I'd just like to ask you something. Why do you recursively assert that the law is supreme because it is the law? Are you a huge fan of oppression, perpetual governance or what? I just want a solid, straight, good answer, not just brushing me off by calling me a pothead.
So pot being illegal makes sense to you because nobody *needs* to smoke pot. Using your thoughts as our basis, we shall form a brave new world in which anything you do not expressly need is illegal. Video games, computers, all drugs (inc. caffine, alcohol, powerthirst....), television, most food....
NO, now you've done it! Within a couple of seconds, the universe will collapse and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable! Noooooooooooo...
I get your arguments, and agree with most of it about resource waste for conventional manufacturing techniques. The embryonic ships also always seemed a good idea to me. But as far as the interstellar class orions, I think you're underestimating advances in the next hundred years or so. Picture it from a perspective into the fairly long term future, with a manufacturing system completely restructured by nanotechnology. Your ship fires a capsule of nanites into an asteroid or comet with the suitable resources, and within a few weeks or maybe months (assuming self replication) they've assembled a ship from molecular raw materials, fully fueled. Kind of like a controlled grey goo scenario on a smaller scale. With manufacturing costs lowered significantly, the main cost barrier drops, and large scale 50 year caravans to interstellar space become feasible. Not to even mention if it ever becomes possible to store stable antimatter- an antimatter powered orion could approach 80-90% of the speed of light. That's a decade or less flight time to nearby stars, accounting for acceleration-deceleration times- very well within range for large scale colonization of the galaxy.
Yeah, with opera, I have a rich and fast environment for watching my pages not load properly! Jokihng aside, it is a good browser, but I wish it was open source so I could swap the layout engine to gecko or webkit.
Ah, I see. Openly available to implement to those who will pay them their fees and obey their licensing schemes. Sorry, but that still doesn't exactly sound free to me. Kinda like how the Tivo is "open source".
anyone who doubts the merit of that opinion should be forced to code for IE8 for at least 10 straight hours, with a kick to the teeth for every time code that should have worked doesn't. It is far from an acceptable browser.
Sorry if this is a rhetorical question, but how can an "open standard" not be free to implement? I completely disagree. IMO, open standards are ones for which specifications are freely available implementations cost nothing. What is the "actual" definition?
I know about the general 0.1c speed limit- honestly, I think it's fast enough to be practical when compared with the multi-millennial travel times of conventional rockets. If you did put the colonists in stasis, it's a decently fast way of headed to the stars. I've always thought that slow STL (that is, below 5% c or so) colonization plans were a waste of resources- even if you can mine from say an asteroid you're riding there. Nothing's wrong with slow interstellar colonization, ala firefly, but ideally we should spread rather quickly.
Web development does not necessarily equal web page design. He could be doing back end server coding, which iirc is often done in java, which, unlike html/css, is a programming language.
For interplanetary distances, a 20 Megawatt fission reactor powering a VASIMR engine is all you'd really need. As for interstellar distances, a slow nuclear-pulse orion-type ship would be the best investment. For some reason, I suspect *effective* FTL (e.g. not actually going the speed of light- side stepping it, such as a worm hole) is possible, but it is much further away then sub-light and near-light interstellars.
I use slackware you insensitive clod! I'm guessing its a poke at the *ubermassive* memory requirements of *16* MB RAM. To GP, It's OK, you can crawl out from under the rock. The war is over and we all use cat now, as men once did.
well I suppose I was going to have to learn java eventually... If android does have a lack of decent text editors (assuming it hasn't been done) I could always work on porting vim/nano/emacs or something. Doubt it would work well though without a significantly reworked interface or a full 108-key keyboard.
With a tablet android version, they might finally have gotten me into android app development. I'm not sure exactly how this works, would I have to learn and use java or could I just use any language?
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I'd just like to ask you something. Why do you recursively assert that the law is supreme because it is the law? Are you a huge fan of oppression, perpetual governance or what? I just want a solid, straight, good answer, not just brushing me off by calling me a pothead.
So pot being illegal makes sense to you because nobody *needs* to smoke pot. Using your thoughts as our basis, we shall form a brave new world in which anything you do not expressly need is illegal. Video games, computers, all drugs (inc. caffine, alcohol, powerthirst....), television, most food....
Send the check for the new keyboard by next Tuesday.
NO, now you've done it! Within a couple of seconds, the universe will collapse and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable! Noooooooooooo...
A random group of strangers claims possession of stuxnet worm.
Yeah, all hail emperor Obama! Wait a second...
I get your arguments, and agree with most of it about resource waste for conventional manufacturing techniques. The embryonic ships also always seemed a good idea to me. But as far as the interstellar class orions, I think you're underestimating advances in the next hundred years or so. Picture it from a perspective into the fairly long term future, with a manufacturing system completely restructured by nanotechnology. Your ship fires a capsule of nanites into an asteroid or comet with the suitable resources, and within a few weeks or maybe months (assuming self replication) they've assembled a ship from molecular raw materials, fully fueled. Kind of like a controlled grey goo scenario on a smaller scale. With manufacturing costs lowered significantly, the main cost barrier drops, and large scale 50 year caravans to interstellar space become feasible. Not to even mention if it ever becomes possible to store stable antimatter- an antimatter powered orion could approach 80-90% of the speed of light. That's a decade or less flight time to nearby stars, accounting for acceleration-deceleration times- very well within range for large scale colonization of the galaxy.
damn /. 3 bugs... yeah, I know how to spell joek'hing grammar nazis.
Yeah, with opera, I have a rich and fast environment for watching my pages not load properly! Jokihng aside, it is a good browser, but I wish it was open source so I could swap the layout engine to gecko or webkit.
Ah, I see. Openly available to implement to those who will pay them their fees and obey their licensing schemes. Sorry, but that still doesn't exactly sound free to me. Kinda like how the Tivo is "open source".
anyone who doubts the merit of that opinion should be forced to code for IE8 for at least 10 straight hours, with a kick to the teeth for every time code that should have worked doesn't. It is far from an acceptable browser.
Sorry if this is a rhetorical question, but how can an "open standard" not be free to implement? I completely disagree. IMO, open standards are ones for which specifications are freely available implementations cost nothing. What is the "actual" definition?
Probably the other one- I've seen red ones in 2.0. Or it's just a very long standing bug...
Thank you. To some scientist looking up from another star, venus and mars could very well appear to be habitable.
I know about the general 0.1c speed limit- honestly, I think it's fast enough to be practical when compared with the multi-millennial travel times of conventional rockets. If you did put the colonists in stasis, it's a decently fast way of headed to the stars. I've always thought that slow STL (that is, below 5% c or so) colonization plans were a waste of resources- even if you can mine from say an asteroid you're riding there. Nothing's wrong with slow interstellar colonization, ala firefly, but ideally we should spread rather quickly.
Web development does not necessarily equal web page design. He could be doing back end server coding, which iirc is often done in java, which, unlike html/css, is a programming language.
I use DragonFlyBSD you insensitive clod!
For interplanetary distances, a 20 Megawatt fission reactor powering a VASIMR engine is all you'd really need. As for interstellar distances, a slow nuclear-pulse orion-type ship would be the best investment. For some reason, I suspect *effective* FTL (e.g. not actually going the speed of light- side stepping it, such as a worm hole) is possible, but it is much further away then sub-light and near-light interstellars.
http://xkcd.com/850/
Pfft, we all know it actually stands for emacs' backspace command, escape meta alt control shift.
I use slackware you insensitive clod! I'm guessing its a poke at the *ubermassive* memory requirements of *16* MB RAM. To GP, It's OK, you can crawl out from under the rock. The war is over and we all use cat now, as men once did.
but it's an actual picture of RMS's foot!
also that's gnome...
well I suppose I was going to have to learn java eventually... If android does have a lack of decent text editors (assuming it hasn't been done) I could always work on porting vim/nano/emacs or something. Doubt it would work well though without a significantly reworked interface or a full 108-key keyboard.
But what if you wanted to do it en masse- plus the fact that you get to target the code of the entire project all at once.
With a tablet android version, they might finally have gotten me into android app development. I'm not sure exactly how this works, would I have to learn and use java or could I just use any language?