And how much is 2.64 billion dollars, compared to the cost to construct the ISS in the first place, that instead will become the next palm tree on the Pacific Garbage Island? How much is it compared to trying to form another international coalition to fund and construct a lunar station? It's peanuts. We're talking about cuts of 2.6 TRILLION dollars on C-SPAN like it's small potatoes. As a question of scale, that's what Barack Obama finds in the White House sofa cushions. It's a bargain at twice the price. Worried about the cost of R&D? Seems to me there's a lot of unemployed NASA engineers right now, who I bet would love a chance to preserve their legacy and would work cheap.
For those saying "US doesn't have LEO capaibility right now", no, but it's not called the US Space Station. ESA and Russia can help, even the Chinese and such. Refueling/resupplying can be done with unmanned Soyuz crafts or a low-cost "shuttle" designed for exclusively this purpose - put out an X Prize for it and I bet you've got a working prototype in 4-5 years from the private sector.
Given nine years to work this problem, I'm sure this could be solved. With 2011 experience, maybe not, but orbiting the moon is a hell of a lot simpler than landing on it and getting home, and we figured that out in about 8 years using 1960's tech.
We've always said we wanted to go eventually do a permanent structure on the moon - why not the next best thing? Hook a Dragon up to it, turn on the thrusters, and aim for Luna. Let's put the ISS in orbit around the moon when its lifespan here is up, and voila, we have a permanent structure to study the moon, serve as a waystation / bathroom break rest stop for future interstellar travelers, and it doesn't cost us anything but the fuel of an unmanned rocket. Seems like a no-brainer.
Getting the amount of propellant necessary into space isn't a challenge. We did it in 1969. Yes, we're moving something a little bigger. Fortunately, nice, low gravity and no air resistance means you can move the ISS, very, very slowly, with almost no propellant needed for anything other than getting momentum started, and course corrections. If it takes a month to get there, unmanned, who cares? It took longer to build it than we're letting it run for - why destroy it now?
And, yes, before the trolls come out, I know that TFA says they were trying to fund dev on a regular car. But seriously, how much dev funding does it take to REMOVE features from a badass-mobile until it's affordable?
... unlike Chrysler and GM. Between automaker loans and clean-energy, get-off-oil money, there's got to be something to help Tesla out.
Failing that, guys, make cars people can afford. You make a bad ass Roadster. Now make a RegularCar, that I can buy for 75k, and I'll have one in the driveway tomorrow.
All depends on the angle and positioning of the 1080i newscast's cameras.
Also, FWIW, it's a common tactic during a standoff to cut off cable lines to the building, so the hostage-taker has a hard time seeing the perimeter on TV.
The cops can see when the news cameras are out there, and they generally keep them far enough out of the thick of things that their tactical positions can't be given away, for that very reason, unless they WANT the guy to know he's covered every which way as a negotiation tactic.
(my dad used to work in hostage situations as a cop)
Love to see the "helpful" comment-leavers charged with obstruction of justice. Had this guy been a little more deranged, he could have easily picked off said cops given the positions given out by his buddies.
Microsoft is embracing a STANDARD that isn't tied to a closed language they invented. Oh, the horror. I know, it's terrible for coders that learned Silverlight. Once upon a time, I learned Pascal. I used it. It did stuff for me. And the industry moved on, and Pascal is useless to me now. It's not even on my resume, because it's pointless. We're sorry that the world's progress risks making the time you spent learning that language/tool obsolete. Please move on.
1. Forbid legitimate purchasers and owners of the device from doing ANYTHING you don't homogenize, pre-approve, pre-chew, and charge for. 2. Apply Steve Jobs pixie dust. 3. Profit.
The reason for this should be clear - has ANYONE here read a disaster preparedness article in the last 3-4 years? Probably not. This got the post on the front page of Google News,/., CNN, and countless other news sites. The page was "Slashdotted" all afternoon. How many people got educated about what to do in a disaster because they thought, "Oh, zombies, lulz!" I know I did. This stunt got them more exposure than $25 million in advertising could. I'd MUCH prefer that our government do cheap and more effective things whenever possible (especially when I get a laugh as a bonus), as opposed to tossing money everywhere for no effect.
Nope. Personally, I'd say spend money to have the smallpox vaccine recipe somewhere, but not to stockpile vaccines for a known dead virus. If you're concerned about Al Qaeda using smallpox as a weapon, just immunize everybody that needs it NOW. Anybody older than 35 or so (what, no birthers challenging the President's old enough to serve?) SHOULD already be vaccinated; my brother is 41 and he got the shot but I am 31 and did not.
I felt your point didn't merit discussion. But well enough. A derivative of that word is used by African-Americans too young to know what living in a society that used that word in its original context was like. This practice has been widely decried by more mature members of the populace who have actually lived through discrimination, segregation, and the like. For folks who remember what that's like having to use a separate bathroom, go to the back of the bus, and other far more egregious inequities, that word can be a powerful reminder of a past better left buried.
I have worked with AD enough to know that at least it can do all these things, but I think we can all agree that setting up an AD domain is way more effort than any home user should reasonably have to undertake. I will admit, I haven't done much local user account stuff on more recent versions of Windows. (My Win7 laptop has a single profile, my own, which is the admin and still couldn't do certain things without me explicitly allowing it). My early experiences with it were so bad, I basically got turned off on the idea. From the way you describe, it sounds like Win7 is much better behaved about this sort of thing, and if so, I stand corrected and am happy to do so.
I'm a Windows user, though I wish a lot about Windows would change. I really WANT to be more of a Linux guy, but the combination of the learning curve, and the fact I've yet to find a GUI that feels as intuitive as Windows does, has held me back thus far. I'm not one of those people that says, MS is bad because it's MS. I will say that Win7 has addressed the lion's share of my concerns about Windows as an OS (many of which Vista loudly confirmed).
They have those things, but they're poorly designed and don't work right. Nobody can use Guest, because it's basically, "Please rape me now, kthx," which is why every security consultant and 14-year-old recommends Guest be disabled entirely. The permissions for what things can and can't be done on SU and PU are horrible; SU's can basically not function at all out of the box. Part of the problem is that EVERYTHING has to go through the Windows Registry and system files, so if you deny messing with that, you can barely run MS Office. It's a systemically poor design to make everything go through one central repository that cannot be parceled out by app or by user, rather than in.conf files and such the way Linux does it. In Linux, if I don't want you messing with my web server, I chmod the crap out of httpd.conf. I could easily say, you can't edit ANY conf file. I can't easily say, "No registry for you" in Windows, or have fun trying to do ANYTHING on that PC.
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And how much is 2.64 billion dollars, compared to the cost to construct the ISS in the first place, that instead will become the next palm tree on the Pacific Garbage Island? How much is it compared to trying to form another international coalition to fund and construct a lunar station? It's peanuts. We're talking about cuts of 2.6 TRILLION dollars on C-SPAN like it's small potatoes. As a question of scale, that's what Barack Obama finds in the White House sofa cushions. It's a bargain at twice the price. Worried about the cost of R&D? Seems to me there's a lot of unemployed NASA engineers right now, who I bet would love a chance to preserve their legacy and would work cheap.
For those saying "US doesn't have LEO capaibility right now", no, but it's not called the US Space Station. ESA and Russia can help, even the Chinese and such. Refueling/resupplying can be done with unmanned Soyuz crafts or a low-cost "shuttle" designed for exclusively this purpose - put out an X Prize for it and I bet you've got a working prototype in 4-5 years from the private sector.
Given nine years to work this problem, I'm sure this could be solved. With 2011 experience, maybe not, but orbiting the moon is a hell of a lot simpler than landing on it and getting home, and we figured that out in about 8 years using 1960's tech.
And then leave the shuttle affixed for escape pod that can actually get home to earth in an emergency.
We've always said we wanted to go eventually do a permanent structure on the moon - why not the next best thing? Hook a Dragon up to it, turn on the thrusters, and aim for Luna. Let's put the ISS in orbit around the moon when its lifespan here is up, and voila, we have a permanent structure to study the moon, serve as a waystation / bathroom break rest stop for future interstellar travelers, and it doesn't cost us anything but the fuel of an unmanned rocket. Seems like a no-brainer.
Getting the amount of propellant necessary into space isn't a challenge. We did it in 1969. Yes, we're moving something a little bigger. Fortunately, nice, low gravity and no air resistance means you can move the ISS, very, very slowly, with almost no propellant needed for anything other than getting momentum started, and course corrections. If it takes a month to get there, unmanned, who cares? It took longer to build it than we're letting it run for - why destroy it now?
Very comical to enter "Ninjas" or "Assassins" ;)
And, yes, before the trolls come out, I know that TFA says they were trying to fund dev on a regular car. But seriously, how much dev funding does it take to REMOVE features from a badass-mobile until it's affordable?
... unlike Chrysler and GM. Between automaker loans and clean-energy, get-off-oil money, there's got to be something to help Tesla out.
Failing that, guys, make cars people can afford. You make a bad ass Roadster. Now make a RegularCar, that I can buy for 75k, and I'll have one in the driveway tomorrow.
All depends on the angle and positioning of the 1080i newscast's cameras.
Also, FWIW, it's a common tactic during a standoff to cut off cable lines to the building, so the hostage-taker has a hard time seeing the perimeter on TV.
All you need is a good curtain in the window, man.
The cops can see when the news cameras are out there, and they generally keep them far enough out of the thick of things that their tactical positions can't be given away, for that very reason, unless they WANT the guy to know he's covered every which way as a negotiation tactic.
(my dad used to work in hostage situations as a cop)
No, it's because the US sees fit to lock people up for victimless, harmless activities like smoking marijuana.
Love to see the "helpful" comment-leavers charged with obstruction of justice. Had this guy been a little more deranged, he could have easily picked off said cops given the positions given out by his buddies.
Microsoft is embracing a STANDARD that isn't tied to a closed language they invented. Oh, the horror. I know, it's terrible for coders that learned Silverlight. Once upon a time, I learned Pascal. I used it. It did stuff for me. And the industry moved on, and Pascal is useless to me now. It's not even on my resume, because it's pointless. We're sorry that the world's progress risks making the time you spent learning that language/tool obsolete. Please move on.
Original sent from my Windows PC, reply sent from my Android. ;) I own no iPoop.
1. Forbid legitimate purchasers and owners of the device from doing ANYTHING you don't homogenize, pre-approve, pre-chew, and charge for.
2. Apply Steve Jobs pixie dust.
3. Profit.
What happens at Guantanamo stays at Guantanamo.
The reason for this should be clear - has ANYONE here read a disaster preparedness article in the last 3-4 years? Probably not. This got the post on the front page of Google News, /., CNN, and countless other news sites. The page was "Slashdotted" all afternoon. How many people got educated about what to do in a disaster because they thought, "Oh, zombies, lulz!" I know I did. This stunt got them more exposure than $25 million in advertising could. I'd MUCH prefer that our government do cheap and more effective things whenever possible (especially when I get a laugh as a bonus), as opposed to tossing money everywhere for no effect.
Nope. Personally, I'd say spend money to have the smallpox vaccine recipe somewhere, but not to stockpile vaccines for a known dead virus. If you're concerned about Al Qaeda using smallpox as a weapon, just immunize everybody that needs it NOW. Anybody older than 35 or so (what, no birthers challenging the President's old enough to serve?) SHOULD already be vaccinated; my brother is 41 and he got the shot but I am 31 and did not.
... for science... ... you monster...
Unless you root it...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/how-to-install-netflix-on-most-android-devices/
Camelnet? Bombed-out Yugo-net? Predator-net?
I felt your point didn't merit discussion. But well enough. A derivative of that word is used by African-Americans too young to know what living in a society that used that word in its original context was like. This practice has been widely decried by more mature members of the populace who have actually lived through discrimination, segregation, and the like. For folks who remember what that's like having to use a separate bathroom, go to the back of the bus, and other far more egregious inequities, that word can be a powerful reminder of a past better left buried.
I have worked with AD enough to know that at least it can do all these things, but I think we can all agree that setting up an AD domain is way more effort than any home user should reasonably have to undertake. I will admit, I haven't done much local user account stuff on more recent versions of Windows. (My Win7 laptop has a single profile, my own, which is the admin and still couldn't do certain things without me explicitly allowing it). My early experiences with it were so bad, I basically got turned off on the idea. From the way you describe, it sounds like Win7 is much better behaved about this sort of thing, and if so, I stand corrected and am happy to do so.
I'm a Windows user, though I wish a lot about Windows would change. I really WANT to be more of a Linux guy, but the combination of the learning curve, and the fact I've yet to find a GUI that feels as intuitive as Windows does, has held me back thus far. I'm not one of those people that says, MS is bad because it's MS. I will say that Win7 has addressed the lion's share of my concerns about Windows as an OS (many of which Vista loudly confirmed).
No, person respecting other people complex.
They have those things, but they're poorly designed and don't work right. Nobody can use Guest, because it's basically, "Please rape me now, kthx," which is why every security consultant and 14-year-old recommends Guest be disabled entirely. The permissions for what things can and can't be done on SU and PU are horrible; SU's can basically not function at all out of the box. Part of the problem is that EVERYTHING has to go through the Windows Registry and system files, so if you deny messing with that, you can barely run MS Office. It's a systemically poor design to make everything go through one central repository that cannot be parceled out by app or by user, rather than in .conf files and such the way Linux does it. In Linux, if I don't want you messing with my web server, I chmod the crap out of httpd.conf. I could easily say, you can't edit ANY conf file. I can't easily say, "No registry for you" in Windows, or have fun trying to do ANYTHING on that PC.
Probably a lot like the trombone.