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Busy Signals for Deep Space Experiments
lionchild writes "Just when you hated getting those 'Network Busy' signals on your Cell Phones..imagine what it's like to deal with communications in deep space after all these years of putting satellites and probes out there into the space lanes. Check the article out on space.com
" The saddest part is the poor state that the deep space network of dishes is in, with some of the 70 meter antennae approaching their fifth decade with no repair funds on the horizon.
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Wednesday 29th May 2002
.NET platforms, which will deliver a new proprietary application. The software will help tourism firms provide penguin hunting expeditions all year round by targetting large populations of the species.
REUTERS - NASDAQ traders revealed today that there has been a massive surge in the purchase of VA Software (LNUX) shares. The company, which has been in financial difficulty for some time, has had 57% of its shares purchased by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB).
Jonathan Mason, a spokesman for the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, confirmed the purchase to Reuters reporters earlier today. "We're very pleased with the acquisition of the VA stock. We now have a cheap alternative for acquiring raw materials for our products. VA shares are less than worthless, and we plan on using the share ceritifcates to make all of our toilet paper for the North American market."
Analysts predict that the use of the share certificates will enable KMB to greatly increase the output of bog roll for the financial year 2002/3. The remaining materials will be used to create bandages for hospital patients who have gangrenous infections.
Kimberly-Clark also has the option to take up the remaining 43% of VA Stock in December 2002. Inside sources reveal that if this is taken, the assets of the company will be removed and its staff made redundant. IT specialists at KMB tell us that they plan to reformat Slashdot servers as Microsoft
(c) Reuters Corporation 2002
So when your communication with your space probe doesn't make it, tell him you've seen him on commercials.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
What is the future of Open Source and Free Software? I asked myself that very question because Open Source and Free Software is the most revolutionary movement today. It is changing everything.
To answer this question I went to slashdot.org, this website, since slashdot is known across the internet when it comes to Open Source and Free Software. I read the stories and the comments. I read the comments at the -1 threshold because I wanted to read real people's opinions and knowledge on Open Source and Free Software, not the sanitized version that gets modded up. What I found was very interesting.
So, what is the future of Open Source and Free Software? Wideness. That's right. Wideness. This concept of wideness is so powerful that it is invading domains beyond computer software. Take HDTV for instance. It is widescreen compared to normal tvs. TV is becoming wider.
The best examples of wideness are from slashdot of course. First, page widening posts. Slashdot pages weren't wide enough so they have to be widened manually. In the future slashdot pages will be wider.
I also found links to the goatse.cx website. Again, another example of wideness, namely a wide open anus. People who use Open Source and Free Software aren't boring heterosexuals. They are homosexuals, bisexuals, etc. As the goatse.cx website shows wideness is being added to the sexuality of Open Source and Free Software users.
Like me, you are probably excited about this wide future. The following email shows the future is closer than you think.
From: "Larry Augustin"
To: "Company - all"
Subject: Acquisition of latest OSDN holding
As you may be aware, our stock certificates are now unfit to even wipe our own asses in the restrooms. However, soon this will all change with our latest opensource acquisition. This is such a revolutionary paradigm shift that we have decided to coin a new term for it: "WideOpensource". The following letter was recently sent to the management of our prospect:
From: "Larry Augustin"
To: contrib@goatse.cx
Subject: Open source business opportunity
Dear Sir,
We at OSDN are continually looking to expand our growing network of opensource-related web real estate. Through intense analysis of comment traffic on our premier site, SlashDot.org, we have determined that your site holds considerable value to the community at large. As recent IDC surveys have shown, your site is one of the 10 most popular on the Internet. That, combined with its decidedly opensource bent, makes it a prime target for OSDN banner ads, our flagship product. We would like to acquire your site and employ you as a member of our OSDN team. Please consider this carefully, you aren't likely to see an opportunity like this every day!
Love,
Larry
Im confused
Don't hog the bong, dude.
Deep Space 9 is where to go with it's hot parasite carrying chicks.
Score:-1, Idiot Moderators with No Ability to Recognize Sarcasm
I hate those commercials
Hey, if they're planning to maybe scrap that antenna, i could use it for a couple of things... Like plastering it with mirrors and place my chicken dinner at the focal point... Or fill it with water and ejoy some quality scuba diving... Finally getting a good arena to play rollerball in... Or finally getting some quality broadcasting from India..
Definately a troll. Either that or the poster is confused with the properties of a blackhole.
GTK is dying...
Long live QT!!!
QT is better, easier to program in and is the underpinning of the most robust desktop environment in the Linux world...
This is yet another level of widening. It's even wider than goatse.cx anal hole. I would like to see some photos of pregnant midgets sucking of miniature horses.
FACT: *BSD is dying.
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