Unlike the other three forces, gravity neither cancels out because of negative and positive versions, nor peters out beyond subatomic distances. Its effects are therefore cumulative over huge swaths of the universe.
If gravity were much stronger, the entire universe would collapse into a singularity, and we wouldn't be here to gaze at our navels about the issue.
I think that the latest astronomical surveys have shown that about half of all exoplanets are indeed entirely covered with a uniform mixture of playground sand and polystyrene boulders, with a calm, clear purple-tinged atmosphere. The other half of exoplanets all seem bear a striking resemblance to the Mojave Desert.
A moon base would be by far the biggest boondoggle in the history of this nation: Trillions of dollars sunk into a make-work social program for space nutters.
but the development of the Shuttle and the Soviets' failure with their equivalent
Actually, the Soviets succeeded in realizing that an airplane-shaped payload strapped onto the side of a rocket makes no sense after only one flight. It took us over 100 flights before we realized the same thing. I think they won that round.
If they need insect pollinators, they'll make sure they have insect pollinators in the right quantity, with the right pollinating ability, to make their crop a success.
I never knew that nut farmers had such godlike powers.
I wonder why they're not using those powers right now to bring the perfect amount of rain to California, though.
they didn't feel it was worth while to put any additional money into the code, ever again
Not true. Just recently they came dangerously close to completely ruining this site with an investment in new code. Thankfully, they backed down.
The truth of the matter is, there is no reason to upgrade the code. In fact, I'd prefer if they reverted to one of the older versions from earlier years that has fewer "Web 2.0" stunts and just serves up the damned text.
On the other hand, students and people in-general have gotten > and < confused for a long time.
Many decades ago, my first grade teacher explained that these symbols are like alligators: They choose to chomp on the bigger meal. I've never been confused on these symbols since that day.
To prove that the clean design of a micro kernel architecture enables the development of more features than can be achieved with an old-fashioned monolithic kernel, and that these features can be delivered on a faster schedule.
It's the damned truth. Look it up. It looks like you've been fed on a diet of too much talk radio propaganda yourself.
We eliminate the cost of insurance premiums by getting rid of the ridiculous cost structure of health care in this country. There are dozens of countries who already do this just fine, and the people there live longer and healthier lives. This isn't rocket science.
We would have to seriously jack up the tax rate in order to pay for something like that.
We shouldn't have to. We already spend twice as much per capita on health care than any other country, with worse outcomes. Half of our health care system is already socialized (Medicare/Medicaid). That means if we could just get costs and quality in line with the rest of the world, we could cover everyone, get better results, and eliminate all private insurance premiums using no more tax money than we're already spending.
A software developers union would presumably be in a good position to shake off the ways of the past. They could apply some basic 21st-century tech to the situation.
What if they instituted a feedback system where clients rate the developers? Then the hourly rates could vary based on the capabilities of each individual.
If you had the entire union vouching for you as their top "rockstar" developer, maybe you could get even higher pay rates than you could by just tooting your horn on your own.
Umm.... What about the MIT and BSD licenses? They don't have a clause requiring the release of source when delivered in binary form. Do you not consider these licenses to be open source?
If the BSD-licensed binary software was shipped unmodified, then you still have access to the upstream release, and it's still open source.
If modifications were made, then a binary derivative work was shipped. If a proprietary license has been added to the derivative work or the source modifications are kept secret, then the derivative work is not open source. (But the original unmodified code that it was based on remains open source.)
Accountants have a favorite model. It's full of its own errors (like rounding many intermediate results to only two digits of fractional precision), but these are the errors accountants are used to seeing, regardless of how large the errors are. So they go on and on about how "superior" their model is when other models come up with slightly different results, even if those results might sometimes be closer to the abstract ideal. Accountants are smug in their knowledge that their peers can calculate erroneous results that exactly match their own.
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FFS, there's no need to get your panties in a wad over trivial semantics.
Unlike the other three forces, gravity neither cancels out because of negative and positive versions, nor peters out beyond subatomic distances. Its effects are therefore cumulative over huge swaths of the universe.
If gravity were much stronger, the entire universe would collapse into a singularity, and we wouldn't be here to gaze at our navels about the issue.
I think that the latest astronomical surveys have shown that about half of all exoplanets are indeed entirely covered with a uniform mixture of playground sand and polystyrene boulders, with a calm, clear purple-tinged atmosphere. The other half of exoplanets all seem bear a striking resemblance to the Mojave Desert.
A moon base would be by far the biggest boondoggle in the history of this nation: Trillions of dollars sunk into a make-work social program for space nutters.
but the development of the Shuttle and the Soviets' failure with their equivalent
Actually, the Soviets succeeded in realizing that an airplane-shaped payload strapped onto the side of a rocket makes no sense after only one flight. It took us over 100 flights before we realized the same thing. I think they won that round.
People with an agenda don't want to be bothered with pesky issues like reality.
As your posts nicely demonstrate.
I give up. You're as dense as a brick.
Are you trying to be obtuse?
How does the bee supplier raise more bees if they have all been poisoned?
You call up the bee supplier. He arrives with bees.
That works great.
Unless he doesn't have any god-damned bees any more. Have you been living under a rock for the past five years?
If they need insect pollinators, they'll make sure they have insect pollinators in the right quantity, with the right pollinating ability, to make their crop a success.
I never knew that nut farmers had such godlike powers.
I wonder why they're not using those powers right now to bring the perfect amount of rain to California, though.
they didn't feel it was worth while to put any additional money into the code, ever again
Not true. Just recently they came dangerously close to completely ruining this site with an investment in new code. Thankfully, they backed down.
The truth of the matter is, there is no reason to upgrade the code. In fact, I'd prefer if they reverted to one of the older versions from earlier years that has fewer "Web 2.0" stunts and just serves up the damned text.
On the other hand, students and people in-general have gotten > and < confused for a long time.
Many decades ago, my first grade teacher explained that these symbols are like alligators: They choose to chomp on the bigger meal. I've never been confused on these symbols since that day.
Why does the HURD exist?
To prove that the clean design of a micro kernel architecture enables the development of more features than can be achieved with an old-fashioned monolithic kernel, and that these features can be delivered on a faster schedule.
No we don't. That's just media propaganda.
It's the damned truth. Look it up. It looks like you've been fed on a diet of too much talk radio propaganda yourself.
We eliminate the cost of insurance premiums by getting rid of the ridiculous cost structure of health care in this country. There are dozens of countries who already do this just fine, and the people there live longer and healthier lives. This isn't rocket science.
We are in a Dark Age of manned space travel
And nothing of value was lost.
We would have to seriously jack up the tax rate in order to pay for something like that.
We shouldn't have to. We already spend twice as much per capita on health care than any other country, with worse outcomes. Half of our health care system is already socialized (Medicare/Medicaid). That means if we could just get costs and quality in line with the rest of the world, we could cover everyone, get better results, and eliminate all private insurance premiums using no more tax money than we're already spending.
A software developers union would presumably be in a good position to shake off the ways of the past. They could apply some basic 21st-century tech to the situation.
What if they instituted a feedback system where clients rate the developers? Then the hourly rates could vary based on the capabilities of each individual.
If you had the entire union vouching for you as their top "rockstar" developer, maybe you could get even higher pay rates than you could by just tooting your horn on your own.
Dogsleds aren't used in the Antarctic, just the Arctic. Likewise, no penguins in the Arctic. The Antarctic is pretty barren and inhospitable.
Dog sleds in the Antarctic seemed to work well for Roald Amundsen.
Umm.... What about the MIT and BSD licenses? They don't have a clause requiring the release of source when delivered in binary form. Do you not consider these licenses to be open source?
If the BSD-licensed binary software was shipped unmodified, then you still have access to the upstream release, and it's still open source.
If modifications were made, then a binary derivative work was shipped. If a proprietary license has been added to the derivative work or the source modifications are kept secret, then the derivative work is not open source. (But the original unmodified code that it was based on remains open source.)
COBOL is an elegant and surviving solution to a challenge of translating from the language of business to the language of computers.
So I presume that COBOL has keywords such as "impactful", "synergy", "touchpoint" and "empower"?
What makes you think that the whole world prefers to use some time zone established by imperialist European powers for their own convenience?
"You get more of what you subsidize"
Apparently, what you really want is more obscenely overpriced committee-designed rehashed space shuttle hardware.
Face it, this is an extravagantly expensive social program for keeping engineers with overly bureaucratic personalities out of trouble.
All computer numerical models are imprecise.
Accountants have a favorite model. It's full of its own errors (like rounding many intermediate results to only two digits of fractional precision), but these are the errors accountants are used to seeing, regardless of how large the errors are. So they go on and on about how "superior" their model is when other models come up with slightly different results, even if those results might sometimes be closer to the abstract ideal. Accountants are smug in their knowledge that their peers can calculate erroneous results that exactly match their own.
So you're saying that Obama squandered so much money on social programs that now there's none left for your pet social program.
In case you're wondering, it was simply that only the rental store could rewind rental tapes (cartridges).
I bet that still didn't stop them from having a $1 "rewind fee" policy.