put two compartments in, one with a tighter radius, (and thus lower gravity) - then they can simulate TWO different microgravity environments in ONE experiment (I recommend Lunar and Martian).
More free time for me to read books/surf the net/game/work on my car/etc.
Seriously. Commercial TV is dead. We'll keep skipping commercials as long as it's still technically feasible to do so. Studios will cease making series that run multiple years, or cost tons of money. And ALL of Human Civilization will be better off.
I wonder why the contractor didn't just finish it on their own, then sell the finished product. You know, like the rest of private industry does every day.
My wife has one of these. Absolutely top-notch pictures!
It looks like a cheap peice of crap camera too - not at all likely to get stolen.
For this reason, when we went camcorder shopping, we got the Sony with the Carl Zeiss lens. I've dumped video to my Mac from three different MiniDV cameras, and my Sony is by FAR the best image quality.
Which is why, when I buy a digital still camera, I've got my sights set on the rather pricy 5-megapixel Sony model with the Zeiss lens (as far as I can tell, Sony has a monopoly on Zeiss lenses in this market. (the p&s form factor is most attractive; what good is a camera if you always leave it at home because it's too bulky? You'll NEVER catch those UFO shots!).
Given the ambient temperatures (usually very very cold), and humitidy (presumably zero), and the fine-grained nature of the dust, it would not at all suprise me if there was a good deal of static charge going on - likely the cause of the apparent cohesive properties.
You've got to ask yourself, why is it we're funding public education.
Are we doing it to make sure that every American knows how to read and write, and that every American will be able to compete in the global job market, so that we can attain a standard of academic excellence in our nation?
Or is it so we can get everyone hooked on sports to fuel the pro sports/entertainment industry?
Traditions are fine and dandy - but they should NEVER take precidence over the real purpose of school.
Because you can't piss on the moon. But you can apparently have a pissing contest to get there.
I hope you lazy fucks are going to get off your asses and VOTE this November. . . Because this horseshit plan is going to GUT space exploration as we know it.
But all of this funding for these science programs is just giving the Global-Warming chicken littles more ammunition.
Why should Halliburton have to pay it's hard-earned taxes to fund scientific missions that will produce data that would justify putting them out of business?
Funnel more money into the rocket and bomb makers, sure. But this touchy-feely tree-hugger crap has got to go./sarcasm
Personally, I'm still looking for a price-point in the 25 to 50 cent per track range. (as long as the track's at least 2 minutes). 99 cents is too much. I'm still tempted to find a different and cheaper source, so 99 cents isn't competitive.
The data should be free. Customer pays for convenience.
I agree - performance-wise, they've been the walking dead for the last 5 years. The likes of Alladin, or The Lion King (admittedly a ripoff) were followed by formulaic cheap tripe.
This is probably a good move for the company. They already bled the talent from the studio years ago.
They'll probably reverse this decision in another 5 years, but by then it will be too late, and they'll be unable to find the talent to re-build what they had, and they'll falter for a few more.
That said - Disney's animation and entertainment was the central draw. The theme parks capitalized on that, but they couldn't possibly reach the same number of customers with just parks. Once the accountants were turned loose, it became a cynical, money-driven enterprise. The heart and soul of Disney have died, and the body is soon to follow.
When GUI programs become as easy to port to Windows by just recompiling, it will be attractive to developers to write to Linux, because for very little additional effort, you get both platforms. And more cross-platform software appears. Making it even easier to eventually switch to Linux (for people using cross platform software).
Has this begun to happen to OS X? I don't really know of a single commercial app where the Unix alternative is favored over the Cocoa port. Even Mozilla.
You charge what the market can bear. And the market has been able to bear a $700 price tag (or whatever they're charging). As proof of this, I submit the fact that Adobe is still in business.
That reasoning is fallacious. Certainly, there are enough people who CAN bear a $700 price tag, to keep Adobe in business. But not everyone can bear a $700 price tag. The price tag determines the size of the market (minus piracy).
Certainly, when you're talking about something like software, the size of the market figures heavily in to the overall long term success of the software. I submit that the fact that Unix has been free and open (comparatively) has created, in the marketplace, a large number of people who trained themselves on the complexity of Unix. If each of these people had to pay $700 to do so, I'd say that 90% of them would be in some other line of work. And therefore, the market for Unix products would be about 10% of what it is.
Teenagers who pirated photoshop - learned the complexities of the tool, many of those grew up, became professionals, and paid for legitimate copies. Without piracy, (and a near-monopoly) I seriously doubt Adobe would have the marketshare it has today. Adobe did not get where it is today based on a simple model of market economics and a $700 price tag.
Look at OS X. Look at the recent, sudden success of OS X - partially due to the massive influx of software from the Unix world. Hell, they're running Konquerer on OS X now.
But this is just another thing Microsoft can control. They ship this free; Then development on the alternatives slows or stops. That's Samba. Or OpenOffice for Windows (we'll see an OpenOffice that runs in X off of this SFU kit). etc. etc.
Then, when Microsoft chooses, they simply break this kit, with a hotfix bundled with a crucial security patch.
Then these open projects are back at square one. At the very least, there will be zealots who will maintain these projects (One hopes!). But this move will take the wind out of their sails for sure. Not that I'm complaining, because for what I do, I really really need something that provides this functionality, and I can't get procurement to agree to cygwin, but they will agree to this. Especially if it's free!
It's not like these guys are taking off with 200 passengers, flying a relatively straight and level path to a civillian airport, and setting down.
These guys are training, flying low and fast, doing high-speed maneuvers, pushing themselves and their equipment to, and sometimes past the limits.
It's no suprise to me that they crash once in a while.
I went to high school with a woman who crashed her A-10 in Arizona about 5 years ago. She was flying at low altitude, at night, with Night Vision equipment. I have no doubt that she was a top-notch pilot, her record spoke for itself. It was a very difficult set of conditions, and the fact that she crashed, in my mind, in no way reflects on her capabilities as a pilot, or the US Military's overall quality regarding pilots and training in general.
If GWBush could fly one. . . then I seriously doubt your assertion that "anyone allowed to fly a jet is a highly trained and very disciplined individual."
They are saving the images, and keeping them private. If you disagree with this - answer me this. Is ANYONE - including scholars, able to go in to Corbis archives and review the Leonardo DaVinci Codex? Or is this knowledge socked away in a private vault, protected by IP Laws. Because if THAT'S the case, then the damn thing may as well have been tossed into a fire.
Slashdot Mirror
If there's no firewire, it doesn't compete with iPod.
Period.
put two compartments in, one with a tighter radius, (and thus lower gravity) - then they can simulate TWO different microgravity environments in ONE experiment (I recommend Lunar and Martian).
When they start putting the dots in pr0n images, that will be the END of the internet.
Indeed; there is no such thing as an "orbital paperweight". More of an orbital papermass.
More free time for me to read books/surf the net/game/work on my car/etc.
Seriously. Commercial TV is dead. We'll keep skipping commercials as long as it's still technically feasible to do so. Studios will cease making series that run multiple years, or cost tons of money. And ALL of Human Civilization will be better off.
Expect the next shuttle (Bush said that there will be a next one) to reflect the lessons of the X-33/Venturestar project.
. . . and expect the Russian version to look an awful lot like it too. . .
I wonder why the contractor didn't just finish it on their own, then sell the finished product. You know, like the rest of private industry does every day.
I'm SURE they could find a buyer.
The real problem is; even if you're #2:
2) Those who feel a need to defend themselves from (1)
eventually, a despot will come to power in your country, and will have those resources at their command. And you become #1:
1) The agressors
By now, I'm pretty much convinced it's inevitable.
4) It should be able to travel in weather conditions impossible for planes
How do you clear 1000km of track after a freezing-rain storm?
RSI?
I knew you could. . .
My wife has one of these. Absolutely top-notch pictures!
It looks like a cheap peice of crap camera too - not at all likely to get stolen.
For this reason, when we went camcorder shopping, we got the Sony with the Carl Zeiss lens. I've dumped video to my Mac from three different MiniDV cameras, and my Sony is by FAR the best image quality.
Which is why, when I buy a digital still camera, I've got my sights set on the rather pricy 5-megapixel Sony model with the Zeiss lens (as far as I can tell, Sony has a monopoly on Zeiss lenses in this market. (the p&s form factor is most attractive; what good is a camera if you always leave it at home because it's too bulky? You'll NEVER catch those UFO shots!).
Given the ambient temperatures (usually very very cold), and humitidy (presumably zero), and the fine-grained nature of the dust, it would not at all suprise me if there was a good deal of static charge going on - likely the cause of the apparent cohesive properties.
Or how about periodically charging them to repel statically-charged dust particles.
Really, for $400 Million, you'd think someone would have thought of this stuff.
You've got to ask yourself, why is it we're funding public education.
Are we doing it to make sure that every American knows how to read and write, and that every American will be able to compete in the global job market, so that we can attain a standard of academic excellence in our nation?
Or is it so we can get everyone hooked on sports to fuel the pro sports/entertainment industry?
Traditions are fine and dandy - but they should NEVER take precidence over the real purpose of school.
Because you can't piss on the moon. But you can apparently have a pissing contest to get there.
I hope you lazy fucks are going to get off your asses and VOTE this November. . . Because this horseshit plan is going to GUT space exploration as we know it.
But all of this funding for these science programs is just giving the Global-Warming chicken littles more ammunition.
/sarcasm
Why should Halliburton have to pay it's hard-earned taxes to fund scientific missions that will produce data that would justify putting them out of business?
Funnel more money into the rocket and bomb makers, sure. But this touchy-feely tree-hugger crap has got to go.
Personally, I'm still looking for a price-point in the 25 to 50 cent per track range. (as long as the track's at least 2 minutes). 99 cents is too much. I'm still tempted to find a different and cheaper source, so 99 cents isn't competitive.
The data should be free. Customer pays for convenience.
I agree - performance-wise, they've been the walking dead for the last 5 years. The likes of Alladin, or The Lion King (admittedly a ripoff) were followed by formulaic cheap tripe.
This is probably a good move for the company. They already bled the talent from the studio years ago.
They'll probably reverse this decision in another 5 years, but by then it will be too late, and they'll be unable to find the talent to re-build what they had, and they'll falter for a few more.
That said - Disney's animation and entertainment was the central draw. The theme parks capitalized on that, but they couldn't possibly reach the same number of customers with just parks.
Once the accountants were turned loose, it became a cynical, money-driven enterprise. The heart and soul of Disney have died, and the body is soon to follow.
When GUI programs become as easy to port to Windows by just recompiling, it will be attractive to developers to write to Linux, because for very little additional effort, you get both platforms. And more cross-platform software appears. Making it even easier to eventually switch to Linux (for people using cross platform software).
Has this begun to happen to OS X? I don't really know of a single commercial app where the Unix alternative is favored over the Cocoa port. Even Mozilla.
You charge what the market can bear. And the market has been able to bear a $700 price tag (or whatever they're charging). As proof of this, I submit the fact that Adobe is still in business.
That reasoning is fallacious.
Certainly, there are enough people who CAN bear a $700 price tag, to keep Adobe in business. But not everyone can bear a $700 price tag. The price tag determines the size of the market (minus piracy).
Certainly, when you're talking about something like software, the size of the market figures heavily in to the overall long term success of the software. I submit that the fact that Unix has been free and open (comparatively) has created, in the marketplace, a large number of people who trained themselves on the complexity of Unix. If each of these people had to pay $700 to do so, I'd say that 90% of them would be in some other line of work. And therefore, the market for Unix products would be about 10% of what it is.
Teenagers who pirated photoshop - learned the complexities of the tool, many of those grew up, became professionals, and paid for legitimate copies.
Without piracy, (and a near-monopoly) I seriously doubt Adobe would have the marketshare it has today.
Adobe did not get where it is today based on a simple model of market economics and a $700 price tag.
You're absofuckinlutely right.
Look at OS X. Look at the recent, sudden success of OS X - partially due to the massive influx of software from the Unix world. Hell, they're running Konquerer on OS X now.
But this is just another thing Microsoft can control.
They ship this free;
Then development on the alternatives slows or stops. That's Samba. Or OpenOffice for Windows (we'll see an OpenOffice that runs in X off of this SFU kit). etc. etc.
Then, when Microsoft chooses, they simply break this kit, with a hotfix bundled with a crucial security patch.
Then these open projects are back at square one. At the very least, there will be zealots who will maintain these projects (One hopes!). But this move will take the wind out of their sails for sure. Not that I'm complaining, because for what I do, I really really need something that provides this functionality, and I can't get procurement to agree to cygwin, but they will agree to this. Especially if it's free!
It's not like these guys are taking off with 200 passengers, flying a relatively straight and level path to a civillian airport, and setting down.
These guys are training, flying low and fast, doing high-speed maneuvers, pushing themselves and their equipment to, and sometimes past the limits.
It's no suprise to me that they crash once in a while.
I went to high school with a woman who crashed her A-10 in Arizona about 5 years ago. She was flying at low altitude, at night, with Night Vision equipment. I have no doubt that she was a top-notch pilot, her record spoke for itself. It was a very difficult set of conditions, and the fact that she crashed, in my mind, in no way reflects on her capabilities as a pilot, or the US Military's overall quality regarding pilots and training in general.
If GWBush could fly one. . . then I seriously doubt your assertion that "anyone allowed to fly a jet is a highly trained and very disciplined individual."
They are saving the images, and keeping them private.
If you disagree with this - answer me this. Is ANYONE - including scholars, able to go in to Corbis archives and review the Leonardo DaVinci Codex? Or is this knowledge socked away in a private vault, protected by IP Laws. Because if THAT'S the case, then the damn thing may as well have been tossed into a fire.
one has to wonder if we are going to have the same historical record 50, 60 or 100 years from now that we currently have
.. not if Bill Gates and Corbis have anything to say about it. . .
.