Some of it is, but I'm not taking all of the blame.:-) I will readily admit that I didn't put in something like your suggest amendment. However, I do know that the/. editors have a habit of changing submissions. At least mine they do, but I imagine they do it to others.
I've written longer, descriptive submissions before that have either been rejected and some shorter submission was put in it's place, or had the original article chopped up like what happened here. My original article said that Comair outsourced the system to SBS. The/. editors seem to like short, concise submissions, which unfortunately mean you have to follow a bunch of links to get the whole story.
There are eight positions on each filter wheel with one position on the left wheel. The filters are not installed in pairs, sans two sets (positions 2 and positions L7/R1) See the Cornell Athena site for technical details.
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Uhh... if everything is sold at a loss, how is volume going to help? You'll just get a bigger loss. Amazon may sell things on a slim margin and rely on volume or perhaps it does have certain loss leaders and other things make a profit.
Amazon did make a profit last year. That would be real profit, not proforma profit.
Hear! Hear! How I miss Crystal Quest (Crystal Crazy was okay, but the original was better). There is a Palm & Pocket PC version, but I'm sure it's not quite the same.
The problem was not explosive bolts. The likely cause improper mounting of the gravity-switches that would have started off the parachute deployment. It hasn't been determined if the problem was that they were put in backwards by the technicians contrary to the plans or if the plans were not clear enough. The Mishap Investigation Board is still working on determining the cause and procedures to fix the problems. See their Status Report #4.
All is not lost though. Some of the samples were salvaged.
Adding wipers to the solar panels (this has been hashed over lots of times, look it up) would not extend the mission indefinitely. There are many other things that would and are breaking on the rovers before the solar panels collect too much dust. A prime example is Spirit's sticky wheel.
Microsoft is finally integrating antivirus into Windows.
Where did you get the news that Microsoft is integrating an antivirus scanner into Windows? I recall them adding it to Exchange, but not into Windows. Now, XP SP 2 does monitor various antivirus software through the Windows Security thing, but that's not the same as Microsoft offering an antivirus scanner with Windows.
It just adds to my point that Open Source of space software just isn't really viable. Your 1 MILLION DOLLARS!;-) software package isn't going to be readily available to your average OSS hacker.
I suppose I should rephrase my statement... You just don't dump some satellite code onto your average OSS hacker's PC and "test" it.
Uhhh... and exactly how are you going to allow people to test "spaceware"? Last I checked, nobody owns their own satellite system. You just don't dump some satellite code onto your PC and "test" it.
Open Source is great and all, but it's hardly the answer to everything.
You didn't read the article carefully. The nVidia programmer added GPL code to the driver, however doing so triggered the GPL clause where the entire driver needed to be released. Since third party licensed code is included in the driver that could not be released, the GPL code had to be removed.
The only people that can truly comment on why the nVidia driver can or can not be released are internal to nVidia. So you have to take whatever nVidia says at face value. If they say there is licensed code in their drivers that they can't release, then you have to accept that, as you are in no position to say "Bullshit! There is no licensed code." You don't have access to the source, so you wouldn't know.
I've been reading Burning Edge and see references to optimized builds. Is there some reason why there is not official releases of optimized builds? I understand wanting to create as generic of a binary as possible, but official optimized builds would be nice. The tin-foil hat person in me doesn't trust these third-party builds nor do I really want to compile Firefox myself.
And example of releasing multiple builds would be the MAME group.
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Some of it is, but I'm not taking all of the blame. :-) I will readily admit that I didn't put in something like your suggest amendment. However, I do know that the /. editors have a habit of changing submissions. At least mine they do, but I imagine they do it to others.
I've written longer, descriptive submissions before that have either been rejected and some shorter submission was put in it's place, or had the original article chopped up like what happened here. My original article said that Comair outsourced the system to SBS. The /. editors seem to like short, concise submissions, which unfortunately mean you have to follow a bunch of links to get the whole story.
Sorry to reply to myself, but this comment gives a better layman's explanation of the distances involved.
Beagle 2 was supposed to land on Isidis Planitia (10.6N, 270W). Opportunity landed on Meridiani Planum (354.4742E 1.9483S). Spirit landed in Gusev Crater (175.4785 E 14.5718 S). Neither are nowhere near Beagle 2. I couldn't find a high resolution map of MARS with the landing sights, but this should give you an idea.
There are eight positions on each filter wheel with one position on the left wheel. The filters are not installed in pairs, sans two sets (positions 2 and positions L7/R1) See the Cornell Athena site for technical details.
Amazon did make a profit last year. That would be real profit, not proforma profit.
It's the Near Earth Object Program. Gee, wonder why the server is called neo.
You've got to be kidding.
All you're going to get is "All you need to do is list Linux and you're done." comments.
Spectre VR... oh the memories of blowing away my officemates. Woohoo!
Hear! Hear! How I miss Crystal Quest (Crystal Crazy was okay, but the original was better). There is a Palm & Pocket PC version, but I'm sure it's not quite the same.
Cassini didn't take decades to get to Saturn. It was launched Oct. 15, 1997. It entered orbit on June 30, 2004.
The problem was not explosive bolts. The likely cause improper mounting of the gravity-switches that would have started off the parachute deployment. It hasn't been determined if the problem was that they were put in backwards by the technicians contrary to the plans or if the plans were not clear enough. The Mishap Investigation Board is still working on determining the cause and procedures to fix the problems. See their Status Report #4.
All is not lost though. Some of the samples were salvaged.
Adding wipers to the solar panels (this has been hashed over lots of times, look it up) would not extend the mission indefinitely. There are many other things that would and are breaking on the rovers before the solar panels collect too much dust. A prime example is Spirit's sticky wheel.
"Infected" with nothing. That's the EICAR test virus to make sure your antivirus software is working properly.
Where did you get the news that Microsoft is integrating an antivirus scanner into Windows? I recall them adding it to Exchange, but not into Windows. Now, XP SP 2 does monitor various antivirus software through the Windows Security thing, but that's not the same as Microsoft offering an antivirus scanner with Windows.
A more interesting thing to me about the drive is that it's the first to use perpendicular recording which was covered way back when.
The point of the project is to have autonomous, long-term vehicles, so there wouldn't be anybody around to replace the batteries.
...is the show itself open source? Can I re-edit the show?
Your products sound like cool stuff.
;-) software package isn't going to be readily available to your average OSS hacker.
It just adds to my point that Open Source of space software just isn't really viable. Your 1 MILLION DOLLARS!
I suppose I should rephrase my statement... You just don't dump some satellite code onto your average OSS hacker's PC and "test" it.
Open Source is great and all, but it's hardly the answer to everything.
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The only people that can truly comment on why the nVidia driver can or can not be released are internal to nVidia. So you have to take whatever nVidia says at face value. If they say there is licensed code in their drivers that they can't release, then you have to accept that, as you are in no position to say "Bullshit! There is no licensed code." You don't have access to the source, so you wouldn't know.
And example of releasing multiple builds would be the MAME group.
AOT is an Ahead-of-Time compiler. It compiles Java to native code, instead of Java bytecode.
Maybe. I have no idea.
The Chevron car commercials are done by Aardman Animations. Some group who do Wallace and Grommit.