Have you ever been fishing? Yank the fish out of the sea and it dies within a few minutes. Take it home, gut it and cook it. Fresh fish caught and eaten on the same day is delicious.
A Compact Disk is a digital storage medium which originally held 650MB of data whose primary use was the storage of stereo 44.1kHz PCM losslessly-encoded audio data with a reasonably high dynamic range, which sounded magnificent through a reasonable amplifier and set of speakers.
It is unfortunately being replaced by low dynamic range (loudness wars), lossy-compressed (save bandwidth over the Internet) stuff like MP3 which sounds horrendous on any speakers or earphones costing more than $25.
Never mind, you won't notice since you never experienced CD-quality music. Karajan is turning in his grave. (His Ode to Joy took 74 minutes, allegedly).
Compared to Apollo the Shuttle really was very safe....saying that it's still not safe enough is a bit of an insult to NASA
But I'm talking about Ares I, not the Shuttle. NASA has a golden opportunity here and it looks like they're wasting it with that SRB.
2 accidents in 120 was pretty pathetic anyway. Neither of those particular accidents could have happened with the Saturn V, so in a sense the shuttle was a step backwards in those instances. The shuttle was nothing like the step forward it could have been. But I'm not blaming NASA for that one. I'm blaming the politicians.
Hopefully this new guy in charge of NASA will sort things out.
My point is that we shouldn't glibly be accepting more risk than we have to. NASA has quite plainly chosen the wrong design here for political reasons. This is not progress. They should be engineering out as much safety risk as is practicable (or reasonably achievable) while achieving the goal of putting people into orbit.
I know they want to keep the ATK people in a job, but the Ares V will be using the SRBs, so why put them on Ares I?
Because we all know how no one gets hurt while driving a car. Or just walking during winter.
No, but we have made these activities safe enough that they are routine, boring and reliable.
There is no such thing as 100% safe. The only way to guarantee not being hurt by a car, for example, is to avoid them completely. That would be ridiculous.
My point is that NASA doesn't seem to be taking safety seriously enough. Political considerations seem to be more important to them. NASA should be making steps forwards in safety. To do otherwise is simply crazy and morally wrong.
You know, I think we should bring back gladiators. Wouldn't it be cool to see people fighting until someone gets hacked to death?
Wouldn't it be cool to see a few spacemen getting burnt to death too?
How about we take the safety rules out of Formula 1 racing? A few decapitations and dismemberments would make it so much more exciting! How about folks being burned alive in agony as
the rest of us look on?
Gee, what a boring, wussy, politically-correct world we live in.
Hell, lets see some Sharia punishment on TV live from Sudan. I'd just love to see some real stonings, amputations and beheadings. And how about some young women being flogged to death?
So you Windows guys need to get together and submit some patches to make building things easier on Windows. The primary development environments for most FOSS projects are on FOSS platforms, not Windows.
You can't complain when you are given something for free.
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The majority of us use Windows, and will therefore probably want to develop on that platform.
Right...
Seriously, if you think this is a "simple" build procedure that's going to get casual volunteers contributing small fixes, you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
All that proprietary closed-source software required to build Open Source software (any software, really). Difficult to obtain, difficult to install and difficult to configure.
It sounds like Windows is the problem. All of those development tools are standard on Linux (your distro comes with them) and they're all configured ready to use "out of the box" when you install them (if they're not installed by default).
You will find that unix-like OSes are far more user-friendly as development environments. It's no accident that GNU chose unix to embrace and extend. That's why all of this open source stuff is for Linux first and foremost.
As more of you come to find this out first-hand, more of you will switch away from Windows to a Linux, Mac OS X or *BSD.
It's a Microsoft trap and it's a solution looking for a problem. I wouldn't mind if there wasn't the constant, implied threat of Microsoft suing the distributors/users of Mono (patents).
It's yet another platform to maintain and support and more complexity for distributions.
Very importantly, it is confusing in that it appears to make the.NET platform legitimate as a cross-platform, Open Standard. It is neither.
If you buy SuSE Linux, you are probably safe from Microsoft legal action.
With Mono I've had the pleasure of a light (and fun) rewrite of many of my applications for cross-platform compatibility
And with Java, you wouldn't have had to rewrite anything.
A lot has changed in the last 10 years. Your comment is very telling, and not very helpful. It's so bad, it's not even wrong. I'm sorry that's what you think.
With.NET, there is loads of stuff built in so I am not doing a lot of low level coding.
There are orders of magnitude more stuff "built-in" to Java (the platform), 3rd-party stuff, independent implementations, and it's had a good decade and a half of hardening in real-world situations (top businesses etc.)
gcc even has a java (the language) compiler now (OK for about 5 years) that generates native machine code (what everyone used to whinge about) and there are independent implementations of the Java libraries (e.g. GNU Classpath).
Mono needs to die a death. Please ignore it and hopefully it will go away.
Rather than trying to think about the whole thing at once, I think, "What is the simplest, smallest useful thing I could do today?" Even if I've already been working on something, and got quite far but got stuck, I try something new.
I almost always achieve something if I think like this. Very often, when I have achieved the original goal (which may only have taken a few minutes) I become absorbed in it and get on a run. Several hours later, I will have completely exceeded my initial expectations.
Quite often I see solution to other problems that I'm not thinking about, which I can go back and fix.
Every little achievement adds to my confidence, which creates a positive feedback cycle with respect to attempting new tasks.
Sometimes, I just leave it for days or weeks at a time. At odd moments I get unexpected flashes of inspiration which solve some major problems. The only problem is that I'm usually somewhere else doing something unrelated when this happens, so I always try to write things down: just one or two words on a post-it note, back of an envelope or scrap of paper, firing up vi, and even sending myself an email.
It's taken a lot of practice to get the scope of the initial tasks right and to make notes, but I'm getting there.
Maybe age has something to do with it too? I'm 34, not getting any younger, and I'm going to live this life to the best of my ability. That means doing the things that I want to do as well as the things I have to do, no matter how silly, eccentric or pointless they look to other people.
While working in England I once saw a freight box on the back of a lorry that had dimension measurements for door clearance of 2m by 3ft.
Well, when I were a lad growing up in Scotland, at secondary school, a friend of mine went to the Technician to ask for a piece of metal to be cut to fit something he was making.
The old codger put on his glasses, got out his foot-rule, held it up to the light, and said, "Aye, it's three and five eights, and a couple o' mill!"
It would be an experiment: remove Microsoft from the equation and see if the technology can succeed on its own. Then we can stop all this conjecture and pro-Microsoft fanboyism, or us freedom-loving unix people reformat our drives and install Windows XP, and pack up and go home once and for all.
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Their common sense capitalist policies would enable redistribution of wealth
*cough*
"Common sense" is just a euphemism for "simplistic reasoning."
What's wrong with bashing it's head on the gunwhales?
Have you ever been fishing? Yank the fish out of the sea and it dies within a few minutes. Take it home, gut it and cook it. Fresh fish caught and eaten on the same day is delicious.
I wonder, do they go "crunch" or "pop" when you stand on them?
How did you know that I am fat? I don't have a basement though.
I wonder how many feral tarantulas and black widow spiders there are in the UK?
Piranhas don't scare me because I don't swim in manky British rivers (and the weather's too cold).
What would HP want with that old SPARC junk when itanium is quite clearly the future?
The brits can't fight back. They've been disarmed.
You don't need the bullet when you've got the ballot - G. Clinton.
Indeed. I apologise unreservedly.
What's a CD?
A Compact Disk is a digital storage medium which originally held 650MB of data whose primary use was the storage of stereo 44.1kHz PCM losslessly-encoded audio data with a reasonably high dynamic range, which sounded magnificent through a reasonable amplifier and set of speakers.
It is unfortunately being replaced by low dynamic range (loudness wars), lossy-compressed (save bandwidth over the Internet) stuff like MP3 which sounds horrendous on any speakers or earphones costing more than $25.
Never mind, you won't notice since you never experienced CD-quality music. Karajan is turning in his grave. (His Ode to Joy took 74 minutes, allegedly).
Compared to Apollo the Shuttle really was very safe....saying that it's still not safe enough is a bit of an insult to NASA
But I'm talking about Ares I, not the Shuttle. NASA has a golden opportunity here and it looks like they're wasting it with that SRB.
2 accidents in 120 was pretty pathetic anyway. Neither of those particular accidents could have happened with the Saturn V, so in a sense the shuttle was a step backwards in those instances. The shuttle was nothing like the step forward it could have been. But I'm not blaming NASA for that one. I'm blaming the politicians.
Hopefully this new guy in charge of NASA will sort things out.
My point is that we shouldn't glibly be accepting more risk than we have to. NASA has quite plainly chosen the wrong design here for political reasons. This is not progress. They should be engineering out as much safety risk as is practicable (or reasonably achievable) while achieving the goal of putting people into orbit.
I know they want to keep the ATK people in a job, but the Ares V will be using the SRBs, so why put them on Ares I?
Because we all know how no one gets hurt while driving a car. Or just walking during winter.
No, but we have made these activities safe enough that they are routine, boring and reliable.
There is no such thing as 100% safe. The only way to guarantee not being hurt by a car, for example, is to avoid them completely. That would be ridiculous.
My point is that NASA doesn't seem to be taking safety seriously enough. Political considerations seem to be more important to them. NASA should be making steps forwards in safety. To do otherwise is simply crazy and morally wrong.
You know, I think we should bring back gladiators. Wouldn't it be cool to see people fighting until someone gets hacked to death?
Wouldn't it be cool to see a few spacemen getting burnt to death too?
How about we take the safety rules out of Formula 1 racing? A few decapitations and dismemberments would make it so much more exciting! How about folks being burned alive in agony as the rest of us look on?
Gee, what a boring, wussy, politically-correct world we live in.
Hell, lets see some Sharia punishment on TV live from Sudan. I'd just love to see some real stonings, amputations and beheadings. And how about some young women being flogged to death?
Space flight needs to get to the stage where it is not dangerous. It should be routine and boring and reliable.
So you Windows guys need to get together and submit some patches to make building things easier on Windows. The primary development environments for most FOSS projects are on FOSS platforms, not Windows.
You can't complain when you are given something for free.
The majority of us use Windows, and will therefore probably want to develop on that platform.
Right...
Seriously, if you think this is a "simple" build procedure that's going to get casual volunteers contributing small fixes, you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
All that proprietary closed-source software required to build Open Source software (any software, really). Difficult to obtain, difficult to install and difficult to configure.
It sounds like Windows is the problem. All of those development tools are standard on Linux (your distro comes with them) and they're all configured ready to use "out of the box" when you install them (if they're not installed by default).
You will find that unix-like OSes are far more user-friendly as development environments. It's no accident that GNU chose unix to embrace and extend. That's why all of this open source stuff is for Linux first and foremost.
As more of you come to find this out first-hand, more of you will switch away from Windows to a Linux, Mac OS X or *BSD.
It's a Microsoft trap and it's a solution looking for a problem. I wouldn't mind if there wasn't the constant, implied threat of Microsoft suing the distributors/users of Mono (patents).
It's yet another platform to maintain and support and more complexity for distributions.
Very importantly, it is confusing in that it appears to make the .NET platform legitimate as a cross-platform, Open Standard. It is neither.
If you buy SuSE Linux, you are probably safe from Microsoft legal action.
With Mono I've had the pleasure of a light (and fun) rewrite of many of my applications for cross-platform compatibility
And with Java, you wouldn't have had to rewrite anything.
A lot has changed in the last 10 years. Your comment is very telling, and not very helpful. It's so bad, it's not even wrong. I'm sorry that's what you think.
With .NET, there is loads of stuff built in so I am not doing a lot of low level coding.
There are orders of magnitude more stuff "built-in" to Java (the platform), 3rd-party stuff, independent implementations, and it's had a good decade and a half of hardening in real-world situations (top businesses etc.)
gcc even has a java (the language) compiler now (OK for about 5 years) that generates native machine code (what everyone used to whinge about) and there are independent implementations of the Java libraries (e.g. GNU Classpath).
Mono needs to die a death. Please ignore it and hopefully it will go away.
Been using one for 6+ years. Won't use anything else.
Very interesting! I look forward to seeing what becomes of the ATV in relation to all of this stuff.
Me too.
Here's how I go about working around it.
Rather than trying to think about the whole thing at once, I think, "What is the simplest, smallest useful thing I could do today?" Even if I've already been working on something, and got quite far but got stuck, I try something new.
I almost always achieve something if I think like this. Very often, when I have achieved the original goal (which may only have taken a few minutes) I become absorbed in it and get on a run. Several hours later, I will have completely exceeded my initial expectations.
Quite often I see solution to other problems that I'm not thinking about, which I can go back and fix.
Every little achievement adds to my confidence, which creates a positive feedback cycle with respect to attempting new tasks.
Sometimes, I just leave it for days or weeks at a time. At odd moments I get unexpected flashes of inspiration which solve some major problems. The only problem is that I'm usually somewhere else doing something unrelated when this happens, so I always try to write things down: just one or two words on a post-it note, back of an envelope or scrap of paper, firing up vi, and even sending myself an email.
It's taken a lot of practice to get the scope of the initial tasks right and to make notes, but I'm getting there.
Maybe age has something to do with it too? I'm 34, not getting any younger, and I'm going to live this life to the best of my ability. That means doing the things that I want to do as well as the things I have to do, no matter how silly, eccentric or pointless they look to other people.
While working in England I once saw a freight box on the back of a lorry that had dimension measurements for door clearance of 2m by 3ft.
Well, when I were a lad growing up in Scotland, at secondary school, a friend of mine went to the Technician to ask for a piece of metal to be cut to fit something he was making.
The old codger put on his glasses, got out his foot-rule, held it up to the light, and said, "Aye, it's three and five eights, and a couple o' mill!"
regarding point 1, do you really believe Microsoft wouldn't punish the companies anyway?
In this case, it would be very hard for them to do that semi-legally and get away with it.
Cunning plan... to not make money?
Who knows.
It would be an experiment: remove Microsoft from the equation and see if the technology can succeed on its own. Then we can stop all this conjecture and pro-Microsoft fanboyism, or us freedom-loving unix people reformat our drives and install Windows XP, and pack up and go home once and for all.