It must be nice to live in your black and white world, but the rest of us live in the real world where engineering, budget, and schedule tradeoffs are a reality.
well yeah.. unless you're building something to go to space.
Well, no, Even things that are being built to go into space suffer from the same limitations as anything else.
This isn't a technical problem -- this is management having shitty project management skills. If the budget is insufficient, then the project scope has to be reduced. It's just that simple. This is not the engineers' fault, or is it the fault of the technology... this is management trying to do too much with too little.
It must be nice to live in your black and white world, but the rest of us live in the real world where engineering, budget, and schedule tradeoffs are a reality.
Yes, I looked at the video. And it shows nothing of the sort - as the rocket goes past horizontal, all engines can briefly be seen to be firing normally with no signs of fire. (At least in the other videos I've seen, it's not clear in the video linked above.)
The OP is correct, the indications (that we can divine from the video) point to a control failure either in the guidance system and associated electronics or the mechanics of the gimbals. One key clue is the unusually high roll rate that builds up quite early.
The term "weapon of mass destruction" has meant things like grenades, flamethrowers, and improvised explosives for at least a century in law. The term is defined in every state's gun laws, and has nothing to do with NBC weapons. Bush's use of it to describe chemical weapons, which is the first time many people heard the term, was non-standard.
Um, no. You've got it precisely all fucked up and backwards.
The term WMD has been applied to nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons since the end of WWII - though the term originated before the war. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction) It didn't start to creep into the criminal statutes until the late 1990's.
Whenever someone trots out that tired old tripe... I'm reminded of the evolution of submarine ballast and trim systems. The earliest were supremely simple (read obvious), but had deadly (and non obvious) failure modes... (Long story short, they were unstable longitudinally and could easily pitch the boat onto it's beam ends.) John Holland's great breakthrough was to make the system more complex - and his concepts from the late 1800's can be found replicated almost exactly (though more complex in detail) in submarines being built today.
And you see the same thing replicated in engineering again and again, the trend is towards more complexity (and higher performance) - not towards simplification.
The moral of the story? Don't take engineering advice from non engineers.
"Do not duplicate" keys are not protected by just being labelled, they are physically a different shape (often with patented curves and bends), and genuine blanks can only be bought by registered locksmiths who have signed an agreement with the manufacturer not to duplicate keys without proof that the customer is authorised to duplicate that key.
SOME "do not duplicate" keys are like that - but they're a minority because they're expensive and a PITA to manage (like most proprietary systems). Many more are just ordinary keys, the same kind you find at any hardware store or home center, stamped with "DO NOT DUPLICATE". And you can get those copied trivially at the same places you can find the unstamped blanks.
Who cares if the market is not there yet? We will get nowhere in any field if we let details like that stop us.
That has to be one of the most (though likely unintentionally) hilarious things I've read all day - and the rest of the week will have to work hard to top it. Asteroid miner wannabees are in the same situation as someone setting up to injection mold iPhone cases in 1897 - it's not that the market doesn't exist, it's that practically none of the enabling technologies exist (for the case or the phone) and that someone lacks the capital to create them let alone even the foggiest clue what they actually are.
It's not a chicken-and-egg problem, it's a delusion and cluelessness problem.
Asteroid mining would sell raw materials and water to other space ventures, private or public.
That's a nice theory... But the elephant in the room is the fact that there aren't any such ventures currently. Nor are their likely to be any of sufficient size to support an asteroid mining venture for decades, if not centuries.
The process of processing plant fiber is largely identical; but removing it from hemp is a lot more intensive than plucking cotton puffs and milling out the seeds with a mechanical comb. Once you've harvested it, you can effectively drop that shit right into what we have now with minimal manufacturing adjustments.
Ah, so the processes is identical except for all the parts that aren't. Or, to put it another way, you're just repeating yourself - are you being intentionally obtuse are are you just that clueless? And no, you can't just substitute one fiber for another with "minimal adjustments". (Again, the "Football = Football" analogy is relevant - you seem to no not realize the difference between abstraction and the real world.)
Who you gonna sell hemp to?
If it's so superior - lots of people. You seem blithely unaware that the fashionista are far from the only market segment. You seem clueless that the Western world is far from the whole of the world.
Confirmation from an American authority that Bitcoin is a legitimate form of money.
I've said it before and I've said it again because it doesn't appear to be sinking in, Bitcoin fanatics live in a serious Reality Distortion Field. The federal and state governments don't give a rats ass whether you conduct your financial transactions in dollars, Bitcoins, or jars of hamster poop - all they care about is that you abide by the regulations when you start using them for a method of exchange or start acting like a bank or currency exchange. (Which is why Ithaca Hours and other local currency systems are still around - and Liberty Dollars are not.)
If this country built a strong cannabis industry, right now, what would the benefits be?
If hemp is such a wonderplant... why isn't it, in the numerous countries where it isn't illegal, grown in gigaton quantities?
despite that the process of spinning plant fibers into thread and yarn is largely the same.
"Largely the same", but not really the same. (US) Football and (the rest of the world) football are largely the same too if you step back far enough - but such abstractions aren't all that useful in the real world. And you've left out the all important step of obtaining the raw fiber - look at a puff of cotton fresh from the field and a length of hemp stem fresh from the field and you'll understand why cotton was (and is) King of natural fibers.
. I had a bud that flew drug interdiction for the USAF and they used to have jokes like "Why does the sheriff of (insert county) bust so many meth labs? because he doesn't want the competition!" rimshot.
Which proves pretty much - nothing. He doesn't know, he has no way of knowing, and you're a fool for believing him and a jackass for invoking his military service as some kind of proof of his veracity.
You'll find tons of pine forests owned by the cops or close relatives of the cops...because pine trees put out enough heat to foil their infrared scans.
The mind boggle at the level of ignorance required to believe this.
Say (perhaps like shipwreck salvage rights) one could claim the exclusive mineral rights to a (piece of a) celestial body.
Except - that's not even remotely how shipwreck salvage rights work.
Even if it weren't permanent, like only a 100 year lease, many people might be tempted (look at what the British did with Hong Kong; their administration help turn it from a fishing port into one of the world's great cities even though they knew they'd have to give it back to the Chinese.
Again, seriously disconnected from reality. It would never have occurred to the 19th and early 20th century British that they wouldn't be able to re-negotiate a favorable treaty when the time came.
That you can hack digital cameras to take photographs in the infrared has been known for years... There's enough interest that you can even rent them. (No commercial affiliation, just a satisfied customer.)
The problem isn't the camera, the problem is the knowledge to evaluate the resulting photographs.
The GP was being a pedantic twat by picking a definition of generation that was a) clearly not what the article was talking about and b) incorrect based on his/her own choice of definition.
And you're an ignorant twat not only by creating a definition out of thin air that has no bearing on or relation to the actual definitions, but by also by being clueless and thick headed enough to not recognize the difference when they're pointed out to you.
In virtually all cases, generations are pegged at 20 years. The common "Gen X", "Gen Y", etc are all 20 year spans. In fact, virtually every named "generation" of the last century were equal or slightly less than 20 years.
You're confusing two different things, which isn't surprising since they more or less use the same word.
"Generation", used standalone, is a noun and describes a measure of time expressed in a fraction of human lifetimes and is generally pegged at around 30 years. ("Three generations ago we did this thing or that thing.")
"Generation ___" is a proper noun and a descriptive term for a generational cohort or a social generation. ("Millennials are all this social trait or that social trait.")
There is no real reason why Google can't do all of these things.
From the enterprise users POV, the problem isn't necessarily Google's ability to do these things. (Though that is a huge question mark.) It's trusting Google to do these things. Google's history is littered with half ass projects of one kind or another... Some cancelled half complete, other left lingering in limbo and half complete for years. Of the products that are more-or-less complete and functional, the vast majority of them languish for months between bizarre and incomprehensible "upgrades".
This history does not lead to confidence in the customer that they can build a business around Google's offerings.
Something like 60% of the active volume of trades are HFT that is lasting less than a second. That isn't investing in a company that is gambling.
That sounds insightful - but really, it's stupid as hell and relies on swallowing decades of nonsensical propaganda... propaganda that vanishes like a soap bubble in a hurricane the instant you apply any actual thought.
The propaganda? That buying stocks is "investing in a company" - except for a minority of cases, that's utter hogwash. If I buy a share of GOOG today the money doesn't go to Google, it goes to the last guy who owned that share. If the money doesn't go to Google, then how am I investing in them? The answer - I'm not. I'm making a bet with myself that the share will go up in value.
It's all gambling.
The only exceptions are IPOs and when a company releases some treasury stock onto the market.
I guess I've come to believe that life will evolve to meet just about any condition, and an energy source seems to be about all it needs.
AIUI, it's not quite that simple.
On Earth, the extremophiles are believed to arisen in more benign environments, and evolved to colonize the extreme environments. It's not clear that Mars ever had the necessary benign environment for long enough for life to arise in the first place, let alone for it to evolve and begin to colonize the extreme margins. (Which, at the time, would have been far less extreme than currently.)
So, you just made some shit up and tried to pin it on him? And that got +4 Interesting? WTF we are just making shit up now?
What makes you think he's making it up? What he (the OP describes) is known damm well by anyone whose actually studied history, particularly 20th century US history, instead of trying to romanticize it. I grew up 20 years after the grandparent, and thought much like he did of the past... until I actually grew up and started studying.
Even so, I managed to convince myself for years that all that happened in the rest of the US - my neighborhood and my family were different. Then, about ten years ago I was in my forties, my mom came to visit for a week... and she started sharing all the family secrets. The uncle who was actually a cousin (adopted by our mutual grandparents to spare my aunt, his mother, the shame of having a child while being unwed), the long time boarder with another uncle and aunt who was actually my uncle's gay lover. The one that really got me was my female cousin L____ who lived with another female (G___) for decades... Even though by then I knew about homosexuals, had friends who were gay, supported gay rights, etc... The conditioning from my childhood ran so deep it never occurred to me that my cousin L____ was a lesbian.
If you'd tried to describe why the Kardashians would be celebrities back when I was a kid, people would simply not understand -- and I have to admit, I still don't get it.
You must have been pretty isolated as a kid - and somehow managed to remain ignorant your whole life. (Or you've got a seriously thick pair of rose colored glasses and a selective memory editor that's morphed your past into a lost golden age.) Any follower of celebrity culture from any era would instantly grok why the Kardashians are celebrities. Scandals, and people hooking onto the rich and famous to advance themselves, and fame for being outrageous, etc... etc... are as old as the hills and have been grist for the media's mill and objects of popular following since mass media was born in the 1800's.
Rookie error #1 - pedantic posting about stuff he doesn't understand.
Stars move slowly, and radio transmissions (even relatively tight beamed ones) spread out the farther they get from the source - and 18LY is a very long way away.
Not to mention the dangers of assuming too much from a very simple statement - like exactly where the antenna will be pointing.
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Well, no, Even things that are being built to go into space suffer from the same limitations as anything else.
It must be nice to live in your black and white world, but the rest of us live in the real world where engineering, budget, and schedule tradeoffs are a reality.
If the US government was trying to shutdown Bitcoin - you'd have a point.
Yes, I looked at the video. And it shows nothing of the sort - as the rocket goes past horizontal, all engines can briefly be seen to be firing normally with no signs of fire. (At least in the other videos I've seen, it's not clear in the video linked above.)
The OP is correct, the indications (that we can divine from the video) point to a control failure either in the guidance system and associated electronics or the mechanics of the gimbals. One key clue is the unusually high roll rate that builds up quite early.
Um, no. You've got it precisely all fucked up and backwards.
The term WMD has been applied to nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons since the end of WWII - though the term originated before the war. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction) It didn't start to creep into the criminal statutes until the late 1990's.
Whenever someone trots out that tired old tripe... I'm reminded of the evolution of submarine ballast and trim systems. The earliest were supremely simple (read obvious), but had deadly (and non obvious) failure modes... (Long story short, they were unstable longitudinally and could easily pitch the boat onto it's beam ends.) John Holland's great breakthrough was to make the system more complex - and his concepts from the late 1800's can be found replicated almost exactly (though more complex in detail) in submarines being built today.
And you see the same thing replicated in engineering again and again, the trend is towards more complexity (and higher performance) - not towards simplification.
The moral of the story? Don't take engineering advice from non engineers.
SOME "do not duplicate" keys are like that - but they're a minority because they're expensive and a PITA to manage (like most proprietary systems). Many more are just ordinary keys, the same kind you find at any hardware store or home center, stamped with "DO NOT DUPLICATE". And you can get those copied trivially at the same places you can find the unstamped blanks.
Or maybe your curriculum vitae isn't is impressive as you think it is.
That has to be one of the most (though likely unintentionally) hilarious things I've read all day - and the rest of the week will have to work hard to top it. Asteroid miner wannabees are in the same situation as someone setting up to injection mold iPhone cases in 1897 - it's not that the market doesn't exist, it's that practically none of the enabling technologies exist (for the case or the phone) and that someone lacks the capital to create them let alone even the foggiest clue what they actually are.
It's not a chicken-and-egg problem, it's a delusion and cluelessness problem.
That's a nice theory... But the elephant in the room is the fact that there aren't any such ventures currently. Nor are their likely to be any of sufficient size to support an asteroid mining venture for decades, if not centuries.
Ah, so the processes is identical except for all the parts that aren't. Or, to put it another way, you're just repeating yourself - are you being intentionally obtuse are are you just that clueless? And no, you can't just substitute one fiber for another with "minimal adjustments". (Again, the "Football = Football" analogy is relevant - you seem to no not realize the difference between abstraction and the real world.)
If it's so superior - lots of people. You seem blithely unaware that the fashionista are far from the only market segment. You seem clueless that the Western world is far from the whole of the world.
I've said it before and I've said it again because it doesn't appear to be sinking in, Bitcoin fanatics live in a serious Reality Distortion Field. The federal and state governments don't give a rats ass whether you conduct your financial transactions in dollars, Bitcoins, or jars of hamster poop - all they care about is that you abide by the regulations when you start using them for a method of exchange or start acting like a bank or currency exchange. (Which is why Ithaca Hours and other local currency systems are still around - and Liberty Dollars are not.)
If hemp is such a wonderplant... why isn't it, in the numerous countries where it isn't illegal, grown in gigaton quantities?
"Largely the same", but not really the same. (US) Football and (the rest of the world) football are largely the same too if you step back far enough - but such abstractions aren't all that useful in the real world. And you've left out the all important step of obtaining the raw fiber - look at a puff of cotton fresh from the field and a length of hemp stem fresh from the field and you'll understand why cotton was (and is) King of natural fibers.
Which proves pretty much - nothing. He doesn't know, he has no way of knowing, and you're a fool for believing him and a jackass for invoking his military service as some kind of proof of his veracity.
The mind boggle at the level of ignorance required to believe this.
Except - that's not even remotely how shipwreck salvage rights work.
Again, seriously disconnected from reality. It would never have occurred to the 19th and early 20th century British that they wouldn't be able to re-negotiate a favorable treaty when the time came.
That you can hack digital cameras to take photographs in the infrared has been known for years... There's enough interest that you can even rent them. (No commercial affiliation, just a satisfied customer.)
The problem isn't the camera, the problem is the knowledge to evaluate the resulting photographs.
Yes, actually, you are.
And you're an ignorant twat not only by creating a definition out of thin air that has no bearing on or relation to the actual definitions, but by also by being clueless and thick headed enough to not recognize the difference when they're pointed out to you.
You're confusing two different things, which isn't surprising since they more or less use the same word.
From the enterprise users POV, the problem isn't necessarily Google's ability to do these things. (Though that is a huge question mark.) It's trusting Google to do these things. Google's history is littered with half ass projects of one kind or another... Some cancelled half complete, other left lingering in limbo and half complete for years. Of the products that are more-or-less complete and functional, the vast majority of them languish for months between bizarre and incomprehensible "upgrades".
This history does not lead to confidence in the customer that they can build a business around Google's offerings.
That sounds insightful - but really, it's stupid as hell and relies on swallowing decades of nonsensical propaganda... propaganda that vanishes like a soap bubble in a hurricane the instant you apply any actual thought.
The propaganda? That buying stocks is "investing in a company" - except for a minority of cases, that's utter hogwash. If I buy a share of GOOG today the money doesn't go to Google, it goes to the last guy who owned that share. If the money doesn't go to Google, then how am I investing in them? The answer - I'm not. I'm making a bet with myself that the share will go up in value.
It's all gambling.
The only exceptions are IPOs and when a company releases some treasury stock onto the market.
AIUI, it's not quite that simple.
On Earth, the extremophiles are believed to arisen in more benign environments, and evolved to colonize the extreme environments. It's not clear that Mars ever had the necessary benign environment for long enough for life to arise in the first place, let alone for it to evolve and begin to colonize the extreme margins. (Which, at the time, would have been far less extreme than currently.)
It's worth pointing out that central air conditioning began to be common in new construction homes in the early 60's...
What makes you think he's making it up? What he (the OP describes) is known damm well by anyone whose actually studied history, particularly 20th century US history, instead of trying to romanticize it. I grew up 20 years after the grandparent, and thought much like he did of the past... until I actually grew up and started studying.
Even so, I managed to convince myself for years that all that happened in the rest of the US - my neighborhood and my family were different. Then, about ten years ago I was in my forties, my mom came to visit for a week... and she started sharing all the family secrets. The uncle who was actually a cousin (adopted by our mutual grandparents to spare my aunt, his mother, the shame of having a child while being unwed), the long time boarder with another uncle and aunt who was actually my uncle's gay lover. The one that really got me was my female cousin L____ who lived with another female (G___) for decades... Even though by then I knew about homosexuals, had friends who were gay, supported gay rights, etc... The conditioning from my childhood ran so deep it never occurred to me that my cousin L____ was a lesbian.
You must have been pretty isolated as a kid - and somehow managed to remain ignorant your whole life. (Or you've got a seriously thick pair of rose colored glasses and a selective memory editor that's morphed your past into a lost golden age.) Any follower of celebrity culture from any era would instantly grok why the Kardashians are celebrities. Scandals, and people hooking onto the rich and famous to advance themselves, and fame for being outrageous, etc... etc... are as old as the hills and have been grist for the media's mill and objects of popular following since mass media was born in the 1800's.
Rookie error #1 - pedantic posting about stuff he doesn't understand.
Stars move slowly, and radio transmissions (even relatively tight beamed ones) spread out the farther they get from the source - and 18LY is a very long way away.
Not to mention the dangers of assuming too much from a very simple statement - like exactly where the antenna will be pointing.