I think this is the best we can get, given the budget situation. As I understand, it won't even be launched till 2017. On the plus side, unlike Kepler, it's an all-sky survey.
I taught myself programming when I was about 10 years old and I'm not a native English speaker and my language is written in non-latin characters. I can tell you how I did it but many of you are not going to like it:
I started with BASIC in the pre-structured era. I wrote stuff like this:
10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 SOUND 512 5 (forgive if syntax is wrong)
I spent a lot of time drawing pictures and making music without knowing anything about conditionals or loops. Then I graduated to GOTO, which in retrospect was a lot easier to understand for a 10 year old than a structured conditional block or a loop.
When I finally started with structured programming languages, making the transition took only a little time. If I had started with it at age 10, it might have overwhelmed me. The explicit representation of sequence (the line labels), conditions and iteration (the GOTO) was easier for me to understand as a kid. Especially since my English was very limited back then.
Plus I never bothered with math (I hadn't learned to love it yet). As I said, I drew pictures and made music with the PC speaker (so I was using only a few functions built into the language). Maybe that's an approach to think about, for starters.
1. The gritty, amoral feel and the 1984 style theme 2. The liberator, zen, orac and the liberator interior 3. Avon's witticisms (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0026780/quotes) and Servalan 4. The theme music
Actually you know what? Just keep the original. Recently, I watched everything up to the point where the liberator was destroyed (I can't stand the Scorpio), and I see no reason to remake it.
I don't know about gains in applied sciences, but just imagine if we subject these planets to closer scrutiny and discover something like EM emissions that could only be from something artificial? Of all the things that have ever awed or shocked humans, I think nothing would compare with the discovery of intelligent life outside our planet.
We can't possibly imagine how people will react. But I imagine it will adjust the sense of proportion for a lot of people, politically and spiritually, as in "We're a lot less special than we think we are" and "We're not all that different from each other because there are things that are a LOT more different from us out there".
over 5 million children in the United States will go to bed hungry tonight. $200 million would solve that problem for a month.
What about the next month? Should we sacrifice another long term program to temporarily alleviate a *symptom*? If people had listened this type of argument a hundred years ago, we might not have commercial aviation or satellites today. Those may not feed people directly, but they've contributed a great deal to flattening out the world, reducing conflicts and improving education.
World hunger is not a symptom of lack of food. If you keep throwing food at the problem, it'll never go away.
obscures the skies, these will be our constellations.... interrupted every five minutes or so when the drones re-form themselves into an ad for hemorrhoid cream.
The rare earth hypothesis has a lot of good points. But at the risk of being ad hominem, the author is the same guy who once supported the theory that planetary alignments could result in earthquakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gribbin#Biography
How "reconstructed" is that photograph, anyway? That fence in the foreground looks weird.
You have a good eye! That's the first thing that struck me as well. Look at the top left corner of the nearest fence post at about 150% magnification. That looks like poor cropping. And the illumination on it doesn't match ambient lighting. The "graining" on the fence doesn't match the rest of the image either. AND look at the bottom edge of the photo. Looks like the image continues below the black line, but the fence doesn't. Why the heck would somebody bother adding it? Not like it contributes anything to the image.
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Please see their first prototype here: http://youtu.be/7yBnl_krN_U?t=1m17s
It is formidable.
Next up: Google Drone.
But, asks Slashdot's Tim Lord, what about new, small cameras?
You mean the ones that are only smaller on the outside?
I think this is the best we can get, given the budget situation. As I understand, it won't even be launched till 2017. On the plus side, unlike Kepler, it's an all-sky survey.
Just came here to express solidarity with all those who misread this 'Bacon Mountain'. Not disappointed.
Also, he was caught with "written instructions for recruiting a Russian citizen"??
That's the last of 4 test units built and there's no immediate successor to the program (TFA). Thank god it worked.
I taught myself programming when I was about 10 years old and I'm not a native English speaker and my language is written in non-latin characters. I can tell you how I did it but many of you are not going to like it:
I started with BASIC in the pre-structured era. I wrote stuff like this:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 SOUND 512 5
(forgive if syntax is wrong)
I spent a lot of time drawing pictures and making music without knowing anything about conditionals or loops. Then I graduated to GOTO, which in retrospect was a lot easier to understand for a 10 year old than a structured conditional block or a loop.
When I finally started with structured programming languages, making the transition took only a little time. If I had started with it at age 10, it might have overwhelmed me. The explicit representation of sequence (the line labels), conditions and iteration (the GOTO) was easier for me to understand as a kid. Especially since my English was very limited back then.
Plus I never bothered with math (I hadn't learned to love it yet). As I said, I drew pictures and made music with the PC speaker (so I was using only a few functions built into the language). Maybe that's an approach to think about, for starters.
When Lee Iacocca built Chrysler into a powerhouse, he said he didn't know anything about how to build a car.
I thought Walter Chrysler built Chrysler into a powerhouse.
Yeah. Much of Avon's insults would go to waste without Villa
I'd love it if they keep:
1. The gritty, amoral feel and the 1984 style theme
2. The liberator, zen, orac and the liberator interior
3. Avon's witticisms (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0026780/quotes) and Servalan
4. The theme music
Actually you know what? Just keep the original. Recently, I watched everything up to the point where the liberator was destroyed (I can't stand the Scorpio), and I see no reason to remake it.
Intraterrestrial? You mean like, life on uranus?
I don't know about gains in applied sciences, but just imagine if we subject these planets to closer scrutiny and discover something like EM emissions that could only be from something artificial? Of all the things that have ever awed or shocked humans, I think nothing would compare with the discovery of intelligent life outside our planet.
We can't possibly imagine how people will react. But I imagine it will adjust the sense of proportion for a lot of people, politically and spiritually, as in "We're a lot less special than we think we are" and "We're not all that different from each other because there are things that are a LOT more different from us out there".
over 5 million children in the United States will go to bed hungry tonight. $200 million would solve that problem for a month.
What about the next month? Should we sacrifice another long term program to temporarily alleviate a *symptom*? If people had listened this type of argument a hundred years ago, we might not have commercial aviation or satellites today. Those may not feed people directly, but they've contributed a great deal to flattening out the world, reducing conflicts and improving education.
World hunger is not a symptom of lack of food. If you keep throwing food at the problem, it'll never go away.
I call digital bollocks.
The reason no one takes this idiot up, is because the odds are in the houses favor, and he knows it.
Never wrestle with a pig. You will end up covered in mud and the pig will enjoy it.
Unless you huff and puff and blow his house... oh wait.
obscures the skies, ...
these will be our constellations.
interrupted every five minutes or so when the drones re-form themselves into an ad for hemorrhoid cream.
Burma shave.
I still have a P90... has a dual 3.5"/5.25" floppy drive and a 2X CD-ROM drive.
I too, love my P90. Although mine has a 5.7x28mm cartridge and a 900rpm fire rate. Beats the heck out of staffs and zats.
The rare earth hypothesis has a lot of good points. But at the risk of being ad hominem, the author is the same guy who once supported the theory that planetary alignments could result in earthquakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gribbin#Biography
How "reconstructed" is that photograph, anyway? That fence in the foreground looks weird.
You have a good eye! That's the first thing that struck me as well. Look at the top left corner of the nearest fence post at about 150% magnification. That looks like poor cropping. And the illumination on it doesn't match ambient lighting. The "graining" on the fence doesn't match the rest of the image either. AND look at the bottom edge of the photo. Looks like the image continues below the black line, but the fence doesn't. Why the heck would somebody bother adding it? Not like it contributes anything to the image.
Or, "Don't nuke me, bro"
No no no... have you any idea what happens when you mix light sabers and lens flares?
Someone please tell me this is not the case for computer science PhDs. Because I may be on a collision course with one.
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You may be thinking of a different robot and a different manufacturer:
1. Serve the public
2. Protect the innocent
3. Uphold the law
4. Classified