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  1. test it with this sim. on Columbia's Final Minutes in Detail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Test it with this sim to see if you can do it, or how much fuel it takes and if you can survive.

    http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbi t. html

    You can make your own space ships etc..

  2. Re:Personal experience on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thats like saying if you have 20000 plumbers in a 30000 population small town, everyone of them will get a job.

    Its supply demand, if theres 800 people applying for 1 job, and you are in the top 10, but you dont get chosen because the job requirements are so damn specific, its like finding a vaccine to SARS or something.

    Again it doesnt help that if in your local area again theres another bunch of 400 to 1000 staff/it people sacked by big corporates like IBM or a telco. Even more coders looking for jobs.

  3. Re:Personal experience on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    What I find amazing, is that stupid ass managers (whos job is barely brainy and any coder could learn like a new api, after all its 90% flowchart logic) , well these managers can't just go , "oh im making too much $$$, ill cut my salary by 10%, and ill ask Bob the highend coder there, do you want to be kicked out or reduce your pay by $20k" Surely that would be the best result.

    But we know the boss' will get a good bonus after sacking 10 people. Gee, any one could have done that, give bonuses to people who work hard, not write up status reports for higher ups.

    Btw Javagator, how much cash did the CEO of that startup make, probably millions. Not like he has a need to get a job or he can invest it and live of that.

  4. Re:Up until recently... on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    They wont hire IT people, they will say , "are you a mexican?" first. Or they'll say, WTF you way over qualified or they will say, "you have no experience flipping burger, we believe that skill takes months of experience, go jump IT looser".

    Maybe become an IT consultant for the mafia or columbian drug lords to give them secure comms and secure DBases with AUTO delete if 'rebooted' on a different network , IE at the FBIs lab. Tax free cash and you probly get some free samples.

  5. Code for Mac OSX... on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    If you code for macosx, and give some progams nice GUIs, you might have a chance, mac people do pay for software more than windows thiefs.

    Also theres much less competition on the mac, so you wont find 72 shareware version of XYZ app. Even the smallest crap app can sell for $10.

    BUT. You probably now NEED to get a mac, $$$$$. And you would need to learn the new apis (TIME), or you could do it in XWindows Apis (puke) or gtk/qt , now theres licence issues or do a web interface.

  6. Re:The challenge of financing on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wish I could take the source code of the 'failed' company (where the boss is enjoying his millions) and re-package it with the features it should have had and start making cash now, instead of the product being killed in the middle of its life while making a decent cash flow.

    NOTE: never trust your startup CEOs, they are out there to make millions for themselves and screw you like a whore in vegas.

    Maybe these outof work IT guys will start making virus's or get jobs at Spam companies to work for evil people.

    Maybe we should just pitch a tent at the million $ mansions our ex-ceos live at now.

  7. Re: We need arnold, skynet is starting.... on MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO · · Score: 1

    One thing is for sure, it probably WILL easily have a buffer overflow error in it to make sure NEW code can be uploaded and place anything on their or a massive super worm that would DDoS everything in site. Who knows. This could be a Commy attack ;)

    Or it could be the doing of the CIA/BushCO to then later bring in Patriot III, which would OUTLAW all non-registered ISPS/Websites and force super monitoring of ALL systems, welcome to 1984.

  8. Just make it like airport immigration on AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID · · Score: 1

    All known froms can come in quickly, live VISAs etc..

    If its unknown, then go 'HEY' lets check your passport, if its invalid, or that your have a fake from record/trace/ip.

    Then all the unknown sources, or domains, scruitinize the content hard, so if its says viagra, just deny passthru.

    2. All these damn ISPs should force customers to run a 'check for security' app or port scan/test if customers dialup/adsl boxes are crap/infested or insecure, and email them they must patch their systems they use as its part of the TOC. If they dont, their account gets suspended. This would help if AOL / Other ISPs, sent out CDs with ALL of MS's patches in one go, rather than 'windows update' stuff which can take forever on a modem, and customers dont want to waste their time/hours $$$$$ downloading updates, perhaps the ISP can detect if they are doing that and make that time FREE.

  9. Re:I see a problem here.... on AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID · · Score: 1

    You trust hotels to directly email out? Didnt you know most hotels are CIA honeypots thats where CIA/Agents meet/spy on people and make contacts, so thats were they bug/monitor stuff too.

    Besides if your friend is in a hotel, cant he just use a web mail form on your domain website?

  10. Re:What are the challenges of a RAM-only mission? on A First Look At Meridiani Planum · · Score: 1

    it has 3 types of storage

    ROM , the OS etc... code that wont change

    Flash, the new code/filesystem etc...

    RAM, for usual junk like current files/images/temp files/status logs

    ALl nasa has to do is send new code to go to ram, to verify the flash that its 100% ok, or mark bad bits, kindof like a scandisk/fix. Then continue as normal, but keep checking the flash daily and write better code to deal with stuffedup files. Maybe they just had a leak, or crap writeIO code that stuffed up the filesystem. Trivial fix /debug at JPL. Note: jpl, have more flash backup storage/recovery code. Flash Raid4 :) Battery backed up SDRAM too that wont fail even with 2months zero power. Get IBM to make that bouble ram again. :)

  11. Re:Links on A First Look At Meridiani Planum · · Score: 1

    THe gui needs to be better, like hold down CTRL and drag the view window to scroll instead of the scroll bars, wheres the harccore gui makers?

    The app also would be ok on a 2-8gig ram box running at 3ghz, but not the average joes 512meg box.

  12. Re:Rover? on A First Look At Meridiani Planum · · Score: 1

    CHina has 1 billion + people, a few wont be missed, and besides, new supplies could be sent every 2 years. And who knows, they might have enough tech/resource to actually start building houses out of the sand/stones using machinary sent there. Send 4 people at once, and send 3 large landers too that inflate a large living hab too. With that a small vehical/buggy thats solar or nuke powered, hell, even peddle power would be good for the astronaughts. All they need to do is bring enough plant seeds/material to start a greenhouse as well, take water out of the ground using solar powered techniques. And keep sending new supplies/tools/bigger inflateable hab units/seeds/stuff. Oh the only bad issues are how they will cope if its only 4 guys, do you send 2 couples instead?

    So 4 launchers every 2years including new supplies for food/energy/plants and new tools/hab units, building materials/mining tools. And away you go. Start building a little town/base.

    Now the trick is to find a cool place that is perhaps in a valley that has denser air/better rad cover and places easy to build caves/holes in for new 'houses' and also a place easy to land new supplies that could be 'driven/carried back' easily back to base, unless a tricker landing sequence can accurately land with in 1 mile of the base, but not on it :)

  13. Re:Spirit is indeed a software problem on A First Look At Meridiani Planum · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just forgot to write a scandisk program on the filesystem. And a basic diskscan/sector verifier on boot/shutdown with a proper boot.log that needs to be uploaded to JPL. ;)

  14. Re:Check it as a PERCENTAGE of his total wealth. on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    And the reason why banks and exchange rates are evil as defined by god.

    Deuteronomy 25:15
    You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

    Proverbs 20:10
    Differing weights and differing measures- the LORD detests them both.

    So you get paid $45,000 year in salery, every month inflation reduces the value of the cash you have and god and are going to get, its basically THEFT. Rich people have billions in bank accounts increasing in wealth by interest, where poorer average folk only get 1% interest on common bank accounts. Again GOD would be might pissed with that.

    Usury and fiat currencies are purely the work of the devil, honest hard cash that doesnt change value is whats truelly fair. Sure the value of goods will deflate, but thats fairer. Just look how the Romans failed with faking silver content in coins and the cash inflation of the french in 18th century.

    www.perfecteconomy.com

  15. Re:Check it as a PERCENTAGE of his total wealth. on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    I wonder if that $65m goes back to the drug companies that Bill.G has shares in?

    Thats a damn tricky way to increase your tax breaks, look good as donations, and increase sales of drugs from the companies you partly own stock in.

    its a tripple win win situation, what a scam!

    Rich people have it so easy, us poor scum slaves that pay real world combined taxes of 50% live in fear of loosing everything due to cutbacks and having to move back in with the parents and be poor again.

    Nothing has changed in 6000 years. Its all relative.

  16. I give 30cents to beggers so??? on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    On a comparitive note, and on an equal percentage of wealth, I give 30cents to beggers/drug addicts begging in the streets too....

    So ... where is my Knight hood?

  17. Re:Gates Foundation battles ancient diseases on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    Pitty the queen cant use her BILLIONS of dollars to help the poor countries that England raped and pillages and left in a mess of fake borders which are now at war with each other.

    Just read http://www.themedianews.com/DAGGER/Front%20Page/OV ERTHROW/Overthrow%2012_15_v45.htm
    and the billion dollar accounts that was exchanged.
    http://www.themedianews.com/DAGGER/Hea d_Lines/Link %20Extras/coutts_bank_london_martwell.htm

  18. Re:Fresh crater on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, run some awesome software, or do a metalic radar test, or do a 500meterx500meter image and get 100000s of studends to check 1 each every 5mins and report back, just like SETI.

  19. Re:First Step in Terraforming: on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    I think 50 100megatonne NUKES over the polar caps would cause some melting, and throw another 50 into the Volcano Olympus mons down its hole, those whoppers make a big punch, so 1 at a time down the hole 1 day apart, or 50 around the poles. :)

  20. Re:They didn't even lose the signal! on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    pitty the polar lander didnt do such thing, now we have a mandated requirement, ie a must have for all landing probes.

  21. Re:Thanks from NASA on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a software engineer my self (unemployed thanks to greedy idiotic managers cancelling profitable projects while wasting $100m+ on new aquisitions) , Maestro sure does SUCK a lot of ram from the machine tho, but im guessing thats javas fault, since I am a c/c++ person my self. But hey, these days, whats another $100, it buys a hell lot of ram, though not when your not working, im just waiting to go to full 2gig once I work.

    A big hello to fellow .com CEOs who are living with millions of dollars... Bastards, God wont save you thats for sure.

    Time to write a specification for a W32.PhuKEtradeAccounts.Virus.

  22. Re:Linux apps too hard to configure? on Build Your Own PVR · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for us outside usa, tivo's arent sold, but we do have other brands like Strong etc... but they cost $1000 or so. So hardly a few hours work in the other parts of the planet were people are paid less.

  23. Re:Linux apps too hard to configure? on Build Your Own PVR · · Score: 1

    NO, its a fact that a lot of coders are slack on linux and cant be bothered to do a decent install setup program. All they do is write up a badly worded README, instead of making a proper bash script with questions etc... or even a tcl/tk gui script. Not that they can't but they think ,why waste 120 hrs doing it and testing, when they take 4mins to write a quick README.

    Its PURE SLACKNESS!!!! just like 1986 DOS software.

  24. Re:Will "e-stamps" eradicate spam... on Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam · · Score: 1

    I thought most spam was caused by Trojans running/hijacking insecure crap windows machines that run outlook* on them.

    Surely the fix is.

    a) delete outlook, use other...
    b) secure windows
    c) might as well delete IE too, and use moz.

    Theres my billion$ sollution.

    oh and D) just add a 30sec delayqueue per email on all emailservers, the senders would be limited.

  25. Re:catch up with google? on Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam · · Score: 1

    Thats my model in reverse, I like to take commercial software making lots of $$$, and make an OpenSource clone copying all the features I can, at 1/10th the development time , then make it free and watch their profits dive, hopefully they 'buy me out' to stop development ;-)