wow... nerds apparently have a terrible grasp on humor, i thought the tinfoilhat reference would clear mea of any allegations of flambait, clearly this situation is confimed antecdotal evidence that nerds cannot read.... i _must_ make a submission on this.
The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards
yeah fuckin right... they just made some CGI footage and couldnt filter it properly to make it look like TV from the 60s since they never actually went to the moon and then made this crock of shit up as an excuse...
speaking to your point, the auto industry is an excellent example of how companies who diversify widely succeed. for example, did you know Nissan is one of the largest producers of oil tankers on earth? did you know that subaru is just arm of fuji heavy industries which makes all sorts of things like forklifts etc.? did you know that honda also makes aircraft? Mitsubishi makes electronics and nikon cameras. most industries have these large conglomorates because that is really the only way to be able to continually innovate. the cost of innovation in well established industries, like the auto industry is huge and no business model that is solely within that one narrow industry could possibly support the cost of innovation. the computer software industry is by contrast barely out of infancy, it is therefore relatively cheaper to innovate. 100 years from now assuming google and microsoft are still around they better have financial services arms, research schools and foundations, perhaps construction and development branches and raw materials investments if they want to be able to support the cost of wahtever tech will be the buzz at that time.
pardon my ignorance, but this is newsworthy- why? last i checked FOSS in some form or another exists just about everywhere. CC and GNU is used daily by individuals, companies and governments worldwide. or am i missing something here? is the author suggesting is a problem because they are _unpaid?_ thats the inherent problem with FOSS because just like crime, volunteering doesn't pay.
truly spectacular care is in Europe these days, sadly the US healthcare system has defeated itself due to the cost of doing business here for most physicians. What America has is the _perception_ of good healthcare, however, just because sombody has a specialist for every ailment doesn't mean they're getting remotely good healthcare. in the US there are typically around 12 Doctors involved in the average Americans healthcare. have you ever been to a doctors office? do you know how busy- especially a decent specialist- is? do you think any of them really know _any_ of their patients well from a physicians standpoint? more to the point, do you think these doctors actually communicate? i know theres a lot of citation needed for a post like that but i'm too burned out on the issue to gather the facts, having worked in the medical field as a healthcare professional for a while i've seen firsthand the fiasco that is the US heathcare system. sorry folks, you arent getting "the best healthcare in the world" not even close. in fact
while its true the above WHO report does have a slight bias to social medicine due to cost being factored in (which isnt a bad thing) there is no denying that the outcomes for patients in the US are certainly not world class.
i remember MechWarrior for the 386 well, the limitations were largely due to the hardware of the day, but Riflemen Battlemasters were totally the best! i was really saddened to not see them in MW2 or later iterations. as far as customizing goes, the MW2 scheme really added to the depth and replay value of the game well beyond most other games. it brings to my mind the free form flexibility with counterstrike vs the typical class based systems in most FPS games. to a degree i agree with the legacy heritage argument, but i can also see the point about modifying the models to accurately reflect the loadout but i think there is a 3rd line of thinking that is missing, one of the neat things about highly specialized loadouts was misdirection and subterfuge, it added a certain Sun Tzu art of war mentality to the game, a Jenner with a PPC or Gauss Cannon would really surprise people who would be attacking a 3rd party in a heavy mech thinking they were safe from a distance, then POW! or vice versa. The BT universe always struck me as highly dystopian and a "play with what you brung" kinda place. if you brought a knife to a gun fight you'd have to find a way to live, but if you brought a gun to a knife fight it jsut might be payday. i can quite easily imagine a mech pilot who had a once glorious Warhammmer -now crippled- loaded out with whatever he could find laying around the camp, a few MGs (they seem like they'd be a pretty universally mountable thing, you could practically duct tape them on, not really high tech stuff) perhaps salvage an AC or 2 off an enemy mech he destroyed. point is, the legacy is nice, but if the legacy gets in the way of the original intent its time to kick the legacy in the balls.
some would consider owning an altair back in 1975 at a cost of $650 was insane considering to most people it was "a box with blinking lights" to most people the Veyron is little more than a box with blinking lights in that sense. i'm not saying its the most wonderful thing but people pay ridiculous sums of money for lots of things, painting, wine, houses, clothes, food, all of these things at this level of cost are considered art, and sheerly on somebody prerogative are vastly more expensive than their counterparts. there is no quantifiable measure that makes a Van Gogh, a Rembrandt, a Picasso or a Pollack worth the millions that are paid for them. a Bugatti, any Bugatti, is widely considered a work of art. each one is a handcrafted masterpiece of engineering and design. there are ways to quantify a Bugatti but none of those capture its value in the eyes of an art collector, rather the value is garnered through its intrinsic beauty via its design language. some may say that art is in and of itself a waste of oney, but for many art is a source of inspiration, and inspiration is priceless. perhaps you are inspired without it, good for you, someday, if you're lucky you'll be inspired _by_ it.
Well, one thing that's important to remember is that most non-trivial systems are produced by organizations, not individuals.
Gutenberg, DaVinci, Tesla, Bell, Volta, Zuse and others would like to have a word with you outside. its true that many modern invetions have been produced by teams of brilliant people, and as technology becomes ever more complex that trend will continue, but dont discount the lone genius
Without a computer science background, Larry Page and Sergei Brin would never have been able to make Google a success. Google is very much a company founded on algorithms and grown through architecture. Without programming craft, the products would not have been able to be maintained and scaled.to success.
this just reinforces the prior point, Alta Vista, WebCrawler and the other search engines in the heyday of search were pretty big operations run by teams at institutions and universities. the brilliance that made google big came from two people and was incredibly simple: advertising. Google was popular because it was clean and uncluttered, it became profitable when they realized they could gain adverting revenue without cluttering it up beyond use.
part of me says that the out-of-the-box, non-conventional thinking that self learners typically have can be a real asset, it shows diligence, creativity and adaptability, nobody penned out the laws and rules for them, they had to find them on their own, it is its own category of brilliance in some respects. generally it doesnt lend itself to production environments though. but perhaps on a more problem solving level this characteristic is more valuable than the beautiful clean code than more schooled programmers learn. a good team of anything (programmers, sysadmins, football players) all have their strengths and weaknesses and they ought to compliment each other and balance out. in short both are needed but assessing the value of each must be done on independent terms, its the same animal but a different species.
to quote one of my favorite movies "Contact": Ellie Arroway: [to a group of children] I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?
one has to logically question why the earth cant support us forever? the only thing i see is our own ineptitude in caring for our home. overcrowding isint really an issue and the earth certainly has the ability to feed mankind even if we dont seem to be able to make sure all people get fed. the only reasons i can think of why the earth may not be able to support us forever are social changes that will inevitbly follow us no matter where we live unless we learn to change our patterns. planning for our decendants to have a better future doesn't require space exploration (we do it because we're a curious species) it doesnt even require technology, it requires social reform.
whats wrong with the shrimp from the saltwater in the gulf of mexico? they're some of the biggest 'shrimp' known they call em prawns casue they aint really 'shrimp' per se
that seems like a pretty dumb idea. if there is any life outside our earth, sending life forms into its habitat could be incredibly destructive. the idea isn't to kill everything we see (though humans are good at that, i'll admit) its to learn about what might be out there.
My understanding is that the major thing of interest is that there is _salt water_ on this moon. salt usually comes from rocks and to get it into water pretty much requires _liquid_ water, therefore the possibility of a life sustaining habitat. the geysers indicate is its possible that it has a liquid core, though i could be mistaken on that part.
i hate to break it to you, but, its sex, not science, anyone who gets the two confused has spent too much time in a lab/mothers basement. science is a wonderful tool which can answer and raise many questions about the world we live in, but it is not an answer for everything. in this case its the wrong tool for the job. i'll leave all the 'tool' related cliches and puns alone, they're just too easy.
re: seatbelts: weather or not wearing them should be legally enforced, i dont really care, but its the law and as a law abiding citizen i follow the law to the best of my ability. as a former medic i will say that anyone who does not wear their seatbelt while driving, or as a passenger in the front seat, is without question stupid. statistically to are 4x more likely to be ejected from the car and 20x more likely to die in the event of a collision. if you dont wear one because you feel its your right to do as you please and its not hurting anyone else if you dont, congratulations, you may be right, but you're still stupid. anyone who doesn't have enough respect for their own life to take extremely minor measures to protect it demonstrates they cannot possibly possess the wisdom to make decisions for themselves. granted thats my opinion, and its given freely, YMMV.
re: recording law enforcemnt: sadly in many cases it is illegal to do just that, IIRC, audio/video recording of the police doing their duties without their permission/consent is illegal in most places. i think you have a valid point in that the government which is not directly accountable to its people is not an 'ideal' government at least, its not in harmony with the constitution of the US. i think though the idea the socialist ideals are inherently "insane" is a fairly ignorant opinion. socialism is not in any way out of harmony with "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" the idea of a government providing for its people works well in many places. it may not be your ideal, but there's a plethora of methods for removing the epidermis from a feline. or to put it bluntly, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
as acknowledged previously yes, i was wrong to state that all drugs function in this way, however a large variety do, including pain relievers and fever reducers etc. The AMA is not an organization that i would use as a definitive answer to anything medically related, but as one opinion among many. it is estimated that only approximately 1/4 to 1/3 of physicians in the US belong to the AMA, furthermore, the AMA certainly doesn't represent physicians in other countries where the level of medical proficiency is at least as high as that in the US, i.e. Switzerland, Germany, Austria et. al. while it is a valid opinion, it is just that, an opinion.
cant get rid of Blu Ray. for one its a huge selling feature, is one of the best BD players on the market and people buy the PS3 as a standalone BD player, just because you cant see spending the extra money for a Blu-Ray disc doesnt mean others dont. Secondly, the data density that BD affords allows much biger games than a DVD could provide.
read some reviews online, by the way the PS store does allow free demos and there are 100s of them. PS3 has many great titles (some exclusive, some not) Assassins Creed, Fallout3, COD4, GT5, InFamous and Mirrors Edge to name a few are all worth purchase as at least a used game from game stop. i dont know if the Xbox or Wii have free demos but i was pleasantly surprised to find out the PS3 does.
this post has forced me to add a sig. if you think its trollish of me to have a strong reaction to something i (and most other people on the planet) find highly morally objectionable, think again. there is _NO_ need in IMO to have anything labeled as 'child porn' in your possession at any time regardless of who you are, thats why its illegal. if he was trying to change the law, there are plenty of ways to hash out the law besides showing pictures to people. and curiosity, _really_ we're gonna try to use THAT as an excuse? i've honestly been curious to know what its like to take another persons life, but you can sure as hell bet i wont be doing it to find out. as mentioned below, some people are deeply personally affected by this stuff. think about how sensitive people were in the US after 9/11 and multiply that by 10 on an individual level and you start to understand _why_ its illegal in almost every place on earth. and btw, if you havent been a direct victim of 9/11 or child pornography, dont even begin to share your worthless opinion on my analogy.
In March 2009 Tauss became the subject of investigations by the German police for possession of child pornographic material. He said he had this material only for research as part of his role as a member of parliament. Investigations are still continuing."
what? for research? if by research he means being a sadistic pedophile then i can understand that. of course i'm sure he had to force himself to look at these 'researh images' for several hours a day so he can better understand the mind of a pedophile. so if i'm a scientist, and i'm doing pharmaceutical research, can i use that as my excuse for a small mountain of cocaine on my coffee table?
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wow... nerds apparently have a terrible grasp on humor, i thought the tinfoilhat reference would clear mea of any allegations of flambait, clearly this situation is confimed antecdotal evidence that nerds cannot read.... i _must_ make a submission on this.
*puts on tinfoilhat*
The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards
yeah fuckin right... they just made some CGI footage and couldnt filter it properly to make it look like TV from the 60s since they never actually went to the moon and then made this crock of shit up as an excuse...
speaking to your point, the auto industry is an excellent example of how companies who diversify widely succeed. for example, did you know Nissan is one of the largest producers of oil tankers on earth? did you know that subaru is just arm of fuji heavy industries which makes all sorts of things like forklifts etc.? did you know that honda also makes aircraft? Mitsubishi makes electronics and nikon cameras. most industries have these large conglomorates because that is really the only way to be able to continually innovate. the cost of innovation in well established industries, like the auto industry is huge and no business model that is solely within that one narrow industry could possibly support the cost of innovation. the computer software industry is by contrast barely out of infancy, it is therefore relatively cheaper to innovate. 100 years from now assuming google and microsoft are still around they better have financial services arms, research schools and foundations, perhaps construction and development branches and raw materials investments if they want to be able to support the cost of wahtever tech will be the buzz at that time.
what, your laptop getting warranty repair work again?
pardon my ignorance, but this is newsworthy- why? last i checked FOSS in some form or another exists just about everywhere. CC and GNU is used daily by individuals, companies and governments worldwide. or am i missing something here? is the author suggesting is a problem because they are _unpaid?_ thats the inherent problem with FOSS because just like crime, volunteering doesn't pay.
truly spectacular care is in Europe these days, sadly the US healthcare system has defeated itself due to the cost of doing business here for most physicians. What America has is the _perception_ of good healthcare, however, just because sombody has a specialist for every ailment doesn't mean they're getting remotely good healthcare. in the US there are typically around 12 Doctors involved in the average Americans healthcare. have you ever been to a doctors office? do you know how busy- especially a decent specialist- is? do you think any of them really know _any_ of their patients well from a physicians standpoint? more to the point, do you think these doctors actually communicate? i know theres a lot of citation needed for a post like that but i'm too burned out on the issue to gather the facts, having worked in the medical field as a healthcare professional for a while i've seen firsthand the fiasco that is the US heathcare system. sorry folks, you arent getting "the best healthcare in the world" not even close. in fact
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
the US fares pretty abysmally.
while its true the above WHO report does have a slight bias to social medicine due to cost being factored in (which isnt a bad thing) there is no denying that the outcomes for patients in the US are certainly not world class.
i remember MechWarrior for the 386 well, the limitations were largely due to the hardware of the day, but Riflemen Battlemasters were totally the best! i was really saddened to not see them in MW2 or later iterations. as far as customizing goes, the MW2 scheme really added to the depth and replay value of the game well beyond most other games. it brings to my mind the free form flexibility with counterstrike vs the typical class based systems in most FPS games. to a degree i agree with the legacy heritage argument, but i can also see the point about modifying the models to accurately reflect the loadout but i think there is a 3rd line of thinking that is missing, one of the neat things about highly specialized loadouts was misdirection and subterfuge, it added a certain Sun Tzu art of war mentality to the game, a Jenner with a PPC or Gauss Cannon would really surprise people who would be attacking a 3rd party in a heavy mech thinking they were safe from a distance, then POW! or vice versa. The BT universe always struck me as highly dystopian and a "play with what you brung" kinda place. if you brought a knife to a gun fight you'd have to find a way to live, but if you brought a gun to a knife fight it jsut might be payday. i can quite easily imagine a mech pilot who had a once glorious Warhammmer -now crippled- loaded out with whatever he could find laying around the camp, a few MGs (they seem like they'd be a pretty universally mountable thing, you could practically duct tape them on, not really high tech stuff) perhaps salvage an AC or 2 off an enemy mech he destroyed. point is, the legacy is nice, but if the legacy gets in the way of the original intent its time to kick the legacy in the balls.
Google has one thing that Canonical and Ubuntu even red had doesnt, broad household name recognition
some would consider owning an altair back in 1975 at a cost of $650 was insane considering to most people it was "a box with blinking lights" to most people the Veyron is little more than a box with blinking lights in that sense. i'm not saying its the most wonderful thing but people pay ridiculous sums of money for lots of things, painting, wine, houses, clothes, food, all of these things at this level of cost are considered art, and sheerly on somebody prerogative are vastly more expensive than their counterparts. there is no quantifiable measure that makes a Van Gogh, a Rembrandt, a Picasso or a Pollack worth the millions that are paid for them. a Bugatti, any Bugatti, is widely considered a work of art. each one is a handcrafted masterpiece of engineering and design. there are ways to quantify a Bugatti but none of those capture its value in the eyes of an art collector, rather the value is garnered through its intrinsic beauty via its design language. some may say that art is in and of itself a waste of oney, but for many art is a source of inspiration, and inspiration is priceless. perhaps you are inspired without it, good for you, someday, if you're lucky you'll be inspired _by_ it.
the hypocrisy boggles the mind
Well, one thing that's important to remember is that most non-trivial systems are produced by organizations, not individuals.
Gutenberg, DaVinci, Tesla, Bell, Volta, Zuse and others would like to have a word with you outside. its true that many modern invetions have been produced by teams of brilliant people, and as technology becomes ever more complex that trend will continue, but dont discount the lone genius
Without a computer science background, Larry Page and Sergei Brin would never have been able to make Google a success. Google is very much a company founded on algorithms and grown through architecture. Without programming craft, the products would not have been able to be maintained and scaled.to success.
this just reinforces the prior point, Alta Vista, WebCrawler and the other search engines in the heyday of search were pretty big operations run by teams at institutions and universities. the brilliance that made google big came from two people and was incredibly simple: advertising. Google was popular because it was clean and uncluttered, it became profitable when they realized they could gain adverting revenue without cluttering it up beyond use.
part of me says that the out-of-the-box, non-conventional thinking that self learners typically have can be a real asset, it shows diligence, creativity and adaptability, nobody penned out the laws and rules for them, they had to find them on their own, it is its own category of brilliance in some respects. generally it doesnt lend itself to production environments though. but perhaps on a more problem solving level this characteristic is more valuable than the beautiful clean code than more schooled programmers learn. a good team of anything (programmers, sysadmins, football players) all have their strengths and weaknesses and they ought to compliment each other and balance out. in short both are needed but assessing the value of each must be done on independent terms, its the same animal but a different species.
to quote one of my favorite movies "Contact":
Ellie Arroway: [to a group of children] I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?
one has to logically question why the earth cant support us forever? the only thing i see is our own ineptitude in caring for our home. overcrowding isint really an issue and the earth certainly has the ability to feed mankind even if we dont seem to be able to make sure all people get fed. the only reasons i can think of why the earth may not be able to support us forever are social changes that will inevitbly follow us no matter where we live unless we learn to change our patterns. planning for our decendants to have a better future doesn't require space exploration (we do it because we're a curious species) it doesnt even require technology, it requires social reform.
whats wrong with the shrimp from the saltwater in the gulf of mexico? they're some of the biggest 'shrimp' known they call em prawns casue they aint really 'shrimp' per se
that seems like a pretty dumb idea. if there is any life outside our earth, sending life forms into its habitat could be incredibly destructive. the idea isn't to kill everything we see (though humans are good at that, i'll admit) its to learn about what might be out there.
My understanding is that the major thing of interest is that there is _salt water_ on this moon. salt usually comes from rocks and to get it into water pretty much requires _liquid_ water, therefore the possibility of a life sustaining habitat. the geysers indicate is its possible that it has a liquid core, though i could be mistaken on that part.
i hate to break it to you, but, its sex, not science, anyone who gets the two confused has spent too much time in a lab/mothers basement. science is a wonderful tool which can answer and raise many questions about the world we live in, but it is not an answer for everything. in this case its the wrong tool for the job. i'll leave all the 'tool' related cliches and puns alone, they're just too easy.
re: seatbelts: weather or not wearing them should be legally enforced, i dont really care, but its the law and as a law abiding citizen i follow the law to the best of my ability. as a former medic i will say that anyone who does not wear their seatbelt while driving, or as a passenger in the front seat, is without question stupid. statistically to are 4x more likely to be ejected from the car and 20x more likely to die in the event of a collision. if you dont wear one because you feel its your right to do as you please and its not hurting anyone else if you dont, congratulations, you may be right, but you're still stupid. anyone who doesn't have enough respect for their own life to take extremely minor measures to protect it demonstrates they cannot possibly possess the wisdom to make decisions for themselves. granted thats my opinion, and its given freely, YMMV.
re: recording law enforcemnt: sadly in many cases it is illegal to do just that, IIRC, audio/video recording of the police doing their duties without their permission/consent is illegal in most places. i think you have a valid point in that the government which is not directly accountable to its people is not an 'ideal' government at least, its not in harmony with the constitution of the US. i think though the idea the socialist ideals are inherently "insane" is a fairly ignorant opinion. socialism is not in any way out of harmony with "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" the idea of a government providing for its people works well in many places. it may not be your ideal, but there's a plethora of methods for removing the epidermis from a feline. or to put it bluntly, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
as acknowledged previously yes, i was wrong to state that all drugs function in this way, however a large variety do, including pain relievers and fever reducers etc. The AMA is not an organization that i would use as a definitive answer to anything medically related, but as one opinion among many. it is estimated that only approximately 1/4 to 1/3 of physicians in the US belong to the AMA, furthermore, the AMA certainly doesn't represent physicians in other countries where the level of medical proficiency is at least as high as that in the US, i.e. Switzerland, Germany, Austria et. al. while it is a valid opinion, it is just that, an opinion.
cant get rid of Blu Ray. for one its a huge selling feature, is one of the best BD players on the market and people buy the PS3 as a standalone BD player, just because you cant see spending the extra money for a Blu-Ray disc doesnt mean others dont. Secondly, the data density that BD affords allows much biger games than a DVD could provide.
read some reviews online, by the way the PS store does allow free demos and there are 100s of them. PS3 has many great titles (some exclusive, some not) Assassins Creed, Fallout3, COD4, GT5, InFamous and Mirrors Edge to name a few are all worth purchase as at least a used game from game stop. i dont know if the Xbox or Wii have free demos but i was pleasantly surprised to find out the PS3 does.
this post has forced me to add a sig. if you think its trollish of me to have a strong reaction to something i (and most other people on the planet) find highly morally objectionable, think again. there is _NO_ need in IMO to have anything labeled as 'child porn' in your possession at any time regardless of who you are, thats why its illegal. if he was trying to change the law, there are plenty of ways to hash out the law besides showing pictures to people. and curiosity, _really_ we're gonna try to use THAT as an excuse? i've honestly been curious to know what its like to take another persons life, but you can sure as hell bet i wont be doing it to find out. as mentioned below, some people are deeply personally affected by this stuff. think about how sensitive people were in the US after 9/11 and multiply that by 10 on an individual level and you start to understand _why_ its illegal in almost every place on earth. and btw, if you havent been a direct victim of 9/11 or child pornography, dont even begin to share your worthless opinion on my analogy.
In March 2009 Tauss became the subject of investigations by the German police for possession of child pornographic material. He said he had this material only for research as part of his role as a member of parliament. Investigations are still continuing."
what? for research? if by research he means being a sadistic pedophile then i can understand that. of course i'm sure he had to force himself to look at these 'researh images' for several hours a day so he can better understand the mind of a pedophile. so if i'm a scientist, and i'm doing pharmaceutical research, can i use that as my excuse for a small mountain of cocaine on my coffee table?
flamebait? i guess the truth hurts geeks too.