And how are you going to get to the moon? On a Soyuz?
You, sir, are one of these people that never know when to keep your mouth shut about things you don't undestand.
Going back to the subject, I see it that way: NASA's budjet is failing. They were looking for an excuse (yes, an excuse - Shuttles are far from "old" and "tired") to retire the shuttle fleet, and build a new system, and now they got it. Of course, being a heavily politicized and beurocratized outfit, they tend to use these stinky methods to promote their agenda. Instead of just telling everybody the truth, they come up with the safety argument (which is complete horseshit) and use it as a means to get funding for the next manned spacecraft program.
In short - I agree with their reasons, but I completely dispise their methods. It's methods like these that got NASA into the mess they are in today. A research institution must do research, not play in political games!
Don't hurry to choose between something and nothing - it's a choice of this kind that creates these "nothing" situations:)
Hubble is waay past it's prime, not to mention it's original flaws which never were entirely fixed. It generates a lot of data, but this data is not always satisfactory anymore. Also, there is a huge backlog. There is a great benefit in stopping for a short time to catch a breath, and then resume data collection with a new, better instrument.
Basically, there are two sides to this story.
First of all, any kind of talk about risks is complete bullshit. The risks are no greater than in all previous Shuttle missions, and flying within docking distance of ISS is not a magical solution that somehow makes the risks becaom significantly smaller. It's just that NASA became so politicized, that they routinely use purely political tricks, and this talk of risk is exactly that. They are just repeating their routine after the Challenger accident: back then it turned out that the Shuttle's lack of emergency escape system proved to be a bad idea. So, their solution was to invent a bogus, unuseable escape system to make everybody shut up. The only thing this system is good for, is torturing the crue very creatively for PR purposes. And now they came up with the "if it breaks, we'll dock at ISS" solution. A complete garbage.
On the other hand, NASA is right in one thing: Hubble IS NOT WORTH REVIVING YET AGAIN. It's better to let it die gracefully and replace it with a new and better telescope. A Shuttle mision to repair Hubble is, at this point, a complete waste of resources and a tremendous hinderence to the NGST program.
In short - NASA became a purely political organization, one that is incapable of telling people the hard truth, and consistenyly choosing to replace it with sweet lies. And this certainly didn't happen just yesterday.:(
Some people mentioned running NTP to eliminate the skew, but I say you wouldn't even need that. Computers are complex electronic devices and just because your CPU has 1.6 Ghz written on it doesn't mean it runs exactly at 1.6 Ghz. The frequencies vary with time and are influenced by any number of things, starting from the power grid and ending with your neighbor's powerful sneeze. Laptops are even worse. different battery charge, moving from one power grid to another. And what about frequency scaling? Can you imagine the havoc this technology wreaks on your clock skew?
In short, this technique will never work outside of the lab. Back to the drawing board, assholes!:)
...and that's it. John William's excellent score is pretty much the only redeeming feature of any Star Wars movie. And I'm certain that is will be the same with that one.
This Clint guy must be a pretty bad programmer. His description of the vote rigging system is pure crap. I guess all this VB programming really fried his brain after a while:)
I have noticed that floppy disks have also become encreasingly unreliable over the years. I remember the times when I dared things like installing, say, OS/2 from floppies, (I beleive it was in the area of 30 diskettes). Nowadays, diskettes are not always reliable even to store a 200k word document. I believe, the reason for that is simple: floppys are not mass produced anymore. All the diskettes sold today in stores were produced more than five years ago, and they are quickly reaching the end of their shelf life.
Fasttrack is a closed source protocol, operated by the same people who own it's source-code. Ero, if these people get in trouble for content that let thourgh, the protocol is also in trouble.
BitTorrent is open source software, and as such it can be used by anyone. As such, it's author can't be held responsable for misuse of his code for illegal purposes by third parties.
Of course, there is great room to go after individual BitTorrent trackers. And we definetly will see such things happen in the near future.
Bittorrent protocol has nothing in common with the protocol used by Kazaa (FastTrack). Even their basic P2P topologies are different.
Also, Kazaa is in trouble not for it's protocol, but for running servers that allow piracy, it's just in Kazaa's case one automatically means the other, since the protocol is closed source. Of course, Bittorrent trackers that host pirated material are also susceptable to such troubles - but this has nothing to do with Bittorrent protocol itself.
The worst about modern textbooks is that they get updated damn too often (intentionally of course).
Almost every year a new edition is released, which renders all previous editions almost unusable in a class. Mostly, they change the layout of the book and juggle around excercises, so thet they will be hard to locate in older editions. And students are forced to buy new and very expensive books, while perfectly good old books get thrown away.
I imagine the managers of failing tech firms may have the same desperation and confusion that a hostage taker might.
Contrary to common misconception, most hostage takers are not "desperate" or "confused". It is the job of the hostage negotiator to deceive and confuse them into releasing the hostages, or putting themselves into a vulnarable postition.
Of course, from the stand point of this "doctor of reality" it is very logical to use a brain-washer like that - this way the good doctor will increase his profits in the transaction.
"And it was probably cheaper to launch an entire new Skylab than to launch a single ISS module."
The only reason why Skylab existed at all is that there was some leftover hardware from the moon program, most notably a Saturn V rocket. US had, and still has no other rocket capable of launching anything like Skylab - the ISS modules are considerably smaller. So, this talk of launching more Skylabs is noncense.
You must be one of these people that never made Mplayer work on your system, right?:)
How interesting, that the people who complain about "abusive Mplayer developers" are the ones who are too dumb to make it work on their systems.:) Go use Xine - good riddance.
"There were always palestinians that lived there and then the jews show up..."
I'm sorry, but that is a "Palestinian" lie. In fact, throughout the whole time, (about 2000 years) there was only one nation that lived in Eretz-Israel continuesly - Jews. There is no such thing as "Palestinian people" - the term was invented by the Soviet foreign establishment in the 60s. For example, before the creation of State of Israel, the jewish population of Eretz-Israel referred to themselves as "Palestinians".
"You know the iraeli arabs have special license plates that denote that they are arab?"
That is also a lie. To begin with, license plate in Israel are assigned to CARS not to PEOPLE. Usually, the plates are put on the cars immidiately after being off-loaded in a port, and the license plate is never changed.
Now tell me, why do you hate Jews so much? What did they do to you, exactly? Were you stung as a child, or something?
I used to work in Microsoft technical support. From my experience, MS does everything to avoid receiving bug reports from end users, their system is designed in such a way that bug reports are automatically dropped, unless the originate from a pro support client (which pays millions of dollars for support). What this guy did is not only right, but also it is the only moral thing to do. Companies like MS should pay for their bad business practices.
As I said - don't blabber about things you don't understand. You'll save yourself some embarassment.
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Please, don't blabber about things you know nothing about. Any ship that enters a warzone does so at it's own risk - and the people on board USS Libery knew that very well, that's why they were relatively calm about the whole thing. If you willingly enter a place where bullets fly - don't be surprised when one of them hits you.
BTW, to preclude any responses, this applies to that bitch Rachael Corrie too.
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And how are you going to get to the moon? On a Soyuz?
You, sir, are one of these people that never know when to keep your mouth shut about things you don't undestand.
Going back to the subject, I see it that way: NASA's budjet is failing. They were looking for an excuse (yes, an excuse - Shuttles are far from "old" and "tired") to retire the shuttle fleet, and build a new system, and now they got it. Of course, being a heavily politicized and beurocratized outfit, they tend to use these stinky methods to promote their agenda. Instead of just telling everybody the truth, they come up with the safety argument (which is complete horseshit) and use it as a means to get funding for the next manned spacecraft program.
In short - I agree with their reasons, but I completely dispise their methods. It's methods like these that got NASA into the mess they are in today. A research institution must do research, not play in political games!
Don't hurry to choose between something and nothing - it's a choice of this kind that creates these "nothing" situations :)
Hubble is waay past it's prime, not to mention it's original flaws which never were entirely fixed. It generates a lot of data, but this data is not always satisfactory anymore. Also, there is a huge backlog. There is a great benefit in stopping for a short time to catch a breath, and then resume data collection with a new, better instrument.
Basically, there are two sides to this story. First of all, any kind of talk about risks is complete bullshit. The risks are no greater than in all previous Shuttle missions, and flying within docking distance of ISS is not a magical solution that somehow makes the risks becaom significantly smaller. It's just that NASA became so politicized, that they routinely use purely political tricks, and this talk of risk is exactly that. They are just repeating their routine after the Challenger accident: back then it turned out that the Shuttle's lack of emergency escape system proved to be a bad idea. So, their solution was to invent a bogus, unuseable escape system to make everybody shut up. The only thing this system is good for, is torturing the crue very creatively for PR purposes. And now they came up with the "if it breaks, we'll dock at ISS" solution. A complete garbage. On the other hand, NASA is right in one thing: Hubble IS NOT WORTH REVIVING YET AGAIN. It's better to let it die gracefully and replace it with a new and better telescope. A Shuttle mision to repair Hubble is, at this point, a complete waste of resources and a tremendous hinderence to the NGST program. In short - NASA became a purely political organization, one that is incapable of telling people the hard truth, and consistenyly choosing to replace it with sweet lies. And this certainly didn't happen just yesterday. :(
Some people mentioned running NTP to eliminate the skew, but I say you wouldn't even need that. Computers are complex electronic devices and just because your CPU has 1.6 Ghz written on it doesn't mean it runs exactly at 1.6 Ghz. The frequencies vary with time and are influenced by any number of things, starting from the power grid and ending with your neighbor's powerful sneeze.
:)
Laptops are even worse. different battery charge, moving from one power grid to another. And what about frequency scaling? Can you imagine the havoc this technology wreaks on your clock skew?
In short, this technique will never work outside of the lab. Back to the drawing board, assholes!
Who told you that BSOD is dead? It's alive and kicking! It's just that XP by default doesn't let you see it for very long - but it's definetly there.
...and that's it. John William's excellent score is pretty much the only redeeming feature of any Star Wars movie. And I'm certain that is will be the same with that one.
When I see 100% in a statistical result, it makes me cringe. The results of this study are under very big question.
If you want a simple, compact flash player that reads CompactFlash cards (they are up to 2 gigs now, right?), and is really cheap, then check this:
http://store.yahoo.com/frontierstore/
NexKube - 49$.
I pesonally own the NexIA - it's wicked!
This Clint guy must be a pretty bad programmer. His description of the vote rigging system is pure crap. I guess all this VB programming really fried his brain after a while :)
It may also have been a "fizzle".
I have noticed that floppy disks have also become encreasingly unreliable over the years. I remember the times when I dared things like installing, say, OS/2 from floppies, (I beleive it was in the area of 30 diskettes). Nowadays, diskettes are not always reliable even to store a 200k word document.
I believe, the reason for that is simple: floppys are not mass produced anymore. All the diskettes sold today in stores were produced more than five years ago, and they are quickly reaching the end of their shelf life.
No.
Fasttrack is a closed source protocol, operated by the same people who own it's source-code. Ero, if these people get in trouble for content that let thourgh, the protocol is also in trouble.
BitTorrent is open source software, and as such it can be used by anyone. As such, it's author can't be held responsable for misuse of his code for illegal purposes by third parties.
Of course, there is great room to go after individual BitTorrent trackers. And we definetly will see such things happen in the near future.
Bittorrent protocol has nothing in common with the protocol used by Kazaa (FastTrack). Even their basic P2P topologies are different.
Also, Kazaa is in trouble not for it's protocol, but for running servers that allow piracy, it's just in Kazaa's case one automatically means the other, since the protocol is closed source. Of course, Bittorrent trackers that host pirated material are also susceptable to such troubles - but this has nothing to do with Bittorrent protocol itself.
The worst about modern textbooks is that they get updated damn too often (intentionally of course). Almost every year a new edition is released, which renders all previous editions almost unusable in a class. Mostly, they change the layout of the book and juggle around excercises, so thet they will be hard to locate in older editions. And students are forced to buy new and very expensive books, while perfectly good old books get thrown away.
I imagine the managers of failing tech firms may have the same desperation and confusion that a hostage taker might.
Contrary to common misconception, most hostage takers are not "desperate" or "confused". It is the job of the hostage negotiator to deceive and confuse them into releasing the hostages, or putting themselves into a vulnarable postition.
Of course, from the stand point of this "doctor of reality" it is very logical to use a brain-washer like that - this way the good doctor will increase his profits in the transaction.
"And it was probably cheaper to launch an entire new Skylab than to launch a single ISS module."
The only reason why Skylab existed at all is that there was some leftover hardware from the moon program, most notably a Saturn V rocket. US had, and still has no other rocket capable of launching anything like Skylab - the ISS modules are considerably smaller. So, this talk of launching more Skylabs is noncense.
"Michael Foale to Alexander Kaleri: I don't know about you, Alexei, but I'm..."
Alexander and Alexei are two different names. The proper way would be "I don't know about you, Sasha, but I'm...."
You must be one of these people that never made Mplayer work on your system, right? :)
:)
How interesting, that the people who complain about "abusive Mplayer developers" are the ones who are too dumb to make it work on their systems.
Go use Xine - good riddance.
"There were always palestinians that lived there and then the jews show up..." I'm sorry, but that is a "Palestinian" lie. In fact, throughout the whole time, (about 2000 years) there was only one nation that lived in Eretz-Israel continuesly - Jews. There is no such thing as "Palestinian people" - the term was invented by the Soviet foreign establishment in the 60s. For example, before the creation of State of Israel, the jewish population of Eretz-Israel referred to themselves as "Palestinians". "You know the iraeli arabs have special license plates that denote that they are arab?" That is also a lie. To begin with, license plate in Israel are assigned to CARS not to PEOPLE. Usually, the plates are put on the cars immidiately after being off-loaded in a port, and the license plate is never changed. Now tell me, why do you hate Jews so much? What did they do to you, exactly? Were you stung as a child, or something?
I used to work in Microsoft technical support. From my experience, MS does everything to avoid receiving bug reports from end users, their system is designed in such a way that bug reports are automatically dropped, unless the originate from a pro support client (which pays millions of dollars for support). What this guy did is not only right, but also it is the only moral thing to do. Companies like MS should pay for their bad business practices.
Maybe it's a flashback? After all, TTT had flashbacks to Aragorn's conversations with Elrond and Arwen.
As I said - don't blabber about things you don't understand. You'll save yourself some embarassment.
Please, don't blabber about things you know nothing about. Any ship that enters a warzone does so at it's own risk - and the people on board USS Libery knew that very well, that's why they were relatively calm about the whole thing.
If you willingly enter a place where bullets fly - don't be surprised when one of them hits you.
BTW, to preclude any responses, this applies to that bitch Rachael Corrie too.