The fossil record seems to indicate that if we don't escape this rock, it will kill us off. It's almost like it's trying to develop a spacefaring species.
It doesn't remove their ability to delete the books you bought and paid for if they deem it necessary. This is different from buying a physical book in that generally to take the work away from you they have to come to where you're keeping it, preferably with guns.
It doesn't remove the inherent unreliability of a system that can take away the content you've bought at any time. To resolve that you need a solution that doesn't involve DRM.
I haven't ever interviewed twice either. Maybe I'm aiming low. My needs are modest. When I'm looking for work the first port in a storm will usually do.
Maybe I don't understand this whole interviewing skill, interviewer as a job thing. I've interviewed and hired hundreds of people, and generally speaking if you can do the work and aren't creepy, we're done and you're hired. When I'm interviewing to get a job, if the pay is sufficient and I can do the work, we're done and I'll take it. Later if it turns out the early impression is wrong, we fix it or part ways.
Is it really more complicated than that? Am I oversimplifying things? Interviews don't have anything to do with what people are like or what they are capable of any more than a prom dress reflects your date's taste in fashion. They can't measure a person's dedication, devotion or attention to detail. They can't measure a person's intelligence, though they can quickly rule out the truly dumb, incompetent and spiteful. For this one interview will do.
It probably was. Through subjective analysis of Creative drivers I can definitively demonstrate that whatever hiring, management and testing processes they're using, they're not working.
For measuring ball bearings produced by a machine, statistics make some good sense. After all, if the average size of a bearing measures 3.05mm, +/-.1mm, a curve can be made that measures meaningfully if a specific batch of bearings differs from the mean and so detect when a machine is coming out of tolerance, long before the bearings produced become unsatisfactory.
When doing studies such as this one, they become less meaningful. If, for example, the report is to be meaningful, the understanding of the questions by the respondent, and their applicability to the statement of the report must be understood. Since to disclose the text of the report to the respondent prior to their response would spoil the result, their understanding of the context of the question is inevitably suspect.
And then there's the question of simply understanding the question in the general sense. In an environment where three standard deviations of the question "are you on fire?" nets 80% of a sizeable sample, one must presume that analysis of more subtle questions will not yield meaningful results.
The cloud is a virtual server management piece that integrates with DNS and routing such that seamless failover and on-demand scaling can occur. A private cloud is when you own all the hardware it runs on. A public cloud is where your virtual machines and/or data are hosted somewhere else. A hybrid cloud has in-house hardware for normal course-of-business, with public cloud resources on tap for unusual demand and high availability.
Typically cloud services are provided in virtual machine units consisting of a virtual machine specially configured to be cloned, managed, access data and provide a single service or related group of services in a scalable way. Proprietary services which cannot be so configured are not good candidates for cloud architectures.
Cloud management typically involves a single console with performance and health monitoring, resource management.
Clouds are currently in wide use in the web hosting services community, as hosting service providers use private clouds of web server and database server virtual machines to provide the low-cost web hosting services they provide reliably. Some providers also offer public clouds, where you can run a custom virtual machines - typically Linux - by the hour, week or month on their hardware - and not all of them refer to this as "cloud" architecture.
Hydrogen and Oxygen make a great stored fuel - if you have the infrastructure to liquify and contain Hydrogen. It's a tricky business though. Hydrogen molecules are so small they migrate through the walls of most containers. Hydrogen must held under huge pressures or at insanely low temperatures to remain liquid. Hydrocarbon fuels, on the other hand, are easier to work with.
You don't bring them back, silly. They're there for the taking but shipping costs don't math out. You use them in place, or in space. Nuclear and solar are great for electrical energy, but even in space hydrocarbons can be a useful raw material and a good portable energy concentrate if you also have oxygen from water.
22 people have lost their lives in spaceflight. Roughly 5% or one in twenty of all the people who have been in space. And a greater number of ground crew. To send robots for a while is all well and good, but real humans on the ground can do far more.
Over the past half century many trillions of dollars and millions of lives have been spent over the temporary control of an arid patch of sand in the middle east that spans from Afghanistan to Iraq. Yes, there's some oil there, but really - Out There are entire moons made of hydrocarbons, entire desert planets to despoil, more mineral wealth than was ever mined, more energy each day than has been produced in all of human history - and that's just the stuff in our local neighborhood. Maybe most importantly for the human spirit, out there is the Frontier, with elbow room and an outlet for those few among us who must struggle at great peril against impossible odds for fame and glory. Without that outlet our carnivorous nature will turn against itself toward war.
If we were serious about exploring space we would do it more. It was my parent's generation who went to the moon and then quit. I hope my children are made of sterner stuff. If we and they whine too much about the danger and the expense, they might set that goal aside forever. Yes, it's costly in both blood and treasure. But even early space travel has paid tremendous benefits in the sciences.
The Earth's gravity well has been great for the development of humans, but escaping it is more than 99% of the risk and 99% of the cost. A colony outside of this gravity barrier will not have these impediments to exploration once established. Only then we can begin to learn things in earnest and capture the wealth of the universe which is ours for the taking.
But to arrive, you have to start. Every argument about risk and cost is an argument not to start. If we don't start then no matter what else we do mankind is doomed to die on this rock, a lost potential.
Shakespeare? Derivative? Next you'll tell me that the latest crop of Hollywood movies share themes and characters from prior cinematic achievements - even from prior forms of art! I could not believe such a foul accusation. Thankfully we now have copyright protect us from the shameless retreading of Boy Meets Girl, Moral Dilemma Leads to Personal Growth and Deus Ex Machina themes and can now move on to something fresh. Like Boy Zombie Suffers Moral Dilemma While Resisting Eating Girl Zombie Brains But Avoids Personal Growth When Immolated By Aliens. No, wait. That's been done to death too.
If reports of crater ice on the moon bear out, you might have something here. Water is truly the currency of space. With water ice and power, you can make water and air. Air is a very expensive mission cost - both because we require a lot of it and because it must be highly pressurized, which requires heavy tanks.
Mars is known to have water ice in abundant quantities - enough to cover the planet 11 meters deep at least. That's one thing that makes Mars a fairly attractive destination.
With nuclear and solar power and a bunch of water ice, Lunar colonists wouldn't have to work too hard to get free of the moon's grip. Heck, a little arc-generated steam might do it. That would be funny : inner solar system navigation by steam power. We're probably more likely to burn the hydrogen and oxygen as propellant to save Delta-V.
With a good supply of ice on the ground the problem is just getting enough building materials in place to make a lunar colony stable. Once it's established the locals are well motivated to maintain it.
But... no ice, no deal. It's too hard to bake oxygen out of rocks and the lack of water becomes a practical problem.
The only point of sending men to Mars is to prove the point that we can send men to Mars.
No. The point of sending men to Mars is to establish a foothold on another planet. It's a step toward colonization. Eventually humans will establish themselves throughout our solar system and use the resources we find there travel to the stars. Or we'll die out. There is no third choice.
Water ice makes a good shield from solar flares. If you use enough of it, it makes a nice solid building material too. As a fringe benefit the ice carved out can be melted to make water for drinking and irrigation, or split to make oxygen.
Now IF ONLY there were a significant amount of the stuff laying around on Mars. That would be SO cool. Sigh. So sad that it's not to be. Guess we'll have to give up.
Nobody could expect us to keep up in education or communications with the prime movers of the Technology Universe, Japan and South Korea. It's just not realistic. We should be happy that our roads are paved and are children is learning.
I'm sure these studies have been thoughtfully conducted and documented, though not announced, and the results were satisfactory. Humans being mammals, curious and intelligent wouldn't avoid this opportunity for experimentation even if directly ordered not to.
There is no reason to expect that their clinostat successfully captures the essence of the problem. Obviously a thorough study of 0-G human gestation will be undertaken as soon as the mission constraints allow it, whether it's in the mission plan or not. The kind of folks who venture out aren't the sort to avoid this question. If it turns out the results are unsatisfactory we will of course find a solution. We must.
I've tried Symantec products. This could not be true.
If they wrote a virus it would have a 500MB install and you'ld have to click the EULA four times. It would take 90% of CPU and 90% of RAM while doing nothing and require 100% of everything for a couple of hours to update before it could do something. The updater would break and you'ld have to reinstall Windows, then the update prep package, and then the virus to get it to activate at all. And when it was finally working, it would break before connecting to its control server.
If you wanted a virus that bad, you might as well install Windows 98. At least the user interface would be similar to Symantec.
It should be obvious now that our bodies have cells that replicate. Sometimes the replicas are perfect but occasionally they are not. After a certain number of replications the errors add up. Most errors are benign but a small fraction are not. With billions of cells replicating there's a statistical certainty that if you don't die of something else then cancer will get you.
The preventative for cancer is to have cells that replicate perfectly, or to not have cells that replicate.
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The fossil record seems to indicate that if we don't escape this rock, it will kill us off. It's almost like it's trying to develop a spacefaring species.
It doesn't remove their ability to delete the books you bought and paid for if they deem it necessary. This is different from buying a physical book in that generally to take the work away from you they have to come to where you're keeping it, preferably with guns.
It doesn't remove the inherent unreliability of a system that can take away the content you've bought at any time. To resolve that you need a solution that doesn't involve DRM.
I haven't ever interviewed twice either. Maybe I'm aiming low. My needs are modest. When I'm looking for work the first port in a storm will usually do.
Maybe I don't understand this whole interviewing skill, interviewer as a job thing. I've interviewed and hired hundreds of people, and generally speaking if you can do the work and aren't creepy, we're done and you're hired. When I'm interviewing to get a job, if the pay is sufficient and I can do the work, we're done and I'll take it. Later if it turns out the early impression is wrong, we fix it or part ways.
Is it really more complicated than that? Am I oversimplifying things? Interviews don't have anything to do with what people are like or what they are capable of any more than a prom dress reflects your date's taste in fashion. They can't measure a person's dedication, devotion or attention to detail. They can't measure a person's intelligence, though they can quickly rule out the truly dumb, incompetent and spiteful. For this one interview will do.
It probably was. Through subjective analysis of Creative drivers I can definitively demonstrate that whatever hiring, management and testing processes they're using, they're not working.
For measuring ball bearings produced by a machine, statistics make some good sense. After all, if the average size of a bearing measures 3.05mm, +/- .1mm, a curve can be made that measures meaningfully if a specific batch of bearings differs from the mean and so detect when a machine is coming out of tolerance, long before the bearings produced become unsatisfactory.
When doing studies such as this one, they become less meaningful. If, for example, the report is to be meaningful, the understanding of the questions by the respondent, and their applicability to the statement of the report must be understood. Since to disclose the text of the report to the respondent prior to their response would spoil the result, their understanding of the context of the question is inevitably suspect.
And then there's the question of simply understanding the question in the general sense. In an environment where three standard deviations of the question "are you on fire?" nets 80% of a sizeable sample, one must presume that analysis of more subtle questions will not yield meaningful results.
The cloud is a virtual server management piece that integrates with DNS and routing such that seamless failover and on-demand scaling can occur. A private cloud is when you own all the hardware it runs on. A public cloud is where your virtual machines and/or data are hosted somewhere else. A hybrid cloud has in-house hardware for normal course-of-business, with public cloud resources on tap for unusual demand and high availability.
Typically cloud services are provided in virtual machine units consisting of a virtual machine specially configured to be cloned, managed, access data and provide a single service or related group of services in a scalable way. Proprietary services which cannot be so configured are not good candidates for cloud architectures.
Cloud management typically involves a single console with performance and health monitoring, resource management.
Clouds are currently in wide use in the web hosting services community, as hosting service providers use private clouds of web server and database server virtual machines to provide the low-cost web hosting services they provide reliably. Some providers also offer public clouds, where you can run a custom virtual machines - typically Linux - by the hour, week or month on their hardware - and not all of them refer to this as "cloud" architecture.
Hydrogen and Oxygen make a great stored fuel - if you have the infrastructure to liquify and contain Hydrogen. It's a tricky business though. Hydrogen molecules are so small they migrate through the walls of most containers. Hydrogen must held under huge pressures or at insanely low temperatures to remain liquid. Hydrocarbon fuels, on the other hand, are easier to work with.
You don't bring them back, silly. They're there for the taking but shipping costs don't math out. You use them in place, or in space. Nuclear and solar are great for electrical energy, but even in space hydrocarbons can be a useful raw material and a good portable energy concentrate if you also have oxygen from water.
22 people have lost their lives in spaceflight. Roughly 5% or one in twenty of all the people who have been in space. And a greater number of ground crew. To send robots for a while is all well and good, but real humans on the ground can do far more.
Over the past half century many trillions of dollars and millions of lives have been spent over the temporary control of an arid patch of sand in the middle east that spans from Afghanistan to Iraq. Yes, there's some oil there, but really - Out There are entire moons made of hydrocarbons, entire desert planets to despoil, more mineral wealth than was ever mined, more energy each day than has been produced in all of human history - and that's just the stuff in our local neighborhood. Maybe most importantly for the human spirit, out there is the Frontier, with elbow room and an outlet for those few among us who must struggle at great peril against impossible odds for fame and glory. Without that outlet our carnivorous nature will turn against itself toward war.
If we were serious about exploring space we would do it more. It was my parent's generation who went to the moon and then quit. I hope my children are made of sterner stuff. If we and they whine too much about the danger and the expense, they might set that goal aside forever. Yes, it's costly in both blood and treasure. But even early space travel has paid tremendous benefits in the sciences.
The Earth's gravity well has been great for the development of humans, but escaping it is more than 99% of the risk and 99% of the cost. A colony outside of this gravity barrier will not have these impediments to exploration once established. Only then we can begin to learn things in earnest and capture the wealth of the universe which is ours for the taking.
But to arrive, you have to start. Every argument about risk and cost is an argument not to start. If we don't start then no matter what else we do mankind is doomed to die on this rock, a lost potential.
Let's GO!
Shakespeare? Derivative? Next you'll tell me that the latest crop of Hollywood movies share themes and characters from prior cinematic achievements - even from prior forms of art! I could not believe such a foul accusation. Thankfully we now have copyright protect us from the shameless retreading of Boy Meets Girl, Moral Dilemma Leads to Personal Growth and Deus Ex Machina themes and can now move on to something fresh. Like Boy Zombie Suffers Moral Dilemma While Resisting Eating Girl Zombie Brains But Avoids Personal Growth When Immolated By Aliens. No, wait. That's been done to death too.
Pfizer to pay $2.3 Billion to Settle Marketing Case. Still No Cure for Cancer.
If reports of crater ice on the moon bear out, you might have something here. Water is truly the currency of space. With water ice and power, you can make water and air. Air is a very expensive mission cost - both because we require a lot of it and because it must be highly pressurized, which requires heavy tanks.
Mars is known to have water ice in abundant quantities - enough to cover the planet 11 meters deep at least. That's one thing that makes Mars a fairly attractive destination.
With nuclear and solar power and a bunch of water ice, Lunar colonists wouldn't have to work too hard to get free of the moon's grip. Heck, a little arc-generated steam might do it. That would be funny : inner solar system navigation by steam power. We're probably more likely to burn the hydrogen and oxygen as propellant to save Delta-V.
With a good supply of ice on the ground the problem is just getting enough building materials in place to make a lunar colony stable. Once it's established the locals are well motivated to maintain it.
But... no ice, no deal. It's too hard to bake oxygen out of rocks and the lack of water becomes a practical problem.
The only point of sending men to Mars is to prove the point that we can send men to Mars.
No. The point of sending men to Mars is to establish a foothold on another planet. It's a step toward colonization. Eventually humans will establish themselves throughout our solar system and use the resources we find there travel to the stars. Or we'll die out. There is no third choice.
Water ice makes a good shield from solar flares. If you use enough of it, it makes a nice solid building material too. As a fringe benefit the ice carved out can be melted to make water for drinking and irrigation, or split to make oxygen.
Now IF ONLY there were a significant amount of the stuff laying around on Mars. That would be SO cool. Sigh. So sad that it's not to be. Guess we'll have to give up.
If we wait long enough to fund NASA for a Mars colony, then someone else will go. NASA isn't the only organization that can do it.
And if they start a colony and keep it, Mars is theirs.
These guys get good results.
Nobody could expect us to keep up in education or communications with the prime movers of the Technology Universe, Japan and South Korea. It's just not realistic. We should be happy that our roads are paved and are children is learning.
The first three settlements in what is now Southern California were never heard from again. But look at the place now...
There is no money to be made directly from space exploration.
Remember the old real estate salesman's pitch?:
Land! It's the ultimate investment. It's not like they'll be making more of it.
There are whole worlds to be had.
The challenge - it's most of the fun.
I'm sure these studies have been thoughtfully conducted and documented, though not announced, and the results were satisfactory. Humans being mammals, curious and intelligent wouldn't avoid this opportunity for experimentation even if directly ordered not to.
There is no reason to expect that their clinostat successfully captures the essence of the problem. Obviously a thorough study of 0-G human gestation will be undertaken as soon as the mission constraints allow it, whether it's in the mission plan or not. The kind of folks who venture out aren't the sort to avoid this question. If it turns out the results are unsatisfactory we will of course find a solution. We must.
Ah, the days of The List. Does anybody still remember the list?
I've tried Symantec products. This could not be true.
If they wrote a virus it would have a 500MB install and you'ld have to click the EULA four times. It would take 90% of CPU and 90% of RAM while doing nothing and require 100% of everything for a couple of hours to update before it could do something. The updater would break and you'ld have to reinstall Windows, then the update prep package, and then the virus to get it to activate at all. And when it was finally working, it would break before connecting to its control server.
If you wanted a virus that bad, you might as well install Windows 98. At least the user interface would be similar to Symantec.
You just have to Bing! it.
I should think they'd hang the lawyers first. There's plenty of time later for other enemies of the people, but sheesh. Priorities.
It should be obvious now that our bodies have cells that replicate. Sometimes the replicas are perfect but occasionally they are not. After a certain number of replications the errors add up. Most errors are benign but a small fraction are not. With billions of cells replicating there's a statistical certainty that if you don't die of something else then cancer will get you.
The preventative for cancer is to have cells that replicate perfectly, or to not have cells that replicate.