I have endured java written apps all these years. Insane requirements to keep multiple versions and a most horrible cludge design required when using version specific java based tools from cisco , hp, brocade.
Hands down above anything else, java is the number one thing I take out with my time machine.
When he says "I understand the popularity at the moment of the Python, however this language is also based on the C language.", what he's saying is that Python is based on C.
So a company wants to try out some new idea/technology and with public funding is able to scale it up enough for a more serous rollout.
Succeed or fail, I'm excited that people continue to try and innovate.
It's not your tax dollars being wasted if it fails, so why not let innovation (man-made evolution) veer off in a new direction and see where it takes us.
If it had already been done, it wouldn't be newsworthy. Of course I'm not trying to discuss that. What I am commenting on is you're inability to read an article all the way through, and then comprehend the material enough to make constructive comments or critiques without ignoring some of the basic information that already exists in the article.
so yeah, again you didn't read the article, if you had you would have come across things like...
"your statement"
>> One tiny little question, the light pressure on this giant solar array, how will it be compensated? You know, the same light pressure that's supposed to drive solar sails to other stars? So, will we 3D print a reaction system to keep the panel oriented? Hmm? Oh OK, we'll just add some ion thrusters every few meters... Oh, how are you going to refuel it? More 3D printers?
"TFA" - I mean, c'mon there's a whole paragraph with link to further reading, here's a little snippit from the article.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus would act as a counterweight to the huge panel.
>> So I guess the design of a fail-safe, automatically self-repairing.......
So I guess you didn't RTFA did ya now?
>> Oh sorry, so you'd be scheduling regular maintenance and repair trips? In geostationary........
Oh sorry, you couldn't be bothered to RTFA to answer your silly questions?
>> One tiny little question, the light pressure on this giant solar array, how will it be.......
One tiny little question, did ya RTFA?
>> Wait, something so large and thin would......
Wait, something so easy as RTFA is too challenging, but spouting off about engineering issues, to which I'm sure you are an expert, not so much.... Hmmm!
>> But isn't the Earth under imminent threat of being wiped out by the......
But isn't Earth under imminent threat from ignorant people who don't RTFA before spouting off??
They know that this will not solve the problem, and are waiting for you to provide them with a creative solution.
Since you haven't gotten around to supplying them with your enlightened solution, they are going to have to move forward with plan B.
Not sure what makes people think there is a magical "them" that come up with solutions, and if everyone sits around taking no action, "them" will come through for "us". Looks to me like the FAA and FBI are taking the stance that magic just isn't going solve this one, so they are trying a tactic, popular or not.\
I wonder if they sat down and hashed out what type of fight it was going to be. Evidently based on your rant, every fight is a fist fight unless both parties loudly announce to the other if they have an object like a lead pipe, knife, or a gun, so that the other party can call time-out and "make things fair" before continuing.
Not posted anonymously as I understand the world we live in a little better than you, which is, "there is no fair fight".
1) The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
2) A gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
3) The sun is hot - the sun it not a place where we can live, but here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.
4)...
5) Profit!!
So you are saying that if wireless power WAS meant to be... then Nikola Tesla would still be alive? Because he lived to a ripe old age of 86 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
nevermind that they are probably preserving more than the final movie. I'm a slashdotter so I refuse to RTFA or look up any proof to my following statement, but I suspect that capturing everything about a movie from start to finish, director & actor interviews, documents such as the original scripts plus any changes made along the way, as well as the multitude of other aspects involved in a 3 year movie production, can potentially occupy a TB of data storage.
Then comes the issue of maintaining the ability to access the information, whether it be codecs for video formats, audio clips, document formats, etc.
Your idea of cycling new hard drives is fine. On paper that sounds simple. Of course when that old SATA hard drive interface is retired and you can't purchase any more so now you need to implement a new storage medium and migrate TBs of data... and this will likely happen sooner than later...
I don't know if a quarter million a year is justifiable, and it's not unlike Holywood and the Music industry to inflate their numbers... but I suspect it is not such a simple undertaking either.
so your solution is to put the info onto DVDs, which you then follow with the statement that there is evidence that the media might breakdown after time... Sounds like such a cheap solution may not be so viable. Maybe not a quarter-million dollar/yr problem, but me thinks that it's going to cost slightly more than some walmart DVD-Rs and Bob the intern to change the DVDs as they pop outa the burner.
Getting some alone time in a server room for a couple of minutes is plenty to drop in a wireless access point that has SSID broadcast turned off, no sense in tipping your hand if someone sees a new SSID appear, and spend the rest of your time in a van within range playing on the local LAN.
I'm more of the "prevent further crimes", you seem to be more of the "meh, doesn't impact anyone I know, s'all good". You too shouldn't run for office.
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I have endured java written apps all these years. Insane requirements to keep multiple versions and a most horrible cludge design required when using version specific java based tools from cisco , hp, brocade. Hands down above anything else, java is the number one thing I take out with my time machine.
When he says "I understand the popularity at the moment of the Python, however this language is also based on the C language.", what he's saying is that Python is based on C.
Maybe it's time for some bat shit crazy.
So a company wants to try out some new idea/technology and with public funding is able to scale it up enough for a more serous rollout.
Succeed or fail, I'm excited that people continue to try and innovate.
It's not your tax dollars being wasted if it fails, so why not let innovation (man-made evolution) veer off in a new direction and see where it takes us.
If it had already been done, it wouldn't be newsworthy. Of course I'm not trying to discuss that. What I am commenting on is you're inability to read an article all the way through, and then comprehend the material enough to make constructive comments or critiques without ignoring some of the basic information that already exists in the article.
so yeah, again you didn't read the article, if you had you would have come across things like...
"your statement"
>> One tiny little question, the light pressure on this giant solar array, how will it be compensated? You know, the same light pressure that's supposed to drive solar sails to other stars? So, will we 3D print a reaction system to keep the panel oriented? Hmm? Oh OK, we'll just add some ion thrusters every few meters... Oh, how are you going to refuel it? More 3D printers?
"TFA" - I mean, c'mon there's a whole paragraph with link to further reading, here's a little snippit from the article.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus would act as a counterweight to the huge panel.
>> So I guess the design of a fail-safe, automatically self-repairing.......
So I guess you didn't RTFA did ya now?
>> Oh sorry, so you'd be scheduling regular maintenance and repair trips? In geostationary........
Oh sorry, you couldn't be bothered to RTFA to answer your silly questions?
>> One tiny little question, the light pressure on this giant solar array, how will it be.......
One tiny little question, did ya RTFA?
>> Wait, something so large and thin would......
Wait, something so easy as RTFA is too challenging, but spouting off about engineering issues, to which I'm sure you are an expert, not so much.... Hmmm!
>> But isn't the Earth under imminent threat of being wiped out by the......
But isn't Earth under imminent threat from ignorant people who don't RTFA before spouting off??
They know that this will not solve the problem, and are waiting for you to provide them with a creative solution.
Since you haven't gotten around to supplying them with your enlightened solution, they are going to have to move forward with plan B.
Not sure what makes people think there is a magical "them" that come up with solutions, and if everyone sits around taking no action, "them" will come through for "us". Looks to me like the FAA and FBI are taking the stance that magic just isn't going solve this one, so they are trying a tactic, popular or not.\
in the end he really just likes wang
I wonder if they sat down and hashed out what type of fight it was going to be. Evidently based on your rant, every fight is a fist fight unless both parties loudly announce to the other if they have an object like a lead pipe, knife, or a gun, so that the other party can call time-out and "make things fair" before continuing.
Not posted anonymously as I understand the world we live in a little better than you, which is, "there is no fair fight".
You seriously think this is the government's fault? oh my
you mean like adjusting the TTL for the DNS records that you know you will be changing, well in advance of the day of the change?
Lesson Learned.
As if he wants to have hours long conversations with his personal gadget repairman.
It is reasonable to ignore as much as we can. That line of thinking worked out well in the Gulf.
Roof -> generators Above water level (1st floor and up) -> Electrical stuff Basement -> rats and other Texas style vermin ??? profit
And after Mars, it's off to Uranus. Soon to be renamed to Urectum.
You've got a better chance of your XBOX dying
Good thing I still have my US Robotics Courier V.Everything that I purchased for my BBS when I got the sysop discount.
Now I can put it back into operation to test web site performance.
And to think my wife wanted to toss it since it'll never be used again. Same reason I'm hanging onto my 5 1/4" floppy. I need a bigger basement.
1) The sun is a mass of incandescent gas ...
2) A gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
3) The sun is hot - the sun it not a place where we can live, but here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.
4)
5) Profit!!
there, fixed.
I'm sure this will easily allow them to deal with the other issue of the day http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/22/1458237
/sarcasm
So you are saying that if wireless power WAS meant to be... then Nikola Tesla would still be alive? Because he lived to a ripe old age of 86 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
nevermind that they are probably preserving more than the final movie. I'm a slashdotter so I refuse to RTFA or look up any proof to my following statement, but I suspect that capturing everything about a movie from start to finish, director & actor interviews, documents such as the original scripts plus any changes made along the way, as well as the multitude of other aspects involved in a 3 year movie production, can potentially occupy a TB of data storage.
Then comes the issue of maintaining the ability to access the information, whether it be codecs for video formats, audio clips, document formats, etc.
Your idea of cycling new hard drives is fine. On paper that sounds simple. Of course when that old SATA hard drive interface is retired and you can't purchase any more so now you need to implement a new storage medium and migrate TBs of data... and this will likely happen sooner than later...
I don't know if a quarter million a year is justifiable, and it's not unlike Holywood and the Music industry to inflate their numbers... but I suspect it is not such a simple undertaking either.
so your solution is to put the info onto DVDs, which you then follow with the statement that there is evidence that the media might breakdown after time... Sounds like such a cheap solution may not be so viable. Maybe not a quarter-million dollar/yr problem, but me thinks that it's going to cost slightly more than some walmart DVD-Rs and Bob the intern to change the DVDs as they pop outa the burner.
Getting some alone time in a server room for a couple of minutes is plenty to drop in a wireless access point that has SSID broadcast turned off, no sense in tipping your hand if someone sees a new SSID appear, and spend the rest of your time in a van within range playing on the local LAN.
I'm more of the "prevent further crimes", you seem to be more of the "meh, doesn't impact anyone I know, s'all good". You too shouldn't run for office.