Actually the current NASA budget is 68 billion. Granted taking inflation into consideration it is much less than in the 60's, but certainly more than 15 billion. RTFA!
Didn't I hear something not too long ago that Versign was going to spin off the Network Solutions company? At least then there would be two seperate companies running these central databases.
Exactly, the workarounds involve remailing to the new address, which essentially wipes the original sender out of the header. Now replies become much more complicated and your inbox listing becomes much less usefull.
One thing I see as short sighted is that there are no plans to setup a Moon Base, only to use it as a test bed for techniques to be used on Mars. There might be a lot of overhead spent setting up a moon base, but you would get a lot of use out of it if it were only going to take the 17 years they have proposed for getting to Mars. In reality it will take much longer than that, and having an established base on the moon would allow us to do far more testing of techniques, as well as give us a "closer" base to test test our living away from Earth. At least we can get to the moon in a week instead of months as is the case for Mars. All in all, I'm glad to see a commitment like this coming from so high up. Let's hope it doesn't get cut by the next president, always a concern when a project spans terms, in some ego trip move.
The biggest problem I can see with this is that it breaks forwarding. I have several email addresses that I don't use anymore but that I still get email on. If I take the SPF people's recommendation and just remail it, I lose the sender information, or at least lose access to it when listing my emails. It would be nice if this could handel forwards as well.
Honestly, since Mozilla added pop-up blocker, I haven't noticed them at all. I really don't see pop-ups as a problem anymore, because I simply don't see them anymore. Just upgrade to Moziall and be done with it.
You can't honsetly post to slashdot and complain about religious nutcases. The opensource world is full od more nutcases/zealots than just about any other area. And don't even get me started on the privacy nutcases out there. I'm not dissing any of the "nutcases", but you've got to feel a little hypocritical posting to slashdot and complaining about nutcases while you sit with your tinfoil hat cocked at a jaunty angle.
Please don't think that just because MS didn't get there first, they won't be able to overtake the other guys. There is far, far too much history to make that mistake. Google should see MS as a serious competitor and take any actions to make sure they stay ahead of MS in technology as well as marketing.
That's a good point. $300 seems to be what the market will bare, although I have to admit I won't be buying one anytime soon. I'm still curious what the markup on these is.
This looks like a great product, and the perfect way to integrate your MP3 collection into your stereo system, but I have to ask what kind of markup they're getting at $300. Does it really cost a lot to produce these, or for that matter R&D it from the SliMP3? Or, is this just the price that people are willing to pay so that's where you price it? I'm not deniying them the right to make a profit, I think it's great if they can, I'm just wondering what something like this costs to produce.
Why is that quote hilarious? Isn't that what we've been saying here all along? If you're waiting for the music companies to start saying that music swapping is just fine and they really don't mind, then you obviously don't understand the situation. There will be some form of DRM, period. This may be one solution. Apple has another solution. The market will decide what works, but you should realize that sooner or later, some form of reasonable DRM will come in to play.
How does the current standard of using solar power compare to the nuclear power used on Voyager? I know that most satelites using solar are staying close to earth so there's plenty of sun, but would they work at the distances we're talking about? If we wanted to send another long range probe, would it need something other than solar for power? Would that something be nuclear?
It also took millions of years. However, since the dead plants can't really be used for much else, and we don't since the "processing" time has alread elapsed and the end results are ready for "consumption", then the production process from live plant to oil is already 99% completed. We're just here to pick up the end result.
Not to be greedy, but there used to be places that would pay you for your recycleables. I seem to remember 15 years ago going with my folks to the recycling center where our stuff got weighed and we got paid. Does that happen anymore? I'm living in Champaign-Urbana, IL so there may be other places that have more services than here on the prarie. What's available out there?
I agree. The simplest solution would have been to integrate it with the thunderbird and mozilla sites so people see that the three are linked. Weird that they wouldn't.
Will the iTunes player have the same synchronization features that the apple one does so you can keep your iPod more in sync with your computer collection?
There's no precise figures on what the operating costs of one of these would be and how it compares to a traditional garage. Looking at constuction costs alone, there's an additional 3 years to get a ROI with the 22K and 15K quotes for building the automated and ramped garages: If you look at a standard $225 a month charge for both scenarios. If you could prove that the long-term costs are less on these you might convince more people. The thing is though that there is very little ongoing maintenance to do with a ramped garage while you have many more parts to maintain on the automated garages.
The automated garages seem like a good idea. But like some many other things, they are only practicle in America if the economics work out for our benefit. And is that a bad thing?
It seems that most of the incidents showed the auto-pilot or other "helper" applications having problems with the interference. The pilots are able to easily overcome those and fly manually. I think this says a lot for the skill level of the pilots that we have flying commercial airlines these days.
The difference here is that we now have the ability to reduce the risk to human life by sending un-manned probes to determine the feasability of life in a particular environment. Sending a human to "scout out" mars will not help us find water. It will only allow us to strand one "brave" soul on Mars with no water and no way to get home.
By saying that there is no need to send humans into space, the poster is mearly saying that there is another way that doesn't put unneeded risk on humans. Now, if you still feel the need to prove how little fear you have, please signup for Fear-Factor so we can isolate you into the reckless dumb-ass category and ignore you while the rest of us focus on making space safe before risking more lives.
Well, maybe 30 miles is a bit of an exageration. But from my house, on a clear day, I can see the Univeristy of Illinois Assembly Hall which is probably 10 stories above ground. The Assembly Hall is about 20 miles North of our place. That's with just the right conditions though. The rest of the time you can easily see 10 miles.
Now I just moved home to Central Illinois after living in Kansas for 4 years. I lived in the KC area and I've toured Western Kansas several times and I can tell you that Central Illinois is way flatter than Kansas. Kansas has rolling hills/plains and is only really flat on I-70. Central Illinois is flat. There's no getting around it. When you can look out your door and see 30 miles away (when the corn is down) then you know flat. Of course I've also been to Colorado and Kansas sure looks flat compared to the Rockies, but it's just not as flat as you'd think.
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That's our plan, but thanks for the input. We'll be sure to contact you for more scientific mission planning.
Actually the current NASA budget is 68 billion. Granted taking inflation into consideration it is much less than in the 60's, but certainly more than 15 billion. RTFA!
Didn't I hear something not too long ago that Versign was going to spin off the Network Solutions company? At least then there would be two seperate companies running these central databases.
Considering the number of "minor" problems they've had during those "zillion" years, I would point the finger at them as well.
Exactly, the workarounds involve remailing to the new address, which essentially wipes the original sender out of the header. Now replies become much more complicated and your inbox listing becomes much less usefull.
One thing I see as short sighted is that there are no plans to setup a Moon Base, only to use it as a test bed for techniques to be used on Mars. There might be a lot of overhead spent setting up a moon base, but you would get a lot of use out of it if it were only going to take the 17 years they have proposed for getting to Mars. In reality it will take much longer than that, and having an established base on the moon would allow us to do far more testing of techniques, as well as give us a "closer" base to test test our living away from Earth. At least we can get to the moon in a week instead of months as is the case for Mars. All in all, I'm glad to see a commitment like this coming from so high up. Let's hope it doesn't get cut by the next president, always a concern when a project spans terms, in some ego trip move.
The biggest problem I can see with this is that it breaks forwarding. I have several email addresses that I don't use anymore but that I still get email on. If I take the SPF people's recommendation and just remail it, I lose the sender information, or at least lose access to it when listing my emails. It would be nice if this could handel forwards as well.
Honestly, since Mozilla added pop-up blocker, I haven't noticed them at all. I really don't see pop-ups as a problem anymore, because I simply don't see them anymore. Just upgrade to Moziall and be done with it.
It's called whoever gets there first gets to claim it. Welcome to the frontier.
You can't honsetly post to slashdot and complain about religious nutcases. The opensource world is full od more nutcases/zealots than just about any other area. And don't even get me started on the privacy nutcases out there. I'm not dissing any of the "nutcases", but you've got to feel a little hypocritical posting to slashdot and complaining about nutcases while you sit with your tinfoil hat cocked at a jaunty angle.
Please don't think that just because MS didn't get there first, they won't be able to overtake the other guys. There is far, far too much history to make that mistake. Google should see MS as a serious competitor and take any actions to make sure they stay ahead of MS in technology as well as marketing.
That's a good point. $300 seems to be what the market will bare, although I have to admit I won't be buying one anytime soon. I'm still curious what the markup on these is.
This looks like a great product, and the perfect way to integrate your MP3 collection into your stereo system, but I have to ask what kind of markup they're getting at $300. Does it really cost a lot to produce these, or for that matter R&D it from the SliMP3? Or, is this just the price that people are willing to pay so that's where you price it? I'm not deniying them the right to make a profit, I think it's great if they can, I'm just wondering what something like this costs to produce.
Why is that quote hilarious? Isn't that what we've been saying here all along? If you're waiting for the music companies to start saying that music swapping is just fine and they really don't mind, then you obviously don't understand the situation. There will be some form of DRM, period. This may be one solution. Apple has another solution. The market will decide what works, but you should realize that sooner or later, some form of reasonable DRM will come in to play.
well of course it's moving away. People keep bouncing laser beams off it! ;)
How does the current standard of using solar power compare to the nuclear power used on Voyager? I know that most satelites using solar are staying close to earth so there's plenty of sun, but would they work at the distances we're talking about? If we wanted to send another long range probe, would it need something other than solar for power? Would that something be nuclear?
It also took millions of years. However, since the dead plants can't really be used for much else, and we don't since the "processing" time has alread elapsed and the end results are ready for "consumption", then the production process from live plant to oil is already 99% completed. We're just here to pick up the end result.
Not to be greedy, but there used to be places that would pay you for your recycleables. I seem to remember 15 years ago going with my folks to the recycling center where our stuff got weighed and we got paid. Does that happen anymore? I'm living in Champaign-Urbana, IL so there may be other places that have more services than here on the prarie. What's available out there?
I agree. The simplest solution would have been to integrate it with the thunderbird and mozilla sites so people see that the three are linked. Weird that they wouldn't.
Will the iTunes player have the same synchronization features that the apple one does so you can keep your iPod more in sync with your computer collection?
There's no precise figures on what the operating costs of one of these would be and how it compares to a traditional garage. Looking at constuction costs alone, there's an additional 3 years to get a ROI with the 22K and 15K quotes for building the automated and ramped garages: If you look at a standard $225 a month charge for both scenarios. If you could prove that the long-term costs are less on these you might convince more people. The thing is though that there is very little ongoing maintenance to do with a ramped garage while you have many more parts to maintain on the automated garages.
The automated garages seem like a good idea. But like some many other things, they are only practicle in America if the economics work out for our benefit. And is that a bad thing?
It seems that most of the incidents showed the auto-pilot or other "helper" applications having problems with the interference. The pilots are able to easily overcome those and fly manually. I think this says a lot for the skill level of the pilots that we have flying commercial airlines these days.
The difference here is that we now have the ability to reduce the risk to human life by sending un-manned probes to determine the feasability of life in a particular environment. Sending a human to "scout out" mars will not help us find water. It will only allow us to strand one "brave" soul on Mars with no water and no way to get home.
By saying that there is no need to send humans into space, the poster is mearly saying that there is another way that doesn't put unneeded risk on humans. Now, if you still feel the need to prove how little fear you have, please signup for Fear-Factor so we can isolate you into the reckless dumb-ass category and ignore you while the rest of us focus on making space safe before risking more lives.
Well, maybe 30 miles is a bit of an exageration. But from my house, on a clear day, I can see the Univeristy of Illinois Assembly Hall which is probably 10 stories above ground. The Assembly Hall is about 20 miles North of our place. That's with just the right conditions though. The rest of the time you can easily see 10 miles.
Now I just moved home to Central Illinois after living in Kansas for 4 years. I lived in the KC area and I've toured Western Kansas several times and I can tell you that Central Illinois is way flatter than Kansas. Kansas has rolling hills/plains and is only really flat on I-70. Central Illinois is flat. There's no getting around it. When you can look out your door and see 30 miles away (when the corn is down) then you know flat. Of course I've also been to Colorado and Kansas sure looks flat compared to the Rockies, but it's just not as flat as you'd think.