I understand this - I really do, but the potential for negative publicity is high here.
Everybody's imagining brave souls doing this for exploration and such, but when death is closer the chance of one person buckling is much higher. Can you imagine the videos circulating of one or more of these people sending back messages when they got there saying that they made a mistake and begging for help? Help that we couldn't really provide even if we wanted to? It could really taint the public perception of space travel.
Call me a cynic, but if we are going to send something there is should at a minimum provide enough soil, solar generators, etc to keep the crew alive for the foreseeable future once they get there.
One way trip is fine - I just don't think the "You get the and then starve to death or commit suicide." route is productive.
You make the mistake of assuming that just because the parts cost a certain amount that the public should buy it.
If the sum total value of the parts is above what the market would normally pay then they didn't design the device well. I could build a minivan with a V12 engine and slap an insane pricetag on it but that doesn't mean that its a good value.
If their hardware requires a purchase price anywhere near $700 then they should have scaled it back a little. I'll concede that this thing needs a cellular antenna and a touchscreen so it'll have to cost a bit more than the devices I specified, but to have a chance it should be well under half what they're asking.
We have an unproven device here. Nobody knows how well this thing will work or how well it'll be supported. People are willing to play around with things, but not at this price point. The OUYA is $99. That's worth taking a risk on. The Raspberry Pi is $35. Those little Android "Mini-PC's" are about $45. Those are cheap enough to play around on.
The market seems to have spoken and the price point for a device to play around with seems to be about $50-100. Much above that we're getting into "real money" territory, and people aren't so quick to gamble on a device there. They want solid support, but more importantly they're going to want it to be out already so that they can read reviews and such to see how well it works.
I'd wager that the.30-30 has killed more deer than any other centerfire round. It's quite accurate and deadly for its intended purpose. I personally use a few of them a lot when deer hunting because I tend to like iron sights over scopes, and.30-30 is a good iron sight gun (basically anything you can take a reasonable sight picture on without a scope is in range for a.30-30).
That's not to say I don't have scoped rifles too (actually have a.270 Win,.225 Win,.257 Roberts, 8mm Mauser,.303 Brit, and 2.30-06 's), but given the terrain around here I personally just find it more fun and satisfying to use irons.
Ok, deer are normally killed with a *bullet* - not shot.
"Buckshot" ain't named after Buckminster Fuller.
While that may be true, deer ain't normally shot with buckshot, despite the misleading name. Most states won't legally allow you to hunt with buckshot. Of those that do, most restrict its use to only certain types of hunting (driving deer with dogs for example).
and about half a pound of deer shot with led would double it. We're talking a teensy 8 oz steak here.
Ok, deer are normally killed with a *bullet* - not shot. A single projectile passing into the vitals. At least half the time the bullet passes through the other side. When it doesn't the bullet is either lodged under the skin or is in the chest cavity. The meat in the general area is often discarded anyways due to ballistic shock (ie, it turns to a bloody mush).
Bottom line, contact between the deer and the bullet is brief (often fractions of a second) and localized.
$10 per shot? No, but for all my target shooting I shoot handloads. My.30-30 plinking loads I shoot with Missouri Bullet Company 165gr lead slugs. They run about $30 for 250. Thats 12 cents per bullet. Barnes bullets tend to run about $30 per 50 - about 60 cents per bullet. Not quite an order magnitude, but its still 5 times the cost.
Cost. Generally if you remove lead from bullets you see a price increase of nearly an order of magnitude. If you completely remove lead from ammo then you essentially drive the cost of target shooting up to a point where it can only be afforded by the rich.
Hunting wouldn't be much effected - neither would crime, as neither needs a significant volume of ammo, but target shooting would be a thing of the past. Passing laws with such consequences shouldn't be done just because it "might maybe sorta possibly help something somewhere". It needs to have very specific reasons based on scientific study. Not just of the "lead is bad, mmmkay" variety, but actually showing that the lead usage specifically in ammunition is reason for concern. So far, the data just doesn't show any major problem there.
Hotel wireless is universally crappy in my opinion. You either have to pay some ridiculous fee for it ($10 per day), or its so slow and spotty that I'll have trouble Googling restaurants just to find directions.
Lately I too have taken to simply tethering my phone to the laptop whenever I'm in a hotel room. The connection is more stable, fast, and never costs extra. I do the wired tether not for security reasons but I like the fact that by connecting it I'm both using my phone and charging it at the same time.
Aero actually offloads a lot of desktop operations onto the GPU freeing up your processor to do other things. Why would you want to turn off something that not only looks pretty but also makes your computer faster?
You may be joking, but when people are looking for "duplicate" videos a comparison of hashes isn't applicable. They're usually not bit-for-bit duplicates. Usually if I want to locate duplicate files I want to match up two files as duplicates that are the same input video, but one might be offset by a few seconds, they might be at different resolutions, and might be compressed using different codecs. To a machine using hash checks those two files are nothing alike, but to a human they're the same.
Though I doubt something on the level of the program mentioned on the article is needed, it would still be a nice type of utility to have.
This is a tech site. Its not hard to understand why people don't want this: its basically DRM, which exposes its core flaw:
- It makes the content/device less likely to operate when the legitimate users wants it to, and the security will be bypassed/cracked by an illegitimate user if they want it.
Guns are simple mechanical devices that are a mature tech. As a matter of fact simplicity is a major selling factor on the quality of a design. Designs like the recently introduced Caracal pistol actually brag about low parts counts. Introducing into that simple design anything with a battery and/or a circuit board is not a welcomed addition.
We have a different gun culture, which is important I believe. We are focused on hunting and sports, not on self defence.
US "gun culture" (at least the commercial aspect of it) isn't what causes our problems. Very few gun enthusiasts are out there shooting each other up. Its our gang and drug culture. This is particularly evident when you notice that most US "gun culture" is focused in the more rural areas of the country where the more urban areas are where most of the violence occurs.
Some of that drug and gang related violence tends to spill over into regular society, and so people tend to see a need for self defense. In a society like yours where there isn't that rampant criminal element, self defense isn't such a hot topic. Or metaphorically - people carry umbrellas if its raining - it doesn't rain because people carry umbrellas.
I find it interesting that the complaint paperwork was filed by himself. After reading TFA it was quite clear that this guy was insane, but I was wondering if he'd actually found a lawyer as equally insane to handle the case.
Is there some technological reason for covering the back wheel? I noticed a lot of early electric or hybrid prototypes did this too. If there's a technological advantage then that's ok-ish, but if its just for stylistic reasons I just can't see the appeal.
Actually yes, there are plastic bullets, and plastic catridge cases (though I've never seen the two used in conjunction). Not sure that they used one here, but its perfectly possible.
I only know one person in my circle of acquaintances (the vast majority of which are salaried) that gets paid monthly. Almost all are salaried workers are paid bi-weekly with the hourly workers being split about half-way between bi-weekly and weekly.
being picked up and paid not by the hour but by the job
This is quite common in some construction work (may be illegal/under the table, but common).
I know that in drywall for example a lot of local employers pay to hang by the sheet and pay insulation installation by the bag.
The rationale given is that if you pay by the hour the workers work slower so that they make more money. If you pay per unit then they have an incentive to work more quickly.
I do the same. I basically operate on that schedule and have 2 accounts - one has enough to cover all my bills split into 2 paychecks per month with about a $150 "buffer" per month. The remainder of my check goes into a 2nd "spending" account that I use for variable costs (food, gas) and general spending money. All my fixed or nearly fixed bills like mortgage, power, water, internet, car insurance, etc, auto draft out of the first account.
That $150 buffer plus two "free" checks into the bill account give me about $4,000 or so of "extra" money at the end of the year in my bills account that I can use for something nice like a vacation or such.
How many of these measures to "Protect something from piracy" ever work? Name the most DRM'd copy-protected movie ever distributed. I'll be there's a copy on Pirate Bay. They seem to be under the impression that each individual pirate has to crack their weird schemes.
Once a single person does it and produces a clean file then it's game over - its in the wild - and SOMEONE always manages to do it.
No its still based on the current version of Ubuntu (except LMDE which is Debian-based). Remember than not even all the official versions of Ubuntu use Unity. Xubuntu for example "ships" with XFCE as the desktop and works quite well.
And I'm sure he's not using it (or at least not Unity), but people by our nature express opinions about things we dislike. Its called feedback, and most (smart) companies welcome it.
It'd be mighty hard to steer the direction of a project if no matter how good, bad, stupid, awesome, or radical a change you made, it was greeted with complete silence.
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I understand this - I really do, but the potential for negative publicity is high here.
Everybody's imagining brave souls doing this for exploration and such, but when death is closer the chance of one person buckling is much higher. Can you imagine the videos circulating of one or more of these people sending back messages when they got there saying that they made a mistake and begging for help? Help that we couldn't really provide even if we wanted to? It could really taint the public perception of space travel.
Call me a cynic, but if we are going to send something there is should at a minimum provide enough soil, solar generators, etc to keep the crew alive for the foreseeable future once they get there.
One way trip is fine - I just don't think the "You get the and then starve to death or commit suicide." route is productive.
You make the mistake of assuming that just because the parts cost a certain amount that the public should buy it.
If the sum total value of the parts is above what the market would normally pay then they didn't design the device well. I could build a minivan with a V12 engine and slap an insane pricetag on it but that doesn't mean that its a good value.
If their hardware requires a purchase price anywhere near $700 then they should have scaled it back a little. I'll concede that this thing needs a cellular antenna and a touchscreen so it'll have to cost a bit more than the devices I specified, but to have a chance it should be well under half what they're asking.
$695 is still way too high.
We have an unproven device here. Nobody knows how well this thing will work or how well it'll be supported. People are willing to play around with things, but not at this price point. The OUYA is $99. That's worth taking a risk on. The Raspberry Pi is $35. Those little Android "Mini-PC's" are about $45. Those are cheap enough to play around on.
The market seems to have spoken and the price point for a device to play around with seems to be about $50-100. Much above that we're getting into "real money" territory, and people aren't so quick to gamble on a device there. They want solid support, but more importantly they're going to want it to be out already so that they can read reviews and such to see how well it works.
Obviously your time comes absolutely free. Uh-huh.
A lot of people into the "do it yourself" mindset enjoy doing what they're doing.
I swear some people would want to bill their wives for the time spent having sex. Time is money ya know.
I'd wager that the .30-30 has killed more deer than any other centerfire round. It's quite accurate and deadly for its intended purpose. I personally use a few of them a lot when deer hunting because I tend to like iron sights over scopes, and .30-30 is a good iron sight gun (basically anything you can take a reasonable sight picture on without a scope is in range for a .30-30).
That's not to say I don't have scoped rifles too (actually have a .270 Win, .225 Win, .257 Roberts, 8mm Mauser, .303 Brit, and 2 .30-06 's), but given the terrain around here I personally just find it more fun and satisfying to use irons.
Ok, deer are normally killed with a *bullet* - not shot.
"Buckshot" ain't named after Buckminster Fuller.
While that may be true, deer ain't normally shot with buckshot, despite the misleading name. Most states won't legally allow you to hunt with buckshot. Of those that do, most restrict its use to only certain types of hunting (driving deer with dogs for example).
Not many, and in most states its not even legal.
and about half a pound of deer shot with led would double it. We're talking a teensy 8 oz steak here.
Ok, deer are normally killed with a *bullet* - not shot. A single projectile passing into the vitals. At least half the time the bullet passes through the other side. When it doesn't the bullet is either lodged under the skin or is in the chest cavity. The meat in the general area is often discarded anyways due to ballistic shock (ie, it turns to a bloody mush).
Bottom line, contact between the deer and the bullet is brief (often fractions of a second) and localized.
$10 per shot? No, but for all my target shooting I shoot handloads. My .30-30 plinking loads I shoot with Missouri Bullet Company 165gr lead slugs. They run about $30 for 250. Thats 12 cents per bullet. Barnes bullets tend to run about $30 per 50 - about 60 cents per bullet. Not quite an order magnitude, but its still 5 times the cost.
Cost. Generally if you remove lead from bullets you see a price increase of nearly an order of magnitude. If you completely remove lead from ammo then you essentially drive the cost of target shooting up to a point where it can only be afforded by the rich.
Hunting wouldn't be much effected - neither would crime, as neither needs a significant volume of ammo, but target shooting would be a thing of the past. Passing laws with such consequences shouldn't be done just because it "might maybe sorta possibly help something somewhere". It needs to have very specific reasons based on scientific study. Not just of the "lead is bad, mmmkay" variety, but actually showing that the lead usage specifically in ammunition is reason for concern. So far, the data just doesn't show any major problem there.
Actually many range mine the lead out of their backstops for resale back to either home bullet casters or commercial casting outfits.
Hotel wireless is universally crappy in my opinion. You either have to pay some ridiculous fee for it ($10 per day), or its so slow and spotty that I'll have trouble Googling restaurants just to find directions.
Lately I too have taken to simply tethering my phone to the laptop whenever I'm in a hotel room. The connection is more stable, fast, and never costs extra. I do the wired tether not for security reasons but I like the fact that by connecting it I'm both using my phone and charging it at the same time.
Aero actually offloads a lot of desktop operations onto the GPU freeing up your processor to do other things. Why would you want to turn off something that not only looks pretty but also makes your computer faster?
You may be joking, but when people are looking for "duplicate" videos a comparison of hashes isn't applicable. They're usually not bit-for-bit duplicates. Usually if I want to locate duplicate files I want to match up two files as duplicates that are the same input video, but one might be offset by a few seconds, they might be at different resolutions, and might be compressed using different codecs. To a machine using hash checks those two files are nothing alike, but to a human they're the same.
Though I doubt something on the level of the program mentioned on the article is needed, it would still be a nice type of utility to have.
This is a tech site. Its not hard to understand why people don't want this: its basically DRM, which exposes its core flaw:
- It makes the content/device less likely to operate when the legitimate users wants it to, and the security will be bypassed/cracked by an illegitimate user if they want it.
Guns are simple mechanical devices that are a mature tech. As a matter of fact simplicity is a major selling factor on the quality of a design. Designs like the recently introduced Caracal pistol actually brag about low parts counts. Introducing into that simple design anything with a battery and/or a circuit board is not a welcomed addition.
We have a different gun culture, which is important I believe. We are focused on hunting and sports, not on self defence.
US "gun culture" (at least the commercial aspect of it) isn't what causes our problems. Very few gun enthusiasts are out there shooting each other up. Its our gang and drug culture. This is particularly evident when you notice that most US "gun culture" is focused in the more rural areas of the country where the more urban areas are where most of the violence occurs.
Some of that drug and gang related violence tends to spill over into regular society, and so people tend to see a need for self defense. In a society like yours where there isn't that rampant criminal element, self defense isn't such a hot topic. Or metaphorically - people carry umbrellas if its raining - it doesn't rain because people carry umbrellas.
I find it interesting that the complaint paperwork was filed by himself. After reading TFA it was quite clear that this guy was insane, but I was wondering if he'd actually found a lawyer as equally insane to handle the case.
Is there some technological reason for covering the back wheel? I noticed a lot of early electric or hybrid prototypes did this too. If there's a technological advantage then that's ok-ish, but if its just for stylistic reasons I just can't see the appeal.
Actually yes, there are plastic bullets, and plastic catridge cases (though I've never seen the two used in conjunction). Not sure that they used one here, but its perfectly possible.
I only know one person in my circle of acquaintances (the vast majority of which are salaried) that gets paid monthly. Almost all are salaried workers are paid bi-weekly with the hourly workers being split about half-way between bi-weekly and weekly.
being picked up and paid not by the hour but by the job
This is quite common in some construction work (may be illegal/under the table, but common).
I know that in drywall for example a lot of local employers pay to hang by the sheet and pay insulation installation by the bag.
The rationale given is that if you pay by the hour the workers work slower so that they make more money. If you pay per unit then they have an incentive to work more quickly.
I do the same. I basically operate on that schedule and have 2 accounts - one has enough to cover all my bills split into 2 paychecks per month with about a $150 "buffer" per month. The remainder of my check goes into a 2nd "spending" account that I use for variable costs (food, gas) and general spending money. All my fixed or nearly fixed bills like mortgage, power, water, internet, car insurance, etc, auto draft out of the first account.
That $150 buffer plus two "free" checks into the bill account give me about $4,000 or so of "extra" money at the end of the year in my bills account that I can use for something nice like a vacation or such.
How many of these measures to "Protect something from piracy" ever work? Name the most DRM'd copy-protected movie ever distributed. I'll be there's a copy on Pirate Bay. They seem to be under the impression that each individual pirate has to crack their weird schemes.
Once a single person does it and produces a clean file then it's game over - its in the wild - and SOMEONE always manages to do it.
No its still based on the current version of Ubuntu (except LMDE which is Debian-based). Remember than not even all the official versions of Ubuntu use Unity. Xubuntu for example "ships" with XFCE as the desktop and works quite well.
And I'm sure he's not using it (or at least not Unity), but people by our nature express opinions about things we dislike. Its called feedback, and most (smart) companies welcome it.
It'd be mighty hard to steer the direction of a project if no matter how good, bad, stupid, awesome, or radical a change you made, it was greeted with complete silence.