Go ahead, nothing to see here. If you really want to listen to some great garage music with a bit of a brain try listening to Rilo-Kiley (No , really do! They are great and original. Try to catch them live too!). They are my favourite band at the moment. WhiteStripes are so overrated it hurts.
But since it's all about PR that would still be benefitting them. *sigh*
How comes that this band is so totally overrated? I mean they are ok and all. I would maybe even enjoy them if they played in a local pub but all this hype around them is so totally not up to par with their music that it hurts!
Everything is fine when I use Mozilla on Linux. But with the Windowsport I get the same problem with downloading files. The rendering bug seem to be/.only. I have it on very occasions with Epiphany, so that's no big deal for me. But still, it seems to exist.
This year was a big year for Mozilla. For years it was behind internet Explorer. But this year, with Firebird and Epiphany (wich is the one browser I was searching for!) they actually outperformed IE by far. All the great stuff happends now somewhere else and with MS killing free IE Updates and IE on the Mac I am very confident that soon Mozilla and alikes will be on every platform. I'm still sad that Apple didn't go for a geckobased solution. But, heck, Safari still rocks.
Yeah. That quote was a bit lame indeed. the problem is that he sounds that bit too much like a Mac zealot to me. His "predictions" are rather commonsense. But I guess that's because we are all/.ers.
I was always wondering why, if beagle2 was so cheap they didnt put two or more up on it. I know weight is an issue, but if you can triple your chance of success by adding just 120kilos more weight Id say thats a bargain. I am not as well up to date with the rovers as I am with beagle2 but the overall design looked far more complex than little beagle2. I would love to see them become a success but I cant help the feeling that there are too many things that can break. Lets keep fingers crossed Im wrong. Its the same as with a car with too many extras. Id prefer to send a beetle to mars rather than a BMW 7. I honestly hope they tested their stuff as much as you say: they might need it.
Not too sure about that either. I heard it might be because of the temperature rise during athmosperic impact. I could imagine that radiation can disturb it too. Once again, Beagle2 is rather a cheap mission. Actually it wasnt even part of the original mission concept but added later when they found they had spare room on the rocket.
Okok..You have a point. But still mine remains valid, I believe. Both missions are different approaches. I never said NASA wastes money, but today money IS an issue with spacetravel, especially in Europe, and therefore Beagle2 HAD to be cheap. Thats no excuse. I would love to see governments spend more money to Spaceexploration, but as it is, Beagle2 was the best you could get for the money. Seems to turn out it wasnt enough, sadly...
That shouldn't be an issue sine mars is moving around sun and therefore there could be some light at least to feed the batteries. But what I guess is that the crater shields off radiocommunication. It might be alive and sending, but we can't hear it, at least not with the radiotelescopes or Mars Odyssey, wich btw was damaged during a sunstorm lately. My hopes are still high when they are trying to use Mars Express Orbiter to look for Beagle2. I keep my fingeers crossed...
1. Weight. 2. It would break. It only "survived" the landing with the airbags. without them it would break if it bounces. This is not a thoughbook, well, it should have been.;-)
You seem as you are really unaware so let me explain: 1. No, it won't start the experiments on it's own afaik. But it will fall into an emergency mode where it sends continously in case it's clock is broken. This might be Mars Express (the ESA-Orbiter) chance to pick up the signal and reset Beagle2.
2. Beagle was a cheapo mission therefore making it move would have cost a lot of money (even if it only was for the extraweight). It was already cheap and even if it cost millions it was very inexpensive compared to the Pathfinder or the incoming M2K4-Landers from Nasa.
3. Moving around Mars is hard, even harder when you are an autonomous robot. The biggest "moves" we made up there was the Marsrover wich was basically a small remote controlled car that went as far as 10 meters away from it's landing site (that's my assumption, not sure on the exact distance).
Since we are all living longer than any generation before us why would I bother? I mean, I might be exposed to more chemicals than people during the middleages but they also died from a simple cold so whats the big issue? I COULD stop smoking though and go for a walk in the park from time to time. That would gain me another 10years...wouldnt it? Naah! Not now! Everquest is waiting...;-)
AFAIK Mars Express can shoot pictures with a resolution down to 2squaremeters. That should at least be able to identify the parachute or the airbags. I guess the main problem is that the potential area where Beagle went down is really huge and so it could take some time to find the probe.
You are possibly a troll but I will reply anway: 1. They will notice it's real when they are being shot in the head. 2. The far more disturbing aspect of videogames, violent or not, is that people are safe at home playing away their time while their leaders are fighting stupid wars. People are paralyzed with the media and therefore don't oppose to whatever terrible mistake their leaders might make. 3. You might not be familiar with some of the later sociobiological concepts but it is common to kill individuals of your own species and it is ok for evolution and selection. When it comes down to morals it might be wrong, but there are many examples in nature where killing in the same species is quite common and is being rewarded by evolution.
I sometimes wish that there was a law against producing something like this. I am a liberal person and I believe in the free market but selling a machine as this is a sin imho.
Btw. i got three calendars and 100. Now I'm slowley recovering from my hangover those 100 bucks caused last night.;-)
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Go ahead, nothing to see here. If you really want to listen to some great garage music with a bit of a brain try listening to Rilo-Kiley
(No , really do! They are great and original. Try to catch them live too!).
They are my favourite band at the moment. WhiteStripes are so overrated it hurts.
But since it's all about PR that would still be benefitting them. *sigh*
How comes that this band is so totally overrated? I mean they are ok and all. I would maybe even enjoy them if they played in a local pub but all this hype around them is so totally not up to par with their music that it hurts!
Lispy
I have to say it once and forever:
No offence, and probably my own band (sig) is even worse, but the White Stripes are the most overrated band EVER!!!
Yeah, TollCollect really should be on the list. Here's some information about it for non german audiences that want to share the laughter:
TollCollect
Fosters Article
They were also given the "BigBrother Award"(google translation)
- WAP/UMTS
- Tablet PC
- AmigaOne
- Sun JavaDesktop
- Laserdisc
Actually I used to travel with my Zipdrive from 1995-97 and it never failed me. But maybe I was just lucky...
ActiveWhat? Does anyone really turn this on? I mean if using IE in the first place...
tststs...
Everything is fine when I use Mozilla on Linux. But with the Windowsport I get the same problem with downloading files. The rendering bug seem to be /.only. I have it on very occasions with Epiphany, so that's no big deal for me. But still, it seems to exist.
This year was a big year for Mozilla. For years it was behind internet Explorer. But this year, with Firebird and Epiphany (wich is the one browser I was searching for!) they actually outperformed IE by far. All the great stuff happends now somewhere else and with MS killing free IE Updates and IE on the Mac I am very confident that soon Mozilla and alikes will be on every platform. I'm still sad that Apple didn't go for a geckobased solution. But, heck, Safari still rocks.
cu,
Lispy
Yeah. That quote was a bit lame indeed. the problem is that he sounds that bit too much like a Mac zealot to me. His "predictions" are rather commonsense. But I guess that's because we are all /.ers.
The pain you fell is your stereotype ignorance.
Get over it!
Wow, now I know whats my quest in 2004....The Treasure is mine...;-)
I was always wondering why, if beagle2 was so cheap they didnt put two or more up on it. I know weight is an issue, but if you can triple your chance of success by adding just 120kilos more weight Id say thats a bargain. I am not as well up to date with the rovers as I am with beagle2 but the overall design looked far more complex than little beagle2. I would love to see them become a success but I cant help the feeling that there are too many things that can break. Lets keep fingers crossed Im wrong. Its the same as with a car with too many extras. Id prefer to send a beetle to mars rather than a BMW 7.
I honestly hope they tested their stuff as much as you say: they might need it.
Lispy
Except that its OT and seriously ugly. Ill wait for freedesktop.org Xserver instead.
Not too sure about that either. I heard it might be because of the temperature rise during athmosperic impact. I could imagine that radiation can disturb it too. Once again, Beagle2 is rather a cheap mission. Actually it wasnt even part of the original mission concept but added later when they found they had spare room on the rocket.
Okok..You have a point. But still mine remains valid, I believe. Both missions are different approaches. I never said NASA wastes money, but today money IS an issue with spacetravel, especially in Europe, and therefore Beagle2 HAD to be cheap. Thats no excuse. I would love to see governments spend more money to Spaceexploration, but as it is, Beagle2 was the best you could get for the money. Seems to turn out it wasnt enough, sadly...
That shouldn't be an issue sine mars is moving around sun and therefore there could be some light at least to feed the batteries. But what I guess is that the crater shields off radiocommunication. It might be alive and sending, but we can't hear it, at least not with the radiotelescopes or Mars Odyssey, wich btw was damaged during a sunstorm lately. My hopes are still high when they are trying to use Mars Express Orbiter to look for Beagle2. I keep my fingeers crossed...
1. Weight. ;-)
2. It would break. It only "survived" the landing with the airbags. without them it would break if it bounces. This is not a thoughbook, well, it should have been.
You seem as you are really unaware so let me explain:
1. No, it won't start the experiments on it's own afaik. But it will fall into an emergency mode where it sends continously in case it's clock is broken. This might be Mars Express (the ESA-Orbiter) chance to pick up the signal and reset Beagle2.
2. Beagle was a cheapo mission therefore making it move would have cost a lot of money (even if it only was for the extraweight). It was already cheap and even if it cost millions it was very inexpensive compared to the Pathfinder or the incoming M2K4-Landers from Nasa.
3. Moving around Mars is hard, even harder when you are an autonomous robot. The biggest "moves" we made up there was the Marsrover wich was basically a small remote controlled car that went as far as 10 meters away from it's landing site (that's my assumption, not sure on the exact distance).
cu,
Lispy
Since we are all living longer than any generation before us why would I bother? I mean, I might be exposed to more chemicals than people during the middleages but they also died from a simple cold so whats the big issue? I COULD stop smoking though and go for a walk in the park from time to time. That would gain me another 10years...wouldnt it? Naah! Not now! Everquest is waiting... ;-)
cu,
Lispy
AFAIK Mars Express can shoot pictures with a resolution down to 2squaremeters. That should at least be able to identify the parachute or the airbags. I guess the main problem is that the potential area where Beagle went down is really huge and so it could take some time to find the probe.
cu,
Lispy
Definetly not a troll. At least not from my point of view.
Lucky you. I was busy patching my friends Win2k clients to get rid of blaster. *sigh*
You are possibly a troll but I will reply anway:
1. They will notice it's real when they are being shot in the head.
2. The far more disturbing aspect of videogames, violent or not, is that people are safe at home playing away their time while their leaders are fighting stupid wars. People are paralyzed with the media and therefore don't oppose to whatever terrible mistake their leaders might make.
3. You might not be familiar with some of the later sociobiological concepts but it is common to kill individuals of your own species and it is ok for evolution and selection. When it comes down to morals it might be wrong, but there are many examples in nature where killing in the same species is quite common and is being rewarded by evolution.
cu,
Lispy
I sometimes wish that there was a law against producing something like this. I am a liberal person and I believe in the free market but selling a machine as this is a sin imho.
;-)
Btw. i got three calendars and 100. Now I'm slowley recovering from my hangover those 100 bucks caused last night.
cu,
Lispy