The United States does not have the ability to "give companies rights to a HUGE exploitable area" because, thanks to several treaties, Luna falls under no single nation and is considered international property like the oceans.
The robotic side has been able to take more risks and has had numerous public failures. This is really well how?
The manned side has been hindered by politics and has been underfunded. No one wants to take any risk where an astronaut might die because then pundits scream about the danger of space flight. Then, when manned space flight doesn't make any breakthroughs or discoveries because no risks are taken, people like you whine that manned space flight isn't worth it because nothing is getting done.
Manned space flight is "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
From what I know, the exposure of Plame's identity did not "decimate" anything. It ended her effectiveness as an agent.
Basically, you are arguing that two wrongs make a right, specifically that because the bozo who got away with exposing Plame's identity this bozo should not be prosecuted for violating his oath of service and federal law. That is a fallacy. Using that reasoning, no murderer should ever be prosecuted because other murderers have gotten away with their crimes.
The Plame incident is not related to this incident. Two separate incidents, two separate crimes, two separate perpetrators, two separate trials.
Please name ever public company currently capable of providing "services to certain government space based projects". Please name ever public company that is even close to having a launch system that can reach the ISS.
Remember, the European Space Agency is not a public company.
Let's see. Florida is going to use statistical software to try to identify children, who have already committed crimes, who are most likely to continue to commit, most-likely more serious, crimes and prevent them from going down that path through intervention services such as mentoring, counseling, and community control.
Yes, what a horrible thing to take kids who have started down the path of a criminal life and trying to improve their lives and keep them from committing crimes, becoming drug addicts, and going to jail and/or prison repeatedly. Why, they must be stopped at all costs because these kids would be much better off following the downward spiral of being a repeat-offender criminals.
The only problem with your comment is that the Shuttle system has three scheduled flights left before being decommissioned (unless it is extended which does not look like it will happen) and Obama canceled the Aries lift system and has proposed no replacement. Instead, he is hoping that a commercial entity will build a viable lift system or that we will be able to pay some other country to launch it for us cheaper than we could launch it ourselves. The only thing that is going to be built is the Orion capsule, which NASA will not be able to launch.
How exactly are we going to send men to asteroids and Mars if we can't reliably get out of the atmosphere? To me, his blathering about going to the asteroids and Mars is just so much politically expedient lying.
How is this different from pretty much everything else manufactured in Southeast Asia? Everything you buy that is made in China is made by people who are treated a little better than slaves. The companies provide rooms at the factories for their employees, with 6 people per room, communal bathroom, and no kitchen facilities. The employees are charged rent for the rooms, even if they don't stay in the rooms.
Remember this the next time you are at Walmart, buying crap that has been made in China. It is cheap because the people who made it are being exploited.
They advanced beyond radio before we ever had radio.
They have developed at the same time as us, but a few thousand light years away, so there is nothing in our neighborhood to hear.
Their compression and encoding is so good, we can't tell the signal from the noise.
Their receivers are much more sensitive than ours so the signal is much weaker than we can filter out from the noise.
They developed a different kind of encoding scheme that we don't recognize it as a signal.
They never developed radio, using some other kind of technology instead.
We have been listening for 40 years. The universe is 14 billion years old. They have lived and died and all the signals have passed us by before we stood upright.
IBM incorporates WINE support into OS/2 with Linux
Windows applications run on OS/2 as well as or better than on XWindow system on Linux
PROFIT!!!
B) I know many people who have called MS for support. Not for viruses but for other issues, issues which can affect Linux installs but for which there is no one to call. But, home users don't matter any where near as much as BUSINESSES who would adopt Linux for use on the desktop if there was commercial support. And, while we are at it, IBM, as a successful blue-chip company, can afford to pay for and/or develop much better drivers and if they provide the OS/2 GUI as a closed source solution, video card developers will be more likely to provide drivers themselves. As a corporation, IBM can provide a robust, well-tested API for OS/2 on Linux, especially as IBM knows exactly what they are providing in the new OS/2. Users, both home and business, as well as sysadmins and developers like commercial support, even if they don't use it.
C) So, which of those two do develop for, GNOME or KDE? You say GNOME is rising over KDE, but what happens when the fad shifts the other way? What happens if I prefer some applications from one, and some from the other? Won't I end up loading the libraries for both? And, when I load up Xine, am I not going to have a completely different set of widgets? What happens if one develops for GNOME and KDE, and someone takes, say, WindowMaker and develops the next, bright, shiny, must-use IDE which suddenly becomes the default IDE for Ubuntu, RedHat, or the next hot distro? How many people do you see complaining that there is only one GUI for Macs? At worst, I hear people complaining that specific features are not available for Mac, but I have never heard someone say "I wish I could change out the (window manger|GUI) on my MacBook." In fact, I don't think I have ever heard an average user say "I wish I could change the (GUI|Window manager) on Windows." Most users don't care what GUI or window manager is in use, as long as they can sit down at a strange machine with the same OS as the one they have at home and know how to use it.
It is not that. It is "Hey, he did something with technology I don't understand. I bet if I lie and say it hurt me, they will pay me big bucks to shut up and go away. Cha-CHING!"
It is much more malicious and she and her family are shit.
You don't see the difference between IBM and Linspire?
Fanboys like you always amaze me with your inability to see reality. Instead, you substitute your broken world view then gnash your teeth and wring your hands and cry about the unfairness of it all when things don't happen as you think they should.
Yeah, you are right. A standard interface, commercial support, and Windows compatibility are trivial concerns. Who would ever want something as silly as that? After all, so many Windows users are flocking to Linux while Apple's OS X, which is basically a custom GUI on top of BSD, hasn't increased it's market share at all.
I do not need to support anything as I did not make any accusations.
If one can not point to a website run or associated with something unpopular on Slashdot to support one's positive claims or validate one's positive point about said thing, then one should not be able to point to a website run or associated with something popular on Slashdot to support one's positive claims or validate one's positive point about said thing.
All I did was hold the OP and the Pirate Party up to the same standards as things that are not popular here on Slashdot.
Sorry, but that website is not respectable, in the sense that it is a blog of and for supporters of the various Pirate Parties. One would not take seriously the blog of a Republican or Democrat as a respectable source of information about the worthiness and truthfulness of the respective parties.
Try again please.
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I'd be wary of suggesting that we ever will or should have an official desktop. Some competition and cross-pollination helps us share interface ideas that work after having separate communities really find out what doesn't.
Yes, because reinventing the something 27 times is such a great idea.
Your post should be entitled "My experience with a mismanaged Windows NT 4 software development project." The only experience you had with OS/2 in your story is that the contractor used it to emulate NT 3.51 during development instead of using actual NT 4.0 machines.
What happened is not the fault of OS/2, but rather the contractor and the manager overseeing the development.
How about because the X Window System actually sucks? How about because there is a better way of doing things? How about because a standardized UI is better than the crap out there now?
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Docudramas are not factual. They are, by definition, dramas which are works of fiction. Therefore, your post fails.
The United States does not have the ability to "give companies rights to a HUGE exploitable area" because, thanks to several treaties, Luna falls under no single nation and is considered international property like the oceans.
The robotic side has been able to take more risks and has had numerous public failures. This is really well how?
The manned side has been hindered by politics and has been underfunded. No one wants to take any risk where an astronaut might die because then pundits scream about the danger of space flight. Then, when manned space flight doesn't make any breakthroughs or discoveries because no risks are taken, people like you whine that manned space flight isn't worth it because nothing is getting done.
Manned space flight is "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
No, he didn't. This is nothing like the Minority Report. You are making the exact same mistake as the idiot over at Gizmodo.
From what I know, the exposure of Plame's identity did not "decimate" anything. It ended her effectiveness as an agent.
Basically, you are arguing that two wrongs make a right, specifically that because the bozo who got away with exposing Plame's identity this bozo should not be prosecuted for violating his oath of service and federal law. That is a fallacy. Using that reasoning, no murderer should ever be prosecuted because other murderers have gotten away with their crimes.
The Plame incident is not related to this incident. Two separate incidents, two separate crimes, two separate perpetrators, two separate trials.
Please name ever public company currently capable of providing "services to certain government space based projects".
Please name ever public company that is even close to having a launch system that can reach the ISS.
Remember, the European Space Agency is not a public company.
Please list all the private companies that are close to reaching the ISS in a robust, competitive, cheap way.
Nice ad hominem attack, but you do not refute anything he says.
Please explain in detail how he is wrong or STFU.
Let's see. Florida is going to use statistical software to try to identify children, who have already committed crimes, who are most likely to continue to commit, most-likely more serious, crimes and prevent them from going down that path through intervention services such as mentoring, counseling, and community control.
Yes, what a horrible thing to take kids who have started down the path of a criminal life and trying to improve their lives and keep them from committing crimes, becoming drug addicts, and going to jail and/or prison repeatedly. Why, they must be stopped at all costs because these kids would be much better off following the downward spiral of being a repeat-offender criminals.
How are we going to get to Mars without a lift system?
Please explain in detail what Plame has to do with Drake being indited on charges of violating federal law and his oath of service?
The only problem with your comment is that the Shuttle system has three scheduled flights left before being decommissioned (unless it is extended which does not look like it will happen) and Obama canceled the Aries lift system and has proposed no replacement. Instead, he is hoping that a commercial entity will build a viable lift system or that we will be able to pay some other country to launch it for us cheaper than we could launch it ourselves. The only thing that is going to be built is the Orion capsule, which NASA will not be able to launch.
How exactly are we going to send men to asteroids and Mars if we can't reliably get out of the atmosphere? To me, his blathering about going to the asteroids and Mars is just so much politically expedient lying.
How is this different from pretty much everything else manufactured in Southeast Asia? Everything you buy that is made in China is made by people who are treated a little better than slaves. The companies provide rooms at the factories for their employees, with 6 people per room, communal bathroom, and no kitchen facilities. The employees are charged rent for the rooms, even if they don't stay in the rooms.
Remember this the next time you are at Walmart, buying crap that has been made in China. It is cheap because the people who made it are being exploited.
Or, maybe we have heard it but:
That is enough for now.
Who tells you to write the press releases and what to put in them?
Who wrote the clauses?
Because you don't seem to be in charge but rather a secretary or public affairs officer, who is actually in charge?
A)
B) I know many people who have called MS for support. Not for viruses but for other issues, issues which can affect Linux installs but for which there is no one to call. But, home users don't matter any where near as much as BUSINESSES who would adopt Linux for use on the desktop if there was commercial support. And, while we are at it, IBM, as a successful blue-chip company, can afford to pay for and/or develop much better drivers and if they provide the OS/2 GUI as a closed source solution, video card developers will be more likely to provide drivers themselves. As a corporation, IBM can provide a robust, well-tested API for OS/2 on Linux, especially as IBM knows exactly what they are providing in the new OS/2. Users, both home and business, as well as sysadmins and developers like commercial support, even if they don't use it.
C) So, which of those two do develop for, GNOME or KDE? You say GNOME is rising over KDE, but what happens when the fad shifts the other way? What happens if I prefer some applications from one, and some from the other? Won't I end up loading the libraries for both? And, when I load up Xine, am I not going to have a completely different set of widgets? What happens if one develops for GNOME and KDE, and someone takes, say, WindowMaker and develops the next, bright, shiny, must-use IDE which suddenly becomes the default IDE for Ubuntu, RedHat, or the next hot distro? How many people do you see complaining that there is only one GUI for Macs? At worst, I hear people complaining that specific features are not available for Mac, but I have never heard someone say "I wish I could change out the (window manger|GUI) on my MacBook." In fact, I don't think I have ever heard an average user say "I wish I could change the (GUI|Window manager) on Windows." Most users don't care what GUI or window manager is in use, as long as they can sit down at a strange machine with the same OS as the one they have at home and know how to use it.
It is not that. It is "Hey, he did something with technology I don't understand. I bet if I lie and say it hurt me, they will pay me big bucks to shut up and go away. Cha-CHING!"
It is much more malicious and she and her family are shit.
Like last time? You mean Linspire?
You don't see the difference between IBM and Linspire?
Fanboys like you always amaze me with your inability to see reality. Instead, you substitute your broken world view then gnash your teeth and wring your hands and cry about the unfairness of it all when things don't happen as you think they should.
Yeah, you are right. A standard interface, commercial support, and Windows compatibility are trivial concerns. Who would ever want something as silly as that? After all, so many Windows users are flocking to Linux while Apple's OS X, which is basically a custom GUI on top of BSD, hasn't increased it's market share at all.
So, you and your party deserve special treatment and shouldn't have to be held to the standards that you demand of others.
Sounds like special pleading to me.
I do not need to support anything as I did not make any accusations.
If one can not point to a website run or associated with something unpopular on Slashdot to support one's positive claims or validate one's positive point about said thing, then one should not be able to point to a website run or associated with something popular on Slashdot to support one's positive claims or validate one's positive point about said thing.
All I did was hold the OP and the Pirate Party up to the same standards as things that are not popular here on Slashdot.
Sorry, but that website is not respectable, in the sense that it is a blog of and for supporters of the various Pirate Parties. One would not take seriously the blog of a Republican or Democrat as a respectable source of information about the worthiness and truthfulness of the respective parties.
Try again please.
Yes, because reinventing the something 27 times is such a great idea.
Your post should be entitled "My experience with a mismanaged Windows NT 4 software development project." The only experience you had with OS/2 in your story is that the contractor used it to emulate NT 3.51 during development instead of using actual NT 4.0 machines.
What happened is not the fault of OS/2, but rather the contractor and the manager overseeing the development.
How about because the X Window System actually sucks?
How about because there is a better way of doing things?
How about because a standardized UI is better than the crap out there now?
Is that reason enough for you?