...forward. I woulda never thought that "space tourism" would be the key, but hey, whatever works.
All this bull****in' around with government space agencies, etc., is just a nice way to move tax dollars around in a shell game that in the end avails nothing.
You get REAL PEOPLE anteing up their own money for commercial space ventures, and the "high frontier" will finally become a reality.
(N.B. I live in Houston. It's impossible to get people here to see how useless NASA is. Living on the government teat will do that).
Every "special interest" (that's every single one of us, btw) says "we're spending untold dollars on X, Y and Z, which are CRAP! It is UNACCEPTABLE that MY pet project should be excluded!"
One man's crap is, of course, another's caviar. When people use the term "special interests," they mean "every interest but mine, which is legitimate."
If Congress had the balls - well, the Speaker is a woman, so choose your own euphemism - EVERYONE'S pet project would be trimmed, EVERYONE would walk away slightly pissed off, and we'd all be saving a HELL of a lot of money, enough to privately fund efforts and projects that are actually legitimate on the merits rather than the politics.
Of course, it's never gonna happen because "special interests" (you and me, remember?) would rather have government imprimatur and government money, than have to actually compete in the MARKETPLACE of ideas.
Someday of course, the swill-trough will run dry, and we're all gonna stand around looking at each other, wondering what the hell to do now.
...when I try new software. "Does it have a clean codebase?"
Of course the fact that I'm not a coder, and have no way of knowing the answer to this is irrelevant. I'm sure I can find the answer to my question SOMEWHERE, proffered by someone who DOES claim to know.
The divide between "makers" and "users" of software has NEVER been so evident.
In this case, "the norm" would mean that OVER 50% of users have broadband. In fact, less than 50% of users have broadband - and that includes businesses. Among consumers it is undoubtedly a lot less.
Now, according to this, fewer than 50% WANT broadband.
That means the "norm" is dialup.
Personally, I've had broadband access since 1999, and I can't imagine anything else. But that's me.
I'm not "normal," as is the case with most on slashdot.
I was a teen in the 70s, and "rip-off" was part of our jargon.
A "rip-off" is unwitting theft or cheating. To "rip-off" someone, as a verb, is to steal from, hoodwink, or otherwise cheat someone else who is not privy to what is happening before the fact.
In this case, it is obvious that anyone doing their casual homework can figure out they are paying a premium for the same hardware on an Apple machine vs. a Dell or HP. This is hardly a "rip-off." It is simply the market at work.
Apparently, Apple feels that their customers are willing to pay that premium. They are charging what the market will bear. That's not a "rip-off."
An example of the latter would be a "switcheroo," substituting inferior components for what was advertised, for instance.
NOTE: I DO NOT OWN OR USE APPLE'S COMPUTER PRODUCTS; I OWN ONE 80GB IPOD "CLASSIC, AND THAT'S IT. I JUST LIKE PRECISE LANGUAGE.
I seem to recall that the Fedora project decided not to distribute FF2 with any of their spins, opting to wait for FF3 instead, precisely because of the perception of suckage.
In part it says: "Congress shall make no law respecting... the right of the people... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Folks just LOVE to bash "special interests" and "lobbyists," but the fact is what they do is a PROTECTED RIGHT affirmed in the Bill of Rights. If you don't like that these people are "petitioning for the redress of THEIR griveances," then go petition yourself.
This ain't certain other countries I could name, where who gets access to government to exercise that right is predetermined...BY THE GOVERNMENT.
"Microsoft still has three out of ten people running an old version of its browser more than 18 months after Internet Explorer 7 launched..."
Look, my father-in-law knows NOTHING about computing, but a LOT about using the Internet. We bought him a computer several years ago. His browser?
IE5, of course. Why? Because that's what was installed on the machine when we bought it.
The majority of people who THINK about what browser they use, use something other than IE. Firefox 3 is obviously a great leap forward for the Mozilla brand, and...well, there you go.
BTW, I applaud the decision today by the court to affirm that the Second Amendment does indeed say what it has always said. Here's the distinction.
Today's majority decision actually took the CONSTITUTION into account. The arbitrary decisions of the Courts to get in the business of the other branches NEVER does.
When I was a kid, and education seemed to be focused more on what was important rather than being "thick with thin things," science was considered "cool," to put it simply.
Everyone was interested in it. The Space Race was still ongoing, magazines like Popular Science proliferated, and we Cub Scout and Boy Scout kids worked hard on our radio and electricity or bridge-building experiments. We all wanted to be scientists when we grew up.
Now, everyone wants to be "in entertainment." Even the most well-known "scientists" are really CELEBRITIES more than anything else; they're famous for being famous. Instead of the staid, sober "Mr. Wizard," you have "Bill Nye the Science Guy" from about a decade ago, or the new Sid The Science Kid. It's all about fun and flash and, well, "celebrity," entertainment.
We used to be "entertained" by the IDEAS behind what we were learning. We had imagination enough to extrapolate ideas like "hey, if I can make this model rocket fly up to 500 feet, maybe one day I can make one that goes the the Moon or Mars!"
Now, it's all about what someone else is doing, for our entertainment, on TV. Don't need "hands-on," we can just watch someone else do "Science" that really just looks like an entertaining video game.
Perhaps if we could get the kids back to doing REAL science - after all, when you're eight years old the same experiments that the scientists of three hundred years ago were performing for the first time are certainly NEWS to you! - instead of just seeking to entertain them, they might start to take it seriously.
And that would be reflected in what we are reading and talking about as well.
You're going off-topic. The question was regarding PASSENGER behavior, not the quality of service provided by airlines.
And I actually said nothing about any specific religion. Religious precepts are generally similar in their most fundamental aspects. Every world religion has a version of "the Golden Rule," for example.
"Treating others as you wish to be treated" would seem to preclude "air rage," don't you think?
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I think I'm beginning to understand the Security issue.
...reads off the chart.
All this bull****in' around with government space agencies, etc., is just a nice way to move tax dollars around in a shell game that in the end avails nothing.
You get REAL PEOPLE anteing up their own money for commercial space ventures, and the "high frontier" will finally become a reality.
(N.B. I live in Houston. It's impossible to get people here to see how useless NASA is. Living on the government teat will do that).
One man's crap is, of course, another's caviar. When people use the term "special interests," they mean "every interest but mine, which is legitimate."
If Congress had the balls - well, the Speaker is a woman, so choose your own euphemism - EVERYONE'S pet project would be trimmed, EVERYONE would walk away slightly pissed off, and we'd all be saving a HELL of a lot of money, enough to privately fund efforts and projects that are actually legitimate on the merits rather than the politics.
Of course, it's never gonna happen because "special interests" (you and me, remember?) would rather have government imprimatur and government money, than have to actually compete in the MARKETPLACE of ideas.
Someday of course, the swill-trough will run dry, and we're all gonna stand around looking at each other, wondering what the hell to do now.
"Many supporters of the SETI@home project have recently received a message..."
And my heart leapt into my throat!
The rest of the article was REALLY a big let-down after that, let me tell you.
Of course the fact that I'm not a coder, and have no way of knowing the answer to this is irrelevant. I'm sure I can find the answer to my question SOMEWHERE, proffered by someone who DOES claim to know.
The divide between "makers" and "users" of software has NEVER been so evident.
For instance, if you've lost your job, and desperately need to find another, do you dispense with things like going to the bathroom, reading, or sex?
After all, compared to the REALLY BIG issues in your life, those things are not NEARLY so important, are they?
I assume you mean "the norm."
In this case, "the norm" would mean that OVER 50% of users have broadband. In fact, less than 50% of users have broadband - and that includes businesses. Among consumers it is undoubtedly a lot less.
Now, according to this, fewer than 50% WANT broadband.
That means the "norm" is dialup.
Personally, I've had broadband access since 1999, and I can't imagine anything else. But that's me.
I'm not "normal," as is the case with most on slashdot.
Th' day ya sees th' last o' the jolly roger'll be the end o' yer own civilization, ya pack o' milquetoast swabbies!
Arrr...!
The "W3B," dude.
Are there any NON-multitasking OSes in common use any longer?
Only, you know, smaller?
C'mon, strap one o' those suckers to a 747 and tote 'er out there! Let's see how far she gets with a little more centrifugal "oomph" behind her!
(I've ALWAYS wanted to conquer the solar system along with our Brit cousins! We can NEVER repay you enough for the British Invasion!)
H*ll, that rocket would take another 999 YEARS to haul enough nuclear waste out to the far side of the moon!
"Get me rewrite!"
A "rip-off" is unwitting theft or cheating. To "rip-off" someone, as a verb, is to steal from, hoodwink, or otherwise cheat someone else who is not privy to what is happening before the fact.
In this case, it is obvious that anyone doing their casual homework can figure out they are paying a premium for the same hardware on an Apple machine vs. a Dell or HP. This is hardly a "rip-off." It is simply the market at work.
Apparently, Apple feels that their customers are willing to pay that premium. They are charging what the market will bear. That's not a "rip-off."
An example of the latter would be a "switcheroo," substituting inferior components for what was advertised, for instance.
NOTE: I DO NOT OWN OR USE APPLE'S COMPUTER PRODUCTS; I OWN ONE 80GB IPOD "CLASSIC, AND THAT'S IT. I JUST LIKE PRECISE LANGUAGE.
I seem to recall that the Fedora project decided not to distribute FF2 with any of their spins, opting to wait for FF3 instead, precisely because of the perception of suckage.
In part it says: "Congress shall make no law respecting ... the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Folks just LOVE to bash "special interests" and "lobbyists," but the fact is what they do is a PROTECTED RIGHT affirmed in the Bill of Rights. If you don't like that these people are "petitioning for the redress of THEIR griveances," then go petition yourself.
This ain't certain other countries I could name, where who gets access to government to exercise that right is predetermined...BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Look, my father-in-law knows NOTHING about computing, but a LOT about using the Internet. We bought him a computer several years ago. His browser?
IE5, of course. Why? Because that's what was installed on the machine when we bought it.
The majority of people who THINK about what browser they use, use something other than IE. Firefox 3 is obviously a great leap forward for the Mozilla brand, and...well, there you go.
...the environmental impact of solar energy was already officially established as "groovy, man, groovy!"
Another product of the RAND Corporation.
BTW, I applaud the decision today by the court to affirm that the Second Amendment does indeed say what it has always said. Here's the distinction.
Today's majority decision actually took the CONSTITUTION into account. The arbitrary decisions of the Courts to get in the business of the other branches NEVER does.
That's a HUGE distinction.
That must be an example of that "civility" that you were telling us about, n'est-ce pa?
That's it! You got it! (See my earlier comment).
Everyone was interested in it. The Space Race was still ongoing, magazines like Popular Science proliferated, and we Cub Scout and Boy Scout kids worked hard on our radio and electricity or bridge-building experiments. We all wanted to be scientists when we grew up.
Now, everyone wants to be "in entertainment." Even the most well-known "scientists" are really CELEBRITIES more than anything else; they're famous for being famous. Instead of the staid, sober "Mr. Wizard," you have "Bill Nye the Science Guy" from about a decade ago, or the new Sid The Science Kid. It's all about fun and flash and, well, "celebrity," entertainment.
We used to be "entertained" by the IDEAS behind what we were learning. We had imagination enough to extrapolate ideas like "hey, if I can make this model rocket fly up to 500 feet, maybe one day I can make one that goes the the Moon or Mars!"
Now, it's all about what someone else is doing, for our entertainment, on TV. Don't need "hands-on," we can just watch someone else do "Science" that really just looks like an entertaining video game.
Perhaps if we could get the kids back to doing REAL science - after all, when you're eight years old the same experiments that the scientists of three hundred years ago were performing for the first time are certainly NEWS to you! - instead of just seeking to entertain them, they might start to take it seriously.
And that would be reflected in what we are reading and talking about as well.
And I actually said nothing about any specific religion. Religious precepts are generally similar in their most fundamental aspects. Every world religion has a version of "the Golden Rule," for example.
"Treating others as you wish to be treated" would seem to preclude "air rage," don't you think?