NASA's budget is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else congress spends money on, and it provides jobs, trade, expertise, technology, and national pride.
For a country that prides itself on having a high level of technology, it would be an indicator that the USA has truly fallen.
The Russians and Chinese can afford it, yet the USA can not anymore...
So, since you're more than willing to allow [other] people to lose their jobs so you can have your gee wiz feel good moments, I would bet it's fair to say you're not one of the thousands employed by NASA or subcontractors.
[Full disclosure: I don't work for NASA or a subcontractor.]
Space isn't a luxury... In the long term it will become a necessity and the nation that is first to exploit it will be the one that prospers the most in the future.
Once you stop the wheel, it takes a lot to get it to start turning again.
Aerospace engineering expertise exists in the engineers that live/work/breathe/teach their profession. If you temporarily cancel a program, all of those engineers will have to find work elsewhere and all of their knowledge that is stored in their heads will be lost.
Tell me, as an engineer who recently graduated, why I should even go into aerospace engineering if I have to deal with the opinions of people like you who would rather we not spend money on such frivolous activities. Instead we are so broke we need to allocate a few billion for national health care or for bailing out wall street. Why would any student go into aerospace engineering in the kind of an environment where they don't even have a potential job.
You claim we have more pressing problems to solve like clean energy etc, but you don't realize that just throwing more people at the problem isn't going to necessarily solve it. Those engineers might want to design rockets instead of fuel cells yah know.
Apparently you need to get some reading comprehension.
For starters, the OP was referring to graphics reaching a plateau which I was arguing against. If you weren't such an idiot you would have realized that.
1) Steam solves all of those problems, I have steam games from 5 years ago that I can still easily play and maintain. I also have games from nearly 15 years ago that I can still run on my computer today, so what is your point again? Any activation problems with old games can be solved within 15 seconds through google. So what is your problem again?
2) That argument doesn't fly very much. You have a computer that you are obviously using to type this post in right? You realize that a graphics card that is easily 4x more powerful than a console only costs $150 right? Why are you bringing up Crysis anyways, I was merely pointing out that next gen consoles will approach the graphics capabilities of Crysis on current high end PC hardware.
I don't know, I don't really play any of those games. I'm sure there are a ton of Indie games similar to Smash Brothers However. Personally I like Street Fighter IV and that is available for PC too.
Besides that, the Guitar Hero series is available for PC too, so what is your point?
Yeah and most of those fighting games can be played on a PC, with 2-4 controllers too.
Besides, there are plenty of games that are local multiplayer on the PC side too. Left 4 Dead for example includes split screen functionality on the PC.
A lot of console games are also moving towards providing online only mulitplayer like some recent racing games.
Modern graphics cards such as the Nvidia GTX series or Radeon 4xxx to 5xxx series can easily play games at 2560x1600 with 30-60fps, especially games that are console ports.
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NASA's budget is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else congress spends money on, and it provides jobs, trade, expertise, technology, and national pride.
For a country that prides itself on having a high level of technology, it would be an indicator that the USA has truly fallen.
The Russians and Chinese can afford it, yet the USA can not anymore...
Is this a serious statement?
Bravo, your trolling skills are epic indeed.
No space travel in a previous depression? HAH.
Yes I trust you Mr. Expert. You have obviously given so much thought to this and have such an informed perspective.
So, since you're more than willing to allow [other] people to lose their jobs so you can have your gee wiz feel good moments, I would bet it's fair to say you're not one of the thousands employed by NASA or subcontractors.
[Full disclosure: I don't work for NASA or a subcontractor.]
Space isn't a luxury... In the long term it will become a necessity and the nation that is first to exploit it will be the one that prospers the most in the future.
Once you stop the wheel, it takes a lot to get it to start turning again.
Aerospace engineering expertise exists in the engineers that live/work/breathe/teach their profession. If you temporarily cancel a program, all of those engineers will have to find work elsewhere and all of their knowledge that is stored in their heads will be lost.
Tell me, as an engineer who recently graduated, why I should even go into aerospace engineering if I have to deal with the opinions of people like you who would rather we not spend money on such frivolous activities. Instead we are so broke we need to allocate a few billion for national health care or for bailing out wall street. Why would any student go into aerospace engineering in the kind of an environment where they don't even have a potential job.
You claim we have more pressing problems to solve like clean energy etc, but you don't realize that just throwing more people at the problem isn't going to necessarily solve it. Those engineers might want to design rockets instead of fuel cells yah know.
It isn't a measure of their worth as humans but of the work that they do.
Probably when existing techniques can not be scaled down anymore economically.
Right... Blame everybody but yourself, classic.
No, the recession in the USA started in 2007. These kind of things don't happen over night, it was building up for quite a while.
Maybe those patients don't want you to know anything about themselves?
Half-Life didn't have such a long lifespan because of linux support, don't kid yourself.
I think the reason codemasters didn't add dedicated server support is because the engine the game was built on does not support dedicated servers.
I'm still hoping they add them soon though.
Those are old numbers, COD4 sold nearly 2 million copies on PC.
Fixed That For You.
Vasimr is capable of Specific Impulses of 5000+... Chemical Rockets have Specific Impulses of maybe 500 at most.
That's an order of magnitude difference.
What the rest of the world thinks doesn't change the meaning of a law.
Just because the rest of the world thinks the sun revolves around them does not make it so.
And what exactly does this have to do with Moore's law besides the fact that you don't understand it?
As far as DDR goes, there is Stepmania which is IMO significantly better than any of the DDR iterations.
As far as Bomberman games go, the best ones were on older generation consoles which can easily be emulated.
Here you go:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=List+of+native+1080p+ps3+games
Apparently you need to get some reading comprehension.
For starters, the OP was referring to graphics reaching a plateau which I was arguing against. If you weren't such an idiot you would have realized that.
1) Steam solves all of those problems, I have steam games from 5 years ago that I can still easily play and maintain. I also have games from nearly 15 years ago that I can still run on my computer today, so what is your point again? Any activation problems with old games can be solved within 15 seconds through google. So what is your problem again?
2) That argument doesn't fly very much. You have a computer that you are obviously using to type this post in right? You realize that a graphics card that is easily 4x more powerful than a console only costs $150 right? Why are you bringing up Crysis anyways, I was merely pointing out that next gen consoles will approach the graphics capabilities of Crysis on current high end PC hardware.
Wow Reading comprehension, get some you retard.
I don't know, I don't really play any of those games. I'm sure there are a ton of Indie games similar to Smash Brothers However. Personally I like Street Fighter IV and that is available for PC too.
Besides that, the Guitar Hero series is available for PC too, so what is your point?
Yeah and most of those fighting games can be played on a PC, with 2-4 controllers too.
Besides, there are plenty of games that are local multiplayer on the PC side too. Left 4 Dead for example includes split screen functionality on the PC.
A lot of console games are also moving towards providing online only mulitplayer like some recent racing games.
Modern graphics cards such as the Nvidia GTX series or Radeon 4xxx to 5xxx series can easily play games at 2560x1600 with 30-60fps, especially games that are console ports.