Well this just shows that the scientists are not really sure the galaxy exists since they cannot agree on its shape, they just have a theory. I think we should remove this whole astronomy theory from the school curriculums too.
To make things worse, if the plane crashes because the pilot does something stupid, everyone looks at the engineer that designed a system that allowed the pilot to do something stupid. If a president ignores common sense and takes a populist crackpot idea and runs the country into the crapper, everyone is happy and he is great. Go figure.
And you think that 1 million dollar is a waste? That is probably the best money DARPA has spent. They are getting a LOT more than 1 million dollars worth of reaserch by doings this. The field was advanced more in these two years than ever before. I much rather they do this than give the money to some University so that a graduate student can waste it. Whenever there is a competition people get innovative. I think this is great.
Besides DARPA's reason of being is to put money into things that no private enterprize would. Things that have no direct application in the next 10 years or so but that seed the field for the private industry to pick from there and make a project that they think they can make money in 2 to 3 years which is the maximum horizon for private industry.
It seems to me they should pick which one they want to support and give you a very cogent reason why. If they are not capable of even that, then why in hell would you let them have root access to your boxes? I know you probably don't want to be opositional here but they may waste your time more than anything else.
What are you using today? Why not stick with it?
I it is even worse because you are really accessing this from INSIDE your car. They sent this radio frquencies INTO your property. I don't remember the police arresting people for listening to someone elses conversation when the old wireless phones didn't have encription, frequency hopping, etc. It is just stupid. What they need to do is just go in if someone complains and then cite the person that left the door open for being an accomplice to the crime.
That one went up to 100,000 feet and I saw the movie. It is incredible to see the sky turn deep dark as if in space. The idea was to use fuel cells during the night and solar panels during the day to reform the water and make electricity. The one that could do that I think crashed before they could demonstrate much of the coast of Hawaii.
No bombs. If it had bombs it would be a UCAV (Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicle). This one has a lot more uses that are on the civilian side. Something that can fly this high for this long begins to be attractive as a platform for high speed communications, surveillance (forest fires, city traffic, ocean polluters, etc)
Re:Just picked this book up a month ago
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The Book of Postfix
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I tried to setup sendmail a while back and quit in disgust. Postfix on the other hand is straight forward to the point that you can setup all the configuration files without having to copy some strange files that do some magic and actually understand what's going on. Well mostly understand what's going on.:)
What people has to realize is that there is a big chunk of the airwaves that are being wasted by analog TV. The FCC can make a lot of money taking that back and reselling it at auction. By going to digital TV they can cram more channels at the same (or worse quality) over the same frequencies with maybe a couple of high definition channels to keep congress happy but it is all about big business and setting up the field to show that analog is really just a waste of resources and that people don't care if they go out.
Pretty much. They are good for specialized software but they are usually over crowded. I used to work in one. Students would line up and printing was pretty horrendous. If you wanted to work on weekends...good luck. But there you had access to ProEngineer and other _very_ expensive software. Today I think they give you the CD and you install it in your machine and get a license from the server directly. Much cheaper than maintaining good, up to date computers with all the costs of licenses, etc. Who knows... if she didn't need a laptop to begin with then it is not a necessity and she should buy it with her own money. I think that probably a desktop in the room would be better. At least she won't spend her money on drugs or alcohol.
Fusion is supposed to be much cleaner and safer. If the contaiment field fails, it just stops going. I think there is still the issue of the surrounding structures becoming radioactive themseves and then we would have to dispose of that. But the fusion process itself is very clean. Overall you take deuterium (a type of hidrogen where there are two neutrons instead of only one) and you make them smash hard enough to make a helium molecule (plus a bunch of other particles) that is lighter than the the two hydrogen molecules taken separate with the difference in weight becoming energy by the famous e=mc^2.
This is so hot that they have to use a magnetic container to keep the walls from melting and the hydrogen from cooling. If the magnet fails then the reaction just stops. With a bang but nothing more destructive than say a rocket fuel factory going up?
I don't think you've been to school lately. Without a computer you can't do much nowadays. If she lost a book for a class would you refuse her money and tell her to just fail it or make do? That is a milder example I guess. The previous poster radicalized the discussion that is why I exagerated. I think you missed the cinical tone.
Why would he want to do that? It seems to me, he is just trying to help her secure her laptop. Of course you could say let her loose it since you wouldn't buy her one to replace it. Part of the learning process, and if she needs the laptop for a class. Well tough love and another lesson learned. I guess a belting now and then would teach her a lesson too uh?
But cedega will not help you. It only works on the x86. Maybe once the Apple finally moves to an x86 platform then you may be able to get wine/cedega for it. Now that would be a good way to go.
Enough to say go f**k yourselves to the EU, and still stay relevant.
Re:I'm all for science/technology/astronomy but...
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Back to Moon in 2015?
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There are a series of reasons. Some may say that we can ignore them and not divert resources from the problems at home (hunger, AIDS, etc.) but to list some of the stuff that can be done on the moon.
1) Telescopes: A stable place to put telescopes outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Think Hubble but easier once the moon station is operational. There are a lot of light frequencies that are filtered by the Earth atmosphere plus all the polution from light is making it harder and harder to find good spots on Earth.
2) Radio Telescopes: It seems that Cell Phones emit radiation in the prime frequency for SETI searches. If one can put the body of the Moon between the telescope and the targets, it is relatively easier to do this type of observations.
3) All kinds of neet physics experiments. The availability of low gravity and close to hard vacuum makes some type of experiments easier.
It is all related to things that may or may not have short term direct applications but space never did. All of what we use to day that was rooted on space research happened much later after the basic reasearch. I say it is a good way to spend a small portion of Earth's GNP.
You should also find a provider that does ssl or you will be sending the password cleartext and anyone with a decent sniffer can see the transaction as it happens.
If you use a public network and a public terminal you are essentially SOL. A better way would be to get a public account (say gmail.com) and forward the email there and use it to send emails. You can even create three or four and switch as you go.
That's a red herring. It should be looked at as sunk cost, money spend is money gone. The question should be, how much is it going to cost us to going forward, as compared with switching going forward. There is cost in switching but the savings going forward should offset that (they need to be properly discounted too so that gains too far in the future don't really add up to much today!!). In that sense there is no lock in.
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Well this just shows that the scientists are not really sure the galaxy exists since they cannot agree on its shape, they just have a theory. I think we should remove this whole astronomy theory from the school curriculums too.
To make things worse, if the plane crashes because the pilot does something stupid, everyone looks at the engineer that designed a system that allowed the pilot to do something stupid. If a president ignores common sense and takes a populist crackpot idea and runs the country into the crapper, everyone is happy and he is great. Go figure.
And you think that 1 million dollar is a waste? That is probably the best money DARPA has spent. They are getting a LOT more than 1 million dollars worth of reaserch by doings this. The field was advanced more in these two years than ever before. I much rather they do this than give the money to some University so that a graduate student can waste it. Whenever there is a competition people get innovative. I think this is great. Besides DARPA's reason of being is to put money into things that no private enterprize would. Things that have no direct application in the next 10 years or so but that seed the field for the private industry to pick from there and make a project that they think they can make money in 2 to 3 years which is the maximum horizon for private industry.
It seems to me they should pick which one they want to support and give you a very cogent reason why. If they are not capable of even that, then why in hell would you let them have root access to your boxes? I know you probably don't want to be opositional here but they may waste your time more than anything else. What are you using today? Why not stick with it?
I it is even worse because you are really accessing this from INSIDE your car. They sent this radio frquencies INTO your property. I don't remember the police arresting people for listening to someone elses conversation when the old wireless phones didn't have encription, frequency hopping, etc. It is just stupid. What they need to do is just go in if someone complains and then cite the person that left the door open for being an accomplice to the crime.
That one went up to 100,000 feet and I saw the movie. It is incredible to see the sky turn deep dark as if in space. The idea was to use fuel cells during the night and solar panels during the day to reform the water and make electricity. The one that could do that I think crashed before they could demonstrate much of the coast of Hawaii.
No bombs. If it had bombs it would be a UCAV (Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicle). This one has a lot more uses that are on the civilian side. Something that can fly this high for this long begins to be attractive as a platform for high speed communications, surveillance (forest fires, city traffic, ocean polluters, etc)
I tried to setup sendmail a while back and quit in disgust. Postfix on the other hand is straight forward to the point that you can setup all the configuration files without having to copy some strange files that do some magic and actually understand what's going on. Well mostly understand what's going on. :)
What people has to realize is that there is a big chunk of the airwaves that are being wasted by analog TV. The FCC can make a lot of money taking that back and reselling it at auction. By going to digital TV they can cram more channels at the same (or worse quality) over the same frequencies with maybe a couple of high definition channels to keep congress happy but it is all about big business and setting up the field to show that analog is really just a waste of resources and that people don't care if they go out.
Pretty much. They are good for specialized software but they are usually over crowded. I used to work in one. Students would line up and printing was pretty horrendous. If you wanted to work on weekends...good luck. But there you had access to ProEngineer and other _very_ expensive software. Today I think they give you the CD and you install it in your machine and get a license from the server directly. Much cheaper than maintaining good, up to date computers with all the costs of licenses, etc. Who knows ... if she didn't need a laptop to begin with then it is not a necessity and she should buy it with her own money. I think that probably a desktop in the room would be better. At least she won't spend her money on drugs or alcohol.
...and won?!?!?!
Fusion is supposed to be much cleaner and safer. If the contaiment field fails, it just stops going. I think there is still the issue of the surrounding structures becoming radioactive themseves and then we would have to dispose of that. But the fusion process itself is very clean. Overall you take deuterium (a type of hidrogen where there are two neutrons instead of only one) and you make them smash hard enough to make a helium molecule (plus a bunch of other particles) that is lighter than the the two hydrogen molecules taken separate with the difference in weight becoming energy by the famous e=mc^2. This is so hot that they have to use a magnetic container to keep the walls from melting and the hydrogen from cooling. If the magnet fails then the reaction just stops. With a bang but nothing more destructive than say a rocket fuel factory going up?
I don't think you've been to school lately. Without a computer you can't do much nowadays. If she lost a book for a class would you refuse her money and tell her to just fail it or make do? That is a milder example I guess. The previous poster radicalized the discussion that is why I exagerated. I think you missed the cinical tone.
Reading comprehension not your strong skill uh?
Why would he want to do that? It seems to me, he is just trying to help her secure her laptop. Of course you could say let her loose it since you wouldn't buy her one to replace it. Part of the learning process, and if she needs the laptop for a class. Well tough love and another lesson learned. I guess a belting now and then would teach her a lesson too uh?
But cedega will not help you. It only works on the x86. Maybe once the Apple finally moves to an x86 platform then you may be able to get wine/cedega for it. Now that would be a good way to go.
Enough to say go f**k yourselves to the EU, and still stay relevant.
There are a series of reasons. Some may say that we can ignore them and not divert resources from the problems at home (hunger, AIDS, etc.) but to list some of the stuff that can be done on the moon. 1) Telescopes: A stable place to put telescopes outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Think Hubble but easier once the moon station is operational. There are a lot of light frequencies that are filtered by the Earth atmosphere plus all the polution from light is making it harder and harder to find good spots on Earth. 2) Radio Telescopes: It seems that Cell Phones emit radiation in the prime frequency for SETI searches. If one can put the body of the Moon between the telescope and the targets, it is relatively easier to do this type of observations. 3) All kinds of neet physics experiments. The availability of low gravity and close to hard vacuum makes some type of experiments easier. It is all related to things that may or may not have short term direct applications but space never did. All of what we use to day that was rooted on space research happened much later after the basic reasearch. I say it is a good way to spend a small portion of Earth's GNP.
You should also find a provider that does ssl or you will be sending the password cleartext and anyone with a decent sniffer can see the transaction as it happens. If you use a public network and a public terminal you are essentially SOL. A better way would be to get a public account (say gmail.com) and forward the email there and use it to send emails. You can even create three or four and switch as you go.
That's a red herring. It should be looked at as sunk cost, money spend is money gone. The question should be, how much is it going to cost us to going forward, as compared with switching going forward. There is cost in switching but the savings going forward should offset that (they need to be properly discounted too so that gains too far in the future don't really add up to much today!!). In that sense there is no lock in.