atmospereis prettymuch non-existent compared to earth. THe gravity pull is 0.34g IIRC. Yes,we'll need more trust than when we're on the moon, but still fairly small. The actual spaceship for the trip back would be in orbit around mars.
bah, Unix in it's very first incarnation was a single user system.
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bloody hell, didn't know that. Even better, IMHO!!
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mind you, QT is GPL'ed for GPL'ed apps to use. If Trolltech went down the drain or withdraw their licence you could always fork the latest GPL'ed QT and take over the development of it. From what I know Trolltech the KDE ppl work very closely when it comes to KDE. After all KDE is a proof and a very good showcase for Trolltech of what you can do with QT.
well, I knew fsckall about scamjet until I read you comment, so the honours all yours!;-) Was a very good thread back there IMHO.
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...and me. Got bit worried when my mate went over to her parents and they all ended up sitting in a room on their own all weekend playing Sims. So much for socialising with your parents....
scramjet seems pretty hairy and scary. If I may use a link form a fellow slashdotter: here while it might be elegant I fail to see why it would be more elegant than a space elevator, but I suppose taste differs!;-)
Can think of quite a few different sellers of military equipment, but a large chunk comes from the US, yes, but this is mostly sold to other NATO countries, am I wrong? What I wonder is *why* you feel such a need to have such an enormous army that you can pretty much obliterate *any* other like nothing, why so paranoid, why the need to 'stay ahead'?
Possible, space research isn't only about getting new and exiting product from though. It's also about learning how to move on from this planet before it's too late. As they say, don't put all egg in one basket. We *need* to colonize other places part from earth. Well, in my opinion at least.
They're necessary purchases if the US is going to have an effective military.
Jesus, you already spend 40% of the worlds total spending on arms. and you want more? Look, pretty much all other countries got even older equipment than the stuff you're phasing out. Calm down over there for christ sake, noone can touch you anyway if it comes to a conventional war.
Well, with linux you got the patent problem instead. Which is why I'm not totally against RedHat taking some patents as a preemptive measure (After all - I really doubt RH would dare to fsck the OS movement - it would hit them back bigtime).
Well, it suits some people as GPL suits some other people. Doubt MS would be able to do an embrace and extend and somehow lock out the BSD family of OS. Can't see anything they can do that would stop *BSD to work as it does today. Yeah, they might get good code for free which they can use as they like in their closed source project, but if that disturbs you, then I guess the BSD licence, as you said, isn't for you, go for the GPL were you're got guarantees that your code will stay OS. Mind you, I don't see it as a competition in the way that MS must die.die.die and Linux/*BSD must take over the world. If Linux/*BSD grows that's great and it's fun to see MS sweat a bit, but I'm quite happy as things are now. If MS gets down to 70%-60% of the market they're no longer a monopoly and they can't then really pull of some of the nasty stuff they do from time to time. That's pretty fine with me.
Not all proprietary software is MS. Set linux up against VMS, Solaris, OS/400 or rtLinux up against QNX and see who comes out the winner in both stability and reliability.
I believe the russians have agreed to take care of the ISS if they can get additional funding. My question is though: They used the shuttle to boost the orbit of ISS, can the russians do the same? ISS might be in trouble otherwise. I can't see how people would be ready to just burn up the rather high amount of $$$$ that ISS cost in the atmosphere - well I dearly hope not.
Was Multics actually fully implemented at some point? I seem to remember it was scrapped by Bell Labs(it was them, wasn't it?). As you said, beautiful system, but ahead of its time!
Sorry, MS didn't screw IBM. IBM used to be the really, really bad bully in the good old days and just MS they had the threat of being split up like MS was. They never really recovered from that fight with the feds. Add quite alot of missed and badly handled business opportunities and we got IBM where they are today. True, they are nicer now, but don't trust them too much, they are using Linux as a mean to get even with MS. (which, yes, screwed them, but if IBM been clever enough they could have wiped MS ass back in the days). Not that I'm saying MS is all good, yeah they done shitty stuff - but they're not the whole reason why things are like they are today.
Sometimes you're just humble. I might bith and moan about slashdot every now and then, but stories like this makes me realise why I end up reading slashdot pretty much every day. Cudos to all of you keeping slashdot up, and that includes the people in the forum as well. yeah I'm drunk and it's over 6 o'clock here in the UK. but I just wanted to give some credit back to the people here. cheers...
we wouldn't really speed up or anything. We would just stop our 'fall' around the sun and go in a straight line instead. in 8 min we wouldn't come very much further away from the sun as we currently are - a bit though so yeah, we might get a *tiny, tiny* bit of extra sunlight. Mind you, bettar take all we can get if that should happen!;-)
well, the Registry is the tabloid of Software news, and yes, they show pretty clearly where they have their sympathies. Not that it makes MS behavoiur any better, but I prefer to double-check with other sources as well usually. Haven't found any for this story though, mind you, haven't looked that hard. Anyone knows any other links?
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atmospereis prettymuch non-existent compared to earth. THe gravity pull is 0.34g IIRC. Yes,we'll need more trust than when we're on the moon, but still fairly small. The actual spaceship for the trip back would be in orbit around mars.
bah, Unix in it's very first incarnation was a single user system.
bloody hell, didn't know that. Even better, IMHO!!
mind you, QT is GPL'ed for GPL'ed apps to use. If Trolltech went down the drain or withdraw their licence you could always fork the latest GPL'ed QT and take over the development of it. From what I know Trolltech the KDE ppl work very closely when it comes to KDE. After all KDE is a proof and a very good showcase for Trolltech of what you can do with QT.
well, I knew fsckall about scamjet until I read you comment, so the honours all yours! ;-)
Was a very good thread back there IMHO.
...and me. Got bit worried when my mate went over to her parents and they all ended up sitting in a room on their own all weekend playing Sims. So much for socialising with your parents....
scramjet seems pretty hairy and scary. If I may use a link form a fellow slashdotter: ;-)
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while it might be elegant I fail to see why it would be more elegant than a space elevator, but I suppose taste differs!
Can think of quite a few different sellers of military equipment, but a large chunk comes from the US, yes, but this is mostly sold to other NATO countries, am I wrong?
What I wonder is *why* you feel such a need to have such an enormous army that you can pretty much obliterate *any* other like nothing, why so paranoid, why the need to 'stay ahead'?
Possible, space research isn't only about getting new and exiting product from though. It's also about learning how to move on from this planet before it's too late. As they say, don't put all egg in one basket. We *need* to colonize other places part from earth. Well, in my opinion at least.
They're necessary purchases if the US is going to have an effective military.
Jesus, you already spend 40% of the worlds total spending on arms. and you want more? Look, pretty much all other countries got even older equipment than the stuff you're phasing out. Calm down over there for christ sake, noone can touch you anyway if it comes to a conventional war.
Well, with linux you got the patent problem instead. Which is why I'm not totally against RedHat taking some patents as a preemptive measure (After all - I really doubt RH would dare to fsck the OS movement - it would hit them back bigtime).
Well, it suits some people as GPL suits some other people. Doubt MS would be able to do an embrace and extend and somehow lock out the BSD family of OS. Can't see anything they can do that would stop *BSD to work as it does today. Yeah, they might get good code for free which they can use as they like in their closed source project, but if that disturbs you, then I guess the BSD licence, as you said, isn't for you, go for the GPL were you're got guarantees that your code will stay OS.
Mind you, I don't see it as a competition in the way that MS must die.die.die and Linux/*BSD must take over the world. If Linux/*BSD grows that's great and it's fun to see MS sweat a bit, but I'm quite happy as things are now. If MS gets down to 70%-60% of the market they're no longer a monopoly and they can't then really pull of some of the nasty stuff they do from time to time. That's pretty fine with me.
Not all proprietary software is MS. Set linux up against VMS, Solaris, OS/400 or rtLinux up against QNX and see who comes out the winner in both stability and reliability.
an OS? bah! It's a way of life!!!
I believe the russians have agreed to take care of the ISS if they can get additional funding. My question is though: They used the shuttle to boost the orbit of ISS, can the russians do the same? ISS might be in trouble otherwise. I can't see how people would be ready to just burn up the rather high amount of $$$$ that ISS cost in the atmosphere - well I dearly hope not.
I thought they rolled in order to spread the heat more evenly?
Was Multics actually fully implemented at some point? I seem to remember it was scrapped by Bell Labs(it was them, wasn't it?).
As you said, beautiful system, but ahead of its time!
Sorry, MS didn't screw IBM. IBM used to be the really, really bad bully in the good old days and just MS they had the threat of being split up like MS was. They never really recovered from that fight with the feds. Add quite alot of missed and badly handled business opportunities and we got IBM where they are today. True, they are nicer now, but don't trust them too much, they are using Linux as a mean to get even with MS. (which, yes, screwed them, but if IBM been clever enough they could have wiped MS ass back in the days).
Not that I'm saying MS is all good, yeah they done shitty stuff - but they're not the whole reason why things are like they are today.
well, you're spending around 40% of the world's total spending on weapons. Isn't that a bit... excessive maybe?
Sometimes you're just humble.
I might bith and moan about slashdot every now and then, but stories like this makes me realise why I end up reading slashdot pretty much every day. Cudos to all of you keeping slashdot up, and that includes the people in the forum as well.
yeah I'm drunk and it's over 6 o'clock here in the UK. but I just wanted to give some credit back to the people here. cheers...
well energy is just mass in another form. dunno how the gravity would be affected though...
anyone knows?
we wouldn't really speed up or anything. We would just stop our 'fall' around the sun and go in a straight line instead. in 8 min we wouldn't come very much further away from the sun as we currently are - a bit though so yeah, we might get a *tiny, tiny* bit of extra sunlight. Mind you, bettar take all we can get if that should happen! ;-)
just scrap the entire OS and write something that works
well that pretty much what they've done with PalmOS 5 IIRC
Ah, thanks for the link! ;-)
Nice use of Java - must say. downloading the SDK now. Haven't done any Java since 1.0.2 though (oh, those were the days)!
point taken. I do think Qt is an alternative as well, to MONO/Java. Yes, you have to recompile, but still.
well, the Registry is the tabloid of Software news, and yes, they show pretty clearly where they have their sympathies. Not that it makes MS behavoiur any better, but I prefer to double-check with other sources as well usually. Haven't found any for this story though, mind you, haven't looked that hard. Anyone knows any other links?