While on the subject, when are we going to establish repeater stations around the solar system so that space probes don't need massive transceivers and line-of-sight to communicate with the Earth?
Indeed. It's the Hedonic treadmil. Research suggests that no matter how much (a) you do, your happiness (or lack thereof) will return to your baseline level over time. If you don't adjust that level, you'll forever be chasing improvement.
I actually apply a lot of (b) (i.e. expectation management). Which reminded me that I forgot another relationship I noticed over time:
Expected Life = Needs + Wants
Wants ~ What you see other people have
I found that being deliberately oblivious to what others have or not comparing what you have or have achieved tends to normalize expectations to match what you actually want. Was it Will Smith who said "People spend money they don't have, to buy shit they don't need to impress people they don't like".
Therefore, to be happy, either a) improve your life, b) reduce your expectations or c) change your perception. Looks like this guy went for a mix of (b) and (c). At least that's my take on it.
Or, we randomly make subtle changes to our purchasing habits to throw the system off. If I buy the occasional diaper, will the system flag me as a mom? Or how about I buy a few kosher products? If enough people do that, the system will be useless.
Does this mean that very large refractive telescopes will make sense again? If we sandwich a few of these with the metasurfaces tuned right, could we build a telescope that is a slab instead of a tube? How about telephoto lenses built into camera phones? Or cheaper orbital telescopes?
Also after you've killed off the Colonels you're still left with a Major problem.
And if you manage to deal with the Major problem, then you're down to dealing with the Private affairs of in-Sergeants. This kind of airborne Corporal punishment just does not work. It's General knowledge.
Also, how about the patent office doing its job and determining whether something is patent-worthy or not, rather than passing the responsibility to the courts?
Introduce nuclear armed non-state actors into the mix and MAD fails. Introduce covert nuclear strikes that cannot be tracked back to origin and MAD fails. Otherwise you are quite correct.
A funny but slightly flawed analogy. Guns generally do not assure mutual destruction.
Most people who shoot first, do so with the (correct) belief that if they hit the other guy, his ability to retaliate effectively will be close to zero. This is not the case with nuclear armed states. At least in the case of the USA and Russia, nuclear facilities seem to be built with the express purpose of retaliation, not first strike.
Didn't you like Relativity and In the Blink of an Eye? I think they were season 5 or 6 episodes.
Also, this scifi.stackexchange.com recommendation attempts to justify why Voyager should be the first choice.. Also, do ignore the fact that the linked answer is a recommendation for an 8-year-old girl
Whoa, take it easy there tiger. No product is best for everyone. She's seen all of Google's typical offerings and she chose only GMail because of its simplicity and speed (our connections aren't always the fastest). And I myself am not a indiscriminate Google/Linux/Android fan. I love Google Chrome, Docs and Maps but hate Google Reader, Plus and iGoogle, which is horrid. Google Calendar - dislike, Google Translate - like, Google News - good enough, but could be better. But that's just based on my own use cases. My wife's differ, and so would most other people's.
The problem, I think, is not any company/technology stack being bad or good. It's about people not knowing how to choose the most appropriate tool or technology for the task at hand, regardless of where it comes from. Next, one has to try something out before passing it over. I tried Yahoo and it did not work for me. I tried Windows 7 and Ubuntu and the former worked for me. But I might take another look at Linux Mint. I tried Android and iOS and they both work for me, but Android phones are more reasonably priced. So there.
I agree. My wife does the exact same thing. I use Google News to stay up to date but it's like drinking from a fire hose. She always seem to get to the most relevant stories first via Yahoo. However I *have* managed to get her to switch over to GMail.
"If I was building a space ship, I'd probably have it be a giant rock, so that it would have its own gravity and could hold an atmosphere and people could walk on it without falling off and things wouldn't need to be screwed and glued on to stay on though."
-- said God and it was so. He called this rock a planet. And God saw that it was all good.
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While on the subject, when are we going to establish repeater stations around the solar system so that space probes don't need massive transceivers and line-of-sight to communicate with the Earth?
Wow. That fuselage's black, curved rectangu... Christ! It's violating the Apple iPhone patents!
Someone should invent a generator powered by stories about battery breakthroughs.
Indeed. It's the Hedonic treadmil. Research suggests that no matter how much (a) you do, your happiness (or lack thereof) will return to your baseline level over time. If you don't adjust that level, you'll forever be chasing improvement.
I actually apply a lot of (b) (i.e. expectation management). Which reminded me that I forgot another relationship I noticed over time:
Expected Life = Needs + Wants
Wants ~ What you see other people have
I found that being deliberately oblivious to what others have or not comparing what you have or have achieved tends to normalize expectations to match what you actually want. Was it Will Smith who said "People spend money they don't have, to buy shit they don't need to impress people they don't like".
Happiness = Perceived Life / Expected Life
Perceived Life = Actual Life x Perception
Therefore, to be happy, either a) improve your life, b) reduce your expectations or c) change your perception. Looks like this guy went for a mix of (b) and (c). At least that's my take on it.
Make me happy. You would like me when I'm happy.
Perhaps you're using iPhone maps?
'Why did you turn off the computer...?
Because he decided to use the Force?
Or, we randomly make subtle changes to our purchasing habits to throw the system off. If I buy the occasional diaper, will the system flag me as a mom? Or how about I buy a few kosher products? If enough people do that, the system will be useless.
Does this mean that very large refractive telescopes will make sense again? If we sandwich a few of these with the metasurfaces tuned right, could we build a telescope that is a slab instead of a tube? How about telephoto lenses built into camera phones? Or cheaper orbital telescopes?
Also after you've killed off the Colonels you're still left with a Major problem.
And if you manage to deal with the Major problem, then you're down to dealing with the Private affairs of in-Sergeants. This kind of airborne Corporal punishment just does not work. It's General knowledge.
Also, how about the patent office doing its job and determining whether something is patent-worthy or not, rather than passing the responsibility to the courts?
Am I the only one who read that as Darth Marmul or am I dyslexic?
Introduce nuclear armed non-state actors into the mix and MAD fails. Introduce covert nuclear strikes that cannot be tracked back to origin and MAD fails. Otherwise you are quite correct.
A funny but slightly flawed analogy. Guns generally do not assure mutual destruction.
Most people who shoot first, do so with the (correct) belief that if they hit the other guy, his ability to retaliate effectively will be close to zero. This is not the case with nuclear armed states. At least in the case of the USA and Russia, nuclear facilities seem to be built with the express purpose of retaliation, not first strike.
Could you cite a few historians? I too was under the same impression as the grandparent poster.
Faraday cage. Check mate.
Scientists not only learned just how massive Tau Boo is -- roughly six times the size of Jupiter
There are two other planets in this system, it seems: Mu Boo and Na Boo.
Didn't you like Relativity and In the Blink of an Eye? I think they were season 5 or 6 episodes.
Also, this scifi.stackexchange.com recommendation attempts to justify why Voyager should be the first choice.. Also, do ignore the fact that the linked answer is a recommendation for an 8-year-old girl
I'm waiting for the creationists to seize on this to claim that maybe dinosaurs aren't as real as previously believed.
Stiiiinging in the raiiiin, I'm Stiiiinnning in the raiiiin...
Whoa, take it easy there tiger. No product is best for everyone. She's seen all of Google's typical offerings and she chose only GMail because of its simplicity and speed (our connections aren't always the fastest). And I myself am not a indiscriminate Google/Linux/Android fan. I love Google Chrome, Docs and Maps but hate Google Reader, Plus and iGoogle, which is horrid. Google Calendar - dislike, Google Translate - like, Google News - good enough, but could be better. But that's just based on my own use cases. My wife's differ, and so would most other people's.
The problem, I think, is not any company/technology stack being bad or good. It's about people not knowing how to choose the most appropriate tool or technology for the task at hand, regardless of where it comes from. Next, one has to try something out before passing it over. I tried Yahoo and it did not work for me. I tried Windows 7 and Ubuntu and the former worked for me. But I might take another look at Linux Mint. I tried Android and iOS and they both work for me, but Android phones are more reasonably priced. So there.
I agree. My wife does the exact same thing. I use Google News to stay up to date but it's like drinking from a fire hose. She always seem to get to the most relevant stories first via Yahoo. However I *have* managed to get her to switch over to GMail.
"If I was building a space ship, I'd probably have it be a giant rock, so that it would have its own gravity and could hold an atmosphere and people could walk on it without falling off and things wouldn't need to be screwed and glued on to stay on though."
-- said God and it was so. He called this rock a planet. And God saw that it was all good.