Later, by the mid-22nd century, it became home to Earth's Starfleet Command, and when the United Federation of Planets was founded, became home to the UFP's Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy.
The biggest problem with that show was that they skipped the second and third spin-offs and went straight to the "stranded a bagillion miles away from home with a younger, hipper crew" one.
It may seem alright now, but just wait until they start the "hundreds of years earlier but we have better technology than the first guys" one. Billy the Kid and Abraham Lincoln making contact with the aliens that take over your body back in the 1800s just won't work. Everyone knows it was Q that brought those aliens around.
A lighter Hubble-like probe may be fine to take up in Atlantis, Discovery, or Endeavour.
Plus, the main reason Columbia would have been the most likely candidate for Hubble servicing was because it was too heavy to dock safely with ISS, thus the other three had to stay on ISS duty to make sure it got built on time (or eventually, as is the case now, since "on time" keeps changing).
That, though, may still be the biggest obstacle. There's very little chance of using a shuttle in the next five years for anything but ISS missions. The best chance for this telescope would be to design it to be launched on something else, like a D-4 Heavy, but that would make it that much more difficult to build because of volume limitations.
Meh, that's what happens when you're in a hurry and don't proofread.
Though at least I'm willing to butcher the English language with my screen name, not anonymously.
TSS no longer the real TSS
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Inside TechTV/G4
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· Score: 5, Interesting
So I happened to turn on G4TechTVwhatever the other day, and I was appauled. "The Screen Savers" is little more than the old name on a new, much campier, much less useful show. I mean, I never liked everyone on TSS, but those idiots on the air now seem to be up on tech less than most Best Buy employees (no offense to any Best Buy employees on here, just needed a good, recognizable generalization of people who know little about tech but because they work for a tech giant fool the general public into buying whatever the advertisers want).
I think that's the most disappointing thing (see the parenthetical comment above): Leo and Patrick used to tell people not to buy this or that, seemed to be big fans of open source, security, etc. (of course in Leo's case it was a Mac-addiction, but that's ok), and even though they knew most of their audience was PC-based and had to cover them the most, tried to spread things out, give everyone a taste of everything, and if something sucked, would let everyone know about it. I remember them even going against IE before it was popular, and Paul Allen was their boss then. Now we just hear about the campy mainstream this thing is cool marketing drivel.
Ah, but those were the days. Let's hope this isn't a precedent. What's next, Slashdot brought to you by Dell...*shutters*
Same here, no probs whatsoever since even before RC1 (beta build 21-something). Of course, I been staying in Fedora Core 2 and haven't booted into Windows in two weeks, so many that has something to do with it.:)
Yeah I understand you on that. I mainly was looking for a portable machine but one that I could do everything on and wasn't too thick, hot, or with the letters DELL on it (no offense to Dell users, I had a very nice Dell desktop, but I've always preferred hard metal cases to plastic).
The biggest problem with OS X is its great for the high-end G4s (like my 1.5GHz Powerbook) and the G5s, but they pushed it onto to the lower end machines too much. My only first-hand use experience with OS X has been on there, so I've only used a nice quick version as opposed to slow laggy performance of the iBooks. I can play the UT2004 Demo great in full res on my Powerbook (with the mobility 9700 and 128mb vram), but good luck on any Apple machine much lower than that.
Will it run Linux? (I guess on the GC)
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things?
In Soviet Russia, Nintendo system build case to put all of you together.
1) Create product that a smaller portion of the population uses, thus keeping the effectiveness of attacks on your product less desirable than the other
2) Give your product away for free, open sourced, and up to date with all the latest standards, oh, and make it more secure (novel idea, really)
3) ??? (wait about five or six years for a government agency to declare your competitor's product unsafe enough to get the CERT all riled up)
4) Profit, or How Mozilla Pays M$ Back for The Whole Killing of Netscape Thing
It says that the vote of the Council of Ministers was on May 18th, but that the Dutch Parliament's vote to change their minister's vote was yesterday...so it is current news.
I understand, I know plenty of people who have had to work in tech support and gotten some pretty crazy calls (like the "Internet doesn't work" when the customer doesn't have their modem or NIC plugged in, or even better, no modem or NIC in their computer).
I just management then would let you find out if the customer was competent, then switch to a different set of troubleshooting.
Like when a hard drive went bad in a Dell I had, and the email I sent sounded like I knew what I was talking about, they quickly just asked me to run this diagnostic software they have and then report the results, not the usual run around. Or for my HP TC1000, when I called about some speaker noises and that I had tried everything, they just took my address and had it picked up. Those are the tech support calls I like, the kind where they adapt to how well you know the product you're calling about.
But I can understand if management doesn't like it, they don't have to actually deal with the customers, so of course they should know what they are talking about.
Man, I hate when those bits hang up but the bytes keep flowing through like nothing is wrong...
My worst tech support: when tech support tells you to do something you said you already tried in the original tech support communication...
My Belkin wireless router lags games out when plugged into it, but not when using wireless. I tried manually opening the ports, but it didn't worked. Contacted Belkin tech support and told them all this, was told that some games require certain ports to be opened that are usually closed by default, and that if I opened them everything would work fine.
A D-Link router stopped routing Internet connections but still LANed the computers together. I tried going into the browser-based configuration, but I couldn't access it. Contacted D-Link tech support and told them all that, and sure enough, they told me to get the Internet routing to work I needed to check the browser-based configuration.
I've got plenty more like that too...I love tech support.
Alright, so I've always liked Google and all, but doesn't this seem a little odd? How are they going to maintain one terabyte storage for people?
But then again, how long would it take the average user (or even the above average attachment-loving) to fill up an email account of one terabyte? I'm having trouble filling my 240 GB in my computer as it is (well, having trouble because I stick to legal media)
Because I've seen it with all threads this weekend
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Groklaw Turns One
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Two words (well, one word and two letters):
Tablet PC
I have a Compaq TC1000 and it is irreplaceable for taking notes, doing homework, and, if you dont have a desktop like I do, it can handle some games (CS for one) and all the office apps you could need. Most users report good performance for coding and developing for you CS majors, and engineers (like myself) and architects love the ability to draw diagrams and draft digitally with a pen. Price is a factor, but its worth the couple $100 more than a slim laptop. Plus, if your school has WiFi, it makes internet access during class/breaks a lot easier than using a laptop.
Now if you're like me and you do play a lot of games, yes, you'll still need a desktop. Beyond just the box you use though, one very useful thing I've found is my LCD w/ TV tuner. At 18" and 1280x1024 its a great monitor, and the TV function lets me watch TV or play GameCube without needing two bulky CRTs (one for the computer, and a TV). Space is an issue in dorms, so this helps. Cheaper alternatives would be a PCI TV tuner, but I haven't found one of those I like.
Slashdot Mirror
Later, by the mid-22nd century, it became home to Earth's Starfleet Command, and when the United Federation of Planets was founded, became home to the UFP's Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy.
The biggest problem with that show was that they skipped the second and third spin-offs and went straight to the "stranded a bagillion miles away from home with a younger, hipper crew" one.
It may seem alright now, but just wait until they start the "hundreds of years earlier but we have better technology than the first guys" one. Billy the Kid and Abraham Lincoln making contact with the aliens that take over your body back in the 1800s just won't work. Everyone knows it was Q that brought those aliens around.
A lighter Hubble-like probe may be fine to take up in Atlantis, Discovery, or Endeavour.
Plus, the main reason Columbia would have been the most likely candidate for Hubble servicing was because it was too heavy to dock safely with ISS, thus the other three had to stay on ISS duty to make sure it got built on time (or eventually, as is the case now, since "on time" keeps changing).
That, though, may still be the biggest obstacle. There's very little chance of using a shuttle in the next five years for anything but ISS missions. The best chance for this telescope would be to design it to be launched on something else, like a D-4 Heavy, but that would make it that much more difficult to build because of volume limitations.
Meh, that's what happens when you're in a hurry and don't proofread. Though at least I'm willing to butcher the English language with my screen name, not anonymously.
So I happened to turn on G4TechTVwhatever the other day, and I was appauled. "The Screen Savers" is little more than the old name on a new, much campier, much less useful show. I mean, I never liked everyone on TSS, but those idiots on the air now seem to be up on tech less than most Best Buy employees (no offense to any Best Buy employees on here, just needed a good, recognizable generalization of people who know little about tech but because they work for a tech giant fool the general public into buying whatever the advertisers want).
I think that's the most disappointing thing (see the parenthetical comment above): Leo and Patrick used to tell people not to buy this or that, seemed to be big fans of open source, security, etc. (of course in Leo's case it was a Mac-addiction, but that's ok), and even though they knew most of their audience was PC-based and had to cover them the most, tried to spread things out, give everyone a taste of everything, and if something sucked, would let everyone know about it. I remember them even going against IE before it was popular, and Paul Allen was their boss then. Now we just hear about the campy mainstream this thing is cool marketing drivel.
Ah, but those were the days. Let's hope this isn't a precedent. What's next, Slashdot brought to you by Dell...*shutters*
Now all we need is CrossOverOffice DS (for iTunes of course) and I can completly replace my Powerbook with a DS.
Of course, I still can't seem to make any sense when I'm half-asleep and try to post something...
Same here, no probs whatsoever since even before RC1 (beta build 21-something). Of course, I been staying in Fedora Core 2 and haven't booted into Windows in two weeks, so many that has something to do with it. :)
Yeah I understand you on that. I mainly was looking for a portable machine but one that I could do everything on and wasn't too thick, hot, or with the letters DELL on it (no offense to Dell users, I had a very nice Dell desktop, but I've always preferred hard metal cases to plastic).
The biggest problem with OS X is its great for the high-end G4s (like my 1.5GHz Powerbook) and the G5s, but they pushed it onto to the lower end machines too much. My only first-hand use experience with OS X has been on there, so I've only used a nice quick version as opposed to slow laggy performance of the iBooks. I can play the UT2004 Demo great in full res on my Powerbook (with the mobility 9700 and 128mb vram), but good luck on any Apple machine much lower than that.
Will it run Linux? (I guess on the GC) Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things? In Soviet Russia, Nintendo system build case to put all of you together.
Come on guys, calm down. Doom II was also re-released for Windows 95 after it launched, which is probably where he got his stats.
Yeah I always forget that and it doesn't hit me until after I preview and push submit.
1) Create product that a smaller portion of the population uses, thus keeping the effectiveness of attacks on your product less desirable than the other 2) Give your product away for free, open sourced, and up to date with all the latest standards, oh, and make it more secure (novel idea, really) 3) ??? (wait about five or six years for a government agency to declare your competitor's product unsafe enough to get the CERT all riled up) 4) Profit, or How Mozilla Pays M$ Back for The Whole Killing of Netscape Thing
It says that the vote of the Council of Ministers was on May 18th, but that the Dutch Parliament's vote to change their minister's vote was yesterday...so it is current news.
That was part of the joke.
Ah, and if Tony knew his English good, he'd say They're Grrrrrreaat!
I understand, I know plenty of people who have had to work in tech support and gotten some pretty crazy calls (like the "Internet doesn't work" when the customer doesn't have their modem or NIC plugged in, or even better, no modem or NIC in their computer). I just management then would let you find out if the customer was competent, then switch to a different set of troubleshooting. Like when a hard drive went bad in a Dell I had, and the email I sent sounded like I knew what I was talking about, they quickly just asked me to run this diagnostic software they have and then report the results, not the usual run around. Or for my HP TC1000, when I called about some speaker noises and that I had tried everything, they just took my address and had it picked up. Those are the tech support calls I like, the kind where they adapt to how well you know the product you're calling about. But I can understand if management doesn't like it, they don't have to actually deal with the customers, so of course they should know what they are talking about.
Man, I hate when those bits hang up but the bytes keep flowing through like nothing is wrong... My worst tech support: when tech support tells you to do something you said you already tried in the original tech support communication... My Belkin wireless router lags games out when plugged into it, but not when using wireless. I tried manually opening the ports, but it didn't worked. Contacted Belkin tech support and told them all this, was told that some games require certain ports to be opened that are usually closed by default, and that if I opened them everything would work fine. A D-Link router stopped routing Internet connections but still LANed the computers together. I tried going into the browser-based configuration, but I couldn't access it. Contacted D-Link tech support and told them all that, and sure enough, they told me to get the Internet routing to work I needed to check the browser-based configuration. I've got plenty more like that too...I love tech support.
Alright, so I've always liked Google and all, but doesn't this seem a little odd? How are they going to maintain one terabyte storage for people?
But then again, how long would it take the average user (or even the above average attachment-loving) to fill up an email account of one terabyte? I'm having trouble filling my 240 GB in my computer as it is (well, having trouble because I stick to legal media)
In Soviet Russia, Law Groks You!
Better hope that high power magnetron doesn't effect your car's onboard computer or other electronics...
Didn't the Behind the Music episode call them as a 'northern Kentucky' family? Not just bringing it up because I'm from Kentucky, but still...
Two words (well, one word and two letters): Tablet PC I have a Compaq TC1000 and it is irreplaceable for taking notes, doing homework, and, if you dont have a desktop like I do, it can handle some games (CS for one) and all the office apps you could need. Most users report good performance for coding and developing for you CS majors, and engineers (like myself) and architects love the ability to draw diagrams and draft digitally with a pen. Price is a factor, but its worth the couple $100 more than a slim laptop. Plus, if your school has WiFi, it makes internet access during class/breaks a lot easier than using a laptop. Now if you're like me and you do play a lot of games, yes, you'll still need a desktop. Beyond just the box you use though, one very useful thing I've found is my LCD w/ TV tuner. At 18" and 1280x1024 its a great monitor, and the TV function lets me watch TV or play GameCube without needing two bulky CRTs (one for the computer, and a TV). Space is an issue in dorms, so this helps. Cheaper alternatives would be a PCI TV tuner, but I haven't found one of those I like.