Are you seriously asking the poster to EXPLAIN how it was done?
Would you care to try, sir? Please leave out no detail, no matter how insignificant it seems, for we cannot be sure just what small thing was the crux of all of this, or if it all was crucial.
Like the poster said, atheists do tend to go with the flow, especially if it avoids critical thinking. Contemplating the ludicrous notion that the Universe sprang into existence from nothing would leave any thinking person asking the most obvious question - 'what was there before?'.
I do not know how 'before' came into existence, but at least I have a theory, every bit as good as any that Science has to offer on the subject. Yours? Step up to the plate, have a swing. Worth a try, eh?
Not massive, I think I saw maybe 42 users max, but I was playing Avatar in the 80s. And this was the second major version. Yes, only 15 floors, and everyone and their mother knew that, but it was cool before PCs were out of CGA.
Ha they had more processor and RAM, it would have scaled very well, I think...
Of course not. You expressed an opinion, and actually offered personal experience.
Of course, someone from a big bank must have modded you down. That is the sort of comment that gets either 'Insigghtful' or 'Flamebait', depending on what the modder passed on the toilet that morning, or three days ago.
I don't use Flamebait or Troll as a substitute for Disagree. In fact, the proper 'Disagree' mod is to respond, not mod. But there we are, Slashdot is infested with fallible people. Kinda sad, but a lot like life.
I traded my mod points for an opportunity to explain to you how you're such a dickhead.
The reply would have been modded down by me because:
1. It had no factual basis. The poster didn't claim to be an interviewer, interviewee, or even a bank employee. 2. It was an obvious and plain attempt to make an emotional appeal. Usually, this sort of appeal is intended to get mod points, but as often as not it is just trolling, pure and simple. 3. It appealed to a lowest-common-denominator level of discourse. Sometimes that's cool, but here it just didn't fit.
Now, had the poster written something along the lines of:
"their interviews probably go like this...."
I wouldn't have wasted mod points on it.
When this gets meta-moderated, I bet it holds up. Just being a dickhead when you're complaining about dickheads is overrated. Not to mention that most bank employees are decent people that rail against the system also. Except maybe for my softball buddy that is just burned out.
That sounds well and good, but consider users who have purchased maybe 10 games, and have $300-600 invested in those games. Will you expect Sony to take back entirely functional games also? Nothing wrong with the games, is there?
Or will you extend the warranty/guarantee to require reimbursment for those things dependent on the device?
This would make computer problems interesting, and certainly iPhone/iPod refunds a LOT more interesting, if Apple had to refund to a user the iTunes purchases, if the user went on to buy a Zune to replace their 'failed' iPod. After all, iTunes is pretty much Apple-centric, and claiming the user can still play songs on their PC (if they have one) misses the point that the portable device was the purpose to buying music specifically for it.
I would expect there is some reason why this is a problem. Asking for a refund for a product the manufacturer intentionally made undesireable for you after purchase misses the point. You paid for something else. You should be able to have it, unless the manufacturer offers a logical reason, I.E. safety or basic functionality. Rmeoving the 'Other OS' option from the PS3 might be an issue of functionality for Sony, but if so then they are admitting that the PS3 can't any longer work like it was advertised to do so at the time of sale. Woops. If they removed it to avoid the whole other OS thing because of operational or support concerns, doesn't that sound like they justgot caught with a feature they don't *want* to support, maybe because of cost? Or something deeper?
Person A says to cops: "I received spam. Here is copy."
Cop requests complete copy of spam, waits three days for response, works through forged headers, determines IP is in another country. Cop answers impatient email from Person A. Cop requests assistance from local authorities, six months pass. Cop answers several impatient emails from Person A. Local authorities provide name and street address registered to IP. Cop researches data and determines the address is a vacant lot in another country. Cop reports this to Person A. Cop files report, answers several angry emails from Person A until the emails are blocked by department server by policy.
Or;
Person A says to cops: "I received spam. Here is copy." Cop identifies IP. Cop says to provider "Give me billing info on this IP b/c of spam." Provider gives billing info. If not, does so after quick court order. If still not, gets shut down. Cop contacts business. Contact info results in contact with unrelated business with no knowledge of the info the cop was given. Cop files report, answers several angry emails from Person A until the emails are blocked by department server by policy.
As if spammers are so easy to get hold of that you just ask for the contact info and someone answers the phone. Or the door. Or a summons. Or even an email.
The naive solutions to spam all are driven by the desire for punishment. We need to consider prevention. reputation-based server authentication, similar to what SpamAssasin did. If your server is regularly reported as a spam spource, it fails to connect to those servers that have higher standards. ISPs complete blocking port 25 for users, forcing them to use servers and thereby participate in the reputation-based authentication scheme. Bots and compromised systems have no way out except through ISPs that permit port 25 traffic, and those get marked up as spammers so that others can choose to accept their connections based on community reports. Rating servers could be a simple as number of unique reports, a ratio of spam reports vs all connections (spammers would send a lot fo spam, on every connection, so the ratio would be low. Nonspammers would send little spam on few connections, ratio is high). Users could, like in SpamAssassin, choose the level at which they block. It would take a little while to establish ratings.
Sadly, this could be defeated by servers hijacking IPs, changing IPs, and such. And would IP blocks be tainted for a long time reputation? And would a spammer survive by having a large enough pool of IPs that they could just move on to one that was unused for a while, crank up its reputation, and then move on and let it lapse? Lowering ratings by relying on the last known connections would help - unused IPs would not change their ratings.
Tell me, how stupid is this idea? The obvious solution is prevention.
Aside from the MOST OBVIOUS SOLUTION, punishing the advertisers. If you can find them. Back to the plan.
Foursquare looks at first glance to be a site where the entire point is to do things that earn 'rewards'. Looks like they call them 'badges'. Hmm... Life as a massive DnD game, minus monsters and death. Ok...
Like 'unlocking' my city (or cities, where I am). Oh yeah, sounds like endless billboards on my phone. Essentially advertising I participate in. Not a new concept, I participate in advertising now by losing pieces of my life to it.
Kinda like Farmville without the Facebook stuff. And more ads, I bet. Pointless? Doing virtual chores for nothing?
And of course, you never know when you might stumble across something interesting. So this is, like, a mashup of Twitter/Facebook/Latitude/Google Maps? Oh my. Friends in Maine will want to know all about my great restaurant find in Gilbert, AZ. Hell yeah. And the gelato place, too. In February.
But I might turn this on to see how much it sucks. And if I think it sucks, it is probably worth way more than $100 million. No sarcasm, just fact there.
The Web is becoming Television. Ads, video where I was hoping for information, next thing you know they will prevent my saving... oh, wait.
Seriously, the Web is becoming sensationalized, and content is becoming so tiresome and overwhelming that I fear clicking on many links 'cause I know I'm getting a 2 minute video when I thought I would get a text synopsis of something mildly interesting. Not to mention advertising is becoming indistiguishable from malware.
No, let me rephrase that. Advertising is BECOMING malware. No site is immune. Whether it's X17 or the New York Times, they are getting ads pushed through that are just criminal malware.
It's all pus. I'm reading actual paper books more than ever. Copyright claims aside, I OWN these, and can read them very efficiently thank you. Keep your Kindle and iPad for now. I don't want eBooks.
"The Patriot Act introduced by President Bush - which allows US authorities to search telecommunications and email communications to fight the 'war on terror' - was not designed by Google. But complying with it places the company in an awkward position."
This places ALL email providers, even me, in this untenable situation. If we wish to ensure our users' privacy, we have no real choice but to shut down. Or change the law.
Google, Yahoo!, Hotmail, etc. will have a hard time lobbying for a change in the law. Me? I can wail to my representatives, to little effect.
Claiming that Google is duplicitous for their attitude towards China while not also pointing out the US' own policy towards eavesdropping is logical, but impractical. The Patriot Act, right or wrong, pretty much demands that if you want to keep your email private, you need to stop using email.
If that's the choice, you end up using your email for anything you hope isn't interesting to the current Administration.
Of course, this is the gun control debate in different terms. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws (and The Law) will have guns. And you don't need a gun for personal defence until you *need* it. Private email almost doesn't exist anyways, but you don't miss it until you *need* it.
Ultimately, we will not change the Patriot Act in any meaningful way, because we have few alternatives to at least try to limit our adversaries' attempts to bring terror to the U.S. It may not be effectie at all, but we do have to try. Damn it, we do have to try.
For one thing, Morse gets through when voice fails, even slow speed data. Morse is still useful.
But QRP pretty much demands Morse. So if you want to play the ultimate game in ham radio, you'll at least be able to send code.
Me? I would cheat and make a keyboard. I can't even want to paddle, and my hand was never very good, always loping and stuttering. A Navy guy told me once I made him puke. I cannot imagine sitting down and listening to groups again just to get to 20wpm and go take Section 3 again. If I never diagnose another Colpitts oscillator in my life, I will die happy. Thankfully digital technology solved a multitude of problems.
Building a rig that fits into an Altoids tin. talking around the world on 5 watts power, for for a real challenge, just one watt.
This pretty much requires Morse Code, but if you can key out enough to tell people you just picked this up and are learning code on the fly, you will get postcards from all over the world from people who also communicated with you using barely enough power to give you a mild tingle. Morse Code is essential because you can make out chirps and tones from the static, where voice would just be a waste of time. The way the FCC is letting things go, I would not be surprised if they let you use a keyboard and forget paddling entirely.
Hey, simple codes were good enough for Pioneer, Mariner, etc. That's geek cred - talking around the world with less power than you would need to read the postcard with...
I got my First Class for a job fixing CB radios, and got hooked a little bit back when code was required. I hated code. Helped a college FM station stay on the air for a little while. Being able to solder well got me into several circles, and I was building Heathkit rigs for people for a little while, cause they liked the perfect joints and wire ties I learned in the Air Force, when whire ties were waxed cord. I still think they are pretty, and I did a cabling job with about 200 drops once all in flat nylon lace, just to show the guys how nice exposed cabling could look. But that was then. Now there are so many great kits out there, Amazing. I really ought to get back into it. Oh yeah, I let my ticket lapse when I got sidetracked by soccer and girls. Feh.
I've racked a bunch of Itanium servers running Windows Server 2003 and supporting SAP installs.
It is not unheard of. And I suspect these will migrate over to a much more desireable platform - in fact, I expec they will decommission these bad boys and I will be in line to scarf up some interesting hardware cheap.
I will not have to try and flim-flam them into a hardware swap. It's the only way they can actually do this. And I don't sell them any hardware. I'm just one of the few around here that seem to be able to work with EFI. Kinda sad, it really isn't as bad as EISA was.
No, I said CONSTRUCTION COSTS were $145-$300/sq ft. The poster said PERMITS were $130/sq ft.
I seriously doubt permits go for any appreciable fraction of building costs. Some local levy might, but permits? After about 15% I would think something is wrong.
Of course, there is always something wrong with the permitting process...
$130/sq ft for the permit? Usually commercial buildings go for $145-$300/sq ft. Maybe you meant $13/sq ft? Actually which 'government'? The one that operates the school, the one that runs things where the school is? Of course, if it's the Chatanooga school, well, doesn't seem so different from many places in the U.S. Not many 'governments' here charge you even half of the construction cost for permits, but ya learn something new every day.
And clearance around utilities and equipment isn't 'wasted space'. You will know this when you get out into a real shop for your first job and are happy for the wasted space around your lift. Just being able to let the snow drip off is reason enough for a little room. Being able to actually reach inspection points to find that first roof leak will be reason enough also. Resetting a breaker when your buddy saws through his power cord is so much easier when you don't have to move two vehicles out of the way. In the dark.
30% for clearance? Sounds pretty economical to me. The test assembly line will need that much alone.
It's fairly obvious, even before your comment, that we would need new types of planes. Even the independents know this.
Next, you're gonna tell me we should simplify things and just let a capsule slash down into the ocean? Avoids a lot of complicated stuff like 'flying' back and whells and such.
"I see the same old heavy client programmers who couldn't adapt to web programming."
Where did you get the idea they were different? Different languages, maybe, different platforms, but not a differnet paradigm from what I'm seeing. The current epitome of web programming is some pretty heavyweight shit. Not counting Flash. Of course, I just see what passes for AJAX and massive doses of Java at work. If only it were different.
Now, NASA does need to reconsider the direction it takes. Somehow I think launching more ore less straight up is just too difficult. How about sending things up more like planes?
Oh, wait. that's being tried. Just not by NASA.
I hate this. NASA needs to stay in the game, but it's lost the edge. And the funding.
My '95 Explorer will not engage cruise control it reaches about 23 MPH. I've driven several Ford Tauruses, and same thing - cruise will not engage until about 23+MPH. I cannot get cruise to engage from a stop, or even slow speed.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Of course, some other vehicles could be programmed differently, but every other vehicle I've driven with cruise control has behaved the same way.
Oh, and please let us know if your vehicle does this. I would be suprised, but if it does, well, that's the fact.
It never was. We just 'choose' to trust publishers.
Some of us choose more than others. I've deleted several root certs, including several Eastern European ones and a few Chinese as well. So far no problems.
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Are you seriously asking the poster to EXPLAIN how it was done?
Would you care to try, sir? Please leave out no detail, no matter how insignificant it seems, for we cannot be sure just what small thing was the crux of all of this, or if it all was crucial.
Like the poster said, atheists do tend to go with the flow, especially if it avoids critical thinking. Contemplating the ludicrous notion that the Universe sprang into existence from nothing would leave any thinking person asking the most obvious question - 'what was there before?'.
I do not know how 'before' came into existence, but at least I have a theory, every bit as good as any that Science has to offer on the subject. Yours? Step up to the plate, have a swing. Worth a try, eh?
Not massive, I think I saw maybe 42 users max, but I was playing Avatar in the 80s. And this was the second major version. Yes, only 15 floors, and everyone and their mother knew that, but it was cool before PCs were out of CGA.
Ha they had more processor and RAM, it would have scaled very well, I think...
If you can keep it out of iTunes, you can play it. I just don't trust iTunes... at all. But I have no Apple products.
Of course not. Your post was opinion,and even included a personal experience. Worth a 'Insightful' to me.
But I don't use Troll or Flamebait as substitute for Disagree. If I disagree, I do the right thing and post, not mod.
Slashdot is infested with fallible humans, a lot like life.
Of course not. You expressed an opinion, and actually offered personal experience.
Of course, someone from a big bank must have modded you down. That is the sort of comment that gets either 'Insigghtful' or 'Flamebait', depending on what the modder passed on the toilet that morning, or three days ago.
I don't use Flamebait or Troll as a substitute for Disagree. In fact, the proper 'Disagree' mod is to respond, not mod. But there we are, Slashdot is infested with fallible people. Kinda sad, but a lot like life.
Are you insinuating that Slashdot modding is deficient in any way? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
How can this be?
I traded my mod points for an opportunity to explain to you how you're such a dickhead.
The reply would have been modded down by me because:
1. It had no factual basis. The poster didn't claim to be an interviewer, interviewee, or even a bank employee.
2. It was an obvious and plain attempt to make an emotional appeal. Usually, this sort of appeal is intended to get mod points, but as often as not it is just trolling, pure and simple.
3. It appealed to a lowest-common-denominator level of discourse. Sometimes that's cool, but here it just didn't fit.
Now, had the poster written something along the lines of:
"their interviews probably go like this...."
I wouldn't have wasted mod points on it.
When this gets meta-moderated, I bet it holds up. Just being a dickhead when you're complaining about dickheads is overrated. Not to mention that most bank employees are decent people that rail against the system also. Except maybe for my softball buddy that is just burned out.
That sounds well and good, but consider users who have purchased maybe 10 games, and have $300-600 invested in those games. Will you expect Sony to take back entirely functional games also? Nothing wrong with the games, is there?
Or will you extend the warranty/guarantee to require reimbursment for those things dependent on the device?
This would make computer problems interesting, and certainly iPhone/iPod refunds a LOT more interesting, if Apple had to refund to a user the iTunes purchases, if the user went on to buy a Zune to replace their 'failed' iPod. After all, iTunes is pretty much Apple-centric, and claiming the user can still play songs on their PC (if they have one) misses the point that the portable device was the purpose to buying music specifically for it.
I would expect there is some reason why this is a problem. Asking for a refund for a product the manufacturer intentionally made undesireable for you after purchase misses the point. You paid for something else. You should be able to have it, unless the manufacturer offers a logical reason, I.E. safety or basic functionality. Rmeoving the 'Other OS' option from the PS3 might be an issue of functionality for Sony, but if so then they are admitting that the PS3 can't any longer work like it was advertised to do so at the time of sale. Woops. If they removed it to avoid the whole other OS thing because of operational or support concerns, doesn't that sound like they justgot caught with a feature they don't *want* to support, maybe because of cost? Or something deeper?
ATMs used to be run on OS/2. I would very rarely see one stuck at the Presentation Manager startup screen.
Nowadays, seeing an ATM stuck at the XP boot screen or BSOD isn't reeally novel.
But the entire concept of running ATMs in XP is indeed troubling. A custom distro based on Debian would seem a good way to do it.
Watch that the first Linux ATMs run Mandriva. Ugh. At least they should run Gentoo just to mess with 'us'.
Person A says to cops: "I received spam. Here is copy."
Cop requests complete copy of spam, waits three days for response, works through forged headers, determines IP is in another country.
Cop answers impatient email from Person A.
Cop requests assistance from local authorities, six months pass. Cop answers several impatient emails from Person A.
Local authorities provide name and street address registered to IP.
Cop researches data and determines the address is a vacant lot in another country. Cop reports this to Person A.
Cop files report, answers several angry emails from Person A until the emails are blocked by department server by policy.
Or;
Person A says to cops: "I received spam. Here is copy."
Cop identifies IP.
Cop says to provider "Give me billing info on this IP b/c of spam."
Provider gives billing info. If not, does so after quick court order. If still not, gets shut down.
Cop contacts business. Contact info results in contact with unrelated business with no knowledge of the info the cop was given.
Cop files report, answers several angry emails from Person A until the emails are blocked by department server by policy.
As if spammers are so easy to get hold of that you just ask for the contact info and someone answers the phone. Or the door. Or a summons. Or even an email.
The naive solutions to spam all are driven by the desire for punishment. We need to consider prevention. reputation-based server authentication, similar to what SpamAssasin did. If your server is regularly reported as a spam spource, it fails to connect to those servers that have higher standards. ISPs complete blocking port 25 for users, forcing them to use servers and thereby participate in the reputation-based authentication scheme. Bots and compromised systems have no way out except through ISPs that permit port 25 traffic, and those get marked up as spammers so that others can choose to accept their connections based on community reports. Rating servers could be a simple as number of unique reports, a ratio of spam reports vs all connections (spammers would send a lot fo spam, on every connection, so the ratio would be low. Nonspammers would send little spam on few connections, ratio is high). Users could, like in SpamAssassin, choose the level at which they block. It would take a little while to establish ratings.
Sadly, this could be defeated by servers hijacking IPs, changing IPs, and such. And would IP blocks be tainted for a long time reputation? And would a spammer survive by having a large enough pool of IPs that they could just move on to one that was unused for a while, crank up its reputation, and then move on and let it lapse? Lowering ratings by relying on the last known connections would help - unused IPs would not change their ratings.
Tell me, how stupid is this idea? The obvious solution is prevention.
Aside from the MOST OBVIOUS SOLUTION, punishing the advertisers. If you can find them. Back to the plan.
Foursquare looks at first glance to be a site where the entire point is to do things that earn 'rewards'. Looks like they call them 'badges'. Hmm... Life as a massive DnD game, minus monsters and death. Ok...
Like 'unlocking' my city (or cities, where I am). Oh yeah, sounds like endless billboards on my phone. Essentially advertising I participate in. Not a new concept, I participate in advertising now by losing pieces of my life to it.
Kinda like Farmville without the Facebook stuff. And more ads, I bet. Pointless? Doing virtual chores for nothing?
And of course, you never know when you might stumble across something interesting. So this is, like, a mashup of Twitter/Facebook/Latitude/Google Maps? Oh my. Friends in Maine will want to know all about my great restaurant find in Gilbert, AZ. Hell yeah. And the gelato place, too. In February.
But I might turn this on to see how much it sucks. And if I think it sucks, it is probably worth way more than $100 million. No sarcasm, just fact there.
You go guys! Rock the world! Good luck!
... I need more SH*T in my web pages?
The Web is becoming Television. Ads, video where I was hoping for information, next thing you know they will prevent my saving... oh, wait.
Seriously, the Web is becoming sensationalized, and content is becoming so tiresome and overwhelming that I fear clicking on many links 'cause I know I'm getting a 2 minute video when I thought I would get a text synopsis of something mildly interesting. Not to mention advertising is becoming indistiguishable from malware.
No, let me rephrase that. Advertising is BECOMING malware. No site is immune. Whether it's X17 or the New York Times, they are getting ads pushed through that are just criminal malware.
It's all pus. I'm reading actual paper books more than ever. Copyright claims aside, I OWN these, and can read them very efficiently thank you. Keep your Kindle and iPad for now. I don't want eBooks.
FTFA:
"The Patriot Act introduced by President Bush - which allows US authorities to search telecommunications and email communications to fight the 'war on terror' - was not designed by Google. But complying with it places the company in an awkward position."
This places ALL email providers, even me, in this untenable situation. If we wish to ensure our users' privacy, we have no real choice but to shut down. Or change the law.
Google, Yahoo!, Hotmail, etc. will have a hard time lobbying for a change in the law. Me? I can wail to my representatives, to little effect.
Claiming that Google is duplicitous for their attitude towards China while not also pointing out the US' own policy towards eavesdropping is logical, but impractical. The Patriot Act, right or wrong, pretty much demands that if you want to keep your email private, you need to stop using email.
If that's the choice, you end up using your email for anything you hope isn't interesting to the current Administration.
Of course, this is the gun control debate in different terms. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws (and The Law) will have guns. And you don't need a gun for personal defence until you *need* it. Private email almost doesn't exist anyways, but you don't miss it until you *need* it.
Ultimately, we will not change the Patriot Act in any meaningful way, because we have few alternatives to at least try to limit our adversaries' attempts to bring terror to the U.S. It may not be effectie at all, but we do have to try. Damn it, we do have to try.
For one thing, Morse gets through when voice fails, even slow speed data. Morse is still useful.
But QRP pretty much demands Morse. So if you want to play the ultimate game in ham radio, you'll at least be able to send code.
Me? I would cheat and make a keyboard. I can't even want to paddle, and my hand was never very good, always loping and stuttering. A Navy guy told me once I made him puke. I cannot imagine sitting down and listening to groups again just to get to 20wpm and go take Section 3 again. If I never diagnose another Colpitts oscillator in my life, I will die happy. Thankfully digital technology solved a multitude of problems.
For instance:
Building a rig that fits into an Altoids tin. talking around the world on 5 watts power, for for a real challenge, just one watt.
This pretty much requires Morse Code, but if you can key out enough to tell people you just picked this up and are learning code on the fly, you will get postcards from all over the world from people who also communicated with you using barely enough power to give you a mild tingle. Morse Code is essential because you can make out chirps and tones from the static, where voice would just be a waste of time. The way the FCC is letting things go, I would not be surprised if they let you use a keyboard and forget paddling entirely.
Hey, simple codes were good enough for Pioneer, Mariner, etc. That's geek cred - talking around the world with less power than you would need to read the postcard with...
I got my First Class for a job fixing CB radios, and got hooked a little bit back when code was required. I hated code. Helped a college FM station stay on the air for a little while. Being able to solder well got me into several circles, and I was building Heathkit rigs for people for a little while, cause they liked the perfect joints and wire ties I learned in the Air Force, when whire ties were waxed cord. I still think they are pretty, and I did a cabling job with about 200 drops once all in flat nylon lace, just to show the guys how nice exposed cabling could look. But that was then. Now there are so many great kits out there, Amazing. I really ought to get back into it. Oh yeah, I let my ticket lapse when I got sidetracked by soccer and girls. Feh.
And this is different from this how?
EISA setup was a lot like EFI.
I've racked a bunch of Itanium servers running Windows Server 2003 and supporting SAP installs.
It is not unheard of. And I suspect these will migrate over to a much more desireable platform - in fact, I expec they will decommission these bad boys and I will be in line to scarf up some interesting hardware cheap.
I will not have to try and flim-flam them into a hardware swap. It's the only way they can actually do this. And I don't sell them any hardware. I'm just one of the few around here that seem to be able to work with EFI. Kinda sad, it really isn't as bad as EISA was.
No, I said CONSTRUCTION COSTS were $145-$300/sq ft. The poster said PERMITS were $130/sq ft.
I seriously doubt permits go for any appreciable fraction of building costs. Some local levy might, but permits? After about 15% I would think something is wrong.
Of course, there is always something wrong with the permitting process...
$130/sq ft for the permit? Usually commercial buildings go for $145-$300/sq ft. Maybe you meant $13/sq ft? Actually which 'government'? The one that operates the school, the one that runs things where the school is? Of course, if it's the Chatanooga school, well, doesn't seem so different from many places in the U.S. Not many 'governments' here charge you even half of the construction cost for permits, but ya learn something new every day.
And clearance around utilities and equipment isn't 'wasted space'. You will know this when you get out into a real shop for your first job and are happy for the wasted space around your lift. Just being able to let the snow drip off is reason enough for a little room. Being able to actually reach inspection points to find that first roof leak will be reason enough also. Resetting a breaker when your buddy saws through his power cord is so much easier when you don't have to move two vehicles out of the way. In the dark.
30% for clearance? Sounds pretty economical to me. The test assembly line will need that much alone.
It's fairly obvious, even before your comment, that we would need new types of planes. Even the independents know this.
Next, you're gonna tell me we should simplify things and just let a capsule slash down into the ocean? Avoids a lot of complicated stuff like 'flying' back and whells and such.
"I see the same old heavy client programmers who couldn't adapt to web programming."
Where did you get the idea they were different? Different languages, maybe, different platforms, but not a differnet paradigm from what I'm seeing. The current epitome of web programming is some pretty heavyweight shit. Not counting Flash. Of course, I just see what passes for AJAX and massive doses of Java at work. If only it were different.
Now, NASA does need to reconsider the direction it takes. Somehow I think launching more ore less straight up is just too difficult. How about sending things up more like planes?
Oh, wait. that's being tried. Just not by NASA.
I hate this. NASA needs to stay in the game, but it's lost the edge. And the funding.
My '95 Explorer will not engage cruise control it reaches about 23 MPH. I've driven several Ford Tauruses, and same thing - cruise will not engage until about 23+MPH. I cannot get cruise to engage from a stop, or even slow speed.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Of course, some other vehicles could be programmed differently, but every other vehicle I've driven with cruise control has behaved the same way.
Oh, and please let us know if your vehicle does this. I would be suprised, but if it does, well, that's the fact.
It never was. We just 'choose' to trust publishers.
Some of us choose more than others. I've deleted several root certs, including several Eastern European ones and a few Chinese as well. So far no problems.
Or delete them.