I think it should be named more like the "scorched earth" policy used by the Russians against Napoleon. I thought Amazon, Google, & Facebook were nuclear-free zones?
Over twenty years ago I was told a story about a ceramic company selling dinnerware such as plates, bowls and dishes and the marketing on the box said "Hand Painted". That the plates were painted by robotic hands obviously wasn't mentioned.
I suggest this is the start to the long road described in the short story "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov. In the future someone will re-invent the art of human computation, and manned missiles (and thus human computing of trajectories) will follow.
I'm sure there is no no doubt the increased cost is justified and accounted for. I can't blame NASA for any of it. But like many government entities there is an attitude (probably not shared at the top levels). There is a NASA facility not far from where I work and it has been winding down, probably due to the aforementioned budget lay-offs.
In any case the word I hear in my lunchroom, the first thing a NASA employee learns: "Is to take a sh*t on company time." That is probably an indicator of why government projects cost so much and it probably goes downhill from there.
Presuming output of students over an infinite number of years, will there not be a point where Turnitin will have compiled every possible permutation in every subject? In other words, will there not be a point where NOTHING produced by students will not have been produced previously?
At that point NO student paper will ever pass scrutiny and civilization will collapse! It will be caused by frustrated students with riot and mayhem, their only recourse the destruction of all server archives. Therefore all written works will have to start from scratch.
I find it funny for a commentary on typing skills when there is an em dash in the Subject line. Typewriters never had em dashes. What keyboard convolution had to be done to put it there? Alt+I+S? ? mouse on a pull down menu? Oh, typewriters never had Alt keys or mice either.
And why isn't there a script to convert the ever so popular em dashes to regular dashes (or if they insist, convert them to double dashes) for the plain text email feed? Doesn't anyone get how annoying it is to see "—" interspersed in a plain text feed just because some author likes the long em dashes?
And that goes for the blob like character used for the reverse double quote mark. Why can't anyone use the plain old ASCII double quote mark anymore?
So it is not global warming (or climate change) causing the sea level to rise! It is the continuous deposit of shipping containers displacing the water!
(And it isn't helped by the North American continent sinking because of the storage of National Geographics in subscriber's basements.)
While I haven't had time to read all 2198 former comments, I think at this time it no longer matters. Philosophically, mankind has spend untold amounts of money on computers over the last 30 years, they permeate the planet nearly everywhere, and computers do instantaneous conversions. Let them do their job.
While it may have more important 40 to 15 years ago to make such conversions, the optimum time was to do it back then. It is no longer necessary. Now it no longer matters how the user wants to measure, whether it is Imperial Miles or Klingon Kellicams. In whatever interface the user is using whether it is a browser, an iPad, or a GPS, or a gas pump, computers will translate to whatever measure the local user needs.
Yes I run one of those boxes with a Telnet version of Empire. It also has a Player vs. computer version of MILLBORN, It also has a game of MANSION (the one were you're supposed to seduce the maid). ADVENT (the one with the Troll bridge), and WARP. ZONE, DROID, FUEDAL TRIREME. The CIVIL war game where you enter food and money before each battle. And three versions of the classic Star TREK games, where you fight Klingons on a grid.
I was having trouble understanding the double negative in the original post. Had to make up a truth table:
1. Doesn't work for a company that doesn't hire... 2. Does work for a company that doesn't hire... 3. Doesn't work for a company that does hire... 4. Does work for a copy that does hire...
With all the religious comments, I'm surprised no one said the obvious about the result being the Beast from Revelation? It sure makes it possible. (Or all those commenters just trying to talk around it.)
First let me begin that calling North Dakota a black hole is an old joke my Mother used to mention in the 1960s. The joke was there was "no such place" but they had a blank spot on the map and had to call it something.
So this leads me to my basic question, how DO you block North Dakota anyway? Do they assign IP addresses by Zip Code within the U.S.? Probably not.
P.S. My DNS is down now it can only be seen at hardcoded IP 198.212.189.111
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I think it should be named more like the "scorched earth" policy used by the Russians against Napoleon. I thought Amazon, Google, & Facebook were nuclear-free zones?
How about "OPE" = "Our Pure Essence" from Dr. Strangelove?
#1 The attack came from the former Warsaw Pact and
#2 Obviously, the Communist conspiracy is out to contaminate our "Precious Bodily Fluids"!
Over twenty years ago I was told a story about a ceramic company selling dinnerware such as plates, bowls and dishes and the marketing on the box said "Hand Painted". That the plates were painted by robotic hands obviously wasn't mentioned.
I suggest this is the start to the long road described in the short story "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov. In the future someone will re-invent the art of human computation, and manned missiles (and thus human computing of trajectories) will follow.
I'm sure there is no no doubt the increased cost is justified and accounted for. I can't blame NASA for any of it. But like many government entities there is an attitude (probably not shared at the top levels). There is a NASA facility not far from where I work and it has been winding down, probably due to the aforementioned budget lay-offs.
In any case the word I hear in my lunchroom, the first thing a NASA employee learns: "Is to take a sh*t on company time." That is probably an indicator of why government projects cost so much and it probably goes downhill from there.
Presuming output of students over an infinite number of years, will there not be a point where Turnitin will have compiled every possible permutation in every subject? In other words, will there not be a point where NOTHING produced by students will not have been produced previously?
At that point NO student paper will ever pass scrutiny and civilization will collapse! It will be caused by frustrated students with riot and mayhem, their only recourse the destruction of all server archives. Therefore all written works will have to start from scratch.
I find it funny for a commentary on typing skills when there is an em dash in the Subject line. Typewriters never had em dashes. What keyboard convolution had to be done to put it there? Alt+I+S? ? mouse on a pull down menu? Oh, typewriters never had Alt keys or mice either.
And why isn't there a script to convert the ever so popular em dashes to regular dashes (or if they insist, convert them to double dashes) for the plain text email feed? Doesn't anyone get how annoying it is to see "—" interspersed in a plain text feed just because some author likes the long em dashes?
And that goes for the blob like character used for the reverse double quote mark. Why can't anyone use the plain old ASCII double quote mark anymore?
So it is not global warming (or climate change) causing the sea level to rise! It is the continuous deposit of shipping containers displacing the water!
(And it isn't helped by the North American continent sinking because of the storage of National Geographics in subscriber's basements.)
While I haven't had time to read all 2198 former comments, I think at this time it no longer matters. Philosophically, mankind has spend untold amounts of money on computers over the last 30 years, they permeate the planet nearly everywhere, and computers do instantaneous conversions. Let them do their job.
While it may have more important 40 to 15 years ago to make such conversions, the optimum time was to do it back then. It is no longer necessary. Now it no longer matters how the user wants to measure, whether it is Imperial Miles or Klingon Kellicams. In whatever interface the user is using whether it is a browser, an iPad, or a GPS, or a gas pump, computers will translate to whatever measure the local user needs.
Yes I run one of those boxes with a Telnet version of Empire. It also has a Player vs. computer version of MILLBORN, It also has a game of MANSION (the one were you're supposed to seduce the maid). ADVENT (the one with the Troll bridge), and WARP. ZONE, DROID, FUEDAL TRIREME. The CIVIL war game where you enter food and money before each battle. And three versions of the classic Star TREK games, where you fight Klingons on a grid.
(URL in my homepage germane) http://198.212.189.111/
Telnet to the same IP address. Works best with a Hewlett Packard version of a terminal emulator.
Sorry no domain name anymore, IP only.
Is this why the "E" in a Dell logo is at a 45 degree angle, like the "E" in the Enron logo?
The starting caption on the backside write up of this old game seems strangely appropriate:
THE WEBBIES WANT YOUR MIND...
TITLE: OLYMPICA
PUBLISHER: Metagaming
YEAR: 1978
MICROGAME 07
CODE: 3107
PRICE: $2.95
PACKAGE: plastic bag
GAME SCALE: Tactical
Now we can have Zaphod Beeblebrox!
I was having trouble understanding the double negative in the original post. Had to make up a truth table:
1. Doesn't work for a company that doesn't hire ... ... ... ...
2. Does work for a company that doesn't hire
3. Doesn't work for a company that does hire
4. Does work for a copy that does hire
Does 1 = 4 ?
"Don't Give Up Your Day Job" -- The classic response from the entertainment industry applies here.
At 53, I stopped giving a sh*t long ago. I now try to get along by claiming to be lost, just like the users.
If our data line passes through the U.K., does this mean we can depend on them as a backup medium do a restore of lost data?
We had some unpaid interns make a half dozen cables the other week. Only one worked at all.
Hulk ... smash!
Fifty Thousand Quatloos to the passenger that defeats Captain Kirk!
As long as it is not narrated by the female voice that does "ISS Mission Coverage" on the NASA channel.
With all the religious comments, I'm surprised no one said the obvious about the result being the Beast from Revelation? It sure makes it possible. (Or all those commenters just trying to talk around it.)
First let me begin that calling North Dakota a black hole is an old joke my Mother used to mention in the 1960s. The joke was there was "no such place" but they had a blank spot on the map and had to call it something.
So this leads me to my basic question, how DO you block North Dakota anyway? Do they assign IP addresses by Zip Code within the U.S.? Probably not.
P.S. My DNS is down now it can only be seen at hardcoded IP 198.212.189.111
Of course in areas near Western Africa, they don't issue One Laptop Per Child, they issue One Gun Per Child:
http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15---evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx
Now all they need is a huge cotter pin.