Or at least for those people who are careless or thoughtless enough to not know what they are doing, a simple detector is enough to get the attention of a flight attendant to discreetly "enforce" the no-RF-emissions policy of the airline. Anyone not complying isn't allowed on the airplane.
No, because the life-cycles of consumer radio gadgets is measured in months and quarters and the life-cycle of avionics safety equipments has to be measured in decades. I'd stop short of asking aviation engineers to predict what future uses of the radio spectrum are going to impact the safe operation of their aircraft command and control systems, but dammit, they should be relatively robust in such environments. At least, they should fail in known ways, which would mandate continued testing of equipment with new consumer radio devices.
Except you now have that pesky problem of keeping the astronauts alive. Manned missions are orders of magnitudes more complex than unmanned missions for the durations we are talking about. Food recycling and waste reclamation are only your secondary problems. Oxygen and CO2 control, as well as radiation protection are your primary problems.
Yup, and more and more stores are implementing restocking fees on returned items. It'll be a few short years before J.C. Penny's or Filene's or Macy's starts it on clothing and home items, but everything from furniture companies to consumer electronics stores are charging for said "privilege".
Right. Put control of the system into the hands of the very organization that dropped the ball and let Sep-11 happen in the first place. Sounds like a plan.:-)
I never went to school, but I got lucky and got a decent computer job paying $10 an hour (this was 94, and I was a 17yo two-days-out-of-high-school graduate, still unable to work OT). Thanks to a VERY VERY lucky break at said company, I got to prove that the 2 years of self-teaching I got in C/C++, and launched myself.
I have friends who've gotten professional educations who haven't done nearly as well as I have in this field (no experience, only education), and I have some who are just now trying to emulate what I did (bad timing).
Took me forever to figure out binary-trees though.:-)
"More often than not, the people making the decisions are, at the same time, just lining their pockets."
What hairbrain concocted the scheme whereby the guys inventing the cure for cancer get a measley $30-80K a year, but the CEO of MegaPharmaCorp gets $20million just for being a talking head?
This country is going to hell in a handbasket because it values winning at all costs about winning with dignity and honor (please, it's just a metaphor)...
That's just it, not *ALL* the work is going overseas. Sometimes, it's cheaper to get parts made by the billions overseas, have them shipped to the U.S. in crates, and assembled. Hell, BMW does it with their X5, Toyota with many of their cars, and goodness knows how many Dells, Compaqs, HPs and other products.
American laborers have become giant designers and lego-assemblers. We just don't build the legos. I see this all the time with foreign steel, subassemblies and the like, cheap consumer items like clothing and shoes, where human labor *IS* the single biggest expense, and there's no reliable and efficient way to make it go away.
Not to mention that you have X number of seconds worth of shuttle maneuvering power to go grab an astronaut who "missed". But I have to concur, a bay-to-bay transfer in EVA suits seems to be something that any astronaut should be able to accomplish. You never know when your hatch connection between the shuttle and ISS is going to get stuck, and you'll have to do an end-run to the ISS airlock.
Don't get me wrong, I'd probably be pissing my pants the whole time I had to try it, hyperventilating and shit... I guess that's why I'm not an astronaut. Acrophobia at 10' off the ground is bad enough, I cannot image at 200 MILES.
tell that to every other serviceman who entered the Guard. Despise Bush for going AWOL, not for joining the Guard.
How about all those hippies who fled to Canada and were all pardoned afterwards? Hmm... Talk about cowards... I'd rather have rotted in jail for my beliefs than be known as an American Coward. (With the caveat that I was born after the Saigon fell...):-/
This whole argument never ceases to amaze me. We were in a state of war against Iraq. Sealed with a cease-fire agreement. Violated by Iraq multiple times during it's 12 year duration. I can't say they deserved it, but to say we unilaterally went and invaded a country simply because we felt like it is a farce.
The blustering about Syria is a bit disturbing, but no worse than Bush's "Axis of Evil" stupidity. I'm not sure what went wrong between the Clinton and Bush PR regimes, but I think they should stop letting Bush write his own speeches.
Why would we bomb Europe? There are at least three "declared" nuclear powers on the European continent. Picking a fight with Europe would prove fatal. You guys have nothing to fear from the U.S. but rhetoric, bad music, worse movies, and stupid politicians who act like schoolyard bullies, but can't stand it when they get called out on the fact that they're a bunch of pussies.
Maybe not as efficient as a private company, but since there is no data on the efficiency of private compnaies organising a space program, we may never know.
<P> Boeing's Sea Launch initiative ought to give us this information within a few years. </p>
American reactors are not built the way the Russian's were. Chernobyl could not happen here.
That's not entirely true. Any reactor design that allows the fuel at ANY point to burn unmoderated and too hot and/or achieve a critical mass could indeed result in another Chernobyl. And any water moderated reactor that develops a pressure leak could result in a buildup of hydrogen capable of destroying said reactor.
That's one they always leave out of the equations when discussing nuclear energy,not some puny attack with a hijacked airliner, or a conventional attack with normal high explosives, suppose "nuclear energy" was used against a plant or waste disposal area?
<P> If you have a "nuclear" attack against nuclear facilities, I don't really think you have a problem. The disgusting fallout and blast damage from the nuclear blast itself will overshadow any amount of damage a long-lived critical mass of uranium could do, because there won't BE a critical mass of uranium left, it'll be vaporized. Now a significantly large non-nuclear event would be worrisome, but those things are stoppable by things like giant mountains. </p>
<I>This nuclear waste is the most toxic, longest lasting, and most dangerous stuff humans have ever created in mass bulk.</i>
<P> Per ounce, perhaps. Compared to the shit we spew out of our asses everyday, nuclear waste is insignificant in the grand scheme of things that threaten human health and survival. The tons of lead and PCBs that continue to find their way into landfills and aquifers, the rotting industrial waste, stripmining, all of these do a shitload more damage than nuclear waste does. When was the last time you were in the physical presence of nuclear waste? I know I never have, and I've lived all my life within 40 miles of two nuclear power plants. Nuclear waste is a speck on the ass of the world compared to biological waste (of which your local hospital is full). </p>
<P>Which is not to say that I don't find meltdown's scary. I do. Doesn't bother me enough to move away from Plymouth Pilgrim (deactivated?) or Seabrook, NH. </P>
<I>. So far, even the reactors are leaking after only a few decades, even though quite clearly they were first touted as being able to last for centuries</i>
<P>Yup, excellent point you make. Just as your first coal and oil plants virtually blackened the skies, nuclear power had significant problems not understanding reactor fatigue. And for the past 30 years, there's been no development to make it any safer, because America is so afraid of the nuclear genie that Soccer Mom's and Dad's the country over refuse to let the industry get better. </p>
<P>And if we could get back to fuel recycling, which is no more a proliferation risk than leaving the nuclear waste at the 100 some-odd reactors operating in this country, we could eliminate a good percentage of the high-level radioactive waste we'd have to store. </P>
For $10 billion dollars, you can put it in MY backyard, and I'll guard it zealously with U.S. military surplus Apaches, HMMWV's, and tanks for the next 50 years.
Just an idea.
Oh, not to be an ass or anything, but if that extinct volcano starts acting up again, nuclear waste is going to be the LEAST of your problems.
Not true. Unit testing makes sure that the module fixed does the proper things with both the good and bad input fed to it.
System regression testing ensures that the code change you made doesn't set up some subtle side-effect that causes a stack explosion or data corruption 2000 function calls later.
Every code change has the potential to screw the pooch. While you are correct that said chance goes up for each extra code change made, the probability is NEVER zero that a code change is perfect.
I can't count the number of times I've fallen asleep in the office... but then again, we had a room filled with futons. Hell, some of us just crawled under our desks to take a nap. God those were the days.
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And that only worked because the 9/11 planes were doing nap-of-the-earth flying. Not flying at 35000'.
Or at least for those people who are careless or thoughtless enough to not know what they are doing, a simple detector is enough to get the attention of a flight attendant to discreetly "enforce" the no-RF-emissions policy of the airline. Anyone not complying isn't allowed on the airplane.
No, because the life-cycles of consumer radio gadgets is measured in months and quarters and the life-cycle of avionics safety equipments has to be measured in decades. I'd stop short of asking aviation engineers to predict what future uses of the radio spectrum are going to impact the safe operation of their aircraft command and control systems, but dammit, they should be relatively robust in such environments. At least, they should fail in known ways, which would mandate continued testing of equipment with new consumer radio devices.
Except you now have that pesky problem of keeping the astronauts alive. Manned missions are orders of magnitudes more complex than unmanned missions for the durations we are talking about. Food recycling and waste reclamation are only your secondary problems. Oxygen and CO2 control, as well as radiation protection are your primary problems.
Yup, and more and more stores are implementing restocking fees on returned items. It'll be a few short years before J.C. Penny's or Filene's or Macy's starts it on clothing and home items, but everything from furniture companies to consumer electronics stores are charging for said "privilege".
Right. Put control of the system into the hands of the very organization that dropped the ball and let Sep-11 happen in the first place. Sounds like a plan. :-)
Depends.
:-)
I never went to school, but I got lucky and got a decent computer job paying $10 an hour (this was 94, and I was a 17yo two-days-out-of-high-school graduate, still unable to work OT). Thanks to a VERY VERY lucky break at said company, I got to prove that the 2 years of self-teaching I got in C/C++, and launched myself.
I have friends who've gotten professional educations who haven't done nearly as well as I have in this field (no experience, only education), and I have some who are just now trying to emulate what I did (bad timing).
Took me forever to figure out binary-trees though.
Actually, I think what you wanted to say is:
"More often than not, the people making the decisions are, at the same time, just lining their pockets."
What hairbrain concocted the scheme whereby the guys inventing the cure for cancer get a measley $30-80K a year, but the CEO of MegaPharmaCorp gets $20million just for being a talking head?
This country is going to hell in a handbasket because it values winning at all costs about winning with dignity and honor (please, it's just a metaphor)...
-Chris Kaminski
That's just it, not *ALL* the work is going overseas. Sometimes, it's cheaper to get parts made by the billions overseas, have them shipped to the U.S. in crates, and assembled. Hell, BMW does it with their X5, Toyota with many of their cars, and goodness knows how many Dells, Compaqs, HPs and other products.
American laborers have become giant designers and lego-assemblers. We just don't build the legos. I see this all the time with foreign steel, subassemblies and the like, cheap consumer items like clothing and shoes, where human labor *IS* the single biggest expense, and there's no reliable and efficient way to make it go away.
How can you ever get "close" to infinite?
I think you need to rephrase that to "any middle school RETARD". Anyone here been hit with a half-pound softball going 60mph?
Not to mention that you have X number of seconds worth of shuttle maneuvering power to go grab an astronaut who "missed". But I have to concur, a bay-to-bay transfer in EVA suits seems to be something that any astronaut should be able to accomplish. You never know when your hatch connection between the shuttle and ISS is going to get stuck, and you'll have to do an end-run to the ISS airlock.
Don't get me wrong, I'd probably be pissing my pants the whole time I had to try it, hyperventilating and shit... I guess that's why I'm not an astronaut. Acrophobia at 10' off the ground is bad enough, I cannot image at 200 MILES.
tell that to every other serviceman who entered the Guard. Despise Bush for going AWOL, not for joining the Guard.
:-/
How about all those hippies who fled to Canada and were all pardoned afterwards? Hmm... Talk about cowards... I'd rather have rotted in jail for my beliefs than be known as an American Coward. (With the caveat that I was born after the Saigon fell...)
And exactly how many terrorist organizations do YOU know of who have submarines?
This whole argument never ceases to amaze me. We were in a state of war against Iraq. Sealed with a cease-fire agreement. Violated by Iraq multiple times during it's 12 year duration. I can't say they deserved it, but to say we unilaterally went and invaded a country simply because we felt like it is a farce.
The blustering about Syria is a bit disturbing, but no worse than Bush's "Axis of Evil" stupidity. I'm not sure what went wrong between the Clinton and Bush PR regimes, but I think they should stop letting Bush write his own speeches.
Why would we bomb Europe? There are at least three "declared" nuclear powers on the European continent. Picking a fight with Europe would prove fatal. You guys have nothing to fear from the U.S. but rhetoric, bad music, worse movies, and stupid politicians who act like schoolyard bullies, but can't stand it when they get called out on the fact that they're a bunch of pussies.
Maybe not as efficient as a private company, but since there is no data on the efficiency of private compnaies organising a space program, we may never know.
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Boeing's Sea Launch initiative ought to give us this information within a few years.
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Endless sunshine.
Clouds make for moribund lackluster people.
Look at Boston and all the Assholes we got up here.
Look at Seattle and the whole Grunge scene for further proof.
That's not entirely true. Any reactor design that allows the fuel at ANY point to burn unmoderated and too hot and/or achieve a critical mass could indeed result in another Chernobyl. And any water moderated reactor that develops a pressure leak could result in a buildup of hydrogen capable of destroying said reactor.
Dammit, I really need to learn to use the preview button...
That's one they always leave out of the equations when discussing nuclear energy,not some puny attack with a hijacked airliner, or a conventional attack with normal high explosives, suppose "nuclear energy" was used against a plant or waste disposal area?
<P>
If you have a "nuclear" attack against nuclear facilities, I don't really think you have a problem. The disgusting fallout and blast damage from the nuclear blast itself will overshadow any amount of damage a long-lived critical mass of uranium could do, because there won't BE a critical mass of uranium left, it'll be vaporized. Now a significantly large non-nuclear event would be worrisome, but those things are stoppable by things like giant mountains.
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<I>This nuclear waste is the most toxic, longest lasting, and most dangerous stuff humans have ever created in mass bulk.</i>
<P>
Per ounce, perhaps. Compared to the shit we spew out of our asses everyday, nuclear waste is insignificant in the grand scheme of things that threaten human health and survival. The tons of lead and PCBs that continue to find their way into landfills and aquifers, the rotting industrial waste, stripmining, all of these do a shitload more damage than nuclear waste does. When was the last time you were in the physical presence of nuclear waste? I know I never have, and I've lived all my life within 40 miles of two nuclear power plants. Nuclear waste is a speck on the ass of the world compared to biological waste (of which your local hospital is full).
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<P>Which is not to say that I don't find meltdown's scary. I do. Doesn't bother me enough to move away from Plymouth Pilgrim (deactivated?) or Seabrook, NH.
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<I>. So far, even the reactors are leaking after only a few decades, even though quite clearly they were first touted as being able to last for centuries</i>
<P>Yup, excellent point you make. Just as your first coal and oil plants virtually blackened the skies, nuclear power had significant problems not understanding reactor fatigue. And for the past 30 years, there's been no development to make it any safer, because America is so afraid of the nuclear genie that Soccer Mom's and Dad's the country over refuse to let the industry get better.
</p>
<P>And if we could get back to fuel recycling, which is no more a proliferation risk than leaving the nuclear waste at the 100 some-odd reactors operating in this country, we could eliminate a good percentage of the high-level radioactive waste we'd have to store.
</P>
For $10 billion dollars, you can put it in MY backyard, and I'll guard it zealously with U.S. military surplus Apaches, HMMWV's, and tanks for the next 50 years.
Just an idea.
Oh, not to be an ass or anything, but if that extinct volcano starts acting up again, nuclear waste is going to be the LEAST of your problems.
Not true. Unit testing makes sure that the module fixed does the proper things with both the good and bad input fed to it.
System regression testing ensures that the code change you made doesn't set up some subtle side-effect that causes a stack explosion or data corruption 2000 function calls later.
Every code change has the potential to screw the pooch. While you are correct that said chance goes up for each extra code change made, the probability is NEVER zero that a code change is perfect.
Shouldn't matter if he gets his job done. :-)
I can't count the number of times I've fallen asleep in the office... but then again, we had a room filled with futons. Hell, some of us just crawled under our desks to take a nap. God those were the days.
But look at the bright side, if it REALLY is Microsoft's fault, you at least get your money back... :-)
And some of us wait two to three weeks while the rest of the world suffers at the hands of Microsoft. :-)