Yeah, those admins piss me off, arrogant bastards who think they're gods because they can fix the computers they set up wrong in the first place. Hey losers, if all I had to show from three years of higher education was being able to press control alt delete, I wouldn't be so fucking smug.
No, keep everything on the main page. If you don't like them turn them off in your preferences.
I for one like to read the articles in one big list, rather than having to dive through dozens of sections to find what I'm after. If you want to see what that's like look at Kuro5hin, there's no linear way of reading all the articles, you have to go through each section individually, and it's a fucking pain in the arse.
As for this review, he could at least have included some better screenshots, I couldn't tell what was going on in those tiny blurry things.
No, they do it because they're fortuanate enough to have the opportunity. There are millions of people who would take their place no questions asked, so don't make it look like they're some sort of heroes, they're just lucky.
As for the cash, well I'd be surprised if the shuttles couldn't fly themselves so it's not like the pilots are vital. It might be an idea for the next generation of reusable space-ships to have no cockpit, just an optional habitation module for the odd occasion when manned space-flight is needed. It makes no sense sending up seven astronauts, with all the tonnes of weight needed to support them, for simple missions which could be automated.
That 7km/second is in orbit, so it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't go anywhere near that fast in the lower atmosphere, the acceleration is less than some cars.
The liquid fuel is a problem for the shuttle designers. Other space-ships don't have such terrible problems with things flying off and breaking panels and what not.
Orbit is overrated. If you want to simulate space travel, climb into your wheely bin and have someone nail the roof closed. Remember to bring a bag to shit in, a bottle to piss in, and a tube of toothpaste filled with crushed vitamin tablets to eat from.
Not much use: it filters out the UV light, so you can't even get a tan. You may as well just open the curtains and let light in that way. Unless they can come up with fibre-optics that let all the light through, not just the popular frequencies.
I don't know if you have children. But I would ensure that, upon my passing, they would: -have enough money to ensure that they do not live in want of anything -have enough money to donate to charities or to support ideas of their own choosing -have enough cash flow to maintain the estates I will leave them
In other words you want to raise another Paris Hilton? Not for me thanks, if I have kids I want them to be decent human beings who earn their own way in life, not spoilt brats living on trust funds, living the high life without having earnt it. It's the 21st century now, not Medieval Feudalism. I come from a country where people even inherit power, never mind estates.
I'm all in favour of a 100% inheritance tax over a certain amount, say 100k. And throw the Royal family out on the street.
As for your friends and family, they'll soon lose interest in you once the gravy train dries up.
Cheap, reliable, reusable space-crafts. As in, spaceships which don't need complicated launch pads, but can take off from a runway or something similarly simple and cheap. They need low fuel requirements, and they need to be automated to an extent so they don't require a team of highly-trained astronauts in them.
They need room for passengers, not giant cargo bays with a tiny tin can at the front for the people. They need to be reliable enough so they don't blow up or get delayed by weeks every time they get hit by a spec of dust.
And there needs to be a lack of regulations or government interference. The space age will take off when companies can get on with it rather than having to burrow through mountains of paperwork/insurance/laws just to take off.
For the few of you here who still actually care about factual information, the dark side of the Moon refers to the side away from Earth, not the parts that aren't lit.
Wow, 512MB across the board... Just like the computer I bought years ago for a fraction of hte price of a Mac Mini. Excuse me if I'm not impressed by marketing and hype, but actually want a computer that's value for money. And I don't even have a modem to get on the Internet? What great value.
Maybe Apple might get some more marketshare and increase their profits if they came into the real world for once.
Nah, anyone of those losers who read Harry Potter will have read it seventeen times by now. Well, the ones who paid full price on release day for it, not the ones who'll wait 2 weeks to get it for 50p in the bargain bin.
If you want to lay blame, don't lay it on the people who are doing their damn best to make it happen. Write letters to your congresscritters and to the president explaining why it's important to you and asking them to more properly fund new initiatives.
I'm not blaming the actually workers; as in every workplace, the problems are the fault of the management. I don't have a congressman I'm not American. My country's space programme consists of a small probe that crashed on Mars.
I'm sure all the engineers and scientists and all the other nerds are good at their jobs, but I think that NASA itself isn't all that well run. I don't count $17 billion a year as a small budget. Sending up inefficient shuttles with unnecessary crew isn't the best idea in the world.
Oh wait. This is the country that only cares about the latest celebrity scandal and the next Harry Potter book.
Well, I hate Harry Potter as much as the next man, but that's not really relevant. Maybe if sci-fi writers actually wrote decent books people might be more interested in space travel. Most sci-fi is written by people who can't really write, but like space-ships/time-travel etc., as a result the books are dry, lifeless and miserable to read.
The majority of UK homes are now able to receive FREEVIEW
Not all then? So can someone please tell the BBC to give back the licence money to those of us who can't get proper digital reception. I see no reason why we should be subsidising other people. And they can stop the adverts telling us all to watch digital TV. How about instead they spend the money on actually improving coverage?
I can actually get reception, it's just not very good (i.e. unwatchable). And my TV isn't digital so I have to use one of those ghastly boxes. And the best thing about digital: when there's a drop in signal quality, instead of just going a bit fuzzy, the whole thing freezes. Genius.
Where abouts are you? (I'm in Greater London)
Of course, the whole world revolves around London, according to Londoners at least. And the BBC. Who cares if the rest of the country have shitty coverage, as long as London's OK.
Perhaps instead of talking about the low costs of these boxes, those patronising adverts should include the costs of having your aerial surveyed/adjusted/replaced.
(hint: most of them aren't described as 'set-top' - on top of your TV is likely to be rather warm).
Then where am I supposed to put it? I live in a very small room, with barely enough room for the TV.
I'm in the UK. I don't even have proper digital reception, and those settop boxes are garbage. Overpriced, slow unusable interface, crap remote control. I don't know why it can't just work with your normal control. Teletext doesn't even work.
How is not catering to pirates shooting themselves in the foot? If anything, it's shooting the thieves in the foot. If you want updates, buy a proper copy, surely all you geek types on those massive salaries can afford a copy of Windows?
In that case, how come they managed to get to the Moon in 1969, yet thirty-six years later we can't even go there again.
Where is all this 'hard work'? Development of launch vehicles is non-existent. We've still got rusting old shuttles which get delayed by a week by trivial problems. We still can't get into space without giant rockets and fuel-tanks costing millions and millions of dollars with a several-percent chance of explosion, which just burn up in the atmosphere.
We tried to experiment with solar sails but couldn't even get them into space. So much for progress! Thirty years ago they would have just sent the solar sail up no questions asked, not launched it into oblivion via some old cheap submarine ICBM.
Space exploration is going BACKWARDS. The shuttle solves no problems and creates many. It can't even go up without a heavy, useless crew module and a crew. Even for missions which don't need a crew.
Wake me up in 50 years when we're actually going to have a proper go at space travel rather than just beaurocracy and waste.
Are you sure about that? Even objects in proper orbit eventually fall down due to atmospheric resistance. I imagine that a fuel-tank in a very low orbit, with no engines to keep it up, would fall back down very quickly. The ISS falls 100m a day due to resistance, over a year that's 36.5km. And as the ISS is at 360km, that means it would fall down in ten years at the current rate. That's not counting the fact that the resistance would increase as it fell, so it probably wouldn't even last a couple of years. Shuttles have been launched for over two decades, so there's no way a non-propelled fuel tank that wasn't even put into proper orbit would last very long at all.
And if there are 114 tanks in orbit, what's to stop them crashing into space stations and space ships? Imagine that the shuttle was taking off, then a big orange fuel tank came crashing into it at 10,000mph.
To be fair, that's counting people who didn't vote. They actually got 35% of the votes. Still excessively low for a party which now effectively has complete control over the country.
Again, seems perfectly reasonable. Taking off shoes doesn't impede their raid in any way, yet it respects their religion instead of giving them more reason to resent the authorities. Trampling all over their religion is something the yanks would do; let's not follow in their misguided footsteps and become as hated as they are.
I wonder if I started a religion with a building in which everyone had to be naked, and the police can in to arrest someone, they'd all strip off first. I doubt it, seems a cult is only respected if it's large and powerful.
The current licensing laws are a disgrace and are discriminatory. The pubs have to shut at 11pm. I often finish work at 11pm. Why should I not be allowed to have a drink after work?
Oh right I forgot, these laws are written by middle-class people who work 9-5 and don't know anything about the real world because they're all lawyers are career politicians who haven't done a day's work in their lives.
Yeah, because we all have podcasts and ipods in our car... Radio is superior as you can just turn it on and it works. You don't have to spend hundreds of pounds on a lump of white plastic, and then spend weeks downloading MP3s of dubious legality.
And good luck getting sport or news on your Ipod. I mean recent news, not from 12 hours ago.
Radio is also non-interactive, just turn it on and get about what you're doing, you don't have to spend ages configuring it and putting things on it to listen to later. And it doesn't 'run out' (i.e. when you've listened to everything on your ipod).
What's maplin? I tried getting TV tuners but have had no success. I got one, didn't work because it needed Windows XP. I got another, it worked, but not on Linux, just on Windows 98, and the picture was awful, all jerky, and the software was a waste of time. I can't find anywhere that sells proper TV cards.
As for the multiplexes, which channels are on which multiplexes? All the information I can find about digital TV is 99% hype.
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Yeah, those admins piss me off, arrogant bastards who think they're gods because they can fix the computers they set up wrong in the first place. Hey losers, if all I had to show from three years of higher education was being able to press control alt delete, I wouldn't be so fucking smug.
No, keep everything on the main page. If you don't like them turn them off in your preferences.
I for one like to read the articles in one big list, rather than having to dive through dozens of sections to find what I'm after. If you want to see what that's like look at Kuro5hin, there's no linear way of reading all the articles, you have to go through each section individually, and it's a fucking pain in the arse.
As for this review, he could at least have included some better screenshots, I couldn't tell what was going on in those tiny blurry things.
No, they do it because they're fortuanate enough to have the opportunity. There are millions of people who would take their place no questions asked, so don't make it look like they're some sort of heroes, they're just lucky.
As for the cash, well I'd be surprised if the shuttles couldn't fly themselves so it's not like the pilots are vital. It might be an idea for the next generation of reusable space-ships to have no cockpit, just an optional habitation module for the odd occasion when manned space-flight is needed. It makes no sense sending up seven astronauts, with all the tonnes of weight needed to support them, for simple missions which could be automated.
That 7km/second is in orbit, so it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't go anywhere near that fast in the lower atmosphere, the acceleration is less than some cars.
The liquid fuel is a problem for the shuttle designers. Other space-ships don't have such terrible problems with things flying off and breaking panels and what not.
Orbit is overrated. If you want to simulate space travel, climb into your wheely bin and have someone nail the roof closed. Remember to bring a bag to shit in, a bottle to piss in, and a tube of toothpaste filled with crushed vitamin tablets to eat from.
Not much use: it filters out the UV light, so you can't even get a tan. You may as well just open the curtains and let light in that way. Unless they can come up with fibre-optics that let all the light through, not just the popular frequencies.
I don't know if you have children. But I would ensure that, upon my passing, they would: -have enough money to ensure that they do not live in want of anything -have enough money to donate to charities or to support ideas of their own choosing -have enough cash flow to maintain the estates I will leave them
In other words you want to raise another Paris Hilton? Not for me thanks, if I have kids I want them to be decent human beings who earn their own way in life, not spoilt brats living on trust funds, living the high life without having earnt it. It's the 21st century now, not Medieval Feudalism. I come from a country where people even inherit power, never mind estates.
I'm all in favour of a 100% inheritance tax over a certain amount, say 100k. And throw the Royal family out on the street.
As for your friends and family, they'll soon lose interest in you once the gravy train dries up.
Cheap, reliable, reusable space-crafts. As in, spaceships which don't need complicated launch pads, but can take off from a runway or something similarly simple and cheap. They need low fuel requirements, and they need to be automated to an extent so they don't require a team of highly-trained astronauts in them.
They need room for passengers, not giant cargo bays with a tiny tin can at the front for the people. They need to be reliable enough so they don't blow up or get delayed by weeks every time they get hit by a spec of dust.
And there needs to be a lack of regulations or government interference. The space age will take off when companies can get on with it rather than having to burrow through mountains of paperwork/insurance/laws just to take off.
Why would she leave money for 'heirs'? And friends/family who expect people you to buy things for them need dropping anyway.
$8 million is still enough to retire on easily.
Only on Slashdot can someone post the same outright LIE TWICE within two minutes and get modded up both times.
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For the few of you here who still actually care about factual information, the dark side of the Moon refers to the side away from Earth, not the parts that aren't lit.
I say all organized sports should be taken out of schools... there's enough money in those they could be privatized and still thrive.
Yeah, that's just the thing to stop America's spiralling obesity crisis...
Wow, 512MB across the board... Just like the computer I bought years ago for a fraction of hte price of a Mac Mini. Excuse me if I'm not impressed by marketing and hype, but actually want a computer that's value for money. And I don't even have a modem to get on the Internet? What great value.
Maybe Apple might get some more marketshare and increase their profits if they came into the real world for once.
Great, as soon as I get a 100MB connection I might try that. Even the people with good connections using the stream complained about it being shit.
Nah, anyone of those losers who read Harry Potter will have read it seventeen times by now. Well, the ones who paid full price on release day for it, not the ones who'll wait 2 weeks to get it for 50p in the bargain bin.
If you want to lay blame, don't lay it on the people who are doing their damn best to make it happen. Write letters to your congresscritters and to the president explaining why it's important to you and asking them to more properly fund new initiatives.
I'm not blaming the actually workers; as in every workplace, the problems are the fault of the management. I don't have a congressman I'm not American. My country's space programme consists of a small probe that crashed on Mars.
I'm sure all the engineers and scientists and all the other nerds are good at their jobs, but I think that NASA itself isn't all that well run. I don't count $17 billion a year as a small budget. Sending up inefficient shuttles with unnecessary crew isn't the best idea in the world.
Oh wait. This is the country that only cares about the latest celebrity scandal and the next Harry Potter book.
Well, I hate Harry Potter as much as the next man, but that's not really relevant. Maybe if sci-fi writers actually wrote decent books people might be more interested in space travel. Most sci-fi is written by people who can't really write, but like space-ships/time-travel etc., as a result the books are dry, lifeless and miserable to read.
The majority of UK homes are now able to receive FREEVIEW
Not all then? So can someone please tell the BBC to give back the licence money to those of us who can't get proper digital reception. I see no reason why we should be subsidising other people. And they can stop the adverts telling us all to watch digital TV. How about instead they spend the money on actually improving coverage?
I can actually get reception, it's just not very good (i.e. unwatchable). And my TV isn't digital so I have to use one of those ghastly boxes. And the best thing about digital: when there's a drop in signal quality, instead of just going a bit fuzzy, the whole thing freezes. Genius.
Where abouts are you? (I'm in Greater London)
Of course, the whole world revolves around London, according to Londoners at least. And the BBC. Who cares if the rest of the country have shitty coverage, as long as London's OK.
Perhaps instead of talking about the low costs of these boxes, those patronising adverts should include the costs of having your aerial surveyed/adjusted/replaced.
(hint: most of them aren't described as 'set-top' - on top of your TV is likely to be rather warm).
Then where am I supposed to put it? I live in a very small room, with barely enough room for the TV.
I'm in the UK. I don't even have proper digital reception, and those settop boxes are garbage. Overpriced, slow unusable interface, crap remote control. I don't know why it can't just work with your normal control. Teletext doesn't even work.
How is not catering to pirates shooting themselves in the foot? If anything, it's shooting the thieves in the foot. If you want updates, buy a proper copy, surely all you geek types on those massive salaries can afford a copy of Windows?
In that case, how come they managed to get to the Moon in 1969, yet thirty-six years later we can't even go there again.
Where is all this 'hard work'? Development of launch vehicles is non-existent. We've still got rusting old shuttles which get delayed by a week by trivial problems. We still can't get into space without giant rockets and fuel-tanks costing millions and millions of dollars with a several-percent chance of explosion, which just burn up in the atmosphere.
We tried to experiment with solar sails but couldn't even get them into space. So much for progress! Thirty years ago they would have just sent the solar sail up no questions asked, not launched it into oblivion via some old cheap submarine ICBM.
Space exploration is going BACKWARDS. The shuttle solves no problems and creates many. It can't even go up without a heavy, useless crew module and a crew. Even for missions which don't need a crew.
Wake me up in 50 years when we're actually going to have a proper go at space travel rather than just beaurocracy and waste.
Are you sure about that? Even objects in proper orbit eventually fall down due to atmospheric resistance. I imagine that a fuel-tank in a very low orbit, with no engines to keep it up, would fall back down very quickly. The ISS falls 100m a day due to resistance, over a year that's 36.5km. And as the ISS is at 360km, that means it would fall down in ten years at the current rate. That's not counting the fact that the resistance would increase as it fell, so it probably wouldn't even last a couple of years. Shuttles have been launched for over two decades, so there's no way a non-propelled fuel tank that wasn't even put into proper orbit would last very long at all.
And if there are 114 tanks in orbit, what's to stop them crashing into space stations and space ships? Imagine that the shuttle was taking off, then a big orange fuel tank came crashing into it at 10,000mph.
At least you yanks got to watch it on TV! I had to read about on teletext. It's not quite the same somehow.
To be fair, that's counting people who didn't vote. They actually got 35% of the votes. Still excessively low for a party which now effectively has complete control over the country.
Again, seems perfectly reasonable. Taking off shoes doesn't impede their raid in any way, yet it respects their religion instead of giving them more reason to resent the authorities. Trampling all over their religion is something the yanks would do; let's not follow in their misguided footsteps and become as hated as they are.
I wonder if I started a religion with a building in which everyone had to be naked, and the police can in to arrest someone, they'd all strip off first. I doubt it, seems a cult is only respected if it's large and powerful.
The current licensing laws are a disgrace and are discriminatory. The pubs have to shut at 11pm. I often finish work at 11pm. Why should I not be allowed to have a drink after work?
Oh right I forgot, these laws are written by middle-class people who work 9-5 and don't know anything about the real world because they're all lawyers are career politicians who haven't done a day's work in their lives.
Yeah, because we all have podcasts and ipods in our car... Radio is superior as you can just turn it on and it works. You don't have to spend hundreds of pounds on a lump of white plastic, and then spend weeks downloading MP3s of dubious legality.
And good luck getting sport or news on your Ipod. I mean recent news, not from 12 hours ago.
Radio is also non-interactive, just turn it on and get about what you're doing, you don't have to spend ages configuring it and putting things on it to listen to later. And it doesn't 'run out' (i.e. when you've listened to everything on your ipod).
What's maplin? I tried getting TV tuners but have had no success. I got one, didn't work because it needed Windows XP. I got another, it worked, but not on Linux, just on Windows 98, and the picture was awful, all jerky, and the software was a waste of time. I can't find anywhere that sells proper TV cards.
As for the multiplexes, which channels are on which multiplexes? All the information I can find about digital TV is 99% hype.