"Is there an ethical way for Facebook to experiment on its users?" asks Slashdot, which randomly dumps users in Beta and says give it a try, you might like it...
This reminds me of a recent incident in Seattle where 80% of the tickets for smoking weed in public were written by one officer, as though he was manufacturing evidence of wrongdoing or something. Using pot is legal in Washington, but not in public, and the officer was doing his job. The problem is in the underlying law.
That space pork-barrel stuff led directly to the deaths of seven astronauts in 1986. If they built the solid rocket boosters on-site rather than in fricken Utah, there would have been no need to transport it in segments and use faulty o-rings to assemble it.
Hand me that Dolphin Burger, the one in the styrofoam...
Seriously, after we came down out of the trees we had to learn to eat what we could get. If any of our ancestors said, "No way, I'm not eating that gazelle, she looks too smart," the other boys would have smacked him upside the head for being a slacker.
It's true that the specific impulse you can get from a fission rocket is about six times greater than H2/LOX, but if you take into account the mass of the reactor and the shielding to protect the flight deck and you're down to a factor of three for improvement in velocity change. The spinning donut thing needs to be really big, or you'll get spacesick from Coriolis effects. But the main reason Apollo and NERVA were canceled was that the space race was just another proxy battle in the cold war, we won, and therefore we lost interest. Having a thing is never as sweet as wanting a thing. You know that.
The late unlamented Fred Phelps and his crew took any expression of disgust and outrage against him as evidence they were doing the Lord's work. That's how these folks think.
They already turned all the FotoMat islands in the parking lots into espresso stands, so all they have to do is figure out how to fit a barista and her stuff into a hollowed-out Redbox.
Just because Windows 95 and up used MS-DOS as a loader doesn't mean they weren't real OS's, and even when I run Windows for Warehouses 3.11 and launch something like Wordstar in a DOS box it doesn't strike me like Windows itself just another DOS shell...
I can buy lots of brand new business class machines with windows 7 on it right now and Dell will not stop doing it as long as 90% of all the corporations are demanding it.
And when these 7 boxen come off lease you can scoop 'em up for a song.
Science fiction isn't really about the future, it's always about right now. That's why we have the spectacle of Star Trek and 007 "reboots" that deal with urban terrorism. That's why the last Captain America looks like a Snowden fever dream. That's why Star Wars 7 will focus on the melting of the glaciers of Hoth and the "war on women" by remnants of the Old Empire.
Actually the biggest issue these days is when people go "Where's the phone on my phone?" People look at their cell phone and wail, "Where the hell is the phone on my phone?"
Where did vacuum fluctuations come from? That's like sailing across the Atlantic and running aground
at Land's End, then asking "Where did that come from?" It's just there.
I disagree that atheism has nothing to do with science, they share a common procedure, in that
hypotheses are rejected when they are demonstrably false. An omniscient god is demonstrably false when
he is recorded as calling "Mulligan" on creation and staging a do-over after the Noahide flood.
If Lucas had created Star Trek rather than Roddenberry, then the Original Series model at the Smithsonian would have DS9 era warp nacelles ret-conned on it and the phasers could never be fired until the shields were below 50% strength because of course Kirk never shoots first.
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"Is there an ethical way for Facebook to experiment on its users?" asks Slashdot, which randomly dumps users in Beta and says give it a try, you might like it...
I blame the death of Saturday Morning programming on almighty ISIS.
This reminds me of a recent incident in Seattle where 80% of the tickets for smoking weed in public were written by one officer, as though he was manufacturing evidence of wrongdoing or something. Using pot is legal in Washington, but not in public, and the officer was doing his job. The problem is in the underlying law.
That space pork-barrel stuff led directly to the deaths of seven astronauts in 1986. If they built the solid rocket boosters on-site rather than in fricken Utah, there would have been no need to transport it in segments and use faulty o-rings to assemble it.
"All presidents get both the blame and credit for thigns that started before they got into office."
This truism failed after 2008. In fact, if Hillary wins in 2016, she will be blaming W. for everything that goes wrong on her watch.
Hand me that Dolphin Burger, the one in the styrofoam... Seriously, after we came down out of the trees we had to learn to eat what we could get. If any of our ancestors said, "No way, I'm not eating that gazelle, she looks too smart," the other boys would have smacked him upside the head for being a slacker.
It's true that the specific impulse you can get from a fission rocket is about six times greater than H2/LOX, but if you take into account the mass of the reactor and the shielding to protect the flight deck and you're down to a factor of three for improvement in velocity change. The spinning donut thing needs to be really big, or you'll get spacesick from Coriolis effects. But the main reason Apollo and NERVA were canceled was that the space race was just another proxy battle in the cold war, we won, and therefore we lost interest. Having a thing is never as sweet as wanting a thing. You know that.
The late unlamented Fred Phelps and his crew took any expression of disgust and outrage against him as evidence they were doing the Lord's work. That's how these folks think.
They already turned all the FotoMat islands in the parking lots into espresso stands, so all they have to do is figure out how to fit a barista and her stuff into a hollowed-out Redbox.
"640 thousand bitcoins oughta be enough for everybody!"
Oh-so-special Google services, like Google+ Hangouts, how's that working out for them?
Oddly, changing the version numbering doesn't actually make the product better. Who'd have guessed that?
I dunno, MS-DOS 4.01 was slightly better than MS-DOS 4.0. So I'm for waiting for Windows 10.01.
You can get an ISO for a stripped down "Vista Lite" on TPB, so I imagine someone will offer Windows 10 without the bloat and call it Windows 9.
Just because Windows 95 and up used MS-DOS as a loader doesn't mean they weren't real OS's, and even when I run Windows for Warehouses 3.11 and launch something like Wordstar in a DOS box it doesn't strike me like Windows itself just another DOS shell...
If 9 is just 7 with a requirement to have a Microsoft account to activate it and update it, then why will it be GOOD?
I can buy lots of brand new business class machines with windows 7 on it right now and Dell will not stop doing it as long as 90% of all the corporations are demanding it.
And when these 7 boxen come off lease you can scoop 'em up for a song.
9 will be more like 7 than 8 was, so it will be 7sp2.
Have you seen the screenshots? 9 is just 8.2, but 8 is now a dirty word like Vista, so 9 it is.
Science fiction isn't really about the future, it's always about right now. That's why we have the spectacle of Star Trek and 007 "reboots" that deal with urban terrorism. That's why the last Captain America looks like a Snowden fever dream. That's why Star Wars 7 will focus on the melting of the glaciers of Hoth and the "war on women" by remnants of the Old Empire.
Actually the biggest issue these days is when people go "Where's the phone on my phone?" People look at their cell phone and wail, "Where the hell is the phone on my phone?"
What they don't tell you is anyone can do this in a few hours with a port scanner, at least the IP4 flavor of cyberspace.
Where did vacuum fluctuations come from? That's like sailing across the Atlantic and running aground at Land's End, then asking "Where did that come from?" It's just there.
I disagree that atheism has nothing to do with science, they share a common procedure, in that hypotheses are rejected when they are demonstrably false. An omniscient god is demonstrably false when he is recorded as calling "Mulligan" on creation and staging a do-over after the Noahide flood.
If Lucas had created Star Trek rather than Roddenberry, then the Original Series model at the Smithsonian would have DS9 era warp nacelles ret-conned on it and the phasers could never be fired until the shields were below 50% strength because of course Kirk never shoots first.
Not every patent office flunkie can go on to write important papers on relativity.
If the 5S and 6 have comparable performance, it means the 5S remains a long term option across OS upgrades. No need to keep a tablet in your pocket...
Is that a tablet in your pocket or are you just moving higher on the Mohs Hardness Scale?