I bet they could bring in more money if they didn't scrap the whole thing, but instead sold small slices of it. And after they sold 12 slices to all the cyclotron groupies, they'd have to scrap the remaining 99.5% of it. It's not the Berlin Wall, it's a lump of copper and iron. Given the scrap prices for both, the sale of souvenir pieces would be chump change in comparison.
Givin it's importance in the development of nuclear science, it might be nice to preserve it somehow I would think... Look, we can't be expected to save every damn thing that ever played an important role in history. Things have a limited useful life. Who's ever going to go see the remains of a 70+ year old cyclotron. Were you p[lanning on seeing it, only to be disappointed to hear it was being scrapped? I doubt it. It's not like they're filling in the grand canyon. It's a giant lump of scrap metal. Let it go.
*notes that the previous administration had budget surpluses* While the current president has indeed spent like a drunken sailor, the previous president's surplus had nothing to do with him but was rather an unexpected windfall due to the dot com bubble. Projections that it would have "erased the national debt" in 10 years are asinine, as the dot com crash put an end to that fanciful pie-in-the-sky 10 year projection.
no, think about it for a second -- put your fingers on home row. where is your thumb? a thumb pad always belongs in the middle, whether you're left-handed or right. Who says it's a thumb pad? I've never seen anyone use their thumbs on a touchpad.
But I've heard many moderate Muslims state that no such instruction exists. They're self-delusional. They take a rarefied handful of vague appeals to uncertain tolerance and claim they trump the scores of commands in the Koran and hadith like this: Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you, Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous. (Koran 9:123)
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with the. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate. (Koran 9:73)
Islam simply is not a "moderate" religion. Neither is Christianity, for that matter, but the fundamentalist Christians are few compared to fundamentalist Muslims. Those who claim to be moderates of any ancient religion are actually just apostates and heretics by the basic rules of their own religions. The fact that they haven't thrown down the last remnants of their ancient superstitions is just bizarre. Ancient, traditional religion doesn't allow for changes due to advances in civilized society. It's really no less asinine to stick by your old, pre-medieval religion as a model for ethics and spirituality than it is to stick with astrology and the Celestial Spheres as a model for cosmology.
You have mistaken me for Nice Bob. See, people were confused because "fucktard" != "naughty". I suggest changing your name for better accuracy and less confusion.
The website they took down had a preview of the film Did you even bother to read the blurb, much less the article?
The article describes the site's content before NetSol pulled the plug as a single page with the film's title, an image of the Koran, and the words "Coming Soon.
How is this "open access" thing going to work? What's open about it anyway? It'll be open in approximately the same sense that AT&T and TMobile's GSM networks are open. I have an HTC TYTN II that works with my AT&T SIM card, despite the fact that the Taiwanese firmware in my TYTN II is not crippled like the AT&T firmware in the TILT. Contrast that with Verizon's network, where you cannot use a phone without their royal seal of approval, a 1 hour wait at a Verizon store to have it registered in their system, and when that's all said and done, you have a horribly crippled phone that requires you to use their for-a-fee wireless data transfer to load on a ringtone or pull off a photo. My phone, I just plug in a USB cable and transfer files through the windows file explorer.
This is why I've always said that it should be illegal to own stock in your employer. It creates an automatic conflict of interest (not to mention vast opportunities for corruption). "Conflict of interest" is an issue only with public offices and government employees, tard.
Have you considered a ballot proposition? If everyone agrees with you, you should have no problem receiving the requisite signatures, and votes in your next election, if not you must happily stop bitching since democracy willed it not so. Don't be daft. People think lower speed limits are safer because the safety nazis' propaganda has told them this since childhood. It doesn't matter that they, themselves largely disregard the speed limit in practice, they will still vote for the "safer" lower speed limit. Being eligible to vote doesn't make you a traffic engineer, and speed limits are purely a traffic engineering problem. It's like asking people to vote on the results of scientific studies. The very idea is simply ridiculous. The correct way to approach such things is to allow the experts to do their job and set limits based on traffic analysis rather than budget padding and fear mongering. If we were allowed to "vote with our speedometer" to set speed limits, we'd arrive right back at the 85% rule that's already in practically every book on the science of traffic engineering.
If they are really doing that then why don't you stop posting on/. and start working to get those local politicians out of office?
Yes, because the 1.3 minutes it takes to complain on Slashdot is all it would take to get the crooks out of local government.
Local politics actually makes it possible for individuals/small dedicated groups to make a difference. You don't need millions of dollars to get started. In my time as an elections worker I haven't seen a local race that was decided by more than a few hundred votes -- and I've seen some (our recent County Legislative elections) with single digit margins of victory.
Your presumption that the 2nd place candidate represented a change from the status quo with regard to the topic at hand is absurd. Usually, you'll find that the guy who wants to throw Comcast out on its collective ear is the guy who came in 5th or 6th, right after the guy who wants to legalize drugs.
BASIC has such fond memories for me. I was self-taught at it so I did the stupidest crap as a kid. I remember writing programs where I wanted a delay, and what did I do? Look for a command to do that? Of course not! Run a loop that counts up to some insane value before terminating and just count on the computer's slowness at traversing the loop to facilitate my delay:). That was back in the days of Commodore 64... To be fair, C64 basic didn't HAVE a delay command, so you did the best you could. All we had time-wise was the system variables TI (1/60 sec jiffy clock) and TI$ (time string as "HHMMSS"). You could futz around with TI and get nice, accurate timing and it's only take 3 or 4 lines to do it.... or you could just stick in an empty FOR loop as one line and be done with it. On such a simple machine it made no difference. It wasn't like you were hogging clocks from another process! Even under DOS it was essentially the same thing. It wasn't until later, when clock speeds started ramping, that the whole "sleeping vs wheel-spinning" issue became relevant on desktop machines. Even then, people ignored it for a while. I am still ashamed of Origin's programmers for Ultima VII not including any sort of timing code, making the game runnable but unplayable on a very fast machine 5 years later...
That's the equivalent of a/.er pulling shit from the jargon file to make himself sound like a "real hacker". Gimme a break. Foo! Take your eighty-column mind down El Camino Bignum to Berzerkley and watch the blinkenlights.
Many long time Slashdot readers remember the days when...they were able to comment on what an intelligent foreign policy would look like... Sadly, those days are gone, as you have just demonstrated. Please. Those days were never here. We just didn't talk about foreign policy on a tech/nerd website. Whiny hippy peaceniks? Gun toting yahoos? Pretty much all have always been represented here, we just didn't have lamers turning every cool gadget story into a discussion of politics.
Did you ever consider attempting to learn what the instructions google provided you were going to do, and then entering them into your computer? Just as some people don't repair their own cars, some people don't repair their own OS installs. The old saw about "if there's something in the software you don't like, you can change it yourself" is only meaningful if you know how to do stuff like that. Linux/OSS is somewhat like an old rear engine Volkswagen. You have to be something of a [programmer|mechanic] to really appreciate them properly and get the most out of them.
I must say if you choose a piece of software which forces you to use the operating system of their choice I have no sympathy for you. News flash for you, junior: most of us don't get to choose the software tools our employers and/or clients require us to use. It's all well and good to say "I would never work for someone who won't let me submit my work in FooGNU-CAD format or as a command line application compiled with GCC" in your best idealistic tone of voice, but the realities of the world often intrude.
You've just taken what may be the most contorted, ambiguous, controversial half-sentence in the Bill or Rights, chopped off the weird part, and called the sentence simple. The reason it's so confusing to the ignorant is that they haven't bothered to read up on the debate that led to it being phrased that way. During the first congress of 1789 when the Bill of RIghts was drafted, some states wanted the amendment to enumerate the right of the state to operate a militia independent of the federal government. Other states were more concerned with enumerating the people's right to bear arms. As a compromise, the "security of a free state" bit was thrown in to satisfy the former, and the "keep and bear arms" part the latter. Remember, the Bill of Rights is not an exhaustive list of all rights. It was intended to be a "Top Ten List" of the ones they thought most important. That's why you actually see scores of rights shoe-horned together like they are. The 2nd is actually relatively short in that it only really covers TWO rights issues. I mean, look at the 1st, for bog's sake! They crammed six enumerated rights into it. No, the only reason some find the 2nd confusing is that they refuse to accept that the first clause isn't a modifier of the second. It's an addendum. A very badly worded one, but separate nonetheless.
"[M]ost Slashdotters" are "massive corporation[s]"? Massive, yes. Corporations, not so much. corporation 4. Informal. A protruding abdominal region; a potbelly.
Hey, if you go to an obscure enough definition, it actually fits humorously well!
I think you meant "Lest we forget". You were modded up anyhow so I guess bringing it up is a moo point. You mean like it's a cow's opinion?
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Sorry, but we missed Pi day by a longshot. Having Pi day on any old 3/14 lacks sufficient precision. Pi day was on March 14, 1592. Ja, but trouble is, if you're going to cite issues of precision you'd have to put the date in proper order. That being the case, Pi day would more appropriately be 314/1/5--- Jan 5, 314 (at 9:26am).
Van Halen did a lot of covers of tunes that they didn't write.... Van Halen? Surely you can't be serious! I heard some of their tripe this morning on the radio. Completely uninspiring, uncompelling, and uninteresting. Bunch of guys famous for being rock n' rollers, a joke band that thought they were real. Cripes, even Motorhead is more interesting and Lemmy only really has one song that he plays 200 different ways.
The CVR says 3x3500Hz + 1x6500Hz. Maybe it needs double what I estimated, for Nyquist sampling. Of course, VBR and compression would reduce the bandwidth. Yes, the ignorant always have what they think is an easy solution. You've clearly never tried to get a stationary mobile data terminal to link up to a satellite, much less a mobile one, much less 4500 mobile ones simultaneously (peak airborne traffic in the US alone). You've clearly also never read the pilots' union contract, which requires not just strict confidentiality of CVR recordings, but actually prohibits the accessing CVR tapes except in the event of an accident. No, go head, handwave the real technical a legal barriers to such a system and blame it on a conspiracy, like you usually do.
These are nickel and dime arguments. The benefit of realtime telemetry can be valued at $millions per obviated expedition to recover the boxes, You're nuts. The price of retrofitting and maintaining a realtime data network would be far more expensive than a thousand black box recoveries.
and if it's analyzed in realtime for incipient faults, $billions in avoided crashes. I'd think the insurance corps alone would want to fund it. Now I know you've lost your mind. I daresay you can't cite a single example of where any lives or any noteworthy amount of money could have been saved if only the black box data from a particular crash had been recovered sooner.
you would also think they would have the data sent over a satellite signal and stored at a remote location as to make sure even if the box is damaged the data would be stored where it is reachable OK, now think like an engineer instead of a layperson and take scale into account. An average of 2600 planes in the air at any given time for the entire year of 2006... 22.8 million flight hours. Which magic satellite constellation and ground receiving array should they use with that sort of bandwidth?
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Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you, Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous. (Koran 9:123)
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with the. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate. (Koran 9:73)
Islam simply is not a "moderate" religion. Neither is Christianity, for that matter, but the fundamentalist Christians are few compared to fundamentalist Muslims. Those who claim to be moderates of any ancient religion are actually just apostates and heretics by the basic rules of their own religions. The fact that they haven't thrown down the last remnants of their ancient superstitions is just bizarre. Ancient, traditional religion doesn't allow for changes due to advances in civilized society. It's really no less asinine to stick by your old, pre-medieval religion as a model for ethics and spirituality than it is to stick with astrology and the Celestial Spheres as a model for cosmology.
The article describes the site's content before NetSol pulled the plug as a single page with the film's title, an image of the Koran, and the words "Coming Soon.
Don't be daft. People think lower speed limits are safer because the safety nazis' propaganda has told them this since childhood. It doesn't matter that they, themselves largely disregard the speed limit in practice, they will still vote for the "safer" lower speed limit. Being eligible to vote doesn't make you a traffic engineer, and speed limits are purely a traffic engineering problem. It's like asking people to vote on the results of scientific studies. The very idea is simply ridiculous. The correct way to approach such things is to allow the experts to do their job and set limits based on traffic analysis rather than budget padding and fear mongering. If we were allowed to "vote with our speedometer" to set speed limits, we'd arrive right back at the 85% rule that's already in practically every book on the science of traffic engineering.
If they are really doing that then why don't you stop posting on /. and start working to get those local politicians out of office?
Yes, because the 1.3 minutes it takes to complain on Slashdot is all it would take to get the crooks out of local government.Local politics actually makes it possible for individuals/small dedicated groups to make a difference. You don't need millions of dollars to get started. In my time as an elections worker I haven't seen a local race that was decided by more than a few hundred votes -- and I've seen some (our recent County Legislative elections) with single digit margins of victory.
Your presumption that the 2nd place candidate represented a change from the status quo with regard to the topic at hand is absurd. Usually, you'll find that the guy who wants to throw Comcast out on its collective ear is the guy who came in 5th or 6th, right after the guy who wants to legalize drugs.But how does the probe even know what chicken tastes like?
All taste gauging systems are calibrated on chicken.Hey, if you go to an obscure enough definition, it actually fits humorously well!
These are nickel and dime arguments. The benefit of realtime telemetry can be valued at $millions per obviated expedition to recover the boxes, You're nuts. The price of retrofitting and maintaining a realtime data network would be far more expensive than a thousand black box recoveries.
and if it's analyzed in realtime for incipient faults, $billions in avoided crashes. I'd think the insurance corps alone would want to fund it. Now I know you've lost your mind. I daresay you can't cite a single example of where any lives or any noteworthy amount of money could have been saved if only the black box data from a particular crash had been recovered sooner.