"When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?"
When more scientists step up and become congresscritters of course. Until then....
Why should HP be just another Win Tablet maker, competing not just with Google (and all theirs), Apple, and then Microsoft? I see it as "ok, Microsoft, you didn't give us a heads-up about launching this, so obviously you don't want our help."
Ok, so.... not to say anything bad about IT, just... this is just about an IT job interview. I'm sure a MUCH more interesting story would be about an Engineering Interview. Additionally, this seems more an article that the submitter managed to land a hefty number of/. hits. Nothing to read here... please, for the sake of your brain and all organs involved in making a memory, move along.
"Associate Consultant at Microsoft" LOL!!!! Guess everybody has to start somewhere, though.
Yeah, especially when it burns up before your high school students can do anything since "None of this payload stuff (neither the sensors nor the Arduinos) are specifically space-rated or radiation-hardened or anything like that, and some of them will be exposed directly to space."
I'm skeptical about a) timing, can they actually make a launch, i.e. they want to build it by the end of this year then launch it within 6 mo? i don't think so.... ; then b) whether or not it will actually be a success, from TFA:
"None of this payload stuff (neither the sensors nor the Arduinos) are specifically space-rated or radiation-hardened or anything like that, and some of them will be exposed directly to space. There will be some backups and redundancy, but partly, this will be a learning experience to see what works and what doesn't."
hmm... maybe burn up before anything can be done, especially considering the short schedule?
I wrote the following post, then just said Fuck It. Basically this article spews more shit than a shit-eater on the vomitron rollercoaster. Read if you like, i got tired and quit before finishing. Summary: people trying to scam $35k.
Just the language of the article makes it sound like a kind of pipe dream (or scam) -- nevermind why would i want to use sensors that someone else chose & put on there... this wouldn't be a real experiment. My experiment would be making beer; I realize Sapporo already did this, but i want space-homebrew.
Instances where the language is really not making me think this is actually going to happen (and TFP is just more marketing):
"designing a satellite made almost entirely of off-the-shelf (or slightly modified) hobby-grade hardware, launching it quickly, and then using Kickstarter to give you a way to get directly involved."
-- Very oversimplified... "it's all so quick and easy" is what it makes me think... too easy
" ArduSat, as its name implies, will run on Arduino boards.... ArduSat will be packing.... Lots of sensors, probably 25..."
-- Will run... ok, so it's not running yet. Will be packing... ok, so it's not packing yet... "probably" ok... they haven't figured out how many???? It's mid-2012, and they're wanting to launch in 2013??? seriously???? Methinks they're running late for the train; er... rocket.
"NanoSatisfi is looking for Kickstarter funding to pay for just the launch of the satellite itself: the funding goal is $35,000. Thanks to some outside investment, it's able to cover the rest of the cost itself."
-- So everything is covered, we just need to come up with a mere $35k? That's a lot of money for something that's still in the pipe dream phase, never mind the mysterious benefactor element. Who's the exudingly benevolent party?
"this will be a learning experience to see what works and what doesn't. The next generation of ArduSat will take all of this knowledge and put it to good use making a more capable and more reliable satellite."
-- Translation: you're paying for our fuck-ups so we can build a better one that we'll make the real money off of; you won't be invited for that one
"If this Kickstarter goes bananas and NanoSatisfi runs out of room for people to get involved on ArduSat, no problem, it can just build and launch another ArduSat along with the first, jammed full of (say) fifty more Arduinos so that fifty more experiments can be run at the same time. Or it can launch five more ArduSats. Or ten more."
-- Umm... where to start... yeah, we have soooooooo many slots to launch it's ridiculous; nevermind our delivery vehicles are soooo diverse that we can change payload size without any problem at all, ah, fuck this.
Growing up in Europe, then moving back stateside in the early 90's was certainly a shocker. Unlimited drinks? King-size fries & soda? No wonder people are complete fatasses now. Limit drinks to 16oz, and charge for refills whether or not they have left the premises. Sure, it won't be popular, but whatever. Hell, charge for Ketchup even. People take too much for granted and have too much of a sense of entitlement. Time for us to Harden the Fuck Up*.
I have the same attitude towards the big, gas-guzzling trucks. When I see them hauling ass, accelerating rapidly only to hit the next street light and have to stop and do it all over again, I amuse myself thinking about how bad it must be hurting their pocketbook. Except then I realize they really don't care.
That it's being considered really shows how bad the drought situation in Texas is. I'm sure the quality of the water will be fine, but for people to mentally get over the stigma requires some serious problem that needs to be addressed. Pretty much the whole state is "hell" and relief does not seem anywhere in the distant future: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/seasonal_drought.html
In addition to that, it's having extreme courtesy and regard for other people. They don't want to ask to put other nations' people in harm's way, that would be impolite and disrespectful.
for everyone NOT getting this reference, imagine sitting in a pub in Europe, and some nondescript '70's folk/rock song comes on the air, and you don't really notice anything until at one point everyone in the bar is shouting "Who the fuck is Alice". Quite an amusing chain of events if you'd like to check out the story and I recommend 'tubing various versions so you can get the full effect.
and I think that making PR people cringe is a good thing... Wow, he is human after all. It's nice to have someone who's down to earth and has a real sense of humor leading for once. Now just to see if it trickles down through the many layers of management....
He's been travelling to HP sites across the globe to get face to face employee input and hopefully boost morale. I'd much rather he do that and get a handle on the company than submit to Oracle's harassment in a suit where he's already given sworn, taped testimony. The last thing HP needs is another lame-ass distraction for the CEO.
For the case of beer, it would depend on the type of beer drank -- most crap american beers have very little, almost imperceivable amounts of bitterness, but the same is also true for many import beers. IPAs tend to be fairly bitter, but even then how would the bittering agents be delivered to the lungs? The bitterness comes from the isomerization of alpha acids during the boiling of the wort -- 60 minutes is generally required to isomerize and extract the alpha acids. Hops that are not boiled for very long will contribute more aromatics which come from volatile oils, and are not bittering.
So, if you're smoking and enjoying a beer, about the only way I see the bitterness from the beer (or coffee) opening up your lungs would be by choking on it after taking a big nasty puff. But then again, that would be closing up your lungs first with the fluid.
That said, if I could get an aerosolized form of hop with both the bitterness and aromatics, I'd buy it in a heartbeat even without having asthma or any kind of CLPD. I'd love to take a "Hop Shot"
I thought it was very interesting -- nice and compact, although now I wonder if you'd have to blow it to get the whole system to work instead of just a rogue cartridge... (yes, i know the real problem was with the contact fingers wearing out and no longer making contact....)
I wonder if there are similar effects to adult beverage enjoyment. I always enjoy my homebrew as well as local and national Craft beers, but this article makes me wonder if there are certain flavor profiles or characteristics I prefer based on my environment or the noise level related to it. When I think about it, I tend to prefer darker, deeper, more complex beers, maybe with a stronger emphasis on the malt character in a quieter setting, but then prefer a crisper, hoppier bite from, say, a classic pilsner or pale ale or IPA even in louder, more enthusiastic environments. Definitely something I'll be paying attention to in the future....
Ok, what we really need to do is create a simulator for a small craft to destroy the asteroid while said craft and means of deployment is being developed. Something using vector graphics should be quick and easy to come up with on the simulator side. The craft should be maneuverable and have a cannon capable of breaking the large asteroid into smaller and smaller chunks until these chunks can be destroyed by the cannon. Incidentally, the cannon should also be able to defend against alien craft in case of their interference. High scorers can be recruited to pilot the craft to save the earth.
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"When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?"
When more scientists step up and become congresscritters of course. Until then....
And of course each laser will come packaged with a shark on which to mount it, thus further enhancing the airport security!
Why should HP be just another Win Tablet maker, competing not just with Google (and all theirs), Apple, and then Microsoft? I see it as "ok, Microsoft, you didn't give us a heads-up about launching this, so obviously you don't want our help."
Ok, so.... not to say anything bad about IT, just... this is just about an IT job interview. I'm sure a MUCH more interesting story would be about an Engineering Interview. Additionally, this seems more an article that the submitter managed to land a hefty number of /. hits. Nothing to read here... please, for the sake of your brain and all organs involved in making a memory, move along.
"Associate Consultant at Microsoft" LOL!!!! Guess everybody has to start somewhere, though.
Yeah, especially when it burns up before your high school students can do anything since "None of this payload stuff (neither the sensors nor the Arduinos) are specifically space-rated or radiation-hardened or anything like that, and some of them will be exposed directly to space."
I'm skeptical about a) timing, can they actually make a launch, i.e. they want to build it by the end of this year then launch it within 6 mo? i don't think so.... ; then b) whether or not it will actually be a success, from TFA:
"None of this payload stuff (neither the sensors nor the Arduinos) are specifically space-rated or radiation-hardened or anything like that, and some of them will be exposed directly to space. There will be some backups and redundancy, but partly, this will be a learning experience to see what works and what doesn't."
hmm... maybe burn up before anything can be done, especially considering the short schedule?
I wrote the following post, then just said Fuck It. Basically this article spews more shit than a shit-eater on the vomitron rollercoaster. Read if you like, i got tired and quit before finishing. Summary: people trying to scam $35k.
Just the language of the article makes it sound like a kind of pipe dream (or scam) -- nevermind why would i want to use sensors that someone else chose & put on there ... this wouldn't be a real experiment. My experiment would be making beer; I realize Sapporo already did this, but i want space-homebrew.
Instances where the language is really not making me think this is actually going to happen (and TFP is just more marketing):
"designing a satellite made almost entirely of off-the-shelf (or slightly modified) hobby-grade hardware, launching it quickly, and then using Kickstarter to give you a way to get directly involved." ... too easy
-- Very oversimplified... "it's all so quick and easy" is what it makes me think
" ArduSat, as its name implies, will run on Arduino boards .... ArduSat will be packing.... Lots of sensors, probably 25 ..." ... ok, so it's not packing yet... "probably" ok... they haven't figured out how many???? It's mid-2012, and they're wanting to launch in 2013??? seriously???? Methinks they're running late for the train; er... rocket.
-- Will run... ok, so it's not running yet. Will be packing
"NanoSatisfi is looking for Kickstarter funding to pay for just the launch of the satellite itself: the funding goal is $35,000. Thanks to some outside investment, it's able to cover the rest of the cost itself."
-- So everything is covered, we just need to come up with a mere $35k? That's a lot of money for something that's still in the pipe dream phase, never mind the mysterious benefactor element. Who's the exudingly benevolent party?
"this will be a learning experience to see what works and what doesn't. The next generation of ArduSat will take all of this knowledge and put it to good use making a more capable and more reliable satellite."
-- Translation: you're paying for our fuck-ups so we can build a better one that we'll make the real money off of; you won't be invited for that one
"If this Kickstarter goes bananas and NanoSatisfi runs out of room for people to get involved on ArduSat, no problem, it can just build and launch another ArduSat along with the first, jammed full of (say) fifty more Arduinos so that fifty more experiments can be run at the same time. Or it can launch five more ArduSats. Or ten more."
-- Umm... where to start... yeah, we have soooooooo many slots to launch it's ridiculous; nevermind our delivery vehicles are soooo diverse that we can change payload size without any problem at all, ah, fuck this.
Growing up in Europe, then moving back stateside in the early 90's was certainly a shocker. Unlimited drinks? King-size fries & soda? No wonder people are complete fatasses now. Limit drinks to 16oz, and charge for refills whether or not they have left the premises. Sure, it won't be popular, but whatever. Hell, charge for Ketchup even. People take too much for granted and have too much of a sense of entitlement. Time for us to Harden the Fuck Up*.
I have the same attitude towards the big, gas-guzzling trucks. When I see them hauling ass, accelerating rapidly only to hit the next street light and have to stop and do it all over again, I amuse myself thinking about how bad it must be hurting their pocketbook. Except then I realize they really don't care.
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=unkIVvjZc9Y
And actually everyone (including OP) is neglecting the fact that the Ichiban Shibori is made from 100% Malted Barley -- NO RICE!
Additionally, it was the Germans who invented Rice Beer, not Americans:
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2007/07/rice-beer.html
Prost!
Cringely saw this one coming a long time away... ok, maybe 7 months isn't so long:
http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fired-from-hewlett-packard/
That it's being considered really shows how bad the drought situation in Texas is. I'm sure the quality of the water will be fine, but for people to mentally get over the stigma requires some serious problem that needs to be addressed. Pretty much the whole state is "hell" and relief does not seem anywhere in the distant future: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/seasonal_drought.html
... will hopefully ease off the "Smell-o-vision" joke
In addition to that, it's having extreme courtesy and regard for other people. They don't want to ask to put other nations' people in harm's way, that would be impolite and disrespectful.
"I am a meat popsicle."
From TFA: "... the bio-LED luminescence will cause the chloroplast to conduct photosynthesis"
I wonder how the trees will react to this extended duty cycle. Will they grow faster? Will they die sooner? Will they mutate into Ents?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Next_Door_to_Alice#Gompie_version
and I think that making PR people cringe is a good thing... Wow, he is human after all. It's nice to have someone who's down to earth and has a real sense of humor leading for once. Now just to see if it trickles down through the many layers of management....
He's been travelling to HP sites across the globe to get face to face employee input and hopefully boost morale. I'd much rather he do that and get a handle on the company than submit to Oracle's harassment in a suit where he's already given sworn, taped testimony. The last thing HP needs is another lame-ass distraction for the CEO.
From the article they describe taking an animal liver, cleaning out the parts and refilling with human stuff. Human Liverwurst?
'Nuff said
For the case of beer, it would depend on the type of beer drank -- most crap american beers have very little, almost imperceivable amounts of bitterness, but the same is also true for many import beers. IPAs tend to be fairly bitter, but even then how would the bittering agents be delivered to the lungs? The bitterness comes from the isomerization of alpha acids during the boiling of the wort -- 60 minutes is generally required to isomerize and extract the alpha acids. Hops that are not boiled for very long will contribute more aromatics which come from volatile oils, and are not bittering. So, if you're smoking and enjoying a beer, about the only way I see the bitterness from the beer (or coffee) opening up your lungs would be by choking on it after taking a big nasty puff. But then again, that would be closing up your lungs first with the fluid. That said, if I could get an aerosolized form of hop with both the bitterness and aromatics, I'd buy it in a heartbeat even without having asthma or any kind of CLPD. I'd love to take a "Hop Shot"
I guess that would give a whole new meaning to "Down for service" if ever they needed to service it...
I thought it was very interesting -- nice and compact, although now I wonder if you'd have to blow it to get the whole system to work instead of just a rogue cartridge... (yes, i know the real problem was with the contact fingers wearing out and no longer making contact....)
I wonder if there are similar effects to adult beverage enjoyment. I always enjoy my homebrew as well as local and national Craft beers, but this article makes me wonder if there are certain flavor profiles or characteristics I prefer based on my environment or the noise level related to it. When I think about it, I tend to prefer darker, deeper, more complex beers, maybe with a stronger emphasis on the malt character in a quieter setting, but then prefer a crisper, hoppier bite from, say, a classic pilsner or pale ale or IPA even in louder, more enthusiastic environments. Definitely something I'll be paying attention to in the future....
Ok, what we really need to do is create a simulator for a small craft to destroy the asteroid while said craft and means of deployment is being developed. Something using vector graphics should be quick and easy to come up with on the simulator side. The craft should be maneuverable and have a cannon capable of breaking the large asteroid into smaller and smaller chunks until these chunks can be destroyed by the cannon. Incidentally, the cannon should also be able to defend against alien craft in case of their interference. High scorers can be recruited to pilot the craft to save the earth.