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NASA Prepares to Open Source Code
comforteagle writes "According to this story at O'Reilly, NASA is looking for approval for their own open source license. The NASA submitter (lawyer of course) states that none of the current licenses meet their needs, but more interesting is that NASA needs a license at all. It makes one wonder what we, and other space agencies, might see coming out off NASA. It's also nice to see code that taxpayers paid for anyway being released for their use too. There must be at least one slashdotter who could dream up a use for NASA software. X Prize participants maybe?"
Jeez, who's next, Microsoft?
The coolest voice ever.
You could always stitch together panoramic photos from inside GWs head... that would make for an amazing expanse of nothingness...
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Well, Microsoft already did so earlier today, so NASA is a bit behind the times for this one. [wink]
John Carmack could do it. A little upgrade to the equipment, and the space shuttles might be powerful enough to play Doom.
I've built this six-wheeled golf cart in my back yard, and I was hoping to find a good OS for it!
This side up.
what we, and other space agencies,
;-)
Is this guy referring to Slashdot?
I have discovered a truly marvelous
We can have more success at landing spacecraft on Mars. At least the metric/imperial error would have been caught before it went to alpha...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
It might also be very beneficial to go through the code and clearly label which values are imperial measurements and which are metric.
Darwin Award, maybe?
I hope NASA gets their Open Source software out soon. I'm getting thoroughly frustrated trying to write an OS for my planetary rover.
Mars Rover Security system..
;-)
no more dog poop on the lawn
"Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far
I've been itching to get my hands on NASA's Photoshop filters since 1969!
I get the impression that NASA develops a lot of software for image processing. I'm picturing some really powerful GIMP plug-ins... "Make Mars Red", "Color Galaxy", "Add UFO"....
There is a joke in here somewhere about the esa using the code to actually get a lander on Mars, in one piece. Ok, that was uncalled for.
"If you have done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways" -- hhgg
yeah, but the loopholes are so large that NASA fell through without anyone realizing it.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
30 years from now, Man finally lands on Mars, and finds one of the 2010 batch of rovers, and, spelled out in its tire tracks...
"FIRST POST!"
Yup. Just go the NSA website and download your own copy of Echelon, citizen!
That's easy:
/* dist = dist * .3048 /* Someone please uncomment that before we compile... --Tim*/
void mars_lander()
{
int dist;
dist = to_ground(position,z);
* let's see what happens when we comment the
* conversion!
*
/
land(dist);
}
Learn something new.
"Sir, we seem to have lost control of the rovers"
"Lost contact man, what do you mean?"
"Well sir, it's like we can look but we can't touch!"
"And what do you see?"
"It's hard to tell at this point, but first the rovers appeared to play a game of pong with a mars rock, and now they appear to be writing "Chris loves Jane" in the dust, with letters large enough to be viewed by a common telescope."
"It's those da*mn blinkenlights people..."
Do you want NASA to give away its latest and greatest rocket guidance software to anyone that asks for it?
Yes.
May we never see th
Its all metric. At least its _supposed_ to be all metric. NASA employees using imperial measurements are to be deported to Leeds/England where they may assume a position at a pub in order to exercise their right of using imperial measurements in describing quantities of beer. "Well, I used to work as rocket scientist at NASA, but since they don't calculate fuel in pints they sent me here".
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"The more prohibitions there are, The poorer the people will be" -- Lao Tse
when can i start trawling for buffer overflows in hubbles code and format strings on the rover code?
(ok its java yeah yeah yeah)
Go to Britain, and you'll see people wearing "I (airplane) NY" t-Shirts. Go to Socialist France, and you'll be spit upon by the unemployed. Go to Canada, and you'll be booed.
Maybe you would receive a warmer reception if you weren't wearing that bright Hawaiian shirt with a Panama hat dressed with a Bush Cheney '04 button.
=)