I call bullshit on this technology too. What would be cooler would be something that you attached to say a port on your body that would take your blood and oxygenate it in the same manner that fish oxygenate their blood and remove the CO2 and then recirculate it back into your blood stream. I'm not sure what your lungs would think of this arrangement. Another idea is to use that technology they showcased in the abyss and use oxygenate that liquid that you then breathe. The issues with that are that your body evolved to breath gas not liquids.
I thought this was their second launch. They've already launched one of these Cygnus resupply missions to the ISS, apparently that one was a demonstration. This is their first commercial launch...
Where exactly do you live? Not all schools in the US are created equal. I live in Massachusetts and our schools are rated some of the best in the world. Granted the rest of the country uses pejoratives like "Taxachusetts", commie liberals, the list goes on.. They laugh about how much money we spend on our schools, universal health care, etc. However they usually stop laughing when they notice that we have one of the lowest rates of unemployment and one of the highest levels of education in the country. At last check eighty six percent of adults in Massachusetts have a bachelors. Massachusetts is one of the innovation centers of the world.
Please don't judge the entire US merely on the poor experience in your state.
As to your second point... yes, churches are dangerously powerful. I feel in the last election many states crossed the line and participated directly in fundraising and coordination efforts.
I disagree with your assertion that the US system is broken compared to most 3rd world countries. Just like there are lots of variations in the wealth of 3rd world countries, their educational systems vary greatly as well. We could have a lengthy conversation just on the many different education systems in Africa, some pubic, some for profit, some that are good and some that are horrifyingly mindbogglingly bad.
As to your last point, yes there are many people in this country who think that their ignorance is a sign of reverence. They've come to a place of cognitive dissidence in regards to the world. Their lack of education, combined with their incomplete and poorly contrived belief system has backed them into a corner.
I'm proud to say I work every day to make that corner smaller and increasingly uncomfortable.
So my car is sitting in the parking lot getting heavy load on the battery packs all day... how much more wear and tear is that going to be putting on my batteries? How many charge/discharge cycles are these being rated for?
Da fuk? What bible are you reading? My version of the bible is a veritable smorgasbord of homophobia, genocide and misogyny. If the bible is a algorithm for happiness, one wall and no roof make a house!
Please sit down and instead of selectively reading your bible, start at the beginning and start reading it straight through... Also understand that the bible you have is a highly manufactured document that was crafted out of lots of different and conflicting sources. There are lots of <i>other</i> bibles out there with lots of other scriptures that say lots of other, albeit equally crazy things.
As someone who has 100's of TB's of data stored in ZFS I couldn't agree more. In most cases if ZFS spits out a drive because it's convinced it's writing bad blocks, I believe it. In most cases (if it's a seagate drive) seatools backs me up on this... in several cases sea tools doing a quick check says the drive is fine... it never fails if I do a "full" scan of the drive it'll eventually throw an error.
I've found damaged SAS cables, JBOD enclosures with dodgy bridges, etc. because of ZFS.
With that all said, now that you've gone out and bought a small PC, stuffed 4, 4TB drives into it and set it up as a raid10 using ZFS you now need to ask the next question... what's more likely... I'm going to have two drives fail simultaneously or that my house is going to get hit with a {flood, lightning, fire, thieves, etc}
Honestly, I'd build two of these devices, one for local backups and I'd put one at a buddies house and do remote backups from your local device.
You can rewind through my posting history to see that I've written about this before... A couple of years ago Massachusetts had a bill to allow assisted suicide that failed to get passed.
As a child I watch a friend of my parents die of brain cancer in a most hideous and terrible manner. He went out of this world in abject misery. Even as a 10 year old I realized then that was no way to go. If the option had been available I'm not sure he would have taken it, but it should at least have been an option.
I wish it was legal here in Massachusetts and more over there should be a federal law that makes it legal. Note, I'm not advocating for suicide booths, this should be an option for people who are out of medical options.
After we get done with the brouhaha regarding gay marriage in the US, I think this will be the next hot button topic. Considering that a large number of Americans are moving into old age this is going to be a bigger topic.
To those people who have moral issues with it, there's an easy solution... Don't let your loved ones engage in assisted suicide. However, your moral and/or religious squeamishness shouldn't limit the rights of others.
You have to ask yourself a question... what does hell sound like?
Standing in one place all day as a procession of kiva robots shuttles in front of you, you picking off the right thing, putting it into a box, repeat for hours. If there's a hell, this is it. I can't imagine a more droll and tedious existence.
Vs.
Troubleshooting issues with robots such as gripper and item identification. Doing repairs on those parts you can repair, such as grippers, cameras, etc. Watching how the robots do a task and making improvements in accuracy, speed, etc.
Now, first task is semi-unskilled and the latter are more highly skilled.
The entire warehouse is already a big Kiva robot cluster... Now use something like a "Baxter" bot to do the picking. ta-da. One baxter bot costs 22k a year. Once you got the kinks worked out you could have a whole army of the things and have a couple humans running around just trouble shooting when things don't go as planned.
I was wondering the same thing... part of the reason we're in the mess we're currently in is that for the last 30+ years instead of letting fires burn in a controlled way we've just prevented them entirely.
Now we've got land that's just choked with burnable material just waiting for a spark.
I'm all for building such a satellite and launching it but I think that it should be part of a larger strategy surrounding responsible fire management, not just prevention.
the tsunami would pass right underneath it. Because water isn't compressible, out in the open ocean away from the shore, a tsunami is just a shock wave moving through the water. At best it'll raise the water level by a meter. A moored platform would bob a bit and that would be that.
That's actually a valid point. s/child molesters/child murders/g;
When someone turns out to be murderer, it's profoundly unlucky. They didn't pick their parents, or their genes. Nor do they pick the circumstances of their childhood or the disposition of their personality that culminates in them being a murderer. If someone gets a brain tumor in just the right spot and it causes them to become a murderer we treat them as a victim as well. Couldn't it just be argued that being a murderer is a form of mental illness?
Note: this argument has been made by Sam Harris, credit to him, not me.
While I'm all for squishing child molesters feet first using a steam roller in the lowest gear the issue is this...
It's confirmed that we've executed innocent people. Wrong place, wrong time, bad lawyers, biased juries. It's happened. People on death row have been exonerated by DNA evidence so often that a couple years ago the Governor of Illinois mass commuted everybody on death row to life without parole.
While it's bad if a guilty man goes free, it's far worse if an innocent man is killed.
I didn't get out of that article that he'd given away his login credentials, it sounded more like box.com just plain did the wrong thing.
The scary thing that I got out of that article was that with some simple social engineering seriously private documents (such as paycheck) information could be easily stolen from Dan.
There are things for which storing them in a shared storage system makes perfect sense, such as media. I've got piles of crap such as pictures I've taken on hikes out on my public dropbox folder.
However, if I were ever to get in the habit of storing information out on a shared storage system that could compromise my privacy, it would encrypted in a manner in which I'm the only holder of the keys and obfuscated such as being put into a drive crypt container/etc. Great, so you've just stolen a big pile of random bits... have fun with that.
Finally there is stuff that the only sensible place for it to be is in a safety deposit box. Some intersection of that would end up in my encrypted store, this is stuff like my children's original birth certificates, my marriage license, deeds to property, etc.
The big question you have to ask is, what are you guarding against? Having everything stored centrally makes great sense but now you've merely put your eggs in someone else unseen basket with the idea that they've got competent people working for them.
All of our core switches are running real time linux and have so for many years. Linux became a network OS back in 2008, if not much earlier. Basically the only place it's not running is on edge switches and even there you can find switches that running it.
Except this guy isn't making an exact copy of the game. He's taking the game to a place that it didn't or couldn't exist when SMB came out in 1985. At best you can argue he's making a derivative work.
The bigger questions here are what are reasonable lengths for a copyright? The game is 28 years old. Quite likely this kid was a baby when this game came out.
It also begs the bigger question... What's in the best interest of Nintendo? I suppose their legal department would argue that they need to pursue all infringements as aggressively as possible.
Is it in the best interest of Nintendo to stifle a college student who obviously has some talent writing video games? That's cutting your nose off to spite your face.
That guy over there whose ripping all the content from Wii disks and pirating the games... go after his ass, he's actually cutting into Nintendo's profits.
Their terms of service specifically say that. You may only interact with their software in ways approved by them. As far as they're concerned, the only way you should be talking to a WoW server, is with a WoW client and that client should only be taking input in ways approved by Blizzard.
What someone should really do is work on building a robot that can sit in front of a computer and actually play wow, by the rules. Watch the screen with cameras, actually do processing and press keys.
It also depends where you put the turbines. Much like hydro it's all about location. If you put them on the coast where there's a large temperature gradient wind works awesome. Where I live (Massachusetts) we've got a number of wind turbines on the coast that run 24/7 without stopping.
I was just thinking the same thing... If you're running linux with KVM as your hypervisor... Why is this better than Red Hat's Open Shift? That way you get your cake and you get to eat it too.
I feel terrible for his father who witnessed his son get killed in front of him, that's unimaginably terrible. However, the tippe makes a valid point.
I've attended several R/C fly in's with jet powered planes and helicopters. I've never seen a plane fly over the heads of spectators, ever. When a R/C plane zips by the runway at 200mph (322kph) it's in a direction that when it crashes it doesn't impale / decapitate or otherwise injure spectators.
Sadly this will end up being mentioned as a cautionary Darwinian tale.
You get so much mail so furiously that you can't suffer a 15 second delay? I presume you're talking about a personal mail server... if you're hosting mail for a 1000 people then yeah that's a problem.
My car was recently in the shop for two days. This forced me to use public transportation. I read an entire book during those two days. Unfortunately my commute is not amenable to my using the commuter rail (it takes me 3 hours instead of 45 minutes to get from door to door)
While I'd like the option to drive my car, the option to let the computer take the wheel sounds pretty great as well.
I'm a voracious reader and I don't have nearly enough time in the day... Gaining back the time I sit in traffic to read would be great. Before you ask, my hands on IT job prevents me from working from home. No matter how hard you try you can't rack a server from your house...
Have you ever thought about merging some of the ideas of the Stackless python interpreter into some future version of python to make the whole argument mute? I've played with stackless and depending on what you're doing it can leverage huge benefits.
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I call bullshit on this technology too. What would be cooler would be something that you attached to say a port on your body that would take your blood and oxygenate it in the same manner that fish oxygenate their blood and remove the CO2 and then recirculate it back into your blood stream. I'm not sure what your lungs would think of this arrangement. Another idea is to use that technology they showcased in the abyss and use oxygenate that liquid that you then breathe. The issues with that are that your body evolved to breath gas not liquids.
I thought this was their second launch. They've already launched one of these Cygnus resupply missions to the ISS, apparently that one was a demonstration. This is their first commercial launch...
Where exactly do you live? Not all schools in the US are created equal. I live in Massachusetts and our schools are rated some of the best in the world. Granted the rest of the country uses pejoratives like "Taxachusetts", commie liberals, the list goes on.. They laugh about how much money we spend on our schools, universal health care, etc. However they usually stop laughing when they notice that we have one of the lowest rates of unemployment and one of the highest levels of education in the country. At last check eighty six percent of adults in Massachusetts have a bachelors. Massachusetts is one of the innovation centers of the world.
Please don't judge the entire US merely on the poor experience in your state.
As to your second point... yes, churches are dangerously powerful. I feel in the last election many states crossed the line and participated directly in fundraising and coordination efforts.
I disagree with your assertion that the US system is broken compared to most 3rd world countries. Just like there are lots of variations in the wealth of 3rd world countries, their educational systems vary greatly as well. We could have a lengthy conversation just on the many different education systems in Africa, some pubic, some for profit, some that are good and some that are horrifyingly mindbogglingly bad.
As to your last point, yes there are many people in this country who think that their ignorance is a sign of reverence. They've come to a place of cognitive dissidence in regards to the world. Their lack of education, combined with their incomplete and poorly contrived belief system has backed them into a corner.
I'm proud to say I work every day to make that corner smaller and increasingly uncomfortable.
So my car is sitting in the parking lot getting heavy load on the battery packs all day... how much more wear and tear is that going to be putting on my batteries? How many charge/discharge cycles are these being rated for?
Da fuk? What bible are you reading? My version of the bible is a veritable smorgasbord of homophobia, genocide and misogyny. If the bible is a algorithm for happiness, one wall and no roof make a house!
Please sit down and instead of selectively reading your bible, start at the beginning and start reading it straight through... Also understand that the bible you have is a highly manufactured document that was crafted out of lots of different and conflicting sources. There are lots of <i>other</i> bibles out there with lots of other scriptures that say lots of other, albeit equally crazy things.
As someone who has 100's of TB's of data stored in ZFS I couldn't agree more. In most cases if ZFS spits out a drive because it's convinced it's writing bad blocks, I believe it. In most cases (if it's a seagate drive) seatools backs me up on this... in several cases sea tools doing a quick check says the drive is fine... it never fails if I do a "full" scan of the drive it'll eventually throw an error.
I've found damaged SAS cables, JBOD enclosures with dodgy bridges, etc. because of ZFS.
With that all said, now that you've gone out and bought a small PC, stuffed 4, 4TB drives into it and set it up as a raid10 using ZFS you now need to ask the next question... what's more likely... I'm going to have two drives fail simultaneously or that my house is going to get hit with a {flood, lightning, fire, thieves, etc}
Honestly, I'd build two of these devices, one for local backups and I'd put one at a buddies house and do remote backups from your local device.
You can rewind through my posting history to see that I've written about this before... A couple of years ago Massachusetts had a bill to allow assisted suicide that failed to get passed.
As a child I watch a friend of my parents die of brain cancer in a most hideous and terrible manner. He went out of this world in abject misery. Even as a 10 year old I realized then that was no way to go. If the option had been available I'm not sure he would have taken it, but it should at least have been an option.
I wish it was legal here in Massachusetts and more over there should be a federal law that makes it legal. Note, I'm not advocating for suicide booths, this should be an option for people who are out of medical options.
After we get done with the brouhaha regarding gay marriage in the US, I think this will be the next hot button topic. Considering that a large number of Americans are moving into old age this is going to be a bigger topic.
To those people who have moral issues with it, there's an easy solution... Don't let your loved ones engage in assisted suicide. However, your moral and/or religious squeamishness shouldn't limit the rights of others.
You have to ask yourself a question... what does hell sound like?
Standing in one place all day as a procession of kiva robots shuttles in front of you, you picking off the right thing, putting it into a box, repeat for hours.
If there's a hell, this is it. I can't imagine a more droll and tedious existence.
Vs.
Troubleshooting issues with robots such as gripper and item identification.
Doing repairs on those parts you can repair, such as grippers, cameras, etc.
Watching how the robots do a task and making improvements in accuracy, speed, etc.
Now, first task is semi-unskilled and the latter are more highly skilled.
All I can say is, tough shit.
The entire warehouse is already a big Kiva robot cluster... Now use something like a "Baxter" bot to do the picking. ta-da. One baxter bot costs 22k a year. Once you got the kinks worked out you could have a whole army of the things and have a couple humans running around just trouble shooting when things don't go as planned.
I was wondering the same thing... part of the reason we're in the mess we're currently in is that for the last 30+ years instead of letting fires burn in a controlled way we've just prevented them entirely.
Now we've got land that's just choked with burnable material just waiting for a spark.
I'm all for building such a satellite and launching it but I think that it should be part of a larger strategy surrounding responsible fire management, not just prevention.
the tsunami would pass right underneath it. Because water isn't compressible, out in the open ocean away from the shore, a tsunami is just a shock wave moving through the water. At best it'll raise the water level by a meter. A moored platform would bob a bit and that would be that.
I find that particularly odd that Sony wouldn't have support for DLNA on the PS4 considering they started the consortium.
That's actually a valid point. s/child molesters/child murders/g;
When someone turns out to be murderer, it's profoundly unlucky.
They didn't pick their parents, or their genes. Nor do they pick the circumstances of their childhood or the disposition of their personality that culminates in them being a murderer.
If someone gets a brain tumor in just the right spot and it causes them to become a murderer we treat them as a victim as well.
Couldn't it just be argued that being a murderer is a form of mental illness?
Note: this argument has been made by Sam Harris, credit to him, not me.
While I'm all for squishing child molesters feet first using a steam roller in the lowest gear the issue is this...
It's confirmed that we've executed innocent people. Wrong place, wrong time, bad lawyers, biased juries. It's happened. People on death row have been exonerated by DNA evidence so often that a couple years ago the Governor of Illinois mass commuted everybody on death row to life without parole.
While it's bad if a guilty man goes free, it's far worse if an innocent man is killed.
I didn't get out of that article that he'd given away his login credentials, it sounded more like box.com just plain did the wrong thing.
The scary thing that I got out of that article was that with some simple social engineering seriously private documents (such as paycheck) information could be easily stolen from Dan.
There are things for which storing them in a shared storage system makes perfect sense, such as media. I've got piles of crap such as pictures I've taken on hikes out on my public dropbox folder.
However, if I were ever to get in the habit of storing information out on a shared storage system that could compromise my privacy, it would encrypted in a manner in which I'm the only holder of the keys and obfuscated such as being put into a drive crypt container/etc. Great, so you've just stolen a big pile of random bits... have fun with that.
Finally there is stuff that the only sensible place for it to be is in a safety deposit box. Some intersection of that would end up in my encrypted store, this is stuff like my children's original birth certificates, my marriage license, deeds to property, etc.
The big question you have to ask is, what are you guarding against? Having everything stored centrally makes great sense but now you've merely put your eggs in someone else unseen basket with the idea that they've got competent people working for them.
All of our core switches are running real time linux and have so for many years. Linux became a network OS back in 2008, if not much earlier. Basically the only place it's not running is on edge switches and even there you can find switches that running it.
Except this guy isn't making an exact copy of the game. He's taking the game to a place that it didn't or couldn't exist when SMB came out in 1985. At best you can argue he's making a derivative work.
The bigger questions here are what are reasonable lengths for a copyright? The game is 28 years old. Quite likely this kid was a baby when this game came out.
It also begs the bigger question... What's in the best interest of Nintendo? I suppose their legal department would argue that they need to pursue all infringements as aggressively as possible.
Is it in the best interest of Nintendo to stifle a college student who obviously has some talent writing video games? That's cutting your nose off to spite your face.
That guy over there whose ripping all the content from Wii disks and pirating the games... go after his ass, he's actually cutting into Nintendo's profits.
Their terms of service specifically say that. You may only interact with their software in ways approved by them. As far as they're concerned, the only way you should be talking to a WoW server, is with a WoW client and that client should only be taking input in ways approved by Blizzard.
What someone should really do is work on building a robot that can sit in front of a computer and actually play wow, by the rules. Watch the screen with cameras, actually do processing and press keys.
That would be cool.
It also depends where you put the turbines. Much like hydro it's all about location. If you put them on the coast where there's a large temperature gradient wind works awesome. Where I live (Massachusetts) we've got a number of wind turbines on the coast that run 24/7 without stopping.
I was just thinking the same thing... If you're running linux with KVM as your hypervisor... Why is this better than Red Hat's Open Shift? That way you get your cake and you get to eat it too.
I'm a huge Timothy Zahn fan. He's a GREAT sci-fi writer. I hope he pulls this off!
I feel terrible for his father who witnessed his son get killed in front of him, that's unimaginably terrible. However, the tippe makes a valid point.
I've attended several R/C fly in's with jet powered planes and helicopters. I've never seen a plane fly over the heads of spectators, ever. When a R/C plane zips by the runway at 200mph (322kph) it's in a direction that when it crashes it doesn't impale / decapitate or otherwise injure spectators.
Sadly this will end up being mentioned as a cautionary Darwinian tale.
You get so much mail so furiously that you can't suffer a 15 second delay? I presume you're talking about a personal mail server... if you're hosting mail for a 1000 people then yeah that's a problem.
My car was recently in the shop for two days. This forced me to use public transportation. I read an entire book during those two days. Unfortunately my commute is not amenable to my using the commuter rail (it takes me 3 hours instead of 45 minutes to get from door to door)
While I'd like the option to drive my car, the option to let the computer take the wheel sounds pretty great as well.
I'm a voracious reader and I don't have nearly enough time in the day... Gaining back the time I sit in traffic to read would be great.
Before you ask, my hands on IT job prevents me from working from home. No matter how hard you try you can't rack a server from your house...
Have you ever thought about merging some of the ideas of the Stackless python interpreter into some future version of python to make the whole argument mute?
I've played with stackless and depending on what you're doing it can leverage huge benefits.