GP AC was unfairly dissing SpaceX. Yes, this *is* a big deal.
OTOH, you are unfairly dissing the DC-X. It was a proof-of-concept model of the eventual full-size Delta Clipper ship. Of course it didn't go very high or far, it was a small scale model built for testing the initial concept before shelling out the big bucks for the real thing.
It was revolutionary for its time. Up until the DC-X flew, many in the industry did not believe a rocket could be made to hover in midair and fly sideways. The fact that some idiot forgot to connect one of the legs and it tipped over and caught fire speaks more about NASA incompetence than anything wrong with the DC-X team.
I don't believe there was any direct technology transfer from the DC-X program to the Falcon 9R, but you can bet your ass that Elon had seen the DC-X flight videos and possibly drew inspiration from it.
Translation: some Air Force brass are getting board seats in some corporation X after retirement, so of course they don't want to open the bidding and allow SpaceX to take the contract.
People can survive quite well without the care of physicians. Going without food is more difficult.
This. But we're talking about a deep understanding of agriculture and plant biology, not modern farming with GPS-guided combines and Monsanto round-up seeds.One would need to know how farming was done in ages past.
And also since we're assuming a post-apocalyptic world in which computer programmers are useless due to a lack of electricity, I'd say even more important than farming knowledge is fighting knowledge. Having guns and ammo (LOTS of ammo) and knowing how to use them. Shooting a gun accurately may seem simple to the uninitiated, but it takes considerable training and practice. Also knowing how to fix guns (gunsmithing) will be an important skill.
The holy grail in this world would be having the chemistry knowledge and experience to make your own gunpowder and ammo. If you could do that, you'd become THE most important person a local warlord could have in his court.
What? Only one of those accepts immigration in any significant numbers.
Japan is notoriously xenophobic and does not let immigrants in (hence the crazy search for robot nurses). Korea is only slightly less so. Chinese are generally not as xenophobic as these two, but China has so many people already that there's still a huge outflow of people out of China into all corners of the world.
Majority of the cars on the road are driven by a single driver with no passengers. Just look around next time you're driving.
I am unfamiliar with ham radio and I've never seen one in a car or a truck, so I will not comment. However semi truck drivers with CB radios are: 1. limited by radio protocol and the half-duplex nature of radio as to what they can talk about, and 2. limited to talking to a very small number of other truck drivers in transmission range.
On the other hand, drivers using cellphones are 1. talking about anything and everything, and 2. able to talk to ~90% of the human population.
Having kids throwing crap and yelling "DAD HE IS HITTING ME!" is certainly highly distracting. But go outside with a telephoto lens and sample a thousand cars. How many drivers are talking on their cell, and how many drivers are getting pelted by kids throwing stuff at them at any given moment?
no, launch costs are expensive because they throw away all that carefully researched and manufactured hardware after one use.
A Boeing 787 is pretty expensive too, at like $300 million each (actually it would cost billions each if they made only a few of them as they currently do in the space industry). But they reuse it thousands of times and that's how you can fly in one for a few hundred bucks.
SpaceX Grasshopper will be key to the future of space exploration.
You do realize the last time this happened, humans were hunter-gatherers using stone tools, and we survived just fine. Why would you think that the world's gonna end the next time the magnetosphere collapses and reverses polarity?
Sure some of our societies and governments might collapse, but humans as a species are in no danger of extinction.
but the simple method of firing 10% of the worst teachers and reassigning their students to the rest does more to improve schools than anything else.
Most teachers know who the worst of the worst are. Principals know.
If union rules make such an act impossible, keep these 10% worst teachers on payroll and have them sit around watching youtube, but send their students to better teachers.
*You* are hearing the same thing over and over again. There are other people who might be seeing this for the first time.
Or am I wrong and the entire ad industry is insane? Everybody at Google is insane?
When you have an important message to convey to the masses, it makes sense to repeat the message until everybody gets it or you reach a saturation point where it might backfire.
Beta sucks btw, but they can keep it as long as I can go into settings and choose the classic skin.
I can't promise we'll implement every suggestion (indeed, many are contradictory), but we absolutely consider them.
You only need to implement ONE suggestion and everyone will be happy. Let people continue to use Classic interface if they choose. That's all you need to do.
Actually I feel the same way about San Francisco. Once every century or so they enjoy a magnitude 9 earthquake. Obviously not the best place to build a densely populated city. Yet after the last magnitude 9 quake, the city leaders and rich elites deliberately downplayed the damage and death toll because they wanted people to come back to the city. They were protecting their wealth, which were tied to the S.F. real estate values.
They didn't leave cave paintings or anything that indicates capacity for symbolic reasoning.
Cro-Magnon man on the other hand, left shitloads of evidence like art and jewelry. Those cave painting in France are very extremely well done, probably better drawn than 95% of current human population could do.
as a website maker (I hesitate to use the term developer on slashdot since javascript and php get a lot of hate), I load tons of pages from my own computer -- both my own coded pages and prepackaged stuff like Prestashop ecommerce software and Joomla. And loading pages from localhost is even faster than Google Gigabit fiber internet.
And guess what, it's nice but not life-changing. For example, doing ecommerce admin on a live customer website on the internet via DSL, vs. doing the same thing on my test localhost site. It's faster and less laggy but nothing I would kill for.
The difference between dialup internet and decent cable/DSL was way bigger.
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autonomous cars don't suffer any more damage from potholes than regular cars.
sounds as if they're holding this event in space, like on the ISS or a Bigelow orbiting tent or something.
I'm suing for false advertising.
if it can't block a simple kinetic projectile, it's not a "shield".
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!
try the Rubik's Tesseract.
Since humans can't actually manipulate 4-D objects (yet), you'll have to settle for a computer simulation. Still fun though.
it would sink even faster. All the water would slide off of it, and the car would drop to the bottom of the lake like it's in a freefall!
GP AC was unfairly dissing SpaceX. Yes, this *is* a big deal.
OTOH, you are unfairly dissing the DC-X. It was a proof-of-concept model of the eventual full-size Delta Clipper ship. Of course it didn't go very high or far, it was a small scale model built for testing the initial concept before shelling out the big bucks for the real thing.
It was revolutionary for its time. Up until the DC-X flew, many in the industry did not believe a rocket could be made to hover in midair and fly sideways. The fact that some idiot forgot to connect one of the legs and it tipped over and caught fire speaks more about NASA incompetence than anything wrong with the DC-X team.
I don't believe there was any direct technology transfer from the DC-X program to the Falcon 9R, but you can bet your ass that Elon had seen the DC-X flight videos and possibly drew inspiration from it.
Translation: some Air Force brass are getting board seats in some corporation X after retirement, so of course they don't want to open the bidding and allow SpaceX to take the contract.
People can survive quite well without the care of physicians. Going without food is more difficult.
This. But we're talking about a deep understanding of agriculture and plant biology, not modern farming with GPS-guided combines and Monsanto round-up seeds.One would need to know how farming was done in ages past.
And also since we're assuming a post-apocalyptic world in which computer programmers are useless due to a lack of electricity, I'd say even more important than farming knowledge is fighting knowledge. Having guns and ammo (LOTS of ammo) and knowing how to use them. Shooting a gun accurately may seem simple to the uninitiated, but it takes considerable training and practice. Also knowing how to fix guns (gunsmithing) will be an important skill.
The holy grail in this world would be having the chemistry knowledge and experience to make your own gunpowder and ammo. If you could do that, you'd become THE most important person a local warlord could have in his court.
What? Only one of those accepts immigration in any significant numbers.
Japan is notoriously xenophobic and does not let immigrants in (hence the crazy search for robot nurses). Korea is only slightly less so. Chinese are generally not as xenophobic as these two, but China has so many people already that there's still a huge outflow of people out of China into all corners of the world.
Majority of the cars on the road are driven by a single driver with no passengers. Just look around next time you're driving.
I am unfamiliar with ham radio and I've never seen one in a car or a truck, so I will not comment. However semi truck drivers with CB radios are:
1. limited by radio protocol and the half-duplex nature of radio as to what they can talk about, and 2. limited to talking to a very small number of other truck drivers in transmission range.
On the other hand, drivers using cellphones are 1. talking about anything and everything, and 2. able to talk to ~90% of the human population.
Having kids throwing crap and yelling "DAD HE IS HITTING ME!" is certainly highly distracting. But go outside with a telephoto lens and sample a thousand cars. How many drivers are talking on their cell, and how many drivers are getting pelted by kids throwing stuff at them at any given moment?
no, launch costs are expensive because they throw away all that carefully researched and manufactured hardware after one use.
A Boeing 787 is pretty expensive too, at like $300 million each (actually it would cost billions each if they made only a few of them as they currently do in the space industry). But they reuse it thousands of times and that's how you can fly in one for a few hundred bucks.
SpaceX Grasshopper will be key to the future of space exploration.
You do realize the last time this happened, humans were hunter-gatherers using stone tools, and we survived just fine. Why would you think that the world's gonna end the next time the magnetosphere collapses and reverses polarity?
Sure some of our societies and governments might collapse, but humans as a species are in no danger of extinction.
but the simple method of firing 10% of the worst teachers and reassigning their students to the rest does more to improve schools than anything else.
Most teachers know who the worst of the worst are. Principals know.
If union rules make such an act impossible, keep these 10% worst teachers on payroll and have them sit around watching youtube, but send their students to better teachers.
and anything it sees that's in your favor, they can just discard.
That's how it works currently when it comes to other kinds of evidence, no reason to think Glass data will be any different.
*You* are hearing the same thing over and over again. There are other people who might be seeing this for the first time.
Or am I wrong and the entire ad industry is insane? Everybody at Google is insane?
When you have an important message to convey to the masses, it makes sense to repeat the message until everybody gets it or you reach a saturation point where it might backfire.
Beta sucks btw, but they can keep it as long as I can go into settings and choose the classic skin.
like the cord-cutters who are getting shafted by NBC/cable companies, we Slashdot users are getting boned by Dice with the forced Beta.
Make all the beta skins you want, but allow logged-in users to choose Classic.
The day Classic disappears as an option is the day 90% of slashdot members are gone.
they tried to load Slashdot Beta on the iWatch and it exploded, taking out several hipster Apple testers.
I can't promise we'll implement every suggestion (indeed, many are contradictory), but we absolutely consider them.
You only need to implement ONE suggestion and everyone will be happy. Let people continue to use Classic interface if they choose. That's all you need to do.
Is there even a need for any coding? I thought Slashcode was open source already.
reddit, duh. All the bitcoin pump and dump artists hang out there, it's the worldwide HQ of bitcoin bandwagonism.
Actually I feel the same way about San Francisco. Once every century or so they enjoy a magnitude 9 earthquake. Obviously not the best place to build a densely populated city. Yet after the last magnitude 9 quake, the city leaders and rich elites deliberately downplayed the damage and death toll because they wanted people to come back to the city. They were protecting their wealth, which were tied to the S.F. real estate values.
the glacier will break Mach 1 by 2016 when Hillary is president and Al Gore is secretary of state.
They didn't leave cave paintings or anything that indicates capacity for symbolic reasoning.
Cro-Magnon man on the other hand, left shitloads of evidence like art and jewelry. Those cave painting in France are very extremely well done, probably better drawn than 95% of current human population could do.
as a website maker (I hesitate to use the term developer on slashdot since javascript and php get a lot of hate), I load tons of pages from my own computer -- both my own coded pages and prepackaged stuff like Prestashop ecommerce software and Joomla. And loading pages from localhost is even faster than Google Gigabit fiber internet.
And guess what, it's nice but not life-changing. For example, doing ecommerce admin on a live customer website on the internet via DSL, vs. doing the same thing on my test localhost site. It's faster and less laggy but nothing I would kill for.
The difference between dialup internet and decent cable/DSL was way bigger.