hindsight is a marvelous thing. if these "insiders" really knew anything they would have done more to prevent such a catastrophe. otherwise their negligence would make them accessories. nobody likes to be a whistleblower, but to sit on info and then come out and say "i told you so" after the fact is just fucking retarded.
i think they're full of shit.
humans make mistakes, and many are greedy, lying, ignorant and negligent, so don't say i didn't warn you about all future catastrophes.
i use ZDTools-WIFI and Wifi Static, which does make switching from my dhcp wireless at home to the static wireless at work quite easy. i've also had a tinker with barcode reader. its not that i couldn't find the odd useful app if i searched long enough, but useful apps are few and far between (as i let on originally)
i doubt you have really found many useful apps on the market either. i'm sure you've found plenty of stupid games that rot your brain even moreso than angry birds. words/hanging with friends are tolerable at best. i guess it depends on how low your expectation of engaging entertainment is. i'd much prefer classics like civilization ii, starcraft, gta vice city, unreal tournament or battlefield 1942 on a much larger pc screen. even simtower/yoottower shits all over tinytower. some of the other games are just ad-ridden and limited clones of facebook, reflexive or popcap games.
actually at work i'm the programming geek and everyone else has iphones and ipads. i chose an android because the phone shop rep recommended it over the iphone so maybe i guess im just an embarrassment to android fanbois everywhere. i really feel like ive let you morons down now.
How did this even make it to Slashdot? This blog (yes, blog) has 17 posts - ever! A blog with 17 posts in two years! Wow. And yet this is supposed to be some important, significant information source, which we can base our future decisions on. Yeah
actually, i have an android phone (s2) so i'm definitely no i-slave, and the only game worth installing is angry birds (see below), and even that is only while waiting for things when i'm out. android market is full of malware, scams and games that just wish they were even a fraction as good as the PC/PS/Xbox/etc originals they try desperately to rip off. there may be a gem, but its drowning in a festering pool of shit where it will never be found by the majority
its pretty bad when angry birds is as good as it gets
iphones and android phones are mainly driven by access to social media, not games
cloud storage offers an excellent offsite backup solution, just not a good sole storage medium (talking about the "i don't need a hard disk at all any more" folk)
i'll admit that much of my data isn't backed up off site, but my home onsite redundancy is a little bit more than for the average moron *looks over at 4x1TB RAID1 ReadyNAS*
if my house burns down i'm as stuffed as the average moron, but surprisingly just thinking about it there isn't really that much that i would care to lose. i've suffered a dead 30GB HDD before, and losing gigabytes of data was sort of like a fresh start in a way.
i'd be disappointed to lose a heap of source code that i've developed over the years, but it isn't really worth anything to anyone else, and if i had to develop it a second time, it would probably be better anyway.
maybe we should just continue this discussion when you've figured out how to eliminate greed and conflict of interest
impossible because its human nature
I'll just point out that regulation and the rule of law is a good enough solution
haven't you heard of the golden rule? it is of course "he who has the gold, makes the rules". regulation and laws only govern you and me. corporations can afford more expensive lawyers than governments, and multinational corporations can simply work around them (tax havens are a simple example)
whether the negative aspects are worse because of civilization
we're getting a little off-topic here, but civilization exacerbates negative aspects of human nature because of increased interaction which is enabled by urbanization and communication (amongst others). ok maybe rape isn't civilization-specific, but all the rest are (including war, religious extremism, and political corruption). if you're going to be picky, substitute rape with genocide, which is also civilization-specific.
Commercial space activities already happen.
ok, but I thought we were talking about manned activities. SpaceX isn't commercial yet. it is a long way from breaking even let alone making a profit.
Consider the currently favored TSTO (Two Stage To Orbit). It's widespread despite your concerns about ripoffs from competition.
the development of technology for TSTO was paid for by NASA, USAF, etc. do you really think they got any return on their investment before companies ripped off the technology? if governments pay for development of SSTO, it might happen, but private companies and corporations will never be able to justify the risk. its the same as for any innovation; patents etc aren't worth the paper they're written on if you don't get any return on your investment to fight legal battles with companies that rip off your ideas.
the rest of your comment is rather unremarkable
at the end of the day, if you want a Mars city, fully-reusable SSTO is a requirement (not refurbishable like space shuttle or SpaceX's Falcon). to use a simple analogy, current launch technology for commercial manned spaceflight would be like flying overseas in a Boeing 747, and the airline dumping the plane into the ocean at the end of the flight (and at best dragging it out and refurbishing it at huge expense for its next flight).
a more practical solution might be to just incorporate shock absorption (dashpots) in your piers or stumps
to account for side-to-side vibration, pin all the connections and support side loads with dashpots as well (so the entire house is supported underneath in all directions by pinned dashpots).
depending on your budget, you could also go dashpot-crazy and build them into studs, joists, rafters, purlins, girts, etc.
you just need to ensure the natural frequency of the system is higher than expected earthquake frequencies, which would be part of your dashpot design criteria but the house as a whole should also be modeled
dunno why this was trolled. its true, apart from the "bews" bit. its like those crackpot natural remedies for various terminal illnesses; they can't guarantee your survival, but they "may" help.
air cushions under homes may well be what kills the occupants in the end, and it could be a malfunction or effects from an earthquake (static forces exceeding design limits, or dynamic effects like resonance).
a more practical solution might be to just incorporate shock absorption (dashpots) in your piers or stumps.
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or magic mushrooms... woops. did i say magic mushrooms? i meant fungus.
hindsight is a marvelous thing. if these "insiders" really knew anything they would have done more to prevent such a catastrophe. otherwise their negligence would make them accessories. nobody likes to be a whistleblower, but to sit on info and then come out and say "i told you so" after the fact is just fucking retarded.
i think they're full of shit.
humans make mistakes, and many are greedy, lying, ignorant and negligent, so don't say i didn't warn you about all future catastrophes.
smoke enough pot and you can visualize anything... ANYTHING!
confusingly, yes
nah if that were the case a crapload more guys would be using it
i use ZDTools-WIFI and Wifi Static, which does make switching from my dhcp wireless at home to the static wireless at work quite easy. i've also had a tinker with barcode reader. its not that i couldn't find the odd useful app if i searched long enough, but useful apps are few and far between (as i let on originally)
i doubt you have really found many useful apps on the market either. i'm sure you've found plenty of stupid games that rot your brain even moreso than angry birds. words/hanging with friends are tolerable at best. i guess it depends on how low your expectation of engaging entertainment is. i'd much prefer classics like civilization ii, starcraft, gta vice city, unreal tournament or battlefield 1942 on a much larger pc screen. even simtower/yoottower shits all over tinytower. some of the other games are just ad-ridden and limited clones of facebook, reflexive or popcap games.
my wife has. its even more lame than angry birds
actually at work i'm the programming geek and everyone else has iphones and ipads. i chose an android because the phone shop rep recommended it over the iphone so maybe i guess im just an embarrassment to android fanbois everywhere. i really feel like ive let you morons down now.
your nick should be NotQuiteAwake
How did this even make it to Slashdot? This blog (yes, blog) has 17 posts - ever! A blog with 17 posts in two years! Wow. And yet this is supposed to be some important, significant information source, which we can base our future decisions on. Yeah
it obviously got you wound up
welcome to slashdot... fucker
actually, i have an android phone (s2) so i'm definitely no i-slave, and the only game worth installing is angry birds (see below), and even that is only while waiting for things when i'm out. android market is full of malware, scams and games that just wish they were even a fraction as good as the PC/PS/Xbox/etc originals they try desperately to rip off. there may be a gem, but its drowning in a festering pool of shit where it will never be found by the majority
its pretty bad when angry birds is as good as it gets
iphones and android phones are mainly driven by access to social media, not games
To the horses, people!
just make sure they're genetically engineered cyborg horses with armor plating, rocket launchers, night-vision, etc...
cloud storage offers an excellent offsite backup solution, just not a good sole storage medium (talking about the "i don't need a hard disk at all any more" folk)
i'll admit that much of my data isn't backed up off site, but my home onsite redundancy is a little bit more than for the average moron *looks over at 4x1TB RAID1 ReadyNAS*
if my house burns down i'm as stuffed as the average moron, but surprisingly just thinking about it there isn't really that much that i would care to lose. i've suffered a dead 30GB HDD before, and losing gigabytes of data was sort of like a fresh start in a way.
i'd be disappointed to lose a heap of source code that i've developed over the years, but it isn't really worth anything to anyone else, and if i had to develop it a second time, it would probably be better anyway.
you mean "(I hearby leave..."
if it were a moon of uranus...
just ask blizzard how the protoss do it
...still trust gigabytes of data to corporate cloud storage like iCloud and Azure, even if they know the risks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage
maybe we should just continue this discussion when you've figured out how to eliminate greed and conflict of interest
impossible because its human nature
I'll just point out that regulation and the rule of law is a good enough solution
haven't you heard of the golden rule? it is of course "he who has the gold, makes the rules". regulation and laws only govern you and me. corporations can afford more expensive lawyers than governments, and multinational corporations can simply work around them (tax havens are a simple example)
whether the negative aspects are worse because of civilization
we're getting a little off-topic here, but civilization exacerbates negative aspects of human nature because of increased interaction which is enabled by urbanization and communication (amongst others). ok maybe rape isn't civilization-specific, but all the rest are (including war, religious extremism, and political corruption). if you're going to be picky, substitute rape with genocide, which is also civilization-specific.
Commercial space activities already happen.
ok, but I thought we were talking about manned activities. SpaceX isn't commercial yet. it is a long way from breaking even let alone making a profit.
Then I guess we better not do that.
unfortunately it already does. an example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketplane_Kistler and i think SpaceX will follow suit soon enough
Consider the currently favored TSTO (Two Stage To Orbit). It's widespread despite your concerns about ripoffs from competition.
the development of technology for TSTO was paid for by NASA, USAF, etc. do you really think they got any return on their investment before companies ripped off the technology? if governments pay for development of SSTO, it might happen, but private companies and corporations will never be able to justify the risk. its the same as for any innovation; patents etc aren't worth the paper they're written on if you don't get any return on your investment to fight legal battles with companies that rip off your ideas.
the rest of your comment is rather unremarkable
at the end of the day, if you want a Mars city, fully-reusable SSTO is a requirement (not refurbishable like space shuttle or SpaceX's Falcon). to use a simple analogy, current launch technology for commercial manned spaceflight would be like flying overseas in a Boeing 747, and the airline dumping the plane into the ocean at the end of the flight (and at best dragging it out and refurbishing it at huge expense for its next flight).
fuck off!!!!!
we're the People's Front of Judea, and if you wanna join the PFJ you'd ave to really 'ate the corporations
there's always plenty of free porn
its only illegal if you get caught
Déjà vu
a more practical solution might be to just incorporate shock absorption (dashpots) in your piers or stumps
to account for side-to-side vibration, pin all the connections and support side loads with dashpots as well (so the entire house is supported underneath in all directions by pinned dashpots).
depending on your budget, you could also go dashpot-crazy and build them into studs, joists, rafters, purlins, girts, etc.
you just need to ensure the natural frequency of the system is higher than expected earthquake frequencies, which would be part of your dashpot design criteria but the house as a whole should also be modeled
Houses don't bear their load evenly across the entire floor.
re-enforced floating slabs are quite popular for new homes (where I'm from in Australia at least), and also apparently seem to fair well in earthquakes
http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/info-gen/prepare-preparer/eqresist-eng.php#The_Site_Factor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_foundation
as for piers or stumps, i agree that shock absorbers (hydraulic or pneumatic) are definitely the way to go
dunno why this was trolled. its true, apart from the "bews" bit. its like those crackpot natural remedies for various terminal illnesses; they can't guarantee your survival, but they "may" help.
air cushions under homes may well be what kills the occupants in the end, and it could be a malfunction or effects from an earthquake (static forces exceeding design limits, or dynamic effects like resonance).
a more practical solution might be to just incorporate shock absorption (dashpots) in your piers or stumps.