Due to shitty news reporting and general broad-spectrum moronity, I totally agree Democracy is broken. Granted, it remains relatively fair. The key question is how do we get people's heads outta their asses and out of social-politics? We have the communication technology for everyone to contribute to decisions. How do we facilitate that? How do we reduce trolling? I'd start by ignoring any input originating from IE users. ^_^
This is about Ion drives right? Sounds like it.. There are probes/satellites out there that have ion drives - they were conceived of in something like the 1960s. Not exactly news, but indeed it is awesome. Though Ion drives don't produce the necessary thrust to be used for atomopheric travel. But one can hope.
Dear RIM,
I appreciate you. I'm sorry that so many others feel threatened to the point of acting like jerk-bags to you. 2011 was a lame year, but you're still here and your new Playbook OS will make ripples. Keep promoting and enabling quality content creation and you'll do well. Afterall, people care more about their own lives than anything else, so keep on with helping them express themselves through your products. I like Amazon just fine, but blocking you like this, that's just a tempertantrum that provides you with otherwise hidden opportinuties.
Keep up the quality work. Thank you RIM.
That's extremely interesting information, thank you very much! I've been wondering about this for a while - as I'd honestly (yes, it's crazy) like to build my own rover and deliver it to the moon. I believe that out-of-the-box thinking could possibly acheive this on a remotely modest budget. The whole thing is just a puzzle project that floats around my brain, but I would LOVE to do it. And the alien (to me) EMR characteristics of the environment involved have been a subject of great internal conjecture. Can you tell me, why can't one simple "faraday cage" the shit out of their electronics? I can think of many reasons why just encasing everything in shielding would be difficult - mostly in terms of a solar array and other purposefully external devices. Though for that, I've been toying with ideas regarding levels of optical isloation and the like. I'll add, I hate solar power. It's cool in many ways and it completely sucks in others. RTGs make me hot in geeky and in R rated ways. Regardless thanks for you excellent comment. More input from you would be awesome.
Obviously software and hardware are more conceptual partitions used to help divide and conquer the overall challenge at hand. That said, picking a part that from a digital logic level up was the right part, and it merely failed due to improper sheidling (etc), sounds fairly deep in the hardware camp to me. I think your "B" point is pretty solid. But in terms of jumping to the wrong point of code due to physical error, that's getting to be kind of unreasonable to demand of software - as that case is indicative of the software not executing correctly. You can probably do some neat things in software to help mitigate a little of that, but for the most part, that seems unreasonable to me. I suppose that the key to a meaningful conversation here is understanding what actually caused the failure, as we're all kind of spinning off in to speculation, which means we're basically trolling ourselves.
ha ha ha ha, no. Though I am a junior in R&D for aeronautically deployed survey equipment.. So I'm a little familiar with hardening systems..
Do you happen to know from practice (or some substantial experience) if mil spec is insufficient for that application?
Pretty much. Though in a sense, it probably wasn't a design fail necessarily.. They probably just had someone ordering parts that didn't know to order mil spec (I'm assuming mil spec is fine for space stuff). Seems to me like most ICs are available implemented in mil spec packages - so the part seems the same in basically every way, but it costs a lot more and resists environmental crap better. It's a sad story, really.
E=mc^2 gives us a model to compare nature with, within the bounraries of reality in which we exist. It is not complete in that form. And no, Energy is not mass. They are related. Perhaps not unlike an electric field and a magnetic field. They are components of the universe that interact. I think it's time I removed/. from my rss reader.
No. That doesn't actually work. It's complete non-sense. Just because the real components of an equation imply that behavior doesn't mean there aren't imaginary aspects that come in to play as you approach boundries. Nature is more complex than we credit it for. Humans strive to bound everything to a linear paradigm. The world is non-linear and failures to respect that lead to crazy situations like thinking the planet could possibly be losing mass due to things like internal nuclear processes. No, it's not. The energy is stored in the state of the matter, not in its mass.
"Another factor increasing the earth's mass is global warming which adds about 160 tonnes a year because as the temperature of the Earth goes up, energy is added to the system, so the mass must go up. On the minus side, at the very center of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a sphere of uranium five mile in diameter which acts as a natural nuclear reactor so these nuclear reactions cause a loss of mass of about 16 tonnes per year."
I'm dumbfounded by how retarded that is. Ever hear of "Convervation of Energy"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
It makes no practical sense that the planet would gain mass by an increase in temperature. I can see how an increased temperature could make the atmosphere slightly more inclined to escape, but even IF that happens, it'd be a relatively tiny mass compared to the dust and meteors that are showering upon us.
Why are we even reading this? I should get back to work. This is stupid.
The problem as I see is that often users (like my mom) will experience great grief as they mash their keyboards frantically - enabling their caps lock without really noticing. Whereas users who know how to use the thing often don't because, WHO THE HELL TALKS LIKE THIS?
I suggest a GREAT solution! Re-purpose the "caps lock" key for something useful and assign "keyboard gestures" to keys.. I suggest that one of the shift keys be altered, to, by convention, upon being "double clicked" (or maybe triple or held for a long time, etc), it will enable a caps-lock, and the effect "fades off" after inactivity. Have an LED continue to indicate the state of the "key".
I provide this idea free for all to use and implement. So, Microsoft, Apple or whomever that wants to retro-actively patent this idea, can SHOVE IT for trying to continue to abuse the nature of the patent system. This is a free, open idea. That said, it would be nice to get verbal credit or something. But really, just do this (and variants for other barely-used keys) and let's move on!
So Moodle 2.0 was finally released about a week ago. Suffice to say, there are massive differences between Moodle 1.x and 2.x - as such I'm not sure of how helpful this book would be to anyone who's already upgraded (or will be any time soon). I'm far from a Moodle expert, but as a newb admin of a Moodle deployment I feel a bit sorry for this book's authors. Hopefully the impact of 2.x isn't so great in the case of extension dev. I don't know.
Aww, this news makes me sad. I have Songbird installed on all of my 4 Ubuntu Desktops.. I quite like it. Yes it's not perfect, but it's damn fine and I shed a lone tear to read they're not going to be continuing official Linux support.
Maybe I'll just go back to "mp3blaster", or "mpg123".. or records for that matter.
Here's the best answer I think you could get: "You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped"..
From your brief blurb, it sounded like he's quite sensitive to the situation, so that to me suggests awareness. The anger you refer to sounds to me like a complete rejection of any help and at the end of the day, if he doesn't want help, he can't be helped.
Good luck
Well I completely completely sympathise for NASA having difficulties with the gov't - I think for $0.5B, I could get a gang together to pull all this off.. lol - of course, NASA probably has a lot of that money allocated to non-Aries, etc related projects, perhaps such as maintenance
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Due to shitty news reporting and general broad-spectrum moronity, I totally agree Democracy is broken. Granted, it remains relatively fair. The key question is how do we get people's heads outta their asses and out of social-politics? We have the communication technology for everyone to contribute to decisions. How do we facilitate that? How do we reduce trolling? I'd start by ignoring any input originating from IE users. ^_^
This is about Ion drives right? Sounds like it.. There are probes/satellites out there that have ion drives - they were conceived of in something like the 1960s. Not exactly news, but indeed it is awesome. Though Ion drives don't produce the necessary thrust to be used for atomopheric travel. But one can hope.
Dear RIM, I appreciate you. I'm sorry that so many others feel threatened to the point of acting like jerk-bags to you. 2011 was a lame year, but you're still here and your new Playbook OS will make ripples. Keep promoting and enabling quality content creation and you'll do well. Afterall, people care more about their own lives than anything else, so keep on with helping them express themselves through your products. I like Amazon just fine, but blocking you like this, that's just a tempertantrum that provides you with otherwise hidden opportinuties. Keep up the quality work. Thank you RIM.
That's extremely interesting information, thank you very much! I've been wondering about this for a while - as I'd honestly (yes, it's crazy) like to build my own rover and deliver it to the moon. I believe that out-of-the-box thinking could possibly acheive this on a remotely modest budget. The whole thing is just a puzzle project that floats around my brain, but I would LOVE to do it. And the alien (to me) EMR characteristics of the environment involved have been a subject of great internal conjecture. Can you tell me, why can't one simple "faraday cage" the shit out of their electronics? I can think of many reasons why just encasing everything in shielding would be difficult - mostly in terms of a solar array and other purposefully external devices. Though for that, I've been toying with ideas regarding levels of optical isloation and the like. I'll add, I hate solar power. It's cool in many ways and it completely sucks in others. RTGs make me hot in geeky and in R rated ways. Regardless thanks for you excellent comment. More input from you would be awesome.
Obviously software and hardware are more conceptual partitions used to help divide and conquer the overall challenge at hand. That said, picking a part that from a digital logic level up was the right part, and it merely failed due to improper sheidling (etc), sounds fairly deep in the hardware camp to me. I think your "B" point is pretty solid. But in terms of jumping to the wrong point of code due to physical error, that's getting to be kind of unreasonable to demand of software - as that case is indicative of the software not executing correctly. You can probably do some neat things in software to help mitigate a little of that, but for the most part, that seems unreasonable to me. I suppose that the key to a meaningful conversation here is understanding what actually caused the failure, as we're all kind of spinning off in to speculation, which means we're basically trolling ourselves.
ha ha ha ha, no. Though I am a junior in R&D for aeronautically deployed survey equipment.. So I'm a little familiar with hardening systems.. Do you happen to know from practice (or some substantial experience) if mil spec is insufficient for that application?
Pretty much. Though in a sense, it probably wasn't a design fail necessarily.. They probably just had someone ordering parts that didn't know to order mil spec (I'm assuming mil spec is fine for space stuff). Seems to me like most ICs are available implemented in mil spec packages - so the part seems the same in basically every way, but it costs a lot more and resists environmental crap better. It's a sad story, really.
"the ultimate cause was the use of non-space-qualified electronic component" != "programming error" hardware fail.
How interesting. Please provide some URLs or something so I can learn more about where this idea has been empirically examined?
Sigh. Yes. That's exactly what I said. Glad you understood. Finally, we can both move on now.
E=mc^2 gives us a model to compare nature with, within the bounraries of reality in which we exist. It is not complete in that form. And no, Energy is not mass. They are related. Perhaps not unlike an electric field and a magnetic field. They are components of the universe that interact. I think it's time I removed /. from my rss reader.
No. That doesn't actually work. It's complete non-sense. Just because the real components of an equation imply that behavior doesn't mean there aren't imaginary aspects that come in to play as you approach boundries. Nature is more complex than we credit it for. Humans strive to bound everything to a linear paradigm. The world is non-linear and failures to respect that lead to crazy situations like thinking the planet could possibly be losing mass due to things like internal nuclear processes. No, it's not. The energy is stored in the state of the matter, not in its mass.
"Another factor increasing the earth's mass is global warming which adds about 160 tonnes a year because as the temperature of the Earth goes up, energy is added to the system, so the mass must go up. On the minus side, at the very center of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a sphere of uranium five mile in diameter which acts as a natural nuclear reactor so these nuclear reactions cause a loss of mass of about 16 tonnes per year." I'm dumbfounded by how retarded that is. Ever hear of "Convervation of Energy"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy It makes no practical sense that the planet would gain mass by an increase in temperature. I can see how an increased temperature could make the atmosphere slightly more inclined to escape, but even IF that happens, it'd be a relatively tiny mass compared to the dust and meteors that are showering upon us. Why are we even reading this? I should get back to work. This is stupid.
So say we all.
Heh, maybe the pwned machines in Iran are being re-purposed to help in the flurry of DoS attacks both against and in defense of Wikileaks?
I second this motion.
The problem as I see is that often users (like my mom) will experience great grief as they mash their keyboards frantically - enabling their caps lock without really noticing. Whereas users who know how to use the thing often don't because, WHO THE HELL TALKS LIKE THIS?
I suggest a GREAT solution! Re-purpose the "caps lock" key for something useful and assign "keyboard gestures" to keys.. I suggest that one of the shift keys be altered, to, by convention, upon being "double clicked" (or maybe triple or held for a long time, etc), it will enable a caps-lock, and the effect "fades off" after inactivity. Have an LED continue to indicate the state of the "key".
I provide this idea free for all to use and implement. So, Microsoft, Apple or whomever that wants to retro-actively patent this idea, can SHOVE IT for trying to continue to abuse the nature of the patent system. This is a free, open idea. That said, it would be nice to get verbal credit or something. But really, just do this (and variants for other barely-used keys) and let's move on!
They're probably just calling out Sarah Palin for being the Romulan we all already know her to be.
So Moodle 2.0 was finally released about a week ago. Suffice to say, there are massive differences between Moodle 1.x and 2.x - as such I'm not sure of how helpful this book would be to anyone who's already upgraded (or will be any time soon). I'm far from a Moodle expert, but as a newb admin of a Moodle deployment I feel a bit sorry for this book's authors. Hopefully the impact of 2.x isn't so great in the case of extension dev. I don't know.
(*all the pandas suddenly cried out*)
I'm totally with ya.. I love it too!
Aww, this news makes me sad. I have Songbird installed on all of my 4 Ubuntu Desktops.. I quite like it. Yes it's not perfect, but it's damn fine and I shed a lone tear to read they're not going to be continuing official Linux support. Maybe I'll just go back to "mp3blaster", or "mpg123".. or records for that matter.
Here's the best answer I think you could get: "You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped".. From your brief blurb, it sounded like he's quite sensitive to the situation, so that to me suggests awareness. The anger you refer to sounds to me like a complete rejection of any help and at the end of the day, if he doesn't want help, he can't be helped. Good luck
Hah, as if that'd be allowed. All those victimised people are what helps produce the disparities that let war-driven economies emulate thriving.
Well I completely completely sympathise for NASA having difficulties with the gov't - I think for $0.5B, I could get a gang together to pull all this off.. lol - of course, NASA probably has a lot of that money allocated to non-Aries, etc related projects, perhaps such as maintenance
I really like Stephen Colbert, but I've got to say, this is a pretty lame situation. I hope NASA runs with the runner up.