The moon should be the new Australia. Make it a penal colony so we have a reason to send all the niiggers, towelheads, kikes, chinks, wetbacks, and all other types of darkies, to the moon. Declare the moon off limits and let society advance rapidly on Earth without the evil behavior of the darkies to hold us back.
Someone has been reading way too much Robert Heinlein mixed with David Duke.
Venus and Mars both have one weakness in common. Neither planet has a significant magnetic field, so there isn't any Van Allen protection against the nasty stuff the Sun throws at us.
We absolutely can; we've been making airships since 1852. If you're asking why nobody's made a farm in one and lived in one, where's the economic case for that?
And what happened to almost all of those airships once they met a bit of weather?
No because basically habitats low enough for people to breathe without masks tend to crumple and crash with the least bit of weather. The whole history of powered airships in particular, the Shenandoah, the Akron, and the Macon, as well as the Hindenburg is largely a series of crashes due to weather.
I've kept active on this service for many years now, through third party clients like Pidgin in Linux. I've never been a supporter of AOL, but use of the AIM service was almost standard for a while there, and I've since used it to converse with a number of friends who have thus far refused to embrace many other options. With the death of AIM, there's a real chance that my communication with some of these stubborn friends will take a step backward to indirect, less immediate interaction such as email. The only consolation of all of this, strangely, is that one of the main persons I've kept in most frequent contact with through AIM just got himself a prison sentence of a duration I'm not yet certain of (possibly multi year), so I've unexpectedly just lost one of my main needs for the service already this last month. So, strangely good timing, but really it is overall unfortunate, especially since they should just hand the service over to the open source crowd and let it grow in unexpected ways or die naturally, rather than just killing off something that not everyone has an acceptable alternative to.
You (and I) pretty much part of the reason that Oath is driving a stake through AIM's heart. Since you used Pidgin, you weren't contributing to AIM's ad revenue. In essence, you used resources without providing a return.
AIM is essentially the last of the truly free services to go, at least services as widely used as this one was. Now you either pay up in cash, or essentially whore yourself out in the form of mined data.
No one would bother taking it. with people using third party aim clients to block ads, there's no money to be made to offset the expense of running the servers.
I already committed to a Dell XPS 32GB for my next laptop though, I didn't have any faith on Apple being "courageous" enough to compromise on making a model that's slightly thicker than a previous model.
Eat your words then... they're doing so with the Iphone 8.
There is no point in going after a desktop gaming market. That ship sailed long ago when developers realised that the only market woth developing for is Windows for commercial games. Blizzard was the last major company to do cross platform development and even they stopped doing dual development for any new games, only supporting their existing Warcraft, Hearthstone and Diablo markets.
Nothing that Apple can do will change that, so what would be the point?
Apple is not only not serious about games, Steve Jobs was downright hostile to them.
Apple is today more receptive to gaming.... but only on IOS devices.
For what? bragging rights?
Pros need computers that WORK. They don't get paid for wasting their time getting their machines to work. They want to be using their machines TO MAKE MONEY.
If I get a new workstation, I want to be spending my time in Photoshop, not hoping that the drivers for the card I just put in will actually work. Or finding out which expansion I put in, put everything else out of whack.
I've got a Windows 10 PC here and I avoid Flash sites like the plague they are. As far as java goes, using it on a smartphone app should be listed as a quality of life crime.
I didn't want the Echo. I didn't want the Home. I don't want this, either.
In fact, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would want something like this. I really don't want something in my home that's always listening and potentially sending my speech out to computers that I don't control.
If that's the case get rid of your computers and your phones. In fact rip the Internet out of your house. Because if you're that much of a Person of Interest, they'll be able to tap you even if you don't get one of those speakers.
I'm intrigued by the device and the tech that lets them pair up, but Apple should sell a B speaker companion for this rather than having someone pay 700 dollars for stereo speakers that would wind up having a ton of redundant tech.
So... for over $3k (27inch) Apple has seen fit to grace this thing with a 580 card? Something in the range of a NVIDIA GTX 1060, which can be had for about 260 bucks?
I guess they really have given up on the desktop market.
Not that, they've never been for what YOU consider the desktop market, that very small slice of users who rips open their machine and replaces a graphic card every time a new generation of games comes out.
Apple's never been for the hardcore gaming market, and there really isn't any point since even Blizzard is retrenching on Apple support. The Mac desktop market is focusing on productivity and artistic creativity markets.
Who at CBS and Paramount is trying so avidly to destroy the Star Trek canon? After all, they released rights to J J Abrams and crew for their completely disruptive "reboot" of the franchise (complete with lens flares). And now that the creators of that canon have decided to try and continue the tradition of Gene Roddenberry, they decide to file suit. Clearly, Dr. Watson the game is a foot.
if you don't defend your patents, you lose them. Ask Bayer about aspirin sometime. Or Xerox.
If materials science advanced to the point where a starship could get close to the speed of light without the crew becoming a sticky goo on the side of the corridors, remain in geostationary orbit, remain pressurized at one atmosphere even when orbiting a large star, I'd be rather worried if it couldn't handle the pressure increase going deep into the ocean.
Take your average 300 foot tall starship. The water pressure difference form top to bottom is 10 atmospheres. That becomes a rather serious issue in diving.
So that would fit into the category I mentioned in the third paragraph.
There is very little from a commercial productivity standpoint that you can do with Windows that you cannot also do with Linux using different software other than simply being what somebody is used to.
But not everyone wants to be bothered learning something new, so Linux is simply too inconvenient for many people.
While this is a perfectly valid reason to not use Linux, it is worth noting that this is more of a case of the user not being ready to use Linux than Linux not being ready for the end-user.
That's kind of like saying that expecting every car driver to be a garage mechanic is a reasonable proposition.
I'm not a Mac user, so maybe I'm mistaken on this, but isn't OS X (and Apple in general) rather infamous for not letting users configure things very much?
A typical user, yeah - the options are plentiful, but not all-encompassing.
However, if you have admin rights on the box, changing any aspect of OSX' behavior is just a text editor and the right.plist file away.
Also with the right commands or hackware a bunch of normally invisible files and folders become visible and ready for your miscreance.
If I'm not mistaken, once YouTube starts removing videos for content, outside of the parameters of law, they become responsible for policing all content.
Fact is... ISIL is usng 21st century techniques, we can't respond to that by still thinking in the paradigm of the '80s.
So, Gene, a Hippie on the left, had a dream vision of the future. Laudable, certainly. Peace, brotherhood, and many evils of society worked out.
Except that he wasn't really. He was what's rapidly becoming an extinct breed of Republican... the Nixonian strain which was highly conservative on many social issues, but progressive on others such as environment and a restraint on greed. If you look closely at TOS, the show clearly is dismissive of the counter culture movements of the day, and was strongly supportive of American involvement in IndoChina. Roddenberry's ideals were highly drawn from the white picket fence culture of the 50's... and like many of his generation were put off the 60's radicals. And Roddenberry's TOS... clearly used money in all it's forms.
Keep in mind that by the time TOS is on the air, Roddenberry had already been eased out of being the big decider after the nearly fatal disaster of the production of the first Trek movie. He remained the titular patriarch of the franchise, but was increasingly relegated to a figurehead role. The money-free ideal of Picard's World is a creation of later minds.
Correction on that that should have been TNG instead of TOS in the second paragraph
So, Gene, a Hippie on the left, had a dream vision of the future. Laudable, certainly. Peace, brotherhood, and many evils of society worked out.
Except that he wasn't really. He was what's rapidly becoming an extinct breed of Republican... the Nixonian strain which was highly conservative on many social issues, but progressive on others such as environment and a restraint on greed. If you look closely at TOS, the show clearly is dismissive of the counter culture movements of the day, and was strongly supportive of American involvement in IndoChina. Roddenberry's ideals were highly drawn from the white picket fence culture of the 50's... and like many of his generation were put off the 60's radicals. And Roddenberry's TOS... clearly used money in all it's forms.
Keep in mind that by the time TOS is on the air, Roddenberry had already been eased out of being the big decider after the nearly fatal disaster of the production of the first Trek movie. He remained the titular patriarch of the franchise, but was increasingly relegated to a figurehead role. The money-free ideal of Picard's World is a creation of later minds.
Consider Burning Man, a large temporary community that functions without money or barter.
Emphasis on the word "temporary". Lots of communes back in the 60's tried to make it work out. Save for those founded by extreme religious principles, they generally did not last long.
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It'll probably take a bit more time than you kids have in office.
That is the whole point. Every president likes to make promises that don't come due till long after they have left office.
Unless the Trump administration is seeking increased NASA funding for this fiscal year, you can just ignore anything they say about space.
Not everything. the threat to dismantle climate science programs is all too real.
The moon should be the new Australia. Make it a penal colony so we have a reason to send all the niiggers, towelheads, kikes, chinks, wetbacks, and all other types of darkies, to the moon. Declare the moon off limits and let society advance rapidly on Earth without the evil behavior of the darkies to hold us back.
Someone has been reading way too much Robert Heinlein mixed with David Duke.
Venus and Mars both have one weakness in common. Neither planet has a significant magnetic field, so there isn't any Van Allen protection against the nasty stuff the Sun throws at us.
We absolutely can; we've been making airships since 1852. If you're asking why nobody's made a farm in one and lived in one, where's the economic case for that?
And what happened to almost all of those airships once they met a bit of weather?
Have we tried?
No because basically habitats low enough for people to breathe without masks tend to crumple and crash with the least bit of weather. The whole history of powered airships in particular, the Shenandoah, the Akron, and the Macon, as well as the Hindenburg is largely a series of crashes due to weather.
And for those who keep talking about creating cloud cities on Venus, do remember that the clouds on Venus are generally full of sulphuric acid.
I've kept active on this service for many years now, through third party clients like Pidgin in Linux. I've never been a supporter of AOL, but use of the AIM service was almost standard for a while there, and I've since used it to converse with a number of friends who have thus far refused to embrace many other options. With the death of AIM, there's a real chance that my communication with some of these stubborn friends will take a step backward to indirect, less immediate interaction such as email. The only consolation of all of this, strangely, is that one of the main persons I've kept in most frequent contact with through AIM just got himself a prison sentence of a duration I'm not yet certain of (possibly multi year), so I've unexpectedly just lost one of my main needs for the service already this last month. So, strangely good timing, but really it is overall unfortunate, especially since they should just hand the service over to the open source crowd and let it grow in unexpected ways or die naturally, rather than just killing off something that not everyone has an acceptable alternative to.
You (and I) pretty much part of the reason that Oath is driving a stake through AIM's heart. Since you used Pidgin, you weren't contributing to AIM's ad revenue. In essence, you used resources without providing a return.
AIM is essentially the last of the truly free services to go, at least services as widely used as this one was. Now you either pay up in cash, or essentially whore yourself out in the form of mined data.
Haven't used in almost a decade. Would've been nice if they'd spun it off instead of killing something still used by millions though. (quoted as single-digit millions by someone from AOL back in February)
No one would bother taking it. with people using third party aim clients to block ads, there's no money to be made to offset the expense of running the servers.
I already committed to a Dell XPS 32GB for my next laptop though, I didn't have any faith on Apple being "courageous" enough to compromise on making a model that's slightly thicker than a previous model.
Eat your words then... they're doing so with the Iphone 8.
There is no point in going after a desktop gaming market. That ship sailed long ago when developers realised that the only market woth developing for is Windows for commercial games. Blizzard was the last major company to do cross platform development and even they stopped doing dual development for any new games, only supporting their existing Warcraft, Hearthstone and Diablo markets. Nothing that Apple can do will change that, so what would be the point?
Apple is not only not serious about games, Steve Jobs was downright hostile to them. Apple is today more receptive to gaming.... but only on IOS devices.
For what? bragging rights? Pros need computers that WORK. They don't get paid for wasting their time getting their machines to work. They want to be using their machines TO MAKE MONEY. If I get a new workstation, I want to be spending my time in Photoshop, not hoping that the drivers for the card I just put in will actually work. Or finding out which expansion I put in, put everything else out of whack.
I've got a Windows 10 PC here and I avoid Flash sites like the plague they are. As far as java goes, using it on a smartphone app should be listed as a quality of life crime.
Many of them struggle with technical issues
How hard is it to set up a Google Voice again?
Very hard since one of the things you can't count on having in prison is your own private internet connection.
I didn't want the Echo. I didn't want the Home. I don't want this, either.
In fact, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would want something like this. I really don't want something in my home that's always listening and potentially sending my speech out to computers that I don't control.
If that's the case get rid of your computers and your phones. In fact rip the Internet out of your house. Because if you're that much of a Person of Interest, they'll be able to tap you even if you don't get one of those speakers. I'm intrigued by the device and the tech that lets them pair up, but Apple should sell a B speaker companion for this rather than having someone pay 700 dollars for stereo speakers that would wind up having a ton of redundant tech.
So... for over $3k (27inch) Apple has seen fit to grace this thing with a 580 card? Something in the range of a NVIDIA GTX 1060, which can be had for about 260 bucks? I guess they really have given up on the desktop market.
Not that, they've never been for what YOU consider the desktop market, that very small slice of users who rips open their machine and replaces a graphic card every time a new generation of games comes out. Apple's never been for the hardcore gaming market, and there really isn't any point since even Blizzard is retrenching on Apple support. The Mac desktop market is focusing on productivity and artistic creativity markets.
Who at CBS and Paramount is trying so avidly to destroy the Star Trek canon? After all, they released rights to J J Abrams and crew for their completely disruptive "reboot" of the franchise (complete with lens flares). And now that the creators of that canon have decided to try and continue the tradition of Gene Roddenberry, they decide to file suit. Clearly, Dr. Watson the game is a foot.
if you don't defend your patents, you lose them. Ask Bayer about aspirin sometime. Or Xerox.
If materials science advanced to the point where a starship could get close to the speed of light without the crew becoming a sticky goo on the side of the corridors, remain in geostationary orbit, remain pressurized at one atmosphere even when orbiting a large star, I'd be rather worried if it couldn't handle the pressure increase going deep into the ocean.
Take your average 300 foot tall starship. The water pressure difference form top to bottom is 10 atmospheres. That becomes a rather serious issue in diving.
So that would fit into the category I mentioned in the third paragraph.
There is very little from a commercial productivity standpoint that you can do with Windows that you cannot also do with Linux using different software other than simply being what somebody is used to.
But not everyone wants to be bothered learning something new, so Linux is simply too inconvenient for many people.
While this is a perfectly valid reason to not use Linux, it is worth noting that this is more of a case of the user not being ready to use Linux than Linux not being ready for the end-user.
That's kind of like saying that expecting every car driver to be a garage mechanic is a reasonable proposition.
I'm not a Mac user, so maybe I'm mistaken on this, but isn't OS X (and Apple in general) rather infamous for not letting users configure things very much?
A typical user, yeah - the options are plentiful, but not all-encompassing.
However, if you have admin rights on the box, changing any aspect of OSX' behavior is just a text editor and the right .plist file away.
Also with the right commands or hackware a bunch of normally invisible files and folders become visible and ready for your miscreance.
If I'm not mistaken, once YouTube starts removing videos for content, outside of the parameters of law, they become responsible for policing all content. Fact is... ISIL is usng 21st century techniques, we can't respond to that by still thinking in the paradigm of the '80s.
So, Gene, a Hippie on the left, had a dream vision of the future. Laudable, certainly. Peace, brotherhood, and many evils of society worked out.
Except that he wasn't really. He was what's rapidly becoming an extinct breed of Republican... the Nixonian strain which was highly conservative on many social issues, but progressive on others such as environment and a restraint on greed. If you look closely at TOS, the show clearly is dismissive of the counter culture movements of the day, and was strongly supportive of American involvement in IndoChina. Roddenberry's ideals were highly drawn from the white picket fence culture of the 50's... and like many of his generation were put off the 60's radicals. And Roddenberry's TOS... clearly used money in all it's forms.
Keep in mind that by the time TOS is on the air, Roddenberry had already been eased out of being the big decider after the nearly fatal disaster of the production of the first Trek movie. He remained the titular patriarch of the franchise, but was increasingly relegated to a figurehead role. The money-free ideal of Picard's World is a creation of later minds.
Correction on that that should have been TNG instead of TOS in the second paragraph
So, Gene, a Hippie on the left, had a dream vision of the future. Laudable, certainly. Peace, brotherhood, and many evils of society worked out.
Except that he wasn't really. He was what's rapidly becoming an extinct breed of Republican... the Nixonian strain which was highly conservative on many social issues, but progressive on others such as environment and a restraint on greed. If you look closely at TOS, the show clearly is dismissive of the counter culture movements of the day, and was strongly supportive of American involvement in IndoChina. Roddenberry's ideals were highly drawn from the white picket fence culture of the 50's... and like many of his generation were put off the 60's radicals. And Roddenberry's TOS... clearly used money in all it's forms.
Keep in mind that by the time TOS is on the air, Roddenberry had already been eased out of being the big decider after the nearly fatal disaster of the production of the first Trek movie. He remained the titular patriarch of the franchise, but was increasingly relegated to a figurehead role. The money-free ideal of Picard's World is a creation of later minds.
Consider Burning Man, a large temporary community that functions without money or barter.
Emphasis on the word "temporary". Lots of communes back in the 60's tried to make it work out. Save for those founded by extreme religious principles, they generally did not last long.