> there won't be pics of the Beagle 2 crash site, as it's on the other side of Mars.
Uh, that's assuming the Beagle 2 was actually programmed properly. Seeing as how these experts are able to overlook stupid mistakes like mixing units of measurement and forgetting to set the clock on their expensive probes, I wouldn't bet on the Beagle 2 landing close to it's target site.
OTOH, maybe the Beagle 2 went to another planet. In that case there really is no chance of seeing pictures of the crash site!
No no, you're probably correct, that's probably exactly how they did it, I guess their UML simulator didn't take into account the test case of when there is no power! At my place of work, the software groups are always trying to move every task from software to hardware to save money which is manager speak for miracle. I really wouldn't be surprised if project managers gave the OK to put power control solely in the hands of software.
Your at-home battery charger doesn't run a program like that, it's all in the hardware: the current supplied to the batteries is controlled by the lack of full voltage from those batteries. Maybe this probe was built only with software engineers?
This seems too stupid to be true. First they ask for millions of dollars for experts and high tech equipment, and oops - forgot that darn metric conversion.
Okay, of all the space projects I guess I could expect a silly human error hiccup...but just one, and it's really silly.
So, now we see the next project, they ask for more millions of dollars for experts and high tech equipment, and oops - this time we forgot to set that pesky clock!
This is more like a puny kid in school going over to a bully and asking what him what he can do to stop being picked on in the future. Not that the [majority of the] linux community is bullying microsoft around, but the effect of the whole world starting to turn their backs on windows is the same.
The idea of Linux was born because microsoft's primary O/S at the time (dos) wasn't making full use of the hardware (i386 flatmode). So the split began right there: linux focused primarily on internal kernel, ms focused primarily on front-end interface. And typical user is naive about internals, so they didn't jump when linux was born.
Since then I've always regarded microsoft as playing catch-up with the internals, but it's much harder to improve the base of a structure once you have the externals depending on it.
Well now (rather, a few years ago) the Linux community is done working on the bulk of the kernel and is improving the front-end. And we've apparently hit the first major end-user threshold since chunks of the world are quickly switching away from microsoft.
Microsoft's short term fix (stealing most of the front-end ideas from apple, sacrificing the kernel for the sake of the outer shell, then hardcoding them all together) has run its course and Linux's long term solution (doing it correctly, right from scratch, in a modular fashion) is now paying off.
If Microsoft can't figure out what they're doing wrong after 10 long years I hope the Linux community doesn't help a company with unethical business practices take pity on it. The legal front at the beginning of the survey further shows that microsoft has no intent of backing down to the methodology of the open-source process, rather this is another attempt at a "get rich quick" scheme by asking Linux users to tell them what it would take to get more money from their wallets to the company.
I thought I read a long time ago (5 yrs?) that NASA was trying to discourage people from going to the moon saying they already discovered everything there was to discover on the moon.
There have been, and still are, conspiracy theories about how NASA either didn't really go to the moon, or that they did go but didn't broadcast the real or full contents to the media. I guess from a military point of view I'd be inclined to believe that if I was the first organization to learn a dirty secret in a new place that's hard to get to, I too would come back and tell everyone "nothing to see here, don't waste your time".
Maybe there really is something on the moon that NASA didn't want to reveal to the other countries, like a lot more water than they claim. Or maybe they left a mess when they were there last.
So now that China says "we wanna see too", the U.S. is saying to themselves "we gotta go back there and clean up our 'stuff'. but if we do that everyone will wonder why we said theres nothing worth looking at on the moon. i know, lets say we have to do a mars practice run and we will use the moon as our place of practice". I mean, heaven forbid the U.S. save some money and practice here on earth....since they train the astronauts here.
Bunch of people end up on a deserted island without any money (which would be useless cause there aren't any stores). Say Joe Banks is one of them. He happens to have some gold nuggets, which he lends to everyone else for a year for use as a monetary system. After the year, he demands all of his property back plus 1% interest. In one sense you could say "well he was without his gold for a year, so he deserves something in return"....but where are the people going to get the additional 1% of gold (assuming there was absolutely none on the island)? They don't have it, so now they're in debt.
If by some miracle some gold is found by one of these folks in debt, they owe some back to Joe Banks...but Joe Banks didn't do an ounce of work to deserve it! It's slightly exagerated I know, but the point is this: if you can convince someone they are in debt to you even though they weren't, then they are now in debt to you.
Here's another absurd thing about debt: if A owes B $10, and B owes C $10, and C owes A $10, is anyone really in debt?
What's really funny is how the U.S. ditched the sole backing for it's monetary system (gold, something physical) for just T-bills (not really physical, just a printed image). Years ago, a sale involving cash transaction says "this $1 bill I'm handing you is a representation of the gold I personally own...being physically held in the fed". Now it just means "the fed says this $1 I'm handing you is worth something...or so they tell me...not sure what it really represents".
What's even more funny is that the U.S. convinced a lot of other countries to buy into the "world bank"....which happens to be backed by...get this: U.S. T-bills! Every country that put its "money" into the world bank effectively "paid off" that much of the U.S. debt! As long as those countries don't pull out their money, the U.S. is not currently in as much debt as you think.
I'd pay for a Linux tax program, just as I have to pay for a windoze tax program. In fact, I might be willing to pay more for it than a windows program just so I don't have to boot up my windows machine!
Does wine work well with turbotax and the like?
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Uh, that's assuming the Beagle 2 was actually programmed properly. Seeing as how these experts are able to overlook stupid mistakes like mixing units of measurement and forgetting to set the clock on their expensive probes, I wouldn't bet on the Beagle 2 landing close to it's target site.
OTOH, maybe the Beagle 2 went to another planet. In that case there really is no chance of seeing pictures of the crash site!
Maybe if we take the NASA picture and restore the red channel back to what it should be, someone in the slashdot community might recognize the area!
No no, you're probably correct, that's probably exactly how they did it, I guess their UML simulator didn't take into account the test case of when there is no power! At my place of work, the software groups are always trying to move every task from software to hardware to save money which is manager speak for miracle. I really wouldn't be surprised if project managers gave the OK to put power control solely in the hands of software.
Your at-home battery charger doesn't run a program like that, it's all in the hardware: the current supplied to the batteries is controlled by the lack of full voltage from those batteries. Maybe this probe was built only with software engineers?
Okay, of all the space projects I guess I could expect a silly human error hiccup...but just one, and it's really silly.
So, now we see the next project, they ask for more millions of dollars for experts and high tech equipment, and oops - this time we forgot to set that pesky clock!
Wait a minute, I think I see a pattern here....
This is more like a puny kid in school going over to a bully and asking what him what he can do to stop being picked on in the future. Not that the [majority of the] linux community is bullying microsoft around, but the effect of the whole world starting to turn their backs on windows is the same.
The idea of Linux was born because microsoft's primary O/S at the time (dos) wasn't making full use of the hardware (i386 flatmode). So the split began right there: linux focused primarily on internal kernel, ms focused primarily on front-end interface. And typical user is naive about internals, so they didn't jump when linux was born.
Since then I've always regarded microsoft as playing catch-up with the internals, but it's much harder to improve the base of a structure once you have the externals depending on it.
Well now (rather, a few years ago) the Linux community is done working on the bulk of the kernel and is improving the front-end. And we've apparently hit the first major end-user threshold since chunks of the world are quickly switching away from microsoft.
Microsoft's short term fix (stealing most of the front-end ideas from apple, sacrificing the kernel for the sake of the outer shell, then hardcoding them all together) has run its course and Linux's long term solution (doing it correctly, right from scratch, in a modular fashion) is now paying off.
If Microsoft can't figure out what they're doing wrong after 10 long years I hope the Linux community doesn't help a company with unethical business practices take pity on it. The legal front at the beginning of the survey further shows that microsoft has no intent of backing down to the methodology of the open-source process, rather this is another attempt at a "get rich quick" scheme by asking Linux users to tell them what it would take to get more money from their wallets to the company.
There have been, and still are, conspiracy theories about how NASA either didn't really go to the moon, or that they did go but didn't broadcast the real or full contents to the media. I guess from a military point of view I'd be inclined to believe that if I was the first organization to learn a dirty secret in a new place that's hard to get to, I too would come back and tell everyone "nothing to see here, don't waste your time".
Maybe there really is something on the moon that NASA didn't want to reveal to the other countries, like a lot more water than they claim. Or maybe they left a mess when they were there last.
So now that China says "we wanna see too", the U.S. is saying to themselves "we gotta go back there and clean up our 'stuff'. but if we do that everyone will wonder why we said theres nothing worth looking at on the moon. i know, lets say we have to do a mars practice run and we will use the moon as our place of practice". I mean, heaven forbid the U.S. save some money and practice here on earth....since they train the astronauts here.
Debt? there ain't no debt. Look at this example:
Bunch of people end up on a deserted island without any money (which would be useless cause there aren't any stores). Say Joe Banks is one of them. He happens to have some gold nuggets, which he lends to everyone else for a year for use as a monetary system. After the year, he demands all of his property back plus 1% interest. In one sense you could say "well he was without his gold for a year, so he deserves something in return"....but where are the people going to get the additional 1% of gold (assuming there was absolutely none on the island)? They don't have it, so now they're in debt.
If by some miracle some gold is found by one of these folks in debt, they owe some back to Joe Banks...but Joe Banks didn't do an ounce of work to deserve it! It's slightly exagerated I know, but the point is this: if you can convince someone they are in debt to you even though they weren't, then they are now in debt to you.
Here's another absurd thing about debt: if A owes B $10, and B owes C $10, and C owes A $10, is anyone really in debt?
What's really funny is how the U.S. ditched the sole backing for it's monetary system (gold, something physical) for just T-bills (not really physical, just a printed image). Years ago, a sale involving cash transaction says "this $1 bill I'm handing you is a representation of the gold I personally own...being physically held in the fed". Now it just means "the fed says this $1 I'm handing you is worth something...or so they tell me...not sure what it really represents".
What's even more funny is that the U.S. convinced a lot of other countries to buy into the "world bank"....which happens to be backed by...get this: U.S. T-bills! Every country that put its "money" into the world bank effectively "paid off" that much of the U.S. debt! As long as those countries don't pull out their money, the U.S. is not currently in as much debt as you think.
Why can't the patent office be sued? Or can it?
I'd pay for a Linux tax program, just as I have to pay for a windoze tax program. In fact, I might be willing to pay more for it than a windows program just so I don't have to boot up my windows machine! Does wine work well with turbotax and the like?