"Quality: Despite the above, the quality of the code is generally excellent. Modules are small, and procedures generally fit on a single screen. The commenting is very detailed about intentions, but doesn't fall into "add one to i" redundancy."
If there is water on mars
on
Brine on Mars?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
..why did it not evaporate?
The atmospheric pressure on mars is pretty low, which means that any liquid water (which this apparently is) will be vacuum dried to gas and move into outer space.
God I hate the NYT registration. I must have over 25 different accounts there by now and just keep forgetting them. Anyway: use the google partner-link
You can even start from the 4.4 beta as that is the last GPL-ed version. All you then have to do is read the changelog / bug reports (not the code!) to get it into 'true' 4.4
The really interesting bit is that there is a lot of GPL-ed code in XFree. Chunks have been copied from the linux kernel, and people like Alan Cox submitted patches. As this code is GPL, XFree must also be GPL in order to use it, or the Xfree teasm must rewrite these parts. I understood Alan Cox opposes his contributions to be placed under the new licensing scheme.
TV does not have 60 fps. It just projects the image 60 times per second. This marks a fundamental difference between TV and cimema projection:
* Cinemas project *the entire image* during the whole frame-time. The small blacks during image shifts are taken care of by your eyes (ever wondered why you do not see blackness when you blink normally?)
* TV only projects a very small part of the image at the same time, and relies on afterglow of the projected area to make the image appear. By increasing the rate of the electron bundle, you get a more consistent brightness (less afterglow needed) and your image perception will improve.
Your eyes are only capable of seeing 20-25 fps. This is why you do not see fluorescent links blink on and off. For this reason you will not notice when cimema projection will increase speed from 25-60 fps.
I'd rather have they spend their money on the science than on some dorky animation like NASA tends to do for its mars expeditions. It is ridiculous to demand that the government jumps through hoops to keep you informed what's going on in ISS just because you are too lazy to look it up yourself.
the Hubble PR department publishes in the 'West Hawaii today' and 'Mercury News'. ISS results are generally published in peer reviewed journals like 'Cell' and 'Nature'. I suggest you base your conclusions after doing a bit more research.
The fact that you only consider newspapers and TV a valid source of information is rather disturbing.
While I have seen hundreds of "discovered by Hubble this week" I have not seen one discovery in the news come from the station. It's usually fighting with the Russians or announcing it's going to cost ten times more than we thought to do one twentieth the science.
I'm sorry but this is just nonsense. I am personally involved with some experiments conducted in ISS, and I know there is a lot of important research going on there.
Just because ISS does not have a PR department that hypes up every other little discovery as is happening for hubble, and because it doesn't give you pretty pictures but complex scientific output, you have no argument for saying there is no research going on in that place
* A 'supported' version of linux (RH enterprise) is more expensive than windows as you have to pay a licence each year
* A free (beer) linux is hardly ever supported for more than 2 years (RH9?), whereas MS win 98 is still supported, not to mention W2K.
Although all you 31337 hax0r5 recompile updates as a hobby, I need an easy and reliable update service, like RHN, that exists for more than 3 years, as I do not feel like upgrading my servers that many times.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but to me it seems that the one-off payment for a win2k server license is cheaper than a RHEL subscription, and the need of a tech to constantly search and recompile bugfixes is the most expensive option of all
UV does NOT remove amino acid and monosaccharides, which are the key elements for detecting life. It just breaks down large molecules into smaller ones by cutting weak molecular bonds
Then how come those US submarines are capable of beaching and killing a few hundred wales everytime they try out their new sonar system?
Seriously. This thing makes noises in a way yet unprecedented. It may very well interfere with bird flight routes or many other things. Just sucking your thumb is no way to dismiss a possible enironmental impact.
"We can't get up there right now because guess who doesn't have their own Shuttle"
No they just have the Soyuz rockets that take like 90% of all stuff to and from ISS. Wasn't it NASA who kept on cancelling flights (Hubble?) because they could not guarantee the safetee of the passengers?
What needs to be done is REMOVING bacteria, as even tiny little bit of organic matter will give rise to the fasle conclusion that there is life on Mars. Apart from the fact that it is pretty hard to really sterilize something, to date there is no method to 100.00000000% clean such a large object of organic matter
The fact that it remains alive when there is only one single person on the whole world interested in continuing its development. If someone is interested in the 0.1 kernel, even when nobody has worked on it for years, all thats needs to be done is a download from kernel.org.
No, it doesn't. It's a cartoon devil. It doesn't offend anyone. Really. Unless you're one of those freaks who won't let their kids watch Scoobie-doo because it's got ghosts in it. Trust me. If it were hanging on a cross or wearing a turban, *then* maybe it'd need changing.
It has nothing to do with the devils. It's a cartoon of a statue in which american soldiers are planting an american flag. That makes it culturally biased.
Although you have to be an idiot to be offended by it, loads of people (especially in some 'liberated' countries) are suchs type of idiots and there is no reason to get into this unnecessary type of trouble
As SF.com is located in the US, isn't this exactly something covered under the DMCA: publishing a method to circumvent a protect mechanism. In that case, what are the chances of them getting into trouble?
Slashdot Mirror
3) The code is likely just plain bad. It may need a major rewrite before others in the community could start to contribute.
According to someone who actually looked at the code it is pretty high quality
"Quality: Despite the above, the quality of the code is generally excellent. Modules are small, and procedures generally fit on a single screen. The commenting is very detailed about intentions, but doesn't fall into "add one to i" redundancy."
..why did it not evaporate?
The atmospheric pressure on mars is pretty low, which means that any liquid water (which this apparently is) will be vacuum dried to gas and move into outer space.
God I hate the NYT registration. I must have over 25 different accounts there by now and just keep forgetting them. Anyway: use the google partner-link
The filter only works AFTER you download (at least it does for 99% of the worlds population). Therefore the bandwidth is still gone
You can even start from the 4.4 beta as that is the last GPL-ed version. All you then have to do is read the changelog / bug reports (not the code!) to get it into 'true' 4.4
The really interesting bit is that there is a lot of GPL-ed code in XFree. Chunks have been copied from the linux kernel, and people like Alan Cox submitted patches. As this code is GPL, XFree must also be GPL in order to use it, or the Xfree teasm must rewrite these parts. I understood Alan Cox opposes his contributions to be placed under the new licensing scheme.
Yes, except that this clause is not present in the Dutch version of the license...
You are comparing apples and oranges
TV does not have 60 fps. It just projects the image 60 times per second. This marks a fundamental difference between TV and cimema projection:
* Cinemas project *the entire image* during the whole frame-time. The small blacks during image shifts are taken care of by your eyes (ever wondered why you do not see blackness when you blink normally?)
* TV only projects a very small part of the image at the same time, and relies on afterglow of the projected area to make the image appear. By increasing the rate of the electron bundle, you get a more consistent brightness (less afterglow needed) and your image perception will improve.
Your eyes are only capable of seeing 20-25 fps. This is why you do not see fluorescent links blink on and off. For this reason you will not notice when cimema projection will increase speed from 25-60 fps.
I'd rather have they spend their money on the science than on some dorky animation like NASA tends to do for its mars expeditions. It is ridiculous to demand that the government jumps through hoops to keep you informed what's going on in ISS just because you are too lazy to look it up yourself.
Let me put it this way:
the Hubble PR department publishes in the 'West Hawaii today' and 'Mercury News'. ISS results are generally published in peer reviewed journals like 'Cell' and 'Nature'. I suggest you base your conclusions after doing a bit more research.
The fact that you only consider newspapers and TV a valid source of information is rather disturbing.
While I have seen hundreds of "discovered by Hubble this week" I have not seen one discovery in the news come from the station. It's usually fighting with the Russians or announcing it's going to cost ten times more than we thought to do one twentieth the science.
I'm sorry but this is just nonsense.
I am personally involved with some experiments conducted in ISS, and I know there is a lot of important research going on there.
Just because ISS does not have a PR department that hypes up every other little discovery as is happening for hubble, and because it doesn't give you pretty pictures but complex scientific output, you have no argument for saying there is no research going on in that place
from: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=48662&cid=493
"Did anyone else think hat the MPAA was suing three-hundred and twenty one different studios?"
Just have www.sco.com point to your testing server
Is that really so?
* A 'supported' version of linux (RH enterprise) is more expensive than windows as you have to pay a licence each year
* A free (beer) linux is hardly ever supported for more than 2 years (RH9?), whereas MS win 98 is still supported, not to mention W2K.
Although all you 31337 hax0r5 recompile updates as a hobby, I need an easy and reliable update service, like RHN, that exists for more than 3 years, as I do not feel like upgrading my servers that many times.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but to me it seems that the one-off payment for a win2k server license is cheaper than a RHEL subscription, and the need of a tech to constantly search and recompile bugfixes is the most expensive option of all
You are just guessing right?
UV does NOT remove amino acid and monosaccharides, which are the key elements for detecting life. It just breaks down large molecules into smaller ones by cutting weak molecular bonds
Then how come those US submarines are capable of beaching and killing a few hundred wales everytime they try out their new sonar system?
Seriously. This thing makes noises in a way yet unprecedented. It may very well interfere with bird flight routes or many other things. Just sucking your thumb is no way to dismiss a possible enironmental impact.
"We can't get up there right now because guess who doesn't have their own Shuttle"
No they just have the Soyuz rockets that take like 90% of all stuff to and from ISS.
Wasn't it NASA who kept on cancelling flights (Hubble?) because they could not guarantee the safetee of the passengers?
Sterilizing == killing bacteria
What needs to be done is REMOVING bacteria, as even tiny little bit of organic matter will give rise to the fasle conclusion that there is life on Mars. Apart from the fact that it is pretty hard to really sterilize something, to date there is no method to 100.00000000% clean such a large object of organic matter
Isn't that just the beauty of open source:
The fact that it remains alive when there is only one single person on the whole world interested in continuing its development. If someone is interested in the 0.1 kernel, even when nobody has worked on it for years, all thats needs to be done is a download from kernel.org.
including ones for space engines
Great. Imagine the fallout when this recently exploded space shuttle would have been carrying one of those
How about this:
Drag a link of EasyCDcreator to the SENDTO folder.
Now use the SendTo link to Burn some files.
Watch MS-CDburner fire up
No, it doesn't. It's a cartoon devil. It doesn't offend anyone. Really. Unless you're one of those freaks who won't let their kids watch Scoobie-doo because it's got ghosts in it. Trust me. If it were hanging on a cross or wearing a turban, *then* maybe it'd need changing.
It has nothing to do with the devils. It's a cartoon of a statue in which american soldiers are planting an american flag. That makes it culturally biased.
Although you have to be an idiot to be offended by it, loads of people (especially in some 'liberated' countries) are suchs type of idiots and there is no reason to get into this unnecessary type of trouble
1) Email worms
2) Zombie virus-infected mail relay clients
etc
As SF.com is located in the US, isn't this exactly something covered under the DMCA: publishing a method to circumvent a protect mechanism.
In that case, what are the chances of them getting into trouble?
DIY ecologists capacble of creating GM fish that CANNOT multiply by themselves?
You've been watching the Sci-Fi channel too much
You argument about the corn is BS too, as new new corn gets sowed in every year from specialis breeders