Why is so absolutely necessary to have a fleet of reusable space vehicles? Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a simpler, cheaper, one-time-use vehicle that can be customized for each mission and then scrapped for parts upon landing? I mean, $500 million per launch is a lot, and reducing complexity and reusability requirements could probably go a long way toward reducing that. Why is "reusable" such a huge buzzword?
Except for one, which is to be named Phoenix. This will be used to browse the Interplanetary Internet. Wailing and gnashing of teeth is scheduled to begin at the second syzygy after the hour.
I would not call the GameCube stylish. If anyone was trying too hard, it was Nintendo. The Playstation2, on the other hand, is excellent in appearance.
But if these chips are eventually used to replace hard drives, this would be detrimental to people who want to move their drive to another machine and keep the data on it. Like if you had it filled with 100 GB of mp3/avi files that you wanted to move to your new computer... you wouldn't want that highly touted "non-volatile" memory to zap itself if you ever tried to move it, would you? On the other hand, a certain company, let's call them Microsoft, might be very interested in the destruction of data on removable of components from a system.
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Well, look at it this way: Texans pride themselves on the geographic size of their state, and outer space is probably big enough that it might be able to Mess With Texas.;)
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Or when you think about the thousands of Iraqis Saddam Hussein killed, and you realize that you're ignoring how many of them the United States incited to rebellion with the promise of support which never materialized.
It would be pretty easy to write a better word processor than Microsoft Word, for example, but Microsoft, within the castle of their operating system monopoly, probably wouldn't even notice if you did.
Then why hasn't anyone done it? If OpenOffice actually does someday become better than MS Office, people will take notice. No matter how rapidly Open Source you are, you have to realize that MS has the best word processor out there; it isn't going to be that easy to top them. However, I say all the more power to anyone who wants to do it.
Okay, so the guy is publishing his own book and he got it posted on Slashdot. A lot of people here claim to be interested in these topics, but how many are willing to put their money where their mouth is and order a copy of the book? And how many are just going to take advantage of the Creative Commons license and download it in a couple of months?
Note: I just preordered one via Paypal. Even if I don't use it to help me hack my Xbox, I think this guy deserves support.
Actually, right now we're more at the Leif Erickson stage, or Christopher Columbus if you prefer. But without people showing that is could be done, Lewis and Clark never would have gone further. The trail still needs blazing.
Ummm... because everyone would be a little more worried about lasers sitting on a satellite that are designed to shoot things on Earth than they would be about a shotgun inside a capsule. I mean, what if they did shoot it toward Earth? Is anything in danger? And if they shot it in space, they would screw themselves up just about as much as they would the target (momentum change from the discharge). I wouldn't worry about it.
The Energia engineer noted that one of the astronauts "pushed a wrong button" while the capsule was still in orbit, but he insisted that this could not have affected the descent. He said Mission Control noticed the error and corrected it before it could have done any damage.
So it really wasn't the astronaut's fault, at least according to the Russians.
Maybe it's best not to bring these kinds of situations up. After all, we might start bombing fishing boats and FedEx trucks on account of the clear and present danger they obviously pose to national security...
Hey hey, my my BSD can never die There's more to the picture Than meets the eye. Hey hey, my my.
Out of the red and into the black You pay for this, but they give you that And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the red and into the black.
Linux is gone but he's not forgotten Is this the story of Johnny Rotten? It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps Linux is gone but he's not forgotten.
Hey hey, my my BSD can never die There's more to the picture Than meets the eye.
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Prostitution. That's older.
Why is so absolutely necessary to have a fleet of reusable space vehicles? Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a simpler, cheaper, one-time-use vehicle that can be customized for each mission and then scrapped for parts upon landing? I mean, $500 million per launch is a lot, and reducing complexity and reusability requirements could probably go a long way toward reducing that. Why is "reusable" such a huge buzzword?
Except for one, which is to be named Phoenix. This will be used to browse the Interplanetary Internet. Wailing and gnashing of teeth is scheduled to begin at the second syzygy after the hour.
If you asked you would get a big red "Terrorist" flag next to your name. I wouldn't try it.
Oh I know! One time I accidentally pressed '2' and my computer grew a leg and kicked me in the nuts. Who knew?
.ogg would be better. Jeez.
I would not call the GameCube stylish. If anyone was trying too hard, it was Nintendo. The Playstation2, on the other hand, is excellent in appearance.
Yup, because black and green are such atrocious colors...
But if these chips are eventually used to replace hard drives, this would be detrimental to people who want to move their drive to another machine and keep the data on it. Like if you had it filled with 100 GB of mp3/avi files that you wanted to move to your new computer... you wouldn't want that highly touted "non-volatile" memory to zap itself if you ever tried to move it, would you? On the other hand, a certain company, let's call them Microsoft, might be very interested in the destruction of data on removable of components from a system.
I think this device may comply with Part 15b...
Well, look at it this way: Texans pride themselves on the geographic size of their state, and outer space is probably big enough that it might be able to Mess With Texas. ;)
Or when you think about the thousands of Iraqis Saddam Hussein killed, and you realize that you're ignoring how many of them the United States incited to rebellion with the promise of support which never materialized.
It would be pretty easy to write a better word processor than Microsoft Word, for example, but Microsoft, within the castle of their operating system monopoly, probably wouldn't even notice if you did.
Then why hasn't anyone done it? If OpenOffice actually does someday become better than MS Office, people will take notice. No matter how rapidly Open Source you are, you have to realize that MS has the best word processor out there; it isn't going to be that easy to top them. However, I say all the more power to anyone who wants to do it.
Okay, so the guy is publishing his own book and he got it posted on Slashdot. A lot of people here claim to be interested in these topics, but how many are willing to put their money where their mouth is and order a copy of the book? And how many are just going to take advantage of the Creative Commons license and download it in a couple of months?
Note: I just preordered one via Paypal. Even if I don't use it to help me hack my Xbox, I think this guy deserves support.
Actually, right now we're more at the Leif Erickson stage, or Christopher Columbus if you prefer. But without people showing that is could be done, Lewis and Clark never would have gone further. The trail still needs blazing.
Ummm... because everyone would be a little more worried about lasers sitting on a satellite that are designed to shoot things on Earth than they would be about a shotgun inside a capsule. I mean, what if they did shoot it toward Earth? Is anything in danger? And if they shot it in space, they would screw themselves up just about as much as they would the target (momentum change from the discharge). I wouldn't worry about it.
So it really wasn't the astronaut's fault, at least according to the Russians.
Maybe it's best not to bring these kinds of situations up. After all, we might start bombing fishing boats and FedEx trucks on account of the clear and present danger they obviously pose to national security...
So here's a whole list from Google News.
Move to Mars.
In order to avoid such jokes as that one, the planet's name was changed to Urectum.
--Futurama
At least, that was before the boss discovered that little nugget and fixed your employment situation... ;)
Vincent Cerf... who is often referred to as the "father of the Internet."
Really? I thought Tim Berners-Lee was considered the father of the Internet. Or is there something going on here that we don't want to know about?
They can't be terrorists if they're rich; I mean come on, get your "facts" straight!
Hey hey, my my
BSD can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
Hey hey, my my.
Out of the red
and into the black
You pay for this,
but they give you that
And once you're gone,
you can't come back
When you're out of the red
and into the black.
Linux is gone
but he's not forgotten
Is this the story
of Johnny Rotten?
It's better to burn out
'cause rust never sleeps
Linux is gone
but he's not forgotten.
Hey hey, my my
BSD can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
--Neil Young (almost)