Moreover, it's the sheer quantity that's interesting. Enough water-ice to just seasonally "frost" the poles may not be enough to be useful for explorers.
On the other hand, a uniform distribution throughout the Martian soil may be enough to supply humans with water (for humans, terraforming etc.) as well as enough hygrogen for fuel. Mars's relative closeness and its smaller mass could make it a critical resource for long term exploration as well as a refuling point for exploring the outer planets.
Just as a side note, the Mac understood *5* button mice back in the ADB days.
Of course you needed extensions to make the other four buttons meaningful.
It still boggles my mind that even now, X windows can't get multi-buttoned mice done correctly (If you claim otherwise, you're wrong - ever try to use a mouse left handed under X11 only to be stymied by that one app that wants the buttons defined as left,middle,right and not 1,2,3?)
The headline says "... Looks at WinFS." I click on the link expecting to find some details about the upcoming file system and how it's going to be implemented. Instead there's just page after page of someone's high school paper on Windows' file system through the ages.
Then at the end there's a few paragraphs with no real info about the FS at all. What meta info will be stored? How will the files be laid out on disk? Is there going to be journaling? How about file system integrity and recovery?
The only thing _really_ learned was that there exists a 20MB beta executable that doesn't do anything. What the frell? It's two years before Longhorn is to be released. (As if Microsoft is going to get it right the first time anyway).
The odd paradox is that the more truth the government reveals, the harder the conspiracy theorists work to argue that the facts somehow are more "proof" of a coverup!
It's well known (outside the crackpot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H conspiracy camps) that much of the conflicting reports and general confusion surrounding the Roswell incident stems from the CIA botching the attempt to keep the whole thing quiet
At the time, (Keep in mind the cold war thinking) the CIA wasn't sure what new technology the Soviets had and the thinking was that any "UFO" incident that could not be explained officially might cause a public panic. So the CIA sent agents around dressed like Air Force officers to "interview" anyone who reported odd events in the sky and tell them it was all "swamp gas" or "Venus."
Of course it all backfired when the real Air Force would issue statements like "no such officer exists," or "we didn't send anyone" etc... In the Roswell incident, the CIA went way overboard in trying to cover up nothing while the AF was simply trying to calm the public.
[More confusion came when many of the soldiers around the base at the time were tranferred/ing to the newly formed Air Force from the Navy.]
Even better, one of the key first-hand witnesses that "came forward" years later recanted "on his deathbed" (not literally) and revealed that at the time of Roswell, he was in fact _retired_ from the military and that his testimony was a hoax.
All of this is again, well known but completely ignored by the UFOligists. [If you care to dig into their dubious "research," you'll find that their "proofs" have been debunked by far more thorough researchers, their "evidence" often contradicts "evidence" by other consipircists and their references are endlessly circular. Or as in the "Philadelphia Experiment" complete fiction.]
Damn. Back when I was on a high-energy experiment located in the middle-of-nowhere in Japan (subject of at least two slashdot articles), our japanese colleagues used to lease gaggles of Sun workstations at a yearly maintanence cost that exceeded the retail value of the machines themselves!!
A few of us linux-fans used to grumble that we'd be better off buying dozens of cheap linux-boxes, but we weren't making the buying decisions. It seemed to us that the higher-ups didn't think cheap boxes with a free OS could compete on a performance basis with the Suns.
As for me? I just installed CERNlib on my laptop and just laughed as it blew the suns away on a price/performance(+portability) basis
Read the article carefully. Lightning struck the _building_. The area around Kennedy is pretty much flat IIRC, with just NASA buildings standing up tall in the middle of nowhere. I imagine lightning strikes are not uncommon.
I'm surprised they dont' have massive faraday cages around certain areas in those buildings though. The idea of having a multi-billion dollar experiment ruined by EMP from a close-call stray bolt of lightning would scare me more than the bolt itself.
is that for a couple of years, IE 5/5.1 was by far the best browser on MacOS 9.x. MS basically ported it to OS X and called it 5.2 and it's pretty much been languishing since.
I wonder what happens with MS's Media player (a clumsy, bloated, buggy, piece of crap). Will they now bow out of the Mac platform an concede to Quicktime's clear superiority (ever try to scan quickly through an audio or video file with MS's player on Mac?)
But the real question regards MS Office. Media Player and IE bring no direct revenue to MS. The same cannot be said for Office. Media player is inferior to Quicktime's player and IE has been eclipsed by Mozilla (finally) and now Safari. None of the open-source office replacements are ready for prime-time yet. (ThinkFree might be close - I haven't used it on X yet).
Wrong analogy.
This is more like dropping off their kids at little league practice and then finding out the local "adult bookstore" is sending dozens of naked strippers to sit in the stands and pass out cigarettes and beer to the kids. Do you blame the parents for failing to lord over their kids 24/7? Does one spend years in court suing the (volunteer, mind you) league officials? Or do you do the right thing and call the police the instant you find out?
I'm as much (or moreso) a civil libertarian as the next guy, but this is clearly a case that the common morals and practices have failed to protect vulnerable members of society from undesired behavior. The people who spam kids with pornographic images _should_ be prosecuted under the same child-protection laws that they would be if the porn were physical.
Slashdot Mirror
+4 "funny!"
-2 "A feminine hygene product during the Superbowl is seriously OT!"
On the other hand, a uniform distribution throughout the Martian soil may be enough to supply humans with water (for humans, terraforming etc.) as well as enough hygrogen for fuel. Mars's relative closeness and its smaller mass could make it a critical resource for long term exploration as well as a refuling point for exploring the outer planets.
Of course you needed extensions to make the other four buttons meaningful.
It still boggles my mind that even now, X windows can't get multi-buttoned mice done correctly (If you claim otherwise, you're wrong - ever try to use a mouse left handed under X11 only to be stymied by that one app that wants the buttons defined as left,middle,right and not 1,2,3?)
Then at the end there's a few paragraphs with no real info about the FS at all. What meta info will be stored? How will the files be laid out on disk? Is there going to be journaling? How about file system integrity and recovery?
The only thing _really_ learned was that there exists a 20MB beta executable that doesn't do anything. What the frell? It's two years before Longhorn is to be released. (As if Microsoft is going to get it right the first time anyway).
Mod the whole article down. Way down.
Huh.
Can someone translate this obtuse legalese into plain english please? :)
It's well known (outside the crackpot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H conspiracy camps) that much of the conflicting reports and general confusion surrounding the Roswell incident stems from the CIA botching the attempt to keep the whole thing quiet
At the time, (Keep in mind the cold war thinking) the CIA wasn't sure what new technology the Soviets had and the thinking was that any "UFO" incident that could not be explained officially might cause a public panic. So the CIA sent agents around dressed like Air Force officers to "interview" anyone who reported odd events in the sky and tell them it was all "swamp gas" or "Venus."
Of course it all backfired when the real Air Force would issue statements like "no such officer exists," or "we didn't send anyone" etc ... In the Roswell incident, the CIA went way overboard in trying to cover up nothing while the AF was simply trying to calm the public.
[More confusion came when many of the soldiers around the base at the time were tranferred/ing to the newly formed Air Force from the Navy.]
Even better, one of the key first-hand witnesses that "came forward" years later recanted "on his deathbed" (not literally) and revealed that at the time of Roswell, he was in fact _retired_ from the military and that his testimony was a hoax.
All of this is again, well known but completely ignored by the UFOligists. [If you care to dig into their dubious "research," you'll find that their "proofs" have been debunked by far more thorough researchers, their "evidence" often contradicts "evidence" by other consipircists and their references are endlessly circular. Or as in the "Philadelphia Experiment" complete fiction.]
Damn. Back when I was on a high-energy experiment located in the middle-of-nowhere in Japan (subject of at least two slashdot articles), our japanese colleagues used to lease gaggles of Sun workstations at a yearly maintanence cost that exceeded the retail value of the machines themselves!!
A few of us linux-fans used to grumble that we'd be better off buying dozens of cheap linux-boxes, but we weren't making the buying decisions. It seemed to us that the higher-ups didn't think cheap boxes with a free OS could compete on a performance basis with the Suns.
As for me? I just installed CERNlib on my laptop and just laughed as it blew the suns away on a price/performance(+portability) basis
I'm surprised they dont' have massive faraday cages around certain areas in those buildings though. The idea of having a multi-billion dollar experiment ruined by EMP from a close-call stray bolt of lightning would scare me more than the bolt itself.
is that for a couple of years, IE 5/5.1 was by far the best browser on MacOS 9.x. MS basically ported it to OS X and called it 5.2 and it's pretty much been languishing since. I wonder what happens with MS's Media player (a clumsy, bloated, buggy, piece of crap). Will they now bow out of the Mac platform an concede to Quicktime's clear superiority (ever try to scan quickly through an audio or video file with MS's player on Mac?) But the real question regards MS Office. Media Player and IE bring no direct revenue to MS. The same cannot be said for Office. Media player is inferior to Quicktime's player and IE has been eclipsed by Mozilla (finally) and now Safari. None of the open-source office replacements are ready for prime-time yet. (ThinkFree might be close - I haven't used it on X yet).
Wrong analogy. This is more like dropping off their kids at little league practice and then finding out the local "adult bookstore" is sending dozens of naked strippers to sit in the stands and pass out cigarettes and beer to the kids. Do you blame the parents for failing to lord over their kids 24/7? Does one spend years in court suing the (volunteer, mind you) league officials? Or do you do the right thing and call the police the instant you find out? I'm as much (or moreso) a civil libertarian as the next guy, but this is clearly a case that the common morals and practices have failed to protect vulnerable members of society from undesired behavior. The people who spam kids with pornographic images _should_ be prosecuted under the same child-protection laws that they would be if the porn were physical.