On the other hand, the rovers took 90 sols to do what a competent geologist with similar equipment on the scene could do in an afternoon. Assuming a 90-to-1 capability ratio, the rovers have done about three weeks of equivalent work. I think there is a place for manned exploration of space. On the gripping hand, it probably will cost at least 90 times as much to get that geologist to Mars when the time comes.
Not bagging on the rovers, especially since I work in the lab that operates Mini-TES, so yay unmanned missions!
And if you can't recognize that Fox News slants at least a fair amount to the right maybe about as much as MSNBC slants to the left, you should save a big piece of that idiot pie you're serving for yourself.
"Foxwin" is pretty clever though, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
If you like stuff like this, you night want to give ChucK a test drive if you haven't seen it. It's a programming language written from the ground up to do audio work.
Yeah, and while we're on the topic of mysteries, can any of you guys tell me what this "Linux" thing is you all keep talking about? It keeps getting mentioned, and I hoped I'd be able to figure it out from context, but I've had no luck so far.
You can live under rocks? Why doesn't anybody tell me these things!?
And do you think it will always be that way? I recall a lot of professional computer people saying these sorts of things about computers 35 and 40 years ago. I also remember a musician friend of mine from 20 years ago hating CDs and preferring vinyl because it was cheaper for him and his band to get vinyl presses than CD presses. How's that math working now?
Sure, they're not doing much today. Next year it probably won't be much different. Let's talk about 2038, though. Sure, a small garage lab still won't be able to make what a big lab can then, either. But 30 years ago, PCR didn't even exist and you couldn't do the work you do routinely today at a lab of any size. Do you really think that trend will stop now? It has been the nature of all technology to become cheaper and doable by a smaller groups as time marches on (computer systems being one of the most radical examples). Absent a very strong regulatory regime that curbs garage molecular biology and relegates it to a black market, I can only agree with you for now, but disagree in the long term.:-)
Kind of makes your little COBOL skills or whatever you have seem kind of...well, how *do* you stay employed with so little going for you? And if you are employed, don't get too comfortable.
Actually, the COBOL and RPG (really a minicomputer language) mainframe programmers I know these days are all quite securely employed and paid extremely well, better than most web developers I know. The problem is most people view it as unglamorous and crufty (true on both counts) and don't want to do it. I'm the same way. I've got places I could go tomorrow and make way more (and probably have more job security) than I make today because I know both of those languages, but I like my job hacking on C, Python and Perl for a space science laboratory a lot more. But I don't mistake glamor for more practical concerns, either.
The tough part of that plan is success depends on how interesting your project is. I work at a planetary science lab in a big research university. Finding smart people to hire is not especially difficult for us. I imagine a team about to embark on writing yet another accounts payable system probably has a harder time getting smart people enthused about it.
I'm not putting down working on accounting systems... I did it a few years myself. It's not easy, and requires smarts but it's not terribly interesting to most programmers, either.
I have to respectfully disagree with you about Griffin. I don't necessarily have a problem with the direction he's taking (In fact, I concur with his ideas for a new manned program and end-of-lifing the shuttle) but the mistake he made was that he claimed he could do all this on the budget he's given. I know asking for more money isn't popular, but he also needs to give Congress and the president a reality check and say "We're trying for another Apollo-level project on a mac-and-cheese budget. We've got to get more money for this."
I suppose we could get it by scrapping the science missions, but at least in the case of the Mars missions, a lot of that is gathering information for an eventual manned mission there. Canning all space science for five years doesn't end space science for five years, it ends it for a generation because all those teams will fall apart, and melt into industry and academia and it will take a decade or more to get where we were before. NASA's space operations budget needs to be increased. I wonder how many people know that just "No Child Left Behind" costs about 20% more than the entire NASA budget, and I don't know too many people who have a kind word for that program, apart from politicians.
You can do tail recursion optimizations implemented in pure Python. They're not speedy at all (If you want speedy, write in C/C++, Java, or something), but they keep recursive functions from filling the stack. It would be better if it were implemented in the environment, but you can make it work.
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You have confused "geography" with "topography" and "terrain". Network topology is certainly constrained by both politics and terrain, both of which are things that can be studied with geography.
I disagree. These are the worst times to cut basic research out. I will grant that some priorities need to be made and we need to look for bang for the buck type things, but cutting funding the science research turns it into a musical chairs game where the little bit you still spend on science is all getting spent on scientists writing grant proposals to get more funding rather than actually doing science. We're over halfway there now.
Also, let's not forget that a bunch of highly educated engineers and scientists chronically out of work is a dangerous element to have laying around.:-)
Though I agree that the Kelo decision sucked, I think in the long term it was beneficial. A lot more people learned about eminent domain, and there was enough outrage at what happened that many states passed laws that prohibited what New London did.
If your state isn't one of them, take up the cause, get organized and make it happen. If you can't get that to work, do it at the county or city level.
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IsLeapYear could be implemented as a macro, if you feel function calls are too expensive:
Or, if your compiler supports declaring inline functions, you could (and probably should) go that way.
On the other hand, the rovers took 90 sols to do what a competent geologist with similar equipment on the scene could do in an afternoon. Assuming a 90-to-1 capability ratio, the rovers have done about three weeks of equivalent work. I think there is a place for manned exploration of space. On the gripping hand, it probably will cost at least 90 times as much to get that geologist to Mars when the time comes.
Not bagging on the rovers, especially since I work in the lab that operates Mini-TES, so yay unmanned missions!
And if you can't recognize that Fox News slants at least a fair amount to the right maybe about as much as MSNBC slants to the left, you should save a big piece of that idiot pie you're serving for yourself.
"Foxwin" is pretty clever though, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
If you like stuff like this, you night want to give ChucK a test drive if you haven't seen it. It's a programming language written from the ground up to do audio work.
Yeah, and while we're on the topic of mysteries, can any of you guys tell me what this "Linux" thing is you all keep talking about? It keeps getting mentioned, and I hoped I'd be able to figure it out from context, but I've had no luck so far.
You can live under rocks? Why doesn't anybody tell me these things!?
And do you think it will always be that way? I recall a lot of professional computer people saying these sorts of things about computers 35 and 40 years ago. I also remember a musician friend of mine from 20 years ago hating CDs and preferring vinyl because it was cheaper for him and his band to get vinyl presses than CD presses. How's that math working now?
Sure, they're not doing much today. Next year it probably won't be much different. Let's talk about 2038, though. Sure, a small garage lab still won't be able to make what a big lab can then, either. But 30 years ago, PCR didn't even exist and you couldn't do the work you do routinely today at a lab of any size. Do you really think that trend will stop now? It has been the nature of all technology to become cheaper and doable by a smaller groups as time marches on (computer systems being one of the most radical examples). Absent a very strong regulatory regime that curbs garage molecular biology and relegates it to a black market, I can only agree with you for now, but disagree in the long term. :-)
No, I'm pretty sure what makes the world turn can be explained much more satisfactory using physics than economics,
I've noticed it's a fairly common geek trait to be weak in the use and recognition of metaphors.
Kind of makes your little COBOL skills or whatever you have seem kind of...well, how *do* you stay employed with so little going for you? And if you are employed, don't get too comfortable.
Actually, the COBOL and RPG (really a minicomputer language) mainframe programmers I know these days are all quite securely employed and paid extremely well, better than most web developers I know. The problem is most people view it as unglamorous and crufty (true on both counts) and don't want to do it. I'm the same way. I've got places I could go tomorrow and make way more (and probably have more job security) than I make today because I know both of those languages, but I like my job hacking on C, Python and Perl for a space science laboratory a lot more. But I don't mistake glamor for more practical concerns, either.
The tough part of that plan is success depends on how interesting your project is. I work at a planetary science lab in a big research university. Finding smart people to hire is not especially difficult for us. I imagine a team about to embark on writing yet another accounts payable system probably has a harder time getting smart people enthused about it.
I'm not putting down working on accounting systems... I did it a few years myself. It's not easy, and requires smarts but it's not terribly interesting to most programmers, either.
I have to respectfully disagree with you about Griffin. I don't necessarily have a problem with the direction he's taking (In fact, I concur with his ideas for a new manned program and end-of-lifing the shuttle) but the mistake he made was that he claimed he could do all this on the budget he's given. I know asking for more money isn't popular, but he also needs to give Congress and the president a reality check and say "We're trying for another Apollo-level project on a mac-and-cheese budget. We've got to get more money for this."
I suppose we could get it by scrapping the science missions, but at least in the case of the Mars missions, a lot of that is gathering information for an eventual manned mission there. Canning all space science for five years doesn't end space science for five years, it ends it for a generation because all those teams will fall apart, and melt into industry and academia and it will take a decade or more to get where we were before. NASA's space operations budget needs to be increased. I wonder how many people know that just "No Child Left Behind" costs about 20% more than the entire NASA budget, and I don't know too many people who have a kind word for that program, apart from politicians.
You can do tail recursion optimizations implemented in pure Python. They're not speedy at all (If you want speedy, write in C/C++, Java, or something), but they keep recursive functions from filling the stack. It would be better if it were implemented in the environment, but you can make it work.
You just won the internet. Congratulations.
Try our new 68-button MegaMedia(TM) Mouse with built-in subwoofer!!!
I just finally threw caution to the wind last year and duct-taped an old mouse on the bottom of my keyboard. 108-button mouse, biatches! Doesn't have a subwoofer, but I still have duct tape left over.
You have confused "geography" with "topography" and "terrain". Network topology is certainly constrained by both politics and terrain, both of which are things that can be studied with geography.
I don't know. RICO was originally designed to go after organized crime rackets which could otherwise... oh, wait, my mistake. Carry on.
I disagree. These are the worst times to cut basic research out. I will grant that some priorities need to be made and we need to look for bang for the buck type things, but cutting funding the science research turns it into a musical chairs game where the little bit you still spend on science is all getting spent on scientists writing grant proposals to get more funding rather than actually doing science. We're over halfway there now.
Also, let's not forget that a bunch of highly educated engineers and scientists chronically out of work is a dangerous element to have laying around. :-)
I think most people who are scornful of aliens being portrayed as humanoids have never had to manage the budget for a science fiction TV show. ;-)
But, I think my version made more sense.
I don't know if it made more sense, but I think it would make a better movie.
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The Milgram experiment would tend to lend credence to this assertion.
670,000? 15.5 * 3000 (300 million people is 3000 hundred thousand) = 46,500. Where did you get 670,000 from?
Though I agree that the Kelo decision sucked, I think in the long term it was beneficial. A lot more people learned about eminent domain, and there was enough outrage at what happened that many states passed laws that prohibited what New London did.
If your state isn't one of them, take up the cause, get organized and make it happen. If you can't get that to work, do it at the county or city level.
But, I suppose there are some that look at the results of his presidency and say "Mission Accomplished".
Osama bin Laden, I would guess.
Includes a good ground combat battle system, I will no longer worry, for I am already dead, and in Heaven.