You're looking at it the wrong way around - this isn't news, it probably won't even register on most people's radar. If it had been a substantial planet, Mars size or larger, then I'd expect NASA to kick up a fuss, but this? It's smaller than the moon, only twice the size of Ceres. Certainly not worth much airtime.
Nah, I can think of something much better than that. He should be made to serve the time he went AWOL, plus interest, on the most dangerous front line the US army has, using standard issue kit and no special treatment.
I know this sounds like a troll but I was having a look on the website and these rovers don't move very much do they?
Good talent for understatement you have there:)We send lumps of plastic, metal and silicon hurtling throught the big black to crash land on a ball of red rock only to have them creep around slower than an arthritic ant with a particulalrly large tree on its back. Nearly half a century after getting the first man-made object into space we're still playing with very expensive, very slow, very delecate, short-lived radio controlled cars. If computers had advanced at the same rate we'd still be using mercury delay lines.
Yes, I'm very impressed that NASA can get overgrown fireworks off the ground most of the time. They don't even need the blue touchpaper these days. But I just wish someone would decide it'd be a good idea to divert some of the billions spent on finding ways to blow eahc other up towards developing decent manned space exploration. Preferably while there are still people to do the exploration.
Regulation is the worst possible scenario for OSS, regardless of any pretense towards open sourcing software
You know that, I know that, probably everyone else here knows that, but Bill Thompson appears to have such a naive trust in government regulation that a concussed duckling would appear paranoid by comparison. His solution to everything is government regulation, even to the point of supporting government mandated "trusted computing" systems to enforce geolocation and legal identification. He appears to live in some utopian world where politicians are actually honest, laws aren't bought by large corporations and the government really does support the individual.
Maybe he does see himself as some kind of technology visionary. Everyone else I've run into seems to put him in the same class as Kevin "Captain Cyborg" Warwick - an embarrassment to the computing industy who has unfortunately managed to persuade the media that he has a blind clue about what he's talking about.
The problem with converting mp3 to vorbis is that both are lossy formats and the have different encoding methods: when you convert an original piece to mp3 you lose one part of the sound, then when you convert from mp3 to ogg you lose another part. See the Ogg Vorbis FAQ for more on this.
In intro CS classes, programmers shouldn't write applications that are large enough for that to be a concern.
Wrong, any program is large enough for a beginner to be caught out by a language that doesn't hold their hand. I teach introductory level C courses (mainly to to bioinformaticians as part of a DL Msc programme) and many of the problems my students encounter at the start are down to the language letting them get away with things that they don't mean, don't understand and don't know how to fix. Of course, it doesn't help that in many cases they tend to ignore the warning messages from the compiler.. but since C compiler warnings tend to be even more arcane than the language, that's not too surprising...
Nah, just get them a plush Cthulhu and tell them that R'lyeh will rise from the depths of the ocean and they'll be devoured by tentacled horrors from the stars if they don't clean their room.
Give your kids a cute toy and mental blocks, what more can a parent ask for?
Of course you may end up with a bunch of mini Cthulhu cultists on your hands, so be careful...
(because they actually do a damn fine job with hardware, and their games are pretty good)
I don't know about the hardware, but the reason Microsoft games tend to be better than Microsoft operating systems is, I think, because Microsoft are better at looking for talent than developing it. I can't fault them for being able to identify and buy concepts and teams that further their plans.
Now if only SCO could find something it could do well.....
They haven't - that was multinational government, what this is is something quite different. This is getting other countries to agree to the rules the US wants, not getting the US to agree to a consensus.
Call me crazy, but I think the US having the ability to rain down death and destruction on anyone who gets in our way does make the world a safer place. For Americans.
And Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates them.... I don't know whether people like you make me angry or just nauseous. Probably both. I wouldn't call you crazy, crazy would imply you were insane. No, you're just sick.
not to be a total grouch, but all of this is assuming that Hawking is correct. We have no proof this is so.
Except for the uncomfortable fact that the universe is not one big black hole, which it would be if black holes did not evaporate and instead continued to suck in ever more matter...
Your ability to sell yourself (and not your credentials) will greatly increase your chance of an interview.
Just, whatever you do, don't make out that you're God's Gift to the planet, tirelessly in pursuit of excellence and furthering the goals of the company and all the other self-seling rubbish too much. I know quite a few people responsible for recruitment, including my boss, who immediately bin any applicant that launches into the "Employ me! I'm Incredible! I speak in Buzzwords!" crap.* Sure, sell yourself, but be honest - don't do the equivalent of the car salesman act because they can tell.
* true, they are SME and university based, bit companies with Catbert HR departments are probably different...
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But at least we'll be spared to Vogon poetry.
You're looking at it the wrong way around - this isn't news, it probably won't even register on most people's radar. If it had been a substantial planet, Mars size or larger, then I'd expect NASA to kick up a fuss, but this? It's smaller than the moon, only twice the size of Ceres. Certainly not worth much airtime.
Nah, I can think of something much better than that. He should be made to serve the time he went AWOL, plus interest, on the most dangerous front line the US army has, using standard issue kit and no special treatment.
Then see how he likes being sent out to die.
I guess it depends. It'd proably be useful if I could summon tentacled horrors to attack the most clueless users in work...
What'd be really scary would be playing the Sims watching Sims play the Sims. After that it'd get worryingly recursive...
I know this sounds like a troll but I was having a look on the website and these rovers don't move very much do they?
:)We send lumps of plastic, metal and silicon hurtling throught the big black to crash land on a ball of red rock only to have them creep around slower than an arthritic ant with a particulalrly large tree on its back. Nearly half a century after getting the first man-made object into space we're still playing with very expensive, very slow, very delecate, short-lived radio controlled cars. If computers had advanced at the same rate we'd still be using mercury delay lines.
Good talent for understatement you have there
Yes, I'm very impressed that NASA can get overgrown fireworks off the ground most of the time. They don't even need the blue touchpaper these days. But I just wish someone would decide it'd be a good idea to divert some of the billions spent on finding ways to blow eahc other up towards developing decent manned space exploration. Preferably while there are still people to do the exploration.
tubgoatgirlse-fu?
Hell, it even sounds like the name of a Lovecraftian Horror..
Regulation is the worst possible scenario for OSS, regardless of any pretense towards open sourcing software
You know that, I know that, probably everyone else here knows that, but Bill Thompson appears to have such a naive trust in government regulation that a concussed duckling would appear paranoid by comparison. His solution to everything is government regulation, even to the point of supporting government mandated "trusted computing" systems to enforce geolocation and legal identification. He appears to live in some utopian world where politicians are actually honest, laws aren't bought by large corporations and the government really does support the individual.
Maybe he does see himself as some kind of technology visionary. Everyone else I've run into seems to put him in the same class as Kevin "Captain Cyborg" Warwick - an embarrassment to the computing industy who has unfortunately managed to persuade the media that he has a blind clue about what he's talking about.
Floating point error. That or the universe is broken again.
I think there's a real chance of it being declared unconstitutional,....
Eldred V Ashcroft will tell you all you need to know about how limited those limited times are, ie: they aren't.
The problem with converting mp3 to vorbis is that both are lossy formats and the have different encoding methods: when you convert an original piece to mp3 you lose one part of the sound, then when you convert from mp3 to ogg you lose another part. See the Ogg Vorbis FAQ for more on this.
Indeed comrade, SCO will be the fourth against the wall come the revolution!
In intro CS classes, programmers shouldn't write applications that are large enough for that to be a concern.
Wrong, any program is large enough for a beginner to be caught out by a language that doesn't hold their hand. I teach introductory level C courses (mainly to to bioinformaticians as part of a DL Msc programme) and many of the problems my students encounter at the start are down to the language letting them get away with things that they don't mean, don't understand and don't know how to fix. Of course, it doesn't help that in many cases they tend to ignore the warning messages from the compiler.. but since C compiler warnings tend to be even more arcane than the language, that's not too surprising...
Nah, just get them a plush Cthulhu and tell them that R'lyeh will rise from the depths of the ocean and they'll be devoured by tentacled horrors from the stars if they don't clean their room.
Give your kids a cute toy and mental blocks, what more can a parent ask for?
Of course you may end up with a bunch of mini Cthulhu cultists on your hands, so be careful...
I already know what the answer will turn out to be though - 42.
And a network that could handle the amount of traffic involved...
(because they actually do a damn fine job with hardware, and their games are pretty good)
I don't know about the hardware, but the reason Microsoft games tend to be better than Microsoft operating systems is, I think, because Microsoft are better at looking for talent than developing it. I can't fault them for being able to identify and buy concepts and teams that further their plans.
Now if only SCO could find something it could do well.....
Destruct testing of lie detectors?
They haven't - that was multinational government, what this is is something quite different. This is getting other countries to agree to the rules the US wants, not getting the US to agree to a consensus.
Call me crazy, but I think the US having the ability to rain down death and destruction on anyone who gets in our way does make the world a safer place. For Americans.
And Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates them.... I don't know whether people like you make me angry or just nauseous. Probably both. I wouldn't call you crazy, crazy would imply you were insane. No, you're just sick.
Yes, it's a commercially available game developed with my tax money. They want to charge me for a game I was taxed to help produce?!?
Bah, why am I not surprised.
Well, it could be the beginning of the Singularity..
not to be a total grouch, but all of this is assuming that Hawking is correct. We have no proof this is so.
Except for the uncomfortable fact that the universe is not one big black hole, which it would be if black holes did not evaporate and instead continued to suck in ever more matter...
Someone needs to re-educate Mr. Martinez about the Constitution
I think the same could be said about most of the current US politicians..
Your ability to sell yourself (and not your credentials) will greatly increase your chance of an interview.
Just, whatever you do, don't make out that you're God's Gift to the planet, tirelessly in pursuit of excellence and furthering the goals of the company and all the other self-seling rubbish too much. I know quite a few people responsible for recruitment, including my boss, who immediately bin any applicant that launches into the "Employ me! I'm Incredible! I speak in Buzzwords!" crap.* Sure, sell yourself, but be honest - don't do the equivalent of the car salesman act because they can tell.
* true, they are SME and university based, bit companies with Catbert HR departments are probably different...
Or even the alternative observation from James Klass: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."