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NASA Still Trying to Verify Anti-Gravity Claims
uncoda writes "The L.A. Times has an article about NASA research into a phenomenon in which the effect of gravity is supposedly reduced. It sounds like cold fusion or polywater to me, but who knows?" We've posted two previous stories about Podkletnov's research: one from a couple of years ago and another more recently.
i want my flying delorean minus michael j fox
and some of those (nanotech?) self healing/cleaning/drying nikes and clothes
This could finally be some competition to Viagra.
Ok i'll probably be modded down...but i gotta know!!! whats insightful about that post?? eh?? help me here please... hell the insightful moderation is funnier than the post!
>Flame on, linux zealots.
First, lemme make it clear - I don't particularly like Linux, but I sell it. Definitively not a Linux zealot; use Windows 2000 as desktop, etc.
Second, I have 30 mins to kill and although I planned to check out today's Uh-Oh.com Thumbails, now I'll instead respond to you, agent provocateur.
>1. Linux installation sucks when you don't have the latest hardware. I had to recompile the kernel for that stupid ISA Ethernet card to be seen by Redhad.
Maybe something/someone else is stupid? Ok, no insults, here's a counter-argument: would you use Windows on a machine with ISA card?
>3. Applications are rare, I cannot find lots of things that I enjoy on Windows. I don't want to play games on Linux.
Buy Win4Lin (www.netraverse.com) or VMWare (www.vmware.com) and use both Windows and Linux at the same time.
>4. Sendmail sucks.
Agree. Use qmail or postfix.
Another thing: what the fuck is sendmail doing here - a while ago you mention ISA cards (obviously you want to use aged hardware), then you want to play games (don't tell me you want to do that using your high-end ISA hardware) and now you're suddenly into servers (perhaps you have ISA 10Mbps NIC?).
>Any mail server on Windows even the freeware ones are as easy as 123 to configure without the scripting bullshit of send mail and compiling it again to support new modules.
Sure, nobody said you have to use Linux if you don't want to or have lost the ability to learn. You have at least 3 choices:
a) Learn Linux (free, not hard)
b) Use commercial (easy) Linux software (better performance than Windows)
c) Use Windows (pay)
>5. Applications and user interface are so amatuerish that it is not funny at all.
Actually it's the opposite. Any good Linux sysadmin can do things faster in console than any good Windows admin can do in GUI. Besides, console is less resource intensive and faster too boot up.
>6. No proper support for USB, it is still a hack and cannot have support to most of the USB hardware that I have.
Like what? You have 27 USB mice and 173 USB printers? Be precise. I have a Microsoft USB optical mouse, works fine with both Mandrake 8.1 and RedHat 7.2.
>7. Smaba sucks, installing it and configuring it takes hours.
To you, maybe.
>8. The Whole attitude of the linux users proves that it is a plague, no help, no asistance, everyone is using it just to show off, just bunch of high school zealots with computers.
Hahaha, I have no other comment here. Today I installed a Linux HA solution at the local Stock Exchange. They have eight Linux servers in production....
>9. Javas support sucks.
Fuck Java and fuck those Sun morons. On all platforms. And stupid Macromedial Flash too.
>10. No decent browser.
Personally I prefer indecency but when it comes to browsers, Mozilla is now semi-decent.
>No I'm not willing to pay $49.99 for Opera, I have Internet Explorer on my Windows box and it is fantastic.
Well you paid for Windows. Mozilla is good enough.
>11. No decent account and home fininance package.
True. Then again, who cares?
>I could go on forever on this.
We know.
>For servers it may be OK, but who cares, us home users don't need it, never will.
AFAIK, I don't give a shit about Linux @home. Linux is great for servers and, to me, semi-decent as client. I use Linux at home to learn and I use Windows at work because I'm more productive (MS IE, Eudora, PowerPoint, Excel). If you don't like Linux, use Windows.