bezos also patented landing the 1st stage of a rocket on a barge. I guess he figures it would be cheaper than rustproofing and marine recovery. Although one wonders whether something so simple should be patentable... seems quite obvious if you want to avoid fishing your spent stage out of the sea.
You know how you can tell astronomy is a real science? The people doing it are willing to look at new evidence... even if it casts doubt on their current beliefs.
They do not insist that the "science is all settled".
They do not belittle those who come up with hypothesis or evidence that contradicts their current views. (notice that they didn't call this new researcher a "Denier")
They do not take polls amongst themselves and form a concensus, and then insist they're right on the strength of the fact that they have formed a concensus.
If you see people in a field of "science" doing any of the above, it's not science but something else entirely.
From March 1996 to December 2002, CAA recorded 35 aircraft safety-related incidents that were linked to cell phones, the authority said.
The reported interference incidents included interrupted communications due to noise in the flight crew's headphones, according to the study.
Even minor interference such as introducing static noise on flight crew's headsets can be a not-so-good thing during takeoffs and landings when the pilot already has his hands full.
People tend to be skeptical about this because in their normal daily existence, they do not see any problem with cellphones and do not experience interference with their other electronic devices (TV, computer, etc). But they need to keep in mind, an airliner is a different story... it's basically an enclosed metal cage with lots of electronics inside, plus several hundred passengers (all of whom can be carrying RF-emitting devices).
Nobody said electronic devices can "bring down" a plane. The issue has always been interference with a plane's navigation system. There have been documented cases where a jetliner mysteriously lost function in electronic systems, only to regain it after the flight crew went around turning off everyone's electronic gadgets. Some of them can emit quite a bit of RF.
Believing very strongly in the rightness of one's cause does not give one license to bend the truth (or outright lie, in this case). This leads to the idea that the end justifies the means.
written history only goes back to about 5000 years, I think ancient Sumerians (Iraqis) writing cuneiform on clay tablets.
To paraphrase a nerd, if the cro-magnons who left cave paintings 30,000 years ago in France could've written something, they would've written something.
In some other countries, government employees are smart and work hard. In South Korea for instance the gov't software all run on IE6 activeX plugins and are rock-solid.
Take Mars for instance. There was a lot of good scientific guesswork based on indirect observation, but when they finally sent a probe there, all the talk about canals and whatnot faded away...
well, the fact that it's an old one-of-a-kind reactor that's getting too difficult and expensive to maintain, with parts getting scarce and crews having to manufacture their own, doesn't really change just because you transfer the ownership from the Navy to some municipality.
there's a big difference between a crank somewhere in the wide world, and your own engineers that you hired for their expertise related to your enterprise.
As for reincarnation, you can view the Buddha's teaching as telling people that the existing religions and their insistence on reincarnation were nonsense. Realising that this is the only life we have and that following the Eightfold Path is the way to make the best of it - is part of enlightenment.
Listen friend, you can pick and choose parts of Buddhism that you like and incorporate them into your own philosophy, and reject things like reincarnation that you find incredible (not believable) as a Westerner. That's fine. But you cannot deny that reincarnation is fundamental to Buddhism -- which it is -- any more than you can deny the resurrection of Jesus and still be a Christian.
if you read too much Michael Shermer, why do you keep going to a temple? You should become James Randi's pupil or something.
BTW there are more than just superficial cultural differences between Buddhism sects. For instance you have the ones that still believe it's possible to achieve enlightenment -- including recall and mastery over your past lives -- through your own study and efforts. Then you have the other kind that that gave up -- they're basically praying for Buddha's second coming so that he will take you to the pure land (since you can't find your own way).
The former is not really a religion, more like a philosophy and a set of instructions (which is what Buddhism originally was). The latter is closer to modern religions such as Christianity and Islam.
I'm sure the bureaucrats in Brussels like their $1.5 billion headquarters... but really, does NATO still need to exist? Warsaw Pact is dead. Soviet Union is dead. Whatever NATO is doing, they can hand it off to the UN.
Talk about a bureaucracy existing for bureaucracy's sake.
I suppose 50 years from now we'll all still be stripping down and bending over at TSA checkpoints.
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bezos also patented landing the 1st stage of a rocket on a barge. I guess he figures it would be cheaper than rustproofing and marine recovery. Although one wonders whether something so simple should be patentable... seems quite obvious if you want to avoid fishing your spent stage out of the sea.
mod parent up... titanic fanbois are even more annoying than Apple fanbois.
I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs.
Wow, and this coming from a tenured physics professor...
Playstation network engineers, or fire them?
i'm sorry but that's just an inner glow, not a true drop shadow. Slashdot isn't up to that yet.
* Some users like to be reminded of their password if they forget. If you lost your password, what kind of email would you rather get?
"Your password has been reset, and your new password is dFgk3b&4k72"
or,
"Your password is iloveyou123"
* You might decide to fire up phpmyadmin and browse the `users` table for fun one day.
* If you're going to hash the passwords, you should salt it too, and that just introduces too much complexity and things to screw up. Keep it simple!
* Your boss doesn't know what a hash is, why should you?
You know how you can tell astronomy is a real science? The people doing it are willing to look at new evidence... even if it casts doubt on their current beliefs.
If you see people in a field of "science" doing any of the above, it's not science but something else entirely.
He's not asking for your money, so STFU. He's already getting enough money from NASA and corporations to build rockets for them -- and delivering.
In other words, a real company making a real product... unlike you.
you mean put biplane wings on a bullet?
Sounds practical...
you don't have $600? I have that much in my pocket right now and I work as an IT grunt.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/110576/cell_phones_still_pose_flight_risks.html
From March 1996 to December 2002, CAA recorded 35 aircraft safety-related incidents that were linked to cell phones, the authority said.
The reported interference incidents included interrupted communications due to noise in the flight crew's headphones, according to the study.
Even minor interference such as introducing static noise on flight crew's headsets can be a not-so-good thing during takeoffs and landings when the pilot already has his hands full.
People tend to be skeptical about this because in their normal daily existence, they do not see any problem with cellphones and do not experience interference with their other electronic devices (TV, computer, etc). But they need to keep in mind, an airliner is a different story... it's basically an enclosed metal cage with lots of electronics inside, plus several hundred passengers (all of whom can be carrying RF-emitting devices).
Nobody said electronic devices can "bring down" a plane. The issue has always been interference with a plane's navigation system. There have been documented cases where a jetliner mysteriously lost function in electronic systems, only to regain it after the flight crew went around turning off everyone's electronic gadgets. Some of them can emit quite a bit of RF.
Believing very strongly in the rightness of one's cause does not give one license to bend the truth (or outright lie, in this case). This leads to the idea that the end justifies the means.
written history only goes back to about 5000 years, I think ancient Sumerians (Iraqis) writing cuneiform on clay tablets.
To paraphrase a nerd, if the cro-magnons who left cave paintings 30,000 years ago in France could've written something, they would've written something.
go away, racist troll
In some other countries, government employees are smart and work hard. In South Korea for instance the gov't software all run on IE6 activeX plugins and are rock-solid.
Take Mars for instance. There was a lot of good scientific guesswork based on indirect observation, but when they finally sent a probe there, all the talk about canals and whatnot faded away...
it's called Fleet of Worlds
after a while technical civilizations start noticing that a star is more of a liability than an asset, so they just... get rid of the star.
well, the fact that it's an old one-of-a-kind reactor that's getting too difficult and expensive to maintain, with parts getting scarce and crews having to manufacture their own, doesn't really change just because you transfer the ownership from the Navy to some municipality.
there's a big difference between a crank somewhere in the wide world, and your own engineers that you hired for their expertise related to your enterprise.
yeah, and look what happened to him. Got his blaster whipped out of his hands, tortured and cryogenically frozen.
As for reincarnation, you can view the Buddha's teaching as telling people that the existing religions and their insistence on reincarnation were nonsense. Realising that this is the only life we have and that following the Eightfold Path is the way to make the best of it - is part of enlightenment.
Listen friend, you can pick and choose parts of Buddhism that you like and incorporate them into your own philosophy, and reject things like reincarnation that you find incredible (not believable) as a Westerner. That's fine. But you cannot deny that reincarnation is fundamental to Buddhism -- which it is -- any more than you can deny the resurrection of Jesus and still be a Christian.
if you read too much Michael Shermer, why do you keep going to a temple? You should become James Randi's pupil or something.
BTW there are more than just superficial cultural differences between Buddhism sects. For instance you have the ones that still believe it's possible to achieve enlightenment -- including recall and mastery over your past lives -- through your own study and efforts. Then you have the other kind that that gave up -- they're basically praying for Buddha's second coming so that he will take you to the pure land (since you can't find your own way).
The former is not really a religion, more like a philosophy and a set of instructions (which is what Buddhism originally was). The latter is closer to modern religions such as Christianity and Islam.
I'm sure the bureaucrats in Brussels like their $1.5 billion headquarters... but really, does NATO still need to exist? Warsaw Pact is dead. Soviet Union is dead. Whatever NATO is doing, they can hand it off to the UN.
Talk about a bureaucracy existing for bureaucracy's sake.
I suppose 50 years from now we'll all still be stripping down and bending over at TSA checkpoints.