Too bad the US cancelled the Superconducting Supercollider some years back.
Why? It cost too much.
The cancellation of the SSC was regretable, but particle physics in the U.S. has forged ahead without it. Between Brookhaven and FermiLab there have been remarkable advances in the last decade - detection of the quark/gluon plasma at Brookhaven comes to mind.
The Hubble is arguably the most productive space science mission ever flown. The rate of discovery continues to be very high. I would argue that until its replacement, the James Webb Telescope is in place and operational, that the Hubble should continue to be fully used and funded. There is simply no reason to bring it down.
Does Kasparov play human beings anymore? or is he too good for us?
Ponomariov held out for more money (non-existant) in a sheduled match with Kasparov that would have led to a championship match between either Kramnik or Leko. Neither match ever happened so Kasparov headed back to New York for another payday with Fritz. The problem is not Kasparov playing other humans but other humans having the guts to play Kasparov. Kramnik has not defended his title in 3 years. The FIDE stripped Fischer's title after that long.
The radar astronomers admit that they were not able to probe Shackleton crater where Clementine got it positive reading. In any event, I doubt we are talking about much more than frost in the regolith.
This is bad news for those who prattle on about stipmining the lunar south pole in order to manufacture rocket fuel.
LOTR is a complex story. To this point I think variation from the written story line has been effective. I hope they use the extra few minutes to highlight Eowyn's role in the story, perhaps with some nudity. She's awesome!
for us europeans, the US legal system is like a free TV channel : mostly crap, but sometimes a true gem is broadcasted.
My only hope is that it never ends up in front of a jury, then we'd really be in trouble. Even though the U.S. has given up on M$ anti-trust actions I hope that Europe will continue to torture M$ for years to come.
After all - TERRORISTS could get access to it, right?
U.S. restrictions on cyptography have already driven its development and maintenance offshore. How you can equate exporting math formulas with exporting machine guns is beyond me.
My point is only that X and Open GL 2D rendering primatives (XDrawLine() and glBegin(GL_LINE_MODE)...glEnd())do similar things. They are at the same "level" in that both functions operate on a graphics buffer and could be used to implement a windowing system. Some would say OpenGL does them better and more generally. I do understand that OpenGL does not offer all of the necessities of a windowing system and said so in an earlier post.
I could level equal charges against the US. 13,000+ shot dead every year, god knows how many more killed on the roads, a welfare system that pales into comparison compared to that of any other developed world nation, a crumbling school system that's badly underfunded yet the US finds it more important to wage war half way around the world.
You might add an enviable employment rate (even in a recession), the best higher education system in the world, one of the highest per capita income rates in the world, high rates of home ownership, high rates of immigration, and a welfare system that pales compared to others in the developed world.
With China making a concerted moon effort to explore the moon, the question naturaly arises, who will govern the moon? Will it be like Antartica with multinational scientific stations, or the Wild West with each country grabbing all the land it can and fighting over it? Should it be managed for commercial use like the National Forests in the U.S., or for preservation and tourism like the National Parks? The international community needs to get that straight now before China tries to make the moon another Tibet.
the average American income could increase from today's ~$35,000/y-person to more than $150,000/y-person.
What he neglects to tell you is that you will have to pay over $200,000/yr in financing charges for this boondoggle. He also forgets to tell you that such a project might dramatically lower the price of energy reducing your earnings even more.
He found out that ther chemicals that impregnated the ice are similar only to the ones which emanates from the General Motors factories, in Detroit, US.
The chemicals couldn't be from the automobile factories in southern France, could they?
I don't and that's what scares me. These are the people who brought us netware and kept real networking (TCP/IP) from hitting PC's until the mid 1990's, years later than it otherwise might have. The Novell aquisition of SuSE could be disastrous from the free software world.
For the past decade tree huggers and eco liberals have managed to stiffle scientific debate on climate. They have tried to foist their own wierd view of a peasant future onto an unwilling world through the Kyoto treaty. They found ready allies in the Eurocrats and others in the "international community" who would benefit from a hobbled U.S. economy. I am glad to see that the coersion that is the Kyoto treaty is failing and that there is a return to a healthy scientific discussion of these important matters.
And that's the kicker, isn't it? What do you tell the user who just bought a $500 video card that doesn't support it? Making hardware requirements for the use of XFree86 is a slippery slope to start down on.
I don't know enough about X servers to say whether the X or OpenGL primatives are faster in software only rendering. OpenGL (Mesa) does not require acceleration to run. Does that make it better than X? My guess is that they are similar. It used to be that a good X server on the PC was a rarity because of all of the video cards available. The kind folks at XFree86.org solved that for us and I am thankful.
I wonder what happened to NeWS which used a postscript drawing model for a windowing system? Surely Sun of SGI have it lying in the basement somewhere.
I have been keeping my eyes open on the E17 stuff. But E development seems to have slowed. I am a big XFCE fan. I am also interested in Fresco. I have been for 12 years! Some people don't know when to quit!
Because OpenGL is optimized for 3D in both the implementation and the API, whereas the average desktop is 98-100% 2D.
The 2D drawing primatives are optimized (implemented in supported hardware) as well. In fact they go well beyond X in many areas: nicer color model, better drawing primatives, transparency... Things that are missing that I can think of are a decent font system and keyboard and mouse stuff.
Lately it seems that slashdot has substituted solar flare stories for planet killing asteroid stories to generate their share of media induced natural disaster hysteria. Since we have all survived the solar flares I think it is time to switch back our global warming debate.
I doubt that the Germans are happy about one of their innovative software companies being swallowed by a derelict, dot com busted, American has been, living off of revenues generated 10 years ago!
It is preceeded by Ximian on the road to oblivion!
After all, terrorists hate us. Why do they hate us? Because we like to attack their country and tell them how they should run their government. Sure, some of the citizens, mabey even most, don't like their current government. But, you will always have those that hate us for it. As you build up more and more hate, you get more and more terrorists, and more and more wars to wage to fight them.
The Taliban and Al Qaida hated us long before we interdicted in Afghanistan. They hate us because they hate everything outside of their weird brand of Islam. You must admit that 9/11 was somewhat provocative. So let Al Qaida recruit to their hearts content. The U.S. military will continue to waste them on their own soil just as fast as they can pick up a gun.
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Too bad the US cancelled the Superconducting Supercollider some years back.
Why? It cost too much.
The cancellation of the SSC was regretable, but particle physics in the U.S. has forged ahead without it. Between Brookhaven and FermiLab there have been remarkable advances in the last decade - detection of the quark/gluon plasma at Brookhaven comes to mind.
The Hubble is arguably the most productive space science mission ever flown. The rate of discovery continues to be very high. I would argue that until its replacement, the James Webb Telescope is in place and operational, that the Hubble should continue to be fully used and funded. There is simply no reason to bring it down.
Does Kasparov play human beings anymore? or is he too good for us?
Ponomariov held out for more money (non-existant) in a sheduled match with Kasparov that would have led to a championship match between either Kramnik or Leko. Neither match ever happened so Kasparov headed back to New York for another payday with Fritz. The problem is not Kasparov playing other humans but other humans having the guts to play Kasparov. Kramnik has not defended his title in 3 years. The FIDE stripped Fischer's title after that long.
The radar astronomers admit that they were not able to probe Shackleton crater where Clementine got it positive reading. In any event, I doubt we are talking about much more than frost in the regolith. This is bad news for those who prattle on about stipmining the lunar south pole in order to manufacture rocket fuel.
Windows: perfect, except for security.
perfect: being entirely without fault or defect
hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration (as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
LOTR is a complex story. To this point I think variation from the written story line has been effective. I hope they use the extra few minutes to highlight Eowyn's role in the story, perhaps with some nudity. She's awesome!
My only hope is that it never ends up in front of a jury, then we'd really be in trouble. Even though the U.S. has given up on M$ anti-trust actions I hope that Europe will continue to torture M$ for years to come.
After all - TERRORISTS could get access to it, right?
U.S. restrictions on cyptography have already driven its development and maintenance offshore. How you can equate exporting math formulas with exporting machine guns is beyond me.
My point is only that X and Open GL 2D rendering primatives (XDrawLine() and glBegin(GL_LINE_MODE)...glEnd())do similar things. They are at the same "level" in that both functions operate on a graphics buffer and could be used to implement a windowing system. Some would say OpenGL does them better and more generally. I do understand that OpenGL does not offer all of the necessities of a windowing system and said so in an earlier post.
I could level equal charges against the US. 13,000+ shot dead every year, god knows how many more killed on the roads, a welfare system that pales into comparison compared to that of any other developed world nation, a crumbling school system that's badly underfunded yet the US finds it more important to wage war half way around the world.
You might add an enviable employment rate (even in a recession), the best higher education system in the world, one of the highest per capita income rates in the world, high rates of home ownership, high rates of immigration, and a welfare system that pales compared to others in the developed world.
With China making a concerted moon effort to explore the moon, the question naturaly arises, who will govern the moon? Will it be like Antartica with multinational scientific stations, or the Wild West with each country grabbing all the land it can and fighting over it? Should it be managed for commercial use like the National Forests in the U.S., or for preservation and tourism like the National Parks? The international community needs to get that straight now before China tries to make the moon another Tibet.
MicroVote software returned 144,000 votes from 19,000 registered voters.
This is the perfect solution for democrats in the upcoming presidential election.
the average American income could increase from today's ~$35,000/y-person to more than $150,000/y-person.
What he neglects to tell you is that you will have to pay over $200,000/yr in financing charges for this boondoggle. He also forgets to tell you that such a project might dramatically lower the price of energy reducing your earnings even more.
He found out that ther chemicals that impregnated the ice are similar only to the ones which emanates from the General Motors factories, in Detroit, US.
The chemicals couldn't be from the automobile factories in southern France, could they?
And don't overlook Novell's networking roots.
I don't and that's what scares me. These are the people who brought us netware and kept real networking (TCP/IP) from hitting PC's until the mid 1990's, years later than it otherwise might have. The Novell aquisition of SuSE could be disastrous from the free software world.
For the past decade tree huggers and eco liberals have managed to stiffle scientific debate on climate. They have tried to foist their own wierd view of a peasant future onto an unwilling world through the Kyoto treaty. They found ready allies in the Eurocrats and others in the "international community" who would benefit from a hobbled U.S. economy. I am glad to see that the coersion that is the Kyoto treaty is failing and that there is a return to a healthy scientific discussion of these important matters.
I don't know enough about X servers to say whether the X or OpenGL primatives are faster in software only rendering. OpenGL (Mesa) does not require acceleration to run. Does that make it better than X? My guess is that they are similar. It used to be that a good X server on the PC was a rarity because of all of the video cards available. The kind folks at XFree86.org solved that for us and I am thankful.
I wonder what happened to NeWS which used a postscript drawing model for a windowing system? Surely Sun of SGI have it lying in the basement somewhere.
I have been keeping my eyes open on the E17 stuff. But E development seems to have slowed. I am a big XFCE fan. I am also interested in Fresco. I have been for 12 years! Some people don't know when to quit!
Like most people on slashdot I am a theoretician and pundit. I dish out good ideas and leave the implementation details up to others ;)
The 2D drawing primatives are optimized (implemented in supported hardware) as well. In fact they go well beyond X in many areas: nicer color model, better drawing primatives, transparency... Things that are missing that I can think of are a decent font system and keyboard and mouse stuff.
Lately it seems that slashdot has substituted solar flare stories for planet killing asteroid stories to generate their share of media induced natural disaster hysteria. Since we have all survived the solar flares I think it is time to switch back our global warming debate.
Rumours of M$ II$ demise are not exaggerated after all!
I doubt that the Germans are happy about one of their innovative software companies being swallowed by a derelict, dot com busted, American has been, living off of revenues generated 10 years ago! It is preceeded by Ximian on the road to oblivion!
This seems to be a band aid solution and complex as well. With OpenGL being so prevalent why not create an X replacement entirely upon it?
Having a spouse working in a microbiology lab with anti-biotic resistance, etc. I would like to point out that VIRUSES MUTATE
Here in the good old midwest U.S. viruses are created by God, they do not mutate.
The Taliban and Al Qaida hated us long before we interdicted in Afghanistan. They hate us because they hate everything outside of their weird brand of Islam. You must admit that 9/11 was somewhat provocative. So let Al Qaida recruit to their hearts content. The U.S. military will continue to waste them on their own soil just as fast as they can pick up a gun.