Because a prayer and a blessing are two very different things and Roman Catholics will often Bless homes and other things while most Protestant faiths will only bless people and sometimes animals. There are other faiths besides Roman Catholics that will bless a building but Roman Catholic is the largest in the Western world and probable one that most people on slashdot are familiar with. Plus in the case a specified it is Usually a Shinto blessing and is no way non-denominational. I was simply aiming for the most closest common analog. Actually I go out of my way not to attack the Roman Catholic faith. I may disagree with their polices but mostly I feel sorry that a large number of what I believe are good people are having to deal with a lot of pain caused by a small number of not good people. I wish them the best and hope they can resolve their issues.
SpaceLab was not a space station unless you count the Shuttle as a space station. Mir? Almaz and Salyut series and Skylab predated Mir. Mir was interesting for it's size and the fact that it was "assembled" in orbit. So for you error and arrogance do you think you should just punished by summary imprisonment.
That is fine. I am not disputing how good he is. I am a musical listener. I like what I like but I am no expert. Just the amount of effort and venom expended. Zappa is probably a great artist at least that is what I hear. Frankly I wouldn't get as bent over someone being silly and saying that Jonas Salk would have stuck to using MS-DOS!
Wow... honestly I have heard very little of his stuff but what I heard was interesting. But his kind of music isn't a strong liking of mine. I think you are being a big over the top. At the worst and frankly the best this seems nothing more that idle silliness. Must be a slow news day or a further sign that Slashdot is becoming less news for Nerds all the time.
It is called a typo. Dude. So three in ten do have an official religion, 45% believe in Buddha which isn't God. 36% do believe in God. How many believe in the spirits of their ancestors? Gee I see pictures of Shinto priests blessing new car plants in Japan all the time. Imagine the fit if GM had a Catholic priest bless a car factory! Again self loathing twaddle. You cherry picked Japan and even then didn't address their love of pop stars. J
Wow do you know any nation where some kids don't want to rock stars, move stars, race car drivers, or soccer players? I guess you have never been to Japan, Korea, or India. Or the UK for that matter. Think Football aka Soccer. Take a look at the tabloids... I wanted to be an astronautic myself. As far as religion as superstition... Go to India sometime or Japan. Shinto shines are common even in peoples homes. Sound like your some whacked out self-loathing person that has little real experience it other cultures.
I never understood how a spelling bee was an intellectual pursuit. Spelling in English anyway is just massive memorization. It doesn't seem to involve skills like problem solving or critical thinking. Part of it may have been that when I was a kid we only had spelling bees but no competition for kids that where good in Math or Science like me.
I guess it is nice that they do well but I don't see it as being all that big if an intellectual pursuit.
Actually You may be surprised. Yes it will not be you average point and shoot but these are in a pretty low orbit. You get a professional medium format body with a good 40 MP CCD for around$10,000 combine sensor that with good optics and space rate it and the entire package would probably run under $100,000. Of course you may want IR as well as visual range but the overall cost will still be manageable. How good can you get? I am not sure. Probably not as good as the best Google earth pictures but maybe two zoom levels higher. To be honest yes they are all guesses because I am not an expert on photography.
Is to the business case. Yes military already use commercial imaging all the time. With this system the delay between and event and getting imagery would be extremely short. Think about Haiti or the other natural disasters. Pretty good high resolution imagery could be available in under an hour in almost any case. Weather monitoring is another option. We could bet much better coverage of the polar regions with these.
But it does show that Kdawson is dogmatic fool that we all think he is.
I am all for cap but not cap and trade but only if every nation does it. Let me explain why. China and India are not going to restrict carbon in any way for the foreseeable future. If the other nations start restricting carbon all it will do is shift wealth and carbon output to China and India The end result will be no decrease in carbon output and in fact a probable increase in carbon output since both India and China are going to go whole hog with Coal because it is cheap and they have it while the western nations are shifting to Natural Gas which while not still produces CO2 produces a lot less than Coal, Nuclear, Solar, and Wind. All cap and trade will do is shift wealth and probably increase carbon emissions.
They they will end up supporting both. I will bet that money that IE9 is going to get canvas because IE is loosing market share. HTML5 really is the future it is just a matter of time before Flash is gone.
I have to agree. First I have never seen a drop-dead gorgeous Website. Some of the images and videos maybe stunning but the website it's self tend to be just okay. Here let me fix that for you. As long as Flash remain the simplest tools to slow to load, hard to navigate, and "flashy" websites. Designers with more style than substance will keep using it.
Well... Lindbergh got his training flying in the Air Mail service for the US government. The Engine he used was developed mainly for the US Navy because they wanted reliable air cooled engines. And Lindbergh was not the first to cross the Atlantic. The first planes to cross the Atlantic was the NC-4 flown by a crew of the US Navy. The first to fly none stop where two englishmen Alcock and Brown in a WWI Vickers Vimy bomber.
Lindbergh made the first none stop flight from NY to Paris and even then he got a lot of help from the NACA.
I have the Samsung moment and we just got 2.1 so we will see if I ever get 2.2 officially. Truth is that for the most part I do not miss Flash at all and hope people stop using it. Flash applications "games" are about the only valid use I see for Flash. Flash navigation is evil and really needs to be stopped. Flash video is being replaced by h.264 or if we are lucky WebM. I do not play flash games even on my PC so at this point I want to see it gone. Now if resturants would just make mobile friendly sites and not make their menus PDFs "Even on my desktop I hate that" I would be all set.
Funny but from what I have heard the performance is pretty hit or miss. Just about every review I hard also said it made the phone hot and really did a job on battery life.
As an Android users that just got 2.1 I really want 2.2.
Not really. On earth life that becomes a total bad ass to use your words tends to come from a moderate climate. If it is too harsh then nobody does anything but just survive. Too soft and well no effort is really needed.
Well since Limewire just lost a big court case over piracy that is a good reason why Sun didn't push it. There is a lot of good Java software. Eclipse.org and Netbeans are both all Java. But the issue is "How do you make money giving stuff away" and that is the problem. Lets be honest Intel/AMD combined with Linux have pushed down the cost of entry into a Unix like server a lot. Sun is used to playing in a high margin market. They do not have the skills to fight it out with Dell and HP in that market. Just think how cheap a quad-core Linux box is today. That left Sun the High End server market to fight it out with IBM and HP. The Workstation market is dead. Simple as that. A workstation today is an Intel/AMD PC with a good graphics card. If you want to push it you and an nvidia GPU based accelerator card. Sun was left to reinvent it's self Java while a great tool IMHO just wasn't going to be a money maker. J2ME should have been a nice source of income but it's day is passing.
I think you are wrong about the big FOSS projects. Writing software is hard work. If you look at the current submissions to Linux I think you will find that most of them are coming from big companies. If I am not mistaken IBM, Red Hat, Intel, and Novell are the four biggest contributors. KDE? Nokia now but Trolltech before. Firefox? Mozilla pays developers so at least some of them are paid. OpenOffice? Sun now Oracle.
I don't think any company makes money off of programing languages anymore. At least not big money. You have RealBasic, and some Cobol, Fortran, and Ada suppliers that still seem to make a living but I doubt that even Microsoft makes much off of Visual Studio. Microsoft makes money off of Windows and people developing everything for Windows. It just isn't like the old days of Borland when a company could become huge off of programming languages. Frankly there are just too many good free languages and tools out there. Gcc Eclipse.org NetBeans Perl Ruby FreePascal The list goes on and on. I never understood how Sun was going to make money on Java which frankly I do like.
I thought that I was talking about a interplanetary polar lander on a web site with the tag line "News for Nerds". Sorry next time I will make sure I don't make my comments too technical...
I know all the reasons why they used solar cells. And it all comes down to cost. You are right that it was a great mission. I think too many people think I am being critical of the people that built and ran the mission. Not at all. I am just lamenting that it wasn't larger in scope.
With an RTG you wouldn't need any solar cells. With out the solar cells they would not have been broken off by that accumulation of snow and ice. No need to melt all the snow off the probe. Just use the power to run heaters to keep the probe alive over winter and maybe some low rate data transmissions.
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Because a prayer and a blessing are two very different things and Roman Catholics will often Bless homes and other things while most Protestant faiths will only bless people and sometimes animals.
There are other faiths besides Roman Catholics that will bless a building but Roman Catholic is the largest in the Western world and probable one that most people on slashdot are familiar with.
Plus in the case a specified it is Usually a Shinto blessing and is no way non-denominational. I was simply aiming for the most closest common analog.
Actually I go out of my way not to attack the Roman Catholic faith. I may disagree with their polices but mostly I feel sorry that a large number of what I believe are good people are having to deal with a lot of pain caused by a small number of not good people. I wish them the best and hope they can resolve their issues.
SpaceLab was not a space station unless you count the Shuttle as a space station.
Mir? Almaz and Salyut series and Skylab predated Mir. Mir was interesting for it's size and the fact that it was "assembled" in orbit.
So for you error and arrogance do you think you should just punished by summary imprisonment.
Too bad you can not read.
Car factory.
That is a blessing for a car.
Show me a picture of US car factory being blessed in the last 40 years.
That is fine. I am not disputing how good he is. I am a musical listener. I like what I like but I am no expert. Just the amount of effort and venom expended. Zappa is probably a great artist at least that is what I hear. Frankly I wouldn't get as bent over someone being silly and saying that Jonas Salk would have stuck to using MS-DOS!
Wow... honestly I have heard very little of his stuff but what I heard was interesting. But his kind of music isn't a strong liking of mine.
I think you are being a big over the top. At the worst and frankly the best this seems nothing more that idle silliness. Must be a slow news day or a further sign that Slashdot is becoming less news for Nerds all the time.
It is called a typo. Dude.
So three in ten do have an official religion, 45% believe in Buddha which isn't God. 36% do believe in God. How many believe in the spirits of their ancestors? Gee I see pictures of Shinto priests blessing new car plants in Japan all the time. Imagine the fit if GM had a Catholic priest bless a car factory!
Again self loathing twaddle. You cherry picked Japan and even then didn't address their love of pop stars.
J
Wow do you know any nation where some kids don't want to rock stars, move stars, race car drivers, or soccer players?
I guess you have never been to Japan, Korea, or India.
Or the UK for that matter. Think Football aka Soccer. Take a look at the tabloids...
I wanted to be an astronautic myself.
As far as religion as superstition... Go to India sometime or Japan. Shinto shines are common even in peoples homes.
Sound like your some whacked out self-loathing person that has little real experience it other cultures.
I never understood how a spelling bee was an intellectual pursuit.
Spelling in English anyway is just massive memorization. It doesn't seem to involve skills like problem solving or critical thinking.
Part of it may have been that when I was a kid we only had spelling bees but no competition for kids that where good in Math or Science like me.
I guess it is nice that they do well but I don't see it as being all that big if an intellectual pursuit.
Actually You may be surprised. Yes it will not be you average point and shoot but these are in a pretty low orbit. You get a professional medium format body with a good 40 MP CCD for around$10,000 combine sensor that with good optics and space rate it and the entire package would probably run under $100,000. Of course you may want IR as well as visual range but the overall cost will still be manageable.
How good can you get? I am not sure. Probably not as good as the best Google earth pictures but maybe two zoom levels higher. To be honest yes they are all guesses because I am not an expert on photography.
Is to the business case. Yes military already use commercial imaging all the time. With this system the delay between and event and getting imagery would be extremely short.
Think about Haiti or the other natural disasters. Pretty good high resolution imagery could be available in under an hour in almost any case.
Weather monitoring is another option. We could bet much better coverage of the polar regions with these.
So yea I can see some real use
But it does show that Kdawson is dogmatic fool that we all think he is.
I am all for cap but not cap and trade but only if every nation does it.
Let me explain why.
China and India are not going to restrict carbon in any way for the foreseeable future. If the other nations start restricting carbon all it will do is shift wealth and carbon output to China and India
The end result will be no decrease in carbon output and in fact a probable increase in carbon output since both India and China are going to go whole hog with Coal because it is cheap and they have it while the western nations are shifting to Natural Gas which while not still produces CO2 produces a lot less than Coal, Nuclear, Solar, and Wind.
All cap and trade will do is shift wealth and probably increase carbon emissions.
They they will end up supporting both.
I will bet that money that IE9 is going to get canvas because IE is loosing market share.
HTML5 really is the future it is just a matter of time before Flash is gone.
I have to agree.
First I have never seen a drop-dead gorgeous Website. Some of the images and videos maybe stunning but the website it's self tend to be just okay.
Here let me fix that for you.
As long as Flash remain the simplest tools to slow to load, hard to navigate, and "flashy" websites. Designers with more style than substance will keep using it.
Flash really does mean style over substance.
Well... Lindbergh got his training flying in the Air Mail service for the US government. The Engine he used was developed mainly for the US Navy because they wanted reliable air cooled engines.
And Lindbergh was not the first to cross the Atlantic. The first planes to cross the Atlantic was the NC-4 flown by a crew of the US Navy. The first to fly none stop where two englishmen Alcock and Brown in a WWI Vickers Vimy bomber.
Lindbergh made the first none stop flight from NY to Paris and even then he got a lot of help from the NACA.
I have the Samsung moment and we just got 2.1 so we will see if I ever get 2.2 officially.
Truth is that for the most part I do not miss Flash at all and hope people stop using it.
Flash applications "games" are about the only valid use I see for Flash.
Flash navigation is evil and really needs to be stopped.
Flash video is being replaced by h.264 or if we are lucky WebM.
I do not play flash games even on my PC so at this point I want to see it gone.
Now if resturants would just make mobile friendly sites and not make their menus PDFs "Even on my desktop I hate that" I would be all set.
Funny but from what I have heard the performance is pretty hit or miss.
Just about every review I hard also said it made the phone hot and really did a job on battery life.
As an Android users that just got 2.1 I really want 2.2.
Not really.
On earth life that becomes a total bad ass to use your words tends to come from a moderate climate.
If it is too harsh then nobody does anything but just survive.
Too soft and well no effort is really needed.
Well all I can say is is thanks. It is my favorite C++ development tool under linux.
How much?
How big can you get it?
How long will it last?
When will it ship?
You know the kind of important info...
Well since Limewire just lost a big court case over piracy that is a good reason why Sun didn't push it.
There is a lot of good Java software. Eclipse.org and Netbeans are both all Java.
But the issue is "How do you make money giving stuff away" and that is the problem.
Lets be honest Intel/AMD combined with Linux have pushed down the cost of entry into a Unix like server a lot.
Sun is used to playing in a high margin market. They do not have the skills to fight it out with Dell and HP in that market.
Just think how cheap a quad-core Linux box is today.
That left Sun the High End server market to fight it out with IBM and HP.
The Workstation market is dead. Simple as that. A workstation today is an Intel/AMD PC with a good graphics card.
If you want to push it you and an nvidia GPU based accelerator card.
Sun was left to reinvent it's self
Java while a great tool IMHO just wasn't going to be a money maker. J2ME should have been a nice source of income but it's day is passing.
I think you are wrong about the big FOSS projects.
Writing software is hard work. If you look at the current submissions to Linux I think you will find that most of them are coming from big companies. If I am not mistaken IBM, Red Hat, Intel, and Novell are the four biggest contributors. KDE? Nokia now but Trolltech before.
Firefox? Mozilla pays developers so at least some of them are paid.
OpenOffice? Sun now Oracle.
I don't think any company makes money off of programing languages anymore. At least not big money.
You have RealBasic, and some Cobol, Fortran, and Ada suppliers that still seem to make a living but I doubt that even Microsoft makes much off of Visual Studio. Microsoft makes money off of Windows and people developing everything for Windows. It just isn't like the old days of Borland when a company could become huge off of programming languages.
Frankly there are just too many good free languages and tools out there.
Gcc
Eclipse.org
NetBeans
Perl
Ruby
FreePascal
The list goes on and on.
I never understood how Sun was going to make money on Java which frankly I do like.
I thought that I was talking about a interplanetary polar lander on a web site with the tag line "News for Nerds".
Sorry next time I will make sure I don't make my comments too technical...
I know all the reasons why they used solar cells. And it all comes down to cost.
You are right that it was a great mission. I think too many people think I am being critical of the people that built and ran the mission. Not at all.
I am just lamenting that it wasn't larger in scope.
With an RTG you wouldn't need any solar cells. With out the solar cells they would not have been broken off by that accumulation of snow and ice.
No need to melt all the snow off the probe. Just use the power to run heaters to keep the probe alive over winter and maybe some low rate data transmissions.
I can see your point. I mean it isn't like the US has ever landed an RTG powered probe on Mars right?
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program"