Comment Re:Lettergate (Score 1) 496
[...] and if Obama is involved somehow.
Obama's a lame duck.
[...] and if Benghazi! is involved somehow.
FTFY.
[...] and if Obama is involved somehow.
Obama's a lame duck.
[...] and if Benghazi! is involved somehow.
FTFY.
Besides disasters, there's also the CITGO-Venezuela heating oil program.
Or a Moran.
In addition to expanding the ISS, Russian developers viewed the NEM module as the basis for future Russian efforts to send humans beyond the Earth orbit. Thanks to its multi-function design, life support and power-supply capability, one or a whole cluster of such vehicles could provide habitation quarters and laboratories for a station at the so-called Lagrange points, which were considered as a staging ground for the exploration of the Moon, asteroids and Mars.
In case of an international agreement on the construction of a manned outpost in the Lagrange point, the NEM-based laboratory could constitute the Russian contribution into the effort. The NEM-based outpost could be serviced and staffed by the crews of US-European Orion spacecraft and by Russia’s next-generation spacecraft, PTK NP. Simularly, the NEM module, possibly in combination with other hardware, could serve as an outpost in the orbit around the Moon. Also in 2014, plans were hatched to make the NEM-based laboratory a part of the post-ISS Russian space station, VShOS, in the high-inclination orbit.
The Russians have always understood that a space station is nothing more than a prototype of an interplanetary spaceship. They are therefore simply carrying through with the same engineering research they did on their earlier Salyut and Mir stations, developing a vessel that can keep humans alive on long trips to other planets.
This approach makes a lot more sense than NASA’s SLS/Orion project, which does not give us what we need to make long interplanetary voyages, and costs a lot more.
I thought Print was dead...
We can't have both?
Rotary phone.
Basically, what you are saying is that you like to drive. I don't blame you, by the way. In certain situations and environments, I like to drive, too. I used to not be a big fan of driving, but when I started having a long commute, I decide I would spend money on a car that I wanted to be in and wanted to drive. It was worth it when I spent an hour and a half in the car five days a week.
On the other hand, consider some of the advantages--the "idiots who are afraid of using the road" are the ones who won't be driving. Their autonomous car will probably be going faster than the little old lady in the green Valiant. Also there will be fewer idiot tourists flashing across three lanes because, "Oops! There's my exit!"
The lying about using traffic as an excuse is pretty well dead anyway. If somebody really cares that much, they can get traffic conditions along your route now for whatever times they need.
Personally, though, I see most cars having the "Auto-drive"/"Self-drive" switch (a la Demolition Man) for environments where autonomous driving may not be ideal.
Well, in theory, life can be anywhere. The problem is our ability to detect it.
For example, we've done plenty of studies of life on Earth. We take that knowledge and apply it to Mars to see if we can detect any past or present life. We could do the same thing for Jupiter, but we probably wouldn't detect any life because--if it's there--it behaves differently than life that we know. We'll need some other way to detect it, but if we don't know if it exists, how can we come up with ways to detect it?
That's why we stick with what we know and, yes, that means we're looking for carbon-based life forms that use oxygen and nitrogen the same way we do. Until we find life that is different and figure out a way to detect that life, that's what we're stuck with.
Well, at least it's less than $6 billion.
Uh...weather information isn't quite that pervasive. That said, I don't think we even need to go THAT far.
Suppose you're driving along and you suddenly get hit by torrential snow or rain. What would you do?
Well, of course, the first thing you do is slow down. "Never outdrive your senses," to coin a phrase. So if rain or snow is affecting your visibility, you slow down. Why wouldn't a self-driving car do the same, while flashing a "Please take over driving" alert?
To me, a self-driving car is essentially a really clever cruise control. Which means it's great for the highway but not so good for crowded city streets. I don't see too many people using cruise control on crowded city streets and I'm pretty sure you won't see too many people using auto-drive in the same way.
I'll admit, my daily commute is 56 miles, of which 52 of them are on the freeway. I would buy a self-driving car in a heartbeat. I'd drive it to freeway and then say, "Okay, take me to my exit" and let the car drive the freeway with the stop and go traffic. When it got to my exit, I'd take over and drive the rest of the way home.
He brought the company back from the edge, after being destroyed by another MBA, Jim Sculley.
Sigh. You kids today...
First, it was John Sculley. Jim Sculley made boats and passed a few years ago.
Second, I always like to remind people that Apple had it's largest marketshare--only topped in the last few years--and did some very innovative things while John Sculley was in charge: Hypercard and the transition to RISC to give a couple of examples.
Personally, I give most of the blame to Michael Spindler.
"We've been able to soft-land the rocket booster in the ocean twice so far," says Musk. "Unfortunately, it sort of sat there for several seconds, then tipped over and exploded. [...]"
I think I'll go for a walk now...
EG, they may have the sudden epiphany while playing super mario brothers, that they have failed to have while sititng in their cublcle [...]
Or they may not.
If you're counting on "the truth" to somehow come to you in order to accomplish your task, I'm not sure I'm going to really trust you on a schedule.
For example, if I bought an 8GB phone, I might have been told I could easily fit a movie or a couple of TV shows on it. Now, after updating to the latest version of the system software, I can no longer fit a movie on it. I updated my phone and now it won't do what I was told it could do and it never warned me that this might be an issue before I updated it.
Not that I necessarily agree with the lawsuit, but it might be worthwhile if Apple says to those people with 8GB phones, "Hey, you might NOT want to update your system software because you won't have much room afterwards."
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
