That sounds damn interesting and exactly like something I was thinking about too. However, I'm busy frying other fish so I'm curious as a potential ScatterBytes customer. To paraphrase another post, thanks for being someone to get off your butt! Think I might just mosey on over and have a look at that site of yours..
Translation: I choose not to understand what we achieved by making Freedom of Expression a basic right. My feelings at the moment totally trump all that hippie bullshit anyway.
Well said; I'm pleased to see you haven't been modded to death for speaking the ugly truth. As for this statement however:
Most Americans are idiots or assholes or both.
Mostly correct but Americans have no monopoly on stupid. We've plenty of idiots here in New Zealand, hell, you've only to look at Australia to see an entire nation of dumb!:p
In all seriousness though, we know the USA gets most of the attention because its actions are still the most visible to the world. The fact that nearly every arsehole with an attitude carries a handgun doesn't help either.
"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve," (attributed to Alexis de Toqueville or paraphrased from Joseph de Maistre, depending on who you talk to)
How easily some people are fooled - don't you see this is exactly the method by which the military can claim Manning is being treated 'humanely' and 'fairly'?
I suspect that if you were in Manning's position you might feel differently, despite all the amenities. Mental/psychological torture is just appalling - but that's OK, because the US "doesn't use torture".
An excellent point and a good example of why 'accelerated ageing' tests found in other circumstances are an incomplete solution with the potential for creating a false sense of security.
I know little about the topic so was wondering if someone might comment on whether a concept might be currently possible or likely to be possible within a decade or so.
It seems to me we have a (theoretical) propulsion for Solar sailcraft that works on the principle of directing concentrated energy beams from the Earth to a collector on the spacecraft itself.
I'm also assuming the following, which may or may not be correct:
o Ion engines need a store of reaction mass and the electricity to run their grid, however the electrical needs are fairly modest as you point out.
o Tuned microwave beams are capable of effectively moving electricity from source to destination
o Technology is at the stage where a sat could be tracked across the visible sky and accurately targeted by an energy beam
If the above isn't too wildly inaccurate, I am wondering if this might allow us to design satellites that carry no power source of their own; onboard fuel and solar panels give way to banks of capacitors and stored reaction mass for the ion thruster. Would this allow us to leave satellites in orbit for much greater periods of time, powering it from the ground this way?
Would it even be worth it given how cheap sat-to-space deployment is becoming?
If you don't want to do the job then don't, someone else will do the research and get the credit, but doing a job half-assed and bitching that it's google and apple's fault their website wasn't setup right is asinine
Your attitude that this is a 'half-assed job' is the problem I'm referring to right there. There's always plenty of your type ready to shit on other people's work at a moment's notice.
You're bitter, just because. I can understand how someone like you might see that as a valid reason to demand your money back from the developer. Thanks for your contribution!
This is different, radioactive (or pollutive) material is actively affecting me, their owning of whatever else isn't.
How is it actively affecting you? If it was, say, Pu239, properly sealed in a containment vessel but stored securely under the bed of a hand-on-heart, highly security-conscious neighbour, then surely it's not actively affecting you at all? I certainly don't argue with you that you'd probably still want to know if it was there. I think I'd probably be quite interested myself. Who would trust a layperson to store such a thing safely in their home?
I have no opinion on the US gun matter myself; here in NZ we have gun control laws similar to the UK. However I think the argument here is that this is more of a continuum rather than a black-and-white definition of the relative safety of storing deadly weapons or materials in residential homes. Everyone will have a different opinion so a blanket action such as the one detailed in TFA is tantamount to trolling.
Thank you, thank you thank you thank you for this post. It seems there's always some dilettantish comment ready to be made from the cheap seats; acerbic, uneducated and entitled criticism by the inept and lazy aimed at people like yourselves who are prepared to innovate and do something useful and interesting with their time.
Oh and thanks, iamhassi, for your positive armchair encouragement. I'm sure if I was the skilled researcher responsible for this software I'd be falling over myself for the opportunity to share the results of my future work on Slashdot, with comments like yours to spur me on.
Boo hoo hoo! I don't have mod points for you, which is a shame as your post cuts right through the shit.
This attitude is precisely why I won't bother with the kids any more. I don't know how old the author is but he's behaving pretty childishly. I find myself hiring people in their mid-thirties or older; the under-thirties are simply too fucking entitled.
I can't think of another company (besides Oracle maybe) that so richly deserves such quality candidates. Especially ones whose Internet dials go all the way to eleven.
Offtopic: Your post is interesting but your unintentional apostrophe abuse detracts from your point. I was intending to post anonymously because one cannot constructively criticise the written word on this site without being perceived as a Grammar Nazi. But, what the hey, I'll stand up to be counted and down-modded as appropriate.
The word "its" and the contraction "it's" seem a bit of an English-language booby trap for some people. A simple fix is to avoid apostrophes altogether when writing "its" and to always write "it's" out in full as "it is". Not perfect but it's workable. Er, it is workable.
That aside, does anyone else find this interesting?. It resembles the confusion some people have between the directions Left and Right. There are plenty of intelligent people who need to refer to an internal mnemonic to differentiate Left from Right, so it's obviously not an issue of stupidity (interestingly, they have no problem with Up and Down). Anyone know of any studies on the matter?
Oh for sure, although that's only because it's part of the bigger picture of religion which is all about behavioural, financial and thought control for the betterment of a cynical and elite few. Exactly how things are playing out in Pakistan as per TFA (which of course I haven't read).
Anyone with an ounce of common sense has known this for some time now:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC – AD 65)
Which for me is kind of the scary thing about this recession. It has been long with deep presentiment unemployment. When the economy does perk up we are going to have a lot of people with stale human capital who, historically speaking, have lower productivity and lower wages.
That's an excellent point I hadn't considered before.
Unemployment is more than a economic condition for many (most?) people; it is a state of mind. Working a job is an important component of one's self-esteem, even if it isn't the ideal job. I realise now that we also have a responsibility to re-engineer our societal values whilst we are busy making the expected economic adjustments. Humans as we are today have a need to contribute and work provides an avenue to express this, among other things. I find myself actually excited by this idea, because in this Brave New World we're not using dystopic literature as a how-to guide but instead as the warning it was meant to be.
Imagine a future where Those That Have simply cannot take away the right of Those That Have Not to have their basic human needs met and enjoy a life doing mostly what they want to do!
We could have a world that's actually worth fighting for.
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That sounds damn interesting and exactly like something I was thinking about too. However, I'm busy frying other fish so I'm curious as a potential ScatterBytes customer. To paraphrase another post, thanks for being someone to get off your butt!
Think I might just mosey on over and have a look at that site of yours..
..which also is also probably a bit too long to go without a comma but isn't technically a run-on sentence until I add this bit here on the end of it.
Hmm, I'm torn: is it okay to feed the trolls if they give you a chuckle?
I hope your posting privileges get removed.
Translation: I choose not to understand what we achieved by making Freedom of Expression a basic right.
My feelings at the moment totally trump all that hippie bullshit anyway.
Well said; I'm pleased to see you haven't been modded to death for speaking the ugly truth. As for this statement however:
Most Americans are idiots or assholes or both.
Mostly correct but Americans have no monopoly on stupid. We've plenty of idiots here in New Zealand, hell, you've only to look at Australia to see an entire nation of dumb! :p
In all seriousness though, we know the USA gets most of the attention because its actions are still the most visible to the world. The fact that nearly every arsehole with an attitude carries a handgun doesn't help either.
"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve,"
(attributed to Alexis de Toqueville or paraphrased from Joseph de Maistre, depending on who you talk to)
How easily some people are fooled - don't you see this is exactly the method by which the military can claim Manning is being treated 'humanely' and 'fairly'?
I suspect that if you were in Manning's position you might feel differently, despite all the amenities. Mental/psychological torture is just appalling - but that's OK, because the US "doesn't use torture".
An excellent point and a good example of why 'accelerated ageing' tests found in other circumstances are an incomplete solution with the potential for creating a false sense of security.
I hope you're right. Human civilisation seems to be evolving in the wrong direction.
Would it be so terrible if the failure of Humanity lead to the emergence of a more intelligent and less self-destructive species on this planet?
I know little about the topic so was wondering if someone might comment on whether a concept might be currently possible or likely to be possible within a decade or so. It seems to me we have a (theoretical) propulsion for Solar sailcraft that works on the principle of directing concentrated energy beams from the Earth to a collector on the spacecraft itself.
I'm also assuming the following, which may or may not be correct:
If the above isn't too wildly inaccurate, I am wondering if this might allow us to design satellites that carry no power source of their own; onboard fuel and solar panels give way to banks of capacitors and stored reaction mass for the ion thruster. Would this allow us to leave satellites in orbit for much greater periods of time, powering it from the ground this way?
Would it even be worth it given how cheap sat-to-space deployment is becoming?
Thanks, APK, for that giggle!
Daleks don't frolick. :-p
If you don't want to do the job then don't, someone else will do the research and get the credit, but doing a job half-assed and bitching that it's google and apple's fault their website wasn't setup right is asinine
Your attitude that this is a 'half-assed job' is the problem I'm referring to right there. There's always plenty of your type ready to shit on other people's work at a moment's notice.
You're bitter, just because. I can understand how someone like you might see that as a valid reason to demand your money back from the developer. Thanks for your contribution!
This is different, radioactive (or pollutive) material is actively affecting me, their owning of whatever else isn't.
How is it actively affecting you? If it was, say, Pu239, properly sealed in a containment vessel but stored securely under the bed of a hand-on-heart, highly security-conscious neighbour, then surely it's not actively affecting you at all?
I certainly don't argue with you that you'd probably still want to know if it was there. I think I'd probably be quite interested myself. Who would trust a layperson to store such a thing safely in their home?
I have no opinion on the US gun matter myself; here in NZ we have gun control laws similar to the UK. However I think the argument here is that this is more of a continuum rather than a black-and-white definition of the relative safety of storing deadly weapons or materials in residential homes. Everyone will have a different opinion so a blanket action such as the one detailed in TFA is tantamount to trolling.
Thank you, thank you thank you thank you for this post. It seems there's always some dilettantish comment ready to be made from the cheap seats; acerbic, uneducated and entitled criticism by the inept and lazy aimed at people like yourselves who are prepared to innovate and do something useful and interesting with their time.
Oh and thanks, iamhassi, for your positive armchair encouragement. I'm sure if I was the skilled researcher responsible for this software I'd be falling over myself for the opportunity to share the results of my future work on Slashdot, with comments like yours to spur me on.
If you actually had a clue about this stuff you wouldn't need to re-post your drivel time and again.
Thank God you so kindly reproduced your fantastic advice here or I might never have seen it!
Wow, you like, totally blew him away! You shot his arse right out of the sky! Wow, like, like, like, totally down in flames! Mad props to you!
Another sad victim of the awesome literary skills and technical might of the one-solutions-fits-all APK troll!
Boo hoo hoo! I don't have mod points for you, which is a shame as your post cuts right through the shit.
This attitude is precisely why I won't bother with the kids any more. I don't know how old the author is but he's behaving pretty childishly.
I find myself hiring people in their mid-thirties or older; the under-thirties are simply too fucking entitled.
Or better off with him.
I can't think of another company (besides Oracle maybe) that so richly deserves such quality candidates. Especially ones whose Internet dials go all the way to eleven.
Offtopic: Your post is interesting but your unintentional apostrophe abuse detracts from your point. I was intending to post anonymously because one cannot constructively criticise the written word on this site without being perceived as a Grammar Nazi. But, what the hey, I'll stand up to be counted and down-modded as appropriate.
The word "its" and the contraction "it's" seem a bit of an English-language booby trap for some people. A simple fix is to avoid apostrophes altogether when writing "its" and to always write "it's" out in full as "it is". Not perfect but it's workable. Er, it is workable.
That aside, does anyone else find this interesting?. It resembles the confusion some people have between the directions Left and Right. There are plenty of intelligent people who need to refer to an internal mnemonic to differentiate Left from Right, so it's obviously not an issue of stupidity (interestingly, they have no problem with Up and Down). Anyone know of any studies on the matter?
Well that's real helpful. How're we 'sposed to get our righteous on with that kind of objective thinking?
Religion is all about sex control
Oh for sure, although that's only because it's part of the bigger picture of religion which is all about behavioural, financial and thought control for the betterment of a cynical and elite few.
Exactly how things are playing out in Pakistan as per TFA (which of course I haven't read).
Anyone with an ounce of common sense has known this for some time now:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC – AD 65)
Wow, you missed his point so hugely I can't think of a suitable metaphor. The whoosh is strong with this one.
Hosts file? Where can I find an expert to outline the benefits of that method?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo....ooooo...!! Oh, the humanity!
+1 Funny
-1 I'll moderate how I damn well please.
It's not an instruction, jackass. What's more, it's definitely not an instruction to you, Mr.13yo ego-centric pimple-factory.
It is an expression of approval from a person without the modpoints to make a tangible contribution.
Which for me is kind of the scary thing about this recession. It has been long with deep presentiment unemployment. When the economy does perk up we are going to have a lot of people with stale human capital who, historically speaking, have lower productivity and lower wages.
That's an excellent point I hadn't considered before.
Unemployment is more than a economic condition for many (most?) people; it is a state of mind. Working a job is an important component of one's self-esteem, even if it isn't the ideal job. I realise now that we also have a responsibility to re-engineer our societal values whilst we are busy making the expected economic adjustments. Humans as we are today have a need to contribute and work provides an avenue to express this, among other things. I find myself actually excited by this idea, because in this Brave New World we're not using dystopic literature as a how-to guide but instead as the warning it was meant to be.
Imagine a future where Those That Have simply cannot take away the right of Those That Have Not to have their basic human needs met and enjoy a life doing mostly what they want to do!
We could have a world that's actually worth fighting for.