But doesn't that leave dozens of missions with partially loaded cargo bays? Indeed, I am sure that not every mission that goes up has a full payload. And to blunt my earlier criticism, if this shuttle is more efficient then the US's (fuel wise, but also without the thousands of tiles of heat shielding on the bottom)Then the simple solution is to take more trips for larger projects.
I was more impressed with the chatter file then I was with it's ability to play chess, the taunts were quite appropriate in their timing. Not that I encourage the programmers. Chess is not baseball. Kramnik is not a belly itcher. I'm shocked he went along with it, surely if he had complained, the match would be replayed, or at least resumed, after the speakers had been removed. Just say no to smack talk in professional chess.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft might stop selling the X-box, but apparently, not stop advertising in australian institutions. Upon clicking the link, I was greeted by a Xbox Racing banner ad. Hmmmm.
For years now I've been hearing that stealth fighter technology is the "American Maginot Line"... That is a poor analogy, even were I to grant you that stealth technology is a waste of money, which I other than for the sake of argument, I wouldn't. The main reason that the Maginot line is viewed as folly is not simply that it was innefective, it was due to the ammount of resources France put into a _Defensive_ fortification, which the highly mobile Germans simply drove around. It is a failure because wars are not won via defense.
Thank you for the research budda.
Let's see...It's re-writeable, Small as heck, holds for gigs of data, is highly jog resistant....The inner-spy in me is all atwitter.
I agree, it's long past time to create a vehicle that can get into and out of space, with a heavy payload, without the three stage rocket system. That having been said, it's not going to be easy, and this thing is a long way off. They haven't gone to work on the engine yet, and if they hope to bring any kind of sizeable payload into space, it's going to have to be one mamba-jamba of an engine, unless they have very tiny sattelites, which, knowing the Japanese and miniturization, they might. The article does mentions a re-useable rocket, so there is that. At any rate, I wish these guys the best, but I don't see this replacing the shuttle anytime soon.
It may not be the flying car, but I'm amazed by the technologies that I was convinced not long ago, were decades out on the horizon. Holograms, Cybernetic prosthesis, cheap lasers, and common genetic alteration. Good times. Seriously though, here's to hoping the flying car is next.
I'm not against Genetically altered food, if it offers something legititely _good, such as rice modified to have vitamin C or A, or what have you. But a tearless onion? Will we be altering lemons, so the juice doesn't sting? A themepark filled with dinosaurs? I suppose what I find so worrisome is the casual modification of genetic material currently going on in the laboratories of the world. But then, Pinky and the brain was pretty funny.
Enshrining privacy and anonymity simply would not have occured to the Founding Fathers, because they could not imagine a situation in which the government would ever be in a position to deny them to its citizens. Oddly enough, this is one argument the Gun Control lobbies use frequently.
"The founding fathers were referring to single shot rifles and shotguns at the time! Not 'semi-automatic' and automatic weapons! That's why we get to say you can't own this gun or that gun. They simply couldn't have foreen how deadly some of these weapons would become!"
Now, I don't want to sound insensative here, but take a deep breath. You have chosen Apple to be your platform of preference. That's fine. If the public is wrong about Macintoshes being slow, or toylike, then let them continue on in ignorance. As for this: despite better economics of mac software I would really like to know how publishing software for a smaller OS userbase is better then publishing for a larger OS userbase. Granted, less competition for your product, but a very low ceiling on how many copies you can sell of any given program. I would debate the rest of the post, but you're not entirely incorrect. Just clearly, very touchy. I don't like MacOS (although 10.1 has piqued my interest). I don't like windows. I use windows, because it's the platform that I need to use. I don't hate you for liking macs. Please don't insist I should feel ashamed for not liking what you like. Oh, and one more thing. Oh yeah, that's right, this is a nation that worships conformity. I'm sorry we didn't all adopt the ad slogan of your fave OS company and "think different". sweet irony....
Let's see. Donate $5 to a service that is already using my free CPU-cycles? So a pay for a service I am performing for them. No, thank you. I have processed many a packet for Seti@home, and while I encourage Distributed computing efforts for projects which would otherwise go un-funded, I am not willing to donate my time, equiptment, and then also pay for the service I am contributing. It goes against my capitalist philosophies.
Let me first state that Safedisk Securerom, et all simply make the casual pirate a savvy pirate, while frustrating paying customers with no intention of stealing their product. They are not in any way effective. That having been said...
I am frustrated reading the response here, with unplausable justifications about why these are bad, and justifications for copying disks in a legal sense. I'm as slovenly with my CD's as your average bear, and as of today, my CD drive can read any disk I own, regardless of damage, including Sam'n max, and god knows that disk is jacked. The main (99.44%) reason a person would make a copy of a disk, is not for archival, or any other such purpose, but to give/sell to a friend. Every high school in every city in this nation has a guy who sells burnt disks, and mods systems for a price. And I encourage that little entrepreneurial bastard. But do companies have every right to try and shut that kid down by protecting their media in whatever method they see fit? Yes. Is Secure-rom it? No. But apparently it's effective enough, because people are complaining.
Which comes first: hydrogen refueling stations so that people will buy cars, or hydrogen powered cars to drive the need for refueling stations?
Hydrogen cars will have to become more common before the infrastructure is built. Noone is going to shell out the dough for trucking, storing, and the means of transfering the hydrogen from storage to car, without a significant clientelle. However if LA starts investing in Hyrogen for it's fleet of municipal vehicles, you can bet that one or two companies will get a sweet contract from the city to perform the essentials of keeping the cars fueled.
Try not to be angry all the time. Here Here! The ammount of anger/rage that surfaces in your average persons daily life today is thoroughly unhealthy. Yelling at people when driving, yelling at campers, AWPers, et all. Take a deep breath. Understand that that shooting the bird at the guy that cut you off won't undo it, and most people carry that anger throught the course of the entire day. We live in a society where physical activity is limited, and as such, a person having a heart attack at 24-26 is not unheard of (but thankfully, still rare). Life is good. Enjoy it. And stop camping spawns. Be a part of the solution.
Granted that these people probably had good intentions, but it does demonstrate how arrogant we are
Actually in my mind, it demonstrates how little people think things through. What exactly are the police going to do about balls of flame in the sky? Arrest them?
Concerned Citizen:Fireballs officer! In the Sky! Dispatch:right. I think you want nasa. Or the air force. We'd handle it ourselves, but our Space Cruiser is in the shop. On Quaoar
I don't know about you, but that really hot woman in the background makes me nervous. She wasn't there before. I need to be constantly appraised of her actions, for my own sense of well-being.
Yes it would be expensive insurance wise, but I doubt that this company is going to be aiming rockets to pass right over El Paso. Keep in mind, if this company were to trim even 1% off the cost of a launch, you've got major savings already. Insurance companies stand to make a huge ammount on this, should one actually take the initial plunge. Keep in mind, insurance companies make money every time something doesn't go wrong. As long as this private spaceport handles itself in a meticulous fashion, possibly hiring ex-nasa engineers, or ex-CCCP engineers for that matter, this endevour could stand to make large dollars for the company, as well as any insurance companies that may back them. Companies choosing to fly "Air-Private" simply will have to accept that that extra cheapness comes with the price of being that much more careful. Personally, I want the US to be the first to take the full on private space-plunge. Yes, I did read Ben Bova's Privateers, and yes, it did warp my mind.
Is the launch site within 600 miles (range of Scud missle) of President Bush's ranch?
I'd just like to take this opportunity to say hello to the NSA, who are undoubtedly quite interested in any communication dealing with SCUD+"White House". Howdy fellas!
You youngin's might not be aware of it, but 50 years ago it was a tropical paradise
If southern california was a tropical paradise 50 years ago, then why was it necessary to pass massive bond issues in the 60s to fund an equally masive irrigation project, so that LA, San Juaqine valley, et all, could have access to Northern California's water? SoCal was desert when LA was founded, make no mistake.
I firmly believe that eventually the Earth will be again...be molten
It is highly possible that I am showing my own ignorance here, but wouldn't that be impossible barring some outside influence on the earth (sun going nova comes to mind). I would imagine that the earth can contain heat, and dissipate heat, but not just get hotter? (not talking about the atmospheric temp, just the molten core). Again, this may just me being ignorant, but I thought the laws of thermodynamics applied to everything, even planets.
Why are Reuters printing a description of EA's offices and an extended press release as news? Reuters IS printing an extended Press release, because there is only one thing that EA does well. Promotions. And they do it better then any company in the game industry, possibly better than any other company in the US economy. Everything else that EA does is strictly average on the whole. With few exceptions (MoHaa) games that EA put out are all strictly average IMHO. Look at EA's flagship title, Madden. In my opinion, the competing product has always been superior, be it Gameday on the ps1, quarterback club (Strictly the two on n64) and currently, the NFL2k series. There is a reason why EA has so many franchises. It allows them to merely tweak existing software, rather than make new software. Even MoHaa runs on the tried and true Q3 engine. No other gaming company can claim to have such an effective PR department as EA. Next time an article on games is covered in your local daily newspaper, notice how the featured product in article is made by EA. God help me, I used to work for EA (phone monkey), I know of what I speak.
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But doesn't that leave dozens of missions with partially loaded cargo bays?
Indeed, I am sure that not every mission that goes up has a full payload. And to blunt my earlier criticism, if this shuttle is more efficient then the US's (fuel wise, but also without the thousands of tiles of heat shielding on the bottom)Then the simple solution is to take more trips for larger projects.
I was more impressed with the chatter file then I was with it's ability to play chess, the taunts were quite appropriate in their timing. Not that I encourage the programmers. Chess is not baseball. Kramnik is not a belly itcher. I'm shocked he went along with it, surely if he had complained, the match would be replayed, or at least resumed, after the speakers had been removed.
Just say no to smack talk in professional chess.
I put in my Vote for the Aussies withholding Fosters Beer.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft might stop selling the X-box, but apparently, not stop advertising in australian institutions. Upon clicking the link, I was greeted by a Xbox Racing banner ad. Hmmmm.
For years now I've been hearing that stealth fighter technology is the "American Maginot Line"...
That is a poor analogy, even were I to grant you that stealth technology is a waste of money, which I other than for the sake of argument, I wouldn't.
The main reason that the Maginot line is viewed as folly is not simply that it was innefective, it was due to the ammount of resources France put into a _Defensive_ fortification, which the highly mobile Germans simply drove around. It is a failure because wars are not won via defense.
I thought it was the way to change your status to "Dead".
Death is but one of the perks having your name changed to "Enemy combatant" entails.
Thank you for the research budda.
Let's see...It's re-writeable, Small as heck, holds for gigs of data, is highly jog resistant....The inner-spy in me is all atwitter.
I agree, it's long past time to create a vehicle that can get into and out of space, with a heavy payload, without the three stage rocket system. That having been said, it's not going to be easy, and this thing is a long way off. They haven't gone to work on the engine yet, and if they hope to bring any kind of sizeable payload into space, it's going to have to be one mamba-jamba of an engine, unless they have very tiny sattelites, which, knowing the Japanese and miniturization, they might. The article does mentions a re-useable rocket, so there is that.
At any rate, I wish these guys the best, but I don't see this replacing the shuttle anytime soon.
It may not be the flying car, but I'm amazed by the technologies that I was convinced not long ago, were decades out on the horizon. Holograms, Cybernetic prosthesis, cheap lasers, and common genetic alteration. Good times. Seriously though, here's to hoping the flying car is next.
I'm not against Genetically altered food, if it offers something legititely _good, such as rice modified to have vitamin C or A, or what have you. But a tearless onion? Will we be altering lemons, so the juice doesn't sting? A themepark filled with dinosaurs?
I suppose what I find so worrisome is the casual modification of genetic material currently going on in the laboratories of the world.
But then, Pinky and the brain was pretty funny.
Enshrining privacy and anonymity simply would not have occured to the Founding Fathers, because they could not imagine a situation in which the government would ever be in a position to deny them to its citizens.
Oddly enough, this is one argument the Gun Control lobbies use frequently.
"The founding fathers were referring to single shot rifles and shotguns at the time! Not 'semi-automatic' and automatic weapons! That's why we get to say you can't own this gun or that gun. They simply couldn't have foreen how deadly some of these weapons would become!"
etc, etc, etc...
Now, I don't want to sound insensative here, but take a deep breath. You have chosen Apple to be your platform of preference. That's fine. If the public is wrong about Macintoshes being slow, or toylike, then let them continue on in ignorance. As for this:
despite better economics of mac software
I would really like to know how publishing software for a smaller OS userbase is better then publishing for a larger OS userbase. Granted, less competition for your product, but a very low ceiling on how many copies you can sell of any given program. I would debate the rest of the post, but you're not entirely incorrect. Just clearly, very touchy. I don't like MacOS (although 10.1 has piqued my interest). I don't like windows. I use windows, because it's the platform that I need to use. I don't hate you for liking macs. Please don't insist I should feel ashamed for not liking what you like.
Oh, and one more thing.
Oh yeah, that's right, this is a nation that worships conformity.
I'm sorry we didn't all adopt the ad slogan of your fave OS company and "think different". sweet irony....
Good, this project should fail. It would allow us to real work on things like AIDS and cancer
Listen to yourself man! The wise and benificient aliens will simply GIVE us the cure for cancer/AIDS...
Let's see. Donate $5 to a service that is already using my free CPU-cycles? So a pay for a service I am performing for them. No, thank you. I have processed many a packet for Seti@home, and while I encourage Distributed computing efforts for projects which would otherwise go un-funded, I am not willing to donate my time, equiptment, and then also pay for the service I am contributing. It goes against my capitalist philosophies.
Let me first state that Safedisk Securerom, et all simply make the casual pirate a savvy pirate, while frustrating paying customers with no intention of stealing their product. They are not in any way effective. That having been said...
I am frustrated reading the response here, with unplausable justifications about why these are bad, and justifications for copying disks in a legal sense.
I'm as slovenly with my CD's as your average bear, and as of today, my CD drive can read any disk I own, regardless of damage, including Sam'n max, and god knows that disk is jacked.
The main (99.44%) reason a person would make a copy of a disk, is not for archival, or any other such purpose, but to give/sell to a friend. Every high school in every city in this nation has a guy who sells burnt disks, and mods systems for a price. And I encourage that little entrepreneurial bastard. But do companies have every right to try and shut that kid down by protecting their media in whatever method they see fit? Yes. Is Secure-rom it? No. But apparently it's effective enough, because people are complaining.
Which comes first: hydrogen refueling stations so that people will buy cars, or hydrogen powered cars to drive the need for refueling stations?
Hydrogen cars will have to become more common before the infrastructure is built. Noone is going to shell out the dough for trucking, storing, and the means of transfering the hydrogen from storage to car, without a significant clientelle. However if LA starts investing in Hyrogen for it's fleet of municipal vehicles, you can bet that one or two companies will get a sweet contract from the city to perform the essentials of keeping the cars fueled.
Try not to be angry all the time.
Here Here! The ammount of anger/rage that surfaces in your average persons daily life today is thoroughly unhealthy. Yelling at people when driving, yelling at campers, AWPers, et all. Take a deep breath. Understand that that shooting the bird at the guy that cut you off won't undo it, and most people carry that anger throught the course of the entire day. We live in a society where physical activity is limited, and as such, a person having a heart attack at 24-26 is not unheard of (but thankfully, still rare). Life is good. Enjoy it. And stop camping spawns. Be a part of the solution.
Granted that these people probably had good intentions, but it does demonstrate how arrogant we are
Actually in my mind, it demonstrates how little people think things through. What exactly are the police going to do about balls of flame in the sky? Arrest them?
Concerned Citizen:Fireballs officer! In the Sky!
Dispatch:right. I think you want nasa. Or the air force. We'd handle it ourselves, but our Space Cruiser is in the shop. On Quaoar
I don't know about you, but that really hot woman in the background makes me nervous. She wasn't there before. I need to be constantly appraised of her actions, for my own sense of well-being.
Yes it would be expensive insurance wise, but I doubt that this company is going to be aiming rockets to pass right over El Paso. Keep in mind, if this company were to trim even 1% off the cost of a launch, you've got major savings already.
Insurance companies stand to make a huge ammount on this, should one actually take the initial plunge. Keep in mind, insurance companies make money every time something doesn't go wrong. As long as this private spaceport handles itself in a meticulous fashion, possibly hiring ex-nasa engineers, or ex-CCCP engineers for that matter, this endevour could stand to make large dollars for the company, as well as any insurance companies that may back them.
Companies choosing to fly "Air-Private" simply will have to accept that that extra cheapness comes with the price of being that much more careful.
Personally, I want the US to be the first to take the full on private space-plunge.
Yes, I did read Ben Bova's Privateers, and yes, it did warp my mind.
Is the launch site within 600 miles (range of Scud missle) of President Bush's ranch?
I'd just like to take this opportunity to say hello to the NSA, who are undoubtedly quite interested in any communication dealing with SCUD+"White House". Howdy fellas!
Almost certainly, as a search in the News section of Google lists this thread as first and second items out of two. Let's hope Mssr. Novak uses Yahoo!
You youngin's might not be aware of it, but 50 years ago it was a tropical paradise
If southern california was a tropical paradise 50 years ago, then why was it necessary to pass massive bond issues in the 60s to fund an equally masive irrigation project, so that LA, San Juaqine valley, et all, could have access to Northern California's water? SoCal was desert when LA was founded, make no mistake.
I firmly believe that eventually the Earth will be again...be molten
It is highly possible that I am showing my own ignorance here, but wouldn't that be impossible barring some outside influence on the earth (sun going nova comes to mind).
I would imagine that the earth can contain heat, and dissipate heat, but not just get hotter? (not talking about the atmospheric temp, just the molten core). Again, this may just me being ignorant, but I thought the laws of thermodynamics applied to everything, even planets.
Why are Reuters printing a description of EA's offices and an extended press release as news?
Reuters IS printing an extended Press release, because there is only one thing that EA does well. Promotions. And they do it better then any company in the game industry, possibly better than any other company in the US economy.
Everything else that EA does is strictly average on the whole. With few exceptions (MoHaa) games that EA put out are all strictly average IMHO. Look at EA's flagship title, Madden. In my opinion, the competing product has always been superior, be it Gameday on the ps1, quarterback club (Strictly the two on n64) and currently, the NFL2k series.
There is a reason why EA has so many franchises. It allows them to merely tweak existing software, rather than make new software. Even MoHaa runs on the tried and true Q3 engine.
No other gaming company can claim to have such an effective PR department as EA. Next time an article on games is covered in your local daily newspaper, notice how the featured product in article is made by EA.
God help me, I used to work for EA (phone monkey), I know of what I speak.