Yeah, because rebooting every once in a while is just sooooooo much of a hassle. I mean, who on this sweet sweet Earth can handle the gawd awful waiting for a computer to boot?
Waiting 1.5 minutes for my computer to reach desktop stage is an AGE. How can anybody live with waiting an ENTIRE 1.5 minutes! its crazy!
Losing 90 seconds a week is intolerable, the only solution to this unmitigated time-disaster is to spend thousands on an entirely different computer platform.
If the old covenant was replaced by Jesus, why does the Catholic Church care if they are celibate or not?
This is a religion thread. Please dont use logic or common sense here, and for the love of all that is Holy in this world, do NOT ask questions, most especially the ones that show the illogic, inconsistencies and downright absurdities in religions.
Just nod your head and say amen. Thinking is for heretics and non-believers.
I love stories like this. As if I needed any more, but this is just yet another reason why I am so glad I removed my Facebook account years ago.
Why people will happily hand over the intimate details of their lives, in the face of dozens of horrifying Facebook privacy stories, ill never know. I guess Facebook users are like battered wives. They get their teeth kicked in by the abusive BF time after time, but wont leave him because 'they still love him'.
While the bar owner in the article makes his point in an obnoxious and troll-like manner, his point stands under its own merit.
People do not like being filmed and recorded and having it posted on the internet.
Could you imagine the reaction people would have with somebody wearing these glasses at say, a beach, changing rooms, clothing stores, anything that has children ( oh wont *SOMEBODY* think of the children!) in it, movie theatres, art galleries etc etc.
If a stranger wearing Glasses walked up and started talking to me, my very first reaction would be to put my hand up in front of my face to hide from the video camera, knowing full well that everything I say and do will be recorded and possibly posted onto the internet for the world to see. It would make conversation very awkward for both of us.
Its quite a scary thought really. The tech is cool, thats not under debate. But the privacy ramifications of it are, most especially if Glasses become as ubiquitous as smartphones.
What glasses needs is a way to be useful and cool and functional *without* a camera.
Now I know how you Americans *love* your guns, so im imagining a child's toy that shoots lettuce at other kids, both to reinforce the fact that salad is only to be thrown away ( stick to burgers and fries kids ), and that guns are *fun*!
Phones have heavy touch screen LCDs (and other bits and pieces, like the case!) that are pointless in orbit. Did they really waste that much of their mass budget on an LCD touch screen? Or is the "stock nexus" on this thing really not so stock?
I think that the rocket launching this into orbit has enough fuel and thrust to handle an additional 50 grams of mass.
They made a very limited amount of sense when unmanned spacecraft were really dumb, but they make just about no sense today. At best you'd be testing deep space tech for human spaceflight, but you can test it about as well and much more safely in high Earth orbit.
You are totally correct. How utterly pointless a flyby is.
Im sure doing something for the fact that nobody in human history has ever done it before, being in the history books, the prestige and kudos that comes with it, im sure none of those things have ever had anything to do with human exploration. Im also sure the engineering and science advances that come out of a flyby like this also has nothing to do with it. Nor would be the information gathered from doing 90% of a Mars landing be of any use too.
What's the point of a manned ballistic fly-by? All the humans can do is operate some instruments for the brief period they're slingshotting around the planet.
Why climb a mountain? What is the point? All you do once you get to the top is look around, and climb back down again.
Nobody should ever do something so utterly pointless as climb a mountain.
How quickly you change gear makes absolutely no difference to performance. *When* you change gear is crucial, and no automatic gearbox can solve that problem.
So what you are saying, is that I can take 17 seconds to change a gear, but if I change it at just the right moment, ill lose no performance at all compared with somebody who changes gears in 1 second?
"There really aren't any places to flee to any more. Most governments are turning oppresive, corrupt and are trampling civil liberties. "
Nonsence, there are still civilised western democracies around with low rates of corruption and opression, I'm lucky to have been born and live in one.
Look at the OECD countries that constantly rate highly in quality of life, corruption, happiness and freedom ratings, if you want an idea of where to flee to.
And as an added bonus, none of those countries will have obsessive gun culture, and gun crime is relatively rare.
c is a constant represents the theoretical maximum speed of light. The problem is that the speed of light is not constant. Light slows down in a medium.
meh, you are almost right.
C is a constant that represents the maximum speed of light *in a vacuum*.
That "in a vacuum" piece is quite important. The medium itself has no effect on the constant c ( constant is a constant), but each medium has its own value of light propagation speed which is *always* less than c.
Maybe they dedicated some cores to bitcoin mining? (I mean, if the congress approval is unreliable, they'd need to find other ways to survive)
Its a shame though. NASA would be beside themselves if they got 10Bil a year. Meanwhile, the US Army spends 20bil a year on air conditioning alone...
A right shame. You would think with all the inventions and innovations that have come out of NASA throughout its history, Americans would be proud of what they have with NASA. Instead they seem to see it as a pointless financial burden.
Then why do all of these supposed teeming masses of enlightened people sit about on their fat asses and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
These religious nutjobs got elected by the majority of people. They stayed elected and started trying to pass religious laws. And they passed. And still, you all sat there and did nothing.
How many more times do we all have to read about this shit happening in the US before people take a genuine stand against this tripe?
You non-religiously-affiliated -people need to grow a pair and start changing things before the shit really starts hitting the fan.
No, the problem is not the elected officials. The problem is the people who elected them in the first place.
Oh America, if only you could see what the rest of the world sees when looking in from the outside, and feel the utter shame all of you should be feeling. It is a truly sad and sorry state your country is turning into.
I genuinely pity the few of you left who have to futilely fight the new Dark Ages of the USA.
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But, I'd love to hear if I was wrong.
Sure, no problem, happy to oblige;
You were wrong.
Feel better now?
The problem with that is that you usually need lighting when the sun DOESN'T shine.
Thats what batteries are for.
Yes, yes, I am totally aware that this is a novel concept that has many sceptics and cynics out there, but trust me on this one. Really.
There is always a risk when killings spys of killing a civilion.
Im sorry, but civilions dont exist. Ive met *many* an ion in my life, and not a single one of those bastards was ever civil to me.
so 30nm resolution is not nano scale enough for you?
I was going to mod this +5 Funny, but the post went too far.
Yeah, because rebooting every once in a while is just sooooooo much of a hassle. I mean, who on this sweet sweet Earth can handle the gawd awful waiting for a computer to boot?
Waiting 1.5 minutes for my computer to reach desktop stage is an AGE. How can anybody live with waiting an ENTIRE 1.5 minutes! its crazy!
Losing 90 seconds a week is intolerable, the only solution to this unmitigated time-disaster is to spend thousands on an entirely different computer platform.
It sounds like a ploy to keep the funds flowing for Cassini.
+5 insightful for this obvious troll post?
Slashdot: +5 Disgraceful
If the old covenant was replaced by Jesus, why does the Catholic Church care if they are celibate or not?
This is a religion thread. Please dont use logic or common sense here, and for the love of all that is Holy in this world, do NOT ask questions, most especially the ones that show the illogic, inconsistencies and downright absurdities in religions.
Just nod your head and say amen. Thinking is for heretics and non-believers.
Because it has a substantial impact on the world.
Nerds != The World.
So what if you're a glutton for gluten?
Then you are a......glutton for gluten?
Why birds?
You *do* realize that there is no air in space?
Do you?
Story is here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512381/astrobiologists-find-ancient-fossils-in-fireball-fragments/
*possible*, unconfirmed, still-to-be-validated evidence, more like it.
From TFA: "Either way, considerably more work will have to be done before the claims from this team can be broadly accepted."
I love stories like this. As if I needed any more, but this is just yet another reason why I am so glad I removed my Facebook account years ago.
Why people will happily hand over the intimate details of their lives, in the face of dozens of horrifying Facebook privacy stories, ill never know.
I guess Facebook users are like battered wives. They get their teeth kicked in by the abusive BF time after time, but wont leave him because 'they still love him'.
While the bar owner in the article makes his point in an obnoxious and troll-like manner, his point stands under its own merit.
People do not like being filmed and recorded and having it posted on the internet.
Could you imagine the reaction people would have with somebody wearing these glasses at say, a beach, changing rooms, clothing stores, anything that has children ( oh wont *SOMEBODY* think of the children!) in it, movie theatres, art galleries etc etc.
If a stranger wearing Glasses walked up and started talking to me, my very first reaction would be to put my hand up in front of my face to hide from the video camera, knowing full well that everything I say and do will be recorded and possibly posted onto the internet for the world to see. It would make conversation very awkward for both of us.
Its quite a scary thought really. The tech is cool, thats not under debate. But the privacy ramifications of it are, most especially if Glasses become as ubiquitous as smartphones.
What glasses needs is a way to be useful and cool and functional *without* a camera.
What, dare I ask, is a salad shooter?
Now I know how you Americans *love* your guns, so im imagining a child's toy that shoots lettuce at other kids, both to reinforce the fact that salad is only to be thrown away ( stick to burgers and fries kids ), and that guns are *fun*!
Phones have heavy touch screen LCDs (and other bits and pieces, like the case!) that are pointless in orbit. Did they really waste that much of their mass budget on an LCD touch screen? Or is the "stock nexus" on this thing really not so stock?
I think that the rocket launching this into orbit has enough fuel and thrust to handle an additional 50 grams of mass.
They made a very limited amount of sense when unmanned spacecraft were really dumb, but they make just about no sense today. At best you'd be testing deep space tech for human spaceflight, but you can test it about as well and much more safely in high Earth orbit.
You are totally correct. How utterly pointless a flyby is.
Im sure doing something for the fact that nobody in human history has ever done it before, being in the history books, the prestige and kudos that comes with it, im sure none of those things have ever had anything to do with human exploration. Im also sure the engineering and science advances that come out of a flyby like this also has nothing to do with it. Nor would be the information gathered from doing 90% of a Mars landing be of any use too.
amiright?
What's the point of a manned ballistic fly-by? All the humans can do is operate some instruments for the brief period they're slingshotting around the planet.
Why climb a mountain? What is the point? All you do once you get to the top is look around, and climb back down again.
Nobody should ever do something so utterly pointless as climb a mountain.
amiright?
How quickly you change gear makes absolutely no difference to performance. *When* you change gear is crucial, and no automatic gearbox can solve that problem.
So what you are saying, is that I can take 17 seconds to change a gear, but if I change it at just the right moment, ill lose no performance at all compared with somebody who changes gears in 1 second?
Sir, I am in awe of your logic.
"There really aren't any places to flee to any more. Most governments are turning oppresive, corrupt and are trampling civil liberties. "
Nonsence, there are still civilised western democracies around with low rates of corruption and opression, I'm lucky to have been born and live in one.
Look at the OECD countries that constantly rate highly in quality of life, corruption, happiness and freedom ratings, if you want an idea of where to flee to.
And as an added bonus, none of those countries will have obsessive gun culture, and gun crime is relatively rare.
I take your reasonable doubt and counter it with un-reasonable doubt.
Thats more than enough for many people, sadly.
c is a constant represents the theoretical maximum speed of light. The problem is that the speed of light is not constant. Light slows down in a medium.
meh, you are almost right.
C is a constant that represents the maximum speed of light *in a vacuum*.
That "in a vacuum" piece is quite important. The medium itself has no effect on the constant c ( constant is a constant), but each medium has its own value of light propagation speed which is *always* less than c.
Think of 'c' as the speed of reality.
Since when does NASA have money?
Maybe they dedicated some cores to bitcoin mining? (I mean, if the congress approval is unreliable, they'd need to find other ways to survive)
Its a shame though. NASA would be beside themselves if they got 10Bil a year. Meanwhile, the US Army spends 20bil a year on air conditioning alone...
A right shame. You would think with all the inventions and innovations that have come out of NASA throughout its history, Americans would be proud of what they have with NASA. Instead they seem to see it as a pointless financial burden.
Then why do all of these supposed teeming masses of enlightened people sit about on their fat asses and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
These religious nutjobs got elected by the majority of people. They stayed elected and started trying to pass religious laws. And they passed. And still, you all sat there and did nothing.
How many more times do we all have to read about this shit happening in the US before people take a genuine stand against this tripe?
You non-religiously-affiliated -people need to grow a pair and start changing things before the shit really starts hitting the fan.
No, the problem is not the elected officials. The problem is the people who elected them in the first place.
Oh America, if only you could see what the rest of the world sees when looking in from the outside, and feel the utter shame all of you should be feeling. It is a truly sad and sorry state your country is turning into.
I genuinely pity the few of you left who have to futilely fight the new Dark Ages of the USA.