The inexhaustible supply of hot air blasting out of Washington, D.C. these days could probably power half the Third World. (Hint, also looking at you, Executive Branch)
Say a cataclysm wipes out major cities, centers of learning, large chunks of the population, etc. but that you managed to preserve the exact DNA and RNA sequences of a lab rat. Without the machinery to use the data, and indeed without the entire medical industry to provide materiel for research using that knowledge, what does it really buy you? Or you preserve the technical schematics of the Tokamak reactor. When you're burning firewood for heat because the entire fossil fuel delivery aparatus is destroyed, who cares?
There's a degree of materials and available resources which would be available after a 'cataclysm' - the knowledge you'd need after that probably boils back down to the early industrial revolution.
Just clear them out - they're going to be flooded eventually, and paid for by the US taxpayer. The Keys have 1 foot in the grave and the other on the corpse of a poisoned manatee. They're an ecological and financial disaster waiting to happen.
She seems to make a good point, and according to The Wiki she's pretty hot. I feel bad for her significant other (assuming she has one), I bet she's totally nuts.
Another handwavy, FUD-filled technology that drives stupid amount of capital expenditure, just to paper over architectural and application design problems. It's like client-server for PCs, but yet, not really. The worst of both worlds - you need a local high powered client to render crap that's so fat it has to stay on the server.
Try the guy on 3 counts of murder, a bazillion of attempted murder, and throw in a few parking tickets and douchbag haircut crimes as well. The legal system already accounts for people like this, no need to layer on another helping of hysteria and chest-beating.
Basically, "we think it would be cool to fly in outer space, and Star Trek thought of this idea, so give us 10M GBP and we'll dick around with some stuff for a few years, culminating in another riveting 6 point slide deck where we announce it can't be done."
Are people so trained on sub-par, cheap Asian electronics that there's an expectation of suckage on a device that "only" costs $99 ? Is $99 the new throwaway price, where you use something, expect it to fail, then go buy another one? It's the Walmart generation I guess.
Why does the mayor of the city worry about 3d printers? How is a municipal government remotely qualified to try and operate like that kind of business? Unless... its just a bid to create yet another city organization. (Remember, these are the same people who filled up their personal vehicles at the "first responders" stations after the hurricane.)
With respect to the startup companies he's looking to bring in, his job should be to get out of their way - fast-track all the normal paperwork, exempt them from Mafia-style union rules ("no, you can't carry that server up from the loading dock, that's a union job, and the guy isn't here until Friday"), and maybe give them a tax break or two while they're in startup mode. Then he can sit back and rake in the tax dollars on the back end and from the (newly) rich employees.
As they are the harbingers of the new age, post dotcom world, where overspecced hardware fixes everything, where there are legions of entitled douchebag "developers" who took a certification course, and of apps which can't run in less than 8GB of memory (our resident BOFH hung up on our developers when they asked for a 64GB VM because they kept getting OOM errors in Java).
In short, both languages rode the crest of the cultural revolution where it is now OK to suck, to offshore code development with no expectation of quality coming back, of "agile" methods where your next version is always going to be the stable one. I'm not exactly saying that these languages CAUSED any of this, but there is at least a temporal correlation.
Why would you ever want to do this, as opposed to letting the people choose what to run? What possible benefit is there to this plan, other than to centralize and monitor user activity?
I thought one of the useful applications of the old table was that you could read down the columns and find 'like' materials, for instance, the halogens all sort of behave alike, the noble gases, etc. I don't see how that works here. And now of course, the article (the Google??) is now slashdotted and I can't recheck it.
I don't see how the old table didn't work I guess.
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Who doesn't like a nice set of double Ds ?
Or why not "Star Wars That Sucks" ?
Doesn't Egypt use a King?
The inexhaustible supply of hot air blasting out of Washington, D.C. these days could probably power half the Third World. (Hint, also looking at you, Executive Branch)
Say a cataclysm wipes out major cities, centers of learning, large chunks of the population, etc. but that you managed to preserve the exact DNA and RNA sequences of a lab rat. Without the machinery to use the data, and indeed without the entire medical industry to provide materiel for research using that knowledge, what does it really buy you? Or you preserve the technical schematics of the Tokamak reactor. When you're burning firewood for heat because the entire fossil fuel delivery aparatus is destroyed, who cares?
There's a degree of materials and available resources which would be available after a 'cataclysm' - the knowledge you'd need after that probably boils back down to the early industrial revolution.
Just clear them out - they're going to be flooded eventually, and paid for by the US taxpayer. The Keys have 1 foot in the grave and the other on the corpse of a poisoned manatee. They're an ecological and financial disaster waiting to happen.
She seems to make a good point, and according to The Wiki she's pretty hot. I feel bad for her significant other (assuming she has one), I bet she's totally nuts.
Another handwavy, FUD-filled technology that drives stupid amount of capital expenditure, just to paper over architectural and application design problems. It's like client-server for PCs, but yet, not really. The worst of both worlds - you need a local high powered client to render crap that's so fat it has to stay on the server.
Try the guy on 3 counts of murder, a bazillion of attempted murder, and throw in a few parking tickets and douchbag haircut crimes as well. The legal system already accounts for people like this, no need to layer on another helping of hysteria and chest-beating.
Basically, "we think it would be cool to fly in outer space, and Star Trek thought of this idea, so give us 10M GBP and we'll dick around with some stuff for a few years, culminating in another riveting 6 point slide deck where we announce it can't be done."
Running your engines at full power but standing in one spot for 5 years. That pretty much sums up our space program since Apollo.
1980s Ally Sheedy, or "now" Ally Sheedy?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Ally_Sheedy.jpg/220px-Ally_Sheedy.jpg
And what does that do? Is that like a strongly worded letter?
Illegal? Or outside the spec? Do cops kick down your door, or do other ham guys give you a severe frowning?
Are people so trained on sub-par, cheap Asian electronics that there's an expectation of suckage on a device that "only" costs $99 ? Is $99 the new throwaway price, where you use something, expect it to fail, then go buy another one? It's the Walmart generation I guess.
+1
Timothy sucks
Why does the mayor of the city worry about 3d printers? How is a municipal government remotely qualified to try and operate like that kind of business? Unless... its just a bid to create yet another city organization. (Remember, these are the same people who filled up their personal vehicles at the "first responders" stations after the hurricane.)
With respect to the startup companies he's looking to bring in, his job should be to get out of their way - fast-track all the normal paperwork, exempt them from Mafia-style union rules ("no, you can't carry that server up from the loading dock, that's a union job, and the guy isn't here until Friday"), and maybe give them a tax break or two while they're in startup mode. Then he can sit back and rake in the tax dollars on the back end and from the (newly) rich employees.
Ah yes, the illusion of choice. It was found that over 99% of the subjects would accept it, provided that they thought they had a choice.
Like the US Governmental system.
+1
People get what they deserve.
As they are the harbingers of the new age, post dotcom world, where overspecced hardware fixes everything, where there are legions of entitled douchebag "developers" who took a certification course, and of apps which can't run in less than 8GB of memory (our resident BOFH hung up on our developers when they asked for a 64GB VM because they kept getting OOM errors in Java).
In short, both languages rode the crest of the cultural revolution where it is now OK to suck, to offshore code development with no expectation of quality coming back, of "agile" methods where your next version is always going to be the stable one. I'm not exactly saying that these languages CAUSED any of this, but there is at least a temporal correlation.
Yes, I am a Unix guy, and yes, I have grey hair.
What is this, FarkTV?
The cars become self-aware at 2:14am on August 29. In a panic, we try and pull their plugs.
The rest pretty much follows.
PS: Slashdot, video "articles" suck.
Why would you ever want to do this, as opposed to letting the people choose what to run?
What possible benefit is there to this plan, other than to centralize and monitor user activity?
I thought one of the useful applications of the old table was that you could read down the columns and find 'like' materials, for instance, the halogens all sort of behave alike, the noble gases, etc. I don't see how that works here. And now of course, the article (the Google??) is now slashdotted and I can't recheck it.
I don't see how the old table didn't work I guess.
I think I've seen this Archer episode.