Bush didn't get blocked on everything he tried to do like Obama does. You can tell, because he was responsible for the largest expansion of the federal gov't in my lifetime.
I hadn't thought of that. Water is a very good idea -- and they say all the water on earth was brought here by asteroids throughout our planet's history anyway.
So, instead of people working full time jobs and getting paid less than enough to live on, they will not work at all and not get paid at all. Looks like one of those nasty "gray area" issues where there's some good and bad to both sides. Imagine that.
We do not serve him; he serves us. I realize that most of the world doesn't get this
Including folks in the USA. The president is who we chose. Putting him in office then telling him "No" every time he tries to do something is just ridiculous. We elected him, why and how is it possible to elect someone to our top-most leadership position and at the same time elect people who intentionally block him from doing *anything* at all? Something is seriously fucked up here.
Why is this modded funny? This seems like a perfectly reasonable question and the answer is very easy for anyone with a basic education in any state other than Missouri to put forth.
That's a good question. Also, "catching" the asteroid would require us to apply a force opposite much of that in order to get the thing to slow down and stay in our orbit.
There are lots of smartass comments on this article already so I'd like to (for once) start an interesting discussion.
How WOULD you "catch" an asteroid? We'd basically have to find a way to drop it into some Earth orbit, right? Then as we're mining it, we'd have to adjust its speed according to the mass we're removing from it in order to keep it in orbit. Wouldn't mining in and of itself be a different issue? I don't know much about mining, but it seems like we depend on our environment quite a bit when mining -- we need water and air for cooling, we need to replace bits/heads quite often due to wear, in many cases we use weights to help drive the drill (and in zero G, there's no weight). THEN we get to try to pull these things off the asteroid without destroying either object's orbit.
This sounds like a really interesting problem. I also wonder regarding the investment that would be required in order to solve these problems... how many asteroids like this would we have to mine before getting a return? How many asteroids like this come close enough to earth that we could mine them?
So now if you are going to replace it, right now it is popular to get these "enterprise" solutions that are so generic that it takes more work to configure it than it does to make new software or port the code in a new language.
Tell me about it! It doesn't have to be COBOL. Why is our company stuck on 20 year old RPG code? For the same reason that in 5 years it will be stuck on 25 year old RPG code. Because it does what we need and it's a royal pain to try to replace.
Cheers to the "bubblers" -- the folks like you and I who started college right around the time the bubble popped. We are the ones who have gone straight into the grind and never got a chance at the "Rockstar Software Guy" role that may or may not have gotten us excited about the field in the first place!
The article is about Mircrosoft's Surface tablet which is marketed at 64GB but is delivered with 60GiB and confusing (and angering) customers. Not sure if maybe the link was added after you read the summary? The article is datelined this past Saturday.
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2013/02/microsoft-needs-to-move-into-the-decimal-world/
If you don't use the web-based GMail interface, google is still scanning your email for ad keywords. You just never see the results of it. I'm pretty sure they aren't doing that on the fly when you log in, it happens when the email arrives.
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Bush didn't get blocked on everything he tried to do like Obama does. You can tell, because he was responsible for the largest expansion of the federal gov't in my lifetime.
President Obama also won the popular vote 50.1% to 48.4% so I'm not sure that this nit you're picking really matters.
I hadn't thought of that. Water is a very good idea -- and they say all the water on earth was brought here by asteroids throughout our planet's history anyway.
Well, what do you expect from anyone who is able to organize a campaign to get elected president?
So, instead of people working full time jobs and getting paid less than enough to live on, they will not work at all and not get paid at all. Looks like one of those nasty "gray area" issues where there's some good and bad to both sides. Imagine that.
Including folks in the USA. The president is who we chose. Putting him in office then telling him "No" every time he tries to do something is just ridiculous. We elected him, why and how is it possible to elect someone to our top-most leadership position and at the same time elect people who intentionally block him from doing *anything* at all? Something is seriously fucked up here.
If that means getting rid of TSA and DHS instead of cutting education spending, I'm all for it.
Why is this modded funny? This seems like a perfectly reasonable question and the answer is very easy for anyone with a basic education in any state other than Missouri to put forth.
Wait, what are you doing here then?
You were labeled "Funny" but I think it's quite an insightful comment.
That's a good question. Also, "catching" the asteroid would require us to apply a force opposite much of that in order to get the thing to slow down and stay in our orbit.
There are lots of smartass comments on this article already so I'd like to (for once) start an interesting discussion.
How WOULD you "catch" an asteroid? We'd basically have to find a way to drop it into some Earth orbit, right? Then as we're mining it, we'd have to adjust its speed according to the mass we're removing from it in order to keep it in orbit. Wouldn't mining in and of itself be a different issue? I don't know much about mining, but it seems like we depend on our environment quite a bit when mining -- we need water and air for cooling, we need to replace bits/heads quite often due to wear, in many cases we use weights to help drive the drill (and in zero G, there's no weight). THEN we get to try to pull these things off the asteroid without destroying either object's orbit.
This sounds like a really interesting problem. I also wonder regarding the investment that would be required in order to solve these problems... how many asteroids like this would we have to mine before getting a return? How many asteroids like this come close enough to earth that we could mine them?
Tell me about it! It doesn't have to be COBOL. Why is our company stuck on 20 year old RPG code? For the same reason that in 5 years it will be stuck on 25 year old RPG code. Because it does what we need and it's a royal pain to try to replace.
Cheers to the "bubblers" -- the folks like you and I who started college right around the time the bubble popped. We are the ones who have gone straight into the grind and never got a chance at the "Rockstar Software Guy" role that may or may not have gotten us excited about the field in the first place!
Obviously they ordered 64 kilo-units but were delivered in kibi-units. It was a big marketing mix-up. (reference: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/11/0254238/when-1-gb-is-really-09313-gigabytes )
The article is about Mircrosoft's Surface tablet which is marketed at 64GB but is delivered with 60GiB and confusing (and angering) customers. Not sure if maybe the link was added after you read the summary? The article is datelined this past Saturday. http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2013/02/microsoft-needs-to-move-into-the-decimal-world/
That's a good, often overlooked, point. Standard e-mail is even less private and secure than snail mail. Same with SMS for those who didn't know.
So does that mean whey I call file.readLine() in Java, the JVM is sending the file to a person to read? Is that why Java is so slow sometimes?
Honest, I wasn't looking at porn at work, I was just parsing it!
If you don't use the web-based GMail interface, google is still scanning your email for ad keywords. You just never see the results of it. I'm pretty sure they aren't doing that on the fly when you log in, it happens when the email arrives.
I can't help but wonder what's in these pics, our company blocks the link for "adult themes."
Manti Te'o? Is that you?
It can't be all that different from the refining and transport of gasoline all over the country.
I'm pretty sure the response was also meant to be funny
Parent = +1 insightful! Please!