You appreciate that "not cut out for space" is just an attention-grabbing headline, and both summary and article are about how NASA are super psyched to be investigating and attempting to solve these problems?
1) You don't know what FUD means if you think documented and poorly understood medical issues are FUD. 2) NASA already knows about that technology. NASA invented or is actively involved in much of it. However as they are scientists and engineers, they actually have to build and test things and evaluate their assumptions, rather than just throwing out a hypothetical solution and being smug.
Alas polygraphs are also used by the likes of the FBI as an actual operational tool. Real operational decisions, including the hiring, firing, and criminal investigation of personnel, have been made on the basis of a machine that demonstrably pumps out garbage.
People have short memories: the big talking point when the 360 launched was that all the games looked like Xbox titles running in HD, or else they looked like a modest PC.
I mean, Kameo? Perfect Dark Zero? A passable port of Oblivion? These were not the games people lined up for.
You managed to match a $500 console using only $700 worth of parts and the assumption that you'll add a new $250 GPU in a year's time. By grabthar's hammer, what a savings.
Given the amounts involved (it averages $100 per month) it might be that they assumed it was some blanket program. Some of it might be the state reclaiming money from blanket programs for everyone under a certain income threshold, things like free shots. It's not obvious.
Like I say, years of "Oh, I meant to do that" from people who had no intention of doing so has made it all but impossible to get any leeway. If you give people an inch and they take a mile, that inch gets taken away again.
Doesn't even have to be "gee whiz", just humanising it makes an enormous difference. Look at what Chris Hadfield did for manned space exploration; he's been in and out of the news for about a year now despite retiring. When someone involved in a project is popular, get them in front of the camera again. JPL should've given that amazing hair guy a big grant after Curiosity landed, when he was super popular, so he could go and make some Youtube videos.
I don't think you can blame the parents for "fucking over" the donor: it's the Kansas Department for Children and Families that has brought the case, and the recipients of the funds may not have a say in the matter.
Unfortunately decades of trying to get deadbeats to pay up means that the laws are very strict, and you are correct that everyone involved was stupid for thinking they could just throw together their own contract without bothering to check their state's laws on the subject.
I think you're being unfair to the submitter here; all they suggested was that the Higgs and dark matter alike have been difficult to tease out. That one's an issue of generating a large enough instrument to detect something we're very sure exists, and one's an issue of explaining the existence of something that we can see but not understand, is an excellent teaching point, and you've done a great job there.
Did you even read the summary, much less the article? There's a hypothesis that the current quakes are aftershocks from a major release of stress 200 years ago. The alternative is that the system is still actively releasing new stresses. Unless that "minor earthquake" you felt was in the 1780s, I don't think your experience of it has any bearing on the issue.
Yeah, and out of all the things that could possibly go wrong, you decided to suggest the most blindingly obvious thing that anyone involved in their kind of work would have been testing for since day one.
"We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does."
I dare say that the kind of "save Gaia" environmentalism that he'd been taking the piss out of has rather had its day now, though.
If you click through, it's not a conventional Captcha; it's the company's logo inserted into some cartoon images. The point of the article is that it's a trivial computer vision problem.
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You appreciate that "not cut out for space" is just an attention-grabbing headline, and both summary and article are about how NASA are super psyched to be investigating and attempting to solve these problems?
Crew sizes, in terms of the social dynamic and the degree of specialisation/generalisation required.
1) You don't know what FUD means if you think documented and poorly understood medical issues are FUD.
2) NASA already knows about that technology. NASA invented or is actively involved in much of it. However as they are scientists and engineers, they actually have to build and test things and evaluate their assumptions, rather than just throwing out a hypothetical solution and being smug.
You, sir, are the myopic one here.
NASA had such a mission on the cards pre-2010, but it was scrapped.
Dealing the coriolis and tidal forces might be worse than the problem it's trying to solve, unless you have a really enormous centrifuge.
Sorry, that sentence was elided, implicitly it's "These were not the games people lined up [for the console] for."
Not sure if a joke, but... you understand that the EVE economy is based on barter and exchange, right?
Alas polygraphs are also used by the likes of the FBI as an actual operational tool. Real operational decisions, including the hiring, firing, and criminal investigation of personnel, have been made on the basis of a machine that demonstrably pumps out garbage.
The 360 solved the same problem with a $15 IR remote.
People have short memories: the big talking point when the 360 launched was that all the games looked like Xbox titles running in HD, or else they looked like a modest PC.
I mean, Kameo? Perfect Dark Zero? A passable port of Oblivion? These were not the games people lined up for.
You managed to match a $500 console using only $700 worth of parts and the assumption that you'll add a new $250 GPU in a year's time. By grabthar's hammer, what a savings.
I'll be impressed if you can add 8GB GDDR5 and the rest of a SFF PC for under $330.
(Not so much in patentable technologies.)
Anyone can come up with the right idea; genius is in the execution. As with art, so with science.
Given the amounts involved (it averages $100 per month) it might be that they assumed it was some blanket program. Some of it might be the state reclaiming money from blanket programs for everyone under a certain income threshold, things like free shots. It's not obvious.
Like I say, years of "Oh, I meant to do that" from people who had no intention of doing so has made it all but impossible to get any leeway. If you give people an inch and they take a mile, that inch gets taken away again.
Doesn't even have to be "gee whiz", just humanising it makes an enormous difference. Look at what Chris Hadfield did for manned space exploration; he's been in and out of the news for about a year now despite retiring. When someone involved in a project is popular, get them in front of the camera again. JPL should've given that amazing hair guy a big grant after Curiosity landed, when he was super popular, so he could go and make some Youtube videos.
$100 per month (child born in 2009) probably doesn't mean they "need public assistance".
I don't think you can blame the parents for "fucking over" the donor: it's the Kansas Department for Children and Families that has brought the case, and the recipients of the funds may not have a say in the matter.
Unfortunately decades of trying to get deadbeats to pay up means that the laws are very strict, and you are correct that everyone involved was stupid for thinking they could just throw together their own contract without bothering to check their state's laws on the subject.
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I think you're being unfair to the submitter here; all they suggested was that the Higgs and dark matter alike have been difficult to tease out. That one's an issue of generating a large enough instrument to detect something we're very sure exists, and one's an issue of explaining the existence of something that we can see but not understand, is an excellent teaching point, and you've done a great job there.
Did you even read the summary, much less the article? There's a hypothesis that the current quakes are aftershocks from a major release of stress 200 years ago. The alternative is that the system is still actively releasing new stresses. Unless that "minor earthquake" you felt was in the 1780s, I don't think your experience of it has any bearing on the issue.
Yeah, and out of all the things that could possibly go wrong, you decided to suggest the most blindingly obvious thing that anyone involved in their kind of work would have been testing for since day one.
You missed out the rather telling first lines:
"We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does."
I dare say that the kind of "save Gaia" environmentalism that he'd been taking the piss out of has rather had its day now, though.
If you click through, it's not a conventional Captcha; it's the company's logo inserted into some cartoon images. The point of the article is that it's a trivial computer vision problem.