As compared to President Obama and a democratic majority in the Senate who create no budgets and spend $1 Trillion in deficits each year, yet can't manage to fund planetary science. Who has credibility then?
Except budgets are started in the House per Federal law, which has been packed with Teaparty & Teaparty wannabes the last 2 years. Also, the Senate has enough Repubs & Teapartiers to fillibuster a call to vote for lunch and the 'Democratic majority' doesn't have the votes to get them to shut the fuck up. Nice strawman. Try again.
Yeah, they have. Downside is, they've kept said technological toys to themselves. That makes it 'work product', tools etc you develop inhouse and don't share with the world. I do customer service for a designated driver company as well as bug testing the 'back end' Ajax/Java/xSQL stuff, suggest and even implement improvements, but we're hardly a technology company. We just use the custom stuff, same as FB.
Then you don't understand technology. The distribution and database systems alone that Facebook has to use is likely second to only Google. But hey, it's not tech, right?
Shaddup you Apple fanboi.
Sounds promising, but how much of that stuff has 'escaped' to the wild yet? Any technology FB has come up with they've kept inhouse. They're not marketting it, they're using it to feed their customers to their advertisers, thus, not a technology company.
I think Google just accidentally broke the system. Perhaps it was not Google, but the digital age itself, that did the actual breaking.
Google's been scanning old books & magazines, stuff that's been out of print for ages and probably by rights already should be public domain, depending on the copyright date.
A real artist would not sign a deal with an aggregator. You need a respectful label that is promoting, protecting and licensing your music. Megabox is supposed to be an answer to any of this?
The problem is, the 'big label' is farming out the promotion, distribution, and licensing of the real artists to wholey owned subsidies so that the label only shows losses on paper while the subsidiaries, doing business only with each other until it gets to the wholesalers, make the money while driving prices up for maximum profit. For protection, the labels turn to the lawyers, who have the label as their clients, not the artists. If some piece of litigation ends up being good for the artist, that's all well and good, but they're not the client, and such happy accidents are rare.
That was the model for decades and decades. Technology has openned the possibility of alternatives, but the labels probably won't sign off on them at any time due to the simple fact that they'd lose control of the process. It's not in their interest to do so. If they lose control, it shows they're not needed. Can't have that, the label execs would actually have to work for a living...
I suggest you check out the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode dealing with them. PETA actively supports terrorsts like the Animal Liberation Front and convicted arsonists like Rod Coronado.. P&T showed a clip of him talking to some high school kids where he was teaching them to make crude incindiary bombs. NOT the kind of thing you'd expect to see taught in high schools.
Of course the rules get enforced, if you're small enough to where you can't outlawyer the Feds. Why you think none of the big brokerage houses faced prosecution? For every lawyer the DoJ fielded, the brokerages fielded *5* or more.. And it didn't help that a Republican-controlled Congress cut their funding to the point where the DoJ was damned near useless.
The link says it was on the S-IVB stages, the second or third stage depending on the launch configuration. I'm not finding anything on the guidance for the first stage, though it's certainly possible to run wires down the stage to the first stage of a Saturn 5. The 'runs' would be pretty long, and I'm not sure how they'd handle disconnecting the 'runs'. A quick-disconnect fitting would be susceptable to vibrations and might be a bit tricky to line up to plug in. Solvable, I'm sure, but it'd take a bit of skull sweat...
The shuttle can get to orbit with just two of the liquid fueled engines, but was designed to return with just one. Turns out, you can deorbit a shuttle with just the maneuvering jets.
Unfortunately, a failure of the solid fueled boosters, is mostly fatal.
I'm thinking that's because the orbiter was bolted onto the side of the launch vehicle. I'm thinking, if it would have been mounted on top like a normal capsule, it probably wouldn't have killed that crew. But hey, IANARS, so my opinion means shit.
As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in real time to ensure Dragon’s entry into orbit for subsequent rendezvous and berthing with the ISS. This was achieved, and there was no effect on Dragon or the cargo resupply mission.
IIRC, there was no way to recompute a Saturn 5 flight profile on the fly. Remember, kids, that was back in the days when we hunted dinosaurs from the backs of our '57 Chevys. Kudos to SpaceX for having enough out of the box thinking to have the needed software routines in the can already and ready to go. Falcon 9 is more than just another Big Dumb Booster, AAMOF, from everything I'm reading and seeing of its operation, it's pretty goddamned smart. Remember the test flight to the ISS? The first launch attempt, the onboard computers detected a glitch that might have taken out the bird and shut down and aborted the launch right at T -0, even after the humans tapped the buttons authorising the computers to do the launch. Like I say, some serious onboard smarts programmed by some seriously smart people.
Japan, Germany and Canada are among the few countries that pursued fission purely as a power source using them to make bombs. Last time I checked Japan and Germany are both abandoning the concept because they've realized its not safe(stable) nor it is it very economical.
Last time I looked, Germany and Japan were getting NIMBYed on their nuclear plants. I've been expecting the Japanese peasants to grab torches and pitchforks ever since Fukushima got whammied.
Their goal isn't to generate power. Their goal is to prove that it's possible to generate power.
The only way to truly prove that it is possible to generate power IS to generate power. There is no mechanism in this experiment by which a sustained fusion reaction will occur nor is there any effort I can discern by which they are attempting to actually generate electricity. It is a research experiment for nuclear weapons from which we might learn something useful down the road for fusion power.
Actually, Step 1 is to figure a way to get a sustainable fusion reaction going without melting down the containment vessel. Once we get there, then we start adding the power generation side of things, and start tweaking the design a few (dozen? hundred? thousand?) times to get the last possible erg out of it.
Or perhaps they didn't. Given the difference in cranial sizes, it is conceivable that they progressed technologically much faster than we did. As such, they may even still be among us, albeit hidden.
Where is the irony? This actually prove their point. 1) Whites different then blacks, as in not a mere skin colour difference but a real race branching. 2) White European did much better then black African. Ignore the politically correct bullshit, base your judgement only on verifiable observation like you would for any other animal species.
White European did much better, this is fact. Maybe it is due to not been so pure homo sapiens? Now who is the brain-dead? Fuck off.
Never heard of Timbuktu, eh? They had civilisation there while the 'always technologically dominant' whites in Europe were still chasing each other around with stone knives trying to wrap their minds around the concept of 'the wheel'.
Dude, there's no point in arguing with Lamarck [wikipedia.org] anymore. He's just bitter that his theory was discredited after the works of Darwin, Mendel, and Watson/Crick, so he spends his time online attempting to plant seeds of doubt.
Actually, Lamarckian evolution acurately describes the evolution of cultures, not individuals. None of us has to evolve culturally from the Serangeti as we grow up, after all. A cute sci fi book,:talks about it a bit. Good read. It definitely made me think.
Had there been more trade or immigration to Africa, Africans might look more like African-Americans, who have a mixture of African, European and other ancestry.
I am pretty sure that DNA wouldn't effect the looks as much regarding skin tone and possibly hair. It was most likely thousands of years spent in a specific environment that contributed to looks. It is possible to see drastic changes to a persons body in one lifetime so you can just imagine what would happen if generations settled in a specific area.
OK, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that skin color, etc, is a choice???
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As compared to President Obama and a democratic majority in the Senate who create no budgets and spend $1 Trillion in deficits each year, yet can't manage to fund planetary science. Who has credibility then?
Except budgets are started in the House per Federal law, which has been packed with Teaparty & Teaparty wannabes the last 2 years. Also, the Senate has enough Repubs & Teapartiers to fillibuster a call to vote for lunch and the 'Democratic majority' doesn't have the votes to get them to shut the fuck up. Nice strawman. Try again.
Yeah, they have. Downside is, they've kept said technological toys to themselves. That makes it 'work product', tools etc you develop inhouse and don't share with the world. I do customer service for a designated driver company as well as bug testing the 'back end' Ajax/Java/xSQL stuff, suggest and even implement improvements, but we're hardly a technology company. We just use the custom stuff, same as FB.
Then you don't understand technology. The distribution and database systems alone that Facebook has to use is likely second to only Google. But hey, it's not tech, right?
Shaddup you Apple fanboi.
Sounds promising, but how much of that stuff has 'escaped' to the wild yet? Any technology FB has come up with they've kept inhouse. They're not marketting it, they're using it to feed their customers to their advertisers, thus, not a technology company.
Google's been scanning old books & magazines, stuff that's been out of print for ages and probably by rights already should be public domain, depending on the copyright date.
I've long thought that Facebook's only real asset is in being a fad. And fads often vanish very suddenly.
That, and feeding the 'customers' to advertisers. But a major 'technology' company? I don't think so...
A real artist would not sign a deal with an aggregator. You need a respectful label that is promoting, protecting and licensing your music. Megabox is supposed to be an answer to any of this?
The problem is, the 'big label' is farming out the promotion, distribution, and licensing of the real artists to wholey owned subsidies so that the label only shows losses on paper while the subsidiaries, doing business only with each other until it gets to the wholesalers, make the money while driving prices up for maximum profit. For protection, the labels turn to the lawyers, who have the label as their clients, not the artists. If some piece of litigation ends up being good for the artist, that's all well and good, but they're not the client, and such happy accidents are rare.
That was the model for decades and decades. Technology has openned the possibility of alternatives, but the labels probably won't sign off on them at any time due to the simple fact that they'd lose control of the process. It's not in their interest to do so. If they lose control, it shows they're not needed. Can't have that, the label execs would actually have to work for a living...
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Put your router to the test!!
Oh, really?
I dunno about the ethics of torturing Pokemon, but I'd eat a Peta spokesperson if I had to.
Not me.
However, turning said PETA spokesmutants into Lawyer Chow is rather appealing...
I suggest you check out the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode dealing with them. PETA actively supports terrorsts like the Animal Liberation Front and convicted arsonists like Rod Coronado.. P&T showed a clip of him talking to some high school kids where he was teaching them to make crude incindiary bombs. NOT the kind of thing you'd expect to see taught in high schools.
Of course the rules get enforced, if you're small enough to where you can't outlawyer the Feds. Why you think none of the big brokerage houses faced prosecution? For every lawyer the DoJ fielded, the brokerages fielded *5* or more.. And it didn't help that a Republican-controlled Congress cut their funding to the point where the DoJ was damned near useless.
The link says it was on the S-IVB stages, the second or third stage depending on the launch configuration. I'm not finding anything on the guidance for the first stage, though it's certainly possible to run wires down the stage to the first stage of a Saturn 5. The 'runs' would be pretty long, and I'm not sure how they'd handle disconnecting the 'runs'. A quick-disconnect fitting would be susceptable to vibrations and might be a bit tricky to line up to plug in. Solvable, I'm sure, but it'd take a bit of skull sweat...
I'll believe that when I see their products running under Free or Open BSD. Unless "any" is really a very narrow definition of Windows 8 and OS X.
FTFY.
Cue 'augmenting the standards' in 5... 4... 3...
The shuttle can get to orbit with just two of the liquid fueled engines, but was designed to return with just one. Turns out, you can deorbit a shuttle with just the maneuvering jets.
Unfortunately, a failure of the solid fueled boosters, is mostly fatal.
I'm thinking that's because the orbiter was bolted onto the side of the launch vehicle. I'm thinking, if it would have been mounted on top like a normal capsule, it probably wouldn't have killed that crew. But hey, IANARS, so my opinion means shit.
IIRC, there was no way to recompute a Saturn 5 flight profile on the fly. Remember, kids, that was back in the days when we hunted dinosaurs from the backs of our '57 Chevys. Kudos to SpaceX for having enough out of the box thinking to have the needed software routines in the can already and ready to go. Falcon 9 is more than just another Big Dumb Booster, AAMOF, from everything I'm reading and seeing of its operation, it's pretty goddamned smart. Remember the test flight to the ISS? The first launch attempt, the onboard computers detected a glitch that might have taken out the bird and shut down and aborted the launch right at T -0, even after the humans tapped the buttons authorising the computers to do the launch. Like I say, some serious onboard smarts programmed by some seriously smart people.
You forgot to list anal probing.
That falls under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.
Basic research of any kind is a white elephant. That doesn't mean we need to cut all basic research.
Last time I looked, Germany and Japan were getting NIMBYed on their nuclear plants. I've been expecting the Japanese peasants to grab torches and pitchforks ever since Fukushima got whammied.
Their goal isn't to generate power. Their goal is to prove that it's possible to generate power.
The only way to truly prove that it is possible to generate power IS to generate power. There is no mechanism in this experiment by which a sustained fusion reaction will occur nor is there any effort I can discern by which they are attempting to actually generate electricity. It is a research experiment for nuclear weapons from which we might learn something useful down the road for fusion power.
Actually, Step 1 is to figure a way to get a sustainable fusion reaction going without melting down the containment vessel. Once we get there, then we start adding the power generation side of things, and start tweaking the design a few (dozen? hundred? thousand?) times to get the last possible erg out of it.
Or perhaps they didn't. Given the difference in cranial sizes, it is conceivable that they progressed technologically much faster than we did. As such, they may even still be among us, albeit hidden.
And slightly better looking...
You've been to Wyoming, I see...
Where is the irony? This actually prove their point. 1) Whites different then blacks, as in not a mere skin colour difference but a real race branching. 2) White European did much better then black African. Ignore the politically correct bullshit, base your judgement only on verifiable observation like you would for any other animal species.
White European did much better, this is fact. Maybe it is due to not been so pure homo sapiens? Now who is the brain-dead? Fuck off.
Never heard of Timbuktu, eh? They had civilisation there while the 'always technologically dominant' whites in Europe were still chasing each other around with stone knives trying to wrap their minds around the concept of 'the wheel'.
Oh, for some mod points! Kudos, sir, kudos!
Actually, Lamarckian evolution acurately describes the evolution of cultures, not individuals. None of us has to evolve culturally from the Serangeti as we grow up, after all. A cute sci fi book, :talks about it a bit. Good read. It definitely made me think.
Had there been more trade or immigration to Africa, Africans might look more like African-Americans, who have a mixture of African, European and other ancestry.
I am pretty sure that DNA wouldn't effect the looks as much regarding skin tone and possibly hair. It was most likely thousands of years spent in a specific environment that contributed to looks. It is possible to see drastic changes to a persons body in one lifetime so you can just imagine what would happen if generations settled in a specific area.
OK, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that skin color, etc, is a choice???