Come on, you don't wish death on extreme web trolls, do you? I may wish for an accident that leaves them unable to type, and/or being out-trolled by a yet worse troll that leaves them crying, but not death.
It's has that WTF look. Same with Io, the Pizza Moon. If you put the Pizza Moon on your desktop, then you can at least claim it's a specialized Italian dish if somebody accuses you of being a nerd.
If they knew the exact position, then just send the raw pixels for just the target area rather than an entire camera image. I'd guess the two bodies take up only about 25 x 25 pixels for that image. But I don't know the details of their compression and processing. I've read elsewhere that Pluto is roughly 5 pixels across at this time.
An interesting side fact is that they'll take a few good pre-encounter images and it will be the last images sent for roughly a month because the probe is not designed to transmit while aiming its instruments (to save money; contrast with Voyagers).
It will record everything during the fly-by for later playback. But, if it smashes into something orbiting near Pluto, the pre-encounter set may be the last images we get. Being it has at least 5 moons, there may be related debris orbiting.
Perhaps if they pronounce the artist and song clearer, some publishers would agree to keep the current approach in place. Often they mumble or skip the description.
Perhaps this is why they are sold over the counter. If they didn't also deaden pleasure, they may otherwise be too addictive to be allowed over the counter. To be non-addictive, they may have to reduce pleasure to compensate for reduced pain. They could be (relatively) non-addictive because the overall affect averages out to neutral feelings so that a "pill=good" feedback cycle is not produced in the brain.
Couldn't they switch off the related feature or service by default in the newer OS versions, and only organizations with specialized equipment would need to switch them on? True, many orgs probably wouldn't know about the change or their reliance on an old feature, and be surprised. But generally a major OS upgrade will have changes like that, and should be tested for before production. But it's not always easy to fully test something that relies on multiple servers and services.
I thought improvising was expected for technicians there, because supplies were hard to come by. Now, if you are talking about something outside of your area of work, I can see potential problems. The article did say they eventually allowed some degree of hobby projects in order for their students' knowledge to keep pace with the west.
It takes a big antenna for decent direct communications with Earth. I'm not sure it's worth it to carry around such a load on a probe. Plus, an orbiter allows communications when the probe is on the "hidden" side of the moon as it rotates. A day on Titan is 16 Earth days. I don't trust AI to make decent "big" decisions yet.
Further, what if you get to Titan only to discover the lake has moved or dried up? If you can go into orbit first, you have time to check and adjust plans. Thus, you might as well have an orbiter.
I'd propose a modest mission of such: two landers, one smaller one designated for floating in a lake, and one land-based probe to analyze the soil and atmosphere. The soil lander will have decent-sized chemistry experiments. A relatively simple orbiter would be the relay to Earth.
The soil lander would be stationary, but have a simple "pushing arm" for small-scale roving (and digging). Full-on roving ability takes up too much weight & resources. Plus, we have the boat-probe to study multiple shores via a combo of drifting and a basic propeller motor.
Also, I assumed the floating probe would last for months instead of a couple of hours, like Huygens did. Huygens was purely battery powered. Its "parent" probe, Cassini, was only in place to capture and relay data for a short period because it orbited Saturn, and not Titan. Thus, RTG power wouldn't have helped much by itself. Plus, Huygens was too small for longer-term studies. It was mostly an atmosphere probe, not meant for extensive surface study.
To be fair, it's cheaper to explore Mars than Titan, being much closer to Earth. But I agree Titan is one of the oddest places in the Solar System and a prime target for new discoveries. A floating "boat" probe on one of Titan's polar lakes would be the coolest thing.
It's the only other body besides Earth known to have stable pooled liquid. (The Huygens probe was actually designed to float for a short period in case it had landed in liquid.)
Such a probe would have to be entirely RTG (radiation) powered because the sun is dim there. (Curiosity uses RTG by the way.) And relying data to Earth would require a Titan orbiter, which is not a cheap thing to do.
...told me that the distribution of printers was controlled because it was a "printing press" and could be used to create anti-government propaganda for distribution.
Perhaps that's why the state-distributed printers and kits described in the article were so slow: it makes it too difficult to print mass amounts of "subversive" flyers. It wasn't necessarily lack of technology keeping them slow, but political paranoia.
It appears automation/AI and offshoring are cutting into US jobs and there is no known "new field" that can replace those jobs in the volume needed. The actual need for STEM is either flat or not growing near enough to offset the losses in other fields (despite what the pro-visa lobbyists claim).
"Mass STEM-related entrepreneurship" sounds good on paper, but probably won't fly in practice. As somebody who tried 3 startup businesses can attest, most startups fail*, and the few successful ones eventually automate or outsource just like everybody else to cut labor costs. That's not a recipe for large-volume job creation.
I don't know if there is a magic job policy. Times are changing and the future is too murky to really know if, where, and what the Magic Job Policy is.
I applaud NY for trying something. Sometimes you just have to experiment to find solutions, many of which will fail.
* Some of mine may have taken off eventually, but I had bills to pay and couldn't wait years down the road. Seems only the wealthy have the luxury to take losses up front to gain later, and this is partly why it's a winner-take-all economy. Analysts of Warren Buffet have said that part of the reason for his success is that he's so wealthy he can take gambles the medium-rich cannot. In other words, he's rich because he's rich.
Again, we don't know the complete timing and steps of this yet. The hard-drive destruction could have been many months before interest turned to that server. I don't feel further speculation is warranted at this time.
I do wish to point out she probably also considered the idea of her private family messages being somehow made public eventually. The other side has been tenacious in asking for anything and everything remotely related to the original incident. Extrapolating that pattern out, her personal messages were at risk of ending up on the nightly news.
I usually made 3 copies of programs and data because the cassette was so unreliable. At least my cheap gittup was. You can only buy so much on weekend-lawn-mower wages.
I'm sure the potential knock on the door in the middle of the night had something to do with the MacGyver attitude.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you quietly fix stuff without complaining to get your work done (i.e., carry out your orders), you shouldn't have any problems with authorities over such.
the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
And I didn't mean to say life was overall better there. I was just pointing out it had some up-sides to it. Every culture and country has something to admire about it. Life is better when you look for positives in things. And you learn more.
Modernism and human efficiency aside, they repaired and reused a lot of equipment and parts rather than make version N be landfill and buy version N + 1. You have to admire that aspect. The throw-away culture we have now is an embarrassment to humanity. Plus, there's the fun side of their MacGyver-ism.
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Come on, you don't wish death on extreme web trolls, do you? I may wish for an accident that leaves them unable to type, and/or being out-trolled by a yet worse troll that leaves them crying, but not death.
Most non-nerds are not going to put such images on their desktop background. For one, they risk being labelled a "nerd".
But even non-nerds should be wowed by images such as this sponge-like moon (Hyperion):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
It's has that WTF look. Same with Io, the Pizza Moon. If you put the Pizza Moon on your desktop, then you can at least claim it's a specialized Italian dish if somebody accuses you of being a nerd.
If they knew the exact position, then just send the raw pixels for just the target area rather than an entire camera image. I'd guess the two bodies take up only about 25 x 25 pixels for that image. But I don't know the details of their compression and processing. I've read elsewhere that Pluto is roughly 5 pixels across at this time.
An interesting side fact is that they'll take a few good pre-encounter images and it will be the last images sent for roughly a month because the probe is not designed to transmit while aiming its instruments (to save money; contrast with Voyagers).
It will record everything during the fly-by for later playback. But, if it smashes into something orbiting near Pluto, the pre-encounter set may be the last images we get. Being it has at least 5 moons, there may be related debris orbiting.
It would really be embarrassing for a dude if when switched to female mode it doesn't flag an anomaly.
Anybody have a coded example?
Awww, dwarf planets are sooo cute!
Perhaps if they pronounce the artist and song clearer, some publishers would agree to keep the current approach in place. Often they mumble or skip the description.
I knew it! Proof Republicans are Marxists!
Perhaps this is why they are sold over the counter. If they didn't also deaden pleasure, they may otherwise be too addictive to be allowed over the counter. To be non-addictive, they may have to reduce pleasure to compensate for reduced pain. They could be (relatively) non-addictive because the overall affect averages out to neutral feelings so that a "pill=good" feedback cycle is not produced in the brain.
Couldn't they switch off the related feature or service by default in the newer OS versions, and only organizations with specialized equipment would need to switch them on? True, many orgs probably wouldn't know about the change or their reliance on an old feature, and be surprised. But generally a major OS upgrade will have changes like that, and should be tested for before production. But it's not always easy to fully test something that relies on multiple servers and services.
The GOP have been and will be re-voting to overturn ACA and Net Neutrality so often they need ACA for their carpal tunnel syndrome.
There may be a good reason MS left some of it in place. Anybody want to offer speculation?
Well, I checked the first few pages and conclude that th
I thought improvising was expected for technicians there, because supplies were hard to come by. Now, if you are talking about something outside of your area of work, I can see potential problems. The article did say they eventually allowed some degree of hobby projects in order for their students' knowledge to keep pace with the west.
It takes a big antenna for decent direct communications with Earth. I'm not sure it's worth it to carry around such a load on a probe. Plus, an orbiter allows communications when the probe is on the "hidden" side of the moon as it rotates. A day on Titan is 16 Earth days. I don't trust AI to make decent "big" decisions yet.
Further, what if you get to Titan only to discover the lake has moved or dried up? If you can go into orbit first, you have time to check and adjust plans. Thus, you might as well have an orbiter.
I'd propose a modest mission of such: two landers, one smaller one designated for floating in a lake, and one land-based probe to analyze the soil and atmosphere. The soil lander will have decent-sized chemistry experiments. A relatively simple orbiter would be the relay to Earth.
The soil lander would be stationary, but have a simple "pushing arm" for small-scale roving (and digging). Full-on roving ability takes up too much weight & resources. Plus, we have the boat-probe to study multiple shores via a combo of drifting and a basic propeller motor.
You have to be careful, brown liquids are easy to mix up in space.
Correction: "relaying data", not "relying data".
Also, I assumed the floating probe would last for months instead of a couple of hours, like Huygens did. Huygens was purely battery powered. Its "parent" probe, Cassini, was only in place to capture and relay data for a short period because it orbited Saturn, and not Titan. Thus, RTG power wouldn't have helped much by itself. Plus, Huygens was too small for longer-term studies. It was mostly an atmosphere probe, not meant for extensive surface study.
To be fair, it's cheaper to explore Mars than Titan, being much closer to Earth. But I agree Titan is one of the oddest places in the Solar System and a prime target for new discoveries. A floating "boat" probe on one of Titan's polar lakes would be the coolest thing.
It's the only other body besides Earth known to have stable pooled liquid. (The Huygens probe was actually designed to float for a short period in case it had landed in liquid.)
Such a probe would have to be entirely RTG (radiation) powered because the sun is dim there. (Curiosity uses RTG by the way.) And relying data to Earth would require a Titan orbiter, which is not a cheap thing to do.
Those kinds of politically-biased ad-hominem attacks are uncalled for!
Perhaps that's why the state-distributed printers and kits described in the article were so slow: it makes it too difficult to print mass amounts of "subversive" flyers. It wasn't necessarily lack of technology keeping them slow, but political paranoia.
It appears automation/AI and offshoring are cutting into US jobs and there is no known "new field" that can replace those jobs in the volume needed. The actual need for STEM is either flat or not growing near enough to offset the losses in other fields (despite what the pro-visa lobbyists claim).
"Mass STEM-related entrepreneurship" sounds good on paper, but probably won't fly in practice. As somebody who tried 3 startup businesses can attest, most startups fail*, and the few successful ones eventually automate or outsource just like everybody else to cut labor costs. That's not a recipe for large-volume job creation.
I don't know if there is a magic job policy. Times are changing and the future is too murky to really know if, where, and what the Magic Job Policy is.
I applaud NY for trying something. Sometimes you just have to experiment to find solutions, many of which will fail.
* Some of mine may have taken off eventually, but I had bills to pay and couldn't wait years down the road. Seems only the wealthy have the luxury to take losses up front to gain later, and this is partly why it's a winner-take-all economy. Analysts of Warren Buffet have said that part of the reason for his success is that he's so wealthy he can take gambles the medium-rich cannot. In other words, he's rich because he's rich.
Again, we don't know the complete timing and steps of this yet. The hard-drive destruction could have been many months before interest turned to that server. I don't feel further speculation is warranted at this time.
I do wish to point out she probably also considered the idea of her private family messages being somehow made public eventually. The other side has been tenacious in asking for anything and everything remotely related to the original incident. Extrapolating that pattern out, her personal messages were at risk of ending up on the nightly news.
I usually made 3 copies of programs and data because the cassette was so unreliable. At least my cheap gittup was. You can only buy so much on weekend-lawn-mower wages.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you quietly fix stuff without complaining to get your work done (i.e., carry out your orders), you shouldn't have any problems with authorities over such.
And I didn't mean to say life was overall better there. I was just pointing out it had some up-sides to it. Every culture and country has something to admire about it. Life is better when you look for positives in things. And you learn more.
Modernism and human efficiency aside, they repaired and reused a lot of equipment and parts rather than make version N be landfill and buy version N + 1. You have to admire that aspect. The throw-away culture we have now is an embarrassment to humanity. Plus, there's the fun side of their MacGyver-ism.