NASA has never lost a human in space, so sending them on a 1.5 year mission is actually safer than throwing them to orbit.
Excuse me ?, I hope you are some kind of rocket scientist and can qualify that statement.
I'm no expert myself but I reckon that taking into account the fact that humans have never travelled interplanetary before it is probably a little bit more difficult than you think.
Intel are in a worse position than a lot of people think, sure their brand recognition is valuable but people who buy boxes for companies are paid to know the difference between Intel / AMD. The uptake for AMD servers is still pretty small but it is growing, Intel could see themselves displaced in a few years time (particularly if AMD continues to produce chips that are cheaper and arguably better than Intel).
But all the landers took mere minutes before literally being cooked and stop functioning.
Actually the russian Venera landers lasted for at least an hour each, in both cases contact was lost as the communication sattelites moved out of range. So they may well have lasted more than an hour but not long enough to regain contact.
Most Americans don't think free-trade and NAFTA/WTO are all they are cracked up to be. We are tired of seeing our high-paying jobs outsourced overseas and watching your Government subsidized businesses (*cough* Airbus *cough*) compete with ours. Bush was carrying out the will of a large portion of his people on that one. I only wish he had the guts to stay with it.
Obviously no one wants to be made redundant but the west is currently reaping what it has sewn. The globalization of the last decade was brought about by the west and we have benifitted from it greatly. Tarriffs are not the way to deal with trade disagreements though, it is effectively the same thing as a subsidy (which you criticise yourself). If you don't move with the times and innovate then eventually the whole economy gets dragged down. The steel industry in britain has shrunk in the last five years and as painful as it was it had to be done. The world doesn't actually owe you a living, you just think it does.
Comments and attitudes like yours explain exactly why the U.S. didn't sign the treaty on the international criminal court. They are held to a different standard. Does anyone give a shit about numerous nrth vietnamese war crimes during vietnam both against the U.S. and the vietnamese people? I've never heard anyone complain.
I agree with your general point that the west is held to different standard but vietnam is a very bad example. Like Iraq there was no reason for the US to be there.
The venera missions are incredibly interesting and it is fair to say that the Soviets were far more successful at exploring venus than the USA were. Initial missions to venus were launched expecting to have to deal with atmospheric pressure 10 to 15 times that of earth. After a few trial and error landers they found out that the pressure is actually 100 times that of earth, and the surface temperature was on average 450 c. None of the venera craft lasted much more than an hour on the surface even though their outer shell was thick titanium. The soviets did other cool stuff like sending a balloon to venus that floated in the atmosphere and travelled more halfway round the planet before losing contact.
I do not know anything about minerals really, but if the lander is exploring a crater, couldn't this come from the meteorite that created the crater in the first place?
Probably not, the reason nasa think that the gustev crater was once an ancient lake is because there is what looks like a water channel leading into it (or maybe out of if the meteorite contained a lot of ice ?). The crater was almost certainly created by a meteorite and not by natural processes (volcanic, weather, etc.) which means that the crater must have been there before the water (if there was water). The fact that olivine reacts so easily with water seems to suggest that the their wasn't any water in the gustev crater.
Probably because spirit is inside a large crater which means that the geology will be fairly young compared to other parts of the surface. From memory I think the pathfinder mission landed in quite a rocky area with boulders and big rocks.
BTW, what happened before Creation? See, everyone, at some point, gets backed into the taking-something-on-faith corner. Some are just more explicit about it than others.
Not me, I don't know what there was before the big bang and don't mid admitting it. I guess you could say that believing in the big bang requires a certain amount of faith but at least there is evidence for it and it is a lot more credible than a 2000 year old book that has been translated so many times it can't be accurate.
If we find life on Mars, we will never be able to colonise it. Expanding the human experience beyond the shores, the gravity well of this puny Earth requires a virgin territory. But if Mars is soiled with life, we cannot infect it with out own, for that would be interstellar ecocide.
You mean like how no one colonised north america so that the native americans weren't disturbed ?
seriously though, we know there isn't intelligent life there, if we do happen to find some microbes or something I don't think too many people will think twice about harming eco system.
That is just a codename (like dolphin was for the GC), in fact I don't think nintendo are using it anymore, anytime a spokesman talks about the next console they refer to it as the "N5" (because it will be the fifth console from nintendo).
It's not their responsibility to fight terrorism, so any attempt to prevent it whatsoever is a good faith effort on their part. Adobe should in no way be faulted for this.
Ermmm.. I think this feature was parobably added to "fight" counterfeiters. I'm not quite show where the obvious link to terrorism is, unless you are trying to say that all criminal activity is related to terrorism ?. Sign of the times I guess.
By the looks of it, the S3 DeltaChrome GPU is horribly incapable of making VIA/Apex a formidable gaming console.
It quite obviously isn't supposed to be a formidable gaming console. It's a fancy dvd player with some extra gaming functionality.
The most interesting thing in the article is this...
Any manufacturer could buy the VIA motherboard, chipset, GPU and CPU that went into the ApeXtreme and design their own solution. If you aren't happy with the way the ApeXtreme was done the solution is simple - make your own. VIA is doing their best to make that challenge as easy as possible for manufacturers, with a fairly large name like Apex taking the first steps we'd hope that other manufacturers will follow - for VIA's sake at least.
When MS decided to create a console based on a PC lots of people predicted that it might force all gaming platforms to coverge (a little bit like how people thought the 3DO would become the VHS of consoles). But this plan to effectively turn a vanilla PC into living room multimedia machine may actually acheive that kind of convergance. I guess it all depends on whether hardware manafacturers see any profit in it.
Yeah the Doom 3 release date has been said to be 4/1/04 for a while now by most online websites. Considering ID software usually releases games "when they are done" and not to specific dates it is unlikely to be accurate.
I'm hoping that this date is actually a hedged bet and that the game should be done before then (Half Life 2 now has the same release date which makes me think it is more general than specific). It should be pretty close to completetion now, afterall activision did briefly plan on a christmas release last year and they must have some idea of far along the game is. It may come out next month it also may come out in 6 months time, I guess the only person who really has any idea is Carmack (Hello ?).
And also, what's wrong with competition? I like any type of game/sport whatever thats clean(where the rules are followed) and competitive. I think it's fun and I think the results are much better. Who do you play harder against, some stranger you've never met and will never see again, or your best friend whom will probably try and improve and beat you? Your best friend of course, because of competition, even if afterwards you go have a beer together and hardly think about it again. Personally, I'd love to see another space race minus the 10ks Nukes aimed at each other. Even though I'm sure every nuclear country has figured out how to nuke every other country.
The only problem I have with this is that the americans that are praising Nasa and bashing ESA are only doing it now after their probe has been successful. Where was this rivalry before the probes landed ?, I never heard anyone go "dude our mars lander is going to totally own yours". What we have here is mindless, pointless and completely unconstructive patriotism. And I can't help thinking that most of the people making these comments aren't exactly rocket scientists ("would you like fries with that ?").
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anyone know of any live cds with the 2.6 kernel ?
NASA has never lost a human in space, so sending them on a 1.5 year mission is actually safer than throwing them to orbit.
Excuse me ?, I hope you are some kind of rocket scientist and can qualify that statement.
I'm no expert myself but I reckon that taking into account the fact that humans have never travelled interplanetary before it is probably a little bit more difficult than you think.
Isn't the home pc market saturated though ?.
Intel are in a worse position than a lot of people think, sure their brand recognition is valuable but people who buy boxes for companies are paid to know the difference between Intel / AMD. The uptake for AMD servers is still pretty small but it is growing, Intel could see themselves displaced in a few years time (particularly if AMD continues to produce chips that are cheaper and arguably better than Intel).
I'm not sure but he might have meant upside down.
But all the landers took mere minutes before literally being cooked and stop functioning.
Actually the russian Venera landers lasted for at least an hour each, in both cases contact was lost as the communication sattelites moved out of range. So they may well have lasted more than an hour but not long enough to regain contact.
Most Americans don't think free-trade and NAFTA/WTO are all they are cracked up to be. We are tired of seeing our high-paying jobs outsourced overseas and watching your Government subsidized businesses (*cough* Airbus *cough*) compete with ours. Bush was carrying out the will of a large portion of his people on that one. I only wish he had the guts to stay with it.
Obviously no one wants to be made redundant but the west is currently reaping what it has sewn. The globalization of the last decade was brought about by the west and we have benifitted from it greatly. Tarriffs are not the way to deal with trade disagreements though, it is effectively the same thing as a subsidy (which you criticise yourself). If you don't move with the times and innovate then eventually the whole economy gets dragged down. The steel industry in britain has shrunk in the last five years and as painful as it was it had to be done. The world doesn't actually owe you a living, you just think it does.
Comments and attitudes like yours explain exactly why the U.S. didn't sign the treaty on the international criminal court. They are held to a different standard. Does anyone give a shit about numerous nrth vietnamese war crimes during vietnam both against the U.S. and the vietnamese people? I've never heard anyone complain.
I agree with your general point that the west is held to different standard but vietnam is a very bad example. Like Iraq there was no reason for the US to be there.
Where, exactly, do you think all of these rogue weapons have come from?
Which ones ?, are you referring to ones found in Iraq ?
The venera missions are incredibly interesting and it is fair to say that the Soviets were far more successful at exploring venus than the USA were. Initial missions to venus were launched expecting to have to deal with atmospheric pressure 10 to 15 times that of earth. After a few trial and error landers they found out that the pressure is actually 100 times that of earth, and the surface temperature was on average 450 c. None of the venera craft lasted much more than an hour on the surface even though their outer shell was thick titanium. The soviets did other cool stuff like sending a balloon to venus that floated in the atmosphere and travelled more halfway round the planet before losing contact.
With something this small, I don't see how BitTorrent could possibly do any good.
Somehow I am guessing that you aren't on a 56k connection...
Nasa wants us all dead!
Nasa sent up monkeys. Are they all accounted for?
Nasa sent up robots. Where are they now?
"We can defeat the monkeys. We can defeat the robots.
BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME!!!"
- Lewis Black
More importantly, how long would it take to transfer the entire library of congress ?
I do not know anything about minerals really, but if the lander is exploring a crater, couldn't this come from the meteorite that created the crater in the first place?
Probably not, the reason nasa think that the gustev crater was once an ancient lake is because there is what looks like a water channel leading into it (or maybe out of if the meteorite contained a lot of ice ?). The crater was almost certainly created by a meteorite and not by natural processes (volcanic, weather, etc.) which means that the crater must have been there before the water (if there was water). The fact that olivine reacts so easily with water seems to suggest that the their wasn't any water in the gustev crater.
Probably because spirit is inside a large crater which means that the geology will be fairly young compared to other parts of the surface. From memory I think the pathfinder mission landed in quite a rocky area with boulders and big rocks.
BTW, what happened before Creation? See, everyone, at some point, gets backed into the taking-something-on-faith corner. Some are just more explicit about it than others.
Not me, I don't know what there was before the big bang and don't mid admitting it. I guess you could say that believing in the big bang requires a certain amount of faith but at least there is evidence for it and it is a lot more credible than a 2000 year old book that has been translated so many times it can't be accurate.
If we find life on Mars, we will never be able to colonise it. Expanding the human experience beyond the shores, the gravity well of this puny Earth requires a virgin territory. But if Mars is soiled with life, we cannot infect it with out own, for that would be interstellar ecocide.
You mean like how no one colonised north america so that the native americans weren't disturbed ?
seriously though, we know there isn't intelligent life there, if we do happen to find some microbes or something I don't think too many people will think twice about harming eco system.
GameCube successor (name?)
Neptune.
That is just a codename (like dolphin was for the GC), in fact I don't think nintendo are using it anymore, anytime a spokesman talks about the next console they refer to it as the "N5" (because it will be the fifth console from nintendo).
I heard that the ratings were very favourable. I would probably watch it if it turned into a series.
Sounds like a reality tv concept, how can we make survivor more interesting ?, put them on another planet.
If I've got a license to view/hear it, then that should carry over, and I should only have to pay a small fee to upgrade.
I don't think buying a dvd constitutes a licence to view or hear it on any other medium. I am no expert on copyright law tho.
It's not their responsibility to fight terrorism, so any attempt to prevent it whatsoever is a good faith effort on their part. Adobe should in no way be faulted for this.
Ermmm.. I think this feature was parobably added to "fight" counterfeiters. I'm not quite show where the obvious link to terrorism is, unless you are trying to say that all criminal activity is related to terrorism ?. Sign of the times I guess.
By the looks of it, the S3 DeltaChrome GPU is horribly incapable of making VIA/Apex a formidable gaming console.
It quite obviously isn't supposed to be a formidable gaming console. It's a fancy dvd player with some extra gaming functionality.
The most interesting thing in the article is this...
Any manufacturer could buy the VIA motherboard, chipset, GPU and CPU that went into the ApeXtreme and design their own solution. If you aren't happy with the way the ApeXtreme was done the solution is simple - make your own. VIA is doing their best to make that challenge as easy as possible for manufacturers, with a fairly large name like Apex taking the first steps we'd hope that other manufacturers will follow - for VIA's sake at least.
When MS decided to create a console based on a PC lots of people predicted that it might force all gaming platforms to coverge (a little bit like how people thought the 3DO would become the VHS of consoles). But this plan to effectively turn a vanilla PC into living room multimedia machine may actually acheive that kind of convergance. I guess it all depends on whether hardware manafacturers see any profit in it.
Yeah the Doom 3 release date has been said to be 4/1/04 for a while now by most online websites. Considering ID software usually releases games "when they are done" and not to specific dates it is unlikely to be accurate.
I'm hoping that this date is actually a hedged bet and that the game should be done before then (Half Life 2 now has the same release date which makes me think it is more general than specific). It should be pretty close to completetion now, afterall activision did briefly plan on a christmas release last year and they must have some idea of far along the game is. It may come out next month it also may come out in 6 months time, I guess the only person who really has any idea is Carmack (Hello ?).
Is there a version 2.0 for win32 ?
Yes I know this is slashdot, I really should be running linux. I like to play games okay ?, please don't make me hand in my slashdot id...
And also, what's wrong with competition? I like any type of game/sport whatever thats clean(where the rules are followed) and competitive. I think it's fun and I think the results are much better. Who do you play harder against, some stranger you've never met and will never see again, or your best friend whom will probably try and improve and beat you? Your best friend of course, because of competition, even if afterwards you go have a beer together and hardly think about it again. Personally, I'd love to see another space race minus the 10ks Nukes aimed at each other. Even though I'm sure every nuclear country has figured out how to nuke every other country.
The only problem I have with this is that the americans that are praising Nasa and bashing ESA are only doing it now after their probe has been successful. Where was this rivalry before the probes landed ?, I never heard anyone go "dude our mars lander is going to totally own yours". What we have here is mindless, pointless and completely unconstructive patriotism. And I can't help thinking that most of the people making these comments aren't exactly rocket scientists ("would you like fries with that ?").