The ISS is international, so metric units would be the logical assumption. I'm not going to trash imperial units and say that nautical miles have no place, but they certainly make little sense in space.
Because when it comes to software for most home users, well, the games won't work on Unbuntu without trying to use Wine, etc, etc.
Most home users don't play many PC games. They play Flash games or console games . What is true however is that they are not interested because they tend to order whatever everyone else is having. And that turns out to be Windows.
Keeping computers connected during a nuclear war serves no benefit in itself. The Internet was designed as a robust communication network. And it has remained to be just that. The amount of users and content of the communication haven't changed that.
More than enough reason for no business to store any business e-mail on their servers and no one with any e-mail which has real world value.
You are basically suggesting that no one uses the Internet anymore. End-to-end encryption aside, there will always be a system administrator with the technical ability to snoop data stored or in transfer. The only reason you can slam Google here is because they actually caught the guy.
No. It's a style form and it means they have upgraded the dropping XP path to the max, all they haven't done is actually drop it. If someone all but kills you, you're still alive. But you're also in a puddle of mud on intensive care at best. The EU has slammed ACTA.
There's no shortage of socialist or nanny actions in Europe, nor bad policing although I lean towards incompetence there and not plain fascism. We steer clear of some of the problems that exist in the US, but there are still countless similarities to our parts of the world.
You've got Mexifornia, we've got Eurabia. You complain about taxation? Try Europe, it's no fun here either. You complain about No Child Left Behind, we struggle with declining education as well. Compared to your ghetto's our problematic neighbourhoods might seem decent, but we too face severe disparities in living standards and safety levels in certain environments as well. We might be a bit more relaxed about softdrugs, televised breasts or people claiming to be atheist, but we have no shortage of conservative and/or religious people up to the highest levels of government trying to ban whatever they can and they succeed often when it coincides with the goals of nanny state socialists. And plenty of celebrities and non-celebrities doing the complete opposite. Extremist nutcrackers, from just plain weird to dangerous to society? Check, we both have plenty.
Or the short version: we've never diverged that much with regards to freedom and opportunity. And as continent with relatively many and quite fluent speakers of English, I don't think we soon will. We can speak the same language and therefore our interchange of ideas is excellent. The only reason we seem to think we're so different is because we're so close that we take the similarities for granted.
Indeed. Any scripting language will work for such tasks, from shell to Python to Perl to PHP... asker should just pick what he's most comfortable with and preferable what's already being used so he can use some shared libraries for database access (if necessary) or e-mail formatting.
some things (like, oh I don't know, synthetic life) should belong to the entire human race
What's the incentive to invest private funds and time into science if you cannot profit from the results just because the entire human race benefits from them?
Would it be better to find new and amazing ways to create energy from resources now, or would it be better for humanity to first learn to live within our means as oil runs out?
The two are not mutually exclusive, so why not live within our means and try to find sustainable solutions to expand those means?
Room temperature pizza is perfectly safe to eat. Even that left-over slice the next morning. Refridgerating your pizza first doesn't sound weird to me but more like a case of mysophobia.
And actually, I've always learned that warm dishes need to chill down to room temperature before putting them in the fridge because the sudden cool down is even worse when it comes to bacteria etc.
A factor 30 in wavelength difference is not "just longer" than visible light nor "close to" it. Still, impressive work. And surely, they'll get closer and closer. But cloaking a micrometer high bump is still a few pathways away from Klingon tech.
Indeed you cannot compare. A billion citizen country has leapfrogged a country one third its size (the US), smaller ones (the European ones) in absolute numbers? The US and EU have 820 million citizens combined.. if China outproduces us by 20%, we're on par.
You don't need a levee if you don't build in an area that require a levee. The US is vast, no one requires to live below sea level or in areas inevitably subject to storm surge.
New Orleans was just an example, we can't compress the entire world population to only live in the most habitable areas. You'd still need settlements in the less habitable ones due to available natural resources and (naval) trade routes. There are cases where the benefits outweigh the costs, especially when you consider we also need vast amounts of land for crops.
(Living in the Netherlands, I might be biased, but in many cases managing risks will be more feasible economically and logistically than simply avoiding them.)
One of the seven wonders of the modern world even. And screw the Chinese wall: if any man-made engineering feat actully is visible from space, it has to be Flevoland.
Whomever labeled this "pork" should think of New Orleans and reconsider. Protecting vulnerable coastal areas with levees and such is a valuable investment in human life.
There was no Year 0 so the indices start from 1 in this case. The second millennium ended at the end of 2000 and this decade will end at the end of 2010.
Yes and no. This decade, the first of this millennium, ends at the end of 2010. But this decade, the naughties, does however end in a matter of days. They're not mutually exclusive, various decennia can co-exist.
It is crap, because it's not true. Facebook prompted me and while some of the recommendations where broader visibility than what I prefered, it gave me the option to maintain my previously selected filters.
other than situations where they answer the phone and you ask to speak to their parents or they are visiting your kids. why would an adult need to communicate with someone else's child over the internet?
For the same reason we talk to other adults? Because we share interests?
The music I enjoy, computer games I play, sports I watch.. plenty of those have an audience that is not exclusively for adults or children. We mix at the physical concerts and stadiums, so why not in on-line discussions? I've talked to plenty of tweens and teenagers who had more intelligent things to discuss than quite a few adults. Since most laws don't distinguish between adolescents and toddlers, should those "children" be off-limits to talk to as well?
That said, I agree there's probably not much adults have in common with pre-teens nor would there often be a reason to communicate with them.
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The ISS is international, so metric units would be the logical assumption. I'm not going to trash imperial units and say that nautical miles have no place, but they certainly make little sense in space.
Because when it comes to software for most home users, well, the games won't work on Unbuntu without trying to use Wine, etc, etc.
Most home users don't play many PC games. They play Flash games or console games . What is true however is that they are not interested because they tend to order whatever everyone else is having. And that turns out to be Windows.
Keeping computers connected during a nuclear war serves no benefit in itself. The Internet was designed as a robust communication network. And it has remained to be just that. The amount of users and content of the communication haven't changed that.
More than enough reason for no business to store any business e-mail on their servers and no one with any e-mail which has real world value.
You are basically suggesting that no one uses the Internet anymore. End-to-end encryption aside, there will always be a system administrator with the technical ability to snoop data stored or in transfer. The only reason you can slam Google here is because they actually caught the guy.
No. It's a style form and it means they have upgraded the dropping XP path to the max, all they haven't done is actually drop it. If someone all but kills you, you're still alive. But you're also in a puddle of mud on intensive care at best. The EU has slammed ACTA.
There's no shortage of socialist or nanny actions in Europe, nor bad policing although I lean towards incompetence there and not plain fascism. We steer clear of some of the problems that exist in the US, but there are still countless similarities to our parts of the world.
You've got Mexifornia, we've got Eurabia. You complain about taxation? Try Europe, it's no fun here either. You complain about No Child Left Behind, we struggle with declining education as well. Compared to your ghetto's our problematic neighbourhoods might seem decent, but we too face severe disparities in living standards and safety levels in certain environments as well. We might be a bit more relaxed about softdrugs, televised breasts or people claiming to be atheist, but we have no shortage of conservative and/or religious people up to the highest levels of government trying to ban whatever they can and they succeed often when it coincides with the goals of nanny state socialists. And plenty of celebrities and non-celebrities doing the complete opposite. Extremist nutcrackers, from just plain weird to dangerous to society? Check, we both have plenty.
Or the short version: we've never diverged that much with regards to freedom and opportunity. And as continent with relatively many and quite fluent speakers of English, I don't think we soon will. We can speak the same language and therefore our interchange of ideas is excellent. The only reason we seem to think we're so different is because we're so close that we take the similarities for granted.
The joke you should have made here was to reply to yourself stating "no, it isn't".
Use the doors instead, it will require carpooling for highscores and provide an exercise. Also, the technology already exists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO52O5VS-GM
You forget the most important one: how do I turn that irrational behaviour into a profit?
Indeed. Any scripting language will work for such tasks, from shell to Python to Perl to PHP... asker should just pick what he's most comfortable with and preferable what's already being used so he can use some shared libraries for database access (if necessary) or e-mail formatting.
some things (like, oh I don't know, synthetic life) should belong to the entire human race
What's the incentive to invest private funds and time into science if you cannot profit from the results just because the entire human race benefits from them?
Would it be better to find new and amazing ways to create energy from resources now, or would it be better for humanity to first learn to live within our means as oil runs out?
The two are not mutually exclusive, so why not live within our means and try to find sustainable solutions to expand those means?
Room temperature pizza is perfectly safe to eat. Even that left-over slice the next morning. Refridgerating your pizza first doesn't sound weird to me but more like a case of mysophobia.
And actually, I've always learned that warm dishes need to chill down to room temperature before putting them in the fridge because the sudden cool down is even worse when it comes to bacteria etc.
A factor 30 in wavelength difference is not "just longer" than visible light nor "close to" it. Still, impressive work. And surely, they'll get closer and closer. But cloaking a micrometer high bump is still a few pathways away from Klingon tech.
Indeed you cannot compare. A billion citizen country has leapfrogged a country one third its size (the US), smaller ones (the European ones) in absolute numbers? The US and EU have 820 million citizens combined.. if China outproduces us by 20%, we're on par.
You don't need a levee if you don't build in an area that require a levee. The US is vast, no one requires to live below sea level or in areas inevitably subject to storm surge.
New Orleans was just an example, we can't compress the entire world population to only live in the most habitable areas. You'd still need settlements in the less habitable ones due to available natural resources and (naval) trade routes. There are cases where the benefits outweigh the costs, especially when you consider we also need vast amounts of land for crops.
(Living in the Netherlands, I might be biased, but in many cases managing risks will be more feasible economically and logistically than simply avoiding them.)
One of the seven wonders of the modern world even. And screw the Chinese wall: if any man-made engineering feat actully is visible from space, it has to be Flevoland.
Whomever labeled this "pork" should think of New Orleans and reconsider. Protecting vulnerable coastal areas with levees and such is a valuable investment in human life.
Your making a logical error, no such implication was made.
If you say "I don't like ketchup on my fries", it doesn't imply that you do like feces on them. Just that you do not like ketchup on fries.
There was no Year 0 so the indices start from 1 in this case. The second millennium ended at the end of 2000 and this decade will end at the end of 2010.
Yes and no. This decade, the first of this millennium, ends at the end of 2010. But this decade, the naughties, does however end in a matter of days. They're not mutually exclusive, various decennia can co-exist.
It is crap, because it's not true. Facebook prompted me and while some of the recommendations where broader visibility than what I prefered, it gave me the option to maintain my previously selected filters.
other than situations where they answer the phone and you ask to speak to their parents or they are visiting your kids. why would an adult need to communicate with someone else's child over the internet?
For the same reason we talk to other adults? Because we share interests?
The music I enjoy, computer games I play, sports I watch.. plenty of those have an audience that is not exclusively for adults or children. We mix at the physical concerts and stadiums, so why not in on-line discussions? I've talked to plenty of tweens and teenagers who had more intelligent things to discuss than quite a few adults. Since most laws don't distinguish between adolescents and toddlers, should those "children" be off-limits to talk to as well?
That said, I agree there's probably not much adults have in common with pre-teens nor would there often be a reason to communicate with them.
Big deal. No one still uses their cellphone to make calls anyway.
If it's truly private, Rocket Lab should get all credit, not New Zealand.
GP probably uses unique characters as part of his actual scheme and accidently typed 6 out of habit for Slashdot.