You're right. When an uneducated radio preacher starts sermonizing about the end of the world and for evidence holds up a book written by a bunch of ignorant stone age goat herders, we Atheists go off our rocker because it's an amoral shitshow. Especially when the key question gets asked which is "Okay, so what should we do?" and the answer is to mumble to ourselves... I see that person as an idiot charlatan and treat them accordingly.
However, when a scientist says "We're fucked and here's why..." and then plops down 50 years worth of climate data showing there's a direct correlation between our use of fossil fuels, the rise in CO2 levels and the rise in ocean level, ambient ocean temperature and acidification of the oceans. Moreover when other scientists look at different data sets and corroborate those findings. I generally take these person seriously, giant boulder hurling hyperbole aside.
I presume your reference to the preacher is to Harold Camping... Note is apology is laughable at best.
Scientists speak without certainty because they work in a world where new evidence can change their world view. The religious nuts speak with certainty because no evidence, however good can change their beliefs.
As for magical government regulations, you lost me on that. I'm yet to see scientists come out and say "Phew, good thing we passed that carbon tax or we'd all be screwed by now!"
The SCOTUS has determined that corporations are people.
The government can demand you hand things over, but they can't compel you work, unless they conscript you. They can rifle through your stuff, but they can't make you rifle through your neighbors stuff.
So, unless the government is going to "conscript" the entire "person" that is Apple and then order "it" to write the code to defeat their encryption I don't see what the government can do.
For that matter, Apple could simply buy an island in the pacific and turn it into their own country called "Appletopia" and move all their people there.
I should point out, I'm all for going to Mars! The scenario you lay out is exactly what I'd imagine it would go. A bunch of prebuilt habs along with a bunch of inflatable habs would be sent first. Along with all the machinery to start extracting O2 and methane out of the mostly CO2 atmosphere. I could imagine robots that would do nothing but basically stripmine the ice and then using solar and/or RTG's melt the ice, fliter the water and then store it in large tanks.
Then you drop in a small crew of people with lots of spare food and parts whose job it is to get the farming habitats up and running and producing food. Once you've got a good store of food going, then you start dropping more habitats or even better, you start looking around at the materials on mars and start building your own.
Imagine of each group of "settlers" basically came with their own habitat that the'd connect (or not!) to some network of habitats.
To our point about the Moon, I almost think it makes more sense to go there as well... It's a much harsher environment, so technologies we sort out on the moon are going to transfer well to Mars. Also, only being three days away from Earth makes escape quite viable.
Last time I checked Mars has like.6 the atmosphere of Earth and no magnetosphere... so... They still have the radiation problem... Instead of having to push the bodies out of airlocks they'll get to bury them in Martian soil... I'm not saying this isn't a solveable problem, it just needs to be part of the design.
Let me get this straight. This is the same country whose subsided the steel industry, the semiconductor industry, then the solar panel industry to drive the prices down and push all their competitors out of business suddenly getting butt hurt when the same tactics are used against them?
Wow, that's rich. Sorry, not sorry I don't feel bad for them. I hope they learn from this and realize what a shitty tactic it is to engage in and change.
1. Linux owns the cloud, period. Windows likely has more market share in the phone market then the cloud market. 2. As companies deploy their own clouds using the commodity cloud stacks such as (OpenStack, etc) they've got to get in the game or they're going to get locked out of the market. 3. Windows has a scaling problem and a filesystem problem. Nobody wants to contemplate a 100TB NTFS volume.
What I see with this election is the complete loss of civility. Nothing of substance is being said, it's simple mud slinging. Candidate X: "Mr. Trump, your idea is a bad one and here's why" Trump: "You're a dummy and your mother wished she'd aborted you with a coat hanger" Crowd: "*cheers*" Candidate X: "But what about your idea..." Trump: "Did I mention you're ugly too!" Candidate X: "I'm leaving... this is pointless" Trump: "Yup, there's goes a loser!" Crowd: "You're the best!!!"
Your solution is even worse... I can easily replace a library that 10 programs are using because it's got a bug... Once that libraries routines are compiled into 10 programs... good luck finding those time bombs.
Wow, it's 2016 and we're still worried about what the sky wizard thinks about where penises are or are not going. Really, this is what this is about. Let's also consider this a country whose women for the most part (97.5%) get to enjoy the practice of getting their clitorises cut off. Let that fact detonate in your brain.
Fuck these asshats and their shitty religious ideas.
This person was bitching about linux on the desktop. If you're not using it on the desktop, this conversation simply ends. However, if you decide to take the dive and switch your machine from whatever it's currently running to linux, don't start complaining about things in it that are and have been standards since internet forever. While you don't know what unix is or care about it's inner workings, your gleeful ignorance saddens me. Sagan said it best: "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Honestly, it's still not going to be that big of a waste... They're going to reuse all the avionics, etc out of that booster. What will end up being the museum piece is the empty shell that landed... I suspect they'll swap out the engines for dummy's and reuse them as well.
Also at this point recovery isn't factored into the cost of the launch... It's just gravy. They charge $50M because they assume the booster is a write off.
Once, they start recovering these with regularity, the pricing structure will suddenly change from $50M to $10M for a launch... Then pressing every booster back into service becomes part of the savings.
This is an article that should have never made it out of the bin, nor to the front page. The author of the article demonstrates a general lack of understanding in regards to both unix and linux in particular. This is best demonstrated by point 31. where they complain about unix case sensitivity. Not only is unix file systems case sensitive, they're actually designed that way... on purpose.
Dear Slashdot editors, please review articles a bit better before passing them on. This article is a crapfest from beginning to end.
I came here to write a snarky comment about deciding to out source lifting services when your cobbled launch system goes boom. However, the more think about it, this seems like the smarter thing for Cygnus to do.
Get out of the lifting business. ULA and SpaceX (last launch not withstanding) have a reliable proven launch systems. Bezos is coming to the party possible soon.
What they should instead do is get everybody at the table and agree to an interface that everybody would use for connecting their space craft to the lifting system. That way if your X launch system. You receive a standard launch container. You'd latch it onto a testbed that would do gyro/tip weight balancing calculations. Have your software take the balancing calculations to figure out angular moment, etc, then mount the container in the fairing, put it on top of the rocket, and away you go.
At some point you have to think they could get in touch with the Feds and ask to be put through the witness protection system. Come out the other side with scrubbed identities, etc.
Even better, keep the old identities alive and use them as bait to draw these people out.
If I want to play Pen and Paper D&D, I'll do it the old fashioned way... Yeah I understand people move, etc. roll20 is for that.
If I'm going to go out and buy an occulus rift, you better be damned sure when I put the goggles on:
I'm going to be crawling through a beautiful dungeon, disabling traps, plundering chests and kicking the shit out of orcs / kobolds / goblins and all manner of monsters! I'll be going into taverns and getting into bar fights with surly dwarfs!
I'll be riding a dragon, blasting pirate galleons in defense of my king!
What I won't be doing is sitting there playing table top D&D on a virtual table... That's just stupid.
I've asked this question as well. I feel our energy would be better spent on getting viable graphene production up and running so we can use that to build mega scale structures in space. Once we've got the technology I think building a bunch of O'Neill cylinders makes more sense. Though I don't entirely discount going to mars. I think we should develop as much general purpose technology as possible.
A company whose core technology is a search engine and knowledge aggregation that virtually everybody uses is using that technology against the competitors... Yeah, that sounds just like what a company who has a strangle hold on a particular market generally does.
I'll start this comment by stating up front that a SpaceX fan.
Now with that said, imagine you're in the Russian space industry... Falcon9 / Dragon / DragonRider/ CST100 represent serious competition. At a time when the Russian economy could best be described as struggling, the last thing it needs is for SpaceX to start gobbling up the lucrative ISS lift slots. Yes, I know congress just recently decided to keep funding sending astronauts via Soyuz. However, in the longrun, once Dragon{9,Rider} prove themselves, that source of funding dries up...
Ask this question... Once SpaceX has a fully operational DragonRider... how much does that cost per seat? Would the Russian government in the face of financial short comings come to the conclusion it's cheaper to spend US $20M to send a Cosmonaut to the ISS on a SpaceX rocket instead of the cost for a whole Soyuz?
*shrug* By all measures actually having properly inflated balls caused the Pats to play better... it doesn't seem this was much of an "advantage."
With that all said... I was also shocked to find out that the NFL didn't just supply the balls... it seems obvious. Let's let the pitchers bring their own baseballs to the baseball game... what could possibly go wrong....
I have a somewhat similar story. I was an aspiring CS college student and had bought a copy of Turbo C++ (3.something). I had saved a ton of money I went off and got myself a pentium 166. The thing rocked... except it ran Win95 and my fancy IDE compiler environment... yeah it crashed... a lot.
A buddy of mine came over with a pile of floppies, a zip drive with slackware and a "Learn linux in 24 hours" Sam book. We got my machine duel boot, got X working and then my buddy headed off.
I dove in head first and while the learning curve was steep, I figured it out. Even better, I had a functioning C compiler and "Jed" as an editor. I did managed to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda within the first week and learned how to reinstall everything... so that hurt, but that's how you learn.
You just have to imagine that Elon Musk heard this news and did a happy dance. This just sells into his narrative that Russia's launch systems are old, expensive and unreliable.
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So climate data going back to 1966 isn't good enough? What would constitute good enough evidence?
With Pascal's wager though you're making a false equivalency.
Weighing the evidence of human cased climate change against the evidence of god(s) existing, I'll put my money on climate change.
You're right. When an uneducated radio preacher starts sermonizing about the end of the world and for evidence holds up a book written by a bunch of ignorant stone age goat herders, we Atheists go off our rocker because it's an amoral shitshow. Especially when the key question gets asked which is "Okay, so what should we do?" and the answer is to mumble to ourselves... I see that person as an idiot charlatan and treat them accordingly.
However, when a scientist says "We're fucked and here's why..." and then plops down 50 years worth of climate data showing there's a direct correlation between our use of fossil fuels, the rise in CO2 levels and the rise in ocean level, ambient ocean temperature and acidification of the oceans. Moreover when other scientists look at different data sets and corroborate those findings. I generally take these person seriously, giant boulder hurling hyperbole aside.
I presume your reference to the preacher is to Harold Camping... Note is apology is laughable at best.
Scientists speak without certainty because they work in a world where new evidence can change their world view. The religious nuts speak with certainty because no evidence, however good can change their beliefs.
As for magical government regulations, you lost me on that. I'm yet to see scientists come out and say "Phew, good thing we passed that carbon tax or we'd all be screwed by now!"
The SCOTUS has determined that corporations are people.
The government can demand you hand things over, but they can't compel you work, unless they conscript you. They can rifle through your stuff, but they can't make you rifle through your neighbors stuff.
So, unless the government is going to "conscript" the entire "person" that is Apple and then order "it" to write the code to defeat their encryption I don't see what the government can do.
For that matter, Apple could simply buy an island in the pacific and turn it into their own country called "Appletopia" and move all their people there.
I should point out, I'm all for going to Mars! The scenario you lay out is exactly what I'd imagine it would go. A bunch of prebuilt habs along with a bunch of inflatable habs would be sent first. Along with all the machinery to start extracting O2 and methane out of the mostly CO2 atmosphere. I could imagine robots that would do nothing but basically stripmine the ice and then using solar and/or RTG's melt the ice, fliter the water and then store it in large tanks.
Then you drop in a small crew of people with lots of spare food and parts whose job it is to get the farming habitats up and running and producing food. Once you've got a good store of food going, then you start dropping more habitats or even better, you start looking around at the materials on mars and start building your own.
Imagine of each group of "settlers" basically came with their own habitat that the'd connect (or not!) to some network of habitats.
To our point about the Moon, I almost think it makes more sense to go there as well... It's a much harsher environment, so technologies we sort out on the moon are going to transfer well to Mars. Also, only being three days away from Earth makes escape quite viable.
Last time I checked Mars has like .6 the atmosphere of Earth and no magnetosphere... so... They still have the radiation problem... Instead of having to push the bodies out of airlocks they'll get to bury them in Martian soil... I'm not saying this isn't a solveable problem, it just needs to be part of the design.
Let me get this straight. This is the same country whose subsided the steel industry, the semiconductor industry, then the solar panel industry to drive the prices down and push all their competitors out of business suddenly getting butt hurt when the same tactics are used against them?
Wow, that's rich. Sorry, not sorry I don't feel bad for them. I hope they learn from this and realize what a shitty tactic it is to engage in and change.
They're actually addressing a number of problems.
1. Linux owns the cloud, period. Windows likely has more market share in the phone market then the cloud market.
2. As companies deploy their own clouds using the commodity cloud stacks such as (OpenStack, etc) they've got to get in the game or they're going to get locked out of the market.
3. Windows has a scaling problem and a filesystem problem. Nobody wants to contemplate a 100TB NTFS volume.
I'd just be happy with a SO-DIMM option and a esata port...
What I see with this election is the complete loss of civility. Nothing of substance is being said, it's simple mud slinging.
Candidate X: "Mr. Trump, your idea is a bad one and here's why"
Trump: "You're a dummy and your mother wished she'd aborted you with a coat hanger"
Crowd: "*cheers*"
Candidate X: "But what about your idea..."
Trump: "Did I mention you're ugly too!"
Candidate X: "I'm leaving... this is pointless"
Trump: "Yup, there's goes a loser!"
Crowd: "You're the best!!!"
Your solution is even worse... I can easily replace a library that 10 programs are using because it's got a bug... Once that libraries routines are compiled into 10 programs... good luck finding those time bombs.
Wow, it's 2016 and we're still worried about what the sky wizard thinks about where penises are or are not going. Really, this is what this is about. Let's also consider this a country whose women for the most part (97.5%) get to enjoy the practice of getting their clitorises cut off. Let that fact detonate in your brain.
Fuck these asshats and their shitty religious ideas.
Dear Average User,
This person was bitching about linux on the desktop. If you're not using it on the desktop, this conversation simply ends. However, if you decide to take the dive and switch your machine from whatever it's currently running to linux, don't start complaining about things in it that are and have been standards since internet forever.
While you don't know what unix is or care about it's inner workings, your gleeful ignorance saddens me.
Sagan said it best: "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Honestly, it's still not going to be that big of a waste... They're going to reuse all the avionics, etc out of that booster. What will end up being the museum piece is the empty shell that landed... I suspect they'll swap out the engines for dummy's and reuse them as well.
Also at this point recovery isn't factored into the cost of the launch... It's just gravy. They charge $50M because they assume the booster is a write off.
Once, they start recovering these with regularity, the pricing structure will suddenly change from $50M to $10M for a launch... Then pressing every booster back into service becomes part of the savings.
This is an article that should have never made it out of the bin, nor to the front page. The author of the article demonstrates a general lack of understanding in regards to both unix and linux in particular. This is best demonstrated by point 31. where they complain about unix case sensitivity. Not only is unix file systems case sensitive, they're actually designed that way... on purpose.
Dear Slashdot editors, please review articles a bit better before passing them on. This article is a crapfest from beginning to end.
Good to know that merely thinking about bad things is the same as doing bad things.
Reading about hacking? Same as hacking!
Reading about [BLANK]? Same as [BLANK]!
This guy is a FUCKING IDIOT.
I came here to write a snarky comment about deciding to out source lifting services when your cobbled launch system goes boom. However, the more think about it, this seems like the smarter thing for Cygnus to do.
Get out of the lifting business. ULA and SpaceX (last launch not withstanding) have a reliable proven launch systems.
Bezos is coming to the party possible soon.
What they should instead do is get everybody at the table and agree to an interface that everybody would use for connecting their space craft to the lifting system. That way if your X launch system. You receive a standard launch container. You'd latch it onto a testbed that would do gyro/tip weight balancing calculations.
Have your software take the balancing calculations to figure out angular moment, etc, then mount the container in the fairing, put it on top of the rocket, and away you go.
At some point you have to think they could get in touch with the Feds and ask to be put through the witness protection system. Come out the other side with scrubbed identities, etc.
Even better, keep the old identities alive and use them as bait to draw these people out.
If I want to play Pen and Paper D&D, I'll do it the old fashioned way... Yeah I understand people move, etc. roll20 is for that.
If I'm going to go out and buy an occulus rift, you better be damned sure when I put the goggles on:
I'm going to be crawling through a beautiful dungeon, disabling traps, plundering chests and kicking the shit out of orcs / kobolds / goblins and all manner of monsters!
I'll be going into taverns and getting into bar fights with surly dwarfs!
I'll be riding a dragon, blasting pirate galleons in defense of my king!
What I won't be doing is sitting there playing table top D&D on a virtual table... That's just stupid.
We were busy hacking them and they were busy hacking us.
I've asked this question as well. I feel our energy would be better spent on getting viable graphene production up and running so we can use that to build mega scale structures in space. Once we've got the technology I think building a bunch of O'Neill cylinders makes more sense. Though I don't entirely discount going to mars. I think we should develop as much general purpose technology as possible.
A company whose core technology is a search engine and knowledge aggregation that virtually everybody uses is using that technology against the competitors... Yeah, that sounds just like what a company who has a strangle hold on a particular market generally does.
I'll start this comment by stating up front that a SpaceX fan.
Now with that said, imagine you're in the Russian space industry... Falcon9 / Dragon / DragonRider/ CST100 represent serious competition. At a time when the Russian economy could best be described as struggling, the last thing it needs is for SpaceX to start gobbling up the lucrative ISS lift slots. Yes, I know congress just recently decided to keep funding sending astronauts via Soyuz. However, in the longrun, once Dragon{9,Rider} prove themselves, that source of funding dries up...
Ask this question... Once SpaceX has a fully operational DragonRider... how much does that cost per seat? Would the Russian government in the face of financial short comings come to the conclusion it's cheaper to spend US $20M to send a Cosmonaut to the ISS on a SpaceX rocket instead of the cost for a whole Soyuz?
*shrug* By all measures actually having properly inflated balls caused the Pats to play better... it doesn't seem this was much of an "advantage."
With that all said... I was also shocked to find out that the NFL didn't just supply the balls... it seems obvious. Let's let the pitchers bring their own baseballs to the baseball game... what could possibly go wrong....
I have a somewhat similar story. I was an aspiring CS college student and had bought a copy of Turbo C++ (3.something). I had saved a ton of money I went off and got myself a pentium 166. The thing rocked... except it ran Win95 and my fancy IDE compiler environment... yeah it crashed... a lot.
A buddy of mine came over with a pile of floppies, a zip drive with slackware and a "Learn linux in 24 hours" Sam book. We got my machine duel boot, got X working and then my buddy headed off.
I dove in head first and while the learning curve was steep, I figured it out. Even better, I had a functioning C compiler and "Jed" as an editor. I did managed to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda within the first week and learned how to reinstall everything... so that hurt, but that's how you learn.
You just have to imagine that Elon Musk heard this news and did a happy dance. This just sells into his narrative that Russia's launch systems are old, expensive and unreliable.