I agree the shuttle should be phased out, but a 4-5 year gap until Orion is silly. The decision is more political than for safety or financial.
The space station only will have a single option for manned transport and two options for unmanned resupply during 2011 - 2015.
NASA has to decide two years in advance, beacuse it takes that long to order new rockets for a launch. Plus these rocket factories will be mothballed then with decreasing chances of ressurection.
Early this year Pakistan, Iran and parts of the mid-east lost international broadband when one or more undrseas cables were cut. It was unclear weather it was a natural disaster, saboage or industrial accident. Of course, many countries blamed their historic enemies for the alleged sabotage including the world's favorite Devil- the USA.
More fiber means more redundancy. But there are still vulnerable chokepoints.
Issac wrote this short story about a technological culture divided into two classes: those who could use computers and those who could make computers. There's a nifty plot twist in the story which I wont go into. But this story made a big impression on me as a young student, and I vowed to be a member of the latter class of "makers".
Uranium was selling for $10 a pound in the 1990s, reaching $140 in 2007 before dropping into the $60s now. Its part of the worldwide commodities run-up. Like oil its a combination of demand and speculation. Post-cold war surpluses were pretty much used up by the mid-2000s.
MicroSoft is where IBM was 25 years ago - the creaky old behemoth. Its still pretty much on top of the pack, but more in computer services rather than hardware and software. The transistion was pretty painful to employees too, shedding generous pension and other benefits of the old IBM to what most companies offer today.
Apple switched from an in-house kernel to an in-house version of UNIX. They did this when NeXT acquired Apple (some people claim it was the other way around:-) and Steve wanted to merge the Apple GUI into NeXTStep, which was then Mach-UNIX. I recall they Apple basically built an Apple emulator into NeXTStep (Carbon?). Of course it wasnt perfect, but did more or less run old software.
There are several Windows emulators out there running on Linux and Apple-OS. These suggest a migration path to something else.
Gene Rodenberry had a number of things in his Star Trek utopia like no money, no racism, no inter-human wars. But most curious to me was no television, but Gene didnt explain why. Instead we find people entertaiing themselves in the first two Star Trek series by going to cafes, plays, concerts, playing cards and reading. Maybe he thought TV was pandered to the masses and was too low-brow.
The first Terminator movie came out three years before the NSF backbone and ten eyars before the popular Mosaic browser. They predicted a destructive linking of defense computers called SkyNet.
Distinctive sounds as this means a magnetic field, which in turns means a liquid magnetic core, which means a geologically alive planet, and potentially life. Venus and Mars are not geologically alive and have much smaller magnetic fields.
They used to light up on May 2, in memory of Hoover's death day. I think this has move a few days earlier to the April 20th, which has some connection to an anti-drug law (in CA?) called 420.
There was an actual study of 100,000 cellphone user's geographic habits reported in slashdot three weeks ago. The data was supposed "washed of identifing information". However if I google-mapped the 3AM GPS location of cellphone holder, I probably could find out who they are. The study wasalso conducted in a foerieng country whwere privacy safeguards may not have been as strong. The results were quite pedestrian: people spend most of their time at two locations during a day - home and work.
From an operational point of view several early dot.coms figured out how to administer sales taxes which could vary with every zipcode. Government bodies havent pushed hard yet for this technology during the Internet "tax-free honeymoon" decade. Except their interest has been increasing during this recession. But technologically its been solved.
Nanotechnology can coerce the DNA sugar (ribose) into exotic chapes like tri-helicies, platonic solids, etc. However there are no known biological applications of these exotic molecules. They mainly demonstrate the increasing skill of nanotechnology.
Mars is nearly tectonically dead, haven frozen solid some time ago. Earth's interior is still convecting and differentiating. Earth may have several billion years of outgassing left in it until it solidifies too. Most of the new gas ("juvenile" in geologic terminology) comes through the 60,000 km of undersea volcanic rifts. Its a direct opening to the mantle. (Most the volcanoes we see on land are with subduction zones. Those aren't juvenile, but recycle elements in the descending crust - the most import CO2 in limestone.)
In the Wired issue on petabyte computing, they mention a telescope that will photgraph the entire sky at ultrahigh resolution every three days. These will be compared to earlier full sky photos to look for NEO etc. This survey acquires terabytes a night, hence inclusion in the article.
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I agree the shuttle should be phased out, but a 4-5 year gap until Orion is silly. The decision is more political than for safety or financial.
The space station only will have a single option for manned transport and two options for unmanned resupply during 2011 - 2015.
NASA has to decide two years in advance, beacuse it takes that long to order new rockets for a launch. Plus these rocket factories will be mothballed then with decreasing chances of ressurection.
Early this year Pakistan, Iran and parts of the mid-east lost international broadband when one or more undrseas cables were cut. It was unclear weather it was a natural disaster, saboage or industrial accident. Of course, many countries blamed their historic enemies for the alleged sabotage including the world's favorite Devil- the USA.
More fiber means more redundancy. But there are still vulnerable chokepoints.
Had very few competant program managers in my experience. Its the "Peter Principle": those who cant program get promoted into management.
Most abnormal genes arent expressed for unclear reasons. You just spend money on useless information and mental energy worrying about the results.
Issac wrote this short story about a technological culture divided into two classes: those who could use computers and those who could make computers. There's a nifty plot twist in the story which I wont go into. But this story made a big impression on me as a young student, and I vowed to be a member of the latter class of "makers".
Uranium was selling for $10 a pound in the 1990s, reaching $140 in 2007 before dropping into the $60s now. Its part of the worldwide commodities run-up. Like oil its a combination of demand and speculation. Post-cold war surpluses were pretty much used up by the mid-2000s.
MicroSoft is where IBM was 25 years ago - the creaky old behemoth. Its still pretty much on top of the pack, but more in computer services rather than hardware and software. The transistion was pretty painful to employees too, shedding generous pension and other benefits of the old IBM to what most companies offer today.
Apple switched from an in-house kernel to an in-house version of UNIX. They did this when NeXT acquired Apple (some people claim it was the other way around :-) and Steve wanted to merge the Apple GUI into NeXTStep, which was then Mach-UNIX. I recall they Apple basically built an Apple emulator into NeXTStep (Carbon?). Of course it wasnt perfect, but did more or less run old software.
There are several Windows emulators out there running on Linux and Apple-OS. These suggest a migration path to something else.
Hes solely in it for the money.
The "geezer commercials" during the evening news are gross and enough to drive younger views away while eating dinner.
Gene Rodenberry had a number of things in his Star Trek utopia like no money, no racism, no inter-human wars. But most curious to me was no television, but Gene didnt explain why. Instead we find people entertaiing themselves in the first two Star Trek series by going to cafes, plays, concerts, playing cards and reading. Maybe he thought TV was pandered to the masses and was too low-brow.
The first Terminator movie came out three years before the NSF backbone and ten eyars before the popular Mosaic browser. They predicted a destructive linking of defense computers called SkyNet.
Distinctive sounds as this means a magnetic field, which in turns means a liquid magnetic core, which means a geologically alive planet, and potentially life. Venus and Mars are not geologically alive and have much smaller magnetic fields.
They probably have lots of rare substanes, but to to expensive to recycle instead of mine. "future" could be less than century.
Summer repeat.
They used to light up on May 2, in memory of Hoover's death day. I think this has move a few days earlier to the April 20th, which has some connection to an anti-drug law (in CA?) called 420.
There was an actual study of 100,000 cellphone user's geographic habits reported in slashdot three weeks ago. The data was supposed "washed of identifing information". However if I google-mapped the 3AM GPS location of cellphone holder, I probably could find out who they are. The study wasalso conducted in a foerieng country whwere privacy safeguards may not have been as strong. The results were quite pedestrian: people spend most of their time at two locations during a day - home and work.
From an operational point of view several early dot.coms figured out how to administer sales taxes which could vary with every zipcode. Government bodies havent pushed hard yet for this technology during the Internet "tax-free honeymoon" decade. Except their interest has been increasing during this recession. But technologically its been solved.
Nanotechnology can coerce the DNA sugar (ribose) into exotic chapes like tri-helicies, platonic solids, etc. However there are no known biological applications of these exotic molecules. They mainly demonstrate the increasing skill of nanotechnology.
Maybe that Point Barrow beachfront track that Florida sales guy sold me some time back isn't that bad of a deal after all!
Which had used older technology which was compromised. It was a network inside 7-11s which isnt know as a bastion of integrity.
Mars is nearly tectonically dead, haven frozen solid some time ago. Earth's interior is still convecting and differentiating. Earth may have several billion years of outgassing left in it until it solidifies too. Most of the new gas ("juvenile" in geologic terminology) comes through the 60,000 km of undersea volcanic rifts. Its a direct opening to the mantle. (Most the volcanoes we see on land are with subduction zones. Those aren't juvenile, but recycle elements in the descending crust - the most import CO2 in limestone.)
In the Wired issue on petabyte computing, they mention a telescope that will photgraph the entire sky at ultrahigh resolution every three days. These will be compared to earlier full sky photos to look for NEO etc. This survey acquires terabytes a night, hence inclusion in the article.
Very sad. Olympic tourism is way down. Might be a grand show, but no one may watch it.
I have pride in my intellectual prowess. Its inconceivable I'd cheat this way. I have to show off to the teacher how smart I am.