the military doesn't need NASA
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I'm sure there are some military readers here on slashdot. Hopefully they can back this.
From what I have personally seen at various Air Force Labs, the military does not need NASA whatsoever. They may occasionally work together but for the most part the military has done tons of stuff in space on their own without NASA's help. They have the capabilities to launch their own stuff and monitor their own stuff. We should all be well aware there are already plenty of satellites in space that even NASA doesn't know what they are.
To say Bush is going to militarize NASA and the space program is just naive. It goes to show how many paranoid people there are around here (especially slashdot) who will not go very far to try and find a conspiracy theory. People need to stop taking the ongoings of politics and spinning into anti Bush sentiments. Not that I'm a big fan of him but seriously.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be marked as flame bait but I'm sick of the paranoid conspiracy crap slashdot throws out every day.
My question is bizarre. I'm not smart enough to know if this is a stupid question, but...
If we were to mine the moon, (assuming heavy mining were to occur) would we in any way affect the density of it thus changing the gravitational affect it has on earth?
My thought is that it wouldn't take much change to have a huge affect on the tides of our oceans.
I love The Sims and more importantly so does my wife. Why did I not get Sims Online? I tried posting a Ask Slashdot question about this. Basically, there are a dozen MMORPG's that I am interested in. However, I'm not gonna pay a subscription for each one. Making the choice on which one I want takes so much time that I end up not choosing at all.
My suggestion is that all these companies partner up for a subscription service and make it available to a bunch of games. Pay $10/month and be able to play many online games. (assuming you buy the copy of the game)
I like another reply though in this discussion. Look at how well blizzard.net and such do. Sell the game not the subscription.
What it sounds like Linux needs is a user friendly post installer. That is after a distribution is installed, on the first boot, it asks the user what programs they would like loaded (mozilla, galleon, apache, etc).
The choice to install this post installer could be installed during configuration by the distributor (dell). That way it can be left out of the normal slashdot user install who picks their packages during configuration.
The H1B Visa is currently being used mainly by computer professionals. This is a temporary visa, however it is extendable. (There is a limit on how long you can extend this visa.) The H1B Visa also has a Cap each year, limiting the number of H1B visas Alloted. The fee is around $610.00 to file ($500.00 of which the petitioning company must pay). Here is a guide to more specific information regarding this visa, and will tell you how to apply.
However if you are looking for a permanent visa, you may have several options open to you, depending on your Native Country. This book outlines the different ways in which one can obtain a Green Card (Permanent Residence.)
I hope this helps. Unfortunately, there is a whole lot more I could say because there are several ways to get a green card. However, it makes for too much info for a response on slashdot. Hopefully you will find the links provided useful.
I wish I had seen this earlier. Wireless is probably your best bet. I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico where we have also been screwed by US Worst. (now Qwest)
I had heard a while back (on slashdot I believe) about wireless in the Phoenix area. They were using radio waves to transmit the net. I thought it was kinda cool at the time but figured I'd never see the light of it.
Come to find out there is a solution in Alb. from a company called Clearwire. We just ordered it today after seeing a demo. It was fast. (the demo we saw was 512k down, 256 up.) Clearwire peaks at 640k down 256 up, which is MUCH better than the isdn line we've been using. US Worst will never get us DSL or T1 for that matter. (even though Intel has a large fab a mile from my office, I still can't figure that one out) Anyway, search for a wireless service. Your local ISP's probably already know and can deliver it to you. Oh, they will be installing it next week which I can't wait to see. Only involves attaching an antenna to the roof and a router to our hub, all of which are being provided as part of the server. ($200 per month for 512k down. This is much better than the $300 plus that US West was quoting on DSL)
This makes perfect business sense. I feel bad and all for the victim of the DoS. However, the ISP has other clients to worry about. Free speech is great but not when it hurts others. Again, sorry to the victim here, but his site was the target. Thus his free speech hindered other peoples rights. Thus the ISP has every right to protect the rights of their other clients.
It is nice to see that gnome/kde are starting to address printing issues. I like seeing the gnome/kde combine in efforts for some window manager standard features. However, I have never seen any mention of gnome and kde using the same printing api. Shouldn't that be incredibly important? That way when I run my gtk programs inside of kde or vice versa, printing will not be an issue. Am I missing something in the way the individual API's work? Would it not be an issue because the libraries exist on the system anyway regardless of the WM you are using? Someone please enlighten me.
Right now my opinion is that the break up the DOJ is considering wouldn't work. I've seen lots of other posts that talk about this idea. Here is my two cents.
When the government broke up AT&T there was "immediate" competition. Each newly created company had one thing to do. Try and get market share as fast as possible. This meant they had to be better at serving the customers than any of the other companies.
From what I understand, they want to break up M$ into 3-4 companies. A OS company, a office/other M$ product company, etc. This simply won't work. These areas of M$ probably already act as their own entities. If they are going to break it up they need to create competition. They should split the company into competing OS divisions. Each company would get the current version and code for Win2000, CE, etc. It would then be their job to survive by pleaseing the customers in whatever way possible. (price, quality, etc)
The Office products and game products, and internet crap has to be dealt with as well. I haven't given much thought to that though. They could probably remain as one company. It is the OS after all that gives M$ leverage to pull the unethical crap they have pulled.
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I'm sure there are some military readers here on slashdot. Hopefully they can back this.
From what I have personally seen at various Air Force Labs, the military does not need NASA whatsoever. They may occasionally work together but for the most part the military has done tons of stuff in space on their own without NASA's help. They have the capabilities to launch their own stuff and monitor their own stuff. We should all be well aware there are already plenty of satellites in space that even NASA doesn't know what they are.
To say Bush is going to militarize NASA and the space program is just naive. It goes to show how many paranoid people there are around here (especially slashdot) who will not go very far to try and find a conspiracy theory. People need to stop taking the ongoings of politics and spinning into anti Bush sentiments. Not that I'm a big fan of him but seriously.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be marked as flame bait but I'm sick of the paranoid conspiracy crap slashdot throws out every day.
If I remember correctly, courts are also in the business of deciding which laws are unconstitutional. (that whole checks and balances thing)
Remember the little ruling from that one court that said the pledge was unconstitutional?
My question is bizarre. I'm not smart enough to know if this is a stupid question, but...
If we were to mine the moon, (assuming heavy mining were to occur) would we in any way affect the density of it thus changing the gravitational affect it has on earth?
My thought is that it wouldn't take much change to have a huge affect on the tides of our oceans.
I love The Sims and more importantly so does my wife. Why did I not get Sims Online? I tried posting a Ask Slashdot question about this. Basically, there are a dozen MMORPG's that I am interested in. However, I'm not gonna pay a subscription for each one. Making the choice on which one I want takes so much time that I end up not choosing at all.
My suggestion is that all these companies partner up for a subscription service and make it available to a bunch of games. Pay $10/month and be able to play many online games. (assuming you buy the copy of the game)
I like another reply though in this discussion. Look at how well blizzard.net and such do. Sell the game not the subscription.
What it sounds like Linux needs is a user friendly post installer. That is after a distribution is installed, on the first boot, it asks the user what programs they would like loaded (mozilla, galleon, apache, etc).
The choice to install this post installer could be installed during configuration by the distributor (dell). That way it can be left out of the normal slashdot user install who picks their packages during configuration.
I hope this helps. Unfortunately, there is a whole lot more I could say because there are several ways to get a green card. However, it makes for too much info for a response on slashdot. Hopefully you will find the links provided useful.
I wish I had seen this earlier. Wireless is probably your best bet. I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico where we have also been screwed by US Worst. (now Qwest)
I had heard a while back (on slashdot I believe) about wireless in the Phoenix area. They were using radio waves to transmit the net. I thought it was kinda cool at the time but figured I'd never see the light of it.
Come to find out there is a solution in Alb. from a company called Clearwire. We just ordered it today after seeing a demo. It was fast. (the demo we saw was 512k down, 256 up.) Clearwire peaks at 640k down 256 up, which is MUCH better than the isdn line we've been using. US Worst will never get us DSL or T1 for that matter. (even though Intel has a large fab a mile from my office, I still can't figure that one out) Anyway, search for a wireless service. Your local ISP's probably already know and can deliver it to you. Oh, they will be installing it next week which I can't wait to see. Only involves attaching an antenna to the roof and a router to our hub, all of which are being provided as part of the server. ($200 per month for 512k down. This is much better than the $300 plus that US West was quoting on DSL)
This makes perfect business sense. I feel bad and all for the victim of the DoS. However, the ISP has other clients to worry about. Free speech is great but not when it hurts others. Again, sorry to the victim here, but his site was the target. Thus his free speech hindered other peoples rights. Thus the ISP has every right to protect the rights of their other clients.
It is nice to see that gnome/kde are starting to address printing issues. I like seeing the gnome/kde combine in efforts for some window manager standard features. However, I have never seen any mention of gnome and kde using the same printing api. Shouldn't that be incredibly important? That way when I run my gtk programs inside of kde or vice versa, printing will not be an issue. Am I missing something in the way the individual API's work? Would it not be an issue because the libraries exist on the system anyway regardless of the WM you are using? Someone please enlighten me.
Right now my opinion is that the break up the DOJ is considering wouldn't work. I've seen lots of other posts that talk about this idea. Here is my two cents.
When the government broke up AT&T there was "immediate" competition. Each newly created company had one thing to do. Try and get market share as fast as possible. This meant they had to be better at serving the customers than any of the other companies.
From what I understand, they want to break up M$ into 3-4 companies. A OS company, a office/other M$ product company, etc. This simply won't work. These areas of M$ probably already act as their own entities. If they are going to break it up they need to create competition. They should split the company into competing OS divisions. Each company would get the current version and code for Win2000, CE, etc. It would then be their job to survive by pleaseing the customers in whatever way possible. (price, quality, etc)
The Office products and game products, and internet crap has to be dealt with as well. I haven't given much thought to that though. They could probably remain as one company. It is the OS after all that gives M$ leverage to pull the unethical crap they have pulled.