China Launches Third Unmanned Space Capsule

Guppy06 writes: "As you read this China's third unmanned (except for a dummy) Shenzhou capsule is whizzing over your head. It was launched around 1400 UTC on one of China's newer Long March II F boosters. There's an article at CNN. As per usual, our good friends at NORAD have all the details of its orbit available here, but after last September you need to register to get it..."

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fp!

[Anonymous Coward]

woohooo fp!

The Sad Truth, People

[Anonymous Coward]

There are those folks who exist that are simply too stupid to run a Unix-like operating system. You know who they are; in fact, many of them frequent this very site with their IE browsers and MSN Messenger rip-offs of applications that were far too innovative for Microsoft to come up with themselves even though they spend more money on R&D than any other company in the history of the world.

My friends, co-workers, and I refer to these individuals as people with TSTR* syndrome who are blatantly Too Stupid To Run *nix.

Do you know anyone suffering from this? If so, please make a note of it and remind them of their simple minds whenever they mumble some *nix isn't ready for the desktop comment while you're using KDE 3 and Evolution, which are a superior desktop environment and mail clients for Linux, respectively.

Re:The Sad Truth, People

[EricKrout.com]

Wow, that's really interesting! I didn't realize that it was Apple who actually wrote the entire BSD/Mach kernel. And in four years, nonetheless -- truly an amazing feat!

*Slap* You friggin' moron.

m o n o l i n u x :: No Rights Reserved.

Re:The Sad Truth, People

[FrostedChaos]

Apple was not trying to rewrite the entire BSD/Mach kernel.

Re:The Sad Truth, People

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure.

The only difference is that people actually use *NIX. :-)

Sorry, little Mac dude.

Re:The Sad Truth, People

[gotr00t]

Although this isn't exactly relavent to this article, I AGREE COMPLETELY! By far, all M$ products are simply overrated, overcharged, and just plain terriable. They allow for no degree of freedom at all, and unlike *NIX where I can configure virtually every element of the OS to the way I like it, Windowz dosen't even let me see the underlying processes for crying out loud! The only thing that I think Windowz is good for is gaming. Just gaming. In office work, business work, etc. You need stablity, and if you don't have the competence to use a UNIX related platform, then use a mac. They're stable. Playing games is the time when stablitity matters minimally. Plus, I don't see why game developers even develop games for Windows. Although I agree that DirectX and it's components are great API features, I think that they're overlooking the merit at using Linux (Yeah, they could use Solaris, HP-UX, etc, but I'm just using Linux in this example) to develop games. Linux is extremely modular, an extremely well written OS. With XFree86 version 4, many more APIs are implimented that help developers. Finally, I would like to say that I enjoy using multiple sound cards(one for speakers, one for headphones), and two video cards to control 2 monitors. These are built in features to X11R6 version 4.x.x, people. And I think that this is extremely useful. I haven't seen a single person who found out how to do it on Windows(not one of those 2 port video cards, I'm talking about using 2 seperate video cards powering 2 monitors, Correct me if I'm wrong)

Re:The Sad Truth, People

[NanoGator]

" Windowz dosen't even let me see the underlying processes for crying out loud!"

Ever hear of Task Manager?

"he only thing that I think Windowz is good for is gaming. Just gaming"

I know a lot of 3D artists using 2K and don't have a problem. Some of them are running dual Monitors too, including me. I also have 2 network cards.

"Plus, I don't see why game developers even develop games for Windows"

a.) Easy to develop games for, *nix is not. Bad driver support, too many flavors of *nix. b.) There are MILLIONS of people using Windows. Making games for *nix is not profitable right now. Any game developer'd be better off making games for consoles.

"...and two video cards to control 2 monitors"

Windows 98 does that. Mac did before that. I was using Dual monitors on 98. I use it now on 2k, but according to you using a dual-head card is cheating.

Ever thought about really using the OS before bashing it? Just curious. Doesn't sound like you know anything about Windows. There's a reason that FX houses and Game Companies use 2K to do their rendering. Lightwave and 3D Studio MAX are very popular.

Did you hear the one about the orbital rail-gun?

[Dr_Marvin_Monroe]

....it was kinda like a Gerald Bull special...it could take out NSA spys like dropping a bowling ball off an overpass.........

How much $$$$ to make one of these non-"Weapons of mass destruction" weapons?......

How long could the USA survive without ESPN and ATM's?

..."...of course we're gonna use the NORAD website for orbital numbers!..."

Register

[loraksus]

Sir! We've instituting a policy of registration because umm.. umm .. . fuck! Because people could umm.. guide anthrax with the tracking of objects in space.

Condescending assholes. How fucking lame is that shit? Why the hell would these dumbshits block it to the public? Bandwidth? God forbid anybody express interest in what is going on, you know, people who could drum up some public support for the space program. God forbid we actually encourage people to be interested in something somewhat factual, as opposed to the cnn and nbc excrement.
Of course, there is probably some amateur site with better coverage.
end rant.