Protip: If slashdot wants women to stay around, you can't condescend on them for impractical ideas. She was just trying, much more than most women. Something like, "that's a cool idea! Here is some reading about those things". Then she can find out on her own.
The only way that Microsoft can improve Windows at this point is to make it run well on virtual machines so that it can be a little bit easier to migrate away from.
You're talking about an industrial setting, and trying to relate it to a hospital/office setting. They're just too different to compare.
When we create hardware to be deployed, the IT Staff looks at our specification sheets and follows them, creates a policy within their organization, and integrates it into their network
Anything more, and we, the manufacturer, step in with either a software patch or change in procedures.
What I love about Open Source operating systems is the versatility. You can take a clean install of debian, and still run it on 20 year old hardware if you choose to be picky about your packages. You start with a shell, text editor, and a DHCP client, and from there, you have a blank canvas.
While I believe that Android is 100 steps in the right direction to getting great consumer-based products, and that I really appreciate what Ubuntu has done for Linux, I still prefer Apple products for Desktop and Mobile applications. Either way, we've come a long way baby. We are now in a world where large corporations like Apple, IBM, and others are contributing to open source for common knowledge, common good, and the benefit of all.
Now look at Microsoft. Try to trim down Windows 7 to run on an old machine. Try to manipulate Windows 7 to become a part of your product cycle. You can build an entire business with Linux / BSD, just as Apple and Google have. That is what has made them successful. Microsoft was successful for their open-ness in the fact that anybody could develop for Windows.
You're an idiot and know nothing about electricity. If you were to remove your skin, your body has little resistance. You can touch up to about 40 volts without it going through your skin, which is why I would like to assume that this report is pure pseudo science. If you give yourself enough voltage to go through the skin (40+ Volts), or bypass the skin by using probes that go into the skin ( less than 1 Volt ), you are pushing enough current through your body to stop the heart. It only takes milliamps to put your heart into fibrillation.
Telling a bunch of people who know nothing about electricity to start trying to push current through their skulls is a horrible idea, and an irresponsible move both on the part of Slashdot, and the author of this publication.
I'd hope that the people of slashdot would not be dumb enough to try this. You can KILL yourself with 9 VOLT BATTERY if you go through the skin. I would suggest that the editor note this in the summary. Telling, or even hinting at a crowd, especially tinkerers, to attempt such a thing is negligence. Sorry bloggers, but a "I'm not responsible" tag somewhere on the site doesn't actually make you not responsible, otherwise BP would have done that on all their rigs.
I'm pretty sure that this is a fake. The idea is horrible, the implementation is clunky, and the use of Angry Birds in the screenshot to promote the store is childish at best. Ugly, unintuitive, and just pure garbage. Also, I'm sure that Opera wouldn't be one of the firsts to get to try this out. Junk.
Buran was not an atmospheric test bed, it was a soviet aerodynamic replica of the US Space Shuttle. Buran only looks the same as the Space Shuttle, inside, it's completely different.
Private flight will take over mundane tasks like taking humans to the International Space Station. Space X has made leaps and bounds towards this goal, and I forsee us using Commercial Access to Space by 2015. It was the best approach to this. The downside of abandoning the Space Shuttle is that we will no longer have the ability to carry large payloads from orbit back to earth. That was the only niche the Space Shuttle had that others did not. While it wouldn't be able to bring back a large payload like Hubble (it can't bring back as much as it can take up), it could take failed pieces of the ISS and allow us to study the effects of space on materials.
There are talks of keeping one of the orbiters, Endeavour, and allowing it to be used for the Commercial Access to Space program.
Orion, like the shuttle, is reusable. It can also be used on different launch vehicles. The Space X Falcon 9 for LEO operations, or whatever new Heavy Lift Vehicle is used for deep space missions. The Ares I, the original manned launch vehicle for Constellation, may come back as the ATK Liberty Launch, under Commercial Access to Space.
The main wasted assets of the reshaping of Constellation are the Lunar Landers. If we get an Republican next term, there is a good chance the program will come back stronger as ever. Lunar missions, combined by the efficiency of CATS for LEO operations. Commercial Access to Space is one of the best ideas NASA ever had. I suggest everybody look into it.
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I'd rather have a phone that has a software-swappable identifier that handshakes with the tower, but I suppose that is just dreaming.
Protip: If slashdot wants women to stay around, you can't condescend on them for impractical ideas. She was just trying, much more than most women. Something like, "that's a cool idea! Here is some reading about those things". Then she can find out on her own.
Needs an artists rendition, the second most important thing in astronomy.
If they didn't bounce, a backscatter x-ray device would not have the ability to exist. I still don't see how they are justified, such a horrible idea.
That seems to be the consensus. What are we to do?
This is stupid, not news, and a waste of everyones time. These kids need to get over themselves and start on some real work.
The only way that Microsoft can improve Windows at this point is to make it run well on virtual machines so that it can be a little bit easier to migrate away from.
It sounds so weird when you put it like that. "Lunar capable space program".
I think that journalists and others need to reaffirm this by using it in speech every day.
We do not have what we had before: A lunar capable space program.
The shuttle is only a small step in what we were supposed to use it for. Read 2001: A Space Odyssey and you'll see what I mean
Again, we do not have a lunar capable space program.
Why hasn't someone done this already?!
Stupid kids and their little evolutionary products, think they're so advanced and modern. What a bunch of garbage that is this generation.
It's Endeavour, not Endeavor.
Probably because there is no way that it would be able to recoup the $300 million cost of sending up two porn stars.
They mixed it up with the RIAA pricing algorithm.
You're talking about an industrial setting, and trying to relate it to a hospital/office setting. They're just too different to compare.
When we create hardware to be deployed, the IT Staff looks at our specification sheets and follows them, creates a policy within their organization, and integrates it into their network
Anything more, and we, the manufacturer, step in with either a software patch or change in procedures.
What I love about Open Source operating systems is the versatility. You can take a clean install of debian, and still run it on 20 year old hardware if you choose to be picky about your packages. You start with a shell, text editor, and a DHCP client, and from there, you have a blank canvas.
While I believe that Android is 100 steps in the right direction to getting great consumer-based products, and that I really appreciate what Ubuntu has done for Linux, I still prefer Apple products for Desktop and Mobile applications. Either way, we've come a long way baby. We are now in a world where large corporations like Apple, IBM, and others are contributing to open source for common knowledge, common good, and the benefit of all.
Now look at Microsoft. Try to trim down Windows 7 to run on an old machine. Try to manipulate Windows 7 to become a part of your product cycle. You can build an entire business with Linux / BSD, just as Apple and Google have. That is what has made them successful. Microsoft was successful for their open-ness in the fact that anybody could develop for Windows.
In the end, freedom prevails.
You're an idiot and know nothing about electricity. If you were to remove your skin, your body has little resistance. You can touch up to about 40 volts without it going through your skin, which is why I would like to assume that this report is pure pseudo science. If you give yourself enough voltage to go through the skin (40+ Volts), or bypass the skin by using probes that go into the skin ( less than 1 Volt ), you are pushing enough current through your body to stop the heart. It only takes milliamps to put your heart into fibrillation.
Telling a bunch of people who know nothing about electricity to start trying to push current through their skulls is a horrible idea, and an irresponsible move both on the part of Slashdot, and the author of this publication.
I'd hope that the people of slashdot would not be dumb enough to try this. You can KILL yourself with 9 VOLT BATTERY if you go through the skin. I would suggest that the editor note this in the summary. Telling, or even hinting at a crowd, especially tinkerers, to attempt such a thing is negligence. Sorry bloggers, but a "I'm not responsible" tag somewhere on the site doesn't actually make you not responsible, otherwise BP would have done that on all their rigs.
I'm pretty sure that this is a fake. The idea is horrible, the implementation is clunky, and the use of Angry Birds in the screenshot to promote the store is childish at best. Ugly, unintuitive, and just pure garbage. Also, I'm sure that Opera wouldn't be one of the firsts to get to try this out. Junk.
Buran was not an atmospheric test bed, it was a soviet aerodynamic replica of the US Space Shuttle. Buran only looks the same as the Space Shuttle, inside, it's completely different.
I thought the model died. Headline should be revised for clarity.
Private flight will take over mundane tasks like taking humans to the International Space Station. Space X has made leaps and bounds towards this goal, and I forsee us using Commercial Access to Space by 2015. It was the best approach to this. The downside of abandoning the Space Shuttle is that we will no longer have the ability to carry large payloads from orbit back to earth. That was the only niche the Space Shuttle had that others did not. While it wouldn't be able to bring back a large payload like Hubble (it can't bring back as much as it can take up), it could take failed pieces of the ISS and allow us to study the effects of space on materials.
There are talks of keeping one of the orbiters, Endeavour, and allowing it to be used for the Commercial Access to Space program.
Orion, like the shuttle, is reusable. It can also be used on different launch vehicles. The Space X Falcon 9 for LEO operations, or whatever new Heavy Lift Vehicle is used for deep space missions. The Ares I, the original manned launch vehicle for Constellation, may come back as the ATK Liberty Launch, under Commercial Access to Space.
The main wasted assets of the reshaping of Constellation are the Lunar Landers. If we get an Republican next term, there is a good chance the program will come back stronger as ever. Lunar missions, combined by the efficiency of CATS for LEO operations. Commercial Access to Space is one of the best ideas NASA ever had. I suggest everybody look into it.
I suggest that everybody read about Orion at the Lockheed Martin Website.
I highly recommend this video.
Ever since they started taking notes.
That all depends on the variation of English spoken.
These guys have obviously never heard of John Titor.