Downrange wind will screw this whole thing up. Having shot at 1000 yards I can tell you that the best-laid plans are all out the window when there are variable winds along the flight path. In addition, the cold-bore shot is often quite different than a warm-bore shot. The first one is usually the only one that counts. After that, they know something's up and will act accordingly.
Apple was never really a software company at its heart. It was always a hardware company that chose to write its own software.
IMHO, we should all violently protest cloud computing because eventually you will be paying a monthly fee for software and therefore will eventually pay for apps over and over and over ad nauseum until your bank account is empty.
There's a scene from the first episode of "From the Earth to the Moon" featuring a Kennedy adviser asking the opinions of Hugh Dryden, the Budget Bureau Chief, and the national science adviser played by none other than Al Franken. Dryden is clearly the realist of the group laying out a precise plan and why alternatives are pointless while Al Franken clearly in a method-acting role tries to opt for a cheap no-humans-involved alternative. The Budget Chief says "Pumping that much cash into the private sector could be very popular." The Franken character clearly misses the point as have many after him that the average taxpayer isn't going to care unless they feel like they're part of it. IMHO, people like to live vicariously through famous people. A handful of geeks think the Mars rover program is cool. The average taxpayer won't care until a human sets foot on Mars.
The point here is that instead of pouring trillions of dollars into a massive government bureaucracy that creates and produces nothing but more of itself as it is currently doing, steering tax dollars into NASA necessarily requires that private companies do the work. Furthermore, the technologies developed can be used for other things so the investment pays off long after the program ends. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/pdf/80660main_ApolloFS.pdf
Sure, private space companies are a good thing and I'll bet they end up being the primary contractors, but by themselves they have a more difficult time getting funded initially until they can regularly accomplish money-making launches e.g. satellite deployment.
Much of the data is bogus. I looked at my iPad and it's got data points where I know the device has never been. Furthermore, it's missing a ton of data for where I know it has been. Finally, the dates are all wrong. IMHO, this would never hold up in court.
Well I tried this beasty just now and I'm finding several problems with the data. A) Bogus data points, B) Incorrect time stamps and C) a whole lot of missing data. Fundamentally, this is troubling but IMHO, given the wildly inaccurate data, it would get shot to hell in court.
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IMHO, every time some human decides that something we've been eating for centuries is bad for you I'm forced to ask what their real motivation is. They said sucrose is bad for you and substituted it with HFCS which turns out to be worse. They said saturated fat is bad for you but trans fat is worse. They said that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer. Now that appears to be bogus and the Antarctic ozone hole seems to grow and shrink on its own. Global Warming? Yeah, not so much especially since they were all worried about global cooling back in the 70s. I've got it! We'll call it Global Climate Change so we can claim every anomaly to be the result of using fossil fuels and therefore we can tax them. Vaccines cause autism!!! Umm...nope. That was all bullsh*t too. Nuclear Winter? That turns out to be a scare tactic created by the KGB and the SVR to discourage the placement of nukes in western Europe (read the book "Comrade J"). Cow's milk is bad for you, drink soy milk instead. Oh, did we mention that soy increases estrogen production in men? Don't serve chocolate milk to kids in school! Oh, did we mention that by pulling the chocolate milk, milk consumption dropped dramatically? Never mind the fact that chocolate has lots of antioxidants.
Enough, goddammit! I will eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
Here's a theory: Muslim extremists would be much happier people if they ate bacon on a regular basis. Bacon makes most people happy. I propose a multi-million dollar study to test my theory. Who's with me?
I agree completely. Go is a much better teaching tool for real-world strategy than chess. It's been well established that Ho Chi Min used a Go strategy during the Vietnam war while the U.S. generals used a chess strategy. In the same vein, Sun Tzu's Art of War should also be required reading.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., we now have a plethora of sensitivity classes teaching kids the important contributions of LBGT folks. Wasn't it MLK who said that we should judge people on the content of their character and not by other means?
IMHO (big MHO), the TSA is simply trying to cover its own ass and justify its existence. Has the TSA caught one single terrorist? Not to my knowledge. The fundamental problem with it is that they're taking the fire-bombing-of-Dresden approach instead of the laser-guided cruise-missile approach. By that I mean that feeling up six-year-old girls isn't going to turn up a single terrorist. Pawing though a 90-year old grandmother's carry-on isn't going to turn up a single terrorist. "They would use a bulldozer to...find...a...china...cup..."
*flame shield on* The fact of the matter is that Muslim extremists particularly those of Middle Eastern origin and those who have adopted that style of appearance are historically the perpetrators. Profiling works. But of course that pisses off groups like the ACLU. The trouble with that is that Al Qaeda knows this and is using our delicate sensibilities against us and they will continue to use every cherished right against us.
I get a flu shot because I care for my aging parents and I generally fly during the winter holidays when airplanes are a HAZMAT zone. Until I began getting flu shots there was a really good chance I'd get the flu.
IMHO, the proliferation of anti-bacterial everything under the sun has resulted in children not building up immunities to things.
Kids in the UK have seen a higher rate of rickets because they use too much sunscreen (and must not be drinking milk) {Soy milk is NOT EFFING MILK DAMMIT!!!}
And then you have consumer product safety and the runaway uncontrollable tort system which curtails any remotely dangerous activity so you end up with generations of stupid people who should have been eliminated from the gene pool.
IMHO, people in this country (legal or not) seem to be hypochondriacs. You've got people going to see a doctor for the common cold and sprained ankles. Tincture of Time tends to heal these ailments and many many others. So how about people staying home unless they're REALLY sick?
Also, people seem to misunderstand the purpose of health insurance. It is not, repeat NOT, health care and treatment. It is insurance against the remote chance that you have a major problem. If people understood that and paid out-of-pocket for minor issues, the insurers wouldn't be operating on the edge of bankruptcy.
Here's a question: All these university researchers are using Wii controllers and Kinect devices to do research. How come they didn't invent this stuff themselves? Is it because they couldn't think in mass-market terms so their solutions were overly complex and expensive?
Now here's another question: Why don't Nintendo and Microsoft make developers kits for their devices sans game console? Or even better, make the open source (I can dream)?
Given that doing anything on the web is a total nightmare due to the duckbill platypus nature of everything on the web, it doesn't surprise me that this guy thinks that EMACS is the solution. Web development has been around for something like 15 years now and yet we still don't have the equivalent of QuarkXpress or Indesign to do true WYSIWYG page layout. No page that isn't just pure text looks the same in every browser and no page you build in any web design tool looks the same when viewed in any browser. And no page that you lay out just right in Dreamweaver or something that's supposed to be WYSIWYG looks right when you drop it into a CSS-based content management system like Drupal. That's just dumb.
Here's the thing: Most people don't apply the 90% bullsh*t rule of the internet when they read a blog posting, accept it as fact, and proceed to tell other people about it. "The world operates not on reality..." "...But the perception of reality." "Posit: people think a bank might be financially shaky." "Consequence: people start to withdraw their money." "Result: pretty soon it is financially shaky." "Conclusion: you can make banks fail." "Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've read about a few? Think bigger." "Stock market." "Yes." "Commodities market." "Yes." "Currency markets." "Yes." "Small countries?"
The point here is that to defend oneself against the unsubstantiated claims made on blog postings, the accused is attempting to ensure that the blogger does indeed back up his claims and that those references are made available for anyone to verify.
Math geeks weren't used all that much to "develop new types of medical devices, renewable energy sources, and ways for sustaining the environment and purifying water". Medical devices? Biomedical engineers and physicians. Never mind the added taxes on these devices now. Renewable energy sources? Theoretical physicists and material science people. Sustaining the environment? Don't throw crap in the water. Purifying water? Again material science and don't throw crap in the water.
Math geeks historically have been used for cryptography (forward and reverse), ballistics (before and during the development of computers), and in the case of one Nobel laureate, John Nash, to develop economic theory.
IMHO, we'd be better served by severely curtailing athletics budgets in this country. Beyond that, severely capping class action lawsuits, changing of venues thereof in order to find sympathetic juries and awards thereof would go a long way to relieving the millstones hanging over everything produced and the loser pays.
As far as finance goes and the whole mortgage crisis, ask yourself why the mortgage system worked fine and dandy for decades before it blew up. Mortgage-backed securities were invented in 1981 and CDO's were invented in 1983. When you have government officials in direct collusion with activist groups threatening the small banks to issue risky loans, did you really think they would sit there quietly and take it up the a$$? As for why companies like Goldman Sachs isn't in jail, show me one law that they've broken (violations of someone's moral code doesn't count) and remember how many millions they contributed to the election campaign of the current administration. Why do you think that GE posted billions of dollars in profits yet this administration not only isn't going after them but is in fact embracing them and steering tons of subsidy money their way?
Since the 2008 election, I've noticed how many people have suddenly become severely acrimonious about their political views online leading to trollism. Particularly on Facebook you see people posting politically-charged comments and links. I've come to the conclusion that voicing one's opinion online is akin to flipping people off while driving one's car. In your car you feel a sense of invincibility because you think "Screw you, a$$hole, what are you gonna do about it?!?" People behave in a manner that they would never do face to face. Blogs and Facebook are the same sort of virtual force field. You can say whatever you want and get away with it. What are they going to do about it? Un-friend you?
Heinlein makes a lot of sense when he says "An armed society is a polite society." You'd think twice about saying something inflammatory if you might be challenged to a duel.
This should be interesting for what happens next. James Burke said in Connections "Gut reaction is all you have to go on when you don't understand something and it's almost always dangerously wrong." This study is flawed in many ways and inconclusive in all ways but one. But no amount of scientific explanation and reality checking will prevent ignorant and uninformed people from drawing the wrong conclusions, making judgments, and passing laws based on those conclusions.
CableOne has blocked outgoing mail for years. It's annoying to have to reconfigure your mail program every time you travel somewhere. And it hasn't stopped the flow of prescription drug e-mails and Nigerian-ish scam e-mails. Hell, if all of those e-mail from barristers in foreign countries telling me a long lost relative left me several million dollars were real, I could by that 30,000 acre ranch in western Wyoming...and a helicopter. And why is it always a seven-figure inheritance? Wouldn't more stupid people believe $20,000?
All I want is ONE high-quality video format standard for websites that works on all browsers and all platforms with the stock operating system. IMHO, this is the final battle in the browser/OS wars. No, I don't want to host my content on Youtube. No, I don't want Flash. It's down to WMV and H.264 (Ogg? What's that?). WMV always looks like crap. Ain't It Cool, a connoisseur of film, always makes a point of announcing that a trailer is in "glorious Quicktime". But of course there are still a lot of Windows users out there who don't have or can't get Quicktime installed. Feh.
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Downrange wind will screw this whole thing up. Having shot at 1000 yards I can tell you that the best-laid plans are all out the window when there are variable winds along the flight path. In addition, the cold-bore shot is often quite different than a warm-bore shot. The first one is usually the only one that counts. After that, they know something's up and will act accordingly.
Apple was never really a software company at its heart. It was always a hardware company that chose to write its own software.
IMHO, we should all violently protest cloud computing because eventually you will be paying a monthly fee for software and therefore will eventually pay for apps over and over and over ad nauseum until your bank account is empty.
There's a scene from the first episode of "From the Earth to the Moon" featuring a Kennedy adviser asking the opinions of Hugh Dryden, the Budget Bureau Chief, and the national science adviser played by none other than Al Franken. Dryden is clearly the realist of the group laying out a precise plan and why alternatives are pointless while Al Franken clearly in a method-acting role tries to opt for a cheap no-humans-involved alternative. The Budget Chief says "Pumping that much cash into the private sector could be very popular." The Franken character clearly misses the point as have many after him that the average taxpayer isn't going to care unless they feel like they're part of it. IMHO, people like to live vicariously through famous people. A handful of geeks think the Mars rover program is cool. The average taxpayer won't care until a human sets foot on Mars.
The point here is that instead of pouring trillions of dollars into a massive government bureaucracy that creates and produces nothing but more of itself as it is currently doing, steering tax dollars into NASA necessarily requires that private companies do the work. Furthermore, the technologies developed can be used for other things so the investment pays off long after the program ends. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/pdf/80660main_ApolloFS.pdf
Sure, private space companies are a good thing and I'll bet they end up being the primary contractors, but by themselves they have a more difficult time getting funded initially until they can regularly accomplish money-making launches e.g. satellite deployment.
Elon Musk - fragrance for civilian astronauts.
Hey, Iran, maybe you shouldn't be replying to those Nigerian scam emails instead of blaming it on your enemies. Just sayin'.
Much of the data is bogus. I looked at my iPad and it's got data points where I know the device has never been. Furthermore, it's missing a ton of data for where I know it has been. Finally, the dates are all wrong. IMHO, this would never hold up in court.
Well I tried this beasty just now and I'm finding several problems with the data. A) Bogus data points, B) Incorrect time stamps and C) a whole lot of missing data. Fundamentally, this is troubling but IMHO, given the wildly inaccurate data, it would get shot to hell in court.
IMHO, every time some human decides that something we've been eating for centuries is bad for you I'm forced to ask what their real motivation is.
They said sucrose is bad for you and substituted it with HFCS which turns out to be worse. They said saturated fat is bad for you but trans fat is worse. They said that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer. Now that appears to be bogus and the Antarctic ozone hole seems to grow and shrink on its own. Global Warming? Yeah, not so much especially since they were all worried about global cooling back in the 70s. I've got it! We'll call it Global Climate Change so we can claim every anomaly to be the result of using fossil fuels and therefore we can tax them. Vaccines cause autism!!! Umm...nope. That was all bullsh*t too. Nuclear Winter? That turns out to be a scare tactic created by the KGB and the SVR to discourage the placement of nukes in western Europe (read the book "Comrade J"). Cow's milk is bad for you, drink soy milk instead. Oh, did we mention that soy increases estrogen production in men? Don't serve chocolate milk to kids in school! Oh, did we mention that by pulling the chocolate milk, milk consumption dropped dramatically? Never mind the fact that chocolate has lots of antioxidants.
Enough, goddammit! I will eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
Here's a theory: Muslim extremists would be much happier people if they ate bacon on a regular basis. Bacon makes most people happy. I propose a multi-million dollar study to test my theory. Who's with me?
I agree completely. Go is a much better teaching tool for real-world strategy than chess. It's been well established that Ho Chi Min used a Go strategy during the Vietnam war while the U.S. generals used a chess strategy. In the same vein, Sun Tzu's Art of War should also be required reading.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., we now have a plethora of sensitivity classes teaching kids the important contributions of LBGT folks. Wasn't it MLK who said that we should judge people on the content of their character and not by other means?
IMHO (big MHO), the TSA is simply trying to cover its own ass and justify its existence. Has the TSA caught one single terrorist? Not to my knowledge. The fundamental problem with it is that they're taking the fire-bombing-of-Dresden approach instead of the laser-guided cruise-missile approach. By that I mean that feeling up six-year-old girls isn't going to turn up a single terrorist. Pawing though a 90-year old grandmother's carry-on isn't going to turn up a single terrorist. "They would use a bulldozer to...find...a...china...cup..."
*flame shield on* The fact of the matter is that Muslim extremists particularly those of Middle Eastern origin and those who have adopted that style of appearance are historically the perpetrators. Profiling works. But of course that pisses off groups like the ACLU. The trouble with that is that Al Qaeda knows this and is using our delicate sensibilities against us and they will continue to use every cherished right against us.
I get a flu shot because I care for my aging parents and I generally fly during the winter holidays when airplanes are a HAZMAT zone. Until I began getting flu shots there was a really good chance I'd get the flu.
IMHO, the proliferation of anti-bacterial everything under the sun has resulted in children not building up immunities to things.
Kids in the UK have seen a higher rate of rickets because they use too much sunscreen (and must not be drinking milk) {Soy milk is NOT EFFING MILK DAMMIT!!!}
And then you have consumer product safety and the runaway uncontrollable tort system which curtails any remotely dangerous activity so you end up with generations of stupid people who should have been eliminated from the gene pool.
IMHO, people in this country (legal or not) seem to be hypochondriacs. You've got people going to see a doctor for the common cold and sprained ankles. Tincture of Time tends to heal these ailments and many many others. So how about people staying home unless they're REALLY sick?
Also, people seem to misunderstand the purpose of health insurance. It is not, repeat NOT, health care and treatment. It is insurance against the remote chance that you have a major problem. If people understood that and paid out-of-pocket for minor issues, the insurers wouldn't be operating on the edge of bankruptcy.
Here's a question: All these university researchers are using Wii controllers and Kinect devices to do research. How come they didn't invent this stuff themselves? Is it because they couldn't think in mass-market terms so their solutions were overly complex and expensive?
Now here's another question: Why don't Nintendo and Microsoft make developers kits for their devices sans game console? Or even better, make the open source (I can dream)?
Given that doing anything on the web is a total nightmare due to the duckbill platypus nature of everything on the web, it doesn't surprise me that this guy thinks that EMACS is the solution. Web development has been around for something like 15 years now and yet we still don't have the equivalent of QuarkXpress or Indesign to do true WYSIWYG page layout. No page that isn't just pure text looks the same in every browser and no page you build in any web design tool looks the same when viewed in any browser. And no page that you lay out just right in Dreamweaver or something that's supposed to be WYSIWYG looks right when you drop it into a CSS-based content management system like Drupal. That's just dumb.
Here's the thing: Most people don't apply the 90% bullsh*t rule of the internet when they read a blog posting, accept it as fact, and proceed to tell other people about it.
"The world operates not on reality..."
"...But the perception of reality."
"Posit: people think a bank might be financially shaky."
"Consequence: people start to withdraw their money."
"Result: pretty soon it is financially shaky."
"Conclusion: you can make banks fail."
"Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've read about a few? Think bigger."
"Stock market." "Yes." "Commodities market." "Yes." "Currency markets." "Yes." "Small countries?"
The point here is that to defend oneself against the unsubstantiated claims made on blog postings, the accused is attempting to ensure that the blogger does indeed back up his claims and that those references are made available for anyone to verify.
Math geeks weren't used all that much to "develop new types of medical devices, renewable energy sources, and ways for sustaining the environment and purifying water". Medical devices? Biomedical engineers and physicians. Never mind the added taxes on these devices now. Renewable energy sources? Theoretical physicists and material science people. Sustaining the environment? Don't throw crap in the water. Purifying water? Again material science and don't throw crap in the water.
Math geeks historically have been used for cryptography (forward and reverse), ballistics (before and during the development of computers), and in the case of one Nobel laureate, John Nash, to develop economic theory.
IMHO, we'd be better served by severely curtailing athletics budgets in this country. Beyond that, severely capping class action lawsuits, changing of venues thereof in order to find sympathetic juries and awards thereof would go a long way to relieving the millstones hanging over everything produced and the loser pays.
As far as finance goes and the whole mortgage crisis, ask yourself why the mortgage system worked fine and dandy for decades before it blew up. Mortgage-backed securities were invented in 1981 and CDO's were invented in 1983. When you have government officials in direct collusion with activist groups threatening the small banks to issue risky loans, did you really think they would sit there quietly and take it up the a$$? As for why companies like Goldman Sachs isn't in jail, show me one law that they've broken (violations of someone's moral code doesn't count) and remember how many millions they contributed to the election campaign of the current administration. Why do you think that GE posted billions of dollars in profits yet this administration not only isn't going after them but is in fact embracing them and steering tons of subsidy money their way?
Yeah so a motion sensor jiggly boob app. No, really, Officer.
The Cuckoo's Egg is a great book on hacker hunting.
http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/1416507787/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300160625&sr=1-1
Since the 2008 election, I've noticed how many people have suddenly become severely acrimonious about their political views online leading to trollism. Particularly on Facebook you see people posting politically-charged comments and links. I've come to the conclusion that voicing one's opinion online is akin to flipping people off while driving one's car. In your car you feel a sense of invincibility because you think "Screw you, a$$hole, what are you gonna do about it?!?" People behave in a manner that they would never do face to face. Blogs and Facebook are the same sort of virtual force field. You can say whatever you want and get away with it. What are they going to do about it? Un-friend you?
Heinlein makes a lot of sense when he says "An armed society is a polite society." You'd think twice about saying something inflammatory if you might be challenged to a duel.
I say take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I think we need to launch Kiki Stockhammer at Iran. That'll show 'em who's boss.
This should be interesting for what happens next. James Burke said in Connections "Gut reaction is all you have to go on when you don't understand something and it's almost always dangerously wrong." This study is flawed in many ways and inconclusive in all ways but one. But no amount of scientific explanation and reality checking will prevent ignorant and uninformed people from drawing the wrong conclusions, making judgments, and passing laws based on those conclusions.
CableOne has blocked outgoing mail for years. It's annoying to have to reconfigure your mail program every time you travel somewhere. And it hasn't stopped the flow of prescription drug e-mails and Nigerian-ish scam e-mails. Hell, if all of those e-mail from barristers in foreign countries telling me a long lost relative left me several million dollars were real, I could by that 30,000 acre ranch in western Wyoming...and a helicopter. And why is it always a seven-figure inheritance? Wouldn't more stupid people believe $20,000?
It's the Peter Principle. People rise to their own level of incompetence.
All I want is ONE high-quality video format standard for websites that works on all browsers and all platforms with the stock operating system. IMHO, this is the final battle in the browser/OS wars. No, I don't want to host my content on Youtube. No, I don't want Flash. It's down to WMV and H.264 (Ogg? What's that?). WMV always looks like crap. Ain't It Cool, a connoisseur of film, always makes a point of announcing that a trailer is in "glorious Quicktime". But of course there are still a lot of Windows users out there who don't have or can't get Quicktime installed. Feh.