The problem as I see it, is that Linux is seen as the Windows killer. It is not yet that way. We are willing to praise lackluster device support, and non functioning desktop environments because they don't give us a BSOD or tell us our applications are doing something "illegal".
We need a Lindows type OS, that has a nearly flawles, Windows-like interface, and easy to use device support. We also need massive support for everything that is cool on the Web for home users to tackle learning Linux.
I'm not a computer dummy, but I had trouble getting my scroll button on my mouse to work in Mandrake 9.0. I set it to where it SHOULD have worked and it didn't. Then I rebooted, and all the sudden it worked. Nothing told me I had to reboot, and I assumed I didn't because I was switching between mouse selections and other features were changing so how was I to know that the scroll button needed a reboot?
If I were in Windows, they would have told me to reboot as soon as I picked another mouse. This is just one example of less than thrilling support for my hardware. My soundcard and NIC didn't work either without tinkering.
Thanks for letting me rant. I want Linux to kill Windows [to the point where it is affordable and stable], but Linux cannot do that yet. Standardization will help that, but Linux is not meant to be standard for everything! Contradiction, eek!
You need non standard versions of Linux for people who don't want it for Desktops. Period. Trouble is, those people are the ones driving its development, so we won't see a standard Linux anytime in the next decade.
You beat me to my joke.
Damn, great minds think alike. Maybe that is why scientists don't need to read other's papers, because they already know what they are going to say...
Not linked so they aren't/.'ed too quickly. Not that they are wonderful pictures, they are just my second and 3rd pictures of meteors ever. I got 2 Leonids in one shot [ pic available from another website].
I used a Canon Powershot S30 digital, ISO400 setting, 15 second, 2.8fstop, and 2 second timer with a cardboard "tripod", and warm clothes with luck.
The problem with radiation shielding isn't so much the mass, but the thickness. Hydrogen makes an excellent radiation shield, that is why research is being done into the shielding properties of polyethyelene. More mass, means more nuclei to bombard, and more danger to the astronauts.
You need thick, low mass material to work as a shield.
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I noticed this anniversary was comming up because I just wrote a report about human based exploration. From what I found on the web, it seems radiation is what is stopping us from going to Mars. Near Earth we are protected by a magnetic feild, however the Moon, and Mars don't produce this field, so we need to take shielding with us. [A new movie is based on the molten metal core of Earth; I noticed it in the theater today before ST X] Polyethyelene is a very good radiation shield, because it has so much Hydrogen in it.
I expect the next missions to the moon to be robotic. However we will go back and set up a lab there. It makes much more sense, than shooting for a 2 year mission to Mars with untested technology and ground crews.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Try searching google.com for Interferometer and come back when you are ready.
Discovering other planets is very important, as it helps us understand if our solar system is familiar. We don't even know all we can about our moon, so how are we supposed to tell what is OUT THERE?
This will be the doomsday of our planet as we know it. Our genetically modified planlife will rise and overtake us as the meteors blind as as they activate warheads in satellites.
I'm just glad I watched Nemesis before it all ended...
You rock Star Trek! But you ain't getting any more money till the DVD is out [or maybe in the cheap theatre]. Well... Maybe one more time at a $10 theater.
The voice recognition software we have today, will never catch on in the workplace, unless everyone is given their own private office. Cubicles won't cut it.
How are you supposed to dictate a message to/. if you are at work "working"?
I wonder about people when they consider a people who care for music, and treat an instrument properly "savages", yet the piano in my college residence is ruined with misuse and ugly graphiti carving.
Who are the savages? Do people in the Amazon write on public pianos too? "For a good time call Zanthia." --- "Hey Zanthia, wanna have a good time!"
Well you are clearly laying out flamebait, because anyone who's watched the Voyage Home IV knows it was a very good movie. "Vhich vay to the nuclear wessels?" And you must have missed where Spock pinched the punk with the boom box?
Seriously man, if you are going to dis the best trek movie of the TOS crew, you should watch it.
Err... What about the first season of TNG? That was... how do we say.... "classic". Not exactly winning TV however. The Great Bird had great ideas for making TV and money [and women on the side], but he hardly made the best of Trek.
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The sheer fact that people think they can label and disparage another because of a TV show or movie they watch, doesn't make me mad only. It makes me feel sorry for the other person, so is so limited as to not know the joy of the Borg and thrill of Warp speed.
People who let non-geeks dictate what kind of sci-fi they watch, make me madder though...
It think you are onto something. The reason Linux is disapointing many, is because people say it is ready for home desktop use, and it is not as easy to install or configure as Windows is.
Everyone is so desperate for a Windows substitute that doesn't BSOD and run email worms, that we are willing to praise even lackluster software that makes us pull out our teeth.
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Is this probe that unimportant, that even /. geeks have rejected talking about it?
The problem as I see it, is that Linux is seen as the Windows killer. It is not yet that way. We are willing to praise lackluster device support, and non functioning desktop environments because they don't give us a BSOD or tell us our applications are doing something "illegal".
We need a Lindows type OS, that has a nearly flawles, Windows-like interface, and easy to use device support. We also need massive support for everything that is cool on the Web for home users to tackle learning Linux.
I'm not a computer dummy, but I had trouble getting my scroll button on my mouse to work in Mandrake 9.0. I set it to where it SHOULD have worked and it didn't. Then I rebooted, and all the sudden it worked. Nothing told me I had to reboot, and I assumed I didn't because I was switching between mouse selections and other features were changing so how was I to know that the scroll button needed a reboot?
If I were in Windows, they would have told me to reboot as soon as I picked another mouse. This is just one example of less than thrilling support for my hardware. My soundcard and NIC didn't work either without tinkering.
Thanks for letting me rant. I want Linux to kill Windows [to the point where it is affordable and stable], but Linux cannot do that yet. Standardization will help that, but Linux is not meant to be standard for everything! Contradiction, eek!
You need non standard versions of Linux for people who don't want it for Desktops. Period. Trouble is, those people are the ones driving its development, so we won't see a standard Linux anytime in the next decade.
I can hardly wait until the 100X drives come out. :-)
Then I don't have to wait for the Sun to melt my CDs, because the drive will do it for me
You beat me to my joke.
Damn, great minds think alike. Maybe that is why scientists don't need to read other's papers, because they already know what they are going to say...
http://uregina.ca/~kleinjoh/images/gem1.jpg
/.'ed too quickly. Not that they are wonderful pictures, they are just my second and 3rd pictures of meteors ever. I got 2 Leonids in one shot [ pic available from another website].
http://uregina.ca/~kleinjoh/images/gem2.jpg
Not linked so they aren't
I used a Canon Powershot S30 digital, ISO400 setting, 15 second, 2.8fstop, and 2 second timer with a cardboard "tripod", and warm clothes with luck.
I saw a fireball cut through a cloud once. It turned green around it, and it was still daylight. Didn't hit the ground though.
The problem with radiation shielding isn't so much the mass, but the thickness.
Hydrogen makes an excellent radiation shield, that is why research is being done into the shielding properties of polyethyelene. More mass, means more nuclei to bombard, and more danger to the astronauts.
You need thick, low mass material to work as a shield.
I'm hiring to replace the fat guy with the thumb.
Are you interested in a job?
NASA has the mission summary here.
I noticed this anniversary was comming up because I just wrote a report about human based exploration. From what I found on the web, it seems radiation is what is stopping us from going to Mars. Near Earth we are protected by a magnetic feild, however the Moon, and Mars don't produce this field, so we need to take shielding with us. [A new movie is based on the molten metal core of Earth; I noticed it in the theater today before ST X] Polyethyelene is a very good radiation shield, because it has so much Hydrogen in it.
I expect the next missions to the moon to be robotic. However we will go back and set up a lab there. It makes much more sense, than shooting for a 2 year mission to Mars with untested technology and ground crews.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Try searching google.com for Interferometer and come back when you are ready.
Discovering other planets is very important, as it helps us understand if our solar system is familiar. We don't even know all we can about our moon, so how are we supposed to tell what is OUT THERE?
Interferometers.
Discover water for fuel and life.
Geology.
And the thrill. Why?
Why not?
Obligiatory John Wyndham plug:
Day of the Triffids.
This will be the doomsday of our planet as we know it. Our genetically modified planlife will rise and overtake us as the meteors blind as as they activate warheads in satellites.
I'm just glad I watched Nemesis before it all ended...
Exiting the movie theater:
Wow! I can't believe Picard is Data's father!*
You rock Star Trek! But you ain't getting any more money till the DVD is out [or maybe in the cheap theatre]. Well... Maybe one more time at a $10 theater.
*Simpsons joke for the uninformed.
You told me to correct you, so here it is:
The TNG series told us there were many prototypes that Soonge worked on.
I thought the movie got better as time went on, and the only uncomfortable spot was Data singing.
How bloody long have we been waiting for Picard to "drive" home his point?
This movie delivers in a big way like no other has.
I give it 9.5/10 for Trek, and 9/10 for any movie.
"[Data's] the only one to project recognizable emotion."
Oh, I don't think so. I think Troi moaning on the bed was one pretty sweet emotional scene...
AC, go watch the movie, and then come back with your head hung in shame.
You P'Tak!
And no I didn't look up that Klingon, so if the spelling is wrong, I don't want to hear about it!
... and time travel;
jokes;
nuclear wessels;
kidney drugs;
invention of transparent aluminum;
Earth;
Killer [probe from another galaxy];
And you only notice the whales?
Computer? Hellllooo Computer?
"You need to use the keyboard."
Keyboard?! How quaint!
The voice recognition software we have today, will never catch on in the workplace, unless everyone is given their own private office. Cubicles won't cut it.
/. if you are at work "working"?
How are you supposed to dictate a message to
I wonder about people when they consider a people who care for music, and treat an instrument properly "savages", yet the piano in my college residence is ruined with misuse and ugly graphiti carving.
Who are the savages? Do people in the Amazon write on public pianos too? "For a good time call Zanthia." --- "Hey Zanthia, wanna have a good time!"
--"NO. And stop calling for me!"
Well you are clearly laying out flamebait, because anyone who's watched the Voyage Home IV knows it was a very good movie. "Vhich vay to the nuclear wessels?"
And you must have missed where Spock pinched the punk with the boom box?
Seriously man, if you are going to dis the best trek movie of the TOS crew, you should watch it.
Err... What about the first season of TNG?
That was... how do we say.... "classic". Not exactly winning TV however. The Great Bird had great ideas for making TV and money [and women on the side], but he hardly made the best of Trek.
The sheer fact that people think they can label and disparage another because of a TV show or movie they watch, doesn't make me mad only. It makes me feel sorry for the other person, so is so limited as to not know the joy of the Borg and thrill of Warp speed.
People who let non-geeks dictate what kind of sci-fi they watch, make me madder though...
It think you are onto something. The reason Linux is disapointing many, is because people say it is ready for home desktop use, and it is not as easy to install or configure as Windows is.
Everyone is so desperate for a Windows substitute that doesn't BSOD and run email worms, that we are willing to praise even lackluster software that makes us pull out our teeth.