It originates with the budget amendment originally proposed by Sen. Dickey (R - AR) and Sen. Wicker (R - MS) in 1995. Lamberth must have added a bit of spin the words a bit to include all stem cell research; even GWB's administration allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on existing lines. The Dickey-Wicker amendment merely disallows federal funding for creating new stem cell lines.
Not going to argue with you there, but this seems like a good of a place as any to point out that Valkyria Chronicles 2 comes out tomorrow, and it's only for PSP. Time to dust it off (when the price drops, anyway).
Except that Mono is *also* under the GPL. No, it's not about ideology, it's simply some slashdotters have a vendetta against Microsoft that they'll follow even against common sense.
I bet you would've said the same thing about the people who refused to use Java for the exact same reason. Yeah, the good folks who had the Java patents before were fine with Android, but look what happens when new people are in control. It doesn't have to take a company buyout - what happens years down the road when there are new people in charge at Microsoft? All of sudden those glaringly obvious holes in patent protection aren't looking so benign. I like how Oracle says that Google "knowingly infringed on Oracle intellectual property" when Oracle didn't own it until long after Android was released.
Microsoft: Go ahead and use all of these parts of.NET. We promise we won't sue.
FOSS developers: What about that other part of.NET, which you might note is a key part in Mono right now?
Microsoft:...
Microsoft: Go ahead and use all of these parts of.NET for Android. We promise we won't sue.
If Armstrong reported back from Applo 11 he saw precious gems the size of beach balls we'd had bases on The Moon long ago. If Viking 1 and Viking 2 turned on their cameras and saw the ground was litered gold and silver we'd have bases there too.
That's an interesting thought. It's still probably not cost effective, though the collector may get a "space gold" or "space gem" premium over the same stuff found on Earth. Ironically, if there were more basic necessities - (relatively) easily accessible water and raw materials from which we could build sustainable habitats and breathable air - we'd definitely have bases there.
On/. we've been asking the same question for *years* now. But it always comes down to one fact: big laptop manufacturers don't make laptops when there isn't a version of Windows to fall back on. So the answer to your question has almost certainly not changed: you will be able to buy them as soon as Windows 7 (or some version of Windows CE) and Microsoft Office runs on ARM. Yeah, it sucks ass, but it needs to be said. Don't get your hopes up until you see an actual release date (yeah, it was "imminent" when they showed them over a year ago, too).
First, there's not enough water on Earth. So if it did occur, where did the other water go?
Didn't you pay attention in 2nd grade history and science classes? Until like a thousand years ago, the Earth was flat, and the Earth is 70% water. That means water was once like 9000 miles deep. We're just lucky God dug such big holes for the oceans.
Well the Mars Science Lab (another rover) has been in the works for a while, so that's still a go. Then, sticking to the lander-orbiter-lander-orbiter schedule, the MAVEN orbiter is next. Both are equipped to provide some detail on the methane, but now NASA actually wants to send a dedicated orbiter for that.
Also of interest, there are several mission proposals summarized here. Two of them are UAV missions, including KittyHawk (a proposal that has lost several times, first proposed for a mission in 2003 for the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight) and ARES (how original!).
Mars is easier than an asteroid. At Mars you have a planet to cancel your Delta-V with its gravity and atmosphere (limited though Mars' atmosphere is, it does help). Hitting an asteroid and returning is roughly twice as hard as hitting Mars and returning because you have to halt your motion at the asteroid using propulsion.
No, you are thinking linearly. Remember that asteroids have higher orbital energy, so they simply put Hayabusa on a constant-thrust spiral intercept trajectory, thanks to its ion engines. Since gravity is negligible, they only needed small delta-v's for station keeping around the asteroid when they got there. Then when they wanted to leave they just had to do the opposite, slowly bleed away the orbital energy.
You could do the same thing with Mars, but it's far more difficult because the landing craft will have to be a heck of a lot sturdier than the one that landed on the asteroid, plus it needs to be able to get back off the planet.
This is probably the most insightful statement I have ever read on Slashdot.
Unfortunately I must have ticked off a mod who's a Blender fan. I don't know why: there was no malice behind my joke, I'm a huge fan of the project, and I dabble with it myself. But admittedly the more serious (and earlier) answers do get to the point more directly. I didn't think to check, but they were all hidden from me when I replied.
I learned that lesson from having an iPod. It was a generous Christmas gift and I get a lot of use out of it, but managing it in my Linux-only world is a pain.
Dude, Rockbox. I wouldn't even use my iPod (5.5g - 30GB iPod Video) if it wasn't for that.
I don't like MS, though the truth is that with this last Windows, they are really more secure than others SO's, if you guys pay attention in the hacker championship, that one the gives a prize for the fastest hacker that invade one system, the fast invasion happens into Mac OS X, then Linux and Windows for last.
Oh, you mean Pwn2Own? 2010? Nope, Linux not tested. 2009? Nope, not tested. 2008? Can't be, the Sony Vaio running Ubuntu was never cracked.
Anybody got results from 2007 or earlier? I can't find them.
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theocratic leader
Yeah, he can really de ratchet up the abrasiveness when he wants to.
You have to consider the context. They were practically still burning heretics at the stake at that point in history. I imagine people worked a whole lot harder to reconcile their worldview with religion back then, especially the leader of a country that is overwhelmingly religious.
Also, this "Jesus Bible" you refer to takes everything supernatural out of the Bible, extracting Jesus' view on morals. In case that's not clear, he is flat out telling you that Jesus was not the son of God. There were no angels, no miracles, no resurrection. If you think that doesn't fly directly in the face of Christianity then I don't know what to tell you.
It was indeed. They didn't release these results, but I was watching closely. The average donation jumped considerably once they split it by platform. The average Windows contribution was $6.75 or so when they split it, and it's near $8 now. There were similar but less significant jumps in the other platforms as well.
I'm pretty sure these stats are skewed low: I saw one person claim to have purchased thirty bundles at a penny apiece to send to his friends after purchasing his own. Also, I know I can't be the only one who contributed extra once I found out about the pledge to open source when it hit $1M.
Pretty amazing for seven days. I admit I kicked in a little extra once I heard they'd go open source if they hit $1M. Note that the open source bit doesn't mean free as in free beer: Lugaru for example is including enough assets in the release that the demo will build, but the assets are still proprietary. As another reward for breaking $1M they also extended the promotion another 7 days.
Are you suggesting that Democrats didn't go nuts with Bush hate, or that Republicans didn't go nuts with Clinton hate?
To this level? No. Have a look at the Senate voting history. Go to 2010 and click on a few, scroll down to the senators list. Republicans are always, without fail, either the exact opposite of the majority of Democrats (usually Nay) or Not Voting. Now go back and click on 2005. Pick any issue you want, and either some Democrats voted with Republicans or vice versa. It's not just people's imagination, the country really is more polarized than ever.
And the worst part about it is that the rest of your post is correct.
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It originates with the budget amendment originally proposed by Sen. Dickey (R - AR) and Sen. Wicker (R - MS) in 1995. Lamberth must have added a bit of spin the words a bit to include all stem cell research; even GWB's administration allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on existing lines. The Dickey-Wicker amendment merely disallows federal funding for creating new stem cell lines.
Do I have to be a religious nutcase to object to breeding human beings to be used for spare parts and then discarded as trash?
No, but you have to be an ignorant fool to believe that's how it works.
Not going to argue with you there, but this seems like a good of a place as any to point out that Valkyria Chronicles 2 comes out tomorrow, and it's only for PSP. Time to dust it off (when the price drops, anyway).
Except that Mono is *also* under the GPL. No, it's not about ideology, it's simply some slashdotters have a vendetta against Microsoft that they'll follow even against common sense.
I bet you would've said the same thing about the people who refused to use Java for the exact same reason. Yeah, the good folks who had the Java patents before were fine with Android, but look what happens when new people are in control. It doesn't have to take a company buyout - what happens years down the road when there are new people in charge at Microsoft? All of sudden those glaringly obvious holes in patent protection aren't looking so benign. I like how Oracle says that Google "knowingly infringed on Oracle intellectual property" when Oracle didn't own it until long after Android was released.
Microsoft: Go ahead and use all of these parts of .NET. We promise we won't sue.
FOSS developers: What about that other part of .NET, which you might note is a key part in Mono right now?
Microsoft: ...
Microsoft: Go ahead and use all of these parts of .NET for Android. We promise we won't sue.
According to an old Geocities page, they are things that fly around in the sky.
I am to understand that they occasionally flip out and kill people.
Nah, those are Ninjas, not UFOs
I'm not convinced anybody can tell the difference. Nobody that lived long enough to verify it, anyway.
If Armstrong reported back from Applo 11 he saw precious gems the size of beach balls we'd had bases on The Moon long ago. If Viking 1 and Viking 2 turned on their cameras and saw the ground was litered gold and silver we'd have bases there too.
That's an interesting thought. It's still probably not cost effective, though the collector may get a "space gold" or "space gem" premium over the same stuff found on Earth. Ironically, if there were more basic necessities - (relatively) easily accessible water and raw materials from which we could build sustainable habitats and breathable air - we'd definitely have bases there.
The first thing I thought of was testing for midichlorians. Then I had to remind myself that that movie doesn't exist.
But how soon can i buy these laptops?
On /. we've been asking the same question for *years* now. But it always comes down to one fact: big laptop manufacturers don't make laptops when there isn't a version of Windows to fall back on. So the answer to your question has almost certainly not changed: you will be able to buy them as soon as Windows 7 (or some version of Windows CE) and Microsoft Office runs on ARM. Yeah, it sucks ass, but it needs to be said. Don't get your hopes up until you see an actual release date (yeah, it was "imminent" when they showed them over a year ago, too).
First, there's not enough water on Earth. So if it did occur, where did the other water go?
Didn't you pay attention in 2nd grade history and science classes? Until like a thousand years ago, the Earth was flat, and the Earth is 70% water. That means water was once like 9000 miles deep. We're just lucky God dug such big holes for the oceans.
Well the Mars Science Lab (another rover) has been in the works for a while, so that's still a go. Then, sticking to the lander-orbiter-lander-orbiter schedule, the MAVEN orbiter is next. Both are equipped to provide some detail on the methane, but now NASA actually wants to send a dedicated orbiter for that.
Also of interest, there are several mission proposals summarized here. Two of them are UAV missions, including KittyHawk (a proposal that has lost several times, first proposed for a mission in 2003 for the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight) and ARES (how original!).
Mars is easier than an asteroid. At Mars you have a planet to cancel your Delta-V with its gravity and atmosphere (limited though Mars' atmosphere is, it does help). Hitting an asteroid and returning is roughly twice as hard as hitting Mars and returning because you have to halt your motion at the asteroid using propulsion.
No, you are thinking linearly. Remember that asteroids have higher orbital energy, so they simply put Hayabusa on a constant-thrust spiral intercept trajectory, thanks to its ion engines. Since gravity is negligible, they only needed small delta-v's for station keeping around the asteroid when they got there. Then when they wanted to leave they just had to do the opposite, slowly bleed away the orbital energy.
You could do the same thing with Mars, but it's far more difficult because the landing craft will have to be a heck of a lot sturdier than the one that landed on the asteroid, plus it needs to be able to get back off the planet.
This is probably the most insightful statement I have ever read on Slashdot.
Unfortunately I must have ticked off a mod who's a Blender fan. I don't know why: there was no malice behind my joke, I'm a huge fan of the project, and I dabble with it myself. But admittedly the more serious (and earlier) answers do get to the point more directly. I didn't think to check, but they were all hidden from me when I replied.
I've heard of paper MCSEs and CCNAs, but never a paper PHD.
How did you get through ~8 years of college level education on computers and still have a user interface confuse you??
You could go through 40 years of college level education and you still wouldn't be able to figure out Blender without tutorials.
Which is more ridiculous, China's claims in this whitepaper, or the RIAA's claims in the LimeWire suit? I'm leaning towards RIAA. Discuss.
I learned that lesson from having an iPod. It was a generous Christmas gift and I get a lot of use out of it, but managing it in my Linux-only world is a pain.
Dude, Rockbox. I wouldn't even use my iPod (5.5g - 30GB iPod Video) if it wasn't for that.
I don't like MS, though the truth is that with this last Windows, they are really more secure than others SO's, if you guys pay attention in the hacker championship, that one the gives a prize for the fastest hacker that invade one system, the fast invasion happens into Mac OS X, then Linux and Windows for last.
Oh, you mean Pwn2Own? 2010? Nope, Linux not tested. 2009? Nope, not tested. 2008? Can't be, the Sony Vaio running Ubuntu was never cracked.
Anybody got results from 2007 or earlier? I can't find them.
theocratic leader
Yeah, he can really de ratchet up the abrasiveness when he wants to.
You have to consider the context. They were practically still burning heretics at the stake at that point in history. I imagine people worked a whole lot harder to reconcile their worldview with religion back then, especially the leader of a country that is overwhelmingly religious.
Also, this "Jesus Bible" you refer to takes everything supernatural out of the Bible, extracting Jesus' view on morals. In case that's not clear, he is flat out telling you that Jesus was not the son of God. There were no angels, no miracles, no resurrection. If you think that doesn't fly directly in the face of Christianity then I don't know what to tell you.
I'm sure that was quite effective to drive sales.
It was indeed. They didn't release these results, but I was watching closely. The average donation jumped considerably once they split it by platform. The average Windows contribution was $6.75 or so when they split it, and it's near $8 now. There were similar but less significant jumps in the other platforms as well.
I'm pretty sure these stats are skewed low: I saw one person claim to have purchased thirty bundles at a penny apiece to send to his friends after purchasing his own. Also, I know I can't be the only one who contributed extra once I found out about the pledge to open source when it hit $1M.
$1M in one week for games that are a couple years old? I daresay they wouldn't mind that at all.
They offer the following breakdown:
Developers: $134k each
Childsplay: $154k
EFF: $148k
Pretty amazing for seven days. I admit I kicked in a little extra once I heard they'd go open source if they hit $1M. Note that the open source bit doesn't mean free as in free beer: Lugaru for example is including enough assets in the release that the demo will build, but the assets are still proprietary. As another reward for breaking $1M they also extended the promotion another 7 days.
it IS mind-smashing
My first thought:
Not surprising for those grumpy old people still thinking in naked arrays.
Sorry, I'll show myself out.
No, math geek should be $6.28. Two pi is far more useful.
Are you suggesting that Democrats didn't go nuts with Bush hate, or that Republicans didn't go nuts with Clinton hate?
To this level? No. Have a look at the Senate voting history. Go to 2010 and click on a few, scroll down to the senators list. Republicans are always, without fail, either the exact opposite of the majority of Democrats (usually Nay) or Not Voting. Now go back and click on 2005. Pick any issue you want, and either some Democrats voted with Republicans or vice versa. It's not just people's imagination, the country really is more polarized than ever.
And the worst part about it is that the rest of your post is correct.