I predict the next "space race" will be to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, and the Chinese will be playing the role the Russians played back in the 1950's and 1960's.
What makes you so sure they won't be playing the role of the Americans ?
Their progress is seen as 'slow' and 'copying' by most Americans, but their 5 year and 10 year and 20 year plans are being steadily executed.
Their Shenzhou spacecraft has done spaceflights that resemble American Mercury and Gemini, but it actually has all capabilities of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Soyuz combined (and improved).
There has been no support for printing in Samba4 ever... Same goes for a forest trust. These two are stoppers for many companies to switch to Samba4, everything else works fine.
There already is a place called "Little Britain" - that's what "Brittany" in France means. It might mean that in English, but definitely not in France or in French! Bretagne, as the French call it, refers to the place where "Les Bretons" live. There is no 'little' or anything similar in that word.
They are doing stuff, but it is very slow (especially compared to what the good old USSR did back in the 1950's and 1960's.... and don't even get me started with a comparison to NASA in the 1950's and 1960's) and their operational tempo is absolutely pathetic.
Sorry to burst the bubble, but it took Americans a couple of decades before they mastered fully automated docking. The Chinese accomplished this on their very first attempt.
Their progress seems to go very slow, but underneath it is an admirable long term plan (5 years plans that fit into ten year plans, that fit themselves into longer term plans!). I guess that's the advantage of having a dictatorship. They are not that far behind on what they announced back in 1999 (manned flight in 2002 (done in 2003), moon probe in 2007 (done in 2007), space station and docking around 2010 (done in 2011)...). This summer they will man their first space station, twice. Next year Tiangong 2 will go up, by 2015 they will have 20 ton modules (tiangong 3) and improved launch power (CZ5). Next year also the Chinese will land a rover on the Moon: first rover on the Moon since the Soviets in 1976, but more importantly it will be the only rover on the Moon.
Their Shenzhou spacecraft program might resemble the American Mercury or Gemini, but it includes all Apollo features as well. By 2020 they will have landed on the Moon, to stay a bit longer than a couple of days!
If I recall correctly, then the first American *automated* docking was in 1976. 14 years after the first American man in space. Overall I get the impression China is working long term, steadily going forward, not racing to plant a flag, but building to stay.
I would do my best to stay healthy and hope for medicine and robotics to improve so any organ that fails can be replaced. Then 100 years from now, in the year 2111 someone will come up with a way to get our lifespan up to 250. Why die at all when we can continue to live in a robot-body that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from our current body ?
Only a small (though loud) minority of Linux users believes in a Microsoft vs Linux fight. Linux was created in 1991 to be a POSIX compliant kernel, not to be a competitor to MS. The GNU tools were created to have a free Unix. GNU + Linux is a fine example of open source in the Unix world, and is definitely not a reaction/fight/whatever towards Microsoft.
"You do know that NY-Washington already has high speed rail, right? It could be better, but it's the only one in the country at the moment, and it makes Amtrack money hand over fist."
Since when is 120kph average (240kph max) considered high speed ? High speed trains in Europe average above 300kph.
In HTML, to create a preformatted block you often use PRE. Well obviously that was to simple for DocBook so you have to nest two tags INFORMALEXAMPLE PROGRAMLISTING source code/PROGRAMLISTING/INFORMALEXAMPLE.
True, but it does not change the fact that Microsoft used their Windows 98 monopoly to gain their IE6 monopoly. This is illegal in Europe and should not go unpunished. The fact that Microsoft dragged the procedures for ten years should not play in their advantage.
So you are saying that a company that uses dirty tactics to evade the law should go unpunished ? News for you, that is exactly what Microsoft wanted to accomplish. They dragged it on for many years, because they knew it would render Netscape obsolete.
They play the victim with "we have to release Windows 7 without a browser". This is a marketing trick, and it looks like it's working.
Because Microsoft used illegal tactics to gain that market share. They forbid OEM's to bundle Netscape with Windows, which means they used their monopoly on the home OS market to get a monopoly in another market. This is illegal and should not go unpunished. Not even when Microsoft tactics delayed the whole process for ten years.
The EU does the same thing to European companies that refuse to obey the law.
This investigation in the anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft started in 1993! Microsoft has been using a number of tactics to delay the process, so they could continue to gain browser market share using their Windows monopoly. Same for the server market share (SMB-CIFS).
They were fined years ago, did they pay ? No. (Have they payed anything yet to the EC ?)
Secondly, the EC never asked for the browser to be stripped from Windows 7, it should have been stripped ten years ago!
Fact is that Microsoft, by refusing to comply with the European law, has gained significant browser market share over Netscape, and significant server market share over Novell.
imho the EC has every right to not let this go unpunished!
Slashdot Mirror
First S.U.S.E
--> Red Hat 3.x and 4.x (before the Red Hat/Fedora split)
--> Fedora (Core 1) up to core 6-7 or so
--> Ubuntu 4.10 up to 11.4
--> Debian
Today Debian and some CentOS.
(and some LFS, Mandrake and Gentoo testing in the early years)
*achievement unlocked: the first to say curry in a thread about india*
other targets include saying
-rootkit in a sony thread
-you're holding it wrong in an apple thread
-flying chairs in a microsoft thread
's/curry/call center/g'
I for one welcome our new Mars Call Center overlords ;-)
I predict the next "space race" will be to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, and the Chinese will be playing the role the Russians played back in the 1950's and 1960's.
What makes you so sure they won't be playing the role of the Americans ?
Their progress is seen as 'slow' and 'copying' by most Americans, but their 5 year and 10 year and 20 year plans are being steadily executed.
Their Shenzhou spacecraft has done spaceflights that resemble American Mercury and Gemini, but it actually has all capabilities of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Soyuz combined (and improved).
...an all new macbook pro and it still lacks a DE9 serial port ? ;-)
Are you stupid?
What's broken?
There has been no support for printing in Samba4 ever...
Same goes for a forest trust. These two are stoppers for many companies to switch to Samba4, everything else works fine.
There already is a place called "Little Britain" - that's what "Brittany" in France means.
It might mean that in English, but definitely not in France or in French!
Bretagne, as the French call it, refers to the place where "Les Bretons" live. There is no 'little' or anything similar in that word.
They are doing stuff, but it is very slow (especially compared to what the good old USSR did back in the 1950's and 1960's.... and don't even get me started with a comparison to NASA in the 1950's and 1960's) and their operational tempo is absolutely pathetic.
Sorry to burst the bubble, but it took Americans a couple of decades before they mastered fully automated docking. The Chinese accomplished this on their very first attempt.
Their progress seems to go very slow, but underneath it is an admirable long term plan (5 years plans that fit into ten year plans, that fit themselves into longer term plans!). I guess that's the advantage of having a dictatorship. They are not that far behind on what they announced back in 1999 (manned flight in 2002 (done in 2003), moon probe in 2007 (done in 2007), space station and docking around 2010 (done in 2011)...).
This summer they will man their first space station, twice. Next year Tiangong 2 will go up, by 2015 they will have 20 ton modules (tiangong 3) and improved launch power (CZ5).
Next year also the Chinese will land a rover on the Moon: first rover on the Moon since the Soviets in 1976, but more importantly it will be the only rover on the Moon.
Their Shenzhou spacecraft program might resemble the American Mercury or Gemini, but it includes all Apollo features as well. By 2020 they will have landed on the Moon, to stay a bit longer than a couple of days!
Like all statistical data, this info is likely inflated and cannot be trusted.
Fixed that for you.
If I recall correctly, then the first American *automated* docking was in 1976. 14 years after the first American man in space.
Overall I get the impression China is working long term, steadily going forward, not racing to plant a flag, but building to stay.
I would do my best to stay healthy and hope for medicine and robotics to improve so any organ that fails can be replaced.
Then 100 years from now, in the year 2111 someone will come up with a way to get our lifespan up to 250.
Why die at all when we can continue to live in a robot-body that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from our current body ?
Same here, mod parent insightful!
Usually (even in firefox) just typing / to find something just works...
Only a small (though loud) minority of Linux users believes in a Microsoft vs Linux fight. Linux was created in 1991 to be a POSIX compliant kernel, not to be a competitor to MS. The GNU tools were created to have a free Unix. GNU + Linux is a fine example of open source in the Unix world, and is definitely not a reaction/fight/whatever towards Microsoft.
If you're crying "user friendly" and then talking about Vim, I daresay youre doing it wrong. Vim may be many things, but easy it is not.
Please do not confuse "hard to learn" with "hard to use". vi(m) might be hard to learn, but it is very easy to use!
Two weeks ago I put some screenshots of what it looks like on my blog:
http://cobbaut.blogspot.com/
"they always seem to want to write a check and don't start pulling the checkbook"
There are countries in 2010 where people still use checks ?! Our history teacher told us about checks... but nobody here still uses them.
"You do know that NY-Washington already has high speed rail, right? It could be better, but it's the only one in the country at the moment, and it makes Amtrack money hand over fist."
Since when is 120kph average (240kph max) considered high speed ?
High speed trains in Europe average above 300kph.
In HTML, to create a preformatted block you often use PRE. Well obviously that was to simple for DocBook so you have to nest two tags INFORMALEXAMPLE PROGRAMLISTING source code /PROGRAMLISTING /INFORMALEXAMPLE.
You could use SCREEN /SCREEN.
They forgot the cd protection cracked with a black marker...
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/1069/black_marker_cracks_cd_protection/
There is no microbiological difference between orbiting the Earth and going to Mars
Yes there is, ISS gets air resupply regularly!!
Curious that the search string "cobbaut aernout" turns up nothing for Google in your link...
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=%22cobbaut+aernout%22&type=web
But it does give a result in google...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22cobbaut+aernout%22
True, but it does not change the fact that Microsoft used their Windows 98 monopoly to gain their IE6 monopoly. This is illegal in Europe and should not go unpunished. The fact that Microsoft dragged the procedures for ten years should not play in their advantage.
imho ;-)
So you are saying that a company that uses dirty tactics to evade the law should go unpunished ? News for you, that is exactly what Microsoft wanted to accomplish. They dragged it on for many years, because they knew it would render Netscape obsolete.
They play the victim with "we have to release Windows 7 without a browser". This is a marketing trick, and it looks like it's working.
Because Microsoft used illegal tactics to gain that market share. They forbid OEM's to bundle Netscape with Windows, which means they used their monopoly on the home OS market to get a monopoly in another market. This is illegal and should not go unpunished. Not even when Microsoft tactics delayed the whole process for ten years.
The EU does the same thing to European companies that refuse to obey the law.
I disagree.
This investigation in the anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft started in 1993! Microsoft has been using a number of tactics to delay the process, so they could continue to gain browser market share using their Windows monopoly. Same for the server market share (SMB-CIFS).
They were fined years ago, did they pay ? No. (Have they payed anything yet to the EC ?)
Secondly, the EC never asked for the browser to be stripped from Windows 7, it should have been stripped ten years ago!
Fact is that Microsoft, by refusing to comply with the European law, has gained significant browser market share over Netscape, and significant server market share over Novell.
imho the EC has every right to not let this go unpunished!