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So UL died. Financial chaos insues. Just create another distro based on what you learned. I find that Linux distrobutions are successfull based on the research that was done to them. Debian has apt and has official packages controlled and standardized. Redhat pushes ease of use with a corporate twist. SuSE has european nations in its grasp and has a little of column A and a little of column B in it, a well balanced distro you might say. Slackware is the tried and true throw everything in and let the user sort it out "hackers" distro. Though its become a lot more friendly to use and is evolving nicely. United Linux wanted to take all the ideas and somehow work them into one. Thier goal was to make a standard set of packages what would work seamlessly together and be user friendly. They wanted to create a set of rules to follow when adding non-official packages and work on schemes to make packages work together and not break each other be accident. There goals have never been met by any distrobution to date. I still see hope for what they were trying to do. Just move on and do it under a different name. Rework management AKA reorganize and try again. The little distro the could so to speak./rant off
As said earlier saving the hubble has nothing to lose. Unless you consider that the space tug could have a malfunction and send hubble into an unstable orbit that takes out other satellites. But in general I think the only reason they suggested problems with the JWST was to reinforce thier arguement to try save the hubble. I don't think there is any extortion intent.
Yahoo has a long ways to go. Aquiring geocities was the last smart thing yahoo did. (that and beefing up my email quota for free) Google has made a lot of news lately about how they try to be non-intrusive as a search engine and try to make it quick, simple, and have relevent search results instead of 10 advertisements and then a real search result. Until yahoo can do something really gripping I'll keep using Google for search engine. If yahoo is smart they will keep focused on thier "community" appeal. They are friggen awsome and community even if that community is the redlight district for teens. With that... I miss the old Geocities. I also miss Altavista (powered by digital) in its prime./rant off
I used to listen to NPR and PRI-BBC radio dramas as a teen. As I grew older I found it to be more convient to just download the radio drama's from public radio websites and listen at my leisure.
#1 reason - because we can. I agree with the former poster that we should go to mars because we can.
Another good reason to go is to rape the planet for its resources. Also Mars has less gravity then Earth so it would be easier to launch material into space.
There is all this talk about putting a space station on the moon. The moon is thought to be 99% basalt rock which is mostly silica based. Now basalt rock is one of the most common rocks found on the earth and silica is an abundant resource. The moon then cannot offer us any resources that we cannot already get easily here on earth. The moon would be a decent jumping off point because of its very low gravity and zero atmosphere but radiation and temperature would make a base difficult to build. I would guess that it would need to be built deep underground with heavily shielded and fortified above ground structures.
Mars has atmosphere, gravity, less temperature changes(although its always pretty cold). I am not sure of the radiation factor but it certainly must be less then our moon. Mars has readily available resources. and I would guess what would happen eventually is that we would send an expedition to mars, setup a permanent base of operations, and start automated factories to make liquid hydrogen and oxygen so that the expedition can make it back to earth. ~6 months there and ~8months. Also automated factories and robots could begin extracting minerals for some beneficial purpose.
Lastly the fastest way to make use of Mars would be for private industry to do the manned expeditions. NASA is in the spotlight and if the first manned mission to mars went poorly it would likely be 10-20 years later until another atempt was made. NASA is great for funding new technologies and research. But unless pushed will not do anything overly risky by themselves.
1. The anticipation for soil and rock measurements are killing geologists all over the world.
2. New scientific information allows me a chance to be the first to post a story about it on Slashdot.
3. Between caffeine, sugar, and general lack of ritalin... do I need to go on?
Slash dot is news for nerds. Stuff that matters. What could matter more to nerds then scientific and engineering accoumplishments on another planet? The only reason why SCO is getting so much press is because they are trying to hinder engineering accoumplishments.
The rover exited the lander going.0007386 miles per hour! thats really friggen slow!!!
I probably screwed up on the math but it went 3 feet in 78 seconds. I assumed that this was at a constant speed.
I can see minesweeper being a relatively difficult problem using only one stock set. 1 light sensor, 2 touch sensors ect. I and 2 others developed an automated warehouse forklift using one rcx two light sensors and a touch sensor with 3 engines. That was a nearly impossible task for object avoidance and detection. The real trick is telling what is the barrel you want to pick up from the barrel you want to go around. We used the touch to avoid objects after they had been detected by a forward ir radar. Then with another light sensor facing down we black taped the floor around target barrels. Was a fun project but was hell to get the timings right.
To develop an updated RCX with more memory and a better processor all while developing a better battery sollution and working with Lego to market it after Lego realizes what they lost. *sigh*
If history has taught us anything its that Europe as a whole has embraced open source faster then the US to top it all off the US gov. has been working very hard to keep relations poor to europe and the rest of the world. I'm thinking a small US company like SCO isn't going to scare large European corporations and goverments much.
I am not for or against the RIAA but they have the power to only scare. RIAA is larger than SCO and they don't have the man power to sue every single person. Sco's situation is no different the have the power to make idle threats. Whether they have a good base to make these threats or not. They simply don't have the man power to sue every single Linux user!
Ya and that line of thought only accelerates the problem. It would be more interesting if there was some kind of movment like womans right's movement or human right's movements in general. We need to start a Geek, gamer's rights movement.
I think the bigest problem is that a game is looked at as being just another form of entertainment. The personality and lifestyle difference of an avid gamer never comes into the public light. Of course if it ever did it would be to a negative light. This is the same reason that stereotypes have hindered many minorities in the united states.
I could make a long comment about it but everyone will just go to the link anyways. here ya go! http://www.health24.co.za/news/Brain_Neurolog ical/ 1-896,25078.asp
What would it take to make the liberal media aware of Gamer's in a good light? For that matter do gamer's want recognition in the first place? Unfortunatly the media has the ability to twist minds regaurdless of the facts because the majority of the world trusts the media. Penny-Arcade is a comic strip and that is probably how the media saw it. A comic, not to be taken seriously and something that little boys look at. In any case there is a serious problem here and it needs to be addressed in a positive manor. Does anyone out there have any suggestions on where to start?
I don't think any of my designs would float for long but I am only talking 20 years ago for myself. Did they actually make lego bricks with a sealed bottom?
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So UL died. Financial chaos insues. Just create another distro based on what you learned. I find that Linux distrobutions are successfull based on the research that was done to them. Debian has apt and has official packages controlled and standardized. Redhat pushes ease of use with a corporate twist. SuSE has european nations in its grasp and has a little of column A and a little of column B in it, a well balanced distro you might say. Slackware is the tried and true throw everything in and let the user sort it out "hackers" distro. Though its become a lot more friendly to use and is evolving nicely. United Linux wanted to take all the ideas and somehow work them into one. Thier goal was to make a standard set of packages what would work seamlessly together and be user friendly. They wanted to create a set of rules to follow when adding non-official packages and work on schemes to make packages work together and not break each other be accident. There goals have never been met by any distrobution to date. I still see hope for what they were trying to do. Just move on and do it under a different name. Rework management AKA reorganize and try again. The little distro the could so to speak. /rant off
A suppose a rail gun would be cost prohibitive. Though it would be pretty cool. This is MIT maybe this is just the first part of the project.
Dang! lost again :-(
As said earlier saving the hubble has nothing to lose. Unless you consider that the space tug could have a malfunction and send hubble into an unstable orbit that takes out other satellites. But in general I think the only reason they suggested problems with the JWST was to reinforce thier arguement to try save the hubble. I don't think there is any extortion intent.
chromatic aberration Earth ground based telescopes will never be as good!
Yahoo has a long ways to go. Aquiring geocities was the last smart thing yahoo did. (that and beefing up my email quota for free) Google has made a lot of news lately about how they try to be non-intrusive as a search engine and try to make it quick, simple, and have relevent search results instead of 10 advertisements and then a real search result. Until yahoo can do something really gripping I'll keep using Google for search engine. If yahoo is smart they will keep focused on thier "community" appeal. They are friggen awsome and community even if that community is the redlight district for teens. With that... I miss the old Geocities. I also miss Altavista (powered by digital) in its prime. /rant off
Yes, joe is the correct answer.
I love my wordstar key bindings.
I used to listen to NPR and PRI-BBC radio dramas as a teen. As I grew older I found it to be more convient to just download the radio drama's from public radio websites and listen at my leisure.
#1 reason - because we can. I agree with the former poster that we should go to mars because we can. Another good reason to go is to rape the planet for its resources. Also Mars has less gravity then Earth so it would be easier to launch material into space. There is all this talk about putting a space station on the moon. The moon is thought to be 99% basalt rock which is mostly silica based. Now basalt rock is one of the most common rocks found on the earth and silica is an abundant resource. The moon then cannot offer us any resources that we cannot already get easily here on earth. The moon would be a decent jumping off point because of its very low gravity and zero atmosphere but radiation and temperature would make a base difficult to build. I would guess that it would need to be built deep underground with heavily shielded and fortified above ground structures. Mars has atmosphere, gravity, less temperature changes(although its always pretty cold). I am not sure of the radiation factor but it certainly must be less then our moon. Mars has readily available resources. and I would guess what would happen eventually is that we would send an expedition to mars, setup a permanent base of operations, and start automated factories to make liquid hydrogen and oxygen so that the expedition can make it back to earth. ~6 months there and ~8months. Also automated factories and robots could begin extracting minerals for some beneficial purpose. Lastly the fastest way to make use of Mars would be for private industry to do the manned expeditions. NASA is in the spotlight and if the first manned mission to mars went poorly it would likely be 10-20 years later until another atempt was made. NASA is great for funding new technologies and research. But unless pushed will not do anything overly risky by themselves.
I knew there was a reason I never passed algebra... course neither did einstien. Thanks
1. The anticipation for soil and rock measurements are killing geologists all over the world. 2. New scientific information allows me a chance to be the first to post a story about it on Slashdot. 3. Between caffeine, sugar, and general lack of ritalin... do I need to go on?
Slash dot is news for nerds. Stuff that matters. What could matter more to nerds then scientific and engineering accoumplishments on another planet? The only reason why SCO is getting so much press is because they are trying to hinder engineering accoumplishments.
The rover exited the lander going .0007386 miles per hour! thats really friggen slow!!!
I probably screwed up on the math but it went 3 feet in 78 seconds. I assumed that this was at a constant speed.
Well at least for CST time zone it is.
You forgot C Good 'ol C the only langauge of that bunch that can really squeeze out all the performance of that little processor.
I can see minesweeper being a relatively difficult problem using only one stock set. 1 light sensor, 2 touch sensors ect. I and 2 others developed an automated warehouse forklift using one rcx two light sensors and a touch sensor with 3 engines. That was a nearly impossible task for object avoidance and detection. The real trick is telling what is the barrel you want to pick up from the barrel you want to go around. We used the touch to avoid objects after they had been detected by a forward ir radar. Then with another light sensor facing down we black taped the floor around target barrels. Was a fun project but was hell to get the timings right.
To develop an updated RCX with more memory and a better processor all while developing a better battery sollution and working with Lego to market it after Lego realizes what they lost. *sigh*
If history has taught us anything its that Europe as a whole has embraced open source faster then the US to top it all off the US gov. has been working very hard to keep relations poor to europe and the rest of the world. I'm thinking a small US company like SCO isn't going to scare large European corporations and goverments much.
I am not for or against the RIAA but they have the power to only scare. RIAA is larger than SCO and they don't have the man power to sue every single person. Sco's situation is no different the have the power to make idle threats. Whether they have a good base to make these threats or not. They simply don't have the man power to sue every single Linux user!
Ya and that line of thought only accelerates the problem. It would be more interesting if there was some kind of movment like womans right's movement or human right's movements in general. We need to start a Geek, gamer's rights movement. I think the bigest problem is that a game is looked at as being just another form of entertainment. The personality and lifestyle difference of an avid gamer never comes into the public light. Of course if it ever did it would be to a negative light. This is the same reason that stereotypes have hindered many minorities in the united states.
www.theafternow.com this radio drama does this! Its pertty good! 17 hours long total.
I could make a long comment about it but everyone will just go to the link anyways. here ya go!g ical/ 1-896,25078.asp
http://www.health24.co.za/news/Brain_Neurolo
What would it take to make the liberal media aware of Gamer's in a good light? For that matter do gamer's want recognition in the first place? Unfortunatly the media has the ability to twist minds regaurdless of the facts because the majority of the world trusts the media. Penny-Arcade is a comic strip and that is probably how the media saw it. A comic, not to be taken seriously and something that little boys look at. In any case there is a serious problem here and it needs to be addressed in a positive manor. Does anyone out there have any suggestions on where to start?
Finally I can appropriately slice ghetost!
I don't think any of my designs would float for long but I am only talking 20 years ago for myself. Did they actually make lego bricks with a sealed bottom?