So, when fighting in sub-space the torpedo will remain in sub-space and hit its target. When fighting in normal space it will remain in normal space and hit its target. It will not cross the threshold either way which would make it unable to hit its target.
Well that's stupid. I know Picard wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack, but you'd think even he could have figured out that the best way to avoid a sub-light torpedo would be to go to warp, and the best way to evade a warp-speed torpedo would be to drop out of warp. Either the Star Trek universe is filled with morons, or someone didn't think that explanation all the way through.
Except that in good shows the "shakey-cam" is hardly ever used in scenes which are CGI intensive. If you watch BSG and SGU, it's mostly used in action sequences or "tense" moments, to add atmosphere to the shot. BSG also used the effect in parts of the space-battles, but had plenty of sequences where they obviously didn't skimp on CG. Also, the views of the fleet at rest were gloriously done and, likewise, the external shots of the ship in SGU are gorgeous.
Gotcha. I thought you were talking about propulsion for the ISS, since that's what the article was about. Whoops.
To respond to your actual point, then: a compact nuclear reactor would do the job just fine. In the 1960's the US was producing 260lb units producing 55kw. I'm fairly sure we can do better than that now. Throw a few of those on your spacecraft, and have a hydrogen fuel-cell as backup. The weight will be negligible, and you'll have enough fuel to cruise around for 20-30 years. Or, if you want to go big, build a reactor similar to the ones used on submarines. Maybe the problem isn't easy to solve, but it's far from insurmountable.
In the Age of Sail there were tangible rewards like gold and spices. Unfortunately there aren't too many useful resources out there in space for us to use today.
Wait....what? No.
Seriously?
Grab yourself one asteroid and you'll make billions off iron alone, never mind the gold, silver, and various other precious metals which you could mine from them. You're like some Columbus-era pessimist, declaring that there can't possibly be any riches in the middle of the ocean.
You can. You're free to write an IE6-specific Wave gateway, if you like. But Google's own Wave gateway will only work if you have a modern browser.
From the article:
Specifically, said Google, it was pushing Chrome Frame because it decided it wasn't worth trying to make its new collaboration and communications tool, Google Wave, work with IE. Google developers spent "countless hours" on tweaking Wave for IE, but gave up.
So google is claiming that the reason for forcing chrome is because they couldn't make Wave work with IE. Which, as I pointed out, is stupid. Either their "countless hours" is bullshit, or Wave isn't nearly as easy to interface with as they'd like to have us think. Either way, google seems to be lying about something.
Nope, I'm not confusing anything. You're just not thinking this through.
What can't work on IE is the standard html/javascript wave client. The console app, for example, is a different client.
Yuhuh. And if you can interface with the server via a console app, why in the world wouldn't you be able to do it with a browser? Last I checked, IE could send text without undue difficulty.
The last time I heard about Google Wave, I was watching an official Google video. The big selling point seemed to be that Google Wave was compatible with pretty much ANYTHING. They were showing off ways in which it could interface with various blog engines, twitter, facebook.... they even made a big deal out of the fact that someone wrote a text console app that was capable of interfacing with Wave. And now they're trying to say that they can't make it work with IE? Something seems a little fishy here....
You should study history. Humankind doesn't want better quality of life. They've had thousands of years to work at that goal, but choose to wage war, rape, plunder, pillage and kill instead. Now, get off your liberal arse, and help to develop a better bomb.
I know that some bumper-sticker-thinker will probably mod you insightful, but I thought I'd point out that you're pretty much 100% wrong. Quality of life (and the average life span) has risen with minor fluctuations throughout recorded history, while the amount of "war, rape, plunder, pillage and kill[ing]" per capita has steadily declined. In other words, not only do we live longer and better than we ever have before, but we hurt each other less, too.
Also, I'm fairly sure you're misusing the word "Liberal".
I think the last time I re-formatted the system partition (on my primary comp) was in 1998. That was about the time I figured out that there's absolutely no need to format the drive when you can simply install windows into a different folder, or rename the old folder(s) before you do the install. I've run the gamut from win9x to win2k, XP, Vista, and now Windows 7, without ever bothering to reformat my system partition.
As for your main point - yeah, I haven't had to reinstall an OS due to performance issues since win2k. The "format once a year" nonsense seems to have become a widely accepted urban legend.
So... their entire skill set can be replaced by a sufficiently large vending machine and a GPS?
Better yet - their entire skill-set can be improved on by an internet connection. Newegg and Tiger Direct generally offer superior products at lower prices, often provide free shipping, and I don't need a GPS to navigate from my computer chair to the mailbox. The only thing that stores like Best Buy are good for is the odd occasion when I actually need a computer product immediately. This has happened only once in the last 3 years - my graphics card exploded, I had a project to finish, all the stores were closing in 15 minutes, and the closest decent computer store was half an hour away.
Actually, that taught me the one and only use for Best Buy: you can pick out an item at random, throw it on your credit card, use it until you've had a chance to buy what you really want from a better store, and then return it for a full refund. So, yeah, don't let anyone say that Best Buy is useless!
Neither Stalin or Caesar have anything to do with that. Invoking them is not different from what the confused Republicans do who compare Obama to Hitler and Stalin.
If Obama were suggesting a program of class segregation and/or eugenics based on subjective measures of intelligence or other arbitrary characteristics, the comparison would be rather apt. Ergo, my assessment of you stands. Your views (and what I'm able to perceive of your personality) pretty much guarantee that, given the chance, you'd be the epitome of a tinpot tyrant. You've placed yourself in the "superior" category, and feel that it's your right to treat anyone you deem "inferior" as if they were trash. Kim Jong Il doubtless feels the same way about himself, and has a similar attitude towards "his people". It's not unusual for small men (and I'm not talking solely about physical stature) with large egos to place themselves in categories which they do not deserve.
I suggest you pay close attention to Vellmonts response. He raises some excellent points.
sooner or later someone will feed the program a list of US senators and then magically the next day all traces of the program, its authors, and the results will be declared illegal and the arrests will begin -- effective last tuesday
Also according to the article, they ran it against 10 friends who they know to be gay but who aren't "out" on Facebook. It hit 100%.
Selection bias? If they knew these 10 gay men, then they knew their character and habits. The program could have simply been written to match the characteristics of those 10 individuals.
Car analogy time!
It's like saying "I've seen 10 blue Honda Civics, and I wrote this program to find Japanese cars, and then I ran it against these 10 Civics and it matched all of them!". There's no significance to such an announcement. Your program isn't finding all Japanese cars, it's just finding blue civics. It's simply pattern-matching for a subset which you're familiar with.
I think that's got to be the most misleading URL EVER. I was like.... "Sweet! The homos finally got some payback!"... but noooo.
P.S. You may want to put up a content warning next time you link to pictures of dead bodies with their brains splattered on the ground. Not doing so is considered a bit of a faux-pas in online communities. Even worse than using the salad fork to eat your desert.
If you don't know what features women look for in men, how can you make yourself attractive to them?
You do realize that you're on slashdot, right? Fifty percent of the readers probably think that women dig fat guys in sweat pants with cheetos-stained fingers.
You can tag them, but I don't think it's searchable. Even if it were, unless your name is Zaphod Beeblibrox, chances are there are hundreds of people tagged under the same name, so it'd be rather difficult to go through them and figure out which one is you.
Ok, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make fun of your boyfriend. You're right - there was nothing crazy about him telling people to eat his body and drink his blood. That's a perfectly normal thing to do. Of course, you probably prefer guzzling his other bodily fluids, and that's fine too. To each their own, live and let live I always say.
I said give the man a cigar, not "I'll give the man a cigar". Nice try though:) If I had any on hand, I might even send you one, but I haven't even had a good cigar myself for ages. And now you've got me craving one...
Shit, that should have been "Clown" number 1 through 4. My bad. You just had me so excited with your insightful comment that I failed to proofread properly.
And you can't give someone respect for believing strongly in something that's unprovable, because if we did then lunatics (actual lunatics, I mean crazy people here) would be in charge of society - due to their unshakeable belief in concepts not provable in reality.
I'm picturing Gene Ray as the president of the united states... and I really can't decide whether anyone would notice the difference...
the Star Wars universe, were written and marketed as science fiction from day one.
Screw you, asshole! How dare you insult my religion? Every Jedi knows that the Star Wars movies were a re-telling of our ancient code. The Prophet Lucas simply popularized a belief system which has existed for eons! You know that part about a "long long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away"? WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU NEED???
What's next: are you going to try and tell me that Christianity is a false religion just because Mel Gibson created "The Passion of the Christ"?
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So, when fighting in sub-space the torpedo will remain in sub-space and hit its target. When fighting in normal space it will remain in normal space and hit its target. It will not cross the threshold either way which would make it unable to hit its target.
Well that's stupid. I know Picard wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack, but you'd think even he could have figured out that the best way to avoid a sub-light torpedo would be to go to warp, and the best way to evade a warp-speed torpedo would be to drop out of warp. Either the Star Trek universe is filled with morons, or someone didn't think that explanation all the way through.
Except that in good shows the "shakey-cam" is hardly ever used in scenes which are CGI intensive. If you watch BSG and SGU, it's mostly used in action sequences or "tense" moments, to add atmosphere to the shot. BSG also used the effect in parts of the space-battles, but had plenty of sequences where they obviously didn't skimp on CG. Also, the views of the fleet at rest were gloriously done and, likewise, the external shots of the ship in SGU are gorgeous.
Gotcha. I thought you were talking about propulsion for the ISS, since that's what the article was about. Whoops.
To respond to your actual point, then: a compact nuclear reactor would do the job just fine. In the 1960's the US was producing 260lb units producing 55kw. I'm fairly sure we can do better than that now. Throw a few of those on your spacecraft, and have a hydrogen fuel-cell as backup. The weight will be negligible, and you'll have enough fuel to cruise around for 20-30 years. Or, if you want to go big, build a reactor similar to the ones used on submarines. Maybe the problem isn't easy to solve, but it's far from insurmountable.
Assuming that somebody figures out how to power a VASMIR engine.
Ever hear of batteries?
The only power source Chang Diaz & Co. has to date is a black box on the diagram marked 'and magic happens here'.
Really? That must be a hell of a box, considering they've already run full-power tests. What kind of magic does it use?
Wait....what? No.
Seriously?
Grab yourself one asteroid and you'll make billions off iron alone, never mind the gold, silver, and various other precious metals which you could mine from them. You're like some Columbus-era pessimist, declaring that there can't possibly be any riches in the middle of the ocean.
From the article:
Specifically, said Google, it was pushing Chrome Frame because it decided it wasn't worth trying to make its new collaboration and communications tool, Google Wave, work with IE. Google developers spent "countless hours" on tweaking Wave for IE, but gave up.
So google is claiming that the reason for forcing chrome is because they couldn't make Wave work with IE. Which, as I pointed out, is stupid. Either their "countless hours" is bullshit, or Wave isn't nearly as easy to interface with as they'd like to have us think. Either way, google seems to be lying about something.
You are confusing the client with the server
Nope, I'm not confusing anything. You're just not thinking this through.
What can't work on IE is the standard html/javascript wave client. The console app, for example, is a different client.
Yuhuh. And if you can interface with the server via a console app, why in the world wouldn't you be able to do it with a browser? Last I checked, IE could send text without undue difficulty.
The last time I heard about Google Wave, I was watching an official Google video. The big selling point seemed to be that Google Wave was compatible with pretty much ANYTHING. They were showing off ways in which it could interface with various blog engines, twitter, facebook .... they even made a big deal out of the fact that someone wrote a text console app that was capable of interfacing with Wave. And now they're trying to say that they can't make it work with IE? Something seems a little fishy here ....
I'd like to hear where you shop for hookers, because I hear that $700 might get you....3 hours with a decent quality hooker.
Thailand. $700 will get you a small harem for a week. Hell, you can have them build you a custom PC case while they're not otherwise occupied.
You should study history. Humankind doesn't want better quality of life. They've had thousands of years to work at that goal, but choose to wage war, rape, plunder, pillage and kill instead. Now, get off your liberal arse, and help to develop a better bomb.
I know that some bumper-sticker-thinker will probably mod you insightful, but I thought I'd point out that you're pretty much 100% wrong. Quality of life (and the average life span) has risen with minor fluctuations throughout recorded history, while the amount of "war, rape, plunder, pillage and kill[ing]" per capita has steadily declined. In other words, not only do we live longer and better than we ever have before, but we hurt each other less, too.
Also, I'm fairly sure you're misusing the word "Liberal".
Other than that, you're completely right!
Did you actually format, though?
I think the last time I re-formatted the system partition (on my primary comp) was in 1998. That was about the time I figured out that there's absolutely no need to format the drive when you can simply install windows into a different folder, or rename the old folder(s) before you do the install. I've run the gamut from win9x to win2k, XP, Vista, and now Windows 7, without ever bothering to reformat my system partition.
As for your main point - yeah, I haven't had to reinstall an OS due to performance issues since win2k. The "format once a year" nonsense seems to have become a widely accepted urban legend.
So... their entire skill set can be replaced by a sufficiently large vending machine and a GPS?
Better yet - their entire skill-set can be improved on by an internet connection. Newegg and Tiger Direct generally offer superior products at lower prices, often provide free shipping, and I don't need a GPS to navigate from my computer chair to the mailbox. The only thing that stores like Best Buy are good for is the odd occasion when I actually need a computer product immediately. This has happened only once in the last 3 years - my graphics card exploded, I had a project to finish, all the stores were closing in 15 minutes, and the closest decent computer store was half an hour away.
Actually, that taught me the one and only use for Best Buy: you can pick out an item at random, throw it on your credit card, use it until you've had a chance to buy what you really want from a better store, and then return it for a full refund. So, yeah, don't let anyone say that Best Buy is useless!
I said "class"
You did? Where?
Neither Stalin or Caesar have anything to do with that. Invoking them is not different from what the confused Republicans do who compare Obama to Hitler and Stalin.
If Obama were suggesting a program of class segregation and/or eugenics based on subjective measures of intelligence or other arbitrary characteristics, the comparison would be rather apt. Ergo, my assessment of you stands. Your views (and what I'm able to perceive of your personality) pretty much guarantee that, given the chance, you'd be the epitome of a tinpot tyrant. You've placed yourself in the "superior" category, and feel that it's your right to treat anyone you deem "inferior" as if they were trash. Kim Jong Il doubtless feels the same way about himself, and has a similar attitude towards "his people". It's not unusual for small men (and I'm not talking solely about physical stature) with large egos to place themselves in categories which they do not deserve.
I suggest you pay close attention to Vellmonts response. He raises some excellent points.
Man, you would make an AWESOME dictator! You're like the bastard love-child of Caesar and Stalin. Please, please, PLEASE get involved in politics!
sooner or later someone will feed the program a list of US senators and then magically the next day all traces of the program, its authors, and the results will be declared illegal and the arrests will begin -- effective last tuesday
Paranoid Schizophrenia: THE Extreme Sport!
Selection bias? If they knew these 10 gay men, then they knew their character and habits. The program could have simply been written to match the characteristics of those 10 individuals.
Car analogy time!
It's like saying "I've seen 10 blue Honda Civics, and I wrote this program to find Japanese cars, and then I ran it against these 10 Civics and it matched all of them!". There's no significance to such an announcement. Your program isn't finding all Japanese cars, it's just finding blue civics. It's simply pattern-matching for a subset which you're familiar with.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/iraq-gays-murdered-militias
I think that's got to be the most misleading URL EVER. I was like .... "Sweet! The homos finally got some payback!" ... but noooo.
P.S. You may want to put up a content warning next time you link to pictures of dead bodies with their brains splattered on the ground. Not doing so is considered a bit of a faux-pas in online communities. Even worse than using the salad fork to eat your desert.
You do realize that you're on slashdot, right? Fifty percent of the readers probably think that women dig fat guys in sweat pants with cheetos-stained fingers.
You can tag them, but I don't think it's searchable. Even if it were, unless your name is Zaphod Beeblibrox, chances are there are hundreds of people tagged under the same name, so it'd be rather difficult to go through them and figure out which one is you.
Ok, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make fun of your boyfriend. You're right - there was nothing crazy about him telling people to eat his body and drink his blood. That's a perfectly normal thing to do. Of course, you probably prefer guzzling his other bodily fluids, and that's fine too. To each their own, live and let live I always say.
I said give the man a cigar, not "I'll give the man a cigar". Nice try though :) If I had any on hand, I might even send you one, but I haven't even had a good cigar myself for ages. And now you've got me craving one ...
Shit, that should have been "Clown" number 1 through 4. My bad. You just had me so excited with your insightful comment that I failed to proofread properly.
BINGO! DING DING DING! Give the man a cigar!
Nut #1
Nut #2
Nut #3
Nut #4
Need I keep going?
I'm picturing Gene Ray as the president of the united states ... and I really can't decide whether anyone would notice the difference ...
the Star Wars universe, were written and marketed as science fiction from day one.
Screw you, asshole! How dare you insult my religion? Every Jedi knows that the Star Wars movies were a re-telling of our ancient code. The Prophet Lucas simply popularized a belief system which has existed for eons! You know that part about a "long long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away"? WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU NEED???
What's next: are you going to try and tell me that Christianity is a false religion just because Mel Gibson created "The Passion of the Christ"?