They don't care because it's been a while since NASA has really done anything interesting.
But that's a completely subjective point of view! I, for one, look forward to when NASA publishes new Hubble Telescope images. To me, that is interesting.
...The parent post was right, its youth and short-sightedness and it will change in time.
I'm 23, and fixing Hubble is interesting to me. However, I don't blame youth, I don't blame short-sightedness, I blame the program for not taking any risks in the last 30 years (other than negligent ones). I understand that what (most of) our Shuttle missions do in orbit is very important and has advanced our understanding about the atmosphere, weather, old people in space, and so forth. However, the reason it was so easy to get involved in in the 60's is the fact that it was
A) a race
B) to the moon/unknown
Of course every mission can't be firing people off to Mars/Moon and the like, but we really haven't made any effort to get there since the Apollo program (or several dead programs of the past 30 years)... And if it's going to be a "chicken or the egg" thing where interest will have to go back up before Congress gives the funding to actually do anything interesting (to the majority of non-space-geeks), then I'm afraid we'll never go anywhere.
Not to derail too much, but I really think that the money required to get us reasonably along on a track to send people to Mars (or at least have an ISS that does something other than be a roomier MIR [refueling etc]) is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend in Iraq. The whole X-33 project cost ~1 Bil, a number that feels incredibly small compared to what we spend in Iraq every week.
In terms of general principle, I thought this was what Virgin Space's overall goal was anyway (parabolic LEO flights across the world in ~2 hours time, after the 200,000$ touring flights)? Also, I'm a little skeptical that Astrox will be able to create a Mach 25 scramjet successfully.
All they're offering in HD-DVD and BluRay is Slightly Higher Def, which is lost on like 95% of the TV owning public. Oh, and restrictive phone-in DRM. Bad generalization here, the authoring capabilities for both formats is incredibly more powerful than DVD. There's much more to it than just more pixels. I agree that the DRM sucks, but the DRM on DVD's sucks as well, but we all manage to live with that without freaking out too badly.
[blockquote]Have you ever seen your life go down the drain because of WoW and say "fuck it, I would rather play WoW then be married anyway"[/blockquote]
Actually, yes. About 25% of the people I knew during the 2 years I played WoW dropped out of college, got divorced, broke up with a very long term significant other, quit jobs and burned every penny they'd saved in the past few years, all just to play WoW more, and I've heard a paraphrasing of your hypothetical quote there more than once.
To me, Apple seems to be applying DRM, but not really in a way that's meant to be terribly intrusive. Yes, the songs from ITMS contain DR, but you can always just burn them in a play list and rip them back as you desire (a feature that Apple is fully aware of, but it hasn't seemed to cause any problems with ITMS sales), which I'm sure won't be an option with the Zune Marketplace (or whatever it's called).
Google isn't automatically 'evil' by being on top. Comparing ultra-proprietary, closed-source Microsoft to Google's overall effort for free information doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, I'm just happy that the big dog with a lot of money is using it in more creative and forward thinking ways rather than holding onto old business models desperately long after they were stale.
Well, it does have a larger screen, one capable of playing wide format movies. I don't know if that's enough to make it an iPod "killer", but it's certainly a compelling argument for buying the Zune if you want to watch video on the thing.
The Zune screen is 4:3, just like the iPod one, so I don't see how it's any more capable of playing wide format movies than the iPod (or others).
yeah, I'm sure it's do to the shitastic quality cams and telesyncs available to 'pirates' and nothing at all to do with the fact that there's usually 1 movie worth seeing between August and December and then January to May.
I'd be interesting to see these statistics as well. The only file sharing I really do is replacing CDs I've long since lost or not taken care of properly, I'd imagine there are many in that same boat.
http://www.pandora.com/ is the one I use, but I'm sure there are others out there. I still keep up with a few bands that release an album every couple of years, but by no means am I buying a CD every weekend, so my habits personally would probably be part of the 'file sharing is bad argh!' statistic, rather unjustly imo.
This sounds similar to my situation as well. One of the reasons I don't buy CD's anymore definitely would be the difficulty of finding music that's decent. I have always used computers, so I may not fit their statistics exactly, but from 1990-1998 or so I purchasing a new CD every week, and it was the popular music that was played on the radio and MTV (back when MTV used to have music occasionally) as well, and it was decent music. Since then, there was the Boy Band era, and after that we haven't really had music on television at all (don't bark at me about Fuze or some other station that's not widely available, that's not what I'm arguing) and I was so sick of it that I haven't really purchased a CD or, more importantly, turned on my radio or TV expecting to hear new music I want to buy. The 4-5 years of total garbage made me totally disinterested in it, and I'd bought tons of CDs in the previous 10 years that I made it just fine (I purchase maybe 3 new CDs a year now, and it's all no name stuff, and most of it probably doesn't fall into the RIAA net anyway).
On a less related note about file sharing hurting the recording industry, since that time (2000 or so) any time I've turned on MTV or VH1 there have been Cribs or The Fabulous Life of Stars (or whatever the hell it's called on VH1) where they dickwave their half million dollar cars, 3 million dollar engagement rings, 20 million dollar vacation homes, and so on, so I really have a hard time feeling sorry for these artists that were still in junior high when Napster died.
What a useless idea. Lets take someone else's good idea, and make people pay all sorts of fees to make it look worth a damn! Sounds like an excellent idea to me, where do I sign up?
Hey, they could always just not exist at all, then we'd have nothing to complain about, would we? The interfaces HAVE improved over time thus far, one could assume they will continue to get better.
Sounds alot like when I used to raid in World of Warcraft to get all this sweet gear that, now that I've quit, is just some bytes taking up space on some server somewhere for a few more years before they shut it down and call it quits.
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But that's a completely subjective point of view! I, for one, look forward to when NASA publishes new Hubble Telescope images. To me, that is interesting.
...The parent post was right, its youth and short-sightedness and it will change in time.
I'm 23, and fixing Hubble is interesting to me. However, I don't blame youth, I don't blame short-sightedness, I blame the program for not taking any risks in the last 30 years (other than negligent ones). I understand that what (most of) our Shuttle missions do in orbit is very important and has advanced our understanding about the atmosphere, weather, old people in space, and so forth. However, the reason it was so easy to get involved in in the 60's is the fact that it was A) a race B) to the moon/unknown Of course every mission can't be firing people off to Mars/Moon and the like, but we really haven't made any effort to get there since the Apollo program (or several dead programs of the past 30 years)... And if it's going to be a "chicken or the egg" thing where interest will have to go back up before Congress gives the funding to actually do anything interesting (to the majority of non-space-geeks), then I'm afraid we'll never go anywhere. Not to derail too much, but I really think that the money required to get us reasonably along on a track to send people to Mars (or at least have an ISS that does something other than be a roomier MIR [refueling etc]) is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend in Iraq. The whole X-33 project cost ~1 Bil, a number that feels incredibly small compared to what we spend in Iraq every week.In terms of general principle, I thought this was what Virgin Space's overall goal was anyway (parabolic LEO flights across the world in ~2 hours time, after the 200,000$ touring flights)? Also, I'm a little skeptical that Astrox will be able to create a Mach 25 scramjet successfully.
Months old news of a hotly anticipated item asking if anyone will care. Must be a really slow night for news dupes.
[blockquote]Have you ever seen your life go down the drain because of WoW and say "fuck it, I would rather play WoW then be married anyway"[/blockquote] Actually, yes. About 25% of the people I knew during the 2 years I played WoW dropped out of college, got divorced, broke up with a very long term significant other, quit jobs and burned every penny they'd saved in the past few years, all just to play WoW more, and I've heard a paraphrasing of your hypothetical quote there more than once.
To me, Apple seems to be applying DRM, but not really in a way that's meant to be terribly intrusive. Yes, the songs from ITMS contain DR, but you can always just burn them in a play list and rip them back as you desire (a feature that Apple is fully aware of, but it hasn't seemed to cause any problems with ITMS sales), which I'm sure won't be an option with the Zune Marketplace (or whatever it's called).
Google isn't automatically 'evil' by being on top. Comparing ultra-proprietary, closed-source Microsoft to Google's overall effort for free information doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, I'm just happy that the big dog with a lot of money is using it in more creative and forward thinking ways rather than holding onto old business models desperately long after they were stale.
yeah, I'm sure it's do to the shitastic quality cams and telesyncs available to 'pirates' and nothing at all to do with the fact that there's usually 1 movie worth seeing between August and December and then January to May.
I'd be interesting to see these statistics as well. The only file sharing I really do is replacing CDs I've long since lost or not taken care of properly, I'd imagine there are many in that same boat.
http://www.pandora.com/ is the one I use, but I'm sure there are others out there. I still keep up with a few bands that release an album every couple of years, but by no means am I buying a CD every weekend, so my habits personally would probably be part of the 'file sharing is bad argh!' statistic, rather unjustly imo.
This sounds similar to my situation as well. One of the reasons I don't buy CD's anymore definitely would be the difficulty of finding music that's decent. I have always used computers, so I may not fit their statistics exactly, but from 1990-1998 or so I purchasing a new CD every week, and it was the popular music that was played on the radio and MTV (back when MTV used to have music occasionally) as well, and it was decent music. Since then, there was the Boy Band era, and after that we haven't really had music on television at all (don't bark at me about Fuze or some other station that's not widely available, that's not what I'm arguing) and I was so sick of it that I haven't really purchased a CD or, more importantly, turned on my radio or TV expecting to hear new music I want to buy. The 4-5 years of total garbage made me totally disinterested in it, and I'd bought tons of CDs in the previous 10 years that I made it just fine (I purchase maybe 3 new CDs a year now, and it's all no name stuff, and most of it probably doesn't fall into the RIAA net anyway). On a less related note about file sharing hurting the recording industry, since that time (2000 or so) any time I've turned on MTV or VH1 there have been Cribs or The Fabulous Life of Stars (or whatever the hell it's called on VH1) where they dickwave their half million dollar cars, 3 million dollar engagement rings, 20 million dollar vacation homes, and so on, so I really have a hard time feeling sorry for these artists that were still in junior high when Napster died.
What a useless idea. Lets take someone else's good idea, and make people pay all sorts of fees to make it look worth a damn! Sounds like an excellent idea to me, where do I sign up?
Hey, they could always just not exist at all, then we'd have nothing to complain about, would we? The interfaces HAVE improved over time thus far, one could assume they will continue to get better.
Sounds alot like when I used to raid in World of Warcraft to get all this sweet gear that, now that I've quit, is just some bytes taking up space on some server somewhere for a few more years before they shut it down and call it quits.
Frequency Amplitude and Guitar Hero were great games, but there's no way I'm buying popcentric games with MTV at the helm.