Columbia was NOT equipped to dock with the ISS. Again, this is assuming anyone knew there was a problem with Columbia in the first place, which they did not.
Finally, if the world community knew that there was a problem, I bet one or two people out there could've come up with a way to get them back safely.
I bet you one or two couldn't. They couldn't repair the damage. There is now escape mechanism on the shuttle from orbit. They had no suits or training for extra-vehicular activity. Their orbit made it impossible to get to the ISS and even if they did they had no way to actually DOCK with it. The only way they could have come down was using the shuttle. If there was damage to the left wing, the only way they could have prevented a burn-up is by altering their de-orbit trajectory. For example, the shuttle performs a series of rolls to turn right and left. When you turn right, the right wing has the majority of the force applied to it (and vice versa). Limiting the amount of force on the left wing may have solved the problem, but we really do not know.
All of these possiblities are under the assumption that NASA KNEW THE SHUTTLE WAS BROKEN to the extent that they'd all die. NASA did not know, otherwise they would have atleast altered the shuttles reentry trajectory (at the very least).
Short of preparation for this trajedy, there was nothing NASA could do to prevent it.
Because of cracks in the propellant feed lines to the 3 main engines. A defect that could have caused catastrophic failure. Did the fix work or not?"
I doubt cracks in the main fuel lines would be the cause. I'd be very suprised. For one, the shuttle has little to no fuel in its tanks upon reentry. Secondly, the 3 main engines are not even used during reentry. Remember, the shuttle is a glider.
yeah, that'd be great. Then you can post the project to SourceForge, half completed. Then never touch the shit again. Like all the other worthless projects...
This is by design to distribute load. It also cuts down on the likelyhood for someone to re-route a domain for all AOL users. Rather than hacking one DNS server, you'd have to hack 10.
Speed issues aren't related to Java byte-code. In fact, the only real speed issues now are the same ones inhenernt in all OO languages.
My biggest problem with Java is that you can't compile directly to a static executable. This makes deployment nearly impossible for any kind of shareware software. I think Sun really f'd that up bad. Then again, they aren't exactly targeting end-users... more enterprise environments
They are not profitable. In fact, they are funded by venture capital. The problem with Slashdot users is that they confuse the economics of Capitalism with free hand-outs. Zope is surviving on a free hand out. That does not mean they're profitable.
UFO Mag says there are UFO's around the world and we're supposed to believe them? There is absolutely no evidence that even remotely validates their claims that a bright blur on some SOHO images are UFO's, versus meteors, comets or cometary fragments. They don't even describe what wavelength or anything. I say bull shit now!!! The burden of proof is on their shoulders!
I've always wondered why someone hasn't taken the time to modify existing worms to simply patch the holes they exploit. Or even disable the box on some level. It wouldn't be hard to accomplish either, I could probably do it in an evening if I had the time...
MACHO's are and always have been a scientific excuse for the "missing" matter. I say "missing" (with quotes) because what scientists consider "missing" is simply matter that they cannot SEE versus matter they cannot detect. They CAN detect it indirectly though, which is the fundamental reason they fabricate the need for WIMP's and MACHO's. Meanwhile, a simple solution to this "missing" (or what they really should call "unseen") mass is trillions of massive objects on the planetary scale which are not large enough to produce fusion, and therefore VERY hard to see, but are abundant enough to influence the galaxy's rotation. In essence, MACHO's are an exotic excuse to something lots of astronomers refuse to admit: there's a lot more unseen barionic matter out there.
As a mathematical model, MACHO's are great. In reality though, they're simply barionic matter that we can't see, not some exotic particle. The simple explaination is that there are butt loads (Butt, n: any of various units of liquid capacity; especially : a measure equal to 108 imperial gallons, 491 liters)of planets the size of Jupiter surfing the galaxy.
Agreed, BUT America is only screwing American's by letting in cheap intellectual labor. Some people have $100k worth of loans for a degree that they cannot get a job with simply because Congress allowed floods of H1B's. The degree no longer pays for itself by a wide margin. Out sourcing shit to India is BAD, BUT H1B's are WORSE because they take away a job from an American right here on American soil. Atleast with out sourcing, you still have Americans running the project and usually integrating with the deliverables.
Help! Help! Sony has taken control of my arm and hand and forcing me to write checks, stick them in an envelop and mail it!! Help!!!!! aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
There is more to this victimization than meets the eye. These people are already known to be "rejected" by society. Even in a society thats completely fabricated, they're still "victims" in their opinnions. Sounds like they're the problem and not Sony, society or . Either way, it still makes me fall out of my chair laughing when I think about the oppressive regime of a fantasy online world made by Sony.
No, its not the insurance companies that are the problem. An enormous number of OB-Gyns in the country can't even get malpractice insurance anymore because nobody will insure their business! Its not the Insurance Companies, its the Lawyers
Hey Asshole, whose going to be a Doctor if all doctor's are human and all humans make mistakes, and we burn every f'ing doctor that messes up? We're not talking about a doctor who leaves a surgical tool in somebody's stomach. There's paying for negligence and then there's paying for society's bullshit reasoning. When one doctor can't get malpractice insurance it's because he/she is negligent. When an entire county/state of Doctor's can't get malpractice insurance its because the litigation is so rampant and fraudulent that insurance companies know they will only lose money by insuring the doctor.
This is the modern over-reactionary, ambulance chasing culture of America. If you can't blame God, then its obviously the doctor's fault...
There are doctors in certain states who are retiring early or leaving because of malpractice lawsuits. For example, many states of shortages of OB-Gyns b/c everytime a baby comes out retarded its blamed on the doctor, rather than their pot-smoking, alchohol drinking, stale sperm or old age of the parents. Its sick! Its hard enough for a doctor to pay their student loans AND make a nickle off the HMO's, but now they get rejected for malpractice insurance applications as well.
Airports are big and clear of debris and obstacles. Try automating something that lands in your driveway (or someone elses driveway) and avoids tree branches, thin wires, small pets, etc.
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Who decides? Economics. "Cool Shit" rarely pays for itself. Flying cars are not practical to be frank. They cost an enormous amount of money just to develop, and what they'll end up being is an extremely expensive toy with no practical or durable use. Cars are cheap because the parts are mass manufactured and they're simple. You can't take the complexity of a Harrier Jump Jet and market it as a car AND not expect all kinds of horrible crap to happen (air to air collisions, contact with power lines, etc). The FAA has butt-loads of restrictions on aircraft for a reason: they're dangerous if not used properly. You bust a head gasket driving around in your car and you'll still putter to a garage for help. You bust something vital on an aircraft at 10,000ft and you're screwed. Try to imagine mass amounts of people using these in a dense suburban area.... just getting the damn thing in your driveway would be hard enough.... imagine if there were high winds. Computers can compensate for a lot, but there's a reason why we don't have automated cars, let alone automated flying cars.
Thats assuming a bounce would ever occur. Besides, a bounce is hardly a legitimate notice that a phone is not being used. Most providers do not even supply error responses to messages, even if the message is never delivered because the phone is off.
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Because there's a Googleplex cubic kilometers of space for every freaking rock thats worth collecting.
Columbia was NOT equipped to dock with the ISS. Again, this is assuming anyone knew there was a problem with Columbia in the first place, which they did not.
Bogus. They did not even know there was a problem. Its easy to criticize after the fact...
Finally, if the world community knew that there was a problem, I bet one or two people out there could've come up with a way to get them back safely.
I bet you one or two couldn't. They couldn't repair the damage. There is now escape mechanism on the shuttle from orbit. They had no suits or training for extra-vehicular activity. Their orbit made it impossible to get to the ISS and even if they did they had no way to actually DOCK with it. The only way they could have come down was using the shuttle. If there was damage to the left wing, the only way they could have prevented a burn-up is by altering their de-orbit trajectory. For example, the shuttle performs a series of rolls to turn right and left. When you turn right, the right wing has the majority of the force applied to it (and vice versa). Limiting the amount of force on the left wing may have solved the problem, but we really do not know.
All of these possiblities are under the assumption that NASA KNEW THE SHUTTLE WAS BROKEN to the extent that they'd all die. NASA did not know, otherwise they would have atleast altered the shuttles reentry trajectory (at the very least).
Short of preparation for this trajedy, there was nothing NASA could do to prevent it.
You can run a simple computer on a potato if you really want to. The question is For how long can you run it for?
Because of cracks in the propellant feed lines to the 3 main engines. A defect that could have caused catastrophic failure. Did the fix work or not?"
I doubt cracks in the main fuel lines would be the cause. I'd be very suprised. For one, the shuttle has little to no fuel in its tanks upon reentry. Secondly, the 3 main engines are not even used during reentry. Remember, the shuttle is a glider.
yeah, that'd be great. Then you can post the project to SourceForge, half completed. Then never touch the shit again. Like all the other worthless projects...
This is by design to distribute load. It also cuts down on the likelyhood for someone to re-route a domain for all AOL users. Rather than hacking one DNS server, you'd have to hack 10.
You've entirely missed the point.
Try porting an app that uses Reflection using TowerJ.
Visual Age and Symantic's junk hardly support 1.2+ Java
GCJ can't even build all the core classes.
Speed issues aren't related to Java byte-code. In fact, the only real speed issues now are the same ones inhenernt in all OO languages.
My biggest problem with Java is that you can't compile directly to a static executable. This makes deployment nearly impossible for any kind of shareware software. I think Sun really f'd that up bad. Then again, they aren't exactly targeting end-users... more enterprise environments
They are not profitable. In fact, they are funded by venture capital. The problem with Slashdot users is that they confuse the economics of Capitalism with free hand-outs. Zope is surviving on a free hand out. That does not mean they're profitable.
http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/FundingN
Please, give me an example of one profitable company that exercises this concept.
Yes, take everything with a grain of salt, but this is surely not Science, and it surely does not belong in a Science Section of anything published.
UFO Mag says there are UFO's around the world and we're supposed to believe them? There is absolutely no evidence that even remotely validates their claims that a bright blur on some SOHO images are UFO's, versus meteors, comets or cometary fragments. They don't even describe what wavelength or anything. I say bull shit now!!! The burden of proof is on their shoulders!
I've always wondered why someone hasn't taken the time to modify existing worms to simply patch the holes they exploit. Or even disable the box on some level. It wouldn't be hard to accomplish either, I could probably do it in an evening if I had the time...
MACHO's are and always have been a scientific excuse for the "missing" matter. I say "missing" (with quotes) because what scientists consider "missing" is simply matter that they cannot SEE versus matter they cannot detect. They CAN detect it indirectly though, which is the fundamental reason they fabricate the need for WIMP's and MACHO's. Meanwhile, a simple solution to this "missing" (or what they really should call "unseen") mass is trillions of massive objects on the planetary scale which are not large enough to produce fusion, and therefore VERY hard to see, but are abundant enough to influence the galaxy's rotation. In essence, MACHO's are an exotic excuse to something lots of astronomers refuse to admit: there's a lot more unseen barionic matter out there.
As a mathematical model, MACHO's are great. In reality though, they're simply barionic matter that we can't see, not some exotic particle. The simple explaination is that there are butt loads (Butt, n: any of various units of liquid capacity; especially : a measure equal to 108 imperial gallons, 491 liters)of planets the size of Jupiter surfing the galaxy.
Agreed, BUT America is only screwing American's by letting in cheap intellectual labor. Some people have $100k worth of loans for a degree that they cannot get a job with simply because Congress allowed floods of H1B's. The degree no longer pays for itself by a wide margin. Out sourcing shit to India is BAD, BUT H1B's are WORSE because they take away a job from an American right here on American soil. Atleast with out sourcing, you still have Americans running the project and usually integrating with the deliverables.
Help! Help! Sony has taken control of my arm and hand and forcing me to write checks, stick them in an envelop and mail it!! Help!!!!! aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
There is more to this victimization than meets the eye. These people are already known to be "rejected" by society. Even in a society thats completely fabricated, they're still "victims" in their opinnions. Sounds like they're the problem and not Sony, society or . Either way, it still makes me fall out of my chair laughing when I think about the oppressive regime of a fantasy online world made by Sony.
No, its not the insurance companies that are the problem. An enormous number of OB-Gyns in the country can't even get malpractice insurance anymore because nobody will insure their business! Its not the Insurance Companies, its the Lawyers
Hey Asshole, whose going to be a Doctor if all doctor's are human and all humans make mistakes, and we burn every f'ing doctor that messes up? We're not talking about a doctor who leaves a surgical tool in somebody's stomach. There's paying for negligence and then there's paying for society's bullshit reasoning. When one doctor can't get malpractice insurance it's because he/she is negligent. When an entire county/state of Doctor's can't get malpractice insurance its because the litigation is so rampant and fraudulent that insurance companies know they will only lose money by insuring the doctor.
Your attitude is the cause of this.
This is the modern over-reactionary, ambulance chasing culture of America. If you can't blame God, then its obviously the doctor's fault...
There are doctors in certain states who are retiring early or leaving because of malpractice lawsuits. For example, many states of shortages of OB-Gyns b/c everytime a baby comes out retarded its blamed on the doctor, rather than their pot-smoking, alchohol drinking, stale sperm or old age of the parents. Its sick! Its hard enough for a doctor to pay their student loans AND make a nickle off the HMO's, but now they get rejected for malpractice insurance applications as well.
Airports are big and clear of debris and obstacles. Try automating something that lands in your driveway (or someone elses driveway) and avoids tree branches, thin wires, small pets, etc.
Who decides? Economics. "Cool Shit" rarely pays for itself. Flying cars are not practical to be frank. They cost an enormous amount of money just to develop, and what they'll end up being is an extremely expensive toy with no practical or durable use. Cars are cheap because the parts are mass manufactured and they're simple. You can't take the complexity of a Harrier Jump Jet and market it as a car AND not expect all kinds of horrible crap to happen (air to air collisions, contact with power lines, etc). The FAA has butt-loads of restrictions on aircraft for a reason: they're dangerous if not used properly. You bust a head gasket driving around in your car and you'll still putter to a garage for help. You bust something vital on an aircraft at 10,000ft and you're screwed. Try to imagine mass amounts of people using these in a dense suburban area.... just getting the damn thing in your driveway would be hard enough.... imagine if there were high winds. Computers can compensate for a lot, but there's a reason why we don't have automated cars, let alone automated flying cars.
Thats assuming a bounce would ever occur. Besides, a bounce is hardly a legitimate notice that a phone is not being used. Most providers do not even supply error responses to messages, even if the message is never delivered because the phone is off.