Any military success we have is by brute force and a whole lot of money.
Pretty much all military success by brute force and a whole lot of money.
I can guarantee you, though, that if the 1944-era US military had to take Falluja, the city would be rubble, and all of the civillians would be dead or refugees.
And if you simply MUST have artificial gravity, then take two ships, tether them together with a long line once they enter their transfer orbit, and spin them about their common axis.
And if the 2 ships aren't exactly balanced, it'll wobble, and that's a Bad Thing.
His idea is so "forward thinking" that it's science fiction.
Until we can discover/create a sufficiently small, powerful, manageable power source, we aren't going beyong the moon.
Any ship that would take anyone (except Apollo 11-type explorers) on interplanetary travel will need to be robust enough to protect against small meteors, adequately shielded from radiation, and large enough to provide some sort of pseudo-gravity.
Accelerating such a craft to a speed adequate to "rapidly" cross the ~300(*) million km from Earth to Mars and then deccelerate it once it gets there (and back!) will take a lot of energy...
(*) The average straight-line distance is ~73 million km, but, of course, spaceships never travel in straight lines. So, I guesstimate that the actual "kilometers traveled" would be 145M km. And, because it's a round trip, double it to ~300M km.
The explosives were gone before US troops even got there.
According to an explosive ordinance Major who was there, he and his team blew it all up.
Again, according to the Major, his team blew up 7,000 tons of ordinance. According to the Pentagon, ~400,000 tons of ordinance has been detonated.
So, in a war zone,
~0.0001 of the total destroyed ordinance is a rounding error
it's probably already been destroyed, anyway
Many people inside both the NY Times and CBS News have an active animus for W. Is it any wonder that they'd try to spin this crap as news late in the cycle?
"Has negative cultural, and religious ramifications."
Although, for the life of me, I can't figure out what "religious ramification" the USMC War Memorial has.
And, of course, the "negative cultural ramifications" is "defeat of really nasty aggressor regeime". Just ask the Chinese, Koreans, Philippines, Viet Namese, etc.
From the CNN article: The State Department eventually conceded that the original report failed to include a number of deadly attacks in the latter part of 2003... all of which took place in November.
John Brennan, director of the federal Terrorist Threat Integration Center, said a database error caused his agency to provide incomplete statistics to the CIA. The CIA then passed those incomplete numbers along to the State Department.
Except the first consequence is that we'd be reprimanded for not being a team player,
I don't play on the team that has to fall on it's sword for bad managers.
Put another way: there's a time to go into firefighting mode (large contract, short deadline; unforseeable circumstances; something you screwed up; etc), and there's a time to whip out the memo detailing the preventative soution, and the return memo from the boss saying it's too expensive, and then go home at 5PM (well, 5:30ish).
Your idealism is refreshing, but your understanding of the way the world works is a bit limited.
I've been in IT for 16 years. I know how it works. I'm also 40, and won't put up with that crap anymore. My bosses know I work at night and on weekends (as a DBA, that's the only time I have to do "big" work) and am a team player.
Well hell. That's why they keep saying "That costs too much. Keep doing what you're doing.".
If all the Network/Windows techs went home as 5PM during the crisis, increasing the pain on Management, saying, "if you had listened to us in the first place, this would not have happened", you'd get the support you need.
My dad was in a silimar situation. He was writing some VB code to test some electrical components. His PC was completely locked down. He couldn't run his programs that he wrote to do his job
Are you sure that there's no way your father could write the app without touching "system" areas? I.e.: different APIs, parameters, etc, etc?
Is there no equivalent of $HOME/bin in Windows that he could test in?
If there is no equivalent of $HOME/bin in Windows, the solution is: get an off-net PC to do the development on.
What's the big deal about Firefox? It uses just as much RAM as the Mozilla browser does.
Debian (which I use) has shown that the Mozilla browser, mail, chat & composer can be broken into separate packages. That's what the big deal about FF is supposed to be.
The things that I really like about Mozilla are:
The Google "Search Bar" is the same as the nice, wide address bar, whereas the FF Search Bar is tiny.
The Mozilla View->"Text Zoom" is much more granular than FF.
If FF used significantly less RAM than Mozilla, I'd put up with it's deficiencies, though.
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Any military success we have is by brute force and a whole lot of money.
Pretty much all military success by brute force and a whole lot of money.
I can guarantee you, though, that if the 1944-era US military had to take Falluja, the city would be rubble, and all of the civillians would be dead or refugees.
Whereas Microsoft is the largest business this side of Alpha Centauri.
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Hardly. Walgreens is "bigger" than MSFT, based on year 2003 revenue.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2004-03-2
Wal-Mart's revenue is 8x larger than MSFT's.
IBM's is 2.75x larger, HP's is 2.24x larger. AT&T's revenue is US$2.4B larger than MSFT's.
And if you simply MUST have artificial gravity, then take two ships, tether them together with a long line once they enter their transfer orbit, and spin them about their common axis.
And if the 2 ships aren't exactly balanced, it'll wobble, and that's a Bad Thing.
Think of an out-of-balance ceiling fan.
Nukes.
Isn't manageable (yet)
Why "back"?
Because people want to travel back and forth?
And, the proper sort of power source would allow "us" or the Martian colonists to mine the asteroids, etc, etc.
Rotational "gravity" isn't required unless it's going to be longer than 6 months or so, which a fast ship wouldn't be.
I'd still much rather travel in a shielded craft that provides at least partial, temporary(*) gravity.
(*) spinning sleep rooms, for example, so that your body is subject to pseudo-gravity at least part of the "day".
Why not try to build cities on the bottom of the Oceans?
The water pressure would be soooooooo crushing that such a structure would probably cost as much as a Mars space ship.
Now, colonizing the continental shelves might be practical.
His idea is so "forward thinking" that it's science fiction.
Until we can discover/create a sufficiently small, powerful, manageable power source, we aren't going beyong the moon.
Any ship that would take anyone (except Apollo 11-type explorers) on interplanetary travel will need to be robust enough to protect against small meteors, adequately shielded from radiation, and large enough to provide some sort of pseudo-gravity.
Accelerating such a craft to a speed adequate to "rapidly" cross the ~300(*) million km from Earth to Mars and then deccelerate it once it gets there (and back!) will take a lot of energy...
(*) The average straight-line distance is ~73 million km, but, of course, spaceships never travel in straight lines. So, I guesstimate that the actual "kilometers traveled" would be 145M km. And, because it's a round trip, double it to ~300M km.
Drink only bottled spring water, or distill rainwater yourself.
And pure grain alcohol?
It's been this way for years, probably close to a decade. AOL Europe really isn't anything new.
I know it's not new. It's still bizarre.
Why isn't it the rational:
America started out as a British penal colony too.
This was moderated as Informative??????
Corporate FUD => Bad.
Left-wing Political FUD => Insightful.
I've kept bees.
European or tropical? TFA specifies tropical, which I wouldn't be surprised is much more fragile than European bees.
VAX DIBOL?
According to an explosive ordinance Major who was there, he and his team blew it all up.
Again, according to the Major, his team blew up 7,000 tons of ordinance. According to the Pentagon, ~400,000 tons of ordinance has been detonated.
So, in a war zone,
Many people inside both the NY Times and CBS News have an active animus for W. Is it any wonder that they'd try to spin this crap as news late in the cycle?
he press release says nothing about why this particular logo
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But puke liberal political correctness is the reason that the old logo was tossed.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004
"Has negative cultural, and religious ramifications."
Although, for the life of me, I can't figure out what "religious ramification" the USMC War Memorial has.
And, of course, the "negative cultural ramifications" is "defeat of really nasty aggressor regeime". Just ask the Chinese, Koreans, Philippines, Viet Namese, etc.
but so thoroughly depleted their resources that they could no longer build boats to leave once the problems began.
They must have been Republicans.
Or they worked for Haliburton.
Or both...
From the CNN article: ... all of which took place in November.
The State Department eventually conceded that the original report failed to include a number of deadly attacks in the latter part of 2003
John Brennan, director of the federal Terrorist Threat Integration Center, said a database error caused his agency to provide incomplete statistics to the CIA. The CIA then passed those incomplete numbers along to the State Department.
Don't you even read your own "proof"?
I cannot think of what they hope to gain.
Guess you didn't RTFA, huh?
Insert mandatory "this is Slashdot, of course no one reads TFA" comment here.
Sheesh. Loosen up some!
Thank you, FFFish, for telling this to those humorless bastards.
Except the first consequence is that we'd be reprimanded for not being a team player,
I don't play on the team that has to fall on it's sword for bad managers.
Put another way: there's a time to go into firefighting mode (large contract, short deadline; unforseeable circumstances; something you screwed up; etc), and there's a time to whip out the memo detailing the preventative soution, and the return memo from the boss saying it's too expensive, and then go home at 5PM (well, 5:30ish).
Your idealism is refreshing, but your understanding of the way the world works is a bit limited.
I've been in IT for 16 years. I know how it works. I'm also 40, and won't put up with that crap anymore. My bosses know I work at night and on weekends (as a DBA, that's the only time I have to do "big" work) and am a team player.
The point is: what benefit does FF give me, as opposed to Mozilla?
Nothing, as far as I can see.
we go into firefighting mode
Well hell. That's why they keep saying "That costs too much. Keep doing what you're doing.".
If all the Network/Windows techs went home as 5PM during the crisis, increasing the pain on Management, saying, "if you had listened to us in the first place, this would not have happened", you'd get the support you need.
My dad was in a silimar situation. He was writing some VB code to test some electrical components. His PC was completely locked down. He couldn't run his programs that he wrote to do his job
Are you sure that there's no way your father could write the app without touching "system" areas? I.e.: different APIs, parameters, etc, etc?
Is there no equivalent of $HOME/bin in Windows that he could test in?
If there is no equivalent of $HOME/bin in Windows, the solution is: get an off-net PC to do the development on.
What's the big deal about Firefox? It uses just as much RAM as the Mozilla browser does.
Debian (which I use) has shown that the Mozilla browser, mail, chat & composer can be broken into separate packages. That's what the big deal about FF is supposed to be.
The things that I really like about Mozilla are:
If FF used significantly less RAM than Mozilla, I'd put up with it's deficiencies, though.
QNX is based off BSD.
QNX is a small RTOS with a micro-kernel architecture and a message-passing structure (that has big libraries on top of it, to make it feel like Unix)
BSD is an interactive, time-sharing system that was designed on VAXen for a serial terminal environment.
Thus, QNX & BSD are about as different as BSD and OS/360 are (but for much different reasons, of course).