The problem is that as a developing economy, a lot of people in tech in India took up engineering or IT because it is a great chance to make money.
While there were a few talented techs and a few people who loved tech for its own sake, the very attitude in that region is to study something that would get you a well paying job. Most families there push for engineering or medicine - maybe law or finance every once in a while. Doing anything else, immaterial of your where your talents and interests lie is looked down upon.
That doesn't sound like a developing nation - that sounds like pretty much any nation.
Whomever tagged this "nothing of value was lost" needs a history lesson. Mad has its original roots as a satire of horror comics today. Mad Magazine still exists, and so do a lot of your tenets of free speech with comics and video games, because Bill Gaines stood up to those who wanted to censor horror comics, against those who were "thinking of the children."
Methinks it's you who need a history lesson.
Bill Gaines lost that fight and comics were censored for decades because of it. His 'standing up' accomplished nothing. Bill was forced to concentrate on Mad because the other comics in his line were censored out of existence.
I don't know of any non consumer electronics designed to last fifty years either - even the long duration machines like the Pioneer and Voyager probes were only designed to last ten years of so.
About the best thing you can do is seal it in the best vacuum possible.
Actually, that's about the worst thing you can do - the lubricants in the hard drive will evaporate and migrate, ditto for the lubricants in the fan motors. Other components will also outgas, damaging them. (Notably, your wires/ribbon cables.) A goodly amount of what outgasses is going to end up on HDD platters, floppy r/w heads, CD/DVD ROM lasers... rendering them inoperable.
It would be cheaper to build a new module from scratch than the modify a MPLM. (I.E. not cheap at all.) MPLM is designed and built for short stays, and as such basically meets few if any of the ISS module safety standards. Particularly it doesn't meet micrometeorite, [internal] atmosphere control, fire, or [external] thermal control standards for long stay usage.
"Maybe they did it because they thought the records wouldn't be disclosed," said Fuchs. "That raises issues possible destruction of evidence issues - if they expected litigation."
And how exactly does this apply to TEMPORARY e-mail addresses used for a day until they got their WhiteHouse accounts working? Hmmm?
Even if they are temporary addresses - the requirement that official business be recorded and archived still remains.
When you have REAL documentation, and millions and millions of technical pages about APIs, applications, several operative systems, you will have some millions of documentations bugs as well.
Indeed. The system I worked on in the Navy had over a hundred volumes of documentation, which has been looked at by thousands of qualified eyes (between the contractors, DoD/Navy civilian employees, and sailors) over a period of a decade. Despite formal and informal reviews, an ongoing updating effort, and the documentation being closely studied and in daily use... Still we found bugs.
Virtually all of them were minor typographical errors, but still they were there.
Bug free documentation, I suspect, is like bug free programs - something attainable in theory but not in practice.
There is also a bit of a rant against Google for ranking Wikipedia above Britannica on most search terms.
Well, I guess that Google doesn't like to read teaser summaries that demand a paid subscription to read "premium content" any more than I do.
That would be why, when searching for older news and articles, the first five or Google links almost always send me to a link/ad farm that gives me a teaser summary and demands I subscribe for the balance of the article.
Google ranks Wikipedia articles higher than Britannica articles because Wikipedia.com is linked to more than Britannica.com.
Given how rarely I see either linked... That doesn't say much.
I suspect Wikipedia is linked higher because it is a SEO's wet dream - lots of keywords, lots of linked keywords, lots of constantly changing content. Essentially Wikipedia is all but designed to be the ultimate way to spam Google. (Which may be why virtually always Wikipedia ranks even above specialty sites I *know* are heavily externally linked.)
Google doesn't just manually set it's rankings. They're set by the web.
Horseshit. Google wants you to believe that - but in reality their search and ranking algorithms are tweaked routinely. They've got a whole department devoted to 'updating' and 'improving' their search results.
Which won't change things one bit - the reason the Russians are halting tourist flights is not because of a lack of crew return capability, but because there aren't any uncommitted seats after this year. Up *or* down.
The problem isn't that they are running out of room to put people on orbit - but that when the crew size increases they will no longer have spare seats on the Soyuz.
Russia was a fantastically poor place in the 1990s. That's why rogue nuclear weapons became a concern, as cash was king. There were many things Russia was doing to raise money - you could vacation there and for a few measly thousands of $$$, ride in their tanks, shoot many of their weapons, and what not. An adventurer's paradise.
Indeed. If you read the boards devoted to such thing back then, you'd find endless accounts of sexual tourism to Russia - and how wonderful and cheap it was (and how much Russian Mafia was involved in it).
Read those same boards today, and you'll find endless pining for the 'good old days'.
but if you've watched Battlestar Galactica since it was re-imagined in 2003, there has been no escape.
That's... hyperbolic. I haven't seen an episode of the fourth season yet, nor do I plan to. I just lost interest when I started feeling like the writers didn't know where they were really heading.
For me, that part was about halfway through the second episode - of the first season.
Which doesn't reduce energy usage [for the remote monitor] one bit. Whether run by a power supply 24/7 or run by a supercap that's recharged by a power supply, it eats the same amount of energy.
$0.00 training costs are nice. But how many $xxx.00 did you lose to lost productivity because you refused to pay for training?
$0.00 we're not a word processing company; we do other stuff.
I stopped reading right here - because such an abysmally ignorant remark tells me you have not a clue in the world what you are talking about. Just because you aren't a word processing company, doesn't mean that word processing isn't an important part of making the company run.
Well, your world bears little resemblance to the real one. In the real world, heat always equals energy that can be recovered only in theoretical realm - because low mass flow or low temperature differentials (or in this case, both) means that energy can be recovered only theoretically, practically and economically it can't. In the real world when I peek into a pipe leading from a geothermal well I get scalded by steam, not theoretical heat sources.
Have you noticed how no one even bothers mentioning Constitutional amendments anymore?
Yeah, I've noticed. But unlike you, I actually have a working knowledge of history...
In the first place, ignoring/reinterpreting the Constitution has been going on since about the time the ink was dry on it. In the second place, it's *hard* (deliberately so) to amend the Constitution.
The Constitution is neither distant nor routed around - it's working as designed.
Because when you do that - now you are supporting two different packages. *And* risking weird interoperability bugs. *And* depending on two different vendors to maintain compatibility...
We spent approximately $0.00 on training, instead going with "here's your new word processor".
$0.00 training costs are nice. But how many $xxx.00 did you lose to lost productivity because you refused to pay for training? How many $xxx.00 in lowered morale? How much trust and capital did the IT department squander?
You ever stood behind a rack of servers? Those things put out a lot of heat. If we can tap geothermal energy from deep underground, we should be able to grab it from a server room and convert it to energy.
Why 'should' we be able to? You think the laws of physics work like they do in Star Trek where all you have to is wish hard enough?
Not to mention that what we are grabbing from deep underground is steam to drive turbines, not heat directly.
Yup. It's so well known its a freaking stereotype in fiction. "So-and-So often seemed like a country bumpkin, which concealed [his deep knowledge of $FOO|his lightning mind|his skilled reflexes]" Etc... Etc...
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Slashdot seeks to be fair and balanced - the Google worship is balance by Microsoft bashing.
That doesn't sound like a developing nation - that sounds like pretty much any nation.
Methinks it's you who need a history lesson.
Bill Gaines lost that fight and comics were censored for decades because of it. His 'standing up' accomplished nothing. Bill was forced to concentrate on Mad because the other comics in his line were censored out of existence.
I don't know of any non consumer electronics designed to last fifty years either - even the long duration machines like the Pioneer and Voyager probes were only designed to last ten years of so.
Actually, that's about the worst thing you can do - the lubricants in the hard drive will evaporate and migrate, ditto for the lubricants in the fan motors. Other components will also outgas, damaging them. (Notably, your wires/ribbon cables.) A goodly amount of what outgasses is going to end up on HDD platters, floppy r/w heads, CD/DVD ROM lasers... rendering them inoperable.
It would be cheaper to build a new module from scratch than the modify a MPLM. (I.E. not cheap at all.) MPLM is designed and built for short stays, and as such basically meets few if any of the ISS module safety standards. Particularly it doesn't meet micrometeorite, [internal] atmosphere control, fire, or [external] thermal control standards for long stay usage.
Even if they are temporary addresses - the requirement that official business be recorded and archived still remains.
Indeed. The system I worked on in the Navy had over a hundred volumes of documentation, which has been looked at by thousands of qualified eyes (between the contractors, DoD/Navy civilian employees, and sailors) over a period of a decade. Despite formal and informal reviews, an ongoing updating effort, and the documentation being closely studied and in daily use... Still we found bugs.
Virtually all of them were minor typographical errors, but still they were there.
Bug free documentation, I suspect, is like bug free programs - something attainable in theory but not in practice.
You can't "get back to" something that never really existed in the first place.
That would be why, when searching for older news and articles, the first five or Google links almost always send me to a link/ad farm that gives me a teaser summary and demands I subscribe for the balance of the article.
Given how rarely I see either linked... That doesn't say much.
I suspect Wikipedia is linked higher because it is a SEO's wet dream - lots of keywords, lots of linked keywords, lots of constantly changing content. Essentially Wikipedia is all but designed to be the ultimate way to spam Google. (Which may be why virtually always Wikipedia ranks even above specialty sites I *know* are heavily externally linked.)
Horseshit. Google wants you to believe that - but in reality their search and ranking algorithms are tweaked routinely. They've got a whole department devoted to 'updating' and 'improving' their search results.
I wouldn't put it past them to boost Wikipedia.
Yep. Its called "blame your predecessor", and its a time honored political tactic.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Which won't change things one bit - the reason the Russians are halting tourist flights is not because of a lack of crew return capability, but because there aren't any uncommitted seats after this year. Up *or* down.
The problem isn't that they are running out of room to put people on orbit - but that when the crew size increases they will no longer have spare seats on the Soyuz.
Once.
Indeed. If you read the boards devoted to such thing back then, you'd find endless accounts of sexual tourism to Russia - and how wonderful and cheap it was (and how much Russian Mafia was involved in it).
Read those same boards today, and you'll find endless pining for the 'good old days'.
For me, that part was about halfway through the second episode - of the first season.
Which doesn't reduce energy usage [for the remote monitor] one bit. Whether run by a power supply 24/7 or run by a supercap that's recharged by a power supply, it eats the same amount of energy.
I stopped reading right here - because such an abysmally ignorant remark tells me you have not a clue in the world what you are talking about. Just because you aren't a word processing company, doesn't mean that word processing isn't an important part of making the company run.
Well, your world bears little resemblance to the real one. In the real world, heat always equals energy that can be recovered only in theoretical realm - because low mass flow or low temperature differentials (or in this case, both) means that energy can be recovered only theoretically, practically and economically it can't. In the real world when I peek into a pipe leading from a geothermal well I get scalded by steam, not theoretical heat sources.
Yeah, I've noticed. But unlike you, I actually have a working knowledge of history...
In the first place, ignoring/reinterpreting the Constitution has been going on since about the time the ink was dry on it. In the second place, it's *hard* (deliberately so) to amend the Constitution.
The Constitution is neither distant nor routed around - it's working as designed.
Because when you do that - now you are supporting two different packages. *And* risking weird interoperability bugs. *And* depending on two different vendors to maintain compatibility...
$0.00 training costs are nice. But how many $xxx.00 did you lose to lost productivity because you refused to pay for training? How many $xxx.00 in lowered morale? How much trust and capital did the IT department squander?
Why 'should' we be able to? You think the laws of physics work like they do in Star Trek where all you have to is wish hard enough?
Not to mention that what we are grabbing from deep underground is steam to drive turbines, not heat directly.
Yup. It's so well known its a freaking stereotype in fiction. "So-and-So often seemed like a country bumpkin, which concealed [his deep knowledge of $FOO|his lightning mind|his skilled reflexes]" Etc... Etc...