It is impossible to be an expert at VB exactly... how? You can be an expert at C++, Java, Access... right? Or am I missing out on something here, cause english is not my first language. I am actually wondering if I am misunderstanding something.
Read again what I am saying - if you're an expert on VB, well, then you are. What's so strange about that? If he says he's a VB expert, then he doesn't say he's a programmer that knows all languages, right?
NASA has no bright future ahead of themselves, because they can't keep up being the leading explorers of space, pumping billions of dollars... and how much do they get back?
Yes they have achieved a lot when it comes to technology and exploration of space, but for how long can they keep it up? The space station was proposed as an american-only project by Reagan, back in 1984 as a reply to Soviet MIR. It was delayed and delayed again, while the budget was steadily growing. Finally they had to bring in a lot of other countries, and the budget was still growing and the station was still delayed... while it wasn't getting any bigger.
In the future, the only reason to pump in money in space industry, will be if you actually get something BACK from it. Private projects and enterprises have the future in space. They have plans on commercial low orbit space stations and hotels, moon bases, moon orbiters, Penn State are working on a container to keep anti matter... Governments will stay in the near space, but companies are the ones who will take us further out.
I guess that the school can never admit that they have problems with bullying. It is much easier to blame someone else, anyone, outside the school.
However this may be the REASON, it is never ever an EXCUSE.
There are no words to describe how I feel about schools that doesn't care about their students, they just try to cover it up or sweep it under the rug.
I don't know enough about your system, but would you actually send a 13 yr old who breaks into the schools computer system to jail? Sounds strange to me. Doing so wont help anyone, really.
My guess is that NASA or any other government space agency will not manage to do manned missions much further from our near interplanetary space. Return to the moon, sure, go to Mars, possibly, much further out than that? Not likely. Or, they will accomplish even more than that, but where will the money come from? The tax payers? Those money will have to be used for other things than just space exploration. I've said it before but I still think that space belongs to those who can make money from it. Space tourism, mining, exploration and research, most of that will be done by private enterprises, companies, universities, etc. etc..
A lot of people have been trying to predict what will happen, what new inventions and way of life we will have in the future. Writers, inventors etc., have predicted things like TV, space travel and so on. But just as often, they are wrong. Perhaps because they are too optimistic, too pessimistic, or they have been looking at their own decade too much. This article is one example when the author have been looking at his own decade too much; it seems as the advances in chemistry, mechanics and rocketry made them believe that we would all have flying cars and travel with subspace rocketplanes, and use plastics everywhere. Examples for optimistic predictions is for example 2001, which says we would have huge space stations in orbit and space ships capable of getting people to Saturn. Also, again it was coloured by the current decade it was written in - the space station is divided between one american and one soviet section.
I think it was Arthur C Clarke himself who said something that when making predictions on the near future we are too optimistic, and when making predictions on the far future we're more pessimistic.
Even though I do believe we have to look at both the past and the present to predict the future, I think we also have to make sure we think about how the society will change. Also, we might want to look at past predictions and see how they were right and how they were wrong. Maybe we can learn from our past predictions so that we can make more accurate ones in the future.
Finally, I would think the best way to predict the future, is to actually take part in the building of the same.
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In either case, above all... it would be slow
It is impossible to be an expert at VB exactly... how? You can be an expert at C++, Java, Access... right? Or am I missing out on something here, cause english is not my first language. I am actually wondering if I am misunderstanding something.
Read again what I am saying - if you're an expert on VB, well, then you are. What's so strange about that? If he says he's a VB expert, then he doesn't say he's a programmer that knows all languages, right?
Yes, if you're an expert on VB it does.
I saw this quote on the internet not long ago:
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but if you wanna hurt me, make me watch Jenny Jones
...seen everything
Win 95 and 98 are basically the same thing, as NT and 2K are the same thing. Fork? Yeah, Win16 and Win32.
Yes they have achieved a lot when it comes to technology and exploration of space, but for how long can they keep it up? The space station was proposed as an american-only project by Reagan, back in 1984 as a reply to Soviet MIR. It was delayed and delayed again, while the budget was steadily growing. Finally they had to bring in a lot of other countries, and the budget was still growing and the station was still delayed... while it wasn't getting any bigger.
In the future, the only reason to pump in money in space industry, will be if you actually get something BACK from it. Private projects and enterprises have the future in space. They have plans on commercial low orbit space stations and hotels, moon bases, moon orbiters, Penn State are working on a container to keep anti matter... Governments will stay in the near space, but companies are the ones who will take us further out.
Yeah I know, I've said this a few times now...
We already know that they think they own everything...
It's a small step for man, but a giant leaf for Canada...
Now, what did you say about brainwashed americans?
Yeah, I have read about it too, cell phones have been popular among robbers lately over here.
...then I'm all for it. I can't wait.
Well that is why i asked where the article was! You think I wouldn't read it if it was there??
Where's the story in the first place?
How old are these mummies anyway? 1000 years? 2000?
It has some entertainment value, but as it is funny to see what some people believe, it is almost equally frightening that they do.
I guess that the school can never admit that they have problems with bullying. It is much easier to blame someone else, anyone, outside the school.
However this may be the REASON, it is never ever an EXCUSE.
There are no words to describe how I feel about schools that doesn't care about their students, they just try to cover it up or sweep it under the rug.
I don't know enough about your system, but would you actually send a 13 yr old who breaks into the schools computer system to jail? Sounds strange to me. Doing so wont help anyone, really.
My guess is that NASA or any other government space agency will not manage to do manned missions much further from our near interplanetary space. Return to the moon, sure, go to Mars, possibly, much further out than that? Not likely. Or, they will accomplish even more than that, but where will the money come from? The tax payers? Those money will have to be used for other things than just space exploration. I've said it before but I still think that space belongs to those who can make money from it. Space tourism, mining, exploration and research, most of that will be done by private enterprises, companies, universities, etc. etc..
Now THAT would be a miracle over here in Sweden, where we pay about 1 USD per liter gasoline. I know for a fact that 1 gallon is 3 times a liter...
I think it was Arthur C Clarke himself who said something that when making predictions on the near future we are too optimistic, and when making predictions on the far future we're more pessimistic.
Even though I do believe we have to look at both the past and the present to predict the future, I think we also have to make sure we think about how the society will change. Also, we might want to look at past predictions and see how they were right and how they were wrong. Maybe we can learn from our past predictions so that we can make more accurate ones in the future.
Finally, I would think the best way to predict the future, is to actually take part in the building of the same.
Very well said, here is nothing to add here.
Windows 2000 is just a renamed NT 5.0.
You're just afraid that science one day will prove all religions wrong. I personally look forward to the day!
I dearly hope so.