Congress funds some fuzzy minded, expensive boondoggle (like Iraq). Than the administrations chronies come in to sweep up pork barrel contracts.
This is what "Social Security Reform" is all about as well.
If the space investment will pay for itself, I suggest we start floating "Mars Bonds" and let the free market decide whether the money is there or not. That is, they're not backed by the full faith and credit of the US Treasury. But rather backed by the credit of the Mars Exploration Company.
Don't give me all the BS about "What if Columbus had turned around and went home" BS. You want to finance exploration and colonization. Do it the SAME way as those exploring the new world. They formed companies and got private investors!!!! All original 13 colonies were COMPANIES!!! They were there to MAKE A PROFIT!!!
If there was a ridiculous amount of money to be made in space, private corporations would have done it already.
See, this is the "new" business model. Make your costs public (on the taxpayers) and privatize the profits (investors).
I don't want to hear red-herring arguments for fuel for reactors that haven't been invented yet. Nor any nonsense about colonizing a sterile dead world when humans could survive pretty much any catastrophe just by digging deep well-stocked bunkers in the earth at fractions of the cost of Mars colonization.
If you're concerned about pollution, support the refunding of superfund, not space exploration. Support mandatory mercury scrubbers in ALL coal fired power plants within the next 5 years (as the companies SHOULD have already implemented).
Space exploration should be left to career professionals... ROBOTS!!!!
Not only did Reagan violate the law by selling those weapons, he also flew in the face of his own prohibitions against dealing with terrorists.
The funniest part of the whole incident is that Reagan violated his policy even BEFORE he made it when he negotiated with the Iyatollah to hold the prisoners until AFTER he was sworn in to office.
Multiple ex-detainees have reported that the Koran was deliberately mistreated during their stay INCLUDING the book being put in the toilet and the toilet being flushed. Obviously, it couldn't go down the drain.
The CBS story was factually correct. But they screwed up royally by not following up on the leads that Killian gave them. The fonts and kerning in the document were perfectly capable of being produced by typewriters in the possession of the TANG in 1972. The secretary was clear that she didn't type them, nor would anyone in TANG since they formatted their docs different and used different lingo.
I'm not sure how "biased" you can accuse Dan Rather of being. His researchers screwed up the story investigation. He followed up with a secretary that positively debunked the documents as being originals. He corrected himself unlike the countless right wing shills working in the corporate media.
And of course, the secretary made it VERY clear that she had indeed typed documents to the effect as expressed in the "reproductions". The son had no way of knowing what exactly went on in the office. If you want to know what goes on in an office, you ask a secretary.
I find it very interesting that the White House has yet to retract any of it's BS. It has never admitted misleading the press with forged documents during the 2000 election regarding the very same issue.
Bush has had an EASY ride with the press. And it's no doubt considering that Bush can kill or move forward legislation allowing the 5 familes (the five corporations that own MOST of the media) to further consolidate their holdings on the American mindshare.
If you have ANY doubt about the "liberal media", you need only look to the 8 years of Clinton as president when that media printed COUNTLESS BS stories about things that were nothing more than scurrilous accusations. In many cases those accusations could EASILY be debunked, but the media was no inclined to do so.
Well, C# is a more advanced language to begin with. It has more features. It's designers weren't so uptite with telling you HOW to program so much as they were in getting tools to you.
Some of the COOLEST stuff in C# is the attributes which allows the IDE and code to integrate in some pretty amazing ways.
It's all a matter of personal preference. I think C# is VERY cool. I think it's WAY easier to work with than Java and it certainly requires less typing to do some pretty simple tasks.
No doubt that Java is more "cross-platform". You have way more Java target OSs than for.net. But for 95% of the people out there, that doesn't really matter. dotnet runs on Windows and Linux.
Just remember that cross platform is almost NEVER magic. Real applications carry baggage with them that carry potential pitfalls. I have yet to see shrinkwrapped Java software on the store shelf meant to be installed generically across Mac/Wintel/Sun/Linux/HP.
The ultimate irony is that Java was designed to be a "client side" language running interactive content through a we browser. That never happened. Flash and Shockwave happened.
As cool as write once, run everywhere sounds, in the real world there is really very little need for it.
Well, I do think that Microsoft did invest a buttload of money into a certain interpreted langauge called Visual Basic. No it's not a virtual machine. But if you're only using one language, you don't exactly need p-code, do you????
BTW, I hate VB because it's an ugly language. But you have to admit that Microsoft made a huge commercial success out of a programming environment that didn't run compiled code. VB was a successfull and USEFUL product running live in businesses LONG before someone figured out how to turn the fun, smart, innovative and mostly useless Java toy into a real tool.
The only CASE tool ever developed worth ANY money was the IDE. Code is design. Rapid prototyping and development is design. Rose is garbage that distracts from the real work of developing ideas by rapid prototyping.
Visual Studio, Visual Age, CodeWright, Visual SlickEdit, you take your pick. Put documentation, compilation, debugging, file management and version control all together and that is what will make people more productive.
What makes my head spin is that as soon as both Sony AND Microsoft announce they are definitely using IBM PowerPC CPUS, Apple is rumoured to be switching to Intel because the PowerPC stuff isn't "fast enough".
These game systems tell me that PowerPC has a LOT of scalability especially in the way of multi-core unit. I think the Intel/Apple story is BS (as usual).
It's called the evening news as of the last 5 years.
My observation is that most people who don't like the prequel backstory are conservatives. They simply can't see how a smiling congenial man could be evil spawn intentionally tearing his own nation apart and setting his enemies at each other's throats so that he can take all the power for himself. And all the while, the people LOVE him for it.
... and it's not Halloween, you SHOULD be groaning.
Hey the fans are the ones who invest so much of their life in a fictional story in the first place. If they want to be angry at anyone for being dissapointed, they should be angry at themselves for writing their OWN scripts for future movies and not liking what Lucas had planned.
The best move could be another young "Harrison Ford". Find another young actor destined to die from a drug overdose and tell the "Han Solo" story.
The hut world is bound to be a lot more interesting that the Galactic World. The huts have all kinds of cool aliens around. The Emperor is pretty fond of uniformity and order.
Heir to the Empire would be an excellent 3D cartoon. But the story is already known, and the actors are too old to portray themselves now.
Lucas commented more than once that he wanted his actors "aged". It could very well be that George is lying, that he actually WILL make VII-IX. But he will take a brake before he does it.
Japan is kinda stuck in these pay for defense agreements with the US. But we're learning that the larger cost of war for democracies isn't monetary, it's political. How many boys come home in bodybags.
We NEED a strong Japan to act as an active bulwark against the likes of N Korea and Japan.
China as a communist nation was ineffective and laughable. All communist societies eventually collapse from their own internal inefficiencies (Reagan nearly pushed a sick Giant over after it had been pummelled over the decades).
The "NEW" China is more akin to Nazi Germany. A Capitalistic, Fascist society where governance is performed by a close "inner circle" with approval of cynical business interests. This "New China" is a scary beasts.
I'm not sure why people believe that free enterprise will bring Democracy to China. Unregulated markets are the natural state of economies and they have ALWAYS created a natural inclination for feudalistic systems where a few powerful brokers govern a large impovershed class.
Modern soldiers don't march extended distances. They get ONTO trucks (these days Armored personnell carriers) they get to their patrol area and then they patrol. When returning to base they get back ON their APCs.
One of the greatest advances in the Civil War was powered troop delivery via train. The North developed an effective "RAIL SUPREMACY" that allowed them to tire down the South.
My father has about the same mobility problems. Arthritis and two knee replacements.
If you add a weight bearing harness to such a rig, you can transfer the upper body weight off the bio-legs and onto the exo-skeleton.
Than the issue would simply be making an effective and comfortable harness. I could see such systems replacing those scooters we see all over the place.
If the bio-guys are right and they can remotely tap the brainstem for signals, I can easily see how this could replace wheelchairs for Parapalegics. Quads would be more difficult since they often require respiration help.
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Congress funds some fuzzy minded, expensive boondoggle (like Iraq). Than the administrations chronies come in to sweep up pork barrel contracts.
This is what "Social Security Reform" is all about as well.
If the space investment will pay for itself, I suggest we start floating "Mars Bonds" and let the free market decide whether the money is there or not. That is, they're not backed by the full faith and credit of the US Treasury. But rather backed by the credit of the Mars Exploration Company.
Don't give me all the BS about "What if Columbus had turned around and went home" BS. You want to finance exploration and colonization. Do it the SAME way as those exploring the new world. They formed companies and got private investors!!!! All original 13 colonies were COMPANIES!!! They were there to MAKE A PROFIT!!!
If there was a ridiculous amount of money to be made in space, private corporations would have done it already.
... ROBOTS!!!!
See, this is the "new" business model. Make your costs public (on the taxpayers) and privatize the profits (investors).
I don't want to hear red-herring arguments for fuel for reactors that haven't been invented yet. Nor any nonsense about colonizing a sterile dead world when humans could survive pretty much any catastrophe just by digging deep well-stocked bunkers in the earth at fractions of the cost of Mars colonization.
If you're concerned about pollution, support the refunding of superfund, not space exploration. Support mandatory mercury scrubbers in ALL coal fired power plants within the next 5 years (as the companies SHOULD have already implemented).
Space exploration should be left to career professionals
Yes, ALUMINUM TUBES!!! DANGEROUS, EVIL
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I suppose one would need a coffee pot to keep scientists alert while building a nuke. So we should put them on a list of weapons materials as well.
I find it far more likely that Hussein was working on the top secret "Arab Bicycle" with those aluminum tubes.
Not only did Reagan violate the law by selling those weapons, he also flew in the face of his own prohibitions against dealing with terrorists.
The funniest part of the whole incident is that Reagan violated his policy even BEFORE he made it when he negotiated with the Iyatollah to hold the prisoners until AFTER he was sworn in to office.
Multiple ex-detainees have reported that the Koran was deliberately mistreated during their stay INCLUDING the book being put in the toilet and the toilet being flushed. Obviously, it couldn't go down the drain.
The CBS story was factually correct. But they screwed up royally by not following up on the leads that Killian gave them. The fonts and kerning in the document were perfectly capable of being produced by typewriters in the possession of the TANG in 1972. The secretary was clear that she didn't type them, nor would anyone in TANG since they formatted their docs different and used different lingo.
I'm not sure how "biased" you can accuse Dan Rather of being. His researchers screwed up the story investigation. He followed up with a secretary that positively debunked the documents as being originals. He corrected himself unlike the countless right wing shills working in the corporate media.
And of course, the secretary made it VERY clear that she had indeed typed documents to the effect as expressed in the "reproductions". The son had no way of knowing what exactly went on in the office. If you want to know what goes on in an office, you ask a secretary.
I find it very interesting that the White House has yet to retract any of it's BS. It has never admitted misleading the press with forged documents during the 2000 election regarding the very same issue.
Bush has had an EASY ride with the press. And it's no doubt considering that Bush can kill or move forward legislation allowing the 5 familes (the five corporations that own MOST of the media) to further consolidate their holdings on the American mindshare.
If you have ANY doubt about the "liberal media", you need only look to the 8 years of Clinton as president when that media printed COUNTLESS BS stories about things that were nothing more than scurrilous accusations. In many cases those accusations could EASILY be debunked, but the media was no inclined to do so.
Well, C# is a more advanced language to begin with. It has more features. It's designers weren't so uptite with telling you HOW to program so much as they were in getting tools to you.
Some of the COOLEST stuff in C# is the attributes which allows the IDE and code to integrate in some pretty amazing ways.
It's all a matter of personal preference. I think C# is VERY cool. I think it's WAY easier to work with than Java and it certainly requires less typing to do some pretty simple tasks.
No doubt that Java is more "cross-platform". You have way more Java target OSs than for
Just remember that cross platform is almost NEVER magic. Real applications carry baggage with them that carry potential pitfalls. I have yet to see shrinkwrapped Java software on the store shelf meant to be installed generically across Mac/Wintel/Sun/Linux/HP.
The ultimate irony is that Java was designed to be a "client side" language running interactive content through a we browser. That never happened. Flash and Shockwave happened.
As cool as write once, run everywhere sounds, in the real world there is really very little need for it.
Well, I do think that Microsoft did invest a buttload of money into a certain interpreted langauge called Visual Basic. No it's not a virtual machine. But if you're only using one language, you don't exactly need p-code, do you????
BTW, I hate VB because it's an ugly language. But you have to admit that Microsoft made a huge commercial success out of a programming environment that didn't run compiled code. VB was a successfull and USEFUL product running live in businesses LONG before someone figured out how to turn the fun, smart, innovative and mostly useless Java toy into a real tool.
Well, technically it's 10 years for Java as a TOY. It's only about 5-6 years for Java as a tool that actually accomplishes something.
The only CASE tool ever developed worth ANY money was the IDE. Code is design. Rapid prototyping and development is design. Rose is garbage that distracts from the real work of developing ideas by rapid prototyping.
Visual Studio, Visual Age, CodeWright, Visual SlickEdit, you take your pick. Put documentation, compilation, debugging, file management and version control all together and that is what will make people more productive.
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If printf() was sufficient, gdb and every other debugger would never have been developed.
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.net over Java because it's just plain EASIER.
Java is not open source, so you don't have the recipe.
There is enough information out there to reconstruct EITHER platform in an open source project.
I prefer
Java does have more cross platform support. But when 90% of the computers out there are Windows, it really doesn't matter much.
C++ -> isn't a problem. C++ is WAY more complicated than C#. C# takes away most memory management issues and makes them "automagic".
I'd much rather using C# than C++. Anyone who KNOWS C++ (really KNOW it and how the compiler really interprets the sytax) will see C# as childs play.
Java and JSP came first. So I'm not sure why companies that CHOSE
I agree with the mono angle. If they want to run on Linux. Just run MONO.
The ONLY angle I can see is project/application integration between JSP and ASP.net.
What makes my head spin is that as soon as both Sony AND Microsoft announce they are definitely using IBM PowerPC CPUS, Apple is rumoured to be switching to Intel because the PowerPC stuff isn't "fast enough".
These game systems tell me that PowerPC has a LOT of scalability especially in the way of multi-core unit. I think the Intel/Apple story is BS (as usual).
It's called the evening news as of the last 5 years.
My observation is that most people who don't like the prequel backstory are conservatives. They simply can't see how a smiling congenial man could be evil spawn intentionally tearing his own nation apart and setting his enemies at each other's throats so that he can take all the power for himself. And all the while, the people LOVE him for it.
... and it's not Halloween, you SHOULD be groaning.
Hey the fans are the ones who invest so much of their life in a fictional story in the first place. If they want to be angry at anyone for being dissapointed, they should be angry at themselves for writing their OWN scripts for future movies and not liking what Lucas had planned.
... ruining Star Trek ... UNTIL ... he died and Rick Berman took over and turned it into a quivering mass of dog poop.
Tell Yoda's story in another movie. I want to see what happened BEFORE with the Sith!!!
The best move could be another young "Harrison Ford". Find another young actor destined to die from a drug overdose and tell the "Han Solo" story.
The hut world is bound to be a lot more interesting that the Galactic World. The huts have all kinds of cool aliens around. The Emperor is pretty fond of uniformity and order.
Lucas SHOULD be doing a TV series for the WB in "Buffy/Smallville" style about Lukes teenage apprentices (a much older Luke).
Heir to the Empire would be an excellent 3D cartoon. But the story is already known, and the actors are too old to portray themselves now.
Lucas commented more than once that he wanted his actors "aged". It could very well be that George is lying, that he actually WILL make VII-IX. But he will take a brake before he does it.
Japan is kinda stuck in these pay for defense agreements with the US. But we're learning that the larger cost of war for democracies isn't monetary, it's political. How many boys come home in bodybags.
We NEED a strong Japan to act as an active bulwark against the likes of N Korea and Japan.
China as a communist nation was ineffective and laughable. All communist societies eventually collapse from their own internal inefficiencies (Reagan nearly pushed a sick Giant over after it had been pummelled over the decades).
The "NEW" China is more akin to Nazi Germany. A Capitalistic, Fascist society where governance is performed by a close "inner circle" with approval of cynical business interests. This "New China" is a scary beasts.
I'm not sure why people believe that free enterprise will bring Democracy to China. Unregulated markets are the natural state of economies and they have ALWAYS created a natural inclination for feudalistic systems where a few powerful brokers govern a large impovershed class.
No, we need a strong Japan now.
Sure they did
Modern soldiers don't march extended distances. They get ONTO trucks (these days Armored personnell carriers) they get to their patrol area and then they patrol. When returning to base they get back ON their APCs.
One of the greatest advances in the Civil War was powered troop delivery via train. The North developed an effective "RAIL SUPREMACY" that allowed them to tire down the South.
Eventually, fuel cells will replace battery packs.
Of course, with Toshiba's new badass lithium-ion quick chargers, the use for batteries may be extended.
My father has about the same mobility problems. Arthritis and two knee replacements.
If you add a weight bearing harness to such a rig, you can transfer the upper body weight off the bio-legs and onto the exo-skeleton.
Than the issue would simply be making an effective and comfortable harness. I could see such systems replacing those scooters we see all over the place.
If the bio-guys are right and they can remotely tap the brainstem for signals, I can easily see how this could replace wheelchairs for Parapalegics. Quads would be more difficult since they often require respiration help.