You say that like it's a complete mystery but we know that we're releasing too much waste into the atmosphere. We don't know (for sure) what the effects will be if any but we can estimate the probability of the effects occuring and decide to release funds and take steps to reduce the amount of waste being released.
You might have to eat one less Big Mac per year though.
So, would you honestly have us hamstring our entire economy based on speculation?
Ever heard of risk management. You take a risk, assign it a probability and a cost then by looking at the products you can make you decision about whether to mitigate the risk.
e.g. Probability of asteroid impact = 100%
Cost of asteroid impact = 2 trillion (?)
Result = 100% * 2 trillion = 2 trillion
example 2:
Probability of nuclear war = 1%
Cost of nuclear war = 100 trillion (?)
Result = 1% * 100 trillion = 1 trillion
example 3:
Probability of global warming = 1%
Cost of global warming = 100 trillion (?)
Result = 1% * 100 trillion = 1 trillion
Now replace the words 'trillion' with the word 'millions of human lives' and decide if you want to even ATTEMPT to do something about the POSSIBILITY of a problem.
All you're suggesting is to ignore the issue until it becomes an issue or not. If it becomes an issue all indications are that it will be too late. If it doesn't become an issue then what... you bolstered the economy? Welllllll done!/sarcasm
The shuttle's wings allow a glide re-entry, which saves fuel. The tanks and various systems required for the additional fuel would mass more than the wings. RTFM.
What? Why would a sphere with a parachute need more fuel than a shuttle with wings?
>> How else would be understand a sentence like "The boy ate a ham___er" (with a few letters obscured)?
What a way to prove your point. I kept thinking "hamster", "hammer" and then eventually realised that I didn't spot your miss-spelling of 'we' and that I read right over it and filled in the blank.
You should have put a link to the results up. All you do is put that search into the google search box, hit enter and copy the url from the.... hold on there's FBI cars outside and someone's knocking on my door. I think my neighbour is getting busted. brb.
I thought of that analogy too (cd's hold music, cognac glasses hold cognac) but the fundamental flaw with the analogy is that you cannot copy cognac.
And extending that thought a bit I don't believe you cannot use any physical analogies to represent this situation.
The best I can come up with is a book. If you buy a book, can you take pen and paper and write out the entire contents of the book in case the book gets damaged/burnt/destroyed?
I would argue that yes you can. But I would also add that you should not transfer ownership of that COPY to another person without also transferring ownership of the original and all copies you have made.
*runaway train of thought*
Copies of books could always be made historically but it wasn't as big a problem as cd copying because it was alot more expensive to do. Computers make it cheap and easy to copy information so we have options:
1) trust people not to abuse the system and carry on as is,
2) figure out a way to prevent people from transferring copies without also transferring all of the media,
3) prevent any copying of information.
Personally I don't think light sources had anything to do with placing the axis vertically. I think it was much more to do with North being at the top of maps. If all the text on a map was written West to East then if you take that map and wrap it around a globe you'll naturally orient the globe vertically so that you can read the text.
I'm just pointing out that you are comparing Europeans not knowing where a state/county is against an American knowing where a country/capital is. That doesn't seem very fair or valid.
One thing which mystifies me is why the spin axis was chosen to be vertical. If the axis were horizontal, the light used in illuminating rooms would fall on the globe as the sun's rays do
What light source? The electric bulb in your ceiling or the candle on your table?
I am nowhere being entirely menacing or anything and get along with everyone that knows me but what som[e]body thinks they see often lead to fal[s]e judgements.
The judgment on your appearance is not going to be consistent across races, cultures and age. For every granny that locks her cat door there's a young kid who thinks you're cool. Who are you trying to impress? The grannies, the ladies, the guys or the kids? Your social group or, in the case of the MORON who got locked up, the judge sentancing you.
But as you say I should stop my complaining because my ignorance of the social norm is clouding my judgement.
Stop complaining because it's not something you can fix by whining about it. Dress smartly, don't look like a fricking thief and ignore the assholes who judge on skin colour.
Sorry but as a white guy whose lived on an island where 99% of the population is black/indian I get prejudice based on my skin colour too. I don't whine so get on with your life. If you pay attention to racists you give them credence.
<rant> Why does it matter what clothes he was wearing?
It matters because by dressing smartly he could reduce his sentance. If he's stubborn^H^H^H^H^Hpid enough to dress the way he wants then he's going to have to face the consequences of the way people interpret that look.
What a world to live in when people judge you by the clothes you wear.
I sympathise with the sentiment... actually scratch that, no I don't. Of course people judge other people by the way they look. Are you trying to tell me that you can't get clues from a person's appearance? If I see a skinhead wearing a football strip with many tattoos of their football club and a few scars then I DO NOT stop them to ask directions. You use your eyes to guide your judgements about life and people. Complaining when other people do the same is at best childish and at worst ignorant.
The only people who can effect changes are people who do code, who don't accept this defeatist version of 'reality'. If everyone simply accepted it was unrealistic to be able to personally contribute to anything, well, this world would be a much worse place.
That's crap! Defeatist version of reality?!? It IS completely unrealistic to personally contribute to EVERYTHING. Everybody, INCLUDING YOU, makes decisions about what to contribute to. If a non-technical user comments about the usability of a system there is no way in hell they are going to be able to make the change themselves.
You can keep saying it's unrealistic to expect users to help fix problems with OSS software, but the fact is that only people who do put in the effort make any difference.
I'm sorry but these two statements do not contradict each other. It IS completely unrealistic to expect users to help fix software themselves AND only people who put in the effort make any difference.... which leads to (ta-da) the conclusion that the software will become geared towards technical users which is exactly what has happened.
Of course it's not coincidence! It's because at 10am every day women give birth so the roads are full of men driving back home from work to be there when their daughter is born. Same thing at 6pm except that it's to see their sons.
OK I see your point about the bridge and I agree... but the SEMI?! Surely it takes 0 thought to realise that this simulation is generic and proof of concept.
The calculations in the simulation would have to include length of object so if you want to handle a semi you just change the length of the object. DUH!
You know how gravity gets less the further you are from the center of the earth? Well the plane flies really high which reduces gravity to near 0-gee. Of course you can't get all the way to 0 gee cause then you would be in space (duh!) so a couple of years ago NASA developed an anti-gravity machine which charges the metallic skin of the plane to a few thousand giga-volts (yes! GIGA-volts!) which creates a magnetic field around the aircraft.
The magnetic field reduces the strength of any gravity passing through it. This, in combination with the high altitude, takes gravity all the way down to zero.
Anyway, it's quite a closely guarded secret so don't let anyone tell you different.
Your sig is making my head hurt. I know it, I've read it somewhere and the style reminds me of an author but for the life of me I can't figure out who or what book.
Slashdot Mirror
You say that like it's a complete mystery but we know that we're releasing too much waste into the atmosphere. We don't know (for sure) what the effects will be if any but we can estimate the probability of the effects occuring and decide to release funds and take steps to reduce the amount of waste being released.
You might have to eat one less Big Mac per year though.
around $400,000 per US citizen (down from $4 million before)
;)
Judging from your previous posts, you're American... and judging from the content of your reply to my post, you're over-valued at $400,000.
Thanks I'll be here all week.
So, would you honestly have us hamstring our entire economy based on speculation?
/sarcasm
Ever heard of risk management. You take a risk, assign it a probability and a cost then by looking at the products you can make you decision about whether to mitigate the risk.
e.g. Probability of asteroid impact = 100%
Cost of asteroid impact = 2 trillion (?)
Result = 100% * 2 trillion = 2 trillion
example 2:
Probability of nuclear war = 1%
Cost of nuclear war = 100 trillion (?)
Result = 1% * 100 trillion = 1 trillion
example 3:
Probability of global warming = 1%
Cost of global warming = 100 trillion (?)
Result = 1% * 100 trillion = 1 trillion
Now replace the words 'trillion' with the word 'millions of human lives' and decide if you want to even ATTEMPT to do something about the POSSIBILITY of a problem.
All you're suggesting is to ignore the issue until it becomes an issue or not. If it becomes an issue all indications are that it will be too late. If it doesn't become an issue then what... you bolstered the economy? Welllllll done!
The shuttle's wings allow a glide re-entry, which saves fuel. The tanks and various systems required for the additional fuel would mass more than the wings. RTFM.
What? Why would a sphere with a parachute need more fuel than a shuttle with wings?
Thanks!! I was one sip away from shooting coke from my nose. :)
I've already invented warp brakes. I've named them... "Planets".
What's that you say? Alive? Oh... right... next time be more specific.
Does this mean I cna turn off my spell cheker?
>> How else would be understand a sentence like "The boy ate a ham___er" (with a few letters obscured)?
What a way to prove your point. I kept thinking "hamster", "hammer" and then eventually realised that I didn't spot your miss-spelling of 'we' and that I read right over it and filled in the blank.
You should have put a link to the results up. All you do is put that search into the google search box, hit enter and copy the url from the.... hold on there's FBI cars outside and someone's knocking on my door. I think my neighbour is getting busted. brb.
I thought of that analogy too (cd's hold music, cognac glasses hold cognac) but the fundamental flaw with the analogy is that you cannot copy cognac.
And extending that thought a bit I don't believe you cannot use any physical analogies to represent this situation.
The best I can come up with is a book. If you buy a book, can you take pen and paper and write out the entire contents of the book in case the book gets damaged/burnt/destroyed?
I would argue that yes you can. But I would also add that you should not transfer ownership of that COPY to another person without also transferring ownership of the original and all copies you have made.
*runaway train of thought*
Copies of books could always be made historically but it wasn't as big a problem as cd copying because it was alot more expensive to do. Computers make it cheap and easy to copy information so we have options:
1) trust people not to abuse the system and carry on as is,
2) figure out a way to prevent people from transferring copies without also transferring all of the media,
3) prevent any copying of information.
Personally I don't think light sources had anything to do with placing the axis vertically. I think it was much more to do with North being at the top of maps. If all the text on a map was written West to East then if you take that map and wrap it around a globe you'll naturally orient the globe vertically so that you can read the text.
I'm just pointing out that you are comparing Europeans not knowing where a state/county is against an American knowing where a country/capital is. That doesn't seem very fair or valid.
One thing which mystifies me is why the spin axis was chosen to be vertical. If the axis were horizontal, the light used in illuminating rooms would fall on the globe as the sun's rays do
What light source? The electric bulb in your ceiling or the candle on your table?
If I told you I live in Surrey but before that I lived in Sheffield, Yorkshire you wouldn't have a hope in hell of knowing where that was.
You wouldn't even be able to pronounce some of the couties. Berkshire, Bukinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire.
I've just noticed that the couties in England sound like hobbits live there.
Anyway, point is... mod parent down.
I am nowhere being entirely menacing or anything and get along with everyone that knows me but what som[e]body thinks they see often lead to fal[s]e judgements.
The judgment on your appearance is not going to be consistent across races, cultures and age. For every granny that locks her cat door there's a young kid who thinks you're cool. Who are you trying to impress? The grannies, the ladies, the guys or the kids? Your social group or, in the case of the MORON who got locked up, the judge sentancing you.
But as you say I should stop my complaining because my ignorance of the social norm is clouding my judgement.
Stop complaining because it's not something you can fix by whining about it. Dress smartly, don't look like a fricking thief and ignore the assholes who judge on skin colour.
Sorry but as a white guy whose lived on an island where 99% of the population is black/indian I get prejudice based on my skin colour too. I don't whine so get on with your life. If you pay attention to racists you give them credence.
Time to burn some Karma!!
<rant>
Why does it matter what clothes he was wearing?
It matters because by dressing smartly he could reduce his sentance. If he's stubborn^H^H^H^H^Hpid enough to dress the way he wants then he's going to have to face the consequences of the way people interpret that look.
What a world to live in when people judge you by the clothes you wear.
I sympathise with the sentiment... actually scratch that, no I don't. Of course people judge other people by the way they look. Are you trying to tell me that you can't get clues from a person's appearance? If I see a skinhead wearing a football strip with many tattoos of their football club and a few scars then I DO NOT stop them to ask directions.
You use your eyes to guide your judgements about life and people. Complaining when other people do the same is at best childish and at worst ignorant.
Who are you going to ask for directions?
This guy or this guy?
Who would you rather date?
Her or her?
Him, him or him?
Sorry. Had to throw that last one in.
If you have a problem with your appearance then A) dress well and B) stay fit. That's all you need to do.
</rant>
So who has the controlling shares for each candidate?
Florida.
The only people who can effect changes are people who do code, who don't accept this defeatist version of 'reality'. If everyone simply accepted it was unrealistic to be able to personally contribute to anything, well, this world would be a much worse place.
That's crap! Defeatist version of reality?!? It IS completely unrealistic to personally contribute to EVERYTHING. Everybody, INCLUDING YOU, makes decisions about what to contribute to. If a non-technical user comments about the usability of a system there is no way in hell they are going to be able to make the change themselves.
You can keep saying it's unrealistic to expect users to help fix problems with OSS software, but the fact is that only people who do put in the effort make any difference.
I'm sorry but these two statements do not contradict each other. It IS completely unrealistic to expect users to help fix software themselves AND only people who put in the effort make any difference.... which leads to (ta-da) the conclusion that the software will become geared towards technical users which is exactly what has happened.
Christ. Someone mod this parent down.
Of course it's not coincidence! It's because at 10am every day women give birth so the roads are full of men driving back home from work to be there when their daughter is born. Same thing at 6pm except that it's to see their sons.
I thought everyone knew that.
OK I see your point about the bridge and I agree... but the SEMI?! Surely it takes 0 thought to realise that this simulation is generic and proof of concept.
The calculations in the simulation would have to include length of object so if you want to handle a semi you just change the length of the object. DUH!
You know how gravity gets less the further you are from the center of the earth? Well the plane flies really high which reduces gravity to near 0-gee. Of course you can't get all the way to 0 gee cause then you would be in space (duh!) so a couple of years ago NASA developed an anti-gravity machine which charges the metallic skin of the plane to a few thousand giga-volts (yes! GIGA-volts!) which creates a magnetic field around the aircraft.
The magnetic field reduces the strength of any gravity passing through it. This, in combination with the high altitude, takes gravity all the way down to zero.
Anyway, it's quite a closely guarded secret so don't let anyone tell you different.
And we all know how wonderfully effective the UN is. /Sarcasm
Oh... guessed completely wrong then. I'm not a huge fan of short stories but I might have to read it.
Thanks for the reply.
Your sig is making my head hurt. I know it, I've read it somewhere and the style reminds me of an author but for the life of me I can't figure out who or what book.
Is it THHGTTG??? Terry Pratchet? Argh!
Yeah I had a girlfriend who played Baldur's Gate with me. She kept undressing the sorceress and running around in her thong.
She wasn't very good though so I dumped her.