What's really curious is that the thing that really interests John Q Public is something like the Hubble sending us countless new vistas on the Universe that nobody even dreamed of having ten years ago. So I think the public still care about space, but I think it has to have meaning.
There is something that Nasa can point to and say "see, we did that!" But yet they seem more than willing to let it die.
As it is, they point to a couple of guys who pass overhead every once in a while and admit that they are running low on food, which becomes fodder for jokes by Jay Leno.
I know that some people like to see a man in space. Personally, I'd rather see the ISS deorbit and burn than lose the Hublle.
If the U.S. put the money it wastes on world domination in to mars and moon missions or an Apollo class push on fusion energy there would be potential huge benefits in many areas.
I have heard more than one commentator opine that "Sept 11" is a good crisis wasted. Meaning at that moment in history with a nation circling it's wagons there should have been a major appollo type push to get us off the foreign oil drug. Because when you look at it, decrease oil consumption and you take away the money the sheiks have to give to alquaeda under the table. Not to mention the world of good it would do for our trade deficit.
Instead, we take out a ten-cent dictator. We really did not get our money's worth here. Yes Saddam was a very bad person. But the world is filled with bad tin-horn dictators.
I'm somebody who believes in taking care of their own before extending myself to others. With the money spent in Iraq they could have covered the health expenses of all the uninsured Americans (I just joined the ranks) quite easily with change (lots) to spare.
I don't believe that mars is the best goal for this nation. But by time we are done with Iraq, I bet we will have spent 500 billion on it, which would have gone a long way towards a mars mission, and we would have gotten a lot more out of it. As it is we have a large number of people in the middle east who just flat out want to see every one of us Americans die, preferably by a bomb.
So it is truly discouraging. Bush got re-elected so that at the end of the next four years can see how horribly wrong they were and that the Iraq war was a bad idea. Expensive lesson.
And that goes for the other millions of adults who didn't vote too.
At least they won't be able to play "blame Clinton" anymore as the Republicans have everything under their thumbs.
Our national priority right now should be to standardize a transparent voting machine process and make sure all the machines work by 2008.
I think you are confusing a couple of issues.....with MemoryStick and MagicGate
You are right. Whenever I think of MagicGate DRM I hear the song "Puff the Magic Dragon" play in my head, and it was strangely missing when I made that post.
I'm really glad we have slashdot, because the truth eventually gets blathered out. Sometimes.
you could tell he treated the entire thing as an impossible lark, all talk, no action.
I did get the feeling when Bush announced his Mars plan that it was all O'Keefe could do to hold back the laughter.
I really wish that he would have said "It would mean more to the American people if we sent missions to the outer planets and Kupiter belt, had larger space telescopes, and more hard science missions like gavity B, and save the trillion dollars mars would take to pay down the debt." But then that would have meant that Nasa would have had a sense of direction too.
But he seems more like a "yes man" leaving a sinking ship, which seems to be the fashionable thing to do in Washington these days.
But, seriously, find/write an application that copies files and "owns" them
That may be more easy said than done. Sony engineered the "Secure Digital" to prevent the wanton shuffling of bits around.
While it has been awhile, when I was reviewing this when it first came out I thought that it was pretty draconian DRM. And as you can see, it is accomplishing what it is supposed to do.
"Secure Digital" is code words for "Stopping the stupid consumer from doing something we don't want him to do."
I suppose it could be broken (calling Jon Johanssen) but there comes a point where you start wondering if is worth the trouble and instead realize that the larger issues of broken copyright law is what needs addressing.
Where is Nolan Bushnell, creator of pong, which launched a generation of games that could be plugged into the TV, ancestor to the xbox, playstation, and nintendo?
Which would be a better starting point for newbies? Mandrake 10.1 or Xandros OS 3 ???
Xandros without a doubt. This distro "just works" and doesn't have the issues that Mandrake has.
For one, take the floppy drive. Mandrake for one reason or another checks the floppy drive every thirty seconds if you have a floppy in it. This is very annoying. Suse won't even let you use the floppy without giving you a "protocol error." With Xandros the floppy "just works."
Also, Xandros can automount a pendrive, so you don't have to worry about damaging the pen drive by removing it while it is mounted (according to the pen-drives instruction manual anyway)
I am a noob to linux, as this post may show, but I am not a dummy. I consider myself technically literate. If I have problems, I know for sure my mother will.
The fact that Xandros "just works" in many areas and that there is a market for their product really does show that there is much work to be done.
Coders need to stop working on the MP3 player and start addressing usability up front and center.
But this has been said a thousand times, and the only one who is listening is Xandros.
For a long time now I've noticed most "discussion" is so far off topic and so predictably childish and pointless, that there is no reason to even come here anymore
I am so tired of comments whining about discussions being "childish and pointless," that I too have stopped coming to slashdot.
The eBooks however, seem to cost as much as their paper counterparts
Because the price of e-books, as with a lot of other things, have little to do with the cost of production....so there's less competition to reduce prices. It's all economics!
Yes, but there is a reason that nobody is buying them, and it's not lack of competition.
It is safe to assume that the person who is buying the ebook is not completely stupid as they know how to turn on a computer.
People know that the DRM is draconian for most commercial ebooks, that there is no standard, and that it costs a fraction of the cost of a regular book to produce.
To price an ebook the same as a regular book is insane, as most people prefer the dead tree version to handle on a day to day basis given the choice. It may change someday with better display technologies, but right now paper rules the world. It is also easier to photocopy a couple of pages if you wanted to where the heavily DRMed version would not give you the chance.
I really don't care if commercial ebook ventures crash and burn (and many have), because producers need to gain a sense of reality which they seem to be lacking.
Sure ebooks have a cost to produce. But to say that they are near anywhere that of a regular book is a bald face lie.
You're right, it is econimics, and economics is saying get a clue or go out of business
You do have a point. Some cultures for one reason or another are not ready to embrace American style democracy.
Look at the people of Iraq, and how they have embraced their liberation. It makes you wonder if they want to go back to days of Saddam.
And for those that criticize me and say that it's not the general population that is causing problems in Iraq, the fact is the general population is giving refuge to the insurgents, rather than chasing them out of their neighborhoods and mosques (where the US army is increasingly finding large caches of weapons). Or we wouldn't be having the second most marines killed in one month (November). Not to mention that the airwaves are filled with "let's hate America" programming.
There are over 1 billion people in China. If they all were to get mad at once they could overthrow the government in one breath.
The problem is the graft runs so deep that everybody looks the other way.
Sort of like here in the US.
Does he have to move out of Trebek's place now???
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As Trebek's common-law husband, Jennings has rights, doesn't he???
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from the article
"The evidence is clear that a major climate change is underway."
President George W. Bush disagrees with this. Therefore more study is needed.
A .NET, on the other hand, is more likely to be too cheap to hire lawyers, because we're more likely to be unrepentant network laying unix hippies.
Boy, if that's the case, those dot ORG guys must be complete neanderthals.
Teresa Lunt is not cute
Yes, but her teeth are straight, which is enough for any nerd.
What's really curious is that the thing that really interests John Q Public is something like the Hubble sending us countless new vistas on the Universe that nobody even dreamed of having ten years ago. So I think the public still care about space, but I think it has to have meaning.
There is something that Nasa can point to and say "see, we did that!" But yet they seem more than willing to let it die.
As it is, they point to a couple of guys who pass overhead every once in a while and admit that they are running low on food, which becomes fodder for jokes by Jay Leno.
I know that some people like to see a man in space. Personally, I'd rather see the ISS deorbit and burn than lose the Hublle.
If the U.S. put the money it wastes on world domination in to mars and moon missions or an Apollo class push on fusion energy there would be potential huge benefits in many areas.
I have heard more than one commentator opine that "Sept 11" is a good crisis wasted. Meaning at that moment in history with a nation circling it's wagons there should have been a major appollo type push to get us off the foreign oil drug. Because when you look at it, decrease oil consumption and you take away the money the sheiks have to give to alquaeda under the table. Not to mention the world of good it would do for our trade deficit.
Instead, we take out a ten-cent dictator. We really did not get our money's worth here. Yes Saddam was a very bad person. But the world is filled with bad tin-horn dictators.
I'm somebody who believes in taking care of their own before extending myself to others. With the money spent in Iraq they could have covered the health expenses of all the uninsured Americans (I just joined the ranks) quite easily with change (lots) to spare.
I don't believe that mars is the best goal for this nation. But by time we are done with Iraq, I bet we will have spent 500 billion on it, which would have gone a long way towards a mars mission, and we would have gotten a lot more out of it. As it is we have a large number of people in the middle east who just flat out want to see every one of us Americans die, preferably by a bomb.
So it is truly discouraging. Bush got re-elected so that at the end of the next four years can see how horribly wrong they were and that the Iraq war was a bad idea. Expensive lesson.
And that goes for the other millions of adults who didn't vote too.
At least they won't be able to play "blame Clinton" anymore as the Republicans have everything under their thumbs.
Our national priority right now should be to standardize a transparent voting machine process and make sure all the machines work by 2008.
But I'm not holding my breath.
I think you are confusing a couple of issues.....with MemoryStick and MagicGate
You are right. Whenever I think of MagicGate DRM I hear the song "Puff the Magic Dragon" play in my head, and it was strangely missing when I made that post.
I'm really glad we have slashdot, because the truth eventually gets blathered out. Sometimes.
you could tell he treated the entire thing as an impossible lark, all talk, no action.
I did get the feeling when Bush announced his Mars plan that it was all O'Keefe could do to hold back the laughter.
I really wish that he would have said "It would mean more to the American people if we sent missions to the outer planets and Kupiter belt, had larger space telescopes, and more hard science missions like gavity B, and save the trillion dollars mars would take to pay down the debt." But then that would have meant that Nasa would have had a sense of direction too.
But he seems more like a "yes man" leaving a sinking ship, which seems to be the fashionable thing to do in Washington these days.
But, seriously, find/write an application that copies files and "owns" them
That may be more easy said than done. Sony engineered the "Secure Digital" to prevent the wanton shuffling of bits around.
While it has been awhile, when I was reviewing this when it first came out I thought that it was pretty draconian DRM. And as you can see, it is accomplishing what it is supposed to do.
"Secure Digital" is code words for "Stopping the stupid consumer from doing something we don't want him to do."
I suppose it could be broken (calling Jon Johanssen) but there comes a point where you start wondering if is worth the trouble and instead realize that the larger issues of broken copyright law is what needs addressing.
Actually he really is the father of wordprocessing, as most if not all took algorithyms out of Tex to use in their own wordprocessing programs.
Not to mention he is also the father of codifying algorythm research.
Where is Nolan Bushnell, creator of pong, which launched a generation of games that could be plugged into the TV, ancestor to the xbox, playstation, and nintendo?
Which would be a better starting point for newbies? Mandrake 10.1 or Xandros OS 3 ???
Xandros without a doubt. This distro "just works" and doesn't have the issues that Mandrake has.
For one, take the floppy drive. Mandrake for one reason or another checks the floppy drive every thirty seconds if you have a floppy in it. This is very annoying. Suse won't even let you use the floppy without giving you a "protocol error." With Xandros the floppy "just works."
Also, Xandros can automount a pendrive, so you don't have to worry about damaging the pen drive by removing it while it is mounted (according to the pen-drives instruction manual anyway)
I am a noob to linux, as this post may show, but I am not a dummy. I consider myself technically literate. If I have problems, I know for sure my mother will.
The fact that Xandros "just works" in many areas and that there is a market for their product really does show that there is much work to be done.
Coders need to stop working on the MP3 player and start addressing usability up front and center.
But this has been said a thousand times, and the only one who is listening is Xandros.
they are going to measure the size of that new CCD sensor in that new camera and discover that it is exactly 42 mm square.
For a long time now I've noticed most "discussion" is so far off topic and so predictably childish and pointless, that there is no reason to even come here anymore
I am so tired of comments whining about discussions being "childish and pointless," that I too have stopped coming to slashdot.
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The deluxe model is made out of recycled shopping carts, and rolls.
With oil at $50 a barrel, someone should do a TCO taking into account the cost of heating
You mean when the cardboard catches fire???
The eBooks however, seem to cost as much as their paper counterparts
Because the price of e-books, as with a lot of other things, have little to do with the cost of production....so there's less competition to reduce prices. It's all economics!
Yes, but there is a reason that nobody is buying them, and it's not lack of competition.
It is safe to assume that the person who is buying the ebook is not completely stupid as they know how to turn on a computer.
People know that the DRM is draconian for most commercial ebooks, that there is no standard, and that it costs a fraction of the cost of a regular book to produce.
To price an ebook the same as a regular book is insane, as most people prefer the dead tree version to handle on a day to day basis given the choice. It may change someday with better display technologies, but right now paper rules the world. It is also easier to photocopy a couple of pages if you wanted to where the heavily DRMed version would not give you the chance.
I really don't care if commercial ebook ventures crash and burn (and many have), because producers need to gain a sense of reality which they seem to be lacking.
Sure ebooks have a cost to produce. But to say that they are near anywhere that of a regular book is a bald face lie.
You're right, it is econimics, and economics is saying get a clue or go out of business
This research has some serious flaws..... I think it was written to grab headlines.
I agree. Fuming liberals were responsible for the heatwave.
They are cooling off now though.
the last time I went there, mirrordot had croaked also.
RTFA...
I would, but for the webserver time has truly stopped.
And then tomorrow it all hits ebay and becomes ecrap!!
It just means we will be doing other IT related stuff.
Like operating the point-of-sale terminal at the local Piggly Wiggly???
You do have a point. Some cultures for one reason or another are not ready to embrace American style democracy.
Look at the people of Iraq, and how they have embraced their liberation. It makes you wonder if they want to go back to days of Saddam.
And for those that criticize me and say that it's not the general population that is causing problems in Iraq, the fact is the general population is giving refuge to the insurgents, rather than chasing them out of their neighborhoods and mosques (where the US army is increasingly finding large caches of weapons). Or we wouldn't be having the second most marines killed in one month (November). Not to mention that the airwaves are filled with "let's hate America" programming.
There are over 1 billion people in China. If they all were to get mad at once they could overthrow the government in one breath.
The problem is the graft runs so deep that everybody looks the other way.
Sort of like here in the US.
As Trebek's common-law husband, Jennings has rights, doesn't he???
...oh..wait.. maybe not.
Maybe this is a A Good Thing(tm), so we can help them find their way home.
In Korea, single sign-on is only for old people.
In Soviet Russia, Korean old people sign-on to you!
One good meme deserves another.