Well I guess it would be a great idea if we got all of our energy from non fossil sources. Solar, wind, fission, fusion. So in a sense I agree, but one day they could be useful.
But there's really no reason to rule out a giant rubber band.
It's true. A few months back some fat guys from our IT department asked me to join their poker game. It was cool the first few weeks. Then one night they drugged me and performed reverse liposuction. Now they are all skinny and I have the fatness of five fat sys admins!
Well something tells me that electronics can take care of itself - the private sector is doing that very well. As for rocket technology, it just is a different thing. And besides, who needs it ? What people want is not blurry pictures from Mars, but crisp images of episodes of BG on their phones. I think the technology-apollo link was propaganda, or an urban legend. Has any serious study of this ever been done, or is it just stuff everyone "knows about" since they heard it when they were 14 ?
My view on this is that it is cool to know, and you gotta check it out, but if we just wait 50 years it will be a lot cheaper to do, and it won't matter much about the delay. I mean, no one seriously thinks we could go to Mars soon, right ? Except maybe Archimedes Plutonium and Lyndon Larouche and George Bush.
OK I know the above is flamebait, and is bad because it obscures a true issue. Namely, that I teach senior IT majors at a decent engineering university and often they don't know how to do even some of thesimplest stuff I would expect, even for windows users. They are often confused about what bits and bytes are, and when I asked them some basic operating system things they were pretty confused (like the fact that the operating systems allocates memory). If I ask them to write a 10 line C++ or Java program they moan. I actually think some of them may have been computer phobic, as crazy as that sounds.
What happened ? It worked. It broke the economy of the Soviet Union. Of course, the technology largely didn't work. Like the x-ray space weapon proposed by Edward Teller.
Actually, I think they did that on purpose. Tony Stark became an alcoholic in issue 100+something of the original series. And he's always supposed to have been a playboy.
It is hard to evaluate this from the press release. People have tried all sorts of variations, including ditching the whole pattern thing for true color (Carver Mead) and the results are about the same as other cameras.
Slashdot Mirror
If they were forcing people to not use google search, that would be news. But who cares about this ?
No but it might be indistinguishable from the David Hasselhorf video.
Well I guess it would be a great idea if we got all of our energy from non fossil sources. Solar, wind, fission, fusion. So in a sense I agree, but one day they could be useful.
But there's really no reason to rule out a giant rubber band.
They did when I bought my 2nd generation 20 gig, but they didn't on my nano.
As a skinny man, I am deeply offended by your remark.
It's true. A few months back some fat guys from our IT department asked me to join their poker game. It was cool the first few weeks. Then one night they drugged me and performed reverse liposuction. Now they are all skinny and I have the fatness of five fat sys admins!
If you are hanging around with gay people you probably are gay.
well, I guess, since you are what you eat.
Well something tells me that electronics can take care of itself - the private sector is doing that very well. As for rocket technology, it just is a different thing. And besides, who needs it ? What people want is not blurry pictures from Mars, but crisp images of episodes of BG on their phones. I think the technology-apollo link was propaganda, or an urban legend. Has any serious study of this ever been done, or is it just stuff everyone "knows about" since they heard it when they were 14 ?
No. Most optical quality mirrors are about 99% reflective. Look it up in the edmund scientific catalog.
In recent years
....) 500 million
NIH: $28 billion
NSF $5.5 billion
NASA $16 billion
NSF Math and Physical sciences : 135 million in 2002
NSF CISE (Computer
Nasa's Spirit probe $820million
Viking missions cost $935 million in 1974[1] or $3.5 billion in 1997 dollars
My view on this is that it is cool to know, and you gotta check it out, but if we just wait 50 years it will be a lot cheaper to do, and it won't matter much about the delay. I mean, no one seriously thinks we could go to Mars soon, right ? Except maybe Archimedes Plutonium and Lyndon Larouche and George Bush.
Well I guess technically you could say that "ls" was not part of Unix, but it is kind of fundamental.
OK I know the above is flamebait, and is bad because it obscures a true issue. Namely, that I teach senior IT majors at a decent engineering university and often they don't know how to do even some of thesimplest stuff I would expect, even for windows users. They are often confused about what bits and bytes are, and when I asked them some basic operating system things they were pretty confused (like the fact that the operating systems allocates memory). If I ask them to write a 10 line C++ or Java program they moan. I actually think some of them may have been computer phobic, as crazy as that sounds.
Some journals are > 10,000 per year.
Yechh! I'll have the crab juice.
What happened ? It worked. It broke the economy of the Soviet Union. Of course, the technology largely didn't work. Like the x-ray space weapon proposed by Edward Teller.
Actually, I think they did that on purpose. Tony Stark became an alcoholic in issue 100+something of the original series. And he's always supposed to have been a playboy.
Actually the main insight behind the compression of jpgs iis the Fourier transform.
It is hard to evaluate this from the press release. People have tried all sorts of variations, including ditching the whole pattern thing for true color (Carver Mead) and the results are about the same as other cameras.
Microsoft makes floss ? Also, I mean, good dental hygiene is important, but it can be done at home.
HAIL Joan Rivers!
Read my sig - they did it at Bell in 2003.
A guy did this at Bell Labs 2 years ago, and around the same time so did some French company that was going to put them in cell phones.
My Lisp code says you are a troll! (Just kidding....)