But the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra more or less eliminated my interest in building or buying a telescope of my own. No cold nights. No light pollution. No Setup problems, No searching the night sky for hours to discover I'm an incompetent fool and looking in the wrong place! The faulty optics were repaired. Those big images look great on my 23 inch cinema display. I really hope the JWT is not watered down to the point where it is not that useful. And I'm really enjoying the images from Mars....
Now I want to know when I can go to Mars with my hydrazine powered Maxi-Mog!
Sorry, let me clarify, I did not mean to troll. I knew he was a frog spy because that was on Google (No I don't speak french either). There isn't much on any 1970's era pipeline explosion or a July 1982 soviet pipeline explosion to be found on Google. So this guy's whole article topic is easy to distort because of the lack corroborating evidence. Additionally because I could find somewhat relevant things on Google.at that are missing in his article, I doubt the whole article.
And I was mildly irritated on the whole New York Times thing, isn't Slashdot a NYT partner?
Here in Austria we have the shadows of predator birds on most glass stuff that the goverment puts up. Not on houses or buildings but on highway dividers and bus stops and things like that. I supose it helps, but I really don't know.
What NASA should do is to hire a Taiwanese firm to build inexpensive knock-offs of Sojourner. They already have the design, I'm sure a few bright minds could cut the chassis price down significantly; after all we don't need all the exotic materials. I'm sure IBM still makes a PPC variant that would make a new cheap board layout easy. As far as the OS: of course we don't need VxWorks (Nor could the project afford it) we have NetBSD!
The profits from Slashdot alone could extend the life of HST or launch the James Web Space Telescope early.
I thought about the current rovers, but I think they are a bit large to be successful!
This is something that has puzzled me for quite sometime. NASA could probably have daily one way launches for centuries and never run out of willing volunteers. Sure dying isn't the best way to end your day, but everyone does. The Space Program is probably much safer than the American Highway system (or at least the bits I've been on). Why does everyone get so upset, these astronauts know the risks! And like any one with a sense of adventure they eagerly sign up. I'd ride on the Shuttle today as is without hesitation!
One: There is no such thing as a "Genuinely concerned" corporation; this is against the nature of corporations. Two: This kid's website, as it is, is not worth the unbelievable cost of an education in American schools!
Come on guys! I use Linux at home, hell I even use NetBSD on my QUBE 2, I'm Pro Open Source and Pro Free Software as much as most of the folks here.
But be honest! if this had been Gentoo, SUSE or any other Linux oriented company, giving this kid crap lying around in the marketing department would have been applauded.
What the hell did you expect MS to give him?
Redhat certified engineering courses?
A free G5 Powermac with Steve Jobs' Autograph?
Get real! Finally MS is doing the right thing (TM) and you STILLwhine!
Don't forget that insiders must file a 'selling' plan with the SEC. Then as according to the plan sell off their stock. So in order for this operation (I call it pump-n-dump) to work you first file the plan long before you sue and then keep SCO in the news for years until most your stock is sold. Then it doesn't matter if half the world is selling short. Mutual fund's may sue though... However, in both cases (yours & mine) you must have the oportunity to sell high!!
I Refuse to drive in Italy for this very reason (Well that and the fact that they are insane). What I need is a combo of a hummer + smart with those fibre reinforced plastic body parts! Hungary isn't much better!
I see this as an example of a fundamental problem in the US. On one hand the administration is pro-business to the point of being detrimental to its citizens and foreign policy. At the same time the Government is so slow it can not keep up with the innovation of theses same companies. Come on! How long have we been reading about these sorts of developments?
This presumes that fluorescing to attract predators is an evolutionary advantage in the warm fresh water ecosystem where these fish are originally from. I could be wrong but in many years of fishing I have always done well with brightly colored lures the fish could see.
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Also the space elevator is moving (as the earth turns) so you also get velocity from that...
I call BS. You spend 60% of you time AT WORK (or School). And less than 1% on ANY beach, much less Bora Bora!
Now I want to know when I can go to Mars with my hydrazine powered Maxi-Mog!
And I was mildly irritated on the whole New York Times thing, isn't Slashdot a NYT partner?
This whole thing is not very google "verifyable", so it seems to be the perfect topic to distort as much as wanted!
Only the strong hearted birds live!
We do have shirts for kids: "Austria: We don't have any kangaroos!"
Here in Austria we have the shadows of predator birds on most glass stuff that the goverment puts up. Not on houses or buildings but on highway dividers and bus stops and things like that. I supose it helps, but I really don't know.
The profits from Slashdot alone could extend the life of HST or launch the James Web Space Telescope early.
I thought about the current rovers, but I think they are a bit large to be successful!
It stopped being funny before 100BT was the norm!
you forget the average slashdoter is busy recreating las vegas inside his PC case!
This is something that has puzzled me for quite sometime. NASA could probably have daily one way launches for centuries and never run out of willing volunteers. Sure dying isn't the best way to end your day, but everyone does. The Space Program is probably much safer than the American Highway system (or at least the bits I've been on). Why does everyone get so upset, these astronauts know the risks! And like any one with a sense of adventure they eagerly sign up. I'd ride on the Shuttle today as is without hesitation!
One: There is no such thing as a "Genuinely concerned" corporation; this is against the nature of corporations. Two: This kid's website, as it is, is not worth the unbelievable cost of an education in American schools!
But be honest! if this had been Gentoo, SUSE or any other Linux oriented company, giving this kid crap lying around in the marketing department would have been applauded.
What the hell did you expect MS to give him?
Redhat certified engineering courses? A free G5 Powermac with Steve Jobs' Autograph?Get real! Finally MS is doing the right thing (TM) and you STILLwhine!
Now lets talk about XML patents!
but how can you be sure that it will be spent on Hubble?
A truly offensive thing OSnews recently started doing! Has kept me away...
Well, now that I work in the EU, I'd have to say most of my jobs in the US.
What about tempoary crowds. Like world cup soccer or american football superbowl.
you have an event like this you bring in temporary help.
Boy! A couple of smaller versions of this would be perfect for burning man!
Don't forget that insiders must file a 'selling' plan with the SEC. Then as according to the plan sell off their stock. So in order for this operation (I call it pump-n-dump) to work you first file the plan long before you sue and then keep SCO in the news for years until most your stock is sold. Then it doesn't matter if half the world is selling short. Mutual fund's may sue though... However, in both cases (yours & mine) you must have the oportunity to sell high!!
Given the money the USians spend on other things I agree. To bad another space telescope isn't going to be more of an international effort.
I Refuse to drive in Italy for this very reason (Well that and the fact that they are insane). What I need is a combo of a hummer + smart with those fibre reinforced plastic body parts! Hungary isn't much better!
(i.e. USians)
I see this as an example of a fundamental problem in the US. On one hand the administration is pro-business to the point of being detrimental to its citizens and foreign policy. At the same time the Government is so slow it can not keep up with the innovation of theses same companies. Come on! How long have we been reading about these sorts of developments?
This presumes that fluorescing to attract predators is an evolutionary advantage in the warm fresh water ecosystem where these fish are originally from. I could be wrong but in many years of fishing I have always done well with brightly colored lures the fish could see.