Because the Tanzanians, Bolivians, and Tongans will definitely be able to pony up the scratch to make a top-notch space program work.
Well I'ld be more worried about getting the US to pay up given their history with paying their UN dues, but thats besides the point.
If we spread the cost across the whole spectrum of nations according to their ability to pay then we could easily build a space programme that would achieve more than taking ants into space to see if they can turn those tiny screws. And hell spending the money on space research has got to be better than spending it on a new damn arms race.
Umm I'll bite, severely Underfunded NASA bad. Now if we had a truly international effort run by the UN or some other similar organisation the costs for a truly spectacular Space programme could quite easily be shared across the many nations.
Im sorry where in my post did I say that Pioneer was the greated accomplishment mankind ever achieved?
Oh and by the way slavery has not been abolished in this world, neither has the issue of equal rights for women been dealt with properly. Smallpox is a great achievement, only problem is now it is being used to develop biological weapons, as is anthrax, botulism and and variety of little nasties.
When I posted I said the pioneer was an achievement that mankind can look on and say, "My (diety of choice) look where we have been, can we go further".
Hey its a common human activity to anthropomorphise inanimate objects, just one of those little quirks I guess.
Really what we are doing is paying homage to the idea embodied by Pioneer 10, that the human race is capable of becoming more than it is, extending beyond our own earth bound origins. When we do this we include the men and women who worked on this. Pioneer is a symbol, nothing more nothing less.
You know you are truly geek when something like this almost brings tears to your eyes. I mean this thing had less computing power than your average calculator and yet it managed to be useful for thirty years?
See what happens when you actually give your space programme decent funding? You do something like this, something which comes close to making the human race look like something more than six billion savages scrabbling in the dirt.
Im sorry I have to disagree with you, its a rare Windows Admin who plays with Linux, most of them are happy staying with Windows and what MS feeds them. Sure there is a small minority of experimenters but the majority are quite happy staying with MS.
It's not an IT persons job to know every solution to every problem in the world
True, however it is an IT persons business to know as much as they can about that which they control. In your post you say it took you four years to become proficient at running a linux based server? I have to say this is either indicates that you spent maybe an hour a month looking at Linux, or you just couldn't be bothered.
The main difference that I see between Linux/Unix operators and Windows operators is that most Linux/Unix operators actually have more than a passing understanding of the guts of the system they are adminstering, whereas your average MCSE gets flummoxed when a problem doesn't meet the MS approved solution.
It seems to me that the AMD way is the smarter way. If you wanted to start porting apps to 64 bit architectures you would want as smooth a transition as possible.
Please keep in mind I know nothing about CPU design so I could quite possibly be talking out my arse here.
Reducing complexity good, reducing Users rights on their own machine bad.
Also are they planning on seperating their windowing system from the kernel? I do not want to have to deal with the load of a GUI on a server when it is not needed.
With all due respect, you are not a full programmer you are a web developer, that is something different. Trust me I am also a web developer, though I am trying my damndest to step up. If you want to be a programmer, learn more than just a bastard son of a crappy language.
I realised this a while ago, and now I have a basic grounding in Perl, PHP, Unix Shell Scripting, C++ and Java, all of which I can build on to further my knowledge base.
I don't claim to be a l33t coder or anything like that (I mean look at my C++ code- uurrgggh) but at least I know the value of not putting my eggs in one basket.
And you expect this to get better if Telstra is privatised?? Keep in mind they own nearly all of the infrastructure, and would have no incentive to open it up to competitors other than the force of law.
If they want to sell of Telstra, fine, split off the retail section from the infrastructure and sell that. Keep the infrastructure in government hands, that way Telstra becomes just another Telco and has to compete on the same playing field as the rest of them. Not only that but the government manages to hang on to a source of income rather than blow the whole thing.
Its people like you that make me glad voting is compulsory. You live here, enjoy the benifits of living in this country, and yet you couldn't be bothered getting off your butt to go and vote?
I bet you bitch and moan as much as the rest of us when it comes to our government (and believe me there is lots to bitch and moan about) but you don't vote?
When you become a citizen you take on a certain set of rights and responsibilities, voting is both, you have the right to have your say but you also have the responibility to become involved in what happens in your country.
Of course they shouldn't sell off Telstra, its like selling the family silver to pay the bills, once the silver is gone what are we going to do then.
This drive for privatisation of Telstra (infrastructure at least) really doesn't make any sense. It was one of the few government run enterprises that actually made money, and then they go and sell the damn thing.
Thankyou Ziggy Switowski - for those not in the know, Ziggy is the CEO of the dominant player in the Australian Telco market(Telstra) and has been slapped down many times by the ACCC for predatory business practices, as well as screwing his customers to the wall.
$400.00? is that all? Damn I spend nearly every cent I earned from my job at Pizza Hut on W40k. Adds up to something like $1600.00, and now what do I have to show for it? A whole bunch of toys for my son.
Or possibly white american male aged 25-45? racial profiling when it comes to these things is bullshit.
The funny thing about terrorists is that they don't walk around with a sign over their heads saying "I am a terrorist" instead they blend into society, not drawing any attention to themselves until they actually act.
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Because the Tanzanians, Bolivians, and Tongans will definitely be able to pony up the scratch to make a top-notch space program work.
Well I'ld be more worried about getting the US to pay up given their history with paying their UN dues, but thats besides the point.
If we spread the cost across the whole spectrum of nations according to their ability to pay then we could easily build a space programme that would achieve more than taking ants into space to see if they can turn those tiny screws. And hell spending the money on space research has got to be better than spending it on a new damn arms race.
Umm I'll bite, severely Underfunded NASA bad. Now if we had a truly international effort run by the UN or some other similar organisation the costs for a truly spectacular Space programme could quite easily be shared across the many nations.
Just my bright eyed little idea.
Im sorry where in my post did I say that Pioneer was the greated accomplishment mankind ever achieved?
Oh and by the way slavery has not been abolished in this world, neither has the issue of equal rights for women been dealt with properly. Smallpox is a great achievement, only problem is now it is being used to develop biological weapons, as is anthrax, botulism and and variety of little nasties.
When I posted I said the pioneer was an achievement that mankind can look on and say, "My (diety of choice) look where we have been, can we go further".
Hey its a common human activity to anthropomorphise inanimate objects, just one of those little quirks I guess.
Really what we are doing is paying homage to the idea embodied by Pioneer 10, that the human race is capable of becoming more than it is, extending beyond our own earth bound origins. When we do this we include the men and women who worked on this. Pioneer is a symbol, nothing more nothing less.
You know you are truly geek when something like this almost brings tears to your eyes. I mean this thing had less computing power than your average calculator and yet it managed to be useful for thirty years?
See what happens when you actually give your space programme decent funding? You do something like this, something which comes close to making the human race look like something more than six billion savages scrabbling in the dirt.
Ummm does that mean Seven Of Nine good sci-fi?
Im sorry I have to disagree with you, its a rare Windows Admin who plays with Linux, most of them are happy staying with Windows and what MS feeds them. Sure there is a small minority of experimenters but the majority are quite happy staying with MS.
It's not an IT persons job to know every solution to every problem in the world
True, however it is an IT persons business to know as much as they can about that which they control. In your post you say it took you four years to become proficient at running a linux based server? I have to say this is either indicates that you spent maybe an hour a month looking at Linux, or you just couldn't be bothered.
The main difference that I see between Linux/Unix operators and Windows operators is that most Linux/Unix operators actually have more than a passing understanding of the guts of the system they are adminstering, whereas your average MCSE gets flummoxed when a problem doesn't meet the MS approved solution.
It seems to me that the AMD way is the smarter way. If you wanted to start porting apps to 64 bit architectures you would want as smooth a transition as possible.
Please keep in mind I know nothing about CPU design so I could quite possibly be talking out my arse here.
which means creating needs
The main need created with any MS software is bug fixes.
Reducing complexity good, reducing Users rights on their own machine bad.
Also are they planning on seperating their windowing system from the kernel? I do not want to have to deal with the load of a GUI on a server when it is not needed.
With all due respect, you are not a full programmer you are a web developer, that is something different. Trust me I am also a web developer, though I am trying my damndest to step up. If you want to be a programmer, learn more than just a bastard son of a crappy language.
I realised this a while ago, and now I have a basic grounding in Perl, PHP, Unix Shell Scripting, C++ and Java, all of which I can build on to further my knowledge base.
I don't claim to be a l33t coder or anything like that (I mean look at my C++ code- uurrgggh) but at least I know the value of not putting my eggs in one basket.
And you expect this to get better if Telstra is privatised?? Keep in mind they own nearly all of the infrastructure, and would have no incentive to open it up to competitors other than the force of law.
If they want to sell of Telstra, fine, split off the retail section from the infrastructure and sell that. Keep the infrastructure in government hands, that way Telstra becomes just another Telco and has to compete on the same playing field as the rest of them. Not only that but the government manages to hang on to a source of income rather than blow the whole thing.
self-inflating individual...
Ummm what industry do you work in again? Rubber?
I can actually recall some of the adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about?
How about adds for MS Visual Studio on Slashdot? Especially on articles that say that MS bites the big one.
No he isn't he is contributing nothing. Thats the problem.
Good point, but as Ziggy is the public face of Telstra he is going to cop a lot of flack.
Its people like you that make me glad voting is compulsory. You live here, enjoy the benifits of living in this country, and yet you couldn't be bothered getting off your butt to go and vote?
I bet you bitch and moan as much as the rest of us when it comes to our government (and believe me there is lots to bitch and moan about) but you don't vote?
When you become a citizen you take on a certain set of rights and responsibilities, voting is both, you have the right to have your say but you also have the responibility to become involved in what happens in your country.
Of course they shouldn't sell off Telstra, its like selling the family silver to pay the bills, once the silver is gone what are we going to do then.
This drive for privatisation of Telstra (infrastructure at least) really doesn't make any sense. It was one of the few government run enterprises that actually made money, and then they go and sell the damn thing.
Yeah and Nick Whitlam is a nice guy who did what the shareholders wanted him to do.
Thankyou Ziggy Switowski - for those not in the know, Ziggy is the CEO of the dominant player in the Australian Telco market(Telstra) and has been slapped down many times by the ACCC for predatory business practices, as well as screwing his customers to the wall.
$400.00? is that all? Damn I spend nearly every cent I earned from my job at Pizza Hut on W40k. Adds up to something like $1600.00, and now what do I have to show for it? A whole bunch of toys for my son.
Hmmm not only did I play D&D, AD&D, Rifts, Heroes Unlimited and many others but strangly enough I am married with 1 and a half kids.
Imagination and the desire to move outside the square is usually a bonus in a sex life not a deficit.
They blended enough to not get noticed until after they destroyed the WTC.
Or possibly white american male aged 25-45? racial profiling when it comes to these things is bullshit.
The funny thing about terrorists is that they don't walk around with a sign over their heads saying "I am a terrorist" instead they blend into society, not drawing any attention to themselves until they actually act.