In terms of number and diversity of missions, the ESA actually seems to be a lot more active than NASA overall. (That might just be perception, who knows.)
No offense, but you are indeed suffering from misperception. NASA's Deep Space 1 used ion propulsion 6 years ago. NASA's Lunar Prospector orbited the Moon, also 6 years ago, and before that in modern lunar probe history there was Clementine, from the US, but not NASA. And don't forget the current missions-- Stardust comet sample return mission, the Messenger Mercury mission, the Mars rovers, two Mars Orbiters, and the Deep Impact mission about to launch to smash into a comet. NASA/ESA also are collaborating on Cassini/Huygens at Saturn now.
Damn, someone ought to make a movie out of it, though I guess it'd be hard to explain the importance of it to people who didn't follow this...
A story in which a massive multinational corporation defends the right of the little guy with its lawyer hordes in a battle royale against creativity-killing, hard work-stealing greedy bastards from the most conservative of the United States!
Blue Gene does not have ram embeded in the CPU
Actually, it does have a few megabits of DRAM (shared L3 cache) embedded on the die with the two CPUs. Yes, the non-cache DRAM is on the node card, but I was referring to the L3 embedded DRAM.
Look at enlistment and tell me again that we don't have an imbalanced armed service.
And, as I forgot to mention, RTF post. I didn't tell you anything of the sort in the first place.
Nice? I don't think casualties are nice, but given the casualty statistics, it would seem that the American military's overseas dying and maimed population is more diverse than would be assumed from enlistment statistics.
Interestingly enough, the casualties in Iraq are not necessarily disproportionate by ethnicity... the figures for minorities are close to their portion of the population.
Interestingly enough, this Newsweek article hints at a material impact to IBM's bottom line that I haven't heard mentioned elsewhere. IBM's support of Linux plus IT professionals' and CS students' love of Linux creates goodwill that translates into some tangible gain when the IBM, HP, Dell and Sun sales reps come calling.
Everywhere else, the press hacks mention IBM's billions of dollars in Linux-related revenue, but they don't mention that an IT staffer told to buy Windoze servers from either HP or IBM might inexplicably favor IBM because they're a Groklaw reader.
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Very difficult to find-- I had to go to the Opportunity updates page and search for the first occurence of the word "power."
At least for democracy's sake he eked out the first majority of the vote since 1988.
Yeah, that would suck.
You also forgot to mention the problems inherent in launching the latest nifty electronics and image sensors into a radiation environment.
Which aren't like that?
No kidding, perhaps they meant vacuum tubes?
A better example would be television manufacturing. Those jobs really are gone.
NASA's Global Surveyor and Odessey and ESA's Express already provide data relay capabilities.
Questions like this are being answered at Neal's Metaweb site. Much more info there than you'll see in an interview response.
No joke. It's an industry. It should make money.
Only 0.3 millisecond?! Pah. My 2Ghz pentium can cycle 600,000 times in that period, and this atom can't even keep its protons in a bunch. Sheesh.
Blue Gene does not have ram embeded in the CPU Actually, it does have a few megabits of DRAM (shared L3 cache) embedded on the die with the two CPUs. Yes, the non-cache DRAM is on the node card, but I was referring to the L3 embedded DRAM.
Nah, wiping out a single small city would probably suffice.
Sure, and most ASICs with the PPC440 won't have embedded DRAM either.
They forgot to mention it also helps the war on terrorism.
Look at enlistment and tell me again that we don't have an imbalanced armed service. And, as I forgot to mention, RTF post. I didn't tell you anything of the sort in the first place.
Nice? I don't think casualties are nice, but given the casualty statistics, it would seem that the American military's overseas dying and maimed population is more diverse than would be assumed from enlistment statistics.
And not that this is a court, but asked and answered, your honor.
It's class that's disproportionate.
Mine is from 1997. No upgrade.
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Everywhere else, the press hacks mention IBM's billions of dollars in Linux-related revenue, but they don't mention that an IT staffer told to buy Windoze servers from either HP or IBM might inexplicably favor IBM because they're a Groklaw reader.
Sure, he's still waiting for his stock options to recover their value.