Actually, Apple has a set of forbidden words. Macs don't crash or hang, they "unexpectedly quit" or "stop responding." Things are not "supported", they are "compatible." However nothing is incompatible--they just don't work with Macs.
That said, I think Orion is interesting. Dragon is designed to deal with LEO whereas Orion is designed to deal with outside Earth orbit. This is the sort of thing that NASA should be working on. I think SLS is a waste--it sounds like Space-X will be able to do it faster and cheaper. But Orion is worthwhile.
[...] send robots out to explore other planets, and let real science move on.
What's sad is that you figure that the robots are doing "real science."
Remember that "real science" is pretty boring to most people. The conclusions are interesting but the actual study, hypotheses, testing--y'know, that whole "scientific method" stuff--is pretty damn dull unless it's something you're specifically interested and knowledgeable about. There is plenty of "real science" happening on ISS but since most of us don't understand it, we poo-poo it. Heck, just look at the information returned on the last Dragon capsule. Boring shit, right?
The robots, as you imply, are doing exploration, which is a bit more exciting. "What's over the next hill?" is a far more exciting question than "Why is that hill there?" The first one is exploration. The second one is "real science."
We did it with Apollo and we did it with STS. It just shows that manned space flight and space flight in general are not priorities which IMHO SUCKS!!!!!!!
Why?
Fine, you can go all "future of humanity" on me and I won't disagree. But why do we need to have a continuous manned space flight system? Is there some emergency where we need to get into orbit right now but we can't? Do you foresee one?
Look, they retired Apollo and built STS. We had no capability of sending men into orbit for 6 years. And, somehow, the nation survived it. So some scientists might have to wait a few years to get their experiments done on ISS. Somehow, I think we'll all survive.
Don't get me wrong--I have nothing against manned space flight. I think it's important scientifically and as a "future of humanity" thing. I also think that the technology isn't there yet. It won't get there unless we work on it, granted, but if we have atomic drives in 2039 instead of 2052, it doesn't matter that much. We're talking long-term here. Mars isn't going anywhere, so it's not like we have to get there next week or it'll be gone forever.
One of the reasons that people like gasoline is that the delivery system is all over the place. I pass 6 gasoline stations in the about 4 miles of surface-street driving that I do to get to work. So you'll need hydrogen stations that are nearly as ubiquitous as gasoline stations.
Hell, not all gas stations here in the US carry diesel. You think they're all going to invest in hydrogen pumps?
Don't get me wrong--electricity suffers a similar problem. Yeah, I have it in my house, but when I'm out-and-about, I don't see much for charging stations.
The issue, of course, is you're dragging around both a bunch of heavy batteries and a bunch of hydrogen fuel cells, making things less efficient.
It's chicken/egg problem. A good analogy is natural gas-powered vehicles. There's a spot about a quarter-of-a-mile from my house that sells natural gas for cars. Really handy. The next closest one is about 10 miles away. Not so handy. The next one is about 15 miles in the opposite direction. Again, not so handy.
If you have an NGV, you need to plan your refueling, unlike gasoline, which is everywhere.
Until/unless you have a large batch of hydrogen stations around the country, it's not that useful to carry around a bunch of hydrogen fuel cells. And if there are a batch of hydrogen stations around, why do you need to carry around a bunch of batteries?
Actually, I was recently pulled over by the CHP and he remarked that you can just take a picture of your insurance card and the cops will accept that as proof of insurance. I assume it has to be a decent picture with the account numbers visible and the like...
Heck, I've had 45 minute taxi rides going to the airport in New York. So if I could, say, download a movie for the flight using someone else's WiFi and not use my data caps, why wouldn't I?
Of course, lately, I've seen a lot of airport taxis with a WiFi/Cellular base station in the trunk. A local bus service has it in their busses as well.
On the other hand, GM is twisted--$5 a day for 250MB of data per month? That's a bit more than $150 a month. I can get a better deal from...well...just about anybody! Verizon offers 250MB of data for $20 a month. AT&T has a plan for $15. I'm sure there are cheaper ones
I would hope that you would teach that you always need to evaluate whether something might dart in front of your car.
Well, realistically, something might dart in front of your car at any time. So you should always drive 5 MPH.
The reason for these rules is to provide predictability to a situation. If I'm approaching an intersection and the light is green, I know I don't have to worry about another car jumping out in front of me. We slow down in neighborhoods because there is more unpredictability--kids playing by the side of the road, loose ball goes into the street, etc.
But if you're in the road as road user, you need to be predictable. And that means following the rules of the road--whether you think you can make it or not.
Old joke: I'm riding in a car with my friend. He blows through a red light. "Dude, you just ran a red light!" I exclaim. "Don't worry--my brother does this all the time." We approach another red light--Zoom! Right through it. "You just ran another red light!" "Relax, my brother does this all the time." We approach a green light and my friend jams on the brakes. "Why'd you stop?" I ask. "My brother might be coming the other way."
If you can purchase content directly from the supplier (e.g. from HBO, or comedy central, etc), that's however many less salaraies that need to be paid by your subscription costs.
Of course, you'll also end up paying for more channels.
I like my movies and have pretty much all the movie channels my cable provider offers: HBO, Cinemax (same parent company), Showtime, The Movie Channel (same parent company), Starz, Encore (same parent company), and Epix. So I'd end up with those, because they produce original programming, but I'd also end up with subscriptions to Sony, Universal, Disney, Paramount, etc.
When they found out that HAL only faked the com error, if HAL had been human they would've asked "Dude, what's cooking, we know that you faked that shit, what's the deal here?"
Keep in mind that when the AE-35 unit was brought aboard and was shown to be in perfect working order, HAL seemed to feel that there must be some sort of human error.
If you were stuck at an airport trying to fly out or if you were flying into one of the airports affected then it was not just a minor software glitch, it was a major pain in the ass.
There is, in theory, a market force involved in running AS400 software on your Windows PC. It is conceivably possible for someone to write and distribute software to run AS400 software on your PC. If this were to occur, you could run AS400 software on your PC.
Conversely, the reason you can't run WiFi-Where on your iPad isn't that nobody has done it, it's that Apple won't allow it. Someone else is deciding what is appropriate for you to run on your iPad. It's not "the invisible hand of the market" or anything like that--it's that the company that made the product says "No."
I know plenty who like it because they know people like that. You aren't laughing at Sheldon directly, but you are laughing at your coworker/friend who does the same things sometimes.
True. I know a few Asians with funny accents and coke-bottle glasses who are absolutely hilarious and I laugh at them all the time.
Gosh, somebody should make a TV show out of that. I wonder how long it would last...
He kind of forayed into the Humphrey Bogart realm for a bit with Sabrina (in which he played a role that Humphrey Bogart played in the original) and 6 Days and 7 Nights (where he played a Bogart-like character). I enjoyed those movies.
And, of course, Air Force One (e.g., "Die Hard...on a Plane!") was fun. He's doing Expendables 3 and I'm wondering if he'll say, "Get off my plane!"
Slashdot Mirror
[...] founder and CEO of her latest company, Qubell.
Because what we need is more Qubell.
Actually, Apple has a set of forbidden words. Macs don't crash or hang, they "unexpectedly quit" or "stop responding." Things are not "supported", they are "compatible." However nothing is incompatible--they just don't work with Macs.
I like the 2017 launch of the SLS. HA!
That said, I think Orion is interesting. Dragon is designed to deal with LEO whereas Orion is designed to deal with outside Earth orbit. This is the sort of thing that NASA should be working on. I think SLS is a waste--it sounds like Space-X will be able to do it faster and cheaper. But Orion is worthwhile.
use the x37 to do all sorts of interesting missions like [...] capturing satellites.
And the use of capturing satellites is...?
[...] send robots out to explore other planets, and let real science move on.
What's sad is that you figure that the robots are doing "real science."
Remember that "real science" is pretty boring to most people. The conclusions are interesting but the actual study, hypotheses, testing--y'know, that whole "scientific method" stuff--is pretty damn dull unless it's something you're specifically interested and knowledgeable about. There is plenty of "real science" happening on ISS but since most of us don't understand it, we poo-poo it. Heck, just look at the information returned on the last Dragon capsule. Boring shit, right?
The robots, as you imply, are doing exploration, which is a bit more exciting. "What's over the next hill?" is a far more exciting question than "Why is that hill there?" The first one is exploration. The second one is "real science."
We did it with Apollo and we did it with STS. It just shows that manned space flight and space flight in general are not priorities which IMHO SUCKS!!!!!!!
Why?
Fine, you can go all "future of humanity" on me and I won't disagree. But why do we need to have a continuous manned space flight system? Is there some emergency where we need to get into orbit right now but we can't? Do you foresee one?
Look, they retired Apollo and built STS. We had no capability of sending men into orbit for 6 years. And, somehow, the nation survived it. So some scientists might have to wait a few years to get their experiments done on ISS. Somehow, I think we'll all survive.
Don't get me wrong--I have nothing against manned space flight. I think it's important scientifically and as a "future of humanity" thing. I also think that the technology isn't there yet. It won't get there unless we work on it, granted, but if we have atomic drives in 2039 instead of 2052, it doesn't matter that much. We're talking long-term here. Mars isn't going anywhere, so it's not like we have to get there next week or it'll be gone forever.
nature doesn't want anything.
Yes it does. Plastic.
Part of the problem is the support system.
One of the reasons that people like gasoline is that the delivery system is all over the place. I pass 6 gasoline stations in the about 4 miles of surface-street driving that I do to get to work. So you'll need hydrogen stations that are nearly as ubiquitous as gasoline stations.
Hell, not all gas stations here in the US carry diesel. You think they're all going to invest in hydrogen pumps?
Don't get me wrong--electricity suffers a similar problem. Yeah, I have it in my house, but when I'm out-and-about, I don't see much for charging stations.
The issue, of course, is you're dragging around both a bunch of heavy batteries and a bunch of hydrogen fuel cells, making things less efficient.
It's chicken/egg problem. A good analogy is natural gas-powered vehicles. There's a spot about a quarter-of-a-mile from my house that sells natural gas for cars. Really handy. The next closest one is about 10 miles away. Not so handy. The next one is about 15 miles in the opposite direction. Again, not so handy.
If you have an NGV, you need to plan your refueling, unlike gasoline, which is everywhere.
Until/unless you have a large batch of hydrogen stations around the country, it's not that useful to carry around a bunch of hydrogen fuel cells. And if there are a batch of hydrogen stations around, why do you need to carry around a bunch of batteries?
Yeah, but then you need a spouse, which is a pretty expensive proposition right there...
Actually, I was recently pulled over by the CHP and he remarked that you can just take a picture of your insurance card and the cops will accept that as proof of insurance. I assume it has to be a decent picture with the account numbers visible and the like...
Depends on your taxi ride and your data plan.
Heck, I've had 45 minute taxi rides going to the airport in New York. So if I could, say, download a movie for the flight using someone else's WiFi and not use my data caps, why wouldn't I?
Of course, lately, I've seen a lot of airport taxis with a WiFi/Cellular base station in the trunk. A local bus service has it in their busses as well.
On the other hand, GM is twisted--$5 a day for 250MB of data per month? That's a bit more than $150 a month. I can get a better deal from...well...just about anybody! Verizon offers 250MB of data for $20 a month. AT&T has a plan for $15. I'm sure there are cheaper ones
I would hope that you would teach that you always need to evaluate whether something might dart in front of your car.
Well, realistically, something might dart in front of your car at any time. So you should always drive 5 MPH.
The reason for these rules is to provide predictability to a situation. If I'm approaching an intersection and the light is green, I know I don't have to worry about another car jumping out in front of me. We slow down in neighborhoods because there is more unpredictability--kids playing by the side of the road, loose ball goes into the street, etc.
But if you're in the road as road user, you need to be predictable. And that means following the rules of the road--whether you think you can make it or not.
Old joke: I'm riding in a car with my friend. He blows through a red light. "Dude, you just ran a red light!" I exclaim. "Don't worry--my brother does this all the time." We approach another red light--Zoom! Right through it. "You just ran another red light!" "Relax, my brother does this all the time." We approach a green light and my friend jams on the brakes. "Why'd you stop?" I ask. "My brother might be coming the other way."
[...] it's by no means skinny and only normal if you compare yourself to other overweight people.
And that's the key.
Not to mention that George Carlin also suggested it.
If you can purchase content directly from the supplier (e.g. from HBO, or comedy central, etc), that's however many less salaraies that need to be paid by your subscription costs.
Of course, you'll also end up paying for more channels.
I like my movies and have pretty much all the movie channels my cable provider offers: HBO, Cinemax (same parent company), Showtime, The Movie Channel (same parent company), Starz, Encore (same parent company), and Epix. So I'd end up with those, because they produce original programming, but I'd also end up with subscriptions to Sony, Universal, Disney, Paramount, etc.
When they found out that HAL only faked the com error, if HAL had been human they would've asked "Dude, what's cooking, we know that you faked that shit, what's the deal here?"
Keep in mind that when the AE-35 unit was brought aboard and was shown to be in perfect working order, HAL seemed to feel that there must be some sort of human error.
So now they have Tornados and Earthquakes?
Definitely not moving there.
If you were stuck at an airport trying to fly out or if you were flying into one of the airports affected then it was not just a minor software glitch, it was a major pain in the ass.
Actually, incoming flights were fine.
Not a great analogy.
There is, in theory, a market force involved in running AS400 software on your Windows PC. It is conceivably possible for someone to write and distribute software to run AS400 software on your PC. If this were to occur, you could run AS400 software on your PC.
Conversely, the reason you can't run WiFi-Where on your iPad isn't that nobody has done it, it's that Apple won't allow it. Someone else is deciding what is appropriate for you to run on your iPad. It's not "the invisible hand of the market" or anything like that--it's that the company that made the product says "No."
I know plenty who like it because they know people like that. You aren't laughing at Sheldon directly, but you are laughing at your coworker/friend who does the same things sometimes.
True. I know a few Asians with funny accents and coke-bottle glasses who are absolutely hilarious and I laugh at them all the time.
Gosh, somebody should make a TV show out of that. I wonder how long it would last...
Well, supposedly the Emperor and Darth Vader were based on Ming the Merciless. Now they have the real Ming the Merciless.
Of course, what happens when they do the new Flash Gordon movie?
20 Years...hmm...
He kind of forayed into the Humphrey Bogart realm for a bit with Sabrina (in which he played a role that Humphrey Bogart played in the original) and 6 Days and 7 Nights (where he played a Bogart-like character). I enjoyed those movies.
And, of course, Air Force One (e.g., "Die Hard...on a Plane!") was fun. He's doing Expendables 3 and I'm wondering if he'll say, "Get off my plane!"
I even liked Hollywood Homicide.
But not much in the last 10 years has thrilled me.
Then don't watch it. You are completely free to watch the original trilogy, in their original versions, on laserdisc, over and over again.
Too bad they never made any sequels...
Don't forget, Max Von Sydow played Ming the Merciless, so this could be completely awesome!