is there a list somewhere of all the various changes that MS insisted on? I've heard people say that MS made bungie change the game to suit the typical console gamer (with a lower attention span) but I haven't ever seen any concrete evidence of that.
Several extra billion dollars a year makes for a happy Boing and Lockheed, the real winners.
on the other hand, if Bush said "we will spare no expense to save hubble and pay for it by cancel any projects involving Lockheed and Boeing" we would have a slashdot thread about how Bush is responsible for layoffs in the aerospace industry.
So I guess he's damned if he does and damned if he don't.
So, why exactly was it that NASA wanted to scrap the Hubble?
Because thanks to adaptive optics, it is now possible to get very close to hubble's resolution with Earth-based telescopes. Thus, it is much, much cheaper to use those ground-based scopes.
Because we don't have a really huge budget for this sort of thing, and all the money that goes into Hubble could be used on a newer, better space based scope.
In my copy of Microsoft Word 2002, this is turned off by default and you have to turn it on.
Are you sure? I edit memos and such in OpenOffice all the time. They start out as.docs (because I use someone else's memo as a starting point) but I save them in OO's native format.sxw. I've never seen a word document that was under 100K and most of the ones I find are in excess of 300K. I add some text here and delete some text there and they always end up being under 30K in.sxw format.
So, I'm getting a 10 fold savings in space somehow. I don't know what all is in a.doc but it must be a whole hell of a lot of something. If I were you, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that there's no extra data in there.
Instead of removing economic restrictions to promote free trade, the EU is now creating new political and social restrictions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was never it's original intent, right?
Oh, that was the original intent alright, just not the *stated* intent.
I still get a chuckle though when I think back just a year or two ago whenever stories about encryption or the DMCA would run on slashdot. Invariably, citizens of the EU would post about how glad they were that they don't live in the US. How's that air of superiority working out for you guys?
You seem to suggest that the virus is mutating due to errors it picks up as it is copied from one computer to another. Sorry buddy, it doesn't work that way.
except for the pesky little fact that if NASA (or anybody) actually did find life somewhere the public would be demanding a manned mission and their budget would skyrocket.
So, you are suggesting that NASA doesn't want more money??
The two mars rovers probably have a better chance of success than the (possibly) failed Beagle 2. Let's consider why:
please don't forget though, space and mars are dangerous places. It is possible for a mission to fail even though nothing went wrong with the probe. A lot of people seem to suggest that beagle failed because it was cheap. I'm not sure that's correct.
Well, the original article is in Hebrew. Right? So maybe something was lost in translation. Maybe "When you crack a code, it gives you an amazing feeling" started out in Hebrew as "smashing a variable stack by overflowing an input buffer on an exposed port and injecting arbitrary code thereby gaining remote root access on the machine really gives you an amazing feeling."
Simple scientific method-approach to a problem. A Problem exists. If you cannot logically derive the solution beforehand, you try Solution A. If, given adequate time, Solution A fails to solve the problem, you move on to Solution B.
hey you know what, I make the exact same argument for school vouchers and nobody every listens to me! I'm glad you and I agree!
I'm not talking about centrally socializing the entire grid or something.
sounds good to me. I would just hope that if we did this we would start with a subsection of the country rather than trying to do the whole thing at once.
Would the power grid be better managed if the government were in charge of it though? I'm not sure it would be. I think we'd have all the same problems we have now, plus others including most likely longer delays due to outages. Do you really think a government employee would work all through the night to restore your power? ha!
And on top of those problems, every time we the people demand an upgrade the government would happily raise our taxes by twice whatever the upgrade would cost and then take twice as long as the evil corporations to actually implement the upgrade.
Finally, when there is a big blackout like what happened in new england, what are you going to do about it? Are you really going to vote for the other political party? I think not. Corporations are amoral. Everyone knows that. But at least they have the threat of lawsuits hanging over their head. The power companies stand to lose a lot of money because of this blackout. I think that's a pretty good incentive to make upgrades where they are cost-effective. The government has no such incentive. If the government was in charge they'd let things fall apart and then after a big blackout they'd blame the other party and say "we must raise taxes on the wealthiest american's to upgrade our power grid"
Yeah, I really don't think government involvement is going to improve the situation. Maybe I'm off-base but that's my opinion.
You're point seems to be that most people don't use their work email addresses to post to usenet. That's all you had to say, you fucking asshole. See, I use my work email to post all the time. I guess it's because I don't work for hitler, as you apparently do. So that's why I didn't get what you were saying.
All you have to do is explain yourself. There's no need to resort to pitiful, barely literate, child-like attempts to flame me. In spite of what you may have been told on AOL, flaming a total stranger (without cause I might add) does not in any way increase the apparent size of your tiny shriveled cock. Ok?
If you had read the first sentence of his post you would know the reason for him having never posted before:
I was made aware of this posting by an e-mail that was sent to Belkin's tech support e-mail box. Since I am a product manager for Belkin's LAN products and was very involved with the development of the Parental Control feature, I feel that I can shed some light on this subject.
Sorry. I'm not following you. People who get email don't use newsgroups? Product manager's don't use newsgroups? What exactly are you trying to say?
I wonder how many intelligent races in other galaxies have looked at our humble home and said "yep, there's a great example of a collision between a large galaxy and a small galaxy" I wonder how many times we've been featured on the cover of some alien's version of a popular astronomy magazine.
We'll never know of course but it's interesting to think about. Recently the Hubble Heritage project published a particularly good image of M104. Take a look at that picture. You can't even see individual stars - there are so many of them. Imagine some other race looking at an image like this one, but an image of the Milky Way. They couldn't even see our sun, let alone this microscopic spec of dust that orbits it. I think it would seem pretty silly to them that we slit each other's throats fighting over real estate they can't even see, when there'd obviously be plenty for everyone if we'd just work together. I don't mean to be sappy even though that clearly was. It's just that sometimes astronomy really puts things into perspective.
scientists currently believe the universe to be around 14 billion years old. Things which are too far away for us to see, even if we had an infinitely powerful telescope, are said to lie beyond the light horizon.
As to your question about relative speed, remember that you will always measure the speed of light as 3 * 10^8 or 3E+8 meters per second no matter what. So, if a galaxy was heading away from me very quickly, and I could measure the speed of photons from stars in that galaxy as they passed by, I would find that they are going the 3E+8 m/s. If you and I are in spaceships traveling away from each other at close to the speed of light I shine a flashlight at you, you will measure the speed of the photos and find they are going 3E8 m/s. C is a constant. It does not depend on relative motion.
Instead of apearing slower, the light would be redshifted.
Um, true the president can't declare war without an act of congress,
I wasn't clear enough on this point. The President of the US cannot fight a war like the one Iraq without the support of Congress. Even now, if Congress cut off the money the effort would grind to a halt in 24 hours. My point is that, effective or not, there are checks and balances when a democracy fights. No such checks exist when a totalitarian regime goes to war. For that reason alone, a democracy is always less dangerous to world peace.
he has NO problem murdering thousands of non-american civilians
Do you really believe that? Because I don't see any point in talking to you if this is the kind of rhetoric you're going to throw around. If what you say is true why did we spend so much extra money on precision guided munitions? It would have been so much cheaper to carpet bomb Baghdad. Why was the war conducted the way it was if not to minimize civilian casualties?
Bush is a greater threat to world peace and civilian life than Saddam Hussain, Osama bin Laden, or the entire country of France.
Why is such research done? It's so that we'll understand how these things work. Should we wait until somebody releases a virus like this in a city and then say "wow, we've never seen anything like this before - we have absolutely no clue how it's making people sick." Or would you rather have them come forward and say "ya, we've actually seen this before - don't bother administering anti-viral medication, instead take this other medication."
Don't over react people. We aren't weaponizing this stuff. This is just the biological equivalent of bug traq.
A couple of people have tried to draw a comparison between the US doing this research and another country, say pre-war Iraq. It's amazing to me that anyone could be so stupid as to not see the difference. If Iraq has WMDs then Saddam holds all that power himself. He can kill on a whim. The president of the US cannot go to war without the support of congress and the American people. Congress funds the military and if they withhold the money there'll be no more fuel for the tanks and no more bullets for the guns. If Saddam decided to attack Iran, well that's it. Iraq attacks Iran. If Bush wakes up one morning and decides to invade Canada, he'd be impeached and run out of Washington. If you disagree with the war on Iraq (and you are an American) then you'll have your chance to vote Bush out in less than one year. If you didn't like Saddam you'd best keep your mouth shut - he'd drop you into a chipper shredder. I just can't believe that someone can't see the difference.
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is there a list somewhere of all the various changes that MS insisted on? I've heard people say that MS made bungie change the game to suit the typical console gamer (with a lower attention span) but I haven't ever seen any concrete evidence of that.
Several extra billion dollars a year makes for a happy Boing and Lockheed, the real winners.
on the other hand, if Bush said "we will spare no expense to save hubble and pay for it by cancel any projects involving Lockheed and Boeing" we would have a slashdot thread about how Bush is responsible for layoffs in the aerospace industry.
So I guess he's damned if he does and damned if he don't.
So, why exactly was it that NASA wanted to scrap the Hubble?
Because thanks to adaptive optics, it is now possible to get very close to hubble's resolution with Earth-based telescopes. Thus, it is much, much cheaper to use those ground-based scopes.
Because we don't have a really huge budget for this sort of thing, and all the money that goes into Hubble could be used on a newer, better space based scope.
In my copy of Microsoft Word 2002, this is turned off by default and you have to turn it on.
.docs (because I use someone else's memo as a starting point) but I save them in OO's native format .sxw. I've never seen a word document that was under 100K and most of the ones I find are in excess of 300K. I add some text here and delete some text there and they always end up being under 30K in .sxw format.
.doc but it must be a whole hell of a lot of something. If I were you, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that there's no extra data in there.
Are you sure? I edit memos and such in OpenOffice all the time. They start out as
So, I'm getting a 10 fold savings in space somehow. I don't know what all is in a
Instead of removing economic restrictions to promote free trade, the EU is now creating new political and social restrictions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was never it's original intent, right?
Oh, that was the original intent alright, just not the *stated* intent.
I still get a chuckle though when I think back just a year or two ago whenever stories about encryption or the DMCA would run on slashdot. Invariably, citizens of the EU would post about how glad they were that they don't live in the US. How's that air of superiority working out for you guys?
launches are not usually covered. I don't remember hearing anything when Cassini was launched or when Opportunity and Spirit were launched.
But you can be sure that when a mission produces some results, it will be covered.
You seem to suggest that the virus is mutating due to errors it picks up as it is copied from one computer to another. Sorry buddy, it doesn't work that way.
A human being wrote this thing.
That's why conservatives HATE college profs. They teach people to think independently.
Are you fucking kidding me?? College professors insist that everyone think pollitically correct thoughts. It's practically Orwellian.
except for the pesky little fact that if NASA (or anybody) actually did find life somewhere the public would be demanding a manned mission and their budget would skyrocket.
So, you are suggesting that NASA doesn't want more money??
The two mars rovers probably have a better chance of success than the (possibly) failed Beagle 2. Let's consider why:
please don't forget though, space and mars are dangerous places. It is possible for a mission to fail even though nothing went wrong with the probe. A lot of people seem to suggest that beagle failed because it was cheap. I'm not sure that's correct.
Well, the original article is in Hebrew. Right? So maybe something was lost in translation. Maybe "When you crack a code, it gives you an amazing feeling" started out in Hebrew as "smashing a variable stack by overflowing an input buffer on an exposed port and injecting arbitrary code thereby gaining remote root access on the machine really gives you an amazing feeling."
Or not.
Simple scientific method-approach to a problem. A Problem exists. If you cannot logically derive the solution beforehand, you try Solution A. If, given adequate time, Solution A fails to solve the problem, you move on to Solution B.
hey you know what, I make the exact same argument for school vouchers and nobody every listens to me! I'm glad you and I agree!
I'm not talking about centrally socializing the entire grid or something.
sounds good to me. I would just hope that if we did this we would start with a subsection of the country rather than trying to do the whole thing at once.
Would the power grid be better managed if the government were in charge of it though? I'm not sure it would be. I think we'd have all the same problems we have now, plus others including most likely longer delays due to outages. Do you really think a government employee would work all through the night to restore your power? ha!
And on top of those problems, every time we the people demand an upgrade the government would happily raise our taxes by twice whatever the upgrade would cost and then take twice as long as the evil corporations to actually implement the upgrade.
Finally, when there is a big blackout like what happened in new england, what are you going to do about it? Are you really going to vote for the other political party? I think not. Corporations are amoral. Everyone knows that. But at least they have the threat of lawsuits hanging over their head. The power companies stand to lose a lot of money because of this blackout. I think that's a pretty good incentive to make upgrades where they are cost-effective. The government has no such incentive. If the government was in charge they'd let things fall apart and then after a big blackout they'd blame the other party and say "we must raise taxes on the wealthiest american's to upgrade our power grid"
Yeah, I really don't think government involvement is going to improve the situation. Maybe I'm off-base but that's my opinion.
please don't feed the trolls.
you have really great people skills.
You're point seems to be that most people don't use their work email addresses to post to usenet. That's all you had to say, you fucking asshole. See, I use my work email to post all the time. I guess it's because I don't work for hitler, as you apparently do. So that's why I didn't get what you were saying.
All you have to do is explain yourself. There's no need to resort to pitiful, barely literate, child-like attempts to flame me. In spite of what you may have been told on AOL, flaming a total stranger (without cause I might add) does not in any way increase the apparent size of your tiny shriveled cock. Ok?
If you had read the first sentence of his post you would know the reason for him having never posted before:
I was made aware of this posting by an e-mail that was sent to Belkin's tech support e-mail box. Since I am a product manager for Belkin's LAN products and was very involved with the development of the Parental Control feature, I feel that I can shed some light on this subject.
Sorry. I'm not following you. People who get email don't use newsgroups? Product manager's don't use newsgroups? What exactly are you trying to say?
isn't it a little odd though that this is the only usenet post he's ever made?
I wonder how many intelligent races in other galaxies have looked at our humble home and said "yep, there's a great example of a collision between a large galaxy and a small galaxy" I wonder how many times we've been featured on the cover of some alien's version of a popular astronomy magazine.
We'll never know of course but it's interesting to think about. Recently the Hubble Heritage project published a particularly good image of M104. Take a look at that picture. You can't even see individual stars - there are so many of them. Imagine some other race looking at an image like this one, but an image of the Milky Way. They couldn't even see our sun, let alone this microscopic spec of dust that orbits it. I think it would seem pretty silly to them that we slit each other's throats fighting over real estate they can't even see, when there'd obviously be plenty for everyone if we'd just work together. I don't mean to be sappy even though that clearly was. It's just that sometimes astronomy really puts things into perspective.
scientists currently believe the universe to be around 14 billion years old. Things which are too far away for us to see, even if we had an infinitely powerful telescope, are said to lie beyond the light horizon.
As to your question about relative speed, remember that you will always measure the speed of light as 3 * 10^8 or 3E+8 meters per second no matter what. So, if a galaxy was heading away from me very quickly, and I could measure the speed of photons from stars in that galaxy as they passed by, I would find that they are going the 3E+8 m/s. If you and I are in spaceships traveling away from each other at close to the speed of light I shine a flashlight at you, you will measure the speed of the photos and find they are going 3E8 m/s. C is a constant. It does not depend on relative motion.
Instead of apearing slower, the light would be redshifted.
what do you care if spammer A pays spammer B for hits that never actually occured? If you never see the email or the site, it's not a big deal.
Um, true the president can't declare war without an act of congress,
I wasn't clear enough on this point. The President of the US cannot fight a war like the one Iraq without the support of Congress. Even now, if Congress cut off the money the effort would grind to a halt in 24 hours. My point is that, effective or not, there are checks and balances when a democracy fights. No such checks exist when a totalitarian regime goes to war. For that reason alone, a democracy is always less dangerous to world peace.
he has NO problem murdering thousands of non-american civilians
Do you really believe that? Because I don't see any point in talking to you if this is the kind of rhetoric you're going to throw around. If what you say is true why did we spend so much extra money on precision guided munitions? It would have been so much cheaper to carpet bomb Baghdad. Why was the war conducted the way it was if not to minimize civilian casualties?
Bush is a greater threat to world peace and civilian life than Saddam Hussain, Osama bin Laden, or the entire country of France.
wow. I mean, that's all I can say. Wow.
Why is such research done? It's so that we'll understand how these things work. Should we wait until somebody releases a virus like this in a city and then say "wow, we've never seen anything like this before - we have absolutely no clue how it's making people sick." Or would you rather have them come forward and say "ya, we've actually seen this before - don't bother administering anti-viral medication, instead take this other medication."
Don't over react people. We aren't weaponizing this stuff. This is just the biological equivalent of bug traq.
A couple of people have tried to draw a comparison between the US doing this research and another country, say pre-war Iraq. It's amazing to me that anyone could be so stupid as to not see the difference. If Iraq has WMDs then Saddam holds all that power himself. He can kill on a whim. The president of the US cannot go to war without the support of congress and the American people. Congress funds the military and if they withhold the money there'll be no more fuel for the tanks and no more bullets for the guns. If Saddam decided to attack Iran, well that's it. Iraq attacks Iran. If Bush wakes up one morning and decides to invade Canada, he'd be impeached and run out of Washington. If you disagree with the war on Iraq (and you are an American) then you'll have your chance to vote Bush out in less than one year. If you didn't like Saddam you'd best keep your mouth shut - he'd drop you into a chipper shredder. I just can't believe that someone can't see the difference.
Can you clarify what data rights are?
yeah yeah. I'm not a conspiracy buff. I think CNN is just stupid. They report what they think will make you mad, not necessarily the truth.
Why hasn't the major media picked up on this? This could be the biggest scandal in US history.