$600 MILLION dollars to launch a shuttle, down the drain. I wonder how many probes that would buy? I wonder how many probes a year we could launch if all those resources were put toward them?
You've forgotten the law of government spending. If you don't spend the big bucks on what the public or congressmen wants to see (even if it's wasteful and has low benefit), you lose all funding for all projects.
If you don't spend X Million with contractor Y for project Z, you also don't spend X thousand on project A.
[i]Dumping: selling goods at less than the normal price[/i]
If the normal price is $399, and the price they're selling at in the USA, Europe, Japan, etc. is all approx. $399, then what makes you think it's dumping?
Google has completely crushed the meaning of the word 'beta'.
Not yet. Beta means the software has yet to be demonstrated functional in most circumstances.
Beta for Google includes their business case. Mail simply hasn't been demonstrated to be profitable yet, so they reserve the right to tinker with it until it is profitable. Hence, the business case is still in beta or testing.
It's a good thing they figured out a way to make glass in space. Maybe now they come overcome the titanic production hurdles involved with producing glass here on Earth, and bring down its astronomic cost.
Hopefully they will. Ever tried to purchase a large sheet of strong Low-E glass? It's not exactly cheap.
Put together an 8 foot long fish tank sometime and tell me it's cheap and plentiful.
Acryllic would be close if it wasn't so easy to scratch -- horrible for a large window.
Also, I think the moon is fairly low in metals, so mining it to build spacecraft isn't a great plan unless you want to build them out of rock. Building a moonbase by remote control would be pretty awesome though.
The moon does have water though, so perhaps we could build a large chunk of the base out of concrete with fibreglass instead of rebar as it's cheaper to transport?
And I think they threw the plans away during a bit of a spring cleaning.
Even if you had the plans, they would require heavy modifications even if you ignore stricter safety standards, and modern features. To build an exact replica you need the same materials, and those are not available anymore. Even metal alloys are different now; better in some ways and worse in others, changes would need to be made to take advantage of those improvements or accomodate new deficiencies.
So, why does the KHTML guys abandon the original KHTML and start working on porting Apples over to the other OS's instead. I understand the big reason they're mega patches aren't useful is the OSX specific API calls.
Send Apple patches abstracting those away allowing injection of other (KDE) API calls instead. Safari is obviously moving faster -- use that.
So approval from a random 3rd party makes it okay? The ethics committee is not a legal authority and does not represent the students who had their information taken.
I still think some of the students who were fooled should be pressing charges and let the courts solve it.
"Simply posing as someone else to get certain private information..."
Except that they're now posing as students doing research because they were caught phishing for information.
Next time you break into a bank and get caught while inside the vault just tell the cops you were testing the security system without the banks knowledge, but intended to give a full report later on.
However, I woud say that a fork may not really be necessary. Just having a set of Stable and Devel branches is pretty good.
If you've got two branches you must have forked the code at least once. So, we all agree that a fork for new, possibly radical, and long-lived development is necessary -- that is those changes would reside in a development branch.
I'll give you $50 if you can get some of the cast of BSG to "accidentally" appear in SG-1.
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Do list off all of the things that Hubble can do and all of the things that JWST can do. I think you'll find that the lists are not identical and that you could easily find enough work for both in non-overlapping areas.
As for the 20 year estimate, that sounds more the result of negotiations with the transit workers union than ability to get things switch over. You know City Hall, when it comes to a budget, they suddenly know the value of each penny and would switch the whole thing over in a couple years, tops.
Not too likely. The biggest constraint is probably that they only have about 2 to 3 hours per day to actually do the work, including setup and teardown and a limited number of crews with the knowledge to do the work.
Toronto Transit is completing a similar signal upgrade project which will take them about 10 years to complete from the start of design / budgeting through to the testing period (run both systems in parallel for years afterword -- still part of the project).
Not really. You setup a call by saying "is 3pm EST good"? They need to know what they're doing when (sleep has nothing to do with it -- other meetings get in the way).
As far as sleep goes, you can be in the same time zone and still regularly run into people whom it's bad to call during the day (daytime or evening number, do they work shift, etc.) Laying out those "acceptable" times is much easier if we're all on the same clock and 3pm means the same everywhere.
It's not like daylight savings time saves daylight: it just adjusts the clock, to pretend daylight is during "working hours", which we're of course free to change anyway. Why not just set $WORKING_HOURS to what we really want, and stop tampering with the clocks?
I've used that argument for the removal of time zones all together. 9 to 5 by the clock face has as much meaning as 12 to 8 by the clock face. Just use a standard business times during daylight and be done with it. I'm tired of converting for international conference calls.
This is often followed up by the engineer muttering under his/her breath "Dumb jock.:-) I say that joking, but have seen discussions like this almost erupt into fist fights as the sales staff makes promises to customers that are either 1) blatantly false or 2) concepts under development and are nowhere near "production".
Hmm... Nothing like promising sub millisecond ping times between USA and China in your contracts. Clients love sneaking in impossible to provide things like that since it makes it really easy to get out of a deal.
I explicitly said without a calculator, with the intention that you would do it in your head. It was intended to be an example as to how someone who sat and thought through the answer would respond slower than someone who guesses at an answer.
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$600 MILLION dollars to launch a shuttle, down the drain. I wonder how many probes that would buy? I wonder how many probes a year we could launch if all those resources were put toward them?
You've forgotten the law of government spending. If you don't spend the big bucks on what the public or congressmen wants to see (even if it's wasteful and has low benefit), you lose all funding for all projects.
If you don't spend X Million with contractor Y for project Z, you also don't spend X thousand on project A.
[i]Dumping: selling goods at less than the normal price[/i]
If the normal price is $399, and the price they're selling at in the USA, Europe, Japan, etc. is all approx. $399, then what makes you think it's dumping?
At the local IMAX (Paramount) they do a brief laser light show to outline the speakers and a bit about how IMAX is Canadian technology, etc.
The lack of commercials before hand makes it worth using that theatre for regular blockbuster movies too.
Google has completely crushed the meaning of the word 'beta'.
Not yet. Beta means the software has yet to be demonstrated functional in most circumstances.
Beta for Google includes their business case. Mail simply hasn't been demonstrated to be profitable yet, so they reserve the right to tinker with it until it is profitable. Hence, the business case is still in beta or testing.
It's a good thing they figured out a way to make glass in space. Maybe now they come overcome the titanic production hurdles involved with producing glass here on Earth, and bring down its astronomic cost.
Hopefully they will. Ever tried to purchase a large sheet of strong Low-E glass? It's not exactly cheap.
Put together an 8 foot long fish tank sometime and tell me it's cheap and plentiful.
Acryllic would be close if it wasn't so easy to scratch -- horrible for a large window.
Also, I think the moon is fairly low in metals, so mining it to build spacecraft isn't a great plan unless you want to build them out of rock. Building a moonbase by remote control would be pretty awesome though.
The moon does have water though, so perhaps we could build a large chunk of the base out of concrete with fibreglass instead of rebar as it's cheaper to transport?
And I think they threw the plans away during a bit of a spring cleaning.
Even if you had the plans, they would require heavy modifications even if you ignore stricter safety standards, and modern features. To build an exact replica you need the same materials, and those are not available anymore. Even metal alloys are different now; better in some ways and worse in others, changes would need to be made to take advantage of those improvements or accomodate new deficiencies.
Try the new Soylent Green Energy Drink!
What are all these types of new entertainment? What have I missed?
I don't know, but it probably starts with a "po" and ends in "rn". Yup.. popcorn, that's what I was thinking about.
In all seriousness, we (or, y'know, lawmakers somewhere) should really look for the spam volume trending before-during-and-after the outage.
You may find that a change in spam volume would have been more noticeable September 14th, 2003.
Not all of Americas problems are created by those nasty foreigners.
So, why does the KHTML guys abandon the original KHTML and start working on porting Apples over to the other OS's instead. I understand the big reason they're mega patches aren't useful is the OSX specific API calls.
Send Apple patches abstracting those away allowing injection of other (KDE) API calls instead. Safari is obviously moving faster -- use that.
So approval from a random 3rd party makes it okay? The ethics committee is not a legal authority and does not represent the students who had their information taken.
I still think some of the students who were fooled should be pressing charges and let the courts solve it.
"Simply posing as someone else to get certain private information..."
Except that they're now posing as students doing research because they were caught phishing for information.
Next time you break into a bank and get caught while inside the vault just tell the cops you were testing the security system without the banks knowledge, but intended to give a full report later on.
However, I woud say that a fork may not really be necessary. Just having a set of Stable and Devel branches is pretty good.
If you've got two branches you must have forked the code at least once. So, we all agree that a fork for new, possibly radical, and long-lived development is necessary -- that is those changes would reside in a development branch.
And you've yet to switch all of the signs around?
I'll give you $50 if you can get some of the cast of BSG to "accidentally" appear in SG-1.
Do list off all of the things that Hubble can do and all of the things that JWST can do. I think you'll find that the lists are not identical and that you could easily find enough work for both in non-overlapping areas.
Are you sure he used transistors specifically or did he observe that component sizes would would have 50% area reductions every 12 to 24 months?
As for the 20 year estimate, that sounds more the result of negotiations with the transit workers union than ability to get things switch over. You know City Hall, when it comes to a budget, they suddenly know the value of each penny and would switch the whole thing over in a couple years, tops.
Not too likely. The biggest constraint is probably that they only have about 2 to 3 hours per day to actually do the work, including setup and teardown and a limited number of crews with the knowledge to do the work.
Toronto Transit is completing a similar signal upgrade project which will take them about 10 years to complete from the start of design / budgeting through to the testing period (run both systems in parallel for years afterword -- still part of the project).
There is no way to make a massive amount of the stuff.
There is no way or there is no known way? I tend to believe that we simply don't know how to do it yet, rather than it being impossible to do.
Not really. You setup a call by saying "is 3pm EST good"? They need to know what they're doing when (sleep has nothing to do with it -- other meetings get in the way).
As far as sleep goes, you can be in the same time zone and still regularly run into people whom it's bad to call during the day (daytime or evening number, do they work shift, etc.) Laying out those "acceptable" times is much easier if we're all on the same clock and 3pm means the same everywhere.
Sure. That's revenue not profit. $250M in revenue might have a profit margin of $5M per annum and be considered very succesful.
Of course, you've made the assumption the streams all need to start from a single source location.
Someone like an Akamai may be in a position to accomplish the job.
It's not like daylight savings time saves daylight: it just adjusts the clock, to pretend daylight is during "working hours", which we're of course free to change anyway. Why not just set $WORKING_HOURS to what we really want, and stop tampering with the clocks?
I've used that argument for the removal of time zones all together. 9 to 5 by the clock face has as much meaning as 12 to 8 by the clock face. Just use a standard business times during daylight and be done with it. I'm tired of converting for international conference calls.
This is often followed up by the engineer muttering under his/her breath "Dumb jock. :-) I say that joking, but have seen discussions like this almost erupt into fist fights as the sales staff makes promises to customers that are either 1) blatantly false or 2) concepts under development and are nowhere near "production".
Hmm... Nothing like promising sub millisecond ping times between USA and China in your contracts. Clients love sneaking in impossible to provide things like that since it makes it really easy to get out of a deal.
I explicitly said without a calculator, with the intention that you would do it in your head. It was intended to be an example as to how someone who sat and thought through the answer would respond slower than someone who guesses at an answer.