you seem to be blinded to the fact that TFA is about space flight, not guns, video games or porn... yes there is amazing technological development going on all the time, and yes there is a need for people of various expertise to run a great economy
you also seem to have misread my previous comment, because i stated "the problem isn't that... we can't develop the technology"
indeed we already have much of the technology required for much longer term habitation in low earth orbit
put your glasses back on you idiot, because you are the one who is blind
every great technology needs a great economy
now that is just a load of shit... great economies need great technologies, not the other way around... invention and discovery can and does come from anywhere, not just CERN and NASA
had a squiz at your hosts file program... most of us just use notepad or gedit, but whatever floats your boat... and 37+ Mb of memory!!! did you disable debug info in compile options (or directives)? either that or you just use one of the newer bloatware versions... i guess i'm just lucky i still use delphi 7.
i develop mainly engineering software (flight test data analysis and structural code compliance, among others) for companies i've worked for using delphi and php... none public sorry
refer to my other comment for the parse error (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41117989), since you asked
and if you want to reverse a string, here's a simpler example (not my code, but you being the expert you supposedly are surely could have come up with it yourself):
s = 'abc'
s = s[::-1]
print s
only took me about 30 seconds with agoogle search, no indenting required, and it works in the previously linked interpreter
christians and muslims etc truly believe their beliefs to be inviolable too... i would never ask you to give up on your faith in the laws of physics... i just don't personally share the belief that they are inviolable... just as scientists once believed that the world was flat, so too will the current "laws" of physics be tested in new ways and new beliefs will be developed to fill our gaps in understanding (such as string theory etc)
depends on what they're looking for... from what i know the moon has lots of iron, but so does earth. maybe the geofreaks can chime in with what kinds of "unobtaniums" may possibly found on mars that aren't abundant at home
if i over-applied science fiction to the real world i imagine i would be a little more optimistic about getting to space... my pessimism is a little more pragmatic than the trekkies or wookies or whatever else science fiction fanatics like to call themselves
if it took you 15 minutes to come up with that garbage you aren't really proclaiming yourself to be that great at programming
i have never programmed python before; my preferred langauges are delphi and php
anyway, i may have pasted the code with no indents in my slashdot comment, but i pasted it verbatim into the interpreter from your comment (with indentations)... so while it may run in your interpreter, as you posted it in your comment (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41052117) the for loop statement (on line 5) isn't indented... hence the parse error
error trapping is for runtime exceptions, not compile/interpret time parse errors
when i become a biological robot, i want a first birthday to get rid of all the bloatware that has infected my system, so that i can then get a clean linux install
...my only condition would be not to install/usr/bin/toejam.eat
It seems this person has never heard of the speed-of-light limit to communication delays....
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
even you can't be sure that ftl communication is impossible... you just believe it because you were told that it was the case and because of peer pressure (if you say otherwise you're afraid your friends and colleagues will think you're a kook)
the reason why we haven't gone anywhere in space is that we're drowning in greed and corruption
"we" haven't even really been to the moon... only a very small select few astronauts went on very short demonstration trips, in which each only went once, and all on a defense budget
if we ever are to have any chance of getting anywhere in space, it will require a catastrophe that falls barely short of complete human extinction to make people realise that survival is more important than money and power... the problem isn't that space is too expensive or that we can't develop the technology... the problem is simply human nature
unless some robotic thing finds some kind of mineral that will make some corporation a lot of money (akin to the gold rushes of yesteryear or the oil rush of today), no government will bother investing in it. even the space "exploration" going on the surface of mars at the moment is probably a mineral hunt under the guise of searching for ET; the US government (that provides NASA with funding) doesn't give a fuck about ET... all they care about is money and power, and not for the US in general, just for themselves because many politicians have stock in the corporations that would benefit
until the nuclear winter of post-ww3, when all the fat greedy politicians, welfare bludgers, corporate CEOs and stockholders die of starvation and there are no corporations, and government is actually run by the people for the people (for their very survival), "we" will never have any hope of ever getting to the moon or mars
the problem occurs when physicists (and anyone gullible enough to believe them) claim that perpetual motion is impossible because of the laws of thermodynamics, or that nothing can possibly travel faster than the speed of light because of relativity
the laws of physics are useful, but they aren't meant to become a source of religious faith
you laugh at your own jokes and you're a troll... duh!
P.S.=> Care to tell us what the "parse error" was, 'CruTcHy'? I doubt you even know, & the funniest part is, YOU caused it... lol!
i don't care what it was... python is an ass of a language, and if i had caused the parse error you would have shared it already just to rub it in my face (not that i would give a toss even if you did), so you're full of shit... i make mistakes when i'm programming, but i'm not a self-proclaimed god like you make yourself out to be
and what is the topic? do you (ever) even know? you like nothing more than crapping on about custom hosts and open sores and all sorts of other unintelligible garbage
yeah i know... i'm feeding the troll (smacks self)
Slashdot Mirror
its funny that you judge the truth of a comment on slashdot by its moderation score... fool
you also seem to have misread my previous comment, because i stated "the problem isn't that... we can't develop the technology"
indeed we already have much of the technology required for much longer term habitation in low earth orbit
put your glasses back on you idiot, because you are the one who is blind
every great technology needs a great economy
now that is just a load of shit... great economies need great technologies, not the other way around... invention and discovery can and does come from anywhere, not just CERN and NASA
had a squiz at your hosts file program... most of us just use notepad or gedit, but whatever floats your boat... and 37+ Mb of memory!!! did you disable debug info in compile options (or directives)? either that or you just use one of the newer bloatware versions... i guess i'm just lucky i still use delphi 7.
i develop mainly engineering software (flight test data analysis and structural code compliance, among others) for companies i've worked for using delphi and php... none public sorry
refer to my other comment for the parse error (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41117989), since you asked
and if you want to reverse a string, here's a simpler example (not my code, but you being the expert you supposedly are surely could have come up with it yourself):
s = 'abc'
s = s[::-1]
print s
only took me about 30 seconds with agoogle search, no indenting required, and it works in the previously linked interpreter
christians and muslims etc truly believe their beliefs to be inviolable too... i would never ask you to give up on your faith in the laws of physics... i just don't personally share the belief that they are inviolable... just as scientists once believed that the world was flat, so too will the current "laws" of physics be tested in new ways and new beliefs will be developed to fill our gaps in understanding (such as string theory etc)
depends on what they're looking for... from what i know the moon has lots of iron, but so does earth. maybe the geofreaks can chime in with what kinds of "unobtaniums" may possibly found on mars that aren't abundant at home
if i over-applied science fiction to the real world i imagine i would be a little more optimistic about getting to space... my pessimism is a little more pragmatic than the trekkies or wookies or whatever else science fiction fanatics like to call themselves
if it took you 15 minutes to come up with that garbage you aren't really proclaiming yourself to be that great at programming
i have never programmed python before; my preferred langauges are delphi and php
anyway, i may have pasted the code with no indents in my slashdot comment, but i pasted it verbatim into the interpreter from your comment (with indentations)... so while it may run in your interpreter, as you posted it in your comment (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41052117) the for loop statement (on line 5) isn't indented... hence the parse error
error trapping is for runtime exceptions, not compile/interpret time parse errors
the laws of physics have centuries of evidence to support them
just do what governments have done in the past... send convicts
just be sure to look out for zerg
when i become a biological robot, i want a first birthday to get rid of all the bloatware that has infected my system, so that i can then get a clean linux install
...my only condition would be not to install /usr/bin/toejam.eat
is mercury full of mercury?
"blue screen of death" will take on a whole new meaning
fair point
I believe Earth would be the first planet humans set foot on
that's pure speculation
It seems this person has never heard of the speed-of-light limit to communication delays....
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
even you can't be sure that ftl communication is impossible... you just believe it because you were told that it was the case and because of peer pressure (if you say otherwise you're afraid your friends and colleagues will think you're a kook)
the reason why we haven't gone anywhere in space is that we're drowning in greed and corruption
"we" haven't even really been to the moon... only a very small select few astronauts went on very short demonstration trips, in which each only went once, and all on a defense budget
if we ever are to have any chance of getting anywhere in space, it will require a catastrophe that falls barely short of complete human extinction to make people realise that survival is more important than money and power... the problem isn't that space is too expensive or that we can't develop the technology... the problem is simply human nature
unless some robotic thing finds some kind of mineral that will make some corporation a lot of money (akin to the gold rushes of yesteryear or the oil rush of today), no government will bother investing in it. even the space "exploration" going on the surface of mars at the moment is probably a mineral hunt under the guise of searching for ET; the US government (that provides NASA with funding) doesn't give a fuck about ET... all they care about is money and power, and not for the US in general, just for themselves because many politicians have stock in the corporations that would benefit
until the nuclear winter of post-ww3, when all the fat greedy politicians, welfare bludgers, corporate CEOs and stockholders die of starvation and there are no corporations, and government is actually run by the people for the people (for their very survival), "we" will never have any hope of ever getting to the moon or mars
real experts
who might you suggest? some bong smoking fleabags from MIT?
i would rather trust certification of anything related to aviation safety to the FAA thanks
because the universe obeys them
assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
the problem occurs when physicists (and anyone gullible enough to believe them) claim that perpetual motion is impossible because of the laws of thermodynamics, or that nothing can possibly travel faster than the speed of light because of relativity
the laws of physics are useful, but they aren't meant to become a source of religious faith
I always get the last laugh?
you laugh at your own jokes and you're a troll... duh!
P.S.=> Care to tell us what the "parse error" was, 'CruTcHy'? I doubt you even know, & the funniest part is, YOU caused it... lol!
i don't care what it was... python is an ass of a language, and if i had caused the parse error you would have shared it already just to rub it in my face (not that i would give a toss even if you did), so you're full of shit... i make mistakes when i'm programming, but i'm not a self-proclaimed god like you make yourself out to be
lol i so gotta stop feeding trolls
"powerful" my ass... the old one projects more of a corporate power image (especially the italicising and the "os" thing)
look at lockheed martin's logo... now THAT'S a logo (the italics is what makes it seem powerful)
new logo... epic fail
i wish i could have seen your face when you read this http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41091833
pwnage
and what is the topic? do you (ever) even know? you like nothing more than crapping on about custom hosts and open sores and all sorts of other unintelligible garbage
yeah i know... i'm feeding the troll (smacks self)
P.S.=> Additionally + Lastly: Like ALL my code? It works well... apk
wasn't any error here where it mattered
if you really were a programmer, you would know that it either compiles/interprets or it doesn't... there is no "where it matters"... tard