Although Sturgeon's Law ("90 percent of *everything* is crap") is not universally applicable, it does seem to apply when someone is trying to sell you something, especially if you can live without the product. I'm frankly skeptical of UFO programs on tv in spite of having seen a couple of UFOs in my younger years.
Both UFOs were about the diameter of a quarter at arm's length, slow moving in various directions; each was a featureless perfect circle and glowing as if illuminated from within. Neither was an aircraft, balloon, bird, satellite, or other common artifact.
The late afternoon UFO was near the northern horizon and eventually moved down and out of sight. The UFO I saw at night was directly overhead; after moving around a bit, the diameter began shrinking slowly and it eventually disappeared within a few minutes. I have no explanation for either event.
A universal basic income (UBI), wherein government provides a monthly stipend so citizens can afford a home and basic necessities, is something experts believe would directly address the issue of unemployment and poverty, and possibly even eliminate hundreds of other welfare programs.
These are the same "experts" that brought us Chernobyl, obamacare, the Vietnam war, the destruction of both space shuttles, and other disasters. Government is never the solution to a problem, it is the problem. Here is something you never want to hear: "We're from the government and we're here to help." UBI is a fool's paradise.
I've never been a fan of Starbucks coffee, seriously overpriced and it tastes like crap. I'd buy it in airports, but that was it. Some months ago Starbucks announced they planned to hire 10,000 illegal immigrants. That means
those 10,000 jobs won't go to American citizens. You're dead to me, Starbucks. I will never spend another dime in your disgusting establishments. If there are patriots among/. readers, I encourage you to avoid Starbucks as well.
I hope Elon has done his homework. The Soviets failed miserably with 30 engines in the first stage of their N1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket). All four launch attempts failed spectacularly. Wikipedia also says
after the first launch failure: "All subsequent flights had freon fire extinguishers installed next to every engine." Doesn't sound like a good design to me.
Some of us former GNU/Linux users went to FreeBSD. Some of us went to macOS. Some of us even went to Windows. But we will never forget what GNU/Linux used to be. We'll never forget what GNU/Linux could have been.
I started using Slackware Linux in Sep., 1996. Man, what a trip the next 17 or so years were! I tried a bunch of distros, ended up with Red Hat mainly due to its being adopted at work.
Then in about 2014 came RHEL 6.0 with that hideous networkmanager piece of crap! It must have been designed by a mole from ms. I'll stay with RHEL 5.7 until hell freezes over or I can find something better.
I dumped both Firefox and Chrome and now use Opera [url:http://www.opera.com] instead. Opera isn't the memory hog that Firefox is and doesn't crash/burn/get stupid as Chrome often does.
Opera has a very cool feature: highlight text and Opera displays Search and Copy boxes. This is a time saver if you copy/paste or search much.
In his "What's New" column for the week of December 20, 1996, PhD. physicist Bob Parks writes, "But an NRC study released this week also looks at the long-term exposure to cosmic radiation. It estimates that during a round-trip to
Mars, the nucleus of every cell in the body would be traversed by a primary high-Z, high-energy particle. Nobody is certain about what that would do, but it's not likely to be good for you."
If you reduce the round-trip time for a Mars journey by one-half, does that mean only half the cells in your body are traversed by a high-Z (i.e., high mass) particle? We are 21 years past Bob's article. Do we now know the results
of the postulated cell damage?
The best keyboard on a laptop is any laptop into which I plug my clicky IBM keyboard! These keyboards, from back in the PC/XT/AT days, are built like tanks and have the best feel of any keyboard I've ever used. When my last IBM keyboard dies, I'll have to stop using computers.
Any developer worth his salt should be very, very wary of any tool or app that comes from google; they have a nasty habit of providing things that eventually disappear.
... if you still have unread Asimov or Heinlein, don't bother.
I never cared for Asimov, but the poster's advice on skipping Heinlein is extremely poor advice.
In his early days, Heinlein wrote some of the best science fiction ever published. IMHO "Puppet Masters" and "The Day After Tomorrow" have never been equaled.
You should also read his "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," both classics.
Heinlein got weird in his old age and, to me, his work devolved, but he nevertheless created some interesting scifi toward the end of his life.
From the article: "Alphabet's self-driving car company, Waymo, is introducing truly driverless cars to public roads for the first time, the company's CEO John Krafcik announced today at the Web Summit conference."
Alphabet better scrounge up "waymo" money once those self-driving cars get loose and the legal actions begin to roll in!
From the article: "The economic strains on local news have forced local outlets to close, shutter their print editions or consolidate into major holding groups, often headquartered in far-away cities."
I'm looking forward to the folding of the local paper. Once strong and independent, it is now controlled by a major holding group (using the article's terminology) and has devolved into pointless, useless identity politics.
Instead of being constantly glued to a TV, you might want to consider alternatives such as exercise or a book, neither of which will spy on you nor rot your brain.
In which part of the world do you live that nights are windless? Probably in the center of a desert? Hm, even there it is hard to imagine a windless night.
For the huge increases in solar and wind to matter, we need to actually TURN OFF the fossil fuel based generation. Installation of renewables need to outpace demand increase to the degree of replacing existing generation. That's when CO2 output goes down.
I can't believe the discussion took this long for someone to say "turn it off." If you are truly concerned about excessive CO2, sell your cars, trucks, SUVs, airplanes, RVs, powered boats and any other devices that require fossil fuel to move them. Buy a bicycle and commute with it. Never use airlines, trains, buses, taxis, etc. Call up your utility company and tell them to turn off the gas and electricity. Get rid of your computers, cell phones, stereos, TVs, and everything else that consumes electricity. Grow your own food, but don't use commercial fertilizers.
If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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This variant developed into politicians.
Don't bother to explain your work to non-programmers. Even very bright people rarely understand and those blessed with less intelligence never get it.
Mastering the subject requires a degree and/or years of experience.
Although Sturgeon's Law ("90 percent of *everything* is crap") is not universally applicable, it does seem to apply when someone is trying to sell you something, especially if you can live without the product. I'm frankly skeptical of UFO programs on tv in spite of having seen a couple of UFOs in my younger years.
Both UFOs were about the diameter of a quarter at arm's length, slow moving in various directions; each was a featureless perfect circle and glowing as if illuminated from within. Neither was an aircraft, balloon, bird, satellite, or other common artifact.
The late afternoon UFO was near the northern horizon and eventually moved down and out of sight. The UFO I saw at night was directly overhead; after moving around a bit, the diameter began shrinking slowly and it eventually disappeared within a few minutes. I have no explanation for either event.
A universal basic income (UBI), wherein government provides a monthly stipend so citizens can afford a home and basic necessities, is something experts believe would directly address the issue of unemployment and poverty, and possibly even eliminate hundreds of other welfare programs.
These are the same "experts" that brought us Chernobyl, obamacare, the Vietnam war, the destruction of both space shuttles, and other disasters. Government is never the solution to a problem, it is the problem. Here is something you never want to hear: "We're from the government and we're here to help." UBI is a fool's paradise.
I've never been a fan of Starbucks coffee, seriously overpriced and it tastes like crap. I'd buy it in airports, but that was it. Some months ago Starbucks announced they planned to hire 10,000 illegal immigrants. That means those 10,000 jobs won't go to American citizens. You're dead to me, Starbucks. I will never spend another dime in your disgusting establishments. If there are patriots among /. readers, I encourage you to avoid Starbucks as well.
I hope Elon has done his homework. The Soviets failed miserably with 30 engines in the first stage of their N1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket). All four launch attempts failed spectacularly. Wikipedia also says after the first launch failure: "All subsequent flights had freon fire extinguishers installed next to every engine." Doesn't sound like a good design to me.
Some of us former GNU/Linux users went to FreeBSD. Some of us went to macOS. Some of us even went to Windows. But we will never forget what GNU/Linux used to be. We'll never forget what GNU/Linux could have been.
I started using Slackware Linux in Sep., 1996. Man, what a trip the next 17 or so years were! I tried a bunch of distros, ended up with Red Hat mainly due to its being adopted at work.
Then in about 2014 came RHEL 6.0 with that hideous networkmanager piece of crap! It must have been designed by a mole from ms. I'll stay with RHEL 5.7 until hell freezes over or I can find something better.
I dumped both Firefox and Chrome and now use Opera [url:http://www.opera.com] instead. Opera isn't the memory hog that Firefox is and doesn't crash/burn/get stupid as Chrome often does.
Opera has a very cool feature: highlight text and Opera displays Search and Copy boxes. This is a time saver if you copy/paste or search much.
Except for news and reruns of the Big Bang Theory, there's nothing on tv, so if all the channels go dead due to ATSC 3.0, I won't miss much.
In America whenever I see something named "Centre" I avoid it like the plague. That word just absolutely reeks of pomposity.
/.'s quote of the day, "Gort, klaatu nikto barada" is WRONG! It should be "Gort, klaatu barada nikto!" Who edits this stuff?
If that's not bad enough,
In his "What's New" column for the week of December 20, 1996, PhD. physicist Bob Parks writes, "But an NRC study released this week also looks at the long-term exposure to cosmic radiation. It estimates that during a round-trip to Mars, the nucleus of every cell in the body would be traversed by a primary high-Z, high-energy particle. Nobody is certain about what that would do, but it's not likely to be good for you."
If you reduce the round-trip time for a Mars journey by one-half, does that mean only half the cells in your body are traversed by a high-Z (i.e., high mass) particle? We are 21 years past Bob's article. Do we now know the results of the postulated cell damage?
The best keyboard on a laptop is any laptop into which I plug my clicky IBM keyboard! These keyboards, from back in the PC/XT/AT days, are built like tanks and have the best feel of any keyboard I've ever used. When my last IBM keyboard dies, I'll have to stop using computers.
The Outlaw weights 120 pounds and has a maximum speed of 120 mph, a ceiling of 16,000 feet, and a 17HP two-cylinder two-stroke piston engine http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-170.html.
Lockheed, get back to me when your ground-based ATHENA system can shoot down a multi-Mach Soviet aircraft that can pull more than seven Gs.
Any developer worth his salt should be very, very wary of any tool or app that comes from google; they have a nasty habit of providing things that eventually disappear.
I never cared for Asimov, but the poster's advice on skipping Heinlein is extremely poor advice.
In his early days, Heinlein wrote some of the best science fiction ever published. IMHO "Puppet Masters" and "The Day After Tomorrow" have never been equaled.
You should also read his "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," both classics.
Heinlein got weird in his old age and, to me, his work devolved, but he nevertheless created some interesting scifi toward the end of his life.
Ok, now I get why IBM has been going straight downhill. They weren't spending nearly enough time on a new font.
From the article: "Alphabet's self-driving car company, Waymo, is introducing truly driverless cars to public roads for the first time, the company's CEO John Krafcik announced today at the Web Summit conference."
Alphabet better scrounge up "waymo" money once those self-driving cars get loose and the legal actions begin to roll in!
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
/.!
That signature may be the funniest thing I've ever read on
I'm assuming, of course, that Distiraptor is a vector and Timeraptor is a scalar.
From the article: "The economic strains on local news have forced local outlets to close, shutter their print editions or consolidate into major holding groups, often headquartered in far-away cities."
I'm looking forward to the folding of the local paper. Once strong and independent, it is now controlled by a major holding group (using the article's terminology) and has devolved into pointless, useless identity politics.
(nipple colour supposedly similar to lip colour)
That assertion makes me think I've seen a lot more nipples than you have...
I have so many comcast outages that one more is just a drop in the ocean.
And in other important news, the sun rose this morning.
Instead of being constantly glued to a TV, you might want to consider alternatives such as exercise or a book, neither of which will spy on you nor rot your brain.
In which part of the world do you live that nights are windless? Probably in the center of a desert? Hm, even there it is hard to imagine a windless night.
See http://blog.ucsusa.org/john-rogers/usgs-map-of-wind-turbine-locations-in-us-434. Excluding Texas, there are almost no wind turbines in the old Confederacy. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine the technical reason.
For the huge increases in solar and wind to matter, we need to actually TURN OFF the fossil fuel based generation. Installation of renewables need to outpace demand increase to the degree of replacing existing generation. That's when CO2 output goes down.
I can't believe the discussion took this long for someone to say "turn it off." If you are truly concerned about excessive CO2, sell your cars, trucks, SUVs, airplanes, RVs, powered boats and any other devices that require fossil fuel to move them. Buy a bicycle and commute with it. Never use airlines, trains, buses, taxis, etc. Call up your utility company and tell them to turn off the gas and electricity. Get rid of your computers, cell phones, stereos, TVs, and everything else that consumes electricity. Grow your own food, but don't use commercial fertilizers.
If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.