Re:It's Gone Beyond Science Fiction into Mainstrea
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he was aware of what areas were contaminated.
It would have been as simple as keeping seeds from less-contaminated areas. Like, for instance, the area of his crop furthest from the GM canola. Its not that complicated.
are you taking into consideration that "HORIZONTAL velocities" are easier to acheieve than vertical? Yes, he went straight up, then right back down. If he had gone straight up, leveled off, and applied the same amount of thrust...he'd have started going much faster. Also note that at that distance the getting-faster part is much easier to accomplish (less atmosphere and gravity to fight against, and all). Note that he even used enviro-friendl[y|ier] fuel....
ALSO note that per the article itself, they said they're hoping on doing the *same flight* commercially within 10-15 years "affordably." I can freaking guarrantee you that my father in law, for example, would sell the shelby he has in his garage that he babies, and remortgage his house, even if it meant only 3 minutes of weightlessness - just to have broken the Space Barrier. Do NOT underestimate the lingering determination of the original Trekkies. It is NOT hype that this is big.
If you compare the computing power of 20, or even just 10, years ago with that of today - its an amazing difference. If there are semi-regular trips to the space barrier on a commercial level, we will learn a TREMENDOUS amount. As humans (esp us Americans), we learn far more by doing than we do by theorizing. Just as we have chips in computers now that break theories of 20 years ago as far as what would be possible, the actual commoditization...of sorts...of space travel will also make it cheaper, faster, better, etc blah.
I tried to find something as a Sr-ish sysadmin over there for a while myself, and never saw anything. I myself would feel honored to go, for two reasons: 1) to be able to put forth a meaningful effort to show Iraqi's that there are Americans that do care about their welfare, and 2) same reason I joined the military back before Desert Storm - civic duty. I could easily get that money in Manhattan or something, and not need to worry (as much) about getting beheaded on the way home from work. There are better reasons to go over there than money.
"Only two other comets have been seen up close, but both appeared fairly smooth and were nowhere near so heavily cratered."
Well with such a HUGE sample pool, I can see how they're able to make such firm analysis of this meteor! I mean, really - both the others they've seen up close didn't look at this one, so clearly this one is completely unique in the solar system!
"Meanwhile, average users are no longer tech savvy.' Which is to say that they at one point were?"
Yeah, back before the 70's or so, when those who used computers had to know what they were doing. Count mine as a vote for discontinuing the trend for allowing people to dumb themselves down. When you gear everything for the lowest common denominator, everyone sinks to that level. And really, businesses *did* survive without computers as little as 10-15 years ago. I'm tired of hearing about people here on/. who have a laptop, pda, cellphone, and various other things they carry around with them everywhere all the time. Come on, people. There are still roses out there.
"Our computing devices are going faster year after year. But our laptop batteries don't show the same performance improvement. They still work only for a few hours, just a little bit more than ten years ago."
Come on, people. Look at the wattage of a CPU from today versus a CPU from 10 years ago. Look at the differences in power consumption on the various devices. We've got thousands of times more transitors in current systems.
Despite the power consumption increasing dramatically, batteries do in fact keep a system running longer than they used to. That's not lagging behind, that's keeping pace.
Silly glass-half-emptiers.
never will be out of gas
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For those who have done the calculations, its overwhelmingly obvious that "fossil fuels" would have been used up long ago if they really came from where conventional wisdom suggests. Make the appropriate logical conclusions at that point.
One of the most intelligent theories about the true source for oil is from a physicist named Thomas Gold. He explains his theory of the real source for oil and other hydrocarbons in this book.
the meat of the theory is that the real source of these hydrocarbons seems to be that they are the byproducts of deep deep subterranean chemosynthetic bacteria. Makes FAR more sense than it being from dinosaurs. The continued point is that we'll never run out of oil, unless we kill these subterranean bacteria (which account for about 80 of the volume of all life on earth, so it might take a while). Oil is constantly being produced. Eventually, currently dry oil beds will refill. Will take a long while, but...how long is a matter of debate.
Re:In the land of empty tanks
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heh. Have to almost agree. I bicycled to work for years, until my wife decided to go to vet school in upstate NY. Now, I can't. Why? Well if you can find me a sr unix admin position closer than 40 miles to ithaca, let me know. I'd even almsot do the 40 miles most days anyway, despite the rain, if I had someplace to shower when I got here:(
"While you cannot group all open source programmers and programs together; many are rigorous and respectful of the intellectual property rights, while others speak of intellectual property rights with open contempt." While in the previous paragraph, they said...
"Brown's account is based on extensive interviews with more than two dozen leading technologists including Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum.
At least it eventually went out of fashion to hammer him relentlessly here on/. Now we can move on to more important targets like Sun.
I saw that list many times, complete with "HYPNOSIS CD 2 MOTIVATE EXERCISE WEIGHT LOSS" and everything else. Freeweights, just sitting there being weights. Not a video telling me how to do it (hell, why can't the videos stay in the video section anyway?) Not pills, not hypnosis cd's...just weights. Things you put at the end of long bars, and are used for strength training.
Point being I could find such things near me on ebay a year or two ago...can't now because of all the hypnosis cd's and diet pills. Legit people, the real stuff that the original idea appealed to, are no longer the vast majority of participants.
well then perhaps part of the solution (PART of) is to not just require spam lists to be opt-in, but to lay the burden of proof on the spammer that you did in fact opt-in.
There's no reason people should be forced to prove a negative (the "I didn't opt in to anything, ever"). Secondly, if I make a brandnew email address and join a couple of legit groups, soon I'll be on spam lists. No need to think precambrian - I've seen it happen in as little as a week.
you might be inside a building, with no windows to the outside. I imagine that the phone doesn't do temp, humidity, and forcasting itself, it just picks up the equiv to the weather channel.
I liken it to email - I can set up filters out the ass, but to let things I still want in I have to have things loose enough such that crap I don't want still gets in too.
That, and I honestly don't pride myself on ebay searching;) The searching/results aren't completely similar to searching in any other application, so I don't worry about it so much. Point is that I didn't used to need to do such things, and additionally the things I'm looking for are no longer there. Find a weight set in NY anywhere...lemme know when you do. Past the diet pills and videos, there's...professional ebayers selling bowflexes or whatnot. Not that unreasonable to expect someone within a group of millions upon millions of people to be selling a weight set...
"the V602SH comes with music playback, video support, 3G graphics acceleration for games, karaoke support, a dog bark translator and weather indicator."
That's all the more the dark barking thing is discussed. Anyone know more about it? My vet friends would have been greatly amused had there been actual info I could have passed on...
Right now there is a very large market for something - a new online auction place.
A year or two ago, I could actually find things on ebay that I was looking for. Hell, no matter what it was, I could find it.
Now, any search just turns up a million hits for people who aren't using ebay for what it was good for, but are instead using it to sell ultra-low quality crap they bought in large volumes.
searching is rougher too - I go to look for anyone with weights for sale in upstate NY, and have to go through a billion diet pill and video things just to find the one item that almost is what I was looking for.
Do I buy it? No...the fact that ebay has a rep for scammers and ripoffs now does help make that decision, too. More and more, that's their rep.
I wish there was a way to filter out professional ebayers...
very, very soon we'll be done with addressable memory as a problem. At least, for a long while.
and before someone makes a 640k comment, don't. There's a difference. When it was 640k, plenty of people could imagine uses for a gigabyte. How many uses for a petabyte of ram can anyone really justify in the next 10 years?
gosh...that's a great point. Maybe that's why the article was trying to make it themselves. Yes - it was more expensive. RAMBUS is contending that it shouldn't have been, and that memory makers were guilty of market manipulation for nefarious purposes.
Who the hell is it that has so many insightful points to give away these days? Yeesh.
bonuses don't get taxed that much...the payroll dept where he works just takes out that much. When filling out a 1040, no place on there asks for bonuses differentiated from normal pay. Its just whatever your income for the year was. When he files his tax returns, he'll get that portion back (though he might pay out overall, due to the rest of the year).
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no, he was supposed to save the non-contaminated seed, and process the contaminated seed. Not a very complicated solution.
Coders are the mutagens, the IT world is the environment. Patches, revisions, and totally different packages are all over.
Its actually quite similar.
*groan*
It would have been as simple as keeping seeds from less-contaminated areas. Like, for instance, the area of his crop furthest from the GM canola. Its not that complicated.
you'll need those under windows too, so...it should be an assumed point.
ALSO note that per the article itself, they said they're hoping on doing the *same flight* commercially within 10-15 years "affordably." I can freaking guarrantee you that my father in law, for example, would sell the shelby he has in his garage that he babies, and remortgage his house, even if it meant only 3 minutes of weightlessness - just to have broken the Space Barrier. Do NOT underestimate the lingering determination of the original Trekkies. It is NOT hype that this is big.
If you compare the computing power of 20, or even just 10, years ago with that of today - its an amazing difference. If there are semi-regular trips to the space barrier on a commercial level, we will learn a TREMENDOUS amount. As humans (esp us Americans), we learn far more by doing than we do by theorizing. Just as we have chips in computers now that break theories of 20 years ago as far as what would be possible, the actual commoditization...of sorts...of space travel will also make it cheaper, faster, better, etc blah.
They told people, they just didn't tell you. Sorry to be the one to tell you that... ;)
I tried to find something as a Sr-ish sysadmin over there for a while myself, and never saw anything. I myself would feel honored to go, for two reasons: 1) to be able to put forth a meaningful effort to show Iraqi's that there are Americans that do care about their welfare, and 2) same reason I joined the military back before Desert Storm - civic duty. I could easily get that money in Manhattan or something, and not need to worry (as much) about getting beheaded on the way home from work. There are better reasons to go over there than money.
"Only two other comets have been seen up close, but both appeared fairly smooth and were nowhere near so heavily cratered."
Well with such a HUGE sample pool, I can see how they're able to make such firm analysis of this meteor! I mean, really - both the others they've seen up close didn't look at this one, so clearly this one is completely unique in the solar system!
Sigh.
Yeah, back before the 70's or so, when those who used computers had to know what they were doing. Count mine as a vote for discontinuing the trend for allowing people to dumb themselves down. When you gear everything for the lowest common denominator, everyone sinks to that level. And really, businesses *did* survive without computers as little as 10-15 years ago. I'm tired of hearing about people here on /. who have a laptop, pda, cellphone, and various other things they carry around with them everywhere all the time. Come on, people. There are still roses out there.
Come on, people. Look at the wattage of a CPU from today versus a CPU from 10 years ago. Look at the differences in power consumption on the various devices. We've got thousands of times more transitors in current systems.
Despite the power consumption increasing dramatically, batteries do in fact keep a system running longer than they used to. That's not lagging behind, that's keeping pace.
Silly glass-half-emptiers.
One of the most intelligent theories about the true source for oil is from a physicist named Thomas Gold. He explains his theory of the real source for oil and other hydrocarbons in this book.
This isn't even new to slashdot.
the meat of the theory is that the real source of these hydrocarbons seems to be that they are the byproducts of deep deep subterranean chemosynthetic bacteria. Makes FAR more sense than it being from dinosaurs. The continued point is that we'll never run out of oil, unless we kill these subterranean bacteria (which account for about 80 of the volume of all life on earth, so it might take a while). Oil is constantly being produced. Eventually, currently dry oil beds will refill. Will take a long while, but...how long is a matter of debate.
heh. Have to almost agree. I bicycled to work for years, until my wife decided to go to vet school in upstate NY. Now, I can't. Why? Well if you can find me a sr unix admin position closer than 40 miles to ithaca, let me know. I'd even almsot do the 40 miles most days anyway, despite the rain, if I had someplace to shower when I got here :(
While in the previous paragraph, they said...
"Brown's account is based on extensive interviews with more than two dozen leading technologists including Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum.
At least it eventually went out of fashion to hammer him relentlessly here on /. Now we can move on to more important targets like Sun.
ok, prevention, whatever. Point is...so what. They shouldn't be scared unless it actually works. Not to be a cynic, but it won't.
Point being I could find such things near me on ebay a year or two ago...can't now because of all the hypnosis cd's and diet pills. Legit people, the real stuff that the original idea appealed to, are no longer the vast majority of participants.
There's no reason people should be forced to prove a negative (the "I didn't opt in to anything, ever"). Secondly, if I make a brandnew email address and join a couple of legit groups, soon I'll be on spam lists. No need to think precambrian - I've seen it happen in as little as a week.
um, if you're set up correctly, you're only accepting email from servers specifically allowed. Only top level can't do that.
you might be inside a building, with no windows to the outside. I imagine that the phone doesn't do temp, humidity, and forcasting itself, it just picks up the equiv to the weather channel.
That, and I honestly don't pride myself on ebay searching ;) The searching/results aren't completely similar to searching in any other application, so I don't worry about it so much. Point is that I didn't used to need to do such things, and additionally the things I'm looking for are no longer there. Find a weight set in NY anywhere...lemme know when you do. Past the diet pills and videos, there's...professional ebayers selling bowflexes or whatnot. Not that unreasonable to expect someone within a group of millions upon millions of people to be selling a weight set...
That's all the more the dark barking thing is discussed. Anyone know more about it? My vet friends would have been greatly amused had there been actual info I could have passed on...
A year or two ago, I could actually find things on ebay that I was looking for. Hell, no matter what it was, I could find it.
Now, any search just turns up a million hits for people who aren't using ebay for what it was good for, but are instead using it to sell ultra-low quality crap they bought in large volumes.
searching is rougher too - I go to look for anyone with weights for sale in upstate NY, and have to go through a billion diet pill and video things just to find the one item that almost is what I was looking for.
Do I buy it? No...the fact that ebay has a rep for scammers and ripoffs now does help make that decision, too. More and more, that's their rep.
I wish there was a way to filter out professional ebayers...
and before someone makes a 640k comment, don't. There's a difference. When it was 640k, plenty of people could imagine uses for a gigabyte. How many uses for a petabyte of ram can anyone really justify in the next 10 years?
Who the hell is it that has so many insightful points to give away these days? Yeesh.
bonuses don't get taxed that much...the payroll dept where he works just takes out that much. When filling out a 1040, no place on there asks for bonuses differentiated from normal pay. Its just whatever your income for the year was. When he files his tax returns, he'll get that portion back (though he might pay out overall, due to the rest of the year).