ahhhh, but I read the blurb as they don't mean to take off and come back to Earth. That being the case, why does it matter? as for amount of fuel as suggested by other/. poster, due to plane of orbit, are we on the same plane as Mars (and I mean exactly)? otherwise, we have to burn fuel to line-up w/Mars equator. so again, all things being equal, assuming probe is not returning, does it make a difference in how hard it is to land on Mars (assuming no polar-to-polar orbit)? once Mars is reached, how hard is it to put down halfway to the polar circle from an equatorial orbit? they should only have to do a small burn sideways (I'd think) to get them moving in that direction?
I noticed the/. blurb mentioned making the mission easier because the liquid was near the equator? what does this have to do with it? how does it make the mission easier? I understand lifting off into space is easier from the equator, but landing?
I have been planning my house for the last few years and I can tell you that you have not EVEN scratched the surface yet. You can build houses out of straw bale, hebel block, SIF's (structural insulated forms), etc. (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder yes, I live in Austin,TX:)
For heating and cooling, I didn't see anybody mention geothermal. EXTREMELY efficient! There are all kinds of sources. (www.demarcoenergy.com,www.waterfurnace.com)
The big problem with solar power is that the batteries are so d*mned expensive. They take up about 1/2 the cost of the system. Wind power is great but there are a few more options.
I could go on and on but lack the time. Definitely check out all the options available to you and take your time.
you've obviously never had to sue anybody before. it takes YEARS to collect in some cases. all the judge says is "I agree with you, he owes you the money". NOW, it is up to YOU to collect it. and you may have to keep going back to court to tell the judge, "Your honor, he's not paying up". judge says "pay the man", three months later you go back to court and say "Your honor, he's not paying up", guess what the judge say? you got it, "pay the man". 3 months later you go back to court......are u getting the picture here? and meanwhile, every trip to court costs YOU money.
what is the world coming to when researchers (who did the work for free, even refusing payment) get shut down? Sounds to me like a counter-lawsuit in the making for abridging of free-speech rights.
What really needs to be done is have people start talking to their reps in Congress and see about getting some legislation to overturn the DMCA act. But I doubt that will ever happen either since most people say "Oh, other people will take care of this issue for me".
That's like the rooster telling the fox to guard the henhouse for him because he's too busy doing other things.
Knowing how most politicians are, I enjoyed myself by going to his website and submitting the following email. Let's see how sharp he is and how many times he has to re-read it before he catches on.:)
"Just wanted to congratulate you on the award that you received. I feel that no person deserves it more than you do. The award I am referencing is here at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17941.html
You are absolutely the most qualified person to receive this achievement and you can be sure that I will gladly nominate you for it next year and in the following years to come, which should be as long as you hold office. Your achievements are on a par with Richard Nixon, Theodore Bundy, George W. Bush, and others. You can rest assured that you are in a singular group of individuals."
I think this decision was borderline. the judge is obviously a Republican like Dubya (in favor of big business). on the face of it, it looks to like Nationwide may have had the right to read the email but they most certainly did NOT have the right to tell him to stop his "inappropriate communications" with the state regulatory agency. at the very least, I believe he was being illegally persecuted by Nwide for having gone against their will. whistleblowers are apparently still not being protected by the full force of the law
you're absoluhlutely rite. after all, we don't wanna brag 'bout it but we did give the rest of America Dubya, cuz that's what we're good at is giving you people and legislation like this.
you're very welcome, and we're good at that too, because that's we do best is make people welcome.
My best guess was that Access rolls through all the data itself...
that is precisely what happens. I used to work with Btrieve and any customer that tried a SQL query always complained about slow results thru Access. Btrieve could sort it faster but Access wouldn't let it...
that explains it! I work in the IT industry and have to work my ass off every day and then read tons of material just to stay even with the changes in my industry. Wish I had the sparetime you did. the amount of change in the social industry does not even begin to rival the IT industry.
[snip]
I am just a social worker.
I just finished a master's degree, and in my free time I was able to get RH 6.2 running pretty much perfect.
[snip]
don't know if anybody else thought of this, but this also neatly prevents piracy. after all, in order to access the software you have to have a license. after one year, no doubt the software dies so you have to get another license. well, gee, in order to get a new "continue subcription" license you have to have the old one, which somebody else already used to get their new "continue subcription" license. so now they KNOW you are a pirate and will come after you.
I agree with a lot of what David Brin was saying. I've got a few problems of my own with what the government wants. On the one hand, I support womens rights to abortion, on the other hand, I support Gun Owners rights.
I would have voted for McCain but I'll be damned if I'm voting for Bush. So Gore gets my vote now.
Bush says he supports abortion in the case of rape,etc, but when asked what he would do if something happened to his daughters, he said (effectively) "Don't go there, none of your damn business".
In retrospect, I think most presidents, or presidential candidates, that have been in the military (like McCain, or Eisenhower, or Washington) know the cost and have paid the price. They are willing to bite the bullet for the good of the country. Bush? yeah right! Gore? his service barely qualifies but he did the job, unlike junior.
I own my own business with 2 storefronts and taxes hit me hard so I'd rather be voting for the Republican tax plan except for the fact that I won't be seeing one damn penny.
Do you know why they don't do Gallup polls in Austin (where I live)? Most of us would kick Bush out. Rick Perry, Texas LtGov, lost in his home district during the last election. think they knew something we don't? then again, maybe I should vote for Bush so that the rest of the country can experience him.
Sure I'd rather vote for somebody else who was better qualified. but since they don't get support because of our screwed up federal balloting and matching funds rules, and be able to fairly compete against the competition (remember Junior's "exploratory committee"? how much money did they raise for "just checking out Georgie's chances". what utter bullshit! he knew he was running at the time), I don't 'waste' my vote on them and let a sh*tbag like Dubya in the White House. I think that is why most people are afraid to vote for Independents. Not because they are not the right person, but because they think the person the other party supports is a worse evil than the one their own party supports and they are more afraid of "the evil" (apologies to Sluggy) than their candidate losing.
yeah, I feel sorry for these people, but as someone already pointed out, they took the risks of not being able to stay past 6 years. In addition to which, all that money they should have been saving will take them a looonnngggg way in a 3rd world country where it is a damn sight cheaper to live. And the practical education they got here, too, will help them.
as for hiring domestic workers, I wish someone would hire me, give me a chance. I have a BS in CS but only make $35k/yr doing tech support. I would take less $$ for a job where I can learn a hell of a lot more (like programming). I've been doing tech support for the last 5 years, been a sys admin, have a load of practical experience, am currently back in school brushing up on programming so I can get ahead, but I still lack that opportunity.....a programming job where I can learn something. I can pick up things fast since my job requires it and it is something I have skill at, but, again, no opportunity. I don't want to listen to "What's a protocol?" for the rest of my life.
Eric-
while you may be right about Dubya "I can't tell you if I snorted a white line or not", and the 'bidness of Tx', you are wrong about Austin. there is a lot of software development going on here, just like at EST. and, it's the 'Silicon Hills', not the 'Gulch'. but then I guess Phoenix would be the 'Silicon Desert'?
I choose to live in Austin because of the scenery. if you haven't been here, you don't know what you are missing. now, I'd like to be living out-of-state, buuuuuuttttttt, I have a handicapped mother-in-law who only speaks non-English. someone would have to look out for her.
and no, I am not voting for that scumbag who defended the national shorelines of Houston and I'm sure his daddy got him that job because daddy was a fighter pilot during WWII who got shot out of the sky, just like he got shotdown for re-election in 1992. I don't like voting for Gore either, but then some shitheads in other states voted to have Junior as their Repub rep instead of McCain. just take a look at my sig and email address.
as you say, YMMV. my personal experience has been satisfactory. I regularly download files at an average indicated speed of 35k (under win98) and have had no complaints about reliability. The only problems I had were in the initial setup of my 3 stores. first, they had a reverse firewall on the xDSL router,then they had the circuit hooked up at the wrong CO so it didn't even work even though they said the circuit was good (wellll...DUH!). after that, everything was smooth as glass
I posted the following to their RFC form. keep in mind, this is a parody, not racist. it's just the way the letters worked out
"My name is Whitey Powers and I have an organization called Whites In Power Only. I want this to be an international organization, but I can't because you have stolen my domain name that I had planned to use, www.WIPO.int
If I appeal to your WIPO panel, will they revert your URL to me? why not? you do this in 84% of other cases! or are you just a bunch of idiots and hypocrites?"
Why would I use the PCC at all? Tango has nothing to do with this, and most packages as mentioned in my previous post are NOT moving from the PSQL engine. As for being an embedded vs. non-embedded engine, so? if it does the job, does it matter?
Scanning thru the posts, I noticed that no one even mentioned Pervasive (aka Btrieve). It is a solid database system that cannot be beat for performance. File sizes scale to 64gb for now and will scale even higher in the future. -It ships with RedHat and is a DAMN sight cheaper than Oracle. -The engine is built into Netware 5.1 and runs NDS, client access licenses, etc. -Eleven of the top 10 accounting packages use it (Peachtree, ACCPAC, Macola, Platinum,Sage,DAC Easy,etc). ARC Serve for Netware uses it. -A 10-user license runs less than $1000!
Before porting to all those other expensive packages, look at Pervasive.SQL first and then make a judgement.
1) a speeding violation can be anywhere from 1-100 miles an hour over the speed limit. how do you know I wasn't doing 67 in a 65 zone? 2)I could be going with the flow of traffic, that is moving faster than the speed limit, and the cop may give me a ticket(picked at random, it happens) 3)some cops think they are hotshit and will give a ticket for anything, thereby abusing their power (official oppression). it is the cop's job to press his case in court to prove my guilt, not my job. if he doesn't show up and I do, then what does that say about how he cares about his job and protecting the public? 4)who said any of the tickets were on city streets? they could easily have been issued on the highway, which these were. I drive the speed limit in residential neighborhoods because of children might I suggest that you think of the possibilities mentioned above before you spout off? which includes responding to this post without flaming. you flame, it just proves my point.
in Texas you can request a jury trial. so far I have been waiting for about 3 years to go to trial in one speeding ticket case. all the other cases took over 8 mths and when I FINALLY did get to trial, it was dismissed. 1)show up for your first hearing, declare if you're guilty or innocent and what type of trial you want (jury or judge) 2)show up to actual docket date with 25 other people on the docket (some of who have been waiting longer than you), prosecutor will say either postpone because the cop is "sick" or will dismiss 3)show up the third time and it usually is dismissed unless the prosecutor tries to postpone it again, which you then protest that it has not been prosecuted in the required amount of time(state statute in Texas) and should be dismissed
as for speeding tickets, when I finally joined www.motorists.org, I started fighting them in court. I am 5 for 5 and every single one has been dismissed, never even went to trial.
when I was on a submarine in the Navy, it always sucked riding on the surface while I was belowdecks. Because a submarine has a round hull, there is nothing to prevent it from rockig back and forth. I never needed it but there was a patch you could put behind your ear that released medication. We called it the pussy patch. The way I kept from getting too nauseous was to be next to a vent with cold air blowing across my face. It was almost as if I was getting a fever. I remember back in summer of '93 playing Wolfenstein 3d on a 486/66 and getting extremely hot and nauseated after playing for about 30 minutes...even with the temperature set to about 68F. I find that Quake/Doom,etc does this to me, Descent does a little, but no flying games like F16, Extreme Velocity, or Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear do it to me at all. Oddly enough, Carmageddon doesn't make me sick, but Carpocalypse (Carmageddon sequel) did. Go figure.
but aren't you still stuck with the database files in proprietary format? have you tried looking at Pervasive.SQL 2000 for Linux? PSQL is the old Btrieve renamed. the Btrieve data format is a flat binary file that can be ported anywhere with no changes. want to change operating systems? fine, install the new o/s, install the relevant version of PSQL for the o/s, then just copy the datafile over! slick!! as for presenting data to the web, you can use the Tango product for Linux, it does ODBC and has the PSQL data engine buit in to it, your choice of either CGI or Apache plug-in.
Slashdot Mirror
ahhhh, but I read the blurb as they don't mean to take off and come back to Earth. That being the case, why does it matter? as for amount of fuel as suggested by other /. poster, due to plane of orbit, are we on the same plane as Mars (and I mean exactly)? otherwise, we have to burn fuel to line-up w/Mars equator. so again, all things being equal, assuming probe is not returning, does it make a difference in how hard it is to land on Mars (assuming no polar-to-polar orbit)? once Mars is reached, how hard is it to put down halfway to the polar circle from an equatorial orbit? they should only have to do a small burn sideways (I'd think) to get them moving in that direction?
I noticed the /. blurb mentioned making the mission easier because the liquid was near the equator? what does this have to do with it? how does it make the mission easier? I understand lifting off into space is easier from the equator, but landing?
I have been planning my house for the last few years and I can tell you that you have not EVEN scratched the surface yet. You can build houses out of straw bale, hebel block, SIF's (structural insulated forms), etc. (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder yes, I live in Austin,TX
For heating and cooling, I didn't see anybody mention geothermal. EXTREMELY efficient! There are all kinds of sources. (www.demarcoenergy.com,www.waterfurnace.com)
The big problem with solar power is that the batteries are so d*mned expensive. They take up about 1/2 the cost of the system. Wind power is great but there are a few more options.
I could go on and on but lack the time. Definitely check out all the options available to you and take your time.
you've obviously never had to sue anybody before. it takes YEARS to collect in some cases. all the judge says is "I agree with you, he owes you the money". NOW, it is up to YOU to collect it. and you may have to keep going back to court to tell the judge, "Your honor, he's not paying up". judge says "pay the man", three months later you go back to court and say "Your honor, he's not paying up", guess what the judge say? you got it, "pay the man". 3 months later you go back to court......are u getting the picture here? and meanwhile, every trip to court costs YOU money.
what is the world coming to when researchers (who did the work for free, even refusing payment) get shut down? Sounds to me like a counter-lawsuit in the making for abridging of free-speech rights.
What really needs to be done is have people start talking to their reps in Congress and see about getting some legislation to overturn the DMCA act. But I doubt that will ever happen either since most people say "Oh, other people will take care of this issue for me".
That's like the rooster telling the fox to guard the henhouse for him because he's too busy doing other things.
Knowing how most politicians are, I enjoyed myself by going to his website and submitting the following email. Let's see how sharp he is and how many times he has to re-read it before he catches on. :)
"Just wanted to congratulate you on the award that you received. I feel that no person deserves it more than you do. The award I am referencing is here at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17941.html
You are absolutely the most qualified person to receive this achievement and you can be sure that I will gladly nominate you for it next year and in the following years to come, which should be as long as you hold office. Your achievements are on a par with Richard Nixon, Theodore Bundy, George W. Bush, and others. You can rest assured that you are in a singular group of individuals."
I think this decision was borderline. the judge is obviously a Republican like Dubya (in favor of big business). on the face of it, it looks to like Nationwide may have had the right to read the email but they most certainly did NOT have the right to tell him to stop his "inappropriate communications" with the state regulatory agency. at the very least, I believe he was being illegally persecuted by Nwide for having gone against their will. whistleblowers are apparently still not being protected by the full force of the law
you're absoluhlutely rite. after all, we don't wanna brag 'bout it but we did give the rest of America Dubya, cuz that's what we're good at is giving you people and legislation like this.
you're very welcome, and we're good at that too, because that's we do best is make people welcome.
My best guess was that Access rolls through all the data itself...
that is precisely what happens. I used to work with Btrieve and any customer that tried a SQL query always complained about slow results thru Access. Btrieve could sort it faster but Access wouldn't let it...
that explains it! I work in the IT industry and have to work my ass off every day and then read tons of material just to stay even with the changes in my industry. Wish I had the sparetime you did. the amount of change in the social industry does not even begin to rival the IT industry.
[snip] I am just a social worker. I just finished a master's degree, and in my free time I was able to get RH 6.2 running pretty much perfect. [snip]
don't know if anybody else thought of this, but this also neatly prevents piracy. after all, in order to access the software you have to have a license. after one year, no doubt the software dies so you have to get another license. well, gee, in order to get a new "continue subcription" license you have to have the old one, which somebody else already used to get their new "continue subcription" license. so now they KNOW you are a pirate and will come after you.
I agree with a lot of what David Brin was saying. I've got a few problems of my own with what the government wants. On the one hand, I support womens rights to abortion, on the other hand, I support Gun Owners rights.
I would have voted for McCain but I'll be damned if I'm voting for Bush. So Gore gets my vote now. Bush says he supports abortion in the case of rape,etc, but when asked what he would do if something happened to his daughters, he said (effectively) "Don't go there, none of your damn business".
In retrospect, I think most presidents, or presidential candidates, that have been in the military (like McCain, or Eisenhower, or Washington) know the cost and have paid the price. They are willing to bite the bullet for the good of the country. Bush? yeah right! Gore? his service barely qualifies but he did the job, unlike junior.
I own my own business with 2 storefronts and taxes hit me hard so I'd rather be voting for the Republican tax plan except for the fact that I won't be seeing one damn penny.
Do you know why they don't do Gallup polls in Austin (where I live)? Most of us would kick Bush out. Rick Perry, Texas LtGov, lost in his home district during the last election. think they knew something we don't? then again, maybe I should vote for Bush so that the rest of the country can experience him.
Sure I'd rather vote for somebody else who was better qualified. but since they don't get support because of our screwed up federal balloting and matching funds rules, and be able to fairly compete against the competition (remember Junior's "exploratory committee"? how much money did they raise for "just checking out Georgie's chances". what utter bullshit! he knew he was running at the time), I don't 'waste' my vote on them and let a sh*tbag like Dubya in the White House. I think that is why most people are afraid to vote for Independents. Not because they are not the right person, but because they think the person the other party supports is a worse evil than the one their own party supports and they are more afraid of "the evil" (apologies to Sluggy) than their candidate losing.
yeah, I feel sorry for these people, but as someone already pointed out, they took the risks of not being able to stay past 6 years. In addition to which, all that money they should have been saving will take them a looonnngggg way in a 3rd world country where it is a damn sight cheaper to live. And the practical education they got here, too, will help them.
as for hiring domestic workers, I wish someone would hire me, give me a chance. I have a BS in CS but only make $35k/yr doing tech support. I would take less $$ for a job where I can learn a hell of a lot more (like programming). I've been doing tech support for the last 5 years, been a sys admin, have a load of practical experience, am currently back in school brushing up on programming so I can get ahead, but I still lack that opportunity.....a programming job where I can learn something. I can pick up things fast since my job requires it and it is something I have skill at, but, again, no opportunity. I don't want to listen to "What's a protocol?" for the rest of my life.
you tell me? what am I supposed to do?
Eric- while you may be right about Dubya "I can't tell you if I snorted a white line or not", and the 'bidness of Tx', you are wrong about Austin. there is a lot of software development going on here, just like at EST. and, it's the 'Silicon Hills', not the 'Gulch'. but then I guess Phoenix would be the 'Silicon Desert'?
I choose to live in Austin because of the scenery. if you haven't been here, you don't know what you are missing. now, I'd like to be living out-of-state, buuuuuuttttttt, I have a handicapped mother-in-law who only speaks non-English. someone would have to look out for her. and no, I am not voting for that scumbag who defended the national shorelines of Houston and I'm sure his daddy got him that job because daddy was a fighter pilot during WWII who got shot out of the sky, just like he got shotdown for re-election in 1992. I don't like voting for Gore either, but then some shitheads in other states voted to have Junior as their Repub rep instead of McCain. just take a look at my sig and email address.
as you say, YMMV. my personal experience has been satisfactory. I regularly download files at an average indicated speed of 35k (under win98) and have had no complaints about reliability. The only problems I had were in the initial setup of my 3 stores. first, they had a reverse firewall on the xDSL router,then they had the circuit hooked up at the wrong CO so it didn't even work even though they said the circuit was good (wellll...DUH!). after that, everything was smooth as glass
I posted the following to their RFC form. keep in mind, this is a parody, not racist. it's just the way the letters worked out
"My name is Whitey Powers and I have an organization called Whites In Power Only. I want this to be an international organization, but I can't because you have stolen my domain name that I had planned to use, www.WIPO.int
If I appeal to your WIPO panel, will they revert your URL to me? why not? you do this in 84% of other cases! or are you just a bunch of idiots and hypocrites?"
Why would I use the PCC at all? Tango has nothing to do with this, and most packages as mentioned in my previous post are NOT moving from the PSQL engine.
As for being an embedded vs. non-embedded engine, so? if it does the job, does it matter?
Scanning thru the posts, I noticed that no one even mentioned Pervasive (aka Btrieve). It is a solid database system that cannot be beat for performance. File sizes scale to 64gb for now and will scale even higher in the future.
-It ships with RedHat and is a DAMN sight cheaper than Oracle.
-The engine is built into Netware 5.1 and runs NDS, client access licenses, etc.
-Eleven of the top 10 accounting packages use it (Peachtree, ACCPAC, Macola, Platinum,Sage,DAC Easy,etc). ARC Serve for Netware uses it.
-A 10-user license runs less than $1000!
Before porting to all those other expensive packages, look at Pervasive.SQL first and then make a judgement.
1) a speeding violation can be anywhere from 1-100 miles an hour over the speed limit. how do you know I wasn't doing 67 in a 65 zone? 2)I could be going with the flow of traffic, that is moving faster than the speed limit, and the cop may give me a ticket(picked at random, it happens) 3)some cops think they are hotshit and will give a ticket for anything, thereby abusing their power (official oppression). it is the cop's job to press his case in court to prove my guilt, not my job. if he doesn't show up and I do, then what does that say about how he cares about his job and protecting the public? 4)who said any of the tickets were on city streets? they could easily have been issued on the highway, which these were. I drive the speed limit in residential neighborhoods because of children might I suggest that you think of the possibilities mentioned above before you spout off? which includes responding to this post without flaming. you flame, it just proves my point.
in Texas you can request a jury trial. so far I have been waiting for about 3 years to go to trial in one speeding ticket case. all the other cases took over 8 mths and when I FINALLY did get to trial, it was dismissed. 1)show up for your first hearing, declare if you're guilty or innocent and what type of trial you want (jury or judge) 2)show up to actual docket date with 25 other people on the docket (some of who have been waiting longer than you), prosecutor will say either postpone because the cop is "sick" or will dismiss 3)show up the third time and it usually is dismissed unless the prosecutor tries to postpone it again, which you then protest that it has not been prosecuted in the required amount of time(state statute in Texas) and should be dismissed
absolutely! :) semantics, it's all in the words...if you look
as for speeding tickets, when I finally joined www.motorists.org, I started fighting them in court. I am 5 for 5 and every single one has been dismissed, never even went to trial.
when I was on a submarine in the Navy, it always sucked riding on the surface while I was belowdecks. Because a submarine has a round hull, there is nothing to prevent it from rockig back and forth. I never needed it but there was a patch you could put behind your ear that released medication. We called it the pussy patch. The way I kept from getting too nauseous was to be next to a vent with cold air blowing across my face. It was almost as if I was getting a fever.
I remember back in summer of '93 playing Wolfenstein 3d on a 486/66 and getting extremely hot and nauseated after playing for about 30 minutes...even with the temperature set to about 68F.
I find that Quake/Doom,etc does this to me, Descent does a little, but no flying games like F16, Extreme Velocity, or Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear do it to me at all. Oddly enough, Carmageddon doesn't make me sick, but Carpocalypse (Carmageddon sequel) did. Go figure.
I'd rather have the "Balls of Steel" sperm bank!
but aren't you still stuck with the database files in proprietary format? have you tried looking at Pervasive.SQL 2000 for Linux? PSQL is the old Btrieve renamed. the Btrieve data format is a flat binary file that can be ported anywhere with no changes. want to change operating systems? fine, install the new o/s, install the relevant version of PSQL for the o/s, then just copy the datafile over! slick!!
as for presenting data to the web, you can use the Tango product for Linux, it does ODBC and has the PSQL data engine buit in to it, your choice of either CGI or Apache plug-in.