Okay so fine him for making a mess or making loud noise at night. Don't ban building and working on airplanes at home. You know sort of like not banning P2P just because some people us it to pirate movies.
We still have model rockets. Estes is still in business. Sure the kits are dumb downed but very few kids will take the time to build a complex model these days. I wonder how few kids these days even build balsa models. It is just to easy to buy FSX or an airhog. Not only that but do you know how hard it is to find a field these days? Oh well. But then when I was a kid I had to live with the three books on airplanes or rockets they my local library had.
The EAA had the same fight about home builders. For those that don't know the EAA represnts people that build their own airplanes or restore old ones. At least one town made it illegal. The EAA usually fights such things and often wins. Too bad there isn't an EAA for Chemistry. BTW I am a member of the EAA:)
A backup you have never restored isn't a backup. You have no idea how many times I have seen people make backups but never test them until they need them.
What is worse is so many people are using external HDs as their ownly backup! Well if you drop it....
Dude the Olympic ideal died a long time ago. It is all about who will make millions selling sneakers. Sorry but that is what it has turned into. And in this case it is also to show off to the world that China is a new wealthy world power. So yes I feel that it is totally legit to bring up China's political issues. Trust me if it was in the US and people wanted to protest by blocking the marathon their would be people on Slashdot screaming about Freedom of Speech. As much as I like the Olympics coming to the US maybe they should just make it always in Athens. Or maybe they should pick the poorest country with a good history of Human rights and then all the rich nations chip in to build the infrastructure and give that nation a shot in the arm. Maybe that would bring back the spirit.
Yes it was pre-1950 but there was never a democratic government in Tibet. If China pulled out tomorrow what would happen in Tibet? One has to wonder. I remember when Germany was reunified. At first there was great joy and then everybody stopped and looked and thought... Good grief now what do we do! It was a huge mess. Imagine the same thing but without West Germany to help! West Germany had a common heritage with East Germany to say the least and had decades of democratic government, freedom, economic reform, and economic growth. That was a best case scenario and it was still a long and complicated process.
Drop in some coins from the 1940s as well. Just to really and make sure that there are no manufacturing date on the stuff as well. On and translate the manuals into Latin and put it on stone tablets.
In the industry I am in there is a lot of hardware devices that you must use and some of those use USB. I have some users that want to use a Mac and run our Windows software in a VM and use those devices.
I admit that it is rare but there are people that use industry specific hardware and the newer stuff uses USB.
The problem isn't so much that you have to trust your data to a third party. The problem is lack of regulation and standards for the the "cloud". We trust our money to third parties "banks" and that works pretty well. A professionally run company should do as good of a job securing your data as bank does securing your money. This company is a good example of a really bad company. It seems they took less care in migrating their customers data than my company did in migrating our customers website accounts.
Not really. 1. China was demonstrating that they had a working and deployed anti-satellite weapon system. 2. The satellite was destroyed in a high active orbit creating a huge amount of very dangerous space junk. That will remain in orbit for many years.
The US modified an anti-ballistic missile system to take out a satellite that was in a decaying orbit. Just a few weeks after the impact the debris reentered the atmosphere and where no longer a threat. After the shoot down the modifications where publicly removed from the weapon system.
There is a huge difference in the end result as far as the effect on the entire planet.
"he missile used would surely have a mechanism to self-destruct in the event of a miss, and even if it didn't, I don't see how its falling could be any more dangerous than the hydrazine." It probably did but if it did miss then it would have fallen into the ocean. That is one of the reasons that they took the shot out in the middle of the ocean.
If that is who authored the story then it would carry more weight with me. But the name was withheld. If the related stories link is valid. But that could be an error. But until a name is assigned and or there is a lot more math to back it up I have give more credit to a known expert than a maybe expert.
I for one will admit to not being an expert on hypersonic aerodynamic heating and reentry dynamics but the AC is only included on bit of math. "32 Megajoules per kilogram. That's orbital energy, which is how much energy has to be removed by ablation or otherwise dissipated for the hydrazine tank to enter the atmosphere and hit the ground undamaged." This would hold true of the fuel tank was reentering by it's self. But that fuel tank was inside a rather large satellite. Now you have to take in account all the energy of that would be absorbed by destroying the rest of the satellite around the fuel tank. Then of course there is the simple fact that no transfer of energy is 100% efficient. Not all 32 MJ per KG will be transferred as heat into the fuel tank. Some of it will be transferred into the atmosphere and some of it will be radiated away from the tank as it reenters. So the AC post is at best a very simple High School physics look at the problem. It assumes a 100% energy transfer to the fuel tank and totally ignores the rest of the structure surrounding the fuel tank. So should I put more value in the qualified author in a subject that I have only a limited knowledge of or some AC on Slashdot's overly simplistic criticism? Frankly after seeing what survived breakup of Columbia I think that the AC is probably just as I said. Some Bozo on Slashdot.
What I find so amusing is that people on Slashdot take one look at the qualifications of the author or the IEEE spectrum article which is. "James Oberg is a veteran NASA mission-control engineer living in Houston. He is now a news consultant, lecturer, author, and occasional tour guide of Russian space centers." Then decide some bozo posting on Slashdot is more creditable.
I guess you missed the part where I specifically said that if you did use a lot of CAD then you really would want a PC. And yes I have done 3D work. That is why I excluded CAD work. On a happy note I am pretty sure Pro-E is available for Linux.
Yes I do agree with your. GOTO was and is good for exception handling. I was more or less going for a joke since I was taught that Goto was the root of all evil back in High School/College many years ago. Just because it is evil doesn't mean that I don't use it:)
I do agree the problem is the lack of outside help. Maybe there needs to be a TuxSquad that you pay a stupid amount of money to install a printer.
Really that is the key. If you are they type of person that thinks the geeksquad is a rip off then Linux will probably work just fine for you. If you have them on speed dial then you will have problems. And there are lot of people that take in PCs for tune ups!
That is really going to depend. You can get Office for the mac, you can get Quickbooks for the Mac.
Now if drafting is a big part of your business then yes you will probably need a PC for CAD but in most other cases you could just us VMWare Fusion, VirtuaPC, or Parallels and run that one or two windows only programs on your PC. As far as Microsoft lowering the entry point to learn computing. Well I would have to say thanks to Commodore for that one. Then I would have to give a lot of thanks to Borland, $49 for a real compiler and IDE made programing a lot more accessible to the masses. I don't hate Microsoft as much as most people but I hate the Single vendor trap they have worked hard to create.
Oh on a bright note now that Quickbooks is available on line it is now a lot easier to use Linux to run a small business.
Actually his post proves my point. "Imagine that products are mountains. To build a product, you will need to climb that mountain. Some mountains have a big pot of gold at the top, and some do not. In order to make money, you will need to pick the right mountain and then successfully climb to the top and gather up the gold."
At best this person thinks they see a mountain. Now they need to do the hard work and start climbing it.
So that blog supports what I have to say. I said ideas are cheap not worthless. But you need a lot more than just an idea.
I do use Linux. Okay your HP works great what about a lexmark? What about a that brand new HP printer. Actually HPs do tend to work but you bet the idea. An Epson is also a good bet. But then I installed Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad and the wifi failed to work! What was worse is that it worked with an earlier version of Ubuntu! Well After much searching I found a firmware update that fixed it after much searching on the internet. But the key thing with Linux is when you buy a new printer and it doesn't work you have NOBODY to call. That is the problem for your average person. GeekSquad will just format your drive and install Windows for you. Doesn't bother me but the average person is out of luck.
Really ideas are a dime a dozen. Get a good bit demo code done. Shop it around to some venture capitalists and see what happens. As to protection. NDAs are about it but if you are not prepared to sue then they are just paper. The old saying is "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" Have an idea about better mousetrap well that is nice.
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There are already laws that cover noise. There are also laws that cover junk in your yard.
So yea just use those.
Okay so fine him for making a mess or making loud noise at night.
Don't ban building and working on airplanes at home.
You know sort of like not banning P2P just because some people us it to pirate movies.
We still have model rockets.
Estes is still in business. Sure the kits are dumb downed but very few kids will take the time to build a complex model these days. I wonder how few kids these days even build balsa models.
It is just to easy to buy FSX or an airhog.
Not only that but do you know how hard it is to find a field these days?
Oh well. But then when I was a kid I had to live with the three books on airplanes or rockets they my local library had.
The EAA had the same fight about home builders. :)
For those that don't know the EAA represnts people that build their own airplanes or restore old ones. At least one town made it illegal. The EAA usually fights such things and often wins.
Too bad there isn't an EAA for Chemistry.
BTW I am a member of the EAA
A backup you have never restored isn't a backup.
You have no idea how many times I have seen people make backups but never test them until they need them.
What is worse is so many people are using external HDs as their ownly backup!
Well if you drop it....
Dude the Olympic ideal died a long time ago. It is all about who will make millions selling sneakers.
Sorry but that is what it has turned into.
And in this case it is also to show off to the world that China is a new wealthy world power. So yes I feel that it is totally legit to bring up China's political issues.
Trust me if it was in the US and people wanted to protest by blocking the marathon their would be people on Slashdot screaming about Freedom of Speech.
As much as I like the Olympics coming to the US maybe they should just make it always in Athens.
Or maybe they should pick the poorest country with a good history of Human rights and then all the rich nations chip in to build the infrastructure and give that nation a shot in the arm.
Maybe that would bring back the spirit.
Yes it was pre-1950 but there was never a democratic government in Tibet. If China pulled out tomorrow what would happen in Tibet? One has to wonder. I remember when Germany was reunified. At first there was great joy and then everybody stopped and looked and thought... Good grief now what do we do! It was a huge mess. Imagine the same thing but without West Germany to help!
West Germany had a common heritage with East Germany to say the least and had decades of democratic government, freedom, economic reform, and economic growth. That was a best case scenario and it was still a long and complicated process.
Drop in some coins from the 1940s as well. Just to really and make sure that there are no manufacturing date on the stuff as well.
On and translate the manuals into Latin and put it on stone tablets.
In the industry I am in there is a lot of hardware devices that you must use and some of those use USB.
I have some users that want to use a Mac and run our Windows software in a VM and use those devices.
I admit that it is rare but there are people that use industry specific hardware and the newer stuff uses USB.
The problem isn't so much that you have to trust your data to a third party. The problem is lack of regulation and standards for the the "cloud".
We trust our money to third parties "banks" and that works pretty well.
A professionally run company should do as good of a job securing your data as bank does securing your money.
This company is a good example of a really bad company. It seems they took less care in migrating their customers data than my company did in migrating our customers website accounts.
Not at all I am the Ubergeek. I admitted to not being an expert yet I still comment on the subject.
My card is intact to say the least.
Heck this might earn me an upgrade the Unobtainum Geek card.
Not really.
1. China was demonstrating that they had a working and deployed anti-satellite weapon system.
2. The satellite was destroyed in a high active orbit creating a huge amount of very dangerous space junk. That will remain in orbit for many years.
The US modified an anti-ballistic missile system to take out a satellite that was in a decaying orbit. Just a few weeks after the impact the debris reentered the atmosphere and where no longer a threat. After the shoot down the modifications where publicly removed from the weapon system.
There is a huge difference in the end result as far as the effect on the entire planet.
"he missile used would surely have a mechanism to self-destruct in the event of a miss, and even if it didn't, I don't see how its falling could be any more dangerous than the hydrazine."
It probably did but if it did miss then it would have fallen into the ocean. That is one of the reasons that they took the shot out in the middle of the ocean.
If that is who authored the story then it would carry more weight with me. But the name was withheld.
If the related stories link is valid. But that could be an error.
But until a name is assigned and or there is a lot more math to back it up I have give more credit to a known expert than a maybe expert.
I for one will admit to not being an expert on hypersonic aerodynamic heating and reentry dynamics but the AC is only included on bit of math.
"32 Megajoules per kilogram. That's orbital energy, which is how much energy has to be removed by ablation or otherwise dissipated for the hydrazine tank to enter the atmosphere and hit the ground undamaged."
This would hold true of the fuel tank was reentering by it's self.
But that fuel tank was inside a rather large satellite. Now you have to take in account all the energy of that would be absorbed by destroying the rest of the satellite around the fuel tank. Then of course there is the simple fact that no transfer of energy is 100% efficient. Not all 32 MJ per KG will be transferred as heat into the fuel tank. Some of it will be transferred into the atmosphere and some of it will be radiated away from the tank as it reenters.
So the AC post is at best a very simple High School physics look at the problem. It assumes a 100% energy transfer to the fuel tank and totally ignores the rest of the structure surrounding the fuel tank. So should I put more value in the qualified author in a subject that I have only a limited knowledge of or some AC on Slashdot's overly simplistic criticism? Frankly after seeing what survived breakup of Columbia I think that the AC is probably just as I said. Some Bozo on Slashdot.
What I find so amusing is that people on Slashdot take one look at the qualifications of the author or the IEEE spectrum article which is.
"James Oberg is a veteran NASA mission-control engineer living in Houston. He is now a news consultant, lecturer, author, and occasional tour guide of Russian space centers."
Then decide some bozo posting on Slashdot is more creditable.
I guess you missed the part where I specifically said that if you did use a lot of CAD then you really would want a PC.
And yes I have done 3D work. That is why I excluded CAD work. On a happy note I am pretty sure Pro-E is available for Linux.
Yes I do agree with your. GOTO was and is good for exception handling. I was more or less going for a joke since I was taught that Goto was the root of all evil back in High School/College many years ago. :)
Just because it is evil doesn't mean that I don't use it
Goto is evil and I am not going to cave in on that.
I do agree the problem is the lack of outside help.
Maybe there needs to be a TuxSquad that you pay a stupid amount of money to install a printer.
Really that is the key. If you are they type of person that thinks the geeksquad is a rip off then Linux will probably work just fine for you.
If you have them on speed dial then you will have problems.
And there are lot of people that take in PCs for tune ups!
That is really going to depend.
You can get Office for the mac, you can get Quickbooks for the Mac.
Now if drafting is a big part of your business then yes you will probably need a PC for CAD but in most other cases you could just us VMWare Fusion, VirtuaPC, or Parallels and run that one or two windows only programs on your PC.
As far as Microsoft lowering the entry point to learn computing. Well I would have to say thanks to Commodore for that one. Then I would have to give a lot of thanks to Borland, $49 for a real compiler and IDE made programing a lot more accessible to the masses.
I don't hate Microsoft as much as most people but I hate the Single vendor trap they have worked hard to create.
Oh on a bright note now that Quickbooks is available on line it is now a lot easier to use Linux to run a small business.
Actually his post proves my point.
"Imagine that products are mountains. To build a product, you will need to climb that mountain. Some mountains have a big pot of gold at the top, and some do not. In order to make money, you will need to pick the right mountain and then successfully climb to the top and gather up the gold."
At best this person thinks they see a mountain. Now they need to do the hard work and start climbing it.
So that blog supports what I have to say.
I said ideas are cheap not worthless. But you need a lot more than just an idea.
All I know is that Pratt test fires every Centaur and they have a very big vacuum rig to do it with.
I do use Linux. Okay your HP works great what about a lexmark? What about a that brand new HP printer.
Actually HPs do tend to work but you bet the idea. An Epson is also a good bet.
But then I installed Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad and the wifi failed to work! What was worse is that it worked with an earlier version of Ubuntu!
Well After much searching I found a firmware update that fixed it after much searching on the internet.
But the key thing with Linux is when you buy a new printer and it doesn't work you have NOBODY to call.
That is the problem for your average person. GeekSquad will just format your drive and install Windows for you.
Doesn't bother me but the average person is out of luck.
Really ideas are a dime a dozen. Get a good bit demo code done. Shop it around to some venture capitalists and see what happens.
As to protection. NDAs are about it but if you are not prepared to sue then they are just paper.
The old saying is "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"
Have an idea about better mousetrap well that is nice.