Well not on/., but he was pushing his crap (showing the exact same "prototypes") in magazines like Popular Science and shows like Beyond 2000 back into the 80's.
Yeah but when you buy name brand instead of Walmart, you know your shoes were made by eight year olds, not five year olds. My morals are worth another $30.
Actually, yeah. I know a lot of people (myself included) who have not bought a new DVD in a year -- I'm not going to rebuy my collection, and its silly at this point to buy them in SD.
The format war needs to end, either through surrender (unlikely) or through dual-format players becoming available.
This sort of behavior has been the standard operating procedure for our government for seventy years, unfortunately.
I was recently reading a couple of books on the history of the atomic weapons program in the US, particularly around the spy cases brought against a bunch of people involved.
A shocking number of known Soviet spies were unable to be tried because of the massive amount of illegal wiretapping that had been done against US citizens during that time. It wasn't until decades later that FOIA releases started to show just how many cases were quietly dropped to avoid it becoming public about the illegal surveillance and wiretapping.
The biggest difference now is via legal "loopholes" like Guantanamo Bay, and secret courts, people can be imprisoned without a trial or with a secret trial where the government can actually use the illegal wiretaps as evidence.
In my opinion, they're going after the wrong thing here. What do they hope to do? Stop the wiretaps? It'll *never* happen. What needs to be targeted is the illegal courts that allow them to make use of the illegal wiretaps.
If you think that hundreds of engineers sitting down and designing it is how the Shuttle came into existance in the early 70's, you should go read up on some history of NASA.
The shuttle design (and the program) is one set of bad decisions after another made for corporate welfare and political reasons shoehorned through Congress based on a huge number of known lies (like the shuttle-launch-a-week they claimed they'd have). It was continued as a way of getting to the Space Station, even though the construction of it was delayed 15 years.
There were dramatically better designs considered during the 70s that would've been cheaper and more reliable, but wouldn't impact various Senator's home states as much. There were bad decisions made even after the Shuttle was picked (using aluminum skin not titanium, which is why the heat shield is needed anyway).
Seriously. Read some histories of the shuttle program. You'll learn why it happened and not the Apollo-based Mars mission, why the Saturn V (and future solid fuel boosted versions) were dropped in favor of a much more expensive per pound STS.
NASA has smart engineers. Thats why the design for the shuttle's replacement looks nothing like the shuttle. Its also a big reason why the Buran was killed in the USSR, and the Soviets/Russians dominated manned space flight for 25 years.
But his overall point is quite correct -- every single shuttle mission came back with missing and damaged tiles.
Most of the shuttle is not under the same level of thermal load as the front edges of the wings during re-entry. Columbia got unlucky that the damage was at the worst possible spot.
Its a bad design, but the whole shuttle is an awful design. Most of the time it works, though.
IMO, this is a reaction to Columbia and a dramatically reduced interest in the shuttle program. For ten years launches barely got reported. Its nice (for the continuance of the shuttle program) for people to be talking about it.
Plus, for those who haven't seen a shuttle tile up close, they're not very big. Thats not a six inch gash in there.
I mean seriously, this didn't even make the local news.
Anyone want to post a front-page story about the plastic Dasani water bottle I found in my front lawn this morning? I feel it was tossed there from a passing car. My girlfriend thinks it was blown there from across the street. I told her people litter all the time on the street in front of our house, so they probably just tossed it on the front lawn.
FWIW, there was no fire in my house when Verizon installed my ONT. Me, Verizon and the town all agree on that.
Having restored a number of vehicles from that era, I can quite assure you that the people who assembled them has NOTHING to do with that. Lower quality standards, thicker gauge metal, near non-existant environmental standards, etc all meant that the cars lasted longer and could tolerate wear and greater assembly variance than a modern car.
Cars today are rusting out because the better quality paints can't be used because of environmental regulations. Steel is thinner because gas is more expensive and weight matters. Engines are dramatically more complex and require much greater assembly precision and tolerate wear much less.
Also, strip the paint off that "1967 American muscle car" and see how much original bodywork is still there and how much is rust free.
Yeah because unions do so much to protect quality.
*rolls eyes*
Unions protect the people at the low end at the expense of the people at the high end. There's no reason to perform well because you won't be payed more for it. In fact, because its so hard to fire you, you barely have to perform at all.
But, to be fair, you then need to add in the fact that most states charge you 2-3x more in property taxes or registration taxes if you run electric because they do not get the gas taxes to maintain roads.
Also add in the eventual expense of electricity as demand grows. Much of the US is at peak demand for large chunks of the year. There is not excess capacity on the grid for a large number of people to be charging electric cars. Electricity prices will skyrocket with demand.
Electric cars are not a magic bullet. They shift pollution except those people lucky enough to get their power from a nuclear source or even more rarely from wind, and are economically viable because of tax incentives that will go away with higher usage and an early adopter situation where it hasn't impacted market demand for electricity yet. Its like the people making bio-diesel in their houses and saying how much cheaper it is -- while illegally driving a car running untaxed fuel on public roads. The math works when you leave out half of the variables.
Electric cars are the future, I believe. But its misleading to suggest they are going to be cheaper to drive, especially in places that are as cheap as the US is right now.
Actually, the majority of people on a police force are there to watch for crimes happening, not solving crimes or arresting those who committed them. Thats what beat cops, traffic cops, etc are there to do.
While I agree this *should* be unconstitutional and illegal, it is in fact neither. The solution isn't the ACLU, its getting new laws passed at the Federal level.
Of course, there is precisely zero chance of that happening.
I'm not sure the Saturn V would make a nice ICBM. Unless you're launching a payload of nukes, 40 nuclear engineers and a Grayhound Bus carrying them all, it may be a bit overkill.
Dude, seriously. Do you not understand what the original poster was saying?
They're not blinded by some eye-burning laser or something, the whole joke was that they were running across the border with their eyes closed so they couldn't be zapped by this thing.
This isn't a joke about blinding people, its not a joke about injuring people or burning their eyes out. Its a joke about a bunch of people running around committing a felony with their eyes closed.
And if you've never seen a bugs bunny cartoon with rake gags, then perhaps the entire thing from the beginning to the end went over your head.
I'm sorry, thats an attempt to jump on the virtualization bandwagon. Use that word these days, people throw money at you.
Application isolation is not virtualization, its nothing more than shimming the application with band aid APIs that fix deficiencies in the original APIs. Calling it virtualization is a marketing and VC-focused strategy, it has nothing to do with the technology.
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Orion was never a NASA project.
Its actually been since the 80's.
/., but he was pushing his crap (showing the exact same "prototypes") in magazines like Popular Science and shows like Beyond 2000 back into the 80's.
Well not on
Yeah but when you buy name brand instead of Walmart, you know your shoes were made by eight year olds, not five year olds. My morals are worth another $30.
I suspect its not -- deep focus needs a lot of light and doesn't work well when moving.
I'd bet this is multiple image sensors at the end of a split light path focused at two or more planes, with some hefty math to composite them.
Remember these guys get boners for new camera tech.
This isn't anything new... A lot of scientists at NASA thought the same thing 30 years ago.
When one experiment says yes, and one says no and you can't run them again there will be a lot of debate about what it all means.
Actually, yeah. I know a lot of people (myself included) who have not bought a new DVD in a year -- I'm not going to rebuy my collection, and its silly at this point to buy them in SD.
The format war needs to end, either through surrender (unlikely) or through dual-format players becoming available.
This sort of behavior has been the standard operating procedure for our government for seventy years, unfortunately.
I was recently reading a couple of books on the history of the atomic weapons program in the US, particularly around the spy cases brought against a bunch of people involved.
A shocking number of known Soviet spies were unable to be tried because of the massive amount of illegal wiretapping that had been done against US citizens during that time. It wasn't until decades later that FOIA releases started to show just how many cases were quietly dropped to avoid it becoming public about the illegal surveillance and wiretapping.
The biggest difference now is via legal "loopholes" like Guantanamo Bay, and secret courts, people can be imprisoned without a trial or with a secret trial where the government can actually use the illegal wiretaps as evidence.
In my opinion, they're going after the wrong thing here. What do they hope to do? Stop the wiretaps? It'll *never* happen. What needs to be targeted is the illegal courts that allow them to make use of the illegal wiretaps.
Now I COULD be wrong, but... I suspect that says more about you than the quality of True Lies.
I'm just sayin'.
Probably better than telling her that her pussy smells like burnt hair, I suppose.
If you think that hundreds of engineers sitting down and designing it is how the Shuttle came into existance in the early 70's, you should go read up on some history of NASA.
The shuttle design (and the program) is one set of bad decisions after another made for corporate welfare and political reasons shoehorned through Congress based on a huge number of known lies (like the shuttle-launch-a-week they claimed they'd have). It was continued as a way of getting to the Space Station, even though the construction of it was delayed 15 years.
There were dramatically better designs considered during the 70s that would've been cheaper and more reliable, but wouldn't impact various Senator's home states as much. There were bad decisions made even after the Shuttle was picked (using aluminum skin not titanium, which is why the heat shield is needed anyway).
Seriously. Read some histories of the shuttle program. You'll learn why it happened and not the Apollo-based Mars mission, why the Saturn V (and future solid fuel boosted versions) were dropped in favor of a much more expensive per pound STS.
NASA has smart engineers. Thats why the design for the shuttle's replacement looks nothing like the shuttle. Its also a big reason why the Buran was killed in the USSR, and the Soviets/Russians dominated manned space flight for 25 years.
But his overall point is quite correct -- every single shuttle mission came back with missing and damaged tiles.
Most of the shuttle is not under the same level of thermal load as the front edges of the wings during re-entry. Columbia got unlucky that the damage was at the worst possible spot.
Its a bad design, but the whole shuttle is an awful design. Most of the time it works, though.
IMO, this is a reaction to Columbia and a dramatically reduced interest in the shuttle program. For ten years launches barely got reported. Its nice (for the continuance of the shuttle program) for people to be talking about it.
Plus, for those who haven't seen a shuttle tile up close, they're not very big. Thats not a six inch gash in there.
"Who cares?"
I mean seriously, this didn't even make the local news.
Anyone want to post a front-page story about the plastic Dasani water bottle I found in my front lawn this morning? I feel it was tossed there from a passing car. My girlfriend thinks it was blown there from across the street. I told her people litter all the time on the street in front of our house, so they probably just tossed it on the front lawn.
FWIW, there was no fire in my house when Verizon installed my ONT. Me, Verizon and the town all agree on that.
Having restored a number of vehicles from that era, I can quite assure you that the people who assembled them has NOTHING to do with that. Lower quality standards, thicker gauge metal, near non-existant environmental standards, etc all meant that the cars lasted longer and could tolerate wear and greater assembly variance than a modern car.
Cars today are rusting out because the better quality paints can't be used because of environmental regulations. Steel is thinner because gas is more expensive and weight matters. Engines are dramatically more complex and require much greater assembly precision and tolerate wear much less.
Also, strip the paint off that "1967 American muscle car" and see how much original bodywork is still there and how much is rust free.
Yeah because unions do so much to protect quality.
*rolls eyes*
Unions protect the people at the low end at the expense of the people at the high end. There's no reason to perform well because you won't be payed more for it. In fact, because its so hard to fire you, you barely have to perform at all.
Hell, its worthless without pictures of Blossom and Winnie making out...
You realize you just gave some obese Unix admin sitting in a dark corner of a frigid data center a heart attack, right?
Nice going.
But, to be fair, you then need to add in the fact that most states charge you 2-3x more in property taxes or registration taxes if you run electric because they do not get the gas taxes to maintain roads.
Also add in the eventual expense of electricity as demand grows. Much of the US is at peak demand for large chunks of the year. There is not excess capacity on the grid for a large number of people to be charging electric cars. Electricity prices will skyrocket with demand.
Electric cars are not a magic bullet. They shift pollution except those people lucky enough to get their power from a nuclear source or even more rarely from wind, and are economically viable because of tax incentives that will go away with higher usage and an early adopter situation where it hasn't impacted market demand for electricity yet. Its like the people making bio-diesel in their houses and saying how much cheaper it is -- while illegally driving a car running untaxed fuel on public roads. The math works when you leave out half of the variables.
Electric cars are the future, I believe. But its misleading to suggest they are going to be cheaper to drive, especially in places that are as cheap as the US is right now.
Thats easy. I'll trade you my lawnmower for it.
Actually, the majority of people on a police force are there to watch for crimes happening, not solving crimes or arresting those who committed them. Thats what beat cops, traffic cops, etc are there to do.
While I agree this *should* be unconstitutional and illegal, it is in fact neither. The solution isn't the ACLU, its getting new laws passed at the Federal level.
Of course, there is precisely zero chance of that happening.
I'm not sure the Saturn V would make a nice ICBM. Unless you're launching a payload of nukes, 40 nuclear engineers and a Grayhound Bus carrying them all, it may be a bit overkill.
Dude, seriously. Do you not understand what the original poster was saying?
They're not blinded by some eye-burning laser or something, the whole joke was that they were running across the border with their eyes closed so they couldn't be zapped by this thing.
This isn't a joke about blinding people, its not a joke about injuring people or burning their eyes out. Its a joke about a bunch of people running around committing a felony with their eyes closed.
And if you've never seen a bugs bunny cartoon with rake gags, then perhaps the entire thing from the beginning to the end went over your head.
No, its still funny.
Give me a truck full of rakes and a video camera and I'm going to win $10,000 on AFV, too!
And after all that effort from you guys, I still don't get the joke.
I'm sorry, thats an attempt to jump on the virtualization bandwagon. Use that word these days, people throw money at you.
Application isolation is not virtualization, its nothing more than shimming the application with band aid APIs that fix deficiencies in the original APIs. Calling it virtualization is a marketing and VC-focused strategy, it has nothing to do with the technology.
Weird, I owned a lot of minidisk players and not one was a Sony...