Neil Armstrong was both a humble man and a great pioneer. I can't help to ask if this is something that he would want. Yet I am proud that they at least picked a ship that would be used for exploration and not some destroyer or cruiser.
And we could cut down the cost of manned space travel too if we just strip out all of the safety precautions that cost so much. I mean, we don't need to pressurize the capsule with a nitrogen/oxygen mix to keep the salty sea air out of the capsule, we should just use pressurized oxygen, it's much cheaper. And we don't need to worry about tiles peeling off of the bottom of our vehicle, let's just use super glue to attach them. And do we really need five computers on the Space shuttle when a single one would work just fine. We could just reboot it if something goes wrong. And really, should we worry if it gets too cold out and an O-Ring expands and punctures a hole in the external tank?
Really, we have lots a people who want to go up into space, who cares if we lose a couple.
I don't frankly care if something is 0.68 inches or 0.71 inches thick. Nor wether it has 1400 resolution which I won't be using anyway. What I do care about is an optical drive, plenty of USB slots and an ethernet port so I don't have to rely on shit Wifi reception when in an office or at home and can use a high speed cable instead.
Oh , but it doesn't have that.
Ultrabooks in general and Mac laptops specifically are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
Mod me down apple fanboys, I care not and I have karma to burn.
It's like this. My MBA has a 128 GB disk, I don't care to actually do any heavy lifting with it. I just want a laptop that takes a couple seconds to boot and only a second or two more to reboot. I have a Lenovo W520 for my heavy lifting from MCAD to Gaming. My MBA is for IRC, Rosetta, Browsing, MS Office, light multimedia work, playing videos when I am bored, at the most, some Minecraft. I don't use it for transferring GB of data unless I am syncing up my iPod and usually I do that from another machine. I might keep a couple videos on there, but I have an external hard drive for most of that. I don't care to pull down something high quality only to push it away.
My W520 has a slightly higher resolution which I use since I work with MCAD on it. If I create work instructions on the MBA, having the 1400x900 screen is handy.
Honestly though, my MBA has battery life to burn, slides into my laptop bag taking up very little extra room so I can actually put both the Lenovo and that laptop together. I have had my MBA long before Ultrabooks hit the market.
The sales guys who bring in demos on their ultrabooks are running well before someone with a full fledged laptop. They are quick and nimble as they need to be. Vanity may be the case, but when you need a laptop with good resolution, quick response time for lighter tasks, an ultrabook or a Macbook Air is going to be your better bet. Are they for everyone? Definitely not, but are they for people like me trying to do more than a couple of light tasks quickly and not wanting to hunt down where to plug in first thing when I get on site.
I know this sounds bad, but if I get time, I go to class, it's a physical workout and if you have a good academy, you get to bludgeon someone in a controlled environment. I know many of these places are filled with little kids, but I work out in one that has adults as well and while this is not a fight club, there are a few people that I spare with that leave their fair share of bruises as I enjoy leaving a fair share as well.
I started back to Martial arts 5 years ago, quit this summer, almost burnt out at work, went back to Martial Arts, and feel ready to handle my job again.
It's a requirement I personally think. Either that or get a punching bag. That works too.
My problem is with the awards side of this matter, but then again maybe this is why films like "Howard's End" were popular for a while. The lack of budget made up for the techno-junk that currently resides on the screen and many people felt the picture was much more authentic of a portrayal.
Acting is acting, but when you have to add to it, you take away from the craft.
Dell doesn't just sell PCs though, they have moved into a broader industry for the same reason IBM is getting out of PCs.
Profits are slim in PC manufacturing, so get your Dell Jukebox, or Dell Axim, or Dell Plasma TV.
Dell caters to a much broader audience in their PCs than IBM does. How many IBM PCs that you know of that can play the latest PC games? How many Tablet PCs has IBM made? How many Media Center PCs has IBM made?
Tell me if you see a pattern. If it isn't strictly for the business man, IBM doesn't care to touch it.
One of the reasons why I have strayed from IBM workstations and IBM desktops is the fact that they just simply aren't remote enough to reach me here in BFE, a local vendor does a far better job of support.
Don't think for a second that I would give up my AS/400, err.. iSeries, err.. i5.
I am in total agreement, also keep in mind the director has a short but impressive resume with "Momento"
Even though this will probably lead to the eventual type-casting of Christian Bale, I think that with his previous performances including "American Psycho" and "Equilibrium," he is an excellent choice to dawn the cape of batman.
Besides, everyone knows that even though George Clooney was a terrible Batman, the real fault with the franchise was the director and his half-cocked illusions of what the batman franchise should be. i.e. Batman was never to have a since of humor among other things such as a whiny Robin.
The only real fail points happen to be, the producer, the writer, and the chemistry between such big name actors. By big name actors, I also include Katie Holmes, because even though not as established, for her age, she does have quite the reputation building.
If I remember correctly, Cloaking devices did happen to exist in Kirk's time, so why not before.
And if I remember the romulan episode correctly, they barely formalized contact.
Keep in mind how many times we seem to get history wrong with our own research.
The only thing that really pissed me off was the introduction of the Ferengi this early. How can you explain that they managed to duck the Federation or anything else beforehand for 200 years, expecially if you consider the fact that the whole point of Enterprise and other federation ships is to explore.
I wondered why they decided to clean house on Sales reps a while back.
Truth is, when you get a company as large as IBM, Microsoft, or GM, communication gets to be really shitty.
I work at a company of 600 employees and the communcations breakdown between the President and Vice President is rediculous. Their desks are 10 feet from each other atleast 16 hours out of the week, yet they never seem to talk.
By charging the bike up at home,you are only transfering the location of which the poluting chemical reaction takes place.
Now, if the bike was charged up like a hybrid car, charging the battery as the bike was being pedalled, or such, this technology would be wonderous. But there is the matter of having to create the bike itself, or atleast the battery, which isn't so good for the environment.
If you already have IBM Lotus Products, and run Websphere, and haven't yet spend the dough on your Office contract, this would be the route to go. I am sure that email would be integrated, on a per user basis, your looking at $72 dollars every three years. As opposed to what with Microsoft, $350 if you buy OEM of volume license. If you use the software already, go for it. If not, evaluate, but don't spend too much time, any TCO you might have will probably be devoured.
My curiousity would be, what kind of system do you have to have to run this. Probably a big ole iSeries box. Guess it's time to roll the ole 810 into another lease agreement and get a bigger box.
I know, so they say today. I'm just saying invariably 9/10 times "web based" applications do NOT function 100% correctly on alternate platforms. IBM is no different and whore Windows just as much as the next guy.
Perhaps you haven't been reading the news in the past four years, but IBM has been sinking billions into Linux. Note that they are trying to put Linux in every facet of their company, reselling linux and trying to cut deals with the vendors to push them as a service company such as IBM is.
Three years ago, Lotus Domino R5 iNotes would only work with Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, When Lotus 6.0 came out, Mozilla compatability was a must.
IBM may still be Microsoft's whore, but IBM is getting Amazonian to the MS Pimp. If you talk to any of the IBM business partners, they are slowly kicking Microsoft out their offices too. My IBM business partner just flat out dropped Microsoft Office for OpenOffice.org.
I am not going to say that IBM will never shrug Microsoft, because that won't happen. IBM will do their best to please both camps, and cut out MS when the customers ask them to. As the community speaks, IBM tries to adapt and listen. Recently they have been doing pretty good at it.
For over a decade now the software industry has always put out figures that say they lost X millions of dollars due to piracy, but they do that by counting every pirated copy as a lost sale, which is of course complete fiction.
And to think, there's probably rapists, murderers etc... Who would maybe have been caught had the resources for this been diverted to real crimes instead of pissant cracking groups. So nice to see that the streets are now safe from some software pirates, while shits like Ken Lay and weasels from the likes of Enron and other completely corrupt boards who defraud tens of thousands of people continue to go free. Nice to see the priorities are right here...
Funny how the same logic is used by both parties yet still remains equally invalid. Some sales could have been made if the pirated copies were not available, and some violent criminals may have been jailed instead of some high end pirate.
Then again, lawyers would probably suck any profit or gain out of both scenarios.
Yes, Piracy is bad. Yes, money is lost. But then again, why does hollywood bother to make such a big deal out of lost money, if they continue to shove shows down our throat about the lush lives of celebrities. They don't look to be hurting. The movie execs sure seem to have quite a bit of money to play around with. Why don't they spare some out of their pocket to pay for the set workers instead of spending it on a comercial to educate the general populous as to where a very minute percentage of the money could go.
Sure pirates drain cashflow from the system. Too bad that system has already been sucked dry by the studio heads and their legal army of pirate hunting lawyers.
Nice, I was proud about getting over a terabyte, Right now I sit at 1.5 across two machines, 940 on one. I intend to expand, but foundation work on the house comes first
I had a high school coach by the name of Thomas Dolph. We alway call him "Jack" under our breath. But the better one had to be his son that he named "Ronnie B Dolph."
A person went to my High School by the name Dickie Parshall. What was worse was that he was the third generation in his family to have that name. He Grandpa was called, "Big Dick." His dad was called "Little Dick." Lastly, he was called "Baby Dick." For all of those who thought they had a mental complex brought on by their parents.
Well, not all OO people have enough to do, but when it comes to OO, I would be glad to add some spice to the document. I have already written some other fallacies with the document in question in another post on this thread
I found serveral items about the document invalid or humorusly ironic.
First thing was ofcourse they decided to post the document in their own website as a pdf, when they are trying to compete against adobe in that market. Apparently some one at redmond decided that Adobe just did the job better.
Second, I love how it denoted many of OOo's weak points as benefits. "No Sales Force" What a terrible thing. No one selling the product, just word of mouth about the product to pitch it from person to person. Which goes to show how scared MS is, because who remembers seeing a Microsoft Office Commercial on network television before 2003?
Third, Questioning the free arguement was a good laugh. Installation and deployment, can probably be done as easily with a third party tool such as Red Carpet. And if some one can't install a program as easy as OOo, probably shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer. Not only that, but OOo, takes up less space than Microsoft Office. My last OpenOffice.org install only took one quarter of the install space.
Database Migration - Happens alot, and if someone is using Access as a database for critical company data, they deserve to go bankrupt. I used access as a database for an application, the number once complaint about it was... IT WAS SLOW!!!! Besides, OOo can connect to several databases and pull data from them, it can even connect to Excel Spreadsheets as datasources. MS Office can do that too, woo hoo, but Microsoft Office can't connect to MySQL.
OOo doesn't support Macros? Actually it does, but it fails to support older macros for Office 4. The same macros that Microsoft has been trying to get away from for years because they were very key in the development of "Macro Viruses." OpenOffice can and will use some Macros, but it has it's own formula language that is becoming very useful.
User Support - The Mailing list has been very good to me. It's not that hard to find and it is a great resource for tips as well. Just don't key a search on the word "help." Also, Sun is offering paid support for OOo.
"Additionally OpenOffice does not have a mail client, and may incur a licensing cost in aquiring an email application" Well, yes, but I use Lotus Notes 6.5, which manages to put even the Office 2003 email client to shame. If I didn't manage to already get charged for an email client that I didn't want in an office suite, and didn't use a real email application such as Lotus Notes, I would probably go for Eudora, or Evolution on Linux, or Mozilla Thunderbird. Point is, Microsoft's email applications suck and I don't want them in my workplace.
At this point I am too pissed off to type anymore, I am going to work and start on that paper that propose it to the rest of the OOo community and find a place to post it.
Sorry to clue you guys in, but Russia has been using the Soyuz capsules ever since the days when we used the Shuttle, that's right, they are over thirty years old and relatively unchanged. One major problem with the systems that they use is the fact that don't exactly have the best track record either. Look up logs for Soyuz missions and see just how many ended in tragedy. The difference being that they only would lose three cosmonauts at a time, where the US has a bad tendency to lose a shuttle that is fully loaded. That would be seven astronauts for all of you who want to do the math. I am not exactly optimistic about Russia building our next space vehicle. Nor am I excited about Russia being the only method back and forth to the current space station. I say blow the cobwebs out of a couple of Saturn 1Bs and readapt our docking docking module and use it to ferry back and forth.
The whole idea for Energiya of a reusable space capsule is not new. It was infact noted in National geographic in 1986. Look it up, use the term "Buran" for some help. Buran is almost 20 years old, and is just now getting to slashdot, this is a surprise. One of the fascinating things about the project is that the Americans wanted to use it to get pieces of the ISS into space. Funny how that didn't really happen though.
Hopefully Battlestar Galactica will take off and give Enterprise a run for its money, but this probably won't happen in time for Enterprise.
I think the writers just simply lost the ability to intrigue the audience. I think the cast is great, and more accomplised than DS9 or Voyager. I would like to see some advancement though, additional ships, or outposts. Something other than the same old same old. A little difficult to do with their current plot situation. But perhaps they can move on past that and have some fun again.
After all, they are the ones holding society back, ADHD students tend to be the geniouses of the class. Just lack of respect and consideration by teachers is generally the reason for their failings.
I personally find the education system to be the failing as well as bad parenting. I was never the Mr. Popular, nor now looking back at high school, did I ever really want to be. Sure it would have been fun at times, but I worked past that and enjoy my life better now. Parents think a kid has to be socially active. Guess what, by feeding this kid pills you are hendering the child's natural ability to develop, and there for setting the child back when the child has to have the pills stopped.
I am not against neral feedback training though, anything to advance the child rates ok by me. I wish I could understand the world around me better sometimes, but I then get back to work on the project I need to and forget about all of those meanial things
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Energia was actually able to lift a heavier payload. Still, Saturn V was no doubt the most capable rocket the US has ever had.
Apple just emailed me to say my iPad mini order was processed. All because you're a tard. Thank you and good night.
Neil Armstrong was both a humble man and a great pioneer. I can't help to ask if this is something that he would want. Yet I am proud that they at least picked a ship that would be used for exploration and not some destroyer or cruiser.
And we could cut down the cost of manned space travel too if we just strip out all of the safety precautions that cost so much. I mean, we don't need to pressurize the capsule with a nitrogen/oxygen mix to keep the salty sea air out of the capsule, we should just use pressurized oxygen, it's much cheaper. And we don't need to worry about tiles peeling off of the bottom of our vehicle, let's just use super glue to attach them. And do we really need five computers on the Space shuttle when a single one would work just fine. We could just reboot it if something goes wrong. And really, should we worry if it gets too cold out and an O-Ring expands and punctures a hole in the external tank? Really, we have lots a people who want to go up into space, who cares if we lose a couple.
I don't frankly care if something is 0.68 inches or 0.71 inches thick. Nor wether it has 1400 resolution which I won't be using anyway. What I do care about is an optical drive, plenty of USB slots and an ethernet port so I don't have to rely on shit Wifi reception when in an office or at home and can use a high speed cable instead.
Oh , but it doesn't have that.
Ultrabooks in general and Mac laptops specifically are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
Mod me down apple fanboys, I care not and I have karma to burn.
It's like this. My MBA has a 128 GB disk, I don't care to actually do any heavy lifting with it. I just want a laptop that takes a couple seconds to boot and only a second or two more to reboot. I have a Lenovo W520 for my heavy lifting from MCAD to Gaming. My MBA is for IRC, Rosetta, Browsing, MS Office, light multimedia work, playing videos when I am bored, at the most, some Minecraft. I don't use it for transferring GB of data unless I am syncing up my iPod and usually I do that from another machine. I might keep a couple videos on there, but I have an external hard drive for most of that. I don't care to pull down something high quality only to push it away. My W520 has a slightly higher resolution which I use since I work with MCAD on it. If I create work instructions on the MBA, having the 1400x900 screen is handy. Honestly though, my MBA has battery life to burn, slides into my laptop bag taking up very little extra room so I can actually put both the Lenovo and that laptop together. I have had my MBA long before Ultrabooks hit the market. The sales guys who bring in demos on their ultrabooks are running well before someone with a full fledged laptop. They are quick and nimble as they need to be. Vanity may be the case, but when you need a laptop with good resolution, quick response time for lighter tasks, an ultrabook or a Macbook Air is going to be your better bet. Are they for everyone? Definitely not, but are they for people like me trying to do more than a couple of light tasks quickly and not wanting to hunt down where to plug in first thing when I get on site.
Well I said it anyway, but that's what happens when you forget to log in.
I know this sounds bad, but if I get time, I go to class, it's a physical workout and if you have a good academy, you get to bludgeon someone in a controlled environment. I know many of these places are filled with little kids, but I work out in one that has adults as well and while this is not a fight club, there are a few people that I spare with that leave their fair share of bruises as I enjoy leaving a fair share as well. I started back to Martial arts 5 years ago, quit this summer, almost burnt out at work, went back to Martial Arts, and feel ready to handle my job again. It's a requirement I personally think. Either that or get a punching bag. That works too.
My problem is with the awards side of this matter, but then again maybe this is why films like "Howard's End" were popular for a while. The lack of budget made up for the techno-junk that currently resides on the screen and many people felt the picture was much more authentic of a portrayal. Acting is acting, but when you have to add to it, you take away from the craft.
Dell doesn't just sell PCs though, they have moved into a broader industry for the same reason IBM is getting out of PCs.
Profits are slim in PC manufacturing, so get your Dell Jukebox, or Dell Axim, or Dell Plasma TV.
Dell caters to a much broader audience in their PCs than IBM does. How many IBM PCs that you know of that can play the latest PC games? How many Tablet PCs has IBM made? How many Media Center PCs has IBM made?
Tell me if you see a pattern. If it isn't strictly for the business man, IBM doesn't care to touch it.
One of the reasons why I have strayed from IBM workstations and IBM desktops is the fact that they just simply aren't remote enough to reach me here in BFE, a local vendor does a far better job of support.
Don't think for a second that I would give up my AS/400, err.. iSeries, err.. i5.
I am in total agreement, also keep in mind the director has a short but impressive resume with "Momento"
Even though this will probably lead to the eventual type-casting of Christian Bale, I think that with his previous performances including "American Psycho" and "Equilibrium," he is an excellent choice to dawn the cape of batman.
Besides, everyone knows that even though George Clooney was a terrible Batman, the real fault with the franchise was the director and his half-cocked illusions of what the batman franchise should be.
i.e. Batman was never to have a since of humor among other things such as a whiny Robin.
The only real fail points happen to be, the producer, the writer, and the chemistry between such big name actors. By big name actors, I also include Katie Holmes, because even though not as established, for her age, she does have quite the reputation building.
If I remember correctly, Cloaking devices did happen to exist in Kirk's time, so why not before.
And if I remember the romulan episode correctly, they barely formalized contact.
Keep in mind how many times we seem to get history wrong with our own research.
The only thing that really pissed me off was the introduction of the Ferengi this early. How can you explain that they managed to duck the Federation or anything else beforehand for 200 years, expecially if you consider the fact that the whole point of Enterprise and other federation ships is to explore.
I wondered why they decided to clean house on Sales reps a while back.
Truth is, when you get a company as large as IBM, Microsoft, or GM, communication gets to be really shitty.
I work at a company of 600 employees and the communcations breakdown between the President and Vice President is rediculous. Their desks are 10 feet from each other atleast 16 hours out of the week, yet they never seem to talk.
By charging the bike up at home,you are only transfering the location of which the poluting chemical reaction takes place.
Now, if the bike was charged up like a hybrid car, charging the battery as the bike was being pedalled, or such, this technology would be wonderous. But there is the matter of having to create the bike itself, or atleast the battery, which isn't so good for the environment.
If you already have IBM Lotus Products, and run Websphere, and haven't yet spend the dough on your Office contract, this would be the route to go. I am sure that email would be integrated, on a per user basis, your looking at $72 dollars every three years. As opposed to what with Microsoft, $350 if you buy OEM of volume license. If you use the software already, go for it. If not, evaluate, but don't spend too much time, any TCO you might have will probably be devoured.
My curiousity would be, what kind of system do you have to have to run this. Probably a big ole iSeries box. Guess it's time to roll the ole 810 into another lease agreement and get a bigger box.
I know, so they say today. I'm just saying invariably 9/10 times "web based" applications do NOT function 100% correctly on alternate platforms. IBM is no different and whore Windows just as much as the next guy.
Perhaps you haven't been reading the news in the past four years, but IBM has been sinking billions into Linux. Note that they are trying to put Linux in every facet of their company, reselling linux and trying to cut deals with the vendors to push them as a service company such as IBM is.
Three years ago, Lotus Domino R5 iNotes would only work with Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, When Lotus 6.0 came out, Mozilla compatability was a must.
IBM may still be Microsoft's whore, but IBM is getting Amazonian to the MS Pimp. If you talk to any of the IBM business partners, they are slowly kicking Microsoft out their offices too. My IBM business partner just flat out dropped Microsoft Office for OpenOffice.org.
I am not going to say that IBM will never shrug Microsoft, because that won't happen. IBM will do their best to please both camps, and cut out MS when the customers ask them to. As the community speaks, IBM tries to adapt and listen. Recently they have been doing pretty good at it.
I have the 8x drive, pretty sweet if you ask me, just wish I had the power to plug it into my system
For over a decade now the software industry has always put out figures that say they lost X millions of dollars due to piracy, but they do that by counting every pirated copy as a lost sale, which is of course complete fiction.
And to think, there's probably rapists, murderers etc... Who would maybe have been caught had the resources for this been diverted to real crimes instead of pissant cracking groups. So nice to see that the streets are now safe from some software pirates, while shits like Ken Lay and weasels from the likes of Enron and other completely corrupt boards who defraud tens of thousands of people continue to go free. Nice to see the priorities are right here...
Funny how the same logic is used by both parties yet still remains equally invalid. Some sales could have been made if the pirated copies were not available, and some violent criminals may have been jailed instead of some high end pirate.
Then again, lawyers would probably suck any profit or gain out of both scenarios.
Yes, Piracy is bad. Yes, money is lost. But then again, why does hollywood bother to make such a big deal out of lost money, if they continue to shove shows down our throat about the lush lives of celebrities. They don't look to be hurting. The movie execs sure seem to have quite a bit of money to play around with. Why don't they spare some out of their pocket to pay for the set workers instead of spending it on a comercial to educate the general populous as to where a very minute percentage of the money could go.
Sure pirates drain cashflow from the system. Too bad that system has already been sucked dry by the studio heads and their legal army of pirate hunting lawyers.
Nice, I was proud about getting over a terabyte, Right now I sit at 1.5 across two machines, 940 on one. I intend to expand, but foundation work on the house comes first
I had a high school coach by the name of Thomas Dolph. We alway call him "Jack" under our breath. But the better one had to be his son that he named "Ronnie B Dolph."
A person went to my High School by the name Dickie Parshall. What was worse was that he was the third generation in his family to have that name. He Grandpa was called, "Big Dick." His dad was called "Little Dick." Lastly, he was called "Baby Dick." For all of those who thought they had a mental complex brought on by their parents.
Well, not all OO people have enough to do, but when it comes to OO, I would be glad to add some spice to the document. I have already written some other fallacies with the document in question in another post on this thread
I found serveral items about the document invalid or humorusly ironic.
First thing was ofcourse they decided to post the document in their own website as a pdf, when they are trying to compete against adobe in that market. Apparently some one at redmond decided that Adobe just did the job better.
Second, I love how it denoted many of OOo's weak points as benefits. "No Sales Force" What a terrible thing. No one selling the product, just word of mouth about the product to pitch it from person to person. Which goes to show how scared MS is, because who remembers seeing a Microsoft Office Commercial on network television before 2003?
Third, Questioning the free arguement was a good laugh. Installation and deployment, can probably be done as easily with a third party tool such as Red Carpet. And if some one can't install a program as easy as OOo, probably shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer. Not only that, but OOo, takes up less space than Microsoft Office. My last OpenOffice.org install only took one quarter of the install space.
Database Migration - Happens alot, and if someone is using Access as a database for critical company data, they deserve to go bankrupt. I used access as a database for an application, the number once complaint about it was... IT WAS SLOW!!!! Besides, OOo can connect to several databases and pull data from them, it can even connect to Excel Spreadsheets as datasources. MS Office can do that too, woo hoo, but Microsoft Office can't connect to MySQL.
OOo doesn't support Macros? Actually it does, but it fails to support older macros for Office 4. The same macros that Microsoft has been trying to get away from for years because they were very key in the development of "Macro Viruses." OpenOffice can and will use some Macros, but it has it's own formula language that is becoming very useful.
User Support - The Mailing list has been very good to me. It's not that hard to find and it is a great resource for tips as well. Just don't key a search on the word "help." Also, Sun is offering paid support for OOo.
"Additionally OpenOffice does not have a mail client, and may incur a licensing cost in aquiring an email application" Well, yes, but I use Lotus Notes 6.5, which manages to put even the Office 2003 email client to shame. If I didn't manage to already get charged for an email client that I didn't want in an office suite, and didn't use a real email application such as Lotus Notes, I would probably go for Eudora, or Evolution on Linux, or Mozilla Thunderbird. Point is, Microsoft's email applications suck and I don't want them in my workplace.
At this point I am too pissed off to type anymore, I am going to work and start on that paper that propose it to the rest of the OOo community and find a place to post it.
Sorry to clue you guys in, but Russia has been using the Soyuz capsules ever since the days when we used the Shuttle, that's right, they are over thirty years old and relatively unchanged. One major problem with the systems that they use is the fact that don't exactly have the best track record either. Look up logs for Soyuz missions and see just how many ended in tragedy. The difference being that they only would lose three cosmonauts at a time, where the US has a bad tendency to lose a shuttle that is fully loaded. That would be seven astronauts for all of you who want to do the math. I am not exactly optimistic about Russia building our next space vehicle. Nor am I excited about Russia being the only method back and forth to the current space station. I say blow the cobwebs out of a couple of Saturn 1Bs and readapt our docking docking module and use it to ferry back and forth.
The whole idea for Energiya of a reusable space capsule is not new. It was infact noted in National geographic in 1986. Look it up, use the term "Buran" for some help. Buran is almost 20 years old, and is just now getting to slashdot, this is a surprise. One of the fascinating things about the project is that the Americans wanted to use it to get pieces of the ISS into space. Funny how that didn't really happen though.
I think you hit the point
Hopefully Battlestar Galactica will take off and give Enterprise a run for its money, but this probably won't happen in time for Enterprise.
I think the writers just simply lost the ability to intrigue the audience. I think the cast is great, and more accomplised than DS9 or Voyager. I would like to see some advancement though, additional ships, or outposts. Something other than the same old same old. A little difficult to do with their current plot situation. But perhaps they can move on past that and have some fun again.
After all, they are the ones holding society back, ADHD students tend to be the geniouses of the class. Just lack of respect and consideration by teachers is generally the reason for their failings.
I personally find the education system to be the failing as well as bad parenting. I was never the Mr. Popular, nor now looking back at high school, did I ever really want to be. Sure it would have been fun at times, but I worked past that and enjoy my life better now. Parents think a kid has to be socially active. Guess what, by feeding this kid pills you are hendering the child's natural ability to develop, and there for setting the child back when the child has to have the pills stopped.
I am not against neral feedback training though, anything to advance the child rates ok by me. I wish I could understand the world around me better sometimes, but I then get back to work on the project I need to and forget about all of those meanial things