While I'll agree that the space race provided valuable spinoffs, the manned program then and now is all about prestige and politics. The current manned program (read ISS) provides no science of any value, and it never will.
I still think that commercial manned space flight is the only way to go. Let NASA focus on robotic missions and big science.
O'Keefe is a former Secretary of the Navy and has taught at Oxford, Cambridge. He's also be a member of high level policy teams at the Naval Post-Grad school. You can find out more about him here.
Why does NASA have to do manned flight at all? They are at their best doing robotic science missions. I say that more private dollars (or rupes or whatever) should be used for manned flight programs.
hmmm, I go from home (Airport) to work (fixed) all the time without problems with my dual-USB iBook. I wonder why not (not that I'm complaining mind you.)
Re:AV companies?
on
The Virus Squad
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
programmers that prefer to spend their know-how writing code they will never get paid for, instead of selling their experience to someone who needs it and earn a lot of money
Right, no one would ever write code for the joy of writing it. That's why this OSS fad will never take off...oh wait.
This, of course, is a myth. What isn't a myth is that the Soviets tested a anti-satellite weapon on a US space shuttle. Obviously no one was injured, but there have been efforts to weaponize space for a loooong time.
I was coding on the System/38 and AS/400 when I bought my mom's old C64. My brother and I had bought GEOS for her earlier, so I started using that as well.
I used it to produce a neighborhood newsletter that I must say looked damn good. The word processing app for GEOS was really pretty good for small scale desktop publishing on the cheap.
And it was fun to write apps for with GEOBasic. The only problem was the disk overhead that GEOBasic apps had. They were *huge*. There was a little app published in Compute that crunched them down though.
Kludges are not "the black eye of science". They are initial attempts to explain observations. They may look foolish down the road, but early theories are, in fact, a starting point for further study.
As far as the cosmological constant is concerned, it seems to have new life.
Read the rest of that sentence. I said Wintel as well. In fact I built stuff for the Apple I (that meant building the boards, soldering, etc), as well as working on the hardware side on PCs from the 8088 days onward.
What you said was that anyone who knows anything about computers should not get a Mac. I clearly showed that I know about computers.
The fact that you equate "knowing" about computers with being able to put together some parts from Foo.com shows that you really are not clueful about anything other than your own little world.
what 24 year old can't use a computer, fer chrissake?!?
I provide tech support to college students on a daily basis, and believe me, they are as ignorant of computers as any 60 year old.
Like the one today, who thought that because he changed his name down at the courthouse, his login wouldn't work anymore. (After all, he had a new real name).
but a Mac, for someone with computer experience is a poor choice, because I built my computer in very little time, and even since turning it into a beast,
I guess my 20 years of software development, on everything from 3090s, AS/400s and Wintel don't count as experience in your book. I just switched to OS X on an iBook and couldn't be happier. Compared to my Dell(s) (both desktop and notebook) it is a clearly better product running a clearly superior OS. YMMV of course.
That's the big question in climatology - what is Man's impact (if any) on climate.
There are several things that are usually not mentioned on/. when these types of stories come up:
We don't have a lot of data on climate parameters past 200 years ago
What data we do have show a pretty large fluctuation in CO2 levels (between 175 and 280 ppm)
Solar output has increased over time
For those reasons and others it's just not possible with what we know right now to know what impact Man has had.
I've attended talks at the Land Institute about using restored prairie as a carbon sink. Apparently the native prairies in North America were awesome carbon sinks due to the deep root structures that the plants had. Modern crops have much shallower roots and therefore can't pull as much out of the atmosphere.
You can, of course, register a trademark in the US with the Federal government, which would trump state registrations. Federal registration allows you to use the registered symbol (the circled r).
Slashdot Mirror
While I'll agree that the space race provided valuable spinoffs, the manned program then and now is all about prestige and politics. The current manned program (read ISS) provides no science of any value, and it never will.
I still think that commercial manned space flight is the only way to go. Let NASA focus on robotic missions and big science.
Nancy called, and she wants you to pick up some milk and bread on the way home.
There's always itpapers.com.
O'Keefe is a former Secretary of the Navy and has taught at Oxford, Cambridge. He's also be a member of high level policy teams at the Naval Post-Grad school. You can find out more about him here.
Why does NASA have to do manned flight at all? They are at their best doing robotic science missions. I say that more private dollars (or rupes or whatever) should be used for manned flight programs.
Here's a brief bio on Lyman Spitzer, the "father" of space telescopes
hmmm, I go from home (Airport) to work (fixed) all the time without problems with my dual-USB iBook. I wonder why not (not that I'm complaining mind you.)
Right, no one would ever write code for the joy of writing it. That's why this OSS fad will never take off...oh wait.
I think that Brad Guth hasn't forgotten Venus
My website after the last update.
Well, they say that the plural of anecdote is data
This, of course, is a myth. What isn't a myth is that the Soviets tested a anti-satellite weapon on a US space shuttle. Obviously no one was injured, but there have been efforts to weaponize space for a loooong time.
Actually, the first man-made diamond was made at McPherson College in Kansas in 1936.
I was coding on the System/38 and AS/400 when I bought my mom's old C64. My brother and I had bought GEOS for her earlier, so I started using that as well.
I used it to produce a neighborhood newsletter that I must say looked damn good. The word processing app for GEOS was really pretty good for small scale desktop publishing on the cheap.
And it was fun to write apps for with GEOBasic. The only problem was the disk overhead that GEOBasic apps had. They were *huge*. There was a little app published in Compute that crunched them down though.
Oh yeah! Ethiopian food is great! When I lived in Kansas City, I'd go to a place called the Blue Nile. Food was exactly as you've described.
You mean with something like this.
IIRC, the Kansas Cosmosphere has an example of one of these robot explorers.
Kludges are not "the black eye of science". They are initial attempts to explain observations. They may look foolish down the road, but early theories are, in fact, a starting point for further study.
As far as the cosmological constant is concerned, it seems to have new life.
Read the rest of that sentence. I said Wintel as well. In fact I built stuff for the Apple I (that meant building the boards, soldering, etc), as well as working on the hardware side on PCs from the 8088 days onward. What you said was that anyone who knows anything about computers should not get a Mac. I clearly showed that I know about computers. The fact that you equate "knowing" about computers with being able to put together some parts from Foo.com shows that you really are not clueful about anything other than your own little world.
- We don't have a lot of data on climate parameters past 200 years ago
- What data we do have show a pretty large fluctuation in CO2 levels (between 175 and 280 ppm)
- Solar output has increased over time
For those reasons and others it's just not possible with what we know right now to know what impact Man has had.I've attended talks at the Land Institute about using restored prairie as a carbon sink. Apparently the native prairies in North America were awesome carbon sinks due to the deep root structures that the plants had. Modern crops have much shallower roots and therefore can't pull as much out of the atmosphere.
I agree. My wife, who is *not* a SF fan at all, loved Firefly. Her response when I told her it was cancelled - "That sucks".
Tigerlaunch.
You can, of course, register a trademark in the US with the Federal government, which would trump state registrations. Federal registration allows you to use the registered symbol (the circled r).