Spend an evening with some friends in Germany trying to get the attention of the waitress to get some more drinks while she is standing around talking to the cook sometime and it will make perfect sense. I really wanted to just call our tipping system what it is, "bribery", and introduce it to Germany because it never seems to be worth their time to care if a table of twelve people needs more than one drink order an hour during a major music festival weekend.
You can either use plumbing pipe or buy one online.
While that would work for zip guns and the like, gun barrels are one of the things that will be the hardest to manufacture. They require good metal with good machining for decent tolerances for accuracy as well as to deal with the pressures of shooting. While you could, I doubt you would want to use plumbing pipe for a gun barrel if just do to quality reasons. In the WW2 cottage business of making Sten SMGs and the like, the barrels were the one part that had to be manufactured in a large factory and sent to the individual shops making all the rest of the guns out of bicycle parts.
Flash was never intended to be a universal code interpreter to run across all systems (like Java was supposed to do).
Yep, but then you had IE 6. Around that time you had to test your javascript against two browser versions of IE on two platforms (mac and PC) and write additional browser detection and code for each case where code differed. I remember around that time there was something quite simple I was trying to do, a mouse over, which required different code to run for each of the four cases. Flash on the other hand worked fine across both versions and both platforms. It was easier and more reliable to just do everything in Flash for several years which created the entire problem of developers using Flash when they shouldn't have such as for all their site's navigation.
Exactly. Why does being evil imply being stupid? Has he never heard of evil geniuses?
It's not that evil is implying stupidity, but rather than accusations of stupidity and evilness are easy ad hominem attacks on people that are not liked. It's like how the government can both be incredibly incompetent and diabolically all controlling at the same time.
Billable hours are billable hours. You could always charge a different rate for training as opposed to coding. However, billable hours after they replace you are at tripple the normal rate.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."
Woddy Allen
Yes, but eventually, people have to settle for what they can get, not what they want.
Maybe some historians want to dig through it, but I wouldn't.
Maybe your children of their grandchildren might. They might even be historians. That information will be much easier to gather now than after your parents and you are dead. A few minutes typing could preserve information that otherwise would be lost forever for later generations as well as historians. It's essentially the electronic version of the 'the family bible' with everything written in the front and back covers.
Nope. What's the matter, is he stepping on your preconceived notions, or is he just using big words?
He was probably expecting questions and then answers in the commonly used format of such./ articles and as stated in the summary title, but instead seemed to get some non-sequitor rambling.
Interesting....The idea of dark matter is around because our models of the universe that are only based on what we can see don't measure up to the mass we figure the universe needs to actually have. My question to you is, how many extra brown dwarfs would we need to close that gap in mass?
Given similar brown dwarves would be about 1/50th of a solar mass and we have five stars (assuming one solar mass each) within 7 ly, we'd need to find 248 more brown dwarves like these within 7 ly to equal the amount of mass in the same area. To make up for the 5-6 times as much matter that dark matter is more than luminous matter, we'd have to find around 1500 such brown dwarves within 7 ly to go "oops, all dark matter is just normal matter after all". With an average density, that means there should be five such brown dwarves, averaging twenty times the size of Jupiter within a light year of our sun and ~370 closer to us than Alpha Centauri.
Can someone explain to me how discovering the THIRD closes system to ours in 2013 doesn't suggest that all the Dark Matter(tm) that's out there just isn't a mass of brown dwarfs that we can't see, and not a whole new class of matter?
Basically because the things they call dark matter are about six times the amount that there is for luminous matter*. While there is no doubt luminous matter we have not seen yet, it has been determined that there is not six times as much such unfound matter as there is stuff we already see. If such an amount of brown dwarves existed, then we would be able to detect them as they obscured other stars if in front of them, and detect them through gravitational lensing if they were behind them. Basically, the idea that this missing matter we are detecting through various means might be such things as brown dwarves was one of the first things scientists thought of. They came up with experiments to determine the maximum limits of such matter. From those results, they have already figured in the amount of undetected luminous matter into the ~4% of normal matter they think is in the universe. Of course, that figure is being adjusted all the time, but unless some Nobel level discovery is made (that would propose a solution even stranger than dark matter), this is just fine tuning and there is no hope of discovering six times as much luminous matter in the universe.
*And this is determined from empirical data from several different directions such as rotational speed of galaxies, extrapolating the conditions of the early universe from its current state, more gravitational lensing, etc, all of which suggest there is a lot of matter in the universe and not that our laws of gravitation need tweaking.
I'm not surprised it made it into/. as besides being patronized by bike messengers, actual bikers, and old guys, last time I was going there it was also quite popular with the developers from Adobe and Microsoft too. As one of the few 24hr places to eat in downtown Seattle, it pulls in a wide range of people.
"It's" vs "its" is grade school English. The GP post may be a troll, but he's got a point. The rules of the English language are shockingly simple and mixing up homophones doesn't make a great case for the intelligence of the writer. I say this as a scientist, not an English major.
OK. So, would that make it a simple ad hominem or is there a specific logical fallacy for saying somebody is wrong because they made a mistake in grammar? I could see bring it up in formal writing but in an informal forum where one is typing quickly and muscle memory is probably the dominant factor? That is indeed just grade school bullshit which adds nothing to the conversation except to give some grammar nazi a sense of justification because they have no good points to add.
The mining to be done will be done for use in space. Since getting stuff off the moon and into space is cheaper than getting stuff off the earth, at a certain point, mining the moon is economically feasible. Water for fuel will be the first thing mined and the moon is probably better for it than asteroids. Surveying and mining asteroids in itself is probably a much more time consuming and costly feat than doing the same on the moon, especially for metals. All our current refining and fabrications technology assumes a gravitational field. Converting this to the airless moon will probably be easier than researching similar airless and weightless tech for mining asteroids.
*SIGH*, you know...we really need to just stop...sweep EVERYONE out of Washington, no one in office can come back to it, and start over. Maybe then we'd have a chance going forward for a bit without all the crap that is currently entrenched in DC.
Great, then the only people in Washington with any experience and knowledge of how the system works will be corporations and lobbyists. Sounds just like the solution we need to solve all our problems. Not to mention that everybody in the government will know they don't have to please the people at all any more and will just spend their term padding their forced retirement.
We will learn that in 2018 you can buy, privately, enough hardware to fly to Mars.
Whatever you're on, I think I want some. There is a lot of tech that still needs to be developed for a three year journey even for a fly by around Mars. A human habitable space station for long term independence in deep space will require quite a bit of research to get done. We can probably do one in earth orbit. A second with what we learn for a trip around the moon. Then a third for a trip to Mars. Before we go to Mars, we will need to learn a good deal about radiation shielding and zero g repair, construction, and fabrication. In the time that it will take to get to Mars and back, those that go will have to be prepared to fix broken things with more than duck tape and the parts of a lander they can no longer use. By 2018, they will not even be able to put such a station into earth orbit.
"In the end, you end up with a situation like pitting pro-NACAR team against a bunch of guys that just got their driver's licenses a few months earlier in the Indy 500.
That depends on how expensive they are. The pilot is probably just a small portion of the total cost of operation.
Naw, pilots cost a lot and not just in money. After you get them inducted into the service, test them to find the acceptable ones, train them sufficiently to be as good if not better than the other side, you are talking several millions in investment. However, worse than that is the cost in time to get pilots up to that level of skill. If pilots are captured or killed, you have to train a new pilot. The side that is winning has more trained and experienced pilots which allow for a greater advantage for them. In the end, you end up with a situation like pitting pro-NFL team against a bunch of guys that have only been playing football for a couple of months. With drones, your pilots are safe because you can always make more drones and planes, but pilots take time and are hard to make.
Productivity has risen so much since 1950 that we should be able to work 4 hour days.
You probably can, but you'd have to go back to living how people did in 1950. Family in a 400 sq ft house. One old car. Only appliances are a stove and washing machine. One weeks worth of clothes. Porridge every day for breakfast because that's what you can afford. That was what was considered middle class in 1950.
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But how can we doubt an infographic on a website trying to sell us something?
The US has a bizarre tipping system....
Spend an evening with some friends in Germany trying to get the attention of the waitress to get some more drinks while she is standing around talking to the cook sometime and it will make perfect sense. I really wanted to just call our tipping system what it is, "bribery", and introduce it to Germany because it never seems to be worth their time to care if a table of twelve people needs more than one drink order an hour during a major music festival weekend.
I thought it was Napoleon's troops' government-subsidized artillery practice, not the original government-subsidized construction.
Nope. There are drawings on post cards from three years prior to Napoleon's invasion and the nose is already missing, probably since antiquity.
You can either use plumbing pipe or buy one online.
While that would work for zip guns and the like, gun barrels are one of the things that will be the hardest to manufacture. They require good metal with good machining for decent tolerances for accuracy as well as to deal with the pressures of shooting. While you could, I doubt you would want to use plumbing pipe for a gun barrel if just do to quality reasons. In the WW2 cottage business of making Sten SMGs and the like, the barrels were the one part that had to be manufactured in a large factory and sent to the individual shops making all the rest of the guns out of bicycle parts.
Please read a book, not one by chomsky.
Please, let's try and have people read more than one book. If you only read one book, then you'll only have one opinion, no matter whose book it is.
Flash was never intended to be a universal code interpreter to run across all systems (like Java was supposed to do).
Yep, but then you had IE 6. Around that time you had to test your javascript against two browser versions of IE on two platforms (mac and PC) and write additional browser detection and code for each case where code differed. I remember around that time there was something quite simple I was trying to do, a mouse over, which required different code to run for each of the four cases. Flash on the other hand worked fine across both versions and both platforms. It was easier and more reliable to just do everything in Flash for several years which created the entire problem of developers using Flash when they shouldn't have such as for all their site's navigation.
Exactly. Why does being evil imply being stupid? Has he never heard of evil geniuses?
It's not that evil is implying stupidity, but rather than accusations of stupidity and evilness are easy ad hominem attacks on people that are not liked. It's like how the government can both be incredibly incompetent and diabolically all controlling at the same time.
Billable hours are billable hours. You could always charge a different rate for training as opposed to coding. However, billable hours after they replace you are at tripple the normal rate.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment." Woddy Allen
Yes, but eventually, people have to settle for what they can get, not what they want.
Maybe some historians want to dig through it, but I wouldn't.
Maybe your children of their grandchildren might. They might even be historians. That information will be much easier to gather now than after your parents and you are dead. A few minutes typing could preserve information that otherwise would be lost forever for later generations as well as historians. It's essentially the electronic version of the 'the family bible' with everything written in the front and back covers.
I have never heard of an ardent atheist who puts any effort whatsoever into disproving the existence of a divine creator.
True. Most ardent atheists want people to believe there no divine creator on faith.
Nope. What's the matter, is he stepping on your preconceived notions, or is he just using big words?
He was probably expecting questions and then answers in the commonly used format of such ./ articles and as stated in the summary title, but instead seemed to get some non-sequitor rambling.
Interesting....The idea of dark matter is around because our models of the universe that are only based on what we can see don't measure up to the mass we figure the universe needs to actually have. My question to you is, how many extra brown dwarfs would we need to close that gap in mass?
Given similar brown dwarves would be about 1/50th of a solar mass and we have five stars (assuming one solar mass each) within 7 ly, we'd need to find 248 more brown dwarves like these within 7 ly to equal the amount of mass in the same area. To make up for the 5-6 times as much matter that dark matter is more than luminous matter, we'd have to find around 1500 such brown dwarves within 7 ly to go "oops, all dark matter is just normal matter after all". With an average density, that means there should be five such brown dwarves, averaging twenty times the size of Jupiter within a light year of our sun and ~370 closer to us than Alpha Centauri.
Can someone explain to me how discovering the THIRD closes system to ours in 2013 doesn't suggest that all the Dark Matter(tm) that's out there just isn't a mass of brown dwarfs that we can't see, and not a whole new class of matter?
Basically because the things they call dark matter are about six times the amount that there is for luminous matter*. While there is no doubt luminous matter we have not seen yet, it has been determined that there is not six times as much such unfound matter as there is stuff we already see. If such an amount of brown dwarves existed, then we would be able to detect them as they obscured other stars if in front of them, and detect them through gravitational lensing if they were behind them. Basically, the idea that this missing matter we are detecting through various means might be such things as brown dwarves was one of the first things scientists thought of. They came up with experiments to determine the maximum limits of such matter. From those results, they have already figured in the amount of undetected luminous matter into the ~4% of normal matter they think is in the universe. Of course, that figure is being adjusted all the time, but unless some Nobel level discovery is made (that would propose a solution even stranger than dark matter), this is just fine tuning and there is no hope of discovering six times as much luminous matter in the universe.
*And this is determined from empirical data from several different directions such as rotational speed of galaxies, extrapolating the conditions of the early universe from its current state, more gravitational lensing, etc, all of which suggest there is a lot of matter in the universe and not that our laws of gravitation need tweaking.
Additionally, the term "hp" as used in the story refers to "horsepower", not "hit points".
Hit points are capitalized as "HP" not "hp"
I'm not surprised it made it into /. as besides being patronized by bike messengers, actual bikers, and old guys, last time I was going there it was also quite popular with the developers from Adobe and Microsoft too. As one of the few 24hr places to eat in downtown Seattle, it pulls in a wide range of people.
"It's" vs "its" is grade school English. The GP post may be a troll, but he's got a point. The rules of the English language are shockingly simple and mixing up homophones doesn't make a great case for the intelligence of the writer. I say this as a scientist, not an English major.
OK. So, would that make it a simple ad hominem or is there a specific logical fallacy for saying somebody is wrong because they made a mistake in grammar? I could see bring it up in formal writing but in an informal forum where one is typing quickly and muscle memory is probably the dominant factor? That is indeed just grade school bullshit which adds nothing to the conversation except to give some grammar nazi a sense of justification because they have no good points to add.
Then please explain the 85 newspaper articles from the time which all agree that Whitehead flew many times in 1901/1902.
True enough. I have a stack of World Weekly News and Paranoia! Magazine that support those findings.
5 minutes on google will tell me that...
...it's cancer. Anytime you look up something medical on the internet, it's always cancer.
The mining to be done will be done for use in space. Since getting stuff off the moon and into space is cheaper than getting stuff off the earth, at a certain point, mining the moon is economically feasible. Water for fuel will be the first thing mined and the moon is probably better for it than asteroids. Surveying and mining asteroids in itself is probably a much more time consuming and costly feat than doing the same on the moon, especially for metals. All our current refining and fabrications technology assumes a gravitational field. Converting this to the airless moon will probably be easier than researching similar airless and weightless tech for mining asteroids.
*SIGH*, you know...we really need to just stop...sweep EVERYONE out of Washington, no one in office can come back to it, and start over. Maybe then we'd have a chance going forward for a bit without all the crap that is currently entrenched in DC.
Great, then the only people in Washington with any experience and knowledge of how the system works will be corporations and lobbyists. Sounds just like the solution we need to solve all our problems. Not to mention that everybody in the government will know they don't have to please the people at all any more and will just spend their term padding their forced retirement.
We will learn that in 2018 you can buy, privately, enough hardware to fly to Mars.
Whatever you're on, I think I want some. There is a lot of tech that still needs to be developed for a three year journey even for a fly by around Mars. A human habitable space station for long term independence in deep space will require quite a bit of research to get done. We can probably do one in earth orbit. A second with what we learn for a trip around the moon. Then a third for a trip to Mars. Before we go to Mars, we will need to learn a good deal about radiation shielding and zero g repair, construction, and fabrication. In the time that it will take to get to Mars and back, those that go will have to be prepared to fix broken things with more than duck tape and the parts of a lander they can no longer use. By 2018, they will not even be able to put such a station into earth orbit.
Oops, I should have used a car allegory.
"In the end, you end up with a situation like pitting pro-NACAR team against a bunch of guys that just got their driver's licenses a few months earlier in the Indy 500.
That depends on how expensive they are. The pilot is probably just a small portion of the total cost of operation.
Naw, pilots cost a lot and not just in money. After you get them inducted into the service, test them to find the acceptable ones, train them sufficiently to be as good if not better than the other side, you are talking several millions in investment. However, worse than that is the cost in time to get pilots up to that level of skill. If pilots are captured or killed, you have to train a new pilot. The side that is winning has more trained and experienced pilots which allow for a greater advantage for them. In the end, you end up with a situation like pitting pro-NFL team against a bunch of guys that have only been playing football for a couple of months. With drones, your pilots are safe because you can always make more drones and planes, but pilots take time and are hard to make.
Productivity has risen so much since 1950 that we should be able to work 4 hour days.
You probably can, but you'd have to go back to living how people did in 1950. Family in a 400 sq ft house. One old car. Only appliances are a stove and washing machine. One weeks worth of clothes. Porridge every day for breakfast because that's what you can afford. That was what was considered middle class in 1950.