Webcrawler had almost an identical front page, back in the 90s. Is this prior art, or is history disregarded these days . Either way they can fuck off - I don't recognise software patents.
No, it's more like "hey earth, guess what we found "
Amazing what potential profit will do in terms of follow up missions. It strikes me that because of the heavy fuel penalty for a return trip, you may as well send two ships one way. One could contain all the equipment and supplies and the other the crew and more supplies. You could also send a small reactor to provide power for water reclamation, oxygen generation etc (50kg of nuclear fuel would last about 2 years for a 1 MW plant, so a lot longer if you send a plant small enough to ship). You could send the supplies on the 9 month slow boat and the crew on the 2 month transit. Deorbit the supply ship and use it for habitation. Leave the crew ship in orbit and descend in a lander. Then you can send other ships which only have to be able to dock with the original, not land. Instant fuel dump / transfer station.
Without the imperative of knowing you are stuck there, nothing forces new developments in being able to survive while you're stuck there.
IMHO, we should be using the dying days of the ISS to start constructing a few vehicles in space, ready for moving on. They could be much bigger and stronger, holding much more cargo and providing better protection for the crews. Unmanned launches would supply the parts needed, and residents of the ISS would do the construction. The Saturn IV lifted 46 tons into orbit so a few of those would get the ball rolling regarding materials. An interplanetary craft wouldn't need re-entry strength so a little would go a long way. Considering there were 6 moon missions, if the US, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians, and the Japanese, and hopefully the Europeans all put an equivalent amount each into orbit, that could be at least 1656 tons of material in orbit. 2*100 ton space craft (BIG) and the rest in supplies and fuel for each. Ok it would cost, but the Apollo program cost around $145 billion in 2008 dollars - that's 5% of the cost of war in Iraq - so far.
Hell the US could do it alone for less than 1/3 of Iraqs cost. And you would generate money doing it. People would come from far and wide to participate and get shares in such a forward looking mission. That's part of what drove the first moon shots and the necessary technology.
I would go on, but I'm only building disappointment.
If only this were true. Children unfortunately die every year because parents rely on faith healing instead of actual medicine- and in some states in the US, are protected by law when they do so.
Your whole post and not one mention of the people who have to live under the rule of your "economics". Sure you want to buy cheap - sell expensive, but you can't sell expensive if the people who make the stuff are paid so low because of your buy cheap attitude. Economics like that are driving the world into the ground. After watching a program on Enron and another on the Shock Doctrine last night, I felt relieved that I obviously wasn't the only one who was disgusted by the actions of the great and the good - by which I mean politicians and corporations.
People who argue for increased competition are usually also arguing for deregulation, and then you get situations where in order to compete, the corporations make promises they have no intention or capability of honouring. Race for the bottom and jump off just before we hit, leaving the rest of us poorer in the process.
Your argument misses out that having things available cheaply necessitates us living in a corporate vicious circle, where we HAVE to work much more, simply to afford the gadgets that we are told we need, which is effected over those same gadgets. And while the prices come down, people act surprised when wages go down to pay for it.
I don't think real technical progress has slowed at all. It's just that we don't see it as much because we are inundated with companies selling variations on old news. Consumers only ever deal with what amount to middle-men. Middle-men don't invent, or they wouldn't be middle-men. Also, I think some people over estimate the rate of growth that the current situation is compared against. Steam was around for a very long time, but after certain improvements to the principle method, they stuck around basically unchanged until internal combustion took over. 100 years later and we are just starting to see the ICE be replaced by the electric motor. The first steam engine was in 1712, and they were still in use until the 1960s or 70s. Hardly a rapid rate of change.
What really drove the rate of change was education. Through out the early 1900s and up until maybe the 80s, education was growing and becoming more available to everybody. Since then it seems to be going the other way. It was a matter of pride to get educated properly in the 50's, these days it's seen as a right. Consequently, people don't work as hard to make the most of it. Self selection always gets more motivated candidates than simple open admission.
Yours is the only post that uses "pounder" in the correct sense for a discussion on cannon. I doubt this guy built a 700 "pounder" so what was the firepower ?
Also, cast cannon are notorious for exploding, so he can keep it thanks.
Neither have I. Either they mean 2U or it's a case of " language changes - get used to it !" which roughly translated means "we made up a new term for an old idea to make ourselves look relevant (and we didn't know how to spell 'dual')".
Most commercial establishments pay an annual licence to perform copyrighted music on the premises, so your sad little act of rebellion was probably legally sanctioned. Otherwise there would be no juke boxes.
It's not unusual in English speaking countries. Google "termed" for insight. (Don't google terms as you'll get millions of "terms and conditions" references, which are useful but not explanatory for the term itself.)
But we have laws, and I'm pretty sure one of those laws is adults do not mess with children.
Except when those adults are advertisers, ministers of religion, governments, parents, peer groups...
Can we expect the same level of ignorant vitriol towards religions that say you will go to hell unless you comply ? I am not responsible for your or anybody elses mental state. If you can't handle reading unpleasant material, DON'T READ IT !
Or should all porn be banned ? Are we likely to see educators being accused of murder because they wrote a disparaging report and the kid lost it ?
So in short - fuck off and die. If you do it then you have bigger problems than my last sentence.
The only change to Dells system would be to the web page where you choose to include Office or Word. Make the checkbox for Word hidden, problem solved. No need to mess with the images at all, at least until the patent spat is decided.
Do Dell make this much fuss when MS release a new version of Office or Windows ?
As usual the censorship tag appears. Do you even know what censorship means you ignorant fucks ? Maybe when you're old enough to have a history, you'll change your minds. I suppose it would be OK for anybody to advertise and trade as a govt. dept. by using the TLD.gov in your book. Assholes.
No, I don't care that this is not TLD related. You ignorant fucks have propagated to the extent where a TLD is irrelevant. The only question you have to ask is " is this the same address as the last successful connection that didn't result in a felony". Jesus fucking christ - are you completely stupid ?
Go on, mod me flamebait - just goes to prove how many ignorant assholes there really are out there. When I can pass a required computer exam where a significant part of the score is gained by knowing your fucking name - and the rest is gained by following written instructions -- I don't give a fuck any more.
It's quite simple. Are you a legitimate bank ? If not, then you can't pretend to be one on the internet. Is that so fucking difficult to understand ?
It seems AOHell has completed its takeover. Fuck off and die.
You have to use methanol in the biodiesel production process. You need about 40 litres per 200 litres of fuel produced. You can produce either methanol or ethanol from seed crops, vegetable matter etc.
Steam engines are heavy, prone to explosion, need regular top ups of water and fuel, take a long time to reach operating temperature, they emit dirty smoke, are noisy, mechanically complex and expensive. They are also larger for an equivalent power output compared to ICEs. Would Ferrari ever have existed if it had had to fit a boiler, firebox, coal bunker, external pistons and rods, chimney, water tank, and a fireman just to make it move ?
They are pretty lies in 99% of cases, entirely made up of fake scientific terms, unrealistic facial expressions and unacheivable real world results. But everybody's worried about a black face in a photo ?
I thought the internet had put paid to this bollocks.
I'm also suprised to see a subject this important relegated to Idle.
Is it acceptable to literally whitewash images of social situations to remove those who don't fit your preconceptions ? Sounds like MiniTrue to me...
Do you really believe it is better that some ignorant asshole should get to post their illiterate shite in spite of the facts ? Edit wars are a good thing ?
This is supposed to be an encyclopaedia, not a forum for juvenile gainsaying.
apparently posting anon doesn't preserve modding anymore - fuck you slashdot. Don't give me points anymore, really ! I will waste them on purpose, assholes.
1) The summary says that he finds it hard to write because he knows where the letters are on the keyboard. Which implies the actual letters are becoming less a notation and more a function which always resides in the same place. This leads to not knowing how the function works, only where you find it. Similar to using a GUI to admin a server opposed to over an SSH session. Unless you build the commands yourself, you don't really have to know what's going on, just the expected result. Great for employing monkeys. But that leads to poor grammar and spelling, because the underlying theory of writing is being ignored over the mechanical fact of doing it. I miss the backspace sometimes though !
2) ELECTRICITY. Do you really want to place every piece of knowledge under the ultimate power of something you have to pay to generate, just to keep it accessible ?
I think writing by hand is important if only to be able to do it. I would hate to put myself at a possible future disadvantage, by not being able to do something so basic. Like people who can't add up without a till. OK they know which buttons to press, but they have barely the vaguest idea of what's going on inside the box. Is that acceptable behaviour for a supposedly civilised society ? I don't thinks it's cool to be publicly stupid though - YMMV.
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fuck off , gimp.
Webcrawler had almost an identical front page, back in the 90s. Is this prior art, or is history disregarded these days . Either way they can fuck off - I don't recognise software patents.
You're supposed to edit BEFORE you publish, not after.
No, it's more like "hey earth, guess what we found "
Amazing what potential profit will do in terms of follow up missions. It strikes me that because of the heavy fuel penalty for a return trip, you may as well send two ships one way. One could contain all the equipment and supplies and the other the crew and more supplies. You could also send a small reactor to provide power for water reclamation, oxygen generation etc (50kg of nuclear fuel would last about 2 years for a 1 MW plant, so a lot longer if you send a plant small enough to ship). You could send the supplies on the 9 month slow boat and the crew on the 2 month transit. Deorbit the supply ship and use it for habitation. Leave the crew ship in orbit and descend in a lander. Then you can send other ships which only have to be able to dock with the original, not land. Instant fuel dump / transfer station.
Without the imperative of knowing you are stuck there, nothing forces new developments in being able to survive while you're stuck there.
IMHO, we should be using the dying days of the ISS to start constructing a few vehicles in space, ready for moving on. They could be much bigger and stronger, holding much more cargo and providing better protection for the crews. Unmanned launches would supply the parts needed, and residents of the ISS would do the construction. The Saturn IV lifted 46 tons into orbit so a few of those would get the ball rolling regarding materials. An interplanetary craft wouldn't need re-entry strength so a little would go a long way. Considering there were 6 moon missions, if the US, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians, and the Japanese, and hopefully the Europeans all put an equivalent amount each into orbit, that could be at least 1656 tons of material in orbit. 2*100 ton space craft (BIG) and the rest in supplies and fuel for each. Ok it would cost, but the Apollo program cost around $145 billion in 2008 dollars - that's 5% of the cost of war in Iraq - so far.
Hell the US could do it alone for less than 1/3 of Iraqs cost. And you would generate money doing it. People would come from far and wide to participate and get shares in such a forward looking mission. That's part of what drove the first moon shots and the necessary technology.
I would go on, but I'm only building disappointment.
You've got it.
Just like everything else in that regard.
this is evolution in action.
Your whole post and not one mention of the people who have to live under the rule of your "economics". Sure you want to buy cheap - sell expensive, but you can't sell expensive if the people who make the stuff are paid so low because of your buy cheap attitude. Economics like that are driving the world into the ground. After watching a program on Enron and another on the Shock Doctrine last night, I felt relieved that I obviously wasn't the only one who was disgusted by the actions of the great and the good - by which I mean politicians and corporations.
People who argue for increased competition are usually also arguing for deregulation, and then you get situations where in order to compete, the corporations make promises they have no intention or capability of honouring. Race for the bottom and jump off just before we hit, leaving the rest of us poorer in the process.
Your argument misses out that having things available cheaply necessitates us living in a corporate vicious circle, where we HAVE to work much more, simply to afford the gadgets that we are told we need, which is effected over those same gadgets. And while the prices come down, people act surprised when wages go down to pay for it.
I don't think real technical progress has slowed at all. It's just that we don't see it as much because we are inundated with companies selling variations on old news. Consumers only ever deal with what amount to middle-men. Middle-men don't invent, or they wouldn't be middle-men. Also, I think some people over estimate the rate of growth that the current situation is compared against. Steam was around for a very long time, but after certain improvements to the principle method, they stuck around basically unchanged until internal combustion took over. 100 years later and we are just starting to see the ICE be replaced by the electric motor. The first steam engine was in 1712, and they were still in use until the 1960s or 70s. Hardly a rapid rate of change.
What really drove the rate of change was education. Through out the early 1900s and up until maybe the 80s, education was growing and becoming more available to everybody. Since then it seems to be going the other way. It was a matter of pride to get educated properly in the 50's, these days it's seen as a right. Consequently, people don't work as hard to make the most of it. Self selection always gets more motivated candidates than simple open admission.
Yours is the only post that uses "pounder" in the correct sense for a discussion on cannon. I doubt this guy built a 700 "pounder" so what was the firepower ?
Also, cast cannon are notorious for exploding, so he can keep it thanks.
Neither have I. Either they mean 2U or it's a case of " language changes - get used to it !" which roughly translated means "we made up a new term for an old idea to make ourselves look relevant (and we didn't know how to spell 'dual')".
Why is that substitution global - he only used the word once.
Most commercial establishments pay an annual licence to perform copyrighted music on the premises, so your sad little act of rebellion was probably legally sanctioned. Otherwise there would be no juke boxes.
It's not unusual in English speaking countries. Google "termed" for insight. (Don't google terms as you'll get millions of "terms and conditions" references, which are useful but not explanatory for the term itself.)
Except when those adults are advertisers, ministers of religion, governments, parents, peer groups ...
Can we expect the same level of ignorant vitriol towards religions that say you will go to hell unless you comply ? I am not responsible for your or anybody elses mental state. If you can't handle reading unpleasant material, DON'T READ IT !
Or should all porn be banned ? Are we likely to see educators being accused of murder because they wrote a disparaging report and the kid lost it ?
So in short - fuck off and die. If you do it then you have bigger problems than my last sentence.
Maybe you should pay more attention to your own sig.
We're coming for you too, asshole.
The only change to Dells system would be to the web page where you choose to include Office or Word. Make the checkbox for Word hidden, problem solved. No need to mess with the images at all, at least until the patent spat is decided.
Do Dell make this much fuss when MS release a new version of Office or Windows ?
As usual the censorship tag appears. Do you even know what censorship means you ignorant fucks ? Maybe when you're old enough to have a history, you'll change your minds. I suppose it would be OK for anybody to advertise and trade as a govt. dept. by using the TLD .gov in your book. Assholes.
No, I don't care that this is not TLD related. You ignorant fucks have propagated to the extent where a TLD is irrelevant. The only question you have to ask is " is this the same address as the last successful connection that didn't result in a felony". Jesus fucking christ - are you completely stupid ?
Go on, mod me flamebait - just goes to prove how many ignorant assholes there really are out there. When I can pass a required computer exam where a significant part of the score is gained by knowing your fucking name - and the rest is gained by following written instructions -- I don't give a fuck any more.
It's quite simple. Are you a legitimate bank ? If not, then you can't pretend to be one on the internet. Is that so fucking difficult to understand ?
It seems AOHell has completed its takeover. Fuck off and die.
You have to use methanol in the biodiesel production process. You need about 40 litres per 200 litres of fuel produced. You can produce either methanol or ethanol from seed crops, vegetable matter etc.
It's not surprising at all.
Steam engines are heavy, prone to explosion, need regular top ups of water and fuel, take a long time to reach operating temperature, they emit dirty smoke, are noisy, mechanically complex and expensive. They are also larger for an equivalent power output compared to ICEs. Would Ferrari ever have existed if it had had to fit a boiler, firebox, coal bunker, external pistons and rods, chimney, water tank, and a fireman just to make it move ?
Since when does an ad have to be believable ?
...
They are pretty lies in 99% of cases, entirely made up of fake scientific terms, unrealistic facial expressions and unacheivable real world results. But everybody's worried about a black face in a photo ?
I thought the internet had put paid to this bollocks.
I'm also suprised to see a subject this important relegated to Idle.
Is it acceptable to literally whitewash images of social situations to remove those who don't fit your preconceptions ? Sounds like MiniTrue to me
So quoth the entirely factual Rogerborg.
Ever heard of simile ? Allegory ?
Don't bother, idiot.
Twat !
Do you really believe it is better that some ignorant asshole should get to post their illiterate shite in spite of the facts ? Edit wars are a good thing ?
This is supposed to be an encyclopaedia, not a forum for juvenile gainsaying.
apparently posting anon doesn't preserve modding anymore - fuck you slashdot.
Don't give me points anymore, really ! I will waste them on purpose, assholes.
Two reasons :
1) The summary says that he finds it hard to write because he knows where the letters are on the keyboard. Which implies the actual letters are becoming less a notation and more a function which always resides in the same place. This leads to not knowing how the function works, only where you find it. Similar to using a GUI to admin a server opposed to over an SSH session. Unless you build the commands yourself, you don't really have to know what's going on, just the expected result. Great for employing monkeys. But that leads to poor grammar and spelling, because the underlying theory of writing is being ignored over the mechanical fact of doing it. I miss the backspace sometimes though !
2) ELECTRICITY. Do you really want to place every piece of knowledge under the ultimate power of something you have to pay to generate, just to keep it accessible ?
I think writing by hand is important if only to be able to do it. I would hate to put myself at a possible future disadvantage, by not being able to do something so basic. Like people who can't add up without a till. OK they know which buttons to press, but they have barely the vaguest idea of what's going on inside the box. Is that acceptable behaviour for a supposedly civilised society ? I don't thinks it's cool to be publicly stupid though - YMMV.