Well to be honest, no I don't trust them, not at all. Being trustworthy has nothing to do with the main goals of being a company. Raising the stock price is what companies do, that's about it. Fortunately I'm too small of a fish, far, far away form the likes of them. I'm relatively cautious about my internet connection and what I install on my home PC. But I think all of this is beside the point. The parent was simply engaging in a mind game, the same as Ken Thompson was. These can be useful occasionally, it seems you may being irrationally fanatical in your response.
Yeah, He's way too late wanting a true people's democracy in the US. His grand parents sold him out for giant cars with fins, colour TVs and cheap consumer goods made by 3rd world slave labour.
Same here, but mine is running at 250 mhz and it runs BSD. No bluetooth though, and I'm still trying to make 802.11x work. Anyone have 802.11x working in a Qube2?
You've stated more or less my point, I don't have the time or the inclination for your eloquence (or an English spell checker).
I guess simply put: The existence of microwave popcorn makes this proposed upcoming JIMO mission outright painful, I can't even think about Pluto mission. And I'd trade several ISSs for an elevator.
I must be missing something; I did read the links and did not see anything suggesting that a mars launch would be possible without additional propulsion. But this is beside, my original point: Mars was simply the first thing that popped up in my head. While the elevator would be useful, a much more efficient propulsion system would also be useful.
My point was after we develop the elevator we then use it to launch a mission to Mars. What propulsion system does the mission use? Do lift a boatload of chemical fuels or do we get the program and come up with something more efficient.
So next point was that this development need to go on NOW.
You know, I don't use 98 often. But when I need it, I always wound up doing all of these updates. Shame MS doesn't offer a disk with the whole thing on it before they quit support.
Well, if there was a giant telescope out in L5 we probably could, eventually image moons! Which is why I think the current Hubble successor is disappointing at best.
While I to am very interested in elevator technology. Some progress must be made with propulsion technology. I don't think an elevator would be so useful if it spent a majority of its time transporting fuel. And as others have pointed out it is better than spending it on things that orbit the earth and far better than things that go "BOOM". What are you guys doing with a defense budget three times that of the rest of the world put together?
But my expectation is that any money approved by GWB is meant for the militarization of space. Sad isn't it!
Hah! it's 15:16 here and I'm done with work and about to go home. But there is another reason to abondon the Dewey Decimal system! It is copyrighted or trademarked or whatever, anyway it is not free.
I would think browsing could be done via PC anyway, worked OK with me using NetFlix (which I dearly wished existed in Austria)
OK, so this guy is definitely a candidate for some sort of 12 step program (I'm not sure if it's warez or pr0n) but there is a serious question lurking under it all. How do you deal large amounts of back up data if you don't have routine access to a fortune 500 class data center? RAID doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling of safety given the failure rate of IDE drives. SCSI is stupid expensive per gigabyte for the crap he is storing. CD's lack the storage capacity and I've heard anecdotes of failure there. I am not aware of any long term performance data on DVD recordable media (Please do not point me to the manufactures, I don't believe them any more!). And media and file format obsolescence is starting to concern me, as I just went through some of our archives here at work: McBravo!? What ever happened to that app?
So how do you deal with say 50 times 12 gigabyte chunks or 100 times 1 gigabyte chunks of data which is not particularly valuable but would be expensive and time consuming if you had to recreate it.
Good use for RFID. Then the book is never lost as long as it is in the building. And it could be self repairing. If the robot wanders by a book out of place it simply returns the book to the proper place.
Where I work we have a robotic stockroom. Its product density is amazing compared to the one we had where people worked. It takes dramatically less time to actually have a part in you hand, particularly odd parts. And it's really interesting to boot. We stuck a video camera on it the day it opened and got some cool footage. So what does this have to do with libraries? Simple I'd give up lurking about in the stacks to have the actually books take up less room and be easy to find. Now this page turning is a waste. They need to loose the camera and just bring me the book! Also I prefer books to digital for most things. (except long tables of numbers).
Should I be surprised that not many people are wondering why this man had a gun in his car to begin with?
Why do you go to a computer gaming contest (of any sort) with a gun in your car?
How does someone who is obviously not the sort that should have a firearm get a firearm? They get the firearm because the screening processes used when purchasing a firearm in the US are ineffective.
No wonder other people (Non-Gamers) get touchy about computer violence, when people can go out and purchase these things and indulge their late night fantasies.
Or even more damning: aggravating a already dangerous and volatile situation by encouraging this guy to commit murder! Hopefully some police action was taken against all the people involved.
Does violent gaming increase violence? Last week I would have said "I don't know" This week I say "In an already violent culture, like the American culture perhaps it does"
And as far as all of people who say that violent gaming does not promote violence, I suggest that you help prove your words and make sure that you and you friends are still here in the real world and not letting your fantasies go to far, rather than encouraging one an other in violent antisocial fantasies.
Well, I lived there for a while and have seen guns displayed with a threat to kill three times. What does it prove, not much I suppose, probably about as much as your comment.
However to the rest of the world Americans do sort of come off looking like gun waiving maniacs. Perhaps it's just a convenient stereotype that you media constantly reinforces.
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When is this supposed to happen. The electrolux vacuum is tempting though.
yes, I found it much better than popup or banner adds!
Orwell's Pigs became WORSE than original owners!
Well to be honest, no I don't trust them, not at all. Being trustworthy has nothing to do with the main goals of being a company. Raising the stock price is what companies do, that's about it. Fortunately I'm too small of a fish, far, far away form the likes of them. I'm relatively cautious about my internet connection and what I install on my home PC. But I think all of this is beside the point. The parent was simply engaging in a mind game, the same as Ken Thompson was. These can be useful occasionally, it seems you may being irrationally fanatical in your response.
That's just hurtful, how about a Lada just for the engine?
MIT's Handy board is fine for robotics. It is not wireless & doesn't run gcc though.
Yeah, He's way too late wanting a true people's democracy in the US. His grand parents sold him out for giant cars with fins, colour TVs and cheap consumer goods made by 3rd world slave labour.
Same here, but mine is running at 250 mhz and it runs BSD. No bluetooth though, and I'm still trying to make 802.11x work. Anyone have 802.11x working in a Qube2?
My Qube2 is prettier, do wish it had a 4 port 10/100 switch built in though...
I guess simply put: The existence of microwave popcorn makes this proposed upcoming JIMO mission outright painful, I can't even think about Pluto mission. And I'd trade several ISSs for an elevator.
ProComm is far better and smaller. I still use v2.2 on DR.DOS, in fact right now today I using it. Microcom though is just fine.
wonderful what USians do to English, ain't it;)
Nice rant though...
what makes you think that Boise was ever intended to win? This looks to me as an elaborate stock pump-n-dump scheme.
I must be missing something; I did read the links and did not see anything suggesting that a mars launch would be possible without additional propulsion. But this is beside, my original point: Mars was simply the first thing that popped up in my head. While the elevator would be useful, a much more efficient propulsion system would also be useful.
My point was after we develop the elevator we then use it to launch a mission to Mars. What propulsion system does the mission use? Do lift a boatload of chemical fuels or do we get the program and come up with something more efficient.
So next point was that this development need to go on NOW.
You know, I don't use 98 often. But when I need it, I always wound up doing all of these updates. Shame MS doesn't offer a disk with the whole thing on it before they quit support.
Well, if there was a giant telescope out in L5 we probably could, eventually image moons! Which is why I think the current Hubble successor is disappointing at best.
But my expectation is that any money approved by GWB is meant for the militarization of space. Sad isn't it!
It amazes me the level of violence in American culture (and that USians find it acceptable)
Scary!
I would think browsing could be done via PC anyway, worked OK with me using NetFlix (which I dearly wished existed in Austria)
So how do you deal with say 50 times 12 gigabyte chunks or 100 times 1 gigabyte chunks of data which is not particularly valuable but would be expensive and time consuming if you had to recreate it.
Good use for RFID. Then the book is never lost as long as it is in the building. And it could be self repairing. If the robot wanders by a book out of place it simply returns the book to the proper place.
Where I work we have a robotic stockroom. Its product density is amazing compared to the one we had where people worked. It takes dramatically less time to actually have a part in you hand, particularly odd parts. And it's really interesting to boot. We stuck a video camera on it the day it opened and got some cool footage. So what does this have to do with libraries? Simple I'd give up lurking about in the stacks to have the actually books take up less room and be easy to find. Now this page turning is a waste. They need to loose the camera and just bring me the book! Also I prefer books to digital for most things. (except long tables of numbers).
Why do you go to a computer gaming contest (of any sort) with a gun in your car?
How does someone who is obviously not the sort that should have a firearm get a firearm? They get the firearm because the screening processes used when purchasing a firearm in the US are ineffective.
No wonder other people (Non-Gamers) get touchy about computer violence, when people can go out and purchase these things and indulge their late night fantasies.
Or even more damning: aggravating a already dangerous and volatile situation by encouraging this guy to commit murder! Hopefully some police action was taken against all the people involved.
Does violent gaming increase violence? Last week I would have said "I don't know" This week I say "In an already violent culture, like the American culture perhaps it does"
And as far as all of people who say that violent gaming does not promote violence, I suggest that you help prove your words and make sure that you and you friends are still here in the real world and not letting your fantasies go to far, rather than encouraging one an other in violent antisocial fantasies.
However to the rest of the world Americans do sort of come off looking like gun waiving maniacs. Perhaps it's just a convenient stereotype that you media constantly reinforces.