Actually, robotic exploration is human exploration. Robots don't have a will of their own. Humans are merely using robots as an extension of their senses and limbs, but are the ones in control, interpreting data, deciding what to explore next.
It is unfortunate that manned mission advocate don't understand that what makes us human are our thoughts and desires, not our bodies. Insisting on hauling them in space is missing the point and a distraction from actual exploration.
In practice, it is either or. The manned program is one big chunk (ISS/shuttle), the unmanned program is made of many (comparatively) small missions. So to avoid canceling the manned program, they cancel or postpone unmanned mission to pay for it. It would be nice if there was a strict wall that prevented that, but there isn't.
As for the ISS, it was sold as a science platform, not as an exercise in living / building stuff in space. Yet, the science results are not there. What little science they do is in fact automated, and doesn't need to be hosted on a manned station. What we could do is build an unmanned station to provide orbit maintenance, communication and power, and then use automated vehicles to shuffle experiments back and forth between the ground and the station.
If you have a quasi-religious belief in the need for spreading to other planets, and a romanticized view of historical colonists, that is your problem, but you cannot sell this in the name of science and pay for it with science budgets. Heck, this shouldn't even be taxpayer funded.
And please stop with the helium-3 bullshit. (See this for instance). It is just a desperate attempt to justify a manned moon mission.
If we were interested in science in the short term, we would halt the manned program and pay for all the exciting stuff we could do within a decade or do but aren't: sailing the seas of Titan, flying through volcanic plumes at Io, deploying a meteorological network on Mars, orbiting Neptune, drilling through the ice of Europa, and much more...
It is not 100% working yet but it already exists.
There are standard java bindings for the DOM.
As an example, rhinohide allows java applets to access the DOM via the standard bindings thanks to a javascript bridge.
In this demo, which should work in firefox, a java applet modifies the document it is embedded in via this mechanism.
This link:http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/cil016.html describes some corner cases of C. You need to have some prior to knowledge of C to appreciate the non-obviousness of the examples though.
Man-rating the Delta and optionally funding a heavy (modular) variant of the Delta and Falcon is the most cost-effective strategy. Unfortunately, it is about keeping the money flowing toward the districts that built the shuttle, not about cost-effective space exploration. Since the space program is a fairly unimportant political issue, congress gets away with it.
Progress burned because it is not designed to survive reentry. A similar failure with a soyouz capsule would have been no problem, they would have aborted and reentered as usual.
a 3-4 kms gravitational head start would save TONS of fuel.
No it wouldn't. The gravitational potential depends on the distance from Earth's barycenter. The relative difference between 65536 km and 65540 km is a measly 0.006%, which is negligible.
You should always write a public domain dedication. Code with no licensing information is unusable since by default, it is copyrighted with all rights reserved.
If you want to give your code away, use something like this:
Written in <YEAR> by <AUTHOR NAME> <AUTHOR E-MAIL ADDRESS>
To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.
winelib has a lot of machine-dependent bits which makes it non-portable to non-x86 architectures, at least not yet. So you cannot compile winelib + your code for a different architecture.
However, you can run wine + your program using qemu userspace emulation. This allows you to run windows applications on linux on any architecture.
So, wine does indeed allow you to run unmodified x86 windows apps on ARM linux. It could even work on windows on ARM if you port qemu (which already works on windows on x86) and provide posix emulation and an X server.
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He has been doing the exact same thing since 2006. Instead of promotional video, he might want to work on autonomous take-off.
Actually, robotic exploration is human exploration. Robots don't have a will of their own. Humans are merely using robots as an extension of their senses and limbs, but are the ones in control, interpreting data, deciding what to explore next.
It is unfortunate that manned mission advocate don't understand that what makes us human are our thoughts and desires, not our bodies. Insisting on hauling them in space is missing the point and a distraction from actual exploration.
In practice, it is either or. The manned program is one big chunk (ISS/shuttle), the unmanned program is made of many (comparatively) small missions. So to avoid canceling the manned program, they cancel or postpone unmanned mission to pay for it. It would be nice if there was a strict wall that prevented that, but there isn't.
As for the ISS, it was sold as a science platform, not as an exercise in living / building stuff in space. Yet, the science results are not there. What little science they do is in fact automated, and doesn't need to be hosted on a manned station. What we could do is build an unmanned station to provide orbit maintenance, communication and power, and then use automated vehicles to shuffle experiments back and forth between the ground and the station.
If you have a quasi-religious belief in the need for spreading to other planets, and a romanticized view of historical colonists, that is your problem, but you cannot sell this in the name of science and pay for it with science budgets. Heck, this shouldn't even be taxpayer funded.
And please stop with the helium-3 bullshit. (See this for instance). It is just a desperate attempt to justify a manned moon mission.
If we were interested in science in the short term, we would halt the manned program and pay for all the exciting stuff we could do within a decade or do but aren't: sailing the seas of Titan, flying through volcanic plumes at Io, deploying a meteorological network on Mars, orbiting Neptune, drilling through the ice of Europa, and much more...
Sorry for the rant.
A true geek would use the opportunity to steal this and install it on his PC case.
It is not 100% working yet but it already exists. There are standard java bindings for the DOM. As an example, rhinohide allows java applets to access the DOM via the standard bindings thanks to a javascript bridge. In this demo, which should work in firefox, a java applet modifies the document it is embedded in via this mechanism.
This link:http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/cil016.html
describes some corner cases of C. You need to have some prior to knowledge of C to appreciate the non-obviousness of the examples though.
Man-rating the Delta and optionally funding a heavy (modular) variant of the Delta and Falcon is the most cost-effective strategy. Unfortunately, it is about keeping the money flowing toward the districts that built the shuttle, not about cost-effective space exploration. Since the space program is a fairly unimportant political issue, congress gets away with it.
Progress burned because it is not designed to survive reentry. A similar failure with a soyouz capsule would have been no problem, they would have aborted and reentered as usual.
What rocks ? Europa is covered in ice.
a 3-4 kms gravitational head start would save TONS of fuel.
No it wouldn't. The gravitational potential depends on the distance from Earth's barycenter. The relative difference between 65536 km and 65540 km is a measly 0.006%, which is negligible.
You should always write a public domain dedication. Code with no licensing information is unusable since by default, it is copyrighted with all rights reserved.
If you want to give your code away, use something like this:
Written in <YEAR> by <AUTHOR NAME> <AUTHOR E-MAIL ADDRESS>
To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the
public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any
warranty.
That is totally wrong.
winelib has a lot of machine-dependent bits which makes it non-portable to non-x86 architectures, at least not yet. So you cannot compile winelib + your code for a different architecture.
However, you can run wine + your program using qemu userspace emulation. This allows you to run windows applications on linux on any architecture.
So, wine does indeed allow you to run unmodified x86 windows apps on ARM linux.
It could even work on windows on ARM if you port qemu (which already works on windows on x86) and provide posix emulation and an X server.
...I hoped to hear about a breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis. How disappointing.
Even the shark has jumped the shark.
Warning: don't cross the road with remaining heart.
When i read plugfest, I was afraid it might be something else entirely.
Actually, the pen is used for support.
You have the wrong picture. here it is.