Except it had a greater range.
This wouldn't be the first time that IBM's left hand didn't know what its right hand was doing.
Timing suggests a manager who didn't want to get her budget cut for next year.
Feel free to use MINIX or an old version of Linux with just plain X. But the idea that Linus should not be what the rest of us want and need is nonsense. Go do your thing in your corner, but don't expect the rest of the world to follow you.
For the wont of 4% of the cost of the mission (most is usually the booster), they are pulling the thermal power source that would have let them run at night and in the Martian winter, and many of the science instruments, such as the laser weapon spectroscope for analyzing rocks you can't get to, and the water and other volatile-detecting instruments, which were also missing from Lewis and Clarke (MER-A and B)
For the wont of 4%, we are getting another MER-class rover, for more money and no redundancy. Bean-counters just don't get it.
Thomas Kuhn _The Nature of Scientific Revolutions. Everyone with a college education should read it.
Science is a very useful tool, but scientists are people, and behave like people in groups.
But without the camera.
The idea that the government doesn't have something better than a child's toy is laughable.
I bet Slashdotters could take one of those toys, put a tiny camera on it, and sell the plans.
Same problem in my laptop in Feisty Fawn. Just the Intel 915 graphics. If you turn off all of the special effects, then you can use it, but then you have what value from Compiz? And they don't warn you. You think to yourself "hey, this looks cool, I should try it" and you find yourself unable to use your computer.
Fantastic as the vaporizer for spectrometer on the Mars Science Lab, though.
Unfortunately, that project is being castrated for a mere 4% of the cost of the rover.
Radionucleotides can be safely packaged. RTGs entered the atmosphere and crashed into the ocean when Apollo 13 returned to Earth. No radioactive release occurred. They are contained in very strong titanium packages.
The tritium for the battery is trivial. The laser rifle might not be so impractical, though I'm worried about how you are going to dump all of that heat. Might be better mounted on a HMMV.
The Newton is still the best PDA to have come out. It was too high tech, too soon, and too expensive. But coupled with the iPhone, if it has all of the old Newton capabilities, at modern handheld speeds, it would be spectacular. And my Treo 650 is showing its age.
The religious duty is right there in the creation mandate in Christian theology. Not to mention making the desert bloom. Last time I checked, Mars was a desert.
Mars ought to have uranium deposits. Volcanic activity plus long-term thermal water features (and Mars has lots of water) should result in the deposit of veins of uranium salts, as well as all sorts of metal salts and metal sulfates (yellow cake?). That's mostly how it happened on Earth, but on Mars, the volcanoes tend to stay put. That would result in the deposits being localized and much larger. We've imaged hydrologically-produced veins from orbit with Mars Recon. So that process does/did occur.
I am amazed by how many slashdotters don't have the foggiest notion of how fission explosions happen, or how this rocket engine works. They keep thinking that it would blow up. What if the sun blows up, guys? Or the oceans, I mean there's all that deuterium in the oceans and that is nookleear fuel!?
Its three main planks are:
Rejection of the concept of the transcendent objective, signified.
That personal moral responsibility is a bourgeois notion to be rejected.
That the greatest good is the Group Will to Power.
Transcendent objective, signified are such things as the Torah, the Bible, the incarnation of Christ, any objective truth from 'outside'.
Identity politics, State totalism, deconstructionism, those are fascism. Judaism and Christianity cannot be, they are antithetical in philosophical belief. But the real fascists like to make that accusation, for the same reason that they hated the Jews 60 years ago - that transcendent objective, signified, which they brought into the world, telling us that there is right and wrong, that we all have sinned, and that there is a way to forgiveness. And that the State or the "Race" are not ultimate.
I forget who wrote that. Possibly Larry Niven.
So, we also have an egg-sized military-grade laser. The laser pistol is born.
For a.1g or.5 engine, we also have an extremely powerful weapon, that would cause the Russians EUros and Chicoms to protest, loudly.
Will it even get to be developed?
Kinda like flight. Or going faster than 20 miles an hour.
A little engineering thinking makes it easy to get around the pressure problem: Let it be "wet" not "dry" No need to maintain 1 bar in a pressure vessel, now is there?
Of course, the other components have to handle the heat, too, not just the chips.
Slashdot Mirror
Except it had a greater range. This wouldn't be the first time that IBM's left hand didn't know what its right hand was doing. Timing suggests a manager who didn't want to get her budget cut for next year.
You can't hide
Feel free to use MINIX or an old version of Linux with just plain X. But the idea that Linus should not be what the rest of us want and need is nonsense. Go do your thing in your corner, but don't expect the rest of the world to follow you.
For the wont of 4% of the cost of the mission (most is usually the booster), they are pulling the thermal power source that would have let them run at night and in the Martian winter, and many of the science instruments, such as the laser weapon spectroscope for analyzing rocks you can't get to, and the water and other volatile-detecting instruments, which were also missing from Lewis and Clarke (MER-A and B) For the wont of 4%, we are getting another MER-class rover, for more money and no redundancy. Bean-counters just don't get it.
Thomas Kuhn _The Nature of Scientific Revolutions. Everyone with a college education should read it. Science is a very useful tool, but scientists are people, and behave like people in groups.
Amazing what you can do with old satellite dishes. But ansible traffic tends to be very secure by nature, they won't be able to pick that up.
the other universes?
But without the camera. The idea that the government doesn't have something better than a child's toy is laughable. I bet Slashdotters could take one of those toys, put a tiny camera on it, and sell the plans.
Same problem in my laptop in Feisty Fawn. Just the Intel 915 graphics. If you turn off all of the special effects, then you can use it, but then you have what value from Compiz? And they don't warn you. You think to yourself "hey, this looks cool, I should try it" and you find yourself unable to use your computer.
If the experimenters get to torture and kill these 99.9% humans, does that mean that we get to have a slave race?
Because rock wouldn't give you the composition of such things as the percentage of nitrogen in the diet. This is more of a mummy.
It was discovered large, and presumed to be larger than before it was discovered, and that has cost human lives. Sigh.
Fantastic as the vaporizer for spectrometer on the Mars Science Lab, though. Unfortunately, that project is being castrated for a mere 4% of the cost of the rover. Radionucleotides can be safely packaged. RTGs entered the atmosphere and crashed into the ocean when Apollo 13 returned to Earth. No radioactive release occurred. They are contained in very strong titanium packages. The tritium for the battery is trivial. The laser rifle might not be so impractical, though I'm worried about how you are going to dump all of that heat. Might be better mounted on a HMMV.
Did you not know?
The Newton is still the best PDA to have come out. It was too high tech, too soon, and too expensive. But coupled with the iPhone, if it has all of the old Newton capabilities, at modern handheld speeds, it would be spectacular. And my Treo 650 is showing its age.
Since that is liquid at superconducting temperatures, and does similar things?
Uhoh, Crazy Eddie is on the loose? Humanity is doomed.
This is tyranny.
The religious duty is right there in the creation mandate in Christian theology. Not to mention making the desert bloom. Last time I checked, Mars was a desert. Mars ought to have uranium deposits. Volcanic activity plus long-term thermal water features (and Mars has lots of water) should result in the deposit of veins of uranium salts, as well as all sorts of metal salts and metal sulfates (yellow cake?). That's mostly how it happened on Earth, but on Mars, the volcanoes tend to stay put. That would result in the deposits being localized and much larger. We've imaged hydrologically-produced veins from orbit with Mars Recon. So that process does/did occur. I am amazed by how many slashdotters don't have the foggiest notion of how fission explosions happen, or how this rocket engine works. They keep thinking that it would blow up. What if the sun blows up, guys? Or the oceans, I mean there's all that deuterium in the oceans and that is nookleear fuel!?
No doubt archival internet sites will bear this out. I probably first mentioned it on GEnie, before the web, though.
Its three main planks are: Rejection of the concept of the transcendent objective, signified. That personal moral responsibility is a bourgeois notion to be rejected. That the greatest good is the Group Will to Power. Transcendent objective, signified are such things as the Torah, the Bible, the incarnation of Christ, any objective truth from 'outside'. Identity politics, State totalism, deconstructionism, those are fascism. Judaism and Christianity cannot be, they are antithetical in philosophical belief. But the real fascists like to make that accusation, for the same reason that they hated the Jews 60 years ago - that transcendent objective, signified, which they brought into the world, telling us that there is right and wrong, that we all have sinned, and that there is a way to forgiveness. And that the State or the "Race" are not ultimate.
Remote-controlled vehicles or telops are not robots. Robots are completely autonomous.
I forget who wrote that. Possibly Larry Niven. So, we also have an egg-sized military-grade laser. The laser pistol is born. For a .1g or .5 engine, we also have an extremely powerful weapon, that would cause the Russians EUros and Chicoms to protest, loudly.
Will it even get to be developed?
Kinda like flight. Or going faster than 20 miles an hour. A little engineering thinking makes it easy to get around the pressure problem: Let it be "wet" not "dry" No need to maintain 1 bar in a pressure vessel, now is there? Of course, the other components have to handle the heat, too, not just the chips.
By the Credentialed, lest we deviate from RightThink.