What a pedantic bunch. Mental race conditions because of the word 'infinitely'. Anyway, let's ask this question a different way. "If modern hardware had been available at the time, how would you have designed languages like C, C++ and JAVA? What compromises were made that continue to impact those languages?"
Gutting the perpetually underfunded NASA budget? I'd see it more as Trump telling congress, "if you're not going to spend the money it takes to do the mission, you get no more money for manned flight".
Anyway, I never said there was no value post Apollo from NASA, only that manned flight has been stagnant in LEO since the mid 1970s. Most people would say that the advances and research done since then should make travel beyond LEO MORE attainable. We should be able to go back to the moon at lower cost in real dollars than it cost in 1968. Sadly, that's not the case. While we may have all kinds of amazing advances, NASA seems to feel that the only way to put men in space is still the cost is no object approach. I would suggest that in the last 3 decades, NASA has been the beneficiary of advances in materials and technology more often than it has been the catalyst.
The cutting edge at NASA is unmanned exploration. Nothing wrong with that, but you can't expect other countries with manned space flight ambitions to just sit idly until the US and NASA get around to doing something again. There's a spirit to the guys in the unmanned programs that has been lost, or killed, on the manned side.
Well, I think the point here is by the time THIS game was developed, use of keyboards was a pretty standard thing in programming. Had this been closer to the punch card era, then yeah, the response could be "at least he had a trackball".
And Obama declared "been there" with regards to a return to the moon. Instead he chose to give NASA a mandate to get to Mars. Something NASA knew was not feasible given current funding levels. I would prefer a lasting stepping stone on the moon to a publicity stunt on Mars. People climbing Everest have various base camps. You acclimate, you learn, you have a reasonable chance for help. Only an idiot would make a one shot attempt at Everest OR Mars, but man it sure sounds cool when the cameras are rolling.
i'm not impressed with Trump, but come on. In less than 100 days he's responsible for NASA not having a vision or funding and not doing manned missions outside of LEO since Apollo? Other countries have goals in space, they've come to the realization that meeting those goals no longer HAS to involve NASA expertise. That's not a situation of Trump's making. I think you can find plenty to pin on him, but not this.
Blah, blah, blah. They didn't spend the money the way "I" would have spent it. Like the shoes or not, the plastic IS being removed from the ocean. I don't see it as a SHOE manufacturers responsibility to develop replacement plastics for the BOTTLES that are being reclaimed for these SHOES. Go pester the bottle manufacturers about what they are doing to find those less harmful materials.
Remember the old line from the environmentalist groups about "everyone doing a little bit helps"? If they get PR out of it, who cares? They did their little bit, but people jump out of the woodwork to bitch about it. Not sure I'd even call 11 bottles per pair X 1MM pairs a little bit. I get so sick of all the people that bitch on this site because something isn't perfect or god forbid is not a completely altruistic act.
Don't get me wrong, when I read that issue of Popular Science with the Moller flying car on it, I wanted in, but these days I have a hard time seeing where the flying car concept fits into the modern world.
--If you're interested in flying for the fun of it, you see the limitations of an all in one and would get more bang for your buck with a dedicated light sport airplane.
--If you're interested in flying as a practical means of travel, you see the limitations of an all in one, and probably have the financial resources to A. get a plane that offers car level of capacity (4 passengers and a reasonable cargo load) and B. deal with getting ground travel at your destination.
In neither case, will you be able to fulfill the dream that these projects always hold out of jumping in the vehicle at home and making a carefree hop to the mall/movies/work. I've known people that live in these aviation oriented home communities, the ones with hangars, private runways, streets used for taxiways. People that worked at local airports or were professional pilots. Most of them didn't stay more than 10 years before moving to a more conventional neighborhood and driving to an airport to fly. The ability to fly from home to work, never outweighed the added logistics and cost in the long term. My point being, that these were people who were in an IDEAL setup of location, finances, ability, motivation, and it just didn't pan out. How do you possibly bring this to the masses?
Around here (dallas area) no one gives two shits if the sirens go off and the weather is not bad. We aren't concerned about imminent nuclear strikes, we're concerned about being at the tail end of Tornado Alley. Perhaps you've heard of it? I got a nice day after christmas treat a year ago when a tornado went through my neighborhood and missed my house by a block. Lucky for us, when the power went out, and we couldn't watch the news, the sirens went off in enough time for use to shit ourselves in a closet.
yes, because every consumer should be aware of all the ways, large and small, that Apple is willing to screw them over. It's never Apples fault for being a bunch of greedy asshats, it's everyone else's fault for holding it wrong, squeezing too hard, owning too long, not going through Apple for every possible repair and just generally not letting Apple make all the decisions for your own good.
The groveling passivity of Apple apologists is disgusting.
Not sure how you read that into my post. The entertainment industry is obsessed with remakes and reboots. When you are just massaging someone else's story, how many writers do you need? Rather than jump on the tired old 'internet is taking our jobs' bandwagon, the writers should be demanding producers and buyers start greenlighting original works. How shocking can it be when the industry has been heading this direction for years? Like any other field, if you have too many people and not enough demand, either wages tank, or people lose jobs.
Can these writers be that surprised that it's getting harder to make a living when much of the industry has a fear of anything original? Den Of Geek lists 120(!) movie remakes or reboots currently in progress (as of 3/15/2017). TV seems to be less paralyzed, but they can afford to throw shows out and see what catches.
A decade ago, I quit watching House MD and various other shows impacted by the strike when they stopped mid season. By the time they came back, I had moved on and didn't care anymore. For big shows, the risk is probably minimal, but for the niche stuff this can be a killer.
"Ignore maintenance and run the plants far beyond their lifecycle"
Which is a direct consequence of fear mongering anti nuclear people making it damn near impossible to get a new plant built. They want cheap power, but they oppose too much wind because birds, they oppose coal because pollution, they oppose gas because fracking, they oppose solar because toxic manufacturing. Then they place so much regulation and demands for 100% safety from the only other viable option (nuclear), that it's a financial disaster for any company that dares to take a risk on a 10-20 year project. Yet there's a tacit approval by the same people to keep running old reactors because god forbid we shut them down and MY electricity rate goes up x%.
Sometimes I think these people are as insidious and as harmful as anything from ISIS.
"$800 to suffer through anything with Tom Cruse in it." br>To be fair, his Sci-Fi based movies, of which there are several, have been pretty good. I almost missed seeing Edge of Tomorrow because the only thing my wife knew was "Tom Cruise". I make a Cruise exception for Sci-Fi.
More on topic, if I could pay $30 and see a movie within a couple of weeks of release, I'd be all over it. This fits that gray area between "movies I will definitely see in theater" and "movies I'll wait for because the theater experience/cost isn't really worth it (especially with kids)". The movies in that latter category will usually end up with me not buying until they are in the $5 bargain bin.
Why don't they offer to run this against the thousands of hours of course videos that Berkley just pulled due to ADA? Google gets massive training material, Berkley gets free transcripts, and the material stays online. Everyone wins...
For a lot of movies, resolution just doesn't matter. Rom-Com, most dramas, who cares? If the story sucks no amount of HD will save it anyway. In the years since Blu-Ray came out, I bought far more DVD's until they started packing DVD+BluRay together for just a little more than DVD, and a little less than Blu-Ray.
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What a pedantic bunch. Mental race conditions because of the word 'infinitely'. Anyway, let's ask this question a different way. "If modern hardware had been available at the time, how would you have designed languages like C, C++ and JAVA? What compromises were made that continue to impact those languages?"
HA! yeah, i don't think they should be patting themselves on the back for gimping their developers either.
Gutting the perpetually underfunded NASA budget? I'd see it more as Trump telling congress, "if you're not going to spend the money it takes to do the mission, you get no more money for manned flight".
Anyway, I never said there was no value post Apollo from NASA, only that manned flight has been stagnant in LEO since the mid 1970s. Most people would say that the advances and research done since then should make travel beyond LEO MORE attainable. We should be able to go back to the moon at lower cost in real dollars than it cost in 1968. Sadly, that's not the case. While we may have all kinds of amazing advances, NASA seems to feel that the only way to put men in space is still the cost is no object approach. I would suggest that in the last 3 decades, NASA has been the beneficiary of advances in materials and technology more often than it has been the catalyst.
The cutting edge at NASA is unmanned exploration. Nothing wrong with that, but you can't expect other countries with manned space flight ambitions to just sit idly until the US and NASA get around to doing something again. There's a spirit to the guys in the unmanned programs that has been lost, or killed, on the manned side.
Well, I think the point here is by the time THIS game was developed, use of keyboards was a pretty standard thing in programming. Had this been closer to the punch card era, then yeah, the response could be "at least he had a trackball".
And Obama declared "been there" with regards to a return to the moon. Instead he chose to give NASA a mandate to get to Mars. Something NASA knew was not feasible given current funding levels. I would prefer a lasting stepping stone on the moon to a publicity stunt on Mars. People climbing Everest have various base camps. You acclimate, you learn, you have a reasonable chance for help. Only an idiot would make a one shot attempt at Everest OR Mars, but man it sure sounds cool when the cameras are rolling.
i'm not impressed with Trump, but come on. In less than 100 days he's responsible for NASA not having a vision or funding and not doing manned missions outside of LEO since Apollo? Other countries have goals in space, they've come to the realization that meeting those goals no longer HAS to involve NASA expertise. That's not a situation of Trump's making. I think you can find plenty to pin on him, but not this.
Blah, blah, blah. They didn't spend the money the way "I" would have spent it. Like the shoes or not, the plastic IS being removed from the ocean. I don't see it as a SHOE manufacturers responsibility to develop replacement plastics for the BOTTLES that are being reclaimed for these SHOES. Go pester the bottle manufacturers about what they are doing to find those less harmful materials.
Remember the old line from the environmentalist groups about "everyone doing a little bit helps"? If they get PR out of it, who cares? They did their little bit, but people jump out of the woodwork to bitch about it. Not sure I'd even call 11 bottles per pair X 1MM pairs a little bit. I get so sick of all the people that bitch on this site because something isn't perfect or god forbid is not a completely altruistic act.
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Don't get me wrong, when I read that issue of Popular Science with the Moller flying car on it, I wanted in, but these days I have a hard time seeing where the flying car concept fits into the modern world.
--If you're interested in flying for the fun of it, you see the limitations of an all in one and would get more bang for your buck with a dedicated light sport airplane.
--If you're interested in flying as a practical means of travel, you see the limitations of an all in one, and probably have the financial resources to A. get a plane that offers car level of capacity (4 passengers and a reasonable cargo load) and B. deal with getting ground travel at your destination.
In neither case, will you be able to fulfill the dream that these projects always hold out of jumping in the vehicle at home and making a carefree hop to the mall/movies/work. I've known people that live in these aviation oriented home communities, the ones with hangars, private runways, streets used for taxiways. People that worked at local airports or were professional pilots. Most of them didn't stay more than 10 years before moving to a more conventional neighborhood and driving to an airport to fly. The ability to fly from home to work, never outweighed the added logistics and cost in the long term. My point being, that these were people who were in an IDEAL setup of location, finances, ability, motivation, and it just didn't pan out. How do you possibly bring this to the masses?
" some nonsensical story about aliens or yet another planet discovered somewhere. And "geeks" lap it up, with no independent way to verify any of it."
Funny, if you swap aliens with angelic beings and planets with an afterlife, your statement covers most religions fairly well.
"A taxi company doesn't have an app for rating every ride"
It's called a phone.
so... "i sell at a loss but i make it up in volume"? yeah, that's not gonna work...
what's twitter? it's become a text based implementation of an Apple style walled garden it would seem.
Around here (dallas area) no one gives two shits if the sirens go off and the weather is not bad. We aren't concerned about imminent nuclear strikes, we're concerned about being at the tail end of Tornado Alley. Perhaps you've heard of it? I got a nice day after christmas treat a year ago when a tornado went through my neighborhood and missed my house by a block. Lucky for us, when the power went out, and we couldn't watch the news, the sirens went off in enough time for use to shit ourselves in a closet.
We'll keep the system, thank you very much.
yes, because every consumer should be aware of all the ways, large and small, that Apple is willing to screw them over. It's never Apples fault for being a bunch of greedy asshats, it's everyone else's fault for holding it wrong, squeezing too hard, owning too long, not going through Apple for every possible repair and just generally not letting Apple make all the decisions for your own good.
The groveling passivity of Apple apologists is disgusting.
Not sure how you read that into my post. The entertainment industry is obsessed with remakes and reboots. When you are just massaging someone else's story, how many writers do you need? Rather than jump on the tired old 'internet is taking our jobs' bandwagon, the writers should be demanding producers and buyers start greenlighting original works. How shocking can it be when the industry has been heading this direction for years? Like any other field, if you have too many people and not enough demand, either wages tank, or people lose jobs.
Replying to myself because I hit submit too fast.
Can these writers be that surprised that it's getting harder to make a living when much of the industry has a fear of anything original? Den Of Geek lists 120(!) movie remakes or reboots currently in progress (as of 3/15/2017). TV seems to be less paralyzed, but they can afford to throw shows out and see what catches.
Those 120 remakes... http://www.denofgeek.com/us/mo...
A decade ago, I quit watching House MD and various other shows impacted by the strike when they stopped mid season. By the time they came back, I had moved on and didn't care anymore. For big shows, the risk is probably minimal, but for the niche stuff this can be a killer.
"Ignore maintenance and run the plants far beyond their lifecycle"
Which is a direct consequence of fear mongering anti nuclear people making it damn near impossible to get a new plant built. They want cheap power, but they oppose too much wind because birds, they oppose coal because pollution, they oppose gas because fracking, they oppose solar because toxic manufacturing. Then they place so much regulation and demands for 100% safety from the only other viable option (nuclear), that it's a financial disaster for any company that dares to take a risk on a 10-20 year project. Yet there's a tacit approval by the same people to keep running old reactors because god forbid we shut them down and MY electricity rate goes up x%.
Sometimes I think these people are as insidious and as harmful as anything from ISIS.
"We'll fix it in the next release."
"$800 to suffer through anything with Tom Cruse in it."
br>To be fair, his Sci-Fi based movies, of which there are several, have been pretty good. I almost missed seeing Edge of Tomorrow because the only thing my wife knew was "Tom Cruise". I make a Cruise exception for Sci-Fi.
More on topic, if I could pay $30 and see a movie within a couple of weeks of release, I'd be all over it. This fits that gray area between "movies I will definitely see in theater" and "movies I'll wait for because the theater experience/cost isn't really worth it (especially with kids)". The movies in that latter category will usually end up with me not buying until they are in the $5 bargain bin.
Why don't they offer to run this against the thousands of hours of course videos that Berkley just pulled due to ADA? Google gets massive training material, Berkley gets free transcripts, and the material stays online. Everyone wins...
this is treemendous!
For a lot of movies, resolution just doesn't matter. Rom-Com, most dramas, who cares? If the story sucks no amount of HD will save it anyway. In the years since Blu-Ray came out, I bought far more DVD's until they started packing DVD+BluRay together for just a little more than DVD, and a little less than Blu-Ray.
As if everyone has 50k to spend on a car and they are just being jerks by not purchasing an EV.