With USA backing India has sent all their graduates to answer calls by whiny americans, or to fix your bad software.
We would have used Chinese to man the call centers but you speak like you have marbles in your mouth. You would still be counting on your fingers if America hadn't shown you what software is. Manufacture cheap shit and be content.
India can't launch, fly, shoot anything for shit. They can't even handle Chinese light infantry on *their* side of the Himalaya!
We are arming India and the Taiwanese with our best (well, second best) fighters. Do you not see how you are being encircled? My forefathers delighted in killing your people in the Korean war. You made fine targets.
You loudly espouse dumb views, while getting rejected by your own people.
This coming from a Maoist who can barely grasp the idea of public debate without civil war. Here is a clue. In the US both sides can win an election. I relish the coming spectacle when the Maoists go down and the Taiwanese take power.
The Tibet railroad is an instrument of repression, nothing more. It is my hope with US backing India will seize it back and restore the Dali Lama. As for the 3 gorges dam. Yawn. China is a joke.
A Delta IV heavy is not a good design. The high impulse (and cost) hydrogen booster stages are wasted by drag losses in the lower atmosphere. Without booster to core propellant crossfeed and a new upper stage I don't think it is even an option. An Atlas V with solid motors might work, barely. Atlas V Heavy and Falcon are more vaporous at this point than Ares I.
I have no problem with the Direct Launcher proposal. It resembles shuttle derived concepts from the 1990's. But 2 SRBs a core vehicle and an upper stage must be more expensive than the Ares I configuration of an SRB and an upper stage. Seems to me it might create a "dial a rocket" continuum of launchers like a larger Atlas V. My only criticism is that the Orion vehicle should be made larger.
And by the way, there are several countries with plans of getting their men to Moon. Russia, China, India and maybe even the Europeans. Russia and China clearly have the resources to do it if they choose to and who knows about the Indians.
One wonders why China and Russia, now flush with profits though adopting the U.S. style capitalism they fought for 50 years, do not aggressively build a greater capability. In America we say, "show me the money!" They aren't.
NASA is depending on high cost, low launch frequency homebrew launchers, and from their history with the Shuttles, they do a terrible job of getting back to work after a serious accident.
The Ares I and Ares V designs draw from the launch technologies developed over the past 25 years. The SRB Ares I first stage is fantastically reliable and cost efficient. The parallel staged Ares V combines the best of lightweight shuttle tankage and newly developed LH2 RS-68 engines. It is a smaller simpler design than the Saturn V that will have a 40% greater payload. The Orion spacecraft will support missions of many months and has huge interior volume compared to anything else ever flown. No other nation has a capability remotely comparable.
They designed the Mir. Remember that one? ( Try searching for "Zvezda" or "Zarya" )
You seem to forget the we (the US) have seen inside Mir. It was a carnival of danger and reckless management. This recklessness persists to this day with Russia's sleazy instance to fly moviestars in space for profit. Look up some of the interviews of US astronauts who spent time there. I for one am unimpressed.
Well - the russians reached the moon first actually. And the reason that you will be first back has to do with the fact that most nations decided that the moon was a waste of time and money. Until someone in GWB's administration decided otherwise.
A desperite crash landing of a probe can hardly be compared to the "giant leap" of Apollo. I gave GDub credit for injecting life into the moribund earth orbital program.
You should also be aware that the words "competition" and "moon" are rarely used in the same sentence as "space science" and "well spent money".
Nonetheless, you can expect most of the spacefaring nations of the world to be grovelling for a piece of Project Constellation.
Now that's where the U.S system fails, everything has to be always done in such a high and mighty manner.
What failure? The US designed the ISS. We are using the Space Shuttle to build it. The Russians have launched 2 small station modules. The US has launched 12. We were the first and only nation to make it to the moon, and we will be the first back with no competition in sight. Is any other country even attempting to build moon-capable launchers?
The Atlas V does in the first stage. The 70 preceding Atlas II launches used Rocketdyne. Ofcourse Pratt and Whitney manufactures it in Palm Beach. The real business end of the launcher, the Centaur upper stage uses the Pratt and Whitney RL-10A. The Russian equivalent, the Proton Breeze M upper stage, has a wretched reliability record.
Some people will find the negative in anything. Nothing wrong with a safe, routine KSC landing. For the record the shuttle has an 1100 mile cross range. It was in a highly inclined orbit, so its landing opportunities were limited. Also there are only a handful of runways in the entire world that can handle it, none of which are equiped with crane needed to place the orbiter on top of the carrier aircraft. A White Sands landing would have added 2 months to Discovery's turnaround for the next launch. If you really want to see a shuttle landing at White Sands, dig up the video from STS 3.
I am amazed kernel developers let Torvalds get away with these rants. He is a most unstable guardian of the kernel. Will Torvalds be President for life, like Castro, or will he eventually hand over the reins? Morton seems like an excellent choice?
The enemy team includes fictional rock stars and folks with Muslim-sounding names, while the righteous include gospel singers, missionaries, healers and medics.
Cool. Can the good guys cruise for male prostitutes and score meth?
You're a Digg reader? If so, go away. Yes the James Kim story was very tragic and I feel very much for the family. But based on the idiotic level of commentary that popped up on Digg regarding the story, I think it's better than Slashdot DIDN'T cover the story
I am a digg reader because the moderation system is so much better than slashdot. Check out my brutal and succinct commentary on this matter. The story was of interest to gadget nerds and survivalists alike! The totality Kim's disasterous decision making during the ordeal merit Darwin Award consideration.
he's up shit creek. If he did kill her, then he deserves it.
I agree. And unlike OJ he will not find a tainted jury to keep him out of the big house.
say regardless whether he is guilty or not, he should have access to a computer so that he can continue developing RaiserFS. One can argue that it will benefit the society at large because it is an open source technology tool. Also it would make a lot more sense as opposed to just let him lounge around all day, get fed and work out at the gym, while all of us pay for it.
Most people have already switched to xfs. Reiser4 is not necessary anymore. I would rather make restitution to his poor wife's family if they don't string him up.
No reasonable person would dispute that the US tax system is progressive. The problem, at least in developed countries, is increasing the relative net worth in the middle class. Home ownership in the US and the inducement of the federal mortgage interest is already widespread. There is not much more to be gotten out of it by the middle class. But a similar tax incentive for stock or bond purchases or dividend income for lower income brackets would be a good idea. The Bush tax cuts have reduced dividend tax rates but not in a way that prefers lower income investors. Still, the vision of an "ownership society" is a good one.
I can't be sure, but I think that's a lot of the reason. I have been around 50 years, so my views on this are well known. I had NOAA money for 30 some years, and then when the Clinton administration came in and Gore started directing some of the environmental stuff, I was cut off. I couldn't get any NOAA money. They turned down 13 straight proposals from me.
Multiply this experience with that of his like-minded colleagues and you clear evidence that the politicization of global warming is a self-sustaining and corrupt.
I did the math and the difference is 0.3%. There's a word for that: statistical noise.
Averaged over such a huge statistical sample it certainly is not. What you are seeing is a reduction in discretionary driving because of high gas prices or the market working.
14 kilo-miles" (you guys should really switch to metric) does not.
One arbitrary length measure is as good as another, 1/10,000,000th of the arc distance from pole to equator or the length of King Henry I's foot. In America when we find something useful we don't feel the need to change gratuitously.
GUI builders have been around for as long PHB's have wanted to insert themselves into the development process to speed up development. Don't use them. GUI builders relieve the programmer of the easiest, least demanding part of the development process - widget creation and layout. They add overhead and obscure GUI API's. They offer little to better organize interface callbacks into a nicely designed program. In fact the combination of generated and custom code will leave the next guy who has to maintain your program to wonder what you were thinking.
I can see quite well with glasses, and this very thing has annoyed me plenty of times. Why the hell are all our bills the same size, shape, and color? Make them more distinct, and you'll speed up all cash transactions.
Have you looked at the $10's and $20's lately? They are colored. The $20 is blue/yellow and the $10 is red. I think the treasury is doing a great job keeping the forgers off guard while keeping our currency as classy and confidence inspiring as it has always been. Adding few braille dots are no big deal. The idea might even be combined with the security strips that were added a few years ago.
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One nasty response deserves another. I can respect that.
We would have used Chinese to man the call centers but you speak like you have marbles in your mouth. You would still be counting on your fingers if America hadn't shown you what software is. Manufacture cheap shit and be content.
We are arming India and the Taiwanese with our best (well, second best) fighters. Do you not see how you are being encircled? My forefathers delighted in killing your people in the Korean war. You made fine targets.
This coming from a Maoist who can barely grasp the idea of public debate without civil war. Here is a clue. In the US both sides can win an election. I relish the coming spectacle when the Maoists go down and the Taiwanese take power.
The Tibet railroad is an instrument of repression, nothing more. It is my hope with US backing India will seize it back and restore the Dali Lama. As for the 3 gorges dam. Yawn. China is a joke.
A Delta IV heavy is not a good design. The high impulse (and cost) hydrogen booster stages are wasted by drag losses in the lower atmosphere. Without booster to core propellant crossfeed and a new upper stage I don't think it is even an option. An Atlas V with solid motors might work, barely. Atlas V Heavy and Falcon are more vaporous at this point than Ares I.
I have no problem with the Direct Launcher proposal. It resembles shuttle derived concepts from the 1990's. But 2 SRBs a core vehicle and an upper stage must be more expensive than the Ares I configuration of an SRB and an upper stage. Seems to me it might create a "dial a rocket" continuum of launchers like a larger Atlas V. My only criticism is that the Orion vehicle should be made larger.
One wonders why China and Russia, now flush with profits though adopting the U.S. style capitalism they fought for 50 years, do not aggressively build a greater capability. In America we say, "show me the money!" They aren't.
The Ares I and Ares V designs draw from the launch technologies developed over the past 25 years. The SRB Ares I first stage is fantastically reliable and cost efficient. The parallel staged Ares V combines the best of lightweight shuttle tankage and newly developed LH2 RS-68 engines. It is a smaller simpler design than the Saturn V that will have a 40% greater payload. The Orion spacecraft will support missions of many months and has huge interior volume compared to anything else ever flown. No other nation has a capability remotely comparable.
You seem to forget the we (the US) have seen inside Mir. It was a carnival of danger and reckless management. This recklessness persists to this day with Russia's sleazy instance to fly moviestars in space for profit. Look up some of the interviews of US astronauts who spent time there. I for one am unimpressed.
A desperite crash landing of a probe can hardly be compared to the "giant leap" of Apollo. I gave GDub credit for injecting life into the moribund earth orbital program.
Nonetheless, you can expect most of the spacefaring nations of the world to be grovelling for a piece of Project Constellation.
What failure? The US designed the ISS. We are using the Space Shuttle to build it. The Russians have launched 2 small station modules. The US has launched 12. We were the first and only nation to make it to the moon, and we will be the first back with no competition in sight. Is any other country even attempting to build moon-capable launchers?
The Atlas V does in the first stage. The 70 preceding Atlas II launches used Rocketdyne. Ofcourse Pratt and Whitney manufactures it in Palm Beach. The real business end of the launcher, the Centaur upper stage uses the Pratt and Whitney RL-10A. The Russian equivalent, the Proton Breeze M upper stage, has a wretched reliability record.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11613181
- http://www.space.com/news/proton_explainer_9912
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- http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060726_dne
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- http://russianforces.org/blog/2005/06/molniyam_
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- http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2005/cryos
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US Atlas and Delta have had a string of successes over 10 years. Atlas has had 75 successful launches in a row!Europe's Arianne V has has a fine reliability record after 2 early failures.
I suppose Russian launches are cheap. You get what you pay for.
Some people will find the negative in anything. Nothing wrong with a safe, routine KSC landing. For the record the shuttle has an 1100 mile cross range. It was in a highly inclined orbit, so its landing opportunities were limited. Also there are only a handful of runways in the entire world that can handle it, none of which are equiped with crane needed to place the orbiter on top of the carrier aircraft. A White Sands landing would have added 2 months to Discovery's turnaround for the next launch. If you really want to see a shuttle landing at White Sands, dig up the video from STS 3.
I am amazed kernel developers let Torvalds get away with these rants. He is a most unstable guardian of the kernel. Will Torvalds be President for life, like Castro, or will he eventually hand over the reins? Morton seems like an excellent choice?
Cool. Can the good guys cruise for male prostitutes and score meth?
Readers are currently distracted by more trendy slashdot themes like the space elevator, anime, and global warming.
Wow! We have only known that since 1981. Mars is red too.
I am a digg reader because the moderation system is so much better than slashdot. Check out my brutal and succinct commentary on this matter. The story was of interest to gadget nerds and survivalists alike! The totality Kim's disasterous decision making during the ordeal merit Darwin Award consideration.
I agree. And unlike OJ he will not find a tainted jury to keep him out of the big house.
Most people have already switched to xfs. Reiser4 is not necessary anymore. I would rather make restitution to his poor wife's family if they don't string him up.
No reasonable person would dispute that the US tax system is progressive. The problem, at least in developed countries, is increasing the relative net worth in the middle class. Home ownership in the US and the inducement of the federal mortgage interest is already widespread. There is not much more to be gotten out of it by the middle class. But a similar tax incentive for stock or bond purchases or dividend income for lower income brackets would be a good idea. The Bush tax cuts have reduced dividend tax rates but not in a way that prefers lower income investors. Still, the vision of an "ownership society" is a good one.
The onus of proof is on the Kyotoists who make the extravagant and unscientific claims.
Thanks for the great link.
Multiply this experience with that of his like-minded colleagues and you clear evidence that the politicization of global warming is a self-sustaining and corrupt.
Averaged over such a huge statistical sample it certainly is not. What you are seeing is a reduction in discretionary driving because of high gas prices or the market working.
One arbitrary length measure is as good as another, 1/10,000,000th of the arc distance from pole to equator or the length of King Henry I's foot. In America when we find something useful we don't feel the need to change gratuitously.
Micro$oft did not want to steal the thunder away from Zune's debut with an OS release.
GUI builders have been around for as long PHB's have wanted to insert themselves into the development process to speed up development. Don't use them. GUI builders relieve the programmer of the easiest, least demanding part of the development process - widget creation and layout. They add overhead and obscure GUI API's. They offer little to better organize interface callbacks into a nicely designed program. In fact the combination of generated and custom code will leave the next guy who has to maintain your program to wonder what you were thinking.
Have you looked at the $10's and $20's lately? They are colored. The $20 is blue/yellow and the $10 is red. I think the treasury is doing a great job keeping the forgers off guard while keeping our currency as classy and confidence inspiring as it has always been. Adding few braille dots are no big deal. The idea might even be combined with the security strips that were added a few years ago.
I had every intention of flaming you, but you are right. These sales figures show that it took over a year for iPod to really take off.