Why is that a bad recipe? At some point, you'd want it to reach equilibrium at 1 to 1. It's really the only sustainable model. Problem is, that a 1 to 1 ratio ISN'T enough to support someone's basic living expenses. Social security would need to shift from 7.5% to 21-23% of our earned income to support such a model, slaughtering the balance of the national budget.
I'll concur with this. I installed many of my own test midlets via web download. The blackberry (even though I really hated it as a phone platform) is really dead-simple when it comes to running java apps.
I have a zero tolerance problem with companies that choose to make it hard to fix/repair their defective shit: ECS, I'm looking at you!
Dodgy manufacturers shift support responsibility onto retailers, but when those retailers are horrible (not newegg, thank the godz), they refuse to pony up and support you.
Promise... now you are amazing, yes, I had to give you my credit card number before you'd cross-ship the warranty replacement, but you did, and it only cost me shipping.
ECS, you morons left me with no alternative but to return the hardware (that caught FIRE!) and initiate a chargeback to your shoddy retailer. Thanks.
So ECS, of whom I've only had ONE bad experience with poor manufacturing, loses me as a customer because of ONE poor problem resolution experience.
I know, as an armchair engineer, in a machine with thousands of delicate, fragile parts made in quantities of millions, that defects can and will occur. I can forgive defects. I can't forgive poor service.
In this scenario, you can control all the entry points. Manhattan has a LOT of places to set a small boat and sneak a nuke ashore. Here, anything coming in and out of the buildings goes through metal and radiation detectors. It should be EASIER to keep a nuke OUT.
Not exactly apples and oranges - those fires occurred long before the prevalence of the modern steel skeleton skyscraper. Many cities indeed could burn in a similar fashion today, but it won't be the skyscrapers, it'll be the old wooden and brick buildings that SHARE WALLS with each other.
Sin... it's a human construct. To define what we consider to be behaviors outside the normal social order of a well-functioning evolutionary group. When man evolved from solitary hunter to family groups, the behaviors we abhor, such as rape and murder and theft, become sins, evils against the family. You have 2000 years of logic and dogma trying to repress BILLIONS of years of evolution.
OSes aren't really going to be written from "scratch" again. Especially not in the face of the GPL. Driver support can be culled from GPL sources like Linux. Filesystem drivers, networking subsystems...
Linux is partially about research, partially about free $$ OSes, but mostly (IMHO) about making the OS a commodity, which free $$ would seem to naturally follow.
From my comfortable armchair, it looked like at least one bunch of chutes might have been severed by the capsule rolling over the lines. I think they have to fix their CG and aeroshell problems before they try another drop test.
What I've noticed sometimes is that I need to reboot my Cablemodem to get a new ip address, and then MIGHT have to kick the router, but I NEVER have to reboot my router without also rebooting the cablemodem.
Sometimes comcast flips my IP and the modem can't keep up with it.
And a child can't fathom the difference between a fully built house, and one that is dug from the ground, forms erected, basement poured, frame laid out, siding put on, wallboard installed, windows put in, doors hung, wiring and plumbing installed, fixtures installed, rugs laid, hardwood finished and furniture moved in.
Bad analogy guy strikes again, but just because the time scales are so long and nature so complex doesn't mean we have to just wave it away as the work of some pie in the sky overlord.:-D
I once heard some whacked out theory postulated by someone sometime that might have been in a scientific magazine that DNA may indeed be one of those interesting things in the universe that given the right sorts of conditions, assembles itself in the form we see today and gives life unto it's bearer. Making that assumption, assuming simple enough organisms, there's no saying that an ocean full of amino acids and other collected materials couldn't have created several unique organisms in parallel Some may have survived, some may have died off.
I have no source, I have only a vague memory of some article I read that postulated the possibility that it could be possible. Nothing more.
It's odd. ID/Creationism was invented simply to prove that the world is only 6600 years old, and that the Bible is infallible.
Why would God do that? Humans are fallible creatures, hell the Book of Genesis is nothing BUT describing the fallible nature of humanity. Believing in God is not incompatible with the idea of the Big Bang or Evolution. A literal interpretation of a book, written by Men, is, however.
Your failure is one of scale. You fail to take into account that this is one experiment. Nature doesn't work that way. Nature experiments with THOUSANDS of different "petri dishes" every moment of every day. It doesn't care about reproducibility or the scientific method. Another experiment might have made this switch in 20 generations instead of 44,000. And even if it took 44,000 generations, that's only 44,000 years for platypus's.
Parallel evolution, immense timescales. You don't go from a door-mouse to a platypus in one step. It'll take you 10 million years, the right conditions and a shit-load of serendipity. If you had to do it all over again, you could never guarantee it would happen because you have no idea of the selective pressures applied, when and in what situations they were beneficial.
We have proven that life EVOLVES. We will probably never be able to prove that all life came from a SINGLE cellular parent (probably because it didn't).
Why? They don't PAY me for 24/7 support, and it's not end-of-business threatening. If they want it done so bad, they can call my boss and have him call me to fix it, with the understanding that I get a comp day. Period.
I'm not going to let my blackberry wake me up for every little email thrown out.
The question though, is the Iranian program truly civilian in nature? I'll admit to not really believing it is, nor following the situation closely enough. At some point, nations are going to start needing nuclear power - we need a framework to give them the ability to have a strategically sound nuclear power infrastructure, without the fear of weapons proliferation. I thought that's part of what the UN Atomic oversight committees were about, but how do you make something like that palatable to arguably third-world tin-pot dictators?
Mass. Those tanks are built to be as light as possible, to be able to deliver the greatest payload to orbit. They are structurally strong along particular axes.
They provide little radiation shielding, no thermal control, all of which will have to be retrofitted immensely to provide value. If we could park them 1000 miles up, we'd have great resources for the future, but for now, a purpose-built module is a better fit than retrofitting a single-purpose, single-use device into a meat-space habitat.
Well, some pretty serious holes I can see right off the bat in your plan for this "super lifeboat:"
1. No shuttle has ever spent more than 30 consecutive days in space. There's no protocol for keeping the APUs, the propellant, and atmospheric environments viable for a return flight. 2. Ceramic tiles and blankets. Constant micro-meteoroid damage is going to have some effect on the heat-shielding of the shuttle. The thermal protection mechanisms of the shuttle are far less robust than an ablative shielding setup such as that used on the Soyuz. Who knows what the longevity of tile glue is in the LEO environment.
If the shuttle was needed as a lifeboat in the first six months, it would probably be viable, but once you start talking about being in orbit for years, it starts being less predictable. And if it costs you $500/m - $2000/m US to replace it on orbit every year, why not send up 5-10 Soyuz class vehicles and be done with it?
The shuttles will have a better post-service life as relics in a museum.
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Why is that a bad recipe? At some point, you'd want it to reach equilibrium at 1 to 1. It's really the only sustainable model. Problem is, that a 1 to 1 ratio ISN'T enough to support someone's basic living expenses. Social security would need to shift from 7.5% to 21-23% of our earned income to support such a model, slaughtering the balance of the national budget.
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Takes care of those pesky forms for you. And may soon become mandatory on the Internet if the SSTI pilot States make it work.
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I'll concur with this. I installed many of my own test midlets via web download. The blackberry (even though I really hated it as a phone platform) is really dead-simple when it comes to running java apps.
VIA is more likely to be moving to System on a Chip setups. I don't see them getting out of the ITX business anytime soon.
Yea, but in five years you'll have System-on-Chip with Infiniband hubs to your external peripherals.
Motherboards will be things of the past.
I have a zero tolerance problem with companies that choose to make it hard to fix/repair their defective shit: ECS, I'm looking at you!
Dodgy manufacturers shift support responsibility onto retailers, but when those retailers are horrible (not newegg, thank the godz), they refuse to pony up and support you.
Promise... now you are amazing, yes, I had to give you my credit card number before you'd cross-ship the warranty replacement, but you did, and it only cost me shipping.
ECS, you morons left me with no alternative but to return the hardware (that caught FIRE!) and initiate a chargeback to your shoddy retailer. Thanks.
So ECS, of whom I've only had ONE bad experience with poor manufacturing, loses me as a customer because of ONE poor problem resolution experience.
I know, as an armchair engineer, in a machine with thousands of delicate, fragile parts made in quantities of millions, that defects can and will occur. I can forgive defects. I can't forgive poor service.
In this scenario, you can control all the entry points. Manhattan has a LOT of places to set a small boat and sneak a nuke ashore. Here, anything coming in and out of the buildings goes through metal and radiation detectors. It should be EASIER to keep a nuke OUT.
Not exactly apples and oranges - those fires occurred long before the prevalence of the modern steel skeleton skyscraper. Many cities indeed could burn in a similar fashion today, but it won't be the skyscrapers, it'll be the old wooden and brick buildings that SHARE WALLS with each other.
Sin... it's a human construct. To define what we consider to be behaviors outside the normal social order of a well-functioning evolutionary group. When man evolved from solitary hunter to family groups, the behaviors we abhor, such as rape and murder and theft, become sins, evils against the family. You have 2000 years of logic and dogma trying to repress BILLIONS of years of evolution.
Good luck with that. I'm amazed it works at all.
OSes aren't really going to be written from "scratch" again. Especially not in the face of the GPL. Driver support can be culled from GPL sources like Linux. Filesystem drivers, networking subsystems...
Linux is partially about research, partially about free $$ OSes, but mostly (IMHO) about making the OS a commodity, which free $$ would seem to naturally follow.
Why not... the message passing latency issue should be moot with 256 bit wide memory paths and quad-core processors.
Holy crap, the oscillation!!!!!
From my comfortable armchair, it looked like at least one bunch of chutes might have been severed by the capsule rolling over the lines. I think they have to fix their CG and aeroshell problems before they try another drop test.
And if it doesn't, the collective weight of all the LISP in the world will spontaneously birth a plugin that does!
What I've noticed sometimes is that I need to reboot my Cablemodem to get a new ip address, and then MIGHT have to kick the router, but I NEVER have to reboot my router without also rebooting the cablemodem.
Sometimes comcast flips my IP and the modem can't keep up with it.
And a child can't fathom the difference between a fully built house, and one that is dug from the ground, forms erected, basement poured, frame laid out, siding put on, wallboard installed, windows put in, doors hung, wiring and plumbing installed, fixtures installed, rugs laid, hardwood finished and furniture moved in.
:-D
Bad analogy guy strikes again, but just because the time scales are so long and nature so complex doesn't mean we have to just wave it away as the work of some pie in the sky overlord.
I once heard some whacked out theory postulated by someone sometime that might have been in a scientific magazine that DNA may indeed be one of those interesting things in the universe that given the right sorts of conditions, assembles itself in the form we see today and gives life unto it's bearer. Making that assumption, assuming simple enough organisms, there's no saying that an ocean full of amino acids and other collected materials couldn't have created several unique organisms in parallel Some may have survived, some may have died off.
I have no source, I have only a vague memory of some article I read that postulated the possibility that it could be possible. Nothing more.
It's odd. ID/Creationism was invented simply to prove that the world is only 6600 years old, and that the Bible is infallible.
Why would God do that? Humans are fallible creatures, hell the Book of Genesis is nothing BUT describing the fallible nature of humanity. Believing in God is not incompatible with the idea of the Big Bang or Evolution. A literal interpretation of a book, written by Men, is, however.
Your failure is one of scale. You fail to take into account that this is one experiment. Nature doesn't work that way. Nature experiments with THOUSANDS of different "petri dishes" every moment of every day. It doesn't care about reproducibility or the scientific method. Another experiment might have made this switch in 20 generations instead of 44,000. And even if it took 44,000 generations, that's only 44,000 years for platypus's.
Parallel evolution, immense timescales. You don't go from a door-mouse to a platypus in one step. It'll take you 10 million years, the right conditions and a shit-load of serendipity. If you had to do it all over again, you could never guarantee it would happen because you have no idea of the selective pressures applied, when and in what situations they were beneficial.
We have proven that life EVOLVES. We will probably never be able to prove that all life came from a SINGLE cellular parent (probably because it didn't).
Why? They don't PAY me for 24/7 support, and it's not end-of-business threatening. If they want it done so bad, they can call my boss and have him call me to fix it, with the understanding that I get a comp day. Period.
I'm not going to let my blackberry wake me up for every little email thrown out.
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Massachusetts voted NAY/Abstain on this. I nearly had a heart attack.
Didn't Toms Hardware or Ars Technica just do an expose on how SSDs are not completely as low-power as advertised?
The question though, is the Iranian program truly civilian in nature? I'll admit to not really believing it is, nor following the situation closely enough. At some point, nations are going to start needing nuclear power - we need a framework to give them the ability to have a strategically sound nuclear power infrastructure, without the fear of weapons proliferation. I thought that's part of what the UN Atomic oversight committees were about, but how do you make something like that palatable to arguably third-world tin-pot dictators?
Mass. Those tanks are built to be as light as possible, to be able to deliver the greatest payload to orbit. They are structurally strong along particular axes.
They provide little radiation shielding, no thermal control, all of which will have to be retrofitted immensely to provide value. If we could park them 1000 miles up, we'd have great resources for the future, but for now, a purpose-built module is a better fit than retrofitting a single-purpose, single-use device into a meat-space habitat.
Well, some pretty serious holes I can see right off the bat in your plan for this "super lifeboat:"
1. No shuttle has ever spent more than 30 consecutive days in space. There's no protocol for keeping the APUs, the propellant, and atmospheric environments viable for a return flight.
2. Ceramic tiles and blankets. Constant micro-meteoroid damage is going to have some effect on the heat-shielding of the shuttle. The thermal protection mechanisms of the shuttle are far less robust than an ablative shielding setup such as that used on the Soyuz. Who knows what the longevity of tile glue is in the LEO environment.
If the shuttle was needed as a lifeboat in the first six months, it would probably be viable, but once you start talking about being in orbit for years, it starts being less predictable. And if it costs you $500/m - $2000/m US to replace it on orbit every year, why not send up 5-10 Soyuz class vehicles and be done with it?
The shuttles will have a better post-service life as relics in a museum.