I grew up in Sweden, and a big difference is that the school is not involved with sports at all, more than some phys ed.
If you're involved in sport - and many Swedish kids are - it's a a hobby on your own time. There is no "school spirit" involved, and in my impression, the jocks were seen mostly as a type of nerds, with just sports as their obsession, rather than books or computers.
Not that there is no bullying or hierarchies, but the jocks are not at to by default..
The downside of this policy is that now we'll never be sure that an asteroid is not headed here. If the policy was full disclosure, we could (most likely...) feel secure that nothing like this will hit us at least. But now we can't, and it adds to the level of underlying fear in humanity.
And it's always fun to see how those who think that the publlic can't handle some information, movie or whatever, assume that they themselves will be able to deal fine with it.
What's to say the astronomers and government officials who would be in the know about this will not start looting and raping their way through the final months of Earth as we know it?
But this gets talked about a lot. I'd bet 100 times more people hear about this than heard about the probably intentional "-30" CCS coding error that is the original problem.
Which puts a 100 time bigger pressure on M$, and as good an impact on M$ as they could hope to have.
As a Swede and an exempt California software engineer, I have to respond to this, even though it will kill two of my moderator points.
The exact same thing happens in Sweden. Once you get above a certain level, you do not get paid overtime. I remember a friend of mine at Ericsson who routinely worked 80 hour weeks, and then he got promoted and suddenly found his pay checks to be cut in half.
And also, what you hear in the Swedish media aboput the hell of living in the US is mostly made up and distorted. I used to believe it, but then I moved here.
Also again, I get paid three times as much here, so if the Swedish tech companies do fine, maybe it's because they pay "slave wages"?
Yeah, I'm sure it's harder than it seems, but hardly impossible. And the political pressure for it will be enormous before they'll let a shuttle up again. Yet another argument against government run space exploration, but that's a whole other topic.
You want a shuttle ready to go everytime? Ok. You just doubled the cost for every launch. Because keeping a shuttle ready is a huge expense.
A big expense, but hardly close to doubling the launch cost. Most of which I believe is replacing tiles and rockets and a zillion other things after each mission.
Having emergency supplies that keeps the crew alive for 3 weeks and keeping one shuttle ready to liftoff within 3 weeks in case it's needed can't come close to that. My uninformed but intelligent guess is around 10% more cost.
Perhaps, but with some minimal planning for this eventuality it would have been simple to handle. Make sure one other shuttle is always ready to go within a week like Atlantis was, and bring some rope and stuff for the emergency people transfer.
The big issue seems to be that there is no way to look at the outside from the inside, or anywhere else. If you don't know that the hull is damaged all else becomes irrelevant. It seems like a simple thing to rig up some camera or whatever to look around the corners.
Food was a non issue. These were fit healthy people who could easily fast for a month with no serious health problems. As long as you have water, and you can recirculate that pretty low tech, if they don't do that already.
I expect something like this to be in place before the shuttles are taken in use again.
Everything a corporation does is done by people. And everything they say is said by people, who have the right to free speech. So I don't understand how the people/corporation distiction would change anything.
The best solution may be to ship a USB dongle with every camcorder, which holds the decryption key for the individual encryption key in the camera. You just plug it into any laptop or specialized wireless recording unit you want to record to.
It's safe, and also "tangible" enough that anyone can understand it.
You can easily encrypt the signal so it's safe from at least civilian eavesdropping. It's all cheap standard technology. It could use Airport ("802.11b"?) and record directly to your laptop!
You sure seem like a happy-go-lucky kind of fella!
You may not have noticed I wrote "at least it was originally"? The link some AC provided confirms this. Quote: "It was first conceived of as the mass of a cubic decimeter of water at 4 degrees Celsius."
Not that it matters in the slightest either way in the context of approximately how much water is used in manufacturing.
Also, I post at +2, so only 1 moderator is needed to put me at +3.
That could put your post at "-2 Wrong", if anyone was counting.
For those not used to standard units it may be worth pointing out that 1 kg of water is 1 liter. That is the definition of kg. Or at least it was originally.
It's a little weird that they use kg to measure water rather than liter. Does it seem more that way?
If they're going to buy every game maker there is, that is a great incentive to start new such companies, with the guarantee that they will be bought at a good price. Microsofts costs will just rise and rise indefinitely if they try that.
So how exactly is it wonderful that a double murderer could walk free, mostly by beeing rich? Do you expect this example to make the rest of the world see the folly of their judical systems and adopt the US way wholesale?
The "criminally" part is telling, since OJ actually was retried for the exact same crime, and found guilty. Only in a civil court.
Both sides can appeal to the higher court, and in rare precedence setting cases after that to the Supreme Court.
But once the case has gone through that process, you can not be retried for the same crime. So it is still not possible for the gevernment to harass people by retrying them again and again in perpetuity, which was the abuse of power the US constitution "double jeopardy" rule was designed to avoid.
So could you put one of these on each bicycle, and have a few sensors at well used bike lanes, and trigger an alarm when a bike that's reported stolen passes by? Or go scan bike parkings? I am so sick of having one bike or more stolen per year!
The big reason you can't have a real LoJack type thing on a bicycle is that there is no way to power it. But these things don't need power.
I guess the big problem would be that thieves can scan for tags too, and remove or replace them. But I'm sure you could come up with some schemes to make that hard.
Of course, this would work theft prevention for many kinds of goods.
A lot of clothing, such as all pants, contains metal parts in zippers and buttons etc. And you can't nuke metal, because... I'm not sure why, but everyone says so.
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I grew up in Sweden, and a big difference is that the school is not involved with sports at all, more than some phys ed.
If you're involved in sport - and many Swedish kids are - it's a a hobby on your own time. There is no "school spirit" involved, and in my impression, the jocks were seen mostly as a type of nerds, with just sports as their obsession, rather than books or computers.
Not that there is no bullying or hierarchies, but the jocks are not at to by default..
It's pretty unbeleivable how many teens end their lives because they just can't take it anymore
So how many is that then? A number would be more believable than "it's really many!".
The downside of this policy is that now we'll never be sure that an asteroid is not headed here. If the policy was full disclosure, we could (most likely...) feel secure that nothing like this will hit us at least. But now we can't, and it adds to the level of underlying fear in humanity.
And it's always fun to see how those who think that the publlic can't handle some information, movie or whatever, assume that they themselves will be able to deal fine with it.
What's to say the astronomers and government officials who would be in the know about this will not start looting and raping their way through the final months of Earth as we know it?
Great. Most guys would prefer to be a "chick magnet", but as long as you're happy, that is all that counts!
Relax. The Swedish chef has always been very popular in Sweden.
Maybe we should be better at taking offence, but so far we are way behind world leaders inthis regard.
But this gets talked about a lot. I'd bet 100 times more people hear about this than heard about the probably intentional "-30" CCS coding error that is the original problem.
Which puts a 100 time bigger pressure on M$, and as good an impact on M$ as they could hope to have.
As a Swede and an exempt California software engineer, I have to respond to this, even though it will kill two of my moderator points.
The exact same thing happens in Sweden. Once you get above a certain level, you do not get paid overtime. I remember a friend of mine at Ericsson who routinely worked 80 hour weeks, and then he got promoted and suddenly found his pay checks to be cut in half.
And also, what you hear in the Swedish media aboput the hell of living in the US is mostly made up and distorted. I used to believe it, but then I moved here.
Also again, I get paid three times as much here, so if the Swedish tech companies do fine, maybe it's because they pay "slave wages"?
But does that apply when they replace a model with a new one, rather than lowering the price of the old one?
Yeah, I'm sure it's harder than it seems, but hardly impossible. And the political pressure for it will be enormous before they'll let a shuttle up again. Yet another argument against government run space exploration, but that's a whole other topic.
You want a shuttle ready to go everytime? Ok. You just doubled the cost for every launch. Because keeping a shuttle ready is a huge expense.
A big expense, but hardly close to doubling the launch cost. Most of which I believe is replacing tiles and rockets and a zillion other things after each mission.
Having emergency supplies that keeps the crew alive for 3 weeks and keeping one shuttle ready to liftoff within 3 weeks in case it's needed can't come close to that. My uninformed but intelligent guess is around 10% more cost.
Perhaps, but with some minimal planning for this eventuality it would have been simple to handle. Make sure one other shuttle is always ready to go within a week like Atlantis was, and bring some rope and stuff for the emergency people transfer.
The big issue seems to be that there is no way to look at the outside from the inside, or anywhere else. If you don't know that the hull is damaged all else becomes irrelevant. It seems like a simple thing to rig up some camera or whatever to look around the corners.
Food was a non issue. These were fit healthy people who could easily fast for a month with no serious health problems. As long as you have water, and you can recirculate that pretty low tech, if they don't do that already.
I expect something like this to be in place before the shuttles are taken in use again.
Sadly, we are America, land of the free and home of the brave, no longer.
I hear it got changed to "Land of the fee, home of the slave". How and when this happened is classified.
Sure, but they are groups of people.
Everything a corporation does is done by people. And everything they say is said by people, who have the right to free speech. So I don't understand how the people/corporation distiction would change anything.
I buy a new Mac when there is a model that is three times faster than the one I have at the same price I paid for it. I'm on my fourth since 1996.
I didn't think of that problem.
The best solution may be to ship a USB dongle with every camcorder, which holds the decryption key for the individual encryption key in the camera. You just plug it into any laptop or specialized wireless recording unit you want to record to.
It's safe, and also "tangible" enough that anyone can understand it.
You can easily encrypt the signal so it's safe from at least civilian eavesdropping. It's all cheap standard technology. It could use Airport ("802.11b"?) and record directly to your laptop!
Apples iPods have up to 20GB HDs in them, and should take at least as much a beating as in a camcorder.
It's much easier for the company since they know all the IP addresses. You would have to figure them out in some much more tedious way.
You sure seem like a happy-go-lucky kind of fella!
You may not have noticed I wrote "at least it was originally"? The link some AC provided confirms this. Quote: "It was first conceived of as the mass of a cubic decimeter of water at 4 degrees Celsius."
Not that it matters in the slightest either way in the context of approximately how much water is used in manufacturing.
Also, I post at +2, so only 1 moderator is needed to put me at +3.
That could put your post at "-2 Wrong", if anyone was counting.
For those not used to standard units it may be worth pointing out that 1 kg of water is 1 liter. That is the definition of kg. Or at least it was originally.
It's a little weird that they use kg to measure water rather than liter. Does it seem more that way?
If they're going to buy every game maker there is, that is a great incentive to start new such companies, with the guarantee that they will be bought at a good price. Microsofts costs will just rise and rise indefinitely if they try that.
So how exactly is it wonderful that a double murderer could walk free, mostly by beeing rich? Do you expect this example to make the rest of the world see the folly of their judical systems and adopt the US way wholesale?
The "criminally" part is telling, since OJ actually was retried for the exact same crime, and found guilty. Only in a civil court.
Both sides can appeal to the higher court, and in rare precedence setting cases after that to the Supreme Court.
But once the case has gone through that process, you can not be retried for the same crime. So it is still not possible for the gevernment to harass people by retrying them again and again in perpetuity, which was the abuse of power the US constitution "double jeopardy" rule was designed to avoid.
So could you put one of these on each bicycle, and have a few sensors at well used bike lanes, and trigger an alarm when a bike that's reported stolen passes by? Or go scan bike parkings? I am so sick of having one bike or more stolen per year!
The big reason you can't have a real LoJack type thing on a bicycle is that there is no way to power it. But these things don't need power.
I guess the big problem would be that thieves can scan for tags too, and remove or replace them. But I'm sure you could come up with some schemes to make that hard.
Of course, this would work theft prevention for many kinds of goods.
A lot of clothing, such as all pants, contains metal parts in zippers and buttons etc. And you can't nuke metal, because... I'm not sure why, but everyone says so.
So can you just turn the wheels 90 degrees and drive sideways into the parking spot? Sweet! This will sell in San Francisco.