If Bob Kerman gets a penicillin resistant bacterial infection and needs a different type of antibiotic, or Jeb's body for some reason decided it is now lactose intolerant, they can change up the menu, throw in some new DVDs from the summer, include more fuel, spare parts... all sorts of things. Or someone needs an emergency appendectomy, and suddenly there are no more spare bags of blood or anesthetics on board for the next two years. When you go traveling on earth and you realize you forgot to pack sunscreen, you're going to pay through the nose for it at the beach, but at least you can buy it. On the Apollo missions, if something went wrong they could stick it out for a couple of days; with a six month mars mission, if something goes wrong halfway to mars, it's still three months until you can slingshot home, and then six more months to earth orbit. If it's serious, you're probably just going to die unless you get the right tools.
We don't have the option to send a vehicle every six months and send more food as we do for the International Space Station.'"
No option to resupply? I figured that We would be sending 2-4 tons of supplies to restock every 2-3 months. I mean, it's one thing to hop in the Soyuz capsule and retrograde burn back home, but at the rate things break on the ISS, I can't imagine less than two restocking missions being sent to the mars mission en route, with another set of supplies being sent down every 3 months while they're on the planet. Things break, people get sick, shit happens.
m68k, as in Motorolla 68000 support? The same chip that went in to pretty much every mac until the power macs were released in 1992 or so? I've heard of m68 linux, but their repos hadn't been updated since 2003 or so. Or is there another popular 68k platform I'm forgetting...
You must have missed the last six months worth of news stories about Facebook's selection of their new datacenter. Not only is the year-round temp ~60F, but it's right next door to a series of giant hydroelectric dams in one of the wettest regions of North America.
It's already been suggested by some that there be a guaranteed minimum income. This would be something like $10,000/yr and include subsidized housing/food. The problem with this (well there are many but here's the biggest one) is that it creates a permanent underclass, particularly for those who are born in to it. England has sort of implemented this already, and they're on their second generation of citizens who have never worked a day in their life. We already provide for the homeless in this country, but it's been shown that guaranteed minimum income has the potential to create a permanent underclass like the world has never seen before.
Alternately, most people are going to end up as wage slaves for the rest of their lives, and just as many may be working too hard building a carrer to take a sizeable vacation until they're 30. Most of them will be lucky to take two full, consecutive weeks off in a row each decade for the remainder of their lives once they graduate from high school (or college, if they're lucky). A couple months of unemployment was a blissfully happy time for me. Three months a year of actual living before taking responsibility for your own welfare is the least we can afford our citizens these days.
Yes. Also this certainly falls in to the top 10 worst stories Slashdot has ever run. This is supposed to be News for Nerds, not Reddit's "what if" subreddit. Story quality has been sliding downhill pretty rapidly as of late.
I remember watching the hotel scene (we then skipped straight ahead to the wood chipper scene - we were 13 at the time) from Fargo on DVD in a rich friend of a friend's media room. In 5.1 surround sound. On a projection screen with a RGB projector about the size of a VW bug that hung from the ceiling. Then we watched the intro to Return of the Jedi on Laserdisc. Also in some form of surround sound. It was glorious. It was 1997.
People with $350,000+ houses and with children can't really leave the state, they're stuck at home raising their children, so they buy ridiculous stuff. Other people dump tons of money in to their cars and trucks. Only single people (and clever married ones) manage to convert that cash in to meaningful vacations. A lot of people I know cash in vacation days for money to pay off cars and pay tuition.
Bread is still foam sugar though. Other foods are high on the glycemic index as well, but typically they are fillers. Sandwiches, cheeseburgers and snack crackers tend to be 50% bread by caloric content (or higher). People don't typically order a half pound slice of watermelon at McDonalds, nor can you order one.
White rice and potatoes are nasty ones too, potatoes = french fries, and while white rice is a problem by itself, typically it's eaten with a fair amount of green peppers & protein (or whatever veggies and meat you like with your asian cuisine). Truly asian diets might vary from my own, but mixed with other foods rice isn't completely terrible. It did build the Great Wall among other things.
In the consumer laptop market (which is larger than the consumer desktop market by a wide margin, and has been for years) having an integrated GPU in your laptop CPU makes Intel laptops an easy sell over AMD.
Intel's HD4000 is an impressive piece of silicon. It runs BF3 (barely playable, but not competitive), Skyrim and a host of other popular, modern games. I'm excited to see where the HD4500 or HD5000 heads. The HD4000 proved that Intel has what it takes to compete on the low end with Nvidia and AMD/ATI. The groundwork Intel is laying now shows room for impressive improvements in the next 18-24 months. The laptop graphics market is going to be very interesting to watch in 2014.
Bread (white wonder bread in particular) is, from your digestive tract's point of view, pure sugar. You eat bread, and it's almost instantly converted in to sugar and injected in to your blood stream. Whole wheat, or even "brownish colored" bread at least has some fiber in it, and while it has the same number of calories, it takes longer to digest, helps you feel full longer, and slows the rate that it enters your blood stream, causing less shock to your pancreas, which suddenly has to dump a bunch of insulin in to your blood to keep up with the sugar.
An apple has a ton of fiber in it. Fructose (fruit sugar) is actually terrible for your liver, very similar toxicologically as alcohol (they're processed by the same enzymes and pathways in the liver), but because of all the fiber in the apple slowing down digestion, the liver can process it no problem.
TL;DR white bread is the foam format of table sugar, apples are real food
You can exercise and be active, and still get the benefits of eating a Whataburger double bacon A1 thick and hearty cheeseburger with browned onions. Oh god, those are good.
/bicycled 24 miles round trip to work today in 95F heat //had tacos and a sugary soda before I left ///age 30, still weigh 155lbs
Apple is certainly going to lose a measurable number of longtime customers over the dock connector fiasco. Which, unless they really screw up the iPhone 5 launch, won't make a dent in the sales effect of a new iPhone model launch.
Was the DOT MPG test ever upgraded from 55mph to 70mph?
There are lots of ways to improve aerodynamics on cars. My 1997 BMW 5 series (a big, wide car) with a 2.8L engine and 160,000 miles gets 33mpg at 75mph with the AC on at sea level, but it also has a plastic tray that runs from the engine compartment all the way back to the rear bumper, fairly narrow tires (for it's class) and less flashy rims.
CoD (coefficent of drag) can vary wildly. The luxury civic with sunroof and a bunch of gaudy trim gets close to 0.40, while the hybrid is closer to 0.27 simply by selecting different rims, narrower tires and a different front bumper. Most sedans fall somewhere between 0.29 and 0.37. Designing aero for a 54.5mpg car means taking more drastic steps, but it's obvious that small changes can add up quickly.
Also, I think that average is a mix of city and highway (correct me if I'm wrong), so getting 50mph shouldn't be at all difficult, 4 door econoboxes have been doing almost 40mpg since at least the 80's... they just stopped selling them here in the US for the most part. Hybrid or other "green" technology will make up the rest, I suspect.
Do you have any links to back this up? It's obvious that Equador is independent of the US's control, but this is the first time I've heard of long term exclusivity contracts on Equador's oil contracts.
Google Wave, Google Health, Google Gears... I'm sure I'm missing plenty of other "big" projects. What is with the sudden wave of ACs here? Is there a mass migration from Reddit recently?
Are editors having to write their own stories now? I don't see a user attributed to this post. Has Slashdot sunk so low that their submission queue has run dry?
Welp, get enterprise level IT on the phone right away! They've been doing it wrong all along! We're going to need 50 million copies of Win 8 to blindly install on all their existing machines. Their reasoning : because it's new and thus must be new! I'm glad we have you around for your deep insight and lack of shift key.
I'm really curious about this. I can't think of anything offhand, but I'm luke-warmly confident that storming Ecuador's embassy would be unprecedented in at least the last 500 years, at least between peaceful countries.
I think Ecuador is granting asylum simply because they don't agree with what's happening, and also there's just about zero political risk to them. It's hard to strongarm peaceful, oil-rich western nations when they don't owe you anything. Look at Norway.
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If Bob Kerman gets a penicillin resistant bacterial infection and needs a different type of antibiotic, or Jeb's body for some reason decided it is now lactose intolerant, they can change up the menu, throw in some new DVDs from the summer, include more fuel, spare parts... all sorts of things. Or someone needs an emergency appendectomy, and suddenly there are no more spare bags of blood or anesthetics on board for the next two years. When you go traveling on earth and you realize you forgot to pack sunscreen, you're going to pay through the nose for it at the beach, but at least you can buy it. On the Apollo missions, if something went wrong they could stick it out for a couple of days; with a six month mars mission, if something goes wrong halfway to mars, it's still three months until you can slingshot home, and then six more months to earth orbit. If it's serious, you're probably just going to die unless you get the right tools.
No option to resupply? I figured that We would be sending 2-4 tons of supplies to restock every 2-3 months. I mean, it's one thing to hop in the Soyuz capsule and retrograde burn back home, but at the rate things break on the ISS, I can't imagine less than two restocking missions being sent to the mars mission en route, with another set of supplies being sent down every 3 months while they're on the planet. Things break, people get sick, shit happens.
m68k, as in Motorolla 68000 support? The same chip that went in to pretty much every mac until the power macs were released in 1992 or so? I've heard of m68 linux, but their repos hadn't been updated since 2003 or so. Or is there another popular 68k platform I'm forgetting...
You must have missed the last six months worth of news stories about Facebook's selection of their new datacenter. Not only is the year-round temp ~60F, but it's right next door to a series of giant hydroelectric dams in one of the wettest regions of North America.
It's already been suggested by some that there be a guaranteed minimum income. This would be something like $10,000/yr and include subsidized housing/food. The problem with this (well there are many but here's the biggest one) is that it creates a permanent underclass, particularly for those who are born in to it. England has sort of implemented this already, and they're on their second generation of citizens who have never worked a day in their life. We already provide for the homeless in this country, but it's been shown that guaranteed minimum income has the potential to create a permanent underclass like the world has never seen before.
Alternately, most people are going to end up as wage slaves for the rest of their lives, and just as many may be working too hard building a carrer to take a sizeable vacation until they're 30. Most of them will be lucky to take two full, consecutive weeks off in a row each decade for the remainder of their lives once they graduate from high school (or college, if they're lucky). A couple months of unemployment was a blissfully happy time for me. Three months a year of actual living before taking responsibility for your own welfare is the least we can afford our citizens these days.
Yes. Also this certainly falls in to the top 10 worst stories Slashdot has ever run. This is supposed to be News for Nerds, not Reddit's "what if" subreddit. Story quality has been sliding downhill pretty rapidly as of late.
I remember watching the hotel scene (we then skipped straight ahead to the wood chipper scene - we were 13 at the time) from Fargo on DVD in a rich friend of a friend's media room. In 5.1 surround sound. On a projection screen with a RGB projector about the size of a VW bug that hung from the ceiling. Then we watched the intro to Return of the Jedi on Laserdisc. Also in some form of surround sound. It was glorious. It was 1997.
People with $350,000+ houses and with children can't really leave the state, they're stuck at home raising their children, so they buy ridiculous stuff. Other people dump tons of money in to their cars and trucks. Only single people (and clever married ones) manage to convert that cash in to meaningful vacations. A lot of people I know cash in vacation days for money to pay off cars and pay tuition.
Bread is still foam sugar though. Other foods are high on the glycemic index as well, but typically they are fillers. Sandwiches, cheeseburgers and snack crackers tend to be 50% bread by caloric content (or higher). People don't typically order a half pound slice of watermelon at McDonalds, nor can you order one.
White rice and potatoes are nasty ones too, potatoes = french fries, and while white rice is a problem by itself, typically it's eaten with a fair amount of green peppers & protein (or whatever veggies and meat you like with your asian cuisine). Truly asian diets might vary from my own, but mixed with other foods rice isn't completely terrible. It did build the Great Wall among other things.
In the consumer laptop market (which is larger than the consumer desktop market by a wide margin, and has been for years) having an integrated GPU in your laptop CPU makes Intel laptops an easy sell over AMD.
Intel's HD4000 is an impressive piece of silicon. It runs BF3 (barely playable, but not competitive), Skyrim and a host of other popular, modern games. I'm excited to see where the HD4500 or HD5000 heads. The HD4000 proved that Intel has what it takes to compete on the low end with Nvidia and AMD/ATI. The groundwork Intel is laying now shows room for impressive improvements in the next 18-24 months. The laptop graphics market is going to be very interesting to watch in 2014.
Was this even written by a user, or are they just posting their own stories now?
Bread (white wonder bread in particular) is, from your digestive tract's point of view, pure sugar. You eat bread, and it's almost instantly converted in to sugar and injected in to your blood stream. Whole wheat, or even "brownish colored" bread at least has some fiber in it, and while it has the same number of calories, it takes longer to digest, helps you feel full longer, and slows the rate that it enters your blood stream, causing less shock to your pancreas, which suddenly has to dump a bunch of insulin in to your blood to keep up with the sugar.
An apple has a ton of fiber in it. Fructose (fruit sugar) is actually terrible for your liver, very similar toxicologically as alcohol (they're processed by the same enzymes and pathways in the liver), but because of all the fiber in the apple slowing down digestion, the liver can process it no problem.
TL;DR white bread is the foam format of table sugar, apples are real food
You can exercise and be active, and still get the benefits of eating a Whataburger double bacon A1 thick and hearty cheeseburger with browned onions. Oh god, those are good.
/bicycled 24 miles round trip to work today in 95F heat
//had tacos and a sugary soda before I left
///age 30, still weigh 155lbs
Apple is certainly going to lose a measurable number of longtime customers over the dock connector fiasco. Which, unless they really screw up the iPhone 5 launch, won't make a dent in the sales effect of a new iPhone model launch.
Was the DOT MPG test ever upgraded from 55mph to 70mph?
There are lots of ways to improve aerodynamics on cars. My 1997 BMW 5 series (a big, wide car) with a 2.8L engine and 160,000 miles gets 33mpg at 75mph with the AC on at sea level, but it also has a plastic tray that runs from the engine compartment all the way back to the rear bumper, fairly narrow tires (for it's class) and less flashy rims.
CoD (coefficent of drag) can vary wildly. The luxury civic with sunroof and a bunch of gaudy trim gets close to 0.40, while the hybrid is closer to 0.27 simply by selecting different rims, narrower tires and a different front bumper. Most sedans fall somewhere between 0.29 and 0.37. Designing aero for a 54.5mpg car means taking more drastic steps, but it's obvious that small changes can add up quickly.
Also, I think that average is a mix of city and highway (correct me if I'm wrong), so getting 50mph shouldn't be at all difficult, 4 door econoboxes have been doing almost 40mpg since at least the 80's... they just stopped selling them here in the US for the most part. Hybrid or other "green" technology will make up the rest, I suspect.
Thanks! It's rare to see statements like that backed up with real links. Thanks for helping Slashdot suck a little bit less:)
Do you have any links to back this up? It's obvious that Equador is independent of the US's control, but this is the first time I've heard of long term exclusivity contracts on Equador's oil contracts.
Google Wave, Google Health, Google Gears... I'm sure I'm missing plenty of other "big" projects. What is with the sudden wave of ACs here? Is there a mass migration from Reddit recently?
His name wasn't included initially. Also, he's not a slashdot user, the link for his name goes to his geek.com email address.
Are editors having to write their own stories now? I don't see a user attributed to this post. Has Slashdot sunk so low that their submission queue has run dry?
Welp, get enterprise level IT on the phone right away! They've been doing it wrong all along! We're going to need 50 million copies of Win 8 to blindly install on all their existing machines. Their reasoning : because it's new and thus must be new! I'm glad we have you around for your deep insight and lack of shift key.
Slashdot has really gone downhill.
I'm really curious about this. I can't think of anything offhand, but I'm luke-warmly confident that storming Ecuador's embassy would be unprecedented in at least the last 500 years, at least between peaceful countries.
I think Ecuador is granting asylum simply because they don't agree with what's happening, and also there's just about zero political risk to them. It's hard to strongarm peaceful, oil-rich western nations when they don't owe you anything. Look at Norway.