not like anybody's really gonna want to type code using a virtual keyboard on a 9.7 inch screen. Hell, it took me two minutes just to type slashdot.org to get here!
if they invent one that's over 99% effective, and lasts a lifetime instead of having to get a different shot every season, then yeah I would say all of this will be history.
Google Chrome is on version 23, so I suspect Firefox won't rest until they've at least achieved parity with Chrome in the "Browser Version Number Wars".
+This. The crew on the REAL trip would be a lot more motivated than this "simulation" bunch.
Plus the real crew would consist of men with balls of steel, ones who truly have the right stuff. Can you imagine Neil Armstrong or John Glenn lounging like a couch potato?
The writer Mike Hunt showed in his essay that pant snugness and violent crime are closely correlated. Tight pants, high crime, loose pants, low crime. The crime wave peaked in the late 70's just when the Bee Gees were trying to stay alive in those tight pants.
I kinda miss the usenet. Those were the good old days. At least until the spammers arrived. And Scientology sporge in 2000.
An all-free no advertising internet might be a good thing. Kinda like a world with only FOSS computers, no Apple or Windows. Sure, the general public would miss their Twitter and Facebook but computer geeks would rejoice.
yeah, not a big deal. So you didn't get into MIT CS department, so what... go to a community college and then transfer to a state uni. All that matters is that you have a CS degree, that's enough to open any door as long as you actually know how to code.
And in the Hobbit's case, longer, and longer, and...... just waay too long. LOTR movies had 1000 pages of book to fill them with interesting content. Hobbit, not so much. In many of the scenes you can almost feel the director guy just out of camera view making that "stretch" motion with his hands.
If you're talking about the DC-X, well it became a complete failure after NASA took it over. But prior to that, it was a complete success. It achieved all of its design goals and its mission purpose. Which were:
1. Build a working scale model of the proposed Delta Clipper ship. Fly it as an X program. (a real X program that flies stuff like the X-1, not a computer simulation only-deal like the X-33)
2. Demonstrate the feasibility of a vertical takeoff / vertical landing rocket. Done. Test SSTO (single stage to orbit) concepts and operation procedures in test flight. Done. Prior to this, it wasn't thought possible to fly a vertical takeoff and landing ship at low speed, or to control its attitude from vertical to horizontal and back to vertical.
Afterwards, NASA took over the program, somewhat reluctantly since they already had a competing big-budget program (the X-33). Some might say NASA wanted it to fail. Regardless, it didn't crash, not even in NASA hands. On its last flight, it landed flawlessly. It just toppled over after landing because a NASA technician forgot to connect the landing gear control mechanism and one of the gears folded. It exploded from toppling over and spilling fuel due to a careless mistake, not because of any flaws in the ship design or the program itself.
I used to play a turn-based gamed called VGA Planets. It was play-by-email. Usually a turn would be played once per day. We'd complete our moves, generate a play file, UUencode it, and copy/paste into email body and send it. The host would process everybody's moves and email back the results for the next days' turn.
With 60 minute lag internet, play-by-email could make a comeback...
the upper torso area should be bigger than this, and the tube from shoulders down to the elbows should be of a larger diameter.
That way, you will be able to pull your arms into the torso area and use your hand to access the inside of the suit.
What's the advantage? You can scratch your face or your back. This is very important! Going for long periods without the ability to scratch an itch is very demoralizing psychologically. Plus by having access to your face, you can wipe away tears, blow your nose, and do many other things.
Another plus is in the event of a puncture. With current spacesuits, you're pretty much toast. With the big suit, you can put a finger on the puncture from the inside. This will allow you to hold pressure almost indefinitely.
why so long? Biology ain't my thing, but I fail to see what's so different about humans than sheep or dogs. Is human DNA that much more complex than other mammals?
I thought the problem was more of an ethical one rather than technical. My understanding is that to clone an animal, you must create lots of fetuses and most of them die until you get a successful one. Acceptable for sheep, not acceptable for humans. Is that right?
Re:I'm sick of self-proclaimed "nerds" and "geeks"
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Book Review: Terrible Nerd
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· Score: 3, Informative
the book's author seems to be a genuine nerd. Computer and electronics wizard? Check. Physically weak and dreaded gym classes? Check. Withdrawn and indoors most of the time? Check.
Slashdot Mirror
it has... Canadian Technology!
they've made Starcraft mandatory learning.
not like anybody's really gonna want to type code using a virtual keyboard on a 9.7 inch screen. Hell, it took me two minutes just to type slashdot.org to get here!
to Dreamliner's problems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_P77VEPKA
if they invent one that's over 99% effective, and lasts a lifetime instead of having to get a different shot every season, then yeah I would say all of this will be history.
(food stamps aren't legal for restaurant/prepared food)
In California they are. Most of the fast-food restaurants here accept EBT.
Not any more. My Firefox just updated itself to ESR 10.0.12 while reading your post!
Google Chrome is on version 23, so I suspect Firefox won't rest until they've at least achieved parity with Chrome in the "Browser Version Number Wars".
+This. The crew on the REAL trip would be a lot more motivated than this "simulation" bunch.
Plus the real crew would consist of men with balls of steel, ones who truly have the right stuff. Can you imagine Neil Armstrong or John Glenn lounging like a couch potato?
The writer Mike Hunt showed in his essay that pant snugness and violent crime are closely correlated. Tight pants, high crime, loose pants, low crime. The crime wave peaked in the late 70's just when the Bee Gees were trying to stay alive in those tight pants.
Google will be quietly allowed back into China. The timing of this news will coincide with some other big event, such as a new iPad release.
for opening up China to trade. (granted he thought he was doing good by dividing the Communist bloc and weakening the Soviets)
Free unrestricted trade is NOT a 100% universally good thing, no matter how much our glorious corporations and econ professors tell us so.
I kinda miss the usenet. Those were the good old days. At least until the spammers arrived. And Scientology sporge in 2000.
An all-free no advertising internet might be a good thing. Kinda like a world with only FOSS computers, no Apple or Windows. Sure, the general public would miss their Twitter and Facebook but computer geeks would rejoice.
You participated in research as a CS undergrad?
yeah, not a big deal. So you didn't get into MIT CS department, so what... go to a community college and then transfer to a state uni. All that matters is that you have a CS degree, that's enough to open any door as long as you actually know how to code.
which stats suggest just keep getting longer"
And in the Hobbit's case, longer, and longer, and...... just waay too long. LOTR movies had 1000 pages of book to fill them with interesting content. Hobbit, not so much. In many of the scenes you can almost feel the director guy just out of camera view making that "stretch" motion with his hands.
This will protect us from cosmic rays: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Edam/ST2.jpg
After all, their current-gen Soyuz capsule and R-7 rocket were designed in the 1950's (by their legendary Chief Designer Korolev)
If the Russians built game consoles, they'd still be running Super NES.
If you're talking about the DC-X, well it became a complete failure after NASA took it over. But prior to that, it was a complete success. It achieved all of its design goals and its mission purpose. Which were:
1. Build a working scale model of the proposed Delta Clipper ship. Fly it as an X program. (a real X program that flies stuff like the X-1, not a computer simulation only-deal like the X-33)
2. Demonstrate the feasibility of a vertical takeoff / vertical landing rocket. Done. Test SSTO (single stage to orbit) concepts and operation procedures in test flight. Done. Prior to this, it wasn't thought possible to fly a vertical takeoff and landing ship at low speed, or to control its attitude from vertical to horizontal and back to vertical.
Afterwards, NASA took over the program, somewhat reluctantly since they already had a competing big-budget program (the X-33). Some might say NASA wanted it to fail. Regardless, it didn't crash, not even in NASA hands. On its last flight, it landed flawlessly. It just toppled over after landing because a NASA technician forgot to connect the landing gear control mechanism and one of the gears folded. It exploded from toppling over and spilling fuel due to a careless mistake, not because of any flaws in the ship design or the program itself.
Some viewpoint from people involved with the program:
Jerry Pournelle's Space Papers
What is an X Program?
I used to play a turn-based gamed called VGA Planets. It was play-by-email. Usually a turn would be played once per day. We'd complete our moves, generate a play file, UUencode it, and copy/paste into email body and send it. The host would process everybody's moves and email back the results for the next days' turn.
With 60 minute lag internet, play-by-email could make a comeback...
the upper torso area should be bigger than this, and the tube from shoulders down to the elbows should be of a larger diameter.
That way, you will be able to pull your arms into the torso area and use your hand to access the inside of the suit.
What's the advantage? You can scratch your face or your back. This is very important! Going for long periods without the ability to scratch an itch is very demoralizing psychologically. Plus by having access to your face, you can wipe away tears, blow your nose, and do many other things.
Another plus is in the event of a puncture. With current spacesuits, you're pretty much toast. With the big suit, you can put a finger on the puncture from the inside. This will allow you to hold pressure almost indefinitely.
two words: CRC check
why so long? Biology ain't my thing, but I fail to see what's so different about humans than sheep or dogs. Is human DNA that much more complex than other mammals?
I thought the problem was more of an ethical one rather than technical. My understanding is that to clone an animal, you must create lots of fetuses and most of them die until you get a successful one. Acceptable for sheep, not acceptable for humans. Is that right?
the book's author seems to be a genuine nerd. Computer and electronics wizard? Check. Physically weak and dreaded gym classes? Check. Withdrawn and indoors most of the time? Check.
Guns are simple mechanical devices; if a gun required a battery to work (say, a solenoid firing pin), I wouldn't touch it under any circumstances.
So if i gave you a M134 Minigun, and it was legal to own, you wouldn't touch it?