I have compiled some important quotes regarding the issue.
* NASA's Spirit rover communicated with Earth in a signal detected by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna complex near Madrid, Spain, at 12:34 Universal Time (4:34 a.m. PST) this morning. The transmissions came during a communication window about 90 minutes after Spirit woke up for the morning on Mars. The signal lasted for 10 minutes at a data rate of 10 bits per second. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., plan to send commands to Spirit seeking additional data from the spacecraft during the subsequent few hours. [11]
* The flight team for NASA's Spirit received actual data from the rover in another communication session that began at 13:26 Universal Time (5:26 a.m. PST) and lasted 20 minutes at a data rate of 120 bits per second. [12]
* Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second.
* At a news briefing, Pete Theisinger said, "The software is in X-band fault mode. We surmise it got there because of some problem with the high-gain antenna pointing, and that is why the second high-gain antenna pass on Wednesday did not work. It gives us a little bit of a tale-tell for what is going on with the processor now. But as I pointed out to you, the flight software is not functioning normally. The two times we have gone and communicated with the system, we have gotten different flight software behaviors. Therefore we do not have assurance the next time we go and ask for it we will get either one of those two behaviors or perhaps a third behavior. " Later Theisinger said that the Spirit is in "critical condition" and stated that "We do not know to what extent we can restore functionality to the system because we don't know what's broke. We don't know what started this chain of events. I think, personally, that is a sequence of things. And we don't know, therefore, the consequences of that. I think it is difficult, at this very preliminary stage, to assume that we did not have some type of hardware event that caused this to start. Therefore, we don't know to what extent we can work around that hardware event and to what extent we can get the software to ignore that hardware event, if that is what we eventually have to do. "
* An anomaly team has been formed, completely separate from the Opportunity team. They will be working a schedule that will look like 0500 Mars Time to about 1500 Mars Time.
* At the press conference, Theisinger said that Spirit "has been in a processor reset loop of some type, mostly since Wednesday, we believe, where the processor wakes up, loads the flight software, uncovers a condition that would cause it to reset. But the processor doesn't do that immediately. It waits for a period of time - at the beginning of the day it waits for 15 minutes twice and then for the rest of the day it waits for an hour - and then it resets and comes back up." He added that Spirit's central computer has rebooted itself more than 60 times over the past two days. Theisinger also noted that "The indications we have on two occasions is that the thing that causes the reset is not always perceived to be the same."
* At the press conference, two computer animations of Spirit's landing were released. Also released was an image of Spirit's landing site taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor.
This feature was asked for by the US government. Adobe is probably being reimbursed by the goverment and in return, Adobe promises to include this feature. In otherwords, it would probably make the product less expensive to produce.
Adelphia did block the service, meaning the site would not load when bonus addresses were entered into the browser, but when pinging bogus internet addresses, A pong came back from the numerical IP of the sitefinder. When going to sitefinder.verisign.com, it was not blocked.
From what I have seen, ATI is starting to get a lot more linux friendly and the drivers for linux are great. They are only a little slower than the windows ones and new ones keep being released. See http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadi d=33703965
I dont see how this would cause a problem. the article said people could connect to microsoft.com for authentication. On the other hand, i guess microsofts server will go down a lot.
I can't believe you were modded up for that thoughtless comment. Bill Gates dropped out of college with strait A's and only did so because he knew that he had to focus on his company at the time. Bill Gates may be evil but he definitely is not stupid.
If the car has a serious design flaw that causes the crash, lots of people will accuse the car manufacturer and most of them will become rich and will not have to work any more.
We have software patent laws in the US and slashdot is in the US so slashdot would be protesting a law that were already enacted in the US.
I dont think it would be helpful to shut down slashdot. if slashdot were shut down, a lot of people would not know about the protest and lots of other news.
its easy to run a script in linux. just not easy to run a script that will do damage to the whole system. Linux doesnt usually run in root and all programs are fine with that. They dont complain about permisisions like windows "limited user" does. That default root is a problem with windows and the people who make the programs available for it.
well its relevant in that those servers probably dont access google. Google zeitgeist only shows the percentage of people accessing google. and a lot more linux boxes have static IPs while lots of windows users with dial up have dynamic ones so that doesnt help at all. What i said was way more relevant than google.
I agree. The Washington Post is a very well known newspaper that many people get. Even my father(who subscribes to WP) read the article this morning and showed it to me because he thought I might find it interesting. He isnt the type to read stuff like slashdot. Just a note..I saw it at news.google.com this morning.
One of the XP backgrounds was real except they put a fake moon in it (the same kind of trickery they use in marketing). In the Sun system, I see that one of the familiarty things was adding an applications menu even though that just adds one more step to your menu browsing. What other than applications are you going to launch? a rocket? At least they didnt make the submenus of applications" into the names of the people who made the programs adding yet another step.
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I have compiled some important quotes regarding the issue. * NASA's Spirit rover communicated with Earth in a signal detected by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna complex near Madrid, Spain, at 12:34 Universal Time (4:34 a.m. PST) this morning. The transmissions came during a communication window about 90 minutes after Spirit woke up for the morning on Mars. The signal lasted for 10 minutes at a data rate of 10 bits per second. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., plan to send commands to Spirit seeking additional data from the spacecraft during the subsequent few hours. [11] * The flight team for NASA's Spirit received actual data from the rover in another communication session that began at 13:26 Universal Time (5:26 a.m. PST) and lasted 20 minutes at a data rate of 120 bits per second. [12] * Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. * At a news briefing, Pete Theisinger said, "The software is in X-band fault mode. We surmise it got there because of some problem with the high-gain antenna pointing, and that is why the second high-gain antenna pass on Wednesday did not work. It gives us a little bit of a tale-tell for what is going on with the processor now. But as I pointed out to you, the flight software is not functioning normally. The two times we have gone and communicated with the system, we have gotten different flight software behaviors. Therefore we do not have assurance the next time we go and ask for it we will get either one of those two behaviors or perhaps a third behavior. " Later Theisinger said that the Spirit is in "critical condition" and stated that "We do not know to what extent we can restore functionality to the system because we don't know what's broke. We don't know what started this chain of events. I think, personally, that is a sequence of things. And we don't know, therefore, the consequences of that. I think it is difficult, at this very preliminary stage, to assume that we did not have some type of hardware event that caused this to start. Therefore, we don't know to what extent we can work around that hardware event and to what extent we can get the software to ignore that hardware event, if that is what we eventually have to do. " * An anomaly team has been formed, completely separate from the Opportunity team. They will be working a schedule that will look like 0500 Mars Time to about 1500 Mars Time. * At the press conference, Theisinger said that Spirit "has been in a processor reset loop of some type, mostly since Wednesday, we believe, where the processor wakes up, loads the flight software, uncovers a condition that would cause it to reset. But the processor doesn't do that immediately. It waits for a period of time - at the beginning of the day it waits for 15 minutes twice and then for the rest of the day it waits for an hour - and then it resets and comes back up." He added that Spirit's central computer has rebooted itself more than 60 times over the past two days. Theisinger also noted that "The indications we have on two occasions is that the thing that causes the reset is not always perceived to be the same." * At the press conference, two computer animations of Spirit's landing were released. Also released was an image of Spirit's landing site taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor.
This feature was asked for by the US government. Adobe is probably being reimbursed by the goverment and in return, Adobe promises to include this feature. In otherwords, it would probably make the product less expensive to produce.
Adelphia did block the service, meaning the site would not load when bonus addresses were entered into the browser, but when pinging bogus internet addresses, A pong came back from the numerical IP of the sitefinder. When going to sitefinder.verisign.com, it was not blocked.
How was this modded insightful? Its wrong. Abiword does support oo files. I cant believe a moron like this can get modded up.
you are wrong
what does England have to do with suing linus?
From what I have seen, ATI is starting to get a lot more linux friendly and the drivers for linux are great. They are only a little slower than the windows ones and new ones keep being released. See http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadi d=33703965
for an ati linux developer's post
its even easier to type emerge openoffice thats it.
I dont see how this would cause a problem. the article said people could connect to microsoft.com for authentication. On the other hand, i guess microsofts server will go down a lot.
I can't believe you were modded up for that thoughtless comment. Bill Gates dropped out of college with strait A's and only did so because he knew that he had to focus on his company at the time. Bill Gates may be evil but he definitely is not stupid.
If the car has a serious design flaw that causes the crash, lots of people will accuse the car manufacturer and most of them will become rich and will not have to work any more.
We have software patent laws in the US and slashdot is in the US so slashdot would be protesting a law that were already enacted in the US. I dont think it would be helpful to shut down slashdot. if slashdot were shut down, a lot of people would not know about the protest and lots of other news.
How would product activation protect users? Piracy prevention only protects symantec.
I dont have that much ram though.
You forgot to mention how great this will be for slow computers with low ram. I can't wait to try this out on my P1!
would devices?
I doubt that using a 64bit processor would cause one of your devices "not to work". I don't see why only one of your program's wouldnt work.
its easy to run a script in linux. just not easy to run a script that will do damage to the whole system. Linux doesnt usually run in root and all programs are fine with that. They dont complain about permisisions like windows "limited user" does. That default root is a problem with windows and the people who make the programs available for it.
Is it possible that this has been a result of the slashdot effect?
that makes more sense. I guess I was thinking of servers only.
well its relevant in that those servers probably dont access google. Google zeitgeist only shows the percentage of people accessing google. and a lot more linux boxes have static IPs while lots of windows users with dial up have dynamic ones so that doesnt help at all. What i said was way more relevant than google.
I agree. The Washington Post is a very well known newspaper that many people get. Even my father(who subscribes to WP) read the article this morning and showed it to me because he thought I might find it interesting. He isnt the type to read stuff like slashdot. Just a note..I saw it at news.google.com this morning.
incorrect. More linux users... a lot more. remember the navy got mac hardware and put linux on it.
One of the XP backgrounds was real except they put a fake moon in it (the same kind of trickery they use in marketing). In the Sun system, I see that one of the familiarty things was adding an applications menu even though that just adds one more step to your menu browsing. What other than applications are you going to launch? a rocket? At least they didnt make the submenus of applications" into the names of the people who made the programs adding yet another step.
The difference is that most people will not realize this.