I think most of us would agree that 'age old problem of physical movement within a virtual world' has absolutely nothing to do with walking. Its waaaaay more rythmic and horizontal than ambulatory.
Why not. I dont doubt astronauts would be prepared to fly the mission but why bother if a robot can do the job just as well. EVA's are a still a dangerous, clumsy undertaking, previous repair missions had all reported problems with the coldness affecting astronauts hands. OK a robot may not currently be as adaptable as an astronaut but when you are 160 miles up there is only so much you can do anyway should plan A fail. Robotic missions would be far cheaper and have a much faster turn around time.
And what about the bad PR should a manned mission fail in a ball of flames? You can see the headlines now, 'Six astronauts die to fix a bloody telescope we dont really need'.
Robots linked to a control center are the way of the future for this sort of mission so we may as well start using them now. There will still be plenty of mission opportunities for astronauts.
by asking for them to arrange for Halle Berry to drop by my place on a regular basis. Obviously in the spirit of negotiation I bring along a list of 200 fit actresses and models I will accept as a substitute if Halle is not available.
It must be said I am not having the greatest of success with this approach at the moment. I guess I have to hope either Catwoman bombs or the market picks up a tad more and in the meantime be happy if they offer me free parking.
WTF are you talking about? Most people cant really comprehend the true size of the universe but feel that on the scale we do understand its almost impossible for there not to other life out there somewhere.
We have been looking for "life" outside of our planet for quite a while with nothing even approaching a hit
Five billion years of evolution for this planet alone, any you consider your lifetime a significant timescale? We have barely begun to even scratch the surface of exploration at this stage. You may ultimately be correct and we are alone but to base that assumprion on what we have done so far is truly premature.
I agree though though that if we did encounter intelligent alien life in the next few years the problems would be manifold.
The tv repair man producing his tools and getting it from the lady of the house and 2 of her most intimate friends was a fantasy but a geek connecting his laptop to the tv and getting the same treatment is just so not going to happen.
Yeah because the rights of the Native Americans and Aboriginees to their respective traditional lands and hunting grounds really discouraged settlemnents of their continents because their presence was respected as a claim.
Presence is not enough to claim anything when someone greedier and with bigger/better weapons comes along. Based on a lot of our history we really can have no complains if an advanced alien race comes along and says 'oh look a nice shiny blue/green planet, we'll have that for the kids to play on, just kill those pesky humans first so the kids dont pick up any germs'.
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For the conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landings were faked a collaboration between NASA and SGI on simulated exploration will just provide a basis to think that the Mars missions will not only be faked, they wont even use real actors next and the whole mission will be CGI.
So when we do 'land' on Mars, if the astonauts burst into a song and dance extravaganza during the planting the flag ceremony then the job was probably outsourced to India. If the ceremony involves a 10 hour trek up a mountain and is interrupted by hordes of attacking Martians that must be defeated by the 6 astronauts then they probably got Peter Jackson to do it. If the whole mission is really lame and not quite what you were hoping for, look no futher than George Lucas.
Even though Mercury is 50 million miles from Earth at closest approach, Messenger will travel 5 billion miles to get there. It's technologically infeasible to fly straight to Mercury, a trip of a few months, and so the spacecraft must swing once past Earth, twice past Venus and thrice past Mercury before slowing down enough to slip into orbit around Mercury.
Can someone explain why such a convoluted and time consuming route is required?
How long before we see F22 Raptor mods for the garage built kit plane ? (I say F22 because the first Enterprise or X-Wing/TIE mod attempts will likely see a Darwin award winner)
Cities were deploying cameras for years before 9/11 mostly for crime prevention. The technology behind them was only ever going to get better. Its not the terrorists winning, its law enforcement implementing a phased plan. How comfortable we all feel with it is another matter.
Actually I sometimes design web sites when I am not concentrating on the server stuff. The high levels of skills I developed have enabled me to recognise that when a product is not yet released, and the details are not yet set in stone and they have a bright shiny button that says pre-order on the main page (even thought I dont have flash installed on firefox I can see this) staring me in the face, I know there will be some useful information there, like many of the things the original poster wanted. So the doom people have actually done a good job on the marketing and information fronts.
You really don't understand the concept of selling an image do you. If it looks cool enough people will not care about price, store locations etc. They will just make their minds up to get it.
Some sports are included in the Olympics for their physical demands, some to popular interest and some for the spectacle (for example the aesthetics of the teams taking part in synchronised swimming are far more interesting than who actually wins). Math has absolutely no chance because
(a) no physical requiments whatsoever beyond being alive
(b) you basically want a tv audience to watch people think about something that 99% of them cant remotely comprehend
(c)
did I mention its boring and no one cares that a bunch of geek math freaks feel underappreciated
Just because you are committed to something and work hard at it does not oblige the rest of the world to indulge you.
I think the international starring championships ala Big Train (Sketch comedy show) will be in the olympics before math is
Unfortunately most people seem to hate it. Maybe thats just my bias because I tried it and found it a complete pain in the ass to work with. I dont like supposed development aides thats want to tell me how I should organise everything to suit its quirks rather than my preferences. Its really irritating when this demands vast amounts of configuration to achieve and requires a scripting language who creator has apologised for creating an abomination.
Think I (and many others) will stick with ant for the time being
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I think the fact that there is a HOWTO for this speaks volumes about why there are not more women involved in IT.
I think most of us would agree that 'age old problem of physical movement within a virtual world' has absolutely nothing to do with walking. Its waaaaay more rythmic and horizontal than ambulatory.
Why not. I dont doubt astronauts would be prepared to fly the mission but why bother if a robot can do the job just as well. EVA's are a still a dangerous, clumsy undertaking, previous repair missions had all reported problems with the coldness affecting astronauts hands. OK a robot may not currently be as adaptable as an astronaut but when you are 160 miles up there is only so much you can do anyway should plan A fail. Robotic missions would be far cheaper and have a much faster turn around time.
And what about the bad PR should a manned mission fail in a ball of flames? You can see the headlines now, 'Six astronauts die to fix a bloody telescope we dont really need'.
Robots linked to a control center are the way of the future for this sort of mission so we may as well start using them now. There will still be plenty of mission opportunities for astronauts.
by asking for them to arrange for Halle Berry to drop by my place on a regular basis. Obviously in the spirit of negotiation I bring along a list of 200 fit actresses and models I will accept as a substitute if Halle is not available.
It must be said I am not having the greatest of success with this approach at the moment. I guess I have to hope either Catwoman bombs or the market picks up a tad more and in the meantime be happy if they offer me free parking.
WTF are you talking about? Most people cant really comprehend the true size of the universe but feel that on the scale we do understand its almost impossible for there not to other life out there somewhere.
We have been looking for "life" outside of our planet for quite a while with nothing even approaching a hit
Five billion years of evolution for this planet alone, any you consider your lifetime a significant timescale? We have barely begun to even scratch the surface of exploration at this stage. You may ultimately be correct and we are alone but to base that assumprion on what we have done so far is truly premature.
I agree though though that if we did encounter intelligent alien life in the next few years the problems would be manifold.
The tv repair man producing his tools and getting it from the lady of the house and 2 of her most intimate friends was a fantasy but a geek connecting his laptop to the tv and getting the same treatment is just so not going to happen.
Yeah because the rights of the Native Americans and Aboriginees to their respective traditional lands and hunting grounds really discouraged settlemnents of their continents because their presence was respected as a claim.
Presence is not enough to claim anything when someone greedier and with bigger/better weapons comes along. Based on a lot of our history we really can have no complains if an advanced alien race comes along and says 'oh look a nice shiny blue/green planet, we'll have that for the kids to play on, just kill those pesky humans first so the kids dont pick up any germs'.
Having just finished reading this book I have to say another land grab is not an enticing proposition.
Looking at the size of the thing I'm thinking sidekick means you need a bring a buddy everwhere to lug it around for you.
Thats one of looking at it. In light of recent US actions many would take a more skeptical view.
No, it looks stupid and its nothing kids have not tried before on every form of wheeled transportation they have access to.
polo has always had this gayish image, hasn't it?
Only if you define gay as being wealthy enough to play polo. If you can afford 5K for a toy then you probably qualify as gayish.
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For the conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landings were faked a collaboration between NASA and SGI on simulated exploration will just provide a basis to think that the Mars missions will not only be faked, they wont even use real actors next and the whole mission will be CGI.
So when we do 'land' on Mars, if the astonauts burst into a song and dance extravaganza during the planting the flag ceremony then the job was probably outsourced to India. If the ceremony involves a 10 hour trek up a mountain and is interrupted by hordes of attacking Martians that must be defeated by the 6 astronauts then they probably got Peter Jackson to do it. If the whole mission is really lame and not quite what you were hoping for, look no futher than George Lucas.
Even though Mercury is 50 million miles from Earth at closest approach, Messenger will travel 5 billion miles to get there. It's technologically infeasible to fly straight to Mercury, a trip of a few months, and so the spacecraft must swing once past Earth, twice past Venus and thrice past Mercury before slowing down enough to slip into orbit around Mercury.
Can someone explain why such a convoluted and time consuming route is required?
How do we know Roland Piquepaille is real? Having a blog you like to link to from slashdot is hardly proof of identity.
How long before we see F22 Raptor mods for the garage built kit plane ? (I say F22 because the first Enterprise or X-Wing/TIE mod attempts will likely see a Darwin award winner)
So where does all the 'MS are a doomed, paniced entity, directionless and running in fear of Linux' we see here on /. fit into this view ?
where Nemo was hiding out.
Cities were deploying cameras for years before 9/11 mostly for crime prevention. The technology behind them was only ever going to get better. Its not the terrorists winning, its law enforcement implementing a phased plan. How comfortable we all feel with it is another matter.
Actually I sometimes design web sites when I am not concentrating on the server stuff. The high levels of skills I developed have enabled me to recognise that when a product is not yet released, and the details are not yet set in stone and they have a bright shiny button that says pre-order on the main page (even thought I dont have flash installed on firefox I can see this) staring me in the face, I know there will be some useful information there, like many of the things the original poster wanted. So the doom people have actually done a good job on the marketing and information fronts.
You really don't understand the concept of selling an image do you. If it looks cool enough people will not care about price, store locations etc. They will just make their minds up to get it.
If I was going to donate something to an institute of education a music downloading service would not be it.
Some sports are included in the Olympics for their physical demands, some to popular interest and some for the spectacle (for example the aesthetics of the teams taking part in synchronised swimming are far more interesting than who actually wins). Math has absolutely no chance because
(a) no physical requiments whatsoever beyond being alive
(b) you basically want a tv audience to watch people think about something that 99% of them cant remotely comprehend
(c) did I mention its boring and no one cares that a bunch of geek math freaks feel underappreciated
Just because you are committed to something and work hard at it does not oblige the rest of the world to indulge you.
I think the international starring championships ala Big Train (Sketch comedy show) will be in the olympics before math is
Al Gore has challenged Sir Tim to a joust to decide who is the true inventor if the internet.
"Verily I do declare tis I am the inventor of ye internet" said Al as he went looking on ebay for jousting poles and suits of armour.
Unfortunately most people seem to hate it. Maybe thats just my bias because I tried it and found it a complete pain in the ass to work with. I dont like supposed development aides thats want to tell me how I should organise everything to suit its quirks rather than my preferences. Its really irritating when this demands vast amounts of configuration to achieve and requires a scripting language who creator has apologised for creating an abomination.
Think I (and many others) will stick with ant for the time being