Why aren't they sending two this time? Are they confident since both Spirit and Opportunity were successful? Or is it because this rover is much bigger so it's too expensive to send two?
Is a possible reason for NASA avoiding nuclear propulsion that the U.S. is worried about giving other countries yet another reason to build nuclear reactors?
Actually the big deal about search is that you can type in any phrase and in a fraction of a second you can see documents with that phrase in its filename or anywhere in its text from anywhere on your hard drive, music files with an artist or album matching your phrase, etc. Right now that search takes several minutes. This leap in performance is analagous to what you can do with an abacus vs a computer; you don't even bother doing some things with an abacus.
I just want to add my recommendation for RAID-1. I set it up a couple of years ago when my last drive died, and I decided I was sick enough of losing data that it was worth it. I just had one of the drives die on me last weekend, and my downtime was just the few hours it took me to go to the store, get a new drive, and swap it in. Then I just told my Intel RAID app to mirror to the new drive and I could continue working while it rebuilt the array.
Without RAID-1 I'd be pissed for the rest of the month. Seriously, who has time to do manual backups of your personal PC? And even then you'll probably lose something because it's not up-to-the-minute.
I actually backed up my hard drive to 216 floppies once. I used MSBACKUP, which thankfully skipped the files that couldn't be recovered due to bad floppies and restored the rest.
Researchers have identified what may be the perfect place for a Moon base...
Who are these mysterious "researchers" led by someone named Bussey? Are they with NASA? Well, that would be news if NASA picked a site. We have no idea though since the article doesn't identify them.
A researcher is anyone who does research, which is simply learning about something new. That could be anyone. As written this is a total non-story, about as newsworthy as "Local Pub Regulars Confirm U.S. Will Revisit Moon by 2007".
"We choose to go to the moon... Not because it is easy, but because it is hard." -JFK, 1962
In other words, it's inspiring. If not for the moon landing, a generation of scientists and engineers would've become something else, and our civilization would be the worse for it.
The reason we're seeing independent human spaceflight and governments starting to talk about ambitious space programs again is that those people have grown up and are wondering what happened to their dreams. If we get humans out to the moon and Mars in the next few decades, we will fulfill some of those dreams and give new ones to our children.
This is another case of agreements being way beyond what a company needs, but lawyers saying "well what about this one bizarre case that might happen once in a hundred years where you might want to use this clause?" So the company makes an agreement like this one, not counting on geeks like us to actually read it and cause trouble.
The problem there is that people expect links to be green. If you make them say, purple, people will think they already clicked them. And if they're another color, it'll make the paragraph even more confusing. I think any hints about what the links are to should be textual.
It's the same principle in news stories why they don't use bold and italic, e.g. the cat was stuck in the tree, it was REALLY HIGH!. It ruins the flow of the text.
The only two things I listen to are NPR, which pretty much has everything online for you to listen to at your convenience, and a music station which repeats everything every hour anyway.
They need one of these for online radio streams with a comprehensive catalog. The catalog alone would be a great help.
They might be able to get the gas to emit from the other side, but some of the push is just from the momentum of the microwaves, so you'd actually want to ignore that.
The first thing I look for in a browser UI is the back and forward buttons. Those small, circular buttons have maybe a third of the clickable area of the square buttons of a square button but take the same amount of screen space. What's the point?
Reading these reminds me of how some Longhorn features may have been inspired by OSX.
the sheer "fit and finish" that goes into the GUI - NEVER will you have a busy or hung application that displays white contents when you drag something else over it, OS X stores the contents of a GUI app in a different way so that even when the app is hung it can be nicely moved around
This system is called Quartz, and Longhorn's Avalon will be doing this too. Apps will have their own off-screen target to render to, and Windows will render that to the 3D desktop.
the way searching is faster (there's a reason why the search functionality in Windows is called "Search", and in OS X it's called "Find")
This will happen when WinFS is shipped, which some prominent MS employees are saying could be around 2010.
Yes, I was referring to Microsoft's central authentication servers. Since the OP says to "verify the virtual avatar based on [incompetently administered servers]", and the verification is done by Microsoft's servers, I assumed he didn't mean users' computers.
based on data resident on a machine administered so incompetently as to have six types of spyware and four spammer worms on it because the underlying operating system is as secure as swiss cheese.
You can't compare TV, which is just reproducing images taken from real life, with games, which have to generate everything themselves.
If you're waiting for a VR world with the complexity of the real world including artificial human actors, I doubt you'll see that in 20 years. My guess is 50-200 if ever. And whenever it comes, we will have achieved the Singularity, and AI will start making all the advancements for our civilization.
If you just want multiplayer games where all the actors can be human, then you only need wait until we can simulate every hair on your body, the blood in your veins, the dust particles floating through the air, and a million other things just to reproduce what you see on your TV. Heck I can sit down and draw from real life and beat a computer game for realism, who cares? Games are not TV.
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Why aren't they sending two this time? Are they confident since both Spirit and Opportunity were successful? Or is it because this rover is much bigger so it's too expensive to send two?
Is a possible reason for NASA avoiding nuclear propulsion that the U.S. is worried about giving other countries yet another reason to build nuclear reactors?
Actually the big deal about search is that you can type in any phrase and in a fraction of a second you can see documents with that phrase in its filename or anywhere in its text from anywhere on your hard drive, music files with an artist or album matching your phrase, etc. Right now that search takes several minutes. This leap in performance is analagous to what you can do with an abacus vs a computer; you don't even bother doing some things with an abacus.
Download the MSN Toolbar Suite Beta to try it out. Then watch a demo by the team who wrote it.
Because there's so much other great TV waiting to take its spot.
And if you hate it, its fans shouldn't be able to watch it.
I just want to add my recommendation for RAID-1. I set it up a couple of years ago when my last drive died, and I decided I was sick enough of losing data that it was worth it. I just had one of the drives die on me last weekend, and my downtime was just the few hours it took me to go to the store, get a new drive, and swap it in. Then I just told my Intel RAID app to mirror to the new drive and I could continue working while it rebuilt the array.
Without RAID-1 I'd be pissed for the rest of the month. Seriously, who has time to do manual backups of your personal PC? And even then you'll probably lose something because it's not up-to-the-minute.
I actually backed up my hard drive to 216 floppies once. I used MSBACKUP, which thankfully skipped the files that couldn't be recovered due to bad floppies and restored the rest.
No one believes me though.
Researchers have identified what may be the perfect place for a Moon base...
Who are these mysterious "researchers" led by someone named Bussey? Are they with NASA? Well, that would be news if NASA picked a site. We have no idea though since the article doesn't identify them.
A researcher is anyone who does research, which is simply learning about something new. That could be anyone. As written this is a total non-story, about as newsworthy as "Local Pub Regulars Confirm U.S. Will Revisit Moon by 2007".
It was disappointing finding out ligers are real. I tried getting him to do magic but he wasn't having any of it.
NASA has some nics pics of the roll-out from Wednesday. This one is my favorite, and thanks to the high resolution it makes great wallpaper.
"We choose to go to the moon... Not because it is easy, but because it is hard."
-JFK, 1962
In other words, it's inspiring. If not for the moon landing, a generation of scientists and engineers would've become something else, and our civilization would be the worse for it.
The reason we're seeing independent human spaceflight and governments starting to talk about ambitious space programs again is that those people have grown up and are wondering what happened to their dreams. If we get humans out to the moon and Mars in the next few decades, we will fulfill some of those dreams and give new ones to our children.
Yep. You could also argue that stone tablets are 3D.
Search your hard drive for "PDFMaker.dot" or probably anything else withe PDFMaker in the name. On my machine it installs it here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP
That will get rid of it in all your Office apps including Outlook.
This is another case of agreements being way beyond what a company needs, but lawyers saying "well what about this one bizarre case that might happen once in a hundred years where you might want to use this clause?" So the company makes an agreement like this one, not counting on geeks like us to actually read it and cause trouble.
What if you only run managed code (Java and .NET)? Couldn't the runtime prevent any overwriting of protected files?
People could run newer programs this way, and legacy native programs would run in a virtual environment like Virtual PC or VMWare.
The problem there is that people expect links to be green. If you make them say, purple, people will think they already clicked them. And if they're another color, it'll make the paragraph even more confusing. I think any hints about what the links are to should be textual.
It's the same principle in news stories why they don't use bold and italic, e.g. the cat was stuck in the tree, it was REALLY HIGH!. It ruins the flow of the text.
The only two things I listen to are NPR, which pretty much has everything online for you to listen to at your convenience, and a music station which repeats everything every hour anyway.
They need one of these for online radio streams with a comprehensive catalog. The catalog alone would be a great help.
They might be able to get the gas to emit from the other side, but some of the push is just from the momentum of the microwaves, so you'd actually want to ignore that.
KDE has announced that the next release, KDE 3.4, will be known as KDE 400.
The first thing I look for in a browser UI is the back and forward buttons. Those small, circular buttons have maybe a third of the clickable area of the square buttons of a square button but take the same amount of screen space. What's the point?
Obviously they put looks ahead of usability.
It sense makes me. May dyslexia you check have out soon doctor.
Reading these reminds me of how some Longhorn features may have been inspired by OSX.
the sheer "fit and finish" that goes into the GUI - NEVER will you have a busy or hung application that displays white contents when you drag something else over it, OS X stores the contents of a GUI app in a different way so that even when the app is hung it can be nicely moved around
This system is called Quartz, and Longhorn's Avalon will be doing this too. Apps will have their own off-screen target to render to, and Windows will render that to the 3D desktop.
the way searching is faster (there's a reason why the search functionality in Windows is called "Search", and in OS X it's called "Find")
This will happen when WinFS is shipped, which some prominent MS employees are saying could be around 2010.
Yes, I was referring to Microsoft's central authentication servers. Since the OP says to "verify the virtual avatar based on [incompetently administered servers]", and the verification is done by Microsoft's servers, I assumed he didn't mean users' computers.
based on data resident on a machine administered so incompetently as to have six types of spyware and four spammer worms on it because the underlying operating system is as secure as swiss cheese.
Can you provide a link to a story about this?
You can't compare TV, which is just reproducing images taken from real life, with games, which have to generate everything themselves.
If you're waiting for a VR world with the complexity of the real world including artificial human actors, I doubt you'll see that in 20 years. My guess is 50-200 if ever. And whenever it comes, we will have achieved the Singularity, and AI will start making all the advancements for our civilization.
If you just want multiplayer games where all the actors can be human, then you only need wait until we can simulate every hair on your body, the blood in your veins, the dust particles floating through the air, and a million other things just to reproduce what you see on your TV. Heck I can sit down and draw from real life and beat a computer game for realism, who cares? Games are not TV.
In this picture taken by Spirit early in the mission, you can see "Husband Hill" labeled as "E", about 3km away. It's on this hill right now. Opportunity has spent more time carefully looking around a dangerous crater instead of going for distance.
Sojourner only moved about 100 meters and was a huge success. Its most popular accomplishment was taking this picture before it even left the lander.