The Russians are the only reason the ISS is up there (current supply missions, critical modules, etc) but don't forget who funded those critical modules.
The Russians did, with decades of research on space stations and on MIR that reduced the cost of the life support systems down to something the Americans could actually afford for the ISS.
And then along comes NASA; boo-hoo we need a lifesupport and we can't afford to develop it...
Mad scientists are naturally drawn to geothermal power like moths to flame.
Yeah, bring em on, with lots of those cool Tesla coil thingeys, stickey out hair, and lab coats! That's the ticket! You know where you are with people like that!
I think it's worth the risk of a cataclysm or two.
I'm sure that the very tiny/big risk of a cataclysm is better than global warming.
I want to agree with you. But the shuttle, and most of the so-called X programs, and the X-33 program in particular (~2 billion to build a *sub*orbital launch vehicle and then not even managing that?????) leads me to think that manned flight at NASA may be irredemeably broken.
Sometimes you get a culture evolving at an organisation that precludes them from getting anything done. The Shuttle was, and is a big mistake- they originally sold it on the grounds that it would be able to launch every week (even when they knew it wouldn't- and the record shows that they didn't even bother building the facilities needed to do that, the NASA leadership knew it wouldn't be able to launch once a week, it was just the only way they could sell the program).
A lot of the problems in the manned program is lack of good leadership- Von Braun was very well respected within NASA, whilst he was in the loop everything more or less worked. Once he left the big trouble started.
If Bush can actually stand up to the plate for the plan, that might work. However, Bush isn't exactly my or pretty much anyones idea of a space leader, and his term in office won't see the program completed... Political instability is probably going to kill any chance of success anyway.
High society will live in elegant, custom constructed cardboard houses, and people who are down on their luck will be found, living in alleys in shitty brick houses.
So, you're saying poor people with few possessions will stay in sturdy brick houses, whilst rich people with lots of expensive possessions will live in houses you can break into with an exacto knife?
Then networks will be greatly encouraged to deal with their zombie clients.
It might not be on their networks. The *bad* thing about DDOS is collateral damage. e.g. what happens if the DDOS stresses the dns system, and that fails?
Again, see above - if networks dealt with zombie PCs quickly then the 419ers wouldn't be have other systems to move to.
Right... and if wishes were fishes we'd all have tails. The idea that the internet is suddenly going to become zombie proof if people started DDOSing isn't well founded.
I'm a sysadmin for a number of decent sized networks. I put a lot of effort into automated detection and isolation of trojaned machines (thanks in part to the excellent signatures at Bleeding Snort).
Then I'm sure you can imagine what it would be like to undergo a DDOS attack. It's not like spam isn't forged anyway- it's easy enough to forge the IP address that they are sending from as well.
Effectively you are proposing to DDOS spamming machines. And if those servers have been subverted and are running as zombies?
And if the DDOS takes down a bunch of legitimate servers upstream of the zombie?
And if the DDOS financially damages a company who had a server subverted through no fault of their own?
It's not like the spammers wouldn't instantly switch to a different server anyway...
DDOS attacks are extremely messy ways of attacking a problem. It's like using nukes to deal with 419ers. You might hit the spammers, or you might just take out Nigeria, when the spammers live elsewhere.
I think it should print it out, you can check it over, and you put it in the ballot box on the way out. The problem with just printing it out on a roll of paper, is that other people can find out what you voted.
That leads to all kinds of problems, including bribing people to vote a particular way, physical threats etc. etc.
We already have mass fabrication: they're called factories.
We already have legal protection for this kind of stuff: it's called intellectual property rights- copyright and patents.
Given these things, nothing really has changed. Some things become cheaper to produce, particularly in small quantities, although in all honesty, many things are already cheaper to make than you would suppose.
I actually think it would be positive for the economy- it means anyone can have custom-made stuff made for them. That means employing more people, or no less, since somebody has to modify the software to customise the stuff.
Possibly she was just lucky that her immune system produced enough antibodies in time. I mean after all, that's how immunisation works, the immune system learns to deal with the disease, not any exogenous chemicals.
I had the same problem. In my opinion the problems are bugs/features of the engine- I had similar problems in HL1.
The Half Life engine seems to pause quite often- always has AFAIK. If that pause happens as the player is turning, that means your brain thinks you are rotating, and then you stop, and then you carry on rotating. It's very strange, and causes sickness in susceptible people.
I had it extremely badly initially, but in my case I found turning off the hardware support and using software emulation on the sound got rid of the very worst of it.
It's not designed for absolutely minimum weight is it? Weight totally matters in space work. A heavy power source takes away from payload or equivalently makes you accelerate really slowly.
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The Russians did, with decades of research on space stations and on MIR that reduced the cost of the life support systems down to something the Americans could actually afford for the ISS.
And then along comes NASA; boo-hoo we need a lifesupport and we can't afford to develop it...
Yeah, bring em on, with lots of those cool Tesla coil thingeys, stickey out hair, and lab coats! That's the ticket! You know where you are with people like that!
I think it's worth the risk of a cataclysm or two.
I'm sure that the very tiny/big risk of a cataclysm is better than global warming.
Dunno. I'm too busy barfing over your signature:
"Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3."
It was friggin' Yoda- it even sounds like him. You're a moron. :-)
I think the federal government should step in with a grant or something.
You got a MD-5 crytographic hash to prove that? :-)
Yes, but a good hash makes it *extremely* difficult to find them. MD5 is looking pretty mediocre right now.
Sometimes you get a culture evolving at an organisation that precludes them from getting anything done. The Shuttle was, and is a big mistake- they originally sold it on the grounds that it would be able to launch every week (even when they knew it wouldn't- and the record shows that they didn't even bother building the facilities needed to do that, the NASA leadership knew it wouldn't be able to launch once a week, it was just the only way they could sell the program).
A lot of the problems in the manned program is lack of good leadership- Von Braun was very well respected within NASA, whilst he was in the loop everything more or less worked. Once he left the big trouble started.
If Bush can actually stand up to the plate for the plan, that might work. However, Bush isn't exactly my or pretty much anyones idea of a space leader, and his term in office won't see the program completed... Political instability is probably going to kill any chance of success anyway.
And it's erupting! Run for your lives!
So, you're saying poor people with few possessions will stay in sturdy brick houses, whilst rich people with lots of expensive possessions will live in houses you can break into with an exacto knife?
Somehow I have my doubts :-)
So, *you* not getting it makes *me* clueless? :-)
Hint: rhetorical question (I know long words are probably hard for you, I suggest you look 'rhetorical' up.)
It might not be on their networks. The *bad* thing about DDOS is collateral damage. e.g. what happens if the DDOS stresses the dns system, and that fails?
Again, see above - if networks dealt with zombie PCs quickly then the 419ers wouldn't be have other systems to move to.
Right... and if wishes were fishes we'd all have tails. The idea that the internet is suddenly going to become zombie proof if people started DDOSing isn't well founded.
I'm a sysadmin for a number of decent sized networks. I put a lot of effort into automated detection and isolation of trojaned machines (thanks in part to the excellent signatures at Bleeding Snort).
Then I'm sure you can imagine what it would be like to undergo a DDOS attack. It's not like spam isn't forged anyway- it's easy enough to forge the IP address that they are sending from as well.
And if the DDOS takes down a bunch of legitimate servers upstream of the zombie?
And if the DDOS financially damages a company who had a server subverted through no fault of their own?
It's not like the spammers wouldn't instantly switch to a different server anyway...
DDOS attacks are extremely messy ways of attacking a problem. It's like using nukes to deal with 419ers. You might hit the spammers, or you might just take out Nigeria, when the spammers live elsewhere.
The telomeres of the child have to start at full length. AFAIK it's not known how that works.
That leads to all kinds of problems, including bribing people to vote a particular way, physical threats etc. etc.
Besides she doesn't need a high IQ for what you doubtless have in mind!
You can't buy plutonium paint cartridges for some strange reason... :-)
We already have legal protection for this kind of stuff: it's called intellectual property rights- copyright and patents.
Given these things, nothing really has changed. Some things become cheaper to produce, particularly in small quantities, although in all honesty, many things are already cheaper to make than you would suppose.
I actually think it would be positive for the economy- it means anyone can have custom-made stuff made for them. That means employing more people, or no less, since somebody has to modify the software to customise the stuff.
I find the wire gets in the way; particularly in FPSs where you are moving around a lot.
Possibly she was just lucky that her immune system produced enough antibodies in time. I mean after all, that's how immunisation works, the immune system learns to deal with the disease, not any exogenous chemicals.
"EA games: question everything"
Paranoia is not an uncommon response to lack of sleep from overwork :-)
Actually I think you'll find it was applied all over the country...
The Half Life engine seems to pause quite often- always has AFAIK. If that pause happens as the player is turning, that means your brain thinks you are rotating, and then you stop, and then you carry on rotating. It's very strange, and causes sickness in susceptible people.
I had it extremely badly initially, but in my case I found turning off the hardware support and using software emulation on the sound got rid of the very worst of it.
Yes you can. Rotating your view rotates the object :-)
The cost of launch is mostly related to how heavy the vehicle is, which is very roughly proportional to how massive the payload is.
It's not designed for absolutely minimum weight is it? Weight totally matters in space work. A heavy power source takes away from payload or equivalently makes you accelerate really slowly.