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Phoenix Mars Lander Hits Halfway Point
It doesn't come easy writes "There is a nice write-up over at Space.com about Phoenix, NASA's next Mars lander. The article includes a few more details about the steps NASA is taking to ensure a successful mission." The Phoenix project was first given the green light earlier this year and hopes to benefit from some hard lessons learned on earlier projects.
yeah, I guess that's about right.
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
Feature-wise, it's fine. Up there with IE, for sure.
But as far as stability goes, it's just 100% pure ass. I run Firefox under lunix, and IE under Windows XP. I've never, in years of using it, seen IE or crash or freeze up.
With Firefox, I'm forced to restart the damn thing every couple days at best. The most common problem is that it'll just start eating up bigger and bigger chunks of memory until my whole system slows to a crawl. What kind of a browser would use 800 MBs of memory to display google.com, and nothing else? Firefox will, just give it some time.
At least I can somewhat gracefully shut the thing down and restart it when it goes on a memory binge. Often, though, it'll just unceremoniously exit while trying to load a page. That wouldn't be so bad, but every setting and bookmark I've made since starting it gets lost. I've lost god knows how many bookmarks that way.
And the worst is when it just fucking freezes. Locks up, doesn't respond, spins its wheels forever, totally ignoring any attempts I might make to get control back. Time to "kill -9", again losing any settings or bookmarks. And even after the signal of death, it somehow stays resident for minutes, so that I can't even start a new one, since a new instance would make me use a new profile.
What a piece of shit.
that compri5e more grandiose dicks produced We need to address