Then it sounds like Cygnus is more appropriate. The Phoenix was reborn from ashes. In this case the flight of the Cygnus spacecraft is its swan song since it won't live to see another day.
"...you see a huge hoard of people launching a spacecraft, or massive ground support infrastructure, you are looking at obsolete technology."
I'm not so sure. I think what you're seeing is a public relations and media event. Really, how exciting would it have been to see any NASA launch with just a few engineers sitting around a table? People want to see the big board and lots of people wearing headsets sitting at workstations labeled with the subsystem name.
In the Apple Keychain Access app the access to each key is restricted to a list of applications that are set by the user. You are allowed to grant access of a particular key to all applications, however.
"...try raising your hands in the air 8 hours a day, 5 days a week..."
Good point. It's better to lay your arms out in front of you repetitively pressing keys and buttons for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. No ill effects from that at all.
This is really neat stuff. But really, to me the biggest breakthroughs that Musk has made are bureaucratic. In other words, he cuts out a lot of the BS most everyone else in a large organization has to go through. When they want to try something they just try it. No endless discussions about trade studies. No endless process for getting approval to add an "if" statement to your code. He just has ideas and they try them out.
Good point. I didn't think about the bright side of all this.
California already has a cheaper system for identifying cars, which is the physical license plate. The California Highway Patrol (and police departments as far as I can tell) already don't car if you are driving around with expired plates (which is already very easy to distinguish) or even if you have plates at all. I see so many cars on a daily basis with nothing but a license plate frame and the dealer logo in it.
I have no doubt that this is really just the entry point for authorities to place a GPS unit in every car.
Couldn't agree more. That is why I advocate removing all types of regulation and consumer protections. If you're too stupid to have your imported food tested for melamine content then you're too stupid to live, I say.
"Much effort will be put into the designing of vehicles with 'Robot-brains', vehicles that can be set for particular destinations and that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver."
Please re-read the subject line. If you still feel that the US government is EXTREMELY corrupt then I would suggest you've never been to a country that was.
I am not on the side of the US government, but I will politely disagree with this statement. Yes, there is corruption (currently I'm thinking more about police here). However, I am over 50 years old and I have yet to run into a situation dealing with the government (at any level) where I actually had to pay bribes to get them to do their jobs.
Yes, eternal vigilance is good, but stating things in a hyperbolic manner out of frustration weakens your reputation for the next go around. But stay vigilant! I like that.:-)
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I should have made it clear that cygnus is the Greek word for swan.
Then it sounds like Cygnus is more appropriate. The Phoenix was reborn from ashes. In this case the flight of the Cygnus spacecraft is its swan song since it won't live to see another day.
Well, if you call that living...
"Something is seriously wrong with you, if you think there is the slightest chance his post was serious."
Likewise.
"Could you point me to the robot that has entered intergalactic space?"
Marvin. He's even been to the end of the universe.
Yes, it's a simple English head code. Any school boy could catch it.
"...you see a huge hoard of people launching a spacecraft, or massive ground support infrastructure, you are looking at obsolete technology."
I'm not so sure. I think what you're seeing is a public relations and media event. Really, how exciting would it have been to see any NASA launch with just a few engineers sitting around a table? People want to see the big board and lots of people wearing headsets sitting at workstations labeled with the subsystem name.
Well, then, I suggest we invoke the other Poe's law: Nevermore!
In the Apple Keychain Access app the access to each key is restricted to a list of applications that are set by the user. You are allowed to grant access of a particular key to all applications, however.
"...try raising your hands in the air 8 hours a day, 5 days a week..."
Good point. It's better to lay your arms out in front of you repetitively pressing keys and buttons for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. No ill effects from that at all.
That's not even a good troll.
This is really neat stuff. But really, to me the biggest breakthroughs that Musk has made are bureaucratic. In other words, he cuts out a lot of the BS most everyone else in a large organization has to go through. When they want to try something they just try it. No endless discussions about trade studies. No endless process for getting approval to add an "if" statement to your code. He just has ideas and they try them out.
Good point. I didn't think about the bright side of all this.
California already has a cheaper system for identifying cars, which is the physical license plate. The California Highway Patrol (and police departments as far as I can tell) already don't car if you are driving around with expired plates (which is already very easy to distinguish) or even if you have plates at all. I see so many cars on a daily basis with nothing but a license plate frame and the dealer logo in it.
I have no doubt that this is really just the entry point for authorities to place a GPS unit in every car.
Yep. Otherwise you might as well be dealing with the Pirahna Brothers.
"I had transgressed the unwritten law!"
"And what was that?"
"I don't know. He wouldn't tell me. "
Couldn't agree more. That is why I advocate removing all types of regulation and consumer protections. If you're too stupid to have your imported food tested for melamine content then you're too stupid to live, I say.
By the way, you misspelled "due."
I don't know who the jackass was who modded you off topic since just about every discussion in every Slashdot post ends up off topic. See?
From the article:
"Much effort will be put into the designing of vehicles with 'Robot-brains', vehicles that can be set for particular destinations and that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver."
Sounds like the Google car to me.
I'm thinking Bret, Bart, Beau or Brent.
Troll? Really? Fewer people means less energy demand, among other things.
"...there are five and a half billion people who need more cheap energy."
And there are seven billion people who need...fewer people.
Please re-read the subject line. If you still feel that the US government is EXTREMELY corrupt then I would suggest you've never been to a country that was.
"Where the fuck is my flying car?"
It's here. We have just gone way beyond flying cars and you missed it.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qCA_om_CTY/UYgoajU-iAI/AAAAAAAAHtE/lTI2XEPveQw/s1600/coolcar.jpg
I will say, however, that Asimov pretty much described the Google car.
I am not on the side of the US government, but I will politely disagree with this statement. Yes, there is corruption (currently I'm thinking more about police here). However, I am over 50 years old and I have yet to run into a situation dealing with the government (at any level) where I actually had to pay bribes to get them to do their jobs.
Yes, eternal vigilance is good, but stating things in a hyperbolic manner out of frustration weakens your reputation for the next go around. But stay vigilant! I like that. :-)
I guess the corollary is that todays USA "conservative" is not that far away from Franco or Mussolini. (By the way, Hitler was not a leftist).
Ease up on the hyperbole, eh?
Glad to see you came out of the tornado OK.
It takes about eight minutes to roast enough for a few strong cups of coffee using a hot air popcorn popper. Life is too short to drink swill.