This has nothing to do with what the common citizen is thinking.
This is because of governments such as Germany's opting to mandate open source instead of mandating using the best available package, regardless of what that is*
* = Could be OSS, could be MicroSoft, could be a proprietary UNIX, could be Mac, etc.
who cares if they lose when we give them money? we are still giving them money. they can then go to game makers and say "look how many XBOX's we sold; they are popular" and then there are more games, better games. then people start buying the XBOX because of the cool game titles.
all because you bought a POS box to put linux on it.
NASA is a professional organization that has spent trillions of dollars over the years. They still have problems converting meters to feet. That was only a year or 2 ago. That is truly pathetic.
As for the number of shuttles. 50% are not flight worthy. If Boeing made 737's where only 50% were good, would you fly on one? I would not.
And as far as reliability is concerned, how many of these things actually launch when scheduled? Not often (neither do airlines for that matter). We are supposed to be impressed by the thoroughness of NASA every time they find a problem before launch. I am not impressed. That shows a lack of good design.
If we are to continue wasting money on low earth orbit programs it should be done in a safer way. It should be good enough to be able to be done more than 4 or 5 times a year. Preferably a vehicle that can get it up by itself:) As in no solid rocket boosters and liquid tanks that fall back to earth as some of the most expensive pollution ever. Where is this great advance in science? 30 year old technology that is unreliable, expensive, and barely re-usable is not aceptable.
It is a shame that it takes a 2nd mistake of this magnitude to wake the public up that this is not a good way of doing things.
I made no reference to number of laucnhes. 107 is a relativel low figure...
My reference was to the number of Space Shuttles themselves.
The total number of Space Shuttles that ever left the ground is now six. The first one, Enterprise, could not lift off on its own and was instead launched from the back of a Boeing 747 airplane and then glided to the ground. The other five Space Shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor) have been launched into space. The Challenger exploded just after takeoff on January 28, 1986, but the other four orbiters are still in use.
The public reaction is based on the Shuttle Program itself. Seriuosly outdated hardware that is starting to fall apart at the seams. The program was fine for the 80's but it is 20 years later...
I feel deeply for the families and friends of all of those involved in this horrible tragedy.
It is time that we give up on the Shuttle Program and create/use something better.
We are a planet of one race... I think it is time we start acting like it.
Aside from the battery, it is one rugged little machine. No other complaints whatsoever. It has had linux, win98 and win2000 and run all of them very nicely indeed. Too bad the combo drive is so frickin expensive to buy. The lil 24x cdrom doesn't cut it for me...:-(
I had not heard this. Sadly, none of us has the docking station. Mine is for home use, and the others in the office are just used for business related trips.
Most here in the office were just recently replaced (the battery). For myself, that is a bit cost prohibitive...:-(
The current NV30 cards do have some other disadvantages: They take up two slots, and when the cooling fan fires up they are VERY LOUD. I'm not usually one to care about fan noise, but the NV30 does annoy me.
In response to #2 and #3. WTF are you smoking, and will you share?
Open source has nothing to do with your company having someone in house that can maintain your product/service. For example, MAS 90 is absolutely closed source, yet companies that sell and implement it provide maintenance as well as customized (modular) solutions.
How does something being open source make it more likely to be integrated with other projects easily? A program that is written badly is still bad, whether open of closed source.
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This has nothing to do with what the common citizen is thinking.
This is because of governments such as Germany's opting to mandate open source instead of mandating using the best available package, regardless of what that is*
* = Could be OSS, could be MicroSoft, could be a proprietary UNIX, could be Mac, etc.
This will bring discussion into the mix. A nice place to check for help, any known fixes etc.
;-)
I a not a enlightened OS X user... so some of the comments in this thread have been usefull.
iBook is repairing its permissions right now
Looking at the output, there is a lot of iMovie, iPhoto, and StuffIt permissions that need correcting.
Maybe 3rd party apps are getting in the way as well?
ok....
you all are a bunch of fucking idiots.
giving M$ money is bad.
who cares if they lose when we give them money? we are still giving them money. they can then go to game makers and say "look how many XBOX's we sold; they are popular" and then there are more games, better games. then people start buying the XBOX because of the cool game titles.
all because you bought a POS box to put linux on it.
fucktard.
I bought a GameCube instead. Damn Metroid Prime...
So I won't be giving M$ $200 so they can lose $100. I would rather they lost $300 on me.
So that is why Sony stopped making consoles after they saturated the market with Play Stations (the original)...
;-)
Riiiight...
And it is more like 2-3 yrs
You are suck a frickin moron. How does giving cash to M$ cause them to lose money?
Not giving them cash... now that causes soemthing... that's right, a loss! (materials, labor, transportation etc)
Plus they make a killing for every game. After 8-10 games are sold... they are out of the red and in the black.
Microsoft Windows OS.
Very true.
50% is pretty bad. Not a passing grade in any school even...
Plus this is a program with 20+ years of "experience" at this. With no signs of improvement.
98% is piss poor.
:) As in no solid rocket boosters and liquid tanks that fall back to earth as some of the most expensive pollution ever. Where is this great advance in science? 30 year old technology that is unreliable, expensive, and barely re-usable is not aceptable.
NASA is a professional organization that has spent trillions of dollars over the years. They still have problems converting meters to feet. That was only a year or 2 ago. That is truly pathetic.
As for the number of shuttles. 50% are not flight worthy. If Boeing made 737's where only 50% were good, would you fly on one? I would not.
And as far as reliability is concerned, how many of these things actually launch when scheduled? Not often (neither do airlines for that matter). We are supposed to be impressed by the thoroughness of NASA every time they find a problem before launch. I am not impressed. That shows a lack of good design.
If we are to continue wasting money on low earth orbit programs it should be done in a safer way. It should be good enough to be able to be done more than 4 or 5 times a year. Preferably a vehicle that can get it up by itself
It is a shame that it takes a 2nd mistake of this magnitude to wake the public up that this is not a good way of doing things.
ok.
107 launches.
6 shuttles ever built.
1 retired due to it being not worthy of flight.
2 have blown up.
What is the saying about doing the same thing over and over expecting different results?
Troy Lee has been making a living at it in the USA for some time now.
Check out the helmet of the month section to see what he can really do.
Already in the works by someone else:
MacSkinz
My reference was to the number of Space Shuttles themselves.
Source
Sadly, this information is no longer correct.
For the moderator... this is an acute observation. Not flamebait.
How many shuttles have there been?
How many have exploded?
Obviously don't work very well.
How about spending the money on feeding/clothing/housing thoes in need?
Catastrophic disease research?
The public reaction is based on the Shuttle Program itself. Seriuosly outdated hardware that is starting to fall apart at the seams. The program was fine for the 80's but it is 20 years later...
I feel deeply for the families and friends of all of those involved in this horrible tragedy.
It is time that we give up on the Shuttle Program and create/use something better.
We are a planet of one race... I think it is time we start acting like it.
Unity. Peace. Exploration. Knowledge.
aw geez...
i have to deal with lag again???
Aside from the battery, it is one rugged little machine. No other complaints whatsoever. It has had linux, win98 and win2000 and run all of them very nicely indeed. Too bad the combo drive is so frickin expensive to buy. The lil 24x cdrom doesn't cut it for me... :-(
I had not heard this. Sadly, none of us has the docking station. Mine is for home use, and the others in the office are just used for business related trips.
:-(
Most here in the office were just recently replaced (the battery). For myself, that is a bit cost prohibitive...
Same story here. I have 2 different batteries that last about 30-40 minutes each. This is with Mandrake 9.0 running WindowMaker.
Brand new battery in my co-workers machine (reason I have 2 crappy used batteries) lasts less than 2 hours running win98.
The machine is great, save the batteries.
*sigh*
Strange you did not see this...
The person who made that statement was fired for thinking out loud. Common sense will not be tolerated.
These are both the "new hotness" but with the noise of the nVidia I forsee it becoming "old and busted" quite soon.
Not to mention ATi's next card...
In response to #2 and #3. WTF are you smoking, and will you share?
Open source has nothing to do with your company having someone in house that can maintain your product/service. For example, MAS 90 is absolutely closed source, yet companies that sell and implement it provide maintenance as well as customized (modular) solutions.
How does something being open source make it more likely to be integrated with other projects easily ? A program that is written badly is still bad, whether open of closed source.
Seen here amongst other places.