With games that have DLC, my only option is piracy.
No. You always have the option not to play.
That's why my LAN parties are dominated by 10 year old games. I own the copies, and can still play them regardless of whether the company is still in business. I would like to have some newer stuff in the mix, but too much of it can't give me the same guarantee.
Future space exploration and colonization will probably require nuclear fuel, especially if it's beyond the solar system.
Nuclear, yes, technically. But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a fusion chain, not fission, and we have multiple Earth masses worth of fuel available for that.
I never thought that getting people to use Firefox would open a massive security hole, but I discovered after a while that some of them had never moved to newer versions of IE because they didn't use it. Now most of them understand that just because it's hidden doesn't mean it's not there.
Oh, now there's a good point. I'm only familiar with Netflix's offering because of my roommate, I didn't realize I wouldn't be able to use it myself. Suddenly this sounds like a pretty good deal.
This was exactly my thought; they're not competing with cable, they're competing with Netflix. Netflix is cheaper and has no ads, and has movies as well. Hulu's only benefit seems to be quicker access to shows (don't have to wait for them to be out on DVD), but my backlog is big enough that that's not a big deal for me. I guess we'll see how big of a selling point is is for a more 'typical' audience.
I can't see NASA or any of the other participants in the ISS programme letting a Spacex vehicle make an approach to their fragile space station unless they are sure it's not going to crash into it.
Which is why they're planning to test exactly that - it's kind of the point of the whole COTS program. Spacex seems to have a "test early, test often approach" to development, which seems to be paying off. They never launch a real payload on their first flight (unlike, say, the Space Shuttle, which cannot launch without its most valuable cargo), but they save a ton of money on development by not having to guess how it's going to perform.
This was the first thing I thought when I saw this story. Sure, I think he's an idiot for doing this, but it's his money and he's not making any unreasonable demands on anyone else.
But their "winch down" design for landing gives me the horrors.
And the bouncy ball design of the rovers didn't?
I think the controlled drop method that they used on Phoenix proves that they can hold it stationary long enough, which is the great thing about the approach they've been taking. Each missing adds some capability; with MSL they'll be demonstrating they can land something large gently. Eventually we'll be up to habitats, and will have done great science along the way.
I have to be amused that the first two lines of the page for me currently read:
Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook Your Rights Online: Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public
I suppose that since Slashdot is on the internet, and nothing on the internet is private, I shouldn't mind anyone knowing, right? Girls, where are you going? Oh, come back, it's not that bad, really! I just do it for the karma!
Why does everyone have to bring up this completely stupid and pointless "fact"? Here is a little "fact" of my own: The user only CARES about THEIR STUFF! Okay? Who gives a rat's fart if the system is fine if all your stuff is completely hosed? NOBODY, that's who!
Spoken like someone who hasn't had to administer antivirus in a while. The antivirus cares if the bot can affect it, and it's awfully difficult to install a rootkit without root access. So restricting it to user level access means that you're likely to catch it before it wipes out your stuff. And that's all I care about.
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With games that have DLC, my only option is piracy.
No. You always have the option not to play. That's why my LAN parties are dominated by 10 year old games. I own the copies, and can still play them regardless of whether the company is still in business. I would like to have some newer stuff in the mix, but too much of it can't give me the same guarantee.
Future space exploration and colonization will probably require nuclear fuel, especially if it's beyond the solar system.
Nuclear, yes, technically. But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a fusion chain, not fission, and we have multiple Earth masses worth of fuel available for that.
I never thought that getting people to use Firefox would open a massive security hole, but I discovered after a while that some of them had never moved to newer versions of IE because they didn't use it. Now most of them understand that just because it's hidden doesn't mean it's not there.
Oh, now there's a good point. I'm only familiar with Netflix's offering because of my roommate, I didn't realize I wouldn't be able to use it myself. Suddenly this sounds like a pretty good deal.
This was exactly my thought; they're not competing with cable, they're competing with Netflix. Netflix is cheaper and has no ads, and has movies as well. Hulu's only benefit seems to be quicker access to shows (don't have to wait for them to be out on DVD), but my backlog is big enough that that's not a big deal for me. I guess we'll see how big of a selling point is is for a more 'typical' audience.
Not paid for by tax dollars sure, but it's hard to say self sufficient when they're losing money hand over fist.
I can't see NASA or any of the other participants in the ISS programme letting a Spacex vehicle make an approach to their fragile space station unless they are sure it's not going to crash into it.
Which is why they're planning to test exactly that - it's kind of the point of the whole COTS program. Spacex seems to have a "test early, test often approach" to development, which seems to be paying off. They never launch a real payload on their first flight (unlike, say, the Space Shuttle, which cannot launch without its most valuable cargo), but they save a ton of money on development by not having to guess how it's going to perform.
Mod parent up.
This was the first thing I thought when I saw this story. Sure, I think he's an idiot for doing this, but it's his money and he's not making any unreasonable demands on anyone else.
Why not just say that it will lead to faster computers?
There's no grant money for faster computers.
But their "winch down" design for landing gives me the horrors.
And the bouncy ball design of the rovers didn't?
I think the controlled drop method that they used on Phoenix proves that they can hold it stationary long enough, which is the great thing about the approach they've been taking. Each missing adds some capability; with MSL they'll be demonstrating they can land something large gently. Eventually we'll be up to habitats, and will have done great science along the way.
I have to be amused that the first two lines of the page for me currently read:
Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook
Your Rights Online: Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public
I suppose that since Slashdot is on the internet, and nothing on the internet is private, I shouldn't mind anyone knowing, right?
Girls, where are you going? Oh, come back, it's not that bad, really! I just do it for the karma!
Why does everyone have to bring up this completely stupid and pointless "fact"? Here is a little "fact" of my own: The user only CARES about THEIR STUFF! Okay? Who gives a rat's fart if the system is fine if all your stuff is completely hosed? NOBODY, that's who!
Spoken like someone who hasn't had to administer antivirus in a while. The antivirus cares if the bot can affect it, and it's awfully difficult to install a rootkit without root access. So restricting it to user level access means that you're likely to catch it before it wipes out your stuff. And that's all I care about.