You are to being an obvious fake. I know this thoroughly because of the way you are using grammar is completely different from local ways, and I am being local in Mumbai. Please to be explaining yourself!
he will be the first to carry his own significant research up with him
No he's not! Mark Shuttleworth used his trip to do various experiments, including one on the effect micro-gravity has on stem cells, as well as one on proteines used in the fight against AIDS. He funded all of this out of his own pocket. After his space flight, he went on a huge educational tour of South Africa, getting kids interested in science and maths.
looks a bit like an iPod
Apple must be doing something right in their marketing if anything that's white and electronic with an LCD screen is referred to as : "looks a bit like an iPod". It looks more like a white PDA, or a small, white tablet PC. But an iPod? That's pushing it a bit.
Free trade cuts both ways. If you want to be able to buy cheap consumer goods imported from countries where manufacturing wages are much lower, you can't complain about something similar happening in your job sector. The whole problem is that the US economy is way out of proportion with most of the rest of the world, because of trade with other countries and what you've gained from it in the past. Now that it goes the other way, you can't really complain.
It was, but now we have a "proper" mission control with a nice big plasma screen showing the orbits of all the satellites. Come and have a look again, you'll be impressed (I think).
UoSAT-2 was not a Nasa mission. It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in Guildford, a University town just west of London. We've grown quite a bit since then. We specialize in building small satellites (think 100 kgs, not 1000's of kgs). It's a different way of doing things to the way NASA and ESA usually does, but it's catching on.
Y, Mark Thomas's final year project for his masters degree
Nope, actually it was his final year project for his bachelors degree, ie his fouth year project.
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I just visited the website and thought: "I really want to see this!". Then I clicked on the link for show times and checked when it will show in London. 31st of January. DOH! My next thought was: "Maybe I can get this on Kazaa? Naah, probably not, and I'd rather pay to support the movie." Now what are my options?
Why don't movies like this have some kind of digital distribution serviec yet? Surely if it's as good as it looks it will make more money than the setup and maintenance costs for such a system. Hell, if some-one payed me enough I'd quit my job and set it up for them (it would take me a while to figure out how, but I'm sure I'll figure it out).
Maybe having free wi-fi will get some people to check in earlier and therefore spread the congestion that usually happens 2 hours before the flight. I know I would check in an hour earlier if I could do something usefull with that hour, and wi-fi would give me the opportunity to.
I'm not a Linux zealot, I don't even use Linux, but I have been following the SCO vs. Linux story for a while now. The article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" is far below the high journalistic standards the BBC have set in the past. It contains nothing but bad conclusions without any basis in fact. The fact of the matter is that most computer security experts think exactly the opposite of what is stated in the article: That the MyDoom virus was written by email spammers testing out virus technology to use in future spamming. It is very convenient for the virus writer that the Linux community is blamed for the virus. Simple research on the internet reveals many sources backing this (http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0104/28worm.html and http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/ 2376200).
Please don't let the high quality of factual reporting by the BBC revert to tabloid sensationalism.
Whoa! Who said Springfield is in Illinois? Isn't the whole idea of Springfield that it is in every state? If there's proof it's in Illinois, please point the way.
Take my word for it (or don't), this is going to be huge! The early marketing (completely different from any other way of merketing you've ever seen) suggests they've put a lot of thought into this. As soon as the marketing itself becomes a story (look out for CNN, Time and others to cover "The making of the marketing campaign"), they've got even more free airtime. People will trailer that fooled them to believe it was a real add, and by the time the movie arrives everyone's going to go and see it.
It's the cleverest marketing ploy since people/companies started using eBay to generate freepublicity for themselves.
I can understand the cloning of a human (ie after birth) being controversial, just because no-one knows what could happen to the clone 20 or 50 years down the line. But being against the cloning of embryos is just crazy. That's exactly how identical twins are produced in nature. One embryo splits in two and forms two embryos that have identical DNA (and are therefore clones). The process of cloning an embryo in the lab is basically the same: A single embryo is opened up and the stem cells inside it are divided into two new ebryos. Viola, two new identical embryos (same as in nature). What is unethical about this? Cloning a living human (or animal) envolves something a little different: Cells are harvested from the human, and then, through a difficult (and at the moment highly unsuccesful, percentage wise) process stem cells are grown from these cells. These stem cells are then used to make a new embryo (Embryos only have stem cells in them in the early stages). So you have a new ebryo with the same DNA as the human the other cells were harvested from. Problem is, we don't know yet if that the clone's cells will act like the (say) 25 year old human it came from (ie live for another 50 years only) or do they start from anew?
The whole problem with the word "cloning" is that most people think of Frankenstein and Hitler when you say it. Not many people realise that animal embryos have been cloned for decades now, and humans quite a while.
Is the US government going to start a witch hunt against identical twins in the future then?
Both are correct. It started off as a Dutch colony in 1652, was given to the British for protection during the Napoleontic wars, given back to the Netherlands after, and then taken back by the British after they realized what they just did by giving it back.
Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom
I'm going to pop a vein! Afirca is not a country, it's a continent. South Africa, the country where Eskom resides, is a country in Africa (easily confused with South America by Americans. South America is a continent south of North America, the continent with three different countries on it, including the USA). There are 54 independent, different countries in Africa, each with their own government. Africa is not simply a big ol' jungle where everyone speaks Swahili (only 50 million of the more than 700 million people in Africa speak Swahili)./rant OK, now that I got that off my chest: Eskom has been talking about this for a while now, and they are facing some resistance to the idea. The problem being the general conception that "nuclear is evil".
It looks like eBay is becoming a cheap way to get your company, or yourself, into the media spotlight these days. Just put something strange up for auction (satellite, your virginity, your dignity, your wife, etc.) and you're guaranteed to get coverage on all major tech websites, magazines and news shows (CNN, Time, BBC, etc. are sure to run this). The fact that they porbably won't get $9,500,000 out of it doesn't really matter. Millions more people will now know that they can build satellites for a fraction of the price NASA or ESA does.
If you don't have $9,500,000, or don't want something quite as big, look at getting your own CubeSat. Dozens of these are beign built at universities around the world. You can buy most of the parts you need and just put them together. They are launched together on one rocket, sharing the launch cost and making it even cheaper than the $9,500,00 needed for a microsatellite (CubeSats are pico satellites, 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, and weigh only 1 kg).
It proves just as much as: holding hundreds of people hostage on a military base in Cuba (without trial) proves that America's kind of democracy is something anyone wants, as specially to the citizens of whatever country they try and "liberate" currently or next.
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You are to being an obvious fake. I know this thoroughly because of the way you are using grammar is completely different from local ways, and I am being local in Mumbai. Please to be explaining yourself!
he will be the first to carry his own significant research up with him
No he's not! Mark Shuttleworth used his trip to do various experiments, including one on the effect micro-gravity has on stem cells, as well as one on proteines used in the fight against AIDS. He funded all of this out of his own pocket. After his space flight, he went on a huge educational tour of South Africa, getting kids interested in science and maths.
looks a bit like an iPod
Apple must be doing something right in their marketing if anything that's white and electronic with an LCD screen is referred to as : "looks a bit like an iPod". It looks more like a white PDA, or a small, white tablet PC. But an iPod? That's pushing it a bit.
Free trade cuts both ways. If you want to be able to buy cheap consumer goods imported from countries where manufacturing wages are much lower, you can't complain about something similar happening in your job sector. The whole problem is that the US economy is way out of proportion with most of the rest of the world, because of trade with other countries and what you've gained from it in the past. Now that it goes the other way, you can't really complain.
It was, but now we have a "proper" mission control with a nice big plasma screen showing the orbits of all the satellites. Come and have a look again, you'll be impressed (I think).
UoSAT-2 was not a Nasa mission. It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in Guildford, a University town just west of London. We've grown quite a bit since then. We specialize in building small satellites (think 100 kgs, not 1000's of kgs). It's a different way of doing things to the way NASA and ESA usually does, but it's catching on.
DEUTSCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND Uber Alles!
Using that phrase is more than a little insensitive. In fact, using it in Germany can get you in about as much trouble as SCO can after this.
Y, Mark Thomas's final year project for his masters degree
Nope, actually it was his final year project for his bachelors degree, ie his fouth year project.
I just visited the website and thought: "I really want to see this!". Then I clicked on the link for show times and checked when it will show in London. 31st of January. DOH! My next thought was: "Maybe I can get this on Kazaa? Naah, probably not, and I'd rather pay to support the movie." Now what are my options?
Why don't movies like this have some kind of digital distribution serviec yet? Surely if it's as good as it looks it will make more money than the setup and maintenance costs for such a system. Hell, if some-one payed me enough I'd quit my job and set it up for them (it would take me a while to figure out how, but I'm sure I'll figure it out).
Chalk up another one for the most disasterous software bugs in history. This one should give the Ariane 5 explosion a go for no 1.
Maybe having free wi-fi will get some people to check in earlier and therefore spread the congestion that usually happens 2 hours before the flight. I know I would check in an hour earlier if I could do something usefull with that hour, and wi-fi would give me the opportunity to.
My feedback to the BBC:
4 /28worm.html and http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/ 2376200).
I'm not a Linux zealot, I don't even use Linux, but I have been following the SCO vs. Linux story for a while now. The article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" is far below the high journalistic standards the BBC have set in the past. It contains nothing but bad conclusions without any basis in fact. The fact of the matter is that most computer security experts think exactly the opposite of what is stated in the article: That the MyDoom virus was written by email spammers testing out virus technology to use in future spamming. It is very convenient for the virus writer that the Linux community is blamed for the virus. Simple research on the internet reveals many sources backing this (http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/010
Please don't let the high quality of factual reporting by the BBC revert to tabloid sensationalism.
Man is it hard to think of a clever "In Soviet Russia" line on this one!
Whoa! Who said Springfield is in Illinois? Isn't the whole idea of Springfield that it is in every state? If there's proof it's in Illinois, please point the way.
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone!
Star Trek had it's time, now let it go.
Take my word for it (or don't), this is going to be huge! The early marketing (completely different from any other way of merketing you've ever seen) suggests they've put a lot of thought into this. As soon as the marketing itself becomes a story (look out for CNN, Time and others to cover "The making of the marketing campaign"), they've got even more free airtime. People will trailer that fooled them to believe it was a real add, and by the time the movie arrives everyone's going to go and see it.
It's the cleverest marketing ploy since people/companies started using eBay to generate free publicity for themselves.
I can understand the cloning of a human (ie after birth) being controversial, just because no-one knows what could happen to the clone 20 or 50 years down the line. But being against the cloning of embryos is just crazy. That's exactly how identical twins are produced in nature. One embryo splits in two and forms two embryos that have identical DNA (and are therefore clones). The process of cloning an embryo in the lab is basically the same: A single embryo is opened up and the stem cells inside it are divided into two new ebryos. Viola, two new identical embryos (same as in nature). What is unethical about this? Cloning a living human (or animal) envolves something a little different: Cells are harvested from the human, and then, through a difficult (and at the moment highly unsuccesful, percentage wise) process stem cells are grown from these cells. These stem cells are then used to make a new embryo (Embryos only have stem cells in them in the early stages). So you have a new ebryo with the same DNA as the human the other cells were harvested from. Problem is, we don't know yet if that the clone's cells will act like the (say) 25 year old human it came from (ie live for another 50 years only) or do they start from anew?
The whole problem with the word "cloning" is that most people think of Frankenstein and Hitler when you say it. Not many people realise that animal embryos have been cloned for decades now, and humans quite a while.
Is the US government going to start a witch hunt against identical twins in the future then?
Jesus saves ....
and Maradonna scores on the rebound!
Both are correct. It started off as a Dutch colony in 1652, was given to the British for protection during the Napoleontic wars, given back to the Netherlands after, and then taken back by the British after they realized what they just did by giving it back.
South Africa is currently the ONLY country in the world to voluntarily stop and dismantle their whole nuclear weapons program.
Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom /rant
I'm going to pop a vein! Afirca is not a country, it's a continent . South Africa, the country where Eskom resides, is a country in Africa (easily confused with South America by Americans. South America is a continent south of North America, the continent with three different countries on it, including the USA). There are 54 independent, different countries in Africa, each with their own government. Africa is not simply a big ol' jungle where everyone speaks Swahili (only 50 million of the more than 700 million people in Africa speak Swahili).
OK, now that I got that off my chest: Eskom has been talking about this for a while now, and they are facing some resistance to the idea. The problem being the general conception that "nuclear is evil".
"For those of you that can't go to SC2003 or can't afford the US$750 late registration"
What about those of us that don't have a clue what sc2003 is?
and next they'll be telling us it's not made of cheese! Bunch of heretics!
It looks like eBay is becoming a cheap way to get your company, or yourself, into the media spotlight these days. Just put something strange up for auction (satellite, your virginity, your dignity, your wife, etc.) and you're guaranteed to get coverage on all major tech websites, magazines and news shows (CNN, Time, BBC, etc. are sure to run this). The fact that they porbably won't get $9,500,000 out of it doesn't really matter. Millions more people will now know that they can build satellites for a fraction of the price NASA or ESA does.
If you don't have $9,500,000, or don't want something quite as big, look at getting your own CubeSat. Dozens of these are beign built at universities around the world. You can buy most of the parts you need and just put them together. They are launched together on one rocket, sharing the launch cost and making it even cheaper than the $9,500,00 needed for a microsatellite (CubeSats are pico satellites, 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, and weigh only 1 kg).
It proves just as much as: holding hundreds of people hostage on a military base in Cuba (without trial) proves that America's kind of democracy is something anyone wants, as specially to the citizens of whatever country they try and "liberate" currently or next.