That hadn't occurred to me. How big a scope would you need to see it? Could you see it with the naked eye? The ISS is certainly bright, although it's nowhere near as far as the moon but much smaller than what came down in Russia.
We've all been spelling it wrong, even the dictionaries, because that one in Russia last year certainly made an ass of itself. I guess in Britain the correct spelling is arseteroid.
Seriously, though, this is the kind of stuff I could only dream of as a kid. Incredibly cool!
Indeed. The worst of them have/had been in use for a century or more. Paint and gasoline used to have lead. I remember reading about a mushroom hunter who had gotten sick after eating some wild mushrooms she'd found on the side of the road. They weren't a toxic species; she'd gotten lead poisoning from gasoline fumes the fungi had absorbed. Kids were rendered mentally retarded from eating paint chips. Thermometers contained mercury, and when one broke us kids would play with the amazing metal. Yet at one point in school my IQ was measured at 150 (I'm sure I'm a lot dumber now, I've been exposed to toxins all my life).
The biggest danger to children's brains is women drinking while pregnant. I've seen it all too many times in my six decades, it's incredibly sad. Other, more dangerous dangers are blows to the head, and mental and physical abuse.
Rather than the sky falling, it's continually improving; most of the substances listed have already either been banned, or their use curtailed voluntarily. From TFA:
The American Chemistry Council, meanwhile, called the review a "rehash" of the authors' first review.
"This iteration is as highly flawed as the first, as once again the authors ignore the fundamental scientific principles of exposure and potency," said council spokesman Scott Jensen.
"What is most concerning is that the authors focus largely on chemicals and heavy metals that are well understood to be inappropriate for children's exposure, are highly regulated and/or are restricted or being phased out. They then extrapolate that similar conclusions should be applied to chemicals that are more widely used in consumer products without evidence to support their claims. Such assertions do nothing to advance true scientific understanding and only create confusion and alarm."
Before I get a little offtopic I want to address the submitter's question: he's asking for COBOL or BASIC. If you can't figure those simple languages out, you'll never be a programmer.
That said, a lot of today's high level languages are poorly designed, with a lot of roadblocks that should be unnecessary. And programmers should know boolean logic, binary math, and how computers work down to the individual transistors.
As to Beta, the problems are many but they don't stem from bad programming. They stem from bad design and poor testing and debugging (but 99% bad design). Releasing alpha-quality code to beta was their biggest mistake.
Odd, mine has 160,000 miles and I've used it hard. All I've had to replace were some steering parts when I had it aligned last year (besides tires, oil, wiper refills, etc). I guess I got lucky.
Either way, it's foolish to pay a premium for an item to last twenty years when you're going to trade it in in three.
You seem to completely misunderstand copyright. You cannot copyright information or knowledge, all you can copyright is your communication of that information and knowledge. You can write a book about communication protocols, and I can read your book and write my own based on what I learned from yours, and there's nothing you can do about it. I have not infringed your copyright, I have not copied your work, I have created a new work and possibly, if I've learned from others as well or discovered something in my studies, I can use that for improving on your information. And your assertion that I can't use the information is brain-dead stupid -- you think that people who check a book about how to win a game out of the library, read it, and use that new knowledge to win are infringing copyright???
Without copyright, any rich bastard could sell as many copies of my book as he wanted, he has marketing bucks and I don't. I would get nothing for my work, the publisher would reap the rewards.
That said, copyright lengths are absurd. There is no way Jimi Hendrix will ever be talked into recording any more records.
As to patents, there should be a patent system but ours is screwed for many different reasons.
Trademarks? You think it should be OK for me to open a McDonald's restaraunt down to the golden arches?
Half of all homosexuals attempt suicide. Of course, society's response to them is part of it but if you attempt suicide, you are certifiably mentally ill (even if society's tormenting you caused the illness).
If it is indeed a disorder, we certainly haven't found a good treatment.
I would agree that it is a medical disorder of some type, but I'm pretty sure your "molested as a kid" is absolutely wrong. I know people who were molested as children, none are gay and all have one or another mental illness compounded by substance abuse. Anyone who fucks a child fucks a child for life. No, I'm not talking about an eighteen year old who has been dating a sixteen year old for three years, I'm talking about adults fucking children. I wish I'd never seen the adult results from the abuse. But homosexuality wasn't the result, although prostitution often was.
On the other hand, gays and lesbians I've known all had straight siblings. If your hypothesis was correct, many of their siblings would also be gay --- I mean really, you have 4 kids and only molest one?
It's most likely a combination of genetics and environment, like almost every other disease. I pity them and applaud those who thrive despite it. If you're a Christian, remember that God loves gays and he doesn't hate their sins any more than he hates yours or mine. You're no better, don't judge people.
We all have our cross to bear. Just be glad you weren't born homosexual, I'm sure it's a huge burden.
Not me. If I come home from work and find someone I don't know sitting on my couch reading, they're going to jail. Period. Even if the door is unlocked it's breaking and entering and a violation of my rights. You don't just walk into someone's house and read their books, especially since those books are free at the library.
My daughter has been using iPhones for years, she's 27. I see people of all ages with the silly things. I say silly, because it's stupid to carry around a six or seven hundred dollar fragile object everywhere you go when one for a hundred will do all the same things.
I call Apple's phone the iBling. It's a status symbol, and I detest status symbols. Kids...
A better question should be why in the hell should I care what you call yourself? With a few exceptions, (people with genetic anomalies (XXY, XYY, YY, XXX) you're either male (XY) or female (XX), and who you like to fuck is simply none of my damned business.
Absolutely backwards, the "marriage penalty" is a carefully crafted lie. The fact is, a childless married couple pays less than a widow with a child who earns the same amount of money. Yeah, if all three of those adults earn the same amount of money the married couple will pay almost twice as much in taxes, but that's because they're earning twice as much.
I guess YMMV in other parts of the world, but in the US singles are taxed at a higher rate.
Apparently almost anything except an iPhone. I've only broken a single screen, and that was a cheap throwaway phone I slipped in the ice and fell on. But my daughter's an iPhone user and breaks all of them. I've seen other iPhones with cracked screens, but no other brands..
I suspect Apple uses thinner glass to make the whole phone thinner. I know of no other phone so delicate.
Unions didn't kill themselves by asking for too much money, corporations killed the unions by buying "right to work" legislation in many states, then moving there. And there's no way any American can compete with someone who can get by on two dollars a day, so the "American" companies shipped jobs where pay was nothing and regulations were nonexistent (leading to poisoned baby formula, China's horrendous pollution, etc). Union labor? Minimum wage can't compete with China when it comes to cheap labor.
Yet another reason for me to like mine better. Dial in the temperature you want and that's the temperature you get, summer or winter. In the summer mine starts kicking out cold air quickly (takes a minute to cool the pipes).
Over population is the cause of most of our current misery
No. Most of our current misery is caused by greed and selfishness. There is enough food and other resources for everyone, except that less than one percent of humans have 99% of the Earth's resources.
The need to feed the mutitudes [sic] has reduced our oceans to near death.
Agriculture isn't killing the oceans, energy companies and chemical (mostly plastics) companies are. Farmers hate runoff, it's money they spent that was wasted. They don't wantonly dump stuff, and our lands are NOT exhausted... where did you pick this bullshit up at, your local astrologer?
You and the guy you responded to are victims of your own culture. We are the weirdest people in the world. This ape-like chest thumping needs to evolve out of our species, along with selfishness and greed. And the thing is, it isn't genetics that need to evolve, it's our sick culture.
Birth rates are declining in the developed world. When you're in a place where half of all children die from disease, people have a lot more kids.
As to resources, I guess you haven't heard the news that there are plans to mine the moon and asteroids. Now that we've reached space, there really ARE unlimited resources.
In the fifteenth century, yeah. Not today. Lack of a dick does not make you a woman and the presence of one does not make you a man. As yet we cannot change a person's gender, only their appearance. Whether you're a man or a woman depends on whether or not you have a Y chromosome.
That said, there are a very few folks with some strange DNA; two Ys, Two Y's and an X, three Xes, etc. However, these folks have far worse problems than gender identity.
There are a lot more than three, someone started building an alternate slashdot, which was immediately slashdotted. I was one of the protesters, have changed my mind; as long as classic is here, I'm here. Why I'm not joining the slashcott.
I am keeping an eye on the alternate site, because Dice seems to want to attract the kind of people I hate reading comments from -- barely literate luddites who hate science and can't tell their from there from they're or lose from loose. I'm already starting to get sick of reading comments in a NASA thread about how that tax money is all wasted, about how climate change is a hoax to make scientists rich, and the awfully offensive "Pshaw, first world problems."
However, even if I stop reading comments in front page stories I'll still be reading and writing journals. Oddly, lately that's where you find the best comments, in user journals.
What's the matter, kid, did your grandpa molest you or something?
Entitlement? I'm certainly entitled to what I pay for. As to selfish, I see that more in the kids. We did NOT grow up in unprecedented prosperity you ignorant twat, the fifties when we were kids and seventies when we were young adults were both recession periods, and the seventies were inflationary DURING a recession.
Selfish? Sorry, kid, that's YOUR cocaine-addled generation, not mine. Also, methinks you're confusing social classes with ages.
Our generation was thrown into a useless war in southeast Asia by the "Greatest Generation" who ran things back then. If not for my generation, Bush would have drafted you kids to die in Afghanistan and Iraq.
My generation fought against the Vietnam war and won, fought against pollution and got the Clean Air and water acts passed... my generation's protests were all effective. How's your "occupy" movement coming?
My generation brought you PCs and cell phones and file sharing. Meanwhile, yours killed the unions.
I see the opposite, that people think "free" means "worthless". I see people paying ten bucks for a cup of coffee because it's Starbucks. I see people buying bottled water. I see people paying two dollars for a can of corn when there are store brands of corn grown in the same field and canned in the same factory for sixty nine cents. I see people buying Tylenol and Alieve when the generics are chemically identical and a third the price.
Really, I can make a call or a text or an email or take a picture or video or do anything else on my $125 Android that you can do with an iPod, and mine's waterproof and doesn't have delicate glass like the iPhone.
My sister, who is fairly well off, bought a Lexus. My old Chrysler has more comfortable seats, better HVAC (kicks in faster), a better sounding radio, but when it was new (I bought it used) it cost half of what that Lexus cost.
A more expensive item is not always better, nor is it always better suited for your purposes.
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That hadn't occurred to me. How big a scope would you need to see it? Could you see it with the naked eye? The ISS is certainly bright, although it's nowhere near as far as the moon but much smaller than what came down in Russia.
We've all been spelling it wrong, even the dictionaries, because that one in Russia last year certainly made an ass of itself. I guess in Britain the correct spelling is arseteroid.
Seriously, though, this is the kind of stuff I could only dream of as a kid. Incredibly cool!
Indeed. The worst of them have/had been in use for a century or more. Paint and gasoline used to have lead. I remember reading about a mushroom hunter who had gotten sick after eating some wild mushrooms she'd found on the side of the road. They weren't a toxic species; she'd gotten lead poisoning from gasoline fumes the fungi had absorbed. Kids were rendered mentally retarded from eating paint chips. Thermometers contained mercury, and when one broke us kids would play with the amazing metal. Yet at one point in school my IQ was measured at 150 (I'm sure I'm a lot dumber now, I've been exposed to toxins all my life).
The biggest danger to children's brains is women drinking while pregnant. I've seen it all too many times in my six decades, it's incredibly sad. Other, more dangerous dangers are blows to the head, and mental and physical abuse.
Rather than the sky falling, it's continually improving; most of the substances listed have already either been banned, or their use curtailed voluntarily. From TFA:
Before I get a little offtopic I want to address the submitter's question: he's asking for COBOL or BASIC. If you can't figure those simple languages out, you'll never be a programmer.
That said, a lot of today's high level languages are poorly designed, with a lot of roadblocks that should be unnecessary. And programmers should know boolean logic, binary math, and how computers work down to the individual transistors.
As to Beta, the problems are many but they don't stem from bad programming. They stem from bad design and poor testing and debugging (but 99% bad design). Releasing alpha-quality code to beta was their biggest mistake.
Once the government can start ceasing private assets
I weep for today's educational systems.
Odd, mine has 160,000 miles and I've used it hard. All I've had to replace were some steering parts when I had it aligned last year (besides tires, oil, wiper refills, etc). I guess I got lucky.
Either way, it's foolish to pay a premium for an item to last twenty years when you're going to trade it in in three.
You seem to completely misunderstand copyright. You cannot copyright information or knowledge, all you can copyright is your communication of that information and knowledge. You can write a book about communication protocols, and I can read your book and write my own based on what I learned from yours, and there's nothing you can do about it. I have not infringed your copyright, I have not copied your work, I have created a new work and possibly, if I've learned from others as well or discovered something in my studies, I can use that for improving on your information. And your assertion that I can't use the information is brain-dead stupid -- you think that people who check a book about how to win a game out of the library, read it, and use that new knowledge to win are infringing copyright???
Without copyright, any rich bastard could sell as many copies of my book as he wanted, he has marketing bucks and I don't. I would get nothing for my work, the publisher would reap the rewards.
That said, copyright lengths are absurd. There is no way Jimi Hendrix will ever be talked into recording any more records.
As to patents, there should be a patent system but ours is screwed for many different reasons.
Trademarks? You think it should be OK for me to open a McDonald's restaraunt down to the golden arches?
Half of all homosexuals attempt suicide. Of course, society's response to them is part of it but if you attempt suicide, you are certifiably mentally ill (even if society's tormenting you caused the illness).
If it is indeed a disorder, we certainly haven't found a good treatment.
I would agree that it is a medical disorder of some type, but I'm pretty sure your "molested as a kid" is absolutely wrong. I know people who were molested as children, none are gay and all have one or another mental illness compounded by substance abuse. Anyone who fucks a child fucks a child for life. No, I'm not talking about an eighteen year old who has been dating a sixteen year old for three years, I'm talking about adults fucking children. I wish I'd never seen the adult results from the abuse. But homosexuality wasn't the result, although prostitution often was.
On the other hand, gays and lesbians I've known all had straight siblings. If your hypothesis was correct, many of their siblings would also be gay --- I mean really, you have 4 kids and only molest one?
It's most likely a combination of genetics and environment, like almost every other disease. I pity them and applaud those who thrive despite it. If you're a Christian, remember that God loves gays and he doesn't hate their sins any more than he hates yours or mine. You're no better, don't judge people.
We all have our cross to bear. Just be glad you weren't born homosexual, I'm sure it's a huge burden.
Not me. If I come home from work and find someone I don't know sitting on my couch reading, they're going to jail. Period. Even if the door is unlocked it's breaking and entering and a violation of my rights. You don't just walk into someone's house and read their books, especially since those books are free at the library.
Hey, you, get offa my cloud!
My daughter has been using iPhones for years, she's 27. I see people of all ages with the silly things. I say silly, because it's stupid to carry around a six or seven hundred dollar fragile object everywhere you go when one for a hundred will do all the same things.
I call Apple's phone the iBling. It's a status symbol, and I detest status symbols. Kids...
A better question should be why in the hell should I care what you call yourself? With a few exceptions, (people with genetic anomalies (XXY, XYY, YY, XXX) you're either male (XY) or female (XX), and who you like to fuck is simply none of my damned business.
Absolutely backwards, the "marriage penalty" is a carefully crafted lie. The fact is, a childless married couple pays less than a widow with a child who earns the same amount of money. Yeah, if all three of those adults earn the same amount of money the married couple will pay almost twice as much in taxes, but that's because they're earning twice as much.
I guess YMMV in other parts of the world, but in the US singles are taxed at a higher rate.
We'll probably end up with situations where investigators ask, "Is that life, or just an obscenely complex self-maintaining chemical process?"
Life IS just an obscenely complex self-maintaining chemical process. It isn't like bacteria are sentient.
Apparently almost anything except an iPhone. I've only broken a single screen, and that was a cheap throwaway phone I slipped in the ice and fell on. But my daughter's an iPhone user and breaks all of them. I've seen other iPhones with cracked screens, but no other brands..
I suspect Apple uses thinner glass to make the whole phone thinner. I know of no other phone so delicate.
Unions didn't kill themselves by asking for too much money, corporations killed the unions by buying "right to work" legislation in many states, then moving there. And there's no way any American can compete with someone who can get by on two dollars a day, so the "American" companies shipped jobs where pay was nothing and regulations were nonexistent (leading to poisoned baby formula, China's horrendous pollution, etc). Union labor? Minimum wage can't compete with China when it comes to cheap labor.
Yet another reason for me to like mine better. Dial in the temperature you want and that's the temperature you get, summer or winter. In the summer mine starts kicking out cold air quickly (takes a minute to cool the pipes).
UID.
Wow, where did you get all that misinformation?
Over population is the cause of most of our current misery
No. Most of our current misery is caused by greed and selfishness. There is enough food and other resources for everyone, except that less than one percent of humans have 99% of the Earth's resources.
The need to feed the mutitudes [sic] has reduced our oceans to near death.
Agriculture isn't killing the oceans, energy companies and chemical (mostly plastics) companies are. Farmers hate runoff, it's money they spent that was wasted. They don't wantonly dump stuff, and our lands are NOT exhausted... where did you pick this bullshit up at, your local astrologer?
You and the guy you responded to are victims of your own culture. We are the weirdest people in the world. This ape-like chest thumping needs to evolve out of our species, along with selfishness and greed. And the thing is, it isn't genetics that need to evolve, it's our sick culture.
Birth rates are declining in the developed world. When you're in a place where half of all children die from disease, people have a lot more kids.
As to resources, I guess you haven't heard the news that there are plans to mine the moon and asteroids. Now that we've reached space, there really ARE unlimited resources.
In the fifteenth century, yeah. Not today. Lack of a dick does not make you a woman and the presence of one does not make you a man. As yet we cannot change a person's gender, only their appearance. Whether you're a man or a woman depends on whether or not you have a Y chromosome.
That said, there are a very few folks with some strange DNA; two Ys, Two Y's and an X, three Xes, etc. However, these folks have far worse problems than gender identity.
Are you three guys here or on strike this week?
There are a lot more than three, someone started building an alternate slashdot, which was immediately slashdotted. I was one of the protesters, have changed my mind; as long as classic is here, I'm here. Why I'm not joining the slashcott.
I am keeping an eye on the alternate site, because Dice seems to want to attract the kind of people I hate reading comments from -- barely literate luddites who hate science and can't tell their from there from they're or lose from loose. I'm already starting to get sick of reading comments in a NASA thread about how that tax money is all wasted, about how climate change is a hoax to make scientists rich, and the awfully offensive "Pshaw, first world problems."
However, even if I stop reading comments in front page stories I'll still be reading and writing journals. Oddly, lately that's where you find the best comments, in user journals.
What's the matter, kid, did your grandpa molest you or something?
Entitlement? I'm certainly entitled to what I pay for. As to selfish, I see that more in the kids. We did NOT grow up in unprecedented prosperity you ignorant twat, the fifties when we were kids and seventies when we were young adults were both recession periods, and the seventies were inflationary DURING a recession.
Selfish? Sorry, kid, that's YOUR cocaine-addled generation, not mine. Also, methinks you're confusing social classes with ages.
Our generation was thrown into a useless war in southeast Asia by the "Greatest Generation" who ran things back then. If not for my generation, Bush would have drafted you kids to die in Afghanistan and Iraq.
My generation fought against the Vietnam war and won, fought against pollution and got the Clean Air and water acts passed... my generation's protests were all effective. How's your "occupy" movement coming?
My generation brought you PCs and cell phones and file sharing. Meanwhile, yours killed the unions.
Fuck off, you nasty little twit.
I see the opposite, that people think "free" means "worthless". I see people paying ten bucks for a cup of coffee because it's Starbucks. I see people buying bottled water. I see people paying two dollars for a can of corn when there are store brands of corn grown in the same field and canned in the same factory for sixty nine cents. I see people buying Tylenol and Alieve when the generics are chemically identical and a third the price.
Really, I can make a call or a text or an email or take a picture or video or do anything else on my $125 Android that you can do with an iPod, and mine's waterproof and doesn't have delicate glass like the iPhone.
My sister, who is fairly well off, bought a Lexus. My old Chrysler has more comfortable seats, better HVAC (kicks in faster), a better sounding radio, but when it was new (I bought it used) it cost half of what that Lexus cost.
A more expensive item is not always better, nor is it always better suited for your purposes.