Having completely redundant systems down to the electrical level is hard enough on the ground. In a small space station a few hundred miles in space I imagine it's next to impossible.
No, in fact, they have it, including having a back up system that not only runs completely different code but in fact is a completely different system that can be used to control attitude in a different way. The ISS already has and does everything the OP said they should do in spades, the only way his post was "informative" is that it informed us of how profoundly ignorant the OP is on the subject.
Yes, very true. Thankfully for the Democratic party, those kinds of Democrats quit the party a long time ago. They mass defected to the Republican party decades ago (sometimes directly, sometimes spending a few intervening years as "Dixiecrats"). Eventually they took it over entirely.
Sylar's ability to stop bullets just after they have been fired at him, but he's too slow to stop Hiro from running him through with a sword (despite seeing it coming).
He's clearly not too slow for that. You're not thinking it through. Guess who can see the future? Guess who knows he's going to live? Any guesses what might happen if he doesn't let Hiro stab him?
Hiro learning Sulu's koryu in a couple of hours.
Hiro already clearly knows quite a bit about swordplay before the start. The only thing Hiro really needs to learn in that time is the one thing Kaito is trying to teach him: strength. The strength to kill. The strength to cut out his own heart, if he needs to. Hiro gets it. He even says it. How did you miss it?
Peter's ability to stop himself from going critical in one episode, but not being able to do so in another.
Peter flying in one episode, but not being able to do so in another. Peter constantly see-sawing back in forth between moments of incredible displays of power and moments of complete inability to do anything at all. You act like this was somehow inconsistent, but it's consistent with Peter's character and abilities and the difficulties he's always had with them from the start.
My biggest complaint about the show is the fans who don't pay attention, then blame their inability to understand what just happened on the writers.
Sylar goes from being able to control 100 pieces of glass simultaneously, to not being able to withstand an attack from two different people.
Sylar can also see the future at that point. He knows he'll have the opportunity to drag himself into the sewers (or someone else will drag him off), and might even know what happens if he doesn't let Hiro stab him, and maybe that's certain death at the hands of some other character. The facts are that (a) Sylar can see the future, and (b) Sylar is hurt but not killed in this face-off, but very well could have been if things had gone differently. Keep these two things in mind before you start criticizing Sylar for not acting in the way you think he should have (i.e. flinging Hiro away BEFORE getting stabbed), an action that might have been suicidal on Sylar's part.
Peter can fly, but requires Nathan to carry him up and out of harm's way.
Peter can sometimes fly. Peter can also completely lose control of his powers. Um, part of the climax involves precisely this happening. Did you miss that part? If Peter was still in control of his powers, he's have no need to fly off to begin with. He's just stop the reaction and they'd all head to the bar at that point because it's Miller time. There's only any kind of emergency going at all because Peter has lost control. Complaining at this point that Peter doesn't use his powers in a particular way is incredibly obtuse.
Mohinder states in one episode that he's a geneticist, not a doctor, and then later acts as a paramedic for D.L. and others.
Bones stubbornly complains that he's not an escalator, but he still helps the woman up. Molly says the other doctors are better than him, she doesn't say OMG you have no idea what you're doing, do you? You know why not? Because he clearly does have some idea, despite any disclaimers he may have when someone tries to get him to do a job he doesn't want to do.
Incidentally, paramedics aren't doctors, either. Does that make them unqualified to be paramedics? If not, why do you think it makes Mohinder unqualified? He clearly knows more about the topic that most paramedics, even if it's not his day job.
The show isn't perfect, but the most common complains seem to come from the direction of people who just weren't paying attention. The viewers overlook things far more often than the writers, it seems.
Why do people ask this question? I mean, Hello people! Did you not notice that Peter has lost control?! If he was still in control of his powers, he wouldn't need to fly off, he'd just not go nuclear to begin with! Duh...
Of course. They're being true to at least one good comic book convention. Villains get defeated, but rarely if ever do they get killed. Batman defeats the Joker many, many times...
The number I usually see quoted is two million (21 bits), but I have no idea of the source of that, and frankly I'd be astounded if the actual number doesn't vary from person to person.
I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't just deny it if the option weren't at least on the table.
If they deny false rumors, then refusal to deny anything else becomes instant confirmation. So, unless it's your intention to broadcast all your plans to everyone ahead of time, you most both refuse to confirm true rumors and refuse to deny false ones. You must do both, you can't just do one or the other, or else there's no point in doing either.
They still haven't even picked up on the metric system yet.
You can have my yardstick when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!:p
Actually, let's be totally fair here. Yes, having everyone in the world use the same measurement system would make a lot of things easier. Having everyone in the world speak the same language would make things even easier -- indeed the benefits of a common language are far greater than the benefits of a common measuring system.
So, we'll make a bi-lateral treaty -- we'll accept the metric system as our official measuring standard as soon as France accepts English as its official language.
Until then, we'll just have to get by translating text and measurements between languages/systems. Thankfully, the US is being more reasonable than France in this regard -- it's a lot easier to translate units of measurement than languages.
I interpreted this as implying that both the projects and the users are fanatics. I think there are plenty of coders out there who just want to share some stuff, and plenty of users who use the product for logical, non-cult reasons as well.
Just want to share... logical reasons... sounds like the gospel of St. Torvalds to me.;)
That aside, we go from one simple statement about user fanaticism to a rather strong claim about developers never releasing software for a particular reason. Seems like putting some pretty big words in the author's mouth that he actually never uttered.
A system designed to be operational 24/7 needs a hot spare. A system designed to be used for just a few days and be down for a few months in between uses (and the exact timing of when those few days of use occur is not important) does not. A competent engineer can recognize when a solution is applicable to a particular situation vs. another situation where it makes no sense at all whatsoever.
Claims of the article's author to the contrary, there are plenty of open source projects that are just hobby applications that weren't worth charging for, and the creators wanted to see their work survive and be useful to a larger group of people.
Um, where does the article's author make these claims? I don't see anywhere in the article any claims that this does not occur.
Agreed. Now explain to be the logic of your point. Are you invoking the false dilemma logical fallacy, or is there are reason you believe you can't have both?
IMHO, the research dollars would be better spent on developing a process to grow "natural" blood. Honestly i think that any research into the artificial growth of body parts, (like what has been done with mice and ears) is a step in the right direction. Use blood as a starting point and work up from there.
Well, these silly scientists tend to prefer evidence over speculation, so they'd say research dollars should be spent on both, and conclusions as to which approach is better should be drawn from the resulting evidence, rather than having someone arbitrarily decide ahead of time which approach is better, based on no real evidence.
Indeed. Your average eight-year old is no less intelligent than your average 28-year old. Many eight-year olds are a great deal more intelligent. They're just relatively inexperienced.
I don't agree, but I've definitely heard that before. A lot of people aren't really into character driven series. For that matter, a lot of people aren't into drama, and both of these series, BSG in particular, are dramas. Indeed, if there's any series that could best be described as a sci-fi soap opera, it's BSG.
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations." -- Noam Chomsky
It's the same trick -- in this case, it's access to information rather than direct decision-making power, but since wielding that power requires information, restricting access to it amounts to the same thing.
Frequently not. You have to take the play money to the bank and get it exchanged for real money.:p
BTW, is it true most Americans don't see Canadian coins very frequently? I had a friend from Tennessee freak out about the fact that he had a Canadian coin in his pocket, saying he'd never even seen one before. This was during his first year after moving to Minnesota. As a kid, I could always count on being able to sift through the change in my pockets and find at least one or two Canadian coins, but it never occurred to me as a kid that that was unusual (and only being vaguely aware as a kid that Minnesota is right next to Canada and that that might make a difference).
When I got old enough to be using vending machines frequently, I found the average percentage of Canadian coins in my pocket went up significantly. I'd spend all the real money in vending machines, while the Canadian coins would accumulate until I frequently had a couple dollars worth of useless Canadian change in my pockets.
Why you just give them (At&t) your home address, they find the proper police dispatcher number for your area and just link it to your account? Is it THAT hard?
I think the problem is, they don't know where you're calling from. My friend Kevin can take his VOIP phone, unplug it from the wall here in Minnesota, drive to his sister's house in Alabama, plug it into her switch, and make phone calls. He does it all the time. If someone picks up his phone and dials 911 there, sending police to his home address isn't going to be helpful.
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Having completely redundant systems down to the electrical level is hard enough on the ground. In a small space station a few hundred miles in space I imagine it's next to impossible.
No, in fact, they have it, including having a back up system that not only runs completely different code but in fact is a completely different system that can be used to control attitude in a different way. The ISS already has and does everything the OP said they should do in spades, the only way his post was "informative" is that it informed us of how profoundly ignorant the OP is on the subject.
Yes, very true. Thankfully for the Democratic party, those kinds of Democrats quit the party a long time ago. They mass defected to the Republican party decades ago (sometimes directly, sometimes spending a few intervening years as "Dixiecrats"). Eventually they took it over entirely.
Sylar's ability to stop bullets just after they have been fired at him, but he's too slow to stop Hiro from running him through with a sword (despite seeing it coming).
He's clearly not too slow for that. You're not thinking it through. Guess who can see the future? Guess who knows he's going to live? Any guesses what might happen if he doesn't let Hiro stab him?
Hiro learning Sulu's koryu in a couple of hours.
Hiro already clearly knows quite a bit about swordplay before the start. The only thing Hiro really needs to learn in that time is the one thing Kaito is trying to teach him: strength. The strength to kill. The strength to cut out his own heart, if he needs to. Hiro gets it. He even says it. How did you miss it?
Peter's ability to stop himself from going critical in one episode, but not being able to do so in another.
Peter flying in one episode, but not being able to do so in another. Peter constantly see-sawing back in forth between moments of incredible displays of power and moments of complete inability to do anything at all. You act like this was somehow inconsistent, but it's consistent with Peter's character and abilities and the difficulties he's always had with them from the start.
My biggest complaint about the show is the fans who don't pay attention, then blame their inability to understand what just happened on the writers.
Sylar goes from being able to control 100 pieces of glass simultaneously, to not being able to withstand an attack from two different people.
Sylar can also see the future at that point. He knows he'll have the opportunity to drag himself into the sewers (or someone else will drag him off), and might even know what happens if he doesn't let Hiro stab him, and maybe that's certain death at the hands of some other character. The facts are that (a) Sylar can see the future, and (b) Sylar is hurt but not killed in this face-off, but very well could have been if things had gone differently. Keep these two things in mind before you start criticizing Sylar for not acting in the way you think he should have (i.e. flinging Hiro away BEFORE getting stabbed), an action that might have been suicidal on Sylar's part.
Peter can fly, but requires Nathan to carry him up and out of harm's way.
Peter can sometimes fly. Peter can also completely lose control of his powers. Um, part of the climax involves precisely this happening. Did you miss that part? If Peter was still in control of his powers, he's have no need to fly off to begin with. He's just stop the reaction and they'd all head to the bar at that point because it's Miller time. There's only any kind of emergency going at all because Peter has lost control. Complaining at this point that Peter doesn't use his powers in a particular way is incredibly obtuse.
Mohinder states in one episode that he's a geneticist, not a doctor, and then later acts as a paramedic for D.L. and others.
Bones stubbornly complains that he's not an escalator, but he still helps the woman up. Molly says the other doctors are better than him, she doesn't say OMG you have no idea what you're doing, do you? You know why not? Because he clearly does have some idea, despite any disclaimers he may have when someone tries to get him to do a job he doesn't want to do.
Incidentally, paramedics aren't doctors, either. Does that make them unqualified to be paramedics? If not, why do you think it makes Mohinder unqualified? He clearly knows more about the topic that most paramedics, even if it's not his day job.
The show isn't perfect, but the most common complains seem to come from the direction of people who just weren't paying attention. The viewers overlook things far more often than the writers, it seems.
why Peter didn't just fly away himself
Why do people ask this question? I mean, Hello people! Did you not notice that Peter has lost control?! If he was still in control of his powers, he wouldn't need to fly off, he'd just not go nuclear to begin with! Duh...
Convention says he's still alive, though. (drat)
Of course. They're being true to at least one good comic book convention. Villains get defeated, but rarely if ever do they get killed. Batman defeats the Joker many, many times...
The number I usually see quoted is two million (21 bits), but I have no idea of the source of that, and frankly I'd be astounded if the actual number doesn't vary from person to person.
I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't just deny it if the option weren't at least on the table.
If they deny false rumors, then refusal to deny anything else becomes instant confirmation. So, unless it's your intention to broadcast all your plans to everyone ahead of time, you most both refuse to confirm true rumors and refuse to deny false ones. You must do both, you can't just do one or the other, or else there's no point in doing either.
No source of energy will ever be perfectly clean. Nuclear energy is relatively clean.
They still haven't even picked up on the metric system yet.
You can have my yardstick when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! :p
Actually, let's be totally fair here. Yes, having everyone in the world use the same measurement system would make a lot of things easier. Having everyone in the world speak the same language would make things even easier -- indeed the benefits of a common language are far greater than the benefits of a common measuring system.
So, we'll make a bi-lateral treaty -- we'll accept the metric system as our official measuring standard as soon as France accepts English as its official language.
Until then, we'll just have to get by translating text and measurements between languages/systems. Thankfully, the US is being more reasonable than France in this regard -- it's a lot easier to translate units of measurement than languages.
I interpreted this as implying that both the projects and the users are fanatics. I think there are plenty of coders out there who just want to share some stuff, and plenty of users who use the product for logical, non-cult reasons as well.
Just want to share... logical reasons... sounds like the gospel of St. Torvalds to me. ;)
That aside, we go from one simple statement about user fanaticism to a rather strong claim about developers never releasing software for a particular reason. Seems like putting some pretty big words in the author's mouth that he actually never uttered.
A system designed to be operational 24/7 needs a hot spare. A system designed to be used for just a few days and be down for a few months in between uses (and the exact timing of when those few days of use occur is not important) does not. A competent engineer can recognize when a solution is applicable to a particular situation vs. another situation where it makes no sense at all whatsoever.
Claims of the article's author to the contrary, there are plenty of open source projects that are just hobby applications that weren't worth charging for, and the creators wanted to see their work survive and be useful to a larger group of people.
Um, where does the article's author make these claims? I don't see anywhere in the article any claims that this does not occur.
Agreed. Now explain to be the logic of your point. Are you invoking the false dilemma logical fallacy, or is there are reason you believe you can't have both?
IMHO, the research dollars would be better spent on developing a process to grow "natural" blood. Honestly i think that any research into the artificial growth of body parts, (like what has been done with mice and ears) is a step in the right direction. Use blood as a starting point and work up from there.
Well, these silly scientists tend to prefer evidence over speculation, so they'd say research dollars should be spent on both, and conclusions as to which approach is better should be drawn from the resulting evidence, rather than having someone arbitrarily decide ahead of time which approach is better, based on no real evidence.
Indeed. Your average eight-year old is no less intelligent than your average 28-year old. Many eight-year olds are a great deal more intelligent. They're just relatively inexperienced.
Seriously? Everyone I know thinks DS9 is the best Trek series ever made.
I don't agree, but I've definitely heard that before. A lot of people aren't really into character driven series. For that matter, a lot of people aren't into drama, and both of these series, BSG in particular, are dramas. Indeed, if there's any series that could best be described as a sci-fi soap opera, it's BSG.
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations." -- Noam Chomsky
It's the same trick -- in this case, it's access to information rather than direct decision-making power, but since wielding that power requires information, restricting access to it amounts to the same thing.
Actually not like that at all. But you are correct that it's officially the NGA, not NGIA.
Do any Canadian coins work in US machines?
Frequently not. You have to take the play money to the bank and get it exchanged for real money. :p
BTW, is it true most Americans don't see Canadian coins very frequently? I had a friend from Tennessee freak out about the fact that he had a Canadian coin in his pocket, saying he'd never even seen one before. This was during his first year after moving to Minnesota. As a kid, I could always count on being able to sift through the change in my pockets and find at least one or two Canadian coins, but it never occurred to me as a kid that that was unusual (and only being vaguely aware as a kid that Minnesota is right next to Canada and that that might make a difference).
When I got old enough to be using vending machines frequently, I found the average percentage of Canadian coins in my pocket went up significantly. I'd spend all the real money in vending machines, while the Canadian coins would accumulate until I frequently had a couple dollars worth of useless Canadian change in my pockets.
And no one thought to ask a native? "Hey, MacKenzie, does this quarter look suspicious to you?"
Why you just give them (At&t) your home address, they find the proper police dispatcher number for your area and just link it to your account? Is it THAT hard?
I think the problem is, they don't know where you're calling from. My friend Kevin can take his VOIP phone, unplug it from the wall here in Minnesota, drive to his sister's house in Alabama, plug it into her switch, and make phone calls. He does it all the time. If someone picks up his phone and dials 911 there, sending police to his home address isn't going to be helpful.
They do, but that's because people actually have to use them. Most Windows users have never even seen the Windows installer.
He's right. We should just slowly torture these guys instead...