It did deliver cargo last time, although the mission wasn't labeled as a cargo mission. IOW: last time, had they failed, the PR would have been different. It was "only a test". This time, it was a "resupply". Failed test vs. failed resupply -- pretty obvious PR slant.
Given that NASA was never in business of making rockets, I don't know what's your point, exactly. Oh, if you ask whether SpaceX provides services for a better price than Space Alliance or any other competitor out there: you bet. Vastly better price.
low-midline full-size? Do you seriously think consumers who buy these things know any of such class lingo?! It's all shit conjured for marketing purposes only. Every damn car out there is "best in X". It's all meaningless crap. You get in the car, drive in it, and figure out if it works for you. That's all there's to it. Car ads are pretty useless to the consumer.
I think that's a false dichotomy. Sure you could hire a team if it made business sense, but usually it doesn't. But then I think that for core business it often does make such sense.
Oh, you mean that they are on their way to being labeled a terrorist group when eventually someone stupid will pull something stupid out of their trick hat? Well, then, one more reason for me not to be labeled a supporter of a domestic terrorist organization;)
Both Clancy and Gaiman know their shit. It's a matter of taste at best if you think higher of Clancy. I'd tend to think Gaiman is a wee bit more flexible than either Clancy or Patterson.
Yeah, but how do you know that the IT shop you're hiring is not in fact full of morons? There seems to be plenty of such IT shops around, big ones, even. You need some sort of external references or vetting if you lack your own know-how no matter whether you're hiring a shop or "just" some employees. In light of seemingly endless snafus masterminded by big consulting firms, I'd much rather hire the right people even if initially just as consultants and have direct managerial oversight. I mean, you must be good at something -- even if you don't have pre-existing technical know-how, as a good manager you should be able to figure out if a project is running correctly, and whether the manager under you is doing their job. I do see your point, but no matter how polished the airport billboards are, well run and competent IT consulting shops are few and far between. You may be quite lucky to be in one.
It's sad that no one picked up on the IMHO biggest snafu: the chroot is mounted using git-fs. Performance-wise it'll suck donkey balls just because of that. Just think of it: every page mapping for those executables has to go through userspace! Whoever thought of that was a real whiz, sigh.
If I were serious about it, I'd work on getting gitfs implemented natively in the kernel. Using fuse could be a proof-of-concept while the kernel driver is being implemented. I just hope that git stores its database with files still being files, because at least then the kernel driver could be, pretty much a filter driver that only rewrites file paths. Otherwise it'll have to be a full-blown filesystem driver with all the inefficiencies of using what amounts to multiple loop devices as its backend.
Because, obviously, in an "X company" everyone does X. Accountants do not know how to do clerical office work, they should just outsource their secretaries abroad, right? Right? Let's cut the bullshit. A company is ultimately people and processes. People you can get, and processes you can learn. I don't buy that IT consulting companies have some magical process powder that makes their people so much more effective than the same people, were they to be hired thy the "X company". It seems to be a ploy everyone falls for, but without any backing in fact. Most IT outsourcing is a disaster that's only used to postpone the inevitable technical debt blowup, and is used, demonstrably, only to temporarily boost share values.
This whole "cut costs" thing is just stupid. Even in a fairly large company, the expensive IT engineering side can be just a couple of people. If they seriously earn so much money that outsourcing is cheaper, then perhaps I can apply for the job at a 25% discount. I wouldn't mind that $250k/year salary, after all.
What PETA is ignoring, though, that not only people have this whole guilt-by-association thing built into their psyches, but also that PETA activists themselves may be, you know, unduly influenced by their own meant-to-be-effective PR campaigns. IOW: they are deluding themselves if they think that "free" PR is really free. No, it's not. It makes them, at least in my eyes, look like a bunch of loonies I won't even pay a broken dime to. No matter how noble their fucking cause is. They are solely responsible for their image being tarnished that way. I have no intention of putting work towards determining what of their PR is lunacy-for-clicks vs. what is their worldview or core ideas. Self-inflicted braindamage is for them to sort out.
I think I have to agree, it seems true at least in the case of our house cat. She seems perfectly content, and she takes care of us just as we do take care of her. She's pretty good at killing insects that occasionally get inside. She seems to know quite well when one of us is sick, and if something hurts she'll curl up over the spot and stay there, sometimes for many hours. She loves being scratched, and can lay under my arm and purr for an hour while I browse/. and scratch her. It's easy to tell when she's upset over something, such moments being quite rare. She doesn't like going to the vet, that's for sure:)
It has the right scale, and as far as converting it to continuous process, well, all you need is an extruder. The Z-machine process is almost a dream to convert to continuous operation, heck, it's the only fusion process out there that has so far any chance at continuous operation IMHO. Every other technology out there is pulsed in its very principle. We know pretty darn well how to deal with tubes and putting stuff in tubes, in a continuous process, just as we know how to ensure that said tubes are strong, uniform and free of defects. Sure we could figure out how to blow thin glass bubbles with D-T mix in them, but you're messing with discrete units of stuff. With a tube, you set it all up and it can go on at a fixed, continuous energy output until an overhaul comes up. The process of making the tube, keeping it filled with fuel, squeezing it, can all be done in a continuous operation. The squeeze could be done in a flow-through fashion, with a conical transition under the squeeze. Hot metal and helium gets ejected on the other end, the metal can be recycled in a closed loop.
Don't be silly by presuming I don't know about the, um, promise of thorium reactors. Yet you can't put the cart in front of the horses. Throw the money, and if you're lucky, after 20-30 years of operation in actual, you know, utility companies, it'll be demonstrated that it's small, safe and easy to build. So far it's wishful thinking. It may be true, but given lack of, you know, the damned things in operation, you can't really say much about their size, cost or safety record. All I know is that conventional nuclear plants have a pretty damn exceptional safety record. Even if you include Fukushima and Chernobyl in the calculations.
The Z-machine has not demonstrated fusion. They demonstrated, quite successfully, that their simulations of imploding tubes match the experiment. They are hoping that the imploding tube will contain fusion. That will be shown in early 2014 AFAICT. Yeah, they say "by the close of 2013". Uh huh, and I've got a bridge to sell.
For typical US suburban single family construction, painting roofs white doesn't make any sense. Homes have attics, and those attics are ventilated. The more sunlight the roof absorbs, the more air gets pumped through the attic. In my home, the attic is reasonably comfortable even in 30C weather with clear skies -- the air temperature right above the insulation is perhaps 2 C above ambient -- and that's a pretty run-of-the-mill house from 1979. Sure it higher if you measure it elsewhere, but only temperature at the bottom of the attic matters here. Painting the roof white won't any practical difference there. What will make difference is proper insulation in the attic, and that, demonstrably, is quite lacking in most U.S. homes!
Just because you call some nonexisting tech, wishfully, "small, safe, easy-to-build", doesn't make it so. Unless it's demonstrated to be having those properties, I file it under pink unicorns:(
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It did deliver cargo last time, although the mission wasn't labeled as a cargo mission. IOW: last time, had they failed, the PR would have been different. It was "only a test". This time, it was a "resupply". Failed test vs. failed resupply -- pretty obvious PR slant.
Given that NASA was never in business of making rockets, I don't know what's your point, exactly. Oh, if you ask whether SpaceX provides services for a better price than Space Alliance or any other competitor out there: you bet. Vastly better price.
low-midline full-size? Do you seriously think consumers who buy these things know any of such class lingo?! It's all shit conjured for marketing purposes only. Every damn car out there is "best in X". It's all meaningless crap. You get in the car, drive in it, and figure out if it works for you. That's all there's to it. Car ads are pretty useless to the consumer.
I think that's a false dichotomy. Sure you could hire a team if it made business sense, but usually it doesn't. But then I think that for core business it often does make such sense.
:O Hero of the day post, indeed. That's a rimshot and a fanfare, in quick succession. With a big honking slam on a tam-tam (it's not a gong!).
Quite interesting. I didn't think of that :) The occasional slashdot gem post -- thanks!
Oh, you mean that they are on their way to being labeled a terrorist group when eventually someone stupid will pull something stupid out of their trick hat? Well, then, one more reason for me not to be labeled a supporter of a domestic terrorist organization ;)
Both Clancy and Gaiman know their shit. It's a matter of taste at best if you think higher of Clancy. I'd tend to think Gaiman is a wee bit more flexible than either Clancy or Patterson.
Yeah, but how do you know that the IT shop you're hiring is not in fact full of morons? There seems to be plenty of such IT shops around, big ones, even. You need some sort of external references or vetting if you lack your own know-how no matter whether you're hiring a shop or "just" some employees. In light of seemingly endless snafus masterminded by big consulting firms, I'd much rather hire the right people even if initially just as consultants and have direct managerial oversight. I mean, you must be good at something -- even if you don't have pre-existing technical know-how, as a good manager you should be able to figure out if a project is running correctly, and whether the manager under you is doing their job. I do see your point, but no matter how polished the airport billboards are, well run and competent IT consulting shops are few and far between. You may be quite lucky to be in one.
It's sad that no one picked up on the IMHO biggest snafu: the chroot is mounted using git-fs. Performance-wise it'll suck donkey balls just because of that. Just think of it: every page mapping for those executables has to go through userspace! Whoever thought of that was a real whiz, sigh.
If I were serious about it, I'd work on getting gitfs implemented natively in the kernel. Using fuse could be a proof-of-concept while the kernel driver is being implemented. I just hope that git stores its database with files still being files, because at least then the kernel driver could be, pretty much a filter driver that only rewrites file paths. Otherwise it'll have to be a full-blown filesystem driver with all the inefficiencies of using what amounts to multiple loop devices as its backend.
So I ask, then, what's the fucking point? Hire the people and be the one who's in control. Don't pay someone else's profits.
Because, obviously, in an "X company" everyone does X. Accountants do not know how to do clerical office work, they should just outsource their secretaries abroad, right? Right? Let's cut the bullshit. A company is ultimately people and processes. People you can get, and processes you can learn. I don't buy that IT consulting companies have some magical process powder that makes their people so much more effective than the same people, were they to be hired thy the "X company". It seems to be a ploy everyone falls for, but without any backing in fact. Most IT outsourcing is a disaster that's only used to postpone the inevitable technical debt blowup, and is used, demonstrably, only to temporarily boost share values.
This whole "cut costs" thing is just stupid. Even in a fairly large company, the expensive IT engineering side can be just a couple of people. If they seriously earn so much money that outsourcing is cheaper, then perhaps I can apply for the job at a 25% discount. I wouldn't mind that $250k/year salary, after all.
Protip: the world is full of people who do stupid shit for apparently no rational reason at all. There.
What PETA is ignoring, though, that not only people have this whole guilt-by-association thing built into their psyches, but also that PETA activists themselves may be, you know, unduly influenced by their own meant-to-be-effective PR campaigns. IOW: they are deluding themselves if they think that "free" PR is really free. No, it's not. It makes them, at least in my eyes, look like a bunch of loonies I won't even pay a broken dime to. No matter how noble their fucking cause is. They are solely responsible for their image being tarnished that way. I have no intention of putting work towards determining what of their PR is lunacy-for-clicks vs. what is their worldview or core ideas. Self-inflicted braindamage is for them to sort out.
They taste like chicken, too!
FUD much?
I think I have to agree, it seems true at least in the case of our house cat. She seems perfectly content, and she takes care of us just as we do take care of her. She's pretty good at killing insects that occasionally get inside. She seems to know quite well when one of us is sick, and if something hurts she'll curl up over the spot and stay there, sometimes for many hours. She loves being scratched, and can lay under my arm and purr for an hour while I browse /. and scratch her. It's easy to tell when she's upset over something, such moments being quite rare. She doesn't like going to the vet, that's for sure :)
Yep, and you'd think those buildings have better insulation systems than generally slipshod-made residential buildings :/
It has the right scale, and as far as converting it to continuous process, well, all you need is an extruder. The Z-machine process is almost a dream to convert to continuous operation, heck, it's the only fusion process out there that has so far any chance at continuous operation IMHO. Every other technology out there is pulsed in its very principle. We know pretty darn well how to deal with tubes and putting stuff in tubes, in a continuous process, just as we know how to ensure that said tubes are strong, uniform and free of defects. Sure we could figure out how to blow thin glass bubbles with D-T mix in them, but you're messing with discrete units of stuff. With a tube, you set it all up and it can go on at a fixed, continuous energy output until an overhaul comes up. The process of making the tube, keeping it filled with fuel, squeezing it, can all be done in a continuous operation. The squeeze could be done in a flow-through fashion, with a conical transition under the squeeze. Hot metal and helium gets ejected on the other end, the metal can be recycled in a closed loop.
Don't be silly by presuming I don't know about the, um, promise of thorium reactors. Yet you can't put the cart in front of the horses. Throw the money, and if you're lucky, after 20-30 years of operation in actual, you know, utility companies, it'll be demonstrated that it's small, safe and easy to build. So far it's wishful thinking. It may be true, but given lack of, you know, the damned things in operation, you can't really say much about their size, cost or safety record. All I know is that conventional nuclear plants have a pretty damn exceptional safety record. Even if you include Fukushima and Chernobyl in the calculations.
The Z-machine has not demonstrated fusion. They demonstrated, quite successfully, that their simulations of imploding tubes match the experiment. They are hoping that the imploding tube will contain fusion. That will be shown in early 2014 AFAICT. Yeah, they say "by the close of 2013". Uh huh, and I've got a bridge to sell.
For typical US suburban single family construction, painting roofs white doesn't make any sense. Homes have attics, and those attics are ventilated. The more sunlight the roof absorbs, the more air gets pumped through the attic. In my home, the attic is reasonably comfortable even in 30C weather with clear skies -- the air temperature right above the insulation is perhaps 2 C above ambient -- and that's a pretty run-of-the-mill house from 1979. Sure it higher if you measure it elsewhere, but only temperature at the bottom of the attic matters here. Painting the roof white won't any practical difference there. What will make difference is proper insulation in the attic, and that, demonstrably, is quite lacking in most U.S. homes!
Just because you call some nonexisting tech, wishfully, "small, safe, easy-to-build", doesn't make it so. Unless it's demonstrated to be having those properties, I file it under pink unicorns :(
IOW: Why use the terms correctly when you can redefine them and get upset when people call you on it. SIgh.