NASA will have loads of engineers who will blue print and decide exactly what they want before making others bid for it.
Other contractors won't be specifically developing any technology then going to pitch it to NASA. NASA decides what they want, and gives the designs to others to develop. So yeah I think what I said above holds.
Yeah cheaper access to code is better, more competition makes the field better but there is a point when you realise that programming is difficult work!
For crap applications sure you can knock something out relatively quickly but it definitely won't be bug free or stable! It takes a lot of a software engineers time to get design a good app.
Would you suggest that a software engineer should be paid less than a civil engineer? or a electrical engineer? Proper software development is difficult, tiring and sometimes thankless work( because a lot of manager types don't understand how complex coding can be ) which should be rewarded in the bare minimum with a good wage.
Yeah they did, it was too stop the chinese from adopting red flag linux(their own build of linux) as their operating system for the government. The Chinese basically said they wouldn't trust MS not to spy on them without seeing the source code.
His maths are fine, he was replying to a comment that mentioned IE 6, which was released side by side with Win XP(2001). Now IE 1 has been available since 95 or 96.
When I was younger and went to church, I asked this question to the local minister who replied that the bible talks about 'behemoths'. Always wondered why more church folk didn't use this stance.
Seems a better excuse that the standard crap!
Wonder if stuff like this will affect how google, ms, yahoo etc do business in france? Maybe they'll have less incentive to have any offices there? Any newcomers into the field would definitely would view extra taxes as a turn off from having an office in france!
Great fun as a console, but there is no denying that it had a huge problems. Scratching discs (which could be fixed by placing padding into the optical drive, pretty lame for ms not to include said padding in the first place!), failing optical drives and of course rrod! Those can be described as pretty lame!
I did my degree in computer science at Heriot Watt in Scotland, where it was frowned upon to use anything but linux. Basically every lecturer encouraged and used some variant of it, usually pushing fluxbox and terminal use.
Great uni.
Funny thing is, when you look at the cost of installing and maintaining current gen industrial robotics it more often that not works out cheaper to just keep the current human workforce! Then if you had people operating machines previously, you can retrain them to be technicians for the robots. So their will be jobs for some of them.
This may change as robots become more advanced, but not likely for a long time. Especially when you keep in mind the fact that the majority of robots are just arms.
I highly doubt that people would starve or simply become state funded layabouts however. There will always be low level rubbishy jobs that will require a human presence.
Of course it will run linux. Slide out screen will function the same way as running dual monitors. Finger print scanner? HP has had them for years. So have lenovo probably. Infact I've seen linux software to run finger print scanners in the past!
Wacom tablet? Bloody well ought to.
Everything else will be fine.
Don't understand why you were modded insightful.
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That actually destroys a little bit more of my faith in NASA :(
But don't they just 'make' the equipment, opposed to NASA designing the crafts?
But all designed by NASA yeah?
NASA will have loads of engineers who will blue print and decide exactly what they want before making others bid for it.
Other contractors won't be specifically developing any technology then going to pitch it to NASA. NASA decides what they want, and gives the designs to others to develop. So yeah I think what I said above holds.
Private companies with little experience vs all of NASA's experience??
They really need to rethink retiring the shuttles untill ares/constellation or whatever its called is running.
Yeah cheaper access to code is better, more competition makes the field better but there is a point when you realise that programming is difficult work!
For crap applications sure you can knock something out relatively quickly but it definitely won't be bug free or stable! It takes a lot of a software engineers time to get design a good app.
Would you suggest that a software engineer should be paid less than a civil engineer? or a electrical engineer? Proper software development is difficult, tiring and sometimes thankless work( because a lot of manager types don't understand how complex coding can be ) which should be rewarded in the bare minimum with a good wage.
that software dev wages are now so low, even in India. How low can they really push these wages??
Wouldn't want any of my important data stored on a system which has performance issues...
Or having to wait significantly longer than I would storing my data locally!
Yeah they did, it was too stop the chinese from adopting red flag linux(their own build of linux) as their operating system for the government. The Chinese basically said they wouldn't trust MS not to spy on them without seeing the source code.
His maths are fine, he was replying to a comment that mentioned IE 6, which was released side by side with Win XP(2001). Now IE 1 has been available since 95 or 96.
When I was younger and went to church, I asked this question to the local minister who replied that the bible talks about 'behemoths'. Always wondered why more church folk didn't use this stance. Seems a better excuse that the standard crap!
Wonder if stuff like this will affect how google, ms, yahoo etc do business in france? Maybe they'll have less incentive to have any offices there? Any newcomers into the field would definitely would view extra taxes as a turn off from having an office in france!
Great fun as a console, but there is no denying that it had a huge problems. Scratching discs (which could be fixed by placing padding into the optical drive, pretty lame for ms not to include said padding in the first place!), failing optical drives and of course rrod! Those can be described as pretty lame!
it was a hell of a lot more stable than the old 95/98/me MS-DOS overlaid-with-a-desktop model
I might be wrong, but isn't that the same model that most *nix & bsd systems follow? Same basic terminal, with a GUI over it?
I did my degree in computer science at Heriot Watt in Scotland, where it was frowned upon to use anything but linux. Basically every lecturer encouraged and used some variant of it, usually pushing fluxbox and terminal use. Great uni.
Funny thing is, when you look at the cost of installing and maintaining current gen industrial robotics it more often that not works out cheaper to just keep the current human workforce! Then if you had people operating machines previously, you can retrain them to be technicians for the robots. So their will be jobs for some of them. This may change as robots become more advanced, but not likely for a long time. Especially when you keep in mind the fact that the majority of robots are just arms. I highly doubt that people would starve or simply become state funded layabouts however. There will always be low level rubbishy jobs that will require a human presence.
Of course it will run linux. Slide out screen will function the same way as running dual monitors. Finger print scanner? HP has had them for years. So have lenovo probably. Infact I've seen linux software to run finger print scanners in the past! Wacom tablet? Bloody well ought to. Everything else will be fine. Don't understand why you were modded insightful.
http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/05/15/q1-2008-client-os-vulnerability-scorecard.aspx Really don't know how 'truthful' this article is, but it appears to show OS X as really quite vulnerable.