It never launched on anything, i'm not sure what you are on about. Couple of crates of parts at PWR don't constitute a "largest liquid fueled engine in existence".
For things that never left the test stand, there were RD-270 and all sorts of other ludicrous attempts.
Again, RD-171 is flying, today, and it is more powerful than anything else ever flown.
BS, it was a study, a never built paper engine. Doesn't jive with "Because it's the largest liquid fueled engine in existence, and it works." It never existed. RD-171 is in active service right now.
Because it's the largest liquid fueled engine in existence, and it works. Nobody has anything comparable to it, not even the Russians.
Why let facts get in the way of perfectly good chest thumping, huh ? RD-170, the engine that lifted Polyus and Buran with Energia rocket, and its derivative is powering Zenit rockets today, has higher thrust than F-1 had ( past tense )
. They see similar-looking gadgets and they hear that they can get Angry Birds on both, so they make a barely-informed decision based on purchase price.
Um. How is that barely informed ? If a rectangular thing with rounded corners and Angry Birds on it was all they were looking for, it was a perfectly informed decision. They didn't really NEED anything else, did they ?
SSO requires a) an authority for maintaining credentials
Yup, and akin to certificate authority trust model issues, you don't want to place ultimate trust in anyone - for unlimited time. A good SSO solution would need a distributed trust model similar to Convergence
>>What is the point to kill yourself with drugs and supplements?
Implants are there to kill people ? Really ? So i should not be allowed to compete in any markmanship sport because i had LASIK done years ago ?
Point being, there are obvious performance-enhancing drugs and implants with a sole purpose of.. you know, improving performance, but then there are a lot of other modern medical treatments that have an impact on how you might perform in different sports.
>>If you're educated, anywhere, you speak english
You should go visit Japan and Korea. EVERYTHING technical is done in local languages. Good english speakers are actually very hard to find even in top technical teams.
I suspect the same is the case in mainland china, although i have no first hand experience ( in Taiwan and Hong Kong english is everywhere )
Problem is not the technology used for voting, but the voting system itself. First-past-the-post has about the worst mathematical properties of any voting system, the voters are inevitable getting screwed.
I work in the same industry, sort of. You have no clue what you are talking about.
In your little world view, the only people that would have anything to gain from anything, would be lawyers.
I expect, in the end, most of those involved will end up out-of-business. And, hopefully, it will end with a massive patent system reform.
You know, i get scared whenever anyone calls for a reform. I mean no doubt that the current system is broken, but i dread to see what the current powers would come up with to replace the current system.
There was some sanity and integrity still around when the last system was designed - and now it has outlived it's usefulness, but we are also all out of sanity and integrity.
1 - Judges don't need to be educated to make these decisions. That's what the attorneys are for. Judges and juries shouldn't be swayed by anything but what the two sides present.
Which would make machines the best judges. It follows all the rules, processes all input in unbiased manner, and outputs the decision based on rules.
Unless you get GIGO ( and that would be the responsibility of attorneys, NOT to feed garbage in ), thats the fairest judge you can get. And if the decisions don't seem to make sense, you have to recheck your laws.
If i had mod points.. What a lot of people don't realize is that direct coding budget is often less than 10% of any major title nowadays. A chunk goes to middleware licensing, and the rest is all pretty much content creation, be it story writing, 3d/2d artwork, audio, acting etc.
From the conclusion:
Summarising the above, we see that the lunar geological record still has much to tell us about the earliest history of the Solar System, the origin and evolution of the Earth- Moon system,
Yawn. I am an almost certified space nut, and i could not care less. Science for science's sake for cost of billions is just not worth it.
Now if this bunch got together and declared that they support lunar return for more useful reasons like exploiting its potential resources or developing and giving shakeout to critical technologies for figuring out if we could eventually settle it, while doing a bit of interesting science along the way, i would be all ears.
Most of the money that goes to NASA does not go to "scientists", it lands with bureaucrats, middle managers, and a lot of fat cost-plus contractors - often the same ones that make your "rockets for brown people".
This is bollocks. You cannot collect a years worth of meteorological data, monitor polar ice caps or acquire orbital imagery in 10 minutes with a shovel.
Friggin SoC has been in everyday tech lingo forever. If the crowd here doesn't get it, it just shows how far from the actual geek audience has slashdot gone.
Aliens homing in on an intensity of particular frequency of electromagnetic spectrum ? Why this particular wavelength ? These would be pretty dumb aliens i'd say, hardly intelligent enough to cross interstellar distances. Unless you mean something like Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B
The ask is not unreasonable at all. Just requires focus, and investment. Prizes generally generate much more research dollars put into the thing than the prize value, so it's a super good investment.
Oh, and while they are at it, ban rear view mirrors too. There is a lot of scrolling imagery there. Looking at all three of them can be very distracting !
Your brain will easily tune out a smoothly scrolling picture that has minute changes one frame to the next.
Especially when its scrolling at the same tempo as world outside. I think they ought to ban IHADSS helmets too with all the jumpy rectangles and stuff.
Fiscally responsible ? Have you looked at the WHOLE of NASA budget ? Can you see these big freaking elephants in there, named JWST and SLS, especially the latter that are just massive examples of total fiscal irresponsibility ?
If they were responsible, they would penalize or cancel the programs that are not performing or bring no value to the table, apart from providing jobs in certain districts.
Instead, they REWARD the programs with overruns by raiding other budget line items. Responsible indeed.
I have not bothered to pirate music in a long time, thanks to Pandora and Spotify mostly. But with that said, iTunes and Amazon do not have a LOT of the stuff that i want to listen to. Whereas my "underground trader" friends do.
One of the things available to pie rats are various mixtapes from good DJs, that are often so well put together that they are better than the sum of their parts. Try finding these on Amazon.
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It never launched on anything, i'm not sure what you are on about. Couple of crates of parts at PWR don't constitute a "largest liquid fueled engine in existence".
For things that never left the test stand, there were RD-270 and all sorts of other ludicrous attempts.
Again, RD-171 is flying, today, and it is more powerful than anything else ever flown.
But .. but .. but .. isnt he the one who brought us Daikatana ??? !oneoneelevenses!!
BS, it was a study, a never built paper engine. Doesn't jive with "Because it's the largest liquid fueled engine in existence, and it works." It never existed. RD-171 is in active service right now.
Because it's the largest liquid fueled engine in existence, and it works. Nobody has anything comparable to it, not even the Russians.
Why let facts get in the way of perfectly good chest thumping, huh ? RD-170, the engine that lifted Polyus and Buran with Energia rocket, and its derivative is powering Zenit rockets today, has higher thrust than F-1 had ( past tense )
. They see similar-looking gadgets and they hear that they can get Angry Birds on both, so they make a barely-informed decision based on purchase price.
Um. How is that barely informed ? If a rectangular thing with rounded corners and Angry Birds on it was all they were looking for, it was a perfectly informed decision. They didn't really NEED anything else, did they ?
SSO requires a) an authority for maintaining credentials
Yup, and akin to certificate authority trust model issues, you don't want to place ultimate trust in anyone - for unlimited time. A good SSO solution would need a distributed trust model similar to Convergence
>>What is the point to kill yourself with drugs and supplements? .. you know, improving performance, but then there are a lot of other modern medical treatments that have an impact on how you might perform in different sports.
Implants are there to kill people ? Really ? So i should not be allowed to compete in any markmanship sport because i had LASIK done years ago ?
Point being, there are obvious performance-enhancing drugs and implants with a sole purpose of
>>If you're educated, anywhere, you speak english
You should go visit Japan and Korea. EVERYTHING technical is done in local languages. Good english speakers are actually very hard to find even in top technical teams.
I suspect the same is the case in mainland china, although i have no first hand experience ( in Taiwan and Hong Kong english is everywhere )
Problem is not the technology used for voting, but the voting system itself. First-past-the-post has about the worst mathematical properties of any voting system, the voters are inevitable getting screwed.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system#Compliance_of_selected_systems_.28table.29
Its unfair by design. Something like range voting would be much, much fairer, even though its not perfect either.
I work in the same industry, sort of. You have no clue what you are talking about. In your little world view, the only people that would have anything to gain from anything, would be lawyers.
I expect, in the end, most of those involved will end up out-of-business. And, hopefully, it will end with a massive patent system reform.
You know, i get scared whenever anyone calls for a reform. I mean no doubt that the current system is broken, but i dread to see what the current powers would come up with to replace the current system.
There was some sanity and integrity still around when the last system was designed - and now it has outlived it's usefulness, but we are also all out of sanity and integrity.
Taking a stand doesn't pay the mortgage.
Or, following the OPs analogy above, giving blowjobs is necessary as you really like these new dresses ?
1 - Judges don't need to be educated to make these decisions. That's what the attorneys are for. Judges and juries shouldn't be swayed by anything but what the two sides present.
Which would make machines the best judges. It follows all the rules, processes all input in unbiased manner, and outputs the decision based on rules.
Unless you get GIGO ( and that would be the responsibility of attorneys, NOT to feed garbage in ), thats the fairest judge you can get. And if the decisions don't seem to make sense, you have to recheck your laws.
If i had mod points .. What a lot of people don't realize is that direct coding budget is often less than 10% of any major title nowadays. A chunk goes to middleware licensing, and the rest is all pretty much content creation, be it story writing, 3d/2d artwork, audio, acting etc.
From the conclusion: Summarising the above, we see that the lunar geological record still has much to tell us about the earliest history of the Solar System, the origin and evolution of the Earth- Moon system,
Yawn. I am an almost certified space nut, and i could not care less. Science for science's sake for cost of billions is just not worth it.
Now if this bunch got together and declared that they support lunar return for more useful reasons like exploiting its potential resources or developing and giving shakeout to critical technologies for figuring out if we could eventually settle it, while doing a bit of interesting science along the way, i would be all ears.
Most of the money that goes to NASA does not go to "scientists", it lands with bureaucrats, middle managers, and a lot of fat cost-plus contractors - often the same ones that make your "rockets for brown people".
This is bollocks. You cannot collect a years worth of meteorological data, monitor polar ice caps or acquire orbital imagery in 10 minutes with a shovel.
Right, except i think its premature to assume that Earth was/would be the origin of panspermia within our solar system.
Friggin SoC has been in everyday tech lingo forever. If the crowd here doesn't get it, it just shows how far from the actual geek audience has slashdot gone.
Aliens homing in on an intensity of particular frequency of electromagnetic spectrum ? Why this particular wavelength ? These would be pretty dumb aliens i'd say, hardly intelligent enough to cross interstellar distances. Unless you mean something like Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hrp+promet
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dlr+justin
The ask is not unreasonable at all. Just requires focus, and investment. Prizes generally generate much more research dollars put into the thing than the prize value, so it's a super good investment.
Oh, and while they are at it, ban rear view mirrors too. There is a lot of scrolling imagery there. Looking at all three of them can be very distracting !
Your brain will easily tune out a smoothly scrolling picture that has minute changes one frame to the next.
Especially when its scrolling at the same tempo as world outside. I think they ought to ban IHADSS helmets too with all the jumpy rectangles and stuff.
Fiscally responsible ? Have you looked at the WHOLE of NASA budget ? Can you see these big freaking elephants in there, named JWST and SLS, especially the latter that are just massive examples of total fiscal irresponsibility ?
If they were responsible, they would penalize or cancel the programs that are not performing or bring no value to the table, apart from providing jobs in certain districts.
Instead, they REWARD the programs with overruns by raiding other budget line items. Responsible indeed.
I have not bothered to pirate music in a long time, thanks to Pandora and Spotify mostly. But with that said, iTunes and Amazon do not have a LOT of the stuff that i want to listen to. Whereas my "underground trader" friends do.
One of the things available to pie rats are various mixtapes from good DJs, that are often so well put together that they are better than the sum of their parts. Try finding these on Amazon.