It's good to see the recognition for a guy who helped make it a bit more affordable for backyard stargazers to get into a serious scope without selling a kidney.
My astronomy group hosted John a few years back for a lecture, sadly I didn't make it but he did stay at a member's house for a few days while on his tour. The guy who hosted John still has an 8 inch dob that is signed by John Dobson. It's always neat when he brings it out to the star parties. Also, a few members have engaged in sidewalk astronomy over the last few years. I think this is another tip of the hat to John Dobson who was still doing his sidewalk work until at least mid 2013.
You'd still have to rocket whatever you need to build into LOE. So you'd still be spending the same energy either way.
Everything will need to be launched from Earth until you have a base that can produce it's own equipment and fuel. You're not going to have that in LOE.
There are articles on Slashdot on pretty much a monthly basis about various entities working their way to a Mars mission. Sorry that no one is just throwing a set of engines on the ISS and pushing it off towards Mars but that's the nature of humans in space in the current era.
My guess it'll be at least another two decades until Mars has a serious manned mission attempt. Even when W was in office their best guess at getting people back to the moon was something like 2018 and that's when going back to the moon was the primary goal of human space flight.
Get your presidents to stop dickering in NASA missions and maybe these programs would come to fruition in a more timely fashion. Until then don't blame NASA and don't blame the science.
Probably nothing. That is one of the downsides of the whole NASA deal is that pretty much each administration redefines NASA's mission and we lose tons of R&D in the process. Not to say that it's all a waste but I would be happier seeing presidents not treat NASA like their statement on how scientific they want their legacy to be seen.
Thanks for spending my money on something I actually can get behind instead of just spending it on tracking my phone calls, funding terrorist organizations and god knows what else.
Maybe you can keep this up and we can have a real science budget in the USA.
To me, if a doctor can find something about a patient without going to crazy lengths to do it then he shouldn't feel bad about it. It would be like me telling my doctor I've given up smoking and he sees me smoking in front of my local Starbucks a month later. On my next visit should he really ignore that I'm smoking again or should he ask about it or come outright and say "I caught you in the act."
Granted, I'm an adult and I can decide but for medical guidance to be accurate and worthwhile you have to be honest with your doctor and his pointing out the embarrassing truth might be what it takes to get a patient to straighten up and fly right.
Funny? Your mockery will be met with the fury of The Great Cthulhu. Trying to stop Cthulhu would be like trying to stop the winds with your bare hands. Await your doom, meatbag.
You laugh at the power of Lord Cthulhu, the Great and Glorious One. You try to come up with "scientific" theories and fancy math but the truth will become apparent to you very soon.
Your screams of terror will be like the song of angels to me.
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When people in high places conspire against you, there is not much left you can do.
I'm glad that people like Martin Luther King Jr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Gandhi didn't listen to your kind of bullshit.
Compared to the truly oppressed, Aaron had it easy. Millions of people took a stand in a time and a place where saying the wrong thing would have gotten them dumped off some back road with a bullet in their head and they still had the strength to go through with it. Some died, some were unjustly jailed, some were beaten and raped. They still did it with their heads high and didn't run from their ideals. Aaron was weak. Mod me down but the testimony of people who stood against oppression should make you ashamed to do so in the face of the facts.
Wow. Just wow. So the fact that he wanted to have the means to arm his own countryfolk with a cheap and reliable weapon after watching the sieges and slaughters that happened to the Soviets during WWII makes him a monster?
I wonder what you would do if you lived through that... throw your hands up and wait to be cut down with a Nazi machine gun?
I wonder if you blame people like Tim Berners-Lee for child pornography?
I think there are many more parallels between piano and traditional synths than there are between traditional synths and DAWs. IMHO, it's like comparing someone who goes to track vs. someone who treadmills vs. someone who plays Track and Field.
And just as a bit of a disclaimer: I don't begrudge anyone who does their composing and playing through whatever method works for them. I listen to tons of electronic music and I recognize there are different levels of natural talent and different levels of artistic vision. The end product is what's really important.
I think God for Edgar Froese but I don't look down on people who couldn't put two notes together without Cubase...and John McLaughlin is a great musician as well. I probably own a dozen recordings with McLaughlin on them and they're all great.
It's 2013 in the USofA. The idea of innocent until proven guilty is kind of quaint. There is no valid defense once The Man(tm) has you in the hot seat anymore.
The world works has changed despite all of our axioms of freedom and liberty... even those We The People hold sacred and haven't been officially recognized as obsolete by Big Brother.
For what itâ(TM)s worth, things like The Constitution really arenâ(TM)t worth the paper theyâ(TM)re written on in a court of âoelaw.â
Netflix runs fine from my laptop, tablet and PC. It's just those two devices and they have the same issues at roughly the same points in the stream. I really should revisit it but so far I'm no worse off for it, I guess.
The problem is that they let the quality of service as an ISP suffer compared to the pampering they give their primary business. Last week while we were at a friend's house streaming off Netflix, the cable Internet cut out at least three times. Yet the cable TV in the living room rolled along with no problems.
Not to question your ability here but are you sure it was the internet that failed?
I have two streaming boxes in my house (Apple TV and a Samsung smart BluRay player) and both of them seem to have buffering problems with NetFlix to the point that I don't even use them for it anymore. At first I thought it was my router since performance on the router degraded after using either one of the units but even after replacing the routers with a new one the problem contiued on the boxes while the router didn't suffer from the latency issues that the old one had.
I'm not real happy with the whole set up to be honest with you and I find it hard to believe that my story is typical given how popular these kinds of devices are. As a side note, my AppleTV streams great through AirPlay from my laptop. I really haven't tried any of the other services on the Samsung unit as I've just resorted to watching Comcast OnDemand for as much as I watch that TV anyway. It's only about an hour a day when I'm riding my stationary bike.
To the best of my knowledge I have not lost my internet feed from Comcast at any time.
Actually, I heard they caught him rattling a saber against the bars of his cell and he was threatening to make the guards "walk the plank" and "kiss the gunner's daughter."
Why they'd let him in the prison with a saber, I'm not sure.
Don't worry, it's coming. I'm sure it's already here in some round-about manner. Being an American doesn't say much for how much freedom one does or does not have anymore. While I don't always agree to the whole slippery slope argument I'd have to be honest and say that it's been pretty much the case in the last few decades. Probably throughout the entire lifetime of anyone reading this.
And that has what to do with "at what cost" when the question is education? Their education doesn't apprear to have anything to do with negative population growth. Don't point to the effect, show me how it is the cause.
Suicide rate I can understand but negative population growth means what to whom? Not to be rude but it seems to me that you're reaching at straws with that one but I would like to hear why you think that plays into this at all.
Perhaps but it would open up all other kinds of questions about things like the buying and selling of the animal (slavery), using the animals in entertainment settings or medical testing without concent.
Really? The last time I looked at Verizon's site both the high end HTC and Samsung models were going for the same as an iPhone 5s with contract. I could see your point if it was without contract even though the Samsung was only 50 dollars cheaper but let's be honest, the vast majority of smartphone users on Verizon are under a contract.
Even with all that included I guess by your metric if someone is driving a car that isn't a Nissan Versa they're just suckers getting gouged, eh? What do you drive? What kind of computer you got on the desk in front of you? I bet you overpaid for that too. We could go round all day on this but the truth of the matter is that most people spend more money taking the family to the movies than the price difference of a new iPhone versus a comparable Android without a contract.
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It's good to see the recognition for a guy who helped make it a bit more affordable for backyard stargazers to get into a serious scope without selling a kidney.
My astronomy group hosted John a few years back for a lecture, sadly I didn't make it but he did stay at a member's house for a few days while on his tour. The guy who hosted John still has an 8 inch dob that is signed by John Dobson. It's always neat when he brings it out to the star parties. Also, a few members have engaged in sidewalk astronomy over the last few years. I think this is another tip of the hat to John Dobson who was still doing his sidewalk work until at least mid 2013.
It's only fake because they lack the skillz...
Now me, on the other hand, actually did create a woman from a Barbie doll with the help of a NORAD computer. It's really not that hard.
You'd still have to rocket whatever you need to build into LOE. So you'd still be spending the same energy either way.
Everything will need to be launched from Earth until you have a base that can produce it's own equipment and fuel. You're not going to have that in LOE.
There are articles on Slashdot on pretty much a monthly basis about various entities working their way to a Mars mission. Sorry that no one is just throwing a set of engines on the ISS and pushing it off towards Mars but that's the nature of humans in space in the current era.
My guess it'll be at least another two decades until Mars has a serious manned mission attempt. Even when W was in office their best guess at getting people back to the moon was something like 2018 and that's when going back to the moon was the primary goal of human space flight.
Get your presidents to stop dickering in NASA missions and maybe these programs would come to fruition in a more timely fashion. Until then don't blame NASA and don't blame the science.
Probably nothing. That is one of the downsides of the whole NASA deal is that pretty much each administration redefines NASA's mission and we lose tons of R&D in the process. Not to say that it's all a waste but I would be happier seeing presidents not treat NASA like their statement on how scientific they want their legacy to be seen.
Thanks for spending my money on something I actually can get behind instead of just spending it on tracking my phone calls, funding terrorist organizations and god knows what else.
Maybe you can keep this up and we can have a real science budget in the USA.
Why would he feel that way?
To me, if a doctor can find something about a patient without going to crazy lengths to do it then he shouldn't feel bad about it. It would be like me telling my doctor I've given up smoking and he sees me smoking in front of my local Starbucks a month later. On my next visit should he really ignore that I'm smoking again or should he ask about it or come outright and say "I caught you in the act."
Granted, I'm an adult and I can decide but for medical guidance to be accurate and worthwhile you have to be honest with your doctor and his pointing out the embarrassing truth might be what it takes to get a patient to straighten up and fly right.
Let off some steam, Bennett.
Funny maybe but insightful?
Funny? Your mockery will be met with the fury of The Great Cthulhu. Trying to stop Cthulhu would be like trying to stop the winds with your bare hands. Await your doom, meatbag.
You laugh at the power of Lord Cthulhu, the Great and Glorious One. You try to come up with "scientific" theories and fancy math but the truth will become apparent to you very soon.
Your screams of terror will be like the song of angels to me.
When people in high places conspire against you, there is not much left you can do.
I'm glad that people like Martin Luther King Jr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Gandhi didn't listen to your kind of bullshit.
Compared to the truly oppressed, Aaron had it easy. Millions of people took a stand in a time and a place where saying the wrong thing would have gotten them dumped off some back road with a bullet in their head and they still had the strength to go through with it. Some died, some were unjustly jailed, some were beaten and raped. They still did it with their heads high and didn't run from their ideals. Aaron was weak. Mod me down but the testimony of people who stood against oppression should make you ashamed to do so in the face of the facts.
Wow. Just wow. So the fact that he wanted to have the means to arm his own countryfolk with a cheap and reliable weapon after watching the sieges and slaughters that happened to the Soviets during WWII makes him a monster?
I wonder what you would do if you lived through that... throw your hands up and wait to be cut down with a Nazi machine gun?
I wonder if you blame people like Tim Berners-Lee for child pornography?
Can a population I star be second generation? I'm not sure of it.
I think there are many more parallels between piano and traditional synths than there are between traditional synths and DAWs. IMHO, it's like comparing someone who goes to track vs. someone who treadmills vs. someone who plays Track and Field.
And just as a bit of a disclaimer: I don't begrudge anyone who does their composing and playing through whatever method works for them. I listen to tons of electronic music and I recognize there are different levels of natural talent and different levels of artistic vision. The end product is what's really important.
I think God for Edgar Froese but I don't look down on people who couldn't put two notes together without Cubase...and John McLaughlin is a great musician as well. I probably own a dozen recordings with McLaughlin on them and they're all great.
They were not able to prove that it was him.
It's 2013 in the USofA. The idea of innocent until proven guilty is kind of quaint. There is no valid defense once The Man(tm) has you in the hot seat anymore.
The world works has changed despite all of our axioms of freedom and liberty... even those We The People hold sacred and haven't been officially recognized as obsolete by Big Brother.
For what itâ(TM)s worth, things like The Constitution really arenâ(TM)t worth the paper theyâ(TM)re written on in a court of âoelaw.â
Netflix runs fine from my laptop, tablet and PC. It's just those two devices and they have the same issues at roughly the same points in the stream. I really should revisit it but so far I'm no worse off for it, I guess.
The problem is that they let the quality of service as an ISP suffer compared to the pampering they give their primary business. Last week while we were at a friend's house streaming off Netflix, the cable Internet cut out at least three times. Yet the cable TV in the living room rolled along with no problems.
Not to question your ability here but are you sure it was the internet that failed?
I have two streaming boxes in my house (Apple TV and a Samsung smart BluRay player) and both of them seem to have buffering problems with NetFlix to the point that I don't even use them for it anymore. At first I thought it was my router since performance on the router degraded after using either one of the units but even after replacing the routers with a new one the problem contiued on the boxes while the router didn't suffer from the latency issues that the old one had.
I'm not real happy with the whole set up to be honest with you and I find it hard to believe that my story is typical given how popular these kinds of devices are. As a side note, my AppleTV streams great through AirPlay from my laptop. I really haven't tried any of the other services on the Samsung unit as I've just resorted to watching Comcast OnDemand for as much as I watch that TV anyway. It's only about an hour a day when I'm riding my stationary bike.
To the best of my knowledge I have not lost my internet feed from Comcast at any time.
You mean the woman with armed guards, a CCW and her own firearms who tries to ban civilian ownership of guns is a hypocrite? Who woulda thunk it.
Walking off the plank on dry land can be pretty bad depending on the size of the ship.
Actually, I heard they caught him rattling a saber against the bars of his cell and he was threatening to make the guards "walk the plank" and "kiss the gunner's daughter."
Why they'd let him in the prison with a saber, I'm not sure.
Don't worry, it's coming. I'm sure it's already here in some round-about manner. Being an American doesn't say much for how much freedom one does or does not have anymore. While I don't always agree to the whole slippery slope argument I'd have to be honest and say that it's been pretty much the case in the last few decades. Probably throughout the entire lifetime of anyone reading this.
And that has what to do with "at what cost" when the question is education? Their education doesn't apprear to have anything to do with negative population growth. Don't point to the effect, show me how it is the cause.
Suicide rate I can understand but negative population growth means what to whom? Not to be rude but it seems to me that you're reaching at straws with that one but I would like to hear why you think that plays into this at all.
Perhaps but it would open up all other kinds of questions about things like the buying and selling of the animal (slavery), using the animals in entertainment settings or medical testing without concent.
This isn't as simple as it seems on the surface.
iOS devices are more expensive to begin with.
Really? The last time I looked at Verizon's site both the high end HTC and Samsung models were going for the same as an iPhone 5s with contract. I could see your point if it was without contract even though the Samsung was only 50 dollars cheaper but let's be honest, the vast majority of smartphone users on Verizon are under a contract.
Even with all that included I guess by your metric if someone is driving a car that isn't a Nissan Versa they're just suckers getting gouged, eh? What do you drive? What kind of computer you got on the desk in front of you? I bet you overpaid for that too. We could go round all day on this but the truth of the matter is that most people spend more money taking the family to the movies than the price difference of a new iPhone versus a comparable Android without a contract.