Once it becomes cheap enough to visit Mars with regularity, be it for simple science or tourism, it would actually make sense to establish a permanent base, rather than bringing everything along each time.
You're extrapolating an aweful lot from an analogy that only has superficial significance.
It's not extrapolation. (Nor was it my analogy in the first place) I believe that once the cost of the trip is reasonable, people will choose to stay on the other side. What you are saying is that the cost will never be reasonable. This is like--to continue the analogy--stating that in 1493, that no average joe will *ever* sail west across the Atlantic, and that every voyage would need to be funded by royalty. So it took perhaps 130 years before that was not true... so? I agree that the cost will be prohibitive for a long, long time. But that doesn't mean that it will always be.
In short, no, AFAIK. No LEMs, no Surveyors, no Lunokhods... But you could ask more here.
I believe it is because modern lunar orbiters have focused more on mapping minerals and such rather than on high-resolution imagers like the absolutely huge HiRISE.
How long would the US settlers have lasted if they'd had no natural resources apart from lots of very very salty / acidic dusts and regolith, a dim sun, low gravity, and had faced instant death in the event of a loss of air pressure / failure of any of several thousand literally "mission-critical" systems? Oh wait, for some of those failure modes, death would be slow, lingering, and unpleasant.
Even in the relatively temperate climate of North America, there are plenty of ways to die.
Regardless, I've actually thought along the same lines about colonization, and it has a lot to do with the economic rationale for going in the first place. Once there is one good reason to establish a population, everyone else follows to support that population. Columbus thought that we'd settle to get gold and silver, at Jamestown it was tobacco (eventually), in New England and Atlantic Canada it had a lot to do with just leaving Olde England and perhaps a very little to do with cod fisheries and fur trading. But once those settlements started, other economic activites were established to support the local population.
Once it becomes cheap enough to visit Mars with regularity, be it for simple science or tourism, it would actually make sense to establish a permanent base, rather than bringing everything along each time.
How often have we heard someone claim that we shouldn't allow something because it has never been proven to be safe?
Indeed, especially with regard to GMOs. Safety is a testable theory though, and "proven safe" is generally the third option of "lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Welcome to slashdot; here's your junk science for the day.
Welcome to Slashdot; here's your whining about semantics for the day. Pretty soon you're going to tell me that "subatomic particles" aren't actually particles, per se.
Those pole-pig transformers work just FINE in reverse
Interesting. I always wondered whether the "putting power back on the grid" dream meshed with the reality of different transmission voltages. At what point wouldn't things work in reverse? Can a part of the grid generate too much power to be transmitted elsewhere?
Much, much, much better than that travesty known as Clearcase (+ Clearquest) which perversely probably killed CMVC when IBM bought Rational out.
I am a very casual user of CMVC through scripts written by folks who know what they're doing, and it is as you describe in regards to levels attached to bugs... but from my little experience with it, the database of versioned files seems to be a bit removed from the filesystem metaphor that everyone is used to. It's a little harder to flip a switch and go browsing version 2.3.2.13 using cd and ls-- but as with any versioning system, it's only as powerful as the group using it and how they decide to use it.
But yup, we're moving to ClearCase, which seems to have some very powerful capabilities. Problem is that it seems I'm somewhat forced to understand them, and the CC lexicon, rather than just shoving my updates in a level. I'm still a dumb, non-power user, but I have many more possibilities to screw things up, it seems.
True. Today they asked how to use CMVC. 3 months later, they will say that IBM did not tell them how to open the file, or did not provide a text editor to read the files.
In disclosure, like 87 years ago, IBM provided them with a physical server with CMVC installed so that they could browse the code in all its versioned glory to their hearts content without even having to install CMVC. And that's good, because installing CMVC is probably as easy as playing wiffleball in a hurricane. But the point is that SCO has had access to this information for years-- they just didn't care to go looking for it.
I think Judge Wells sees what is going on and is giving SCO pretty much whatever they want, just to make sure they've got no grounds to appeal when he slaps them down (hopefully soon)
As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with standard processors and everything to do with FPGAs.
It seems what they propose is: Instead of the FPGA configuration bits being done with gates on the silicon wafer, why not perform configuration by configuring the metal-to-metal interconnects? After all, if the metal layers are thick compared to the interconnects between them, you can blow connections you don't need like blowing a fuse. By removing the FPGA configuration bits from the silicon wafer, they can save a lot of space, leading to higher speeds and lower costs.
Aha, thanks for digging through the awful press for the real story. If the interconnect is non-volatile and reprogrammable, then there are likely memory implications as well.
I know a number of people with DSL in Chittenden County, including one in Fairfax... it's more a matter of how far you are from some hardware dohickey than how populated your area is.
And I could definitely have it in Burlington, but I use cable instead. I haven't used Verizon since I canceled my local phone service in favor of my cell, which is about 20% cheaper per month.
the problem seems more related to a tendency to present extremely complex issues in a simplistic binary manner
I think a bigger problem is the credulity of the media. They rely on "idependent" reports and studies to create soundbites like "GAO reports that Medicare Prescriptions actually costs 79 trillion dollars a year" or "AAUW reports that even though far more women are going to colleges than men, schools still short-change girls." And that is it... straight from the press release to the telepromter, often without even at glance at methodology or even a mention of the political agenda of the organization funding the study.
So, what's fair? Reporting every biased claim issued by either side without comment? Or is actually stepping back and mentioning that the study was funded by a political organization and the methodology sucks? Kucinich doesn't want both sides fairly presented-- he wants the media to report that the "facts" used in opposition to his agenda were created by big corporations. This fairness doctrine will just end up with the media not questioning those facts because it's fair to treat both sides like they're not making stuff up.
Wonder how it feels to have quitting your job will end up on slashdot!?
I, for one, get tired of this bullshit. I don't give a crap how smart he is, he's not worth what they're going to be paying him. Can't be. The numbers for executive salaries just don't add up. He and the other 8-figure overlords who decided to hire him are all very good at using their smarts to play the politics game and--in their defense--no doubt countless hours of soul-sucking dedication to the man. Hey buddy, we'll pay you 20 mill to come to microsoft on the off chance that you'll somehow invent another blockbuster project or apply some technological insight that will earn us a few millions we wouldn't have otherwise. We MS executives have gotten so tired of ignoring the technological insight of our existing employees that we really really need YOU, because we think that somehow your perspective is so radically different that it's worth millions. Well, good for him.
while current performance microprocessors won't be made this way (too much power to dissipate), there are plenty of other microelectronics which uses power in the hundreds of milliwatts range. These, you could stack 10 high.
Given that current Intel dice appear to be about 50% cache, it would be nice to be able to slice the cache off and put it under the processor. Might be able to make the access path from the different memory banks more symmetric. Or, since DRAM and flash processes are tailored differently than logic processes, you could replace the SRAM cache with DRAM or flash from wafers processed entirely differently than the processor wafers.
an entire 150-person workforce is laid off and a new (much smaller) team is brought in to manage the old properties, things sometimes get lost in the shuffle.
I wonder if your beancounters would realize that a web property's value rapidly approaches zero when it is not maintained. Probably not. I guess they think netscape is a hole in the internet that you throw money into.
I just typed in "Javalobby" in the Google search and their link came up on top. If there was a problem, it looks like it's fixed.
Phew. At least when you're caught in the crossfire in the spam war, it's just a flesh wound. The seem to be on the third page of a Google search for java.
You are using a free service in exchange of which they are putting a bunch of advertisement on your screen. By blocking it, you become a free loader, absolutely useless for them as a customer. If you don't like the business model, pay for your webmail.
How is hiding the ads any different from not clicking on them?
I choose to read that as, "It helps the companies that actually make stuff." But yeah, I suppose it'll hurt the pocketbooks of people licensing debatable patents for money.
You shouldn't be forced to either fight a patent and not be able to produce whatever the patent covers during the multi-year suit (or risk massive fines) or just basically giving up and licensing the patent so you can stay in business.
IANAL, but I believe that licensing is forced when you want to prevent getting whacked with treble damages for willful infringement. As soon as you're notified, you'd better license or be damn sure that you'll prevail in court. This decision allows you to license to get out of willful infringement morass while still hedging your bets by arguing that patent is bogus in the first place...
Sometimes people confuse the R6000, a MIPS processor, with RS6000, a series of workstations made by IBM. So, if you're reading this in hope of finding out more about Linux on IBM machines, then you're reading the wrong document.
I think you're confused. They're RAD6000 computers, which are PowerPC and not MIPS based.
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In short, no, AFAIK. No LEMs, no Surveyors, no Lunokhods... But you could ask more here.
I believe it is because modern lunar orbiters have focused more on mapping minerals and such rather than on high-resolution imagers like the absolutely huge HiRISE.
Regardless, I've actually thought along the same lines about colonization, and it has a lot to do with the economic rationale for going in the first place. Once there is one good reason to establish a population, everyone else follows to support that population. Columbus thought that we'd settle to get gold and silver, at Jamestown it was tobacco (eventually), in New England and Atlantic Canada it had a lot to do with just leaving Olde England and perhaps a very little to do with cod fisheries and fur trading. But once those settlements started, other economic activites were established to support the local population.
Once it becomes cheap enough to visit Mars with regularity, be it for simple science or tourism, it would actually make sense to establish a permanent base, rather than bringing everything along each time.
But yup, we're moving to ClearCase, which seems to have some very powerful capabilities. Problem is that it seems I'm somewhat forced to understand them, and the CC lexicon, rather than just shoving my updates in a level. I'm still a dumb, non-power user, but I have many more possibilities to screw things up, it seems.
And in Burlington, we've got this alternative that I don't use because I don't have local phone service.
I know a number of people with DSL in Chittenden County, including one in Fairfax... it's more a matter of how far you are from some hardware dohickey than how populated your area is.
And I could definitely have it in Burlington, but I use cable instead. I haven't used Verizon since I canceled my local phone service in favor of my cell, which is about 20% cheaper per month.
So, what's fair? Reporting every biased claim issued by either side without comment? Or is actually stepping back and mentioning that the study was funded by a political organization and the methodology sucks? Kucinich doesn't want both sides fairly presented-- he wants the media to report that the "facts" used in opposition to his agenda were created by big corporations. This fairness doctrine will just end up with the media not questioning those facts because it's fair to treat both sides like they're not making stuff up.