Inefficent military bureaucracy? I don't know where you heard this from, but in the military if something needs to get done, it gets done.
The main problem with NASA is lack of funding. The military has a similar problem (think about how many people they employ and what they have to buy before you flame that), but they still change when a better system is invented.
Maybe if we got rid of welfare and medicare/medicaid we could fully fund NASA.
When the mensch find they can vote themselves bread and butter, they will vote themselves bread and butter until it has all run out and the coffers are empty.
No, No, No. The next Holy Grail will be when I get my perfect fully working replica of Gundam Zero working. All I have to do is figure out where to get the plutonium. Maybe if I traded someone some pinball machine parts....
Actually, the problem is they are blocking the links from slashdot. Open a new window and past the link into it and it works. I forget what it is that allows that to happen, but the link is correct.
You have a good point here. Besides, can anyone tell me the last time a Hacker/Cracker/Script Kiddy or anyone, using a computer, physically injured or killed anyone? I meen come on, last I heard the chance of getting struck by lightning while carrying the winning the lottery ticket to the powerbowl was higher than getting killed due to a computer error or so called 'Cyberterorism'.
If that is so, the Microsoft would have to stop issuing patches for MS-Windows. In the words of Steve Ballmer (I think) "There isn't an explaoit for windows until we come out with a patch." (or something to that extent). Sugesting that virus writers find out from the pathces what the security hole is and exploit it that way. And that is without seeing the code at all.
What really irks me is that they are producing drugs which will possibly be leaked into the ground after degradation or harvesting.
RTFA. They are not producing drugs, they are produc[ing] two human proteins that fight infection. There are NATURALLY OCCURING in breast milk. We are not talking something that just came out of a chemistry lab here. These have been around for thousands of years.
You just made me think of something. Why not make GM (General Motors or Genetically Modified, this should be interesting) foods that contain lots and lots and lots of caffien for geeks? I see a possible market here.
Leave the drugs out of the food supply for those of us who don't want it them in our food.
Fine, you don't have to buy it. But don't try to kill the product because you won't buy it. That's like someone trying to get deoderant declared illegal cause they don't use it.
Anyone who has bought bulk rice is familiar with the fact that harvested rice is contaminated with bits of debris and wild rice. Speaking in a practical sense, it is clearly inevitable that this GM rice will get mixed in with the food supply.
What is the difference between white and brown rice?
Brown rice is unpolished whole grain rice that is produced by removing only the outer husk. It becomes white rice when the bran layer is stripped off in the milling process. source
There is no difference between white rice and wild (Brown) rice. Actually, in other countries people thing that there is something wrong with white rice, since it is white and not brown. So, you have not case in those two getting mixed up.
The reason PSpice gives you a Visual is so that you can lay out the electronics exactly like you have on a board. Also, it is easier for you to see what you are doing that way. But it has a very complicated back end. (I am assuming yuo are an EE here) It uses Nodal analysis at ever node when simulating or doing anything. You are not actually programming anything when you use PSpice, only supplying some variables.
So how does this have any application to programming? If you meen as in choosing blocks of code to do things, wouldn't someone at some point have to write those blocks? Or re-write them, or write new ones from a lower level language?
Also, hydrogen created from Solar energy, or really any clean energy source, is also truely clean.
How is Solar Energy clean? It relies on a nuclear reactor bigger than this planet! Wind power uses the same reactor. Geothermal uses another reactor, just not quite as big, too.
Even in an analog system, you wouldn't need filters, just a cable box. For years, COX has offered for-pay channels right next to (and in between) the regular cable channels. The way they did this was by having them SCRAMBLED. You can scamble an analog TV signal easily. Just give each channel its own cypher, and give the boxes the de-cypers for only the channels the require. For years, whenever the power went off we would have to call up COX (automated phone system), type in our telephone number (so they knew which residence we were) and the cable box would get updated overthe network in about 30 seconds or less. So, it wouldn't be a technicall nightmare. They have been doing this for YEARS.
At Cox in Northern Virginia the only way you can get TechTV is to get the Sports Tier package. Explain to me PLEASE (OH PLEASE DO) how this helps TechTV in anyway? Sure they get money for the people buying sports, but for me, there aint no way in hell that I am paying for 5 sports channels that I would never watch in order to get TechTV? If they offered it seperate, I would pay for it.
Only hald the bandwidth in an ANALOG cable system is ever used. That gets you about 120 channels. That means that 2 cable companies can compete on the same network. Digital cable allows about 6 standard deffinition cable channels in the space of 1 analog channel (hence the push for DTV). This would mean a cable network could support 720 channels, or 6 competing companies with 120 channels each (i don't think we need 6 to make this work). The cable companies digitize the cable networks anyway. You just pay extra to have it digital to the home instead of having the D/A converter in a green box down the road.
Once the cable is laid, you wouldn't need to add anymore for there to be sufficient competition. And FYI, in my area we have COX cable, and they laid 2 wires for Cable TV when they installed cable in the area. With that, we have way more than enough bandwidth to supply competition.
The only way cable service will ever be priced reasonably is if either there are always two or more cable companies per market or the prices are regulated by law.
In some places there are 2 companies per network. Broadband prices are uner $30 per month in those areas. The TV prices are lower as well. They are also both on the same network. Don't think you could have more than 2 per network though, not enough bandwidth in the cable. Maybe in an area with fibreoptic you could get enough bandwidth to have a many options for cable as you do for longdistance and dial-up.
And expect the news and political channels to get an exemption.
CSPAN and CSPAN2 are already free to begin with. If the cable companies started charging money to see them, a lot of people would get downright pissed, since thats how they find out what congress is doing.
If Pro is the opposite of Con, is Progress the opposite of Congress?
1) We don't have the technology to do ANYTHING until we try it. We didn't have the technology to Fly until we developed it or anything else for that matter. Saying we shouldn't do soemthing because we don't have the technology for it gets nothing done.
2) Kill the budge for welfare and give it to NASA, that is where the money would come from.
3) There are enough Science Fiction fans right now willing to colonize it.
Ah, lets see. Me and several thousand other Science Fiction fans and our (as yet unborn) children will take up the process of Terraforming Mars, provided we are fully funded. Then, in 100 years after we land you or your children can come and visit as tourists. I'm pretty sure we could get it done in 100 years or less, if we had the funding.
Put a permanent colony on Mars while terraform Mars. Life exists now definitely existss on Mars (see colony). Life on Mars debate resolved with life existing on Mars.
Ah yes, I can definitely say with 100% certanty that my child is indeed a Martian.
there are currently NO viable methods for disposing of nuclear waste.
Recycle it, wind up with 90 to 95% less material and more fuel. The remaining 5 to 10% (i have heard) is about as radioactive as your car and would fit under your desk. Disposal problem solved.
And if you say that "If thats true, why don't we already do that?" take a look at the Anti-Nuclear-Anything loby that would lobby against anything with the word Nuclear in it even if it solved all our energy problems, every known disease including cancer and produced no pollution in any way, as long as it had anything to do with anything Nuclear.
Actually, on the Nuclear Waste issue, as posted above (and I have heard the same from many other places, that are reliable). first "You can recycle 90 to 95 % of the nuclear wast and reuse it in a nuclear power plant." second "The remaining amount would fit under your desk."
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Inefficent military bureaucracy? I don't know where you heard this from, but in the military if something needs to get done, it gets done.
The main problem with NASA is lack of funding. The military has a similar problem (think about how many people they employ and what they have to buy before you flame that), but they still change when a better system is invented.
Maybe if we got rid of welfare and medicare/medicaid we could fully fund NASA.
When the mensch find they can vote themselves bread and butter, they will vote themselves bread and butter until it has all run out and the coffers are empty.
Einstein would roll over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, but the dice are loaded.
Quantum Mechanics 101: If you have there is a possibility of something happening and not happening, it will both happen and not happen.
No, No, No. The next Holy Grail will be when I get my perfect fully working replica of Gundam Zero working. All I have to do is figure out where to get the plutonium. Maybe if I traded someone some pinball machine parts....
Actually, the problem is they are blocking the links from slashdot. Open a new window and past the link into it and it works. I forget what it is that allows that to happen, but the link is correct.
You have a good point here. Besides, can anyone tell me the last time a Hacker/Cracker/Script Kiddy or anyone, using a computer, physically injured or killed anyone? I meen come on, last I heard the chance of getting struck by lightning while carrying the winning the lottery ticket to the powerbowl was higher than getting killed due to a computer error or so called 'Cyberterorism'.
If that is so, the Microsoft would have to stop issuing patches for MS-Windows. In the words of Steve Ballmer (I think) "There isn't an explaoit for windows until we come out with a patch." (or something to that extent). Sugesting that virus writers find out from the pathces what the security hole is and exploit it that way. And that is without seeing the code at all.
Corporate Greed? Or investor Greed? Remember who profits from the profits of the company is the stockholders.
What really irks me is that they are producing drugs which will possibly be leaked into the ground after degradation or harvesting.
RTFA. They are not producing drugs, they are produc[ing] two human proteins that fight infection. There are NATURALLY OCCURING in breast milk. We are not talking something that just came out of a chemistry lab here. These have been around for thousands of years.
You just made me think of something. Why not make GM (General Motors or Genetically Modified, this should be interesting) foods that contain lots and lots and lots of caffien for geeks? I see a possible market here.
Leave the drugs out of the food supply for those of us who don't want it them in our food.
Fine, you don't have to buy it. But don't try to kill the product because you won't buy it. That's like someone trying to get deoderant declared illegal cause they don't use it.
Anyone who has bought bulk rice is familiar with the fact that harvested rice is contaminated with bits of debris and wild rice. Speaking in a practical sense, it is clearly inevitable that this GM rice will get mixed in with the food supply.
What is the difference between white and brown rice? Brown rice is unpolished whole grain rice that is produced by removing only the outer husk. It becomes white rice when the bran layer is stripped off in the milling process. source
There is no difference between white rice and wild (Brown) rice. Actually, in other countries people thing that there is something wrong with white rice, since it is white and not brown. So, you have not case in those two getting mixed up.
The reason PSpice gives you a Visual is so that you can lay out the electronics exactly like you have on a board. Also, it is easier for you to see what you are doing that way. But it has a very complicated back end. (I am assuming yuo are an EE here) It uses Nodal analysis at ever node when simulating or doing anything. You are not actually programming anything when you use PSpice, only supplying some variables.
So how does this have any application to programming? If you meen as in choosing blocks of code to do things, wouldn't someone at some point have to write those blocks? Or re-write them, or write new ones from a lower level language?
On the other hand it would be easy to fit goverment with the latest in secure systems. Just pay more taxes.
You are assuming that they would actually spend the money upgrading the computers instead of some politicians pet project designed to get re-elected.
I have a right to be cynical, I have to hear about politicians every night on the news.
Also, hydrogen created from Solar energy, or really any clean energy source, is also truely clean.
How is Solar Energy clean? It relies on a nuclear reactor bigger than this planet! Wind power uses the same reactor. Geothermal uses another reactor, just not quite as big, too.
Even in an analog system, you wouldn't need filters, just a cable box. For years, COX has offered for-pay channels right next to (and in between) the regular cable channels. The way they did this was by having them SCRAMBLED. You can scamble an analog TV signal easily. Just give each channel its own cypher, and give the boxes the de-cypers for only the channels the require. For years, whenever the power went off we would have to call up COX (automated phone system), type in our telephone number (so they knew which residence we were) and the cable box would get updated overthe network in about 30 seconds or less. So, it wouldn't be a technicall nightmare. They have been doing this for YEARS.
At Cox in Northern Virginia the only way you can get TechTV is to get the Sports Tier package. Explain to me PLEASE (OH PLEASE DO) how this helps TechTV in anyway? Sure they get money for the people buying sports, but for me, there aint no way in hell that I am paying for 5 sports channels that I would never watch in order to get TechTV? If they offered it seperate, I would pay for it.
Only hald the bandwidth in an ANALOG cable system is ever used. That gets you about 120 channels. That means that 2 cable companies can compete on the same network. Digital cable allows about 6 standard deffinition cable channels in the space of 1 analog channel (hence the push for DTV). This would mean a cable network could support 720 channels, or 6 competing companies with 120 channels each (i don't think we need 6 to make this work). The cable companies digitize the cable networks anyway. You just pay extra to have it digital to the home instead of having the D/A converter in a green box down the road.
Once the cable is laid, you wouldn't need to add anymore for there to be sufficient competition. And FYI, in my area we have COX cable, and they laid 2 wires for Cable TV when they installed cable in the area. With that, we have way more than enough bandwidth to supply competition.
The only way cable service will ever be priced reasonably is if either there are always two or more cable companies per market or the prices are regulated by law.
In some places there are 2 companies per network. Broadband prices are uner $30 per month in those areas. The TV prices are lower as well. They are also both on the same network. Don't think you could have more than 2 per network though, not enough bandwidth in the cable. Maybe in an area with fibreoptic you could get enough bandwidth to have a many options for cable as you do for longdistance and dial-up.
And expect the news and political channels to get an exemption.
CSPAN and CSPAN2 are already free to begin with. If the cable companies started charging money to see them, a lot of people would get downright pissed, since thats how they find out what congress is doing.
If Pro is the opposite of Con, is Progress the opposite of Congress?
1) We don't have the technology to do ANYTHING until we try it. We didn't have the technology to Fly until we developed it or anything else for that matter. Saying we shouldn't do soemthing because we don't have the technology for it gets nothing done.
2) Kill the budge for welfare and give it to NASA, that is where the money would come from.
3) There are enough Science Fiction fans right now willing to colonize it.
Ah, lets see. Me and several thousand other Science Fiction fans and our (as yet unborn) children will take up the process of Terraforming Mars, provided we are fully funded. Then, in 100 years after we land you or your children can come and visit as tourists. I'm pretty sure we could get it done in 100 years or less, if we had the funding.
Put a permanent colony on Mars while terraform Mars. Life exists now definitely existss on Mars (see colony). Life on Mars debate resolved with life existing on Mars.
Ah yes, I can definitely say with 100% certanty that my child is indeed a Martian.
there are currently NO viable methods for disposing of nuclear waste.
Recycle it, wind up with 90 to 95% less material and more fuel. The remaining 5 to 10% (i have heard) is about as radioactive as your car and would fit under your desk. Disposal problem solved.
And if you say that "If thats true, why don't we already do that?" take a look at the Anti-Nuclear-Anything loby that would lobby against anything with the word Nuclear in it even if it solved all our energy problems, every known disease including cancer and produced no pollution in any way, as long as it had anything to do with anything Nuclear.
A) This was still a test reactor. Not one that was made to go mainstream.
B) A careful examination of the remains of the core and the vessel concluded that the control rod was manually withdrawn...
This tells me that someone had to physcally be an idiot, not that something had to break or malfunction.
In spite of this 'negative publicity', I still strongly support nuclear power. You aint the only one. Support Nuclear Power, and Nuclear Space
Actually, on the Nuclear Waste issue, as posted above (and I have heard the same from many other places, that are reliable). first "You can recycle 90 to 95 % of the nuclear wast and reuse it in a nuclear power plant." second "The remaining amount would fit under your desk."