First off, the American taxpayer has paid for all of the data that is being used by this program. The systems that obtained it, the systems that store it, the systems that retrieve it, everything.
Second, Microsoft is 'giving away' this software for free, but it requires one to purchase their commercial product to use it to access the public's data.
Finally, this is the end result of NASA decision making from the late 1990's that resulted in NASA dumping virtually all other computing platforms in favor of Microsoft products.
If NASA wants support from the American public, then it's high time they stopped making deals like this.
These 'hacks' are not going to make this camera take better pictures.
They are not going to improve the quality of the optical system in the camera.
The CCD is not going to magically get more pixels.
So all it does is give you more knobs to twiddle so you lose that
'Kodak Moment' because you were screwing with the knobs instead of taking pictures.
I'm sure he's making huge donations to the GOP from all the proceeds from the sale of those 'pirated' Commodore 64 game cartridges.
'Drink-or-Die' was the epitome of the warez scene. They are dead.
All that follow are teenagers who fantisize they are Kevin Mitnick, if they even know who he is.
There are bigger, more dangerous, criminals prowling the halls of our legislative institutions.
This guy is just a dumbass with a questionable past.
Welcome to the future, the one where the 'average' person is still a slave to the oil companies.
Keep looking forward to the day when you can 'buy' one of these.
You may be able to in about thirty years.
Seems it's not a fraud box after all. Who'da thunk?
That is irrelevant.
Right now, as you read this, Apple legal, ST_VE, and whomever else, are looking over their
Psystar 'Open Computer', to determine how it violates Apple's IP and EULA.
Their response will be measured, firm, succinct, and final.
Psystar will be out-of-business in a month.
Bon Apetit, suxors.
of the NRX program. NRX (NERVA [NERVA - Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application] Reactor-Experimental Research) was the engine that would power the spacecraft that was supposed to take us to Mars and beyond. Unfortunately it was cancelled because of 'environmental concerns' http://www.fas.org/nuke/space/kiwi.gif.
The lunar surface is not composed of the same materials as the "dirt" that one finds on Earth.
It is entirely composed of pulverized rock that has been pounded into very fine particles over
many billions of years. While lunar "dirt" has a chemical composition, it lacks the organic matter
that soil here on Earth possesses. One very interesting finding in lunar dirt is the presence of
structures called 'agglutinates'. They are essentially 'bonded' shards of glass and minerals that
were formed in meteorite impacts. They are extremely small -on the order of a few microns in size- and
very sharp, like clumps of little glass daggers. These could present a hazard to the growing roots
of plants that have been planted in 'raw' lunar dirt, shredding the roots as they attempt to grow through
this material. They also present an unknown hazard to the humans who will be living and working within
this lunar 'terrarium'. An interesting article http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2005/04/67110
appeared on Wired a few years ago that spoke about this issue.
Slashdot Mirror
First off, the American taxpayer has paid for all of the data that is being used by this program. The systems that obtained it, the systems that store it, the systems that retrieve it, everything.
Second, Microsoft is 'giving away' this software for free, but it requires one to purchase their commercial product to use it to access the public's data.
Finally, this is the end result of NASA decision making from the late 1990's that resulted in NASA dumping virtually all other computing platforms in favor of Microsoft products.
If NASA wants support from the American public, then it's high time they stopped making deals like this.
So that means the problem is twice as bad as TFA makes it out to be?
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
But they're a helluva lot nicer than the shitty 'Valleywag' website.
I wonder what their offices look like.
It means they'll file to get every case moved to his courtroom.
So that every defendant moves to have him recuse himself from the proceeding.
It will keep them off my damn lawn!
The other 6,666,666,665 of you can get the hell off my lawn!
You should download a calculator, maybe?
PHHHT!
I have some of my first BASIC programs that I wrote -using my high school's PDP 8- on punched paper tape and the old Bell 212 terminal to go with it.
Now get off my lawn, damnit!
The judge in this case, obviously, didn't have time to read this:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/02/default-judgment-denied-in-atlantic-v.html
Chances of the judgement being overturned on appeal: 100%.
The experiment that ths data was based on was discussed in this /. article last month ago:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/04/26/1232259.shtml
Which referred to the article at NASA:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/25apr_cvx2.htm?list832167
At least it's not a total dupe.
These 'hacks' are not going to make this camera take better pictures.
They are not going to improve the quality of the optical system in the camera.
The CCD is not going to magically get more pixels.
So all it does is give you more knobs to twiddle so you lose that
'Kodak Moment' because you were screwing with the knobs instead of taking pictures.
I'm sure he's making huge donations to the GOP from all the proceeds from the sale of those 'pirated' Commodore 64 game cartridges.
'Drink-or-Die' was the epitome of the warez scene. They are dead.
All that follow are teenagers who fantisize they are Kevin Mitnick, if they even know who he is.
There are bigger, more dangerous, criminals prowling the halls of our legislative institutions.
This guy is just a dumbass with a questionable past.
Having to deal with it everyday; now that's unpleasant.
Welcome to the future, the one where the 'average' person is still a slave to the oil companies.
Keep looking forward to the day when you can 'buy' one of these.
You may be able to in about thirty years.
Yyyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!
That is irrelevant.
Right now, as you read this, Apple legal, ST_VE, and whomever else, are looking over their
Psystar 'Open Computer', to determine how it violates Apple's IP and EULA.
Their response will be measured, firm, succinct, and final.
Psystar will be out-of-business in a month.
Bon Apetit, suxors.
doomed. Doomed! DOOOOOOMED!
You must be new around here...
Become a member of CaCert.org http://www.cacert.org/.
Support their certificates and their root CA.
Advocate for support in OSS browsers like Firefox.
Tell everyone you know about CACert.
Certs want to be free like information (and beer, too).
Yes, it certainly does. When it's sitting idle.
Bump
a great disturbance on the Internet, as if millions of Plays For Sure musicplayers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
of the NRX program. NRX (NERVA [NERVA - Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application] Reactor-Experimental Research) was the engine that would power the spacecraft that was supposed to take us to Mars and beyond. Unfortunately it was cancelled because of 'environmental concerns' http://www.fas.org/nuke/space/kiwi.gif.
Xenon is used because it is the heaviest of noble gases.
You'd best bone up on your Newtonian physics.
The lunar surface is not composed of the same materials as the "dirt" that one finds on Earth.
It is entirely composed of pulverized rock that has been pounded into very fine particles over
many billions of years. While lunar "dirt" has a chemical composition, it lacks the organic matter
that soil here on Earth possesses. One very interesting finding in lunar dirt is the presence of
structures called 'agglutinates'. They are essentially 'bonded' shards of glass and minerals that
were formed in meteorite impacts. They are extremely small -on the order of a few microns in size- and
very sharp, like clumps of little glass daggers. These could present a hazard to the growing roots
of plants that have been planted in 'raw' lunar dirt, shredding the roots as they attempt to grow through
this material. They also present an unknown hazard to the humans who will be living and working within
this lunar 'terrarium'. An interesting article http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2005/04/67110
appeared on Wired a few years ago that spoke about this issue.