I have never seen a compelling economic argument for manned exploration of Mars
What does this have to do with money? Humans are naturally curious. We're explorers. That's what we do. I'll tell you something else, it wouldn't take a man a week to move off the lander. A guy in a suit would have already picked up half those rocks, drilled 30 feet into the crust, and sifted for gold. No robot yet built can outdo a dude in a suit.
The problem is, you can't do full immersion, because people will always speak in the language that they know.
I'm Canadian and have never known anything but metric. We were taught it in grade school. But I still tell people my height in feet and inches and my weight in pounds. I order meat from the supermarket in pounds too and the clerks don't ask me to repeat my order in kilograms. We still measure first downs in yards and photo sizes in inches. In fact, I just returned to school to study graphic arts and the first math course we took focussed on learning...Imperial! Why? Because paper sizes are expressed in inches and you buy ink in pounds in the United States and since the US is the number one economy in the world we had to learn it. My point is that Imperial sneaks in even in a country that has full immersion.
Nonsense. Photoshop is a tool for professionals. Professionals can afford it. If you're not a professional you don't need it and it's not being marketed to you anyway. Get Paintshop or become a graphic artist.
Tolkien is dead. His estate is in charge now and they're very much a company.
Regardless, I say if you registered the domain it belongs to you. What about that guy who was able to pick up hotmail.co.uk because Microsoft forgot to renew it? I say he should be under no obligation to return it. Same with guys who register celebrity names as domains. If it was important to the celebrity they should have something in place to protect the domains. Unless you think that companies and celebrities should be able to jump the queue and be able to take domains away from people at the time of their choosing.
As an interesting aside, I remember an article in Wired years ago about how people were registering trademarks as domain names. Wired called McDonald's and told them that a guy registered mcdonalds.com and their response was "So?" Back then no one understood the Internet. Of course, some time later McDonald's strongarmed the guy into giving it back. No fair.
Because when he took office America was still on top of the heap when it came to space. Since that time China has put a man in orbit and announced its intention to land a man on the moon and build a base there. I wouldn't be surprised if other nations don't start announcing plans to launch men into space. In other words, the space race is back on in a big way. It's going to be the new gold rush.
I'll second that and I won't even post anonymously. This is the gayest non-story ever posted. What kind of thread did the submitter think this was going to generate? Linus was seen somewhere. Discuss.
I think you need to look up the word physiological. These machines aren't helping him see, breath, digest, hear, or anything else. If he's a cyborg I guess I am too because I carry my laptop in my backpack to school sometimes.
Wherever the term came from, the reality is that people know the original PlayStation as PSX. I've been calling it that ever since PS2 came out. I've never heard the term PS1 or PS used. Sony must be aware of this and should have named this new product accordingly.
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Life may be common throughout the universe. But I highly doubt there is another intelligent lifeform out there. And since the burden of proof lies with you let's see what you got.
Remember the scheme they had where they asked you questions only an 'adult' would know to prevent little kids from playing? I remember it was stuff like 'Who won the Superbowl in 1978?' It wasn't a copy protection scheme because I remember the answers to the questions could be found quite easily. I remember we just asked an older brother for the answers and then we could play no problem.
Why should I trust this? Yeah, the source code is available, that's great. I'm not a programmer so it's meaningless to me. Without the MS seal of approval I won't be installing this. It's so damn sketchy.
however are not so much coming up with powered flight - people had been flying gliders, balloons and such for a little bit and the concept was not truly shocking
Insightful my ass. Gliders and balloons are not examples of 'powered flight.' And a heavier- than-air flying machine was truly shocking. Do you honestly believe that the significance of the Wright Brother's flight was the control system? Please.
If Japanese (who is the largest majority foreign owner of US debt), and a bunch of other foreign investors asked for their money back, USA will collapse overnight.
Please describe the world situation where it would be in Japan's interest for the USA to collapse overnight. Or Germany's interest, or the UK's interest. If the USA 'collapsed' the entire world would plunge into economic ruin and chaos. It ain't going to happen.
As for going back to the moon, I had a feeling we'd be hearing something like this since China announced their desire to land there by 2020. I've always felt it was crazy that the Americans just stopped going after all their success there. To me, Man's greatest technological achievement is the ability to leave his planet. I'd say it's more important than the computer. And yes, we couldn't have done it without computers but one could argue that the ultimate application of the computer is space flight and in fact, it was nearly the original application as well. The Mark I was built to calculate artillery trajectories.
At any rate, I'd love for Bush to announce that the US is going back ASAP. I'd want them to be there by 2010 at the latest and this time I want a promise that they're not leaving. Ever.
Netscape lost out to IE
Apple lost out to Microsoft
AltaVista lost out to Google
WordPerfect lost out to Word
The typewriter lost out to the computer
Quark will eventually lose out to InDesign
In each example, the dominant, familiar, easy-to-use solution was replaced by the upstart.
Saying this 'can't surpass' Flash is so short-sighted and uninsightful it's making my teeth itch.
An iPod is a HD and it weighs only 5.6 ounces. And you can store pics, music, video, any kind of file on it. What will you say when you can hook your iPod into your TV and watch movies from it? The parent is dead on: removable media is obsolete and outdated.
Gaming on the C64 ruled. Great graphics, great sound. I remember when I turned in my C64 and got my first PC. I turned it on, installed Wing Commander and then found out my computer didn't have sound. I needed a sound card and speakers or I'd have to live with the PC speaker which did nothing but beep. I remember thinking what a step backward that was from the 64.
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Neptune.
If it's only a theory, then why are you so sure it's 'impossible'? Get back to me when it's the Law of Relativity.
And all this time I thought it was named for the company founder Henry Ford. Learn something new everyday.
What does this have to do with money? Humans are naturally curious. We're explorers. That's what we do. I'll tell you something else, it wouldn't take a man a week to move off the lander. A guy in a suit would have already picked up half those rocks, drilled 30 feet into the crust, and sifted for gold. No robot yet built can outdo a dude in a suit.
I'm Canadian and have never known anything but metric. We were taught it in grade school. But I still tell people my height in feet and inches and my weight in pounds. I order meat from the supermarket in pounds too and the clerks don't ask me to repeat my order in kilograms. We still measure first downs in yards and photo sizes in inches. In fact, I just returned to school to study graphic arts and the first math course we took focussed on learning...Imperial! Why? Because paper sizes are expressed in inches and you buy ink in pounds in the United States and since the US is the number one economy in the world we had to learn it. My point is that Imperial sneaks in even in a country that has full immersion.
Please tell me where in the Constitution your right to privacy is enshrined.
Nonsense. Photoshop is a tool for professionals. Professionals can afford it. If you're not a professional you don't need it and it's not being marketed to you anyway. Get Paintshop or become a graphic artist.
Tolkien is dead. His estate is in charge now and they're very much a company. Regardless, I say if you registered the domain it belongs to you. What about that guy who was able to pick up hotmail.co.uk because Microsoft forgot to renew it? I say he should be under no obligation to return it. Same with guys who register celebrity names as domains. If it was important to the celebrity they should have something in place to protect the domains. Unless you think that companies and celebrities should be able to jump the queue and be able to take domains away from people at the time of their choosing. As an interesting aside, I remember an article in Wired years ago about how people were registering trademarks as domain names. Wired called McDonald's and told them that a guy registered mcdonalds.com and their response was "So?" Back then no one understood the Internet. Of course, some time later McDonald's strongarmed the guy into giving it back. No fair.
Because when he took office America was still on top of the heap when it came to space. Since that time China has put a man in orbit and announced its intention to land a man on the moon and build a base there. I wouldn't be surprised if other nations don't start announcing plans to launch men into space. In other words, the space race is back on in a big way. It's going to be the new gold rush.
I'll second that and I won't even post anonymously. This is the gayest non-story ever posted. What kind of thread did the submitter think this was going to generate? Linus was seen somewhere. Discuss.
I think you need to look up the word physiological. These machines aren't helping him see, breath, digest, hear, or anything else. If he's a cyborg I guess I am too because I carry my laptop in my backpack to school sometimes.
Wherever the term came from, the reality is that people know the original PlayStation as PSX. I've been calling it that ever since PS2 came out. I've never heard the term PS1 or PS used. Sony must be aware of this and should have named this new product accordingly.
Life may be common throughout the universe. But I highly doubt there is another intelligent lifeform out there. And since the burden of proof lies with you let's see what you got.
Strange that once you had figured out what dd actually meant you still decided to post despite the embarrassment it would cause you.
Remember the scheme they had where they asked you questions only an 'adult' would know to prevent little kids from playing? I remember it was stuff like 'Who won the Superbowl in 1978?' It wasn't a copy protection scheme because I remember the answers to the questions could be found quite easily. I remember we just asked an older brother for the answers and then we could play no problem.
Why should I trust this? Yeah, the source code is available, that's great. I'm not a programmer so it's meaningless to me. Without the MS seal of approval I won't be installing this. It's so damn sketchy.
Insightful my ass. Gliders and balloons are not examples of 'powered flight.' And a heavier- than-air flying machine was truly shocking. Do you honestly believe that the significance of the Wright Brother's flight was the control system? Please.
No. They spell their names totally differently.
Anything other than Aria Giovanni I guess.
Please describe the world situation where it would be in Japan's interest for the USA to collapse overnight. Or Germany's interest, or the UK's interest. If the USA 'collapsed' the entire world would plunge into economic ruin and chaos. It ain't going to happen.
As for going back to the moon, I had a feeling we'd be hearing something like this since China announced their desire to land there by 2020. I've always felt it was crazy that the Americans just stopped going after all their success there. To me, Man's greatest technological achievement is the ability to leave his planet. I'd say it's more important than the computer. And yes, we couldn't have done it without computers but one could argue that the ultimate application of the computer is space flight and in fact, it was nearly the original application as well. The Mark I was built to calculate artillery trajectories.
At any rate, I'd love for Bush to announce that the US is going back ASAP. I'd want them to be there by 2010 at the latest and this time I want a promise that they're not leaving. Ever.
The full name of the company is The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. Nitpick elsewhere.
Netscape lost out to IE
Apple lost out to Microsoft
AltaVista lost out to Google
WordPerfect lost out to Word
The typewriter lost out to the computer
Quark will eventually lose out to InDesign
In each example, the dominant, familiar, easy-to-use solution was replaced by the upstart.
Saying this 'can't surpass' Flash is so short-sighted and uninsightful it's making my teeth itch.
More importantly, how does Bluetooth get power to the headphones to run the drivers? There's wireless electricity now? Crazy.
An iPod is a HD and it weighs only 5.6 ounces. And you can store pics, music, video, any kind of file on it. What will you say when you can hook your iPod into your TV and watch movies from it? The parent is dead on: removable media is obsolete and outdated.
Gaming on the C64 ruled. Great graphics, great sound. I remember when I turned in my C64 and got my first PC. I turned it on, installed Wing Commander and then found out my computer didn't have sound. I needed a sound card and speakers or I'd have to live with the PC speaker which did nothing but beep. I remember thinking what a step backward that was from the 64.