Heh... I did. Remember it pretty well, actually. Got plunked down to see it because Dad designed part of the ground support launch systems.
And there's still Major Matt Mason toys in my toy collection (parents took 'em from me for safe keeping when I started trashing my toys...)- and a legacy of two Apollo 8 medallions (flown metal minted for the people that worked on the project...) in the family heirlooms.
And there you go... In the end, we need both things, really.
Part of the main reason things aren't getting done in the same manner that they were in the Apollo days of NASA is that they roughly have half the proportionate budget in dollars than they had in the 60's right now, coupled with a bureaucracy like any other ossified government agency.
Only really usable for interplanetary distances. You need some lift tech that'll work well for atmospheric operation that won't irradiate the countryside or have issues with lifting the reactor powerful enough to move the reaction mass for that operation.
I just wish they'd consider it worth spending on... We've gotten quite a bit of return on the Apollo investments- and we'll see NOTHING from the bank bailouts.
Actually, it's a little of both. There was a national prestige thing going on- AND they set goals, a series of planned dates, and then just did it.
Cargo Cult? Only to those that don't have any of the history at their disposal- and access to some of the people that were there while they were growing up (My Father and Grandfather...and I've got verifiable proof of some of the stuff I've been told over the years in their shop notes, etc...). And there is something to the complaints from that "cargo cult".
NASA's not the same org it was when the Apollo program was in full swing. The NASA that was in the Apollo era wouldn't have allowed a design like they deployed for the shuttle's solid fuel boosters to have been fielded in the first place. The NASA of that era wouldn't have allowed the launch in the case that it'd been deployed based off of concerns at the time instead of making the Challenger disaster. NASA's a decent enough org these days- but as one other poster pointed out, it's highly political- and things are much more about the politics than the engineering and science. This is at least partly due to dwindling budgets- in comparison to the current budget dollars allocated, NASA actually has nearly HALF the money it used to have available to it when the Apollo program was in full swing (32.106 billion versus the 17.912 billion adjusted to 2007 value dollars). You can't do as much with half the money. The fire is gone because of the lack of funds and politics.
In the end, it should be that we have what that "cargo cult" keeps asking for- whether it comes from the private sector or NASA. We just largely don't have it right now. That fire helped provide a lot of what you've got now and we're slowly sliding downhill as a result of not putting efforts into things like it- however they're done.
It should be observed to those around that there's actually a very similar situation going on right now with another country and the US- this time, instead of the Soviets, it's the PRC doing it.
The biggest problem with this thinking is that the law, as written, won't do a damn thing to fix the security problem that they're claiming it will.
It's more security theater- and this sort of crap, passed to make it look like Congress is "doing something" needs to stop. Real security can't just bloody be legislated like this.
They're not numerically, mathematically wrong for base-2 concepts, which is where the use of 1024 for "kilo", etc. came from. It's the closest whole base-2 number to the 1000 mark. It's not a "bad sloppy programming" induced "habit"- it's from the dark and distant past of computing and computer science that the whole thing came from.
Actually, all they did was apply the nearest whole base-2 value that was related- which at the time that it was done, made sense after a fashion (you're not dealing in base 10 numbers...).
There's 10 types of people that get binary numbering out of the gate and transparently- the other type is the ones that consider this stuff a "problem".;)
Hm... If only you could get more than the SF or Tech Geek crowd riled up in a manner where we could get people to be that interested in fixing things by way of elections to do it. Right now, we've got the government we so richly deserve right at the moment because of the disinterest, etc.
Oh, it's government wasting the money. The problem lies within the inability to pull the plug when it's clear it's not coming together. Within that culture, there's an environment that encourages this sort of thinking you ascribe to the businesses. Why should they do any different. They can half-ass their way through things and maybe deliver a lurching horror, maybe deliver nothing- and still keep getting paid for it for the longest time.
In the end, the business won, the government people got to pour a bunch of money down a bottomless pit, and we, the populace and taxpayers, LOST. There's a threshold that should be hit much earlier on, one of "this is not working, perhaps we need to re-think this or stop it," that we're just not seeing with this stuff. That, folks, is what I see needing to change. Once you have that, the rest kind of falls into place- the businesses quit doing this stuff, quit placing the incompetent in important management positions, etc. Because they can't afford to any more.
Vacation? I'd say oversight is off retired on this one. That's a lot of money to be putting into a system and not having delivered it. I'd love to have the role of these consultants- that's a LOT of cash to be getting per year to have delivered nothing on with only apparently minimal expectations of having something to show for yourself in the future.
No, it's to track the hours they worked so they can be properly paid- the other part is just data that the system provides so that managers can know they're cheating on the system.
Since it's effectively little more than a fancy punch clock, I'd think that it'd not be THAT difficult to do. I'm amazed that they're pouring that much cash into a bottomless pit on this- and then doing more of it instead of pulling the plug and starting over.
Screw egg on face moments here- you're pouring $722 MILLION dollars into what is an overglorified punch clock system. If it's not working by now, it's not going to EVER work right and that's some serious good money after bad that could be put elsewhere.
Heh... I'd have to concur. The "double-plus-ungood" article is just as much wrong. LTE AND WiMax are both part of the "4G" spec. It is very much wrong to claim that WiMax isn't 4G and Sprint's lying about it and making "fake" 4G adverts- they're not. Neither is Clear which is also working up to being a mobile voice provider in addition to data. The moment they got that wrong, I quit reading. They might be right in that they're doing big-brother stuff, all of the carriers- but if you can't get that tidbit right, what else in your "facts" do you have wrong?
Don't buy the retail game at all. If you're needing to "break" the game, why give the SOB's cash to begin with? Because you can't not buy the shiny new game that's overpriced and like excrement locked inside of a safe inside of another safe?
But it's not precisely the disproportion that's the problem. It's a set of monosaccarides instead of at least a disaccaride or at least a monosaccaride you can use safely.
Just because the fructose is lower in HFCS-42 doesn't lead to:
1) That it's used over HFCS-55 or HFCS-90... 2) That the fructose in the form it's in is any less problematic.
The difference between HFCS and sucrose is a specific and quite unexpected effect.
Why should it be an unexpected effect? It's a mix of monosaccarides, absorbed directly into your system as opposed to sucrose, which is a polysaccaride needing to be broken apart. Once in your system the glucose causes it's own immediate issues and the fructose causes rather insidious ones when you're presented with the blood serum levels you get from even a single can of soda.
Your insulin system doesn't distinguish between the sugars, but your body doesn't respond to the Fructose save through the liver's metabolic pathway. When it sees the "sugar" in the system, it jams out insulin to drive the serum levels back into line with what they should be for proper health, etc. This drives the glucose out of your blood (part of where that "crash" comes from...) to the point you lose energy supply. While all of this is happening, your liver is slowly processing the fructose either into a 1 to 2 day supply of glycogen that is held in your liver as an emergency glucose boost store- or into fat to be put into longer term storage. Eventually, it catches up with the fructose levels in your blood stream and if you've not depleted your glucose levels, everything's just fine. If you've depleted your glucose levels, your body detects the low sugar problem (as bad as the high one you just caused...) it jams out glucagon to order the liver to peel part of the glycogen back apart into glucose.
Now, to be sure, sucrose will cause many of the same issues, but it takes quite a bit more to do it because the effect of all of this is slowed down because you have to break it apart first. With HFCS, it's already in a fully bioavailable form out of the gate.
No kidding. And it's because the stuff's cheaper/easier to store coupled with the US will let them put the crap in the food supply like they do. Many of the countries in Europe and Asia don't want to have anything to do with HFCS, and in many cases Aspartame (I wonder why...)- so you don't see that stuff as much outside the US in food or drink.
Heh... That'd be the aspartame and the acids within the soda talking there- and your brother should feel "betrayed" on that score. At least he connected the dots and quit doing it.
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Heh... I did. Remember it pretty well, actually. Got plunked down to see it because Dad designed part of the ground support launch systems.
And there's still Major Matt Mason toys in my toy collection (parents took 'em from me for safe keeping when I started trashing my toys...)- and a legacy of two Apollo 8 medallions (flown metal minted for the people that worked on the project...) in the family heirlooms.
And there you go... In the end, we need both things, really.
Part of the main reason things aren't getting done in the same manner that they were in the Apollo days of NASA is that they roughly have half the proportionate budget in dollars than they had in the 60's right now, coupled with a bureaucracy like any other ossified government agency.
Only really usable for interplanetary distances. You need some lift tech that'll work well for atmospheric operation that won't irradiate the countryside or have issues with lifting the reactor powerful enough to move the reaction mass for that operation.
I just wish they'd consider it worth spending on... We've gotten quite a bit of return on the Apollo investments- and we'll see NOTHING from the bank bailouts.
Actually, it's a little of both. There was a national prestige thing going on- AND they set goals, a series of planned dates, and then just did it.
Cargo Cult? Only to those that don't have any of the history at their disposal- and access to some of the people that were there while they were growing up (My Father and Grandfather...and I've got verifiable proof of some of the stuff I've been told over the years in their shop notes, etc...). And there is something to the complaints from that "cargo cult".
NASA's not the same org it was when the Apollo program was in full swing. The NASA that was in the Apollo era wouldn't have allowed a design like they deployed for the shuttle's solid fuel boosters to have been fielded in the first place. The NASA of that era wouldn't have allowed the launch in the case that it'd been deployed based off of concerns at the time instead of making the Challenger disaster. NASA's a decent enough org these days- but as one other poster pointed out, it's highly political- and things are much more about the politics than the engineering and science. This is at least partly due to dwindling budgets- in comparison to the current budget dollars allocated, NASA actually has nearly HALF the money it used to have available to it when the Apollo program was in full swing (32.106 billion versus the 17.912 billion adjusted to 2007 value dollars). You can't do as much with half the money. The fire is gone because of the lack of funds and politics.
In the end, it should be that we have what that "cargo cult" keeps asking for- whether it comes from the private sector or NASA. We just largely don't have it right now. That fire helped provide a lot of what you've got now and we're slowly sliding downhill as a result of not putting efforts into things like it- however they're done.
It should be observed to those around that there's actually a very similar situation going on right now with another country and the US- this time, instead of the Soviets, it's the PRC doing it.
robots.txt requires that a crawling app HONOR said file.
The biggest problem with this thinking is that the law, as written, won't do a damn thing to fix the security problem that they're claiming it will.
It's more security theater- and this sort of crap, passed to make it look like Congress is "doing something" needs to stop. Real security can't just bloody be legislated like this.
They're not numerically, mathematically wrong for base-2 concepts, which is where the use of 1024 for "kilo", etc. came from. It's the closest whole base-2 number to the 1000 mark. It's not a "bad sloppy programming" induced "habit"- it's from the dark and distant past of computing and computer science that the whole thing came from.
Actually, all they did was apply the nearest whole base-2 value that was related- which at the time that it was done, made sense after a fashion (you're not dealing in base 10 numbers...).
There's 10 types of people that get binary numbering out of the gate and transparently- the other type is the ones that consider this stuff a "problem". ;)
Considering that kilobytes predates SI units...I kind of doubt that it broke the established anything.
Hm... If only you could get more than the SF or Tech Geek crowd riled up in a manner where we could get people to be that interested in fixing things by way of elections to do it. Right now, we've got the government we so richly deserve right at the moment because of the disinterest, etc.
Oh, it's government wasting the money. The problem lies within the inability to pull the plug when it's clear it's not coming together. Within that culture, there's an environment that encourages this sort of thinking you ascribe to the businesses. Why should they do any different. They can half-ass their way through things and maybe deliver a lurching horror, maybe deliver nothing- and still keep getting paid for it for the longest time.
In the end, the business won, the government people got to pour a bunch of money down a bottomless pit, and we, the populace and taxpayers, LOST. There's a threshold that should be hit much earlier on, one of "this is not working, perhaps we need to re-think this or stop it," that we're just not seeing with this stuff. That, folks, is what I see needing to change. Once you have that, the rest kind of falls into place- the businesses quit doing this stuff, quit placing the incompetent in important management positions, etc. Because they can't afford to any more.
Vacation? I'd say oversight is off retired on this one. That's a lot of money to be putting into a system and not having delivered it. I'd love to have the role of these consultants- that's a LOT of cash to be getting per year to have delivered nothing on with only apparently minimal expectations of having something to show for yourself in the future.
No, it's to track the hours they worked so they can be properly paid- the other part is just data that the system provides so that managers can know they're cheating on the system.
Since it's effectively little more than a fancy punch clock, I'd think that it'd not be THAT difficult to do. I'm amazed that they're pouring that much cash into a bottomless pit on this- and then doing more of it instead of pulling the plug and starting over.
Screw egg on face moments here- you're pouring $722 MILLION dollars into what is an overglorified punch clock system. If it's not working by now, it's not going to EVER work right and that's some serious good money after bad that could be put elsewhere.
Actually, no... That's just a side-effect of what went on.
Heh... I'd have to concur. The "double-plus-ungood" article is just as much wrong. LTE AND WiMax are both part of the "4G" spec. It is very much wrong to claim that WiMax isn't 4G and Sprint's lying about it and making "fake" 4G adverts- they're not. Neither is Clear which is also working up to being a mobile voice provider in addition to data. The moment they got that wrong, I quit reading. They might be right in that they're doing big-brother stuff, all of the carriers- but if you can't get that tidbit right, what else in your "facts" do you have wrong?
Here's a better idea...
Don't buy the retail game at all. If you're needing to "break" the game, why give the SOB's cash to begin with? Because you can't not buy the shiny new game that's overpriced and like excrement locked inside of a safe inside of another safe?
Heh... Why not presume that the $50 game will be toast due to DRM and not bother to buy, no matter how shiny it might seem at the time?
As for bringing an attorney, sometimes things are worth more in principal than the actual cash value...
Ah, but they're dead-set on destroying console gaming with the same sorts of crap.
So, I'm not sure what they think they're accomplishing here.
Piracy's an excuse, not the reason.
And it can be undone. Either with Vala, or re-writes to C++ or Java. Seriously. It's not wholly too late to undo this mess he's made of things for us.
But it's not precisely the disproportion that's the problem. It's a set of monosaccarides instead of at least a disaccaride or at least a monosaccaride you can use safely.
Just because the fructose is lower in HFCS-42 doesn't lead to:
1) That it's used over HFCS-55 or HFCS-90...
2) That the fructose in the form it's in is any less problematic.
Why should it be an unexpected effect? It's a mix of monosaccarides, absorbed directly into your system as opposed to sucrose, which is a polysaccaride needing to be broken apart. Once in your system the glucose causes it's own immediate issues and the fructose causes rather insidious ones when you're presented with the blood serum levels you get from even a single can of soda.
Your insulin system doesn't distinguish between the sugars, but your body doesn't respond to the Fructose save through the liver's metabolic pathway. When it sees the "sugar" in the system, it jams out insulin to drive the serum levels back into line with what they should be for proper health, etc. This drives the glucose out of your blood (part of where that "crash" comes from...) to the point you lose energy supply. While all of this is happening, your liver is slowly processing the fructose either into a 1 to 2 day supply of glycogen that is held in your liver as an emergency glucose boost store- or into fat to be put into longer term storage. Eventually, it catches up with the fructose levels in your blood stream and if you've not depleted your glucose levels, everything's just fine. If you've depleted your glucose levels, your body detects the low sugar problem (as bad as the high one you just caused...) it jams out glucagon to order the liver to peel part of the glycogen back apart into glucose.
Now, to be sure, sucrose will cause many of the same issues, but it takes quite a bit more to do it because the effect of all of this is slowed down because you have to break it apart first. With HFCS, it's already in a fully bioavailable form out of the gate.
No kidding. And it's because the stuff's cheaper/easier to store coupled with the US will let them put the crap in the food supply like they do. Many of the countries in Europe and Asia don't want to have anything to do with HFCS, and in many cases Aspartame (I wonder why...)- so you don't see that stuff as much outside the US in food or drink.
Heh... That'd be the aspartame and the acids within the soda talking there- and your brother should feel "betrayed" on that score. At least he connected the dots and quit doing it.