"Milestone" is hyperbole because of those previous achievements? Do you even know what "milestone" means? If you do, you know there's more than one on the road. They occur every mile, in fact. Everything you listed on that timeline is a milestone... anything you would list on such a timeline is.
I suspect neither thinks the Chinese will want to rule the world. There's precious little reason to think so. They've passed on all their previous opportunities...
I see no reason to even think they would. Gravitation is dependent upon mass of and distance between objects.
That's not entirely accurate, but regardless, you're just (mis)stating current theory. Which we have good reason to believe is, at the very least, incomplete.
Particles have the same mass as their anti-particle equivalents.
This research sounds like a massive waste of money.
Assuming you prefer philosophy, yes. However, scientists believe in actually experimentally verifying our assumptions, rather than just assuming and never bothering to check.
Yeah... true... but there are lots of people who do uncomfortable and even positively painful things just so that they will have done them. Sometimes the discomfort is the whole point. Spiritual experience or something... a lot of people would view a week in space as such.
Uh, your quote does nothing to support your contention. If half the energy to get to the kitchen is spent getting up out of my chair, this does not mean standing up is a huge energy expense in absolute terms, just a large relative percentage. It boggles my mind that you thought this quote about how large of a percentage of the total energy cost of going to Mars anywhere in space is spent getting to orbit supported the idea that it's expensive. It is expensive, but your quote isn't relevant to the point. As Heinlein noted, get to orbit and you're halfway to anywhere.
We spent, what, 90 million making the movie Waterworld? We can afford to do that, but we can't afford to make a tourist flight for 200K? You're reasoning is positively bizarre... this is not only something humankind can afford, it's something individual humans can afford, even ones who aren't millionaires.
In a world of climate change and rising temperatures I can't help but wonder: What is the carbon/energy footprint of a single ticket? To speak nothing of the total impact if this "business"?
It's a miniscule fraction of the total impact of the entertainment business. You should be worrying about shutting down Hollywood long before you start looking at such small-scale business as this.
This has far less to do with the enjoyment of the person who takes the journey than in the perceived interest of readers. It's easy to see why people would buy a book written by a space pioneer. It's hard to see why people would buy a book written by a space tourist. "Wee! I had a great time!", even if true, becomes a tiresome read at book-length.
Yeah, I was confused by that bit of the summary -- it implies that it's expensive to deorbit something. Getting something up is expensive. Getting something down is (relatively) cheap.
You failed to see the irony... Yep, Javascript is a programming language and you can do many things with it. However, it is a language so defective, so bad, so WRONG that is possible to question if it is really a programming language.
This question occurs for every real programming language. The only languages no one ever says this about, no one ever uses (outside of the Ivory Tower)...
I agree, one could argue that of it requires a separate program to run it, rather than being compiled to a program, it could be called something else. Though personally, I believe that of It's Turing complete it is a programming language. The language remains the same whether compiled or interpreted, so I'd think that's a silly distinction to classify a language (additionally, a language can have a compiler or interpreter built, or even exist without either (though it wouldn't be so useful in the last case).
Indeed. If "requiring a separate program to run it" was the qualifier for exclusion, the only thing a programming language could write is operating systems...
So basically what you're saying is that 99% of corporate are done using a system designed initially as a hobby project by an intern at Sun?
99% of what we use and do today is the result of accidental discoveries. "Designed as a hobby project" is a more deliberate, intentional genesis. The key word here is "initially". The state of something today is not the same as its initial discovery or invention. "Designed by an intern" shows a more informed and qualified genesis than "resulted from an accident", but that doesn't necessarily make it better today.
"Anonymous" claims to be acting against Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. Did they consult with any Palestinians about this attack? Or do they share the official Israeli point of view, that Palestinians are not worthy of their own point of view?
You expected an accurate headline, here? At least the headline isn't flat-out contradicted by the summary. This is pretty good for Slashdot standards...:p
In the absence of labor unions, the kind of power you like to pretend employees have doesn't really exist. Most people are only as "foolish" as they need to be to not starve.
If the company absolutely positively has to get ahold of you when a problem occurs, they're severely fucked up. In a responsibly run company, there are no essential employees. Management has completely and utterly failed to do it's job if a particular person is required. Forget about what happens if they don't answer their pager, what happens if they get run over by a bus?
If they need someone to be available 24/7, they need to hire multiple people who work in shifts. If they can't do that, well, that's their decision, but it's their problem, not the poor admin who's trying to get some sleep. He or she is not responsible for the fact that the company only hired one person when they needed more, and absolutely positively should not be indulging the company in supporting highly unethical and irresponsible management.
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dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/usbdevice
Not exactly rocket science. Actually it's even simpler than writing it to a cdr.
I love linux install instructions that assume you already have linux installed. xD
"Milestone" is hyperbole because of those previous achievements? Do you even know what "milestone" means? If you do, you know there's more than one on the road. They occur every mile, in fact. Everything you listed on that timeline is a milestone... anything you would list on such a timeline is.
I suspect neither thinks the Chinese will want to rule the world. There's precious little reason to think so. They've passed on all their previous opportunities...
I see no reason to even think they would. Gravitation is dependent upon mass of and distance between objects.
That's not entirely accurate, but regardless, you're just (mis)stating current theory. Which we have good reason to believe is, at the very least, incomplete.
Particles have the same mass as their anti-particle equivalents.
This research sounds like a massive waste of money.
Assuming you prefer philosophy, yes. However, scientists believe in actually experimentally verifying our assumptions, rather than just assuming and never bothering to check.
No, that doesn't mean it has negative mass. If antimatter does fall up, antimatter with negative mass would fall down.
Yeah... true... but there are lots of people who do uncomfortable and even positively painful things just so that they will have done them. Sometimes the discomfort is the whole point. Spiritual experience or something... a lot of people would view a week in space as such.
Uh, your quote does nothing to support your contention. If half the energy to get to the kitchen is spent getting up out of my chair, this does not mean standing up is a huge energy expense in absolute terms, just a large relative percentage. It boggles my mind that you thought this quote about how large of a percentage of the total energy cost of going to Mars anywhere in space is spent getting to orbit supported the idea that it's expensive. It is expensive, but your quote isn't relevant to the point. As Heinlein noted, get to orbit and you're halfway to anywhere.
We spent, what, 90 million making the movie Waterworld? We can afford to do that, but we can't afford to make a tourist flight for 200K? You're reasoning is positively bizarre... this is not only something humankind can afford, it's something individual humans can afford, even ones who aren't millionaires.
In a world of climate change and rising temperatures I can't help but wonder: What is the carbon/energy footprint of a single ticket? To speak nothing of the total impact if this "business"?
It's a miniscule fraction of the total impact of the entertainment business. You should be worrying about shutting down Hollywood long before you start looking at such small-scale business as this.
This has far less to do with the enjoyment of the person who takes the journey than in the perceived interest of readers. It's easy to see why people would buy a book written by a space pioneer. It's hard to see why people would buy a book written by a space tourist. "Wee! I had a great time!", even if true, becomes a tiresome read at book-length.
Not so much a decision, just a consequence of the nature of institutional memory when you fail to maintain the institutions.
Yeah, I was confused by that bit of the summary -- it implies that it's expensive to deorbit something. Getting something up is expensive. Getting something down is (relatively) cheap.
That's nothing. Sell one PLEX and you can keep paying that for a couple years... :p
You failed to see the irony... Yep, Javascript is a programming language and you can do many things with it. However, it is a language so defective, so bad, so WRONG that is possible to question if it is really a programming language.
This question occurs for every real programming language. The only languages no one ever says this about, no one ever uses (outside of the Ivory Tower)...
I agree, one could argue that of it requires a separate program to run it, rather than being compiled to a program, it could be called something else. Though personally, I believe that of It's Turing complete it is a programming language. The language remains the same whether compiled or interpreted, so I'd think that's a silly distinction to classify a language (additionally, a language can have a compiler or interpreter built, or even exist without either (though it wouldn't be so useful in the last case).
Indeed. If "requiring a separate program to run it" was the qualifier for exclusion, the only thing a programming language could write is operating systems...
Pointing out that something is X does not rebut the point that it is Y unless X and Y are mutually exclusive.
You can also prevent indexing with robots.txt. Your point?
DLC
Well, the Navy is also working on railguns. Drones + hybrids would suggest we're going Gallente...
So basically what you're saying is that 99% of corporate are done using a system designed initially as a hobby project by an intern at Sun?
99% of what we use and do today is the result of accidental discoveries. "Designed as a hobby project" is a more deliberate, intentional genesis. The key word here is "initially". The state of something today is not the same as its initial discovery or invention. "Designed by an intern" shows a more informed and qualified genesis than "resulted from an accident", but that doesn't necessarily make it better today.
"Anonymous" claims to be acting against Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. Did they consult with any Palestinians about this attack? Or do they share the official Israeli point of view, that Palestinians are not worthy of their own point of view?
I'm sure the answer to both questions is, "No."
You expected an accurate headline, here? At least the headline isn't flat-out contradicted by the summary. This is pretty good for Slashdot standards... :p
At least on the ocean floor they don't have to worry about angry bums...
Sure, why not? After all, fish invented tasers long before we did, why not other electric toys?
In the absence of labor unions, the kind of power you like to pretend employees have doesn't really exist. Most people are only as "foolish" as they need to be to not starve.
If the company absolutely positively has to get ahold of you when a problem occurs, they're severely fucked up. In a responsibly run company, there are no essential employees. Management has completely and utterly failed to do it's job if a particular person is required. Forget about what happens if they don't answer their pager, what happens if they get run over by a bus?
If they need someone to be available 24/7, they need to hire multiple people who work in shifts. If they can't do that, well, that's their decision, but it's their problem, not the poor admin who's trying to get some sleep. He or she is not responsible for the fact that the company only hired one person when they needed more, and absolutely positively should not be indulging the company in supporting highly unethical and irresponsible management.