'll notice that just about as many data points are taken and conclusions are just about as easy to come by. More rigorous testing is done in "real world" science typically only because the theories they test are harder. That doesn't make the experiments any more or less valid one way or the other.
This was the path I took. Building a resume in the tech sector with nothing but experience is like building a house with straw. Employers don't even consider me because I don't have a degree or any expensive certifications. HR departments datamine for resumes with the terms "BSc Computer Science" and discard everything else. I currently work at a small ISP for an employer so cheap that when our web developer begs for a new $300 computer to make Photoshop run (faster), he gets turned down.
My wife works as a manager at a call center for a bank. She makes 30% more than me.
I actually came to this conclusion the other day, after performing exceptionally poorly at Day of Defeat. I realized that this was a pattern with me - that when I'm depressed, I just don't do as well. And I also realized why. I wasn't concentrating on the game. I was instead thinking about the things that were making me depressed in the first place. Stress at home, stress from work, feelings of helplessness, all that stuff. The internal running commentary that says "you suck, you wanker" that gets turned on when I'm down. Of course, that didn't help my score any, which of course, fed Mr. Critic even further.
Concentrating harder on the game and blocking out Mr. Critic helped both my score and my mood however.
More importantly, do you think it will ever gain traction among corporate users, or is its glitzy Aero interface destined to make it mainly a consumer OS?
Yes, because in 6 months, you won't be able to buy a new computer without Vista on it. And in two years, you won't be able to get support for XP. And then in about 4 years, you won't be able to get software compatible with XP for love or money.
Corporate users never really saw a lot of value in XP either. Moreover, it took about that long for it to "gain traction", in both the consumer and corporate markets. I've been working in the ISP industry since 1994, and tech support has watched as every new OS Microsoft has produced in that time get snapped up by a small percentage of early adopters, followed by the rest of the computing population as they upgrade their computers over time.
Most people find installing an operating system too much work, too time consuming, too difficult, or they just don't think about it at all. It *came* with the computer after all. Isn't it just a part of the computer? IT departments in companies see it much the same way. You have to upgrade the computer to get the next version of windows, so why not just let Dell or IBM do the install when you do your next upgrade? To install a new OS across an existing network of any size is too disruptive to the users, and too time consuming. A user would have to do without a computer for the better part of a day at the very least if you upgrade an existing system.
When I bought my wife her Sony Network Walkman she decided to try Puretracks so that she could get digital music legally. After a week and the realization that "we won't let you copy the songs *you bought* off your computer", she dropped them like a hot rock.
"I'd rather get my music illegally, and have them work on my MP3 player," she said.
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having a sterile environment for a birth sounds prohibitive, as does raising a newly born in space (at the moment). You have to think about special food, diapers (or something similar),
Being a father myself, I can shed a slight amount of light on the dark corners of ignorance in your post.
You don't need a sterile environment to give birth in. Most hospitals these days don't bother anymore. Sterile needles for stitches afterwards are necessary, but that's trivial.
You don't need special food. You need to feed the mother, who produces said special food for said newborn. Certainly you've heard of lactation? Either way, her dietary needs do increase.
And diapers don't have to be disposable. It's way more convenient if they are, but it's not strictly necessary.
And of course, the best way to avoid having kids in space while still having sex is this thing called birth control.
The real problems with sex in space have more to do with the fact that you're trapped with 7 or 8 people in a tin can barely the size of a bachelor pad. If the ship were much larger, then these problems would go away. Unfortunately the amount of power required to make that happen is prohibitive.
There's two reasons there's no reason to bother anymore.
#1: You probably have no clue where the e-mail actually originated. And even if you are educated enough to interpret the headers of your e-mail, #2 becomes the problem.
#2: These days, 99.9% of the IP addresses that send spam belong to retirees running Windows 98 on dialup connections who use less than 30 hours per month. As soon as I take the time to go through our dialup logs (or our ADSL logs) and track them down, I immediately recognize them (and/or their usage logs and tech support histories confirm it anyway) as being entirely harmless 3rd party victims. I send them a polite form e-mail about how their computer is infected with a virus, and to please go to free.grisoft.com to download a virus scanner. 98% of the time I never hear a response back, even if I know they check their e-mail on a regular basis. It remains the length and breadth of what I can do to fix the problem (If I had control over our ADSL network, I would have restricted outgoing SMTP to a few servers years ago).
It has many more benefits than growing pine, for instance. Less to no chemicals needed.
What have you been smoking? You don't *fertilize* pine trees. You plant them in the ground and leave them there for about 80 years.
Um, I live in the city and all 5 of the naked eye planets are clearly visible. Lots of stars are visible too - just not nearly as many as in the country.
You clearly haven't tried to look.
The moon will have set by then.
It's also worth noting that the moon is only 3 days old. Even if it was still up at the meteor shower's peak, it wouldn't affect its visibility much.
Also, you'll still be able to see plenty of meteors next week if it's cloudy. These showers are typically still active throughout the month.
just over 2% of computers connected to the Internet using the new Windows OS.
And 4% of the desktop computers connected to the Internet are using Linux! Woo! We're beating Windows!
As such, the only arguments you'll see the mainstream make against perfect enforcement is the posibility of corruption or misuse.
Oh, you mean like how the camera monitors currently pay extra special attention to pretty girls, blacks, and muslims? Now the cameras can make them feel uncomfortable not just by following them, but can spew forth racial slurs and wolf-whistles.
Well that's fantastic then. We've just established that women buy SUVs because they're safer. And what makes them safer? Not stability. Not extra power. It's about two tonnes of extra weight. And it's not like that's going to save your ass when someone runs a light and t-bones you right in the driver's side door. Or better yet, when *you* run into an intersection because the asshole in front of you is stopped on a green light. Oops. The license plate of the truck that just killed you started with "FD", for Fire Department. Fat lot of good that extra weight will do you when there's cement trucks and 18 wheelers on the road.
Hell, I'm going to outdo you all. I'm going to drive to work in a fucking sherman tank. If I can't crush what's in my way, I'll blast it. Fuck everyone else on the road. I'm going to keep *my* ass safe at all cost.
Or maybe an arms race isn't the way to go. Hmm.
They'd find their winner.
Why is it, that when you say "Machine gun" I envision an MG-42 being handed in.
Or did you mean fully automatic weapons like an UZI or an AK-47? Because there's a big difference between the two.
I have news for you. Biology is icky, gross, and nasty in general. That's just the way it is.
Hi, I work for an ISP that provides ADSL. We're not a wholesaler though, so we have to go through the local incumbent to provision it. And I'm going to take exception to one particular bit of ignorance you are spewing into /.:
First of all, I don't know the current limit, but last I checked (~3 years ago) SBC sold DSL to 14,000 feet. Second of all, back when they were pacific bell they sold to 17,000 feet. I used to live in a house in Santa Cruz at about 17,500 feet that they gave service to anyway, and we were able to consistently reach our peak speeds downstream.
There is no hard and fast distance limit on ADSL availability. Technically, it's possible to provide ADSL to 20,000 feet from the CO. *IF* your phone line is in pristine condition. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a phone line in pristine condition. A lot can happen in 17,000 feet, and typically it does. Heck, there's spots 4 blocks from a CO that can't be provisioned because the wiring is fubar and it would take 10 years to fix it. You only got excellent service at 17,500 because you had horseshoes and 4-leaf clovers coming out your ass. Half the people at 17,000 feet would get service that works only half the time. And once people started suing their local telcos for saying ADSL was available in places that it wasn't, they said "well fuck it, we'll only provision to 14,000 just to be safe". So now it's not the telco's fault for not provisioning to 17,000 feet, it's the asshats in the public that whinged when they couldn't.
As for the original article, the company I work for used to have that very map. It used to show us where ADSL was theoretically possible, and where it had been proven not to be. The problem is that when we could look up someone's address and notice that it was not available there, but it was available across the street, we would call up the telco and beg them to try it anyway. This caused them much aggravation and extra work, typically for hundreds of dollars per attempt, without really knowing whether or not they would actually get a subscriber or not. If you were the lineman who was performing my physics experiments, you'd probably get pretty pissed off at me after a while of doing that too. So now we just get a yes or no answer from the database. No more whinging from customers who are bitterly disappointed about being just out of range, no more experiments, no more angry customers who say "but you promised!"
If you want to know where the COs are to determine your availability, I suggest using Google Earth to search for the enormous microwave antennas that mark their location. It's not like they can keep *that* a secret.
Here's a hint: I grew up in a small town. The size of my entire grade 10 class was 26. Admittedly, this sort of thing also lends itself to being a monoculture of culture. But that's not the point. Sure, the smart kids liked heavy metal, but most metalheads were total Neanderthals. The movie FUBAR is an accurate depiction in this regard.
I know for absolute certain that the kids in *my* highschool that listened to heavy metal were most certainly not the best and the brightest. But that was back when bands like Metallica and Megadeth were at the top of the music charts, and Jerry Falwell and Tipper Gore were trying to make a political career out of the genre.
I think that this article is more like "nerdy kids listen to music that isn't cool."
Um, insightful?
The big problem with DDT is that while it may save humans, it makes it so that predator birds can't have baby predator birds. Bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and pelicans were nearly wiped out because of DDT.
I can definitively say that game companies (and lots of other companies for that matter) want graduates that are 1) Experienced, 2) Youthful and energetic, 3) Hard working, 4) willing to work for little pay 5) In touch with their audience (see also 2, although under 17 would be ideal) 6) also agree that This Is The Way It's Supposed To Be, 7) Single, and 8) willing to work in excess of 168 hours a week.
libertarians know very much that freedom requires responsibility. and that's the problem today. people want to be able to do whatever they want, yet want none of the responsibility and desire to blame others.
Do you *seriously* believe that you can *change* that? It's becoming ever more obvious that once people are nice and cozy, they will sacrifice anything to continue to be nice and cozy, including and especially the things that *made* them nice and cozy in the first place. You want safety and security? Well fantastic! Vote for me, and I'll take away all those nasty freedoms that have been letting the Bad People do their work!
So... vaccum-insulated thermoses are less effective than styrofoam-insulated thermoses?
I could swear that was not actually the case, and that conduction (especially with materials that conduct heat well) is more effective than radiation. As a result, you freeze to death much more slowly in a vacuum far from the sun (or in the shadow of the earth, an environment regularly explored by Astronauts) than you would if you were dipped into a vat of Nitrogen that was the same temperature of 2.73K.
You don't know our users then.
Um, yeah. If you had watched the episode in question instead of dismissing their findings out of hand, you would know that they found that low-velocity bullets remained intact and even lethal up to about 4 feet (the number escapes me, but the findings do not) under the surface. Supersonic bullets on the other hand were utterly destroyed when they hit the water and were not lethal even at 2 feet underwater.
As an aside, police forensic scientists use a container of water to non-destructively catch bullets fired from handguns so that they can match the styrations to bullets used in murders.
Also, Mythbusters is indeed science. They take a theory, (ie, a myth) and test it rigorously *enough* to determine whether or not it's true. They even document their processes enough to be reproducable by someone else, something that not every scientist has done in the past (see also the original discovery of Penicillin). If you compare this to "real" science experiments done in high school and college level classes, you'll notice that just about as many data points are taken and conclusions are just about as easy to come by. More rigorous testing is done in "real world" science typically only because the theories they test are harder. That doesn't make the experiments any more or less valid one way or the other.
This was the path I took. Building a resume in the tech sector with nothing but experience is like building a house with straw. Employers don't even consider me because I don't have a degree or any expensive certifications. HR departments datamine for resumes with the terms "BSc Computer Science" and discard everything else. I currently work at a small ISP for an employer so cheap that when our web developer begs for a new $300 computer to make Photoshop run (faster), he gets turned down.
My wife works as a manager at a call center for a bank. She makes 30% more than me.
I actually came to this conclusion the other day, after performing exceptionally poorly at Day of Defeat. I realized that this was a pattern with me - that when I'm depressed, I just don't do as well. And I also realized why. I wasn't concentrating on the game. I was instead thinking about the things that were making me depressed in the first place. Stress at home, stress from work, feelings of helplessness, all that stuff. The internal running commentary that says "you suck, you wanker" that gets turned on when I'm down. Of course, that didn't help my score any, which of course, fed Mr. Critic even further.
Concentrating harder on the game and blocking out Mr. Critic helped both my score and my mood however.
More importantly, do you think it will ever gain traction among corporate users, or is its glitzy Aero interface destined to make it mainly a consumer OS?
Yes, because in 6 months, you won't be able to buy a new computer without Vista on it. And in two years, you won't be able to get support for XP. And then in about 4 years, you won't be able to get software compatible with XP for love or money.
Corporate users never really saw a lot of value in XP either. Moreover, it took about that long for it to "gain traction", in both the consumer and corporate markets. I've been working in the ISP industry since 1994, and tech support has watched as every new OS Microsoft has produced in that time get snapped up by a small percentage of early adopters, followed by the rest of the computing population as they upgrade their computers over time.
Most people find installing an operating system too much work, too time consuming, too difficult, or they just don't think about it at all. It *came* with the computer after all. Isn't it just a part of the computer? IT departments in companies see it much the same way. You have to upgrade the computer to get the next version of windows, so why not just let Dell or IBM do the install when you do your next upgrade? To install a new OS across an existing network of any size is too disruptive to the users, and too time consuming. A user would have to do without a computer for the better part of a day at the very least if you upgrade an existing system.
the process of identifying copyrighted material is not automated
Well, it *could* be, if they implemented RFC 3514.
When I bought my wife her Sony Network Walkman she decided to try Puretracks so that she could get digital music legally. After a week and the realization that "we won't let you copy the songs *you bought* off your computer", she dropped them like a hot rock.
"I'd rather get my music illegally, and have them work on my MP3 player," she said.