For a lot of the 3rd world countries, you'd make more social progress keeping the infrastructure out of the corrupt hands of the thugs running those countries. Balloons at 90,000 ft would be out of reach militarily for most of these places.
A lot of places can't even get common sewers together because of corruption - internet infrastructure is a non-starter. Rulers control information to control power - they have no interest in an internet educated computer literate populace.
There are thousands of different types of certifications, so many that most are unheard of and useless.
As a matter of fact, if you send me $100, I will certify you as being a online purchasing specialist. I'll even print you a nice Word 97 template certificate of completion to hang on your basement wall!
I don't have a snazzy acronym for this certificate filled in yet; I'm trying to find descriptive words that will fit the acronym A.S.S.H.A.T.
This should certainly make your resume memorable to future hiring managers.
Yes, but scientists would like to be able to explore the other 99.99% of the moon's surface which, unfortunately, has a night that lasts for 2 weeks. They need a way to keep the lander's electronics warm through those times.
...as if millions of Beiber fans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
But really, hosting something like that in the U.S. was stupid. Who in that company didn't think that the MAFIAA wouldn't get the goverment to crush them like an ant at some point?
Did everyone forget to take their meds today? Jesus Christ, what a bunch of assholes you all are.
Read the series of threads. I asked the initial question.
Why don't we put some effort into human factors and get people to put their hands on the wheel and pay attention?
Because that is not going to work, and it is unrealistic to expect it to.
Citation please. Explain why this won't work, and why it is unrealistic, or at least more unrealistic than fail-safe automated braking systems on cars.
Credit is borrowing, pure and simple. It's the bank's money. Just like a loan, they can refuse to provide the loan if they are risk adverse to the transaction for any reason. If they think (they don't need to prove it) you're doing something illegal that may cause you to go to jail, incur fines, etc. or think you're doing anything that may affect your ability to pay off the loan, then they are justified in refusing it.
You get to use bank credit at their discretion. It is not a right, it is a contract privilege. If you don't like that, pay with cash or debit card.
They are altering the deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.
Why don't we put some effort into human factors and get people to put their hands on the wheel and pay attention?
If you're going to get fancy and throw technology at the problem, how about spending some effort to force people to shut their fucking cell phones off while driving? There has to be a way that you can brick cell phones while it is in the vehicle. Get some people on this, find a way. I see idiots fumbling on their phone and drifting off the highway or across lanes of traffic all the time. Let's fix this, OK?
Automating car response like braking is not going to work well on a snowy day with slick roads. Might be dandy in sunny, dry California, but the rest of the world actually has weather and precipitation. Having cars slamming on the brakes randomly because the computer mistook a drift of snowflakes or blowing leaves for a car bumper is going to cause more accidents, not less.
"We wanted to create an entity with... an ability to communicate with humans, albeit with some glitchiness that underscores the limitations of the current technology."
This is all nice in theory, but note that the original manufacturer gains nothing by enabling you to repair their wares. They WANT their crap to fail about 30 seconds after the warrantee expires, and they want you helpless to fix it at that point. The want you to buy their newest shiny as a replacement.
I am probably plagarizing but to anybody thinks that they have rights to repair their shiny:
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!
Yeah, Linux Mint was a pretty seamless transition from XP on my netbook as well.
I think gamers are stuck, as will be most commercial applications that aren't supported on anything but Windows, but for routine web and office applications Linux Mint is just fine.
XP EOL'd and I was considering going to Windows 7 (which was a pretty good release, until now), but just before I pulled the trigger, Windows H8 rolled out and the shit storm that followed convinced me that Microsoft left the rails and wasn't listening to its users anymore.
I feel like I just stepped aboard one of the Titanic's lifeboats just before the band started playing "Nearer my God to Thee." Whoever is still aboard the HMS MS is properly fucked.
Actually, I think most don't care, and they will happily part with all their data, public and private. They won't regret the decision until it fucks them, at which point they can't roll it back.
It seems that a lot of people in the western world are voluntarily (and involuntarily) spending more and more of their lives under the unforgiving gaze of cameras, each with a keen and heartless memory. People, particularly kids, can now grow up having seen their own birth (and some, their own conception), and every goofy, funny, embarrassing, or horrifying moment from then to the present day, all in HD quality, stored on media that may outlast their own lives. Some of it may haunt them later in life it it falls into the wrong hands.
Keep in mind that some shit your kids will do, because they are immature, will be..immature. Everybody has something that they regret doing from their childhood, and they perhaps don't want it trotted out on the media player every Christmas. They may not even want to know a copy of it exists anywhere. Some things are best left forgotten.
So please, every once in a while or oftener, shut the fucking camera off and form your own memories, vague and emotionally tinted as they may be, and allow certain stupid things to be forgotten. Otherwise, don't be surprised when your teenage kid, fed up with having every awkward growing moment committed to posterity, snaps and decides to hack your media bunker and destroy it, and then burns the house down for good measure.
No, just a reel of cable connected to a generator/motor. Shoot harpoon, reel drives generator making electricity through regenerative braking. Once the probe comes to a halt, it reverses the generator (i.e. operates it as a motor) and winches itself down to the surface.
The scales and power levels involved are pretty sketchy though - slowing a 1000 kg probe at 5 g's from 10 km/s to zero will deliver an average power of 50 GJ / 200 s ~ 245 MW. That's a lot of power to try to store or dissipate. That 1000 kg probe would need a battery with a magically high energy density and quick charging capability.
Maybe they should use a big spring, like a Slinky. For 5 gs, they would need a spring with a stretch of 2040 km and a spring constant K of 100 GN/m (a mighty stiff spring). And the bad news is that it slams the probe into the body at 10 km/s.
Didn't Wile E. Coyote do this in a cartoon? I don't recall that it ended well.
So humanities majors who trained themselves to crank out large volumes of bullshit text and might occasionally produce something of quality, because probability, will be good programmers because they can train themselves to produce large volumes of spaghetti code and occasionally produce something that compiles and runs, because Google?
No, this isn't programming. A good knowledge of math and logic and structures is vital. Do you REALLY want somebody cranking out volumes of crap code in the hopes that something of value will eventually be pooped out, or do you want a well thought out, concise, understood solution? The humanities hack probably will code for much less per hour than their mathematical counterpart, but the latter will get you to an understood solution much, much faster, thus being the more economical choice of employee in this application (middle management quarterly math aside).
Take an F-35 and an A-10, put them on the tarmac, and empty a clip from an AK-47 into each broadside from 100 yards. Start a timer and have crews commence repairs, wartime maintenance rules, first jet to lift off for the next sortie wins.
My money says the A-10 could be turned in less than 2 hours. The F-35 would probably be a write off.
For extra credit, evaluate each jet for flyability without repair (engine power, flight control authority, fuel, etc..).
The F-35 in the CAS role is like a ballerina in a heavyweight fight - everything will be great until the first punch lands, then it is all over.
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Well played sir. I owe you a cut of my $100 fees.
For a lot of the 3rd world countries, you'd make more social progress keeping the infrastructure out of the corrupt hands of the thugs running those countries. Balloons at 90,000 ft would be out of reach militarily for most of these places.
A lot of places can't even get common sewers together because of corruption - internet infrastructure is a non-starter. Rulers control information to control power - they have no interest in an internet educated computer literate populace.
There are thousands of different types of certifications, so many that most are unheard of and useless.
As a matter of fact, if you send me $100, I will certify you as being a online purchasing specialist. I'll even print you a nice Word 97 template certificate of completion to hang on your basement wall!
I don't have a snazzy acronym for this certificate filled in yet; I'm trying to find descriptive words that will fit the acronym A.S.S.H.A.T.
This should certainly make your resume memorable to future hiring managers.
There are a couple of locations on the rims of craters on the lunar poles that receive sunlight nearly all of the time.
http://www.airspacemag.com/dai...
Yes, but scientists would like to be able to explore the other 99.99% of the moon's surface which, unfortunately, has a night that lasts for 2 weeks. They need a way to keep the lander's electronics warm through those times.
The RTG is not for the moon orbiter, it's for the lander. The lander needs to be able to stay warm and survive a night that lasts for half a month.
But really, hosting something like that in the U.S. was stupid. Who in that company didn't think that the MAFIAA wouldn't get the goverment to crush them like an ant at some point?
Did everyone forget to take their meds today? Jesus Christ, what a bunch of assholes you all are. Read the series of threads. I asked the initial question.
Why don't we put some effort into human factors and get people to put their hands on the wheel and pay attention?
Because that is not going to work, and it is unrealistic to expect it to.
Citation please. Explain why this won't work, and why it is unrealistic, or at least more unrealistic than fail-safe automated braking systems on cars.
Credit is borrowing, pure and simple. It's the bank's money. Just like a loan, they can refuse to provide the loan if they are risk adverse to the transaction for any reason. If they think (they don't need to prove it) you're doing something illegal that may cause you to go to jail, incur fines, etc. or think you're doing anything that may affect your ability to pay off the loan, then they are justified in refusing it.
You get to use bank credit at their discretion. It is not a right, it is a contract privilege. If you don't like that, pay with cash or debit card.
They are altering the deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.
Is that even bigger than one square kilometre? I have no idea due to your curious continued use of medievil measurements.
It's 6.967728 × 10^32 barns
You're welcome. I'm here to help.
Why don't we put some effort into human factors and get people to put their hands on the wheel and pay attention?
If you're going to get fancy and throw technology at the problem, how about spending some effort to force people to shut their fucking cell phones off while driving? There has to be a way that you can brick cell phones while it is in the vehicle. Get some people on this, find a way. I see idiots fumbling on their phone and drifting off the highway or across lanes of traffic all the time. Let's fix this, OK?
Automating car response like braking is not going to work well on a snowy day with slick roads. Might be dandy in sunny, dry California, but the rest of the world actually has weather and precipitation. Having cars slamming on the brakes randomly because the computer mistook a drift of snowflakes or blowing leaves for a car bumper is going to cause more accidents, not less.
What happens when you turn off Javascript?
God kills a puppy in your name.
"We wanted to create an entity with ... an ability to communicate with humans, albeit with some glitchiness that underscores the limitations of the current technology."
It's not a glitch, it's a feature!
This is all nice in theory, but note that the original manufacturer gains nothing by enabling you to repair their wares. They WANT their crap to fail about 30 seconds after the warrantee expires, and they want you helpless to fix it at that point. The want you to buy their newest shiny as a replacement.
I am probably plagarizing but to anybody thinks that they have rights to repair their shiny:
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!
Yeah, Linux Mint was a pretty seamless transition from XP on my netbook as well.
I think gamers are stuck, as will be most commercial applications that aren't supported on anything but Windows, but for routine web and office applications Linux Mint is just fine.
XP EOL'd and I was considering going to Windows 7 (which was a pretty good release, until now), but just before I pulled the trigger, Windows H8 rolled out and the shit storm that followed convinced me that Microsoft left the rails and wasn't listening to its users anymore.
I feel like I just stepped aboard one of the Titanic's lifeboats just before the band started playing "Nearer my God to Thee." Whoever is still aboard the HMS MS is properly fucked.
Actually, I think most don't care, and they will happily part with all their data, public and private. They won't regret the decision until it fucks them, at which point they can't roll it back.
Using Linux Mint now - try it!
Spell check much, Slashdot editors?
Mmmm....pork and eggs.
It seems that a lot of people in the western world are voluntarily (and involuntarily) spending more and more of their lives under the unforgiving gaze of cameras, each with a keen and heartless memory. People, particularly kids, can now grow up having seen their own birth (and some, their own conception), and every goofy, funny, embarrassing, or horrifying moment from then to the present day, all in HD quality, stored on media that may outlast their own lives. Some of it may haunt them later in life it it falls into the wrong hands.
Keep in mind that some shit your kids will do, because they are immature, will be..immature. Everybody has something that they regret doing from their childhood, and they perhaps don't want it trotted out on the media player every Christmas. They may not even want to know a copy of it exists anywhere. Some things are best left forgotten.
So please, every once in a while or oftener, shut the fucking camera off and form your own memories, vague and emotionally tinted as they may be, and allow certain stupid things to be forgotten. Otherwise, don't be surprised when your teenage kid, fed up with having every awkward growing moment committed to posterity, snaps and decides to hack your media bunker and destroy it, and then burns the house down for good measure.
No, just a reel of cable connected to a generator/motor. Shoot harpoon, reel drives generator making electricity through regenerative braking. Once the probe comes to a halt, it reverses the generator (i.e. operates it as a motor) and winches itself down to the surface.
The scales and power levels involved are pretty sketchy though - slowing a 1000 kg probe at 5 g's from 10 km/s to zero will deliver an average power of 50 GJ / 200 s ~ 245 MW. That's a lot of power to try to store or dissipate. That 1000 kg probe would need a battery with a magically high energy density and quick charging capability.
Maybe they should use a big spring, like a Slinky. For 5 gs, they would need a spring with a stretch of 2040 km and a spring constant K of 100 GN/m (a mighty stiff spring). And the bad news is that it slams the probe into the body at 10 km/s.
Didn't Wile E. Coyote do this in a cartoon? I don't recall that it ended well.
So humanities majors who trained themselves to crank out large volumes of bullshit text and might occasionally produce something of quality, because probability, will be good programmers because they can train themselves to produce large volumes of spaghetti code and occasionally produce something that compiles and runs, because Google?
No, this isn't programming. A good knowledge of math and logic and structures is vital. Do you REALLY want somebody cranking out volumes of crap code in the hopes that something of value will eventually be pooped out, or do you want a well thought out, concise, understood solution? The humanities hack probably will code for much less per hour than their mathematical counterpart, but the latter will get you to an understood solution much, much faster, thus being the more economical choice of employee in this application (middle management quarterly math aside).
Take an F-35 and an A-10, put them on the tarmac, and empty a clip from an AK-47 into each broadside from 100 yards. Start a timer and have crews commence repairs, wartime maintenance rules, first jet to lift off for the next sortie wins.
My money says the A-10 could be turned in less than 2 hours. The F-35 would probably be a write off.
For extra credit, evaluate each jet for flyability without repair (engine power, flight control authority, fuel, etc..).
The F-35 in the CAS role is like a ballerina in a heavyweight fight - everything will be great until the first punch lands, then it is all over.
Just install Linux.
You're welcome.
You forgot "and get iff my lawn!"
You're not on my lawn because my older car is on my lawn, on blocks.
Now get off my car!