Lets judge the article by the other statements in the article...
That is, once we figure out things like whether tissue will repair and blood will clot in zero gravity.
I'm old enough to have cut the top of my head, and the bottom of my feet, and I haven't bled out yet, in fact healed nicely. So, two datapoints +/- 1 G WRT the direction of the wound is ok. Then we've got quasi-horizontal surfaces, where the G force WRT the direction of the wound is zero, and that clots. So we're all good everywhere from +1 to -1 G just by geometry. Now I know for a fact direct pressure helps wounds clot or close, so I'd give it up to maybe +5 G assuming + is toward wound. High accelerations away from the surface of the wound... I'd have to think about that one... I suppose apply a bandaid to fix the surface tension issue and you're all good.
I've never heard of zero-g hemophilia on the ISS. I am pretty sure I've seen ISS/shuttle era astronauts wearing bandaids. So in practice it doesn't seem to be an issue.
If a ipod touch is $200, and a unlocked feature phone is about $50, then adding those together proves a unlocked iphone should sell for about $250.
Apple is free to ask for $650+ resulting in about $400 of profit. That doesn't mean anyone will buy them at that spectacular price.
Its like going into hysterics over the possibility that I could be permitted to offer to sell my home for $20M. Don't worry... that doesn't mean you'll have to pay $20M for a house just like mine, it'll be OK...
Since you have been able to do that for years, I don't think you are telling the truth.
Really? Its possible to do that in the USA with an iphone? I'm calling urban legend on that. As far as I know that is not possible. It MIGHT be that you can either get the phone for "free" and pay $120/month for service or you can pay $600 for an unlocked phone and also pay the same $120/month. Or you can buy the phone and pre-paid / non-contract voice service but no data service.
By his estimate, pricing on cell phones would be a flat $30, for unlimited service in 10 years. That conversation was close to 20 years ago. I think the carriers are making a LOT of money off of everyone, and keeping their prices inflated, not realistic.
$20 for republic wireless for an android phone if you're one of the luck beta testers like myself. Works great so far... Wish the handset had more than 128 megs of memory. Coming from an ipod touch its very weird to go back to tiny storage space and drive like mentality, like going from linux back to msdos, other than that, all good. Isn't the cheapest iphone plan $120/month? Thats an extra $100/month they're paying. Hope they're getting an extra $100 worth of service...
Formerly was pay as I go virgin mobile, held my nose at the stinky marketing and sent in $20 every 2 to 3 months.
I would imagine most of the carriers money goes into advertising (gotta spend as much as all the other carriers) and rather substantial commissions for salespeople and retailers, but most of the money probably goes into billing. Before the death of pay per minute old fashioned wired long distance, most of the per minute cost was the billing overhead, not providing the service or even advertising it. It costs big bucks to nickel and dime people.
"I guess online dating is kind of like automation software for a brothel"
What a GREAT conversation-starter for your next date!
That would make a funny piece of internet era performance art. Make two web frontends with one being all soulmatey and pink and relationshippy stuff, and the other web front end advertising a online brothel service for guys with a fetish of chicks (officially, as opposed to unofficially) doing it for money for the first time, and have a common mysql backend for both (mysql because that gets/.ers all riled up because this app doesn't need transactions and transactions were not added to mysql until 1998 or whatever therefore its obviously unsuitable for this application).
I bet if I do that, I could get on TV. I speak for all high tech rednecks when I say, "hold my beer and watch this"...
I always thought a nuclear steam powered light gas gun filled with electrolyzed hydrogen would be cool. light gas guns never get the love they deserve.
I'll ask my friends for a recommendation once I've done a local search, but I'll use a text message to a person, not facebook or some other social media. Post it on facebook and the signal/noise ratio sucks.
That's where G+ rules and FB sucks. You ask FB to for the best active current regulator bias circuit for a ERA-3 MMIC using all SMD parts and you get "yo doggg I hear you like MMICs" or "is that a kind of weed pipe?" at best. You ask your G+ ham radio builders circle and you get three guys who've already been there / done that.
The reverse is true. You post "how bout that ball game" on G+ and the ham radio circle as a group tells you to F off and keep that shite out of their circle. That kind of triviality is what FB was meant for.
I deleted my FB a couple years ago now, but I'll keep G+ around for awhile, I think.
And just how many of my friends know what an indexable skiplist is, or the correct invocation of a particularl Windows API function, or a system for library cataloguing that integrates with AD, or the name of that guy in the film with that other guy? Precisely zero. If you've stopped tapping things into Google and are instead tapping them into Twitter or Facebook then, let's be honest, they probably weren't really worth asking in the first place. And anyone that answers will use Google to find the thing they read about that topic last week, etc.
Ahh you've ALMOST isolated the perfect market for "social search". Many replies on/. to questions are of the form of "here are the google search terms you didn't know to search for".
Example made up "ask/." question scenario: "Dear Penthouse Letters ^H ^H ^H err I mean Dear Slashdot, I maintain a medium size herd of Debian boxes from desktops to a compute cluster and I need to config them all the same and run a bunch of scripts on all of them once in a while. Oh noes what shall I do?". You'll get answers like "google for dish distributed shell, then run dish based scripts from a crontab" and "Google for puppetlabs and puppet" and "google for the following James Turnbull Jeff McCune Pro Puppet" If the dude knew what terms to google for, he wouldn't have to bug us here to begin with.
I am considering performing an experiment - attempting online dating again, but this time inflating my salary. How long can I bullshit being an engineer, wearing my nicest clothes out for dates? Then, when I finally get 'er home to my studio apartment, I can say, "It shouldn't matter how much money I make, you goddamn gold-digger."
Thats why you don't do the engineer thing but instead the hipster trust fund baby thing. "I'm too rich and cool to wear a suit". Better buy an iphone first.
Wow, you met both your wife, AND your soulmate through OkCupid? Do they know about each other?
Its that old joke where the wife thinks I'm with the soulmate, and the soulmate thinks I'm with the wife, so they both leave me alone so I can get the time to post here on/.
then you need to expand your social circles somewhat. That doesn't mean doing masculine or effeminate things if you don't want to
Why the heck not? That is so wrong advice. You die when you stop learning. If you're not comfortable with your own orientation such that you can try the "wrong thing" once in awhile, get that all figured that out before trying to add another person to the mix.
I used to troll scrapbooking stores and fabric stores and crafty stores and ask hot chicks without wedding rings for help picking out a gift for my mom (or sister, or aunt, or grannie, you get the idea). Supermarkets and "gift stores" too. I'd get teased by some coworkers about being seen going to "chick stores" because they were not sure of their own masculinity (I was sure, so I had no problem doing this kind of stuff), to which I'd respond with something brilliantly witty like "F you I'm getting some" (ah the intelligence and wit of youth...). Married over ten years to a scrapbooker chick now.
Also, aside from getting any, its interesting to try new stuff. I have no interest in using a sewing machine as a lifestyle or hobby, but I'm glad I tried it once. Those things are amazing little mechanical precision jewels. Sewing two pieces of fabric together didn't make my nads fall off, anymore than a chick playing a video game automatically grows chest hair.
I "remember" this from something like a decade ago, but I don't remember much but the name and a couple anecdotes. The Mighty GOOG has failed me, or at least I'd have to wade thru more junk than I'm willing to.
I could swear we were doing something like a dating site linked to/.. I even remember a kuro5hin article flaming it for not being LGBT compatible, as if a site thats not even UTF-8 compatible is going to have that too.
I don't remember if it was serious or a joke or what. Probably because I was already married (still am, to the same chick even)
I was promised facebook is where you go for all three, of course thats the same people promising I'll get a job there, blah blah blah.
Its important with these things to distinguish between: 1) What we are supposed to repeat to each other because we saw an authority on the news 2) What actually happens
I like this quote of a quote of a question from one of the articles:
Where else can you go in a matter of 20 minutes [and] look at 200 women who are single and want to go on dates?
Answer, a really big brothel? That analogy holds, neither give it up for free, unrealistic emotional expectations, seemingly everyones got a strong opinion about it and its participants, etc. Most participants just trying to have fun, fun way to catch a disease....
Workflow automation for business practices is well known for software devs,/.ers in general, etc. Much like "social media" is sort of an online automation software simulating the grade school playground social scene, I guess online dating is kind of like automation software for a brothel, sorta.
And/or you have multiple copies of the software or other data in memory, and spend your wasted cycles looking for mismatches and keeping the best 2 outta 3.
Free textbooks?! This is madness; pure socialist madness. What's next? Free college tuition?
Maybe we should steal the model of tuition funding and research funding, for textbook funding. If everyone in our culture benefits from freely available textbooks, either directly or indirectly, have the govt underwrite them and release them under a completely open license. You wanna sell paper textbooks? Fine, but you better sell them cheaper than a laserprinter cost per page. Don't like the govt issue? Fine, its CC license, so replace the sections you don't like with your own.
One killer problem is $20K is way too little to develop a completely new 400 page textbook. Its gonna take at least 1, maybe 2 years of fairly concentrated effort. And $20K/yr is probably way too much to keep it up to date. The solution is not to award money for new books but to award money to pull a currently project gutenberg free public domain book up to current standards.
Mythologically, which is where the moon got its name, Phobos is a dude. He's got a twin brother Deimos. Given that datapoint, guess the name of another Martian satellite...
Fun to read the comments here. I've done embedded stuff and you need to be defensive. You can see at a glance who here has never done defensive programming before, or embedded or safety critical programming, all blaming the hardware. There's 3 states so you got 2 bits of input and a disallowed state comes in. Deal with it, don't just curl up and die and blame the hardware designer. There's a 12 bit A/D conversion result stored in two bytes, and there's a 14 bit number found there, deal with it don't just curl up and die and blame the... . Theres a cycle start button and an emergency stop button and both are simultaneously on. Deal with it. You reboot a mission critical (or safety critical!) CPU and a minor auxiliary input A/D doesn't initialize, do you burn the plant down in a woe is me pity party because one out of 237 sensors aren't coming on line, or do you deal with it?
Finally radiation is a statistical phenomena. There is no such think as radiation free. If they used non-rad hardened parts, its gonna crash maybe 10000 times more often. Thats OK, you program around that, assuming you know what you're doing. Radiation hardened does not equal radiation-proof. If there was a single bit error, or a latchup on a rad-hardened unit, with a poorly programmed control system it would have failed just as well, its just that a rad hardened chip would have made it a couple orders of magnitude less likely. A shitty design that has a 1 in 20000 failure rate due to better hardware instead of 1 in 2 is still a shitty programming design, even if the odds are "good enough" that it makes it most of the time with the better hardware.
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Lets judge the article by the other statements in the article...
That is, once we figure out things like whether tissue will repair and blood will clot in zero gravity.
I'm old enough to have cut the top of my head, and the bottom of my feet, and I haven't bled out yet, in fact healed nicely. So, two datapoints +/- 1 G WRT the direction of the wound is ok. Then we've got quasi-horizontal surfaces, where the G force WRT the direction of the wound is zero, and that clots. So we're all good everywhere from +1 to -1 G just by geometry. Now I know for a fact direct pressure helps wounds clot or close, so I'd give it up to maybe +5 G assuming + is toward wound. High accelerations away from the surface of the wound... I'd have to think about that one... I suppose apply a bandaid to fix the surface tension issue and you're all good.
I've never heard of zero-g hemophilia on the ISS. I am pretty sure I've seen ISS/shuttle era astronauts wearing bandaids. So in practice it doesn't seem to be an issue.
Sooooooo WTF?
If a ipod touch is $200, and a unlocked feature phone is about $50, then adding those together proves a unlocked iphone should sell for about $250.
Apple is free to ask for $650+ resulting in about $400 of profit. That doesn't mean anyone will buy them at that spectacular price.
Its like going into hysterics over the possibility that I could be permitted to offer to sell my home for $20M. Don't worry... that doesn't mean you'll have to pay $20M for a house just like mine, it'll be OK...
Urban legend, disproven time and again.
The manufacturers hate this idea because most people would buy the $200 phone instead of the "free" $600 phone.
Since you have been able to do that for years, I don't think you are telling the truth.
Really? Its possible to do that in the USA with an iphone? I'm calling urban legend on that. As far as I know that is not possible. It MIGHT be that you can either get the phone for "free" and pay $120/month for service or you can pay $600 for an unlocked phone and also pay the same $120/month. Or you can buy the phone and pre-paid / non-contract voice service but no data service.
By his estimate, pricing on cell phones would be a flat $30, for unlimited service in 10 years. That conversation was close to 20 years ago. I think the carriers are making a LOT of money off of everyone, and keeping their prices inflated, not realistic.
$20 for republic wireless for an android phone if you're one of the luck beta testers like myself. Works great so far... Wish the handset had more than 128 megs of memory. Coming from an ipod touch its very weird to go back to tiny storage space and drive like mentality, like going from linux back to msdos, other than that, all good. Isn't the cheapest iphone plan $120/month? Thats an extra $100/month they're paying. Hope they're getting an extra $100 worth of service...
Formerly was pay as I go virgin mobile, held my nose at the stinky marketing and sent in $20 every 2 to 3 months.
I would imagine most of the carriers money goes into advertising (gotta spend as much as all the other carriers) and rather substantial commissions for salespeople and retailers, but most of the money probably goes into billing. Before the death of pay per minute old fashioned wired long distance, most of the per minute cost was the billing overhead, not providing the service or even advertising it. It costs big bucks to nickel and dime people.
Doesn't seem to have had much effect
http://www.google.com/finance?q=YHOO
I'd give a link to a YHOO page for their financials but no one uses YHOO anymore.
"I guess online dating is kind of like automation software for a brothel"
What a GREAT conversation-starter for your next date!
That would make a funny piece of internet era performance art. Make two web frontends with one being all soulmatey and pink and relationshippy stuff, and the other web front end advertising a online brothel service for guys with a fetish of chicks (officially, as opposed to unofficially) doing it for money for the first time, and have a common mysql backend for both (mysql because that gets /.ers all riled up because this app doesn't need transactions and transactions were not added to mysql until 1998 or whatever therefore its obviously unsuitable for this application).
I bet if I do that, I could get on TV. I speak for all high tech rednecks when I say, "hold my beer and watch this"...
I always thought a nuclear steam powered light gas gun filled with electrolyzed hydrogen would be cool. light gas guns never get the love they deserve.
At mach one zillion and hundreds of KM away, they won't hear it until long after the dust settles from impact.
I'll ask my friends for a recommendation once I've done a local search, but I'll use a text message to a person, not facebook or some other social media. Post it on facebook and the signal/noise ratio sucks.
That's where G+ rules and FB sucks. You ask FB to for the best active current regulator bias circuit for a ERA-3 MMIC using all SMD parts and you get "yo doggg I hear you like MMICs" or "is that a kind of weed pipe?" at best. You ask your G+ ham radio builders circle and you get three guys who've already been there / done that.
The reverse is true. You post "how bout that ball game" on G+ and the ham radio circle as a group tells you to F off and keep that shite out of their circle. That kind of triviality is what FB was meant for.
I deleted my FB a couple years ago now, but I'll keep G+ around for awhile, I think.
And just how many of my friends know what an indexable skiplist is, or the correct invocation of a particularl Windows API function, or a system for library cataloguing that integrates with AD, or the name of that guy in the film with that other guy? Precisely zero. If you've stopped tapping things into Google and are instead tapping them into Twitter or Facebook then, let's be honest, they probably weren't really worth asking in the first place. And anyone that answers will use Google to find the thing they read about that topic last week, etc.
Ahh you've ALMOST isolated the perfect market for "social search". Many replies on /. to questions are of the form of "here are the google search terms you didn't know to search for".
Example made up "ask /." question scenario: "Dear Penthouse Letters ^H ^H ^H err I mean Dear Slashdot, I maintain a medium size herd of Debian boxes from desktops to a compute cluster and I need to config them all the same and run a bunch of scripts on all of them once in a while. Oh noes what shall I do?". You'll get answers like "google for dish distributed shell, then run dish based scripts from a crontab" and "Google for puppetlabs and puppet" and "google for the following James Turnbull Jeff McCune Pro Puppet" If the dude knew what terms to google for, he wouldn't have to bug us here to begin with.
If you want a hook-up, go to match or similar (free) websites
So, the free online dating services are more like a cloud service
If you want to find a girl you might marry go to eharmony
The paid services are more like traditional colocation plans
If you just want a hooker you go craigslist...
OK and thats the "shared hosting" plan.
So, whats my Beowulf Cluster then?
I'm sure theres a joke in here somewhere about every guy knows a chick just like "IIS and frontpage" but I'm not quite seeing it.
I am considering performing an experiment - attempting online dating again, but this time inflating my salary. How long can I bullshit being an engineer, wearing my nicest clothes out for dates? Then, when I finally get 'er home to my studio apartment, I can say, "It shouldn't matter how much money I make, you goddamn gold-digger."
Thats why you don't do the engineer thing but instead the hipster trust fund baby thing. "I'm too rich and cool to wear a suit". Better buy an iphone first.
Wow, you met both your wife, AND your soulmate through OkCupid? Do they know about each other?
Its that old joke where the wife thinks I'm with the soulmate, and the soulmate thinks I'm with the wife, so they both leave me alone so I can get the time to post here on /.
Just look at the guy's /. profile. Do you want the +5 Funny guy, the +4 Insightful/1 Interesting or the wild -3 Flamebait?
All the chicks will vote for the "cowboy Neal" survey option and we'll be right back to where we started...
The original was better aka the famous "I put on my robe and wizard hat" routine
http://bash.org/?104383
then you need to expand your social circles somewhat. That doesn't mean doing masculine or effeminate things if you don't want to
Why the heck not? That is so wrong advice. You die when you stop learning. If you're not comfortable with your own orientation such that you can try the "wrong thing" once in awhile, get that all figured that out before trying to add another person to the mix.
I used to troll scrapbooking stores and fabric stores and crafty stores and ask hot chicks without wedding rings for help picking out a gift for my mom (or sister, or aunt, or grannie, you get the idea). Supermarkets and "gift stores" too. I'd get teased by some coworkers about being seen going to "chick stores" because they were not sure of their own masculinity (I was sure, so I had no problem doing this kind of stuff), to which I'd respond with something brilliantly witty like "F you I'm getting some" (ah the intelligence and wit of youth...). Married over ten years to a scrapbooker chick now.
Also, aside from getting any, its interesting to try new stuff. I have no interest in using a sewing machine as a lifestyle or hobby, but I'm glad I tried it once. Those things are amazing little mechanical precision jewels. Sewing two pieces of fabric together didn't make my nads fall off, anymore than a chick playing a video game automatically grows chest hair.
What is the story with slashdot personals?
I "remember" this from something like a decade ago, but I don't remember much but the name and a couple anecdotes. The Mighty GOOG has failed me, or at least I'd have to wade thru more junk than I'm willing to.
I could swear we were doing something like a dating site linked to /.. I even remember a kuro5hin article flaming it for not being LGBT compatible, as if a site thats not even UTF-8 compatible is going to have that too.
I don't remember if it was serious or a joke or what. Probably because I was already married (still am, to the same chick even)
I was promised facebook is where you go for all three, of course thats the same people promising I'll get a job there, blah blah blah.
Its important with these things to distinguish between:
1) What we are supposed to repeat to each other because we saw an authority on the news
2) What actually happens
I like this quote of a quote of a question from one of the articles:
Where else can you go in a matter of 20 minutes [and] look at 200 women who are single and want to go on dates?
Answer, a really big brothel? That analogy holds, neither give it up for free, unrealistic emotional expectations, seemingly everyones got a strong opinion about it and its participants, etc. Most participants just trying to have fun, fun way to catch a disease....
Workflow automation for business practices is well known for software devs, /.ers in general, etc. Much like "social media" is sort of an online automation software simulating the grade school playground social scene, I guess online dating is kind of like automation software for a brothel, sorta.
And/or you have multiple copies of the software or other data in memory, and spend your wasted cycles looking for mismatches and keeping the best 2 outta 3.
Free textbooks?! This is madness; pure socialist madness. What's next? Free college tuition?
Maybe we should steal the model of tuition funding and research funding, for textbook funding. If everyone in our culture benefits from freely available textbooks, either directly or indirectly, have the govt underwrite them and release them under a completely open license. You wanna sell paper textbooks? Fine, but you better sell them cheaper than a laserprinter cost per page. Don't like the govt issue? Fine, its CC license, so replace the sections you don't like with your own.
One killer problem is $20K is way too little to develop a completely new 400 page textbook. Its gonna take at least 1, maybe 2 years of fairly concentrated effort. And $20K/yr is probably way too much to keep it up to date. The solution is not to award money for new books but to award money to pull a currently project gutenberg free public domain book up to current standards.
Mythologically, which is where the moon got its name, Phobos is a dude. He's got a twin brother Deimos. Given that datapoint, guess the name of another Martian satellite...
Fun to read the comments here. I've done embedded stuff and you need to be defensive. You can see at a glance who here has never done defensive programming before, or embedded or safety critical programming, all blaming the hardware. There's 3 states so you got 2 bits of input and a disallowed state comes in. Deal with it, don't just curl up and die and blame the hardware designer. There's a 12 bit A/D conversion result stored in two bytes, and there's a 14 bit number found there, deal with it don't just curl up and die and blame the ... . Theres a cycle start button and an emergency stop button and both are simultaneously on. Deal with it. You reboot a mission critical (or safety critical!) CPU and a minor auxiliary input A/D doesn't initialize, do you burn the plant down in a woe is me pity party because one out of 237 sensors aren't coming on line, or do you deal with it?
Finally radiation is a statistical phenomena. There is no such think as radiation free. If they used non-rad hardened parts, its gonna crash maybe 10000 times more often. Thats OK, you program around that, assuming you know what you're doing. Radiation hardened does not equal radiation-proof. If there was a single bit error, or a latchup on a rad-hardened unit, with a poorly programmed control system it would have failed just as well, its just that a rad hardened chip would have made it a couple orders of magnitude less likely. A shitty design that has a 1 in 20000 failure rate due to better hardware instead of 1 in 2 is still a shitty programming design, even if the odds are "good enough" that it makes it most of the time with the better hardware.