Titan will be visited by the Huygens lander which is due to enter Titan's atmosphere in November 2004.
I hope this won't be another 'Low Cost' mission, or else it'll never get all the way to Saturn.;-)
But seriously, it's good to know that NASA's got funding to be doing far-reaching stuff like that. It'll be interesting to see when that actually gets off the ground, though.
We can only hope that this catches on. It would drastically increase the flexibility of the web developer. Unfortunately, the only way that I can see it catching on is if M$ implements it; because other browsers would have to follow suit.
W3C's recommendations seem to be increasingly ignored by the major browsers. This is partially because their recommendations seem more complex, but still, old browsers were usually 100% HTML4/3.2 etc. compliant. Now we see all of the major browsers having around 50% compliance for difference specifications.
also, whatever happened to MathML? I thought that this had promise, but in the last year, no browser has supported it, besides Amaya
We seem doomed to be following the wishes of the IE development team instead of those of the W3C.
However, I do believe that this particular technology will catch the eyes of those in M$, and will be implemented. It should be interesting to see how long this takes.
No, it's not offensive. It's stupid. A library is not 'for reading', it's for information. Yes, some people go to libraries and look at beaniebabies.com...but people also go to libraries and read popular magazines.
The point of a public library is to keep information free. The internet is just an extension of that. If you only want to read, and not have 'surfers' in your way, there's borders you can go to.
I'm not sure that filtering is really necessary, even if you are worried about kids getting on porno sites. How many times have you seen a kid get on a porn site with people watching him? No one's going to go to a public place to look at porn.
Even if someone was to get onto a porn site, there are plenty of nosy people in libraries who would probably repremand them.
Stupid people....don't think before making laws.
1) Repeat after me: "Lady Luck has no memory." Now write it on the chalk board 1000 times. If I am flipping a fair coin, and I get 4 heads in a row, what is the probability that the next flip will be a head? 50%. Believing anything else will get you into gambler's anonymous.
That's not what his point was. Here's a probability question for you:
You go to a restraunt and the you find that the service and food are excellent. The second time you come back, will you
A)Find the service worse
B)Find the service the same
C)Find the service better
surprisingly, the answer is A. Worse. Why is this?
When you have something that's on the high end of the bell curve, you see this phenomenon of 'regression toward the mean'. When you rate something from one event that is above the mean, it's more likely that you were experiencing a high point from a lower quality experience than a low point from a high quality one.
As space operations go, (look at the MIR, for example), NASA has their act together; they're on the high end of the bellcurve. So, it's more likely that they'll suck *more* after a while.
so you're both wrong. NASA's tendancy will be to 'regress toward the mean', not get better or say the same.
Notice how the specific purpose was not mentioned; just that it would be available for use for academic purposes. How many applications are there for a cluster like this? There aren't many projects that have the task architecture needed for it to be useful.
I can see (possibly) weather prediction, but what else? It sounds like they had a chunk of money left over and thought that a supercomputer would be cool to own. Of course, I'm all for wasting money in the name of science.:-)
Of course it would affect them if alot of people did it. But the problem is, that won't happen. They have an almost complete monopoly on one of the main forms of entertainment in the entertainment capital of the world. People who buy bubble gum music won't be concerned with the fact that the RIAA forces out small bands, or is artificially jacking up prices. They want their bubble gum music, and they want it now. Any boycott that is attempted will fail.
however, the US government is a bigger strong-arm than the RIAA, and can do something about it. Take your time to write letters, etc. if you want to see a change.
A boycott won't hurt the RIAA at all. Even if all of everyone who actually is bothered by the ruling decided not to buy cds, there are still so many people out there who don't care that it probably wouldn't affect the RIAA. Not only that, but what good would it do? They wouldn't lift the lawsuit just so that people can go on pirating their songs. The RIAA is in a position to play the waiting game, because of their monopoly position. A better way of spending your time and money might be to try and get laws passed.
of course, there's always GNUtella.:-)
In all seriousness, I don't know why the FBI wants to do this anyway. Now that a big stink has been made about all of this, a federal criminal isn't going to e-mail his mom and tell her that he's planning to blow up the white house.
I guess it makes the FBI feel like they have more power. The government likes flexing it's muscles, I've noticed.
I've heard that if you certain programs are capable of it (because of being more efficient), but I could be wrong. I've tried running winamp on a 40Mhz 486. That was interesting. It played it, but not in real time. It was slowed by about half normal speed...sounded pretty cool on some songs, actually.:-)
Dude, get a fricking clue. According to your logic, the computer itself is nothing new anyway. I'm talking about new applications for something its size. Yes, you can get a wireless phone, but they don't use http. It also doesn't do a headmounted VGA display.
Does is suck when you realize that you can't spel log cabbin?
*sigh*...Ok, point well taken. Fine, I see no use for it.;-)
Actually, I do. A wearable computer with a headmounted display would be pretty dang cool, except usually the computers are too heavy to be comfortable. I guess this makes it possible.
now all they need to do is integrate it with a cell phone, and have true wireless web.:-)
The only reason I can see this as being useful is as an mp3 player.:-) Oh well, what's the point of any peice of technology that's on the edge? Guess this is another example of Edison's newborn baby argument.
I still think the spud server was way cooler, though.
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lswv("Noooooo!!!!");
/*Luke Sky Walker Voice*/
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You know, before I posted that, I searched on NASA's website to see if it was already launched... :-) Guess it wasn't a thorough enough search.
:-)
:-)
Of course, if the arrive date is only 4 years away, common sense says that it's already been launched.
smack(this);
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Most parts of the flight software have not been written yet and will be uploaded before Cassini reaches it's destination
Sign me up!
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Titan will be visited by the Huygens lander which is due to enter Titan's atmosphere in November 2004.
;-)
I hope this won't be another 'Low Cost' mission, or else it'll never get all the way to Saturn.
But seriously, it's good to know that NASA's got funding to be doing far-reaching stuff like that. It'll be interesting to see when that actually gets off the ground, though.
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We can only hope that this catches on. It would drastically increase the flexibility of the web developer. Unfortunately, the only way that I can see it catching on is if M$ implements it; because other browsers would have to follow suit.
W3C's recommendations seem to be increasingly ignored by the major browsers. This is partially because their recommendations seem more complex, but still, old browsers were usually 100% HTML4/3.2 etc. compliant. Now we see all of the major browsers having around 50% compliance for difference specifications.
also, whatever happened to MathML? I thought that this had promise, but in the last year, no browser has supported it, besides Amaya
We seem doomed to be following the wishes of the IE development team instead of those of the W3C.
However, I do believe that this particular technology will catch the eyes of those in M$, and will be implemented. It should be interesting to see how long this takes.
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No, it's not offensive. It's stupid. A library is not 'for reading', it's for information. Yes, some people go to libraries and look at beaniebabies.com...but people also go to libraries and read popular magazines.
The point of a public library is to keep information free. The internet is just an extension of that. If you only want to read, and not have 'surfers' in your way, there's borders you can go to.
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I'm not sure that filtering is really necessary, even if you are worried about kids getting on porno sites. How many times have you seen a kid get on a porn site with people watching him? No one's going to go to a public place to look at porn.
Even if someone was to get onto a porn site, there are plenty of nosy people in libraries who would probably repremand them.
Stupid people....don't think before making laws.
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1) Repeat after me: "Lady Luck has no memory." Now write it on the chalk board 1000 times. If I am flipping a fair coin, and I get 4 heads in a row, what is the probability that the next flip will be a head? 50%. Believing anything else will get you into gambler's anonymous.
That's not what his point was. Here's a probability question for you:
You go to a restraunt and the you find that the service and food are excellent. The second time you come back, will you
A)Find the service worse
B)Find the service the same
C)Find the service better
surprisingly, the answer is A. Worse. Why is this? When you have something that's on the high end of the bell curve, you see this phenomenon of 'regression toward the mean'. When you rate something from one event that is above the mean, it's more likely that you were experiencing a high point from a lower quality experience than a low point from a high quality one.
As space operations go, (look at the MIR, for example), NASA has their act together; they're on the high end of the bellcurve. So, it's more likely that they'll suck *more* after a while.
so you're both wrong. NASA's tendancy will be to 'regress toward the mean', not get better or say the same.
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Notice how the specific purpose was not mentioned; just that it would be available for use for academic purposes. How many applications are there for a cluster like this? There aren't many projects that have the task architecture needed for it to be useful.
:-)
I can see (possibly) weather prediction, but what else? It sounds like they had a chunk of money left over and thought that a supercomputer would be cool to own.
Of course, I'm all for wasting money in the name of science.
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Of course it would affect them if alot of people did it. But the problem is, that won't happen. They have an almost complete monopoly on one of the main forms of entertainment in the entertainment capital of the world. People who buy bubble gum music won't be concerned with the fact that the RIAA forces out small bands, or is artificially jacking up prices. They want their bubble gum music, and they want it now. Any boycott that is attempted will fail. however, the US government is a bigger strong-arm than the RIAA, and can do something about it. Take your time to write letters, etc. if you want to see a change.
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A boycott won't hurt the RIAA at all. Even if all of everyone who actually is bothered by the ruling decided not to buy cds, there are still so many people out there who don't care that it probably wouldn't affect the RIAA. Not only that, but what good would it do? They wouldn't lift the lawsuit just so that people can go on pirating their songs. The RIAA is in a position to play the waiting game, because of their monopoly position. A better way of spending your time and money might be to try and get laws passed. of course, there's always GNUtella. :-)
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In all seriousness, I don't know why the FBI wants to do this anyway. Now that a big stink has been made about all of this, a federal criminal isn't going to e-mail his mom and tell her that he's planning to blow up the white house. I guess it makes the FBI feel like they have more power. The government likes flexing it's muscles, I've noticed.
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...that the Hot Java emulator doesn't work. *shrug*
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I've heard that if you certain programs are capable of it (because of being more efficient), but I could be wrong. I've tried running winamp on a 40Mhz 486. That was interesting. It played it, but not in real time. It was slowed by about half normal speed...sounded pretty cool on some songs, actually. :-)
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Dude, get a fricking clue. According to your logic, the computer itself is nothing new anyway. I'm talking about new applications for something its size. Yes, you can get a wireless phone, but they don't use http. It also doesn't do a headmounted VGA display. Does is suck when you realize that you can't spel log cabbin?
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*sigh*...Ok, point well taken. Fine, I see no use for it. ;-)
Actually, I do. A wearable computer with a headmounted display would be pretty dang cool, except usually the computers are too heavy to be comfortable. I guess this makes it possible.
now all they need to do is integrate it with a cell phone, and have true wireless web. :-)
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Not with a 340 meg hard drive. Yes, there are other mp3 players with hard drives, but they are much larger.
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The only reason I can see this as being useful is as an mp3 player. :-) Oh well, what's the point of any peice of technology that's on the edge? Guess this is another example of Edison's newborn baby argument.
I still think the spud server was way cooler, though.
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