Except that nobody that has rockets is going to give the Mars One assholes one of them. Yeah, I know they expect SpaceX to give them a bunch of Falcon Heavys, but why would Elon Musk want to have his name attached to something that is certainly going to kill people? SpaceX already has a NASA contract to put people in orbit, so they will be focusing on that.
The reason they are assholes is because they know they literally have no chance of literally getting off the ground. It is just a way to suck money out of hopeful people. There is no way they will get enough money to buy a single super heavy lift rocket, let alone dozens of them.
You prod harder on the ones who can take a joke and where you actually have to push the envelope to get a reaction. Poking Islam is like poking a killer bees nest with your Weiner.
Of course, do it enough and the killer bees die off. But, that's a painful way for most people to go.
I don't think you have ever looked at what Venus' atmosphere is made of. It is hot, not because of how close tot he Sun it is, but because of how thick the atmosphere is. More than 100x denser than on Earth. 200mph winds blow across the planet constantly. The average temperature is hot enough to melt lead. The only probe to ever attempt to land on Venus melted in a short amount of time. A day is actually longer than a year on Venus, which just compounds the problems.
Nasa's report says "Suggets". The evidence is good as we have suspected for many years, but can these popsci article writers can't even be bothered to check the sources and just make up stuff.
I am sure when IFLS picks this up, they will report that not only is there an ocean but life is confirmed too.
Also, an SSD is several orders of magnitude cheaper than RAM, and makes regular disk access much faster. So for cost-benefit analysis, upgrade to SSD before trying to get a huge amount of RAM.
Well, it is a totally separate mistake to simply promote a programmer to management. Worked at a company in the 90s that seemed to think that "lead developer = manager". So they tried promoting the best programmer on the team to management. You can guess how horribly that went.
But when they demoted him (at his request) back to a programmer, the guy the brought in to be manager was a complete moron that had to be the lead programmer. He was a shitty manager too, if they had just taken our advice and hired an actual manager and left the programming decisions to the lead programmers, it might have worked out.
At a later job I had a manager that moved up from being a programmer (by his choice). He gave me explicit instructions not to give him access to the source repository, because "I haven't been a programmer in 5 years, and it would go horribly if I tried to jump in now." This was before the days of git-style code review and repositories, where things can be lax on non production branches, but the theory remains true. And he was a fantastic manager too.
The two skillsets are entirely different. Yeah, you might someone that can transfer from one to the other, but even then you can't have the same person do both jobs at once.
The company I once worked for got bought up by a bigger company that tried to pull this stunt in their new employee contract. I and most of the other developers simply refused to sign the contract. I suppose they could have fired us, but that would have sank the company fast. So they continued to pay us and we continued to work for them.
Years later they tried to sue some former employees that went to work for a competitor. The company lost badly.
Also, the remaining 50% will simply quit once they are overworked with the busywork that the bottom 50% used to do.
The issue is that the bottom 50% needs to be heavily managed so they can produce useful output. Sure, some of them are probably complete crap and need to be let go, but there is plenty of trained-monkey work to be done in a large organization.
Granted, it really depends on the org and situation. If the bottom 50% are made up of people that wield unusually large power (Such as, a company that has seniority rules based on age and years with the company.). Or the 50% are actively doing work to hurt the good 50%.
But in reality, if a company has a large number of useless employees, it is probably the management that needs to be fired.
You are more likely to be successful at fencing off every bridge, banning every gun, and tearing down every tall building.
But some people are suicidal even if they live what seems to you and I like a charmed and content life. if someone is suicidal because they broke up with a loved one or their puppy died, you can't simply take away that reason. Therapy is the solution for suicide (as much as people do not want to spend money on healthcare). Just like cancer, the only way to prevent suicide is early detection. If people learn the signs and urge the person to seek help it can be done.
But not always.. some people are truly inconsolable. Changing all of society to "take away the reason" is only going to work for people that agree with us on what is a good society.
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And they will sign it every time. If they don't sign it and the person does off themselves, the professional get sued.
"Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
Slashdot should have First past the first post voting.
On the internet, thieves honor YOU.
People dealing in illegal goods on a site that specialized in black market goods were trusting a 3rd party to hang on to all of their money?
Now, a Chinese comapny, that makes perfect sense.
Why would a Japanese bank be named Wiener?
Oh.
Except that nobody that has rockets is going to give the Mars One assholes one of them. Yeah, I know they expect SpaceX to give them a bunch of Falcon Heavys, but why would Elon Musk want to have his name attached to something that is certainly going to kill people? SpaceX already has a NASA contract to put people in orbit, so they will be focusing on that.
The reason they are assholes is because they know they literally have no chance of literally getting off the ground. It is just a way to suck money out of hopeful people. There is no way they will get enough money to buy a single super heavy lift rocket, let alone dozens of them.
To bring it back on topic:
You prod harder on the ones who can take a joke and where you actually have to push the envelope to get a reaction. Poking Islam is like poking a killer bees nest with your Weiner.
Of course, do it enough and the killer bees die off. But, that's a painful way for most people to go.
DiSKiLLeR: Maybe it means he is against killing?
Blimps would be so sweet. Like steampunk on Venus.
Thought he 200mph winds might be a problem. Though are they not as fast at very high altitudes?
I don't think you have ever looked at what Venus' atmosphere is made of. It is hot, not because of how close tot he Sun it is, but because of how thick the atmosphere is. More than 100x denser than on Earth. 200mph winds blow across the planet constantly. The average temperature is hot enough to melt lead. The only probe to ever attempt to land on Venus melted in a short amount of time. A day is actually longer than a year on Venus, which just compounds the problems.
Mars is a picnic compared to Venus.
Correction, we have not suspected for many years... I was confusing Ganymede with Europa. Doh!
Anyhow, I am just pissed off that when NASA says "Might", everyone jumps up and down and says "Confirmed for Truth!"
No wonder so many people mistrust scientists. They should mistrust lazy and corrupt journalists instead.
Nasa's report says "Suggets". The evidence is good as we have suspected for many years, but can these popsci article writers can't even be bothered to check the sources and just make up stuff.
I am sure when IFLS picks this up, they will report that not only is there an ocean but life is confirmed too.
Free and Open Source... unless you make money, then fuck you.
If it is not broke, fix it until it is.
Is this what keeps projects alive?
Well, why not? If you want to cover that kind of diversity in platforms, you are going to be using a web tool...
Also, an SSD is several orders of magnitude cheaper than RAM, and makes regular disk access much faster. So for cost-benefit analysis, upgrade to SSD before trying to get a huge amount of RAM.
Well, it is a totally separate mistake to simply promote a programmer to management. Worked at a company in the 90s that seemed to think that "lead developer = manager". So they tried promoting the best programmer on the team to management. You can guess how horribly that went.
But when they demoted him (at his request) back to a programmer, the guy the brought in to be manager was a complete moron that had to be the lead programmer. He was a shitty manager too, if they had just taken our advice and hired an actual manager and left the programming decisions to the lead programmers, it might have worked out.
At a later job I had a manager that moved up from being a programmer (by his choice). He gave me explicit instructions not to give him access to the source repository, because "I haven't been a programmer in 5 years, and it would go horribly if I tried to jump in now." This was before the days of git-style code review and repositories, where things can be lax on non production branches, but the theory remains true. And he was a fantastic manager too.
The two skillsets are entirely different. Yeah, you might someone that can transfer from one to the other, but even then you can't have the same person do both jobs at once.
The company I once worked for got bought up by a bigger company that tried to pull this stunt in their new employee contract. I and most of the other developers simply refused to sign the contract. I suppose they could have fired us, but that would have sank the company fast. So they continued to pay us and we continued to work for them.
Years later they tried to sue some former employees that went to work for a competitor. The company lost badly.
Also, the remaining 50% will simply quit once they are overworked with the busywork that the bottom 50% used to do.
The issue is that the bottom 50% needs to be heavily managed so they can produce useful output. Sure, some of them are probably complete crap and need to be let go, but there is plenty of trained-monkey work to be done in a large organization.
Granted, it really depends on the org and situation. If the bottom 50% are made up of people that wield unusually large power (Such as, a company that has seniority rules based on age and years with the company.). Or the 50% are actively doing work to hurt the good 50%.
But in reality, if a company has a large number of useless employees, it is probably the management that needs to be fired.
Ghostery sells data to advertisers and was bought by an ad network some time ago.
Use Disconnect instead.
You are more likely to be successful at fencing off every bridge, banning every gun, and tearing down every tall building.
But some people are suicidal even if they live what seems to you and I like a charmed and content life. if someone is suicidal because they broke up with a loved one or their puppy died, you can't simply take away that reason. Therapy is the solution for suicide (as much as people do not want to spend money on healthcare). Just like cancer, the only way to prevent suicide is early detection. If people learn the signs and urge the person to seek help it can be done.
But not always.. some people are truly inconsolable. Changing all of society to "take away the reason" is only going to work for people that agree with us on what is a good society.
legislate a person's desire to ... what makes them horny.
No, but the republicans will try.
Well, selfie sticks will never be great. It will only ever be a toy for bored teenagers.