maybe when an individual's contribution exceeds the cost of actually getting that person there, but since NASA's budget is about 1% of the federal budget, unless you pay more than $200 million in federal taxs you'll never have contribitued enough even to simply cover the cost of launching you into orbit.
We should absolutely go to Mars. I would like to see alot more spent on space exploration, bigger & better Hubbles, space-based inferometers (sp?) to look directly for planets around other stars, a series of landers and orbiters to check out Europa, research into commercially expoliting the resources of asteroids etc.
The ISS is more of a political boondoggle than anything else, it doesn't seem to have a purpose (research or otherwise) important enough to justify its existance, the money could have been spent on other, more important, space exploration purposes.
On the other hand I think its important to establish a permenant human presence in Space, and in the near term thats not going to happen with out a LEO space station.
In the long run it might make more sense to establish a moon base to exploit the polar ics (if its really there) to produce fuel and maybe other material for trips to Mars and the outer solar system. It would be alot easier to boost the fuel into lunar orbit than to have to boost it into Earth orbit
alot of the banter was ad-libbed, Harrison Ford has had some great ad-lib moments in hiss various movies such as the converstaion he has with the control center when they are breaking Leia out of jail.
Sure I led the original movie (and the others less so) but lets face it, they (especialy) the first one are just immitations of the Samurai movies of the 50s & 60s. The honoroable wondering Samurai with apprentice or 2 in tow (Jedi Knights) defend innocent villagers against bandits or evil warlords with phalanxses of uniformed Samurai.
Lucas took the plot of The Hidden Fortress and exapnded the entire genre to galactic proportions and cast it into SciFi special effects land. Sir Alec is just pointing out that Lucas can't write and comes up with a bunch of light-weight PC ideas to replace the original Samurai ethos.
IN theory this is true, but in my experience this not so. I have been posting here regularly for quite a while, ive often been moderated up, only once moderated down (off-topic) but only been a moderator once, and then only breifly. I used 2 out of 5 points in 1/2 a day before the moderator status went away (its supposed to last 3 days)
One-in-a-million chance always happen but only if the chances are exactly one in a million!
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There are some advantages actually. The TV show interlaced pictures, while the DVD content is non-interlaced, on a good monitor you will actually get a better (ie higher resolution) picture that on your TV. DVDs actually contain more information than your TV can produce. Also the computer can take advantage of "anamorphic" DVDs (the letter box picture is squished so that ther is no loss of information with the letterboxing (ie the black bars aren't part of the signal and the picture uses all available picture lines) but you need a widescreen format TV to actually see the benefit of this.. or a computer DVD drive)
Hmm... Ive just convinced myself to go out & buy a DVD drive!
I beleive it originated from when the drinking age was21 in IL & 18 in WI so teenagers would drive up to WI to get drunk and act like bastards up there and kill people on the drive home.
In cases where/. links to sites that are known to be vulnerable to the/. effect (as segfault apparently is) why not mirror the pages on/. or some other suitable site before posting the story & link on/. ?
Shamless BeOS plug: not only does BeOS have a 64 bit fs which would have no problem addressing 2.3 TB its a journaling FS that doesn't need fsck.
Seriously tho, by the time this technology is available linux might well have SGI's XFS available which is a journalling fs also. In anycase the access times of a solid state drive could well be orders of magnituted faster than a conventional HD, so the fsck time need not be any longer than it is now for your 3.2 Gig HD
There is a transcript of a chat with Orson Scott Card on the CNN web site link He touches on the Jake Lloyd thing, OSC says that Lloyd has much more talent than has been able to display in his previous movies. I haven't seen Sixth Sense yet, but the only young actor that is capable of carrying a movie by themselves that I have seen is Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun Of course hes an adult now.
This is news for nerd IMO, and in any case its nice to see something other than yet another Isn't Linux Cool story or another OSS Will Take Over The Universe (NOT) story.
Most GPS units sold in past 3 or 4 years should be compliant. My Garmin GPS III is compliant (according to Garmin anyway) BTW its a nifty little nerd-toy complete with a scrolling zoomable map of the world with all of the major roads in the US on it, trip computer, compass (only works if you're moving), distance and heading to way points etc.
It will be interesting to see if the effect of the roll over is less than or greater than what is expected. If most newer GPS units are compliant as is claimed, and the negative effects are minimal, maybe the y2K compliance/impact predictions will also be accurate. We shall see.
I don't know about you, but I would be willing to shell out thousands of $ to spend a few days on a space station
I certainly would too, but I just don't see how privatizing NASA would make the goal come sooner. Im very interested in the science of the missions I mentioned above, none of which could possibly be commercialy viable. There is nothing stopping private entities from funding research into cheap launch systems right now.
Basicaly I don't see the connection between turning NASA into a commercial sattelite launching outfit and increasing the pace of development of lower cost orbital launch systems.
Provatize NASA? why? The only thing is space technology that could possibly make money is launching sattelites, stuff like research, Cassini, Gallileo (sp?), Pathfinder, Mars Global Surveyor, Hubble etc etc would never make money.
There's nothing stopping private companies doing reseach into alternate launch systems, but such research is incredibly expensive.
Well for one thing freshmeat.net appears to be a linux only software site, and a search for BeGTK yielded 0 entries, so your point is not valid in this particular case.
Although the majority of the posters to/. advocate linux-for-everything, I can assure you this not true of all slashdot readers, so many/. readers don't ever visit freshmeat. The maintainers of this site clearly have a linux bias, but what is wrong with the occaisional story that is of general interest to computer nerds (who BTW are not exclusively linux zealots;-)
The BeOS GUI is by far the best GUI/Windowing system I have used. Part of this due to its multithreaded nature and BeOS's excellent thread management. As has been pointed out aalready X is not a GUI but a windowing system, however it is the underpinning of any GUI running in X. To me X often looks clunky (maybe this is the lack of anti-aliased fonts) and does feel slow. Its not media orientated.
X does have alot of advantages though, notably the clean disconnect between the app and the interface which, for instance, allows for the output of a program running on one machine be displayed on another.
X can and should learn form BeOS. If the internals of X can be reworked to allow multithreading and better srtreaming mdia handeling with out affecting its basic GUI, it could really become the approach of the future, otherwise it has to be replaced now with something alot better if linux is ever going to have a realistic chance of competing as a mass-appeal desktop.
2 years ago I saw a funny fake press release concerning the Mars Probe Pathfinder in which the Martian Airforce spokes-thing denied rumors of a giant ball landing on mars, which then deflated and released a robot, putting it down to delusional concpracy theorists and swamp gas.
INteresting. I was aware of the light research they had done during the War, but i didn't know they were putting it into the F-22. It must be said that despite what Einstein said, he may be wrong! The theory of Relativity does check out pretty well empiricaly (as far as we can test that sort of thing) but then Newtonian physics check out in its time, but was later superceded by Einsteinian physics. So its possible that we're missing something fundamental about the nature of the universe.
Personaly i doubt very much that the Earth is being visited by aliens, but I doubt very much that some form of intelligent life ISN'T out there somewhere.
Actually the F-22 is quite vivble to the naked eye. As to the radar characteristics of US "stealth" airplanes they merely have reduced radar crossections when illuminated from certain angles. None are remotely "invisible" to radar. The F-117 for instance looks like a 747 on radar when its bomb bay doors are open. Its unlikely that the terrestrial radio emmisions would stick out even a mere 50 light years away with out prolonged study. So just because SETI hasn't seen radio signals from another civilization, doesn't mean they aren't out there. (I don't think they've even covered the entire sky yet anyway)
this is Slashdot, formerly "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters" soon to be renamed "If its not Linux its CRAP!" A good source for BeOS related stuff is BeNews Im a big fan of BeOS, but/. is now mostly a circle-jerk site for Linux fans. I like linux too so thats why I read/. but its isn't really a general nerd-news site anymore.
i live in Kansas and according to the bible the Earth is 6000 years old. Anyway at least we won't have a Y2K problem in KS now as next year is apparently 1600 not 2000
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maybe when an individual's contribution exceeds the cost of actually getting that person there, but since NASA's budget is about 1% of the federal budget, unless you pay more than $200 million in federal taxs you'll never have contribitued enough even to simply cover the cost of launching you into orbit.
We should absolutely go to Mars. I would like to see alot more spent on space exploration, bigger & better Hubbles, space-based inferometers (sp?) to look directly for planets around other stars, a series of landers and orbiters to check out Europa, research into commercially expoliting the resources of asteroids etc.
The ISS is more of a political boondoggle than anything else, it doesn't seem to have a purpose (research or otherwise) important enough to justify its existance, the money could have been spent on other, more important, space exploration purposes.
On the other hand I think its important to establish a permenant human presence in Space, and in the near term thats not going to happen with out a LEO space station.
In the long run it might make more sense to establish a moon base to exploit the polar ics (if its really there) to produce fuel and maybe other material for trips to Mars and the outer solar system. It would be alot easier to boost the fuel into lunar orbit than to have to boost it into Earth orbit
alot of the banter was ad-libbed, Harrison Ford has had some great ad-lib moments in hiss various movies such as the converstaion he has with the control center when they are breaking Leia out of jail.
Sure I led the original movie (and the others less so) but lets face it, they (especialy) the first one are just immitations of the Samurai movies of the 50s & 60s. The honoroable wondering Samurai with apprentice or 2 in tow (Jedi Knights) defend innocent villagers against bandits or evil warlords with phalanxses of uniformed Samurai.
Lucas took the plot of The Hidden Fortress and exapnded the entire genre to galactic proportions and cast it into SciFi special effects land. Sir Alec is just pointing out that Lucas can't write and comes up with a bunch of light-weight PC ideas to replace the original Samurai ethos.
im sorry but I just can't resist. Such a fridge truly would be "a cold, calculating machine"
IN theory this is true, but in my experience this not so. I have been posting here regularly for quite a while, ive often been moderated up, only once moderated down (off-topic) but only been a moderator once, and then only breifly. I used 2 out of 5 points in 1/2 a day before the moderator status went away (its supposed to last 3 days)
One-in-a-million chance always happen but only if the chances are exactly one in a million!
There are some advantages actually. The TV show interlaced pictures, while the DVD content is non-interlaced, on a good monitor you will actually get a better (ie higher resolution) picture that on your TV. DVDs actually contain more information than your TV can produce. Also the computer can take advantage of "anamorphic" DVDs (the letter box picture is squished so that ther is no loss of information with the letterboxing (ie the black bars aren't part of the signal and the picture uses all available picture lines) but you need a widescreen format TV to actually see the benefit of this .. or a computer DVD drive)
Hmm... Ive just convinced myself to go out & buy a DVD drive!
FIB = F?cking Illinois Bastard
I beleive it originated from when the drinking age was21 in IL & 18 in WI so teenagers would drive up to WI to get drunk and act like bastards up there and kill people on the drive home.
In cases where /. links to sites that are known to be vulnerable to the /. effect (as segfault apparently is) why not mirror the pages on /. or some other suitable site before posting the story & link on /. ?
Shamless BeOS plug: not only does BeOS have a 64 bit fs which would have no problem addressing 2.3 TB its a journaling FS that doesn't need fsck.
Seriously tho, by the time this technology is available linux might well have SGI's XFS available which is a journalling fs also. In anycase the access times of a solid state drive could well be orders of magnituted faster than a conventional HD, so the fsck time need not be any longer than it is now for your 3.2 Gig HD
There is a transcript of a chat with Orson Scott Card on the CNN web site link He touches on the Jake Lloyd thing, OSC says that Lloyd has much more talent than has been able to display in his previous movies. I haven't seen Sixth Sense yet, but the only young actor that is capable of carrying a movie by themselves that I have seen is Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun Of course hes an adult now.
This is news for nerd IMO, and in any case its nice to see something other than yet another Isn't Linux Cool story or another OSS Will Take Over The Universe (NOT) story.
Most GPS units sold in past 3 or 4 years should be compliant. My Garmin GPS III is compliant (according to Garmin anyway) BTW its a nifty little nerd-toy complete with a scrolling zoomable map of the world with all of the major roads in the US on it, trip computer, compass (only works if you're moving), distance and heading to way points etc.
It will be interesting to see if the effect of the roll over is less than or greater than what is expected. If most newer GPS units are compliant as is claimed, and the negative effects are minimal, maybe the y2K compliance/impact predictions will also be accurate. We shall see.
I don't know about you, but I would be willing to shell out thousands of $ to spend a few days on a space station
I certainly would too, but I just don't see how privatizing NASA would make the goal come sooner.
Im very interested in the science of the missions I mentioned above, none of which could possibly be commercialy viable. There is nothing stopping private entities from funding research into cheap launch systems right now.
Basicaly I don't see the connection between turning NASA into a commercial sattelite launching outfit and increasing the pace of development of lower cost orbital launch systems.
Provatize NASA? why? The only thing is space technology that could possibly make money is launching sattelites, stuff like research, Cassini, Gallileo (sp?), Pathfinder, Mars Global Surveyor, Hubble etc etc would never make money.
There's nothing stopping private companies doing reseach into alternate launch systems, but such research is incredibly expensive.
the BeAPI is written in C++, thats how.
Well for one thing freshmeat.net appears to be a linux only software site, and a search for BeGTK yielded 0 entries, so your point is not valid in this particular case.
/. advocate linux-for-everything, I can assure you this not true of all slashdot readers, so many /. readers don't ever visit freshmeat. The maintainers of this site clearly have a linux bias, but what is wrong with the occaisional story that is of general interest to computer nerds (who BTW are not exclusively linux zealots ;-)
Although the majority of the posters to
The BeOS GUI is by far the best GUI/Windowing system I have used. Part of this due to its multithreaded nature and BeOS's excellent thread management. As has been pointed out aalready X is not a GUI but a windowing system, however it is the underpinning of any GUI running in X. To me X often looks clunky (maybe this is the lack of anti-aliased fonts) and does feel slow. Its not media orientated.
X does have alot of advantages though, notably the clean disconnect between the app and the interface which, for instance, allows for the output of a program running on one machine be displayed on another.
X can and should learn form BeOS. If the internals of X can be reworked to allow multithreading and better srtreaming mdia handeling with out affecting its basic GUI, it could really become the approach of the future, otherwise it has to be replaced now with something alot better if linux is ever going to have a realistic chance of competing as a mass-appeal desktop.
Maybe Gates and Ballmer have the day off today?
Coke IS the real thing..
yeah... just ask George W. Bush.
2 years ago I saw a funny fake press release concerning the Mars Probe Pathfinder in which the Martian Airforce spokes-thing denied rumors of a giant ball landing on mars, which then deflated and released a robot, putting it down to delusional concpracy theorists and swamp gas.
INteresting. I was aware of the light research they had done during the War, but i didn't know they were putting it into the F-22. It must be said that despite what Einstein said, he may be wrong! The theory of Relativity does check out pretty well empiricaly (as far as we can test that sort of thing) but then Newtonian physics check out in its time, but was later superceded by Einsteinian physics. So its possible that we're missing something fundamental about the nature of the universe.
Personaly i doubt very much that the Earth is being visited by aliens, but I doubt very much that some form of intelligent life ISN'T out there somewhere.
Actually the F-22 is quite vivble to the naked eye. As to the radar characteristics of US "stealth" airplanes they merely have reduced radar crossections when illuminated from certain angles. None are remotely "invisible" to radar. The F-117 for instance looks like a 747 on radar when its bomb bay doors are open. Its unlikely that the terrestrial radio emmisions would stick out even a mere 50 light years away with out prolonged study. So just because SETI hasn't seen radio signals from another civilization, doesn't mean they aren't out there. (I don't think they've even covered the entire sky yet anyway)
this is Slashdot, formerly "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters" soon to be renamed "If its not Linux its CRAP!" A good source for BeOS related stuff is BeNews /. is now mostly a circle-jerk site for Linux fans. I like linux too so thats why I read /. but its isn't really a general nerd-news site anymore.
Im a big fan of BeOS, but
i live in Kansas and according to the bible the Earth is 6000 years old. Anyway at least we won't have a Y2K problem in KS now as next year is apparently 1600 not 2000