According to Bart PE's own web page, that Program Manager is in error.
It says "Q. "BartPE is an unlicensed version of WinPE and of Windows XP." A. This is not correct, BartPE is not WinPE and will never be WinPE. BartPE builds from Windows XP or Server 2003 files. BartPE is not built from any WinPE file and does not use any files that belong to Windows PE! Note: Previous versions of PE Builder did instruct the enduser to download certain WinPE network components from the internet when enabling the network support, but v3.0.30 and higher have built-in network support."
Discussions of "bias" are most commonly used when the complainant has no serious factual or well-reasoned rebuttal to defeat the opposing side's positions. If bias were in fact warping things to the point that serious contrarian evidence is being ignored that could utterly demolish the argument, it should be trivial to simply make those points and win the debate. Instead people choose to attack the messengers rather than the message, since they can't win via rational argument using rigorous standards of evidence.
Pishtosh! Nylon is a far superior rope material in fields such as breaking strength, lack of shrinkage when wet, mildew resistance and UV resistance. No modern rope-dependent activity like rock-climbing or sailing uses hemp if they have any choice in the matter, assuming it's not some historical reenactment. Hemp is crap rope.
Because it's a VHF satellite, and on the Earth, VHF communications are limited to line of sight, and a couple of hundred miles is considered DX (a long-distance communication) for VHF, usually only possible with a) tropospheric ducting (weird form of radio propagation where temperature inversions bend radio waves) 2) bouncing the signal off a meteor trail (woo, ionization!) or 3) using a satellite... or a really tall directional antenna which can peek over the curvature of the Earth. What you're thinking of of routine conversations between Pensacola and Kew West are HF communications which operate at a different frequency and get around the line-of-sight problem by bouncing off ionized layers of atmosphere, specifially the ionosphere, which VHF signals go right through. So.. different communications band, different technical challenge, plus... it's SPACE! If you can talk to this satellite, you can also talk to the astronauts aboard the ISS who are quite often hams themselves http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html
So you're willing to give your life for your country, but not to live for it? Arguing with people who disagree with you is not particularly useful, unless it's for the benefit of an audience, because if they were reasonable in the first place, they'd already agree with your arguments, assuming you yourself are reasonable. Quite frankly, the people running the parties right now are completely inept and it would only take a few thousand coordinated like-minded individuals in each state to take each party organization over completely legally according to their own rules. Witness the takeover of the GOP by the theocons. I should know. Starting from nothing more than showing up to a precinct convention in '02 on a whim, with no prior experience in politics, I got selected as a delegate to my party's state convention twice in the last two years. At the last one, I even got a bit about space exploration inserted into the party platform at the state level. Politics sucks as much as it does because the good people of this country have given up and opted out leaving it to the powerhungry, inept and corrupt. Show up, speak out with conviction, and don't let them fool you with the idea that the general elections are where the action is, the policy and candidates are selected *within* the two major parties by a tiny minority of voters. I think something like 9% of eligible voters vote in primaries.
Sure, you may be willing to take a bullet for your country but are you willing to drag your ass to public hearings that start at 8am and go till 3am just to testify? Are you willing to spend an entire weekend of our time voting on and hashing out hundreds of resolutions, many of them submitted by dimwits? Are you willing to become a volunteer registrar and get 100 other likeminded people to register and vote in the next election. Democracy is hard, painful work. Stopping a bullet just hurts for a little while. All the same, ballots not bullets I say! In the face of widespread public involvement these bastards in the legislatures just slink away and try to sneak it in again some other time when we're not looking. They respect massed political power. But...they use tedium, complexity and apathy as weapons against the populace to make sure that people don't care. Hence all the droning speeches, the overblown impenetrable language of the bils, the public hearings till 3am. Sheer volume of verbiage puts people to sleep and then a deall is cut in a back room and by a committee. We have to guard against that. And toss the bastards out come November!
Yeah, aimless browsing is pretty much my definition of comfortable. I have a Danger Hiptop also (T-Mobile Color Sidekick) with an always-on GPRS data connection that feels like dialup, and it's pretty painful to use at times. On the other hand, when one is completely bereft of connectivity, it's a real lifesaver. How does the wifi card impact battery life for you on the Zodiac? I'm still fairly tempted. Even with a protruding antenna, would be useful with stumbler software to detect rogue accesspoints and the like.
Yes, I bought one about 3 months ago at a serious discount. It's a good platform. I bought it primarily as a pda with games being secondary. Game performance is adequate I guess, not a lot of titles made specifically for it, but plenty of Palm OS games work on it. I liked the 2 SD slots, the large color screen (my last Palm was a Visor Pro by handspring) and the surprisingly good speakers. I disliked the graffiti 2 (damn that lawsuit! Bring back the original!) but the virtual writing area is quite good and a nice innovation. The 128 MB inernal ram seemed huge after my 8mb visor.The landscape formfactor is excellent for reading ebooks and the speakers are loud enough to enjoy music and podcasts. I keep a streetmap sd card and a 1gb sd card in it for storage. Thought about getting a wifi card for it, but I think the browser/processor combo is too slow to make for comfortable web access. The only real complaint I have with it is the USB/charging cable and the poor OS X support. The cable is a weird nonstandard connector that attaches awkardly and does not always stay attached. Overall, I'm not sorry I bought it, it's rugged as all hell and will last me a few years, and Palm OS isn't going away any time soon. I don't need "support", I'm a technology professional.I knew the writing was on the wall though when I saw the poor job of promotion the company did. A better marketing team could have pulled it off. Another Amiga.
What other nations are you referring to? Soyuz is a 30+-year-old design, and yes, Shenzhou is "newish" but most observers agree it is a domestic copy of the soyuz design. Exactly who are we behind? Other than our own expectations?
It's worth noting that the B-52 was first delivered in 1955! And we're still flying them today. In those terms the Shuttle is a spring chicken.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see new spacecraft soonest, but the fact that that the shuttle is old isn't the problem. The shuttle's design has always compromised its performance, both physically, and economically. Gluing on thousands of fragile ceramic tiles by hand is both nuts and expensive.
You only think you're being sarcastic. Actually, that's *exactly* what worked well in the past. During the Eisenhower administration, they passed the National Defense Education Act as a response to Sputnik and massively improved American science education. Taxation on income over 1 million dollars was at 90%. And America has dominated the world in science for the last half century. But with tax-cutters in power for 18 out of the last 25 years, things are starting to suck again. Amazingly, future results require substantial investment in the present. Taxation and public spending are every bit as much an investment as private investment is, except it is designed to benefit everyone rather than a wealthy few.
No, the problem is largely that consumers are idiots unwilling to learn the system. They view cosmetic differences from Windows as "problems". The differences between one FTP client and another throw them into a tizzy. (I know, I know, showing an idiot FTP, bad move). Computers aren't that hard to understand if people are willing and able to learn but that's rarely the case. Congratulations on having beginner users who understand that it takes effort, knowlege and skill to use a computer and are willing to acquire some!
Anti-handgun advocates who own guns for their own protection are not hypocrites. After all, there are a lot of people with guns out there. It's entirely consistent for someone who believes that large numbers of people having guns is a dangerous situation for that person to want to protect themselves against that state of affairs. That's how most arms races start after all. Anti-handgun advocates don't see themselves as proposing unilateral disarmament in the face of armed masses. They typically want to either on one extreme, eliminate all guns, or on the other just restrict certain particularly dangerous types or uses, while being ok with the general citizenry keeping ordinary ones responsibly.
That's funny. No really. I get the joke. But monolingual English speakers aren't likely to get it. In English it was the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic, (GDR). Bundesrepublik Deutschland has much better cadence though.
I disagree. Allen's team won. Nobody else was even able to launch by the deadline. Directly funding a capable team is economically much more efficient than having dozens of half-assed attempts that don't succeed. Sure, since they don't succeed, they don't actually get the prize money, but we don't get our spacecraft either, and the dozens of teams are still out their development costs. Since Allen's team actually was a winner, I'd have to say that's entirely different from what NASA Managers and Congresspeople do since they tend to have precious little in the way of actual results. I do agree that unlimited wealth accumulation and centralization has negative effects in general on a society, I was just excepting Allen from that since he's actually combining vision with wealth as opposed to buying solid-gold toilets.
I really don't think it was schmoozing that cause him to invest. All the same, it's often useful to get to know the people you are investing in, don't you think?
Why would the laws of nature in any way care about the memory-states of a single sentient? If you change stuff in the past in time-travel, your previous memories of the former present now no longer correspond to the new reality so you've just given yourself delusions. People remember and think wrong things all the time. Reality doesn't really care.
Actually, it's fairly simple. If he goes back in time and murders your dog that you had been walking in our (previous) present A, then the entire chain of events that caused you to walk the dog never happened, and neither did present A (in our timeline) instead, there now exists a new chain of events, present B where you are sitting around reminiscing about 'good old sparky' and what fun he was to walk, and hating that bastard who killed him. If the time traveler attempted to return to Present A, he would instead return to Present B, because Present A no longer exists. In short, the purpose of time travel from the perspective of the would-be returning timetraveler is to give himself delusions about time lines that never happened, since he is the only one who remembers them. From the perspective of all the non-timetravelers, time travel never happens since this is the way things always were. If you include the multiple-worlds theories of quantum mechanics, timetravelers split off their timelines from the previous ones and change the reality. So it's not that Present A never happened, merely that our timetraveler took the left turn at Albquerque onto the express route for Present B.
For myself, I found that the key was to do something that I felt was worthwhile and necessary, even though it was unpleasant. I went into grassroots politics. One of the benefits of being geeky is not just seeing the world from a different perspective, but actually having the broadly based knowedge to be able to suggest solutions for some of the things we see that are wrong with the world. In other words, I thought to myself, "If not me, then who?" and started approaching the institutions and organizations that claimed to be devoted to such things. As a result, I met people who were actually interested in talking about substantive matters that concerned me, even they weren't really able to come up with good solutions themselves. The fact that I often could and did made me a rarity in political circles, and thus interesting to them. Having a bit of common ground made it much easier to approach people I didn't know and have meaningful, interesting conversations. I still hated it for quite some time, but actually making measurable improvements in things or at least concrete steps towards my goals made it worthwhile to interact with people, even if I met my fair share of bores, idiots and enemies along the way. And it's paid off, I've dated two different women this year, after a dry spell of several years. And I hate random social interaction much less because I have practiced it.
Ok, addendum here. I guess the question is, what kind of person would rather whine about something wrong than stop the wrong thing from happening to them? Is it the constant need for approval from the group... that the disadvantageous event can be turned into a method to get attention, sympathy and reinforcement, thus making it a positive rather than a net negative in their mind? Is it that the person is inept or lazy and can't solve their own problems and so are unwilling to listen to the solutions of others? Is some form of mental illness involved? That might be it.. clinically depressed people aren't likely to be able to solve their own problems. I'd really like to know. This has been bugging me for years.
Not trolling here, really. But um, how is "they are just a bad person" a solution? Sure it obviates the need for further thought or effort, but now you've got an entrenched immovable problem as opposed to a solved or potentially soluble one. You work with bad people. Sucks to be you. "I support you for working with bad people." or "I support you while working with bad people." What the hell good is that? You still work with bad people, or worse, you don't, you're wrong to boot, and emotionally attached to your wrongness. Being a dateless hermit looks pretty good in comparison to dealing with that.
The company can be hard-nosed all it wants, and so can its workers. The purpose of striking is to inflict more economic pain on the company than it supposedly gains short-term through mass layoffs. In other words, the strikers *want* IBM to do what is in its economic best interests, once they discover that all of their workers aren't as disposable as IBM thinks they are.
a) The Moon is not deep space, it's a bit over one light-second away. Nasa's Deep Space Network is used for craft tens of light-minutes away. b) during all Earthbound colonization periods, modes of travel were neither safe nor regular. Why start now? c) Nasa's number 1 priority right now is Return to Flight for the shuttle so as to complete the space station. Nasa's other #1 priority is to design the Crew Excursion Vehicle to return to the Moon and then go to Mars.
Mining lunar resources for use in space and on the Moon is an avowed national space policy laid out by the President himself on January 14, 2004. Extracting lunar oxygen would be a large part of that. Now there are a lot of things that can go wrong between now and 2014 which is the earliest point on the schedule for possible landings but to assume that they will go wrong in such a way as to prevent lunar colonization in our lifetimes? I think you seriously undersestimate their chances!
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According to Bart PE's own web page, that Program Manager is in error.
It says "Q. "BartPE is an unlicensed version of WinPE and of Windows XP."
A. This is not correct, BartPE is not WinPE and will never be WinPE. BartPE builds from Windows XP or Server 2003 files. BartPE is not built from any WinPE file and does not use any files that belong to Windows PE!
Note: Previous versions of PE Builder did instruct the enduser to download certain WinPE network components from the internet when enabling the network support, but v3.0.30 and higher have built-in network support."
From: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ under the Legal Information section.
Sure, from what I hear it will come free with every Intel Mac.
Discussions of "bias" are most commonly used when the complainant has no serious factual or well-reasoned rebuttal to defeat the opposing side's positions. If bias were in fact warping things to the point that serious contrarian evidence is being ignored that could utterly demolish the argument, it should be trivial to simply make those points and win the debate. Instead people choose to attack the messengers rather than the message, since they can't win via rational argument using rigorous standards of evidence.
Pishtosh! Nylon is a far superior rope material in fields such as breaking strength, lack of shrinkage when wet, mildew resistance and UV resistance. No modern rope-dependent activity like rock-climbing or sailing uses hemp if they have any choice in the matter, assuming it's not some historical reenactment. Hemp is crap rope.
Because it's a VHF satellite, and on the Earth, VHF communications are limited to line of sight, and a couple of hundred miles is considered DX (a long-distance communication) for VHF, usually only possible with a) tropospheric ducting (weird form of radio propagation where temperature inversions bend radio waves) 2) bouncing the signal off a meteor trail (woo, ionization!) or 3) using a satellite... or a really tall directional antenna which can peek over the curvature of the Earth. What you're thinking of of routine conversations between Pensacola and Kew West are HF communications which operate at a different frequency and get around the line-of-sight problem by bouncing off ionized layers of atmosphere, specifially the ionosphere, which VHF signals go right through. So.. different communications band, different technical challenge, plus... it's SPACE! If you can talk to this satellite, you can also talk to the astronauts aboard the ISS who are quite often hams themselves http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html
So you're willing to give your life for your country, but not to live for it? Arguing with people who disagree with you is not particularly useful, unless it's for the benefit of an audience, because if they were reasonable in the first place, they'd already agree with your arguments, assuming you yourself are reasonable. Quite frankly, the people running the parties right now are completely inept and it would only take a few thousand coordinated like-minded individuals in each state to take each party organization over completely legally according to their own rules. Witness the takeover of the GOP by the theocons. I should know. Starting from nothing more than showing up to a precinct convention in '02 on a whim, with no prior experience in politics, I got selected as a delegate to my party's state convention twice in the last two years. At the last one, I even got a bit about space exploration inserted into the party platform at the state level. Politics sucks as much as it does because the good people of this country have given up and opted out leaving it to the powerhungry, inept and corrupt. Show up, speak out with conviction, and don't let them fool you with the idea that the general elections are where the action is, the policy and candidates are selected *within* the two major parties by a tiny minority of voters. I think something like 9% of eligible voters vote in primaries.
Sure, you may be willing to take a bullet for your country but are you willing to drag your ass to public hearings that start at 8am and go till 3am just to testify? Are you willing to spend an entire weekend of our time voting on and hashing out hundreds of resolutions, many of them submitted by dimwits? Are you willing to become a volunteer registrar and get 100 other likeminded people to register and vote in the next election. Democracy is hard, painful work. Stopping a bullet just hurts for a little while. All the same, ballots not bullets I say! In the face of widespread public involvement these bastards in the legislatures just slink away and try to sneak it in again some other time when we're not looking. They respect massed political power. But...they use tedium, complexity and apathy as weapons against the populace to make sure that people don't care. Hence all the droning speeches, the overblown impenetrable language of the bils, the public hearings till 3am. Sheer volume of verbiage puts people to sleep and then a deall is cut in a back room and by a committee. We have to guard against that. And toss the bastards out come November!
Yeah, aimless browsing is pretty much my definition of comfortable. I have a Danger Hiptop also (T-Mobile Color Sidekick) with an always-on GPRS data connection that feels like dialup, and it's pretty painful to use at times. On the other hand, when one is completely bereft of connectivity, it's a real lifesaver. How does the wifi card impact battery life for you on the Zodiac? I'm still fairly tempted. Even with a protruding antenna, would be useful with stumbler software to detect rogue accesspoints and the like.
Yes, I bought one about 3 months ago at a serious discount. It's a good platform. I bought it primarily as a pda with games being secondary. Game performance is adequate I guess, not a lot of titles made specifically for it, but plenty of Palm OS games work on it. I liked the 2 SD slots, the large color screen (my last Palm was a Visor Pro by handspring) and the surprisingly good speakers. I disliked the graffiti 2 (damn that lawsuit! Bring back the original!) but the virtual writing area is quite good and a nice innovation. The 128 MB inernal ram seemed huge after my 8mb visor.The landscape formfactor is excellent for reading ebooks and the speakers are loud enough to enjoy music and podcasts. I keep a streetmap sd card and a 1gb sd card in it for storage. Thought about getting a wifi card for it, but I think the browser/processor combo is too slow to make for comfortable web access. The only real complaint I have with it is the USB/charging cable and the poor OS X support. The cable is a weird nonstandard connector that attaches awkardly and does not always stay attached. Overall, I'm not sorry I bought it, it's rugged as all hell and will last me a few years, and Palm OS isn't going away any time soon. I don't need "support", I'm a technology professional.I knew the writing was on the wall though when I saw the poor job of promotion the company did. A better marketing team could have pulled it off. Another Amiga.
What other nations are you referring to? Soyuz is a 30+-year-old design, and yes, Shenzhou is "newish" but most observers agree it is a domestic copy of the soyuz design. Exactly who are we behind? Other than our own expectations? It's worth noting that the B-52 was first delivered in 1955! And we're still flying them today. In those terms the Shuttle is a spring chicken. Don't get me wrong, I want to see new spacecraft soonest, but the fact that that the shuttle is old isn't the problem. The shuttle's design has always compromised its performance, both physically, and economically. Gluing on thousands of fragile ceramic tiles by hand is both nuts and expensive.
You only think you're being sarcastic. Actually, that's *exactly* what worked well in the past. During the Eisenhower administration, they passed the National Defense Education Act as a response to Sputnik and massively improved American science education. Taxation on income over 1 million dollars was at 90%. And America has dominated the world in science for the last half century. But with tax-cutters in power for 18 out of the last 25 years, things are starting to suck again. Amazingly, future results require substantial investment in the present. Taxation and public spending are every bit as much an investment as private investment is, except it is designed to benefit everyone rather than a wealthy few.
No, the problem is largely that consumers are idiots unwilling to learn the system. They view cosmetic differences from Windows as "problems". The differences between one FTP client and another throw them into a tizzy. (I know, I know, showing an idiot FTP, bad move). Computers aren't that hard to understand if people are willing and able to learn but that's rarely the case. Congratulations on having beginner users who understand that it takes effort, knowlege and skill to use a computer and are willing to acquire some!
Anti-handgun advocates who own guns for their own protection are not hypocrites. After all, there are a lot of people with guns out there. It's entirely consistent for someone who believes that large numbers of people having guns is a dangerous situation for that person to want to protect themselves against that state of affairs. That's how most arms races start after all. Anti-handgun advocates don't see themselves as proposing unilateral disarmament in the face of armed masses. They typically want to either on one extreme, eliminate all guns, or on the other just restrict certain particularly dangerous types or uses, while being ok with the general citizenry keeping ordinary ones responsibly.
That's funny. No really. I get the joke. But monolingual English speakers aren't likely to get it. In English it was the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic, (GDR). Bundesrepublik Deutschland has much better cadence though.
I disagree. Allen's team won. Nobody else was even able to launch by the deadline. Directly funding a capable team is economically much more efficient than having dozens of half-assed attempts that don't succeed. Sure, since they don't succeed, they don't actually get the prize money, but we don't get our spacecraft either, and the dozens of teams are still out their development costs. Since Allen's team actually was a winner, I'd have to say that's entirely different from what NASA Managers and Congresspeople do since they tend to have precious little in the way of actual results. I do agree that unlimited wealth accumulation and centralization has negative effects in general on a society, I was just excepting Allen from that since he's actually combining vision with wealth as opposed to buying solid-gold toilets.
Ahem, Paul Allen invested 20-30 million of his own money to win the 10 million Ansari X-Prize.
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He also funds all sorts of other laudable projects.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS1_ALLEN_04
I really don't think it was schmoozing that cause him to invest.
All the same, it's often useful to get to know the people you are investing in, don't you think?
Why would the laws of nature in any way care about the memory-states of a single sentient? If you change stuff in the past in time-travel, your previous memories of the former present now no longer correspond to the new reality so you've just given yourself delusions. People remember and think wrong things all the time. Reality doesn't really care.
Actually, it's fairly simple. If he goes back in time and murders your dog that you had been walking in our (previous) present A, then the entire chain of events that caused you to walk the dog never happened, and neither did present A (in our timeline) instead, there now exists a new chain of events, present B where you are sitting around reminiscing about 'good old sparky' and what fun he was to walk, and hating that bastard who killed him. If the time traveler attempted to return to Present A, he would instead return to Present B, because Present A no longer exists. In short, the purpose of time travel from the perspective of the would-be returning timetraveler is to give himself delusions about time lines that never happened, since he is the only one who remembers them. From the perspective of all the non-timetravelers, time travel never happens since this is the way things always were. If you include the multiple-worlds theories of quantum mechanics, timetravelers split off their timelines from the previous ones and change the reality. So it's not that Present A never happened, merely that our timetraveler took the left turn at Albquerque onto the express route for Present B.
Earth, ha! More like Mesklin!
For myself, I found that the key was to do something that I felt was worthwhile and necessary, even though it was unpleasant. I went into grassroots politics. One of the benefits of being geeky is not just seeing the world from a different perspective, but actually having the broadly based knowedge to be able to suggest solutions for some of the things we see that are wrong with the world. In other words, I thought to myself, "If not me, then who?" and started approaching the institutions and organizations that claimed to be devoted to such things. As a result, I met people who were actually interested in talking about substantive matters that concerned me, even they weren't really able to come up with good solutions themselves. The fact that I often could and did made me a rarity in political circles, and thus interesting to them. Having a bit of common ground made it much easier to approach people I didn't know and have meaningful, interesting conversations. I still hated it for quite some time, but actually making measurable improvements in things or at least concrete steps towards my goals made it worthwhile to interact with people, even if I met my fair share of bores, idiots and enemies along the way. And it's paid off, I've dated two different women this year, after a dry spell of several years. And I hate random social interaction much less because I have practiced it.
Ok, addendum here. I guess the question is, what kind of person would rather whine about something wrong than stop the wrong thing from happening to them? Is it the constant need for approval from the group... that the disadvantageous event can be turned into a method to get attention, sympathy and reinforcement, thus making it a positive rather than a net negative in their mind? Is it that the person is inept or lazy and can't solve their own problems and so are unwilling to listen to the solutions of others? Is some form of mental illness involved? That might be it.. clinically depressed people aren't likely to be able to solve their own problems. I'd really like to know. This has been bugging me for years.
Not trolling here, really. But um, how is "they are just a bad person" a solution? Sure it obviates the need for further thought or effort, but now you've got an entrenched immovable problem as opposed to a solved or potentially soluble one. You work with bad people. Sucks to be you. "I support you for working with bad people." or "I support you while working with bad people." What the hell good is that? You still work with bad people, or worse, you don't, you're wrong to boot, and emotionally attached to your wrongness. Being a dateless hermit looks pretty good in comparison to dealing with that.
The company can be hard-nosed all it wants, and so can its workers. The purpose of striking is to inflict more economic pain on the company than it supposedly gains short-term through mass layoffs. In other words, the strikers *want* IBM to do what is in its economic best interests, once they discover that all of their workers aren't as disposable as IBM thinks they are.
a) The Moon is not deep space, it's a bit over one light-second away. Nasa's Deep Space Network is used for craft tens of light-minutes away.
b) during all Earthbound colonization periods, modes of travel were neither safe nor regular. Why start now?
c) Nasa's number 1 priority right now is Return to Flight for the shuttle so as to complete the space station.
Nasa's other #1 priority is to design the Crew Excursion Vehicle to return to the Moon and then go to Mars.
Mining lunar resources for use in space and on the Moon is an avowed national space policy laid out by the President himself on January 14, 2004. Extracting lunar oxygen would be a large part of that. Now there are a lot of things that can go wrong between now and 2014 which is the earliest point on the schedule for possible landings but to assume that they will go wrong in such a way as to prevent lunar colonization in our lifetimes? I think you seriously undersestimate their chances!
lightweight, buy yourself a gigabit switch. You'll thank me.
I got one for 50 dollars and never looked back.
I remember that movie. My Dad and I used to mock it when it was on tv.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/