...the fact that they managed to land on a moving asteroid is amazing. The fact that they were able to land on a moving asteroid, take off from that asteroid after landing, and successfully make it back to Earth is nothing short of astounding.
Especially considering that portion of the mission was secondary. It's primary mission was to test the ion engines.
Of course, setting the bar relatively low is very common for these sorts of activities. The Mars Rovers had what, a 90-day, mission? Spirit was functional (in some form) for over 6 years. Opportunity is still functional since January 2004.
Of course the 90 days was just the 'minimum for justification of the mission' and the 'warranty' period of the rovers (The minimum amount of time that they were expected to operate). But like Scotty, with an absurd over-estimate (or in this case, under-estimate) when you shatter that estimate it makes you look pretty spectacular. (Or just really bad at estimates)
I've given my friends access to my games on steam. I let them use my account. Since only one of us can be on the account at once only one copy of the game is valid at any one time.
And since only one of you can be on the account at once, only one copy of ANY of your games can be played. If libraries worked like Steam, every time the library lent a book it would have to package up and ship every other book in the library along with it.
Oh, and I bet Steam also has a provision in it's contract with you that you aren't allowed to let your friend log into your account, so they are free to seize your games at any point if they find out.
Another way is to find another light gas to form your low density mix.
Well there are a few limitations:
You sure as hell aren't going to find a substitute for Oxygen. There is 1 gas that is lighter than Helium, and mixing it with Oxygen and introducing it in high enough volume to breath is dangerous as hell.
So let's move up the Periodic table. If we can't do Helium, we go up the elements... Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon and finally.... Nitrogen, which puts us right back at regular air, and thus is pointless.
Don't ask for quarterly reports, don't ask for balance sheets. Just toss them whatever equipment they request and an occasional sandwich and get out the way.
You are putting a hell of a lot of trust in people who in the end behave just like everyone else.
there are few people who are willing to shell out $1000+ for a PC
I built this machine in 2008 for $540 ($40 shipping). Case, PSU, HD, Memory, Video Card, CPU, MB. The works. I've not run into many games that I can't run at 1920x1080 (my HDTV). Actually scratch that, I've come across zero games that push this system. Probably since they are all console ports nowadays.
You may need $1000+ for a 'gaming' PC, but a PC that plays modern games can be had for a fraction of that amount. A slight generation off bleeding edge and you can have a very affordable rig. If anything, perhaps game manufacturers realizing that requiring the absolute latest in processing capability was hurting their ability to sell their product. I'm certainly happy that I don't have a three month window before my games start saying "Your equipment needs to support Pixel Shader vX.Y" I've had it happen to a few machines, but they were at least 3-4 years old, and probably running a 5-6 year old video card.
My point is that it's another process that allows us not to pay attention to what we are doing. That lack of attention may dumb us down as we tend to be creatures of habit and laziness.
I certainly hope that you aren't using any processes to flip those bits and send this message over the internet.
I mean, it's almost as if there were stacks of processes that you might be using to simplify your use of this system. You are paying attention to what they are doing right? Not letting them just do things their own way because you are too lazy to do it yourself?
people knew the difference between their, there, and they're. Now that we have the internet and spell checkers, nobody knows how to spell or use an apostrophe correctly.
If you knew enough to know that it was wrong, then you understood the idea they were trying to communicate. Since you received the information and were able to so quickly interpret the correct meaning, does that mean that we may be spending a hell of a lot of time teaching a convention that doesn't really have much of a benefit?
You received the message, you understood the message even with the error. Perhaps our language is a bit too robust to worry about such trivialities.
so keep in mind that while you may object to the concept of the firewall but you are a guest in the country and breaking any countries laws while as such is really disrespectful.
I advise you to also bring a 'throw-away' computer, unless you keep your current computer with you at all times. Depending on your business, if you leave your computer behind somewhere (hotel room, security) you may return to find it perfectly fine, maybe even with a bit extra hardware or software if you get my meaning.
At the very least, be prepared to wipe it clean when you get back home.
Please tell me more about this "stealing from the public domain" bit
I'm not the person who made the statement, but mine is generally much more simple:
Due to copyright extensions and even without retroactive extensions, the Public Domain, as it would exist for works relevant to me, simply no longer exists.
What's copyright up to now? Life of the creator plus 70 years? For corporate I think its a straight 120 years.
There is NOTHING created which will enter the public domain during my lifetime. From my perspective, it might as well be infinite. The works that influenced my life, and which I am most apt to identify with will be untouchable to anyone who was directly influenced by them.
In 120 years, who is going to remember the cultural impact of a particular work when it was introduced? Who is going to be able to use that direct experience in building upon that original work?
Sure, some historian can tell you what impact they have interpreted it to have, but we will have LOST all direct knowledge of the true impact it had on a person. Consider the veterans of WWI, there are what? Three of them left? and it hasn't even been 100 years. Could you imagine waiting 120 years before we really start working on and understanding their stories, if we had to rely on second hand accounts based on old dusty files?
In my mind, it's worse than theft, it's destruction.
Is this the "gotcha" you refer to? If the government is stealing my money to pay for other people's healthcare (which they are), they better well be able to pass a law telling you what you have to eat. I'm all for letting people eat what they want, if I don't have to pay for the consequences of it.
The gotcha was going to be that if she said it was unconstitutional, he would have followed up with a question regarding the healthcare bill.
And just so I get your logic correct, you feel that because some government money has been applied to a topic, it gives the government the authority to regulate anything which may impact the amount of money the government must spend to offer the service at the same rate? I'm sorry, but that is a terrible way to make an end-run around the Constitution. Using that logic, the government may regulate anything by deciding it wants to regulate something. There are NO limits to governmental power under that premise.
That's a really childish way to view the healthcare bill if you don't support it (considering your use of the term stealing). Are you really that vindictive that you would toss your beliefs to the curb just because you suffered a political loss in an effort to 'punish' everyone else?
The more you steal from the public domain, the less I care about abiding by copyright law.
This is my opinion as well. I'm at the point where I just don't care about certain laws anymore due to the way in which they are kept in place by a corrupt political system.
The key word in public policy is 'Public'. I think the RIAA doesn't seem to get that. The Public is what grants them copyright in the first place. The Public's interests should come first with respect to anything which the Public granted them in the first place.
If you do that at my workplace, a couple of very serious men with badges, guns, and a laptop running Red Hat will momentarily be walking around your work area. They'll find it in short order. I'd rather not throw away my career, thank you.
Oh yes although I was shocked at how nice the guards were inside and outside the Pentagon. Growing up near a military base some of the members seemed to think they didn't need to be polite. It seems the military has changed from when I was a kid or maybe its the people that join.
The Pentagon has a LOT of civilian workers and a LOT of brass. The person a guard pisses off could well be the person who interfaces with their chain of command. They also realize that they are a tourist location (of sorts) and have to maintain a good public appearance. (Also, you effectively had an escort with you who would harm his career if he let you take pictures)
When I was going to the Air Force Academy, the guards there were also very open (The Academy itself was open as well, but I was there prior to 9/11) Tourist military spots tend to be nice. They are PR for the military.
Having been on military bases, foreign military sites, civilian government security sites, and contractor sites. Here is my experience.
Military (as a contractor): They generally know what is and is not a threat. They let you carry the stapler with you. Besides, M-4 beats stapler AND paper.
Gov: They manage their threats with red tape. The is not on the list of approved items, so you must go get this form signed by people so far up the chain that they are probably in a senate hearing, so good luck getting it signed.
Contractor: The government is confusing as hell, and we aren't sure what they want, so rather than risk anything and cause us to lose our contract, your stapler is prohibited. In addition, using scotch tape to bind papers is also prohibited since it emulates the function of the stapler.
However for all three you will likely have to take a 1 hour web seminar on proper use of an information packaging device.
Not really, they'll probably charge you morgue rent until you're transferred out.
As someone who worked as a cemetary caretaker (Now, THAT's an interview icebreaker for your resume), I know of some places that did effectively charge for that.
The only time I have would ever have been afraid to take a picture was when my Dad worked at the Pentagon and he took me in for a tour. I was searched before entering and they guard stationed at the door looked through my camera bag (he even found a hidden pocket I didn't know about) then said "I'll let you take your camera in but if it leaves the bag we will have to confiscate it."
Now I didn't remove the camera from my bag as I could see they had cameras nearly everywhere we walked.
However, you will have to agree, inside the freaking Pentagon is a pretty understandable place to ban photography.
It is domestic conservative and religious organizations that are poisoning the American spirit and sapping the will to learn from the people.
It is neither, and all. It is people who just want what is best for you.
It is people who feel that you must behave in the manner that most benefits you (and more importantly society). It is people that believe that it is ok to tell you what to do, as long as they are doing it with a positive intent.
It is people who are too afraid to let anyone fail.
And it is working because it's a hell of a lot easier to win support when you are doing 'good' than it is when you are the person who advocates for personal freedom.
For a good example of this, look at the lack of a response when one of our future Supreme Court justices didn't have a problem when asked, "Could I write a law that tells you what you have to eat?"
Such a question should have been laughed out of the room, not because it was a silly question (and a gotcha with regard to a future question on Health Care), but because such a thing as the government being authorized to mandate to such a personal level as to what you must eat is laughably authoritarian.
But, terrifingly, such a concept didn't even make it out of the internet muckraking circles. And that's why we have this problem, because people think the ends justify the means.
A body covered by protection make a much better weapon than a bare body. You can pick up greater speed and have a greater shock. Otherwise, when bare, you get the pain yourself inflict without protection. I would wager that the energy involved in helmet+protection is allowed to be much greater, and when that protection fail the danger of greaver wound is probably higher. Maybe somebody with statistic on grevious wound in rugdby vs US football (more like handball) can chime in.
Yeah, it's kinda like Rugby, only the players are so wimpy that they wear protective padding and follow rules.
Isn't it interesting that those with brains that are protected desire to continue with that protection, while those that have been scrambled through insufficient protection don't understand the problem.
the question is then, can I? if my billing address is still in the USA, will it work, or will it block me due to the fact that i'll be connecting through a foreign ISP?
I didn't see anything on the initial post on hulu about that...
My understanding is that they control access via IP and not billing address. I've ran into several issues when I was 'overseas' in Canada for work.
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...the fact that they managed to land on a moving asteroid is amazing. The fact that they were able to land on a moving asteroid, take off from that asteroid after landing, and successfully make it back to Earth is nothing short of astounding.
Especially considering that portion of the mission was secondary. It's primary mission was to test the ion engines.
Of course, setting the bar relatively low is very common for these sorts of activities. The Mars Rovers had what, a 90-day, mission? Spirit was functional (in some form) for over 6 years. Opportunity is still functional since January 2004.
Of course the 90 days was just the 'minimum for justification of the mission' and the 'warranty' period of the rovers (The minimum amount of time that they were expected to operate). But like Scotty, with an absurd over-estimate (or in this case, under-estimate) when you shatter that estimate it makes you look pretty spectacular. (Or just really bad at estimates)
I've given my friends access to my games on steam. I let them use my account. Since only one of us can be on the account at once only one copy of the game is valid at any one time.
And since only one of you can be on the account at once, only one copy of ANY of your games can be played. If libraries worked like Steam, every time the library lent a book it would have to package up and ship every other book in the library along with it.
Oh, and I bet Steam also has a provision in it's contract with you that you aren't allowed to let your friend log into your account, so they are free to seize your games at any point if they find out.
Another way is to find another light gas to form your low density mix.
Well there are a few limitations:
You sure as hell aren't going to find a substitute for Oxygen.
There is 1 gas that is lighter than Helium, and mixing it with Oxygen and introducing it in high enough volume to breath is dangerous as hell.
So let's move up the Periodic table. If we can't do Helium, we go up the elements... Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon and finally.... Nitrogen, which puts us right back at regular air, and thus is pointless.
So no, there isn't a substitute for Helium.
Don't ask for quarterly reports, don't ask for balance sheets. Just toss them whatever equipment they request and an occasional sandwich and get out the way.
You are putting a hell of a lot of trust in people who in the end behave just like everyone else.
there are few people who are willing to shell out $1000+ for a PC
I built this machine in 2008 for $540 ($40 shipping). Case, PSU, HD, Memory, Video Card, CPU, MB. The works. I've not run into many games that I can't run at 1920x1080 (my HDTV). Actually scratch that, I've come across zero games that push this system. Probably since they are all console ports nowadays.
You may need $1000+ for a 'gaming' PC, but a PC that plays modern games can be had for a fraction of that amount. A slight generation off bleeding edge and you can have a very affordable rig. If anything, perhaps game manufacturers realizing that requiring the absolute latest in processing capability was hurting their ability to sell their product. I'm certainly happy that I don't have a three month window before my games start saying "Your equipment needs to support Pixel Shader vX.Y" I've had it happen to a few machines, but they were at least 3-4 years old, and probably running a 5-6 year old video card.
This is independant of my lack of concern for disrespecting a culture which is violating natural rights.
My point is that it's another process that allows us not to pay attention to what we are doing. That lack of attention may dumb us down as we tend to be creatures of habit and laziness.
I certainly hope that you aren't using any processes to flip those bits and send this message over the internet.
I mean, it's almost as if there were stacks of processes that you might be using to simplify your use of this system. You are paying attention to what they are doing right? Not letting them just do things their own way because you are too lazy to do it yourself?
people knew the difference between their, there, and they're. Now that we have the internet and spell checkers, nobody knows how to spell or use an apostrophe correctly.
If you knew enough to know that it was wrong, then you understood the idea they were trying to communicate. Since you received the information and were able to so quickly interpret the correct meaning, does that mean that we may be spending a hell of a lot of time teaching a convention that doesn't really have much of a benefit?
You received the message, you understood the message even with the error. Perhaps our language is a bit too robust to worry about such trivialities.
so keep in mind that while you may object to the concept of the firewall but you are a guest in the country and breaking any countries laws while as such is really disrespectful.
Allow me to play the world's smallest Er-Hu.
I advise you to also bring a 'throw-away' computer, unless you keep your current computer with you at all times. Depending on your business, if you leave your computer behind somewhere (hotel room, security) you may return to find it perfectly fine, maybe even with a bit extra hardware or software if you get my meaning.
At the very least, be prepared to wipe it clean when you get back home.
Please tell me more about this "stealing from the public domain" bit
I'm not the person who made the statement, but mine is generally much more simple:
Due to copyright extensions and even without retroactive extensions, the Public Domain, as it would exist for works relevant to me, simply no longer exists.
What's copyright up to now? Life of the creator plus 70 years? For corporate I think its a straight 120 years.
There is NOTHING created which will enter the public domain during my lifetime. From my perspective, it might as well be infinite. The works that influenced my life, and which I am most apt to identify with will be untouchable to anyone who was directly influenced by them.
In 120 years, who is going to remember the cultural impact of a particular work when it was introduced? Who is going to be able to use that direct experience in building upon that original work?
Sure, some historian can tell you what impact they have interpreted it to have, but we will have LOST all direct knowledge of the true impact it had on a person. Consider the veterans of WWI, there are what? Three of them left? and it hasn't even been 100 years. Could you imagine waiting 120 years before we really start working on and understanding their stories, if we had to rely on second hand accounts based on old dusty files?
In my mind, it's worse than theft, it's destruction.
Is this the "gotcha" you refer to? If the government is stealing my money to pay for other people's healthcare (which they are), they better well be able to pass a law telling you what you have to eat. I'm all for letting people eat what they want, if I don't have to pay for the consequences of it.
The gotcha was going to be that if she said it was unconstitutional, he would have followed up with a question regarding the healthcare bill.
And just so I get your logic correct, you feel that because some government money has been applied to a topic, it gives the government the authority to regulate anything which may impact the amount of money the government must spend to offer the service at the same rate? I'm sorry, but that is a terrible way to make an end-run around the Constitution. Using that logic, the government may regulate anything by deciding it wants to regulate something. There are NO limits to governmental power under that premise.
That's a really childish way to view the healthcare bill if you don't support it (considering your use of the term stealing). Are you really that vindictive that you would toss your beliefs to the curb just because you suffered a political loss in an effort to 'punish' everyone else?
The more you steal from the public domain, the less I care about abiding by copyright law.
This is my opinion as well. I'm at the point where I just don't care about certain laws anymore due to the way in which they are kept in place by a corrupt political system.
The key word in public policy is 'Public'. I think the RIAA doesn't seem to get that. The Public is what grants them copyright in the first place. The Public's interests should come first with respect to anything which the Public granted them in the first place.
If you do that at my workplace, a couple of very serious men with badges, guns, and a laptop running Red Hat will momentarily be walking around your work area. They'll find it in short order. I'd rather not throw away my career, thank you.
So hide it under somebody else's desk.
Oh yes although I was shocked at how nice the guards were inside and outside the Pentagon. Growing up near a military base some of the members seemed to think they didn't need to be polite. It seems the military has changed from when I was a kid or maybe its the people that join.
The Pentagon has a LOT of civilian workers and a LOT of brass. The person a guard pisses off could well be the person who interfaces with their chain of command. They also realize that they are a tourist location (of sorts) and have to maintain a good public appearance. (Also, you effectively had an escort with you who would harm his career if he let you take pictures)
When I was going to the Air Force Academy, the guards there were also very open (The Academy itself was open as well, but I was there prior to 9/11) Tourist military spots tend to be nice. They are PR for the military.
Having been on military bases, foreign military sites, civilian government security sites, and contractor sites. Here is my experience.
Military (as a contractor): They generally know what is and is not a threat. They let you carry the stapler with you. Besides, M-4 beats stapler AND paper.
Gov: They manage their threats with red tape. The is not on the list of approved items, so you must go get this form signed by people so far up the chain that they are probably in a senate hearing, so good luck getting it signed.
Contractor: The government is confusing as hell, and we aren't sure what they want, so rather than risk anything and cause us to lose our contract, your stapler is prohibited. In addition, using scotch tape to bind papers is also prohibited since it emulates the function of the stapler.
However for all three you will likely have to take a 1 hour web seminar on proper use of an information packaging device.
Not really, they'll probably charge you morgue rent until you're transferred out.
As someone who worked as a cemetary caretaker (Now, THAT's an interview icebreaker for your resume), I know of some places that did effectively charge for that.
As a society we all would pay if this child was injured.
So how many shares of his productivity do I own? I just want to know how my property is doing is all.
The only time I have would ever have been afraid to take a picture was when my Dad worked at the Pentagon and he took me in for a tour. I was searched before entering and they guard stationed at the door looked through my camera bag (he even found a hidden pocket I didn't know about) then said "I'll let you take your camera in but if it leaves the bag we will have to confiscate it."
Now I didn't remove the camera from my bag as I could see they had cameras nearly everywhere we walked.
However, you will have to agree, inside the freaking Pentagon is a pretty understandable place to ban photography.
It is domestic conservative and religious organizations that are poisoning the American spirit and sapping the will to learn from the people.
It is neither, and all. It is people who just want what is best for you.
It is people who feel that you must behave in the manner that most benefits you (and more importantly society). It is people that believe that it is ok to tell you what to do, as long as they are doing it with a positive intent.
It is people who are too afraid to let anyone fail.
And it is working because it's a hell of a lot easier to win support when you are doing 'good' than it is when you are the person who advocates for personal freedom.
For a good example of this, look at the lack of a response when one of our future Supreme Court justices didn't have a problem when asked, "Could I write a law that tells you what you have to eat?"
Such a question should have been laughed out of the room, not because it was a silly question (and a gotcha with regard to a future question on Health Care), but because such a thing as the government being authorized to mandate to such a personal level as to what you must eat is laughably authoritarian.
But, terrifingly, such a concept didn't even make it out of the internet muckraking circles. And that's why we have this problem, because people think the ends justify the means.
You wouldn't have to only worry about the hospital bill. There's the EMT that declares you dead at the scene.
So, hospital bill problem solved?
A body covered by protection make a much better weapon than a bare body. You can pick up greater speed and have a greater shock. Otherwise, when bare, you get the pain yourself inflict without protection. I would wager that the energy involved in helmet+protection is allowed to be much greater, and when that protection fail the danger of greaver wound is probably higher. Maybe somebody with statistic on grevious wound in rugdby vs US football (more like handball) can chime in.
It's almost like it's two different games!
Yeah, it's kinda like Rugby, only the players are so wimpy that they wear protective padding and follow rules.
Isn't it interesting that those with brains that are protected desire to continue with that protection, while those that have been scrambled through insufficient protection don't understand the problem.
the question is then, can I? if my billing address is still in the USA, will it work, or will it block me due to the fact that i'll be connecting through a foreign ISP?
I didn't see anything on the initial post on hulu about that...
My understanding is that they control access via IP and not billing address. I've ran into several issues when I was 'overseas' in Canada for work.
Where's the street view!? We've sent how many rovers there and they haven't even converted 1% of the images for Mars Street view!?
I don't know what you are doing wrong. They provide even greater coverage than on Earth. 100% of all Mars' streets have been mapped.