I agree that, given the staggering lack of support for space research in the US, they'll almost certainly pass us eventually. However I don't think it will be by very much or for very long. You can credit most, if not all, of their success to date on them taking what the US and the Soviet Union did decades ago (that's not a dig, that how most research works, you build off what others have done before you) and simply modernizing it and dong it again. And where they couldn't copy something I'm sure they had no problems with simply stealing it (that was a dig). Eventually though, they'll be at the same level we are and there wont be anything for them to take or learn from. Sure they may make some advances beyond that, but I don't think it will be much or even very fast.
Anything after that and they'll have to wait for the US to start doing something serious again.
I find that, increasingly, there are songs where there is so little actual content it makes the entire song irritating after about 1 minute of listening. I've heard several songs where the entire song consists of less than a dozen words, after the 12th time through I just want to shove kitting needles into my ears.
That's true, and I agree it is the way to go instead of trying to translate the entire language.
I was only saying it was easier, not necessarily better.
I can see the advantage in having the keywords be in your native language, for the most part the keyword itself gives some indication of its function and makes it much easier to remember and look up than it would a word in a different language.
With that being said, I still think this is an incredibly bad idea. Right now you can go anywhere on the web and find help and code examples in English so that everyone who is using JavaScript can use them. With Babylscript you'll find examples and code in dozens of different languages so that no one can help anyone else. So now we really can all sit in our own little world and be oblivious to everything around us.
I agree, I only just recently replaced a 10 year laptop. I'd updated the OS on it once and maxed out the memory, but otherwise it still did 80% of what I needed it to do. I only replaced because the hinges on the lid broke and it would no longer stay up, that and it took 15 minutes to start the Android emulator. My wife works fine on her 6 year old laptop as well.
I would think that the fact the OP is taking to the time to ask the question and even went so far as to ask for help with things he realizes he might not even know enough to ask is pretty good evidence that they are taking security seriously. Granted, he probably has to get it approved if it a pad app, but the cost of that should be pretty small compared to the cost of the phones themselves.
My brother in law is pretty religious as well and was actually in the process of trying to borrow money from family member to send the to the girl he had been "dating" online so she could buy a plane ticket to here from, I think it was South Africa. On more than one occasion he asked me if I thought it that the email he got about the lottery winnings, the deposed dictator, or poor young girl stuck overseas was legitimate. This after I told him repeatedly that if it looks too good to be true in an email it is a scam.
I don't know that the religion makes them more gullible or more trusting (which might be the same thing), or maybe more willing to right the perceived wrong.
You could try a different branch of programming....
If you do standalone apps right now you could move into web programming or database programming or even mobile apps.
Here is the JPL site that shows the recent misses and all the upcoming near earth approaches - I like to go here once in a while just to see how close we are to the world ending. This is the first time I've seen anything on the list within one lunar distance - srot of makes you go - wow!
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
I agree - the Chronicles of Amber would be terrific!!! It would have to be at least 3 movies, but 5 might be a bit too many to keep people coming. I agree the second set with MErlin were ok, but no where near as good as the original series.
... accelerated to a significant fraction of the speed of light...
Unless you keep the actual acceleration down the problem would be the fact that anything above 15 - 20 gravities and all of your passengers will pass out, and anything above say 40 - 50 and you'll turn them all into paste. Of course,if the trip is long enough, any sort of constant acceleration, even if is just a few gravities would be much faster than a single acceleration stage followed by coasting and an equally short deceleration.
I think some people get up in arms about this without realizing that, in many cases, the "personal" data being kept isn't really personal anyway. It is their search and browsing history, their clicks and the sites they've visited. It's not necessarily anything personal about that them the site doesn't already have on file for it's users.
Yahoo is still keeping the user's name, contact info, preferences, favorites, and other items, just as is Google, MSN, and any other online service/portal you sign up for. What they aren't keeping (after 90 days), or rather are not associating with the individual user, is the information that they could/did use to target advertising to the user.
Google is retaining it and probably charging more, or at least getting a better response rate, for their advertising because of it.
Given the way things are now I don't see how anyone could have the expectation that anything you do on the web could possible be anonymous. Just browsing a site takes your request through any number of different systems any one of which could be logging the information and using for who know what. At least with the Googles, and the Yahoos you have a reasonable idea of what they are keeping and how they are using it.
I found the layout hard to scan quickly. I couldn't go straight down the page as I would have to scroll down then back up to go to the next column(s). Moving back and forth and going down at the same time didn't work either as the result headers didn't line up at the top.
I did like the paragraph included with the link, it makes it easier to determine the relevance. Maybe they could make each result stand out on its own a bit more, it would be easier to do a quick scan.
I agree that it is too bad that the launches have become almost routine occurances. I try to watch them when I get the chance and have even gone so far as to record them. I do it mostly for my kids, who are still pretty impressed with the whole process. And I tell them every chance I get how significant it is that we have people actually living and working in space on, pretty much, a full time basis now.
Every so often I'll watch the NASA channel we get with my son, and he is still young enough (5) that the fact that the people he is seeing are actually in the space station orbiting the earth is meaningful to him. My daughter, who is older, not so much....
Now if only the NASA channel was no so eye gougingly boring most of the time.
The next step will be the ability to get an assay done on a potential mate, or even random partner (as in Gattaca). While that might be a good thing for he human race in general I'm sure there will be a lot of hate and discontent over it - oh wait, there already is...
So there I am innocently opening the comments to see what everyone had to say, when one of the ads that pops up catches my eye.....
http://www.directedinsight.com/badAd.aspx
Is this content based advertising......?
Part of the problem there is that, regardless of your intent it is entirely up to the moderator and how they interpret your post. Your "feeble attempts at humor" may be so feeble as to seem stupid, and since everyone here is at least a 120 IQ or higher, your "stupid" comments must have been intentional - thus, the mod down.
It's either that or non of the moderators like you:)
It has been pointed out several times that there are many different types of games and that also needs to be considered. My kids play a variety of different games on a variety of media (game boy, xbox, and computer). Some of the games are pretty much pure sludge that are only good for killing time, and we try to limit the amount of time they spend with those. Others however, while they may not be exactly educational, certainly prompt thinking and planning. Both of my kids enjoy Zoo Tycoon, building, planning, stocking and running their zoo is not an easy undertaking. It is interesting to see them both trying to figure out the best way to keep the animals alive and happy while at the same time making their zoo more popular. They have both figured things out in the game that I'm actually surprised they thought of.
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I agree that, given the staggering lack of support for space research in the US, they'll almost certainly pass us eventually. However I don't think it will be by very much or for very long. You can credit most, if not all, of their success to date on them taking what the US and the Soviet Union did decades ago (that's not a dig, that how most research works, you build off what others have done before you) and simply modernizing it and dong it again. And where they couldn't copy something I'm sure they had no problems with simply stealing it (that was a dig). Eventually though, they'll be at the same level we are and there wont be anything for them to take or learn from. Sure they may make some advances beyond that, but I don't think it will be much or even very fast.
Anything after that and they'll have to wait for the US to start doing something serious again.
I find that, increasingly, there are songs where there is so little actual content it makes the entire song irritating after about 1 minute of listening. I've heard several songs where the entire song consists of less than a dozen words, after the 12th time through I just want to shove kitting needles into my ears.
Duh, robot repair ought to be in pretty high demand about then!
That's true, and I agree it is the way to go instead of trying to translate the entire language. I was only saying it was easier, not necessarily better.
I can see the advantage in having the keywords be in your native language, for the most part the keyword itself gives some indication of its function and makes it much easier to remember and look up than it would a word in a different language.
With that being said, I still think this is an incredibly bad idea. Right now you can go anywhere on the web and find help and code examples in English so that everyone who is using JavaScript can use them. With Babylscript you'll find examples and code in dozens of different languages so that no one can help anyone else. So now we really can all sit in our own little world and be oblivious to everything around us.
I agree, I only just recently replaced a 10 year laptop. I'd updated the OS on it once and maxed out the memory, but otherwise it still did 80% of what I needed it to do. I only replaced because the hinges on the lid broke and it would no longer stay up, that and it took 15 minutes to start the Android emulator. My wife works fine on her 6 year old laptop as well.
I would think that the fact the OP is taking to the time to ask the question and even went so far as to ask for help with things he realizes he might not even know enough to ask is pretty good evidence that they are taking security seriously. Granted, he probably has to get it approved if it a pad app, but the cost of that should be pretty small compared to the cost of the phones themselves.
My brother in law is pretty religious as well and was actually in the process of trying to borrow money from family member to send the to the girl he had been "dating" online so she could buy a plane ticket to here from, I think it was South Africa. On more than one occasion he asked me if I thought it that the email he got about the lottery winnings, the deposed dictator, or poor young girl stuck overseas was legitimate. This after I told him repeatedly that if it looks too good to be true in an email it is a scam.
I don't know that the religion makes them more gullible or more trusting (which might be the same thing), or maybe more willing to right the perceived wrong.
You could try a different branch of programming ....
If you do standalone apps right now you could move into web programming or database programming or even mobile apps.
Will anyone staying on the ISS at the time turn into the Fantastic Four?
Here is the JPL site that shows the recent misses and all the upcoming near earth approaches - I like to go here once in a while just to see how close we are to the world ending. This is the first time I've seen anything on the list within one lunar distance - srot of makes you go - wow! http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
I agree - the Chronicles of Amber would be terrific!!! It would have to be at least 3 movies, but 5 might be a bit too many to keep people coming. I agree the second set with MErlin were ok, but no where near as good as the original series.
Sorry, my bad, you can use the WiFi anywhere (just about)... http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/eBooks-Help-Board/3G-and-Wi-Fi-Coverage/m-p/414206#U414206
From reading the specs I think that the WiFi only works when inside a B&N store. Otherwise it uses the 3G connection
So Boeing developed a weapon to shoot down airplanes............. hmmm
... accelerated to a significant fraction of the speed of light ...
Unless you keep the actual acceleration down the problem would be the fact that anything above 15 - 20 gravities and all of your passengers will pass out, and anything above say 40 - 50 and you'll turn them all into paste. Of course,if the trip is long enough, any sort of constant acceleration, even if is just a few gravities would be much faster than a single acceleration stage followed by coasting and an equally short deceleration.
Yahoo is still keeping the user's name, contact info, preferences, favorites, and other items, just as is Google, MSN, and any other online service/portal you sign up for. What they aren't keeping (after 90 days), or rather are not associating with the individual user, is the information that they could/did use to target advertising to the user.
Google is retaining it and probably charging more, or at least getting a better response rate, for their advertising because of it.
Given the way things are now I don't see how anyone could have the expectation that anything you do on the web could possible be anonymous. Just browsing a site takes your request through any number of different systems any one of which could be logging the information and using for who know what. At least with the Googles, and the Yahoos you have a reasonable idea of what they are keeping and how they are using it.
I did like the paragraph included with the link, it makes it easier to determine the relevance. Maybe they could make each result stand out on its own a bit more, it would be easier to do a quick scan.
I agree that it is too bad that the launches have become almost routine occurances. I try to watch them when I get the chance and have even gone so far as to record them. I do it mostly for my kids, who are still pretty impressed with the whole process. And I tell them every chance I get how significant it is that we have people actually living and working in space on, pretty much, a full time basis now. Every so often I'll watch the NASA channel we get with my son, and he is still young enough (5) that the fact that the people he is seeing are actually in the space station orbiting the earth is meaningful to him. My daughter, who is older, not so much.... Now if only the NASA channel was no so eye gougingly boring most of the time.
The next step will be the ability to get an assay done on a potential mate, or even random partner (as in Gattaca). While that might be a good thing for he human race in general I'm sure there will be a lot of hate and discontent over it - oh wait, there already is...
So there I am innocently opening the comments to see what everyone had to say, when one of the ads that pops up catches my eye..... http://www.directedinsight.com/badAd.aspx Is this content based advertising......?
Aha - that's your problem - your IQ is too high. :)
Part of the problem there is that, regardless of your intent it is entirely up to the moderator and how they interpret your post. Your "feeble attempts at humor" may be so feeble as to seem stupid, and since everyone here is at least a 120 IQ or higher, your "stupid" comments must have been intentional - thus, the mod down. It's either that or non of the moderators like you :)
It has been pointed out several times that there are many different types of games and that also needs to be considered. My kids play a variety of different games on a variety of media (game boy, xbox, and computer). Some of the games are pretty much pure sludge that are only good for killing time, and we try to limit the amount of time they spend with those. Others however, while they may not be exactly educational, certainly prompt thinking and planning. Both of my kids enjoy Zoo Tycoon, building, planning, stocking and running their zoo is not an easy undertaking. It is interesting to see them both trying to figure out the best way to keep the animals alive and happy while at the same time making their zoo more popular. They have both figured things out in the game that I'm actually surprised they thought of.
Well, ok, it sort of happens here. But instead of dropping dead themselves these people were letting their kids do it.