It is not United Space Agency, but United Space Alliance (Acronym is correct:) )
USA is the Prime contractor in the Human Space Flight Program. We run the day to day operations of the Shuttle Fleet and International Space Station.
From Launch to touchdown to launch, USA runs, maintains, and upgrades all the orbiters for use in the HSF program. USA Houston designs, plans, and executes many of the missions that NASA wants to fly, and USA Florida maintains the orbiters. Most of the crew you see in the white jump suits prepping the Astronauts for launch are USA people. In fact, if you watched CNN during the last launch, we designed the program that showed the roll, pitch, yaw, attitude, velocity, and attitude (It was a Java applet if you were interested).
Before USA was formed (Parents of USA are Boeing and Lockheed Martin), There were numerous contracts, companies, and people working on getting the HSF to work. NASA decided to consolidate all the contracts and let one entity control them to save money. USA was born.
To use the AIM network, you must have an account. The client is merely a lauching point to get on to the network. If MSN Messenger allows you to access that account, then what is wrong with that?
If to access OSCAR, you need a username/password, then MSNM would not work without it.
To extend where I am going here... Jabber is going to support many different Networks (ICQ, AIM, Jabber's own protocol...) If it requires your username/password, would you consider it wrong too?
NASA use to do an amazing amount of stuff for the Human Space Flight program in house and did not farm activities out to contractors. More and more, private contractors are running the day to day operations of the HSF while NASA itself focuses more on the science aspect of its mission.
If you want to see the main contractor that runs the HSF, go here
But most of the time, it is in conjunction with NASA.
Rabid's right, NASA is the world's space agency. I know that sorta sounds Nationalistic but ESA, NASDA (.jp), RSA (.ru), and others all look towards NASA for help and technology for projects. Cutting NASA back hurts the rest of the world in terms of space flight and exploration. When NASA does something, they see if anyone else is doing it. If another country is doing something, they see if NASA is doing it.
Politicians should love the idea of space science. They have their head up their ass so much it should be second nature to explore other dark places.
While the specs for the discs are there, the manufacturing process for the two sided RSDL (Reverse Spiral-Dual Layer) discs has been so so. They are producing more coasters than movies. The first movie out with the 2RSDL tech is probably going to be The Stand. Therefore, the Maximum out now is ~9gigs. About a good sized film with one or two extras. I would really want a Criterion Collectors edition with a movie disc and another disc full of extras.
Interesting tech note: The way the dual layer system works is that the "normal layer" is read normally by the system and once the disc reaches the outer edge of the track, it stops and reverses the spin direction and reads it from outside to inside.
...they allow GUI Apps to be built for Linux using Qt or Java, depending on the *Builder product
... (Not a deciding factor but a nice thing to have) they create a system that allows programming for Win32 as well. One IDE for multiple platforms.
...they keep the product up to par with their Win counterparts.
I use CBuilder 3, JBuilder 2, and I am trying to find a copy of JB3 locally. They all are top notch rapid development enviroments that do not intrude with special tags in the code or any nonsense like that (Unlike Symantec Visual Cafe 3...)
...Eric S. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, which favors the release of the secret source code for popular programs like Microsoft Office so they can be improved collaboratively, said there's nothing well-meaning about Back Orifice.
"If you believe that, I've got some waterfront property in Florida to sell you," he said. "People who do real work don't bother with Defcon."
Waterfront property in Florida? Hmm... like the whole state isn't one big waterfront property...
Why are/.ers so protective of copyright violators? Copyright is the only protection free software authors have. Musicians have just as much right as programmers to determine what happens with their creations.
And let's get this straight: framing someone else's content is piracy, just as surely as copying it onto your hard drive.
What if I say Hey, I think this site is cool and you need to check it out. and they have ASCAP protected music. Why in the hell should I be forced to pay ASCAP because I linked to a site that just happened to have music? Hmm?
As for the framing issue, maybe, maybe not. A lot of times it is completely obvoius that it comes from another site. If it isn't obvious, then at least a note should be made that it is a 3rd party site. Personally, I launch new windows when linking. Keeps my site open and their site.
It is a tactic used by people/corporations to pump themselves or their products up and slam or destroy the competition's stuff.
Examples
Fear - "Our proprietary system is the most secure on the market. Why would you want to use a security system that is open source? I mean, it can be reverse engineered!"
Here, Proprietary != Secure spreads fear about their systems integrity.
Uncertainty - "XXX is the wave of the future. YYY is the old way of doing things. Why would you use a system that will be obsolete in a few years?"
Who knows if it will be obsolete? I don't have a crystal ball. Neither do they.
Doubt - Create doubt about your competitors and the above two are also created.
These three things are intertwined tighter than anything else. You cannot have one without creating another in the process.
I saw an interview where Matt and Trey were talking about how they had made some really nasty songs up just to parody Disney movies. You know those disney movies that break into some inane song at random times? Well, SP does it too but with a more, how shall we say, "lower" level.
Enable pass-along distribution between fans, know who they are, and get paid by new listeners.
Create powerful merchandising, promotion, direct response marketing, and affinity groups. Receive timely financial payments and usage information for your music. Enable your MP3 player for rights management. Support and respect music label policies.
And now let's see Divx's "Features"
Enable pass-along distribution between fans, know who they are, and get paid by new listeners. Receive timely financial payments and usage information for your movies. Enable your DIVX player for rights management. Support and respect movie studio policies. (Moratoriums...)
I have played with W2k and I actually like it. It is rock stable on my machine and it *has not crashed yet*. That is with 3 weeks of hard pounding on the machine with Photoshop and Mingw32. I wouldn't mind having open source NT. Many things can be created from the concepts that have in it. Including improvements to Linux.
When you have a lot of voting shares in a company, your feelings suddenly become important. Granted, DiamondMM doesn't care WTF I feel, but when myself and a few thousand others express similar opinions, they tend to take notice.
To prevent the massive copying of materials coming out of the asian market, the DVD consortium divided the world up into regions. Studios then have the option to encode their disc to a certain region. Most do, some don't (IE: Studios like this...}
Region 1 - The U.S., U.S. territories and Canada Region 2 - Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland Region 3 - Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong Region 4 - Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean Region 5 - Russia, Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia Region 6 - China
Mods are already out for standalone players. DVD-ROMS have SW out to defeat it.
RB
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It is the direct comparsion CC made to the public when they were pushing Divx. They didn't compare it to VHS, but to DVD.
But, lets compare it to VHS... I can take a rental VHS to any VCR I want and it will play. BBV doesn't know where or when I play it. ALL they know is that I rented it. (I use to work for them).
As for the movie for life comment, CC was also pushing that you could make any movie "silver" and it would play for life! Whoops, guess not. The format itself, isn't all bad. But the way CC promoted and marketed the whole thing just stank to high hell.
Slashdot Mirror
Use d.net to crack passwords and you have a real purpose :)
Just to point a comparsion out, Slashdot doesn't pass that test either.
Neither do a lot of sites...
USA
(I had the link correct in the preview...)
RB
It is not United Space Agency, but United Space Alliance (Acronym is correct :) )
USA is the Prime contractor in the Human Space Flight Program. We run the day to day operations of the Shuttle Fleet and International Space Station.
From Launch to touchdown to launch, USA runs, maintains, and upgrades all the orbiters for use in the HSF program. USA Houston designs, plans, and executes many of the missions that NASA wants to fly, and USA Florida maintains the orbiters. Most of the crew you see in the white jump suits prepping the Astronauts for launch are USA people. In fact, if you watched CNN during the last launch, we designed the program that showed the roll, pitch, yaw, attitude, velocity, and attitude (It was a Java applet if you were interested).
Before USA was formed (Parents of USA are Boeing and Lockheed Martin), There were numerous contracts, companies, and people working on getting the HSF to work. NASA decided to consolidate all the contracts and let one entity control them to save money. USA was born.
(I work for USA if you cannot tell)
RB
To use the AIM network, you must have an account. The client is merely a lauching point to get on to the network. If MSN Messenger allows you to access that account, then what is wrong with that?
If to access OSCAR, you need a username/password, then MSNM would not work without it.
To extend where I am going here...
Jabber is going to support many different Networks (ICQ, AIM, Jabber's own protocol...)
If it requires your username/password, would you consider it wrong too?
Shuttle runs mostly a proprietatry OS designed for the computers. But the laptops run Solaris.
Not having used MSN Messenger but having used AIM, don't you have to have a Username/Password to access the AIM network?
NASA use to do an amazing amount of stuff for the Human Space Flight program in house and did not farm activities out to contractors. More and more, private contractors are running the day to day operations of the HSF while NASA itself focuses more on the science aspect of its mission.
If you want to see the main contractor that runs the HSF, go here
But most of the time, it is in conjunction with NASA.
Rabid's right, NASA is the world's space agency. I know that sorta sounds Nationalistic but ESA, NASDA (.jp), RSA (.ru), and others all look towards NASA for help and technology for projects. Cutting NASA back hurts the rest of the world in terms of space flight and exploration. When NASA does something, they see if anyone else is doing it. If another country is doing something, they see if NASA is doing it.
Politicians should love the idea of space science. They have their head up their ass so much it should be second nature to explore other dark places.
Here on News.com
RB
While the specs for the discs are there, the manufacturing process for the two sided RSDL (Reverse Spiral-Dual Layer) discs has been so so. They are producing more coasters than movies. The first movie out with the 2RSDL tech is probably going to be The Stand. Therefore, the Maximum out now is ~9gigs. About a good sized film with one or two extras. I would really want a Criterion Collectors edition with a movie disc and another disc full of extras.
Interesting tech note: The way the dual layer system works is that the "normal layer" is read normally by the system and once the disc reaches the outer edge of the track, it stops and reverses the spin direction and reads it from outside to inside.
...they allow GUI Apps to be built for Linux using Qt or Java, depending on the *Builder product
... (Not a deciding factor but a nice thing to have) they create a system that allows programming for Win32 as well. One IDE for multiple platforms.
...they keep the product up to par with their Win counterparts.
I use CBuilder 3, JBuilder 2, and I am trying to find a copy of JB3 locally. They all are top notch rapid development enviroments that do not intrude with special tags in the code or any nonsense like that (Unlike Symantec Visual Cafe 3...)
RB
Waterfront property in Florida? Hmm... like the whole state isn't one big waterfront property...
RB
Not being a serious Win32 programmer, I thought it had functions for creating a gui and components? If so, then PetrOS might have it already.
RB
Why are /.ers so protective of copyright violators? Copyright is the only protection free software authors have. Musicians have just as much right as programmers to determine what happens with their creations.
And let's get this straight: framing someone else's content is piracy, just as surely as copying it onto your hard drive.
What if I say Hey, I think this site is cool and you need to check it out. and they have ASCAP protected music. Why in the hell should I be forced to pay ASCAP because I linked to a site that just happened to have music? Hmm?
As for the framing issue, maybe, maybe not. A lot of times it is completely obvoius that it comes from another site. If it isn't obvious, then at least a note should be made that it is a 3rd party site. Personally, I launch new windows when linking. Keeps my site open and their site.
This was an exerpt from an actual letter JP Wrote! And a comment about it.
Hardly flamebait. Unless the moderator is JP.
It is a tactic used by people/corporations to pump themselves or their products up and slam or destroy the competition's stuff.
Examples
Fear - "Our proprietary system is the most secure on the market. Why would you want to use a security system that is open source? I mean, it can be reverse engineered!"
Here, Proprietary != Secure spreads fear about their systems integrity.
Uncertainty - "XXX is the wave of the future. YYY is the old way of doing things. Why would you use a system that will be obsolete in a few years?"
Who knows if it will be obsolete? I don't have a crystal ball. Neither do they.
Doubt - Create doubt about your competitors and the above two are also created.
These three things are intertwined tighter than anything else. You cannot have one without creating another in the process.
RB
Apparently, it is ok for women to be fully nude in movies but show one inch of a man and BAM! X. Unless there is a nature theme or Jungle element...
While I don't mind that Women are nude in movies, I think they should treat nudity the same with both genders.
I saw an interview where Matt and Trey were talking about how they had made some really nasty songs up just to parody Disney movies. You know those disney movies that break into some inane song at random times? Well, SP does it too but with a more, how shall we say, "lower" level.
:)
I can't wait to see it
And now let's see Divx's "Features"
Hmm...
I have played with W2k and I actually like it. It is rock stable on my machine and it *has not crashed yet*. That is with 3 weeks of hard pounding on the machine with Photoshop and Mingw32. I wouldn't mind having open source NT. Many things can be created from the concepts that have in it. Including improvements to Linux.
RB
When you have a lot of voting shares in a company, your feelings suddenly become important. Granted, DiamondMM doesn't care WTF I feel, but when myself and a few thousand others express similar opinions, they tend to take notice.
RB
Use Coupon visaclick399 and your final price is 6.94 :)
:)
Use with any DVD they have
SP
To prevent the massive copying of materials coming out of the asian market, the DVD consortium divided the world up into regions. Studios then have the option to encode their disc to a certain region. Most do, some don't (IE: Studios like this...}
Region 1 - The U.S., U.S. territories and Canada
Region 2 - Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland
Region 3 - Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong
Region 4 - Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean
Region 5 - Russia, Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia
Region 6 - China
Mods are already out for standalone players. DVD-ROMS have SW out to defeat it.
RB
It is the direct comparsion CC made to the public when they were pushing Divx. They didn't compare it to VHS, but to DVD.
But, lets compare it to VHS...
I can take a rental VHS to any VCR I want and it will play. BBV doesn't know where or when I play it. ALL they know is that I rented it. (I use to work for them).
As for the movie for life comment, CC was also pushing that you could make any movie "silver" and it would play for life! Whoops, guess not.
The format itself, isn't all bad. But the way CC promoted and marketed the whole thing just stank to high hell.
RB