Yes, the current pace is slow. It took one nation and a vision to get from earth to moon in 10 years.
Think of what we could accomplish if we pool together all of our resources and sets a firm goal of spreading humanity to another planet within X years. Not because of a space race, but because our long term survival.
"Maybe there was a civiliation considerably more advanced than us, but whose to say they didn't destroy themselves by electing leaders who entered into wars over natural resources?"
Not to forget, did they get wiped out by a cosmic event before they could establish a second foothold on a different planetary body ? In our case, I think we should be more concerned with the slow pace in space exploration, not because that North Korea might launch a nuke, but a asteroid might be heading our way.
The founders want to buy back Skype since their latest endeavor failed ( http://www.joost.com/ ) to catch on. This was first reported in April ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10217611-94.html ) , its possible that negations havnt gone the way the founder want and now pulls this trick.
Sure, SpaceX is behind the schedule with the Falcon 9 and recently lost a customer ( http://spacefellowship.com/2009/07/13/spacex-lost-falcon-9-customer/ ). But if we look on the bright side, what SpaceX have accomplished so far, took two superpowers and a brewing cold war last time, for example the Merlin engine is the first new engine designed in the US since the 60's , they have launched Falcon 1 successfully recently ( http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20090715 ) and pushes forward with the Dragon spacecraft ( http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php ). I think all this speaks volume about private space flight and the very important role that X-Prize and such plays.
"What's next, these morons will buy a PS3 and then complain to the EFF that Halo 3 doesn't work on their new console?"
Not the same thing at all.
This is about hackers wanting to build their own software for a device they bought and own as I understand it
And a company that at all cost wants to protect its eco system of products, because having third party software that you cant control/disable/make money of, is a bad thing in Cupertino....
Right now we need to vote for this "one issue" party in the upcoming EU election to get the message trough to the established parties for the upcoming national election.
I do not believe in these kind of parties normally, but this circus have gone to far.
The media industry wankers need to realize that they have a under served customer base, and you cant have the goverment help you fix that.
You know what will happen when they managed to take down the "big guys" , they will go after moms, dads, elderly and dead people.
bias or not, I think its interesting that he, possible the only judge in Sweden that is a member of both these organizations got to be the judge in this case.
"Now the trouble comes when you can't think of any new features, so you put in the paperclip, and then you take out the paperclip, and you try to charge people both times"
"This is the best time EVER to be a garage game developer, whether or not you ever intend to make a profit."
I think GP is refering to the fact that its pretty impossible to start a tripple A game studio from scratch today, which was'nt the case 10-15 years ago.
Wonder if they plan to (with the assistance of the carrier) to serve up local ads based on where you are positioned when you make a search or accessing any other Google service.
In metro areas where the phone network is fine grained, the positioning is quite accurate.
Last time I switch mail clients I switched to Opera's built in mail client M2, it imports Eudora and Thunderbird mailboxes flawless (at least for me). I'm using Opera on Windows, so I havnt been able to try it on Mac or Linux. But on Windows I can recomend it for anyone that is looking for an alternative plain mail client to Outlook, Thunderbird etc.
"When you look at the history of Soviet space exploration, you often get the impression that "it builds and fits together, launch it" was more often than not the deciding factor"
"Not by a long shot. Exactly what earth-shattering research are they goning to do? More high school science experiments?"
I agree that not all science done up there might be worth the cost.
But one thing that almost all posters forget is the experience all involved partners get from this, both in cooperating with each other (Which is a good thing considering a mission to a red planet will probably involve several partners, not just one country) and assembling something advance like this in LEO. It has been done before by the Russians and the Americans, but not on this scale.
I'm pretty sure that the station will continue to orbit after 2015, this is just negotiating tactics.
To be fair, at least in Windows, people look at the wrong type of memory usage, they look at the Working set and scream when its 500 MB for an application. The working set is the total allocated memory during the applications life time (if it hasnt been trimed) that includes both in-use and freed memory that the OS (Windows) have let the process keep if it need memory again. Windows starts trimming the working set when its down to about 10 MB (different level on different versions of Windows) of free memory.
Private bytes on the other hand, is a much more useful metric for determin how much memory is in use by the application.
Working set is the figure showing by default in the Task manager.
I dont say that firefox isnt leaking memory, but looking into a default configured task manager wont tell you much about that.
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"Slow pace?"
Yes, the current pace is slow. It took one nation and a vision to get from earth to moon in 10 years.
Think of what we could accomplish if we pool together all of our resources and sets a firm goal of spreading humanity to another planet within X years. Not because of a space race, but because our long term survival.
"Maybe there was a civiliation considerably more advanced than us, but whose to say they didn't destroy themselves by electing leaders who entered into wars over natural resources?"
Not to forget, did they get wiped out by a cosmic event before they could establish a second foothold on a different planetary body ? In our case, I think we should be more concerned with the slow pace in space exploration, not because that North Korea might launch a nuke, but a asteroid might be heading our way.
The founders want to buy back Skype since their latest endeavor failed ( http://www.joost.com/ ) to catch on. This was first reported in April ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10217611-94.html ) , its possible that negations havnt gone the way the founder want and now pulls this trick.
I do not belive SVG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg )has that bright future, the Canvas tag in the HTML 5 specification ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element) ) seems to gain allot more traction these days. SVG may be better from a technical standpoint, but that alone is not enough.
Sure, SpaceX is behind the schedule with the Falcon 9 and recently lost a customer ( http://spacefellowship.com/2009/07/13/spacex-lost-falcon-9-customer/ ). But if we look on the bright side, what SpaceX have accomplished so far, took two superpowers and a brewing cold war last time, for example the Merlin engine is the first new engine designed in the US since the 60's , they have launched Falcon 1 successfully recently ( http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20090715 ) and pushes forward with the Dragon spacecraft ( http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php ). I think all this speaks volume about private space flight and the very important role that X-Prize and such plays.
Below is an article about the buyer of TPB (orginal in Swedish). Judge for yourself, but I do not think this is going anywhere, this is more or less the end for TPB http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http://www.realtid.se/ArticlePages/200906/30/20090630101501_Realtid980/20090630101501_Realtid980.dbp.asp&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=
It has of course nothing to do with what you implying, its all about saving money (yea, stuff like bandwidth etc do cost money)
"an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation"
According to (unconfirmed information) Wikipedia they pulled in 75 million USD during 2007 alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
"What's next, these morons will buy a PS3 and then complain to the EFF that Halo 3 doesn't work on their new console?"
Not the same thing at all.
This is about hackers wanting to build their own software for a device they bought and own as I understand it
And a company that at all cost wants to protect its eco system of products, because having third party software that you cant control/disable/make money of, is a bad thing in Cupertino....
Right now we need to vote for this "one issue" party in the upcoming EU election to get the message trough to the established parties for the upcoming national election.
I do not believe in these kind of parties normally, but this circus have gone to far.
The media industry wankers need to realize that they have a under served customer base, and you cant have the goverment help you fix that.
You know what will happen when they managed to take down the "big guys" , they will go after moms, dads, elderly and dead people.
bias or not, I think its interesting that he, possible the only judge in Sweden that is a member of both these organizations got to be the judge in this case.
Favorite quote:
"Now the trouble comes when you can't think of any new features, so you put in the paperclip, and then you take out the paperclip, and you try to charge people both times"
Its a Thinkpad x61(s) you want.
I just hope they would put it on the X61(s) , that must be the ultimate laptop.
"This is the best time EVER to be a garage game developer, whether or not you ever intend to make a profit."
I think GP is refering to the fact that its pretty impossible to start a tripple A game studio from scratch today, which was'nt the case 10-15 years ago.
I belive that should be SQLite (www.SQLite.org)
Wonder if they plan to (with the assistance of the carrier) to serve up local ads based on where you are positioned when you make a search or accessing any other Google service.
In metro areas where the phone network is fine grained, the positioning is quite accurate.
But the un-manned "version" of Soyuz, Progress, can in its current incarnation lift around 2.5 - 3 tons of supply, both "dry" and "wet".
"Windows server marketing - an area where open source beats Microsoft in terms of quality, TCO, initial price, and performance."
Windows server market grows allot for MS, especially trough their small business server (SBS) offering.
Last time I switch mail clients I switched to Opera's built in mail client M2, it imports Eudora and Thunderbird mailboxes flawless (at least for me). I'm using Opera on Windows, so I havnt been able to try it on Mac or Linux. But on Windows I can recomend it for anyone that is looking for an alternative plain mail client to Outlook, Thunderbird etc.
Very nice, here is another great launch clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmlgN4DRk2Y
Funny, we founded our company 10 years ago today ....
"When you look at the history of Soviet space exploration, you often get the impression that "it builds and fits together, launch it" was more often than not the deciding factor"
Please look again:
http://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Space-Race-Apollo/dp/0813026288
"Not by a long shot. Exactly what earth-shattering research are they goning to do? More high school science experiments?"
I agree that not all science done up there might be worth the cost.
But one thing that almost all posters forget is the experience all involved partners get from this, both in cooperating with each other (Which is a good thing considering a mission to a red planet will probably involve several partners, not just one country) and assembling something advance like this in LEO. It has been done before by the Russians and the Americans, but not on this scale.
I'm pretty sure that the station will continue to orbit after 2015, this is just negotiating tactics.
To be fair, at least in Windows, people look at the wrong type of memory usage, they look at the Working set and scream when its 500 MB for an application. The working set is the total allocated memory during the applications life time (if it hasnt been trimed) that includes both in-use and freed memory that the OS (Windows) have let the process keep if it need memory again. Windows starts trimming the working set when its down to about 10 MB (different level on different versions of Windows) of free memory.
Private bytes on the other hand, is a much more useful metric for determin how much memory is in use by the application.
Working set is the figure showing by default in the Task manager.
I dont say that firefox isnt leaking memory, but looking into a default configured task manager wont tell you much about that.