"If he needs to tell you then you won't understand."
1. i'm guessing since you are reffering to yourself in the third person like that you either meant to post as AC, or your the kind of wierdo that just does that kind of thing all the time.
2. if your going to get all defensive and refuse to answer such a simple question, you probably don't have any facts to begin with and are bashing the space program for some other reason.
3. are you suggesting anyone that who asks a question should know the answer before asking? if so why would anyone ask any questions? do you not see the failure in this logic.
For a start, why don't you come up with a less biased source then GREENPEACE.ORG... i mean come on give me some bloody credit.
If we were to try to convert to solar now, would end up with exactly the same problems you have with oil production - toxic chemicals released into the environment. solar requires silicon, and that silicon has to be produced in refineries (just google to see the implications of large scale silicon production). once you have the silicon you have to make the cells, which requries certain significantly toxic chemicals including arsenic. obviously i don't have any large scale disasters to point to, because the solar industry is still too small to be more then a blip on the radar. but if we ramped up production to the same scale as oil? you bet we would have a whole bag of new problems to deal with.
Your comment is also typical "if you aren't with us your against us" nonsense that gets used by green factions. So if i don't agree with solar as a viable source of power for homes i just HAVE to be a right wing bozo who goes yeehaw and dances around clicking my heels and shooting my guns? if you want to start talking SUPER bullshit lets start with that....
How many solar installations have you actually done? i've done 3, all in excess of 6kva, and all for commerical interests. I did so because it was the best option for their application. It's ironic that your all branding me as some oil loving redneck when i've probably had shitloads more to do with solar then you.
On a normal sized home, no where near enough energy from the sun falls to provide all those requirments, even at near 90% efficent.
If solar could supply more then it's current piss weak capabilities i'd jump on the band wagon. but having setup and deployed large solar systems to power communications centers, i'm not optimistic that we will get anything useful out of it soon.
Pollution free? have you ever seen the process of producing a solar cell? they are hellish toxic to produce. This is what gets me about greenies, they seem incapable of logical thought and of being critical of any process branded environmentally friendly.
They treat them horribly? you mean worse then child prositution or working your self into an early grave in the fields? because that's often the choices a poor person has in "other" countries. they choose sweat shops, as horrible as they are, because they are the best choice they have. it's much the same as it was for our countries when they first industrialised.
Why don't you take a read of whats being said in these forums, there's lots of people looking down their nose at people who work and shop at walmart. I don't by into the idea that minimum wage isn't enough either. it's certainly NOT great, but ironically if your on minimum wage cheap places like walmart are where you need to shop to make ends meet.
The common theme here is that you hate poor people.
hold on, since when does competition cost jobs. increased competition means more business which means more people to run those businesses. you defeat yourself with your own logic sir.
the problem is most of the things written about walmart are total rubbish.
manufacturers can't afford to turn them down? what bullshit is that, either they can produce what walmart wants and make a profit or they can't and don't do it. simple as that. turning walmart down doesn't cost them anything if there's no profit in it to begin with.
So, you think you don't pay for health care? get real. unless your some bum living off welfare your paying tax and paying for health care.just because the cost is hidden, doesn't mean it's anymore real
Without fail i have found people who bag wal-mart are bagging the people who shop/work there. They do it to give themselfs some kind of superiority boost to their ego. There's nothing wrong with walmart in the slightest, they provide jobs to people with little skills and they do it ABOVE the minimum wage. Sure it's not glamrous, but it's a start and not a bad place to work.
The walmart hate is completely without logic or reason, it's definately a case of small minds seeking a cause to belong to.
Get off your fucking high horse, you aren't "better" then someone who works or shops at walmart, and i suspect you might even be a little bit less of a person.
the system will be booting off ROM into RAM, so at best you could hack yourself till it got reset. it's about as secure as i can imagine.... besides is it really more of an issue then any other flight system out there now?
No.... see you people just don't get it at all. I don't just believe someone because they present themselfs with a little badge saying "scientist", I look at what they are saying, I'm critical and skeptical of it and I challenge their reasoning and methods.
Religion and faith are exactly the oppersite of this. You just put your belief in something because you choose to (which is ok).Science starts out with a question and then a solution, religion just jumps straight to the solution hoping they are correct.
Science at the moment is like that little wimpy kid at school who just hit puberty and had a growth spurt, grew some muscles and has discovered he could fight back against religion for the first time. Religion was the one that started the fight 100's of years ago, now you want to quit because your losing.
That seems to be your answer to everything, doesn't it Seldon. If anyone has an opinion that conflicts with your own, they must be idiot's who haven't used it, because honestly how could they be right and you wrong!
Since when does a text editor like emacs equate to a development tool kit? It's got one purpose - to edit text, which it does well. but it's nothing more.
I've used plenty of open source tools, so i suggest you drop this attitude that I haven't looked because it makes you look childish. The vast majority of OSS tools lack the polish that is required for professional's to choose them over commercial products.
I will even give you a very specific example. I recently went looking for visual studio plugin for SVN. I tried anhk, an OSS version and visualsvn, which is $50 and pretty much just a wrapper for tortise svn. visualsvn pissed on anhk from great heights. well worth the $50. the reason? lack of polish, shoddy features and poorly thought out interface.
these failings are a common theme through out OSS. I guess it's indicative of the development model many of these project follow, nerds get interested in something and work on it till it fits their needs then stop work, where commercial products have customers to please. They work on a project till it fits the customers needs, not their own.
you'll notice OSS projects that do stand out are all commercially funded.
Don't get me wrong, if i'm not willing to pay i won't complain about shoddy software, but this article asked the question so i'm answering it.
I want people to actually have a reason to program under linux. Just because not all of us feel the need to fight clunky buggy tool kits all day just to achieve basic tasks, it doesn't makes us "VB programmers". i'm guessing you know exactly what i'm talking about, so you have chosen to go the path of language snobbery because you realise the validity of my comment.
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ok, the post certainly looked like you were referring to your own post when you said "he" not he as in the person you quoted
1. i'm guessing since you are reffering to yourself in the third person like that you either meant to post as AC, or your the kind of wierdo that just does that kind of thing all the time.
2. if your going to get all defensive and refuse to answer such a simple question, you probably don't have any facts to begin with and are bashing the space program for some other reason.
3. are you suggesting anyone that who asks a question should know the answer before asking? if so why would anyone ask any questions? do you not see the failure in this logic.
How was the shuttle "wrong"? and i don't know about you, but there's no way i'd go into space not knowing if shit was going to work or not.
If we were to try to convert to solar now, would end up with exactly the same problems you have with oil production - toxic chemicals released into the environment. solar requires silicon, and that silicon has to be produced in refineries (just google to see the implications of large scale silicon production). once you have the silicon you have to make the cells, which requries certain significantly toxic chemicals including arsenic. obviously i don't have any large scale disasters to point to, because the solar industry is still too small to be more then a blip on the radar. but if we ramped up production to the same scale as oil? you bet we would have a whole bag of new problems to deal with.
How many solar installations have you actually done? i've done 3, all in excess of 6kva, and all for commerical interests. I did so because it was the best option for their application. It's ironic that your all branding me as some oil loving redneck when i've probably had shitloads more to do with solar then you.
you just lost all credability with that crazy statement
If solar could supply more then it's current piss weak capabilities i'd jump on the band wagon. but having setup and deployed large solar systems to power communications centers, i'm not optimistic that we will get anything useful out of it soon.
Pollution free? have you ever seen the process of producing a solar cell? they are hellish toxic to produce. This is what gets me about greenies, they seem incapable of logical thought and of being critical of any process branded environmentally friendly.
They treat them horribly? you mean worse then child prositution or working your self into an early grave in the fields? because that's often the choices a poor person has in "other" countries. they choose sweat shops, as horrible as they are, because they are the best choice they have. it's much the same as it was for our countries when they first industrialised.
The common theme here is that you hate poor people.
hold on, since when does competition cost jobs. increased competition means more business which means more people to run those businesses. you defeat yourself with your own logic sir.
manufacturers can't afford to turn them down? what bullshit is that, either they can produce what walmart wants and make a profit or they can't and don't do it. simple as that. turning walmart down doesn't cost them anything if there's no profit in it to begin with.
So, you think you don't pay for health care? get real. unless your some bum living off welfare your paying tax and paying for health care.just because the cost is hidden, doesn't mean it's anymore real
Your full of shit. 75% of all walmart promotions are from within the company.
The walmart hate is completely without logic or reason, it's definately a case of small minds seeking a cause to belong to. Get off your fucking high horse, you aren't "better" then someone who works or shops at walmart, and i suspect you might even be a little bit less of a person.
Your assuming the user has any execute permissions at all, or that they have write permission to anything but their own usb drive.
You accuse me of having no imagination, yet fail to put forward a more secure system, so just stfu.
the system will be booting off ROM into RAM, so at best you could hack yourself till it got reset. it's about as secure as i can imagine.... besides is it really more of an issue then any other flight system out there now?
Religion and faith are exactly the oppersite of this. You just put your belief in something because you choose to (which is ok).Science starts out with a question and then a solution, religion just jumps straight to the solution hoping they are correct.
Science at the moment is like that little wimpy kid at school who just hit puberty and had a growth spurt, grew some muscles and has discovered he could fight back against religion for the first time. Religion was the one that started the fight 100's of years ago, now you want to quit because your losing.
Yep, it's cheap and easy to do because the idea that the world is 6000 years old and was greated by a big man in the sky is so stupid.
That's your fuck up right there. You mix faith and science in the same context. No wonder you don't get it.
don't laugh too much... there's people out their who really think this way.
That seems to be your answer to everything, doesn't it Seldon. If anyone has an opinion that conflicts with your own, they must be idiot's who haven't used it, because honestly how could they be right and you wrong!
I've used plenty of open source tools, so i suggest you drop this attitude that I haven't looked because it makes you look childish. The vast majority of OSS tools lack the polish that is required for professional's to choose them over commercial products.
I will even give you a very specific example. I recently went looking for visual studio plugin for SVN. I tried anhk, an OSS version and visualsvn, which is $50 and pretty much just a wrapper for tortise svn. visualsvn pissed on anhk from great heights. well worth the $50. the reason? lack of polish, shoddy features and poorly thought out interface.
these failings are a common theme through out OSS. I guess it's indicative of the development model many of these project follow, nerds get interested in something and work on it till it fits their needs then stop work, where commercial products have customers to please. They work on a project till it fits the customers needs, not their own.
you'll notice OSS projects that do stand out are all commercially funded.
Don't get me wrong, if i'm not willing to pay i won't complain about shoddy software, but this article asked the question so i'm answering it.
I want people to actually have a reason to program under linux. Just because not all of us feel the need to fight clunky buggy tool kits all day just to achieve basic tasks, it doesn't makes us "VB programmers". i'm guessing you know exactly what i'm talking about, so you have chosen to go the path of language snobbery because you realise the validity of my comment.