Now all we have to do is grind up all the uranium-contaminated granite rocks (continental masses) and pour crap on them. Then we'll be safe from the nyucaleer boogyman and all live forever. Bah, humbug. -- olderphart
You're thinking about an unaccelerated Hohmann transfer orbit.
Continuous acceleration greatly mitigates the cost of out-of-phase travel to Mars. And, since you're carting along a honkin' heavy nuclear reactor and you're starting in orbit, there's no reason NOT to use it continuously.
This is your notice that Oracle will control the future Java trajectory for the benefit of Oracle. It's only going to get worse. There will be poison candy like this GC, strategic API and ABI changes, and just a world of hurt. I survived IBM, DEC, and MS hegemonies, and I've been paying attention. It's gonna happen.
However, as a nakedly proprietary platform, it's possible the academic world will back off from its embrace of Java in favor of unowned platforms. One can hope. -- olderphart
Prithee sirrah, dost claim thou kennst Anglic nor can ye reck my speech? Poltroon! Ye but float on the surface and fathom not the depths. Fie, fie upon your presumption -- hasten ye hence from this my good greensward!
--
olderphart
while (--t > 0) live();
Asperger's? I dunno. When I was in school standard social interactions looked literally like monkey business to me. It's hard to be socially motivated when you have in your head accurate simulations of most of the people you know. I'm just continually amazed as I look around that primates can by sheer numbers and temporal accumulation accomplish so much.
There's quite a literature on your point. I'd recommend Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" for one side and Hernstein & Murray's "The Bell Curve" for the other. In any case, if you can't talk for a minute about Spearman's "g" you're mistaken in your belief that you're qualified to critique the concept of IQ.
Mr. Ryan and I had a deal. I wouldn't mess with him, and he wouldn't mess with me. I spent 4th grade sitting in the back of his classroom systematically reading all the science fiction in my city's library system. He would call on me pro forma every so often, I'd answer the classwork-related question, and continue. It was probably the most productive time I spent in grade school. I often wish I could locate him to say thanks.
"Turns out that it wasn't x86 and Microsoft C++ didn't run there. No problem - the vendore had a C++ compiler. But wait - it didn't support complicated features like "templates" so there was fiddling."
No, the vendor didn't have a C++ compiler. It didn't support templates.
Of course, until Herb Sutter got his hands on it MS didn't have a C++ compiler either.
Teh Universe. It Just Works.
If the many worlds interpretation is right, then possibility is densely populated with reality.
All probability based arguments just.. go away. Things happen because they're not impossible.
Wow. This is better than acid!
We're obviously going to have to nip this terrorism in the bud. Actually, kudos to our new Norwegian overlords...
In the unintended consequences of moronic special interest legislation department, is this the first tech breakthrough we can point at and say "Congrats DMCA, you have definitively moved progress out of the US!"?
The relationship between the wizard and the exchequer has always been a difficult one, and grant writing has become a high art, giving us such concepts as the Philospher's Stone, the Fountain of Youth, Human-Capable AI, Automated Intelligence Assessment, and more.
But the meaning of "outrage" in this context is not so much that outraged researchers have no answer to the question "what am I paying you for, anyway?" as that they don't understand the question anymore.
"Huh? Stop wasting my time! I've got a career to build here!"
That's how long I've been reading SciAm.
They've always, even before the German takeover, had a leftist agenda.
I remember discussing with my late friend John (who was the kind of guy who would know what "oralloy" is and would therefore be quite horrified to see it mentioned in Av Week) an article on nuclear disarmament by MIT prof Kostas Tsipis.
John said of Tsipis, and by extension of MIT and SciAm, "He's lying and he knows he's lying but if I tell you how I know I'll go to jail forever". That brought into focus for me just what it means to advocate at the political/scientific interface. I still read SciAm. But I never forget they see themselves as players, not reporters.
To put it another way, don't change your mind on anything important based on the assumption that you read agenda-free truth in SciAm.
--
Olderphart
As usual this is a plea for subsidies.
"Technology improvements are expected to reduce some of the cost difference over the next five years, but the federal government also needs to increase tax incentives for producing and purchasing solar energy, according to Energy Foundation Vice President David Wooley."
There's this amazing invention for discovering how much of something should be produced and at what price, called a market. You should try it.
Look at the long term, bubbaleh. Private monopolies are eventually overthrown. Government monopolies are forever. How happy are you with the price and quality of the services provided to you by your local government education monopoly?
Eventually, the market provided competition for cable providers -- while any attempt to allow parents to direct their K-12 education dollars to providers of their choice outside the government monopoly is blocked.
Let's just assume that all the people in the danger zone who proactively took to the hills later answered some questionnaire and all those who stayed on the flat, didn't because they were dead. Would this explain the astounding observation?
So you didn't see anything familiar in the tired old pattern of introducing a ridiculous risk proposition as a way to hitch an agenda to "the public good"[1]?
1) Produce specious risk.
2) Propose use of public resource to mitigate risk
3) Buy votes for your party by controlling those resources.
The chance of the GPS system failing is almost precisely the chance of general war, as that is probably the only scenario that could take it down.
So if this risk justifies keeping lighthouses around, just in case, I suppose we should also create a stock of sailing ships, just in case, because I can tell you the fuel situation is going to be very tight after such a catastrophe.
Don't even get me started on the whole question of what we would do for pr0n in a world of mutants. We must build stockpiles today!
[1] Sneer quotes for the question-begging assumption that the public good is self-evidently obvious to all right thinking people and that anyone who opposes your proposal therefore has corrupt motives.
The "critics" should simply buy the charming lighthouses and operate them as a hobby. Oh? They want their neighbors to pay for their hobby?
Hahahahaha! See? I *told* you socialism rots the brain!
The primes (Lockheed, Boeing) know only how to burn money and koff koff manage customer relationships koff koff. I should know, I watched them do it on the X33 up close & personal.
We should select Rutan as our stand in for old man Harriman. (obRAH reference)
--
OPh
Your use of confident assertion as a persuasive technique is outstanding.
For an approach to the issue involving reason, see:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =3555212
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Now all we have to do is grind up all the uranium-contaminated granite rocks (continental masses) and pour crap on them. Then we'll be safe from the nyucaleer boogyman and all live forever. Bah, humbug.
--
olderphart
In some contexts, you need an actual answer to this question. Not such a bad thing.
--
olderphart
You're thinking about an unaccelerated Hohmann transfer orbit.
Continuous acceleration greatly mitigates the cost of out-of-phase travel to Mars. And, since you're carting along a honkin' heavy nuclear reactor and you're starting in orbit, there's no reason NOT to use it continuously.
--
phunctor
Nothing to see here.
--
phunctor
Give me goooooold!
--
olderphart
This is your notice that Oracle will control the future Java trajectory for the benefit of Oracle. It's only going to get worse. There will be poison candy like this GC, strategic API and ABI changes, and just a world of hurt. I survived IBM, DEC, and MS hegemonies, and I've been paying attention. It's gonna happen.
However, as a nakedly proprietary platform, it's possible the academic world will back off from its embrace of Java in favor of unowned platforms. One can hope.
--
olderphart
Prithee sirrah, dost claim thou kennst Anglic nor can ye reck my speech? Poltroon! Ye but float on the surface and fathom not the depths. Fie, fie upon your presumption -- hasten ye hence from this my good greensward!
--
olderphart
while (--t > 0) live();
Asperger's? I dunno. When I was in school standard social interactions looked literally like monkey business to me. It's hard to be socially motivated when you have in your head accurate simulations of most of the people you know. I'm just continually amazed as I look around that primates can by sheer numbers and temporal accumulation accomplish so much.
There's quite a literature on your point. I'd recommend Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" for one side and Hernstein & Murray's "The Bell Curve" for the other. In any case, if you can't talk for a minute about Spearman's "g" you're mistaken in your belief that you're qualified to critique the concept of IQ.
Mr. Ryan and I had a deal. I wouldn't mess with him, and he wouldn't mess with me. I spent 4th grade sitting in the back of his classroom systematically reading all the science fiction in my city's library system. He would call on me pro forma every so often, I'd answer the classwork-related question, and continue. It was probably the most productive time I spent in grade school. I often wish I could locate him to say thanks.
"Turns out that it wasn't x86 and Microsoft C++ didn't run there. No problem - the vendore had a C++ compiler. But wait - it didn't support complicated features like "templates" so there was fiddling." No, the vendor didn't have a C++ compiler. It didn't support templates. Of course, until Herb Sutter got his hands on it MS didn't have a C++ compiler either.
Teh Universe. It Just Works. If the many worlds interpretation is right, then possibility is densely populated with reality. All probability based arguments just.. go away. Things happen because they're not impossible. Wow. This is better than acid!
Liberté, egalité, fraternité - choose 1.6, tops.
100% legal in Norway?
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We're obviously going to have to nip this terrorism in the bud. Actually, kudos to our new Norwegian overlords...
In the unintended consequences of moronic special interest legislation department, is this the first tech breakthrough we can point at and say "Congrats DMCA, you have definitively moved progress out of the US!"?
--
OP
I had a
The relationship between the wizard and the exchequer has always been a difficult one, and grant writing has become a high art, giving us such concepts as the Philospher's Stone, the Fountain of Youth, Human-Capable AI, Automated Intelligence Assessment, and more.
But the meaning of "outrage" in this context is not so much that outraged researchers have no answer to the question "what am I paying you for, anyway?" as that they don't understand the question anymore.
"Huh? Stop wasting my time! I've got a career to build here!"
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
--
OP
That's how long I've been reading SciAm.
They've always, even before the German takeover, had a leftist agenda. I remember discussing with my late friend John (who was the kind of guy who would know what "oralloy" is and would therefore be quite horrified to see it mentioned in Av Week) an article on nuclear disarmament by MIT prof Kostas Tsipis. John said of Tsipis, and by extension of MIT and SciAm, "He's lying and he knows he's lying but if I tell you how I know I'll go to jail forever". That brought into focus for me just what it means to advocate at the political/scientific interface. I still read SciAm. But I never forget they see themselves as players, not reporters. To put it another way, don't change your mind on anything important based on the assumption that you read agenda-free truth in SciAm.
-- Olderphart
As usual this is a plea for subsidies. "Technology improvements are expected to reduce some of the cost difference over the next five years, but the federal government also needs to increase tax incentives for producing and purchasing solar energy, according to Energy Foundation Vice President David Wooley." There's this amazing invention for discovering how much of something should be produced and at what price, called a market. You should try it.
I did and got this gem in #1 slot: http://www.detailshere.com/microwavemadness.htm He's a few sheets short of a full roll. Of tinfoil.
Look at the long term, bubbaleh. Private monopolies are eventually overthrown. Government monopolies are forever. How happy are you with the price and quality of the services provided to you by your local government education monopoly? Eventually, the market provided competition for cable providers -- while any attempt to allow parents to direct their K-12 education dollars to providers of their choice outside the government monopoly is blocked.
Let's just assume that all the people in the danger zone who proactively took to the hills later answered some questionnaire and all those who stayed on the flat, didn't because they were dead. Would this explain the astounding observation?
So you didn't see anything familiar in the tired old pattern of introducing a ridiculous risk proposition as a way to hitch an agenda to "the public good"[1]? 1) Produce specious risk. 2) Propose use of public resource to mitigate risk 3) Buy votes for your party by controlling those resources. The chance of the GPS system failing is almost precisely the chance of general war, as that is probably the only scenario that could take it down. So if this risk justifies keeping lighthouses around, just in case, I suppose we should also create a stock of sailing ships, just in case, because I can tell you the fuel situation is going to be very tight after such a catastrophe. Don't even get me started on the whole question of what we would do for pr0n in a world of mutants. We must build stockpiles today! [1] Sneer quotes for the question-begging assumption that the public good is self-evidently obvious to all right thinking people and that anyone who opposes your proposal therefore has corrupt motives.
The "critics" should simply buy the charming lighthouses and operate them as a hobby. Oh? They want their neighbors to pay for their hobby? Hahahahaha! See? I *told* you socialism rots the brain!
The primes (Lockheed, Boeing) know only how to burn money and koff koff manage customer relationships koff koff. I should know, I watched them do it on the X33 up close & personal. We should select Rutan as our stand in for old man Harriman. (obRAH reference) -- OPh
Your use of confident assertion as a persuasive technique is outstanding. For an approach to the issue involving reason, see: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =3555212
The suckers ditched physics. Screw'em.