I agree 100% about reusing the Shuttle's External Tanks.
NASA must have a giant stick up its ass to bring the ETs almost completely into orbit, only to let them burn up in the atmosphere.
I still haven't heard a reasonable explaination as to why this great idea has been ignored for so long. IMO, it's because the idea of "Reuse/Recycle/Reduce" is not compatible with getting maximum tax funding. They'd rather blow billions on a shiny new ISS (where maintenance consumes scientific work) than on boosting and retrofitting the large ETs.
nobody has developed paper that can cause a mark on its surface to be erased and another mark drawn while the paper is in the ballot box.
Right at this very moment I'm programming my trillion strong fleet of nanobots to do their dirty work.:)
They'll simply slip into the ballot box, take stock of all the paper ballots, and fudge the votes by moving some graphite around at the molecular level. Then my little evil minions will simply float away without a trace.
(This isn't THAT funny. Matter will be manipulated like data in the not too distant future.)
Just saw a movie called Funny Games. I went through the whole movie expecting the good guys to eventually win... but they don't. >:-) I actually wanted to strangle the fuckers in this movie.
I remember watching some amazing MPEG video of work that Thinking Machines Corp did in the early nineties (before they under). The video depicted artificially evolved creatures swimming/flying/walking/flopping/etc in a somewhat granular 3D space. It was jawdropping, even now.
People laugh... but looking busy is actually one of the most important job "skills". If you own your own business you don't even need to fake it though.
And oh yeah, you didn't want those other languages and surround sound did you?
Eh? There's nothing stopping the downloaded version from having alternate audio dubs / subtitles. Also, DivX movies increasingly use the AC3 codec for 5.1 audio (vs vanilla stereo with mp3).
It gives you a good feel for the neighborhood, but tells you nothing about the individuals.
Just as it should be. My government doesn't need to know those details (unless it wants to become a police state).
When the Census2000 guy came to my apartment he repeatedly tried to get me to give up more personal info than necessary. I just told him "two people live here - that's all you need to know, and that's all you're legally allowed to extract from me."
how do you fix it? Oh, that's right, you send up a space shuttle full of people to fix it.
Not for long. Robotics is getting better and cheaper faster than space tech + expensive humans. It's only a few millisecs of latency for telepresence, until AI can do the job locally (much later).
Do you really think that private enterprise is going to terraform other planets?
Terraforming? How quaint. Extrapolating tech into the future indicates we'll sooner be taking the planets apart for raw molecular building material than wasting space & material & escape velocity energy, by living on the tiny surface area of another gravity well.
Can you come up with a better way to get humans into space (and bring them back if needed)?
Yeah. Divert a larger chunk of the money that would be wasted on chemical rockets and deadweight NASA beaurocrats into nanotech research so we can bootstrap ourselves off this planet much much earlier.
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Like beauty, art is in the eyes of the beholder.
No, some beauty is universal.
Like how men the world over are genetically wired to find the same waist-to-hip ratio most beautiful for a woman: 0.70 being sexiest (and non-pregnant), > 1 is too fat, and 0.40 too grotesquely Aeon Flux:)
Also, just about everyone appreciates the natural beauty of the golden ratio whether they're aware of it or not. A good artist can make a pile of elephant shit look good.
The guy was asking for a simple consumer-level blackbox RAID solution. None of those companies really sell one.
You know... a compact box with say, 3 drive bays on 3 seperate channels (for RAID5), that you could simply plug 3 cheap ATA drives of equal size into and connect to your PC via USB2 or firewire as one disk. When a drive in the array dies (or begins to die if SMART monitored), a red LED on the bad drivebay gets lit and an alarm sounds letting you know its time to buy a new drive before another drive dies... or hotswap with a replacement drive and RMA for a new standby (if it was still under warranty).
I suppose this would be even easier for most people if the drives came preinstalled in the box and when you had trouble you dealt with the "raid5 idiotbox vendor" instead.
Still... it's more painful to upgrade 3 drives at a time rather than one... not much of a market here.
...things which are copyrighted are created by the authors, and they should have the ability to control them.
The reality is that enforcing that control is virtually impossible now, so why beat a dead horse? Artists need to stop thinking of their output as consumer product they can keep under lock and key.
No, artists should have the ability to work for a living... to perform live... to be grateful instead of spiteful of paying fans... to ask for voluntary payment for ongoing support... to solicit funding for future works (ala street performer protocol)... to make their bottom line open if necessary... etc.
When artists demand total control over their output, even when they know that's impossible, they're just shooting themselves in the foot.
Who would you rather support with your money? Artists who view their fans as thieves and want nothing other than total control, like Harlan Ellison, Metallica, Dr. Dre, etc., or artists who are lot less fascist and very appreciative, like Janis Ian, Grateful Dead, etc.
Put on the desired phony buddy-buddy act before you get the job, then drop it the second you get hired... just like you drop the BS after you get married... and just like the saleman's attitude sours right after the sale is made.
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They're hiring sleazy lawyers and trying to blame fastfood companies for the shit they shovel down their throats.
(Sueing Tobacco Co's isn't at all similar)
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I wonder if anyone could ever convince her to do a double dildo scene in a movie? Nah... she'd never do that.
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NASA must have a giant stick up its ass to bring the ETs almost completely into orbit, only to let them burn up in the atmosphere.
I still haven't heard a reasonable explaination as to why this great idea has been ignored for so long. IMO, it's because the idea of "Reuse/Recycle/Reduce" is not compatible with getting maximum tax funding. They'd rather blow billions on a shiny new ISS (where maintenance consumes scientific work) than on boosting and retrofitting the large ETs.
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Right at this very moment I'm programming my trillion strong fleet of nanobots to do their dirty work. :)
They'll simply slip into the ballot box, take stock of all the paper ballots, and fudge the votes by moving some graphite around at the molecular level. Then my little evil minions will simply float away without a trace.
(This isn't THAT funny. Matter will be manipulated like data in the not too distant future.)
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I'd rather look back in ~35 years when (biological) man has invented his last invention.
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This is just what I'm looking for. :)
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Anyone still doing work along these lines?
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Still... A more expensive tool won't make you a better artist.
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Stop abusing the T-word you nazi!
People laugh... but looking busy is actually one of the most important job "skills". If you own your own business you don't even need to fake it though.
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That's not ironic because the TV is the center of distraction that allows you to bypass the social BS you hate so much.
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Eh? There's nothing stopping the downloaded version from having alternate audio dubs / subtitles. Also, DivX movies increasingly use the AC3 codec for 5.1 audio (vs vanilla stereo with mp3).
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Just as it should be. My government doesn't need to know those details (unless it wants to become a police state).
When the Census2000 guy came to my apartment he repeatedly tried to get me to give up more personal info than necessary. I just told him "two people live here - that's all you need to know, and that's all you're legally allowed to extract from me."
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Not for long. Robotics is getting better and cheaper faster than space tech + expensive humans. It's only a few millisecs of latency for telepresence, until AI can do the job locally (much later).
Do you really think that private enterprise is going to terraform other planets?
Terraforming? How quaint. Extrapolating tech into the future indicates we'll sooner be taking the planets apart for raw molecular building material than wasting space & material & escape velocity energy, by living on the tiny surface area of another gravity well.
Can you come up with a better way to get humans into space (and bring them back if needed)?
Yeah. Divert a larger chunk of the money that would be wasted on chemical rockets and deadweight NASA beaurocrats into nanotech research so we can bootstrap ourselves off this planet much much earlier.
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No, some beauty is universal.
Like how men the world over are genetically wired to find the same waist-to-hip ratio most beautiful for a woman: 0.70 being sexiest (and non-pregnant), > 1 is too fat, and 0.40 too grotesquely Aeon Flux :)
Also, just about everyone appreciates the natural beauty of the golden ratio whether they're aware of it or not. A good artist can make a pile of elephant shit look good.
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You know... a compact box with say, 3 drive bays on 3 seperate channels (for RAID5), that you could simply plug 3 cheap ATA drives of equal size into and connect to your PC via USB2 or firewire as one disk. When a drive in the array dies (or begins to die if SMART monitored), a red LED on the bad drivebay gets lit and an alarm sounds letting you know its time to buy a new drive before another drive dies... or hotswap with a replacement drive and RMA for a new standby (if it was still under warranty).
I suppose this would be even easier for most people if the drives came preinstalled in the box and when you had trouble you dealt with the "raid5 idiotbox vendor" instead.
Still... it's more painful to upgrade 3 drives at a time rather than one... not much of a market here.
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You're on my foe list.
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The reality is that enforcing that control is virtually impossible now, so why beat a dead horse? Artists need to stop thinking of their output as consumer product they can keep under lock and key.
No, artists should have the ability to work for a living... to perform live... to be grateful instead of spiteful of paying fans... to ask for voluntary payment for ongoing support... to solicit funding for future works (ala street performer protocol)... to make their bottom line open if necessary... etc.
When artists demand total control over their output, even when they know that's impossible, they're just shooting themselves in the foot.
Who would you rather support with your money? Artists who view their fans as thieves and want nothing other than total control, like Harlan Ellison, Metallica, Dr. Dre, etc., or artists who are lot less fascist and very appreciative, like Janis Ian, Grateful Dead, etc.
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Put on the desired phony buddy-buddy act before you get the job, then drop it the second you get hired... just like you drop the BS after you get married... and just like the saleman's attitude sours right after the sale is made.
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