Whipple shields won't work for radiators (which have to 'see' open space). Nor will they work for antennas (which can't be blocked), or for TPS (tiles or ablative) because they aren't strong enough, nor for solar panels (which have to be able to 'see' then sun), or over windows/optics/sensors...
I sort of disagree with you. What is new is that the Web is about the only place most Americans, and others in certain countries, are able to get any actual news. We certainly can't get much factual (fact-checked) news from the Wash. Post, NY Times et al.
So where exactly on the web *do* they find factual (fact checked) news? Not from bloggers - who mostly quote each other and the sources you decry. When they aren't doing that - they are producing 'news' that fits their own slant.
"Are these the brilliant ideas that will change the world (and make you rich in the process)?"
They may change the world and the certainly will make somebody rich if they do succeed, but that person will probably NOT be the poor developer or inventor who came up with the idea in the first place. They don't call it "vulture capital" for nothing you know. If the idea or invention is a spectacular success then the inventor may receive some millions after the financiers have received their billions.
What a dilemma to have! Keep my idea to myself, and work it myself - and make a few tens of thousands of dollars (maybe). *Or*, accept VC funding and make millions (maybe).
If I were rolling the dice, and had to choose between a few tens (or possibly hundreds) of thousands, and a few millions... That's pretty much a no-brainer choice.
But one actual question that comes to mind -- now that the Opportunity team has high-resolution pictures of their baby's room, will they change where they send him to play? For example, could they see that rock just south of the dark "Cape Verde" formation? And looking back, if they'd had pictures like these to work with, would they have approached the crater from a different angle?
I would assume the Rover teams are using the best imagery to hand - and MRO is only one source of that imagery. We've been photographing Mars off and on for forty years now.
The controller pinned it to his bulletin board as a reminder of how stupid a computer billing system could be. He was also quick to point out at the end of the story, that the telco's accountants would have to keep reconciling that 2 cent uncashed check for a very long time, until someone manually entered a transaction to clear it.
Frankly - if that guy was my comptroller, and I heard this story, he'd be fired for gross incompetence and igorance.
Except in rare cases checks 'expire' after 60, 90, or 120 days.
Any billing software (or accountant) thats not totally brain dead routinely and easily carries uncashed checks across billing and reconciliation cycles.
A manual transaction? Hardly of any significance - a few key strokes at best.
Didn't Thomas Gold postulate that we'd find lots of methane on Mars? He had many intriguing theories on "deep life" - and recent evidence of "replenishment" of petroleum reserves, IIRC, while puzzling to geologists following the standard theories, would not have been a mystery to him.
Dr. Gold was also convinced that the Moon was covered in dust many meters deep - after the Surveyor landings showed that to be incorrect, he changed his belief to 'the moon is covered in dust with a crust just thick enough to support Surveyor, but not the LEM'. Dr. Gold was, not to put too fine a point on it, a raving lunatic who never let evidence stand in the way of a theory.
6) Movie studios are tossing out good movies, and replacing it with quick easy to make movies that can line their pockets with quick green cash.
I hate to be the to break this to you, but: the studios have always done this. Its not new, or recent - but dates back nearly the beginning of the movie industry. (And they stole it from the publishing industry - who likely pinched it from the (performance) theatre crowd.)
I think an interesting analysis would be a comparison between the cost of upgrading to Vista and switching the entire office to Linux. What would be the cost of:
replacing/training desktop support?
training the rest of the workforce?
lost productivity due to the above?
That's only a fraction of the costs... How about the costs of:
Installing the OS? (The OS, and possibly the applications may be 'free', but the man hours to install it are not.)
Migrating the existing applications (either to Linux native versions or WINE compatible versions) and data? (Assuming the existing applications can be migrated in the first place.)
Maintaining two separate systems (hardware/software/support) during the migration period? (Only the smallest of offices can do so over the weekend.)
Etc... etc...
Migrations of this nature are snakepits - its not as simple as you seem to imply.
I am in grade 10. I use my computer all night, and will sometimes play games (or read wikipedia! Great passtime.). Every day of the week. My average last year sat at around 87%.
A major spelling error, a major capitalization error, and two major punctuation errors. (All in just one sentence.) On top of all that - you seem to imply that you have an outstanding GPA. (You don't. 87% is a B or B-.)
This is why we need law changes to prevent homeowners' associations from having so much power over individual properties.
No new law is needed - if you don't like the restrictions; Don't buy the house.
beyond that, your home is your castle, and no one should have the right to tell you what you can and cannot do to it,
No one of course - but the people who you have with knowledge aforethought handed that authority over to. (If you don't like the restrictions; Don't buy the house.)
It's not complicated, or hard - and the Legislature has no need to get involved. (And isn't on of the memes of the Slashdot Hivemind that the goverment should butt the hell out of private transactions?)
This demonstrates one of the dangers of discussing violence in videogames: there is no way we can experience the same visceral reaction to videogame violence that we do to real violence. Trying to compare real world violence to videogame violence is like reading about climbing about Mount Everest and actually doing it; a superficial similarity, but not the same thing.
The problem with your superficial examination is that it fails to take into consideration real world experience that denies your thesis. I.E. the US Army has discovered that combat simulators *do* desensitize soldiers to violence against others. The US Navy discovered years ago that by repetitively training its SSBN launch crews - the action of launching becomes automatic ('just another drill like thing). etc... etc...
One major difference: children are not adult workers entering into a consensual employee/employer relationship. Children are born into their families with no inherent rights except that to food, shelter, education and a decent upbringing to the best of their parents' ability. They do not have "rights" to privacy, speech, freedom of association or any of the basic civil rights adults enjoy. They live under the protection of their parents and therefore if the parents want to read their IM logs, that's their prerogative.
By that logic, citizens are born into their countries with no inherent rights besides whatever their government grants them at the time,
The best thing I can say about the portion of your reply that I didn't snip - is that its the least ignorant thing in four paragraphs. (And not by much.)
overall the article reads like a bit of venting steam from an academic that tried to make a go of it in the "real world" and discovered just how different life is on the outside.
I'm not an academic, nor do I play on TV. But I *have* started/bought/run several businesses - and based on that experience, I can say that the author of the TFA does in fact know what he's talking about. OTOH, the writing that scream 'sour grapes and steam venting' the loudest is yours - which consists of attacks on the author and not one factual rebuttal.
Its not as much gambling as it is a game. Now slots and stuff are made to take your money, but a good poker player can make a living.
Only so long as there is a steady stream of people willing/able to *lose* money - Poker is a zero sum game. When the current Poker fad fades, it will be much more difficult to make a living at it.
Actually, separate from the indisputed criminality aspect, the word "theft" cannot apply to situations such as this where nothing is stolen (just as nothing is raped, murdered, or burned).
Actually - you are wrong. Period. Centuries of usage of the word predate you - and don't agree with you.
I thought the MPAA/RIAA were just lawyers; what kind of lawyers go and use words that don't have legal clout?
In legal documents, you'd have point. But outside of legal document - oops, you are another of those ignoramuses that reguritates crap because they (falsely) feel like reguritating crap makes them seem intelligent.
For a bunch of geeks, I'd think that doing a bit of research & gathering the facts before reaching a conclusion would be the *first* thing you'd do when trying to combat what you decry as a campaign of FUD & misinformation.
Ah, you must be new to Slashdot - let me be the first to welcome you to our fair digital shores.
That being accomplished, you should realize the mythology of the geek is just a *bit* overstated. They have, in general, not the slightest interest in research and less in facts. Like their foes, they have adopted FUD and misinformation and slogans as thei main weapons. (A fact which makes me, a fortysomething geek, ashamed of being a geek.) Now, don't get me wrong - if the issue is *really* important (like categorizing the number of tines on Geordi's VISOR), they will spring right into action and freeze frame through every scene in every episode in which it/he appears. But anything less doesn't get the effort.
All Hollywood has to do is change the language so words like "theft" apply to non-applicable situations such as copyright infringement.
Hollywood doesn't need to - despite all the ranting of the pro-piracy crowd attempting to divert attention from the fact they are committing a criminal act, the usage of "theft" and "piracy" in relation to copying and copyright infringement goes back centuries. It's the pro-piracy crowd thats trying to redefine words with perfectly understood meanings, not Hollywood and the RIAA.
Which kinda makes me wonder about their motivations sometimes. (Or at least about the intelligence level of indivuals who parrot slogans and memes not realizing how ignorant it makes them appear.)
I don't see what that has to do with self control. They rarely announce that the standard dvd comes out now, the extended directors cut comes out in six months, and the super collosal box set next year.
I don't see that they need to... Anyone with the slightest amount of common sense and who has paid the slightest attention knows full well that is how the release schedule goes.
They add stuff later to force those who really like the product to buy it again. Or con those who were on the fence and didn't buy the first go round to buy it now. If you want the best version, sometimes all you can do is buy again and Ebay the first one.
"The product" in question is the movie that is recorded on the DVD. The 'extras' are the 'sizzle' they add to keep folks like yourself and the OP coming back for more and ever more - because they've bought into the nonsensical notion that they have to have the latest and greatest 'version'.
It's all about self control. Either the self control to wait - or the self control to not be seduced.
I have purchased 3 iPods, one for me and the other two for my daughters. I have a huge mp3 collection, but I have also spent at least $300 on the iTunes music store. My Daughters have purchased much more than that. Why would I want to buy another almost $300 music player and re-purchase all those tunes? When my iPod dies, I'll buy the next ipod, the one with the features apple has added to stay competitive with microsoft.
And Apple just loves that fact - they have you by the [reproductive organs] forever. Apple boosters would do well to remember you next time they complain of Micro$oft lock-in.
I stopped buying DVDs since I'm never certain if the version out today won't be replaced by a extended version in six month and/or a gift box set next year. I want to spend my money only once.
Then only spend it once - don't blame Hollywood for your own lack of self control.
These kinds of errors happen routinely, between overlaps, bad seams, etc... For example several people have a 'found' a Russian sub sunk at the pier, when in fact you can plainly see that it is the seam between two different sets of images. (It's even more obvious in Google Earth.)
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Whipple shields won't work for radiators (which have to 'see' open space). Nor will they work for antennas (which can't be blocked), or for TPS (tiles or ablative) because they aren't strong enough, nor for solar panels (which have to be able to 'see' then sun), or over windows/optics/sensors...
So where exactly on the web *do* they find factual (fact checked) news? Not from bloggers - who mostly quote each other and the sources you decry. When they aren't doing that - they are producing 'news' that fits their own slant.
What a dilemma to have! Keep my idea to myself, and work it myself - and make a few tens of thousands of dollars (maybe). *Or*, accept VC funding and make millions (maybe).
If I were rolling the dice, and had to choose between a few tens (or possibly hundreds) of thousands, and a few millions... That's pretty much a no-brainer choice.
I would assume the Rover teams are using the best imagery to hand - and MRO is only one source of that imagery. We've been photographing Mars off and on for forty years now.
Frankly - if that guy was my comptroller, and I heard this story, he'd be fired for gross incompetence and igorance.
Not to mention that ignoring a bill is dishonest.
Dr. Gold was also convinced that the Moon was covered in dust many meters deep - after the Surveyor landings showed that to be incorrect, he changed his belief to 'the moon is covered in dust with a crust just thick enough to support Surveyor, but not the LEM'. Dr. Gold was, not to put too fine a point on it, a raving lunatic who never let evidence stand in the way of a theory.
I hate to be the to break this to you, but: the studios have always done this. Its not new, or recent - but dates back nearly the beginning of the movie industry. (And they stole it from the publishing industry - who likely pinched it from the (performance) theatre crowd.)
That's only a fraction of the costs... How about the costs of:
- Installing the OS? (The OS, and possibly the applications may be 'free', but the man hours to install it are not.)
- Migrating the existing applications (either to Linux native versions or WINE compatible versions) and data? (Assuming the existing applications can be migrated in the first place.)
- Maintaining two separate systems (hardware/software/support) during the migration period? (Only the smallest of offices can do so over the weekend.)
Etc... etc...Migrations of this nature are snakepits - its not as simple as you seem to imply.
A major spelling error, a major capitalization error, and two major punctuation errors. (All in just one sentence.) On top of all that - you seem to imply that you have an outstanding GPA. (You don't. 87% is a B or B-.)
Maybe you should sleep and study more.
None of which changes the blunt and basic facts of the matter - you are not forced to buy a house governed by a HOA contract. Period.
No new law is needed - if you don't like the restrictions; Don't buy the house.
No one of course - but the people who you have with knowledge aforethought handed that authority over to. (If you don't like the restrictions; Don't buy the house.)
It's not complicated, or hard - and the Legislature has no need to get involved. (And isn't on of the memes of the Slashdot Hivemind that the goverment should butt the hell out of private transactions?)
The problem with your superficial examination is that it fails to take into consideration real world experience that denies your thesis. I.E. the US Army has discovered that combat simulators *do* desensitize soldiers to violence against others. The US Navy discovered years ago that by repetitively training its SSBN launch crews - the action of launching becomes automatic ('just another drill like thing). etc... etc...
Oh yes - replacing one near monopoly with another is a wonderful idea.
The best thing I can say about the portion of your reply that I didn't snip - is that its the least ignorant thing in four paragraphs. (And not by much.)
I'm not an academic, nor do I play on TV. But I *have* started/bought/run several businesses - and based on that experience, I can say that the author of the TFA does in fact know what he's talking about. OTOH, the writing that scream 'sour grapes and steam venting' the loudest is yours - which consists of attacks on the author and not one factual rebuttal.
Only so long as there is a steady stream of people willing/able to *lose* money - Poker is a zero sum game. When the current Poker fad fades, it will be much more difficult to make a living at it.
Heck, that's only a couple hundred of dollars less than my house payment! (1/3 Acre, 2200 sq feet + detached 2 car garage.)
In legal documents, you'd have point. But outside of legal document - oops, you are another of those ignoramuses that reguritates crap because they (falsely) feel like reguritating crap makes them seem intelligent.
Ah, you must be new to Slashdot - let me be the first to welcome you to our fair digital shores.
That being accomplished, you should realize the mythology of the geek is just a *bit* overstated. They have, in general, not the slightest interest in research and less in facts. Like their foes, they have adopted FUD and misinformation and slogans as thei main weapons. (A fact which makes me, a fortysomething geek, ashamed of being a geek.) Now, don't get me wrong - if the issue is *really* important (like categorizing the number of tines on Geordi's VISOR), they will spring right into action and freeze frame through every scene in every episode in which it/he appears. But anything less doesn't get the effort.
Hollywood doesn't need to - despite all the ranting of the pro-piracy crowd attempting to divert attention from the fact they are committing a criminal act, the usage of "theft" and "piracy" in relation to copying and copyright infringement goes back centuries. It's the pro-piracy crowd thats trying to redefine words with perfectly understood meanings, not Hollywood and the RIAA.
Which kinda makes me wonder about their motivations sometimes. (Or at least about the intelligence level of indivuals who parrot slogans and memes not realizing how ignorant it makes them appear.)
I don't see that they need to... Anyone with the slightest amount of common sense and who has paid the slightest attention knows full well that is how the release schedule goes.
"The product" in question is the movie that is recorded on the DVD. The 'extras' are the 'sizzle' they add to keep folks like yourself and the OP coming back for more and ever more - because they've bought into the nonsensical notion that they have to have the latest and greatest 'version'.
It's all about self control. Either the self control to wait - or the self control to not be seduced.
And Apple just loves that fact - they have you by the [reproductive organs] forever. Apple boosters would do well to remember you next time they complain of Micro$oft lock-in.
Then only spend it once - don't blame Hollywood for your own lack of self control.
These kinds of errors happen routinely, between overlaps, bad seams, etc... For example several people have a 'found' a Russian sub sunk at the pier, when in fact you can plainly see that it is the seam between two different sets of images. (It's even more obvious in Google Earth.)