From the PC standpoint this is very bad. More and more there is less and less reason to upgrade to new and more powerful systems. If there is a smaller upper end to the market then there will be no pressure on mainstream companies to build upper end systems, so we will be in a scramble to commoditize the middle range and low range systems. Nothing new about this news, but it is a powerful long-term trend.
K.S. Robinson's Mars Trilogy tops my list too, especially Red Mars which was the first one. I really felt that Robinson had done his homework and that the Mars that he described was authentic in some sense. As for the characters, I especially liked the way he created a split between people who wanted to develop the planet and those who wanted to keep it the way it was. I think that is going to be an issue in the future.
Yes, if it's clear, just walk outside and look up for about a half-an-hour during the peak time predicted for your location. No matter how bad the viewing conditions, you will still see the bright ones.
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It is going to be difficult to retrofit a CLI to a GUI environment that behaves like a CLI with a GUI built on top of it.
This might be a pre-emptive vaporware strike to help prevent switching.
I believe former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle wanted to name it the American Space Station.
Good article from the StarTribune.
From the PC standpoint this is very bad. More and more there is less and less reason to upgrade to new and more powerful systems. If there is a smaller upper end to the market then there will be no pressure on mainstream companies to build upper end systems, so we will be in a scramble to commoditize the middle range and low range systems. Nothing new about this news, but it is a powerful long-term trend.
Might be good news for Linux however...
Very well done page. Thanks, Dan Glover, etc.
The J-missions have been nearly invisible for the last thirty years and they deserve to be remembered.
It's probably been mentioned already, but Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon is a good general source on all the Apollo missions.
to be just like the Jetson's.
K.S. Robinson's Mars Trilogy tops my list too, especially Red Mars which was the first one. I really felt that Robinson had done his homework and that the Mars that he described was authentic in some sense. As for the characters, I especially liked the way he created a split between people who wanted to develop the planet and those who wanted to keep it the way it was. I think that is going to be an issue in the future.
Book might be great, but you couldn't tell it from the review, which reads like a marketing blurb.
Yes, if it's clear, just walk outside and look up for about a half-an-hour during the peak time predicted for your location. No matter how bad the viewing conditions, you will still see the bright ones.