Relationships are hard work. Most people don't put the time necessary into developing/maintaining a relationship.
I think the article is missing the point. It's not a problem of geeks not having sex, it's a problem of geeks having difficulties forming non-computer based relationships. People don't tend to react the same way twice to a given action. This tends to confuse most geeks. You can't walk up to a non-geek, press here, say this, kiss, and hop in bed with them. Seinfeld put it best -- "When it comes to sex, men are like firemen. Always ready. Women are like fire. Not always there when you want it, but when the conditions are right, the result is magical."
I've been married for a spell now, and I have three kids. When my wife and I started dating, we did not hop immediately into bed. We had to get to know each other first.
Sex is mutual concent between two people. Build the relationship and they will come.:) --
If I had a prototype worth $1M, I wouldn't send it via UPS or what have you. If I could make a $1M prototype, I'm pretty sure I could afford to have someone drive it to its destination.
We've shaped our environment to our own ends, and thus we no longer evolve. Natural selection is not restricted to predator attacks. Natural selection is about breeding. Unfavorable mutations don't (or don't live to) reproduce.
How many people with good genes for (insert favorable attribute here) have not reproduced because of the way they look? That's natural selection. The unfavorable candidate is filtered out on the basis of looks. Thus, the human race becomes just a touch less unattractive.
In fact we have a DUTY to genetically engineer our children as soon as it is safe. Standing by and lettting someone be maimed is nearly as bad as maiming them ourselves. Back the f*cking truck up! My son (as I do) has allergies. He most likely got them from me. Are you saying that I'm a bad person for giving him allergies? I don't think so. I would never hurt my children intentionally. I am not maiming my children by not having them genetically engineered.
Bad genes are weeded out of the gene pool by natural selection. Darwin anyone? The human race will become a genetic utopia in time. Give us a few million years, and I think we'll all be better off.
As far as causing harm by not acting, that just pissed me off. How dare you accuse parents of maiming their children! Have a few kids and then rethink this argument.
The connection between the Psycho company and the software giant is sparkling wine assigning of the large churches a thorn in the eye.
Ah. Good. Things are much clearer now.
Redmond will quickly work around this one by removing the offending program. Good thing the guys didn't write IE 4.0. The Germans never would have gotten win98.:)
Is it possible that MS is just trying to kill Java by ignoring it? We don't support it, so no one will use it?
It almost seems these days MS is trying to cut down and refocus and re-become the fast young lean company it was. I think the DOJ really wants to help them do that. This could just be a preemptive strike by MS to break the company up on its own terms rather than have the DOJ do it. Look what we did! Sold off business. You _don't_ need to split us up.
It does seem kind of fishy. I thought my son could read until I realized he had memorized Green Eggs and Ham (RIP, Dr. Suess). It's just got that rythym to it.:)
I think it is good that the kid is getting exposure to computers at a young age, but a real test of his talents would be to put him on a different computer and see how he does. I don't mean to bash the kid, but how much of this is "if I click here I e-mail grandpa" as opposed to "I will now access my e-mail program, compose an e-mail to my grandfather, and press the send button".
My four year old knows how to operate the four different computers in our house, but tends to get a bit confused when he gets on my Linux box. He can usually poke around the menus on any system and find familiar icons and start the software that he's used to, but sometimes he just starts up random programs to see what will happen.
Where does the line between using a computer and just clicking things to make things happen get drawn? If the kid has talent, turn him on to Linux now.
Back in the 1970's, Japanese car companies were very quietly working to make their products better, cheaper, and more fuel efficient.
American car companies were changing the positions of the headlights.
I'm sure ms could have spent the marketing focus group money on hiring some talent to make wince better. Or they just could have bought Handspring (is that right?) and manufactured Palm clones. Oh wait, maybe the DOJ would have frowned on that.;>
Free software: "The tribe of hackers, after decades spent in obscurity struggling against hard technical problems and the far greater weight of mainstream indifference and dismissal, has recently begun to come into its own. They built the Internet; they built Unix; they built the World Wide Web; they're building Linux and open- source software today; and, following the great Internet explosion of the mid-1990s, the rest of the world is finally figuring out that it should have been paying more attention to them all along." - ESR's "Why You Should Care"
In computing, you have definitely arrived when you become a three-letter acronym. Eric S. Raymond (ESR) is among a handful of people whose initials are as familiar to the cognoscenti as FAQ, FYI and IRQ. When TCD's Internet Society went to advertise his talk there last week the only headline on the poster was the letters ESR in 240point type.
It was enough, and there was standing room only in the lecture hall. Before he began he asked how many people present wrote software for a living. A show of hands said almost half. These days his world audience is not just the true hackers who knocked the Internet into existence over the last 30 years. Major companies are among the most rapt listeners.
They listen because he is their contact with the hackers and what they have achieved. Listening to him may help to achieve the same quality, resilience and flexibility in their corporate computing projects that ESR's tribe, the hackers, have achieved in theirs.
In fact, he reckons that collaboration of the kind that built the Linux operating system is the only way forward for most major software projects. In a seminal essay The Cathedral & The Bazaar two years ago he set out the basis for this belief.
Basically, he argued that the closed, traditional method of software development (the cathedral) simply cannot compete with the bazaar of open-source development. In the former, the source code "recipe" used to create a program is kept secret and the resulting program is sold as expensively as possible. That model has made Microsoft's Bill Gates the richest man in America.
Open-source, on the other hand, depends on voluntary work by many programmers collaborating over the Internet. They give away not only the resulting binary program, but also the source code used to create it. Every contributor, and every user, can see the innards of the program. If there is a bug they can help to track it down, or to fix it.
The Cathedral & The Bazaar analysed hacker culture and gave its members a new consciousness about their work. More significantly, it was the springboard for a massive marketing push into the mainstream for open software. Since it came out, Netscape has made its browser open source, IBM has taken the opensource Apache web-server on board, one major software company after another has made its software run on Linux.
It's not easy to interview someone who has already covered the relevant issues at length and very lucidly in his writing. There are of course the tech equivalents of the sort of questions that rock stars or footballers get asked: The first computer he set hands on was a Univac 1108 mainframe, back in 1968, by the way.
Then there is the chance to indulge curiosity. He is a hacker and proud of it, but has the battle for the proud meaning of that word been lost to the much more widespread one of computer vandal? "Actually, I think we're in better shape than we were five years ago. I remember when it seemed totally hopeless and now it seems only partially hopeless." He says that greater awareness of the World Wide Web and of the culture behind it has done a lot to rescue the word.
On his role of accidental revolutionary in the uptake of open source he's deadpan, and characteristically funny. "It's been pretty much as I expected. Some good, some bad and a job that needed to be done. . . some very amusing moments. At Atlanta Linux showcase, last month, for the first and I hope the last time in my life I was actually mobbed by screaming groupies. This is an experience everyone should have once - exactly once."
And there's the inside take on what it feels like to be instrumental in a revolution in thinking. Was he surprised at the speed with which so many traditional computer companies came around to releasing their programs for Linux? "Yes I have been surprised. The rate of change has generally been not generally faster than I expected, but just a little faster than I expected. Like the big database manufacturers flipped over about three months before I expected it.
"The other thing that's been surprising about the process is that I naively expected that business people in general would be very slow to get it but quick to act once they got it. Instead, it's been the other way around. A lot of business people have gotten it fairly quickly but have taken a long time executing on that knowledge."
One reason he considers himself an accidental revolutionary is that his insights in The Cathedral & The Bazaar could as easily have been formulated by someone else years earlier. He says he has only just figured out why this didn't happen, even though the basic information was available. "My tribe was not motivated to look into the systematics of what it was doing because we had a hypothesis about why we wrote better code that satisfied us. Of course we wrote better code - we're geniuses!"
Once the infectious laugh has died down he says that his first encounter with Linux jolted him out of many firmly held beliefs about how good software should be created. "Because of my shocking experience with Linux, I was the first person to consider the possibility that our superior genius just might not be the whole story."
Then there's the news of the day. Asked what the likely end of the US government case against Microsoft will be, he says: "I'm going to make a bold prediction. I think Microsoft as we know it is going to die before the final appeal, the final verdict, in the antitrust suit comes down."
He gives a talk on "the seven bullets Microsoft has to dodge to survive the next 18 months" and "of these the most important is the fact that the price of hardware is dropping like a rock, while Microsoft's requirement for revenues to sustain the rise in its stock price is perpetually rising. This means that every quarter Microsoft has to claim a larger and larger share of its business partners' margins.
"That's not a trend that can be continued indefinitely. There are already signs that Microsoft is pricing itself out of its own markets. . . As Microsoft's increasing requirement for margins collides with the decreasing average cost of hardware, the breakpoint in the market below which PC integrators can't make any money is going to rise. When that breakpoint rises past the price of the average consumer PC: game over.
"I think that's going to happen before the final verdict in the anti-trust lawsuit."
Closer in time is the launch of Windows 2000, now three months away, which he has predicted will be a train-crash. He sees no reason to change his mind. "The train-wreck is already in progress. It's slipped for two years. And the major management consultancies have caught wise. They're telling all their Fortune 500 customers `don't touch this thing when it comes out in February - if it comes out in February.' You don't want to go near it - outfits like the Gartner Group and DH Brown are saying - until service pack 1 comes out which won't be until June or July.
"We're not going to see substantial Windows 2000 adoption - if we see it - until the fall of the year 2000. And that's assuming that it doesn't turn out to be a mess. Which I think it will be. The amusing statistic about Win- dows 2000 is that according to Microsoft's own press releases it has 35 million lines of new code in it. Never mind the old modified code. To put that in perspective that's 10 million lines more of code than the entire bulk of the Star Wars missile defence system that people said was unworkable."
As for the future of software being open, even in the sort of desktop applications that have always been closed, he has no doubts. "We're going to reach a point, as hardware prices plummet, where it's not going to be economical for system integrators to put any software on their machines that isn't free."
1. Until I get a wireless link for my notebook, it is kind of hard to read the online version during potty breaks. (Insert log/dead tree puns here)
2. Money for ESR. Remember, this is a _gift_ culture. If he can't feed his family from books, he's going to find some other (possibly not programming) way to do it. Buy the book and kick a few bucks his way.
My mind is getting a bit fuzzy with age, but I think the Hubble mirror is 200". Somebody will get me on that if I'm wrong. I don't see how it could be replaced in orbit. I would guess that that's why they didn't replace the mirror on the first repair mission.
The housing? I would think that there is some sort of bolt-on dust/space junk/micro meteor shielding that can be replaced.
I would love to see Hubble working for decades. I would love to do an EVA to help repair the darn thing.;)
Remember, the Hubble was supposed to be launched in 1986, shortly _after_ the Challenger (RIP) disaster.
Hubble sat around for a few extra years and had plenty of time to age. The whole problem with the optics on Hubble was that sitting on earth too long deformed the mirror.
IIRC, Hubble is about 15 years old. It was one of the first (if not the first) satilites (sp?) designed to be maintained by the shuttle. Hubble has been in planning since before the first shuttle flight, so we're dealing with some 20+ year old technology. I would think they are slowly upgrading the old systems with newer tech as they replace them.
Yah. You are right about the people itching for confrontation. Or attention. A few years back at a Metallica show, we saw a guy who was wearing a black leather thong, a body stocking, and a jester's hat. I leaned over to my wife and said, "See what happens when parents don't play with their children?"
Any proof of the "DBI"? I wore a "Taz" shirt to Disney to see if I would be hassled. Not a peep.
I took my whole family down to Disney in 95 for New Year's Eve. The Disney people were nothing put pleasant and helpfull (and yes, a little droid like). The really annoying part of Disney was the other people. I have never seen such a rude group of people in one place. People cutting in lines, pushing little kids out of the way, and generally being *ssholes.
Doesn't the Consitution of the USofA protect us all from "Cruel and Unusual" punishment? Take away their mp3s, but don't cut net access! Somebody call the ALCU!
I currently live in the zone of no-high speed internet access. Where I live, I'm about 3 miles from getting Warner Cable Road Runner. I'm also about 3 miles from being able to get ISDN. My phone lines go through some old crappy analog switches, and I can only get a 26.4K modem connect.
I've check just about every high speed solution out there, and the only one that is feasible for my area is a satillite dish. But, I would still have to use my (slow) modem for upstream. Big Lose.
Slashdot Mirror
...to Abstain.
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Just please be sure to vote for me! I could use the
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Relationships are hard work. Most people don't put the time necessary into developing/maintaining a relationship.
:)
I think the article is missing the point. It's not a problem of geeks not having sex, it's a problem of geeks having difficulties forming non-computer based relationships. People don't tend to react the same way twice to a given action. This tends to confuse most geeks. You can't walk up to a non-geek, press here, say this, kiss, and hop in bed with them. Seinfeld put it best -- "When it comes to sex, men are like firemen. Always ready. Women are like fire. Not always there when you want it, but when the conditions are right, the result is magical."
I've been married for a spell now, and I have three kids. When my wife and I started dating, we did not hop immediately into bed. We had to get to know each other first.
Sex is mutual concent between two people. Build the relationship and they will come.
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...until 'A Very Wookie Christmas' is released on DVD before he releases TPM on DVD. ;P
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Yeah...
If I had a prototype worth $1M, I wouldn't send it via UPS or what have you. If I could make a $1M prototype, I'm pretty sure I could afford to have someone drive it to its destination.
Sounds pretty fishy to me.
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We've shaped our environment to our own ends, and thus we no longer evolve.
Natural selection is not restricted to predator attacks. Natural selection is about breeding. Unfavorable mutations don't (or don't live to) reproduce.
How many people with good genes for (insert favorable attribute here) have not reproduced because of the way they look? That's natural selection. The unfavorable candidate is filtered out on the basis of looks. Thus, the human race becomes just a touch less unattractive.
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In fact we have a DUTY to genetically engineer our children as soon as it is safe. Standing by and lettting someone be maimed is nearly as bad as maiming them ourselves.
Back the f*cking truck up! My son (as I do) has allergies. He most likely got them from me. Are you saying that I'm a bad person for giving him allergies? I don't think so. I would never hurt my children intentionally. I am not maiming my children by not having them genetically engineered.
Bad genes are weeded out of the gene pool by natural selection. Darwin anyone? The human race will become a genetic utopia in time. Give us a few million years, and I think we'll all be better off.
As far as causing harm by not acting, that just pissed me off. How dare you accuse parents of maiming their children! Have a few kids and then rethink this argument.
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The connection between the Psycho company and the software giant is sparkling wine assigning of the large churches a thorn in the eye.
:)
Ah. Good. Things are much clearer now.
Redmond will quickly work around this one by removing the offending program. Good thing the guys didn't write IE 4.0. The Germans never would have gotten win98.
--
Is it possible that MS is just trying to kill Java by ignoring it? We don't support it, so no one will use it?
It almost seems these days MS is trying to cut down and refocus and re-become the fast young lean company it was. I think the DOJ really wants to help them do that. This could just be a preemptive strike by MS to break the company up on its own terms rather than have the DOJ do it. Look what we did! Sold off business. You _don't_ need to split us up.
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It does seem kind of fishy. I thought my son could read until I realized he had memorized Green Eggs and Ham (RIP, Dr. Suess). It's just got that rythym to it. :)
I think it is good that the kid is getting exposure to computers at a young age, but a real test of his talents would be to put him on a different computer and see how he does. I don't mean to bash the kid, but how much of this is "if I click here I e-mail grandpa" as opposed to "I will now access my e-mail program, compose an e-mail to my grandfather, and press the send button".
My four year old knows how to operate the four different computers in our house, but tends to get a bit confused when he gets on my Linux box.
He can usually poke around the menus on any system and find familiar icons and start the software that he's used to, but sometimes he just starts up random programs to see what will happen.
Where does the line between using a computer and just clicking things to make things happen get drawn? If the kid has talent, turn him on to Linux now.
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Back in the 1970's, Japanese car companies were very quietly working to make their products better, cheaper, and more fuel efficient.
;>
American car companies were changing the positions of the headlights.
I'm sure ms could have spent the marketing focus group money on hiring some talent to make wince better. Or they just could have bought Handspring (is that right?) and manufactured Palm clones. Oh wait, maybe the DOJ would have frowned on that.
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You've got some good points. I wish I would have at least included the copyright notices.
/. as opposed to my site? Either way, I'm doing wrong in your eyes.
/.'ed? A downed server displays no ads.
But, what's the difference between post it on
If they do make money by selling ad space, didn't I do them a favor by not having their server
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Free software: "The tribe of hackers, after decades spent in obscurity struggling against hard technical problems and the far greater weight of mainstream indifference and dismissal, has recently begun to come into its own. They built the Internet; they built Unix; they built the World Wide Web; they're building Linux and open- source software today; and, following the great Internet explosion of the mid-1990s, the rest of the world is finally figuring out that it should have been paying more attention to them all along." - ESR's "Why You Should Care"
In computing, you have definitely arrived when you become a three-letter acronym. Eric S. Raymond (ESR) is among a handful of people whose initials are as familiar to the cognoscenti as FAQ, FYI and IRQ. When TCD's Internet Society went to advertise his talk there last week the only headline on the poster was the letters ESR in 240point type.
It was enough, and there was standing room only in the lecture hall. Before he began he asked how many people present wrote software for a living. A show of hands said almost half. These days his world audience is not just the true hackers who knocked the Internet into existence over the last 30 years. Major companies are among the most rapt listeners.
They listen because he is their contact with the hackers and what they have achieved. Listening to him may help to achieve the same quality, resilience and flexibility in their corporate computing projects that ESR's tribe, the hackers, have achieved in theirs.
In fact, he reckons that collaboration of the kind that built the Linux operating system is the only way forward for most major software projects. In a seminal essay The Cathedral & The Bazaar two years ago he set out the basis for this belief.
Basically, he argued that the closed, traditional method of software development (the cathedral) simply cannot compete with the bazaar of open-source development. In the former, the source code "recipe" used to create a program is kept secret and the resulting program is sold as expensively as possible. That model has made Microsoft's Bill Gates the richest man in America.
Open-source, on the other hand, depends on voluntary work by many programmers collaborating over the Internet. They give away not only the resulting binary program, but also the source code used to create it. Every contributor, and every user, can see the innards of the program. If there is a bug they can help to track it down, or to fix it.
The Cathedral & The Bazaar analysed hacker culture and gave its members a new consciousness about their work. More significantly, it was the springboard for a massive marketing push into the mainstream for open software. Since it came out, Netscape has made its browser open source, IBM has taken the opensource Apache web-server on board, one major software company after another has made its software run on Linux.
It's not easy to interview someone who has already covered the relevant issues at length and very lucidly in his writing. There are of course the tech equivalents of the sort of questions that rock stars or footballers get asked: The first computer he set hands on was a Univac 1108 mainframe, back in 1968, by the way.
Then there is the chance to indulge curiosity. He is a hacker and proud of it, but has the battle for the proud meaning of that word been lost to the much more widespread one of computer vandal? "Actually, I think we're in better shape than we were five years ago. I remember when it seemed totally hopeless and now it seems only partially hopeless." He says that greater awareness of the World Wide Web and of the culture behind it has done a lot to rescue the word.
On his role of accidental revolutionary in the uptake of open source he's deadpan, and characteristically funny. "It's been pretty much as I expected. Some good, some bad and a job that needed to be done. . . some very amusing moments. At Atlanta Linux showcase, last month, for the first and I hope the last time in my life I was actually mobbed by screaming groupies. This is an experience everyone should have once - exactly once."
And there's the inside take on what it feels like to be instrumental in a revolution in thinking. Was he surprised at the speed with which so many traditional computer companies came around to releasing their programs for Linux? "Yes I have been surprised. The rate of change has generally been not generally faster than I expected, but just a little faster than I expected. Like the big database manufacturers flipped over about three months before I expected it.
"The other thing that's been surprising about the process is that I naively expected that business people in general would be very slow to get it but quick to act once they got it. Instead, it's been the other way around. A lot of business people have gotten it fairly quickly but have taken a long time executing on that knowledge."
One reason he considers himself an accidental revolutionary is that his insights in The Cathedral & The Bazaar could as easily have been formulated by someone else years earlier. He says he has only just figured out why this didn't happen, even though the basic information was available. "My tribe was not motivated to look into the systematics of what it was doing because we had a hypothesis about why we wrote better code that satisfied us. Of course we wrote better code - we're geniuses!"
Once the infectious laugh has died down he says that his first encounter with Linux jolted him out of many firmly held beliefs about how good software should be created. "Because of my shocking experience with Linux, I was the first person to consider the possibility that our superior genius just might not be the whole story."
Then there's the news of the day. Asked what the likely end of the US government case against Microsoft will be, he says: "I'm going to make a bold prediction. I think Microsoft as we know it is going to die before the final appeal, the final verdict, in the antitrust suit comes down."
He gives a talk on "the seven bullets Microsoft has to dodge to survive the next 18 months" and "of these the most important is the fact that the price of hardware is dropping like a rock, while Microsoft's requirement for revenues to sustain the rise in its stock price is perpetually rising. This means that every quarter Microsoft has to claim a larger and larger share of its business partners' margins.
"That's not a trend that can be continued indefinitely. There are already signs that Microsoft is pricing itself out of its own markets. . . As Microsoft's increasing requirement for margins collides with the decreasing average cost of hardware, the breakpoint in the market below which PC integrators can't make any money is going to rise. When that breakpoint rises past the price of the average consumer PC: game over.
"I think that's going to happen before the final verdict in the anti-trust lawsuit."
Closer in time is the launch of Windows 2000, now three months away, which he has predicted will be a train-crash. He sees no reason to change his mind. "The train-wreck is already in progress. It's slipped for two years. And the major management consultancies have caught wise. They're telling all their Fortune 500 customers `don't touch this thing when it comes out in February - if it comes out in February.' You don't want to go near it - outfits like the Gartner Group and DH Brown are saying - until service pack 1 comes out which won't be until June or July.
"We're not going to see substantial Windows 2000 adoption - if we see it - until the fall of the year 2000. And that's assuming that it doesn't turn out to be a mess. Which I think it will be. The amusing statistic about Win- dows 2000 is that according to Microsoft's own press releases it has 35 million lines of new code in it. Never mind the old modified code. To put that in perspective that's 10 million lines more of code than the entire bulk of the Star Wars missile defence system that people said was unworkable."
As for the future of software being open, even in the sort of desktop applications that have always been closed, he has no doubts. "We're going to reach a point, as hardware prices plummet, where it's not going to be economical for system integrators to put any software on their machines that isn't free."
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Thank you. I was trying to come up with a reply that said just that, but I couldn't keep it civil.
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1. Until I get a wireless link for my notebook, it is kind of hard to read the online version during potty breaks. (Insert log/dead tree puns here)
2. Money for ESR. Remember, this is a _gift_ culture. If he can't feed his family from books, he's going to find some other (possibly not programming) way to do it. Buy the book and kick a few bucks his way.
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I knew it wasn't perfect, but I just had to get it out of my system.
I will apply your patches, generate a new tarball, sprinke it with holy penguin pee, and put it on freshmeat right away. 8)
Thanks for the fix.
There once was a man named Dell
Whose computere truly were swell
And he said,
as the computers were recalled
Whoever did this is gonna catch Hell!
My mind is getting a bit fuzzy with age, but I think the Hubble mirror is 200". Somebody will get me on that if I'm wrong. I don't see how it could be replaced in orbit. I would guess that that's why they didn't replace the mirror on the first repair mission.
;)
The housing? I would think that there is some sort of bolt-on dust/space junk/micro meteor shielding that can be replaced.
I would love to see Hubble working for decades. I would love to do an EVA to help repair the darn thing.
Remember, the Hubble was supposed to be launched in 1986, shortly _after_ the Challenger (RIP) disaster.
Hubble sat around for a few extra years and had plenty of time to age. The whole problem with the optics on Hubble was that sitting on earth too long deformed the mirror.
IIRC, Hubble is about 15 years old. It was one of the first (if not the first) satilites (sp?) designed to be maintained by the shuttle. Hubble has been in planning since before the first shuttle flight, so we're dealing with some 20+ year old technology. I would think they are slowly upgrading the old systems with newer tech as they replace them.
Not sure about the lifespan.
Squicklement? 8P
Yah. You are right about the people itching for confrontation. Or attention. A few years back at a Metallica show, we saw a guy who was wearing a black leather thong, a body stocking, and a jester's hat. I leaned over to my wife and said, "See what happens when parents don't play with their children?"
Any proof of the "DBI"? I wore a "Taz" shirt to Disney to see if I would be hassled. Not a peep.
I took my whole family down to Disney in 95 for New Year's Eve. The Disney people were nothing put pleasant and helpfull (and yes, a little droid like). The really annoying part of Disney was the other people. I have never seen such a rude group of people in one place. People cutting in lines, pushing little kids out of the way, and generally being *ssholes.
Doesn't the Consitution of the USofA protect us all from "Cruel and Unusual" punishment? Take away their mp3s, but don't cut net access! Somebody call the ALCU!
I'm glad Tom Selleck is still around to hunt these things down when they go haywire. I sure hope he brings along his babe of a partner.
I currently live in the zone of no-high speed internet access. Where I live, I'm about 3 miles from getting Warner Cable Road Runner. I'm also about 3 miles from being able to get ISDN. My phone lines go through some old crappy analog switches, and I can only get a 26.4K modem connect.
I've check just about every high speed solution out there, and the only one that is feasible for my area is a satillite dish. But, I would still have to use my (slow) modem for upstream. Big Lose.
Now I can get back my sound card out of my wife's machine. Good-bye SB16, hello again to my Turtle Beach Montego.
Of course, I have to convince my wife to give up _another_ sound card. It was hard enough to get the SB16 away from her!
Okay then, we had the Goodyear blimp crash in emulation of WindowsNT.
We'll work on getting the blimp to crash in Linus' honor on the _right_ date.