Windows, Office, Xbox, those are all bread winners and they are not going away. So what if they are a bit late to the Tablet and Phone business? It's funny how "mobile" technology enthusiasts are so edgy and angry all the time.
Vacuum tubes are good enough for computers to compute, I don't see a reason to delay things just to attempt to come up with a better system.
--- ok now to be serious ---
Most everything to be learned from limited rocket based spaceflight has already been learned. The space program has got to the point where now it is mostly just a huge money drain. Granted there are occasionally still some interesting things learned with current space travel but nothing truly exceptional. If NASA can help make space travel profitable and commonplace then they will have done something truly great for all humanity till the end of our existence. That seems like a pretty darned good reason to put more effort into it.
If NASA doesn't start doing physics research we will be using rockets forever. Comon guys, enough of this rocket club stuff, let's see some real progress. No more playing around in Arizona pretending to be on Mars. You have to figure out how to get there before you start doing that. NASA should be involved with CERN and the LHC. This isn't 1969 anymore.
Huh? NASA needs to worry more about the fundamental physical problems related to propulsion, asteroid mining, permanent space habitats, cost, and safety. All that stuff is a bit more important to take care of before you start doing practice space walks. At NASA's current rate of technological research and development those guys will be long dead and forgotten before anyone even needs that kind of training. NASA is totally focused on the wrong problems. It's like they don't even notice that they have absolutely no technology or physics understanding to do these things.
Playing in the water instead of developing technology needed to make space life sustainable. NASA should be more like the LHC and less like a playground.
Ok so you will pay $10K. That isn't totally unreasonable, but how many times are you willing to pay 10K to visit space? If there aren't enough sustained customers they will not be able to stay in business. Then you have the question of safety.
People have tried and failed before. Repeatedly. It's not impossible but it is improbable. ARM sure has a whole lot of work to do if it is to go from being an anorexic featureless simpleton CPU into a flexible *and* powerful desktop and server CPU.
That's odd because Apple corporation isn't very liberal compared to it's PC counterparts. Of course they are all responsible for terrible manufacturing practices in China and all around the world.
They explode, they are unreliable, they are slow, they have to be really huge to move only a small amount of mass, you need an army of PhD's to keep just one of them under control, and they smell like pee.
Frankly most of the space programs money should go to projects like the LHC which will eventually solve actual problems which will enable true space faring ships and energy production facilities.
Rockets are for people who think small.
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so why does that mean there is that much water is on the moon now?
the original Christian version of the Taliban. One would have to expect occasional insanity. Here's hoping there are more sane people than crazies.
Windows, Office, Xbox, those are all bread winners and they are not going away. So what if they are a bit late to the Tablet and Phone business? It's funny how "mobile" technology enthusiasts are so edgy and angry all the time.
If AT&T hadn't locked up $39,000,000,000 they could have rolled out LTE in more than a mere 5 cities.
I wouldn't consider anywhere inside the solar system as being deep space.
Vacuum tubes are good enough for computers to compute, I don't see a reason to delay things just to attempt to come up with a better system. --- ok now to be serious --- Most everything to be learned from limited rocket based spaceflight has already been learned. The space program has got to the point where now it is mostly just a huge money drain. Granted there are occasionally still some interesting things learned with current space travel but nothing truly exceptional. If NASA can help make space travel profitable and commonplace then they will have done something truly great for all humanity till the end of our existence. That seems like a pretty darned good reason to put more effort into it.
If it does we will blame you. It will be your fault. I hope you're happy.
If NASA doesn't start doing physics research we will be using rockets forever. Comon guys, enough of this rocket club stuff, let's see some real progress. No more playing around in Arizona pretending to be on Mars. You have to figure out how to get there before you start doing that. NASA should be involved with CERN and the LHC. This isn't 1969 anymore.
Fascinating, so abuse is what people want? This reminds me of that recent article talking about how Apple shows up like religion on an MRI scan. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/19/apple.religion/
Huh? NASA needs to worry more about the fundamental physical problems related to propulsion, asteroid mining, permanent space habitats, cost, and safety. All that stuff is a bit more important to take care of before you start doing practice space walks. At NASA's current rate of technological research and development those guys will be long dead and forgotten before anyone even needs that kind of training. NASA is totally focused on the wrong problems. It's like they don't even notice that they have absolutely no technology or physics understanding to do these things.
Playing in the water instead of developing technology needed to make space life sustainable. NASA should be more like the LHC and less like a playground.
that they could loose a piece of closed source software? That must have some comic value.
They run IE6.
Ok so you will pay $10K. That isn't totally unreasonable, but how many times are you willing to pay 10K to visit space? If there aren't enough sustained customers they will not be able to stay in business. Then you have the question of safety.
someone finds a way to replace rockets with something much more sustainable, reliable, and safe.
If I had to work all day on this PC I would simply buy one for work. There is no way a P4 with 512mb is going to get the job done in 2011.
take a towel from the maid's cart. It isn't registered to anyone and they are always sitting there in the hallway unattended.
People have tried and failed before. Repeatedly. It's not impossible but it is improbable. ARM sure has a whole lot of work to do if it is to go from being an anorexic featureless simpleton CPU into a flexible *and* powerful desktop and server CPU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAtrkMGNp0o&feature=channel_video_title
That's odd because Apple corporation isn't very liberal compared to it's PC counterparts. Of course they are all responsible for terrible manufacturing practices in China and all around the world.
I live in Florida too. These people are nuts.
So like, do they sell paperwork or something?
They explode, they are unreliable, they are slow, they have to be really huge to move only a small amount of mass, you need an army of PhD's to keep just one of them under control, and they smell like pee. Frankly most of the space programs money should go to projects like the LHC which will eventually solve actual problems which will enable true space faring ships and energy production facilities. Rockets are for people who think small.
security through obscurity but never security through religion. Or wait, no, nm yea I have.
I prefer my clouds to be in the sky. I also prefer not to go over my 250GB monthly cap.