Who is this idtiot OP? If you do the simplest websearch, the inflation rate for the US in the last year is 1.7% (which, off the subject, is higher than the "raise" I and my coworkers got), so in other words, NASA's funding is absolutely static.
But then, the GOP secretly believes that the world is flat, and was created 4004 BCE....
I only read it occasionally, but it was good, and has been for a long tim.
I think the editors and staff and contributors should get together, scrape up some money (hell, I'd buy a subscription), and start a new magazine. Perhaps it could be called "The Old Republic", given our new oligarchic collective mind Emperors....
mark "A more wretched hive of scum and villany (and I don't just mean Facebook)"
Old-style "salaried" meant that you didn't have to worry about your hours, and neither did your managers - you'd get you work done, and could take off, say, for a federal holiday. Now - I'd put down a $10 that 99% of you who are in IT work, or have worked, over 40 hours, had vacation time or holidays that you couldn't take, or, like I do, have to "make up" the hours if the federal gov't shuts down or has a holiday, and we *don't*.
By definition, it means what you're really just fairly well-paid hourly employees. *Hourly* employees get time and a half overtime, and double time for working on, say, holdiays. But you're all making *so* much money that you don't care (nor do you have a life outside of work), right?
mark "would be seriously tempted to strangle a manager who said, 'whatever it takes'"
Perhaps he should get out of his cloud, and move about in the RW. Say, talk to people who not only don't own an iPhone, but are lucky to have phone service, becasuse they're earning minium wage, or near it, and are trying to pay their rent, food and utilities. Or look at all the secuirty breaches (hell, my wife was talking about a restaurant that's a spin-off of PC Chang, and my instant reaction was that if we went, we'd pay cash, given the long-term breach that Krebs revealed months ago). Or folks who actually give a shit about being tracked every minute of every day....
mark, who wouldn't touch an Apple, disliking would-be monopolies
Is to nationalize the electric utilities, then they don't need to be run to make a profit fo their CEOs and venture capitalists. Then running them at cost, or a modest "surplus", would also cut costs, and prevent sudden shutdowns by aforesaid CEOs and investors....
mark "but the libertarians here would rather pay through the nose (but none of *them* live near a coal-fired
power plant)"
As in the headline "lowest voter turnout in 70 years"? As in, " Just 36.4 percent of eligible voters turned out in 2014" http:/// www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/2014-midterm-election-turnout-lowest-in-70-years/
This is a US national disgrace. You don't like who's running, so just go play video games, and let the oldigarchs get the best government money can buy.
If you didn't vote, shut up. Better, leave, and go somewhere that you can play games, and as long as you do that, the government won't bother you. Hmmm, isn't North Korea like that?
Some of us are using those GPUs for actual work - like serious scientific computation. Anyone know anything about how this bit switch would affect CUDA?
... and no one threatens me. Bounties would be nice... but I think I'd start out with the simple solution: you threaten me, you're a coward. Come on, show up at at and try to kill me... or are you that much of a coward that you can't deal with what I said, and if you actually do something, you'll want to shoot me in the back, just like any *coward*.
mark
PS trolls - yeah, your cock *is* too small, and if you've ever gotten laid, you've never been able to satisfy a woman - you're just a selfish little kid, not a man.
Legal:? Last week, I heard a speech by Vint Cerf, and he says the next iteration of google car will NOT HAVE A GAS OR BREAK PEDDLE, OR A STEERING WHEEL AT ALL.
As others of that culture were. Um, guys, is it unreasonable of me to not assume that they burnt them due to plague, but rather that they were burnt down by invaders, and there was no one left to live there?
Last week, we had an IPv6 transition seminar where I work, and the keynote speaker was none other than Vint Cerf.
His title of "Internet evangelist" is right - sorta like, I dunno, Pat Robertson.
He told us that the next iteration of google car will *NOT* have a steering wheel, brake, or gas peddle. I quote, "you might be in the back, drinking, or doing crosswords, and so you won't have the context if an alarm goes off, and you'll do the wrong thing".
Now, when I drive home, one road goes from two narrow lanes, with the center line going away to no center line, cars are parked on one side (there's a park on the other), and busses use this route. Go ahead, tell me that anyone's software can handle that road... and we're in a old, big suburb of Washington, DC.
mark "and I don't want *you* to have a flying car, either, since you'd crash into my second-floor bedroom"
Many years ago, at one job, I was drinking several cans of soda a day. One day, while eating lunch, I started thinking about the label: 1/10 of 1% preservative. So, 1% from drinking 10 cans... and a hundred cans, which might be one month, is a pound of preservative.....
No need for embalming when you go, you're already well-preserved.
Easy: first build several *real* space stations, not "outposts in space", that serve the same way airports do, and use orbit-to-orbit ships - true spacegoing vessels. Once those are up, interplanetary travel is *much* cheaper.
Then we build the magelev launchers on the Moon....
Your odds of getting ebola are significantly less than mine of winning the lottery and buying a flight on a Soyuz to the ISS. The odds that someone who should have stopped driving years ago, or a drunk, or someone texting, will run you down with their car is hundreds of thousands of time higher.
Lessee: ~300M Americans, > 40K killed in auto accidents; 2 dead from ebola.
A techie mailing list I'm on has multiple people ranting about the absolutely bs that happens - not the way aircraft comm works, not the way this, that and the other work, and the plot...um, what plot?
First, let's skip over the whole idiotic concept of twitter as a serious medium of communication (quick, here's 140 chars, tell me everything you know), and go to places that you can actually write coherent sentences - that'd be anywhere from email, to usenet, to websites that allow long comments (or your own website).
Back in the day, we used to get trolls on a usenet group I was a regular in. Some where drive-by shooting, never seen again; frequently, we made sarcastic comments about their post. Then there were the longer posts, from someone who might even come back.
Y'know, I understand that about 1,000 years ago and more, if a bard, or someone, made a satire of you, you might as well kill yourself, because no one would ever forget it (admitedly, they didn't travel a lot back then, and the supply of humor was a lot smaller).
Our answer was to MST3k that person. Doing so, of course, requires intellegence, a good familiarity with language, and frequently, some basic logic. I don't think *anyone* everr came back after being misted....
It's a much more elegant solution, and more enjoyable to everyone else, than to simply JUMP DOWN THE ASSHOLE'S THROUGHT WITH COMBAT BOOTS ON.
mark "come on, meet me at x, and show me that you meant that crap"*
Lessee, my chances of catching ebola are significantly below those of my winning the lottery and buying a trip the the Station... but the media, esp. Faux, is screaming about ebola. (And I happen to work no more than a few hundred yards from a facility that had one of those possibly exposed.)
We won't mention allegedly science programming channels with supernatural crap.
And then there's the textbooks in Texas and other southern states, where they'd trying to take out evolution. And the budget cuts for scentific research.
And we also won't mention the climate change deniers.
They mostly managed to avoid science in school, it's all magic to most users, and they think that the LATEST IPHONE IS THE MOST IMPRTANT ADVANCE IN TECHNOLOGY THIS CENTURY!!!!!
mark "beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here"
Um, more likely price. Or didn't you see the lawsuit, months ago, from the former Oracle exec, who was alleging that Oracle management underpaid him, becuase $10k or $20k less per year was "good enough for an Indian".
From the article, which none of you seem to have read, Excerpt: Logsdon points to three key decisions Nixon made regarding the U.S. space program, which had long-term consequences for NASA. The three decisions were:
To treat the space program as one area of domestic policy competing with other concerns, not as a privileged activity
To lower U.S. ambitions in space by ending human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit for the foreseeable future and not embark on another space goal requiring a massive investment similar to Apollo
To build NASA’s post-Apollo program around the space shuttle without establishing a specific goal or long-term strategy the shuttle would support
Professor Logsdon says that Nixon’s lasting imprint on the space program was an end to human exploration of space beyond low Earth orbit in the twentieth century, and he sees the Nixon Space Doctrine and more ambitious human space exploration as incompatible. Under Nixon, NASA became just another domestic program, and the agency’s budget decreased even as it retained ambitious goals. During this time, however, NASA’s efforts did include increased international participation in U.S. human spaceflight programs. --- end excerpt ---
As I've been saying for decades, the Republicans hate civilian space programs becase a) they've *always* seen it as a Democratic initiative, and because they're too dumb to see how the money is spent here on earth... and how it drives new technology.
For the 90% of you who are kids, here's one of the real-life, it-was-in-the-media-in-the-sixties, motivatoin for the space program: a moral equivalent of war.
But you turkeys would rather have wars (and y'all have, as traitor Dick Cheney put it, about the draft, "other agendas" than fighting) none of you put yourselves in danger. It's all a fucking video game with other peoples' lives.
mark "this is *not* the Real 21st Century; I want the REAL one back RIGHT NOW, thankyouveddymuch"
mark, whose interest in sports approaches 0 as a limit, with the exception of two "sports", one of the American football,
where it's in negative numbers
-- Shame about that kid who died playing the so-called sport
"Lazy local governments"? Odd choice of phraseology. Should that be "local governemts leveraging freely-available technological solutions to save tax dollars"?
I know that NASA has had a technology transfer program for decades. Funny, I've never heard of *them* getting paid for this stuff: as far as I know, since it was done by and for the people of the US, on tax dollars, it was supposed to be free.
If that's the case... how does the NSA get away with getting paid?
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Who is this idtiot OP? If you do the simplest websearch, the inflation rate for the US in the last year is 1.7% (which, off the subject, is higher than the "raise" I and my coworkers got), so in other words, NASA's funding is absolutely static.
But then, the GOP secretly believes that the world is flat, and was created 4004 BCE....
mark
I only read it occasionally, but it was good, and has been for a long tim.
I think the editors and staff and contributors should get together, scrape up some money (hell, I'd buy a subscription), and start a new magazine. Perhaps it could be called "The Old Republic", given our new oligarchic collective mind Emperors....
mark "A more wretched hive of scum and villany (and I don't just mean Facebook)"
Old-style "salaried" meant that you didn't have to worry about your hours, and neither did your managers - you'd get you work done, and could take off, say, for a federal holiday. Now - I'd put down a $10 that 99% of you who are in IT work, or have worked, over 40 hours, had vacation time or holidays that you couldn't take, or, like I do, have to "make up" the hours if the federal gov't shuts down or has a holiday, and we *don't*.
By definition, it means what you're really just fairly well-paid hourly employees. *Hourly* employees get time and a half overtime, and double time for working on, say, holdiays. But you're all making *so* much money that you don't care (nor do you have a life outside of work), right?
mark "would be seriously tempted to strangle a manager who said, 'whatever it takes'"
Perhaps he should get out of his cloud, and move about in the RW. Say, talk to people who not only don't own an iPhone, but are lucky to have phone service, becasuse they're earning minium wage, or near it, and are trying to pay their rent, food and utilities. Or look at all the secuirty breaches (hell, my wife was talking about a restaurant that's a spin-off of PC Chang, and my instant reaction was that if we went, we'd pay cash, given the long-term breach that Krebs revealed months ago). Or folks who actually give a shit about being tracked every minute of every day....
mark, who wouldn't touch an Apple, disliking would-be monopolies
Is to nationalize the electric utilities, then they don't need to be run to make a profit fo their CEOs and venture capitalists. Then running them at cost, or a modest "surplus", would also cut costs, and prevent sudden shutdowns by aforesaid CEOs and investors....
mark "but the libertarians here would rather pay through the nose (but none of *them* live near a coal-fired
power plant)"
As in the headline "lowest voter turnout in 70 years"? As in, " Just 36.4 percent of eligible voters turned out in 2014" http:/// www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/2014-midterm-election-turnout-lowest-in-70-years/
This is a US national disgrace. You don't like who's running, so just go play video games, and let the oldigarchs get the best government money can buy.
If you didn't vote, shut up. Better, leave, and go somewhere that you can play games, and as long as you do that, the government won't bother you. Hmmm, isn't North Korea like that?
mark
Some of us are using those GPUs for actual work - like serious scientific computation. Anyone know anything about how this bit switch would affect CUDA?
mark
... and no one threatens me. Bounties would be nice... but I think I'd start out with the simple solution: you threaten me, you're a coward. Come on, show up at at and try to kill me... or are you that much of a coward that you can't deal with what I said, and if you actually do something, you'll want to shoot me in the back, just like any *coward*.
mark
PS trolls - yeah, your cock *is* too small, and if you've ever gotten laid, you've never been able to satisfy a woman - you're just a selfish little kid, not a man.
Cheer up, my friends said, things could be worse. So I cheered up, and, sure enough, they got worse.
mark "if I am depressed, it is for good and sufficent reasons, and if I wasn't depressed, I wouldn't be facing reality"*
* copyright, me, 1983
Legal:? Last week, I heard a speech by Vint Cerf, and he says the next iteration of google car will NOT HAVE A GAS OR BREAK PEDDLE, OR A STEERING WHEEL AT ALL.
mark
As others of that culture were. Um, guys, is it unreasonable of me to not assume that they burnt them due to plague, but rather that they were burnt down by invaders, and there was no one left to live there?
mark
Google car ain't going anywhere.
Last week, we had an IPv6 transition seminar where I work, and the keynote speaker was none other than Vint Cerf.
His title of "Internet evangelist" is right - sorta like, I dunno, Pat Robertson.
He told us that the next iteration of google car will *NOT* have a steering wheel, brake, or gas peddle. I quote, "you might be in the back, drinking, or doing crosswords, and so you won't have the context if an alarm goes off, and you'll do the wrong thing".
Now, when I drive home, one road goes from two narrow lanes, with the center line going away to no center line, cars are parked on one side (there's a park on the other), and busses use this route. Go ahead, tell me that anyone's software can handle that road... and we're in a old, big suburb of Washington, DC.
mark "and I don't want *you* to have a flying car, either, since you'd crash into my second-floor bedroom"
And George W. Bush and the Republicans, pandering to their funnymentalist base, close to stopped all stem cell research...
And killed Superman.
Hmmm, Dick cheney *does* seem to channel Lex Luthor....
mark
I'll give you one: preservatives.
Many years ago, at one job, I was drinking several cans of soda a day. One day, while eating lunch, I started thinking about the label: 1/10 of 1% preservative. So, 1% from drinking 10 cans... and a hundred cans, which might be one month, is a pound of preservative.....
No need for embalming when you go, you're already well-preserved.
mark
Easy: first build several *real* space stations, not "outposts in space", that serve the same way airports do, and use orbit-to-orbit ships - true spacegoing vessels. Once those are up, interplanetary travel is *much* cheaper.
Then we build the magelev launchers on the Moon....
mark
Yeah, under Bush the W, the US prison population surpassed that of the Soviet Union's prisons at their worst under Stalin.
But now that populations are falling, I'd say the first things to go are the UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRIVATIZED PRISONS (aka slave labor shops).
mark
Child,
Your odds of getting ebola are significantly less than mine of winning the lottery and buying a flight on a Soyuz to the ISS. The odds that someone who should have stopped driving years ago, or a drunk, or someone texting, will run you down with their car is hundreds of thousands of time higher.
Lessee: ~300M Americans, > 40K killed in auto accidents; 2 dead from ebola.
mark
A techie mailing list I'm on has multiple people ranting about the absolutely bs that happens - not the way aircraft comm works, not the way this, that and the other work, and the plot...um, what plot?
mark
First, let's skip over the whole idiotic concept of twitter as a serious medium of communication (quick, here's 140 chars, tell me everything you know), and go to places that you can actually write coherent sentences - that'd be anywhere from email, to usenet, to websites that allow long comments (or your own website).
Back in the day, we used to get trolls on a usenet group I was a regular in. Some where drive-by shooting, never seen again; frequently, we made sarcastic comments about their post. Then there were the longer posts, from someone who might even come back.
Y'know, I understand that about 1,000 years ago and more, if a bard, or someone, made a satire of you, you might as well kill yourself, because no one would ever forget it (admitedly, they didn't travel a lot back then, and the supply of humor was a lot smaller).
Our answer was to MST3k that person. Doing so, of course, requires intellegence, a good familiarity with language, and frequently, some basic logic. I don't think *anyone* everr came back after being misted....
It's a much more elegant solution, and more enjoyable to everyone else, than to simply JUMP DOWN THE ASSHOLE'S THROUGHT WITH COMBAT BOOTS ON.
mark "come on, meet me at x, and show me that you meant that crap"*
* Now, my sword, my walking stick, or just 911?
Lessee, my chances of catching ebola are significantly below those of my winning the lottery and buying a trip the the Station... but the media, esp. Faux, is screaming about ebola. (And I happen to work no more than a few hundred yards from a facility that had one of those possibly exposed.)
We won't mention allegedly science programming channels with supernatural crap.
And then there's the textbooks in Texas and other southern states, where they'd trying to take out evolution. And the budget cuts for scentific research.
And we also won't mention the climate change deniers.
They mostly managed to avoid science in school, it's all magic to most users, and they think that the LATEST IPHONE IS THE MOST IMPRTANT ADVANCE IN TECHNOLOGY THIS CENTURY!!!!!
mark "beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here"
Um, more likely price. Or didn't you see the lawsuit, months ago, from the former Oracle exec, who was alleging that Oracle management underpaid him, becuase $10k or $20k less per year was "good enough for an Indian".
mark
From the article, which none of you seem to have read,
Excerpt:
Logsdon points to three key decisions Nixon made regarding the U.S. space program, which had long-term consequences for NASA. The three decisions were:
To treat the space program as one area of domestic policy competing with other concerns, not as a privileged activity
To lower U.S. ambitions in space by ending human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit for the foreseeable future and not embark on another space goal requiring a massive investment similar to Apollo
To build NASA’s post-Apollo program around the space shuttle without establishing a specific goal or long-term strategy the shuttle would support
Professor Logsdon says that Nixon’s lasting imprint on the space program was an end to human exploration of space beyond low Earth orbit in the twentieth century, and he sees the Nixon Space Doctrine and more ambitious human space exploration as incompatible. Under Nixon, NASA became just another domestic program, and the agency’s budget decreased even as it retained ambitious goals. During this time, however, NASA’s efforts did include increased international participation in U.S. human spaceflight programs.
--- end excerpt ---
As I've been saying for decades, the Republicans hate civilian space programs becase a) they've *always* seen it as a Democratic initiative, and because they're too dumb to see how the money is spent here on earth... and how it drives new technology.
For the 90% of you who are kids, here's one of the real-life, it-was-in-the-media-in-the-sixties, motivatoin for the space program: a moral equivalent of war.
But you turkeys would rather have wars (and y'all have, as traitor Dick Cheney put it, about the draft, "other agendas" than fighting) none of you put yourselves in danger. It's all a fucking video game with other peoples' lives.
mark "this is *not* the Real 21st Century; I want the REAL one back RIGHT NOW, thankyouveddymuch"
The NFL, "non-profit"? Then so is Walmart.
mark, whose interest in sports approaches 0 as a limit, with the exception of two "sports", one of the American football,
where it's in negative numbers
--
Shame about that kid who died playing the so-called sport
"Lazy local governments"? Odd choice of phraseology. Should that be "local governemts leveraging freely-available technological solutions to save tax dollars"?
mark
I know that NASA has had a technology transfer program for decades. Funny, I've never heard of *them* getting paid for this stuff: as far as I know, since it was done by and for the people of the US, on tax dollars, it was supposed to be free.
If that's the case... how does the NSA get away with getting paid?
mark