How about we solve the radiation problem of sending people to Mars first. You know... having gone to the moon, those bright flashes you saw in your vision even when your eyes were closed... those comic rays are NOT good for humans...
Let's go to the moon first and figure out how to deal with the radiation problem first... then we'll go to Mars.
If this succeeds, we'll see a future where when you buy a PC, it'll come with an OS preinstalled that you can't uninstall or reinstall because you don't have a signed bootloader from a authorized OEM. On this OS you'll only be able to run software that's been duly blessed by the vendor. Oh you've got some cool idea for a killer app / game... gotta submit the source code to possibly a future competitor.. Any peripherals you'd like to attach have to be specify allowed.
I watched the launch and landing and while they didn't say much about the payload you can discern i.e. engage in some bullshit conjecturing about a couple of things immediately.
1. Since the booster landed back at LZ-1 and not out at sea you can infer its final orbit, it's likely at or plus a couple of miles of the ISS. Otherwise the stage 1 would have given it a much bigger push and would have needed to land out at sea.
2. Since this was a F9 full thrust it's max to LEO is ~22T. Also we know what the max fairing size of an F9 is 13m long by 5.2m. Beyond that, knowing the scale of the F9 makes it easy to estimate weight, length and diameter. of the satellite.
Now, as for the type of spy satellite, good question. Though my completely uninformed and uneducated guess is that it probably wasn't optical. I base this completely baseless argument on the idea that lenses are lenses and you can't cheat the laws of physics. You need a large aperture to gather lots of light. However, considering the many communications satellites that SpaceX has lofted in fairings that from a thumbs measure look about the same size, a decent sized satellite just bristling with antennae would fit nicely on a Falcon 9 and would be very happy working in LEO sniffing out stray emissions.
How did they think this was going to go down when the internet got wind of this? Clearly their $500 fine was the fiscal equivalent of "Shut the fuck up!"
Gladly, the internet is going to teach them an ugly lesson about being assholes...
I've long mused that despite the climate deniers howls, at some point we're going to hit an impasse. Due to historical reasons, we'll save New Orleans and other big name towns on the gulf coast in regions that sit at or below the water line.
However, if you're from some town nobody's ever heard of that's on the coast, you're pretty much fucked. If we believe the models and so far they've been spot on, every year some percentage of these towns are going to get flooded and/or walloped by hurricanes.
Each year the federal government and insurance agencies swoop in (for some value of swooping) and rebuild these towns. At some point insurance companies are going to cry uncle. They'll boost rates so high that literally nobody will be able to afford to rebuild. I could even see a situation where after a federal government has to step in and say "We're moving your entire community 50 miles in land and combining it with this other community" Why? Money and resources. At some point as wasteful as the government is, they're going to see the folly of rebuilding a town over and over and as the tide rises it's going to become less and less financially tenantable and take more and more resources.
My house came with a washer and dryer and after the washer died I bought a front loading LG and I'll never go back to a top loader. The average time to run is ~42 minutes. Firstly it uses WAY less water and with the spin the clothes come out dry enough that they only need about 1/3 of the time to dry. Plus once it's warm enough we dry them on the clothes line.
Also having my tankless water heater a meter away from it means the water going in is nice and hot.
But they're still going to have to hold on to it. My point wasn't so much about it being used on court as much as that police departments are going to need to have insane retention policies or people will accuse them of destroying evidence.
Once you give officers cameras, you're going to need to store and make searchable the video and likely for a long period of time... Imagine an officer gets accused of excessive use of force it might be years before a jury sees that video..
Now just imagine a police force like the NYPD that has 35,000 officers... So... sounds like the NYPD or some company working for them is going to be in need of a ZFS admin!
You bought a device from a company that makes most of it's money from ads and you're surprised when it said device suddenly has ads... I'm not shocked about this and I'm surprised it took this long...
I'm just surprised it wasn't like "Hey, I've checked your schedule and you've got a couple free hours tonight, based on your movie preferences you'll like Beauty and the Beast! It's showing at a theater that's 1.5 miles away from you! Would you like to purchase advanced tickets?"
Let's all be honest here... when was the last time you did anything other than use a sorting library. While I know what a bubblesort is, moreover I know it's the least efficient sort... shouldn't that be enough?
Since this machine is running VOS, and from the '93 time frame it's either an X/AR with i860's or a Continuum with PA-RISC. I'll spitball and say it's a Continuum. These machines are not like desktops. The hardware and software is extremely tightly coupled. Multiyear uptimes are not uncommon on Stratus VOS machines.
How many construction workers are going to get jobs building the factory? How many jobs are going to be people on the line doing line work? How many jobs are going to be people in control booths running the massive machines cranking out screens?
Also, unless you're going to also be building a phone factory here as well, it seems a bit short sighted to make the screens here, but the cpu's in China or Korea and the bodies who knows where? China?
Until I see a bulldozer breaking ground I think Foxconn is just blowing smoke up JDT's ass.
Clearly the cable companies don't like competing against hyper local internet providers who cater to their customers... Since they can't compete, they're next tactic is to simply make it illegal. How do they do this?
Thanks to bullshit like citizens united I can only speculate that the cable companies went door to door acting as citizens making large contributions to law makers who saw the world as they do.
.. was lobotomize it.. When I first booted the TV it asked me if it was going to be used as a TV or as a monitor and I chose monitor and plugged a ROKU into it.
So Nintendo makes a stupid game... mind you, not hardware but a one off funny thing and this causes the stock to tumble? For fucks sake! Call me when their consoles catch fire, or everybody's online acconts / wiipoints get plundered.
Yeah, it's a game. Some people will love, some people will hate it. *shrugs*
This is a very obvious show of force by the Chinese as they've claimed the entire south china sea as theirs. This is likely a tit for tat response to the Taiwan call.
There were a couple of reasons, but the biggest issue was the modeling of and then the real time management of the magnetic fields. We simply didn't have the computing power we have now.
This seems like a system tailor built to create a class of angry disenfranchised citizens. Good luck China, you're going to need it because I can't think of a better way to foment an insurgency.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin
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Yes, programming can is complex. Yes, programming is fun. Those are not mutually exclusive properties.
I had heard that "thin" layer of water needed to be several feet thick.
How about we solve the radiation problem of sending people to Mars first. You know... having gone to the moon, those bright flashes you saw in your vision even when your eyes were closed... those comic rays are NOT good for humans...
Let's go to the moon first and figure out how to deal with the radiation problem first... then we'll go to Mars.
If this succeeds, we'll see a future where when you buy a PC, it'll come with an OS preinstalled that you can't uninstall or reinstall because you don't have a signed bootloader from a authorized OEM. On this OS you'll only be able to run software that's been duly blessed by the vendor. Oh you've got some cool idea for a killer app / game... gotta submit the source code to possibly a future competitor..
Any peripherals you'd like to attach have to be specify allowed.
Stencyl is like Scratch only better.
I watched the launch and landing and while they didn't say much about the payload you can discern i.e. engage in some bullshit conjecturing about a couple of things immediately.
1. Since the booster landed back at LZ-1 and not out at sea you can infer its final orbit, it's likely at or plus a couple of miles of the ISS. Otherwise the stage 1 would have given it a much bigger push and would have needed to land out at sea.
2. Since this was a F9 full thrust it's max to LEO is ~22T. Also we know what the max fairing size of an F9 is 13m long by 5.2m. Beyond that, knowing the scale of the F9 makes it easy to estimate weight, length and diameter. of the satellite.
Now, as for the type of spy satellite, good question. Though my completely uninformed and uneducated guess is that it probably wasn't optical. I base this completely baseless argument on the idea that lenses are lenses and you can't cheat the laws of physics. You need a large aperture to gather lots of light. However, considering the many communications satellites that SpaceX has lofted in fairings that from a thumbs measure look about the same size, a decent sized satellite just bristling with antennae would fit nicely on a Falcon 9 and would be very happy working in LEO sniffing out stray emissions.
How did they think this was going to go down when the internet got wind of this?
Clearly their $500 fine was the fiscal equivalent of "Shut the fuck up!"
Gladly, the internet is going to teach them an ugly lesson about being assholes...
I've long mused that despite the climate deniers howls, at some point we're going to hit an impasse. Due to historical reasons, we'll save New Orleans and other big name towns on the gulf coast in regions that sit at or below the water line.
However, if you're from some town nobody's ever heard of that's on the coast, you're pretty much fucked. If we believe the models and so far they've been spot on, every year some percentage of these towns are going to get flooded and/or walloped by hurricanes.
Each year the federal government and insurance agencies swoop in (for some value of swooping) and rebuild these towns. At some point insurance companies are going to cry uncle. They'll boost rates so high that literally nobody will be able to afford to rebuild. I could even see a situation where after a federal government has to step in and say "We're moving your entire community 50 miles in land and combining it with this other community" Why? Money and resources. At some point as wasteful as the government is, they're going to see the folly of rebuilding a town over and over and as the tide rises it's going to become less and less financially tenantable and take more and more resources.
My house came with a washer and dryer and after the washer died I bought a front loading LG and I'll never go back to a top loader. The average time to run is ~42 minutes. Firstly it uses WAY less water and with the spin the clothes come out dry enough that they only need about 1/3 of the time to dry. Plus once it's warm enough we dry them on the clothes line.
Also having my tankless water heater a meter away from it means the water going in is nice and hot.
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Uber's run by a bunch of flaming assholes.
Water is also wet.
Fire burns flammable things.
But they're still going to have to hold on to it. My point wasn't so much about it being used on court as much as that police departments are going to need to have insane retention policies or people will accuse them of destroying evidence.
Once you give officers cameras, you're going to need to store and make searchable the video and likely for a long period of time... Imagine an officer gets accused of excessive use of force it might be years before a jury sees that video..
Now just imagine a police force like the NYPD that has 35,000 officers... So... sounds like the NYPD or some company working for them is going to be in need of a ZFS admin!
You bought a device from a company that makes most of it's money from ads and you're surprised when it said device suddenly has ads... I'm not shocked about this and I'm surprised it took this long...
I'm just surprised it wasn't like "Hey, I've checked your schedule and you've got a couple free hours tonight, based on your movie preferences you'll like Beauty and the Beast! It's showing at a theater that's 1.5 miles away from you! Would you like to purchase advanced tickets?"
Let's all be honest here... when was the last time you did anything other than use a sorting library. While I know what a bubblesort is, moreover I know it's the least efficient sort... shouldn't that be enough?
Anonymous grousing, what the fuck ever. PAX put a stake through E3's heart years ago.
I'm yet to go to a PAX event that isn't packed to the gills with people. Every year in Boston they need to expand the venue.
Just keep telling yourself PAX {WEST, WEST, SOUTH, AUSTRALIA, DEV} isn't a thing... That they're not huge events with thousands of people attending.
I'm sure it'll make you feel better to keep reading the junk press releases.
Since this machine is running VOS, and from the '93 time frame it's either an X/AR with i860's or a Continuum with PA-RISC. I'll spitball and say it's a Continuum.
These machines are not like desktops. The hardware and software is extremely tightly coupled. Multiyear uptimes are not uncommon on Stratus VOS machines.
Full disclosure, I'm a former Stratus Employee.
I wish these numbers were better broken down.
How many construction workers are going to get jobs building the factory?
How many jobs are going to be people on the line doing line work?
How many jobs are going to be people in control booths running the massive machines cranking out screens?
Also, unless you're going to also be building a phone factory here as well, it seems a bit short sighted to make the screens here, but the cpu's in China or Korea and the bodies who knows where? China?
Until I see a bulldozer breaking ground I think Foxconn is just blowing smoke up JDT's ass.
Clearly the cable companies don't like competing against hyper local internet providers who cater to their customers... Since they can't compete, they're next tactic is to simply make it illegal. How do they do this?
Thanks to bullshit like citizens united I can only speculate that the cable companies went door to door acting as citizens making large contributions to law makers who saw the world as they do.
.. was lobotomize it..
When I first booted the TV it asked me if it was going to be used as a TV or as a monitor and I chose monitor and plugged a ROKU into it.
So Nintendo makes a stupid game... mind you, not hardware but a one off funny thing and this causes the stock to tumble? For fucks sake! Call me when their consoles catch fire, or everybody's online acconts / wiipoints get plundered.
Yeah, it's a game. Some people will love, some people will hate it. *shrugs*
This is a very obvious show of force by the Chinese as they've claimed the entire south china sea as theirs. This is likely a tit for tat response to the Taiwan call.
The next question is what do we do.
There were a couple of reasons, but the biggest issue was the modeling of and then the real time management of the magnetic fields. We simply didn't have the computing power we have now.
This seems like a system tailor built to create a class of angry disenfranchised citizens.
Good luck China, you're going to need it because I can't think of a better way to foment an insurgency.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin
So all the Asian countries pass the TPP, become a giant trading block without tariffs and then stick it to the US?