No fucking shit. It's a hypothetical idea. ONCE AGAIN: My point is that language (spoken) is instinctual. The languages (ie, english) we use are not, they are learned.
My point wasn't that becoming a good coder was based on starting earlier. I guess I'm not sure how to make my point more clear, but I'll try. I was basically trying to imply that if instead of speaking english or other languages, we spoke perl/c/etc, it would be "natural". Basically imagine flipping programming languages and natural languages, so that you spoke in perl/c/asm/etc, and coded in english/french/german/etc. Anyway, as I said before, our tendancy to use language to communicate is instinctual, the languages we use are not, and that was the main point (although poorly conveyed) of my post.
If you were to teach a child to communicate through computer languages from the beginning, it'd be just as natural as the so called "natural" language. Look at the huge difference in languages throughout the world. English could be considered as different from Japanese as English to Perl. Okay, bad example, but my point being that they seem natural because they're imprinted to our brains at an early age. While using language to communicate may be instinctual, the language we actually use is not, it is learned.
As for you general idea that rocket based technology is not the way to go, WELL NO FUCKING SHIT.
You won't find one single NASA engineer who thinks rockets are the way to get to another star system or anything like that. That's why they're working with things like ion propulsion and whatnot. Sure, it's no space/time warp thing, but the fact of the matter remains, we don't have the technology nor do we understand enough physics and how the universe works to actually develop those technologies. That's why you slowly improve. Remember, it's only been ~50 years since we've been going into space.
It's like saying "We need to reduce dependancy on fossil fuels, what we need to do is plug an electrical cord into the sun, or, we need to have air provide us free energy." (I was making a point, so don't go on about solar panels and windmills) To say something is wrong and then suggest something that is completely out of the question at this point in human evolution/understanding/knowledge/technology is just downright pointless.
If I ran the world NASA would have Mars-Rovers coming out of factories and firing those things over to Mars twice a month. Every state university in the country would have its own rover it could order around.
Just what kind of materials? And how do you plan on bringing them back up to the surface at a reasonable cost?
Sure, you could attach big inflatable balloons to chunks of these materials, but I still fail to see what kind of new materials we're going to see underwater.
While some may consider it an upgrade (and pretty much everyone here at least would call it an upgrade), most average joe PC users might not. Afterall, he loses MS Office (and yes, I'm aware of the alternatives, but again, Joe Average might not), a lot of his games (WINE/etc might not be the best option), and everything he is familiar with.
We're assuming you already have Linux installed.
While the article does point you to linux.org for choosing a distro and whatnot, any good guide to switching to linux should at least cover the basic installation methods and what you'll need to think about before installing. Since distros have different installers, you don't want to get too indepth or focus on any one installer, but it should at least cover ideas that would be universal or at least common to getting ready to install linux.
Actually, I would think the membrane seperating two different universes would have had to have ripped and those two words would have come together from their respective universes and thus formed a third universe.
Damn it. Get a clue. This is a new type of propulsion. Well, not that new, but it's the first time it's worked this well. For me, using a rocket propelled object to reach high speeds isn't all that impressive.
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I thought they said on Fox News (so it might not be accurate) that they weren't going to recover any of the scramjet, which I would think means there was no data recorder on board and that it was all being sent to recorders on the ground.
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They should have launched 2. One with the camera and one doing the test.
I'm pretty sure they only had one remaining test vehicle. Also, why waste money sending two (one with a camera) when you're not even sure one would even be successful? Also, at that high of speeds, and all that, video might not be the best information gathering tool.
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And probably irrelevent, since there's no funding for future tests.
Ah, but if it is successful, they may direct more funding towards this kind of research. Even if it isn't successful, they might learn enough to still warrant putting in more funding.
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Actually, it didn't really crash. I'm pretty sure they blew up before it had time to crash. IOW, it didn't blow up itself, they saw the deviation and had it self destruct.
Well, just watched it on TV, and judging by the reactions of the control room team, it looks like they were pretty excited, so hopefully it went well.
Unfortunatly, the stupid news anchors and the private scientific people they had on kept talking the whole time through. They did said NASA should have a press conference in 1-2 hours.
I dunno, 100,000 feet? Seems like a high enough number, I basically just wanted to discard homemade rockets, military rockets (like SAMS) and the like.
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Hard? Try impossible. How else would I keep in contact with all my friends and family? Pay my bills? Keep up with the news?
Phone, pen and paper, postal service, tv. There you go!
So enlist while you've still got a chance.
Yeah, because with the US's current military plans, they won't want any new enlistments any time soon....
fat chicks who aren't ugly.
Some might say that's impossible. Then again, I'm from Wisconsin (ie, home of fat and ugly), so that may have something to do with it.
Yeah, you could get one of those desktop stripper thingies, and then snort lines off a stripper's tits without having to goto the strip club!
You mean Roverlords.
No fucking shit. It's a hypothetical idea. ONCE AGAIN: My point is that language (spoken) is instinctual. The languages (ie, english) we use are not, they are learned.
My point wasn't that becoming a good coder was based on starting earlier. I guess I'm not sure how to make my point more clear, but I'll try. I was basically trying to imply that if instead of speaking english or other languages, we spoke perl/c/etc, it would be "natural". Basically imagine flipping programming languages and natural languages, so that you spoke in perl/c/asm/etc, and coded in english/french/german/etc. Anyway, as I said before, our tendancy to use language to communicate is instinctual, the languages we use are not, and that was the main point (although poorly conveyed) of my post.
Natural language are also exactly that - natural.
If you were to teach a child to communicate through computer languages from the beginning, it'd be just as natural as the so called "natural" language. Look at the huge difference in languages throughout the world. English could be considered as different from Japanese as English to Perl. Okay, bad example, but my point being that they seem natural because they're imprinted to our brains at an early age. While using language to communicate may be instinctual, the language we actually use is not, it is learned.
Rack mounted system? I think Pamela Anderson might be a good investment to look at.
Speculation: in the next few months, Google will abolish world hunger and buy everyone a pony.
How will they abolish world hunger? Give people the poor to feed their pony with?
Psssst. The pyramids weren't designed to be tourist attractions designed to generate income thousands of years later.
Your arguement is flawed as already mentioned.
As for you general idea that rocket based technology is not the way to go, WELL NO FUCKING SHIT.
You won't find one single NASA engineer who thinks rockets are the way to get to another star system or anything like that. That's why they're working with things like ion propulsion and whatnot. Sure, it's no space/time warp thing, but the fact of the matter remains, we don't have the technology nor do we understand enough physics and how the universe works to actually develop those technologies. That's why you slowly improve. Remember, it's only been ~50 years since we've been going into space.
It's like saying "We need to reduce dependancy on fossil fuels, what we need to do is plug an electrical cord into the sun, or, we need to have air provide us free energy." (I was making a point, so don't go on about solar panels and windmills) To say something is wrong and then suggest something that is completely out of the question at this point in human evolution/understanding/knowledge/technology is just downright pointless.
If I ran the world NASA would have Mars-Rovers coming out of factories and firing those things over to Mars twice a month. Every state university in the country would have its own rover it could order around.
"Battlebots: Mars" anyone?
Just what kind of materials? And how do you plan on bringing them back up to the surface at a reasonable cost?
Sure, you could attach big inflatable balloons to chunks of these materials, but I still fail to see what kind of new materials we're going to see underwater.
While some may consider it an upgrade (and pretty much everyone here at least would call it an upgrade), most average joe PC users might not. Afterall, he loses MS Office (and yes, I'm aware of the alternatives, but again, Joe Average might not), a lot of his games (WINE/etc might not be the best option), and everything he is familiar with.
We're assuming you already have Linux installed.
While the article does point you to linux.org for choosing a distro and whatnot, any good guide to switching to linux should at least cover the basic installation methods and what you'll need to think about before installing. Since distros have different installers, you don't want to get too indepth or focus on any one installer, but it should at least cover ideas that would be universal or at least common to getting ready to install linux.
Actually, I would think the membrane seperating two different universes would have had to have ripped and those two words would have come together from their respective universes and thus formed a third universe.
Not sure exactly on the laws, but I'm guessing anytime you try and improve the odds for yourself at a casino it's probably illegal.
Like I said, I have no idea, but maybe also because it's considered fraud in some way?
Damn it. Get a clue. This is a new type of propulsion. Well, not that new, but it's the first time it's worked this well. For me, using a rocket propelled object to reach high speeds isn't all that impressive.
I thought they said on Fox News (so it might not be accurate) that they weren't going to recover any of the scramjet, which I would think means there was no data recorder on board and that it was all being sent to recorders on the ground.
They should have launched 2. One with the camera and one doing the test.
I'm pretty sure they only had one remaining test vehicle. Also, why waste money sending two (one with a camera) when you're not even sure one would even be successful? Also, at that high of speeds, and all that, video might not be the best information gathering tool.
And probably irrelevent, since there's no funding for future tests.
Ah, but if it is successful, they may direct more funding towards this kind of research. Even if it isn't successful, they might learn enough to still warrant putting in more funding.
Actually, it didn't really crash. I'm pretty sure they blew up before it had time to crash. IOW, it didn't blow up itself, they saw the deviation and had it self destruct.
Well, just watched it on TV, and judging by the reactions of the control room team, it looks like they were pretty excited, so hopefully it went well.
Unfortunatly, the stupid news anchors and the private scientific people they had on kept talking the whole time through. They did said NASA should have a press conference in 1-2 hours.
3) Lack of roadmap
That's okay, because REAL men don't need not stinkin directions.
I dunno, 100,000 feet? Seems like a high enough number, I basically just wanted to discard homemade rockets, military rockets (like SAMS) and the like.