This is exactly why I feel we need 2 major leagues in most sports, an possibly 2 separate Olympic competitions. One for unaugmented humans the other for augmented humans.
I have been promoting this meme for some time now. Start an alternative sports league that allows the competitors to take any drugs they want, have their DNA modified, etc. It's the Mutant Olympics, Mutant Football league, etc. There's no doubt people would watch that stuff and all the negative publicity would just generate more hype. We welcome Marion Jones, Roger Clemens, and any others.
Really, if you're going to comment at least have half an idea how the technology works.
Your rudeness is showing. Whether or not FIOS TV or Verizon VOD is carried over IP, there is IPTV out there (eg FOX, ABC, etc), so my comment still applies. So you know the inner workings of Verizon, BFD, do you want a medal?
Okay, so I'm watching TV on my Verizon FIOS (carried over the internet) and AT&T blocks it (as it goes over their network) because I'm watching a copyrighted movie. Yeah, no problem there.
Why do you call something that does its job well "behind"?
Spoken like a PC salesman...
Hey, there's no reason to start name-calling! If you re-read my post, you'll see the thrust of my message was about cooling, not modern hardware. I mentioned "behind" because it takes years for new technology to be in enough demand for manufacturers to "bother" with rad-hard stuff. Yes, "behind" hardware can often do a great job, but often the new tech is much lower power (very important in space) due to shrunken geometries. I am the LAST to promote bloatware. I am a digital designer myself and when the software guys want to put an operating system inside one of our embedded projects, the first question I ask is "Why do we need a full-blown operating system?"
It's worth it to have one less install of Outlook. Give it up kid and try email instead.
Believe me, I'd love to give up Outlook. The problem is that some pointy-headed management types insist on sending Outlook-encrypted emails because they think that their "insights" are proprietary information. Dilbert cartoon of dumpster divers: "Oooh, they're using synergy. We're really in trouble now."
My thoughts exactly. They have not earned my respect because they show up and demonstrate their total lack of understanding of computers. I do work at a huge aerospace company, so it is full of a lot of freeloading braindeads, so perhaps the "good" IT people work at small companies. Congrats that you enjoy your IT job; all the IT people I've met are washed-up engineer-wannabes or Computer Learning Center grads, who can never be located, answer their phone, or their pager (and not just calls from me). Perhaps you find developers ("problem users") who want holes in firewalls and such, but I just want admin privileges (solely for software updates) that don't disappear everytime some IT "expert" sends down another push update to every desktop.
There's a reason the competent IT folk send the idiots to deal with you, its because you are difficult to deal with.
Your company must be the single company on the planet that even has competent IT folk. My experience is they do not exist. I am easy to deal with if you are not a complete moron. When you show up at my desk and display your absolute stupidity, have to call your "guru back at central" who tries the same inane stupid shit and the "expert" comes out, and finally because your Computer Learning Center degree doesn't take you past how to re-install windows, you determine I need a new machine, my point is proven. I do not act superior to help desk people, because I realize I'm at their mercy. The fact is developers MUST have the ability to install software updates (I do chip design, so it's not a matter of just having some C++ compiler). I do not want a bunch of freeware crap extras on my machine. I just want my tools to be up-to-date. The developer-wannabe who washed out of Programming 101 has to flex his IT power and it is LAUGHABLE.
The article is, unsurprisingly, written from the typical asshat IT support person point of view. The article doesn't list the user who actually does know a lot more than the clueless freshly-minted IT support guy. As opposed to the "Mr. Know-It-All" who thinks he's an engineer, there are those of us who actually are engineers who are hobbled by Mr. Know-Nothing IT guys who operate blindly. I always laugh at the IT guy who does superstitious things like closing the Explorer window and re-opening a new one so he can navigate somewhere! Or tries the exact same operation four times, thinking it will work the fourth time! Every time some idiotic security application is "pushed" onto all desktops and fucks up my ability to update development software, some IT moron asks "well what did you change?" I remember a dimwit who claimed I needed a new computer because he couldn't figure out how get an encryption certificate working in Outlook. I kid you not, I got a new computer out of it.
Cold is generally good for equipment, but not too much of course.
Actually, the "cold" of space doesn't help at all. Because the density of particles is so low, spacecraft can't cool down by convection. Cooling spacecraft (eg shedding internally generated heat) is a big problem. Also, the main "harsh" ingredient of space is radiation. The technology used in spacecraft is usually way behind commercial technology because it also has to be "rad-hardened."
First, we have established ourselves according to past climate, the climate was not always what it currently is, we inherit evolution and establishment from previous period, so our current climate may not be optimal.
Second, even if we adapt to a specific environment, it does not imply we cannot be more fitted to another environment.
Your lack of intelligence is shining very brightly. Yes, of course climate has changed in the past and people have migrated. The problem is not climate change in itself, it is the RATE of change that makes it a problem. This is the first time in the history of the Earth that a species actions affect the climate so markedly. It's an impulse function and we don't know what the system's response will be until it's too late. Second, of course some other environment might be better, but changing it to even an ideal environment too quickly is devastating. The Earth is not your living room, where you can just crank up the furnace when you get cold!
...regarldess [sic] of the fact we don't know out own planet's ideal temperature...
I can't believe you Global-Warming-Deniers even bother with such an assinine arguement. Unless everybody on the entire planet has infinite mobility, it is quite apparent that ANY deviation from the established norm spells disaster. Populations shift with climate change and have established themselves according to the CURRENT climate. When change comes too abruptly (whether or not toward some idiotic "ideal temperature" idea), there will be floods, droughts, starvation, war, and a lot of death.
In October, researchers from Bangor University in Wales were trawling an ocean shelf off the coast of north Iceland when they stumbled on what is believed to be the world's oldest living animal: a 405 year-old clam. Or it was living, until researchers had to kill it to determine the clam's age by studying rings on its shell.
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Now if we could just get all of you to have sexual reassignment surgery, you'd fit the mold properly.
It will definitely fall up. Well, according to my Star Trek education, anyway.
If it's a South Korean ship (article doesn't specify) and an Iraqi ship, then they're both U.S. allies.
Iraq is only a U.S. ally because they were forced to be one.
I prefer Ghidra, the three-headed monster (aka Monster Zero).
what type of porn am I looking at now?
You're sick. That's clearly goatse you're ogling.
Probably Pitfall.
I got them to work on IE here at work.
Crisis Mountain, Lode Runner, BoulderDash, Choplifter
This is exactly why I feel we need 2 major leagues in most sports, an possibly 2 separate Olympic competitions. One for unaugmented humans the other for augmented humans.
I have been promoting this meme for some time now. Start an alternative sports league that allows the competitors to take any drugs they want, have their DNA modified, etc. It's the Mutant Olympics, Mutant Football league, etc. There's no doubt people would watch that stuff and all the negative publicity would just generate more hype. We welcome Marion Jones, Roger Clemens, and any others.
Really, if you're going to comment at least have half an idea how the technology works.
Your rudeness is showing. Whether or not FIOS TV or Verizon VOD is carried over IP, there is IPTV out there (eg FOX, ABC, etc), so my comment still applies. So you know the inner workings of Verizon, BFD, do you want a medal?
Okay, so I'm watching TV on my Verizon FIOS (carried over the internet) and AT&T blocks it (as it goes over their network) because I'm watching a copyrighted movie. Yeah, no problem there.
..there's no place on earth where the rainfall would possibly exceed the needs of a densely packed urban population..
How about Ketchikan, AK: Average annual rainfall is 152 inches (3861 mm); annual average snowfall is 37 inches (940 mm).
Why do you call something that does its job well "behind"? Spoken like a PC salesman...
Hey, there's no reason to start name-calling! If you re-read my post, you'll see the thrust of my message was about cooling, not modern hardware. I mentioned "behind" because it takes years for new technology to be in enough demand for manufacturers to "bother" with rad-hard stuff. Yes, "behind" hardware can often do a great job, but often the new tech is much lower power (very important in space) due to shrunken geometries. I am the LAST to promote bloatware. I am a digital designer myself and when the software guys want to put an operating system inside one of our embedded projects, the first question I ask is "Why do we need a full-blown operating system?"
We need the following laws: 1. It it NEVER illegal to make any audio recording of an on-duty government employee
Great idea! Let's call it "The Richard Nixon Law."
You'd think they could just re-image at worst, or that at least a 2nd person would be called in before ordering a new box.
He was the second person.
It's worth it to have one less install of Outlook. Give it up kid and try email instead.
Believe me, I'd love to give up Outlook. The problem is that some pointy-headed management types insist on sending Outlook-encrypted emails because they think that their "insights" are proprietary information. Dilbert cartoon of dumpster divers: "Oooh, they're using synergy. We're really in trouble now."
Respect is not something given, it is earned...
My thoughts exactly. They have not earned my respect because they show up and demonstrate their total lack of understanding of computers. I do work at a huge aerospace company, so it is full of a lot of freeloading braindeads, so perhaps the "good" IT people work at small companies. Congrats that you enjoy your IT job; all the IT people I've met are washed-up engineer-wannabes or Computer Learning Center grads, who can never be located, answer their phone, or their pager (and not just calls from me). Perhaps you find developers ("problem users") who want holes in firewalls and such, but I just want admin privileges (solely for software updates) that don't disappear everytime some IT "expert" sends down another push update to every desktop.
There's a reason the competent IT folk send the idiots to deal with you, its because you are difficult to deal with.
Your company must be the single company on the planet that even has competent IT folk. My experience is they do not exist. I am easy to deal with if you are not a complete moron. When you show up at my desk and display your absolute stupidity, have to call your "guru back at central" who tries the same inane stupid shit and the "expert" comes out, and finally because your Computer Learning Center degree doesn't take you past how to re-install windows, you determine I need a new machine, my point is proven. I do not act superior to help desk people, because I realize I'm at their mercy. The fact is developers MUST have the ability to install software updates (I do chip design, so it's not a matter of just having some C++ compiler). I do not want a bunch of freeware crap extras on my machine. I just want my tools to be up-to-date. The developer-wannabe who washed out of Programming 101 has to flex his IT power and it is LAUGHABLE.
The article is, unsurprisingly, written from the typical asshat IT support person point of view. The article doesn't list the user who actually does know a lot more than the clueless freshly-minted IT support guy. As opposed to the "Mr. Know-It-All" who thinks he's an engineer, there are those of us who actually are engineers who are hobbled by Mr. Know-Nothing IT guys who operate blindly. I always laugh at the IT guy who does superstitious things like closing the Explorer window and re-opening a new one so he can navigate somewhere! Or tries the exact same operation four times, thinking it will work the fourth time! Every time some idiotic security application is "pushed" onto all desktops and fucks up my ability to update development software, some IT moron asks "well what did you change?" I remember a dimwit who claimed I needed a new computer because he couldn't figure out how get an encryption certificate working in Outlook. I kid you not, I got a new computer out of it.
Cold is generally good for equipment, but not too much of course.
Actually, the "cold" of space doesn't help at all. Because the density of particles is so low, spacecraft can't cool down by convection. Cooling spacecraft (eg shedding internally generated heat) is a big problem. Also, the main "harsh" ingredient of space is radiation. The technology used in spacecraft is usually way behind commercial technology because it also has to be "rad-hardened."
Bullshit. Read the parent again. You are wrong on both counts.
First, we have established ourselves according to past climate, the climate was not always what it currently is, we inherit evolution and establishment from previous period, so our current climate may not be optimal. Second, even if we adapt to a specific environment, it does not imply we cannot be more fitted to another environment.
Your lack of intelligence is shining very brightly. Yes, of course climate has changed in the past and people have migrated. The problem is not climate change in itself, it is the RATE of change that makes it a problem. This is the first time in the history of the Earth that a species actions affect the climate so markedly. It's an impulse function and we don't know what the system's response will be until it's too late. Second, of course some other environment might be better, but changing it to even an ideal environment too quickly is devastating. The Earth is not your living room, where you can just crank up the furnace when you get cold!
You're aware that had any other sea creature discovered the clam, it would have been eaten. That's life.
Not necessarily. Only humans kill for the hell of it. It had been alive for over 400 fucking years!
...regarldess [sic] of the fact we don't know out own planet's ideal temperature...
I can't believe you Global-Warming-Deniers even bother with such an assinine arguement. Unless everybody on the entire planet has infinite mobility, it is quite apparent that ANY deviation from the established norm spells disaster. Populations shift with climate change and have established themselves according to the CURRENT climate. When change comes too abruptly (whether or not toward some idiotic "ideal temperature" idea), there will be floods, droughts, starvation, war, and a lot of death.
In October, researchers from Bangor University in Wales were trawling an ocean shelf off the coast of north Iceland when they stumbled on what is believed to be the world's oldest living animal: a 405 year-old clam. Or it was living, until researchers had to kill it to determine the clam's age by studying rings on its shell.
Aren't we just a great at discovering?