Right. And I am going to get that you are an imbecile.
Have you ever wondered about *why* white people from the suburbs are successful? It's not the "white power structure" or racism. It's that we aren't programmed to fail by being told nonsense about how the world actually works.
I know your handlers have devised an automatic and senseless way to dismiss it, white privilege. Grow the hell up and think for yourself, or continue to fail.
On the contrary - the liberal and PC education/brainwashing system is churning out sociopaths like you.
Here's a clue from a responsible adult - if you go into the world and treat the police like an enemy, or teach your kids the same - you are going to be in for a very rough time. Not because of the police - because of your own actions and statements.
He appears to have some issue, bizarrely, with Nestle', but no. My takeaway was that he needed to be slapped up side the head and told to act like a fucking grown-up.
The other responses explain part of the issue, but a critical problem is that when one plant slows down, they all have to slow down to avoid creating a significant phase difference. You can only tolerate the tiniest of tiny out-of-phase generation between any two plants, or you end up really blowing something up.
My wild guess is for Christianity to have slowed scientific progress by ~1500 years.
During Christianity's existence, we have gone from the vast majority of the human population living at a subsistence level and using beasts of burden like they did for the previous 10,000 years, to creating economic systems that results in growing far more than enough food to feed everyone, raising the standard of living by orders of magnitude for virtually everyone, putting men on the moon, stamping out slavery and indentured servitude, wiping out most of the omnicidal maniacs that plagued humanity from the start of the agricultural revolution. The only remaining omnicidal maniacs left are those who actively see this tremendous advancement as a threat to their psychotic vision, which it is.
So, tell me genius, the vast, vast majority of the founders of modern science were Christians, Newton and Descartes being particularly notable for their rather extreme views even in their day. Why is it that modern keyboard warriors who have accomplished *nearly nothing* in their lives aside from snarky comments about other people on the internet feel in any way qualified to pass judgement on the world's largest religion?
It's perfectly clear why this is. You *have* to publish something, whether it has wider merit or not. So you end up with a large number of probably correct and probably original paper, that nonetheless don't advance the state of the art and don't get any cites. There's a very strong disincentive to wait until you have something genuinely unique and innovative.
Fuck you. We have already bettered the world by defending it from every fascist despot that came along in the 20th century and vastly raised the standard of living for the vast majority of the world. All the while, one bunch of mincing Euro-trash whiners bleated on about "cultural imperialism" while their economies were freed from having to defend themeselves and they routinely backed up the dump trucks to the IMF and other US-backed funding sources for their weekly infusion of those horrible US Dollars.
The Paris Accords are entirely and solely about extracting money from the US Taxpayer - and we are going to meet and exceed the emissions goals even without it.
If I was dumb enough to rent my house out to strangers, I would certainly want some sort of monitoring to keep them from, or at least be able to charge them for, trashing it. I don't think you should have an expectation of privacy when you are guest in someone else's home.
Of course, I would never even imagine doing something as foolish as renting my house out to strangers that I haven't checked out and trust.
Apple doesn't owe any taxes in Ireland, as defined by the laws of Ireland. The EU, a soon-to-be irrelevant third party, saw a bucket of cash it wanted and is somehow coercing both parties to get an unjustified payout.
It's not less than a millisecond, I think the minimum on-time is 15 milliseconds (you can go lower but you get disproportionate amounts of error).
It's an electrically-driven valve, a skinny tube with an injector at the end, which is embedded in the catalyst. When the fuel is released, it squirts out the injector and onto the catalyst. This causes it to decompose into steam (think putting hydrogen peroxide on a cut in your skin, but vastly more energetic). The steam is then accelerated out a nozzle, creating thrust.
As far as rocket engines go, it's not very efficient, and typically you have to heat the catalyst bed with a heater to keep the thermal shock of a firing from cracking the catalyst into dust. That, and development of "varnish" in the (tiny) injector passages - baked-on crud like a baking pan, is what causes them to wear out. One or both of those is apparently a factor in degradation of the prime attitude control set.
It's not terribly good for attitude control purposes due to the limited pulse life in the "fire once, wait 3 days, fire again" duty cycle, but it has the advantage of being very small (0.15 or so lb) and very inexpensive (I think something like $20000 a piece now, much less at the time) and has an extraordinary number of flights on it.
For these thrusters (which I think are Aerojet 0.2-lb monoprop, MR-103 series), there's nothing to degrade from mere age or vacuum, and the environmental thermal cycling is negligible. So it is not that surprising that they still work. Using them is another story, and pulsing certainly does degrade them (eventually - hundreds of thousands of pulses).
It's not terribly unusual to switch to redundant equipment after decades and have it work. Essentially we rely on that working, and I have seen many examples of it working perfectly well. Vacuum is a very good storage medium for anything that does not outgas. Radiation degrades solid-state electronics and power supply components (particularly high-voltage components) are somewhat prone to degrading from age or outgassing. Longest I have personally been involved with is a prime flight computer that was believed to have failed on the day after the launch that was turned on 32 years later as a final test, and that worked fine for at least a few hours. But other components were switched to (of necessity) after ~20 years fired right up and worked fine, showing the same parameters as the day we turned it off.
Yes, that will compile. It won't pass the most facile test, so I hardly see the problem. You can do equivalently stupid stuff in any language. Or use "Implicit none" like most civilized people.
Oberth was the real deal, but Willy Ley was more of a promoter and "rocket buff" than he was an engineer. He was somewhat instrumental in VfR but Von Braun learned little or nothing from him. For example, Willy Ley and Nebel came up with the idea to build the combustion chamber into the LOX tank, for instance - what is the partial pressure of LOX at 1000 degrees?
The VfR was a bizarre assemblage of scientists, publicity seekers/promoters, engineers, machinists, and rocket buffs, and various hangers-on. Von Braun came on as a student but quickly became the brains of the operation, and the results speak for themselves, however you want to interpret them...
Why the heck would anyone expect a CEO to know the details of the software implementation? It's not his job to know, nor would I expect him to know, and whatever understanding he might have is probably not to be trusted.
Other people in the company should know, but this, come on?
Ultimately, this appears to be a contract. Children cannot agree to contracts, and the school can't enter them into a contract without parental consent. So, kids, do whatever you want with your Google doodles, they are yours.
Yes, that's what internet space buffs always say. It flies in the face of the experience of the space program to date, but it's easy to say sitting behind a keyboard.
Also for the record, the radio version of Gunsmoke was arguably even better. Many times, innocent people get killed horribly or pointlessly, the bad guys get away, and the show just ends that way. The producers of the radio show resisted making a TV show because they knew they would water it down, which led to them having it taken away from them and getting watered down.
Even the last episode was entirely matter-of-fact. Dillon had to evict someone from a farm for a minor problem with the paperwork that could easily have been worked out, had the guy who was taking advantage of them even slightly compromised, but didn't. Dillon refused to evict them. Eventually they send a deputy sheriff out to do it, he locks them up. It gets worked out, but asks, "hey won't you get in trouble for that?" and he says "Yes. I always wanted to know what California was like, anyway". End of show, end of series nothing else, after 10 years.
That problem was more-or-less already solved - if you have sufficient inertial guidance to go up (which the Saturn V certainly had) and stabilize the rocket, you can certainly add the less demanding navigation system.
Computer technology of the 60s was not a significant limiting factor for these missions, and having a lot of computer power (and associated endless software bloat) may actually be a liability now.
They could, and they had some notion of it, back in the early 60s. The reason they didn't is that it cost too much in terms of performance. You have to carry landing gear of some sort and enough fuel to land, and also the necessary throttling engines to make it viable. That might cut the mass ratio of the stage by 30%.
Depends - If that warming of the earth / flooding and all the other resultant changes have led to world wars, tribalism and human societal collapse then yeah, maybe I would rather be living in a biodome on the moon.
Of all the things that might keep me up at night, it's wondering what world my children may have to deal with when they're my age.
You know what worries me? It's that we are going to have generations of children raised by people who taught them both directly and indirectly to be terrified of anything and everything. And by people who have absolutely no sense of perspective.
You are here, a putative adult, expressing existential fear over the modern equivalent of the boogieman. Your grandfather might have been willing to storm out of a landing craft into a hail of well-planned machine gun and artillery fire, your parents had to live with the very real and immediate possibility that every airplane that passed over might just have dropped a 1 megaton bomb on your your school, and it was very close to happening on at least 3 occasions. Now, you are living in the lap of luxury and security, but are terrified by a computer simulation?
Even if the most absurd climate predictions come true in every detail, you assume it will destroy human civilization? People have dealt with one problem after another, successfully. Human civilization survived The Plague, for Christ's sake, something that they had absolutely no defense for, and just had to sit around, hour after hour, day after day, for decades, not knowing if the next time they coughed it might mean they are dying in the next 48 hours. Now a slow, perhaps mythical, rise in sea level is going to reduce the world to chaos?
Are you at all aware that people have worried about equivalent issues, all far more likely than this gibberish, for the entire span of human history and probably far before? Ever hear of Holland?
Teaching your kids that everything is always on the edge of falling apart and we are helpless to do anything over trivial problems is the WORST POSSIBLE THING you could do for the future of civilizations.
Your post is one of the most pathetic things I have seen in my 56 years. Grow the fuck up and learn to deal with REAL LIFE.
Put aside the facts that San Francisco is turning into a complete and utter cesspool, almost literally, and that the chances that this plan is going to be implemented is lower than the chance you get hit by a meteorite on the way to pick up your PowerBall winnings with your new girlfriend Natalie Portman.
That aside why the heck are slashdot people so damn fascinated/obsessed with high-speed internet access? A huge number of people would be perfectly OK with 1meg service (i.e. a slight improvement over a phone modem) if it was dead-nuts reliable and you always got 1 meg, they are screwing around with social media that is mostly a text medium and playing youtube videos, what they heck are they going to do with 50-100 meg or higher?
No, it's not. If you give it away for free, the authors can't sell it.
Before anyone descends up me with their "information wants to be free" meme, the people creating "content" (for lack of a better word) spend time and effort to do it. It's perfectly reasonable that they should be compensated with more than a hale and hearty "thank you". Copyright as current constituted has all sorts of opportunities for abuse, and is abused all the time.
But, at the root, it's not a bad idea, if you do not permit the work to have any value, people will stop doing it. Stopping it might be a benefit to humanity if the work happens to be "The Emoji Move" or "Lone Ranger". But it will be a detriment if it prevents people producing valuable work from benefitting from it.
The people you want to protect with copyright are typically those who can't continue without some compensation.
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Right. And I am going to get that you are an imbecile.
Have you ever wondered about *why* white people from the suburbs are successful? It's not the "white power structure" or racism. It's that we aren't programmed to fail by being told nonsense about how the world actually works.
I know your handlers have devised an automatic and senseless way to dismiss it, white privilege. Grow the hell up and think for yourself, or continue to fail.
On the contrary - the liberal and PC education/brainwashing system is churning out sociopaths like you.
Here's a clue from a responsible adult - if you go into the world and treat the police like an enemy, or teach your kids the same - you are going to be in for a very rough time. Not because of the police - because of your own actions and statements.
Anti-capitalist rants are the bread-and-butter of /.
He appears to have some issue, bizarrely, with Nestle', but no. My takeaway was that he needed to be slapped up side the head and told to act like a fucking grown-up.
The other responses explain part of the issue, but a critical problem is that when one plant slows down, they all have to slow down to avoid creating a significant phase difference. You can only tolerate the tiniest of tiny out-of-phase generation between any two plants, or you end up really blowing something up.
During Christianity's existence, we have gone from the vast majority of the human population living at a subsistence level and using beasts of burden like they did for the previous 10,000 years, to creating economic systems that results in growing far more than enough food to feed everyone, raising the standard of living by orders of magnitude for virtually everyone, putting men on the moon, stamping out slavery and indentured servitude, wiping out most of the omnicidal maniacs that plagued humanity from the start of the agricultural revolution. The only remaining omnicidal maniacs left are those who actively see this tremendous advancement as a threat to their psychotic vision, which it is.
So, tell me genius, the vast, vast majority of the founders of modern science were Christians, Newton and Descartes being particularly notable for their rather extreme views even in their day. Why is it that modern keyboard warriors who have accomplished *nearly nothing* in their lives aside from snarky comments about other people on the internet feel in any way qualified to pass judgement on the world's largest religion?
It's perfectly clear why this is. You *have* to publish something, whether it has wider merit or not. So you end up with a large number of probably correct and probably original paper, that nonetheless don't advance the state of the art and don't get any cites. There's a very strong disincentive to wait until you have something genuinely unique and innovative.
Fuck you. We have already bettered the world by defending it from every fascist despot that came along in the 20th century and vastly raised the standard of living for the vast majority of the world. All the while, one bunch of mincing Euro-trash whiners bleated on about "cultural imperialism" while their economies were freed from having to defend themeselves and they routinely backed up the dump trucks to the IMF and other US-backed funding sources for their weekly infusion of those horrible US Dollars.
The Paris Accords are entirely and solely about extracting money from the US Taxpayer - and we are going to meet and exceed the emissions goals even without it.
If I was dumb enough to rent my house out to strangers, I would certainly want some sort of monitoring to keep them from, or at least be able to charge them for, trashing it. I don't think you should have an expectation of privacy when you are guest in someone else's home.
Of course, I would never even imagine doing something as foolish as renting my house out to strangers that I haven't checked out and trust.
Apple doesn't owe any taxes in Ireland, as defined by the laws of Ireland. The EU, a soon-to-be irrelevant third party, saw a bucket of cash it wanted and is somehow coercing both parties to get an unjustified payout.
It's not less than a millisecond, I think the minimum on-time is 15 milliseconds (you can go lower but you get disproportionate amounts of error).
It's an electrically-driven valve, a skinny tube with an injector at the end, which is embedded in the catalyst. When the fuel is released, it squirts out the injector and onto the catalyst. This causes it to decompose into steam (think putting hydrogen peroxide on a cut in your skin, but vastly more energetic). The steam is then accelerated out a nozzle, creating thrust.
As far as rocket engines go, it's not very efficient, and typically you have to heat the catalyst bed with a heater to keep the thermal shock of a firing from cracking the catalyst into dust. That, and development of "varnish" in the (tiny) injector passages - baked-on crud like a baking pan, is what causes them to wear out. One or both of those is apparently a factor in degradation of the prime attitude control set.
It's not terribly good for attitude control purposes due to the limited pulse life in the "fire once, wait 3 days, fire again" duty cycle, but it has the advantage of being very small (0.15 or so lb) and very inexpensive (I think something like $20000 a piece now, much less at the time) and has an extraordinary number of flights on it.
For these thrusters (which I think are Aerojet 0.2-lb monoprop, MR-103 series), there's nothing to degrade from mere age or vacuum, and the environmental thermal cycling is negligible. So it is not that surprising that they still work. Using them is another story, and pulsing certainly does degrade them (eventually - hundreds of thousands of pulses).
It's not terribly unusual to switch to redundant equipment after decades and have it work. Essentially we rely on that working, and I have seen many examples of it working perfectly well. Vacuum is a very good storage medium for anything that does not outgas. Radiation degrades solid-state electronics and power supply components (particularly high-voltage components) are somewhat prone to degrading from age or outgassing. Longest I have personally been involved with is a prime flight computer that was believed to have failed on the day after the launch that was turned on 32 years later as a final test, and that worked fine for at least a few hours. But other components were switched to (of necessity) after ~20 years fired right up and worked fine, showing the same parameters as the day we turned it off.
Yes, that will compile. It won't pass the most facile test, so I hardly see the problem. You can do equivalently stupid stuff in any language. Or use "Implicit none" like most civilized people.
Oberth was the real deal, but Willy Ley was more of a promoter and "rocket buff" than he was an engineer. He was somewhat instrumental in VfR but Von Braun learned little or nothing from him. For example, Willy Ley and Nebel came up with the idea to build the combustion chamber into the LOX tank, for instance - what is the partial pressure of LOX at 1000 degrees?
The VfR was a bizarre assemblage of scientists, publicity seekers/promoters, engineers, machinists, and rocket buffs, and various hangers-on. Von Braun came on as a student but quickly became the brains of the operation, and the results speak for themselves, however you want to interpret them...
Why the heck would anyone expect a CEO to know the details of the software implementation? It's not his job to know, nor would I expect him to know, and whatever understanding he might have is probably not to be trusted.
Other people in the company should know, but this, come on?
Ultimately, this appears to be a contract. Children cannot agree to contracts, and the school can't enter them into a contract without parental consent. So, kids, do whatever you want with your Google doodles, they are yours.
If nothing else, copyright applies.
Yes, that's what internet space buffs always say. It flies in the face of the experience of the space program to date, but it's easy to say sitting behind a keyboard.
Also for the record, the radio version of Gunsmoke was arguably even better. Many times, innocent people get killed horribly or pointlessly, the bad guys get away, and the show just ends that way. The producers of the radio show resisted making a TV show because they knew they would water it down, which led to them having it taken away from them and getting watered down.
Even the last episode was entirely matter-of-fact. Dillon had to evict someone from a farm for a minor problem with the paperwork that could easily have been worked out, had the guy who was taking advantage of them even slightly compromised, but didn't. Dillon refused to evict them. Eventually they send a deputy sheriff out to do it, he locks them up. It gets worked out, but asks, "hey won't you get in trouble for that?" and he says "Yes. I always wanted to know what California was like, anyway". End of show, end of series nothing else, after 10 years.
That problem was more-or-less already solved - if you have sufficient inertial guidance to go up (which the Saturn V certainly had) and stabilize the rocket, you can certainly add the less demanding navigation system.
Computer technology of the 60s was not a significant limiting factor for these missions, and having a lot of computer power (and associated endless software bloat) may actually be a liability now.
They could, and they had some notion of it, back in the early 60s. The reason they didn't is that it cost too much in terms of performance. You have to carry landing gear of some sort and enough fuel to land, and also the necessary throttling engines to make it viable. That might cut the mass ratio of the stage by 30%.
Try even further back (1917):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As soon as you had fixed prices that people could choose themselves, this was standard practice.
You know what worries me? It's that we are going to have generations of children raised by people who taught them both directly and indirectly to be terrified of anything and everything. And by people who have absolutely no sense of perspective.
You are here, a putative adult, expressing existential fear over the modern equivalent of the boogieman. Your grandfather might have been willing to storm out of a landing craft into a hail of well-planned machine gun and artillery fire, your parents had to live with the very real and immediate possibility that every airplane that passed over might just have dropped a 1 megaton bomb on your your school, and it was very close to happening on at least 3 occasions. Now, you are living in the lap of luxury and security, but are terrified by a computer simulation?
Even if the most absurd climate predictions come true in every detail, you assume it will destroy human civilization? People have dealt with one problem after another, successfully. Human civilization survived The Plague, for Christ's sake, something that they had absolutely no defense for, and just had to sit around, hour after hour, day after day, for decades, not knowing if the next time they coughed it might mean they are dying in the next 48 hours. Now a slow, perhaps mythical, rise in sea level is going to reduce the world to chaos?
Are you at all aware that people have worried about equivalent issues, all far more likely than this gibberish, for the entire span of human history and probably far before? Ever hear of Holland?
Teaching your kids that everything is always on the edge of falling apart and we are helpless to do anything over trivial problems is the WORST POSSIBLE THING you could do for the future of civilizations.
Your post is one of the most pathetic things I have seen in my 56 years. Grow the fuck up and learn to deal with REAL LIFE.
Put aside the facts that San Francisco is turning into a complete and utter cesspool, almost literally, and that the chances that this plan is going to be implemented is lower than the chance you get hit by a meteorite on the way to pick up your PowerBall winnings with your new girlfriend Natalie Portman.
That aside why the heck are slashdot people so damn fascinated/obsessed with high-speed internet access? A huge number of people would be perfectly OK with 1meg service (i.e. a slight improvement over a phone modem) if it was dead-nuts reliable and you always got 1 meg, they are screwing around with social media that is mostly a text medium and playing youtube videos, what they heck are they going to do with 50-100 meg or higher?
No, it's not. If you give it away for free, the authors can't sell it.
Before anyone descends up me with their "information wants to be free" meme, the people creating "content" (for lack of a better word) spend time and effort to do it. It's perfectly reasonable that they should be compensated with more than a hale and hearty "thank you". Copyright as current constituted has all sorts of opportunities for abuse, and is abused all the time.
But, at the root, it's not a bad idea, if you do not permit the work to have any value, people will stop doing it. Stopping it might be a benefit to humanity if the work happens to be "The Emoji Move" or "Lone Ranger". But it will be a detriment if it prevents people producing valuable work from benefitting from it.
The people you want to protect with copyright are typically those who can't continue without some compensation.