I used to be a big evangelist for OS/2 back in the day. Indeed, what if IBM had won. Superior technology, superior operating system, yes, but would they have been better corporate citizens than MS? I doubt it.
Remember what we can do with computers now, because if the industry has it's way, within a few years technology more capable than various sizes of smartphones will be unheard of.
You're right. This isn't about what consumers want. Now, before anyone says that people are snapping up smartphones in droves, remember your average user doesn't have the sense God gave a turnip green. They don't realize they're being locked into walled gardens and not being given choices. You can make the argument that the consheepmer needs to be protected from himself and maybe that's true, but I hear all this talk about the PC going away and it just makes me laugh. It's like asking people to give up cars and telling them to ride bicycles from now on.
This isn't about technology. It's about national will. To quote Londo Mollari in Babylon 5, we've become decadent, obsessed with arts and trinkets. Gone is Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" too. The USA is a nation of pussies now. Everyone wants a handout, and no one wants to contribute to an endeavor greater than themselves. It's all, gimme gimme gimme. We could've been on Mars by 1980 easily. Instead now we can't even get to low Earth orbit. It isn't because we don't know how. It's because our own navels are much more interesting. Yes, I'm disgusted.
... Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flame wars as Slashdotters discuss evolution vs creationism instead of, you know, the TOPIC, which is the sorry state of NASA's funding.
And me without mod points... Yep. If you look like that and dress like that, expect to be stared at. It's 'visual prostitution'. If they don't like it they should find another job.
All I can say is, go to the TIGHAR website. Read through their findings. I'm convinced but not entirely so. If you were running out of fuel over a mostly open ocean, looking for the bes place to land, and you saw a wrecked ship on the edge of an island, you'd think, "I'll land near there! There might just be people, and at the least there might be resources I could use after I go down!" Earhart may have been untrained and unwise, but she wasn't stupid. IF I had been her that's what I would've done. Still all this presupposes that she and Noonan did land on Nikumauroro. That's why I say go the website. The sheer weight of all the circumstantial evidence is massive.
I doubt it. They landed near the Norwich, probably thinking it was a sign of habitation. Tidal action would've broken the Electra up into little bitty sheriff meatballs in a relatively short time-- Gallagher's colonists would've reported finding more than just stray pieces of metal and glass. There's a very steep dropoff on the reef edge nearby. The remnants of the plane, if Niko was indeed the place where they landed, are in the abyssal depths. That's one of the main things the new expediton is looking to find.
The Navy DID look for her. They pulled out all the stops, on orders from Roosevelt himself. Earhart shoud've been better prepared for such an endevor-- but neither she nor Noonan could understand Morse code (something that would've prevented their loss) nor did either receive any survival training (something that might've saved their lives on Niko). The Navy sent a battleship and an aircraft carrier to look for her, but her lack of Morse skills doomed her. Even the Japanese navy helped to look for her.
Neither of them had had any decent survival training. The Norwich City castaways from 1929 had left a few containers of water behind, but after so many years in equatorial heat chances are it made them sick, if any of it was even left. Niko is frickin' HOT, and they would've weakened quickly even after on a day or two. They may have a had some stores left on the Electra but after that was gone they'd've had to wait for rain. I doubt very much that had any equipement on board to evaporate salt water. Someone else stated that the island was anything but a tropical paradise and they were right. Even some of the fish were poisonous. Someone without serious military-grade survival training would not have lasted very long there.
No, TIGHAR's hypothesis isn't proven. That's what they're trying to do. Approach it with skepticism, yes, but what they're postulating is the best fit for the data. For example, the most intuitive and common-sense theory is they simply went down over the water, but hey CANNOT have gone down in the ocean, as the Electra couldn't operate its generator to run the radio if it was floating. The post-loss radio transmissions indicate they were alive somewhere, and on land. Bearings taken by ships and other recieving stations indicate that that land was Gardner. I invite you to go to TIGHAR's website and read through it thoroughly. They lay out their case pretty well. Like I said, no, it isn't PROVEN, but it's the best explanation for the data.
Earhart probably died of thirst. Post-loss radio transmissions suggest that Noonan was seriously injured during the crash landing; if so he probably went before she did. The last credible reception of an Earhart broadcast was on July 7, five days after they disappeared. Niko is hellishly hot, and finding water would've been a real problem. Neither of them understood Morse code, nor had they undergone any meaningful survival training, When seach planes from the battleship Colorado flew over on the 10th they were possibly too weak to get to a clear area in order to wave. That first night encountering coconut crabs must've been truly terrifying. They won't predate you, but if you fall asleep they might think you were carrion....
If movies are bad these days, music is pure shit. Yes, I am a pirate (too) 200 years too late. The last two movies I downloaded (Avengers, MIB3) I also went to see at the theatre, because they were *good* films. I also pirated Battleship, and I'll never get those few minutes of my life back. But music? Jeez, don't get me started... Now get off my lawn.
Metro is bullshit, and trying to shove a tablet interface down the throats of every desktop user is just going to make MS hated more. What in the HELL is Marketing thinking?
And here I am with no mod points. You're absolutely correct. I'll go even further and say the market for recorded music will shrink even more whether it's record companies or Apple doing the distribution. The days where you can add a gimmick and Autotune & then foist off on the musical consumer a talentless flavor-of-the-month so-called 'artist' that doesn't even play an instrument are hopefully gone. Musicians will have to make their money honestly by playing in front of live audiences. There will always be recorded music in some form, but this is where everything's headed.
Mod up. I just last night spilled half a bottle of beer into an irreplaceable Model M keyboard. I'm lucky I had another. Maybe I can take it apart and clean it. Also, back to on-topic: Isn't Teflon already pretty hydrophobic (though a bit too expensive to make throwaway ketchup bottles with)?
No, it was in reference to the Mercury program. Test pilots like Chuck Yeager derisively referred to the Mercury astronauts as "spam-in-a-can" and made fun of the fact that chimps could fly the Mercury capsule. This was in 1959. You'd think we'd've been to Mars by now, but no, we beg rides from Vladimir Putin just to get to low Earth orbit. Alan Shepard is doing cartwheels right now.
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I used to be a big evangelist for OS/2 back in the day. Indeed, what if IBM had won. Superior technology, superior operating system, yes, but would they have been better corporate citizens than MS? I doubt it.
Remember what we can do with computers now, because if the industry has it's way, within a few years technology more capable than various sizes of smartphones will be unheard of.
You're right. This isn't about what consumers want. Now, before anyone says that people are snapping up smartphones in droves, remember your average user doesn't have the sense God gave a turnip green. They don't realize they're being locked into walled gardens and not being given choices. You can make the argument that the consheepmer needs to be protected from himself and maybe that's true, but I hear all this talk about the PC going away and it just makes me laugh. It's like asking people to give up cars and telling them to ride bicycles from now on.
Scanners belong in doctors' offices, not airports.
As the Romans say, "T-R-V-T-H." Million of males will use it to 'want' females, and then Facebook will face accusations of harrassment.
This isn't about technology. It's about national will. To quote Londo Mollari in Babylon 5, we've become decadent, obsessed with arts and trinkets. Gone is Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" too. The USA is a nation of pussies now. Everyone wants a handout, and no one wants to contribute to an endeavor greater than themselves. It's all, gimme gimme gimme. We could've been on Mars by 1980 easily. Instead now we can't even get to low Earth orbit. It isn't because we don't know how. It's because our own navels are much more interesting. Yes, I'm disgusted.
How is this news for nerds? Around 96% of blacks voted for Obama in '08. That isn't racist?
I AM running KDE, you insens....
... Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flame wars as Slashdotters discuss evolution vs creationism instead of, you know, the TOPIC, which is the sorry state of NASA's funding.
It's all about TV and 720p. The companies that make monitors can achieve a greater economy of scale by manufacturing for that segment only.
Was the Grid before the Tandy 100?
For almost $20K it could be yours in 1975: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100
And me without mod points... Yep. If you look like that and dress like that, expect to be stared at. It's 'visual prostitution'. If they don't like it they should find another job.
All I can say is, go to the TIGHAR website. Read through their findings. I'm convinced but not entirely so. If you were running out of fuel over a mostly open ocean, looking for the bes place to land, and you saw a wrecked ship on the edge of an island, you'd think, "I'll land near there! There might just be people, and at the least there might be resources I could use after I go down!" Earhart may have been untrained and unwise, but she wasn't stupid. IF I had been her that's what I would've done. Still all this presupposes that she and Noonan did land on Nikumauroro. That's why I say go the website. The sheer weight of all the circumstantial evidence is massive.
I doubt it. They landed near the Norwich, probably thinking it was a sign of habitation. Tidal action would've broken the Electra up into little bitty sheriff meatballs in a relatively short time-- Gallagher's colonists would've reported finding more than just stray pieces of metal and glass. There's a very steep dropoff on the reef edge nearby. The remnants of the plane, if Niko was indeed the place where they landed, are in the abyssal depths. That's one of the main things the new expediton is looking to find.
The Navy DID look for her. They pulled out all the stops, on orders from Roosevelt himself. Earhart shoud've been better prepared for such an endevor-- but neither she nor Noonan could understand Morse code (something that would've prevented their loss) nor did either receive any survival training (something that might've saved their lives on Niko). The Navy sent a battleship and an aircraft carrier to look for her, but her lack of Morse skills doomed her. Even the Japanese navy helped to look for her.
Neither of them had had any decent survival training. The Norwich City castaways from 1929 had left a few containers of water behind, but after so many years in equatorial heat chances are it made them sick, if any of it was even left. Niko is frickin' HOT, and they would've weakened quickly even after on a day or two. They may have a had some stores left on the Electra but after that was gone they'd've had to wait for rain. I doubt very much that had any equipement on board to evaporate salt water. Someone else stated that the island was anything but a tropical paradise and they were right. Even some of the fish were poisonous. Someone without serious military-grade survival training would not have lasted very long there.
No, TIGHAR's hypothesis isn't proven. That's what they're trying to do. Approach it with skepticism, yes, but what they're postulating is the best fit for the data. For example, the most intuitive and common-sense theory is they simply went down over the water, but hey CANNOT have gone down in the ocean, as the Electra couldn't operate its generator to run the radio if it was floating. The post-loss radio transmissions indicate they were alive somewhere, and on land. Bearings taken by ships and other recieving stations indicate that that land was Gardner. I invite you to go to TIGHAR's website and read through it thoroughly. They lay out their case pretty well. Like I said, no, it isn't PROVEN, but it's the best explanation for the data.
Earhart probably died of thirst. Post-loss radio transmissions suggest that Noonan was seriously injured during the crash landing; if so he probably went before she did. The last credible reception of an Earhart broadcast was on July 7, five days after they disappeared. Niko is hellishly hot, and finding water would've been a real problem. Neither of them understood Morse code, nor had they undergone any meaningful survival training, When seach planes from the battleship Colorado flew over on the 10th they were possibly too weak to get to a clear area in order to wave. That first night encountering coconut crabs must've been truly terrifying. They won't predate you, but if you fall asleep they might think you were carrion....
If movies are bad these days, music is pure shit. Yes, I am a pirate (too) 200 years too late. The last two movies I downloaded (Avengers, MIB3) I also went to see at the theatre, because they were *good* films. I also pirated Battleship, and I'll never get those few minutes of my life back. But music? Jeez, don't get me started... Now get off my lawn.
Just for fairness: Ubuntu, are you listening?
Metro is bullshit, and trying to shove a tablet interface down the throats of every desktop user is just going to make MS hated more. What in the HELL is Marketing thinking?
And here I am with no mod points. You're absolutely correct. I'll go even further and say the market for recorded music will shrink even more whether it's record companies or Apple doing the distribution. The days where you can add a gimmick and Autotune & then foist off on the musical consumer a talentless flavor-of-the-month so-called 'artist' that doesn't even play an instrument are hopefully gone. Musicians will have to make their money honestly by playing in front of live audiences. There will always be recorded music in some form, but this is where everything's headed.
Mod up. I just last night spilled half a bottle of beer into an irreplaceable Model M keyboard. I'm lucky I had another. Maybe I can take it apart and clean it. Also, back to on-topic: Isn't Teflon already pretty hydrophobic (though a bit too expensive to make throwaway ketchup bottles with)?
Not in the face! Not in the face!
No, it was in reference to the Mercury program. Test pilots like Chuck Yeager derisively referred to the Mercury astronauts as "spam-in-a-can" and made fun of the fact that chimps could fly the Mercury capsule. This was in 1959. You'd think we'd've been to Mars by now, but no, we beg rides from Vladimir Putin just to get to low Earth orbit. Alan Shepard is doing cartwheels right now.