I'm looking foward to the concept of space tourism. I've always wanted to travel into space. I have a question for everyone. The mir station isn't that big to do all the things they say in the article. "Industrial production and scientific experimentation to space tourism and in-orbit advertising" Can the Station have room for all that at the same time. And also with all that going on is that station safe for tourist? I seem to remember them doing several patch jobs on it just to keep it running.
1. 5 million and 3 graphic\multimedia formats. 2. Idiot users 3. The bazzilon bad html web pages out there. 4. Trying to support multiple platforms. 5. Making it an integral part of the opterting system. (Only applies if your Microsoft) 6. Security 7. Many many more things.
Origin can't seem to keep a hold of there good designers. A few years ago Chris Roberts the creater of the Wing Commander Series left Origin to form Digital Anvial. Maybe Richard Garriot is leaving to form is own company as well.
I think the SIM or Space Interferometry Mission has good goals in searching for new planets. But what new information is there to learn about Earth from these other planets. What are the pratical gains from this?
I think is great that they have discoved that a planet around some near by star creates a "wobble" that they can dected. But sences Space travle is far from getting anything to a distint planet in other Star System. Thus we can't go and see for ourselves if this planet even exists that we think we dedcited by "indirict means"
I'm not trying to belittle the scinces of this. Or deny that just having new information about the univerise is a gain in and of itself. But how can we benfit from this in pratical ways. AKA how does this make my box run faster? Or How can this help world hunger? That kind of thing.
I am also very curious as to the great many possibilities for nano-technology. I don't how ever share your concern about it's effects.
Fear can not be a reason to stop all innovation. There is always a fear of the unknown. And all innovation are making the previously unknown known, making something new that didn't exsit before exsit.
There have been countless innovations over the history of man kind and I personal think the we are better off for them.
The possibilities for nano-technology are endless. I'm hoping to see new medical treatment that can be devopled.
Just a question. But at what point is a hard disk to big? Or will we always find files to fill up any size drive with? If I get a 73gig hard dirve and fill it up with games, OS's, and neat stuff, then it will take me 116 650meg CD's to back up my system. While I'll agree that bigger is better in this instance. The down side is that Other storage form techolngy, like burnable DVD's or the like are not yet availbilty
The Gameboys made my Nintindo have nevered used backlight. While granted this did make them lighter and use up fewer battires, the trade off for this is too high. The trade off is not being able to see the screen in all places. I've all ways hated having to sit just right and tilt the lights. And basic feel light I was the lighting guy a moive set to get it so that I could the screen well. And while you can buy little addons that put on the screen for you. Those use up battiers and make the thing more heavy. So I saw why not just add it to begin with.
The article states that Suns "promises to soon release the source code under the Sun Community Source License (the SCSL)" The source code to star office will be realsed some time in the near future. But it will be relased in a way that the "Open Source licenses are that it allows research and internal use only, not commercial distribution, and that it severely restricts the distribution of modifications." Under the license it will be relased many of use will be able to toy and add to the code just not for commercial purposes.
I belive your right. I've got two points to back up this statement. One absents makes the heart grow stronger. So maybe with a break will it will come back and everyone will like. Now please PLEASE I'm not trying start a flame war. Please everyone put down the fire hoses. But Look at Star Wars. There was a 25 year break and now everyone loves it again. Perhaps that is the way to go.
Pascal, and C++ are two languages that are often taught in high school. It is my belife that both of these are fine languages to start on IF and that if is all captaialized for a reason. Becouse it's a big if you are in High School. It is my understanding from the article that they are hopeing to incorperate programming into all of education. That would mean not just High Schoolers. For someone that is much younger and lacks the math background to undertand some of the more complex ideas of C++ and Pascal, even something as simple as a varible. I belive that Python which can provided instant output. Ex. you put in 2+2 and it prints 4. Nifty huh. But Python is not the only easy interpated language out there. Also there is good old BASIC which very good for beginners. I mean. Come on. How many of us didn't write "Hello world" in basic while still in grade school or middle school.
Over the years that gameing systems have been made popular there have come and gone many systems. Very few have the staying power. Ex. Nintindo, Sony, and Saga. But there have been many other good systems. 3DO and the Jaguar are examples. Both where in terms of hardware way above the rest at the time. But both systems failed. Becouse hardware isn't the reason they failed we must look to something else. I belive two reason these systems failed and why any Microsoft system would two. Number one, hype. No one can deny that good hype can help see a system. Sony, and Nintindo have this down pat. I don't belive that Microsoft could match this. Second the software the games. Well I don't know about you but I know that I sure don't want any Blue screen of death in my video games. Pluse just how many really good games have ever come out of Mircosoft. For these two reasons I belive any system made by Mircosoft will fail.
I say go and by all the star wars stuff you can. Becouse in 20 years you can send your kids to college with it. I'll admit I was a bit young when the first moives came out. But I still remember playing with a toy x-wing. Boy I wish now I hadn't jumped around on the bed with it and broken it. I think these new toys will be worth great value in years to come. I plan on buying several and just placing in storage unopened.
I'm all for making a product better. But the article is assuming that Micro~1 software is better. And thus the world would be better servered by focasing on improving their products. But wouldn't it be better if everyone switched to Linux and worked to improve Linux software.
Now that KDE has one. Perhaps windows can get one. Maybe a blindfolded turtle. It's slow and keeps crashing into things. But I do like the little dragon for KDE.
I would love to see the new Quake 3 come out for Linux before windows. It really shows the the OS. is gaining acceptance in the Gaming industry. I quote OBI "You've taken your first step into a larger world." While I know this is not the first game to come out for Linux. It is very big for linux. I have never seen a game for linux being sold in a box as Quake 3 will. I belive they are doing the right thing with relaseing it in a box for linux.
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Along with begin in Time Star Wars will also be in a great number of other maganizes this month. Among them include the May issue of Metropolis with focas on some of the props used in Episode 1. Also Star Wars will be fetured in Premiere. The First time ever that Premiere has dedacated a whole issue to one moive. Star Wars is coming.
Java is supposed to be this all might platform independant programming lang. Or so that is what they clam it is. If it truly is what they say it is. Which it's not. They should be able to use the one all java version they are writing for all systems. But they can't. Becouse Java does not do what they claim it can do. Far from it. This just goes to prove it. If it worked liked it's ment to the one all java verions should be abile to work on all vitrual machines, on any platform. This just goes to show the still inmature nature of java.
Is it worth it upgrading to a PII 400 just for a Star Wars trailor? But more imporant is it worth booting into windows to use their quicktime 4 becouse there is no linux port? These are both ponders questions.
I find it amamzing how fast new kernals are coming out for linux. The linux community is really moving fast to devolpe new kernals. Do they really need to fix this many things. For a while I use to update my kernal every time a new one was relased. I think I'm going to just sit back and wait for 2.3 now. My system is stable and I don't want to mess with it. What reasons are there for updating every month?
The GNOME desktop manger has greatly improved sinces it's first 1.0 relase. I had great trouble getting the 1.0 relase to complie and run. I wasn't abile to get it to work as adverticed. Until the newest relase. But aren't a lot of programs relased for linux relased a bit early. Before offical 1.00 It's the leting them out early and allowing programmers all over the world help to fix problems that allow them to grow and mature at a much faster rate than if they were delayed and relase a slightly more stable verion. I don't think you can realse a funcation program to early if your relaseing it open sources. It's just the best all around. It gets the end users intamintly knowlage of the program.
I agree totaly. While violences in video games or moives or any medium by itself wouldn't cause violent tendenices. I strongly belive that the violent nature of most entertainment genres today is having an effect of society. By by it's self it can not be blamed. There are too many people watching, playing and begin exposed to these violent images who don't go crazy to but the blame and sue that indastry.
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I'm looking foward to the concept of space tourism. I've always wanted to travel into space. I have a question for everyone. The mir station isn't that big to do all the things they say in the article. "Industrial production and scientific experimentation to space tourism and in-orbit advertising" Can the Station have room for all that at the same time. And also with all that going on is that station safe for tourist? I seem to remember them doing several patch jobs on it just to keep it running.
What makes it hard. Here is a quick list.
1. 5 million and 3 graphic\multimedia formats.
2. Idiot users
3. The bazzilon bad html web pages out there.
4. Trying to support multiple platforms.
5. Making it an integral part of the opterting system. (Only applies if your Microsoft)
6. Security
7. Many many more things.
Origin can't seem to keep a hold of there good designers. A few years ago Chris Roberts the creater of the Wing Commander Series left Origin to form Digital Anvial. Maybe Richard Garriot is leaving to form is own company as well.
I think the SIM or Space Interferometry Mission has good goals in searching for new planets. But what new information is there to learn about Earth from these other planets. What are the pratical gains from this?
I think is great that they have discoved that a planet around some near by star creates a "wobble" that they can dected. But sences Space travle is far from getting anything to a distint planet in other Star System. Thus we can't go and see for ourselves if this planet even exists that we think we dedcited by "indirict means"
I'm not trying to belittle the scinces of this. Or deny that just having new information about the univerise is a gain in and of itself. But how can we benfit from this in pratical ways. AKA how does this make my box run faster? Or How can this help world hunger? That kind of thing.
I am also very curious as to the great many possibilities for nano-technology. I don't how ever share your concern about it's effects.
Fear can not be a reason to stop all innovation. There is always a fear of the unknown. And all innovation are making the previously unknown known, making something new that didn't exsit before exsit.
There have been countless innovations over the history of man kind and I personal think the we are better off for them.
The possibilities for nano-technology are endless. I'm hoping to see new medical treatment that can be devopled.
Just a question. But at what point is a hard disk to big? Or will we always find files to fill up any size drive with? If I get a 73gig hard dirve and fill it up with games, OS's, and neat stuff, then it will take me 116 650meg CD's to back up my system. While I'll agree that bigger is better in this instance. The down side is that Other storage form techolngy, like burnable DVD's or the like are not yet availbilty
The Gameboys made my Nintindo have nevered used backlight. While granted this did make them lighter and use up fewer battires, the trade off for this is too high. The trade off is not being able to see the screen in all places. I've all ways hated having to sit just right and tilt the lights. And basic feel light I was the lighting guy a moive set to get it so that I could the screen well. And while you can buy little addons that put on the screen for you. Those use up battiers and make the thing more heavy. So I saw why not just add it to begin with.
The article states that Suns "promises to soon release the source code under the Sun Community Source License (the SCSL)" The source code to star office will be realsed some time in the near future. But it will be relased in a way that the
"Open Source licenses are that it allows research and internal use only, not commercial distribution, and that it severely restricts the distribution of modifications." Under the license it will be relased many of use will be able to toy and add to the code just not for commercial purposes.
I belive your right. I've got two points to back up this statement. One absents makes the heart grow stronger. So maybe with a break will it will come back and everyone will like. Now please PLEASE I'm not trying start a flame war. Please everyone put down the fire hoses. But Look at Star Wars. There was a 25 year break and now everyone loves it again. Perhaps that is the way to go.
Pascal, and C++ are two languages that are often taught in high school. It is my belife that both of these are fine languages to start on IF and that if is all captaialized for a reason. Becouse it's a big if you are in High School. It is my understanding from the article that they are hopeing to incorperate programming into all of education. That would mean not just High Schoolers. For someone that is much younger and lacks the math background to undertand some of the more complex ideas of C++ and Pascal, even something as simple as a varible. I belive that Python which can provided instant output. Ex. you put in 2+2 and it prints 4. Nifty huh. But Python is not the only easy interpated language out there. Also there is good old BASIC which very good for beginners. I mean. Come on. How many of us didn't write "Hello world" in basic while still in grade school or middle school.
Over the years that gameing systems have been made popular there have come and gone many systems. Very few have the staying power. Ex. Nintindo, Sony, and Saga. But there have been many other good systems. 3DO and the Jaguar are examples. Both where in terms of hardware way above the rest at the time. But both systems failed. Becouse hardware isn't the reason they failed we must look to something else. I belive two reason these systems failed and why any Microsoft system would two. Number one, hype. No one can deny that good hype can help see a system. Sony, and Nintindo have this down pat. I don't belive that Microsoft could match this. Second the software the games. Well I don't know about you but I know that I sure don't want any Blue screen of death in my video games. Pluse just how many really good games have ever come out of Mircosoft. For these two reasons I belive any system made by Mircosoft will fail.
I say go and by all the star wars stuff you can. Becouse in 20 years you can send your kids to college with it. I'll admit I was a bit young when the first moives came out. But I still remember playing with a toy x-wing. Boy I wish now I hadn't jumped around on the bed with it and broken it. I think these new toys will be worth great value in years to come. I plan on buying several and just placing in storage unopened.
I'm all for making a product better. But the article is assuming that Micro~1 software is better. And thus the world would be better servered by focasing on improving their products. But wouldn't it be better if everyone switched to Linux and worked to improve Linux software.
Now that KDE has one. Perhaps windows can get one. Maybe a blindfolded turtle. It's slow and keeps crashing into things. But I do like the little dragon for KDE.
I would love to see the new Quake 3 come out for Linux before windows. It really shows the the OS. is gaining acceptance in the Gaming industry. I quote OBI "You've taken your first step into a larger world." While I know this is not the first game to come out for Linux. It is very big for linux. I have never seen a game for linux being sold in a box as Quake 3 will. I belive they are doing the right thing with relaseing it in a box for linux.
Along with begin in Time Star Wars will also be in a great number of other maganizes this month. Among them include the May issue of Metropolis with focas on some of the props used in Episode 1.
Also Star Wars will be fetured in Premiere. The First time ever that Premiere has dedacated a whole issue to one moive. Star Wars is coming.
Java is supposed to be this all might platform independant programming lang. Or so that is what they clam it is. If it truly is what they say it is. Which it's not. They should be able to use the one all java version they are writing for all systems. But they can't. Becouse Java does not do what they claim it can do. Far from it. This just goes to prove it. If it worked liked it's ment to the one all java verions should be abile to work on all vitrual machines, on any platform. This just goes to show the still inmature nature of java.
Is it worth it upgrading to a PII 400 just for a Star Wars trailor? But more imporant is it worth booting into windows to use their quicktime 4 becouse there is no linux port? These are both ponders questions.
I find it amamzing how fast new kernals are coming out for linux. The linux community is really moving fast to devolpe new kernals. Do they really need to fix this many things. For a while I use to update my kernal every time a new one was relased. I think I'm going to just sit back and wait for 2.3 now. My system is stable and I don't want to mess with it. What reasons are there for updating every month?
The GNOME desktop manger has greatly improved sinces it's first 1.0 relase. I had great trouble getting the 1.0 relase to complie and run. I wasn't abile to get it to work as adverticed. Until the newest relase. But aren't a lot of programs relased for linux relased a bit early. Before offical 1.00 It's the leting them out early and allowing programmers all over the world help to fix problems that allow them to grow and mature at a much faster rate than if they were delayed and relase a slightly more stable verion. I don't think you can realse a funcation program to early if your relaseing it open sources. It's just the best all around. It gets the end users intamintly knowlage of the program.
I agree totaly. While violences in video games or moives or any medium by itself wouldn't cause violent tendenices. I strongly belive that the violent nature of most entertainment genres today is having an effect of society. By by it's self it can not be blamed. There are too many people watching, playing and begin exposed to these violent images who don't go crazy to but the blame and sue that indastry.