If and when Russia ever gets their act together and create better laws for a business world (and enforces them), then that will be THE place to be. No chance. Law inforcement in Russia hasn't been working for a few centuries, and now it gets even worse. There's no demand for that 'cos for many generations people didn't even know what the rule of law is (nor do they know now).
Earth is a really big thing. The farther you are from the impact point, the less energy reaches you are (it decreases faster than r^2). Just close the curtain. It happened on global scale, more than once. The thing that killed dinosaurs may have been up to 15 km wide. They weren't killed by ejecta (and they didn't even live within buildings!), they died because of the climate change (sometimes it sucks to be a cold-blooded creature).
According to this http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ 2 mile long asteroid is going to shatter a lot of glass, but you've got to be 600 miles away or closer to suffer. In other words, most people will know about it from the news, or if they're sensitive they'll notice that some noise just passed by. A comet will be more noticeable, but not dramatically - they're made of ice, not iron + nickel.
Ask for a reusable suborbital craft and that's what you get. I didn't mean that they tried to make an orbital ship but accidentaly created sub-orbital one. I meant that they implemented silly spec instead of doing something even half-useful.
Richard Branson, Paul Allen, and Virgin Galactic care to disagree with you. Sit back, relax and enjoy watching their investment go to/dev/null
Could you give an example of their shameful engineering? Space ship one. I didn't follow their other endeavours, but SS1 sucks big time.
A multi-stage vehicle with manned stages only (world record, I guess) for a task that took only one stage in 60-s, with no capabilty to deliver anything anywhere (you need a lot of enthusiasm to consider a point 100 km above ground a worthwhile destination) - that's impressive.
You might find this surprising, but marketing departments really exist. Hype IS their job. Yea, right, and the public's job is to buy into this crap:(
I sure know about X-prize. That was a pointles competition - the thing has no use. And SC've spent way over the prize amount. The whole US space exploration has been done using hardware supplied by private companies - companies just like SC. SC's work is a shame from any possible point of view, and all the hype they create just baffles me.
S1 Hi, I'm a satellite!
S2 Me too!
G And I'm a ground control station. What's going on here?
S1 Porn!
G What?
S1 We're sharing porn!
S2 Yeah, over the internet. That's easy!
An iron can, a chute and some oxygen regeneration system (upgraded scuba gear). That's basically what a spaceship is. Making it reusable is as expensive and pointless as making a reusable toilet paper. Scaled Composites did nothing, because instead of shoving a hundred tons of (almost) homemade solid fuel into a bigger iron can that sits behind an iron can with a chute e.t.c. and kicking goddamn thing into orbit they spent their time and money on useless crap that merely jumps not-so-high but ohhhhh it's reusable!
Back in the dialup days I was some ISP employee. All empoyees were granted unlimited internet access (from home). I was no 1 by both online time and downstream traffic. Once my boss gave me a huge pile of promotional cards. Each card entitled it's owner to a few hours of on-line time. He politely asked me to use those cards insted of my account at the company. All of those cards were issued by our competitor... I have no idea how he got them.
By human standards chimps are criminals. Yes, some of them are way smater than public recognizes, but still they don't (and won't) give a flying f**k about so many laws that we'll imprison any of them on sight. I don't think that that is what animal rights activists whant us to do. In this case, better treatment sounds much better than equal treatment to me.
My point was you could build your own pc in a few minutes and install linux in a little more than a few minutes. Your mom can't, but once she has a problem with her pc she'll call you first, tech support last - if she can't reach you, so if you're helping her already you can build her a pc. You boss can't build his own pc either, but he has an IT department to care about it. Basically, why do you need Dell?
Could anyone explain to me, why Dell is absoultely have to sell a linux pc? What's wrong with building one from retail (or better, OEM - if you can get it) hardware? And what's wrong with letting small companies handle that, if you find hardware scary?
Slashdot Mirror
My mistake. Narrow distribution, or low dispersion.
There is some strong cultural force at work here that discourages women from becoming programmers.
Narrow IQ dispersion?
If and when Russia ever gets their act together and create better laws for a business world (and enforces them), then that will be THE place to be.
No chance. Law inforcement in Russia hasn't been working for a few centuries, and now it gets even worse. There's no demand for that 'cos for many generations people didn't even know what the rule of law is (nor do they know now).
No.
Testified by a veteran gamer (started with atari 2600 in the 80s).
We'll need an unbreakable diamond tether to make it profitable...
Earth is a really big thing. The farther you are from the impact point, the less energy reaches you are (it decreases faster than r^2). Just close the curtain. It happened on global scale, more than once. The thing that killed dinosaurs may have been up to 15 km wide. They weren't killed by ejecta (and they didn't even live within buildings!), they died because of the climate change (sometimes it sucks to be a cold-blooded creature).
According to this http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ 2 mile long asteroid is going to shatter a lot of glass, but you've got to be 600 miles away or closer to suffer. In other words, most people will know about it from the news, or if they're sensitive they'll notice that some noise just passed by. A comet will be more noticeable, but not dramatically - they're made of ice, not iron + nickel.
Ask for a reusable suborbital craft and that's what you get. /dev/null
:(
I didn't mean that they tried to make an orbital ship but accidentaly created sub-orbital one. I meant that they implemented silly spec instead of doing something even half-useful.
Richard Branson, Paul Allen, and Virgin Galactic care to disagree with you.
Sit back, relax and enjoy watching their investment go to
Could you give an example of their shameful engineering?
Space ship one. I didn't follow their other endeavours, but SS1 sucks big time. A multi-stage vehicle with manned stages only (world record, I guess) for a task that took only one stage in 60-s, with no capabilty to deliver anything anywhere (you need a lot of enthusiasm to consider a point 100 km above ground a worthwhile destination) - that's impressive.
You might find this surprising, but marketing departments really exist. Hype IS their job.
Yea, right, and the public's job is to buy into this crap
I sure know about X-prize. That was a pointles competition - the thing has no use. And SC've spent way over the prize amount. The whole US space exploration has been done using hardware supplied by private companies - companies just like SC. SC's work is a shame from any possible point of view, and all the hype they create just baffles me.
S1 Hi, I'm a satellite!
S2 Me too!
G And I'm a ground control station. What's going on here?
S1 Porn!
G What?
S1 We're sharing porn!
S2 Yeah, over the internet. That's easy!
An iron can, a chute and some oxygen regeneration system (upgraded scuba gear). That's basically what a spaceship is. Making it reusable is as expensive and pointless as making a reusable toilet paper. Scaled Composites did nothing, because instead of shoving a hundred tons of (almost) homemade solid fuel into a bigger iron can that sits behind an iron can with a chute e.t.c. and kicking goddamn thing into orbit they spent their time and money on useless crap that merely jumps not-so-high but ohhhhh it's reusable!
May be because having a net worth equal to three and a half years of NASA's budget is nice and he wants to continue that way?
Ukrainian jokes about Russians sound best when told to Russians in Ukrainian language. That's why your post won't be rated 5, Funny :)
Dunno about Wikipedia, but government-sponsored trolls are very active on Russian sites.
Back in the dialup days I was some ISP employee. All empoyees were granted unlimited internet access (from home). I was no 1 by both online time and downstream traffic. Once my boss gave me a huge pile of promotional cards. Each card entitled it's owner to a few hours of on-line time. He politely asked me to use those cards insted of my account at the company. All of those cards were issued by our competitor... I have no idea how he got them.
hurray!
By human standards chimps are criminals. Yes, some of them are way smater than public recognizes, but still they don't (and won't) give a flying f**k about so many laws that we'll imprison any of them on sight. I don't think that that is what animal rights activists whant us to do. In this case, better treatment sounds much better than equal treatment to me.
No they don't. They're busy creating negative publicity for their company to avoid links from slashdot (and inevitable slashdotting)
No, it's not a joke. Some people have even worse jobs than a ms marketing person.
Protect you in case of fire? Isn't aluminum a rocket fuel?
Now to interesting stuff: where are the urls/torrents for confidential information in p2p networks?
Wow. I hope your mom doesn't have any problems with her pc.
My point was you could build your own pc in a few minutes and install linux in a little more than a few minutes. Your mom can't, but once she has a problem with her pc she'll call you first, tech support last - if she can't reach you, so if you're helping her already you can build her a pc. You boss can't build his own pc either, but he has an IT department to care about it. Basically, why do you need Dell?
Could anyone explain to me, why Dell is absoultely have to sell a linux pc? What's wrong with building one from retail (or better, OEM - if you can get it) hardware? And what's wrong with letting small companies handle that, if you find hardware scary?
well, you just buy modded console...