I wrote a parallel application to process scientific data on multiple servers at a previous place I worked, using just SQL statements with a mod function on a primary key. The resume builders there then hired a consultant to help them rewrite the whole thing (excluding the core atomic algorithm part) using Hadoop and MapReduce, because the previous one didn't use Hadoop and MapReduce. They made a total mess and it's so hard to configure and deploy that IT still uses the version I wrote a year before.
NARRATOR: Unfortunately, while it may be easy to purchase a used surplus NASA space engine, some of the logistics aren't turning out to be easy to handle!
Adam Savage: [Jamie's stupid toy space suit in background] When we bought this thing, we figured, great! Now we don't need to build our own engine. Unfortunately, it seems that the engines are actually too big to transport on any truck we've been able to find. So that's going to be a problem, but we'll handle it.
[Cut to scene of Jamie Hyneman wearing a welder's face helmet and blasting through sheet metal emblazoned "NASA" in those funny letters]
NARRATOR: So while the rest of the guys are getting the lot ready for the explosion, Jamie is busy disassembling the engine into parts!
Jamie Hyneman: [Lifts up welder's mask] This is turning out to be a lot of work, but if we're going to test this myth, we've got to get our water recycling machine up into space, bwwwwssssh [makes vertical "blast-off" gestures] and we'll be drinking our own pee and sweat in no time!
They may have students a lot like Dylan Klebold in their school, and don't know how to ensure that they don't go off the deep end, so they do the best they can.
Forensic analysis of the massacre concluded that it was orchestrated by Eric Harris, who was a clinical psychopath. Dylan Klebold was just a maladjusted doofus that Harris took along for the ride.
The latest non-iphone-related buzzword seems to be "social media". Want ads everywhere are screaming for people with experience reimplementing FaceBook.
The police are working for us, they are our employees.
That's why we expect them to perform their duties in accordance with the rules we set for them as a society. It hasn't been resolved yet whether or not we're willing to be subject to police surveillance when we sit down to play video games.
The fact that the first blood transfusion happened to work was mostly luck, had it not worked out well it would've probably been quite some time before somebody tried again.
You're thinking of the successful blood transfusions in the 19th century. Nobody remembers the first blood transfusions in 1667, which did not work out well at all. Jean-Baptiste Denys gave four people blood transfusions from sheep. (It was thought that lamb's blood would quiet the spirit of a tempestuous person, while the shy would be made more outgoing by blood from more sociable creatures.) Surprisingly most of his patients recovered and felt great. Except for one guy who felt so good he went to a tavern to celebrate. He dropped dead and France banned the procedure in 1670 followed by Britain and the Vatican, and it was quite some time before somebody tried again.
Yeah, I heard of "Climategate" and the massive scientist conspiracy led by archcriminal Al Gore to squeeze science funding research dollars from governments around the world. I totally buy it.
I didn't mention rotational axis points did I? I thought I was talking about the magnetic pole and magnetic field? Did you read what I posted, or just skim it and add in words I didn't say for a troll?
Oh, come on, this is what you wrote:
At one time the North Pole pointed to the Draco star instead of Polaris, and every few thousands of years the North Pole moves anyway before human beings even learned how to pollute or use fossil fuels or electronics, etc. That is because according to TFA the core of the Earth shifts and it effects the magnetic field.
I'd be embarrassed too if I came up with this mishmash, but I wouldn't defend it with the bluster you did.
You were obviously talking about the rotational axis and confusing it with the magnetic one. A rotational axis points at stars. A magnetic pole axis does NOT point at stars, at least not for long, because the magnetic poles are rotating around the true poles just like every other feature on earth. Magnetic poles have nothing to do with Thuban or Polaris. You have to be pretty badly confused to even be mentioning stars when you're talking about magnetic poles.
They will, like everything else,.blame the Americans for it. They might say something like all of our electronic useage has caused the magnetic drift of the North Pole to Russia. Just like they blame us for global warming, peak oil, and the New World Order that did 9/11 as an inside job, etc.
You've constructed a nice straw man, but who is suggesting pollution causes magnetic pole reversal? Who's even worrying about where the magnetic poles are anymore? You'll have to explain the basis for that one before it's time to put on your victim hat and start the insufferable Merkin whining that we're all used to.
I am going to copyright my name right now, file a patent for "Method to acquire money by suing people for using one's own name", and sue this guy in Texas Eastern District Court.
Are you out of your mind? How am I supposed to build a comfortable lean-to next to a fairy tale garden full of fresh vegetables in your la-la-land if I can't afford an acre of it, there are no jobs anywhere, nobody else can afford anything I might try to sell, and pollen carrying Monsanto's patented gene keeps blowing around?
Why not hold onto your older PCs that you know play the game correctly, get a Sharpie, and write "console" on them? If you're building a new PC every few years you can just buy new games, plug them into your new PC, make sure they work, and then rubber band them to the case. (Unless you're cannibalizing old parts- then never mind.)
Why is everyone surprised that super-earths are orbiting other stars? I've always wondered that.
Anyway in case anyone hasn't RTFA (or noticed the light-gray on white links at the top of the oklo.com page) you yourself can help them search for nearby earths by downloading the tool at http://oklo.org/downloadable-console/ while you're still unemployed.
Don't take it personally. Your comment wasn't really going for the funny, but it was high up on the page for me to hang my karma whoring reply on. And now I find myself indulging in this non-infrared nonsense as well.
Really? All my friends do their programming in microcode. But I personally think they're lightweights. Nowadays I use TTL for all my web 2.0 social networking apps.
it sounded like the satellite will be bathing its surrounding in infra-red light to detect nearby objects like space debris, which I thought sounded quite fascinating
I hadn't thought of that. That would be fascinating. Hang onto that idea- once the sun flickers out you can file a patent!
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Most people use it for ads. Once I installed Flashblock I noticed ads everywhere disappearing and getting replaced with the Flashblock icon.
I wrote a parallel application to process scientific data on multiple servers at a previous place I worked, using just SQL statements with a mod function on a primary key. The resume builders there then hired a consultant to help them rewrite the whole thing (excluding the core atomic algorithm part) using Hadoop and MapReduce, because the previous one didn't use Hadoop and MapReduce. They made a total mess and it's so hard to configure and deploy that IT still uses the version I wrote a year before.
I guess I gave myself away as not a serious fan.
NARRATOR: Unfortunately, while it may be easy to purchase a used surplus NASA space engine, some of the logistics aren't turning out to be easy to handle!
Adam Savage: [Jamie's stupid toy space suit in background] When we bought this thing, we figured, great! Now we don't need to build our own engine. Unfortunately, it seems that the engines are actually too big to transport on any truck we've been able to find. So that's going to be a problem, but we'll handle it.
[Cut to scene of Jamie Hyneman wearing a welder's face helmet and blasting through sheet metal emblazoned "NASA" in those funny letters]
NARRATOR: So while the rest of the guys are getting the lot ready for the explosion, Jamie is busy disassembling the engine into parts!
Jamie Hyneman: [Lifts up welder's mask] This is turning out to be a lot of work, but if we're going to test this myth, we've got to get our water recycling machine up into space, bwwwwssssh [makes vertical "blast-off" gestures] and we'll be drinking our own pee and sweat in no time!
They may have students a lot like Dylan Klebold in their school, and don't know how to ensure that they don't go off the deep end, so they do the best they can.
Forensic analysis of the massacre concluded that it was orchestrated by Eric Harris, who was a clinical psychopath. Dylan Klebold was just a maladjusted doofus that Harris took along for the ride.
I do all my searches on Baidu. Jingjing and Chacha are so cute.
The latest non-iphone-related buzzword seems to be "social media". Want ads everywhere are screaming for people with experience reimplementing FaceBook.
Buy a SheevaPlug. It's a headless Linux PC that consumes less than five watts and is about the size of an electronic ankle bracelet.
I run Lighttpd, MySQL, SVN, and Samba on mine. If I weren't so lazy I'd set it up as a mail server. I would post its URL here to test it, but, naaah.
The police are working for us, they are our employees.
That's why we expect them to perform their duties in accordance with the rules we set for them as a society. It hasn't been resolved yet whether or not we're willing to be subject to police surveillance when we sit down to play video games.
The fact that the first blood transfusion happened to work was mostly luck, had it not worked out well it would've probably been quite some time before somebody tried again.
You're thinking of the successful blood transfusions in the 19th century. Nobody remembers the first blood transfusions in 1667, which did not work out well at all. Jean-Baptiste Denys gave four people blood transfusions from sheep. (It was thought that lamb's blood would quiet the spirit of a tempestuous person, while the shy would be made more outgoing by blood from more sociable creatures.) Surprisingly most of his patients recovered and felt great. Except for one guy who felt so good he went to a tavern to celebrate. He dropped dead and France banned the procedure in 1670 followed by Britain and the Vatican, and it was quite some time before somebody tried again.
They'll want to use them for hiding their bananas inside. Are these reflecting or refracting scopes?
Keep in mind, in China they use green spray paint on the grass in its parks and the sides of its strip-mined mountains.
Yeah, I heard of "Climategate" and the massive scientist conspiracy led by archcriminal Al Gore to squeeze science funding research dollars from governments around the world. I totally buy it.
I didn't mention rotational axis points did I? I thought I was talking about the magnetic pole and magnetic field? Did you read what I posted, or just skim it and add in words I didn't say for a troll?
Oh, come on, this is what you wrote:
At one time the North Pole pointed to the Draco star instead of Polaris, and every few thousands of years the North Pole moves anyway before human beings even learned how to pollute or use fossil fuels or electronics, etc. That is because according to TFA the core of the Earth shifts and it effects the magnetic field.
I'd be embarrassed too if I came up with this mishmash, but I wouldn't defend it with the bluster you did. You were obviously talking about the rotational axis and confusing it with the magnetic one. A rotational axis points at stars. A magnetic pole axis does NOT point at stars, at least not for long, because the magnetic poles are rotating around the true poles just like every other feature on earth. Magnetic poles have nothing to do with Thuban or Polaris. You have to be pretty badly confused to even be mentioning stars when you're talking about magnetic poles.
They will, like everything else,.blame the Americans for it. They might say something like all of our electronic useage has caused the magnetic drift of the North Pole to Russia. Just like they blame us for global warming, peak oil, and the New World Order that did 9/11 as an inside job, etc.
You've constructed a nice straw man, but who is suggesting pollution causes magnetic pole reversal? Who's even worrying about where the magnetic poles are anymore? You'll have to explain the basis for that one before it's time to put on your victim hat and start the insufferable Merkin whining that we're all used to.
It will be interesting to see what impact it gas on migratory birds and what measure will need to be taken to alleviate that impact.
You mean by the birds? Adaptation and evolution should nail it.
If you mean by us, we could help by shooting birds that aren't traveling along the correct heading as they fly over Wasilla during the summer.
With yahoo, you can fill out a form to convince them you're not evil, and if the info on the form satisfies them, they stop blacklisting you.
Your post advocates a
technical (*) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante ( )
solution... aaah, never mind.
I am going to copyright my name right now, file a patent for "Method to acquire money by suing people for using one's own name", and sue this guy in Texas Eastern District Court.
Are you out of your mind? How am I supposed to build a comfortable lean-to next to a fairy tale garden full of fresh vegetables in your la-la-land if I can't afford an acre of it, there are no jobs anywhere, nobody else can afford anything I might try to sell, and pollen carrying Monsanto's patented gene keeps blowing around?
Why not hold onto your older PCs that you know play the game correctly, get a Sharpie, and write "console" on them? If you're building a new PC every few years you can just buy new games, plug them into your new PC, make sure they work, and then rubber band them to the case. (Unless you're cannibalizing old parts- then never mind.)
Why is everyone surprised that super-earths are orbiting other stars? I've always wondered that.
Anyway in case anyone hasn't RTFA (or noticed the light-gray on white links at the top of the oklo.com page) you yourself can help them search for nearby earths by downloading the tool at http://oklo.org/downloadable-console/ while you're still unemployed.
Pff-fff. Back when *I* was writing games, Slashdot didn't exist.
Don't take it personally. Your comment wasn't really going for the funny, but it was high up on the page for me to hang my karma whoring reply on. And now I find myself indulging in this non-infrared nonsense as well.
Really? All my friends do their programming in microcode. But I personally think they're lightweights. Nowadays I use TTL for all my web 2.0 social networking apps.
it sounded like the satellite will be bathing its surrounding in infra-red light to detect nearby objects like space debris, which I thought sounded quite fascinating
I hadn't thought of that. That would be fascinating. Hang onto that idea- once the sun flickers out you can file a patent!
Oh what's that, user 1310749? My geek card is 5.4463843 times longer than yours.