I think there's less reason for doubt than is generally believed. There's been a fair bit of interest in resource extraction. Primarily for the moon, but likewise for Mars. The present players seem fairly comfortable with the engineering aspects. The main concern relates more to legal title to the resources once extracted. The wealth locked up in NEOs is unfathomable and the private sector is in a far better position to leverage it than government.
So I'm confused... Are you saying he's a hypocrite for claiming we should not let virtual contact replace physical then proceeds to partake in virtual communication with God? Or, that he's just saying it's important to not live in your mom's basement playing WoW all day, everyday? Or, that he's encouraging physical contact to take place rather than just cybersex?
We shall see soon enough. They're claiming that they are "presently" manufacturing commercial units with plans to go into mass production inside of a year IIRC.
Who cares. There more they twist the screws, the more people say F-U and do as they please. These folks are a temper tantrum throwing child. The common response to these are to walk off and ignore them or slap the sh*t out of 'em. Either way, what difference does it make. Let them squawk, they'll get their dues.
How about this one to burn your melon. Using the infinite universe theory--whereby in the good old quantum world every decision point is a fork in the universe--the world could well have ended on each and every one of the so-called "world's going to end" dates but your conscience is simply traveling down the path by which this hasn't yet happened.
On a semi-related note, I highly recommend Neal Stephenson's book Anathem.
SD cards are dirt cheap and the native media for cameras. 2GB $5. Fill one up, upload it's contents to a NAS then toss it into a firesafe with a label. If you don't care for the SD option, back the images up on a Bluray or DVD and toss that into a firesafe. I think technically the lifespan of an SD card is more, but in either case I'd refresh your backups every few years for peace of mind.
Oh come now. This college crew will make a mint off of the same fools that post such indiscretions. A monthly fee to access your images? Brilliant! I'm quite certain no authority will be given access to the keys either... feel free to post all manner of naughtiness!
Poking a Mac is the near equivalent of poking a *NIX system. Given the popularity of Macs I suspect we're only having our faith in *NIX further validated. *NIX was here before M$ and will be here long after. I have no doubt there have been and will be many, many failed pioneers.
Uh. Please tell me how we'd know that they had targeted a Linux machine? I appreciate your idea but are you certain you thought it through? For surely the only notice we'd have of their work were if they succeeded in exploiting it. This conundrum is surely similar to that of proving God exists. Faith in security like faith in God kinda revolves around the notion of "no news is good news" wherein if you do not hear of exploits your faith may remain strong, but hear of one and the house comes tumbling down.
This quandary is especially vexing. For we know that Linux is deployed the world over and in ever increasing numbers. We have never heard of a Linux system being exploited. This naturally bolsters our faith, yet like faith in God, sharing our faith in Linux security is met with equal ridicule and skepticism. Oh why do heathen believe in these wicked pretenders, these idols made of spaghetti code? Why are they so easily fooled into parting with their gold for indulgences, these so called anti-virals. If only they did not bed prostitutes, but married the one that was free, faithful and true they would not catch fleas. "Come live in the land of milk and honey" you say, but "nay" is their reply. For you see, they cannot, the world beyond their nose and there is plenty of refuse on which to dine in their gutter they call their home.
It really should be as simple as being paid according to the value you contribute to the company. The old-school paradigm of simply being paid more because you've been there longer doesn't encourage employees to make themselves more valuable (learn new skills, develop capabilities for instance). Software development is one field where it is acutely necessary to continually re-invest in your education. If the old goat isn't doing that then certainly their value to the company is going to stagnate, even erode. To speak as to whether or not it was fair to pay the new guy more in this particular case is rather difficult without knowing specifics.
Lava walls and mob generators... ha! Talk about being so 1.1. We now have the "Dispenser!" Fill a dispenser or 100 with arrows. For nice eye candy place these dispensers behind a lava wall for flaming dispense.
NO! That's not how science is done. We must take any idea that contradicts our comfortable theories and ridicule it and strip the author of any and all dignity they have.
While I grant you that is an interesting correlation there is no evidence to suggest that it is actual causation. Other species that menstruate do no have the same 28.5 day cycle. There has been evidence that daylight (or the simulation thereof) can influence the cycle. Either way we have well understood means of regulating a woman's cycle and is a component of most if not all birth control pills. Now that we have the ISS we also have a means of proving there's no connection and indeed have.
What you speak of are simply engineering problems. If NASA (or a suitable private agency) were given the US DoD budget for a say 5-10 years we'd easily have these problems solved and hardware on the ground. Don't forget that back during the Apollo project NASA engineers were seriously thinking/planning for projects that make going (humans) to Mars look like getting to LEO today. Moon/Mars bases, 2001 Space Odessey style stations. Crazy sounding projects such as trans-stellar nuclear pulse drive probes, etc.. These were all framed with the impression that Apollo size budgets would persist. IIRC at peek funding Apollo received 0.4% of GDP, the Manhattan project 1%, DoD presently sucks up 4.7%. NASA's present budget is 0.13% GDP. It should be obvious why our sights have been severely myopic for the last few decades.
I'm not certain there would be much "natural select" going on such that traits could be selected out as in a breed. Humans have a tendency to breed with anything that's human. Additionally the selection of mates would be gravely limited for several generations. At best you'd have epigenetics at play through environmental differences causing different expressions from the same code and not necessarily beneficial manner. There's been some suggestion that the epigenetics can be trans-generational but from what I understand this isn't typical.
Race? Species? Phenotype? *shrug* What's in a name? It was Fox news. Their audience wouldn't know and wouldn't care. They're still too hung up on the "sex" part; be it deeply offended that they could even mention the word in front of their children or held captive by wonderlust.
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I think there's less reason for doubt than is generally believed. There's been a fair bit of interest in resource extraction. Primarily for the moon, but likewise for Mars. The present players seem fairly comfortable with the engineering aspects. The main concern relates more to legal title to the resources once extracted. The wealth locked up in NEOs is unfathomable and the private sector is in a far better position to leverage it than government.
indeed, he encourages non-virtual contact at many levels...
So I'm confused... Are you saying he's a hypocrite for claiming we should not let virtual contact replace physical then proceeds to partake in virtual communication with God? Or, that he's just saying it's important to not live in your mom's basement playing WoW all day, everyday? Or, that he's encouraging physical contact to take place rather than just cybersex?
where on earth they found a picture of a nun with an Eee PC.
We shall see soon enough. They're claiming that they are "presently" manufacturing commercial units with plans to go into mass production inside of a year IIRC.
Who cares. There more they twist the screws, the more people say F-U and do as they please. These folks are a temper tantrum throwing child. The common response to these are to walk off and ignore them or slap the sh*t out of 'em. Either way, what difference does it make. Let them squawk, they'll get their dues.
I didn't know there was a distinction to make? There certainly isn't a difference.
How about this one to burn your melon. Using the infinite universe theory--whereby in the good old quantum world every decision point is a fork in the universe--the world could well have ended on each and every one of the so-called "world's going to end" dates but your conscience is simply traveling down the path by which this hasn't yet happened.
On a semi-related note, I highly recommend Neal Stephenson's book Anathem.
1 million write cycles is a pretty huge number, well in the range of spinning platter lifespans.
without windows I cannot tell whether pigs are flying or the end of the world is approaching.
SD cards are dirt cheap and the native media for cameras. 2GB $5. Fill one up, upload it's contents to a NAS then toss it into a firesafe with a label. If you don't care for the SD option, back the images up on a Bluray or DVD and toss that into a firesafe. I think technically the lifespan of an SD card is more, but in either case I'd refresh your backups every few years for peace of mind.
Oh come now. This college crew will make a mint off of the same fools that post such indiscretions. A monthly fee to access your images? Brilliant! I'm quite certain no authority will be given access to the keys either... feel free to post all manner of naughtiness!
Poking a Mac is the near equivalent of poking a *NIX system. Given the popularity of Macs I suspect we're only having our faith in *NIX further validated. *NIX was here before M$ and will be here long after. I have no doubt there have been and will be many, many failed pioneers.
Uh. Please tell me how we'd know that they had targeted a Linux machine? I appreciate your idea but are you certain you thought it through? For surely the only notice we'd have of their work were if they succeeded in exploiting it. This conundrum is surely similar to that of proving God exists. Faith in security like faith in God kinda revolves around the notion of "no news is good news" wherein if you do not hear of exploits your faith may remain strong, but hear of one and the house comes tumbling down.
This quandary is especially vexing. For we know that Linux is deployed the world over and in ever increasing numbers. We have never heard of a Linux system being exploited. This naturally bolsters our faith, yet like faith in God, sharing our faith in Linux security is met with equal ridicule and skepticism. Oh why do heathen believe in these wicked pretenders, these idols made of spaghetti code? Why are they so easily fooled into parting with their gold for indulgences, these so called anti-virals. If only they did not bed prostitutes, but married the one that was free, faithful and true they would not catch fleas. "Come live in the land of milk and honey" you say, but "nay" is their reply. For you see, they cannot, the world beyond their nose and there is plenty of refuse on which to dine in their gutter they call their home.
It really should be as simple as being paid according to the value you contribute to the company. The old-school paradigm of simply being paid more because you've been there longer doesn't encourage employees to make themselves more valuable (learn new skills, develop capabilities for instance). Software development is one field where it is acutely necessary to continually re-invest in your education. If the old goat isn't doing that then certainly their value to the company is going to stagnate, even erode. To speak as to whether or not it was fair to pay the new guy more in this particular case is rather difficult without knowing specifics.
Being a Pisces (and still a Pisces) my now Taurus (formerly Gemini) wife shouldn't be such a PITA...!
Lava walls and mob generators... ha! Talk about being so 1.1. We now have the "Dispenser!" Fill a dispenser or 100 with arrows. For nice eye candy place these dispensers behind a lava wall for flaming dispense.
The guy didn't appear to be old enough to have played Dig-Dug...
sponsored this research? I'd like to avoid them in the future.
NO! That's not how science is done. We must take any idea that contradicts our comfortable theories and ridicule it and strip the author of any and all dignity they have.
As wacky as "spooky action at a distance" first sounded back in Einstein's day?
While I grant you that is an interesting correlation there is no evidence to suggest that it is actual causation. Other species that menstruate do no have the same 28.5 day cycle. There has been evidence that daylight (or the simulation thereof) can influence the cycle. Either way we have well understood means of regulating a woman's cycle and is a component of most if not all birth control pills. Now that we have the ISS we also have a means of proving there's no connection and indeed have.
What you speak of are simply engineering problems. If NASA (or a suitable private agency) were given the US DoD budget for a say 5-10 years we'd easily have these problems solved and hardware on the ground. Don't forget that back during the Apollo project NASA engineers were seriously thinking/planning for projects that make going (humans) to Mars look like getting to LEO today. Moon/Mars bases, 2001 Space Odessey style stations. Crazy sounding projects such as trans-stellar nuclear pulse drive probes, etc.. These were all framed with the impression that Apollo size budgets would persist. IIRC at peek funding Apollo received 0.4% of GDP, the Manhattan project 1%, DoD presently sucks up 4.7%. NASA's present budget is 0.13% GDP. It should be obvious why our sights have been severely myopic for the last few decades.
I'm not certain there would be much "natural select" going on such that traits could be selected out as in a breed. Humans have a tendency to breed with anything that's human. Additionally the selection of mates would be gravely limited for several generations. At best you'd have epigenetics at play through environmental differences causing different expressions from the same code and not necessarily beneficial manner. There's been some suggestion that the epigenetics can be trans-generational but from what I understand this isn't typical.
Race? Species? Phenotype? *shrug* What's in a name? It was Fox news. Their audience wouldn't know and wouldn't care. They're still too hung up on the "sex" part; be it deeply offended that they could even mention the word in front of their children or held captive by wonderlust.